Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 6, 1890, Page 1

et resent ‘1] r'l‘ W i'] 2 LAKES AND SEAS ON MARS., Mr, Flam of Lick Observatory. 1S DISAPPOINTED INDIGNANT, HE AND a Compara- nets Herschel's Hypothesis o tve Reasoning ol ‘ormation-Spe and Conclusions, [Copyright 169 by James Gordon Bennet.) Pans, Oct. 5, [N York Herald Cable Bpecial to Ty Brr]- The Herald's Euvo pean egition publishes the following reply by the celobrated French astronomer Camille Flammarion to & communication of Prof. Holden, cabled from Kick observatory I have been waiting with of curiosity the communication Holden on the planet Mars—more so because Ihoped that the clever observers of the obscrvatory on Mount Hamilton, with their powerful instruments, would confirm the observations made at Milon of the strang fortnations of lakes and scas. 1 have been somewhat disappointed in noticing that no mention is made on those particular points Mr. Holden is aware that the California as tronomers have observed the canuls of Mars but he states that he does not know what the 8pots on Mars signify, Hesays: “Thomark ings of reddisn yellow have been supposed to be land, the dark have been supposed to be water and the whitish ones to besnow, Tt s entirely uncertain,” The interpretation generally astronomers is without doubt but we are ¢ v in the position of an ob: server who should examine the carth from afar—say fron the planct Venus, Tho seas would appear to him darker than the continents because they absorb the sun's light, and polar snows like clouds, would seem of a brilliant white ness, Ho might think that the simplest way of adjusting the differences of vavious ob. seryers was to admit in fact that there are on the terrestrial globe continents, seas, polar suows and clouds, 1 wee- ognize, as the learned director of Lick observatory, that thercin we have nothing but hypothesis, that it is more neces- sary in the cause of pure science to not even oaith Miges thone, brib o 405, #lnply, L do not know what are those dark spots, I do not know what are those polar white spots. T donot know! A very simple one could make the same reply to every imaginable question What is the humanskulll I do not know what is thenerve system; 1 do not know what is the origin of Man: I do not kuow how it 1s that the sun heats us; I do not kuow! It scems to me tnat if we are always content with this answer humanity would still be in the age of carved stone and the caverns inhabited by rhinoceros and bears, For my part, although agreeing that hypothesis is their limit ana that it would be very little scientific to launch ourselves out of sight' into the unkown, I feel T owo the greatest sympathy with those men who, like William Herschel for example, seek to find an explanation from what they observe—Willlam Herschel, of whom Dr, Holden has himself written a pancgyric on his gemius in editing recently the bibliography of his fmmense works, William Herschel wrote the following lines about the planet mars. Don’t let us forget that William Herschel is the greatest observer and astron- omer that ever lived. “The anology between Mars and the earth 1s, perhaps, by far the grertestin the whole solar system. Their diurnal motion is nearly the same and the obliquity of their respective elliptics, on which the seasons depend. is not very different. If, then, we find that tho globe we inhabit has its polar regions frozen and covered witn mountains of snow that only melt when altermately exposed to the sun, I may well be permitted to surmise that the same causes may have the same effects on the globe of Mars; that light polar spots are owing to vivid reflections et light from frozen regions, and that the reduction of those spots is to be ascribed to their being exposed totne sun."” William Herschel adds that, ac- cording to his observations, polar snows are most extended after tho long winter of twelve months of Mars and almost entirely melted after the summer. He speaks little furtheron the clouds which float in theat- mosphere of Mars, Conclusions in many re- spects similar were arrived at December 1, 2783, more than & century ago, in {he philo- sophical transactions of the Royal Society of London—vef,, vol. 84, pp. 260-218, Certain of the vigovists may assert that this vreoccupation is not of a scientific order; that it would be more sedate of us to hold to @ maxim of nov seeking after anything. It scems to me, howeves that Holden secs himself things in a4 higher light than that. © He has certainly asked himself if the white polar spots on Mars are not really snow and whether the dark spots do not rep- seas. He cannot think other- wise, It is well enough for him to say that we have not proved them yet; that weare not absolutely sure, He has 100 broad ideas on all things not to feel that the explanation is perfectly scientifie, and all spectral analyses have shown that there 1s rarcly auy waters on Mars. It exists somewlhere: snow aud clouds are composed of it. It remains to be scen whether water is not veddish and continents blueish. If Holden thinks so, he will be making o less tenable hypothesis thanthe first. For my part, T could not seeany great objection toit. Instead of observing this year seas cut {u halfit would belands; but in my turn 1 would raise the objectlon that the thing is more dificult to admit. I have before me ot this wmoment on my work table about four hundred drawings of the planct Mars, showing s piain as day- light that coustant changes are taking place o tho dark spots. Water beiug a very changeable clement, explains these changes It would not be the same thing were it a terra flrma. Also, whilst admitting with Mr. Holden that we lhave mot mot yet come in contact with the nbabitauts of Mars, T think that we stand in respect to that planet in the position of an angel which should pass at some distance from the earth, He would neither distinguish tue observatory of Mount Hamilton nor the tower of Eiffel. He would say to himself there 1s air and water, earth, clouds, seas, and climates; perhaps nature, whose fruit- fulness is Infinite; perhaps some races of animals more or less reasonable have been born there. 1tis not assuredly perfect. Indeed, it seems to have succeeded poorly enough with Its cyclones, inundations, earthquakes, voloanoes, conflugrations, opidemics, fogs rains and colds, but why, after all, stould there not be some species inhabiting that in- fevior planct who try all they can to live there as well os possile. The angel would be right, beause he N~ ome degree of Prof. mitted by hypothetical, does asons narion's Reply to Professor Holden | FIETH YEAR. would not guess that man invented war and that that was his favorite o tion, We will not seek, cither, the v which the inbabitants of Mars pass time. ‘That would be purcly b, ould not find out. But tha Mars continents, seas, lakes, clouds, snows, ana t vapid changes ble from here in telescopes take place, is what the illustrious dircctors of the observatory at Mount Hamilton must admit What we should like to know at this moment is whether the clever Kecler and Burnham have also obscrved this year the cutting up of the scas and lakes of Mars, — NDIHESPIRE visi: WOODRUF. The Latter Were Too Busy to Be In- terviewed by the Mormon President. Sant Lake, Utal, Oct. Spocial Tel gram o Tur Bee| —The sixty-first annual conference of the churchof Latter Day Saints began yesterday. According to the book of covenant by Joseph Smith, the year 1801 is the time for the coming of Jesus Christ. - The matter came up in the conference. President Woodruff said: ““Ido not think any one can tell the hour of the coming of the Son of Mun Ithink those things have been suficient revealed to us, so that wo need not look for the time of that event to be made known. I will say here that in iy dreams T have had & great many visits from the prophet Josoph since his death. The last time I met him was in the spirit world. 1 met him atthe temple, He spoke to me, calling me by name. nnot stop to talk to you, for I I met Father Smith, He, ‘I am inahurry.’ 1 met a many apostles and others who are in nd they all seemed to be in ca at this, and wondered very greatly in my mind why anybody should bein ahurry in the paradise of God, I had aninterview with the prophet Joseph after- ward, and asked him the question, ‘Why are you allin such a hurry here? I have alw beew ina hurry in the world since Iwas born, but I thought there would be no_occasion for itwhen I died and entered the spirit world.” Heveplied: ‘Well, I will tell you. The prophiets and apostles in this dispensation have had no time nor opportunity to prepare themsclves 1o go to the earth with the great Bridegroom when He goes to meet the Bride, the Lamb’s wife. We in this dispensation have not had time, We have first as much work to perform to prepace ourselyes as in other dispensations” He said that the time was at hand for the coming of the Son of Man, for Christ togo forth in fulfillment of the revelations. Ihave had many an inter- view with President Brighum Young since he died, and had a great many teachings from him and from others whoheldimportant, positions in the flesh, but who have gone into the spirit world, and seem, in a wmeasure, to bave an interest and watehful cave over the churel and kingdom of God, though they lave passed to the other side of the veil.” — A FAMILY SUFFOCATED. amin ahurry.’ to0, said to me, great the spirit world, aburry, T mary The Terrible Results of a Fire at Dubuque. ., Oct. 5.—The house of John McBee was discovered to be on fire at an carly hour this morning. When the firemen arrived MeBee jumped from a window in the. upper story to the ground and was seriously injured. The flames were quickly extin- guished and the remainder of the unfortunate famlyremoved. Mrs. MeBee and daughter Ryse, aged cighteen, were dead. Theyoungest daughter, Bertha, aged fourteen, and the son, Charley, aged five, werf unconscious. The boy died this afternoon and the girl can- not live. MeBee says he was awakened by a sense of suffication and found tne room filled with smol He aroused his wifo and they groped their way to the window, through which he leaped or fell. His wifo was elose belind him, but, re- membering the children, must have gone back to try to save them and perished When found the family was in a group, with their arms about cach other. DRI, A BRUTAL PRIZE F Deneque, T HT, snty-Seven Bloody Rounds Be- tween Two Lightweights, Crieaco, Oct. 5.—~One of the most bratal fistic encounters ever witnessed in this vicin- ity took place early this morning in a barn near Shelley, Ind,, between Tommy Ryan of Grand Rapids, the light weight champion of Michigan, and Con Do a local pugiiist of Chicago, weighing 137 and 136 pounds respee- "The fight was to a_finish, with two ounce gloves, forn purse of £00, Qteensberry rules, The battle was for blood from the start, Ryan, who was evidently the most scientific of the two, managed to avoid Doyle's heavy left handers and in tura hammered the Chicago boy's face and breastalmost to mince meet, At the end of the twe venth round it was euident that Doyle was used up, but nevertheless he wanted to fight. further: Despite the fact that his eyes were closed he staggered to the center of * the ving, almost erazy, and insisted on fighting it out rough and timble, His second threw up the sponge, however, aid Kyan was declared tho winner. e He Would Banish the Wine, Loxboy, Oct, 5.—|Special Cablegram to TugBre. |—-Dr. Parker, the well known Con- gregational preachier at the City temple, has a perfect genius for getting bimself tmked about. Heis now delivering sexmons lasting exactly sixty seconds, cach one in strong con- trast with his brother divines, Today he devoted the whole sixty seconds to the sub ject of sacramental wine, and managed to get in 160 words before time was called. “It is high time,” he suid, “that intoxicating wine is banished from the sacramental service. It has driven men to intemperance, I am also opposed to the use of tke vile concoction “by which in some instances intoxicating wine has been displaced.” This objection to makeshifts on extreme teetotlers is not sur- prising, as a certain pastor is credited with the employment of zodone for that purpose, The preacher concluded his oration by de- claring in favor of plain water, adding that there are not two sides to the question, but only one, namely, that adopted by Parker. Salt Lake's New Road. Sar Loake, Utah, Oct. b—[Special Tele- gram to Tue Bee.l—Bonds for the much talked of railvaad from this city to Deep , Nevada, have been secured in the cast H. Bacon, president of the Bank of alt Lake, and the city council will be sked Tuesday evening to grant a right-of-way into the city with a niuety-uin the Sixth ward square for 81 per year, hundred thousand dollars worth of bouds are taken in Salt Lake, and the management is éntirely local. The line will be 165 miles long and standard’ gauge, is bonded for §18,000 per mile, and i3 to be built within eightee months, ‘Fhe company has absorbed tho W yoming, Salt Lake & California road with all'its surveys, partially completed maps, dita, cte., so that the ter ' of buiiding is much simpli tied, The object of the road is to counect this eity with the rich mining cam near the Nevada line, and thus bring b direct enormous quantities of ores. One ro- sult will be a now smelter with six or eight stacks. ‘Three million dollars will cover all costs of construction. The new standard gauge line between Ogden and McCammon was formally opened vesterday apd rogular trais are LOW rununing. mat- MoxTevineo, Oct. 4.~ lmpert duties have been increased 5 per cent and tho export uties restored, grades, | 6, 1890. 'POSTAL TELEGRAPH SCHENE. Postmaster General Wanamaker Has by No Means Abandoned the Plan. THE NEW GOVERNOR OF ARIZONA. An Towa Man Appointed Who Estab- lished a Peculiar Precendent Some Years Ago—Mise cellancous Matters, il TOURTEENTH STREET, Wasnivaron D, €., Oct. b Postmaster General Wanamaker has by no 1s abandoned his attempt to secure the establishment of a postal telegraph in the United States, and he proposes to keep up the fight in this connection s long as he re- mainsin ofice, Last night there was d tributed on newspaper row for use today a pampllet of 223 pages, which containsa let- ter from the postmaster general to Chaimman Bingham of the house committee on post- oftices a couple of weeks ago, in which a re- view of all the evidence is given, together with extracts from letters on the subject and newspaper articles covering the entire period since the provosition for postal telegraph service was taken up with any earnestness by the news papers of the country, This pamphlet demonstrates the fact that there is a far moro widespread desire for the establishment of this service than has been supposed. ARIZONA'S NEW IVERNOR, John N. Irvin of Keokul, Ia., has been ap- pointed governor of Arizona. This is the second time that Mr. Irvin has been honored with a governorshin. President Arthur made him governor of Idaho, and while hold- 2 the commission he established a precedent that created great consternation in the grand army of oficeholders and has never been imitated by any one_else. While acting as governor of Idaho Mr. Irvin was called home by adeathin his farily and was detiined in Keokuk for several months setthng up the estat The treasurer of the Unitea States sent him the salary regu- vly whila he was abseut from his office, but he declined toaccept the com- pensation on the ground that he had not earncd it. The auditing ofiice of the tressury was never confronted with such a proposition before. No check drawn by the treasurer of the United States was ever before protested, and when Mr. Trvin returned it to Washing- ton the oldest clerk in the service could not suggest a way of getting rid of it. The y was ol of the treasury, it had been »d to Mr. Irvin and there was no way etting it back into the government strong box except by placing it to the credit of the conscience fiand, This was done, but when the fact was known Mr. Iwin uttered an indigent protest, He declined to have any money returned to the treasury and placed on deposit with that surrendered repentent thieves. It was suggested ot the time that new fund be established in_which to deposit money returned by officeholders who be lieved that they had not earned it, but after reflection this was thought to be useless and the amount was placed tothe eredit of the national debt. Mr. Irwin'sis the ouly case of the isind on record, POWELL CLAYTON IN DANGER. Noonenced be surprisel to hear of an- other assassination in the Second Arkansas congressional district, where John M. Clay- ton was so bratally murdered two years ago, The democrats have renominated Clifton 1, Breckenridge, the republicans haye endorsed thounion labor and_farmers’ alliance can di- dateand General Powell Claytou, the ex- senator and brother of the murdered man,has goneinto the district to manage his cam. aign. His friends here have received lotters rom him, in which he says that the irsué of the campaign is the vindication of Breckenridge from the charge that he was involved inthe assassination. No one believes that he was directly con: nected with the crime, but every one believes that the assassins were his friends and that thedeed was commiited to_prevent the ex- posure of the ballot box frauds by which he waselected to congress. 1t is also pretty established that his intimate friends ded the murderers and haveso prevented their punishment. General Clayton writes that he goes into the district to see that thero is an honest ballot and & fair count and that he realizes that he goes with his life in his hads. Ho has been repeatedly warned not to appear there, and he 5 aware that the same men who killed his brother are only waiting for an opportunity to assassinate him. The d trict is naturally republican. But for the frauds two years ago Breckinridge would have been defeated, and General Clayton in- tends to spend mostof the campaign in the county where they were comrmitted. He has passed _through o' great many dangers in his carcer in Arkansas during and since the war, but his life was neyer in such great peril as now, and those who are familiar_with the situation expect daily to hear of his assassi- nation. WasmixoTox Brrew Tip Osuna Bre, } MISCELLANEOUS. The officers of the Indian <bureau have in- formation which leads them to belicve that the agitation among thed Indians over the expected coming of Christ, of whicha great deal has been said in the newspapers, has been caused by Mormon emissavies, This view of the ease is also held by a number of army oflicers who are familiar with the Indian situation, Men who served as United States deputy marshals during the elections of 1888 w ] interested in knowing that the appropriation to pay them for their ser s included in the general deficiency bill as it w finally sed by the president, and that the money now available for this pur The ap- propriation covers ouly the defi and amounts to something Those who served in asi ¥ and who their pay, v and the are that they never will get it. Every state in the union is interested in this appropriation. The so-called colonization scheme which is exciting the democrats so much at present beeause of the movement on foot to find homes for the colored men of North Carolina in communities where they will be more wel- e, is nothing butthe legitimate oppression d disfranchisement of the negro in North arolina and other southern states, No ac- cusation has yet been made that the coloniza- tion is other than absolutely legitimate, Itis simply a question of finding a place of resi- dencé for men who are unwelcome in their present home and be- cause it is beiug engineered by some rvepublicans the hue and ery s raised 1 the leaders of this movementshould under- take to colonize a few thousand negro familics in Alaska or Utah there would be no objec- tion on the part of the democrats, but because 1tis proposed to take the men to well-settled states u greatado and a big sensation is r over thoaffalr, But in spite of theery it is likely that the plan may be carried out and the negroes 1 an opportunity to earn a living, whero they will be moré sure of de- it treatment and where their ballots will be as sacred as are those of the whites, e The Wyoming Census. CuEvesse, Wyo, Oct. 5.—(Sp grm to TueBee.]—The ofticlal Wyoming shows a population of 60 is 0 disappointment to many people, who ex- peeted it would reach 100,000, When viewed from a comparative standpoint the showing is nevertheless gratifying. In 1870, two years after its formation and one year after its or- | ganization, the territory contained 6,118 peo- | ple—about two thousand less than Cheyenne alone contains today, By 1850 the territory bud increased over 100 per cent, and 1 the following ten years the population hastrebled. Utah, in the same time, uotwithstanding th special efforts put forth o attract immigra- tion, has only increased b percent. Cheyenne contained 1,540 people in 1870, 8,450 in 180 and 11,003 in 1860, showing that 'the popula- tion bas wereased more than 30 per cent in like dal Tele- census of 280, which | the past ten years.® From 1867 until within the past. fow years no offart was made to at- tractsettlers here. The brains and enevgy of the people were engaged in tho cattle busl- ness and settlement was openly discouraged by those who were most fnfluéntial. Atten- tion is now not only being dicected to agricul tureand placing the eatthe business onn me conseryative basis, but to the development of mineral resources, so that the uext ten years willundoubtedly develop a marvelous com- parative showing. PR —— ANIWPERIAL HEART- BREAK ER AnElderly Tady Camping on the Ger man Kaiser's Teail, Loxnoy, Oct, b.—Kaiser Wilhelm is mas- querading at the Austrian emperor's huntg estate at Mueriteg iud Styrian national cos- tume, which is deserived as picturesque, but which the young momarch thought well to supplement with 4 brown cloak of homespun clth #nd a brown felt hat with a green band and rosette of chamois hair. Tho fiiery was much bedrageled on the fest day of the hunt, which was carried on &mid a storm of snow and hail. But the %aiser was very much pleased, s he managed to kill two chamois, while the king of Saxony bagged only one, with three goats thrown in, and the Austrian emperor shot nothing atall. The kaiser's sport was nearly spoiléd by an amorous old lady, who had follwed him from Berlin with the view to declare her passion amid the romantic surroundings of the Styriin Alps. She actually managed to get within halling distance of the beloved object and was about to begin her declaration, des pite the howling storm, when she was seized by the keepers and drageed away. She was al- lowed only halfan hour todry anda was then sent back to Viema, where, at latest ac- counts, she was waiting_for the loved one, fully assured of his #ffection, Kaiser Wil- heln hada very grand reception in Vienn so far as decorations, music and hat raising are concerned; but, (he conrtly chroniclers to the contrary notwithsténding, there was not mueh popular enthuslasm, Thisis admitted by, among other observers, the London Standand's reporter, who, howoever, gives the following lucid and convincing explanation: “The people were so eager to see the emperor andso anxious not tymiss one detail of the splendid sight that they actually forgot to cheer, and only the waving of hats and hand- kerchiefs and attempts at cheering after the carriage lad pissed bOr¢ witness to their fecings." — MOVEMENT OF COTTON. The Supply of the New Crop to Date I8 Over a Mililon Bales. New Onimaxs, La, Oct, 5.—Secretary Hos- ter's weekly Now Orleanscotton exchangere- port, issued yesterday, cofers tie first thirty- three days of the season. The movement since September 1 shows: Receipts at all United States ports 830267 bales, against 683,125 up to this daté last year; overland across the Mississippl, Ohio and Potomac rivers tonorthorn mills and- Canada 87 4 aginst 23,813 interiorstocks in exce: those held at the close of the comme: year 75,85, against 75,503 southern mill tukings, 47,77, agunst 47,337, making the total amountof the new crop brought into sight thus far 091, sgainst 829,63 Ex- ports have been 445.784, against 3,270 last year. an increase of 465 bales, Total takings of American mills, north and south, thus farfor the seison have been 201,580, aginst 173,230 last season. These include 155,201 by northern spinners, against 123, Stocksat seaport eities and twenty-nine leading southern int@rior eenters have in- creased during the week 65,298 bales, against an increase during the .corvesponding period last season of 80,647, and are_now 45,640 bales larger than nnh.bgl 2 in 1889 Including stocks left. over at and n- terior towns from the last cropfand the num- ber of bules brought intosight thus far of the new erop, the supply 10 dato is 1,063,108, against 93,100 for the same period last year. DISCOURAGE CHEAP WORKME. Barbers Resort to Extreme Measures to Drive Out Competition. JacksoN, Mich., Oct. 5—A band of white caps has inaugurated a system of a most out- rageous character in this city under the very dome of the Michigan state prison. A few months ago two barbers, Cruson and Hill, opened a shopin this city and started in on cutrates, Their coupseat once aroused the enmity of allthe other barbers in the place, who used every means o induce them to leave town, They fist attempted to buy them of with & big bonus, Hav- ing filed in this they sought to buy out the interest of Cruson, but he persistently refusedto sell. The chean prices proved a drawing card and gradually the shop was doing the bulk of the busine: Whether the regular barbers were at the bottom of it or not, a system of bitter perse- cution has pursued these men for the last two weeks, Their wives were insulted on th strect and practically ostracised from all sc ciety and their childven were jeered at by the other sehoo! children, but the climax was not reached until yesterasy, when a white cap notice surmounted with skull and cross- bones was sent to them, directing them t leave town at once or abide the con: quences, Last night or early this moring the shop was broken into and whateve could be carricd away was stolen and all the stationary furniture smeshed, — A HUMANE DE&D REWARDED. ANew York Lawyer is Left $250,000 by the Man He Aided, New York, Oct. S~In December, five years ago, afine looking, well dressed man, accompanied by ajag, made something of a sensation arand the. up-town hotels one cvening. Asthe night advanced he began to act wildly and frantleally resisted all at- tempts to restrain him. He was finally sent to Bellevue hospital i an ambulance. At th hospital he was putintothe insane ward. The doctors pronounced him insune and said he must go to an asylim. He sent a messcuger for a lawyer, and ex-Judge H. W. Leonard of 128 Broadway visited bim. Mr. Stremmel told him thathe wis notinsane, but simply suffering from the effects of @ prolonged spree, Judge Leonard guccecded in getting him released with_much difficulty. The stranger zave him §27%0 sad disappeared, and the judge had heard nothing from him 'until today, when a letier oawe from the law firm of Wilson & Trainor of Paeblo, Colo,, briefly saying that Louis Strgmmel of that ¢ity had cently died, leaving a fortune of §500,000, of which he'had left 1o Judge e s The Presideiuial Party, WasniNaroy, Oct. b—The presidential party, consisting of thé president, Secretary Tracy, Private Sccvetyry Halford, Marshs Ransdell and representaiives of the press as- iations, leaves tomorrow at 11 o'clock Generl C. H, Grosvener . will join the party at Cincinnati aud go . ® gOttumwa, Ia, The train will leave Cincinms@ Tuesday morning and arrive at Terre Haute at )P, m.; stop at Danville over nightgud arrive at Gales. burg at 9:50 Weduesday morning, e ount of Parls and Party. New Youk, Oct. 5.—~Comte de Paris and party this morning attended the funeral serv. ices over the rermains of Carl Haas, the valet of the Duc D'Orleans, Who died in this city the day after his apvival. In the afternoon the royal party walked across the Brooklyn bridge and in the évening were entertuined at duer by General Sherman. Toworrow uorning they go to Philadelphia, ————— President Young dnterviewed. WasINGioN, Qct. b—In an interview printed this moroalug President Young of the National basc ball league is quotel as saying that the league will make arrangements to place another league club in Cincinnati, Young intimates that when the lcague plans are opened out at the coming weeting the op- ponents will be surprised. CPRONBITION 1N MICHIGAY. That Btate's Experience, A WHOLE TEXT BOOK OF ARGUMENTS. After Twenty-Five Years of Trialt People ot That Commonwealth Repeal the Obnoxe fous Law, Detrorr, Mich, Oct. 5.—[Special to Tie Bek.]~If the expericnces of other states with prohibition may scem as lessons to in- struct the citizens of Nebraska how tovote in the coming election on the prohibitory con. stitutional amendment, they have ouly to look to Michigan to find a whole text book of arguments against adopting sucha policy i dealing with the liquor trafie. Michigan is under high license now, but it had prohibi tion for a long time—twenty years—from 1555 10 1870, and it gave it amost thorough trial That it discarded it after such a prolonged test speaks volumes for the failure of the principle. .The trial was, fn fact, of more than twenty years’ duration. A prohibitory clause was inserted in the state constitution in 1850, and in 183 the Maine liquor law was enacted. This was amended in 1855 and re mained in force up to 1575, Hero then is a westorn s hibition for twenty-tive years, a much more extended period thau the law has been in operation in Kansas ovlowa, Its experience b it was both interesting and instructive. rery effort was made toenforce the law, which was certainly severe enoug “The prohibition,” said Hon. George W. Moore in anaddress before the Betroit board of trade, some time ago, *‘was as absolute as it could be made. The ingenuity of theablest lawyers, preachers, business men, legislators and women was exhausted in devising Jonaliles and_ means of enforcing them, Liquors were declared no consideration for o debt, and sale of other goods whero liquors were part of the trade was declared unlawful and the debt could not be colleeted; it was declared that every person injured by such sales should be able o sue the seller ana recover damages; that owners of the buildings should be also liable; that any lease of premises where liquor was sold could be declared forfeited ; that every act of selling should bea separate offense, punish- able with fines not exceeding $100 “and im prisonmentup tosix months, until the lia vility of every liquor dealer in thestate would aggregate perhaps hundreds of thou- sands of dollars and imprisonment for many lifetimes, Common law rules of evidence were changed tomalke convictionseasicr, and the simple solicitation of any intemperate person to drink subjected the inviter to the penaities provided for the seller.” And yet all thislegislation went for nanght The law soon fell into contempt and became productive of the greatest evils. Saloous were conducted openly in defiance of all pro hibitory legislation, and the liquor dealers were upheld in their course by public opin- fon. At lust the condition of things became intolerable. In 1873, two years before the law and the constitutional provision were re- pealed, there were nearly eighty-five hundred saloons in the state. Realizing that some- thing must be done and that probibition was the root of the evil, the temperate and la- abiding citizens banded together and swept away all this obnoxious leglslation, enacting in its place a moderate license law. 2 The improvement was immediate. Within a short time 2,000 of the lowest groggeries in the state were swept away, offenses against public peace and order decreased to amarsed degree, and the liquor_interest, which for twenty-five years had paid no taxes to the state, was made to bear its fair share of the public burdens. The following table shows 10w the license law worked in rostricting the number of drinking places, the last five years of prohibition and the first five of oderate license being given : ate that had pro- No, Liguor Doalers. 5,20 5,00 5,406 RS 6,00 Year, Prohibition. N Prohibition. Prohibition.. Prolibition.. rohipition: te license Moder Moderat . . Moderate license. ... vsar0is187 wdmitted that this Is a very vorable showing for the license system, = Un- der high license, which is now the state law of Michigan, the improvement has steadily continued until there are today, notwith- standing the great incr m population, fowor drinking places than there were fif: teen to twenty years ago. Millons of dollars, which were lost under probibition, are now received annually from the license fees and contribute materially to lessen the burden of taxation, That the people of Michigan prefer these substaneiil results to the fallacies of proli- bition, was _conclusively shown three years ago, when, in concession to the importunities of the ohibitionists, who loudly claimed that a la majority of the voters favored theirside, a constitutional prohibitory amend- ment was_submitted to the people. 1t wis ed by a vote of 184251 to 178,636, the jority against it being 5,04, It is be- lieved ‘that the majority would bo con siderably greater could avote be taken on the question now. Michigan hasa local option law which al- lows counties todecide whether ornot liquors shall be sold within their limits his has worked very satisfactorily. Countics where the prohibition sentiment predominates have no saloons, and in others, especially those containing large towns and cities, where the sentiment different, well regulated saloons are allowed under the restrictions of the high license law. This scems 1o be the most sensible way of dealing with the liquor ques tion, Certainly the people of Michigan, after an expericnce of twenty-five yeurs with prohibition, preferitto that humbug, and their example is respectfully commended to theintelligent voters of Nebraska as a gzood oneto follow. R WANTED T0 MARRY THE CHOIR. An Ambitious lowa Preacher gaged to Five Gir's at Once. Des Moixes, Ia, Oct News reached this city tonight of a sensation at Beaford, Ia., which has caused a great deal of excito- ment in that little city, Wesley Brown, a young aud rather good-looking minister, went to Bedford about a year ago to take charge of the Christian church. He was a graduate of an castern college and was highly recom mended. ¥ ardly located until s atten- tions to the young lady members of the flock used comment, but it not until the past week that the city was shaken by a voleano of jealousy which broke out in the cloir. The Rev. Brown has pledged his affections to at least five girlsin the choir aud wnex- change of confidences on their part has given publicity to the matter. The girls finding they had been duped carried their story to the trustees of the church and the Rev. Brown's resignation was promptly demanded The church is now withouta pastor and Brown has left for parts unknown. The affair has caused intense excitement in church circles, and as th pung ladies are highly connected indignation at the pastor's action is at fever hea En~ —— PUT AN PAWN BY CHESS, Wreck of aJournalist's Life Through is Infatuation for the Game. Derroir, Oct. 5—In the amest aud com- mittal of Fred Elder of Detroit, for va- grancy, s written the close of the life of one of the brightest newspaper men Michigan ever saw. Fifteen yewrs ago Elder, who had graduated at Amberst colloge with high honors and obwained his degree from the law school, came to Michigan Nebraska Oitizens Can Learn a Liesson From | ———————— NUMBEK 110, ——————— ey man, His wind was of the brightest, keenest kind, His memo was phenomenil. He could call to mind the very page and paragraph of any quotation from Blackstone or Kent, and was o perfect encyelopedia on Shakespeare, 1t was his misfortune to learn to play chess. At length his love for chess overame his desire for anything o nd helost his position. Step by step e drifted down, sacerificing anythin vhis gime. At last hisspiondid cons broke and he turned up the wiwk he is as 4 nowspaper - RICH FINDIN AN OLD BUELD RNG. A Carpenter Discovers $5,000 Hid- den Under a Floor. Srraxareny, O, Oct. 5~ Great excitemmnt w ised in Utbana, ten miles north of here, today, by the discovery under a hilf rotted fioor of about $5,00, evidently hidden for m John Keller a barteunder, about three monthsago rented a house from Mrs, Mary Nolan, It was an old building and was in urgent need of repairs, IKeller kept importuning Mes. Nolan to have the | house fitted up, and particularly to have a | new floorputin the kitchen. She granted tho request, and Johu Riley,a crpenter, wus employed to ke the imvrove ments, He lad removed only a few boaras of the fioor when lis eyes rested ona small < millewed and dusty, but carefully tied It contained $1,000 in &100ills, More boards o torn 1oose, and two move sacks, contain ing respectively #1,00 insilverand 2,00 golden eagles, were fou The carp agreed tokeep mum for asmall part of the sum. Keller's Christian wife objected and Riley employed ES(., Ve the ioney on the ground that he discovered it. Mus, Nolan alsoclaims the moacy. — The rightful owners are believed tobe a Mr. and Mis, Fitzpatrick, who formerly owned and lived in the house. They weut west a few ¥ ago, and their whereibouts are not kuown. ars. — ORBIECTTO COLORED White Employes of a Texas Road May Strike on is £ e Houstox, Tex., Oct. 5—The Houston & Texas Centvalrailway las employed switchmen in its yards for several About two weeks ago & demand was made for their removal, the placs to be filled by whites. The demand was refused and the foremen all stucle, Grand Master Wilkin sonwassent for and hus beon in the city two days, trying to adjust matters ami ably, butwithout avail, us the ofticals of the Ceitral are firm in their position, arguing that if the colored men are good enough to sitin the councils of the Knights of Labor, thoy should bo szood enoughto work with. Grand Master Wilkinson has _wired toall members of the extentive council of the rail- way federation whick recently metin Terre Haute, o cone to Houston at onee, and the impression 15 general thit a strilels inmi- nent. The Southern Pacific may also be in volved, s both roads e in the Huntington system, ME P RATSCHEW UP A IS ECSHOARD Steve Zenga Toses $53,000 in Bills Through Mischicvous Rodents, . Pavr, Minn, Oct 5, —Steve Zeng, a miser, living on the Missouri nver near Chamberlain, 8. D, discovered today thit he had losta fortunein a peculior manner, © It had been his custom forseveral yedrs past to secrete his surplus cash in a cellarunder his nstead of plicingit in a bk, The had gradually sccunulated until thetotal cdover 5,000, all in grecnbacks, i de- nominations of from $1 to &>w. On visiting his seeret, hoard today he found that rats snd mice bud burrowed fn and chewed up the Dills unti! they were entirely worthless, s dek OHIO*S WEALTHY CONVIGT, hur Picard Begins a One Year Sen- tence and Falls Heir to $100,000. Corusnus, Oct, 5 — Probably the wealthi- est conyict, fn the Ohio prison, exceptingB. La Harper, is Arthur Picard, a Portage county man who domned the stripes last night forone year for burg Heis a young man and the black sheep of a respectable and wealthy family. Just before he was taken from the i 1 1o be brought nere e re teiveduoticeof the death of a relative by whose willgho veceived §100,000. ————— A Disgusted Audienoe CrrcAGo, Oct. 5.—(|Special Telegram to Bee.]-The police were vequired to quell a incipient riotin fiont of the Madison street theater last evening. The au gustedwith the performance, had the street entrance, hooting and determined to mob the alleged performers when_ they came out. Since IKelly & Leon abandoned their disastrous attempt to put this place of amusement on o paying basis it has vemained elosed. Duviog tie last few s, however, the boards in front of the theaterhave blaed with high colored bills depicting bixom maidens in scant attire tripping_gaily along and_advertising Leon arde’s gaiety company, witha spe from London. The bullet and general pe formance was_ motup 0 expectations, and disovderly portionof the audienco broke up the show. athered at yelling and e Proposed Indianm and Iliwis Line INDINAPOLIS, Tid., Oct. 5—A milead o extend from Fort Wayne to Teire Haute and on southwest across Nlinois is projected The company, named the Fort Wayne, Terre Haute and Southwestern, filed artides of incorporation today. The capital stockls set b $4,000,000, but 5o faronly 0,000 has been subseribed, The project ineluides abranch from the main line tothe Clay county coal fleld. - Prize Animals Stampede, Muyicrr, Oct 5 -Atthe anual fete today, during the insdection—of the priz bulls, one of the animals broke loose and dashed into o mass of spectator, trampling ple right and left,” Many jured, but none seviously. had anarriw escape, i .08 = Mexican Newspapers Mad, Crry oF Mexico, Oct. b.—The newspapers here call onthe goverument to appeal to the postal union against the action of the Unitel States government in forvidding the trans portation of Mexican newspapes beaving Mexican postage with lotery advertise ments, —— Hebrew Work mer New York, Oct. The sccond days session of the national convention of Jewish workmen today was well attended. Resolu tions advasing anational union between the United States and Canada's trades unions were adopted. upn the peo. rsons were in- Prince Loopoll s Convention. R Valuable = tillion Killed. CaxtoN, 0., Oct. During the rices at the Marlboro fair yesterday the stallion Bis- marck, valued at 5,00, ownedby Willian Myers, collided witha' bugey belng driven across the track, Thestallion was iustantly killed and Myers very seriously injured, Bh e . President Diaz Not Alarmed, Cuy oF MExico, Oct. 5—President Dinz rides daily through the streets and woods, | The free way in which he exposes bimself | shows thathe discredits the rumors of plots against his life. | e s Scotch Xron Furnaces Closed Loypoy, Oct. 5. s havo been | quenched in all but afew of the Scotchiirn | furnaces. The lickoutwill reduce the market | supply 20,00 tous weekly. Passed the Conversion Law, BueNos Avues, Oct. b — Congress passed the couversion law. - hos " \ PN ERY R. J Stn RIALL RELEASED. Says That He Has No Desire to Prosecute, A SHORTAGL UF EIGHTEEN THOUSANDW He Intended to Close a Big Keal Estate Deat in Burope Square Up Tis Ace conn, Niw Yonk, Oct. 5 terday on atelogram from thathe wis wanted ther for of 28,000 from Richard J, Sty land transiction Erest Riall, arvested Omatin stating cmbezlemmy Wt by bomus wis dischargpd by Justica O Relily in the JefFersom Market court todiys Straight stated that ho had no dosin cuteRiall andbad madea mistake in caise ing his arvst, us hocoull notbear the penso of laving Riall taken bick to Onha for trial. ye 10 Dr0sOs Rinll*s shortnge, Aprivate telegram recived in this city yesterday states, in ofect, that Brnest 1til's trouble las been adjusted tomporarily, as leastso faras to permit bis relase from jail in Now York city stated ilso thatthe wnfortinate man, together with Mr R. J. Straight of Bradford, 1%, at whoseine stance Mr. Riall Satunly moming as he was ging aboard the steaner Servia to sail for Burcpe, will bth bein Omuiha intwo or thye It has been the anount Mr. Rill SIS0 o The messig was arrested duys, A furthor due Mr Straieht s 4 matter o sme more, which, it is stated on good authority, tho latter camo into posses= sionof while actingin thecapuity of broker for Mr. Straight, who is acapitalistof widely recoguized standing, Str latios with Riall date back quite a lng time, and sinee their being assaiated tos gether as principalund hroker Stright las allowed Riall to handle latge sums of money for him-betw 0000 and $7 5,00, Stuighthas alvays paid Riall libeolly for his services, giving him wo cause whitever to play him false o the extent of even i penny,. "This F13,000 or more Riall, it had held outor back from' the amount ene trusted in his hands either for investuen® « or intheway of coliections. Straight had. repetedly appealed to Riall tofix the matter up,and repeatealy Riall haa promised 0 do Things went on this way until finlly Stuirhtmadea positive engagement to meet Ruall ner, Tustead of meeting Mr, Straight as hud 1 for, Riall mivie o broake to o to y and started just the ¢ fore theone upon which hé had agrea to mect Straigh there in Omaha, — Straight ar- rived here promptlyon the following day, as he had promised, bit whit wus his surprise on bewg told by Riall’s clok that Mr. Rl R goe 0 Chiagg Neow ¥ Chagrined beyond xpression, Mr Riall caught the next in back to Chicago, where by mee chince leamed that Risll was etting to Furope as rapidly as possible, Then Mr, Straight ime meliately determined tohave Riallarrested. He placed the matter in the hauls of the Pinkertons, and sixty minutesafter he had done 5o Riall was beiiind the hars of the Jefs ferson Market police station i New Yorkg City. Kiall lnd been intending forabout a month prior to his departure togo toBurope to try and close a big land deal withan Englishsy s dicate, the deal consisting of tie salo of a beit of somesix ov eight hundred acres of gwpcrt)' immnediately surounding Portlind, dre, on which Riall had secured o '8ix months’ option. A few days priorto making theengagement tomeet Mr, Stright here, Riull reccived cable messages from Europe t0 the effect that the big deal culd be clised immediately aud for him (Rinll) to leso no time in getfing there. listeal of Going to Mt Straightand arcanging for afew mora weeks of additional time on the mitter with him, Riall rdeliberately responded © ta Stright's call for 4 meting thathe will be here to see him Then came a hard, tight rustie on Riull's part for money 10 get away toRurope with. ~ Evidetly e thoight he woull rush over there, make i cool 100,000 I, as the deal promised,and thenrush ight. He secmed to feel that it would be fatal for him to venture to tell Straight that he was gaing 10 ISurope, Those who kiow Mr. Siraight, however, ase sert thatif Riall could have given himevis dence of the truth of his Burpean deal Straight would haye given him one more clance, Butno. Riall chose to chance the consequences, The fivst linkin the chain of these conseqiences is known, and the pubs lic will anxiously await theappurance of the ot hors Chaplin Ray of the army kedquarters senta tdegram to the Jef¥oson Market po. lice station, New York, Saturday evening at s o'clock addressed to Ernest 1Rinil, usking what conld be dome to assist him in his dift: y. No reply wis receiveduntillastoven. ing, when the Western Union offico in this cily vecived the following message fee your serviee rrnest Riadi une known at Jeferson nirket police stition, Nours of the ith, signod tay, still undel vored, Clarle, New York. (he following telegram was sent to R. J, ht, New York, by Chief W.S. Savey yesterday forenoon ; R Strad Having no wyln,li ascertad that, fromy ghis business ro- b & is wsserted, niul comn ninst Erenest Rinll, gannot authorize luspector Byries to hold s oon after the above sent Chief § received the following from Mr. Straight : New York, Oct. 5.\, Seavey, clif ot y ) piliee, Ouigia: Toeadl aiy order’ you wve sent Tspector Byrnes to hofd Er Riall, as 1 ok matiers can be adjusted sutisfactorially. avey - 10 SING 0B NOT TO High School Senfors to Be kxp Unless They Accepta Catholie ZaxwsviLiy, O., Oct bigh school boys I thesenior class refusing tosingthe “Venetian Boatman’s Song’ cone taining an invoation to e lly virgin, they declaring that the sentiment was not. in accord with their protestant beliol, is caus. g & great amount of feel The authoris tis of the school iusisted that they siig it and aplogim for their disobedience, “This boys flatly xe fused to do, @nd the caso has assuneda serious aspect. The music her is i Cathe alic, the daughter of a leading citien, wdthe boyss and those insywpathy withthem clain thut itis anattempt on b et 10 introduce Catnolic ideas into thesehools, ‘The Fatriotio Order of Sous of America, which has o large membership, has published resolations ens dorsing the boy's nction. The su perintens dent hus given the recreants till Monday (9 accept his conditions or be expelled. NOVEL LDEA FORTHEF SING, led Songz, “The ation of the the n”e. Suggestion of the Navy's Repres tive Relative (o a Buill nz, WasiiNGrox, Oct. 5.-Captain R W, Meade, recontly relioved from dutyat the Washiugton navy yard and assimed o ach # therepresentalive of the navy on the Cod lumbian commi uea fop the constraction building In which the United nual exnibi at the world's fair will be plic His idoa is to build an immense struclure similup 10 the new battle ships and placo the exhibie tion inside, while the exterior will giv oxaet yiew of the appearatce of the mnoder cruisers, The space tequind, he says, wil be about four hundred by e hundred feo, and the expense is estmated at from §100,000 to &20,000, according to the material used, Real guns are to be ed in the turrets of the vessels and incaudescnt lnps will be e las @ of the States sion unique Steamship Arrivals, ! At New York-La Champagne, from Ha yre ! with th extensively used, “The suggestion his el pproval of the naval olicery aud & 15 likely will he idopted, R