Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 9, 1890, Page 4

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THERE is some consolation in the fact that the left are more numerous than the clect, Tk humor of the cam: consin is on the democratic side by thivty thousand majority. OFFICTAL returns are still wanting to show the effect of the victory on the Nebraska Central bridge scheme, FAD the independents placed Van Wyck atthe head of the ticket, there would bono ogcasion to await the offi- cial returns to determine his election, IN THE programme of the coming democratic jubilee, the Samosets should not forget to give the place of honor to the elect, especially thoss whom the big chiefs attempted to fire off the ticket during the early days of the campaign. Tk old Cleveland cabinet thinks of having u reunionin the senate cham- ber at Washington, Whitney of New York and Vilas of Wisconsin alrendy think they have the pins setup, and the rest oxpect to come in on the next eloction. Now the Mormons working the religious craze among the Indians, Just what the saints hope to gain is not stated. Having overthrown polygamy, it is necessary to charge them with some torrible erime to keop the church alive as an issue, are accused of Tuk reported discovory of a cure for consumption by Dr. Koch, a famous German specialist, has attracted world- wide attention. The details of whatis pronounced “a revolution in ther- apeutics” will probably be made public within a month, Meanwhile the doctor is prosecuting his experiments with bacilli to the exclusion of other dutie and will soon relieve a coughing world of the strain on its lungs, Mg, C. A, ATKINSON, president of the on-Partisan Amendment 1dague, is the fiest prohibitionleader to account for the Waterloo in honest, manly fashion. He says it was due to the fact that the farm- ers cast an unexpected vote against the amendment. He does not charge that the vietory for license was won by fraud, outlawry or bribery. It is refreshing to have one, prominent wan of the other side explain the result in n manner that isat once truthful and creditable to the level headed farmers of Nobraska, THREE of the great packing h ouses of Chicago, those of Armour, Swift and Morris, have decided to move their establishments boyond the boun- da of the city. The announced object is to escape inimical local laws and excessive taxation. It is evident, however, that the real ob- ject it to emulate Pullman and starta packers’ town, A large tract of land has been secured just boyond the Indiana boundary, on which the factories will be started and the town built. The annual business of the three firms amounts toone hundred and fifty million Possessing ample capital und the ability to succossfully manage any undertaking, there 1s no doubt that their project will add tens of thousands to the population of Indiana within ten S1GNOR ciplo of Poo Tan- ner, aftor sixty days experienco, de- claves: **The power of psychic forco over matter is the secret of fasting.” The discovery is important, Indeed it isinvuluable at the present time when thousands of misguided beings have had their hopes and aspivations ruthlessly shattered and the glowing prospect of a profitable season at the public crib has gone a-glimmering. A more consoling beverage for the defunct cannot be found in the matoria medica than psychic force. And what makes it all the more grateful is that it costs nothing, To candidates who have had the fat fried out of them at every turn and have had to grease their pathway to the political boneyard, it will prove a priceless boon to learn that the power of psychic forco aflords o balm for mutilated hopes and shuttered nerves, Sucei is a bonefactor in disguise, Long live the signor, N INHE RESULT IN THE STATE, Carcfully compiled returns from all but two counties, Hooker and MePher son, give James E. Boyd a plurality of | & fraction more than one thousand votes | over Powers, independent people’s can- | didato for governor, and three thou- sand ove date. In view of thefact that by ThE Bre official and the vote in the ported Richards, republican candi the are nearly all returns prosented two unre exceed two Jamos B, counties it is been elected cannot hundred, manifest that Boyd According to the r hns governor. turns recoived at | republican headquarters it 1s almost certain that with the exception of gov- ernor, all candidates on the republican stato ticket have been elected by major- | ities ranging from two to four thousand. It is impossible as yet for us to print the returnson state officers, but we shall endeavor to do 50 in our next issue. The next legislature will be decidedly there > publicans, anti-monopoly. In the ‘senate straight democrats will be six nino eigh- classed straight and teen members who may be as alliance men, although perhaps one- hall of these had been nominated jointly on republican and allinee tickets or on tick In the house there are fifty- ance democratic and allianc e alli- men, twenty-four democrats and Whether the the together is twenty-two republicans, members of the alliance in house will always remain pro- blematic, HOW STATE CONTES TS ARECONDUCTED The close contest on the state ticket very naturally the inquiry what the next legislature has to do with the returns and to what extent it can in- terpose for or against any particular candidate. We will outline briefly the functions of the legislature and its authority in determining the result of the state elections, Under the constitution, the leg ure or rather each of its two houses, is the judge of the election and qualifleation of its own membors, In other words, the legislature hasabsolute power to deter mine who is or is not entitled to a seat but in so doing it must con- duet its inquiry in conformity with the clection laws, which require that any candidate for the legi: lature, who for any reason d contest the seat of his opponent must serve due notice upon him within a fixed time after the election, setting forth the points upon which he expeets to estab- lish his richt to the seat, and designat- ing & notary before whom testimony is to boe taken to establishthisright. This testimony is usually pluced before the Alegislature and that body may go be- hind the returns and rendor a final de- cision as » majority of its membors may deem just. I'rom this decision there is 1o appeal. It is altogether different with regard to state officers. Under the law the varfous county clerks are required to forward to the secretary of state the aggregate number of voles cast for each candidate in duplicate and certify to the same under oath as being a cor- rect return as made by the county board of canvassers. The secrotary of state is required to preserve one sot of these county veturns, scaled, und present the same to the legislature, with a tabulated exhibit of the returns as he finds them in the other sot. As soon as the two houses of the leg lature aro duly organized they meet in joint convention, which body becom state bohrd of canvassers. They bri openthe sealed envelopes containing the county returns and verify them with tho exhibit placed in their hands by the secretary of state. If the footings correspond and prove correct, the president of the senate, who in this instance will be Lieutenant Governor Meiklojohn, will publicly declare each candidato who has received o majority or plurality of the vote cast for any offico duly electod. Thisact ends all connec- tion of the legislature with the canvass of state election returns, The legislature has no power to alter or modify any of the returns except 5o far as an error may appear in the footings made by the county canvassers or secretary of state, The only way any candidate for u state office may contest the election of either of his competitors is by process of law through the courts. This process is pro- seribed in our statutes and requires the 1g of testimony as rogards fraud or miscount, just the same us is provided for contestantsof county or city officers, provokes sires to KEEP NEBRASKA IN THE FRONT. For several reasons the people of No- brasku have just now an especial oppor- tunity to push the state forward in a new und promising path of development. In the first place the danger of prohi- bition has been laid. Alone of the belt of agricultural states stretching from the Indian territory to Canada, Ne. braska has voted against the policy that malkes capitalists distrustiul, discourages investment and injures material pros- perity. Much new capital is now ready to flow in and much more can be induced to come this way by proper cffort on the part of enterprising communities and of the state as a_whole, Another thing which should stir the people of Nebraska to unwonted activity at this time is the importance of having the stato in the best possible condition in 1803, Iu that year we hope to attract thousands of visitors through our exhibitat the world’s fair, and to interest capital and new popula- tion by the opportunities offered by the prosperity of the state. The whole west will receiven degree of attention in 1893 that it has mever beforo enjoyed, All western states will then be rivals for the good opinion of visitors and the solid re- wards which will wcompany it. It is not too early to plan and work for this end. The new legislature will be asked to provide liborally for the stute’s repre: sentation at Chicago, It will probably bo asked also to put in operation some practical scheme for advertising the state’s ad yantages and encouraging im- migration. The effort to nccomplish this by meuns of a dovelopmeut society failed. Itisn movement thal can suc coed only by theaid of the state which i8 10 bo benofited by its results, Now is the timo for all Nebraska peo- ple to unite in an earnest effort o en- hance the greatness of Nebraska. Sue- cess insuchan offort means prospority forall, RAILWAYS AND PUBLIC SAFETY. The extraordinargnumber of fatalitics on the railroads of this country during the last few months has invited serious consideration of the question whether measurds should not beadopted, both national and state, requiring railway companies to make better provision than they now generally do against avoidable accidents. The last report of the inter- state commerce commission contains sta- tistics of railway nccidents for ten yeavs, and the statement shows that during the two years of 1888 and 188) the railronds killed over eleven thousand persons and injured fifty-two thousand, of the latter forty thousand being employes. This 18 a most alarming exhibit, and it will be rendered still more 8o when the recerd of this year's casultiesis added. It is es- inlly significant asshowing the dan- gerous nature of railway employment. During the last two years there was one death for every three hundred and fifty- seven employes and one injury for every thirty-five. No such havoc as this happens on Fu- ropean railvoads. [n England the num- bor of railway employes killel in 1888 was one in every,cight hundred and sev- enty-five, and the number injured one in every one hundred and fifty-eight. The statistics of passengers killed and injured are still more favorablo to English railvay management. The French statistics compa favorably with those of England. It is true, as thereport of the interstate commerce commission says, that the conditions of travel here are different from those in England, but it has been well remarked that this fact does not change the gen- eral principle that railwe flic can be rendered much more secure here by the action of the companies themselves in adopting more complete equipments and enforeing a higher degroe of discipline,or by more stringent legal restrictions and regulation In England are ready to reward exempla any person who has beon injured in a rilway aceident, or to his relatives in casoof his death from such a cause. The authori t upon the adoption of life-saving appliances, and the spaed of trains is proportioned to ths woight of rails, the weight and capacity of loco- motives, ete. There isa rigorons inves- tigation of accidents by competent men, whose conclusions and recommendations are respoeted. A wiso plan for the re- duction of fatalities is found to be the increase of the cost of accidents to the railroads concorned, and the applica- tion of the principle would doubtless be found equally serviceable in this coun- try. y The numborand frequency of railway accidents in the United States, and the very dangerous nature of railway employment here, un- questionsbly due very largely to the neglect of the companies to pro vide proper and adequats safoguards, malke & most urgent demand for logisla- tion that will compel the railvoad com- panics, under sovere penultics, to use overy precaution and appliance for se- curing greater safety to the public and to their employes. A record of sixty- two thousand persons killed and injured during two years is a startling indict- ment of our railway management, and theve is little reason to expect that the companies will voluntarily provide the remedies, This is a matter which should receive the serious attention of the next legislature of Nebras s ins THE VOTE AND THE CENSUS. ont outrageous attacks of the prohibition hirelings on the census of Omaha furnished the detractors of the ity with texts for attacks on the aceu- of the enumeration. It was juicy t. Paul and Minneapolis. Kansas City pounced upon it as drown- ing man grasps at straws, and Denver hailed the prohibition fake as proof pos- itive of wholesale stutling. THE BEER ef- fectually exploded the malicious canard at tho time, but the result of the elec- tion furnishes additional evidence of the correctness of the count. The vote cast by the r last Tuesday is as follows: Minuveapolis . Omaba. . . St. Paul Kansas O 17,000 Denver....... Ot The population of the five cities as shown by the federal census is as fol- lows: Minncapolis, ....... Omaba....... St. Panl Kunsas Cily Denver....... R 126,000 While the ratio of vote to population in Omaha and Minneapolis is practically the sume, St. Paul, Kunsas City and Denver show a marked discrepancy. - In Kansas City the election did not call out a full vote. Denver and St. Paul had every incentive to bring out a repre- sentutive vote, The five cities maintain in the number of votes cast the position given them in the consus. The figu leave the envious critics of Omaha with- out & peg on which to hang their asser- tions, ective cities ceeaen 26,054 ceeenes B1458 10,022 EDUCATION IN THE SOUTH. At the rocent meeting of the Freed- men’s Aid and Southern Education so- ciety interesting statistics were pre- sented showing the progress of education in the south, Since the war there have been expended in the sixteen southern states six million dollars for the educa- tion of the poor whites and of the col- ored people. Eleven colleges and twenty- eight acadomies have been established. Industrial training forms afeature of the educational work, and last year over two thousand men and women received such training and were thusenabled to become independent and self-reliant, There are over five thousand traveling preachers representing an aggregate population of two million, the church communicants numbering over half u million. Especial interest is shown by both whites and blacks in the training schoals, which are kept crowded. But while most sutisfactory progress has beer made, thers is still an enor- mous work to bo dono in reclaiming the SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1890-8 illiterate. In {ho section over which the society presidds nearly two million poor whites and over three million colored people cannot write, while their moral education has bden as much neglected as their intellectunl, One of the most sorious obstacleg encountered by the so- clety is the hostifity to its schools of the better class of whites. A great deal of prejudice still geists, but it is gradually giving way, and from what has been ac- complished therd is reason to hope that within a fow years it will have so far disappeared as to be no longer trouble- some, All the facts relative to the progress of the negro in education show the devel- opment of the raco since its emancipa- tion to be most vemarkable. Twenty five years ago thoy owned not even a cabin, and they were forbidden to learn toread or write. Now they own houses and many of them can rend and write, while in their vanis are physicians, law- rgymen, skilled mechanics and . They haye demonstrated the capacity of the race for intellectual ad- vancement, and having done this noth- ing will now stay its progress. Said one of the members of the society: *‘Educate the negro, and the greatest problom threatoning the safety of this country will be trlumphantly solve Southern sentiment regarding public education and its extension to both the poor whites and the colored people has been growing more liberal for several years, particu- larly in those portions of the south where industrial development has had its natural effect in modifying prejudice, and progress of this kind is certain to go on. It may bo checked from time to time, but it cannot be stopped. The outlook for the material advance of the south is entirely hopeful, and with its development in this direction must come the intellectual progress of all its peo- ple, the blacks us well as the whites. ————— ANOTHER L1G BEEF TRU. Dispatches from Chieago toll the story of the formation of another big beef combine. It appears that several of the largest packing houses in Chicago have agreed to sell their plants to a company of English capitulists, and that by this means & concern larger than any indi- vidual firm now in existence will come into the field. The business willbe conducted with oreign capital and on an scule. The present understanding among the packers is about as close as it could be, so that the new company, colossal as it is, will perhaps produce no immediate effect on prices. But thero are two features of this transfer that will not impress the public favorably. In the fivst place, the fact that English capitalists are anxiousto pay a great price for theso . packing houses will strengthen thé popular belief that the profits of tho packers are out of all reasonable proportion to the profits of the men who feed stock on the praivies of the west. And, further, that these unreasonable vrofits rob the consumer on one hand as they do the prolucer on the other. In the second place, this is. unother and a very long step toward the concen- tration of a great business in the hands a few. What makes this a move vital matter is the further fact that the monopoly deals with the food of the peo- ple und touches both the pocket and the stomach nevves of every man. The tendency of the times is toward combinations of capitalists af the ex- pense of the people, and the people are getting into a very aggressive mood about it. For these reasons the stroke of enterprise recorded in recent djs- patehes from Chicago will not be hailed with any signs of hilarious delight. f enormous THE RETURN OF CONFIDENC 8 | The defeat of prohibition by a ma- jority so large as to remove all fear of that quostion being again submitted to the vote of the people of Nebraska for many years, if ever, has produced a gen- eral restoration of confidence in busi- THE BEE comes into daily contact with men in all departments of ade and enterprise, and it finds the universal feeling to be that Nebraska and its metropolis are assured n poriod of development and progress unsurpassed in results in the history of the state, All expression is that of unqualified faith in the future. It is not a bhoom than iotelligent and practical men ure looking for, but a steady, sound and substantial growth. They ex- pect that Nebraska will get its full hare of the people drifting from the st to the west, and that new capital 1l seek hore the favorable opportuni- ties for investment, These are reasona- ble expectations sure to be realized, With all the conditions now favorable to progress Nebrasks must advance, Theonly danger that threatened her growth and prosperity having been averted, she must move forward with the expansion of the enterprises ‘of her own people and the additions to her economic forces certain to be made, So far as Omaha is concerned, the prospects were never more favorable, In every department of business the coming year wili witness an extension, and the promise for building enterprises assures an extensive employment of labor and a large distribution of money. It issafo to anticipate an ineresse of population during the next twelve months equal to the highest of any preceding year, and a measure of general prosperity unsur- passed in the history of the city. The superior advantages of Omaha over most other western cities aro well understood, and capitalists afe ready to embark in many enterprisesithat promise them remunerative retiims. 'We feol safe in predicting that the coming year will prove the most presperous of any Omaha has ever experienced. Open and Aboveboard, 8t. Joseph News, The people of Nebraska decided by a rous iug majority to take their whisky openly at the bar instead of imbibing secretly from the private bottle. The Ladics the Real Sufferers, Chicago News. After all, the real sufferers from u political campaign are of the other sex. When a man comes home late at night after a campaign meeting, with his nerves on edge and his hair as tousled and frouzy as @ prize chrysanthe- mum, and begins to talk politics, it would tak & good deal to persuade his wife that elections are auything but au uumixed auuoy- ance, AFTERMATH. Kansas Cily Globe: We admitted the landslide yesterday morning, but thero were really niore fringes about it than wo thought. Chicago Inter-Occan: Democrats are, we are told, “painting” villiages *red” throngh- out the country. But their rejoining wont half equal that of the great bosses across the water, New York Sun: If the democracy is kept united nothing can defeat it. Tt can be kept united if the advocates of free trade are wot allowed to got the upper hand again. 1f thoy do disaster is inevitable, Cleveland Leader and Herald: 1t is hard to toll whether the landslide was the more crushing in New England or the West. The mugwumps and the farmors' alliance are queer allies, but apparently about equally effoctive in helping out the old-line Bourbons. New York World: In viewof this vordict, any attempt to perpotuato the ascendaney of the republican party by the enactment of a foree bill, or of a partisan reapportionment, based ona fraudulent census, will bo a des- perate defiance of the expressed will of the people, Philadelphin Record: The voting through- out the country shows that the impulse which carbied Pennsylyania back into the democratic column is ot singulae nor acci dental. She still stands sido by side with Massachusctts, The skios look very clear ahead Chicago Evening Post: The course of events which must intervene before Mr. Me Kinley can again clam the suffrages of his fellow citizens muy have the effect of open- ing his eyes to the monstrous character of tne principles which he has so ably and earn- estly championed, If <o, this country will be cnriched by another statesman not only right-minded but honest, clean and above re- proach. Sioux City Journal: The Journal chal- lenges the interpretation which represents the late congressional election as a deliberate and decisive popular indorsement of the policy of free trade, or that it indicates such an indorsement, tw rs bence. Such a de- cision will be certified when the people of this country entrust the government, in both branches of the legislative and in the exceu- tive department, to the democratic party. That cannot be done before the election two years hence. Chicago Tribunc: Nopart of the blamo for the great landslide in volitics of Tuesday can be laid at the door of Secretary Bls He did all in his power to prevent the ¢ of it and to mitigate the force of tho “slide.” It is generally understood that he was opposed toall the unuccessary increase of duty in the McKinley bill and " especially in the woolen and linen schedules, He believed that the camvaign of 1% was fought and won on the issue of protection versus the Mills bill Philadelphia Press: The fight the ropubli- cans made was against great odds. There was sore local dissatisfaction with the tavift bill, whicti, how temporary it may be, was strong enough to sweep away a few dis tricts, Then the gerrymanders in Ohio. Maryland and Kentucky transformed at least ten republican districts into democratic dis tricts. And when all this was added the force and fraud practiced in the south it will be seen against what odds the republi- cans had to contend. Under these circum- stances it is surprising that the republicans were able to do as well as they did. — RIPPLES. reasonable Boston Gazette: put out by a puff, Atchison Globe: The only safe way Is to avoid a man's example and take his advice, Binghampton Leader: When a ship goes down the presumption is that it didn't have good hold. Elmira Gazette: Strauge that people go south for the winter when wo have so much of it in the north, Buffulo Express: Anybody could tell that the reason why clocks got into the peniten- to do time. A business man is never “Bears live mostly on plants and romarked the teacher, “In New York they live on lambs," interrupted Tommy, who reads thenewspapers, Chicago Post: “Mamma, let me hold Fido, won't you?” *No, dear; I'm afraid full out of the carriage. the baby.” Chicago Post: home late again. face. He—Just my luck. Been wanting a flush all the evening and now it comes too late to anything on it icogo Post: It requires a nice choice of words to write a letter to your country rela- tions that sufficiently thanks them for the summ visit you made there, and yetnot have it misconstrued as an invitation to ve- turn the visit during the winter, Tudianapolis Journal: “Poor Mudge is not somuch toblame for his love of drink. It comes natural to him.” “Inberited ! “No; but e tells me that between the first and third years of his lifohe was kiss uo less than 200 candidates,” Sl AFTER THE CYCLONE, Kearney Hub: Oh! Oh! ghan, 0'Brisu and O'Kem, Sheltou Clipper: The farmers were do- termived to have a change in the political situation and they have undoubtediy got it. North Platte Telegraph: It is a far ple ter task for a republican to write an ar ticle on the best manner of cultivating pump- kins thun torefer to the results of Tuesday's eloction. Norfolk News: Mr. Rosewater can prove by the election returns that prohibi- tion won't prohibit in Nebraska. There's nothing like having the figures to buck up a statement. you might let him But you may hold She—Here you arp getting And there's a flush on your Oh! O'Kei- now Grand Island Tndependent: Prohibition is defeated without counting the yote of Omal Grand Island, Nebraska City, Lincoln, Fre mont, Plattsmouth, Hastings and Kearney, tnshort itis defeated iuboth towns and country, Fremout Tribune: One great question now to be sgttled by republicans, if Richards is defeuted, is whother Boyd or Powers would be preferable. It takes a good deal of fine figuring to tell just where a fellow would prefer to stand under certain circum- stances, Reed's Valuable Frecedents. Chicago Tribune. Tho next congress will be indebted to Mr, Reed for several valuable pointers in tho matter of conducting businvss expeditiously. THE TONGUE Cape Cod Ttem, he boneless tongue, so small and weq Oun erush and kil declared the Gre lhe tongue destroys a greater horde The Turk asserts, “Than does the swore.” The Persian proverb wisely falt A lengthy tongue—an early de Or somiet kes the form Instead : *Don't let your tongue eut off your b Mhe tongue ean’t speak o word w Say the Chinese, “outstrips the ste While Arab sages this fmpart: “The tongue's great storehouse Is the heart. From Hebrow wit the maxim sprang Though feet shouid slp, ne'er let the tongue, Tho saored writer crowns the who #Who koeps his tongue doth keep is soul.” ITERARY TOPICS. No writer among the younger school of Amerioan novelists shives with a clearer light from the literary sky than Marion Crawford. Heisn woll established author, th A constituency that is world-wide, Howells and James alone of his class rival him in popularity, and mneither possesses the hold upon the affections of his readers that Crawford enjoys, How permanent his work may be jremains to be seen, but it is remarkably even in quality and never Joses its power of e g the reader fro the first page to tho last and hurrying him on w the conclusion. Every story that he writes, every character ho draws, has o human interest that the reader catoh and feels like an electrie curre 'l rue of all his books, from *“Dr. rst, to YA Clgarcite-Maker's Romance," the intest, Tho latter is a simplo tale, covering thirty six hour's in the lifo of a Russian count, who had gone disinherited from the home of his father to make alivelihood in the shop of & Munich tobacconist. The absorbing interest of the story centers about & peculiar form of msanity hich the extraovdinary change in his social status had wrought in the count's mind, Every Tuesduy night the poor gentlo man left his beneh in tho cigarette shop with the expectation that on the morvow he wonld be waited upon by great dignitaries to escort him back to his ancestral estate, Every Wednesday morning found bim waiting in bis well-brushed and well-wora Sunday best, ab his miscravle lodgings, for tho good new that never came. On ‘Thursday he rety quictly and without recollection of disap- pointment to the httle bench in the shop. The workings of this remarkablo mania are depi with anart that shows Crawford at his best. It dawns slowly upon the reader as the story is unfolded. ‘The count's character, aside from this featuro, is one of singular nobility, All the humblo po sonages in the story stand out in the write description as clearly us figures on the stag The events that lead rapidly up to a pleasant conclusion, and work a strange but seientific transformation in the count's mind, are d; scribed with a skill that bolds the reader mterest as in a vice and exnibits the nove ist's power very strikingly. His humor and faculty of expoinding the philosophy of life through u series of upt similes is nowhero better illustrated than in this simple but ab- sorbing tale of a day und o half _in the history of a moble outcast. Ma- rion Crawford is one of the most satisfactory literary products of this genera- tion. [Macmillan & Co., New York, 31.50.] There appears to be a_considerable’ revival of what may be called the literaturo of labor. It covers u wido range, from ponderous bt fiction, but all of it has the serious aim of altering or overturning social conditions in the interest of botter opportuni- ties for themasses, There is evidonce that this output is widely read. It takes promi- nent pluces in magazines that have the repu- tation of furnishing what the public wants, aud it comes in paper covers freely from the press of publishiers who cater exclusively to a trade that buys cheap books in_large qian- tities. Charles H. Sergel & Co,, Chicago, publish a nice paper edition of “T'oil,” & bundle of essays by Tolstoi and Bondareff, which bave made their way into the Euglish language atter passing through Russian and Freneh, There Lave been no- profounder s cial philosophers in recent times than Tolstoi and his desciples. Their plea for universal labor is only i new way of asserting that all men_shall share alike in _the work and re- wards of life. Instead of demanding that the rich sall share their possessions with the poor, they demand that the poor shall shure their labor with the rich. Buv the; aim at the same result—the common equality of mankind, *“The Struggle for Bread,” is another — example. It is written by Leigh H. Irvine and published by John B, Alden, New York, in cloth at 50 conts and puper ut 25 Tue views expressed in this work nre conservative, in_spite of the title and chapter heads, Political slopments both at home and abroad suow that social reform is something move than the dream of philosophers, A notablo contr bution on this point is Washinton Glad- den’s article, “The Embattled Farmers,” in the November Forum, Lugene Field makes a modest bid for fame with two books that are dainty both inside and out, as their titles donote: “A Littlo Book of Western Verse,” and “A_ Little Book of " Profitablo les.” Both tue poctry and the prose are charming and wonderfully fresh in style, ‘They will be read with pleasure by evérybody who makes their acquaintance. ~ Mr. Field has done agreat deal of similar work, but it is doubtful if anyone appreciated how really 2ood and bright it was uutil it got between these covers of robin’s-egg blue and in these sumptuous uneut pages, with gilded tops, The flood of uovels in paper covers—good, d indifferent —by authors rangng all way from obscurity to fawme, continues to from’ the press, The public appetite for this class of literatnre must be enormous. 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FROM THE STATE CAPITAL, Official Roturns of Lancaster County as Far as Canvassod, A COMPLIMENT FOR LOUIS HEIMROD. ofthe Personal Rights on in for Words of Purnor Will Case estimony. The Preside; League Co Praise Lixcovy, Nob, Nov. 8—[Special to Tnn Bre. | =The official count of Lancaster county was begun yesterday afternoon and has boeen proceeding very slowly. Iollowing are the roturns so far convassed ; For gov: Richards, 4,738; Boyd, 8,212; ,124; Cushing, 2,507; Wahlquist, 2, 200 Batie, 2,044; Fitch, 654, ° + For congressman—Connoll, 4,410 8,07 15 Chapin, 584, For lieutenunt-governor—Majors (vep), 5 188; Bear (dem), 27155 Dech (ind), Woodbey (pro), ¢ For sccrotury of st Sprague, D, 2,6i4; May P, 6 For attorney general —Hastin A Higgeins, D, Edgerton, I, ton, P, 621, or land 5,061; Bigler, D, Olson, P, 654 For state superintendent—Goud Rakestraw, D, 2,439; D' Allemand, Morgan, P 643, Bryan, o—Allon, R, B161; orry, I, 2,815, Watts, Wig commssioner 28115 Humphreys, Wright, I, Moore, R, 5,005; Eggleston, Morrison, D, 35615 Cassidy, D, lor, T, 3,033; Thompson, I, 2,850; 235 Wyeoff, 2, 634, Oakley Doubt, P, For representatives. s R, Cundiff, uttle, D, ~2,550; ' Bahls, nile, D, 2,911; Severin, D,’ 2,640; 1, 38,2615 Demaree, I, 2,050; Dale Jrieor, 1, 8,000; MoAllister, 1, w, R: 4,180; Dickson, R, 5147 , 2,655 ‘Wittman, D, 3,441 Smidt 20831 Anderson, I, 2,847 Gillick, I, 2 Stocking, 1, avitt, P, 6305 1. attoriey—Courtnay, Frazier, county 4,105 prohibition, 4,501 ; against, 5,215, For license, 4,505 against, 4,831 For amendment inercasing number of su preme judges, ¢ against, 1,148, For amendment increasing salary of su- premeund district Judges, 6,009;" against, 1,226, For township organization, 1 2,234, 360; against, BLUE SATURDAY IN LINCOLN It has been a dreary day in Lincoln, not ouly for the polticians but also for the mainder of humanity. The snow of last nizht has been supnlemented with a drizzling sleety rain today that filled the strects and walks with slush aud made pedestrian! most impossil lven polities could lay the average citizen from s wi side. The democraticheadquarters are quict, the republican headquarters are locked up and Walt Secley gone, while the erstwhile dense crowd at the alliance headquarters las thinned out to about a dozen souls. The telephone wires are loaded slcet and many of them, succumb- ing beneath tho weight of congealod ratn, have broken, causing almost infinite confusion by falling across otber wires. Con- neetion between Omaha and Nebraska City is broken and it is feared that the wires load- ing to other towns and cities will_also give way. Disastrous results are feared when the electrie light company commences opera- tions for the ovening and the powerful charge from the elcetric light wires is communicated to the telephone wires that have fallen across them, ‘The cars on the street railway have been running vegularly despite all expectations to the cont and trolly wiro are coat h ice, but nevertheless thoy biave performed their' functions the syme us usual. CAPTATN PAYNES SHOUTS POR TIE ALLIANCE. It is believed that Captain Payne, the s oil inspector recontly bounced eithor gone crazy oris fishing for favors from the alliance, *This morning in the midst of the great crowd that gathered in the Capital hotel e declared that th hould and would throw out oll the votes from Douglas county aud thereby elect Powers. He de clared that there was fraud apparent in the Douglas county returns and he denounced Omaha until he fairly grew black in the fac Many of the altiance peoplo here heartily Deliove with Payne, but they believe he has experienced a change of heart a little too late in the season, JAY AT THE STATE HOUSE Since the latest election returns in and it is reasonably settled that the v 1 state ticket outside of governor is elect- ed as the boys the threatened panicin tho offices of State Auditor Benton and State ‘Treasurer Hill is forgotten. The faces of tho deputies and clerks that heretofore wore an anxious and carewort look are now wreathed with smiles and manifest a feeling of seren- ity and joy. All are mutually congratulating cach other on the great victory. The only concorn now is, wilithe members of the al- liance legislaturo take revenge for their dis- appointment in not capturing the state offices by reducing the salavies of the clerks and deputies under those ofticials! LOUIS HEIMEOD COMPLIMENTED, The state ofticers of the Personal Rights league held a meeting in Lincoln this morn ing, Great satisfaction was oxpressed at tho rout of the prohibition amendment aud grati- tude exprossed to Hon. E. Rosewater, Hon, Bdward P.IRoggen and Hon, Johu L, Webster for the matchless gencralship displayed by them in managiug the eampaign, MY, Louis Heimrod of Omaha, the president of ths leazue, was also highly complimented for his tireless efforts and eficient service and series of resolutions were unanimously passed thanking and congratulating him for tho work done by him as chief ofiicer of tho league. with THE TURNER WILL CASE, The hearing of testimony in the Turner will case was resumed today in Jud art's court. Kev. K. H. Curtis of the First Presbyterian chureh was the first witness, He testitied that the deceased, John o Turner, kud informed him before his death that b’ intended to bequeath $5,000 to the Presbyterian church missions, William Clark” testified that Turner had chosen him us administrator, and informed him thut Keren Rootham, the otd housekeepor, would deliver tho will to him after Turner's death, > s An Opportunity for Several ansas City Journal, Now, if some boys’ boarding school, or girls, for that matter, will only hold & mock political convention &nd nominate Grover Cleveland for president, it will receive by return wail an autograph letter two yards long, fourteen inches wide, containing tho pronoun “I"" 1,046 times and the exp tariff reform 1,045 times, There's chance, boys and girls OMAHA LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY, Subseribed and Guarsnseed Capital POIA 1D OUDItal..ceviis sorvrrerearnes Bays and sells stocks and boads commereinl paper; receives und ¢ trusts: ts a8 transfer agent and trustee of corporations, tekes chargo of property, ool locts taxes, Omaha L.oan&TrustCo SAVINGS BANK. 8, E. Cor. 16th and Douglas Sts, Pald In Cap'tal waisinnoiaaeh 63,000 Bubscribed und Guaranteed Cupital.... 1 Lisbility of Stockholders, % 8 Per Cent Intercst Paid on Dep FRANK J. LANGE Offloers: A. U. Wyman, presiGent. J. J. Brows vioe-president, W. T. Wyman, treasurcr. Otrectorsi—A. U, Wywman, J. H. Millard, J. % Brown, Guy O, Baron, E. W, Nusk, Thomw Ao Kimuall, George B, Luke ssion your ushion N Seou e e apmeazioas o ar o224