Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 26, 1890, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. E. ROSEWATER kniron e rer—— — PUBLISHED EV MORNING TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Pafly and Sunday, One Yen X rion ths hreo monilis unday e, Ono Y Veekly Rec, ¢ OFFIC aha, The Beo Bulldl th Omha N and 26th Stroets. Strec \am ber of 'ribune Bullding CORR A1 communfeati; ditorial matter should ditorial Department. SINE; lotters and rer noes should Publishing Company, ind_ postofice orders o order of the com 1o news and Iressed 10 the Al busine e addressed 1o The Be Urafts, chec de piyable to th pany. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietors, The Vec 1W1d'g, Farnain and Soventeenth Sts TATEMENT OF CIRCULATION Elateof Nobrask. | County of Doulas. ¢ Georee 1, Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing compuny, Qoes solernnly sweat tnat the netual cirouiation of Tie DAILY BER for the week endimg Dec. 20, 1800, wi Jows Eundav. 1. T/SCHUCK. Fworn 1o eforo mo and sutseribed In my presence tnis 20th ¢ ccember. A, 1., 189) 1FEAL, | Notary Publio. Btuteof County go i brasks | »f Dotiglas, | ** k boinz duly sworn, de- s secretary of The Bee ipany. that the actual average Cally cirenlation of Tk DALYy Bee for the month of Decenber., I 48 coples; for January, 1100, 10, coples; for February, 1800, forMarch. 1800, $0.815 copies for April, 1500, 20,8040 vies: for May, 1860, 2,150 copies; for 1800, 01 coples; for July, 160, coplesi forAugust, 14 0 coples: for Sentenler, 1800, 2.570 coples: for October, 1800, 2,762 coples; for Noverher, 10, 22,130 coples, GronGr B, TZ8CHUCK. Fworn to before me, and subscribed in_my presence, tiis 6 Gy of Decemler, A, D, 1600 P, TR, ry Publie. 6 THE Raum investigation ends as it began—in wind. TANLEY'S tour of Or i of genuine surpr Mg, succoeds wha was o es. THE rear guard of the Omaha recep- tlon committee sings his little tale of woe, anloy capti- captivated THE honors ar vated Omaha and Stanley. ven, Omaha THE next race of millionaires will bo the descendents of the high-salaried offi- cers of the world’s fair. THE president wanted to give color to the suprome bench. So he put put Brown alongside of Gray. THE refusal of Boulinger to believe that he is politically dead forms a dis- tinguished procedent for Parnell. Tnk deeper the courts probe into the Kean bank failure the more luminous is the fact that it was a model preying dnstitution. Tue Indian campaign still keeps un- broken its slender thread of interest. There may be war yet, but Sitting Bull won't be there, 118 just 100 years since the first plug hat was made. Senator Evarts refuses 0 loan it for exhibition at the world’s fair for foar of taking cold. RUSSIAN statistics show that the pop- ulation of St. Potersburg has decreased 185,000 in seven year What was St. Potersburg’s loss was Siberia’s gain. TruNors, like Nebraska, has a law regulating private banks on its statute books. There is no substantial evidence in either state that the law is alive one. SENATOR STANFORD says he has no ambition to be president. So far as has been observed the country never had the remotest intontion to force the presi- dency on him, STANLEY AFRICANUS is constantly adding to his store of knowledge on nat- ural history. He comes away from Omaha with a vivid recollection of the two-legged calf. THE adoption of an extensive code of laws for the government of Oklahoma strengthens the hope that the legisla- ture will soon be disarmed and reduced to a peace footing, THE president says he will not break fnto his cabinet to appoint asupreme court judge. Butwill he object if the republicun party “breaks into his cabi- not™ to find a presidential candidate? HENRY M. STANLEY saw nothing smaller among the pigmy tribesof Africa than the sulky young man who snubbed him at the depot Wednesday night and slurred him in his “newspaper” Thurs- day morning, ———e THE annexation movement develops new features in Canada. Instead of waiting for eventsto shape the union, colonies of the natives ure preparing to move on the abandoned farms of New England. Herein the Canadian farmers evidence thelr good sense. Ir¥ Mind Reader Johnson were turned loose on the Nebraska contest he would doubtless throw considerable new light on the farce. But there isnot much of a mystery about it. That $1,600 appro- priated by Dictator Burrows for tho pro- hibition lawyers is the active motive power. CONGRESSMAN BLANCHARD of Touisi: ana wants the house to investigate the Bioux troubles and- appropriate suffi- clent means to enable a cormmittee to got at the bottom facts, Mr. Blanchard is rather premature in planning for him- self and family an extensive summer tour of the north, Emm—— THE premium offered by the govern- ment for greator speed innew war ves sels than is stipulated in the contract, is captured by the contractors with signifi- cant regularity. Before the adoption of the prize system a vessel exceeding the maximum spoed called for was a rarity In naval architecture. THE STATE SUGAR BOUNTY. One of the new domands of the Farm- ers’ Alliance, as voiced by a resolution of the recent state convention, is for the aholition of the bounty of 2 cents a pound on manufactured beel sugar, This action is demanded on the ground that the bounty will have a tendency to foster monopoly. The resolution was adopted without discussion and was doubtless as ill-con- sidered as it is unjust and unwise. The sugar bounty was provided by the last legislature and nothing yet been puid on account of it, It was offered as an inducement to capitalists to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars in great plants aud thereby develop a promising industry and agricultural crop. The idea was to make more sure the profits of an entoerprise which could not be thoroughly tested without tho in- vostment of e amounts of outside capital, but which was expected to con- fer great and lasting benefits to hoth producers and consumers if it proved successful, The bounty had the desired effect. It was influential in sccuring a sugar fac- tory for Grand Island built and equipped ata cost of hall a million dollars, which is turning out several hundred barrels of an excellent quality of sugar every d This has given the state a wide nd- vertisement and has already led to the erection of another and larger factory ot Norfolk. A continuance of the state’s liberal policy may be expected to bring alarge number of factor! and refin- es and make Nebraska the first sugar state in the union. Torepeal the bounty almost as soon as factories have been sceured by the tender of it wouid be an act of bad faith for which the state would certainly suffer a grievous loss, directly and indirectl It would re- tard, if not stop, the development of the sugar industry and would give Nebraska a most unenviable reputation with cap- italists and manufacturers to whom in- ducements may hereafter bo offered. It isan act of folly and injustice which the state cannot afford to commit. It is.understood that one of the causes which led to the passage of the resolu- tion was the compluint of farme Jout the prices paid for hoets, Thereis some truth in the complaint. It is a fact that muny of the farmers have been disap- pointed in the results of the first year’s experiment, the pecuniary return prov- ing hardlycommensurate to the severe labor involved. But they should remem- ber that the past season was a trial period with them, as well as the manufacturers, and that it is a good denl easior to raise prices than to lower them, Tne BEE has been informed that the prices paid for last season’s erop are not intended to bo taken as a standard. It is certainly too early to condemn the manufacturers any disappointment on this sco In considering the sugar bounty the legislature should remember that it is dealing with something that promises more than any other single industry for the development of the state’s manufac- turing and agricultural interests. When itis firmly established such artificial encourngement will not be needed or ex: pected, but for the present it is the part of wisdom to let it alone, AN INTERCONVERTIBLE BOND. In his plan for relieving the financial situation submitted to the senate repub- lican caucus some ton days ago Scerotury Windom suggested exchanging for portion of our outstanding bonds a new issue of two per cent, thirty year, inter- convertible bonds, svch bonds to be at all times convertible at the will of the holder into currency, and the currency also convertible into bonds on demand. It has been known for some time that the secretary was very much in favor of a bond of this character as a method of supplying more currency, and he was oxpected to suggest _ it in his annual report, but probably for the rea- son that the administration was not dis- posed to commit itself to a policy of this sort it was not referred to in the official report. The first opportunity, however, that came to the sccretary to propose $his scheme, which by the way isnot original with him, upon his personal re- sponsiblity, he made use of. Asthe country knows it was rejected by the senate republican caucus. This result, however, has not discour- aged the advocates ofan interconvert- ible bond, ana they are still engaged in urging it upon popular attention. That it may one day become a feature of our finanicial systom is by no means improb- able, though that it would accomplish any such beneficial results for the peo- ple as its supporters claim is far from probable. The idea is that the govern- ment shall issue bonds to the amount of soveral hundred millions of dollurs at a low rate of interest, not above two per cent, such bonds to be convertible at the ploasure of the holder into legal tender notes, which notes are to be convertible back again into bonds, the bonds to be again convertible into notes, and 5o on during the lifetime of the bonds. The supporters of this scheme as- sume that whenover currency was needed ii would be fur- nished by converting the bonds into it, and when it was not needed it would be converted back into bonds and with- drawn, If this were the process it would give a measure of elasticity to the currency. But the advocates of the plan appear not to consider that bonds convertible info currency would prac- ticiMly be currency, and would bo used in large transactions and in settloment of balunces between banks precisely like the notes they represented. The fact that so long ns they remained uncon- vegted they would draw interest would assist in preventing their conversion. When capitalists and institutions could got even two per cent for money in the form of bonds they would probably be in no hurry to exchange the bonds for notes drawing no intorest at all. For the most part, thorefore, the bonds would remain honds and yet swell the volume of cur- rency just as if they were plain non-in- terest-bearing legal tenders, and the government would be paying interest to no good purpose, This is by no means the most objection- able plan among the gany which have been suggested as curatives for financial ills. The exchange of a portion or all of our bonds inton bond beaving u lower rate of interest would doubtless in itself be a good thing so far as the saving of THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1890 interost Is concorned, and this considera tion might induco the people to accopt the necessary extonsion of the timo for gotting rid of the public debt. Butns a means of remedying any of the ills inci- dent to our currency system it is by no means clear that the interconvertible bond plan would be successful. Suflicient assurance has been given in the action of the senate republican caucus that no such plan has any chance of getting through the present congres: THE FUTUR THE MORMONS. There are many indications that the recent exhibition of a willingness to comply with the laws of the United States on the part of the saints is not to be construed as a purpose to abandon the dream of a Mormon empire, The purchase of several large tracts of lands by prominent Mormon leaders has been recorded rocently. Some of theso purchases were in Colorado and Idaho and probably aimed at nothing move important than the oxtension of profitable farming districts where the saints could enjoy their own society ex- clusively, They are industrious tillers of the soil, w afondness forirrigated farming, and are therofore rendy pur- chasers of availablo lands of this sort. No one familiar with the history of the church, or the determined character of its lenders, has believed, however, that their plans would stop with the extension of the peaceful in- dustry of farming. The public has waited with much confidence to see the first signs of a new promised land, to which the present apostles could lead the saints, us Joseph Smith lead them from Missouri to Illinois, and as Brigham Young lead them from Illinois to Utah, During the past few days it has boen announced that John W. Young has closed acontract for 5,000,000 ac land in northern Mex Two ant conditions of the contract are pro- visions that Young shall construct a railroad 1,500 miles in length, and that the Mexican govern- ment shall overy family that scttles on the tract $200 and every single man $50. On these gonerous torms the Mor- mons and the Moxicans can doubtless co- operate profitably in the development of a locality that is peculiarly rich in nat- ural resour The Mormons still com- mand much wealth and energy, and have never found it diflicult to sccure recruits, Apparently son why they cannot re-establish their fallen empire where the Montezumas flour- shed hundreds of years ago. The removal of the Mormons to Mexico would be & happy solution of a troublesome problem for the United States. It would hasten the complete triumph of our laws where they have been long deficient and free the splendid territory of Utah from the weight of in- iquity that has held it down. Ths Mexi- cans will find the saints industrious and energetic assistants, and perhaps they will not mind their little eccentricities. Tne Wyoming legislature has for- warded to congress a memorial on the subject of irrigation. It callsattention to the, fact that irrigation is essential to the development of the agricultural re- sources of the state and points to the im- portant results already attained even systematic distribution of the Over one hundred miles of ted by area of The legisla- national control of impracticable, that it should be left to state regula- tion, and urges the granting to the several states of the arid belt of the public domain. Under state control laws can be promptly enacted to moet overy emergency instead of depending on the delays of congress and subjecting the people vitally interested to the whims of lawmakers unfamiliar with the needs of the country. It is not probable congress will take action on the question during the present short session. The memorial, however, suggests a feasible plan of disposing of the arid lands, but there are other vital questions involved which should be definitely solved before the nation relin- quishes ownership. Nebraska, the Dakotas and Kansus, while ready to ald in the development of their west- ern neighbors, must insist on federal legislation preventing the totaldiversion of the waters of interstate streams, private entorpriso and a v land rendered product ture belie irrigation is THERE is o movement for a conven- tion of lead miners, with the object of devising means to protect themselves against the alleged exactions of the lead trust, and other combinations which they claim ave robbing them. The miners say they are willing that the lead manufacturers, the smelters and the railroadsshall have a fair profit, but thay are not disposed to work any longer for that triumverate. If the miners have such cause of com- plaint as they allege they are certainly justified in seeking to remove it and to secure for themselves justice and fair play. They might beable to find through a convention a way to reach this, while at the same time it would give them an opportunity to better acquaint congress and the country with the magnitude of the industr; I¢ we can believe thed efunct Mr, Broatch he always was o staunch oppo- nent of prohibition, but during the lato campaign ho never failed to give aid and comfort to the imported defamers and traducers of Omahaand tried his level best in an underhanded way to obstruct the work of the business men who had volunteered to fight the anti- prohibition battle. THE suspicion is growing to the pro- portions of conviction that the prohibi- tion inquisition masks a cunning plot. Toa man up a troe it looks like an in- genious scheme to waste the time of the legislature and block all business up to the closing days of the session. Is THE city eharter tobe vevised in theinterest of the franchised corporva- tions and contractors or are'we to have a revision in the interest of the people? A PROPOSITION intended to bring Canadian railroads to soms extent under the operation of the interstate commmerce law has boen submitted in congross. This is in the foem of an amencment to tho act requi that railronds dolng business partly {i the United States and | partly in adjagent foreign countriesshall obtain from Ale interstate commerce commission a Teense or permit to engage | 10 such businesst A company applying for such liconsg must stipulate that it will obey and eovform to the provisions of the act to regulate interstate commerco and upon a failure to comply with the law the comifssion may suspend tho license, 'We éaunnot see that there can be any reasonablo objection to a regula- tion of this kind, all agrecing that the alion corporations doing business within the territory of the United States ought to be required to conform to the pro- visions of our law; otherwise there is munifestly a discrimination inst our own roads to their disadvantage. But such regulation would not lessen the cause of agitation against the Canadian roads, which is their competition, and on this ground the proposed amendment will doubtless bo vigorously combatted by the American railroad interested, THE farmer: ro making apid progress with thelr new league, which, although only about a year old, already has 20,000 voters wit hin its ks. The legislature at its last sos- sion failed to give any attention to special measures urged by the farmers, and this neglect of thoir interests gave a marked impetus to the growth of their organization, They draw from both parties, but ne ly most largely from the republicans, and as the vote of the Lwo old parties is about fifty thou- sand republican and twenty thousand democratic, it is apparent that the farmers’ organization may cuta big fig- ure in fuwre clections in the Green Mountain state. tany rate it is the intention of the organization to put a state ticket in the field at the next clec tion, and the promise is that they will make a very strong showing at the polls. The principles of the league are in the main similar to those of the alliance in tho west, except that the Vormonters aro strong protectionists, S8l Tire board of trade is moving ously to secure a state warchouse The subject is one of vital importance not only to the farmers of the state, but it is the fivst practical step toward the establishment of a grain murket in Omaha, Tho republican state conven- tion pronounced in favor of a warehouse law. The Allisnce members cannot consistently oppose a measuro promising beneficial results to the producers and tho state at large. It isnot probable that the measure will encounter serious opposition in the legislature. The board of trade however, snould secure the introduction of a bill embodying the principles of the Illinois law, or some equally effective one, at the earliest pos- sible day, and energetically urge its en- actment. vigor- law., THE abolition of sinecure offices and the concentration of responsibility should be stamped on every section of the revised charter. Under the present law, sinocuge offices have been multi- plicd far - beyond * the needs of the city and the tax-cates subjeet to no one but their creators inthe council, . THE mysterious movements of the con- actors and the repudiated combine in- dicate a determination to organize the new council in the interestof oneorboth, Tho year’s experience shows that the boodlo cast upon the waters 12 months ago returned both principal and interest, ONE by one the government concedes the demands of Omaha. The success of the movement to secure an adequate bonded warchouse should stimulate anew the efforts to place the local mail service on a basis commensurate with the busi- ness of the city. Wrrh the addition of the abandoned poor house, Mr, Hascall’s collection of city and suburban villas is unapproach- able in variety and incomparable in architectural delirium. Succr ate his Christmas dinner in a Boston dimo museum, which is a pretty tough reward for a forty-five day fast. -MAYOR BROATCH is again posing asa great and pure political reformer, Shades of the late Tammany brave IN the opinion of the supreme court the state banking board is not “a bigger man’’ than the state banking law. Controling Railroads, Chicaqo Tribune. The report of Atlorney General Leese of Nebraska setting forth what are apvarently the two alternatives of railroad control for abe future is a powerful document. It pre- sents a strong array of facts, and if some of the statements may be objected to as trite they are none the lgss true. He concedes the claim that the owners of stock in railroad corporations are entitled toa fair return on the money they have invested, but insists they have no right to auy more than that, o then states itis as a notorious fact that in many instances thoonly moucy invested in the railroad is that derived from bouds, the stock to'an equal amount bheing issued gratuitouslyto the shareholders, who then want the people of the state to pay full dividends on''it in the shape of extortionate charges for transportation This is mot only wrong as a matter of equity but indirect violation of thelaw which provides that the capital cannot exceced the actual cost of the property and that any ficti- tious increaso of capital stock or other in- debtedness of any such corporation shall be void. He says it Is admitted that the rail- roads in Nebraska have outstanding stock to alarge amount that hias not been issued - for money, labor or ptopérty, and the several ro. ports of these railroads show dividends on all Such stock. Yet itds now proposed to bring these and other lines under an autocratic con- trol for the purpose of further increasing tho burdens of the people, making them pay for larger dividends on this fictitious capital. Mr. Keese thinks the only remedy for all this is that the government should assume the control and ownership of all the railroads and begin by taking possession of the Union Pacific by foreciosing its lien upon that prop- erty. There can be no question that the last named act would be one of strict justice, Tho government has a right to control the road in the interest of the people, and ought to do 8o, because the transportation company is osten- sibly a servaut of the public and bhas commit- ted itself to the responsibilities of that posi- tlon by recelving important aid in such ca- pacity. The government has & moral us well as a logal right to see that ail its citizons are dealt with on equal and just. terms, but it could only obtain ownership of all the railroads by purchase or confiseation. To buy out all the lines in the country at the extravagant valu. ation now fixed on them by their manispu- lators and the further appreciation that would be insisted upon If there were a pros. poct of such logislation bolng pushed through could only bedono by saddling on the people a far heavior load than the one they are now carrying. the property at far more than itsactual worth and taxing the present as well as the future generations to pay the debt. Ttis not dificult to fancy Juy Gould laughing in his sleove at the prospect of the nation legalizing a vast amount of problematical stuff now held by him and others, and undertaking to turn into solid substance untold willions of dirty water that has been injected into the railroad sys- tem of the countr Yet this is what would @ to be dol inless the buyer iusisted on cutting the purchase price in two, under pro- tost from the anwilling seller, or paying the bill in flat money. Either of thesetwo courses would be an act soarbitrars and unfair as to deserve to rank only with tho polities of an unel tened age The first would bo bold open robbery, andas such hooted at by tho whole civitized world ; the second commereial suicide and national bankruptey. The farmers do not want any such result as that, and therefore should not indorse the advocacy of such an unwise policy, though made by a well-meaning friend. Still, it1s ouly natural that the threat of a monopolistio combination should provoke an attitudeof re- prisal against the railvoad mag even lead sensible men to Propose measurcs indefensible. The Leeso uttera ¥ one of many which may be expectod to be provoked by the menace of a combino to place the farming classes at its mercy and once more institute and enforce the policy of making the traftic pay all it can bear. btk it Cash is Essential, Chicago News, The road to the banker's ruin ispaved with good intentions—unaccompanied by cash. An AL N avariable Characteristic, Chicaao Tribune. “at men," observes a Nebraska exchange, “‘aro thick inour town.” Fat men are thick wherever you find them. g Mr. Kean's Religious Banking. Kansas City Time Banker Kean of Chicago may have been a financier according to religious principles, but according to developments he laid up very little earthly treasure for his creditors, The Democrats and the Alliance. St. Jogeph Herald, Oneof the most beautiful sights of the present timesis the affection folt for tho farmers by democratic polititions, whose aims and affections are dependent for their realiza- tion on the good granger’s vote. s it} et Ympotent Fanatictsm, Jamestown, (N, ¥.), Jowrnai. When fanaticism runs & muck it does a &ood cause incaleulablo injury. A zealot in Omaha threw a chair through an §18,000 painting representing beauty unalorned, be- cause ho thought it demoralizing. The ex- ite work of art was ruined and the fanatic n jail, but the world is not one whit bet- ter. ARE S The Towa Wrecker. Chicago Tribune. Tho Iowa State Registerhas had to deal with three important questions during tho last fow years and its course in each case has been unwise and damaging to its party. First, it was largely responsible for tho coercive teetotal prohibition fad, which drove all the Germans in Towa out of therepublican party and turned all the river towns iuto democratic sirongholds. Second, 1vsold out to Jay Gould and tho railrond ring, and so offended the farmers, Those who were pleased with its prohibition arguments couldu't stand its open alliance with Jay Gould. Finally, it got astride of the McKinley monopoly tariff bill, and the republicans who had escaped from prohibition and Jay Gould fell *‘outside the breastworks” of McKinley- 1sm. If the Register had set out to wreclk the ve- publican party in Iowa it could not have played its caras more shrewdly. e THE AFIERNOON TEA. The story of the New York maiden who scared off the unwelcome attentions of a yoyng man by hugging him 15 interesting, and shows the possession of spunk. But it is a little rough on the girl just the same. The reigning belle at an aflternoon tea ap- pears to be just pouring. Hostess —Dear me, the conversation is fliging. What can we do to amuse our guests? Host—I don’t know, unless we leave tho drawing room fora few moments ana give them a chance to talkk about us. Hersnowy arms his neck in-vests, And that is why I trow sir, His breath in such short pants attests The ardent love he vows her! A shoe dealer says that girls betweon six- teen and eighteen have bigger fect than after twenty and twenty-four. The foot is fleshy at that time and large, but as years come t§o foot decreases and the muscles grow more firm. One evening at half past eight He cailed on his bestgirt named Kuoigh t, And he had not gone ‘Whan the clock struck one, Tor he didn't consider it leight, I can understand why girls who have no beaus should resort to tight lacing” re- marked Snaggs to his wife. “What has that to do with iv?" asked Mrs, “If they have no young fellows to squeeze them they can solace themselves with the corset.” Though a diamond bracelet goes Into Mabel's silken hosc; Papa, who puts up the rocks, Rubs along in cotton sock: Dudely—Wnat lovely little fir youhave got, Miss Fauny hoy are hurdly larger than a baby's fingors. Fanny—Yes, ma always said that it would hardly cost anything atall to getan engage- ment ving to fit my finger, “Isay, Bob, why dow't you marry Mar guerite, your sister's friend] She's a charm- ing girl—a regular angel. “Conceded; butshe paints," “Now, my dear fellow, place your hand on your heart and tell me honestly if you ever saw an angel that wasn't paluted.” Miss Ireno (at the skating park)—Did you notive how gracefully Mr. Hankinson put on my skates for me! Miss Laura—Didun’t he do it nicely? Ho remnds me s0 much of that gentlemanly young man that always waits on one at In- s0lo & Co."s shoe store, Ethelbert—Will you grant me one last fond embrace before wo part forever! Winifred-Cert'nly. If [ were you I'd fondly embrace the opportunity to get out be- fore papa comes down. Just as the young man loft his love As midnight hour was toiling, A foot came from the stoop above And sent the lover rolling. The angry father cried, “Bestie Yoursoif, you tardy suitor; Don't take me for a pirate, sir, But merely for a free-booter!" It would mean tho buying out of | NEWS OF THE NORTHWES Nl';rnlkll. Tho Norfolk creamory has beon sold to Harding Bros. for 3,000, he new Christian church at Filley has been dedicated freo from debt, Tho now opora houso at | bogan in the thirte Jlsie was opened | Christmas night with the play “Under the | Spell.’ A ghost dance was given at opera house in which Sitting took & prominent part, Barton Curry, 8 Schuyler bicyclist, took & header from his machine and broke one of the bones in bis right hand. The Ulysses Dispateh proph Wyck will be the choice of th wost. for vice president in 18" jah Filley of Filloy of the largest artificial lakes in which will bo used us a carp pond Rev. A. H, Law has resigned the pastorate of the Baptist churchat Filley and has ac- copted & cull from the Baptist church at Wilber, The Forbes prize for the best declamation among the preparatory students of Doane col- fege, s rdod 2 Chase, There were five contestants. A petition _is being fro postoftice at Wilsou's-Coruers, between De- atur and Lyons, and in case the petition is granted an alliance store will be started at ho same place. The Stromsburg Republican has changed to the News, and will pui wne line of policy thut hus mado it one of the strongest weeklies in the state. Mr. S, C. Woodruft remains in editorial charge, A team of horses belonging to Herman An- holt, of Tecumseh, wus frightencd by a brass band, and while the owner was holding th animals his arm was broken. Anholt tried to collect damages from the band, but failed. 1t is reported that Mus. Jacobus, wife of the Baptist minister at Delta, Otod county wiis horsewhinped Last eveniug by two indig nunt females, Mrs. Jacobus was riding along the road in a when the ladies stopped her and whilo one of them held the horse the other luid on the whip, The ladies who ad- ministered the “strap oil? claim that the preachor’s wife had been talking rather pro- miscuously about :hem. the Pender Buil’'s ghost s that Van alliance of the the state From Wyoming to the Coast. Butte business men have subscribed $4,850 torid the city of smelter smoke. Helena’s consolidated street oar hus commenced running clectr sively. The wealthiest colored man in the west is Edward J. Sanderlin, o barber of Denv Ho is worth §200,000. ‘The first session of the grand lodge of Mon- tana of the Ancient Order of United Work- men was held in Helena last week. The old and curious Indian medal, of which men tion was recently made in Tk B, is now in the possession of J, J. Steffen of Lusk, Wyo., who sccured it from the Indian direct: A force of men which has been at work constructing th wph line between Red Buttes and park City, Utah, will putup the line on the Cheyenne & Northern extension. A popular vote was taken at Santa B bara, Cal., upon the question of closing the saloons at' 11 o’clock every night and all ds Sunday, Nine hundred “and fifty votes wi cast. The majority m favor of closing was il Hon company cars exclu- Joseph Nimmo, jr., special agent of ir- rigation inquiry, department of agriculture has arrived in “Bolse, Idaho. He is charged with the thorough investigation of the ques tion of irrigation in Idaho, both from surface and under or artesian flow. There is strong probability of the organiza- tion of a local company to build a telograph line from Cheyenne io Denver to connec with the Postal wlegraph company’s lines. The cost has beeu ostimated and several cap- itr'ists have signitied their willingness to take stock {n the company. Jacob W. Harlan, an old Californian, who has become somewhat convivial of late, was robbed in a saloon at Napa, Cal., a few nights ago of $10. He was in the company of young men and says he knows who did tho job. Warrants are out for their arrest, but they bave not yet beenapprehended. The total area under ditch in El Paso county, Colorado (of which Colorado Springs is the chief city), is 11,046 acres, There are thirty one reservoirs constructed, at an_esti- mated total cost of 599,000, and four partially completed reservoirs, which when finished will have cost $31,000. There are in all sixty ditches, A bill has been introauced in the Wyo- gislature providing an appropriation of #30,000 for tho world’s fair. Five commis i will be appointed, two of whom will gincer and state geolc en introduced establishing the Wyoming agricultural college, and leaving it location to a vote of the people, The Seattle & Northern coal company, which opened extensive offices in Seattle, Wash,, I wmber 15, has vanished and an mvestigation shows that a successful swin dle has been perpotrated. The company was organized in Seattle about three months ago with a capital of 00,000, Business was transacted by & man namea Ayres, who issued the stock of the company at par value in payment for coal. Canvassers were em- ployed and quite s business was done. On December 5 the whole outfit disappeared and nothing has since been heard from them. ‘Tho great High Line canol at Rocky Ford, Col., is completed and the work has been ac- ed by the canal company from the co tractors. Water began running in the ca from headgate toend the first of last week. The al is twenty feet wide at the bottom at its head and diminishes in size to twelve fect at the terminus and will carry five feet of water, which will irrigate some 22,500 acros of land, 1t is eighteen miles in length and has been under process of construetion nine months, Built as it was by a home com- pany itis the especial pride of the peoplo of that section, One of those peculiar accidents occurrgd a few nights ago at Pocatello, Idaho, at the i vdof Trade,” which will cause a stran- ger to lay over some time in that city with a bullet in his leg. A sheriff from Nevada ac- cidentally let his gun work out of his pocket and drop on the floor and 1t was discharged, the ball taking effect iu the left legof a stran gor, entering justabove the knee. As ncel- cidents are liable to happen, the sheriff vol- unteercd to give the strangor a $0 bill and call it square, He is under medical treatment and getting along nice . Mr. and Miss Hayes. Time is making many changes in ex- President Hayes, says the IBrooklyn Times, He is aging rapidly. T saw him 10 the corridor of tho Filth Avenue hotel the other evening, and not one man in twenty-five knew him. He was alone, His hands were clasped behind his back. His chin rested low on his shivt collur. e scemed to be burried in thought. Ho has few friends in New York. Politicians never visit him. No one secks hiscompany His visits to New York are not numer- ous, perhaps one or two a y Often he brings with him his favorite daugh- ter, Miss Funnie, who attained her ma- ]nl'hf’ vecently, At the Fifth Avenue hotel this young lady is poerfectly at home and knows the ins and outs of the great cnravansary as woll almost as she does her own residence, It is quito a picture tosee her golng into the large dining room leaning on her father’s arm, The contrast betw the two is great. He is gray and som what patelarchal looking, his bushy white whiskers extending somewhut over his shirt front, The young lady is a decided brunotte, medium sized, and could not be classed as any too tall or o bit too short. There isa family resem- blance in her face to the ex-president, but the color of their cyesis not the same, his being gray and hers dark. In dress she is- modest, and not given to display of any kind, Hor attire is quite bécoming,” though, and made to comport with the canon of style as laid down in New York, She is devoted to her father, and they enjoy rare intel- lectual companionshi They stroll about the y together, or take a cab ‘and enjoy long drives. Bt Has a Big Load to Carry. American Groeer: Walker—Weeks has got fearfully round shoulders, hasn't he? He never does any work, does he? ‘Wentman—No, but ¥oi ought to see the load of debts he has to carry, Miss Lallian | | this it is constructing ono | | Chineso keepo of service with you, sir. Wredi surpr with my best wishes fer your continucd promptness. CHINESE NOVELS, Int resting Vicissitudes of Literature in the Land of Confucius, The writing of this class of literature ntheentury and con« tinued to bea favorite occupation of Chinese writers for about three conturs fos, says the North China Herald, After was felt that enough had been and tho production almost The authors concealed theit The moral teaching of the Con- fucian school was too powerful for those who loved to give reign to theivimagina. tion in novel and play writing to bo nble to vénture on publicity, It was never with the consent of the always dominant moral philosophers that novels grow to the position of influenco they possess in Chin T'his hostility has by no means . Quito recently thoro appeared in a newspapor a paper writton by an anonymous Confucianist against nov els. Ho s deeply impressed with the need of continuing the crusade against licentious literaturo and romances com- monced by one Chien during tho_lust, vy When he foundad.& 5¢tool in Soochow for “the ~promotion of tho healthy study of the classical books. He leld that novels are now so prevalent that they amount to a fourth estate in the realm of teaching, the Confucian, Buddhist, and the Taoist literatures being the first, second and third, But instead of inculeating virtuo they load men into vice, Every one reads them or hears them vead, and it may bo ques. tioned whether the moral influence for Chineso works of imugination is, ho suys, not greater than that of the books of the throe religions for good. They suggest to young men that thoy shoulid load o licontious lifo, and reprosent kills ing a man as a noble action, To read of these things produces disustrous results on public morality. The many casos of crime in the courts and the number of . those who adopt a robbor’s career aro due to the efteet of Chinese novel read- ing. This avthor was followed by Shih,who sot the example of establishing a papor- burning urn in_his family court. Into this urn went all novels and ¢ v sort of vicious literature on which he could lay hands, and especially the blocks from which they were printed. For these ho made wide scarch, in the hopo of extinguishing the evil at its sourc In order to find money to buy them up, he first used his s fund ndthen sold clothing, and even his wife’s orna- meuts, 1n ordor that the work of destrue tion might be more complete, * Othors of influence in Soochow followed these examples; they ereated a public opinion, and the consequence was that represen- ives of sixty-five of the most respecta- ble firms went together to the city tem- ple, burnt incense, and made a vow not to engage in the trade in immoral books.” An office was opened in the Confucian temple of the magistracy for buying up tho blocks of all immoral books, including novels, There was an immense destruction of this literature in Soochow, so that it became hard to mect with vicious publications, This was, however, nearly half a century ago, and the evil rose aj anty-five yea ugo the thon governor of the distri issued a proclamation reiterating tho order prohibiting immoral publications, At the present time thero is a flood of books with a bad influence, Such rond- ing a8 they furnish has more influenco in leading young minds wrong, says tho Confucianist writer, than all the in- fluence on the side of right or the teachs ing of vhe sage: “The foreign reader Chinese books of imaginative kind cannot condemn them indiscriminately because they contain beautiful chara®. tovs, both of men and women, which ex- hibit an admirable idea of bravery, filinl piety, purityof lifo, loyalty, and other noble qualities, Bub thero can be no doubt of the bad influence of many of the ve books which amiliarize the minds of the young with scones of vico, and hold up successful crime to sympa- thetic adm ion, It must also be membered that whatever evil there may be in the actual life of the Chinese, the, LT TR LR AR p e o high movalit onal conscienco and the national literature alike te: v with unfaltering voice to the duty of every one to bo moual, just, and hu- mane,”” provided nme od S An Unusual War Relic, Dr. Hall has quite a curiosity in tho shape of an old, rusty relic of the lute war, savs the Ameri 15, Ga, Recorder. 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