Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 28, 1890, Page 4

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Friday. f The Ree wnly Aweat § DATLY BRK " 1500, was us fol- Dee. 21 Dec e Eworn to teforo me and subscribed in my presence tuis Zith day.of Docon ver. A, ., 1890 FEEAL . P.FE1L Notary Publio. Etateof vhr|-k‘\. County of Dotiglas, F ol George B Taschuck, Leing l" tl snys that he C| Publishing Companv, aily cirenlntion of month o Januiry, 19,761 con for April, 1 coples; forJune, 1800, %0. ;KD‘:‘\,II 048 coples; for ruary, 1800, 815 opi e 1800, 20,150 K. iscribed fn_my presence, this 6th aay of nm.m:;r A, D, 1800 " DrNVER furnishes fresh proof of tho. net that trifling with a live wire pro- duces o dead lineman, i RRY Is to have a statuo in the Connecticut capital, which will be a high honor well bestowed. SENATOR BLAIR referred to himself the other day as a presidential possi- bility. He is probably thinking of the prohibition party. Ir1s worthy of note that the oldest Inhabitant of New Mexico died recently at the age of 115, without claiming to have been one of General Washington’s body guard. PRESTDENT HARRISON has not bragged much about eivil service reform, but in promoting District Judges Brewer and Brown to the supreme bench he gave a fine exemplification of it. VERMONT people, are complaining that the last night of the legislative ses- sion degenerated to a drunken row. ‘Well, Vermont i3 aprohibitionstate and must take the consequences, MR. PARNELL should lose no time in taking the judgment of* every Irishman, especially those on the blighted west coast, who are gradually moving toward that bourne where political jars are un- known. THE Pullman company announees a reduction of the wages of its shop em- ployes. A corresponding reduction of rents to employes and reduced rates for -sleeping-car berths was deferred for fu- ture consideration, Mg. LLANGSTON, the colored congress- man from Virginia, discourages the idea of drawing the nationality or color lines In the world’s fair. Mr. Langston’s head is level. The fair is distinctively American, representative of American progress and ingenuity, and no racial lines should be permitted to mar the collective handiword of American brain and brawn. Ir HILL runs for governor of New York for o third time in 1801, as his friends advise him to do, it will be an interest- Ing spectucle to observe the antics of the Cleveland men. It will be their deli- oate duty to kill off the governor with- out losing their standing as democrats, The upshot may bo the elimination of both Hill and Cleveland from the presi- dential race. —_— ONLY one more week intervenes be- fore the session of the legislature at Lincoln. There has been less discussion about the work to be done than is desir- able, but the steady drift of public opin- ion sinco election has been toward conservative legislation. 1In this drift the members of the Allinnce have doubtless shared, Present indications are that there will be beneficial results to record to the credit of this session, but it is not yet too late for the voice of the people to be heard and understood by the lawmakers, OMAHA claims the right to share with Deadwood the happiness of a rail union with the metropolis of tho Black Hilis. The extension of the Elkhorn valley line removes a great obstacle to the growth of Deadwood and gives the people for the first time complete railroad commun- ication with the outside world, The development of the mineral and agricul- tural resources of the Hills, which ade- quate means of transportation will quicken, are objects of general solicitude in Omaha, and THE BEE voices public sentiment in congratulating Deadwood on its improved position and prospect. — Tae fourth annual meeting of the American Economic association is in ses- sion at Washington, It includes some of the brightest minds in America, as well as the youngest and most vigorous class of thinkers, Among them are Francis A. Walker, Richard Ely, Her- bert Adams, Edmund J. James and F. H. Giddings, This year’s meeting of these clean and able political economists has more than ordinary interest bécause of the unusual prominence of social apd financial theories in politics, It would be interesting to have them dissect the platform and speeches of the Ocala con- wention und put their honest thinking egainst the mouthings of some of the g&o:uuwhom present on that THE PROBLEM REMAINS. Referring to the report that the In- dians are moving in from their camps to the agency, General Miles is quoted as having said; “If the hostiles come in the campalgn is over, but the problem remafng.” What General Miles means by the problem is conveyed in his recent dispatch to the president, in which ho says he could readily subjugate the Sioux if the government would maintain absolute good faith and fulfili all treaties with them. We print clsewhere a dis- patch from Washington reviewing the treaties and agreements entered into between the government and the Indians during the past sixty- five years, from which it will bo seen that the Indians have some just reasons Yor complaint if not for revolt. From the first treaty of friendship and amity made in 1825 down to the last treaty or agreement with the Sioux in 1889 the government has failed to carry out its part of the compacts. Promised ap- propriations have either wholly failed or been long delayed, the people who had the right to expect them promptly and to the full amount pledged them, suffering meantime great hardship and privation. Year by year encroachments were made upon the territory of the In- dians, which steadily narrowed its boundaries and reduced their privilegoes, despite the assurances of the govorn- ment that they should have protection in their possessions The eourse pursued in recent years has been more careless as to what is justly due the Indians than ever before. The report of General Morgan, com- missioner of Indian affairs, states that the government is indebted to certain tribes in Nerth and South Dakota in the sum of §376,578, which is withheld from them in spite of their repeated appeals for payment. These Indians have hitherto been quict and peaccable, doing service for the government against the hostiles, and it is not doubted that they are willing to resume that position and continue in it if the government will keep faith them. The commissioner says that if they were paid the money due them it would be more than suffi- cient to relieve their distress, and thore is no longer any question that they have suffered from hunger, disgraceful to the nation as the acknowledgement of that fact must be, Still the house commit- tec on Indian affairs delays to make the appropriation for paying what is un- questionably due to these Indians in the Dakotas, and because of this and gther omissions on the part of the government military operations in that section of the country have cost soveral times the amount which the commissioner of In- dian affairs says the government is now indebted to the Indians, 1t is presumed that there will be gen- eral concurrence in the opinion of Com- missioner Morgan that this is not a question of benevolence, but of juastice, and until the government does this jus- tice and observes every partof its agree- ments in good faith there will continue to be danger of such Indian disturb- ances as it is now engaged in suppress- ing. The commissioner of Indian affairs says that with improved conditions, more comfortable houses, wider intelli- gence and brighter prospects, such a state of things as now unhappily exists in the Dakotas will be out of the ques- tion, and the essential prerequisite to all these is a faithful fulfillment of its agreements by the government. The nation can afford to be honest with the Indians, even if it be not generous, and unless it does this the ending of the present campaign, as General Miles has said, will not dispose o. the Indian prob- lem. THE NE 'RONTIER. It is the common idea that the fron- tier is a thing of the past in Nebraska, existing only as a picturesque back- ground for our present splendid develop- ment. The impression is erroneous. The frontier is as much a fact today, in all its significance, ns it was twenty years ago when Owaha, Lincoln and our other large cities were struggling to plant civilization in the wilderness. The hardships and trials of the old times are being endured by a new set of pioneers on the further edge of civilization. ““The early day” is yet in the flush of dawn to thousands of brave men and women battling for success against heavy odds, but sustained and inspired by the promise of results worthy of the struggle. In this fact, to which too little atten- tion is paid by the comfortable inhabi- tants of our older and better settled localities, lies tho best assurance of fu- ture growth and development. Fully one-half of Nebraska yet re- mains to be sattled and made productive in the best sense of the term, Much of this undeveloped portion of our domain will be, under favorable conditions, the best part of the state. In the loast promusing and the wildest of our 88 counties, far away from railroads and the comforts of modern life, the nioneer has built his house of sod, or logs, or stone, and waits with confidence for time and paticnes to do their perfect k. This pioneer is a man of sturdy qualities, or he would not be there. He knows the country will justify his faith, or he would not stay there. The total population in some of the frontier coun- ties is small, ranging from 91 in Arthur to 5,000 or 6,000 inseveral along the Kansas border. In all this large area of spavsely settled Nobraska, outside of a fow of the larger county seats, the peo- plelead the rude, self-denying life of frontiersmen. Their work, beyond a bare subsistence, is all for the future. Knowing the possibilities of the soil and the dificulties that must be overcome before they can he realized, they have sottled down to the work of making the barren wastes productive, of building new towns and opening new avenues of prosperity for the state. It is important that the life of this later class of Ne- braska pioneersghould be more fully un- derstood in the section which has passed successfully through the hardships of frontier days hnd filled eastern Nebraska with prosperous cities, towns and farms. The] possibilities of the Nebraska frontier can be divided into four classes. There is a part of it which, when brought under cultivation, will add immensely to the area of the corn belt, but promises little for other lines of agriculture. This is the sandy region in the central part of the state, RASKA F. / Y, DECEMBER 28, 1890.-SIXTE extending north from the valley of the Platte to the South Dakota line. There is similar soil in smaller areas else- where, Another distinct section is the grazing country in the northwestern counties, where the cattlo industry is capable of being extensively developed. A small but wonderfully picturesque and promising district is that which lies principally in parts of Cheyenne, Ban- ner, Scott’s Bluff and Box Butte coun- ties, where there are large deposits of stone suitable for building, fine timber and the indications of coal and other minerals. Tosee the settlers in this lo- crlity living in neat stone houses and burning logs in their fireplaces is a reve- lation of our resources that is new to most Nebraskans, But by far the largest and most hopeful portion of our frontier is that great vract of country, composed of about fifteen counties, which waits for irrigation to transform it into the garden spot of the west. This sec- an altitude avaraging from superb climate and a Null of inexhaustible richness. It can- not prosper without supplementing its dvantages with the artificial It is for this that its people wait aud labor, and when it is won they will have a prosperous farmer on every 40 ncres. It is upon this hopeful frontier that the Nebraska pioneers of today ave living over the old hardships with the expec- tation of repeating the old triumphs. They are breaking the prairie to plant crops in virgin soil, probing the earth to test its possinilitios of natural depos- its and digging ditches to make a beginning foward great systems of irrigation. They hunger and thirst for the attention and encouragement of the people in the oldest and richest sec- tions of the state, and they deserve to receive it. The cry of distress to which Nebraska has listened and responded during the past fow woeks was from these men of the new counties. There nesd be no more such appeals if the peopls will add to the moans of temporary relief the in- terest they ought to feel in the develop- mentof our own frontier. Capital is needed to push the settlement of the western half of the state and to encour- age its numerous enterprises, especially those aiming at irrigation. The whole state, and especially the wholesale points, ill enjoy large ind permanent benefits from the success of the hardy pioncors who ure struggling with these vital problems. "T'his is a subject which should receive the earnest attention of the people and the pross, and the next two or threo years should see an energetic effort to malke the most of the state’s advantages of soil and climate. — GIRDLING THE GLOBE WITH STEEL A railrond around the world is a pos- sibility of the future which eminent Eu- ropean engineers are alreuly talking of. At the last meeting of the international railroad congress in Brussells, the en- gineer to the Belgian ministry of rail- roads expressed the belief that before many years it would bo possible to make a trip around the world in twenty-three days. This distinguished enginoer had in mind the proposed railroad connect- ing our transcontinental lines with Behring strait and joining the trans- Siberian line now being constructed by the Russian government, and he expressed tho opinion that this road will some day be built. Russia is building a railroad toconnect St. Peters- burgh and Kamschatka, and when that is completed there is little reason to douht that in the course of time Amer- ican enterprise will projoct a roud to connect With it. The Belgian engineer stated that it would bo no more diflicult to run a railroad along our Pacific bor- der to Behring Strait than to work the line in Sweden, now operating notth of the Arctic circle, or the railroad which Russia has built far in the north. The proposed line would skirt the Alaskan coast where the arctic climate is modified by influ- ences from the Pacific ocean, Behring strait is shallow and narrow, with a large island midway in the channel, and according to the Bel- gian enginber would offer no serious ob- stacle to bridge building. As a part of the scheme for girding the globe with steel and reducing the time for making the circuit of the world in twenty-three days, is the proposed road from Quebee to St. Charles bay, Labrador, whence England may be reached by steamer in four days, and for this project the Cana- dian Altantic railway and steamship company has obtained parliamentary authority, These schemes may seem visionary, but it has been wisely remarked that in these days it is hardly worth while to laugh at railroad schemes, however visionary they may seem. At any rate the subject of a railroad to Behring strait has received consideration in this country, and the proposed exploration of Alaska is expected to determine, for one thing, the expediency of such a lino. It may be that there are much greater pos- sibilities in this project than arve now conceivable, and that in the future devel- opment of the northwest and of our com- merce with Asia it may become a neces- sity. Fifty years hence the possibility which the Belgian engineer has pointed out may be realized DIVORCE LAW REFORM. No public movement undertaken in recent years appeals with greater force to the conscience of the nation than that which seeks a radical reform of the di- vorce laws of the country. The facility with which the marital bonds are severed 15 not only a national reproach, but if permitted to continue unchecked, willimperil the moral well-being of the Amorican people. The organization started in New York a few years ago has laid the foundation for a uniform system of divorce laws. A thorough investigation of the records of the various states shows that 80 per cent of the divorces were granted by the courts to residents of the respective states, so that only 20 per cent of the number were granted to non-residents, This sucprising fact led to the abandon- ment of the original plan to work for a national divorce law, and efforts are now being made to secure the enactment, by the various logislatures, of & uniform law, In furtherance of this plan the gover- nor of Now, appoint a cor k has been authorized to ission to confer with the governors of @1 states and territorics and urge the gopointment of like com- missions by *Bach, to meet as early as practicable and draft a law for submis- sion to the vagious legislatures, It is ot mAterial whether this most desirable reform is secured through state or natiopal legislation. "The evil is s0 widespredd that patriotic citizens, however theys disagree as to methods, should act; * encourage every effort caleulated to stem the deluge of divorce scandals. The records of the courts arc stained with Aecrees that are parodies on justice.. Flimsy protexts are urged by those chafing under the matrimonial halter, and the courts of many states permit husbands to put aside o their wives and wives their husbands, with the ease and promptitude of savage tribes, The responsibility does not rest en- tirely on the courts which interpret the laws. The promiscuous granting of marringe licenses to erotic youngsters isa fruitful source of the divorce evil, and those who for a trifling fee unite in wodlock couples one or both under age are promoters of the scandal which in- evitably follows, Reform in the divorce laws necessa- rily means reform in the marriago laws, The movement to secure both isa grati- fying evidence of the nwakened moral tone of the people and of a determination to check an evil of appalling magnitude, THE LIVE STOCK EXCHANGE. The Tllinois farmers are waging an aggressive warfare on the Chicago Live Stock exchange, which in its main feat- ures is like the exchanges in Omaha, Kansas City and Sioux City, The farm- ers demand the privilege of selling their stock in the n ket without the assist- ance of commission houses and appeal to the law to protect them in the right. As it is stated that the Alliance in seven northwestern states has joined in this effort to break down the rules of the ex- change, it is likely that definite settle- ment of the disputed question will re- sult. Stock raisers have long had griev- ances against the management of the ards, but in this instance they y simple issue. It is the ques- tivn of whother they shall appoint an agent to reprosent them directly in deal- ing with the beef and pork packers or whether they shall be compelled to eell through members of the stock exchange and pay the commission it prescribes, They claim that they have the right to sell directly and save the’ commission and other ex- penses, and that the stock exchange, an incorporated body, has organized a con- spiracy to prevent them from doing so. The common-sense view of the case would seem to be that if the shipper can do without thg service of the middle- man he should;be allowed the privilege. As a matter of fact, the commission houses are very useful, and sometimos indispensable to stock-raisers and ship- pers. They advance money on stock, watch the market in the interests of their patrons, and transact their busi- ness at the yards, even to the payment of freights A shipper who employs a commission house to this extent ought not to object to paying a reasonable sum for its services, But why should a shipper who does not employ the commission man in these various ways be obliged to pay tribute to him at all? Why should he not have the same right to sell his stock to the highest bid- der that the members of the stock ex- chango have? The point of injustice begins where the rules of the stock ex- change attempt t6 govern the conduct of a shipper who asks and receives noth- ing from it. If the Illinois case establishos clearly the existence of a combination to control the market in the interest of the com- mission men, regardless of the natural rights of shippers who have no relations with them, it is to be hoped and ex- pected that the law will break it up. The shipper is entitled” to receive what his cattle are worth in the market, and any combination among members of the stock exchange organized for the pur- pose of preventing it is an unjustifinble interference with his rights. THE Lake Shore railrond company bas declared war against the tele- graphers’ association, Its operators are forbidden to join the order on pain of dismissal, and those who are members must withdraw or resign. Similar measures, it is said, will be adopted by other roads, the object being to crush the organization. It is not surprising that the operators are singled out for oppressive supervision. No class of skilled railrond employes are so poorly paid. Their salaries ravely exceed that of brakemen, while in fact they share with engineers and conductors the ve- sponsibility for the lives of passenger: Though not personally sharing the dan- gers of active trainmen, the safety of trains depend on the ability and accuracy of the railroad telegrapher. No progressive railroad relies on schedules for the movement of train They are handled by the chief train di patcher and his assistants sjong the road. The utmost etficiency and relia- bility is demanded in this branch of the service, Yet the reverse is the rule. Instead of encouraging competency with good wages, a_penny wise policy is pu sued by many ropds, and frequent di astrous wrecks are the inevitable result of the employment of college taught plugs who are 'willing to work fora mere pittance, | p—— It 18 reported that farmers of Massa- chusetts are uhstisy because the national government is giving aid to irrigation in the west. They contend that there is still much undeveloped land im the thickly settled partsof the country, and that itis not just to the castern states that agriculturists should be attracted to the far west by artificially adapting the soil for cultivation, The New York Sun suggests to these people that their fears are far fetched, and tells them that the enormous work of reclaiming the agricultural lands of the new states and territories cannot be so rapid as to inter- fere with the old farming regions. It says also that the irrigation work already done has shown that there is no land east of the Mississippi riverso productive and so valvable as the reclaimed lands prove to be, and that no other farming lands in any part of the country sell for 80 much per acre, From the fact that ths population is increasing far more rapidly in proportion than the aren of tillable lands, the Sun cannot see how the Massachusetts farmers can logically maintain that agricultural depression in the cast is in any way due to the very gradual reclaimations of the semi-arid regions, As a matter of fact it is not, but none the less the selfish and unpas triotic opposition of the eastern farmers toirrigation in the west has exerted n decided influence detrimental toa liberal policy for reclaiming the arid regions, and will very likely continue to do so. TiE Annual Review of Tur Brr, to be published Thursday morning, will contain a roliable compendium of all statistical facts relating to Omaha’scom- mercial, industrial and financial insti- tutions, Especially will it be acarefully compiled review of the business of the past year—a completo record of public improvements, real ate transactions, new enterprises, banking statistics, beef and pork packing industry, and every- thing pertaining to the steady march of progress. Theve will be no illustrations and no sensational exhibit, The edition 1 be like an egg,—full of meat—con- taining cold matters of fact, which in- vestors, capitalists and people who de- iro to embark in commercial and indus- trial enterprises in Omaha will want to know. The regular edition will be 25.- 000 copies and orders for additional copies must be sent in between now and Thursday. The edition will be one of 16 pages; price five cents per copy, mailed to all parts. of the world, two cents, Orders for papers from 10 copies up- wards will be filled and mailed out directly from this office without extra charge. CARDINAL GIBBONS of Baltimore is said to have a large following in Europe us a candidate for successor of Pope Leo. It would be aremarkable departure from the traditions of Um Catholic church if an American were chosen to that august place, but it is doubtful if the college of cardinals could make any choice that would do so much to increase the power of the church and put fresh life into all its channels. Cardinal Gibbons is a broad-minded man, of modern ideas, and with physical and mental powers equal to any man who has sat in the vatican in recent times. The election of a pope from: the western hemisphero would in- augurate a new era in the history of the Catholic church and lead to vast changes in its methods and ideas. SEVERAL prominent Michigan physi- cians announce that they can cure con- sumption by a method surer and botter than Koch's. They reject the latter’s theory that bacillt is the cause of the disease, claiming it to be only ond of the symptoms of advanced cases, Honce, they direct their remedios exclusively to healing the inflamed lungs, chlorine, salt and iodine being the agents. It is evident that, after years of delay, the world is to seco a determined effort of science to control the most hopeless scourge to which flesh has been liable, and that there is some prospect that it may succeed, THE east has already enjoyed a month’s sleighing and is now up to its knees in a fresh snow storm. The old-fashioned winter will have a tendency to mako business lively and thereby hasten tho roturn of confidence. Ior these favors old Boreas is to be thanked. ouldn't Work Here. Chicago Tribune, Queen Victoria dines at 9 o'clock in tho evening. She couldn’t keep a hired girl two days if she did that in this country, . The Gem That Jay Covots. Boston Herald, Jay Gould thinks this country Is the gem of the carth. Some people suspect that ho would like to wear it in his shirt bosom. LT This is n Great Truth, Washington Post. Trusts and monopolies are not. responsible for all the millionaires, Judicious advertis- ing has contributed a share in that direction. e An Even Ra St. Louis Glohe-Democrat, ‘The returns of the Kilkenny election indi- cate that the Parnellites will carry Ireland at about the same time that the republicans will carry Texas, e Parnell and Carnegie. Kansas Otty Jowrnal. Mr. Parnell will perhaps recall the advice given to him by Andrew Carnegie just after the termination of the O'Shea case. “Re- sign, marry, return,” said Mr. Carnegie. “Pere is no reason to believe that this pro- gramme could mot have been followea suc- cossfully, but Mr. Parnell committed the error of believing that ths man was para- mount to the cause. Give Practical Men a Chance. Chiladelphia Telegraph. The great statesmen of the executive de- partments and the house and senate always rosent the idea that ang other than practical politicians know anything about public a’- fail They repudiategsuggestions which soem to imply lack of cofidence in their ex- pert knowledge or experience, Yot this question of the fnances being & business question why should not expert business men e asked to suggest & plan to satisfactorily auswerit! Ifit isa good thing for the shoo- maker to stick to his last why should not a politiciau, houest party man or broker in politics, as ho often is, insist that ho shall stick to his political machine and let finan- ciers do tho work of finante! The plan might fail, but it promises at least better prospects of success than partisan scheming in congress. The Tough Linem New York Herald, The crowd appalled, in mute suspense, (Gazed at the lineman who, suspended, Hung o'er the multi tude 8o denso— AlL faucicd that his race was ended— But when they took him down These words the victim softly sald: T 'spose 1t's dark all over town, But Ican'thelp it “Aren’t you dead!” “They cried, amazed—*Praised be the gods | “Oh, 1o, he said, “I'm pretty tough; They don't make volts and ohws enough o kill me—I've sold lightaing rods " C. H. Israel, who remnllv re:lgncd the ed- itorship of the Benkelman Republican, 1n- dicted the following valedictory: *“My father, Fraok Israel, will shove the quill and his twelve-year-old son Roy will be the fore- man. 1 have no apologles to make. Thank- ing the many patrons of tho Republican for past favors shown me, I rewain, yours truly. THIS AND THAT. The visit of Stanley to Omaha has made many of the old-timers reminiscent. Both grave and gay are some of tho tales they toll | of the time ““when Stanley was in Omaba.”’ The great explorer's nquiry rogarding ex- | Governor Dave Butler rocalled the fact that tho statesman from Pawnee, In the days when Omaha was the capital of Nebraska, was considered a high roller, and his visits to the metropolis wore usually marked by | considerable hilarity. At that time the old Tivoli garden, at Ninth and Farnam streots, was on the top wave of popularity and pros- perity. Sicblist, the proprictor of the resort, had a reputation as a caterer, and all the bobs and nabobs of the time pald homage to his ability, The governor, however, had failea to pay his respects to the Tivoli and Sieblist felt slighted, He confided to somo of the friends of Butlor his feelings in the matter and urged them to have the governor honor him with a visit. Dave dido’t feel like calling at the garden, but the boys didn’t propose to disappoint Sieblist, so they secured the gov- ernor’s private secretary to impersonate his chief, secure a M and enjoy the hos- pitality of tho far-famed Tivoli. The plan worked successfully and the “dis tinguished guests” fairly floated in a sea of champagne. Some of the boys grew so meljow they were unable to keep the joke to themselves, and just as they had started on the second hun- dred dollars’ worth of wine, Sieblist discov- ered the imposition and the banquet ended abruptly. A number of staid old vesidenters who particivated in the banquet wouldn't care to indulge in sucha lark today, While Stanley was here o great many peo- ple questioned him on a great many subjects, toall of which interrogations he had & ready answer, But at Scranton, Pa., & gentleman “stumped” the explorer by an innocent. little remark. As at Omaha, an informal reception was hold after the lecture and many people availed themsclves of the opportunity to shalko the explorer’s hand. Among the num- ber was B, E. Hendrick, a wealthy manufac- turer of Carbondale, who stopped and sald: “Mr. Stanley, one of the things in your book that interested mo most was your vivid ac- count of tho sufferings of your party in ‘Starvation Camp,’ but one thing I never could understand. When your mon wero dying for want of food, why didn’t they fish, since they wero so near thoriver?” Mr. Stanley’s face was a study. He looked av his questioner asif dazed by ablow. “Why 1" he exclaimed, and then hesitated in evident surprise and consternation for several mo- ments; “why, Idon't believe anyone over thought of it The heroof the dark conti- nent, who has commanded admiration be- causo he knew so often just what to do at critical times, confesses that with food with- in his reach he did not see it when starving. Mr. Hendrick moved on with the parting in- junction: *Mr. Stanley, the next time you form an exploring party, take a Yankee with Sou:H A thirtecn-year-old Fort Omaha boy has favored Tie Ber with the manuscript of a song entitled *“The Sioux’s Last Ral young gentloman pays @ touchiug the heroes of the Sccond infantr) Pine Ridge agency. The only fault we have to find with the work of the young composer is that he failed to writo o stirring chorus. This one fault is apt to ruin the popularity of the piece, but in spitoof it wo give our read- ers tho benefit of the two concluding stanzas : Major Butler was in command When they lett Fort Omaha. "Tis blood you'll see at Wounded Knee, If it's nothing but a squaw. The warriors they are plenty, Their guns are new and bright, Were they issued by the government? Noj; they came from Custer's fight. Now, when the war is over, And we return again, We'll be telling of the redskins— How tany we have slain, The music will sound sweetly; Our limbs will surely ache; But of all the fighting soldiers, The old Second takes the cake. Thesentiments of tho song quoted from aboveare agreat deal more elevating than thoso of thelatest Parisian ditty, based on the crime of M. Eyraud ana Mile. Bompard. In order that the reader may for himself notiee the difference in tone between the Amorican and French stylo we produce a stanza of the latter: She lured the man fnto her lair, tra la, And her lover he strangled him there, tra la, With a kiss and a hug, And a rope and a tug, They did the job neatly and well, O, 1a belle Gabriclle! They knew that he carried a check, tra la, Aud to grab it they twisted his neck, tra la, For poor old Gouflo “There was old Nick to For I fear the old man went to holl, “Through la belle Gabrielle! Here 1s a peculiarlegand of the Indians as told by Rev. Mr. Cook, tho full-blooded Sioux who1s the ministerial representative of the Episcopalian denomination at Pine Ridge agency. Thelegend which was ve- lated to tho Indian children at the agency, was of their forefathers' boliof ns to the cause of tho disappearance of the moon. Ho said the belief was that every time a new moon appeared it was a signal for all the mice in the country to gather themselyes together in one spot. When they assembled they soparated in four great armies. Ono army wont to the north, anotherto the south, a third to the east and the fourth to the west. These armics of mice traveled until they reached the point where, from the place of starting, e heavens scemed to touch the earth, Then thoy climbed up tho sky until they came to the moon which, by this time, was what we Allof the four arm then commenced nibbling at Luna, and w they had eaten her all up the mice would mper back down the heavens to tho carth it for her to show herself again, when the journey and nibbling weuld be repeated by the mice. And this is what the Indians of carly days belioved was the cause of the moon growing old and finally disappearing. Tue Bre's war Ridge tells of av prrospondent at Pine nteresting billet doux which fell into the s anant Ta y- lor of the Ninth cav It is nothing more nor loss than an Indian letter written by one of tho most prominent and villianous of the hostile chiefs now standing deflant in the bad lands. Itis the first that has been received from that locality and attracts wide atten- tion. High Back Bear, one of Lieutenant Taylor's newly enlisted Indian scouts, is the person to whom it is addressed, and the liou- tenant cannot speak too highly of High Back Bear's loyalty in bringing the communica- tion, although not overly important, airectly to him, It reads thus : Cenka lru waka tuwa Ito ws za su na min- guhaska wan)l na mila wanji wiclspa ki ye- harke wacoye lo eya wan)l glea a nlelea plsini b % unka upo canili ko mini gu har tu weee 1a ko nitankisi 1a pi kin le ta ta kapte culs to kel te ol hocel matenkte eye lo po benala ye ma to waulili miyeye lo. “The translation is us follows: I want some cartridges and some white cloth and a knife as long us from the end of a man's finger to his elbow. If youare not a soldier bLring them to me, and some tobaceo and some cloth of most uny kind. Your grandfather Short Bull, wi hedies 1 willd In spite of this touchin Bear Eagle's Christmas stocking remained empty, but High Back Bear hopes to be in at & little presentation scene when Beat Eogle will be the recipient of some cold lead. atever way AGLE. THE FALL OF THE DICTATOR, York Times: Short Bull beon dehorned. Nebraska City Nows: The Burrows-Pow: | ers crowd in the allianco did not knock out Van Wyck so easily as thoy expocted, but found that ho was a mgst oxcellent fight Evidently Burrows wants no mau {n the alli ance that he cannot contest. Grana Tsland Independent: Burrows the greatest enemy of tho good canfe of tho alliance movomont, and the allianco men ought not to follow him into the trap set for thom by unsorupulous prohibitionists, Nobraska City Press: Goneral Van Wyck lives and eats the same as other men. Thero is nothing about him etherial. Mr. Burrows may remain in_a state of estuation, and Mr, Van Wyck will continue the friend and the champion of the farmer. Broken Bow Leador: Poverty and distress among his fellow men appeal to the sy mpathy of ex-Senator Van Wyck, and his purse strings, that relief may follow. The same circumstances also appeal to the great allisnce mogul, Burrows, but in this case it only loosens his jaw, Howells Journal:. Tk Ovana Ber had a reporter in tho ailiance meeting hold at Lin- coln last week. and Tre Daivy Bercontained full accounts of the proceedings of the moct- ing, including a very intevesting description of the manuer in which ex-Scnator Van Wyck routed Dictator Burrows. How tho reporter managed to got into tho meeting still remains a mystery, Kearnoy Hub: At first thought it was diffieult to understand why Jay Burrows should oppose Paddock’s pure food bill and commit the state alliance against it, atter tho natfonal alliance aud bodies of farmors all over the country had endorsed it and poti- tioned for ite passage. But this has all boon made clear. Even though a small man, Mr, Burrows has a very largo ambition, so lar, in fact, that he is already figuring on an ol anco legislature in 1893 that will send him to the senate to succeed Paddock. This also explains his hostility to Van Wyck, who has been the object of Burrows' spleen and con- staut opposition, Vun Wyck might stand in the way of Burrows on the senatorial game of draw, Howells Journal: General Van Wyck proved to be too much for Dictator Burrows at the allianco meeting held at Lincoln, Van Wyck has during his entire political carecr been a hard working and consistent friond of the people and it is but natural that ho sheuld object to being dictated to by an adventurer of the Burrows stripe. When the self-ap- pointed dictator of the allianco attemvtad to prevent him from speuking in the secret alliance meeting e made a grave mistako, and he 1s provably well aware of the fact by this time. The Journal glories in Van Wyck's spunk. He is altogether too much for the cranks that aro at the present time engaged in wrecking the alliance ship. The general has many friends fn all parts of the stato who are with him in his fight for the right. Burrows haa - TALKS ON VARIOUS TOPICS. Grand Island independent: As a news- paper Tie OMAA Bre continues to ‘“get there” with all its pages, and they range in number from twelve to thirty-two. Columbus Telegram: Why should the acts of the Bankers and Business Men's associa- tion, in working against prohibition, be called into auestion as having interfered with the fairness of the election, any more than that of the prohibitionists who spent more moneys than the Bankers and Business Men's asso- ciation. Seward Reporter: The contest for the state ofices drags its weary length along, and develops nothing except that the probis bition amendment was bighly unpopular in Omaha. If the independents bave any wit- nesses in reserve who will testify to suppres- sion of votes for Powes s about time they were bringing them forward, Fremont Flail: That sturdy old patriot, ‘who still occupies the governor's chair in Ne« braska’s capitol, is signatizing the close of his auspicious and happy administration by acts of charity and sympathy that must still far- ther endear him to the hearts of hi: g Say what they may of Governor THayer, the state never was honored by an executive who has manifested such a deep and abiding intor- est in the welfare and happiness of his people as he has exhibited during the four years that he has held that exalted po- sition. That he may have made mistakes but proves that he is human, but that they have been unintentional ones all must admit, He has stood in the forefront of every effort for the amelioration of the condition of the distressed, wherever their eries have arisen, and his stirring and sympathetic nature has been deeply enlisted in their behalf. Other governors may-arise who may excel him in wisdom or diplomacy or sagacity or general accomplishments, but the state will never bavea governor who will, to a greater ex- tent, endear himselt to the hearts of the people by an administration so devoted to their interests and well being. The Flail has often criticised him, but now, at tho close of his four years service, it cheerfully and eu- thusiastically doffs its hat to offer this de- served eulogy. Hastings Nebraskan: The Nebraskan has been unreserved in its expressions of sympa- thy for Mr. Powers in his contest against Mr. Boyd for the governorship, because it believes that an honest count of the ballots actually cast would give Mr, Powers a plur- ality and elect him But, unfortunately, for the sake of justice, this fact has not been brought out in the contest and so far as the testimony goos it does not appear that Mr, Powers' friends have made out a good case, The coutest, so far as it bears upon the title to the governorship, has been a good deal of fon must be based upon the evidence produced, and if the legslaturo Mr. Powers on the strength of that it be a dangerous act of usurpation to say tho least. But the Burrows-Dech faction of tho v party have no doubt determined to risk it. The question is, th will the alliance members of the legislature obey the dictation of these men and act unitedly 1 the movement., It has aiready been said that a number of the members will not, especially those of democratic antecedents, A split and division of the alliance forces on this question and a failure of Burrows to accom- plish his designs would be disastrous to the new party, for it isdoubtful that the elements of discord could ever be harmonized again. OMATHA. LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY, Bubscribed and Guarantsed Capital....8500.000 Paid in Capital Tuys and sells stocks aud bonds; negotta tos commercipl paper, recelves and executes trusts; acts s transfer agent and $rustoe of rporations, takes charge of property, ool- locts taxcs, Omaha I:gt;n&Trust Co SAVINGS BANK., S, E. Cor. 16th and Douglas Sts, vaid in Capital . Subseribed and Guarantes Liability of Stockholders. 6 Per Cont lntnml posits, FRANK J RO ier. OMoers: A. U, Wyman, president. J. J. Brown, vico-president, W. T. 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