Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 25, 1891, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, MAY Dy 1891 DATLY BEE | ROSEWATER Borron. Y MORN (‘I‘PTXHN. BLISHED EVE AT I OF SUTSC Datly e (without Sand Dafly and Sundity, One ¥ o Yot ne Year Yoar OFVICES Omaha, The e Haliding Eouth Onaina, Corner N Council il Chieago Ufice, New York, I Kunday lice, Euturday e Weekly Bee, 0 11 26th Stroata 12 Poart St 17 Chamber of Commerce, 18 14, 14 and 15, Tribune Bullding ourtecnth strect COLRFSPONDENCE, catlons relating to news and ter should be addressed to the partnient. Bt All business be nddresscd 10 Omnhu. Deaf 10 he mads | pany. The Beg Publishing Company, Procrictors Al commu editorinl Editorfal I a should nmipany, . cheeks and postoffice orders to the order of the com THE BEE BUILDING. BWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION Etate of Nebrusks 1 County of Douglas. (%% Georgo It Trschiicl, ary of The Bea Publishing company, mnly swear 1hat the uctual cireiln # DAILY BER for the woek ending follows: Kuin May 17. Monday. May 18 Tuesany. May 1 WVednesday, Vay 20 Thursday. May 2 Friday, May Eaturdiy. M 26,6134 CHUC Bworn to befora me and subscriled i Presence this2ird day of May. A D 1L LT Notury Publie. Averago.. my Etate of Nebraakn, ) County of Douglns, (* Georgo It ‘Tzschuck, Veing duly sworn, de- onew and siys that he'ls secretary of Tk Bk Publishing con pany, cuat the actual avorage dmly *circulation of Tne DAy BER for “the month of May, 180, 20,150 coples: for v, 1600, 1 coples; for coples:’ for August, 180, eptember, 1500, 20,870 copies 3 coples: for Noven for Deceniber, 180 ry, I8 140 confest Cop} for April, 191 GEORCE 1. and subscribed in 1801 P, 1 065 coples. Eworn 10 1 ef Tresence, U e me duy of May, A. D botter and botter is a rich mining are to bo dis- Gorp HiLL grows from day to dav. Tt camp all signs counted 100 per cont NATURALLY the question arises what sort of a police force Chicago must have enjoyed if 400 of them could be retired for incompetency in a bunch. Mayor Cu; sgusted with the democr: jority of the city council. Mayor Cushing is in entire harmony with the people of Omaha in this par- ticular, unless ReLIGIOUS intelligence from all di- rections indicates t there is some- thing in the atmosphere which breeds dissensions. It is possibly a microbe of charity, liberality and tolerance. LAsT week Delaware held a constitu- tional convention, presumably on the principle that the fossilized form under which the “three counties” have been governed should be exposed to the sun- shine at least once a century. OMAHA officials, especially those con- nected with the street improvement do- partments, are devoting themselves chiefly to drawing their salavies. Tt is about time they began to do something toward earning as woll as drawing their monthly stipends. There are only five months of the working season left. THE returned Nebraska delegates to the Cincinnati convention are of the opinion that the tariff questvion is of small importance in the next presiden- tial contest. Kiat money and sub-treas- ury schemes ave in their judgment of far more vital interest. The Nebraska in- dependent is certainly to be commended for his frankness, whatever may be said of his foresight. THE prince of Wales' health is said to be in a precavious condition, but it does not deter the heir apparont to the crown of Great Britain from visiting the theatres, participating in the court balls orbettingon the horseraces. Although an invalid, very much in debt and a grandfather, the gay prince continues to perform these official ‘duties cheerfully and assiduously. — YANKTON will entertain the conven- tion of aiding citizens of South Dakota for devising ways and means to partici- pate in the world’s fair, this week. It @008 without saying that our enterpris- ing sister on the north will make her prosence feit in Chicago in 1893, in spito of the want of patriotism exhibited by her late loose jointed and lamented al- linnee logislature, —— Nolevel headed farmer will grieve because the April ocoan shipments of corn are less thun for years before, so long as he can sell what little he offers now for 60 conts & bushel and buyers ave willing at this time to contrat for all he can raiso this year at from 35 to 45 cents, Tho American farmer is por- fectly satisfied with a home market, so long, at least, as th THE unveiling of the statuoe of Lin- naous, the Swedish hotanist, brings to mind the marvelous researches of this sciontist, whoso birfhplaco and early home was in the frigid north, where both the number and variety of plants is limited and the season of observation confined to a few months of the year. Beginning with the lichens of his home he pursued his investigations through- out his lifetime, and when death elaimed him he had discovered and named more plants than any other man then living, THERE is no warrant of law for hiring a special attorney by the hoard of educa. tion. When the position was created four years ago, the city attorney was without assistance and there was a good excuse for the board’saction. Now that the city employs three attorneys, one of them might be assigned to the occas sional service of the board of education and thus save #3500 a year to the school fund. However, an attorney has been olocted by the board and unless some taxpayer raises the question it is able he will draw his salary coming regularity and the three city attorneys will do likewise. Y e RS B ¢ A BRIGHTER DAY FOR FARMER: For several years the agriculturist has suffered from tho low price of stock and farm products, The supply of both has greatly exceeded the demand through- out the greater part of the world. Poor crops in various sections of the United States havo been countorbalanced by largely increased production else- where. The immense agricultural arens of the world, and especially of America, have been extensively peopled and the product of the soli correspond- ingly increased without a proportionnte enlarzement of the markets, The reac- tion which follows the rush of millions into a profitable industry has been expe- rienced and hundreds of thousands who would otherwise have heen farmers have turned thoir engeries in other direc- tions. Farmers and stock growers have been the unfortunate victims of a com- tion of disastrous circumstances from unprofitable prices failure of crops. It is not that they. have grasped at overy suggestion which had in it a promiso of rolief, howaver visionary it may have seemed to thoso more fortu- itunted. The ora of depression now appoars to have heen passed. The goneral failure of erops on this side the great ocean has decroased the supply of food products and the withdrawal of capital from the ranges has ro-ostablished the equilib- rium, which makes a demand for meats at improved prices. The products of the farm and range are today bringing remunerative returns and the world is demanding food from overy production field. The supply from foreign farms promises to be greatly below the de- mand for home consumption, and Amer- iea will require a vast quantity, largely incrensed by the centralization of the population in cities and the diversion of hundreds of thousands of farmers trom the fields of other forms of employment. Reciprocity is opening up new forei fields and the revival of manu industries long running on short time or closed entirely is also contributing its share toward establishing tho proper balance of commer which is epito- mized in the trade maximum of “live and let live. The dawn of a brighter day is break- ing upon the farm. Well tilled soil will good profits. There is oly little areable domain un ipied and it will probably be years before so great and sudden an enl; ment of the aggrogats food production as to glut the markets of . the world will oceur, The development of other indus- tries and the growth of population has very materially incr the number of consumers all over the world. Land will incrense in valuo as its cultivation grows profitable and the farmer will again become, as he should be, the most independent citizen of the republic. The political agitation will eventuate in reforms at the hands of whatsoever party may control states and nations and the burdens of corporate monopolies controlling transportation lines and of corporate combinations for manipulating prices will be lifted. The future is bright for the farmer and par- ticularly for the western farmer. to sueprising compi [ 2 A EUROPEAN CUS {OMS COALITION, It is not easy to determine how far American interests might be affected by the projected Eurupean customs conli- tion, of which the latest cable dispatches make mention. Tt is plain from theso advices that Germany has been actively at work for some time in furtharance of a plan which, if s sful, might place her in & position of comparative inde- pondence of the American market, and it would seem that there is favorable promise that it will succeed. The scheme, as par- tially set forth, contemplates a policy of commereial reciprocity botwoon all the principal countries of continental Europe except France. This does not mean that tariffs are to be done away with and free trads instituted, but simply that as betwoen tho countries eatering the coalition there shall be such a modification of tariffs as will admit of reciprocity. Whother or not this would materially improve tho exist- ing state of affairs is problematical, but it would very probably benefit the mn- ufacturing industrios of Gormany, and to that extent any lossos sustained by reason of the incronso of the American tariff would be made good. Itseems ontirely evident that this coalition was suggested by the. ad- vanced tariff policy of this country. True such a scheme is not now talked of for the first time, but it had been abandoned until the tariff action of the last congress revived the ides. It is an interesting fact that [“rance was the first European nation to propose such a coalition after the passage of our tariff law, and now she is threatened with commercial isolation. What is of immediate concern to the United States is the statement that as s00n as the pending Luropean treatios are arranged it is the intention of the combined powers to test the spacial privileges grantod to the United States in tho convention with Spain regarding the trade with the Aatilles: The ar: rangement recently offocted batwosa Spain and this country has baen a sub- ject of vory oarnest diseussion abroad, and the latost advices indicate a dater- mined effort to broak it, at any rite to demand that Spain shall concode to Bu- ropenn countrios equal favors with those geanted the United States, which of course would deprive us very largely of the advauntages hopod for from tho reciprocity agresmont. [t bacomas now manifost, therefore, that the most for- midable obstacle the United States will have to ovoreome in eareying to succoss its scheme of reciprocity is the com- bired opposition of European nations. England, France, and probably Gor- many, have already taken steps to secure from Brazil commorcial ar- rangements as favorable as those ac- corded by that country to the United States, and besldes government action the financial and mereantile intorests of those countries arb doing all in their power to create a popular sentiment in Brazil hostile to the troaty with this country. . Now there is a proposed com- bination of Kuropean powers to prevent Spain from according to this countey privileges in the trade of the Antilles not enjoyed by other nations, These are conditions which somewhat v cloud the rediprocity outlook, and give peculiar intorest to the commaercial pro- jects of Buropean governments. CRDING ARID LANDS T0 STAT One of the most important resolutions passed by the commercinl convention at Danver was that in favor of the gene government ceding its arid non-mine! lands, under proper conditions, to the | various states within whose houndaries such lands are located. There wasa sentiment in the convention that tho reclamation of these lands i3 a work which should be undertaken by the n- eral government, for the reason that it will involve an expenditure which the states may not be abie to assume, at any rato for a long time. But this view did not find very strong support, and the other proposition was adopted by alarge majority. 1t is perhaps mot to bo doubted that if the reclamation of the arid lands is left to the general government it will be de- layed much longer than if the states are given an opportunity to reclaim them, and perhaps will never be done, There is a very strong sentiment in the coun- try, particularly in the east and south, hostile to the general government hav- ing anything to do with irrigation be- yond making surveys for reservoir sites, and it - will be a long time before this can be overcome, if it can ever be. The discussion of this sub-* jeet in the last congress gave an oppor- tunity for an expression of this feeling, and it has also found denunciation in the eastern press. It is depreciated, and no argument that can at present be urged will change it. Those who advocate ir- rigation by the general government can- fiot hope for the success of their plan, at lenst until the country wost of the Mis- sissippi is strong ecnough to domi- nate congress, Long before that time comes a large portion of the now arid regions should be made to contribute to the resources and wealth of the nation. On the other hand, if the non-mineral arid lands were ceded to the states it ilable as security upon states could borrow all the to buiid reservoirs and construct canals and jrrigating ditches. This idea was very well illustrated by a delegate in the commercial convention from [dako. He stated t there are 10,000,000 acres of arid land in that state, 000,000 acres of which can be ir gated by ordinary methods, that1s, with- outincurring any extraordinary expense, leaving 7,000,000 acres that will have to depend on a system of expensive high line canals and storag resery 1f irrigated this land would be worth $10 , or more, butcalling it no more would become av; which the ossar an acr than five dollars an acre, and the gift would be worth to the state $: 5,000,000, This would furnish ample security for all the money that could possibly be required to irrigate this land, and its productiveness being assured every year it would not take many years to repuy the cost. There are obvious advantages in letting the states having arid lands manage irriga- vion enterprises themselves, for being the immediate concern of their own peo- ple it is roasonably to be presumed that they would get better results from them in every way than if such enterprises were under the control of the general government. The resolution adopted by the commercial convention unques- tionably represents the intelligent sen- timent of the west in this matter and ought to have weight with congress. HARPING ON EXTRAVAGANCE, It is evident that the democratic. party intends to make the appropriations of the last congress a conspicuous subject of discussion in the next presidential campaign. Mr, Cleveland in his politi- cal address at Buffalo gave this matter more prominence than any cther, dwell- ing upon it as something to be pro- foundly deplored and vigorously ro- buked by the American people. Of course he did not go into statistics, because these show that by much the greater part of the increase in ap- propriations was for ponsions to the men who preserved the government, while a considerable sum was to meet deficien- cies which tha previous congress did not provide for. It was quite sufficient for the purpose of Mr. Cleveland to make a sweeping attack, and his example will be emulated by othor leaders of the party. The ‘billion congress” rolls smoothly from the tongue, and although the masses of the democratic party may be unable to quite comprehend what 1t means, they may be impressed with the iden that it is something of extraordi- nary enormity. In this way it may bo made to serve the purpose of a shibbo- leth, whereas an attempt to analyze it and explain the details would simply throw the average democratic mind into such hopeless confusion as to defeat the intended effect. There was a large incroase in appro- priations by the last congress, consider- ably more than many republ lieved to be wise or nocessary, but that there was any such extra- ordinary extravagance as the d crats are claiming, the figures do not show. There was an in- or U(){_fl‘]li(,l\(i(\‘mfl in »onsions, in- cluding a delicioney of ,000,000, and every dollar of this amount goes to our own people, and from theiv pockets into the chunnels of business. Of course the democratic party would never have per- mitted such an increase, and it is not to be doubted that if it were to obtain control of the government it would make haste to reduce the pensions of the old soldiers as the fivst step in its scheme of cconomy., But the great body of the American people are not anxions to save money in this way. They desire to deal gener- ously with the men who saved the union and they are satistied with what has been done in this respect. Another largo incrense by the last congress was for the postottice departmant, amounts ing to 000,000, This was made neces- sary by the increasing demands of the servios, which the preceding congress neglected, and the count is realizing the benefits in a vastly improved and more eficlout service. A largo part of this increase will undoubtedly ba sup- plied from augumented revenue, There was an increase of $14,000,000 in the approprintion for the navy and it is safe to say that no American citizen | now questiogs the wisdom of® this Events are monstrating that the United Stat n no longer afford to be without a navy eapable of defonding its ports against a forsign foe, and of main- taining its rights and dignity. Even Mr. Cloveland did not venturo to attack the naval xlpe'unrlnlh»l So with re- ard to near ory increase made by the last congr there wero demands which justifi » and in most cases these wore 80 imperative that the public sorviee and the interests and welfare of the government'and the people would have suffered if the largor approprin- tions had been withheld. It has boen pertinently sald of the democratic leader who expects to bo again the standard bearer of his party in o presidential campaign, that he “has hardly talont enough to seare the coun- try once becauso there is a surplus, and again becauso there is not a surplus.” The demoeratie party will find no profit- ablo capital in harping on the alleged extravagance of the last congress, THE ITATA APFAIR. Washington veports go to show that there is no ngreement between tho in- surgents of Chili and the United States government for the peaceable delivery of the Itata at an American port. Had such an agrecment taken place between our government and the insurgents it would be upon grounds which the United States has never yet admitted, nor has it so far as advice has gone the right to adm International law main- tains that “a foreign power may assist to repress a robellion and may not assist revolters themsclves, but when they have fairly created a new government may enter into relations with it, with- out unfriendliness toward the original state.” (Woolsey Inter. Law p. 209.) ording to this, our government has nobody with whom to treat on the one hand; and on the other, the Balmacedan government asked the United States to hold or eapture the Itata in case she en- tered our ports. The Itata entered our ports in clear violation of our municipal laws and our policy as exprossod in the treaty of Washing- tonin 1871, Upon the grounds of the order from the only government recog nized or treated with in Chili and the further provocation of a disregard for the laws of the United States we have the right to recapture the Itata. Were an agreement entered into with the insurgents for the return of the Itata we should have recognized the insu gents as a party with a government, in a easus belliy or we should have recog- nized them as helligorents, and this does not appear to have been done even by the Chilian government. If the insurgents are of a mind to sur- reniler the Itata they may do so, and the result will in all probability be that she will be condemned and sold. This would in no way compromise the United States in its stand; but any other move would result in the probable decluration that the insurgents have a government to be treated with and which is responsible for its acts. Thus far no information has eome to light that the insurgents have #sked the Uhited States to recognize them, and it is even doubt- ful i the state department would recog- nize them did they ask it, even though the Balmacedan govern- ment is not at all kindly dis- posed toward the United States.. The most plausible theory in regard to the who'e affair is that the insurgents have made this move, that by so doing they might not only aid their cause by procuring arms but also by arousing in- terest in their cause , and thus accom- plish two ends, force the United States to recognize them as belligorents and thus bring their case up for adjudication in an international court of arbitration. ‘Were the case brought up as they offered the Balmacedan government to allow it to be, the insurgents claim their case would be won, The whole of the affair seems to be a not badly laid scheme to further their interests, Now that the board of education has unraveled the tangle into which it plunged itself in dismissing Superinten- dent of Buildings Woolloey by electing his successor, it should adopt rules defining that officer’s duties to be something more valuable than such as usually ap- pertain to a head janitor or common put- terer. The superintendent of buildings should have authority beyond puttying window panes in the sash and sorewing seats to the floor. Ho can be very use- ful to the bourd and the taxpayers if re- quired to protect them against rascaily contractors and careless architects. All building operations shouldsbe under his supervision. — MINNEAPOLIS has a bonded debt of more than $7,000,000, yet sho is restricted w0 5 per cent of her assessed valuation. Omaha has a bonded debt of about $2,000,000, and this is 10 per cent of her assessed valuation, What n farce. I 15 entirely prbper that orders to naval offiecrs in Hehring sea should be sealed. EEE————— Omaha Not Responsible, Grand Idand Independent, Had the stato lige been drawn this side of Omaha in the campaign of last fall John Powers wonld have had a very clever plurality, so the dof¢at of Richards can by no means be charged up to Omaha, 2.t b alting Rather, Doubtful, Superlor Times, ernor Thayer has made a nice muddio of the oil inspectorsbip. In his frantic haste fu firing democratie' appointees, he evidently forgot that the law creating the ofice pro- vided that the appoffitment shoutd hold good for the term of two yeats. Heimrod has re- fused to be fired, and it is rather doubtful it the governor can force him to turn over tho books, ete. Thayer's iutense partisanship is hurting bim, Christ Would Adve New York Recor der, Dr. MeGlynn delivered his last Sunday evening lecture for the season to 1,000 mem- bers and well-wishers of the anti-poverty so- clety. His subject was “The Uses and Abuscs of the Press.” Ho said that if Jesus were now upon earth He would say, “Ad- vertise the gospel.” It was customary for some croukers to denounce the press without ostriction anl to alvooate a ceusorship of its columns, Instead of such a meusure Dr. MeGlynn said that bles should be callod down upon the modern newspaper for the good that it has done in the dis semination of tise. ¥ | metropolitan journal truth. There would bo a jolly time if the ecclesiastics had the censorship of the great ———a Gave Them the Keys. 3 Bartley Inter Oce: Tir Ovana Beg opened tho doors of its grand building and fnvited thoe members of the State Business Men's assoctation to ex- amine the machinery and all the arrange- ments for getting out tho great daily of Omaha. In behalf of the citizons it wel- comed them to tho freedom of the city and assured them that overy citizen would be vleased to do anything that would add to their comfort, pleasure and profit. - Here's a Suggestion, Kate Field, We miay count upon one more convert to tha doctrine that our naturalization laws need amendment, in Mr. Boyd, who was clected governor of Nebraska last November by a majority of 3,000 votes, but deposed by he suprome court of the state because of a technical irregularity iu his proof of citizen- ship. No one scems to dispute his respecta- bility or his responsibility; nobody has evor questioned his ability to exercise with intelli- genice the ordinary duties of a citizen, His civil status would probably nover have been put in doubv if he had not been carricd by the tidal wave of tariff reformed sentiment into a distinguished place of trust which other men coveted. All his prosent trouble might have been 1 if the process of naturalization were attended with tho'dignity, the coremonial safeguards and tho publicity which its importance de. serves. Lot us have a national burcau of navnral n horo in Washington, as a first step toward the reformation of the whole sys- tom. Then it can be ascertained at a glance whether a foreizn born resident of any part 1s a right to hold office or not, . —_—— PASSING JESTS. Yale Record: Lowestan, '92, walks impu- dently up, after the rest of the division is soated, and places his hat on the air-pumn. Profossor—If you desire a vacuum under that hat, Mr, Lowestan, you had better put it on, Epoch: Dora—Jake says heloves you. Cora—I don't believe it. Dora—Nor do I. Cora—You are a horrid minx, Browning, King & Co.’s Monthly- Lattle Girl—O please, sir, 1've brought your shirt ‘ome, but mother 'says sho can wash it no more, Jcos she was obliged to paste it up awen the wall and chuck soap-suds at 1t, it's s0 tender, Lowell Mail: Tt is sometimes easier for a man to complece a round of pleasure than it is for him to make things squaro afterwards. Elmira Gazette: Farth has no other joy like unto that of the woman who has made eighteen calls and found everybody out. . New York Sun, “You're like an April day, my love,” To faivest May d 1. Whereat sho slapped mo with her glove, And catmly sad <July.» Indianapolis Journal : A protty woman and a philosopher are both apt to bo” enamored of their own reflections, ife: Miss F. (whose parents refuse to recognize ber flance) —1f you had a daughter. Mr. Hardy, who ran away from home and married a young man, what would you do to the young man? Mr. Hardy—Write him a letter of condolenco. e S ABOUT WOMEN. Harriet Cooke of Cornell was the first woman ever honored with thechair and equul pay with men. She is a professor of history, and has been a member of the faculty of Cor- neil for twenty-three.years, Miss M. G. McClelland, author of “‘A Self- Made Man” and other novels, is described as “of midale age, tall and slender, with iron- gray hair, parted over her forehead.” never attended school, but was edu her mother, Miss Sue Bebout of Alderson, W offered to _sell to the city of B: pet lion that will soon grow beyond her control. ‘When only three hours old he was the gift of a showman, is docile and obedient, and sleeps on the floor beside her bed. Mrs. Helen H. Backus, the newly elected president of the Brooklyn Woman's club, is a graduate of Vassar college, one of its trus- tees, and the wifo of the president of Packer Institute of Brooklyn. She is a woman of broad cultura and dignified bearing. A short time ago the ladies of Marienberg, East, Prussia, published a card . the princi- pal_newspapers of that city requesting the gentlemep not to remove their hats during cold weather in greeting them, but to ac- kunowledge their bow with a military salute. The dismissal of Mrs. Mary Morancy as state librarian of Mississippi, after fourteen years of faithful and eficient service, bhas vrovoked widespread discussion in the south, and a petition is in circulation asking that she bo restored to office. Mrs. Morancy was the first woman to hold a state office in” M sissippi, The pioneer woman lawyer fo America, Arabella A. Mansfield, was “admitted to the bar in 1860, Ten years later women were permitted by statute to practice before the United Stat s supremo court, and there are seven women who have been admitted in Washineton. In a single decade the nuwber of women lawyers increased from one to sev- enty-five, A boat load of young people was capsized in a river near Parkersburg, W. Va., the other day and the occusion developed a hero- ine. Miss Mary lton, who is a good swimmer, swam ashore with one young man, and then swam back aftor another whom she found almost exhausted. Catching young man No. 2 by the neck, she managed to get him ashore also. Mrs. A. M. Thomas, who is thirty-two vears old and lives in Godsden county, Flor- 1da, is the mother of thirty-two childven, all of whom were alive. She” was married fif- teen yoars aco and twenty months later she and her busband found themselves the pa ents of four bright and teautiful children. With almost unvarying regularity ever sinco the family has been increased by the addi- tion, sometimes of twins, sometimes ot trip- lets, until the number has reached thirty- two, S FLIPPANT, Carl Smith tn Harper's Weekly, Somewhere in the wide, wide world, some where She wanders from me apart, And her sunny smilo and her golden hair, Anda ber manner winning and debonair, No longer enslave my heart; But her face as hright s the summer sky, And her voice so soft and clear, And the memories of that last geod-by, Combin to provoke one regretiul sigh For the girl I loved last year, And looking back through the shadowy hazo "That gathers around and avove, I cateh e faint perfume of summer days And the dying echo of roundelay That voiee an unquenchuble love; And ber blushes rise from i heart a-flamo And her blue eyes 100k into mine, (Please understand she is not tho same. "This girl I loved—I've forgotton her name— In the summer of '80.) Hor lily hand beckons from the past, But bockons only 1o toars— o a love which we both of us vowed would | lust cndurance wero (Bul of 050 powers wronely clasied) As long s 'the coming years. Where'er I may go I shal ne Those happy days. A, fute 1s kind to leave me the momory yet Of the dear little maiden whoii | wot forget In the mountains in 'sy, Her ruby lips hiding teuth of pear! Which dazzle me whon sh aks, Her nut brown bair iu riotous curl, Her laugh which sots all s6s a-whirl, And the damask of nor cho Her form of Ve ko a flo In the garb o lushin All bid me rejoice und quite undis Swear my beart shall e'er b, maid Whom I wildly adore today tuo to the POLITICAL ASPECT CHANGED. Effect of tho Oinoinnati Convention on Towa Independonts. ABRAHAM LETTERS FROM LINCOLN. Valuable Relios of the Martyred Pres- ident-In Memory of the Late Judge Johnstone —Geners ous Bequoests, DEs Moixes, Ia, May 24— [Speclal to Tur Bee]--Now that tho “Peo- plo's Party of tho United States of Awmori has been lnunched upon the political sca by the Cincinnati convention, a little differont aspect is put upon the political situation in Towa. As will bo noticad, tho threo ropro- sentatives for lowa upon the national com- mitteo of the new party are J. B, Weaver, M. L. Wheat and A. J. Wostfall. ‘T'he first needs no wtroduction to lowa paople, having for lo, theso many years boen the greonback, union labor, anything-to-beat-the-republican- party leader, and taking up with every new issuc that sprang up. Mr. Wheat is past master workman aund present state lecturor of the Knights of Labor of Towa, while Mr. Westfall is a leading member of the Nationul Farmers' alliance (1orth) canaidato for congress on tho allian t in the Bloventh district. So that in this trinity of representatives in the new party there sceis to boan amalgamation of all the orgoniza- tions in opposition to the two old parties in this state, s alone tho third party prohibitionists, They were not lot in on the ground floor, and if they gotinto this new combination will have to “‘climb up some other way.” It will be interesting now to wateh the action of the indepenaent state convention which meats in this city June 3. [tis more than lrkely that it will the fnspiration” and go over bodily to the new part; SOME LINCOLN LET Hon. Charles Aldrichof Webste collector of the large and blo of autographs, i the state library, ha returned from a visit to Washington, D, While there recerved two heretofore anpublished let- s of the martyr president, Abraham Lin- coln, written to the venerablo Hawkins T lor, now nt of tne nationals capital at City, Ta , ollection relles in advanced age of eighty vears. By the y lor was o member of the legislature- which at Burlington, tho then capital Nove 12, 1535, nearly fifty thres years ago. Lec county had four r ves, ono of whom Mr. Taylor, county in 1840, crman Keokulk in 1847, master of & guiboat during the vebellion by appointment of Admiral Foote, | ides holding many other was & corresponacnt’ of Abra long before his nomination for th and, of course, incoln mrn.” The cordial relations between him and “old Abe” can be rend- d from these two lotters. which positions. Lincoln court mont Tect my business this It would please me much d people of Kookuk, but year 1t is Littio less than an impc 3 nstantly receiving which Tam compelled to decline singly urged to zo to Minnesota: have two invitations 1o go to Ohio, are prompted by Dougias’ going there; yeur as well as [ast. t0 see the city and g0 this Ly, al really tempted to, make a lying trip to s and Cneinhath, T do Rops you will no trouble h imes about i taken 1 rom you t.inly one since my return from” the Opinion_ here as 1o the prospe d are quite conl t he will and others that I think his nomination possi- inst him. L am glad there is a prospect of your party passing this way 10 Ohicago. Wishing to niake ) Visit e pleasunt as we can, we wis to notity us ussoon as possible, whether you come this way. he nany and when you will arrive. Yours very truly, A. LINCOL, Auother Lincoln letter just added to the Aldrich collection is from Mr. W. B. Means of Boone, In. It is a word of adv young attorney whom Mr. Lincoln w ing in the management of his ‘‘cas | was addressed to a near velative of Hon. S, B. Shelady, speaker of the lowa houso of ves in 1558 and is as follow: zLn, 111, Feb. *19, 184 i Yours of the 10th is dul; ysolf ate doir o willing L las being nomin, vory con —soni he will not'be. Dble, but the chances are ax the i you pro- sshali bo ce, or you to )5t L0 sty 2 to each of an thinks a8’y willing to nd send us fc 10 0pposition) Lo be s know it is safe. 1t tak upon, that is, §L75 to o two publishers of papers. | it will take the balance of # through, This must e adv Tme ns the services o will not act w you can be ad 1court in y is it material, as the business can b kinz 1t muy aid you a tittle, T send you orms of potitions. It ., is framad to he v to befo ul conrt clerk. and in 50 far ehung s 1o b sworn to re erk of your cirenit court, and his cortiti- te must accompanied with his officinl 1'hie tou, must be attended to, contain the creditors’ their residences, the mount due vael stors' numes, their residen and the Junts they owei also all property and e located. ) be sure that the sehedules are signed pplicants’ as woll us tho petitions, lications will have to be made here in por und In one noarest the res) e of licant. Writeus in_cach case whero the last advertisement 15 1o be sent, whethor 10 you or to What paper. 1"belle Thave now sald e ¢ can bn of any advantage. ¥ over. ything that e friend, ns A. LINCOLN, BOWARD JOHUNSTONE'S DEATI, 1 of the late Judge Edward John- stone at Keokuk last week removes from tha scene of this world’s action one of the mos, prominent men of lowa from its earliest his- tory us a territory and state. In 1535 ho was appointed one of the three commissioners to collect testimony with rogard to the tit to the aulf-breed tract, aud was one to instituto proceedings for the division of the lands which resulted in tho “deeree title” by which the lands are now hold, and upon which the city of Keo auds. He was elected to the Towa lc ture in the summer of I8: and was ele spenker of the house for two succossive terms, o was appointed United States aistrict attorncy by Fresident Polk, and in 1851 was elected judge of the Lee county court and served for four years. He was & member of the constitutional conven- tion in 1857, and took a prominert part in the deliberation of that body. He has always been promivently identified with Towa af- faivs, and ot tho time of his death was ' president of the lows Colum- ian position commission. Ho was president of the lowa Pioneer Law- makers association, a meeting of which or- Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S, Gov't Report. oxist- | ganization was hela on Wodnosday 1 tto ction upon the death of Jud hero wore present, Major Hoyt ex-Lieutonant Governor B, Gue, Hon, Charles Aldrich, George W. doues, J. W. Griffith, J. 8. Maxwell, and a few others. A telogram of condolenco was pro- « pared and sent 1o the family, and a committeo appointed to prepare for pu momorial of his life and death. This commit- teo réported among other things ns follows “When the foundauons of tho now territory were being laid, and the first statutes wero devised and enacted, his name is unporish- ably associatod with ovory paragraph of its earliest history, Modest and rofinod ns the purest woman, endowed with a gigantio in- telleot, noblo in form, eloquent, dignified and improssivo in spoech, scholarly, genial and irroproachablo in every relation of hife, it will bo long before we shall look upon his equal. Coming to lowa soon after the torri- tory was open to settiement, he at once bogat to imuross upou its enactments the wiso and oulightoned policy that has gradually raisod tuke proper bustone. nan, our young commonwealth into the front rank of progrossive westorn states, No man among fier many eminent citizons has _ever brought more bonesty of purpose, combined with lofty patriotism and wise counsels into the legisiative halls of lowa than Juuge Kdward Johnstone, COLONEL BALLINGALL'S NEQUESTS, othing more strongly demonstrates the ity and public spirit of the late G. Batlingall of Ottumwa than sfons of bis last will and testamont, heen filed for probate. A lar s property is bequeathed to doceased’s two sisters, his brother and step- father. To the city of Ottumwa ho bequeaths what is known as” the Ballingall hotel prop. prty, the Magnolin restaurant and the acre of ound on which is loeated the pickle factory, i the bequests and from the sinking fund 20,000 shall go to the following: One- fourth to the library association, one-fourth 10 the poor and needy of the eity, one-fourth to the various religious socicties of the city, and one-tourth to a fund for the ercetion of a I'o thelibr four.dlings’ hospital. associn tion, besides a £200 annuity, is beqgu hed the second lot of Sunken park for a sito for a library building if the society shull build one, One of the lots is also to be leased to soma one who will keep a conservatory of flowors The rest of tho park 1s to be used city park and maintained perpetually as such The boquest to the city is estivated to bo worth £50,000. DILAWS THE LINE AT REPUBLIC Mr. Levi Baker, s promi it far nd republican of Pago ¢ ¥, has for som an active n v ot a loeal fi nee, and one of the original promoters of Lo sanie in his neighborboo trouble now, fo Tow | into politics, m iy n dismissed | from the ow ation. use of this | seoms to bo that Mr, ot soen it to renounce his republican stronirly mentioned fc the hands of the | reason his brot ance to which he was attached, (those of tho democratic persaasion, . solaumul d him disloval to tho alliance, proceeded to “fire” him. A county cony tion of alliance delogates was hold at Claring Wednesday, and blr. Baker endeavored to et a heavine of five minutes in which ho might explain matters, but tho chairman of the convention applicd the gag rule, and M Buker was denicd the necessary time, The convention then went into secrct session and adjourned without naming any delogates the convention, which meets in Des Mo June 8. This indicates, in Page county loast, that republicans on joining the allian must renounce allogiance to the old p but democrats—well, democrats aro running the aliiance in that dounty just now. et/ LITTLE OF EVERYTHING. Boston o pension all disabled firomen. Planty of violets in April iusures a largo peach crop. Of 45,000 persor last year 31,500 diod. On dark nights a white light can e seen favther than any other color; on bright nights red takes the first place. The shortest sentence containing th bot will have thirty letiers with thirty lotters : my crued folk." The cells of the human lungs are 75,000,000 in number, covering a surfuce from two and a half to threo and a half times greater than the whole body surface of ten full-grov men, A ship railway is proposed in France convey vessels from the Atlantic to the Med- i ean without, their having to o round ¢ of Gibraltar. 1t will bo 230 miles m, and has even be ativo hono n varty, For of the local proposes ill of cholera in Japan ha- tlere is ono “What vexing quips jab long. Tho amount of coloring matter stored in coal js such that ono pound of thoe mineral yields magenta sufficient to color 50 yards of flanuel, surine for 120 vards, vermillion for 560 yards, und alizarine for @3 yards of tirkey red cloth, The following advertisement apy German newspapo d by quality, for adeq oratic well-behaved and respectablo dressed chil- dren to amuso a cat 1 delicate health two or three hours a day.” The wifo of Rev. Gostien, Ind., i of an acute piin i tho side and the surgeon being consulted, a neodlo wus extracted which the lady sivallowed when a little girl, nenrly forty . report ust appes l 600 miles of railws rs in a v of of New of an railways for cording to it thero in the Empire, attons. Thera wero in use last locomotives, manufactured at an st of #11,000 cach, A Louisvillo couple wera to have been mal viod in the church and great proparations to that end had beon made, but when the time came thoir timidity so overcame them that thay stole away from their friends and were quietly married in a minister's parlor. Over one your ago Wilham Boncot, @ Nor. ristown (Pa.) botel propriotor placed a brass check on tha back of asnapping-turtle, which he released. Tho plate bore Boucot's naimo and the inseription, “good for one drink A fow days ago he found tho animal stroll- ing over his property, and thinks it camo back for the driuk. During last_year passing 1 and out of the Merse Liverpool was 41,207, & daily Tho cargoes of theso vess the number of vessols to and from age of 113, tons of outward frei fivo wrecks, ninet the ri o fort, m of which w four lives w of Montreal, C; od with a statue ¢ the fountain the St. Lawrence, Maison neuve is modeled fixing in the ground tho pole of u flag, and at the same time pointing to the place where the new town is to riso The figure is of bronze, nine feet high, and will stand on a pedestal of polished red eran- ite twenty feet in height. T'he longest bridgo in the world is the Lion bridj e Saugang, China 1t extends five and one-quarter miles over an_area of tho Yellow sea, and is supported by 500 hugo stono arches. The rondway is soventy fect above the water and is enclosed in an iron network. A marble lion twenty-ons feet long rests ou the crown of every pillar. Th was built at the command of th Itteng Long, who abdicated in 1796 on acconnt total, in o lost 1ada, is about on the Place facing Notre honof of old age. Baking Powder - ABSOLUTELY PURE n a propor ¢ also five lots in “Sunken park,” on whish the coal palace now stands. Tha boquest is to be held s a teust fund, under three trustoos to bo elected by the city couneil. These trustees are to sec that the Ballingall hotel is porpet- as @ hotel forover, and after rance and requisite I D) (e improvements aro made_ aunually, the s wre to go into a sinking of §20,000. After this sum hus wother sinking fund of $6,000 for the library association And thereafter all procceds , 1 Tew— — - /