Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 9, 1891, Page 10

THE FARMER IN TIIE FUTURE, How He Will Be Affected by the Prom- ised Change in Condition, GREAT INCREASE IN CULTIVATED ACREAGE. in the Increase of the and the Hesults to Which Exportation Twenty years since wherever the cultiva- tor owned the land ho occupied ho was ex ceptionally prosperous and so continued to bo until about the middle of the eighth decade, when the opening of so many new farms in the Missouri valley aud the development of Indian wheat exportation o changed tho re iations of supply and demand for food pro- ducts that prices fell greatly and the farmer's revenue, from a given area, was groatly les d, yet it is more than questionable if this lowering of the price of food has resulted beneficially to the industrial classes although it has enabled them to buy their food for less money, yet probably such food has, because of the disastrous chauge in the farmer's con- dition, actually cost them more labor than it would had prices remained at the level ob- taining during the first half of the cighth de- cade when the prics (in gold) of English grown wheat, in the markots of Giwat Bri ain, was S5 por cent greater thun the price obtaining in the sume markets m o the year 180 as the cl conditions survounding the employms the capital and iabor of the farmer have, in a s measure, destroyed tho purchas- ot of this most numerous class of tho customers of the merchant, wanufacturer, artisan and laborer. ‘The agricultural population of the United States numbors some 25,000,000 and is 40 per cent. of the whole and when tho purchasing power of such a great profortion of the peo- ple has been destroyed, or greatly diminishod, it means lessened employment for others, lower wages, as well as a lessened purchas- ing poweron the part of all the industrial classes, move or less comtercial stagnation, hard times, a descending scalo of land and other values, and increased indebtedness on the part of the producing classes, whose waros are selling at or below the cost of pro- duction. This hus long been the casc with o very considerable part, if not the whole, of the agricultural class and has resulted in loss power to purchase the products of the laoor of others who, 1n turn, have thereby had their purchasing power diminished so that the whole cconomic fabric has been subjected to unprofitable conditions which have affect- od all clo atike, if in varyine degrees. In the case of the American, as well as all other farmers, the reduction in his roturns have been abnormally great as the prices of farm products, as measured by the price of wheat, were 85 per cent greater during the first _half of the eighth decade than those obtaining during the year just closed and this change in price very accurately measures the change in bis purchasing power and the result is that e wears last ycar's coat, buys little or no hardwarc, puts up few or no new buildings, makes the old buggy last another year, the daughter has to do without the promised musical iustrument, the son cannot secure the cxpected education and: the makers of hardware, coats, books, pictures, organs, pianos, furniture and carriages and teachers, transpovtors, merchants, jewelors, professional men and’ artisans are but hall employed, and find it more difticult to buy flour ‘made from 75-cent wheat than thoy would if wheat had never sold below 150 per busnel, This state of affairs has, howover, under the conditions which have' existed in this country, probably been inevitable, and while many such auxiliary causes as the unreason- able exactions of the transportation compa- nios and the far-reaching and baleful prac- tices of the board of trade gambler in farm products have been largely contributory, the primary and potent cause lies deep down in that desire of the race to owna home and stt, each man, under his own vive and fig tree which has found such wide scope for its real- ization on the public domain where all were welcome to a_farm without money or price; and this, in the absence of a retarding forest growth, resulted in an increase of 112 per cent in the cultivated area of the United States during the fourteen vears ending with 1885 while population increased but 44 per cent. During the last half decade, however, a radical and far-reaching change has obtained ; obtained because the raw material from which farms are made has been practically exhaust- ©d, and while population continues to in- crease in nearly as great a ratio as prior to 1885—or 12,5 per cent the cultivated arca has increased but 7 per cent ana the rate of the acrenge increnso is yearly and progressively lessening, one cousequence being that tho quantity of land emvloyed iu_the production of food tor exportation "has diminished from 21,000,000 acres in 1585 to 10,600,000 in 1891 and continuing to diminish at'the same rate will, by 1563, have wholly beon absorbed by the requirements of our added population, "The following table shows the rapidity of agricultural devolopment and the progress- ively accreasing rato at which additions are beirig made to the cultivated area and indi- cates the early coming of that time when the American, and especially western, farmer will be the most prospercus member of the community. Exhibit showing merease of cultivated area in the United States, and the rates per cent of Increase. Cultivat od aren n Staplo Crops e o Incrense of Cul- | a tivated Area In ench pertod and | Yoar. Rate Acros, Acres. por | Acres. | per cent 1871 1875 1880 8% 500000 I | S tey 7.500.000, S230.000 100,00} 500,000 [N 08 a9 00,000 14,000,000 X he preceding table shows that duriog the fourteen years cuding with 1555 the incrouse in cultivated acres was no less than 112 per cent as against an increase in populution of 44 per cout. Tnis phenomenal increase was not_only sufficient to meet, tho requirements of the great udditions made to our own popu- lation, but quite suficient tomeet the add tions wade to the European populations and still leave a surplus to be stored as reserves which have been drawn upon in later when the world's current production hus Leon less thuu current needs. Now, how- evor, our additions to tho area under cultiva- tion are less than equal to half our added re- quirements, Concurrently with the addition of so many new fucms i the United States the Indian governwent abrogated the export duty upon wheat and ludian exports that ageregatea but 464,000 bushels in 1571 rose, in 1557 to 41,500,000 bushels, without, however, any in creaso of the Iudiun wheat aren; indeed, tho area sown to wheat at the close of tho niuth decado was 1,000,000 leas than in 1870, tho augmedted exports being very largely due to the increas- iug and {uconcoivable poverty of the Indiay culivaior who bas boen obiiged to sell an ever increasing proportion of his crop—as the price fell —to puy the constantly augmenting land (rent) tax, ulthough a population increasing theee tines as fast as tho cultivated acreags actually requived tis food for homo consump- tion, The rosuit of such a_disproportionate in- crease of populution and cultivated acreage in the United States and tho. compulsory ex portation of wheat by tho starving Indiau Tyots, is scon in the fact that, whereas, dur- {0g the fivo years ending with [575 the nver- age price (in gold) of Euglish-grown wheit in the markets of Gireat Britain was #1611 bushel, it was but 95 conts during tho years ‘ending with 1560, wheat—which is the key Lo the agricultural situation—during this fftoen years, shrani, in selling price, in cousequence of the opening American farms and the develop- meut of the [ndiau exports, no less than 09 ceuts por bushel and the prices of ull other primary staple food products have shruuken n liko proportion. Is it any wonder that times are hard and stagnation everywhero when the fountan bas been dried” at its source ! The price of wheat bavitg beon 73 per cent reator for tho five years ending in 1575 than uring the last five years, it follows that the | 1o doubt that all In otber woids, | THE purchasing power of the farmer has been lescened in nearly like measure, although thero has boen some little reduction in the cost of production. Add again this propor- tion to the purchasing power of the immense agricultural class of the United States aud every artisan, Iaborer, miner, manufactur merchant, transporter, builder and profes sioual man will be fully employed, wages | good and the whole industrial life be quick- ened in an astonishing mannor, 1t1s almost impossible to coneeive that such a chan impending after the exporieuces of e years when the farmer has reen, notwith standing ali his industry and privation, the | debt with its anuual interest charge, yearly mcreasing. Thut such a change 15 inpend 1ug uud 15 susceptible of proof as data exists, but requires the labor and patienc necessary to its gatbering and tabulution, 1o sl w that there is a deficicnt acreago s well as a most direct relationshin between popu- lation, acreage in staple food | ducts, prices for such products and the prosperity of the cultivator as well as the prosverity of all other clusses as there can be the industrial forces are and just a8 inti just as dependent upon mately connected with, the prosperity of the basie industry s in that remote past when the founder of the second Persian monarchy sald: *“There can be no power without an army; uo_army without money, and no money without & prosperous agriculture. Iu the view of this most successful statesman the farmer was the ultimate sourco of all wealth us well as pover and to sce that such is still the case wo have only to watch the stock markets and observe how values rise and fall as the crops ara full or meage: Many things have changed since the days of Artexerxes, and industrial processes aif wonderfully, but the great underlying pri ciples havs not changed and when the basic industry is in au_unprosperous condition there will be but little money moving, ana that little moving slowly through tho arterios of industrial and commercial lifo while the body politic will be in justthe state | wo have seen during the period when tne age devoted to tho production of food in sed more rapidly than the consuming population. Now, however, the condition of mer is changing for the botter even than his affairs changed for tho o during the eighth and nintn decados. at production may be said to be the coutrolling factor in acrenge distribution as well as in production as the product is at all times uud everywhere salable av some prico and it 15 the one product that she farmers of temperate zone rely most upon to furnish needed monoy, This is uo less true of Lussia than of Australasia; no less true of the United States than of India and the result is that out of the arca now employed in America,in producing food for exportation about cighty per cent. thereof is devoted to tho production of wheat, During the cighth decado tha wheat acre- ago of the world increased (in ronnd numbers) 24,000,000 acres, or 5.6 per cont. ing the compulsory exports of India as being equivalent to an aiddition of acresge, the addition to the supplies of the bread-eating vopulution of Furopean blood was, during thitt decade, equal to the product of 37,000,000 acres and at the ascertained average yield per acre would give a yearly out-turn of 320,000, 000 bushels which at +.75 bushels por capita, was equal to the requirements of 67,000,000 people while the bread-eating populations increased but 41,000,000 so that had rye kept pice with the increase in the ryoe consuming part of the bread-cating world thero would havo been, at the end of the eighth decade, & surplus wheat acrenge cqual to' the requive- ments of 26,000,000 people. Assuming that tho wheat acreage twenty years sinco—when prices were 7 per cen kreater than during the last fivo years and 55 per cent greater than in 1500—was suficient 0 meet the requirements of tae then existing population we find tho acrcage at the beginming of the ninth do- cado, (treating the recently developed Indian exports as an merease of available acceago equal to the production of a like number of bushels) was some 9,500,000 acres in excess of requirements and during that do thero was added to suca wheat pro- area 4164000 acres (being 2.4 per cent) or an caual to the requirements of 10,000,000 people which added to_ the 26,000,- 000 which the surplus acreage, at the begin- ning of the decade would supply, and we have at tue end of the ninth dccads a supply sufticiont for 36,000,000 out of the 56,000,000 that have been 'added to the bread-eating population of European blood since 1350, the residue being supplied by the enornions re- serves that accumulated i mill, warchouse and farm granary duriue the existence of a surplus acreage, such reserves now being quite exhausted. From the best data obtamable it would ap- pear that with an average vield, tho world’s crop of wheat is now 160,000,000 bushels ioss than the yearly consumption, and that each passing year by reason of th increase 1 the bread-cating vopulation, adds from twenty to twenty-five milliors to this yeariy defic 50 that by 1895 1t can hardly be less than 200,000,000 bushels, 1f the per eapita require- ments remain as large as they have been. Up to the present time the reserves accum- ulated during the existence of a surplus acreage have sufliced to meet this deficit— such deficit in tho five years of its continu- ance und grow'd: having probably uggregated 300,000,000 bushels less the excess of the great crop of 1857-8, but there is abundant avidence that these reserv:s are everywhere exbausted. The peoplo of Kuropo vearly consume about three bushels of rye per capita, and as no additions have bueen made to the world’s ryo fields sinco 1570, there_ is an additional draft of something like 17,000,000 bushels with each recurring year o meet a demand for wheat, created Dy’ the failurc of tho rye fields to expand as the ryc-eating population wcreases, and this hus cousumed much of the world’s surplus of wheat—probably i 000,000 bushels since 1550; heunce the yearly additions to the supply of wheat aud rve must bereafter bo from 40,000,000 to 43,000, - 000 busheis. In other words: wo wiust an- uually add to our wheat and rye fields nearly four millicn acres, whilo the additions of thio last ten years have been but 400,000 acres par annum, All additions to the area devoted to tha two priucipal bread-making grains have ceased in Europe as a who have ceased in the United Statos ana ‘among the exporting countries, Such area is_increasing only in Canada, Australia and Argentina, and only 1 Argentina does it keep pace with domestic requirements, The other primary food staples show a somewhat greator relative in- crease; but, taking all kinds of grain and po- tatoes, they are now increusing less thut one- fourth as fast as theconsuming population, Of recent yoars the cultivated ncreage of the United States increasing less than one- half as fast as domestic requiremeats, wo are yearly making great inroads upon the acreage horetofore employea in producing tho grain and ammal products sont abroad, and whilo we now export —exclusive of cotton- something less than 6 per cent of the products of our farms, this percentago must, from in- creasing home n s, diminish more than one-fifth per year, Owiug to our inability constderable drafts upon a public domain that has been practically exhausted of its tillable portion and the rapid augmentation of domestic population und requirements it appears probublo that we shall cex export food at the end ot five the world will then be annuall 200,000,000 bushols of wheat greater quantivy of rye, to say nothing of other food staples, 'high prices must then obtain, but we need not wait ive yeurs for high prices as the deticient acreage” now existaut ensures such prices from this yea forward, and the impossibility of making good this deficit in the world's” food areas, while vopulation continues Croaso ut au thing near present rates, assures the pro- longed continuance of such prices, and high prices for the products of the farm reans that the farmer will not much louger be under the uecessity of workiag, on an aver- ago, from fourteen to sixteen hours a day, aud that he will soon take his rightful place in the world and recerve his share of the good things of life. Ho will build better houses, barns and granaries, his land will rapidly double and treble i value sud being ablo to secure what money ho actually re- quires from the sale of only a portion of s pruduce be will not be forced to sell when all others are duiug hkewise, bonco while prices will boso much better thev will also be far to muke further as y short somo and a still OMAIIA DAITLY | farm products and | wel steadier and Huctuate only us affected by supply and dewand, whereas now they uwre effectod by s necessitios whioh impel bim to market bis products just wnen everyone clse is doing s0, the result being seasous of glutted markets and low prices which once down aro hard to ele- vate, while the overmarketing 1n tue earlior part of the harvest year places & wondorful power in the hauds of the gembler in farm products, which he unbesitatingly uses to urther wreck prices, Oneo the farmer is in & position to hold his products until they are required for immediate consumpiion, the market wracker will bs diveated of bis poruicious power over prices as then it much of | will bo the amount of radl stuff offering —not the fictions as now-—which will detormine prices. Tho coming of this advance in the returns of the farmer means a_most profound change in all political, industrial and finaneial rels tions as tho farmer will conso to bo a bor- rower and this will nocessarily cause a lowering of interast rates and the west pro- ducing, us now, an immense surplus of food staples which 'tho east. must have, great sums will yearly move pormanenly from the oast 1o the west iy payment for high priced this will result in con- vertng the west from the debtor to the creditor section Ltesults so desirable to farmers, east ns 1 wost, aud to all interested, directly or torn property or sceuritics will como because the consuming clement of the bread-eating world has more than caught up with that enormous aevelopment of agri- cultural lands that to the thougntiess seemed o good the boast that we could feed (o] w Davis, » - THIS COUNTRY OF The railroads of this country employ ,000,- 000 peaple Peunsylvania established the first in America in 1 A new and powerful explosive has been coeted by George Hochimeyer of St. Paul, indirectly, in wos OURS, 1ospital ayor of Philadelphia receives §12,000 nd the mayor of New York receives 10,000, A flea can Jump over a bavrier 500 times his own height. At that rate a man could jump over a wall nearly a mile igh The elevated railroads of Now York city which cost (ess than #17,000,000, are stocked and bonded for over &50,000,000 The number of postoffices in the United States is ofticially stated to be 64,391, show ing an mercase of 2,000 over lasu year at this time. A Chicago mau died at the poker table with three jacks und a pair of eights in his hand and a revolvar and a pair of brass knuckles in his pocket, The directors of the mint estimato that the nited Stutes can rely upon produciug at st £33,000,000 per year in- gold for several years to come, Ulinois has a larger railroad miteage than any other state in the union; or, to be more exact, 1t has 10,163 miles of main lines and 2,925 miles of sidings. The great Northern railway system reports earnings for the year ending Juna 30 of $12,061,850,an: incroase over the previous year of $1,616,000, or nearly 13 per cent, The weaith of the United States amounts o $62,500,000,000, distributed amon g 13,000,000 famities, There are 135,000 familics which have ao average wealth of §136,000. A competent authority has computed that the present indications point to the lurgest yield of cotton on record, one of the factors in New Orleans placing it at 1,000,000 bale: North Carolina is in luck again. [tis found by an error in figures mado some twenty vears ago, and just discovered, that she is eni- sitled to §26,215 more direct tax money than what she was credited with by the last con- gress. U e SOME BIG M Tolstoi cats a raw onion on rising, This prevents any interruption of his literavy labors. The Minneapolis Tribune advocates a mon- ument to Willlam Windom, late secretary of the treasur; Congressman Lodge will presido_over th repulican state convention in Boston ou September 16, Edward Belamy i3 tho descendant ot six generations of ciorgymen. And yet, stand- 1ng in the shadow of the pyramids, Navoieon had the audacity to assert that religious thought had niade no progress for 4,000 years, Rev. Phillips Brooks is said 1o be the fast- est speaker in the world. Verbatim reporters who timed him found that he speaks on an average of 212 words a minute, Stammering in his youth is accountable for his remurka- blo haste in speech. Herr Gruettner, the famous (ierman sculp- tor, has completed a busv_of Dr. Heinrich Schlicmaun, which, according to repor wonderfal lil of the great explorer. Schliemann gave his friend Gruottuer many sittings before his death. Dr. Newman Hall, the noted Enzlish Con- gregationalist divino, is seventy-five years old.” The famous-tract, “Come w Jesus,” of which Lo is the autaor, has bad a greater salo than almost any other relizious work, oxcepting the Bible. Several million copie: of it iave boen printed, and it has been tran- slated into more than thirty lauguages, Judge Walter Gresham is at Lanesville, Rurrison county, ind., visiting his azed mother, a filial duty tho distinguished gentle- man performs wiien he is ablo to tuke a few days from his_ oflicial He 1s 1 his usual good health, and s geniul as when he was a practicing attorney n New Albany vears before he uttained uatonal dis- unction, i Dr. Thomas Addis Emmett of New York, owns a complete set of the autographs of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Tho costliness of the autographs is in the ratio of the obscurity of the signers. One of the least distinguistied signors was Thomas Lyuch, Jr., of South Carolina. Obly three examples of his writing are known, uninter- esting business notes, and for one 'of them Dr. Emmet paid over 85,000, Great Tele Fow persous outside of the newspaper and telograph ofticos understand the vast, com- plicated machinery by which the uews of the world is daily gathered and transmitted from point to point. This great systom is explained in detail in the Century under tho title, ““The Press as a News Gathorer,'” from ich the following facts are taken The records of tho Western Union tole- graph company may be cousulted to show the extent of the expenditures by the indi- vidual newspapers and the Associated press, for telegraphic tolis alone, on this the lurgest telegraph system, Duriug the year ending June 30, 1500, the Wosteru Union telegraph compauy delivered at all stations 422,053,433 words of “rogular or Associated press report. This was del ered to an average of twonewspapers in each place, at an average cost of 15 cents per ono hundred words for cach place. This is ren- dered pozsible only by the great number of places sorved on a cireuit—from thirty to forty being supplied in somo es at " the same time. During the ne period tho company handled 025,004 words of specials, at an average cost of 51 cents per 100 wordS, These figures do not nclude reports transmitted by the Assoclated pross over its loased wiros, or special correspondenco sent on individuat news jeused wires, Estimating the two ad the reports of the outside press, was delivered to tho new pupers auring that year an agg rato amount 1,500,000,000 words of graph news. On the regular ser- vice a little moro than 22 per cent is handled by the telezraph company in the daytime, while on the special - servico ouly about 5 per cent of the volumeis haudled in the daytime The duy rate is twice the night rate. On to Associated press leased wires the prop tions are 34 per cent of day report to i cout of night report, and tho diff cost the same as by Western Union lines. "The total press receipts by the telegraph company for the vear ending June 30, 15%), includitg regular, special and leased wires, were 1,545, M7 %5, 1t should be borne in mind that these fig- ures do not include tolls on other lines, or cable tolls, or tho wages of correspondents and operators, or miscellaneous expeuses, or the sums paid for nows by both individual newspapers and the Associated press, which would aggregato a very large sum, Ouo very interesting feature of the news service, of which the public has no kuowl- edge, i3 tolegraphing in cuses of storms and iuterruptions. It is on such occasious that the utility of a vast systew is made manifest. Duriug the blizzard” of March, 1588, for in stunce, the \Washington _leport was scut ‘'to Philadelphis via New Orleans, Mempbis, St Loui Chicago and Pittsburg, while New York eity received it from Albany, it having reached Albany via New Orleans, St. Louis, Chicago, Cleyoland and Buffalo. ' A inore extraordinary case is that of Koston, which received a condensed report from New York via Loudon, it being sent by nne cavle from New York to London, aad theuce back by another cable which lands in New Hampshire. Roston is fre- quently sorvea with New York news via Montreal, and Albany via Piltsburg and Buffalo, the route being yia the Peunsyl- vaoia rallroad to Pittsburg, thence across via Cleveland to Buffalo, and thenco down the New York Central ta Albany. ors' 550 ther of BEE, SUNPAY, AUGU 4y | WORK: OF FURISTIA WOMEY, They Encoutage the Young and Help the % in Life's Battlo, HOME FOR UNFORTUNATE OLD LADIES, rst Women Have or Y inaNoble Association How a Band of ¥ Labord Whirk !".nlvrpl'l«'l. The fact that an organization for the care of aged and indigent women has been recently formed 1 Omana should not lead the public to think that the Woman's Chris- tan association of this city, has abandoned or sold or broken up that most worthy institu- tion called the “Old Women's Home.” Neither should the public be led to believe that thero is at present no such place in Omaha as a home for indigent and helpless old ladie: In December, 1583, a little group of ladies met in the parlors of the old First Methodist Enpiscopal chureh and with the assistance of Mrs. Barr and Mrs. Fuller the Woman's Christian association of Omaha was organ. ized. Tho association first rented three small rooms in the old city hall building. aud in addivion to such relief as the ladies ould afford by furnishing plainaccommoda- tions at these rooms for destitute women a ood deal of very creditable work was done from the istributing the neces- sities of life to ncedy families about the cit Many poor children and grown people were clothed and fed by the energy and tiberality o earnest Chiristian women assisted & who cheerfully donnted articles of furniture, food and clothing. The association kept theso thros smali rooms at the city hall building for more than yeurand then rented a house at 1606 Far- nam street. The second year after the asso- ciation was organized tho ladies gave assist- ance to over two nundred needy women aud children. During the third year and after the association hau taken the Louse on Farnam street, thero were 478 persous cared for at tho homo, 34 old ladies were cared for; childron wero taken in and provided for, and 205 girls were provided with homes, Thus the good werk went on constantly growing and in June 1457 the association put. chased a bouse and lot at 2718 Burt streot for which the ladies agreed to pay £,000. They paid §1,500 in cash and through the liberality of the citizens of Omaha the ladies have been enabled to meet tho deferred payments promptly. This ‘homo is a large, square, two-stor: frame building admirably adapted to the pu poses for which it is now used. Itis sur- rounded by a large, shady iawn, ornamented with flowers beds and neatly kept. The house is reasonably well furnished and is a model of cleaniiness comfort. On_ the back end of the same lot with the Home building the association has a good sized . presented by the miotor street rail- way company. Iu this cottage the tion has pormitted several needy families to live for a short time without paying rent until they could get upon their feet ana face the world with soie show of winning in the strugglo for bread. When a reporter for Tie Bk called yester- day at the Home on Burt streot ho was mot at the door by the matron, Mrs. F. B. Weeks and was shown through the entire house. In the main building there were ten old ladies, each occupylug a room to herself and - all apparently surrounded with enoush 0 malke them comfortablo. Some of the old ladies had been in the homo for several years and said they were comfort- able. Ta many instances their relatives con- tribute to their support, this being a quiet, comfortable and inexpensive place for the aged women to spend their last days on earth. There are some, however, who are entirely supported by the Woman's Christian associa- tion and doubtless will be until they dio, One old ladv, they call her *(irandma Cary, is perfeetly helpless and has been for some yeurs. She is tenderly and watchfully cared for by strangors who bend over her in love and pity and try to provide everything that will relieve her sutfering and sooth her care- wora and wrinkled brow as she nears the borderland of life, whero her burden will be Lad down. There is one old German lady in the home, who caw't understand a sylluble of English, and another poor old soul, now very ill, who bows under the burden of nearly ninety years, but who is weli cared for and fur- nished with medical atterdunce, A poor woman with three children is av present occupying rooms in the cottage, This buitding will ‘be used hereafter as a part of the home and will not be oceupied by fam- ilies, You will probably be surprised,” said Mrs. Weeks, “10 know that wo get along heve with only two hircd assistants, myself and ono girl, These dear old ladies do a lavee share of the work themselves. Yy wait upon cach other when they are abio and try their best to be as little trouble as possible, And how generous the people of Owmana are in donating the money and the provisions wo need, If the people of Omaha knew, though, how these grand women of the Christian as- sociation work in this good cause, and how anxious they aro to assist the poor and help- less, the donations would be even more libor- al than they are. In addition to tho “Old Women's tome" ation conducts the “Woman’s Ex- change in Tur Bee building and the * Young Woman’s iiome” at 109 South street. There are av pre young ladies boarding at the home on Seven- toenth street. It is in overy reSpect an ideal homo for voung ladies who are obliged to support themselves, The terms for board are made as low as possiblo to cover tho greater part of the expense of the home, The association mot yesterday at the 9, 1891 -SIXTEEN tation ns a high-class monthly. number hias among other intereating contri bitions one by W. T. Stead, the well known English journalist, on the prinee of Wales, This paper is full of intevest contar political discussion of the greatest imports The portrait of the prince forms a fino frontispiece to this number. Another paper entitied “Cromwell and the independents,” is a most. timely article, appearing just about the timo of the reat international gathering of independents or congregationalists in London. It is botl historical and descriptive, eulogizing the chatacter of Cromwell,doscrib. ing most graphically tho battle of Naseby, which lod to the ascendancy of the great protector,analyzing the political and religious deals and methods of the Eugtish indepen;i- ents, doscribing their migration to New England and their founding of colonies and states in the new world, and characterizing the service to liberty and progress of the called independents or congregational ists. All the othier contributions this month will bo found very entertaining the extended list of portraits of men and women of con- temporary interest are quite up average, ‘'he Century for August has a double frontispieco consisting of the emperor and ompress of = Germany accom- panied by a very ably written article by Poultney Bigelow on the Gormun emperor” Gustave Kobbe deals with *Lifo on the South Shoal Lightship,” wh car in_and year out, is anchored twenty-four miles seaward of Nantucke he artist Pon nell has in tis number an illusteated paper on “Play in Provence,” und (eorge Whar- ton Edwards, another artist, gives humor 18 character tudy under the ttle Moglashen o the California serics Wil lard B, Farwell contributes a paper on the “Cape’ Horn jte,” bemng A narrative founded on the co-operative mining associn- fon which sailed in the Edward Everott, I'nis paper is fully illustrated. here are four very pretiy storics in this month's Cen- o White Crown,” by Horbert D, i “The Littlo Renault,” by Mary Hart- well Catherwood; “A Common Story,” by Wolcott Balestior, and *“The Clown and the Missionary,” by Viola Itoseboro. In addition to these are the chapters ot *The Squirrel Iun," by KFrank R. Stockton, and “The [aith Doctor,” by Edward Eggleston. *“The Press as a Nows Gatherer,” is the subject of a paper by William Heriry Smith, manager of the assoeiuted pross, and is the first of sey- arate papers on journalism which are to appear in the Century. Mr. Smith prints some novel evidence that the British gover ment in the earlier years of the century was accustomed systematically to suborn the pross. He truces the origin and growth of tho associated press, and discusses topics of special iuterest to newspupers as woll as to the public, Outing for August is a superbly illustrated number, and in every respect up to its usual high standard. Among a tempting array of articles are: “Big_Game m Colorado,” by st Ingersoll; ™ Yacht Clubs of the ISast," ¢ Captai Kenealy: “Runnine High Jumping,” by Malcolm 'W. Ford: th the Woodcock, 3 **Harry’s Carcer at Y Woods. and others too numerous to mentiou. The various editovial departments, records, etc., are as usual, strong features of the mag- azine. “Amony the bundreds of valuable artic in Curcent Literature” for Augnst are: *The Use of Dialect,” *'Iho Modern Heroine in Fiction,” ““Translations in_Literature,” and “Realism in Poetry,” 'The readings from new books include 4 selection from Thomas Nelson’s page’s **On New Found River, and achupter from the latest London success, “An Old Maid’s Love.” All the departments are in close touch with the best things ia prose and verse, In Scptembor a department, dovoted to the literature of the drama will be added. Tho famous chuptor for tho wonth is “Confessing in Scarlet Letter,” from Hawthorae. The new eclectic “Short Stories,” has publication of the syndicate work of tho Authors' Alliance, Hereafter the best works of the best writers will appear, The famous story for August is “The Clouk,” by Nikolai Gogol. Zolu coufesses Gogol 03 his master, and Turgenieff, tho novelist, has said of Russian writers: *Wo all came from Gogol's ‘Cioak’.” The Current Literatura publish- company, 30 West Twenty-fifth street, New York. The Avene for August presents no less The Augnst magazine of fiction, cured the periodical | than eight leading papers from representa- tive thinkers among women of America and Iurope, discussing political, educational, social, sociological, economic’ and scientific themes, together with two literary papers, oue by Miss Amelia B, Edwavds, the famed Egyptologist and uovelist, who in a most delightful paper writes of her own home life. The other, a sem-historical story of Tennessee, entitled “Old Hickory's Ball,"by the charm- inis young southern author Miss Will Allen Dromgoole. The heavier essays by women are “The Unity of Germany.” by Mme, Blazo do Bury of Paris, ono of tho most brilliant essavists on the European continent. tiere Shall Lasting Progress Begin ! by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, one of the most thoughtful and sensible magazine essays of thomonth. A very fine portrait of Mrs, Stanton forms a frontispicee of this number; “Individuality in Education,” by Prof. Mary L. Dickiuson; *“Psyehic nces,” by Sara A, Underwood, with introduction by Benjamin I?, Underwood, an extremely inter- esting contribution to the Arena’s series of syehical papers: *Working Women of To- " by Helon Campbell, in wiich the well- kuown author of “Prisoners of Poverty” up- pears at her best, and “*A_Dacade of Retro- gression,” by Florence Kelley Wischuewtz- ky, in whicti the daugnter of the late Con- grossman Kelley of Penusylvanin, discusses the probiem of education und crimo in New York. Among other contributions is u pa- per by Mr. C. Wood Davis in favor of the national ownership of railways; an articio by Rev. Minot J. Savage re- plying to Francis Bellamy's defense of nationalism under entitled *“The Tyranny of Nationalism,” and a paper by Me. R. B, Hassell presenting the cause of the furmers’ alliance, under the caption of *“The Independ- ent Party and Money at Cost, in the clear estand in many respects the aolest manner that has appoared. — Avother feature that is added to this issue is i series of critical book *“Young Woman’s Home' and transacted tho usual routine busiess of the month The taree principal enterprises conducted by the association are in excellent working order and the prospects for enlarged fields of us fulness are very promising. Followivg are the ofticers of the associa- tion: President, Mrs. P. L. Perine; first vice president, 'Mrs, J. B. Jardino; second sulent, Mrs. H. Ludington; third vico president, Mrs, H M. McCagne; fourth vice president, Mvs.'S. P, Merrill; secretary, Mrs. A. P.Hopkins; corrosponding secretary, Miss H. E. Collier; treasurer, Mrs. George Tilden. - - THE AU ST MAGAZINES. Harper's Magazino for August opens with an intoresting paper on “New Zealand,” by Prof. Geor i, numerously 1ius- trated. J. €. Rogny contributes to the same number a well wrtiten article ontitied “Nini- lists in Paris.”” Moptgomery Schuyler do- bes somo of the'great builaings in Chi- cago under the cyption of “Glimpses of Western Architecipre” and Walter - Besant furnishes anothonofhis readabi ers on oudon. “Some Awerican Riders,” by Col- onel T, A, Dodgedstoucluded in this numbe und Prof. W. G, Blyliie of Ediuourgn, fu nishes some entirely new and intercsting matter about “Lord Byrows Early School Days.” All the pemataing contributions aro up to the usual mario of « The Overland Mgnthly for the month coutains somis very attractive among the most prafinent being a Charles G. Yale oij fiold Mining of Today, A Word to the Wise,” oy Alex Oukey; +Comments on thd Kelief Map of the Paciiic Rogion," by Johu 8, Hittell; *Bazuine's Ghost,” by “®hnries J Mason; “In the " Tower of Dagon, v Katherine Reégd’, Lockwood ; “Dragging Anchor,” by’ Carvie Blake Morgan; e Life, One Law," by Charles 15 Markham: ' “Eurly Days in Kiama Walter Van Dyke, and *An Iestacy in' Y low," by Florénce E, Pratt. Lippincott’s Maguzine, as usual, dishes up an_excellent hterary monu in the Augu number, as follows: ‘a4 Daughter's Heart, by Mrs,” H. Lovett Camoron; **Thorean and His Biographiers,” by Samusl Avthur Jones; | “A Damascus Blade,” by Clintc | Walt Whitman's Birthday," by i UAU W Poet's Fun by Reove Aldrich; “My Adventure with Allan Poe,” by Julian Hawthorne; Gl by Daniel L. Dawson; “A Culprit | Charles Henvy Lueders; A Ploa for triotism," by Mary Ilizabeth Bl roasted Chestnuts,) by Georg Bain; “The Slay and the Iudian by Clarence Bioomfield Moore, anid Whitman's Last—‘Good-bye, My Fuucy, urrent catnpe aper b by Walt Whitman, | bette | uny ‘The Roview of Reviews maintains its repu- revicws by eminent critical writers, Great interest is now taken in anything pertaining to Alaska, und those who cannot o and see what that part of our country is like for themselves will be glad 10 read of the experiences of two parsons who have been there, as set forth in A Trip to Alaska,” by Dr. A. Victoria Seott and Emily J. Bryant, in Frani Leslic’s Populae Monthly for’ Au gust. Tne article is profuse Other highly interestine illustiated ar in this number of the Popular Monthly are “Down the St. Lawrence on a Raft,” by J. J. Bell; “Mediwval Epider y Joel Isen: ton: *“The Older Boston,” telling of an an cient English town from which camo the founders of our- “Hub"; “A Malagassy Man,” by Lieutenant_Shufeldt, U, “Women as Inventor: “A Bluck Giant,” an {nteresun of low steam engines are run; and Nelly Hart Woodworth coutributes another of _her charming bird articles, There are six short stories, besides an exciting installment of the ohn Maygs, Barbarian,” and sey ¥ poems, - gev a Test tor OM ited from England,”says in the Forum, “the tradi- affuivs should men who have for the task rd . Clark tion that the conduct of publ be committed to a class of shown especial qualifications and had been trained for it; aud that such men, when they had proved their fitness, should be kept in ofice indefinitoly, This was particularly tue of England * "% % With the departure from the stage of the generation which car- ried through the revolution and established the new government a change camo over the public wind. 1t was now established that ‘ono man was as good as another' at the polls, The next step was easy ana_inovita- blo, 1f one man were as well qualified for the suffrage as anotler, why not as fit to hold oMice! * * * The old theory had tended to keep the statesman long in’ offico Such individuals as Strong ‘and Trambull were regarded as men who were infinitoly lified to g rn Massachusetts and Conne ut than Smith or Brown, and there- fore 1t seemed obviously the best policy to koep them in the executive chair year after year. But when it came 1o be uccepted as a fact that Swith or Brown was really as fit to ba governor as Stroug or Trumbull, it naturally followed that neither Smith nor Brown had laim to hold the oftice long. In truth. it seomed only fair that Jones and Robinson shoull also ba given s chance, and the shorter the time that Smith and Brown served, the better would be the opportuni- Lies of the rest.” S A Noted Edito Heury Labouchere, the famous troelance London editor aud wewber of parliament, s | where, | | wid the Den d. Weo a C « « [ i t b I 1 t w ol 1 o t o [ t [ d 1 n w N n al n [ 8l | the foregoing appeals to the goddess of | chanee struck t | as b v to the and Chinese gamblor, while the fac othor doing there around the corne one of the you's ain’t got der st liable tor git intor trouble and have ter skip to Canada if dey lose any of deir pl resumed the any of the “*business men,” mov brother “mes ite selves, continued their gambling unt time than usual broko “Well, here tomorrow if you can dig up more stuff.” work by sending in “items of interost” from the comes to the city tion from his native vill adrug stor neve great newspupe busine You m managing editor’s to seo Jim last week to edit your paper.” happens to be in good humor, and tells room. but he’ five o'clock. has been charmed with the “That article about the prince of Wales ought to bo ashumed of himself was o oar mar to in a loud voice, and the printers in parts of the room i his frie something, *Jim"” h Ratow, $LU0 WA $1.60. transer 10 thoso I you wish THE HOTEL RUXTON most substanti ing in Omaha, § ing. Bteam heat, hot and cold water andsun- PAGES, A hittle, fat man whom a_corrospondent who recently saw him doscribes as sitting in a leather chair, twiddling a_grizziod veard “He is a millionaire, a radical, an insuffor able wag. Ho has an exuberant animosity for all govornments; ho is the bad boy of t house of commons: the fat, licensed, wicked little jester of the English press, An oily, pachydormatous littlo msn; wayward and whimsical; stanch and truo to his friends; man who gives thousands in charity.” A CRUSHED MENIAL How Newsboys Enjoy Themsclves in ‘Frisco. . 'Come seven, como ‘loven,” it's a nine.” “Come nine, " AW, come soven,” he sound of childish voices uttering of & San the othe passing the Suttor st Not a great many feet from the corner of the street, snugly hidden on the nurrow sido walk be- tween two ush barrels on one side and pile of coal on the other, wore four or five * newshoys sitting | ¢ kneeling on the sido- | Ono who seemed to be the | s aler and banker was rattling two dice | and utter the cries above He would shake the dice in | a his little hand and throw them to the | pavement with tho oxcited g ears ciseo Chonicle reporte 1 sstures of a [ s of the | gamosters glowed and | | rkled with overy shake of | Juvenile i their eyes s the dice, ‘The approach of the reporter w. « s not | 1! noticed until no uskod: “What ave you | « a [ Shootin’ craps,” was the reply, and the “Come seven, come ‘leven,” contin- ued. « Just then a messengor hoy ame | with'a “Move over, give me room to make a bet,” i you can’t play wid us,” repliod nowsboys. “We're' business mon of leisure, and can afford ter plwy or littlo to der time away waitin’ for e afternoon papers ter cum out, but a menial of a graspin’ corporashun | w Wot's got private detectives watching | ver doins, You'll bo gettin’ infatuated ame and becomo a defaulte ‘@ blame us business men, see? 1t no baccarat blokes, nor we lo like der fellers wot plays poker an’ faro in do front of dis house, but we don’t lot in suckers as is « H I Jimmic i SN i I s . Wait till yer become iess men’ like us and den yor can vy wid us,” i0 yer a nickl o dis time, Swipsey,” seakor, ending his long addressing the bankor. The messenger boy, probably older than d sadl T with his ambition to “‘shoot craps »rushed and to hunt up a couple of his 57 to play their favo no of “cruso.” The newsboys, or ‘business men,” as they styled ihem harangue b ne who had held the deal for a longer his companions a run of good. luck. Then he said: its time ter get out the lust editions, and I'm off. ~“Meet you fellers A young man who begins newspaper and who afterwards and “'secures a posi- on a great daily, learns very rap- dly during’ the first few months, says he Arkansaw Traveler. When he has »een one weok on the paper, a friend age—a man who runs —calls to sea him. He is oung acquaintance and tives of telling people how long he s known “Jim™ and how he used to t around in his store before he became man. He goes to the office and asks* “Is Jim in?” “Who?" im,” *What Jim?? “Why, Jim Alibeignt.” “T don't know any such man,” “Why, he’s the editor of your paper. “ldon’t know anything” about him. y find him up stairs.” sitor blunders his w ’s room. ou please,’ countr, A il proud of his The v into the “I'would liko it J “What Jim “Why, Jim Allbright,” “Don’t know anything about him “Why, he came up from Noginvillo The managing” editor smiles, if ho he visitor to go into tho cityeeditor’s “How are you, sir?” he remarls with nod, entering another room. The city ditor looks at nim inquivingly: “Is Jim in?” What Jim?, iracious alive, Jim Allbright, the ditor.” SW have a reporter by that not in at presont. Be in name, about t 5 o'clock and is de- B 7 He talks joud to be tantly iy something out of Ho says that he paper evor and adds: Heo goos back o ighted to “Jim nd Jim” appeurs 10 that he will he way, and he docs, see ince “Jim’ bogaa to edit it, avker, and as soon s [ saw it 1 said, Here's some of old Jim’s work,” and a1 he boys lowad that they could see your fs.” *WJim?” winces and burns hrough fear that the boys ve heard he “break,” and they ha 1 want 0 and see the printers set the type, he visitor declares, and *.Jim”" con- uets him to the composing room. “Show me somebody that is printing omething you wrote,” the visitor begin to knock ¢ “eases,” and *Jim” hastily d v But he has Ho has loarned his fricnds in | he ot to trke any more of mong the printers. dis UNION DEPOT HOTEL, ‘orner 1th wnd Mason Straots; 1alf block west Union Paciiic and B. & M. 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