Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 11, 1891, Page 4

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Wednesday, Avz 5 Thursday, Auz. 6 Friday, Al Baturdiy, Aug. 8 AVSHIOTT vyt vavis TEORGF Fworn to before e and subscribed in my presence this Sth day of August, A, D., 1501 N, P itern, Notary Publie. s, {58 L. being duly sworn, de- ones whd sive hat hisis seeretary of THE BEE ‘ublishing compiny. that the aetuil average duily elrcujat'on of THE DALY BiE for the Etateof Nehrask County of | George 1. Tzs month of August, 8. 700 coples; for Septemicr. 1500, 20870 ~coples; for October, 184 702 coples: for No- venler. (£, oples: for ¥, Decamber, 1RO, 2471 cop for January, 151 28446 soples; for Fel ruary, 2 coples; for March., 180°, 24,065 copics: for April, 1891, 21,028 copfest for Miy, 1801, 6,840 for June, 1601, 26,017 coples, July, 1801 GEoRGE. B Sworn to Lefore me and subseribed in e, presence this s diy of August, A. 1. 1801, P, Frm, v Pavlie. FINANCIAL lunacy and “the frenzied vertigoes” of several isms will go down ander the woight of 500,000,000 bushels of wheat and other crops in proportion. OMAHA'S clearings show an increase cent for last week in spite of Omaha would be all right forward of 3.7 pe she strikes, from this time shance. with half a UsvALLY the only difference between rthree round and a forty-four round prize fght is in the degree of the brutality. The prize fight, with and without gloves, must go. EX-CONGRESSMAN NATHAN FRANK thinks Missouri will go republican in 1892 owing to defections from demo- cratic ranks to the alliance. Nathan’s taith is refreshing if not very assuring. RoGer Q. MILLS says if he is not slocted to the spankership ho will resign and go home to Texas. The republicans hope he will reconsider his determina- tion for of all the leadors in the house Mills is least likely to vex us. CALEB PAGE'S romantic tale ag told to Boston reporters regarding the capt- are of himself and family by Ute Indians and the recovery in Dakotu of his two beautiful daughters after years of search, Is very readable, but geographically in- correct, MosT men will agree that thirteen hours work hefore the furnaces in the smelting works is very debilitating and will hopo that when the present diflicul- ties aro udjusted the way will be clear to reduce these hours and still allow the workmen | ng wages ORGANIZATION is needed in the re- publican ranks of Nebraska. The time Is hore when the work should begin. Mr. L W. Lansing, president of the repub- lican lenguoes of the state, is striving to arouse enthusinsm in the local clubs, and he should be assisted by all loyal re- publicans. AS BETW John M. Ryan, ex-rail- way attorney, ex-democrat and now the leading candidate for judge of the Tenth distriet, und Jay Burrows, the dictator and editor of the calamity organ, the honest citizen finds himself in the di- lemma of the unfortunate swine in the country of the Gullileans Wik the lubor agitation in Ne- braska continues, it is hurdly fair to in- tolligent readors to supposo they can be entirely satisfied with editovial comment upon “Balmacedas Barbavisms,” “Em bezzlement Discouragod in Porsia,” “Dress Reform at Chantauqua” and similar topics, and no word of informa- tion, saggestion, advice or discussion of the eight hour law and its incidents, MirES C11y invites Omaha to cooper- ate with her in advoeating an extension of the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missour] Valloy line from Deadwood to that city. Her board of trado sets out in strong terms the advantages to accrue from such a railway connection, and the ad- dress deserves the attention of our eiti- zens. We need an outlet to Miles City and the groat region tributary thereto, and the Elkhorn line is the feasible rail route to that city N peoplo must bostir themselves and pluce a few portraits of union gonerals on tho walls of the Jorcoran art gallery. It is a disgrace- ful truth that while counterfoits of Robert . Leo, Stonewall Jackson and other confederatos are to be seen, there are no great union generals. When the Grand Army of the Republic readers visit Washington next year they will resont the slight to union heroes, unless the art gallery is reorganized. their HAVING failed in attacke upon Blaine's health the demo- cowardly orats aro now pretending that the Blaine boom is being manipulated by Senator Quay. Democrats and every body else know that a Blaine boom in this country is a spontanecus thing. It roquires no start and no manipulation. It comes out of the great heart of the poople; it fecds on the enthusiasm of American patriotism and spreads be- cause of Biaine's honestly carned fame, / PROGRESS OF IRRIGATION. Colonel Hinton, chief of the irrigation inquiry office, has just returned from a journey covering 14,000 miles, and ho re- ports great agricultural progress in the arid regions. He found the farmors of the plaing region from North Dakota to Texus, where the crops this year are abundant, fully alive to the necessity of obtaining the water supply, irrespective of the rainfall, and irrigation will be pushed in that vegion, The ir- rigated lands of Cabfornia have shown marvelons development and are the most valuable in the state. Splendid results are being obtained in Washington, and there has been a sur- prising development of irrigation in southwestern Idaho. Utah is getting the most gratifying retarns from frrigs tion, there being remarkable progress in agriculture and in town building Colonel Hinton also found great agri- cultural improvement in Colorado, New Mexico and Arizo erywhere he found gront st in the subject of and the intelligzent inte irrigation of more arding what is necessary to be The whole question of ir ntion to be taking a practical form, prevalence v id done, app and those interested in it are putting their shoulder to the wheel to find the means by which they may secure a thorough water supply and its most ad- vantageous utilization, The attention of capital is also being directod to the question. The journey of Colonel Hinton did not take in eastern Washington, Montana the Black Hills, and part of Wyoming and Nobraska, in all of which he would have found addi- tional evidences of progress, but he saw suflicient to provide ample material for a strong argument in favor of irrigation. There could be no more auspicious time thun the present for the discusson of this question, the importance of which has never been more fully recognized than now. Next month an interstate irrigation convention is to be held in Salt Luke City, and it should be a boily thoroughly represeutative of the states and torritories interested in this matter. In a time of prosperity it js the part of wisdom to provide against possi- ble adversity, and itis well to reflect that it may be some yeurs before there is a repetition of the exceptionally fav- orable conditions, even in much of the semi-arid territory, for agricultural pro- duction that have prevailed this year. The progress of irrigation insures a vast addition to the resources and wealth of the couutry. T0 PROTECT AMERICAN INTERES The prompt action of the navy depart- ment, in ordering additional vessels to China, where American citizens and their intercsts are in danger from the threatened revolution, is another ex- ample of the earnest purpuse of this ad- ministration to protect the citizens of the country in foreign lands whenever they ortheir interests may be imperilled. According to the latest advices the sit- uation in China is of a character that promises one of the bloodiest ana most destructive revolutions in the history of mankind, and there is every reason to apprehend that Europeans and Ameri- cans residing in that empire will have to share in the common disaster if they do not receive protection from their gov- ernments. The revolutionary move- ment, it seems, is not confined to the common people, but involves prominent officials who are understood to be dis- satisfied with the present dynasty and who have no difficulty in citing the starving and suffeving people to revolt. Having done this they will hardly be able to control them in their course of murder, plunder and devas- tation, aud the foreigner who is without protection will not escape. The United States Is miserably represented, so far as a naval force is concerned in China. The dispatches a few duys ago stated that the gunboat Palos was defending American honor at Woo Sung, which must have been very amusing to naval officers and others who know that the Palos is a worn out little gunboat in- capable of doing any very serious mis- chief, and has been kept hugging Chinese river wharves because she could not be trusted out atsca. The vessels available for service in Chinese waters at this time are not very much better, perhaps, but they may be abla to afford some protection. At any rate the administration is doing all it can do in ordering them there, and the fact that there is nothing better to send empha- sizes the necessity of a great fation like this, whose citizens live and have in- terests in every portion of the world, having a navy equal to every exigency WILL OUR LD RETURN Sinco it is cortain that Europe will ake a largor demand upon this country d during the ensuing year, thun perhaps ever before, the question as to its ability to pay for what it neods, and how it will pay, becomes one of interest. Within the past six months the United States has shipped to Europe about soventy million dollars of gold, Will m for br this be sent back in part payment for the wheat, rye and corn which Iu- ropean countries will bo compelled to purchuse of this country? there would be no quostion as to the ability of Europe to pay in cash for all the grain its people might require, but the financial conditions abroad this year aro oxtraordinary. If this were not so wo snould not have heen forced to part with so much of our gold. If the European demand for our products shall be as lurge as now expected it will tuke several times theamount of specie tuken from this country to pay for them in cash, and it is not probable this could bs done without producing u very serious finuncial disturbance in Europe, and possivly the world over. But Europe will have bread, and if it canngt pay ecash what other resources has it for supplying its wants, A very large amount of American securities is still held in Europe and these will con- stitute an nvailable resource. Bankers, merchants and othors will sell thes Ordinarily their necessities require, and perhaps there is enough of them abroad with which to settle all com- mercial balances, evon if the Euro- posn purchass of brendstufts shall be vory much greater than is now estimat- THE OMAHA DAILY BEEr TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1891. od. Another thing Furope may do is to ship products to the American market even thought no profit is realized on them, or they must be sold at a loss. In such an oxigency as the enormous crop deficit abroad presents, manufacturers and merehants will not hesitate long s tarifl charges or the question of profit and loss when it is necessary to keep gold at home in order to avert panic. They will send their goods here and take what they can get for them, thereby helping to settle com- mercial balances which otherwise would have to be adjusted with gold. Another practicable expedient is for European nkers and merchants to borrow in this country, but as this would be costly it is the last means likely to be adopted. In any event, however, itis obvious that jurope will have to pay roundly for what it will have to buy of this country during the next year, but it will endeavor to do so without mak- ing any drain upon its gold re The financial conditions are such thut any considerable withdrawal of e from the European money markets would be at the risk of general industri ration, and a crisis, the possible disastrous results of whic not easily be foreseen. It is hig probable, thercfore, that we shall not ut t back the gold we have sent to Jurope, but we shall receive what will be justas valuable and American pro- ducers will lose nothing in the trans- action. erve, spe Al pros THE RAILROAD & RETARIES. On the 18th of this month, which 18 one week from today, the independent state convention will meet in Hastings. On that occasion a platform of princi- ples will doubtless be adopted.. One of the planks will be a denunciation of tho state board of transportation for its fail- ure to adopt a schedule of maximum freight rates upon braska railways. That plank with its incidents will be the keynote of the ensuing campaign. Unfortunate- ly for the republican party in this state it cannot defend the state board, although it erented and controls it. The simple truth of ‘the matter is that the state board of transportation as an or- ganization to protect the people from the avarice and discrimination of the corporations is now and has been from its incoption a total failure. It has never attempted to perform its duty. Aside from providing throe citizens with secretaryships at $2,000 per annum and traveling expenses it has been absolute- ly useless to ev body. Weeks ago THE Bre pointed out a course for the state board of transporta- tion whnich would have relieved the re- publican party i a great measure from indifference to the demands of the people for fair railway rates. The republican state central committee was also urged to give exprossion to the sentiments of the rank and file of the party in the matter of transportation rates. To tho central committee oune of the secretaries of the board conveyed the information that preliminary steps had been taken to bring about a reform. The secretaries were alleged to be very busy compiling tables of rates and statistics from which to make up intelligent conclusions and it was expected that in a few days a schedule would be formulated and pra- sented to the board for its action. Time itselfl grew weary, but finally the announcement was made that the tables were completed and then came a call for three meetings with the people, one at Lincoln, one at Kearney and the other at Norfolkk to discuss the subject. The last meeting oceurs August 25, one week after the adjournment of the ind. pendent convention. There was no need of the meetings. The schedules of the eailway companies ave intelligible and the state board should have long since announced its honest conclusions. It has simply frittored away its time to no purpose, and before it can now possibly announce a schedule of rates the early crops will be marketed. However the republican state conven- tion will meet September 24 and the state board of transportation will learn upon that oceasion what the party thinks of its cowavdly delay in perform- ing its sworn duty. The purty will not be able to defend its ofticors but it can condemn them and can demand imme- dimwe action in behalf of the producers. What is more, it will do so, Unless the board has declared itself prior to that meeting there is nothing loft the con- vention but to censurs and repudiate the board of transportation. Do the mem- bers of that board understand this and appreciate its full import? HE Real Estate Owners’ association is on the right track. It can make itself a potential foree in this community by strict attention to its legitimate business as provided in its articles of incorpora- tion, It ean save this city and county thousunds of doilurs by following up the public workk and investigating the ex- penditu of public oflicials, The peo- ple are with the associntion in its efforts to rid the cdmmunity of public plundor- There should be no time or effort spared in hunting them out, exposing them and bringing them into court. CONSIDERING the high temperature of the eircumambient atmosphere and the high pressure under which the board of education has lately worked, its Sutur- day night meeting was a very uninter- esting affair. Aside from allowing the new superintendent a secretary and electing two principals, tho meeting was devoted to the Kellom school squabble with Mr. Martin's' opinion of its merits unchanged since last meeti omething is done to provide for the disposition of garbage this city will suffor from an epidemic of filth d eases which will be memorable for its extent and fatalities. The board of health has two salaried officials who have no duties except those connected with the health and sanitary condition of the city. Can they not do somethi to ocarn their pay? — WHAT has become of the sinking fund from which the $150,000 in bonds which feil due July 1, to the surprise of every- body, is o question well worth investi- guting. A CHICAGO newspaper attempting to bear Chicago, stock hits upof the northwestern oxten- sion of the B & M. in Nobraska and Wyoming asmproof of th ment of the eompany. newspapor shbivs how little it knows of the ques in th Helena and Bifte, or to a conaection with the traflic of the great state of Montana, parrios a pussenger to Chicago or hauls a pound of freight east of Omaha it will have a traffic ilders. may be said of other extensions of the irlington, this one 18 wise, timely, and be immediately profitable. and will will cultural The Black Hills is the richest mineral min, territory penotra ion. he world,: When those . citi if it never surprise its bu O newspapers t Nebraska, tho Black Hills, ern Wyoming and Montana ¢ st regions of the world in their special- s tho most fortile agri- Nebrasks commonwenl on in Ame and ca, an Montana stock regions, to suy coal and other mineral wi tompt to discredit spired by. the knowledge it will benefit Omaha more than Chicago. ma necessury. to en apol car thi APOLIS newsy ing the untruth that Omaha has no hall of sufficient capacity to accommo- date the republican national convention. Minneapolis newspapers ought to be more will accommodate 12,000 in comfort truthful, Our 18 15,000 can ba Omaha is ntertain the conve is ought to know i TUDGE WAKELE everybody has confidenc ing the eight supreme court direc theact be presented to him stipulation that his opinion shall govern pending the decision court obtained mon’ A GROWTH in the ave at the Omaha schools from 2,812 in 09,715 in 1891, an increase of 245 per cent, is an arithmetical proof that the system hus by will do in ths hence. on well MAYOR CUSHING adopt the suggostion that he should ap- to succeed Furay on the hoard of public works. poin GOVERNOR THAY! findings ignore the public lands and buildings in the Hast- 'stigation. ings MORAL cowardice in a newspaper is as base a quality 1 moral cowardice in an t a republican asylum ipy individual, HONEST newspapers and are manly onough to exp polic: More than a The Fatal Water Policy. ansas City Journal, An Towa edivor was drowned the other day, Another indictment against the cold water 'y of that state, ghting Chance. Denvor N prejudiced in her favor, The New York gistih (A An Honcst Compa: Murat H: lstead. Times has the candor to say that the Kentucky clection shows of the south *‘that the farmers continue to support the democratic party in both state and national politics.” and all the republican farmers that go into the alliances in the northern statos are so much clear gain for the democrats. Jones Knows It All—in a Horn The somewhat startling news comes iu the Omaha (Neb.) B that “everytning looks favorable for Omaha's ambition to entortain the republican national convention in 1502, The convention will not o to Omaha; that's certain, be lo; cago hear Ch: out of the Union Pacific rallway presidency iould when tbestock was selling in , is probably not weeping copious tears on his own account at the dole- ful tale of the ticker, which now records ivat 33. As for tho stockholders—but Mr. Gould's indifference to the stockhotders is celled even by the latc W. H. Vanderbilt's indifference to the genoral public. il ek by neighborhood of Mr. Pater Troutman written a letter which the followees of Simp- son ough alliar perit vambling through the cotntry ut it has gone to the devil, According to them, Kansas In particular is high pay, bankrupt unless the government According to Mr, plenty of Kansas, obsorvers who agre 10 pe; impof whic! him, mense crops, ang ance, sas 1ore harm: than and all th New York Half the eastel would get to O the benediction. —_———— There, Charles! Ah New York Ad arles Francis Adam: des to New Yowe he sockless, and Pe t to have printed at nce. to be sesmrad by a rsunde it t verished, piled hitis unable to the state is rich in is doin says Me,. biteks co ASide from the agricultural section of norfhwostern Nebraska with its immense evops, this line taps the Black Hills tilfies, the fields und the best stock growing region . Instead of hour law to the let the merits of due course > e, Omaha has a good fighting chance for ob- taining the nest national republican conven- tion, and there are many reasons for holicy- ing that the national commitico is strongly t trying to find the place would probably insist on stopping off in Chi- of Vietor, Kan.. Theso fine-lipped heralds of pros- Troutman, routman, “has drought, grasshoppers mismanage- That Chicago ted by the line in conl Wyoming it is extonded to it will control which Whatever he not forget north- re the rich- must th in the union. nd northorn Wyo- are unparalleied nothing of tieir Ath, The s extension is in- hapers are cireus coliseum building As crowded into it if abundantly able ention and Minne- t by this time. L jurist in whom upon of the supreme several age attendance 1882 wged, well to Major cannot afford to of the bourd of have opinions s them, on. in that section will Certainly, Tim rn delegates would and the rest maha just in time to dvertiser. s, who was crowded the not ex- Kansnas. Sun. sffer the coliarless, the expense of the ct. of congress, are the attempt with mortgages | and hopelessly holps it. there ave with live stock, has im- ng well. *The alli- done Kun- and mbined Ihisis a view which the nfsmbers of the Kansas alil- ance will come {0 pgree with in time i el Facts for Misguided Strisers to Po der Over. George Washington Childs of Philadelphia is ono of the stauuchest and most friends of workingmen in the country is ‘Do mock philanthrophy in his methods. The men in his employ on the Ledger are not only mang rewarded When men of his characte men earners should following editorial from the L Oth trout Or tho 8 St Burlington & Quincy | tho almost imm BLATHRRSKITE AGITATORS, paid better wages tt 4 in other of with a pensi against agitators, pause inst, pertinently a bles in Omaha: o of the recent trike at the great ton, near Harrisbur, ediate col es, but faithful servics is despatel practical There han like work com n in old, old age. adviso workin thoughtful wage nd take heed. Th of the pplies to the labor conceruing EET rail miil . Pu—reforr apse of tho strike says that the men feel that they were duped by the loaders, who, after the strike wa abandoned them. 1tis quite likely that is true; for thers are no moro tricky fellows than “loaders” of tho kind the men referrod to—‘walking delogates,” “executive commit- tee men,” and others, dressed in the littie brief authority which enables them to do groat mischief. It s the of these tho work- rolo and habit fellows to curry fevor with men by gottng up “grievances' whero nono roally exist—by exaggerat- ing those which ronlly do have somo cause — by formulating ‘‘demands’” and spouting about ultimatums, until they get impressiblo workmen excited up to the striking pitch when a striko was not contomplatod ~at the start and was not justified by the circum- stances. Thon the blatherskiting “walking delegate” or ‘“executive committeeman,’ baviug excited the men until they are boyond his control, because he has talked too much with his mouth, is haulod off by some mem- ver of a “voacd” with superior authority and the workmen naturally “feel that they wero dupea by tho leaders,” as in this Steelton case, “where the strike collapsed Almost ag s00n a8 begun. I'hat is the history of many strikes--with this addition—that “aftor tho collapse largo numbers of competent workmen are thrown out of employment, beeauss it is impossible to continue to employ such unreliablo work- men, or to carry on business with successful results in the faco of such disturbances as arc caused by frequent strikes, or to con- tinuo threatening of swikes, kept up by tho “walking delogate’ or the “executive com- mitteeman,” or the district potentate. The fires are drawu --the works are shut down until botter senso prevails, and uobody can toll how long it may take that bappy time to comne avout. It way take a mouth or three months, or half a vearor more; and tho meantime “the ‘man of the house"-—-the bread-winner—is igle. To many hun- dreds of these tho employment never comes back. No wages are coming in; families suffer —and uro scattering from their homes —thousands and thousands of individ- uals—because “the men have hoen duped by the leaders'-~as in this most recent instance at Steelton R That s the history and courseof thosestrikes even in which thero is no resort to violence. But when the strikers aro so excited by their “walking delegates™ and talking agitators as to run into riot and attempt to stop othor men from working—by assaulting them with brute force—and destructive attacks upon the employers' proporty—the course of the strike hus very often a most deplorable quel—collision with the law authoritics at large cost to the state —great monoy losses to individuals in addition to tho immense sac fiee of workmen's wages —bloodshed, 1ncen- diarism, homicide and the penitentiary. Over and above 1 this is the bad blood engen- dered between employer aud employed, where the p ominant feeling should be mutual respect, good will and co-operation, Such are the aimost uniform results of both kinds of strikes—the strike with violence and the strike without. The results stould be patent to all—ciear and open to both the workmen who are “duped by the leadors” and to tho *loaders” who misled the “dupes.” Thoy should all rememboer the disastrous consequences of the *“Southwest" railroaa strike, the Chicaco “stockyard” strike, the aisustrous “C., B. & Q. strike, the New York 'lougshoremen’s sirike, the Reading railroad boycott strike, the Reading and Leiigh coal miners’ strike, the recent *coke’ striko in southwestern Penusylvania. All of these had tho same history-—all ran the same disastrous courso inevitable to strikes without sufticient reason, and 10 strikes sup- ported by violence. They failed or they wore put down. “They fail or are put down, to theloss—more orless destructive—to the imterests of om- ployers—and to the dire distress and suffering of workingmen and their families—all be- cause workingmen, with this disastrous ex- perienca well known to them, still continue to_be “‘duped by their leaders.” Why is tnis! However it may be with the workingmen who are duped, whether they are willing dupes, self-heiped and sclf-de. ceived or simply inert or wiliing—however it may be with them, the leaders they accuse of duping them are, in large proportion, gabby, incompetent, tricky or false. They are worso than the Bourbons, of whom it is_said that “they learn nothing and forget nothing.” The “leaders” belonging to these walking and talking delegate tribes learn nothing aud forget everything. e PASSING JESTS. It is accounted base appluuded to the © persons who attend Philadelphia Record “What I think he s a very bright fellow “Weil, you know he doesn’t speak will of you. “What do you supposo [ care like Smith thinks of ‘s Bazar: do you think of what an ass Somerville Journal: Jinks—That paper says the court hus declared you n bankrapt. Binics, Binks—Oh, that's no news. 1 knew thationg ago. Judge: Miss LeTerts—Iow nicely Miss Pad- <ton flouts! Miss Enveo-Humph! Her float any thing. sawdust would THE AMATEUR BILLIARDIST. New York oress. Te halks his cue with nonc When ‘tis his turn to play, Then makes a draw or carom shot Tn quite w skillful wi And, as admiring friend Applause on him bes He siys that's nothing (o the game 11e played some yeuars ago. lance round Cork: loudly,” dress that dog of yours b No. I don't,” waving nis she: can hear his pants, wrenthosis said to tho Commin: Your Inek us i short stop never sworves; afraid P onot in it much lonzer, For the Dash his 0L on to my curves.’ A Georzin editor has this unlque advertise- ment: For sule—One Washinzton press thit never told i lie: one subseription book, con- tuininz w hope of a herenfter, and the' good willof un fipoverished man. §27°Call curly and avoid the rush.” Kate Field's Washington: 1| they euil w3 colutnGeneral Foy—Why do Washington of rc you 0, on the suppose. General never told a lie principie Washington, erse, 1 know, Mr. Bilss—We must rooklyn Life: ono- mize, my dear. Mrd. Kliss Mr. Bliss—Wh irs. Bliss <There's one thing we THOre's no sense i1 your piy inz 82 keep fresh fiowers on your'tirst wife' down I Greenwood. en [ know wh © to begin. 1 save. 10 vo S gr Philadelphis Times: Windmills can be ex- poried freo to rociproeity countries. There is i chance to get rid of our long-distance prize fighters, Westfield Standard: The oratory of some men iy not move mountains, yot it often suceoeds in mauking n big pluit dfisherman unatic, ochester Post: An exc comes protiy close to being i s - VACATION TIME, Clinton Scollasd in Harper's Young People., All the world is set to rhyme Now it is vacation time, And a swelling food of joy Brims the heart of every bos No more rote and 1o more rule, No more staying after sch When the dreamy brain forgets Tiresome taks the master sets; Notbing but to play aud play ‘Through un endless boliday. Morn or afternoon may all Swing the bai and caten the pall; Nimble-tooted race and run ‘Through the meadows in the sun, Chasing winged scraps of light, Butterflies in darting flight; O, whero willows lean and look Down at others iu the brook, Frolic loud the stream within, Every avm u splashing fin Where the thorny thicke There the swe . Where the shady vanks made dim Pebbly pools the shy trout swim; Where the boughs dre mossiest, Builds the humming bird a nest [ hese are haunts the rover Touch of tan upon his chee Aud within his heart the joy Known to no one but a b Vd ix ke vacation i rhyme tine, All how New it i JUDGE MASON FATALLY 1LL. Oondition of the Eminent Nobraska Jurist Growing Worse Daily, MENTAL FACULTIES NOT AFFECTED. Frie s of the Stricken Man No Longer Hopeful of a Change for the Botter-Ques- tion of Time. Lixcory, Nob,, Aug. 10.—|Special to T Bre | —Judgo O. . Mason is in a dangerous condition and there is scarcely any hope of his surviving bis presont pnysical de- pression. Ever sinco his roturn from Hot Springs, S. L., he has been gradually sinking until now the most sanquine of his friends have abandoned any hopo of his recovery. His complaint is diabetes, an insidious disease of the kidneys that does not mako its pros- ence felt until the sufferer is in a dangerous condition, The disease has caused an ulcer- ation and dropsy that has bafitad the skill of tho physicians and the virtue of the healing springs. Tho dropsy is contined mainly to one of his logs, “The mind of the ex-judge of the supreme court has risen above tho infirmities of the flosh and is as bright and unimpaired as whon ho sat on the bench, Everything that medical skill can devise is being uscd to prolone his days, but better than drugs is the indomitable will that re- 1uses to submit to the foll destroyer and may prolong his life a number of weeks. CURRY SUN STRUCK, Tho first victim of the hot wave is John Curry, the well known Jabor agitator, who was ‘sunstruck shortly before noon foday. He was engaved with a gang of laborers on a job of work on [Eighteenth streot when he was suddenly overcome with the heat and droppod scuseless, Ho was carried by his fellow workmen to the shade near by and the patrol wagon was called for. Tho stricken man_was then co veyed to his home at Twentioth and J, where he was given the bost of medical attendance, Hois in a precarious condition and doubts are cutertained of bis recovery. Shortly before his attack he had been dis- cussing the labor strikes in Omaha, and the attack is attributed to mental excitemont. ODDS AND ENDS. The senate chamber at tho state houso is belng arranged for tho examination of ap- plicants. for druggists’ - certificates on the Sth, teost Mrs, John Olds $18 in Justice Fox- worthy's court for giving a sound thrashing to two children of a neighbor whom Mrs. Olds belioved were deserving of a good chas- tisement, Harry Downs, deputy labor commissioner; roturned yesterday from the national en' campment” of Army of the Republic. Governor Thayer is expected back in Lin- coln this afternoon. Everyono is on the tip- 106 of expectation as to what ho will do with Test and Liveringhouso of the Hastings asylum scandal. It is generally believed that AN SALVADOR SEIZES A Pacitic Mail Ship Under Arrest at n Libertad, SA¥ Sanvanon (via Gajveston) Aug. 10. Tho Pacific Mail steamship company by Its autocratio dealing with this country has got 1tself into trouble. Its ships havo the solo control of all the traftic between the C American states and the United Stato custom has been to load these slnle'r! at night, so as to mako quickor time, to meot tho terms of tho subsiay for, carrying the mails. Tho rates charged by’ this company aro excessive and the Cenfral American countrios have boen much put out over the way thoy aro troated. Asmattors stand they can dovive more benefit by sending their fn- ports to Germany than to America. Rovi- a8 things remain os thoy are at present. Tha Germans have seen their chance to profit by this stato of affairs and already many of their vesyols are loading in Coutral Amorica. As a rosult of the strained rolations bo- tween the Pacific Mail steamship company and theso states, Guatomala, Nicarauga and San Salvador passed laws making it illegal to omploy natives at night. This proceeaing was rosonted by the company The climax has been reached by the conflseation by the Salvadorian authoritios of the Pacific Mail steamship City of Panama, Captain White, She is tho fastost of the ficet and White is sentor eaptain, Tho selzure took y La Libortad. Tho cause of it was that tho City of Panawa loft La Union without a per- mit from thoe captain of that port. 1t is said that Captain White, in his desire to leavo La Union promptly so as to maintain his timo schodule, weighea anchor at dusk There was a 1ot of €oods on the dock and tho authorities insisted ou their being shipped In ordor to dodge this work, which would delay him considerably, Captain White quit the port without the nocessary permit, he Isn't Ashore. New Youx, Aug. 10.—Supermtendent H Bullay of the Pacific Mail steamship com®”® pany snid. when called upon in his home in Brooklyn last night: *This Is the first in- formation I have had as to the seizure of tho City of Panama. 1am lad 1it1s o worse, ns I fonred sho might have gouo ashore. Tho Glad & City of Panama left Acapuleo July 23, rouch- ing La Libertad August 5, and La Union, tho next port, on August 6. 1 presume that roasons for leaving Captain White had good vadorian authori- the port. Hossibly the S ties wanted the ship to wait until_some ofli- cial came down from up country to the shore. Captain White is a little Massachu- setts sea captain and is not e bluffea.” In concluding Mr. nothing serious at all. Tlio cause is prob- ably local and is likely to have come from the jealousies existing between those ports. Mr. Bline will settle the matter in short ordor. “Will thoy hold the vessel or make her cap- tain give bonds ' was asked. “Hold hert No, | think not,” was tho prompt reply. *“They have no forts or cun- boats, and all Captain® White would bave to do would be to up anchor aud leave. I'm glad she is not ashore,” conciuded Mr. Bul- lay with a sigh of reliof. likely to Jullay said: “Ob, it's et LINCOLN AND HAMLIN. s icolay a McClure Gives Knock-Out Blow. Colonel tho overnor, actuated by a senso of duty, will peremptorily dismiss the two despite all versonal feelings he may entertain toward them. —_— BRIGGS PREPARING FOR TRIAL. Making Ready His Oase to Be Pre- sented to Presbytery. New Youk, Aug. 10.—Dr. Briggs is mak- ing ready for his trial for herosy. He will return from his trip abroad in another month prepared for the October meeting of the pres- bytery when the trial is to begin. A com- vlete set of newspaper clippings in the case was recontly sent him and these are now veiug arranged. Dr. Frascis Brown, pro- fessor of Hebrew at Union seminary, will return with Dr. Briggs to assist in the de- fense. Somo friends of Union seminary ex- | pross the bolie? that tho caso of Dr. Briggs s to be dropped. The catogorical answers, they say, aro to bo taken as suflicient proof of Dr. Briggs' orthodoxy. This is improb- able. "It would scem that nothing but a point blank retraction of the address aud 1ts appendix by its author can now stop the trial for hercsy. The mystery surroinding the resignation of Director Charies A. Dickey of Union sominary 15 not yet clearea away. Oneof | the board has ofticiatly denied that there was a rosignation or that one was ever thought of by Dr. Dickey. Certain directors, mcluding | Dr. Dickey bimself, unaware of this denial, made no secret of the resignation. It was explained in an off-hand way that the divector had changed his mind. T KILLED BY A HORSE'S KICK, Sad Fate of a Father and His Little Son. New Youk, Aug. 10.—John Uniack, teamster in the employ of the Nassau gas- light company of Willmmsburg, was instantly | kilied, and his little son was fatally injured by the kick of a horse yesterday morning. Uniack went in a stall to place the boy on a | horse. The anumal, pestored by flies, made a forward kick with nis teft hind foou and struck the boy, who screamed and the horse Tucked agam. Uniack's skull was fractured. The left side of the boy's head was crushed, it 15 believed, with the same blow that killed his father. The horse is big bay percheron weighing about 1,600 pounds. The stable- men say he is quiet aud used to follow and come at Uniack’s call. KNOCKED OUT ENGLISH EXPORTS. | That Is What the McKinley Law Has Done, Loxnox. Aug. 10.—The St. James Gazetto this morning prints the following: *Judging from the returns issued by the board of wade, it looks as theugh we have alrcady reached the end of good times. The great declino in exports from Great Britain are undoubtealy due to the opuration of the Me- Kinley law in the United States. We have been told thot that act would eventuaily prove a misfortune to the United States, bit its immediate object was to hit foreign man- ufacturers, especially that of ( Brituin, and it is plainly evidout this object has boou attained.” —— & on the Water, Tuscors, 1ML, Aug. 10.-On the Wabash river near here a novel exhibition was given last ovening, which was probably the first of its kind. This was tho trial of Prof. Claud Baum's aquacycle, which travels oun the water with almost the speed of the bieyele on land. ‘The race was run on tho river between the steamer Dauntless and Prof. Baum's water wheel, and the latter showed better speed than the boat. The inventor will huve some of his machines built to be used ou the lake during the world’s fair. - Electric Light Boiler Explodes. Busuxey, 1L, Aug 10.—Au expiosion of the electric light works engine occurred here at midnight, demolishing the electric light house completely, aud killing Engineer Winkle and an unknown man, supposed 10 be a farm hand. The fireman left the voiler room ten winutes previous to tho expiosion for his home, and says he left eighty pounds of steam on. The timbers of the building were scattered over the entire city, and tue shock was great Cyeh PiieaneLrni, Aug. 10.—The Times prints a further contribution to the controversy as to Lincoln's wishes coacerning his associ- ate upon the presidential ticl in 1864, It will bo romembered that this discussion bo- gan with the publication 1 tho Times of an articlo written by Colonel A. K. McClure, its editor, in which it was stated that Aundrew Johnson was Lincoin’s choice for © presi- dent and that he favorod his nomination in. stead of the renomination of Hannibal Ham- lin. In the matter printed this morning Colonel McClure “deems ita public duty tosettle the issue by the dircct testimony of the men now lving, or the preserved direct tost mony of the dead, who were in the conti dence of Mr. Lincoin and acted i accord with his convictions of public duty.” Continuing Colonel MecClure say: T following letters and authentic statemonts from prowinent actors in the nominations of 1564 wiil be geneorally accepted as conclusive. ‘When Mr. Hamlin himself confesses the cor- rectness of the statement of the Times, tho folly of controvorsy on the question will bo bo appreciated by all.” Colonel McClure first prints a letter ho has recoived from S. Newton Pettis of Meads ville, Pa., ex-congresswan and ex-foreign mimster, who was a warm supporter of Lincoln, In this letter Peottis savs: “On tue morning of the mecting of the Baltimore con- ventiou 1 1564, which nominated Mr. Lin- coim and immediately before leaving for Baltimore, I called upon Mr. Lincoln in his study and statod that I called especially to ask him whom he desived to be put on” the ticket with him as vice president. He loaned forward, and in a low but distinet tono of voice said, *Governor Johnson of Tennessee.’ Judge Pettis further says that when ho - formed Mr. Hamlio of ‘Mr. Lincoln’s prefer- ence, the former snid, ‘L am sorry you told me that.! " Later, however, The Times article stows, Mr. Hamlin wrote to Judge Pettis as fol- iows: “When 1 met and conforred with you in Washington and you told me of your in- terview with Mr. Lcoln I had “not the slightost doubt of your corrcetness. Tha remark that 1 made was caused wholly be- cause you made certuin statements of Mr. Lincoln which I had seen but which | did 1 wade positive by you. [ was reall v to be disabused, hence | wos truly sorry at what you said avd the in- formation you gave we. Mr. Lincoln cvie dently became somew/hat alarmed about his re-eléetion and chavged bis position.’ Colonel McClure then presents several letters, ext from interviews and i zine articles showing that Lincoln wis deeply interested in having placed upon tha ticket with him a union democrat. r Charged with Burglary. Racing, Wis., Aug, 10.—A profound sensa tion was created here Sunday by the issuing of a warrant for thoe arcest of Dr. C. N. Pal- mer of Raymond on & charge of burgla Louis Christisuson, who couducts a general store at Raymoud Center, twelve miles from here, drove into the city and had a warrant issued for the doctor's arrest, clniming that he (Christianson) had caught De. Palmer in the uct of burglarizing his stove. Dr. Palumer was seen at the oftico of his attorney, wnd wheu asked about the trouble admitied that ho was charged with burglury. (e says that he was 10 the siore playing cards until about 11 o'clock Saturday night. Then he went home and to b nd was aroused by hearing some one running on tho walk; that lie went out und suw down tho_streot suys that he will have 1o troubloe in proving his whercabouts at the time ho was chargod by Christianson with the crime. Dr. Palmer Lears o high reputation, S ‘ceivers Appointed, Kaxsas Crry, Mo, Aug. 10.—The judge | the United States district court this morning appointed K. B. Withers and Wilton 1} Holmes joint reccivers of the bridge aud terminal company and Chicago, Kansas City & Texus railroad company. The receivors Wero appomted on the application of the Central Trust company of New Yori, trustees for the first mortgage bosdnolders. pes for Lowell's Recovery. Bos1ox, Mass., August 10.—Although the is no change in the condition of Juucs Russull Lowell, his physician oxpresses hopu of his speedy recover Highest of all in Leavening Power..—Latest U. S. Gov't Report. Yal ABSOLUTELY PURE Baking Powder w procity schemes will not do auny good so long i A young man runnin That ‘was 1140, and _ha P »