Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 21, 1891, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. F. ROSEWATER, Epiron MORNING PUBLISHED EVERY TERMS OF 8UBSCRIPTION. Dafly Bee (without Sunday) One Year Datiy nnil Sunday, One Yenr ix months Threa Months Bundny Hee, Ono Yeir Eatirdny Hoe. One ¥ oif Weekly ltew, One Year 80 10 00 OFFICES The Bee Rulid Fouth On ahin, corner N nnd 24th Streets Counell Klnfrs, 12 Pearl \vun[' Chicago O e, 317 Chamber of Commerce, Now Yorrk. 1o 16 18 td 15 Tribune Butiding Washington. 53 Fourteenth Strect Cmaha CORRE=PONDENCE. All eommunications Felating tc editorial motter siould be addr Eattorinl Departuent RUSINESS LETTERS All business letters and_ romittances shonld e addressed to The Bee Publishing Company, Omaha. Drafts, checks nnd postofiice orders to be mude puyable to the orderof the coni- pany. The Bee Publishing Company , Propricters THE BEE BUILDING newa and 1 to the EWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION Btate of Nebrasin T County of Dougins, Geo, 13 Pubiishing that the actu for the weeh © follows Eunday retary of Tnr Bree s solemnly SWeAr Ation of Tk DAILY BEE whs i Taschuck company. cireu ding November 14, 1501 Nov. 8 . 28,204 Thurs Frida Baturd Averago Eworn 10 Vefore me and subscribed uresence this 1th day of November A, SEAL N, P. Notary 1" The growth of the averace daily cf of Tne Byy: for six years is shown in the fol- lowinz table January ebrunry Mareh April. My 110 June July 3 180541 18007 i 15,0043 19,310 2 20,048 2 innce at Ind the subt idea. idea is so shaved th thing pos: d of ust wpolis. split on No wondor; that it will split any- L intolligence. CHIL has recovered her temper and offers to be polite if America will give her a chance. America cannot afford to be harsh with the peppory little repub- lie. Crry CLERK GROVES ought to have a photograph of the passenger shed and unfinished union depot hanging over his desk while he makes up the railroad tax list. returnod to Lake Nyanza. Imin enjoys the freedom of the interior and a black seraglio far bet- tions of civilized ex istence and the administration of Cau casians, EMIN PAsHA has NEBRASKA'S State Board of Health continues in buriness ut the old stand, and it is observed that the most serious offense u physician can commit is to ad- vertise his skill or pretended skill in tho newspapers. DEATI has broken the deadlock in the New York scnate for the present and leaves that body with a republican majority of one, This is the second time in history when Doath lost his - sting and the grave missed its victory HERR CONENSLEY ous fervor will be seriously put to for proper ex- pression should the pope decide to make Archbishop Walsh or Archbishop Logan a cardinal. The herr will probably write another letter to cuse up his feelings. Bootit and Jofferson, tho one totter- ing over the very edge of the grave and the other past threo score and ten, though still in good health and pos- sessing astomishing vigor. Who shall play Hamlet and Rip Van Winkle for our children? Tius »rved that the names of J. Burrows and W. H. Dech of Ne- braska have not popped into prominence at the Indianapolis alliance convention. Possibly the eminent gentlemen from this redeemed commonwealth are barred out by the results of the late election. CHICAGO is presumed to be in favor of New York for the national conven- tion s second choico. Chieago proba- bly thinks she can trade convention favors for World’s fair enthusiasm, but Chicago must not forget what a wide area of the union lies west of Cook county. TAMMANY will dictato the election of the next spenker of the houso of repre- sontatives and the nomination of the next demoeratic candidato for president, The democratic organization will sur— render in due time to the Tiger. Young Mr. Russell of Massachuseotts is wasting his time and money in the effort to create n presidential boom for himself. ALmy, the Now Hampshire villain who murdered his sweetheart, has had something like two years of unhealthy notorioty already and has occasioned o vast amount of mawkish sentimentality. His oxecution isalong time overdue now but has finally been fixed for the first Tuesday in November, 1892 Some people wonder why lynch law is occa- sionally resorted to, FAIRHAVEN, Wash., is the latest boom city of the northwest, as most peoplo know. They aro therefore pre- pared to accept the story that a com- pany has boen organized to buy an fsland and engage in the business of growing black cats for the fur market. The only suspicious thing about the statement is that the amumals are said to be of domestie varieties. —_— 80 LONG as the Grant monument re- mains unfipished New York may expect the effort to be made annually for the removal of Grant’s remains from River- side to Arlington. The fact is the monu- ment and the sepulchre of the dead hero should be at Arlington, surrounded by the graves of his comrades, and until a noble shaft has been erected to mark his last resting place in New York the logic of the claim of Washington people will be unanswerable. THE WAK DEPARTMENT. Hon. Redfield Pr war, has submitted hi the president, and its salient features are worthy of especial attention and They show not only that the in hands dministeation, but tor, secretary of annual report to comment war been able during the that have successfully whereby the efliciency of the army is in- crensed and the expense of maintaining the war establishment has been materi- aily reduced I'he question of const defenses is haustively treated, showing that for fortifications hiave been proc k hus been begun on bat- San Fean- portfolio has preser sovoral v reforms important heen wrought out, ox- sitos 1and engin tor ering we w Y cisco, Hampton Roads and Wa Provision has already heen made for the nanu of ninety-eight steel-rifled guns of high power, cont ed for, inch mortars and rk, Boston hington. \eture brecch- londing and 100 more have be Seventy-three twelve asupply of submarine mines are also under construction. The secretary ve gavds the problem of adequate const de- settled, and after s condition of that of half until the e fense ns practica the seaports an annual a million important fortifications have Having 4,000 miles of sen const oxclusive of Alaska to defend, the amount named does not ap- pear oxtra nt. The Board of Or nance and Fortification is quoted as say- ing that if the present policy of legisla- tion and activity be maintained for four years it can no longer be said that the United S nseless aguinst foreign powers. Perhaps no new policy in the army instituted by this administeation de- more favorable comment than that which affects recruiting, promo- courts-martial and enlistment of Indians, Upon these points Secretary Proctor is clearly right and the modifi- cations in the regulations will greatiy improve the service. The effort is now made to enlist a better class of recruits and they are not taken over the maximum of 35, Those admitted to service arc placed in the ranks upon probation for period and if not satisfactory soldicrs are dischurged before any expe i involved either for uniforms or trans- portation. The secretary speaks in high terms of the vesults of tho new mothod which has given the army mors men from the rural d tricts and fewer from the least desir- able classes in the cities, He would however, carey the reform further by fixing the maximum age at 30 and allow no re-enlistments except in the case of non-commissioned ofticers who have attained especial profic thesecretary aptly remarks, it is better that the soldier’s service should be an incident, and not the business of his life.” In the matter of promotions from the ranks the secretary proposes a furthor modification of the regulations which will enable every soldier to be examined as to his efficiency, removing the condi- tion precedent now in vogue whereby promotion is oniy possible upon recom- mendation of the company commander. Court-martial punishments under the thirty-eight acticles have been regu- lated by law and no longer rest upon the diseretion of court-martial ofticors. The success attending the enlistment of Indians 1n the regular army has pro- cecded far enough to satisly the socre- tary not only that the red men make oxcellent soldiors but that theiremploy- ment in this capacity is a long step toward their eivilization, self support and control, and the cheapest and bast insur- ance against further Indian troubles. From the military stand point proba- bly the most important matters touched upon in the report are his recommenda- tion of the three battalion organization; vhe suggestion that the pay corps bu re- duced; the further abandonment of mili- tary posts and consequent consolidation of commands; abolition of contract sur- geons: his criticism of the act governing lineal promotions and examinations for promotion, passed October 1, 1890, and commendation of his recently adopted system of efficiency records, and of the pending bill for the reorganization of tho avtiilery. Sinco June 1, 1889, y-oight avmy posts have been abandoned, and ten o twelve more will be dismantled and left to the custody of the Interior depart- ment as soon us provision can be mado elsewhere for the troops. At the be- ginning of this adwinistration thore were eighty-five post traders. All but twenty-two have had iheir liconses re- voked, and seven of these have beon notified to quit business within a short period. Four others will soon be left without occupation by the abandonment of the posts, and iv may be said the post trader is practically an extinet animal. The secretary omits all reference to the army canteen, declines to approve the suggestion of army officers for an apprentice battalion, and but mildly praises the results so far observed of ap- pointing second licutenants from civil life. He is gratified to find tho per- centage of desortions greatly reduced but sees no good reason why the rate should still be 5.8 The report is a model of conciseness and from the standpoint of the civilinn is excoptionally interesting. Possibly old military men with conservative notions of army regulations and recent West Point graduates will be disap- pointed to find him commending some ot the pet schemes of civilian legislators and condemning many practices and regulations which are time honored if not otherwise defensible. L __ _} AND HISTRIONIC oxpiaining defonse our he recommends approprintion bo expended sites for been secured tions, age s0 s DEATH ART. William J. Flore nce, the eminent and popular actor, is dead. After a brief illness he passed away at the ago of 61, but apparently, prior to his recent ill- ness, in the very prime of popularity and professional life, A man of fine physique, of temperate though not ab- stemious habits, and strong constitution, few people expected Booth and Jefferson to outlive their late associate. He is gone and with him a type of acting uniquain himself. I, was @ represen tative American comedian, able to shine with Jefferson, with Robson, and with OMAHA DATLY Bl ATURDAY E, Crane, but unlike any of them in his | only awakon fnterest in art and the He the atelonte v friend of his fa mothods will taste. by English nded ind he and his h theate sing publie the speaking world whorever Ang Saxon is spoken was known in the amuse 1t conters of il His death recal wtions, sad havoe the mortal has made the Ar ough,Chanfruu, Flor rthly stricken power at a time whon must have boeen Booth is a physical probably wil in appear on the stage, Jofferson has lived out his three score and ten years, but is atill o favorite, Practically Jeile stands alone as the representative of that m ificent array of talent which included Forrest, Murdoch, Wallack, and those footlight favorites alrendy named in this article. The middle-aged man turns tearfully from Rip Van Winkle, nged and fast approaching the time when he shall laugh no me to the school of younger men now pleasing youngor audiences, and wonders if America will agan produce a galaxy of such men have honored her stage in the past gencration, but with a single exception are now boyond the reach of human o und the rightness of mortal existen enemy everything within years in of MeCul ault and all passed boyond the sch crican wetor oue nee have tage and, sive Boucicault, in the height of his life from it particularly sweet, wreck and never son evor as hplause OMAHA AND THE UNION DEPOT, Omaha owes little to the ways contering hove for her wonderful growth in wealth and population. What help they have extended has been grudgingly and this eity miy trathfully claim to have grown in spite of railroad opposition. It is only neces- sary to refor to the Union Pacific bridge embargo, the construction of the Tenth street cow-shed instead of a large depot, the terminal decision, the effort to baild up Dillonvilie and the frequent th of removal of the shops of the Union Pacific railway in other days to show thatso faras Omah a’s original trunk line is concerned the city has been shabbily treated. The Burlington for years has carried and to a certain degree now « ries her teaflic ovor lines which do not touch this city. It is so nlso with the Northwestern. The latter line will not complete its Yankton branch appirently se to do so would open South Dakota to Omaha as well aa Chicago, and the Northwestern is interested in maintain- ing the Chicago haul. The other I lines have maintained their terminals at Council Biluffs, erected an enormous elevator there, and now that the Mil- waukee and Rock Island have the use of the Union Pacific bridge, they do com- paratively little for the convenience of their Omaha business. This city has generously subsidized vailroad corpora- tions ¢ never refused to geant them reasonable privilegas and bouusoes for expected favors, In face of all these facts the roads have been cither indifferent to our welfure or positively working against us. hese facts are painfully illustratod in the union depot imbroglio. After securing guaranties from the city equiv- alent to a full quarter of a miltion dol- lars in the way of a quit claim deed for depot grounds and bonds for the construction of a union depot, they liberately sot themselves to the conditions of those gunrantie The plans of the new buildin moditied and inscead of a hundsome structure, such as was promised, the, proposed to substitute a very ordinar station. Not only so, bat the Towa roads were not to be permitted to enter the depot. The injunction followed and the railrond compinies ceased work, to punish Omaha for demanding her rights, The result is that every passengor landed in the city gets out into a misers ble shanty and his first impressions of our city are anything but favorable. Granting for the sa of the argu- ment that the eity has not kept absolute faith in the matterof the bonds and viaducts and will never issue the bonds, what excuse have the railroads to make for these years of neglect of O na- hn's intorosts? Why should a city like Omaha bo obliged to subsidize corpori- tions to induce them to construct a pas- senger depot demanded by the business of the city and which would bo built as a matter of course elsewhere? The fact is that aside from all the questions involved in the depot controversy, Omaha is titled by reason of her importance as a travel and trafiic center to a very much better depot than the one origin- ally proposed by the Union depot com- pany. The railway companies can offer no excuse for their neglect. The people have rights entitled to some considera- tion. The city is strong enough now to make tbe roads feel her power. United action against the two especially offend- ing companies would bring them toa roalization of Omaha import- ance. They should he taught that they cannot throftle our growth with impunity or impose upon our good nature without feeling our resentment. The riot act, figuratively speaking, should be read out loud to these corpora- tions, and no further privileges or fuvors should be extended to them pending the ljustment of the union depot contro- sy. The tax assessors should see to it that not a dollur’s worth of railw property escapes assessment at its fair taxable value. Favors ought not to be extended to corporations which porsist- ently, flagrantly and imperiously ignore public interest. Let us ses whether or not this union depot corporation can afford to stand upon its dignity to the injury of every commercial interest of a city of 150,000 people. It is high time the officers of that imperious corporation roosted nearer mother earth., They have thus far refused to malke any con- cossions or advance any reasonable prop- ositions for settlement. — Tue Western Art association is en- deavoring to foand and carry on a col- lege of art in this city, The members are struggling with the financial prob- lom which confronts overy new enter- prise. The school hus bright prospocts, but of course must have funds to assure it of success. The art exhibit in the Exposition building is expected to not groat rail- given 1s becau violate were and in school of art, et o oarn money help the management of the school offgrts. Every man and pcouragd tho Within a worthy W 1 Omaka shonla association niil'the school. year it will haly fifty students and b important in the city's lege or any of nan an the 1l othe clement growth as medical Jucational institutions in all take o jast pride. A GRAND JURLY isan institution which diead, It at facts examinations and It is no re ve which wi law-breakers gots which preliminary trial juries cannot uncover. spector of persons and is just as likely like Swift of Chi- ro and a railway magnate like Gould into court, asa laborer the stre The federal geand jury in Ch indicting parties believed to be guilty of vi the inter-state lnw I iin vindicated theold English inquisition. And this »r s tho fact that Douglas county ought to havea grand jury for the next term of court AFTER reading Mr, F Hatton's editorial in his Washington Post lished in Tie Beg, wo feel justified in tendering 1l journalist the free- whenoever he (inds it con- venient to come this way. His editorial utte a western ring about them which shows that the man who made a great papsr of the Burlington Huwkeye is still in the business of mak- ing great paper to call a millionair on ts. 0 by wing commore: nk pub- W\t gonis dom of tho et imees have Tre furniture investigation m sult in the expulsion any membe! of the city council but it has furnished substantial for the that men s contracts with the city regard the pecuniary argument as valu- able, of yunds suspicion +Kin 1to the 200 is a VENTILATION is very essentis health of school ¢hildren but $1 high price to pay for it in a plain frame but fou school building containing rooms, that very Tug boodle investigation shows several members of the couneil arc natured. They take espe offense when bribes are offered. good no ORDINARILY an honest man resents an offer of money to influence his ofticial aetion. Somo of our councilmen ave not built on that patiern. YELLOW fe Re the yellow plagae is worse. ported from Rio Taneiro. ution is bad enough, but EcoNoyy should not be lost artin the administration of city, county and schooi funds. 2 it Over Earope, New York Recorder. The American hog has bacomo 50 gr favorite in France that a demand has avis to lower the duty. au him. A country that can appreciate our hog has a great future before it. il o lowin ce's Lead. Fremont fribune, The newspapars of Nebraska are inaugur- ating all along the tine a vigorous erusads in benalf of howo manufactures. Itisa great and good work. Staund by your own town, is a mighty xood motto, -~ Concussion Spoils the Pleasure, Minne olis Tribune, The St. Louis (ilobe-Demoerat is of opin- fon that it doos not always ivjure aman to be defeated for offico, Noither does iv al- ways injure a man to fail down a flight of staivs, but itis not a dignitied proceeding, and few people eujoy it Political Py ranls cchnics, Lestic's bo won in politics by a mera spectacular canvass. campaigns should ba educational, and should be continuous, having as their supre aim not mercly the holding of the natural ¥ vote, but its steady enlargement by accessions of voters fully persuadod in thom own minds of the essential righteousness of our cause. modern Our, e Showed Their Diszust Grand It Intenan tent Tho last legistature was responsiblo for more uets of gross injustice, greator extrava- ganco and more downright foolishness thaa auy provious session in the history of the state, and ou the part of the many members there was utter discegard of law and abso lute defiance of constitution, and it is Little wonder the people showed their disgust at the first opportunity. - What Will ana Do Then? Kan as City Times, But as tho situalion oxists today the promiso is that Grover Cleveland will be nomated by acelamation. If Boies is piaced by his side on the ticket we will keep the republicans very busy in evey wostern stato while tho eastern democrats make cortain of New York, Counecticut and Now Jersoy. ‘'hosouth has always been ablo to take caro of its democracy and will be again. at the Polls, Causes of Alliance De ilavde! phia Ledoe) The allianco was doomed to an early aeath, partly by its class character, but chiefly b its so-called principles, some of whicn were demagogic, some socialistic and some oppose ] to good sense and the lessons of experienco, Apart from the alliance's demand for unlim ited silver coinage and its suhtreasury plan, both as pernicious and dangerous fiscal theories copld well 0o, it proposed that the zovernment should be made largoly pa. ternal, aud that it should, in a measuro, sup port the peoplo, instead of tho poople porting 1t. Mugh of tho allianco scheme was subversive of the soundest political, financial and ecquomic principles, and its success, which was impossivle in a country so intelligent und bguest as this, woull have had the most disastrous political and fluaucial rosults, ‘Tno allisuce was greatly belped to grow béchuse of poor crops, or large crops and low pricos; it has been helped to its decndbnce by large crops and fair prices. Butit failed, chiefly bacause tho good sense andthe good cousvienco of whe American peopls were opposed to its policy. They wAWt neither un unlimited debased currency, uor a national pawnshop, nor governmental paternalism, which would interfore with private enterprise. THE THEE ay. as any sup- WISHES, Sarah K. Boiton in Juige. Throo girls sat ldly on the boach; Oune like a iy, il and fair One brillinnt with her raven hair, One sweet and ghy of spaveh “I wish for fame," the Hly said; “And I for we iith and courtly'life Then gently spo e the third:” “As wife L usk for love Instead,™ the sea ening halr, L und falr, Again besid, women sat with w Suill graceful. lovan And told their destiny. no fs not all,” tho Hly sizhed Wealth futilo’if the heart be dead." [l ve been loved.” one swestly suid, Ana §an satisied.”™ rs passed. | started ns NOVEMBER 21, 1801 CHALLENGE TO DERATE Mr. Rosewnter Proposes a Newspiper Disonssion with Jay Burrows Mr. B. Rosewater, editor of Tne Bee for Washington, D. C., Tuesday afternoon as onoe of tho committas of businoss moen appointed to urge the holding of the ro- publican national convention in Omaha noxt Tho day bofore starting for the east, Rosewater addressed the following lotter Jay Burrows, editor of the Farmors' juested an early The expoctod by roturns and the ooked for 1n oks. Tho lete year, Mr. to N Alliance, and r answer from Mr. Burrows 18 thotime Mr. Rosowater opening of the debate may oo tho cou of two or threa w ter is as follows: Owatia, Nov, 16, 1801 the ifarmers’ Allianco to intrude upon your valui you have devoted more than five columus on tho editorial pages of last woolk’s Allianee to Tue Bew and mysolf, but I trust will permit me to coerect o few orvors into which you have fallon, doubtless uninten- tionally, concerning my pist, present and future course, 1 have no aisposition to im pugn your veracity or your desire to keep the patrons of your paper corvectly in. formed as regards mon and measures, but when vou statod last spr aftor 1 had started on my vacation tour to Europs, that “Rosewater was an alion who had taken out bis naturalization papers two days before ho left Nebraska,” you wero misinformad. I never have taken out any naturalization papers up to this day and never expact to. My fathier was a citizen of the Unitod States in 1360 and voted for Abraham Lincoln whilo 1 was still a minor, You also gave currency to tho report that my passage across tho Atlantic and oxpsusos my tour abroad woro paid by the it of the Unitod Sta This also I voluntosrad my servieos to Goneral Wanamiker to investi- gate tho postal telograph systems of England, France, Germany ana Austria, but I neither expected nor recoived any pay for this sery- ice. Neither you nor anybody else has ven tured to assert that [ was not to do this work, and if I had roceived pay 1 fail to see why I was not as woll entitled to it as any other man qualified for making the ou- Your “indepen: part;" fayors tie postal telegraph and certainly cav find no fault with me for endeavoring to bring about this reform at tho visk of wenrring ths dis- pleasure of tho Western Union monopoly upon which Tie B onds for its tele- graphic service Luote, also, that, you predict “another im- pending 1y for Nebraska, namel claim o have discovercd that Rosewater is to be the ehaivman of the Nebraska delegation to the republican national convention and the postmaster general of tho uext administra tion, and you raise your hands 1 horror at the terrible prospect that *a little Gorman Jew” should becone postinaster general of the United Sta What the effzct of such au impending ¢ lamty might bo upon the farmers of Nebraska [ am unable at this stage to divine, In order to relieve their distress of mind 1 hasten tu assure thom tnat while [ feel highly complimented by the prominence given mo as a prospective cubinet official thero is mot the rcmotest possibility of such an event, nor is there any probability of my heading toe republican delogation to thonational con- vention. I have aovoted twenty of the best years of my life to the buildiny up of a great western L and expoct within o fow years to be able to plac: this paper under tho man- agoment and cotitrol of my two sons, who aro now in Cornell and Columbia colleges. I could uot afford to accept a cabinet position if it wero tendered me, becauss my personal supervision is essential to the paper that will become the vroud inheritance of my boys. So much on that score. I do not ed it as cssential to the position I hold as editor of the leading dailv of Nebrasia to bo cither a gelezate of the next republican national con- vention or chairman of vuy delegation. 1 have an office that vever expives and affords me ample scope for all the ambition § am pos- To tho Editor of 1 dislike vory mueh o space aftor doud . during governmn 1s a delusion, Postmaste compotent quiry. dey sessed of. I have realized all my lifo the disadvantago of being small in_ stature, but consolo myseit withh the verlaction that many of the greatest men the worid bas produced have beeu no taller thau I am. I should not in the least feel disgraced if T tad been born i Germany, tho land to which wo owo tho invoution of the art of printing; o country that has nroduced some of tho mighticst inteliects that have illumined tho pages of human his- tory and made some of the most precious contributions toart and science; but [ really am anative of Bohemia and still remain master of the language of that country, Thelast ana most shocking indictment, however, is that conceraing my ancestry. When all other abusoruns short this is a never failing source of invective, and yet I would not change my ancestey if I could, To the Jews Christiaity is wdobted for all there 15 of religion. David, the inspired psalmist, whose scags havo resounded in overy Christian church for over cighteen uries, nearly all the apostles and the di- vine Nazareno himself, trace thoir lincage throuzn the tribes of istael. In every a and clime men and women of the Jewish race bave become illustrious. The stigma which sestition and bizowry duving to attach to persous of find lodgoment norance, sup the dark ages sought Jewish ancostry caunot among enlightened and liberty loving people on the threshold of tho tw nticth century [u conclusion, let me make you a faw prop for the benefit of tho people of . Nobraska, und espocial- Iy tho producers who desire to be fully informed concerning the economical problews with which they are compolled to grepple. 1 proposea joint debate between you and myself of the various veforms de- manded by the independent party in the col- umns of Tie Bee and the Farmers' Alli- auce. Each party to oceupy from two col umns to two coiumns and a half and both sides to bo published 10 the suma numbers of the two papers. This discussion to continue from week to week until we have covered tho four or five most vital issues, viz: Paper money, free and unlimited coinago, treasury loans, regulation of railroads alien land La It seoms to me that sach a diseussion not fuil to prove of waterial benelit to classes of ou citizons. Noboly cun a ava rational conclusion until he has b both sides of an issue faivly and courteously discussed . RoSEWATEL, < - OUAHA AND LH o osition can- all CONVENTION, Fremout Tribune: Hera's hopit’ Omaha way win the national republican conveution, Fremout will be glad to eotertain some of the overflow. Hustings Nebraskan: Omaba's ‘“‘conven- tion delegation’ will work hard to ure the republican couvention for that city. I are backed by a zuarautes fund of 850,000, and that they may win is the wish of every loyal Nebraska citizea. Grand Istand Independent: It seems that the fight about tho location of the next na +1onal republican convontion is now limited to a choice betwaen Minneapolis and Omaha, thoigh thero are soms more competitors yet Omaba certainly is the most centrally lo cated place. Beatrico Domocrat tional committe meets in Monday, and, among other will nario the time and place of holding the next matiovat convention. Many cities want the and Omaba is maslog an The republican Washington business, na- nexv convention, aggressivo affort for ft. Sho sent a dolaga tion that will got it 1f anybody can, Plattsmouth Herald: There is littie doubt that the Omaba dolegation will wield an influonco boforo the republican national committeo, as it is composed of the ropre- sentative citizens of the state. Wayne Herald: The national ropublican central committos meots next Monday for the purpose of sclecting a place for holding tho republioan national convention. Every Nebraskan will hops that Omaba may be tho favored place. Fromont Flail The Nebraska statesmon aro in Washington. Thoy have doto mined to got the fonvention at Omalfa or—let it go somowhere else, Thoy moet with quite 0 zood doal of eucouragement and claim that they are quito sanguino of success. Fremont isn't kicking, Blair Pilot: Omaha has been doing only tho preliminary skirmishing in this mattor beretofore, now sho has literally “gonoafter” that convention, and if sho dou't capturo it tho peovle of the great west will be disap- pointed. want the convention at Omana and thoy have contidonce in the so ductive influence of the gentlomen who hiave gone to bombard that central committee. Outside of Chicaro it is almost universally conceded that Omaha is tho most central and most hedged about with available and requisite environments of auy city in the land for the purposo of a great gatbering. All honor to Omaha’s efforts and Omaha's tion. May Mrs, Mercer's horse shoo enable them to bring that convention home in their pockets, Fort Wayne (ind.) Gazette: Omaha fs going to maka an earnest effort to secure the next national republican convention, Her ting citizens will press tho claim of thoir wostern city, and we hope they will press it succossfully. Sinco tho organization of the republican party in 1856, 1ts national con- ventions have met as follows: In Phila delphia, 1836, 1568 and 1873, In Cinelnnad in 1876, In Chicago in 1860, 1380, 1884 ana 1888, and in Baltimore in 1864, We submit that nine conventions on the enstside of the Mississlppi, ought to be balanced at least by one or twe on the west side. Consider ably more than one-third the number of statos and more than two-thirds the area of our national domain—not counting Alaska lies beyond tho Father of Waters, Within one geveration from this time, the majority £ our people will live on the sunset side of the great river. ‘Toat which they ask now as & courtesy, they can then take and keep as & ght, if might makes right. Moreover tho cvents of the past two years make it a mat tor of policy for tho party to do something to strongthen the zeal of tho western states in the party faith, Other western cities—Ta. coma, San 'rancisco, Minneapotis and pos- sibly Denver—may put in a claim, but the first three are cither on the extreme west or th of our territory, whilo Omaha has a lo- cation more nearly central than any poit that has thus far mentioned and the national committee will do well to give carefu) consid- eration to its claims. now THE e AMONG HERRY MAKERS. Pittsburg Dispateh: It surprised no one to hear that a light vote was polied in Cork. Jack—Well, Jim, 1 proposed st night. Jim—Did she give Juck—No, but I got u piece of pme,” exc 1D, as he hun 1f 1o tho bar by his elboiws. SR WHEN KATE HAS DONE MY ROOM. Boston Courier, Oh, Kate, tho maid who regulates he domicilo wherein Tdwsii, Goes twice to church on Subbath day; And otherwisv comports her well. Within her heart, «s Lopir A thous ind varied virtues bloom But in my heart what weizht of wi When Kate has done my room! The pieture of my latest girl L the busket kept for wisto: One shoe is bid beneath the bud, Its mate beh nd the trank s placed. O1d refus ors all nre i Those y (have met their doom; And everything 15 upside down When Kate has done my room. My shoe brush 's on the mantelpiece, My toothbrash nesties on the door, Th whiskbroom and my bitton hook Are out of sight forevermore; And nothing's where it so i ¢o'be, Sive n niy heart etornal glooms And T betomes w thing of puin, When Kato has done wy room. Kate Fieid's Washinzton: First Dude— awst you In the avenuo today, Chuwies cybiird, and you stared wight' at me and oid chappie. fTad fue o me eye- Dudo—Reg I suw you. 'pon gluhses on, donteher ew York Sun: sher—1s the copy for hook on etiquet 1y? cader—Allread pUthow tely an inyitation to drink.” Publisner -Why does that hang fire? Reader—The wuthor is drank to decline wnseript: Hicks—What think of punishn tafter death? Wicks—Don tieve init. ALl the pound ing in the world, for instance, won't make tough steak tender. Boston T do you NOT IN IT. Ile loved her with a love intense, But she laced herself so ticht 1t when he asked her for her hoarg Pivas s(ueezed loar out of sizht.’ Binzhamton Leader: An exchanzo speaks of @ min who 18 not i physieln but i sin Y We had supposed that . drug | OTHER LANDS THAN OURS Daspito a rigld pross supprossion of nows, gathorod from reliablo atarming condition of affairs {n the harrowing accounts of famine havo succoeded myator throatened uprisings of the ponsantry aga government authority. On topoef wl has como tho reportod discovery of an ox sivo conspiracy among the nobility to ove turn the despotic government and to lish o roprosentativo assembly. Tho arr of not less than sixty mombers of the 1o and middlo ciass indicates tho alavm of tho police, if not tho extentof the conspiracy Tho empiro is honoycombed by cons and whilo the peasants are dying of 1 tho Russian government crease its military forces on the western and southern trontiers as a menaco to and Austrin, A foroign war would afford 1o the czarand his advisers a divorsion and rolief from the miserios that afflict tho ernment at home, Such a war wot lofs have immonso attraction for a peasantry, in the hove of regaling thomsely on tho oread and boof of their rich neighbors oensorship and sufMicient sources to the facts aro 0w Russia. Ty wi s T continues to 1 starvi Emporor William was quoted a whi s expressing @ great reluctanco to assu the rosponsibility of provoking or inau ing war, and this reluctance may bo poworf enough to hold Germany on tho def If tho contlict must come he did not w 1o bo tho 0ae to nceelorato 1t, while proparcd to fully do his part to bring it to a spoedy to his oncmies disastrous, closo, if forced upon bim. Rumor has it that counselors do not sharo his reluctance, | 500 1n"this temporary weakness of Kussia opportunity whicti it would be folly to lot pass. Itis certain that if William ortho triplo alliance do find the time ripo f like action, thore is no lack of excuses assuming tho aggressive. Russia is not or the pormanent menaco to tho peaco of Furopo ana its nawural enemy, but sho bus recontly massed her troops in isual numbers on the Germav and Austriun borders, war for The liberal-unionists at Mancues'er, undor the leadership of Sir Henry James, T \ Russell and Thomas Lea. last week declarcd in favor of a local government bill for I land on the lines of tho Euglish and & local government acts. The London St ard, the ofticial organ of British toryi Colonel Saunderson, the mouthpiceo of Irish tories, and Sir Henry Selwyn Ibbet son, a representative of the “squires and par sons,” now demand that Mr. Balfour shall abandon his Trish local government vill. M Balfour and his unelo are, therofore, bouween the devil and the deep soa. [ thoy foilyw the advico of tho only two unionist liberals from Irelana, Russell and Lea, the Irish tories will raiso a row in which they wili nave the sympathy of the British tory irro- concilables. On the other hand, if Balfo, and Salisbury drop the Irish local gover ment bill thero is no doubt that a number of the English liveral-unionists will rejoin tho Gladstoman party. They will make tho dropping of the bill a pretext to got back into line so that they may save their for it is certain that if tho unionists follow tory leadershin longer fully four-fifths of them will be rejected by their constituencios, of soats, was it compound fellow. It will test Balfour's acinowledgod ability and resourcofulness to get out of the di- lemma, 0 The result of tho polling in the South Moulton division of Dovonshire is all the more signiticant because in the southwester: shires the liberal-unionists wero in 1586 pro. portionately more numerous then in any othier section of Bugland, with the possibla exception of Birmingham. In that year in some of the constituencies in these countics, such as the South Moulton and the Totnos divisions of Devonshire, and tho Bodmin, St. Ives and Truro divisions of Cornwall, very much more than hatf of the liboral ecloctors refused to vote for the Gladstonan candi- dates. The rosult in the South Moulton seems to Indicato that the majority of theso who were in 1836 dissentient hberals in sonthwest England have become reconciled tothe party program and will support its andidates. If such shall prove to be the the gains the Gladstoninas will make at the gencral election 1 these four countios alone will wipo out moro thau a third of the present unionist majovity. The heart of Gambotta now lies in its final resting place in a little vault under tho mon- ument raised to his momory by tho peoble of Alsace and Lorrane. Thero was o story in circulation somo tima ago that it had beon lost by its custodian, Paul Bovt, during his journeyings in Tonquin. When ho left France he depositod 1t in an iron safe which ho intrasted to the eara of M. Charlior, tho brother of his son-in-law. When the vault was ready the heart was convoyed to tha monument committee by Mmo, Paul Bert, her husband being dead, with a logal docu- ment formally attesting its genuineness, and veluting tho facts in conneetion with its pro. servation, ‘The vaso containing the organ was enclosed in a metal case, which reposcs in a coffer made from wood grown in Alsace. Hit the Patent Office, Chicagn Tribune It the Rell Telephone company doosn’t ser what it wants let it bring suit for it. or Royal Baking Powder Has no Equal. The United States Official Report Of the Government Baking Powder tests recently made, under authority “of Congress, by the Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., furnishes the highest authoritative infor- mation as to which powder is the best. 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