Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 16, 1891, Page 4

HE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 10, THE DAILY BEE7 F. NOSEWATER, Eprron. b5 = PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF 8UBSCRIPTION 7a1ly Bee rwithout Sunday) One Year....8 8 00 ;:-.ny and Sunday, One Year. i 1000 ) Eix Months ortatd i ) % Three Months, e 1% Fundny Hee, One Year. 200 Buturdny Bie, Ono Yeur. 18 Woekly Bee, One YORR. . cou oo eoiioe OFFIOE! naha, The Bee Bullding. ot Sali: corner N and 26t Stroets WiTh, 12 Pearl Street Chlmtt (e, 3171 humber of Commer s 17, 14 and 15, Tribune Bullding ew York, It Washington, bl Fourteenth Streot ISPONDENCE All communications reluting to news and editorini muticr should be aldrossed te the Editorinl Depurtment L¥ rg and_remittances should be addressed to The Beo Publishing Company, Omnha. Drafts, ehecks and postoffice orders 10 be mude piyable to the order of the com- Diny. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietors THE BEE BUILDING BUSIN All business let T OF CIRCULATION, | - BWORN STATEM Etate of Nebruskn ) County of Douglas. o 0. B. Tzschuck, scerotary of Tie BEe Fublishinz compuny, does soleniniy swear hut the netuul elreulation of Tk DAILY BEE for the week ending December 12, 1801, was ns follows: Funday, Dee. 6. M %, Doc. 7 dny. ursdny. ) ¥riday, Dee. 11 Buturday, Dec. Average...... . ). B, TZ8C Sworn to lefore me and subscribed in my presenco th s 12th day of Decembor. A. D. 1801 SEAL N. P. Bt stary Pablic. dally cireuiation shown in vho fol- The growth of the aver; By for six years T T T T | 15,206 18,574 January....... Febroary . | S March........ 37 14,400 19,680/ 15 April. o LT e My .. i June . July... Auvguat.. L Feptember...... Cetover ........ | Novemb n now rest in pouce. has announced that ho ns between Blaine THE nation ¢ Rhet Clarkson has no prefercnce and Harrison. SPEAKING of the furniture contract, brings to mind the fact that the deal is etill a long ways this side of final con- summation. THE Board of Trade starts ito the winter with more than its normal vigor. It is to bo hoped this will be kept up, for this winter is big with importance to Omaha. THE first year’s output of sugar from the Norfolk factor 1,500,000 pounds, Norfolk sugar mill was only completed last sum- mer, this is u very satisfactory output. In view of the fact that the WHAT a bonanza to the farmers of Nebraska the present warehouse law would be in the presence of the car famine if we had warehouses enough to store a few train loads of grainin Omaha just now! SENATOR 'PLUMB’S resolution to re- move the remains of General Grant from New York to Arlington cemetery is taken as proof positive that he has re- cently been on the wrong side in his Wall street spoculations. UNcLE Jerry RUSK will wonder what new parasites have been ravaging the hog crop of Nebraska whan he sees Dr. Billings’ savage attack upon him and his department in the Lincoln organ of Ali Baba and the forty thieves. « MILWAUK o national committee a guarantee fund of $100,000 to secure the national conven- offers the democratic tion. Milwaukee has a drawing card in her breweries. St. Louis and St. Paul may as well throw up the sponge. THE thoughtful subordinates of ex- Clerk McPherson of the houso of repre- sontatives of Washington presented him with a silver soup tureen as a testimo- nial with the cards of the givers in the bottom of the bowl. Nobody so fully appreciated the significance of the gift, however, as an ambitious gentioman from the state of Texas. Ir FRESH and blooming assurance can socure anything from the democratic congress, the young M. C. from the First Nebraska will have the earth. He is not only demanding a place for himseif on the ways and means commit- teo but he is also striving to fix three constituents in soft places on the super- numerary pay roll of the house. THE governorship of Oklahoma terri- tory rests between ex-Governor Gear of Towa and Colonel T. McCoy of South Dakota. If Omaha had the casting vote Governor Gear would be appointed forthwith. Omaha remembers the conr- tesy of the Towa ex-congressman and ex-governor with gratitude and she also recalls the fact that the South Dakota gentleman was by no means neighborly when the votes were recorded in the national committee, BENATOR MANDERSON’S bill requir- ing transcripts of judgments obtained in the United States courts to be filed with county officers having charge of judg- ment vecords is a meritorious and much needed measure. The independence of the United States courts within the states is a matter of considerable con- cern and the fact that judgments ob- tained in these courts are not always made of record in the counties where the persons or property affected is lo- cated occnsions no little confusion. e MINNEAPOLIS has grown over-confl- dent since she captured the national re- publican convention. Her energetic poople are looking out for now flelds to conquer, and an over-confident gentle- man has entered upon the enterprise of publishing o great monthly magazine. Hore the individual and the eity are doomed to disappointment. New York holds this ground with a tenncity of which Chicago, St. Louis, San Francisco and Boston have sought in vain to de- prive ber. Tne great maguazines are published in New York and there arve enough of them to meet the demand. Minnenpolis may as well abandon hope in this direction, IN THE COILS OUF THE GANG. There was n time when Governor Thayer was on the alert to redross popu lar grievances and hold to a strict nc- countability officials who were derelict in their duty. There was a time when Governor Thayer would not have dared to definntiy ignore grave churges af- fecting not only the efficiency and integ- rity of his immediate subordinates, but involving in their nature the honest en- foresment of laws enactod for the pro- tection of the lives and property of the i muss of our citizons. But Governor Thayer realizes that this is the last office that he is ever fore become public senti- likely to fill and has the recklessly indifferent ment. In view of his advanced age and the good record he made during his last terin as governor, he should have been inspired by prifo to be able to re- tira from public life with the confi- dence and respes’ of the peopie who have honorod him o often and so gener- ously. It'is a sad commontary on the frailty of public men and great reputations that a man who has filled every office within the wift of the people from log- islator to governor and United States senator should at the close of hiscareer go into rotirement ‘‘un- wept, unhonored and unsung.” Such, however, is the inevitable doom of men of high estate who lower their standard o of the paltry power con- ferred by ocutive office, place their honor within the keeping of the offscouring of the party and make such men the repository of the highest trusts at their disposal. When Governor Thayor clings to a man of the stamp of I C. Carns the governor can truthfully exclaim, *‘Lord save me from my friends.”” We say this to not in nnger, but in sorrow. Governor Thayer® had a staunch friend in THe Bee at all times and on all oceasions for more than twenty years, without price and without hope of reward. But in an evil hour Governor Thayer yielded to the counsel of designing men who in times when he needed friends and help had spurned him. With ch self- seckers and corrupt time-servers he has been surrounded ever since he made the unseemly scramblo for third term. Under their malign influence he is acting move like a sovereign than w public servant. Like Louis XVL he exclaims, *'T am the state.” He re- 1 assault upon his own person exposure of his disrepuiable oil in- tor and in a lofty and imperious declares: *‘Up to this time I have made my own appointments and recog- nize no authority above myself.” This autocratic deciaration, made to the representative of the demo-inde- pendent World- Herald, speaks volumes and places Governor Thayer before the people of this state in a very unenviable light. It leaves no other inference than that he has either lost his head or is completely within the coils of the bogus oil inspection gang. In eivher case he is to be pitied more than he i to be blamed. THE BEET SUGAL CONVE Tt is to bo hoped every member of the Omaha delegation will attend the beet sugar convention at Lincoln. The futuro of sugar beet culture and beet sugar manufacture is very promising. The $150,000,000 now sent abrozd for be sugar will be an incentive to stimulate howe production for many years, whoth- er bountics be voted or otherwise. The experiments in this seetion of the union prove beyond question that tne soil and climate are adapted to the culture of the beet, and the success attending the manufactories at Grand [sland and Narfolk have removed all question as to making the industry profitable. There can be no doubt whatever that within the next twenty-five years Omaha will be the geographical centor of the groeatest beet sugar producing region in the world. Whether she will or will not be the commercial center depends upon herself. Nebraska, however, will be dotted over with sugar factories and ber farmers will take the lead in the cultivation of sugar beets. The Omaha delegates to Lincoln should go there to urge the extension of sugar beet culture and endeavor to formulate some plan for inducing capi- talists to establish more sugar vefineries in this state. Any industry that helps to build up any part of Nebraska helps 10 build up Omaha. The question of a state bounty will no doubt be discussed. The Oxnard Sugar company wus shabbily treated by the last legislature when the bounty was cut off contrary to the agrecment under which the two factories were lo- cated in tho state, nevertheless the bounty should not be restored as a gro- tuity to the sugar wakers. The sugar beet producers should enjoy some of the benefits of the bounty and its payment should be made to depend upon remun- sents as ¢ the ENTION. erative prices for sugar beets. TO PROTECT LIVE STOCK, The cattle raisers of the west will be interested in o bill that has boen intro- duced in congress to amend the act for the establishment of a bureau of animal industry, to prevent the exportation of disensed cattle and to provide means for thesuppression und oxtirpation of pleuro- pneumonia and other contagious dis- eases among domestic animals, The measure is designed to promote the exportation of cattle and products of live stock, to incrense ana facilitate the commerce in cattle, and to remove the obstruction of such commerce with foreign nations and among the states occasioned by the existence of conta glous diseases among meat cattle, The first section of the Dbill provides for the orgunization of a bureau of ani- mal industry in the Agricultural depart- ment, which shall investigate and report upon the conditions of domestic animals in the United States, the cause of infec tious discases among them, and to en force rules for the suppression of diseases. Other sections require the secrotary of agriculture to prepare rules for the sup- pression and extirpation of cortagious diseasos among domestic animals; to promote the exportation of live stoel: by making special investigation ‘us to the existence of infoectious diseases aloug the dividing lino between the Inited States and foreign countries, aud along the lines of transportation in the United | that States; to adopt mensures to brevent the exportation of affected live stock from any part of the United States to any foreign port, and prohibiting all railrond companies in the United States, or the owner or master of any vessel, from receiving any diseased live stock from any distriet or s from which transportation has been pro- hibited by the secrotary of agriculture Adequate pensities are provided for violation of the law, and United State district attorneys are required to prose- cute violators. In view of efforts aro to the fact that renewed be made to induce the British government to remove the re- cictions upon American cattle eute ing Great Britain, as well as the desira- bility of more fully reassuring all Euro- pean countries of the intention of the United States to maintain the strictest possible inspection of cattle and meats for export, the expedioncy of the pro- posed legislation admits of no question. The good effect of the meat inspection law in overcoming the prejudice of France and Germany against the hog products of this country has demon- strated that European governments are willing to be convinced of the desire of this country to prevent the exportation of any but healthy cat- tle and meats, and this is only to be ac- complished through stringent legisla- tion thoroughly enforced. We must be in a position to satisfy foreign countries that every possible precaution is taken to arrest the progress of contagious dis- enses whenever they appear, and every means used to extirpute such diser The proposed measure contemplates this, and undoubtedly the secretary of agri- culture is in full sympathy with its pro- visions. Our foreign commerce in cat- tle and meats is large and steadily growing, but its permanence and more rapid increase depend largely upon ju- dicious legislation properly enforeed. A RECIPROCITY PROCLAMATION, Several days ngo THE Begk called at- tention to the fact that the time was close at hand when the president might, pursuant to the authority given him by the reciprocity clause of tho tariff law, i proclamation suspending the free issu introduction into the” United States of sugar, molasses, coffee, tea and hides from countries which have not en- tered into reciprocity arrangements or begun negotiations therefor. The time fixed by the law for such proclamation is January 1, 1802, or any time thereafter when the president shall be satisfied that any country pro- ducing and exporting the specified arti- cles is imposing reciprocally unequal and unreasonable duties upon the agr cultural or other products of the United States, and it is announced that Presi- dent Harrison is preparing a proclama- tion in accordance with the power and Aduty thus devolved on him. The commercial importance of this action will be very great, as the effect will be to exclude from the American market, in whole or in part, the princ pal produets of a number of countrics so long as they fail to take advantago ol the reciprocity policy of the United States. Reciprocal trade arrangements have been effected or are being negoti- ated with some sixteen countries, but vearly double that number, which pro- duce one or more of the ar ticles named as subject to sus- pension of free introduction into the United ates, will be affected by the proclamation. These include most of the countrios of South Amerien, though the most important of them, ex- cept the Arvgentine republic, have on- tored into or are nogotiating for reci- procity; all the West Indies, except’ the British; two of the countries of Central America; China, Japan, and other coun- trios. It will thus bo seen that the procla- mation may have a very widespread in- fluence upon our commercial relations, buv it is possible that the president will not find that overy country produc- ing sugar, molasses, coffee, tea and hides, or any of such articles, imposes unequal and unreasonable duties on American products. In any event, how- ever, the proclamation cannot but be fa whing indts effect, and the ulti- mate result, it is not to be doubted, will be a great extension of the reciprocity policy. No nation has ever adopted a more nggressive commercial policy than is involved in the action which the law vequires the president to take, but there is every reason to believe that results will justify the wisdom of the course. ‘I'he United States offers free to certain products the best market in the world in exchange for a fair and equitable pol- ioy with respect to our agricultural and other products, and any country that declines to accept a proposition so essentinlly just cannot reasonubiy complain il excluded from our com- mercial favor, Morever, it is obviously the duty of this nation to stand by those countries that make reasonable con cessions in order to have closor trade relations with us. A single example will suffice for illustration. Brazil ex- ports over $2.000,000 worth of lides to this country. For the continued free admission of this produet the Brazilian government hus granted us n fuir re- turn. Would not the people of Brazil have just c of complaint if we should continue to allow hides to come in from the Argentine Republic without any reciprocal return? Moxico is a lurge exporter of hides to the United States. How can wo reasonably ask concessions from that count for the free admission of its hides if we allow that product of the Argentine Republic to continue to come in without any con- cession? We must keep faith with our commeorcinl allies or reciprocity would speadily become a byword and the fabric fall to picces. The proclamation of the prosident will ba an assurance that we mean to keep faith and its effect will be to rapidly extend reciprocal trade ac- rangements., use Tuk course of Gove Hill of New nor York in retuining possession of thut office aftor his olection as a United Stites senator, and even refusing to yield it when assembled, 1s quite charncteristic of the man, but it is said that the republicans of the senate are oot disposed to regard it as a mattor of no consequends. It is suggested congress when Mr. Hiil comes forward next montls to take the oath of offico as n senator he may be met withila protest from some of the republiewas of that body, and it is possible that '® will be found that he has abandongd all legitimate claim to his senatorial, sos At any rate the matter is being discussed, und if thero is any proper | way in which Mr. Hill can be mado an example of its adoption would estiblish o wholesome pre- cedent. The. motives of Hill in holding om to the governor- shin are well understood, the chief one being his desire to keep his grasp on the democratic machine in New York aslong us possiblo, for what purpose his offort to steal the legisiature explains, There is not a more unserupulous poli- tician in this country than David Ben- nett Hill, and it will be well for the country when his opportunities for mis- chief are brought to an end. A Svir is to be instituted, by author- ity of the attorney general of the United States, to test the question whethei railroad companies, in issuing froe passes, violato the interstate commerce law. The act permits railvoads tc free carriage to their officers and em- ployes, and they may exchange passes and tickets with each other, but this limited pormission has nover been strictly adhered to, at least by most roads. In fact the issuance of free passes has become al- most as common as before the interstate commerce law was passed, and some of the railroads ciaim that there is no legal rastriction upon such action. It is un- derstood that the government is anxious to obtain & judicial construction of the act upon this point, and the issue will be made upon the question whether or not there is a prohibition against passes included in the clause providing that no rates shall be given either more or less than the fixed schedule of the road. There hus heen a sharp contest ovel this question in New Hampshire, and it is not unlikely that it is through the in- fluence of Senator Chandler of that state that the Dopartment of Justice I concluded to make a test cuse, vo A TENTH ward would add two more councilmen at $500 each per an- num to the] city legislature. It is barely possible the genfal suburban gen- tlemen who ave so_anxious for anothor ward are more ambitious to b members of that body than to benelit the commu- nity atlarge. Mavor CUSHING might have done the city a secvice, had he declined to sign the warrants for the payment of election officers. A mandamus would have brought the questions to an issuo and the courts would have ended the contro- versy. Crry CLERE GROVES has thus far found $300,000 worth of railrond real es- tate. Perhapsif he had begun his search eurlier he would have been able to find a million dollars worth. SHERIFF-ELECT BENNETT is right in selecting his own deputies without regard to political or factional pres- sure, The Puth to Usetulness. Chiexgo Tumes, There are a good many craaks in congress this yoar, but if their presence there will frighton Wall streei men away from the cap- 1tal they way couut upon re-electlon. mons e e e Unprofit ble Arrogance. B ston Qlove. The telegraphers’ strike along the South- ern Pacific line appears to be growing. It never pays any corporation, however great, to refuse to heed or hear the grievances of Derd ana Buried. New York Sun. The subtreasury scheme of the farmers allisnce has boen buried under a cawn, The stones that have just been laid over its coffin by thestate granges of Michigan, Ilinois and lowa are big and heav. Sinur City Jurnal, Omaha is once more turning a longing eye in the direction of northern Nobraska. Tho trouble with Omatia is that it has dono noth- ing but look that way whil Sioux City has been building raiiroads ther — Press Dyinz Wail, Red Clowdd Argus. We need #25 on subscriptions without aelay. Nation. It scoms to us that every rebel sheet in the state, from Jay Burrows' paper down to the Nation, 1s making a noise that resembios tho avove very much. Another such gasp and all will be still. it ol Only an Infant Industry. Grand lsland Inlipenie it Ths boot sugar industry is still m its ex- porimental stage. Much has beon learned, but there is wuch to learn yet concerning the cultivation of that crop whieh promises to make Nebraska one of tho richostand mosy prosperous of tho northwestern states. “eforn Symptoms of a Raid, Chicagr Mail. Dispatches from New York say that Jay Gould is boing tigntly squeezed by Wall strent gamolers ‘and that he may lose many millions before ‘ho succeeds in extricating himself. Close dbservers have noticed that such a rumor usiully precedes Jason's suc- cesstul vaids alfer the golden flecco, A Pracfibable ~ugg CinetAnati Commer Hello, Mr. Waflamaker! What prospoct is there that cobgress will take favorablo action on your proposition to equip country postuMices with; the telopnone sorvico! Tho sugeestion Is a prgeticablo and good one, and we do not know but that after a while it would be well!#a make this exp-riment in & moderate way with tho telegraph. 4 il mmany’s Open Sesame. New York Telsgram, Pheve s joy indlammany ball and dismay on the tloor of congress. Ono of tho first ucts of tao new speaker was to hand Police Commissioner Martin this noto House of Reprosentatives—To all door- kocpers —Admit Mr. Martio and his fricuds whereyer they want to go, Cirantes F. Crase. Thus promptly is this congress getting under way, and Temmany evidently does not mean to bo a deadbead iu the entorprise. - An Epidemic of € Chizan Tribune. Tho rocent attempt to assassinate Rev, Dr. Hull in Now York has precipitated a ver itaole cycle of crankery of the violent sort. It was followed 0y tha attembt to kill Kussell Suge by an explosion of dynumite. A day or two after this occurrence Conrad Harrls, a vetired mercnant of New Yorlk oity, reesived an auonymous levter demandiug $300 withia two days, iu which the writersaid: “If you ank don’t take notice of this, my requast, you will be the next Russell Sage, and I will blow your brains in the air.” Mr. Harris wisely and promptly gave the lotter to the poilee, and the writer soon was approhended. The next victim of a crank plot was Edward Murphy of Troy, tho democratic state chairman of New York, who was attacked by a lunatio with a batchet and narrowly escapod death. The crank in this case had veen discharged recently from the Poughkeopsiv insano nasy- lum as cured, and declared to be harmiess by the asylum physicians, On the same day a German named George Landik was arrosted in New York upon the complaint of oue Jacob Beck, who stated that Landik had made overtures to him to blow up a bank. The latest outbreak of dangerous cranke is in Kansas City, whers David B. Beal the banker, whose child recontly was kid- naped, has beon threatsned with doath by dynamite if the police hunt for the kidaapers is not stopped at once. - i Mrs. Grant's Pathetic Protest. Interview in New Yirk Evening World. “I buried my husband here because I wanted him near mo, | wanted him whers I could go to bim. My childron aro near me here. Jesso, my son, lives with me. My son Ulysses lives at Salem Center, Westchoster county, whence he can come to me readily, He and his childven are with me today, 1 am growing old. Itis not easy for me to change my residenco at command. “But I cannot fight a wholo congress, My husband was a public man and I have been schooled to feel that he belonged to the public. “Perhaps the publio is entitled to him,even against me. £ a mojority of tho pooplo want him re- moved—I suppose they will doit. I cannot help myseif." There wus something indescribably pa- thetic in the wav Mrs. Grant expressed ber helplessness. Then she resumed almost pas- sionately : “Why do they do it! Washington lies at Mount Vernon, and they have built a great monument to him at tho capitol. Why can't they let the zeneral rest where I laid him? “Thoy are building a splendid monument over the general's tomb at Riverside. Ro- cently they removed him to that mausoleum where I had hoped ho would rest forever.” —_—— He Has a Level Head. Fremont Tribune. Judge Hopowell, in the district court at Omaba the other day, refused to grant a divorce to an applicant whose only charge against her “lord and master” that could be substantiated was laziness. Judgo Hopowell's head is lovel. If laziness is to be accounted a sufticient ground for divorce what will be- come of posterity and the great social system of mari NOT 4 THANKLESS JOB. Howells Journal: L still at work showing up tt with the state inspection of oil. doing a good work. Nebraska City Press: It is to be hoped that the attemnt of Tur Oyama BEE to provide a better systom of oil inspection for Nobraska will be the means of giving us better oil, or that the peonle will revert to the ever roliable tallow candle or dip. Peoplo can't afford to take the chances of using nitroglyceriae for the sake of beuefiting a fow wealthy capitalists, Superior Times: Tie Ovauna Bee is en- titled to the thanks of all Nebraska for the good work 1t has been doing in showing up the efticioucy of the oil inspection law and the fraudulent practices of the oil monopoly. Tho question of the safety of illuminating oils s one that comos home to overy family, and the inspector who passes unsafo oil, as well as the corporation dealer who kuowingly sells, is a criminal in every sense of the word, Hastings Nebraskan: The Standard oil octopus has pleaded guilty to the charges brought against it by Tue Owmana Beg inas- much as it has thus far not offered one scin- tilla iu defence to the questionable way in which they have evidently been serving the people of the state. Oul inspection in Ne- braska seems to have been a burlesque of the first magnitude, and if Tue Bee's agitation shall be the cause of the enactment of laws raising the test standard of illuminating oils and causing one of tho most heartless monop- olies to abide by it, it will ve entitled to the thanks of the people of the entive state, — T LUPPUSED 70 BE FUNNY. Owmana Bee is o fraud connected Tue Bek is Rochiester Post: Son and yet so far—the soft fen ¢ voice fn the telephone oflice. New York Herald: town usually ends by himself. The man who paints the malkdng a pleture of Somervillo Journai: Shake: vthrow physic to the dows,” it better than physic to throw at the wroto, ks ure New York ‘Thoy're playin' havoe wi' Jolin Anderson, my Joe. With lawyers craft They'll prove ye daft, John Anderson, my Joe. your will, Harper's Bazar: guess n zirl's age co Tom~—1 oan tell you out ick—It's pretty hard to rectly. " zood way to find it How? Fom—Ask her, and then ada one-third, Washgton r. He was clever with & pistol, and a gun was his dolizht; In u shooting mateh he mado his rivais glum. But in putting down a ocarpet, though he aimed with all his wizht, He would always miss the tack and hit his thumb. Puck: She—Now, thut you nre graduated, Dick, what are you go inx to be He-Be? Wy, just think wha New York Herald: Mr. Morinrty ed from blisstul oblivion)—It's Lam! BW: hings yees hov said to me this aive Miss Mulvariey, but O understand their imptiness now. Yo'l niver hov another chinee to holde a burrud in a box to call me a ouckoo just becsuse IVs wan o'clock! A'tanta Constitutin, To advertise it zave him puin fie would not take advi Heaven grant hin in his ne A good supply 0! domain Billville Banner: Coroner Jonkins held an inquest sesterday on w drunkea man who tried to whin his” moth ww. Thero 1s a zood deal of resolution but cussod little Judgment. Fivo mile Billville whiskey, om Glucler Creek, In the f; northwest corner of the state of Washington, is the country seat of sonio printer. Un the zate post of the “shuck’ is the sign, A Home for Bum Printers.” and the following sump- tuons bitl of fure: Supper. Mush, Hours for deals Broakfast, 2 p. a Dinne Supper. 2 v, Now Orloans Ploayune: An of ity hins spent 6,000 duys, or nearly twenty yeurs, in sloep. To n club mun who sits up With poker LAt Kecius al ONOFMIOUS AOUDL of tiuio to wase 1n bed. (nibus Post: Some men give a train of lit too hight a load for smooth running. - - MASCULINE LORDS, Col Dorothea A. Alexander. Oft ruled by woman, though themselves are Kines. Grandly heroie. They do great deeds und groat rew Gl y 1ive for money, if they dle for f A by p sslon, chiang ne for . freak, fi, but very seldom breuk. tes o mibmie thro " worship hi er minds despise the They strike with swords, they do not priek With pins wve to the world, they face home trinls i11— They at the frult aud bDlawme the womun still, vain in smuller things, ards they { average mun CORPSE IN THE RESERVOIR. | s Disgusting Revelation at the Central 1l'i- nois Insans Asylam. WORSE DETAILS TO BE MADE PUBLIC How the Institution Has Been Con- ducted for Almost Half a Cen- tury portios Faken with ale Patier Fe Citreago Bureav or Tie Bee, | Citteaco, Int., Dec. A dispateh from Jacksonville, the ssat of the Central Ihinois insane asylum, makes the startling assertion thut tho 1,200 inmates of tho asylum, for thirty-four anys—feom Janu- Wright, Sioux City, vens, Des Moines, Ta.; R. B. Schineidor, Fromont. F.A. e siis TENNESSEE DING ARMY, Sixtoen Men Have Enlisted but More Wil Follow. Nasnvirie, Tonn., Doc. 15, —Tennesseo has astanding army. At prosent {v consists of only sixtoon mon and it is sleeping in nine tents, but it gives promise of growing, The army is bivouscked on Capitol hill awaiting orders to march to Bricevilla, The army ar vived horo from Memphis yostorday under cominand of Genoral Kellar. The state of- fleers aro not very talkative, but it was learned that thess sixteen men had been sworn in the servico for one year and that it is the intention to swoar in altogother 150. It is impracticablo io take the regular mili tin, a8 many of them could not leave iheir business, so those men wiil be employed They wili be rogularly equippod as soldiers, 3 and fifty men placod “at each of the br. ary 20, 1801, to February #--wero ustng | giisn S ek, Bricoville and Oliver's water drawn froma resorvoir in which lay | Springs, There will' boin addition o civil the corpse of William Wilson, an wmate | guard of fifty men at each place, who was arowned in the tank and whose | “:\hl:ml'w*‘\‘-";u;_vfl‘u‘k_ul‘»wl‘x;u !‘Im {m'h;lln-- Nty ' | cline to talk it is the intention to roturn the body was mnot discovered for OVer | .,iiita'to tho branch prisons within the a mouth. Bven whon the decomposed | yiitfaw days, It is said that tho mattor romamns at last wero found, the asylum | rests entively with tho iessess. Tho state suthorities, Instead of complying with the law i that respect, failed to have a coroner’s inquest as to the cause of death, but the corpse | was sent to the dead house and that was tho last ever sooa of it. Wilson, who was sent tothe asylum from Adams county sovi years ago, was reported missing January 20, ebruary 23, howoeyer, S. C. Bollingsbec, en- gincor of the asylum, notified the superin- tondent that he bhad discovered the body of o man floating in the reservoir, The superintendent gave orders mot to remove the body until the dinner hour, waen all tho pationts and attendants wers at thoir meals, The engin- eor was instructed not to breathe a word to anyone, for if tho news became public the suporintendent would have to empty tho roseryoir, which contained the wuter used daily” by over 1,000 patients. The superin- tendont’s orders were carried out, and ouly u few of the most trusted employes wore let 1nto the secret. Subsequently tho body was fished out and takon to tho déad house. How the Instiiution is Conducted, This was the last ever heard of the body by thoso who were present at the finding or who assisted 10 removing 1t from the reservoir to the dead .house till now, and the reservoir never has been cleansed. The plant of the Jentral llinois hospital for the insane cost the state nearly §1,000,000 and it is onc of the most valuable charitable institutions owned by the state. Since 1870 it has been under the superintendey of Dr. Carriel, who, 1t is said, conducted things to suit himself without any advice from go ernor or board of trustees. Itissaid that this is only the beginning of the exposure of roctenuess conbected with this institution. Army Ofticers Transforred, Major William J. Volkmar, who was acting adjutant to General Miles, and who was trausferred from St. Louis last suvimer, been orderod to Washington, where he will be given a similar position at General Scho- field’s headquarters. Major Volkmar's place here will bo left vicant for tho prosent. Major Peter H. Vroom, assistant inspector, will g6 to the Department ot Texas, where ho will occupy a similar position. His'suceassor is Captain'Jesse M. Lee of the Ninth infan- try, who has for some time been detailed on tho' Indian recruiting service. flas turned Up in Syrin. Auton Taris Behaunessey, the youns Syrian who disappeared so suddenly” from Chicago last summer, has turned up in Zaleh, Syria. F. 1. Hoskins, Presbyterian mission- ary at Zaleh, writes that young Behannessey sa¥s that ha'left. Chioago' much - against his will. “He went to seo his unclo about monay matters,” writes the missionury. “The uncle delayed’ tho complotion of business, invited him to walk to tho station and then’ exerted force enough to have him put aboard the train. At Now York, it is said, similar tac- tics wore used to get the lad aboard a ship sailing for Beyreath. The uncle is the boy's legal guardian, however, and young Behan- nessey was kidnaped at tho request of the mother of the boy. His younger brothor had recently died and she desired that her re- mawing son return home. The young Syrian promises to return to_Chicago, leaving Zaleh shortly after Baster.” Odds and Ends. It is alleged thav a man from Green coun ty called at the asylum some time ago to see his wife, who was a convalesccut patient. He found her in a aelicate condition, and a fow months later she gave birth to a child. The child was adopted by a family in Jackson- villo and is at present a living witness of the affair. A leader of the Christian Knaeavor society in the Central Church of Christ, at Thirty- seventh and Indiana avenue, has been ar- vested on the chargo of theft. ~Elis name i- William A. Bridgeman, vnd it is now discov- ered that he recently completed a term of twelve years at Jolict. ‘Alderman Kennv's anti-gambling or nauce was passed last evening by the coun- cil. Itdeals principully with bookmakers. The ordinance is sweeving ia its provisions and includes the man who makes a bot as well s the man whose business is book- making. ‘A flurcy of cxcitement ran through the re- publican circles in Chicago today when A. M. Jones, chairman of the republican state central committee, and Colonel Isaac Clem- ents, pension agent, each received and read to their friends a letter from Asa Matibhews, stating that, ho was no longer a candidate for governor. Mr. Matthews has all along been board of prison inspectors passed an ordor some time ago for tho return of tho conviet whenever tho lessees shall have providea safe | quartors and a_sufliciont guard. There was some troublo about who was to pay for the guards, and as the stato will have militia equal to tho number of civil guards, it is thought that a compromise has been made and that the state and lessces will each pay one-half the expenses. Dr. Morrow, in an interview, statod that the iessecs woro ready aud haa been fora week., They were only waiting for tho return of Supertatendont of Prisons Wade, who is in Washington. Dr Morrow said the convicts would probably bo taken back as soon as Mr. Wado returns. - P TELECRAPHOPPONENTS GOVERNMEN The Electrical Engineor: Thoe lecture on The Government Telegraphs of Europo" delivered at the I3loctric club last week wasa vory greatsuccoss. My, Rosewater's locture, which is given in full in this issuo. wns fol lowed by a most unimated discussion in which Messrs. Erastus Wiman, lusull, Iooto, Bryan and Leslie participate water's brilliant rejoinders elie applause from an audience that was evidertly opposed in-the main to the views he sot forth Among intorested listeners v President Chandior, of the Postal Telegraph compiny ; Georgo G. Ward, of the Commercial Cabla Gen. O. E. Madden; A. S, Brown Dealy, of the Western Union the lecture Mr. Rosewater ception of old timers, Aftor informal re company. held an all of whom as president of their orcaniza- tion he invited to the next annual meeting in Omaha. North Bend Star: T, Rosewater, editor of Tz Ovana Ber, read a report of bis invosti gation of the telegraph systoms in several Furopean-countries_befora a meeting of tho Electrical club in New York city Wednes day night. Mr. Kosowater has made this question a study, both practically aud theoretically, and 1s ly tho best posted man on telegraphy 1n this country. He nover Loses an opportunity to advocato tho absorp- tion of the telegraph by the government. His report was_briefly reptied to by Irastus Wimun, who prosided at the meeting and who is a stockholder in the Western Union Telegragh company. Wiman said the strongest argument, against conirol of telo- graph by the govornmont is that thers is no money in it; that only about 3 per cent of the peopls in tho United States are interested in the telegraph, ete. If there is no money in telegraph for the stockholders why do they 80 strenuously oppose any movement toward the acquisition of the telogranh by the wov- erament? It isa fair estimate that should the government take hold of the telegraph, rates could easily be reducod to at least & quarter of the present tariff in tho aggrogate, which would bring telegraphic correspond ence within the casy reach of all and the volume of business increased in a much greater ratio. e EMIN PASHA’S POSITION, Conflicting Eeports of His “ituation in Afr.can Wilds, Pauts, Dec. 15.—Private dispatches re- coived from Africa stato that Kmin Pasha has had several bloody conflicts in tho lake district, and that his condition is precarious. These advices, however, do mot agreo with reports from otlier sources regarding the movements of Emin, which stated that Emin Pasha hiad been recelved with the groatest enthusiasm by the chiofs who had served under him when ho was governor of the Equatorial province. It is said furthor that when the nows of Emiz Pashw's movement reached Uganda a British oficer with 1,000 troops started to oppose nis further ad- vances. It may be that this force camo in conflict with Emin’s soldiers. It is to this engagement tho Paris dispatch refers. ———— What o Merchant =ays. Mivrorn, Nob., Dec. 15.—To the Editor of Tne Bee Your charges against the oil in spection in Nebraska are well taken. It is a shameful disgrace and an abominable imposi- tion on the peoplo of Nebraska that we should bo imposed upon us we aro by the quality and character of the oil wo are com- pelled to uso in Nebraska. Soveral mer- chants that have been handling 1502 test oil have boen compelled to quit buying 1502 oil considered one of the most formidable op- onents to the ronomination of Governor vifer. Certain enternrising flovists have scandal- izod the West Side by sendiuz cauvassers to mourning houscholds und soliciting from rel- atives of the deccased ordors for foral de- signs for funeral services Natural gas in paying quantity has been found on a furm in the limits of tho town of Odell_on the Alton road, cighty-two miles from Chicago. A girl nawed Addie Huntor, whose dis- appearance from Kickapoo, 11L, three years ago created a considerablo str at tho time, and the beliof that she had committed suicido in the river. has been found on u farm near Wichita, Kan., whero she wandered whilo suffering from temnorary aberration caused by betrayal and desertion. A Chicago drummer took morphine at Fraokfort, Ind.. and was suppised to bo doad, but when the coroner arrived ho sat up in bed and demanded to know what all the uoise was about. Mr. George H. Morrill ot Washington, curator of goological bureau of Swithsonian fustitute, proposes to have a unique exbibit for the fair illustrating the action of vol- canoes. W estern People in Chicago. The following western people are in Chi- cago: ‘At the Grand Pacific ~Lloyd llo, . . H. Gilcros amara, Sioux City, Ia.; Miss Perkins, Burlington, Ia. At the Palmer—Mr. and Mrs. Linderman, Clarinda, la.; Mrs. G, W. Cook, Mr. and Mrs. John Gordon, Mr. andjMrs, S. C, Hall, Omaba; Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Truesdell, Sioux City, In.; A. C. Barber, A, Goger, Fre- mont: Mr, and Mrs. L, A. McMurray, Webster Citv, 1a. Atthe Wellington—L. P. Prest, Robert Krause, Davenport, la.; J. C. Macy, Des Moines, la.; C. I, Alden, Clinton, Ia, and are using whav purports to be Head Light, 175=, which proves but litti better. We hitve no means of testing the stuff, but very much doubt whether it will test 100> If this coudition of things is to continue [ would sugeest that tho fat office of oil i spector be abolished and that a choap 81.50 per day man bo employed to aflix the atamps on the package, or that the *“oil monopoly' bo cmpowered to establish their own grado and price. Please keep up the kick until un honest wan is placed in the inapector’s oftico and the peonlo will get what they buy. It is not 5o much the prics, but the quahty to which we all objec MEKCHA> ey The Prohibition Vote, Oama, Duoe. 14.—To the Editor of Tnr Brr: A gentleman from ono of the pulpits of our eity vesterday, mado the assertion that leaving out Omaha at the election in regard to probibition, 1t woula bave carricd in our stato with un honest count. This I bolieve to be an error, for it | remember rightly, thero was a very large majority against 1o measure in the country and _towns sepurato from the vote of Omaba. Wil vou pleaso state in your paper what was the facts in re gard 10 said eléction, TrUTIHL Tho total vote of Nebraska on the prohib- tory amendmont was 194,020, The vote for the amendment was and the vote against 111,725, Omaha and Douglas county cast 1,555 votes for the amendment, and 23,015 against it. Leaving Douglas county county out, the probibition amendmont was defeated in the state on the straight vote by 7,073 majority, and by a majority of 13,961, figuring on the total vota of the state. -~ West Polnt Republiean: The expose of Tur Bes of the manuer in which oil Is inspected in Nebraska should roceive the uttention of Governor Thayer. 1f Tuk Bar's charges can bo proven some parties should Auditorum—it.” Campbell, Iude- | receivo thelr walking papers. Alone. in agents, The RovAL BAKING Pows DER stands alone in purity the world of leavening It is the only baking powder free from all adulteration or admixture of injurious ingre- dients, and absolutely pure. “The Royal is undoubtedly the purest and most re- liable baking powder offered to the public,”—Dr. H. A, Mor U. S. Government Chensisé, ! \g P | o P — e