Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 8, 1892, Page 4

t 'l HE DAILY E. ROSEWATER, BEE. SO1Ton PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF &UBSCRIPTION. Paflg fee (without Sunday) One ¥ ear 111 and Sandagy, On XM Ontis . ee 1 o Months, Iny Hee, One Vear. Eiturdny Hee. One Your. v v Weekiy Hee, Ono Year, Shronenine OFFICER The Bee Building. nd 26th Streots AR 00 hHIv‘ 50 | ‘(). 200 15 | 100 iha, Chicnso Offic J{ Commerce, New York, It ‘Tribune Bullding Waushingtan, 515 Fourtec |\I|~wr\sr- CORRESPONDENCE nieations relating to news and tor should be addressod te the purtment. Al comm editorial Laitorial 1 BUSINESS LETTERS, A1l business letters and remittances shonld 1o nddressed to The ee Publishing Company, Omaha. Drafts, checks and postof 10 be made piyable to the order of the com= "Ilis Bee Publishing Company, Proprietor THE BEE EUILDIN EWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION, ttate of Nobraskn % County of Douglas. | co. B, Tzschuck, secretary of The BEE Jifahine company, does soloninly swear thut the setual eiredlation of THE DATLY Bre for the week ending Februury 6, 180, was as follows: funday, J Monday. | Tucaday Wi Eridny, Fob. 3 Suturday, Kol i, Average 0. 1 TZSCUOK, Sworn {0 Lefore me and._subscribed in my nco this 611 day of February. A. D. 18 {7 NP PRI, Notary Publio Average Clre Januney 24,324, P st il st e AN UNsAFE vinduet upon tho busiest thoroughfare of the city isnot credit- able to Omaha, CINCINNATI comes to Omaha for pork Next thing we hear Neweast!'e, England, will be shipping coul from West Vir- ginin. OXF ashamed of the ), Ingland, will some day be bigotry which led its authorities to declino the proffered statue of the late Cardinal Newman. ONE thing is fairly certain. If the democratic mijority in the house thinks it can make any political capital out of a free coinage bill it will force thesenate to consider such a measure. AN ANTHRACITE coal trust is being formed {in Pennsylvania. The coal burons of that great stute having already encompussed the earth with their octopus arms ave merely fencing it in. THE clearing house veports show an increase of 9.8 per cent for Omaha over the corresponding week of 1891 This {8 the highest percentage of increase ro- ported, except from cities of 50,000 or less. Des Moines, lown, shows a gain of 74.9 and Lincoln 48.4 por cent. ToMoRROW Parllament opens and the gladitorial intellectunl contest between Gladstone and Bulfour will be renewed. The world will wistfully wateh the dying hours of this Parliament and wait with more particular interest upon its suc- cessor, for Gladstone will probably suc- ceed Salishury if Gladstone lives. AMERICA shipped to Europe the past year 260,377 bushels of buckwheat. This is tho first time buckwheat appears in grain export statistic: It will come to the surfuce more and more hereaftor in all probability. Buckwhent can always be relied upon to come to the surface. In spite of its irvitating attribates it steadily holds its place at the table, ActioN for damages has been brought by Dallas county, Texas, against the contracting firm which placed the heuj- ing system 1n the court house, upon the ground that the heating system was defective. It is to be hoped the county may win if its case be a clear one. Weo need some precedent in the courts which shall enable the public to recover from contractors such damages as ave directly traceable cither to their inefliciency or rascality. . Tiik county druggrist’s bills for Novem- ber and December medicines furnished paupers, including whisky, fine tooth combs, haiv brushes, tooth brushes and other iuxuries und toilet articles, have been allowed. Commissioner Paddock suys these supplies were ordered by par- ties high in authority. This is a serious accusation. Has it come to this that the superintendent of the poor farm actually uses fine tooth combs and hair brushes and tooth brushes? Tar Cleveland democrats of New York are fearfully enraged and threaten to make Washington’s birthday memorable for democratic profanity. Their rage is vain, however. Mr. David Bennett Hill will celebrate another victory for practical, perniclous politics on that oecasion in spite of Clevelund, the mug- wumps and other hightoned citizens of the I".mpiru stute. The medicine is mado and the New York democrat must either sulk or n_\\uhuw his dose. THE steel beam trust having dis- solved, u sharp decline has taken place inthe priceoi domestic beams,and a turther fall is expected. This combina- vion was in existence about 17 years and it enriched all who were connected with it. A more soulless and exacting mon- opoly never existed und the amount of its plunder has boen enormous. The price it has maintained for steol beams has been nearly double what was neces- sary to a legitimate profit, as is clearly shown by the present price, and it was enabled to choke off all competition and to largely prevent the consumption of (mported beams. The duty on steel beams was materislly reduced by the new taviff and a reduction of the price became necessary in order to meet the competition of imported beams. The duty of $20.16 is still unreasonably high, but the dissolution of the trust insures very great saving to builders, the de- cline in the prico alveady being $13.50 per ton, Undoubtedly the present duty could be cut down one-half without endangering the industry and still en- uble the manufacturers to doa profitable business, while builders would be wa- terinlly bouetited, GOVERNOR THAYER RETIRES, ‘ Governor Thager retires from the ex- office this day B Royd will resume the position which he ecutive and James vacated ten months ago. The people of Nebraska, regardless of party, will foel grateful that the contest | over which this state has been torn at le ance with the verdict which the people dered at the election of 1800, of and it should be the boast of every up | t sottled, and settled in accord- This is a government majorities citi- zen of the great republic that the decree theough the the of of the mjority expressad ballot box is respected as edict tho sovereign. General Thayer the place official supreme It is gratifying that voluntarily surrendered he held without waiting for copy of the of the It was the manly and honorable the and relieves not only Governor but the party the odium which would naturaily at- sp Boyd out an mandate court. clreumstances, Thayor thing to do under republican from have tached to any attempt to k of by calities, offico resorting to legai techni- BLAINE'S DECLINATION. The Associated Pross has given to the public a copy of the letter addressed by Secrotary Blaine to Chairman Clarkson of the mational republican committee, declining under any circumstances to | oeratic situation. allow his name to go before the national republican convention as a candidate for the presidency. This announcement has puted by those who ar Mr. Blaine’s physical condition. M. Blaino's health has been shattered for soveral years past, and domestic afllic- tions have materinlly augmented his debility. Mr. Blaine doubtless realizos that the vepublican party will during the im- vending campnign vequire of its stand- ard bearer exertions which will tax his mental and physical capacity to the ut- most tension. ecling unequal to the task that will devolve upon a presiden- tinl candidate, however populur he might be, Mr. Blaine deems it his duty o apprise his zealous and enthusiastic friends and followers that he cannot enter the lists as theirleadereven if the nomination were unanimously tendered him. Mr. Blaine's declination will e sincere and heartfelt regrets among republicans everywhere. No man since the days of Henry Clay has had such a firm hold upon the hearts of the great mass of his followers,and no man of either party in our times could arouse greater enthusiasm. In the west, more than any other part of the country, the Plumed Knight has always had warm admirers and hosts of devoted friends. been antici- familiar with OUR BRITISH CRITICS, The correspondent of the London Tiines in Chili continues to supply that paper with misrepresentations regarding the officials of the United States in that country, and the English newspapers, with a few honoranle exceptions, still find fault with the course of this govern- ment toward Chili. It is not uncommon to hear the complaint made in England that there is an unfriendly feeling toward that country in the United States, and the conduct of the English press is certainly well caleulated to create and to justify such a feeling. [ts uniform practice is to disparage and find fault with pretty much everything of an internatiounl character tl is done by our government, and this is done, not in the spirit of kindly counsel, but with a malicious purpose to lower this coun- try in the respect of other nations. If it could fairly be assumed that the Fng- lish newspapers represent the intelli- gent public opinion of England, rather than the interests of the capitalists and manufacturers, it would have to be con- cluded that in no other country in the world is there so much unfriendliness toward the United States. British criticism of the course of the government of the United States in the Chilian mutter has been gratuitously insolent, It could find nothing to com- mend in the good temper, the paticnce and the forbearance of this government under circamstances of ‘& yery trying and provoking character, but the de- tormination to insist upon a proper and full recognition of our rights is charae- torized as bluster and swag No people in the world have less right than the English people to condemn theso qualities, but it is grossly unjust to say that they were exhibited in the least degree by the government or the people of the United States. A candid read- ing of the diplomatic correspondence will compel the admission that there is not a suggestion of bluster in any of the communications sent to the Chiliun government, unless a firm adherence to just demands ean be so vegarded. It is equally true that the president’s mos- suwe to congress contained nothing of this charucter, unless insistence upon the duty of the government to proteet its citizens and maintain its honor and dignity ¢ be held to be bluster, It is true that prepurations lur|n|1-4~l!n|o war were pushed with the activity and vigor which the circumstances seemed to demand, but any other conntry would have done likewise under similur con- ditions. It was the part of wisdom und exerted u wholesome influcrce upon the controvery. It is alsu true that the people, being heartily in accord with the government, when hostilities seemed lmminent signilied their readi ness to o to the support of the govern- ment, but there was nothing of the na- turo of bluster in this populur expression of patriovism. The American people are not greatly concerned about British opinion, They are entirely capable of taking care of their own affairs at home ana abroad, and they do not expect or particularly desire to please England. They have a vrotty weeurate conception of the mo- tives which inspire British eriticism wnd they do not expect to avoid iv so long as the United States continues to make commercial progress against British competition, But if England desires to cultivate the friendship of the poople of the United States, as English- wen are wont 1o assort, such insolent HA and unwarranted criticism as the press of that country has recently so freely indulged in cinnot reasonably be ex- pected to do otherwise than militate against the growth of friendly feeling. MIL LS HAS DECL. There is no longor where Mr. Roger Q. Mills stands and what he intends to do. Hoe has eloarly stated his position aud purpose, and the aunouncement will not improve the deni- Mr. Mills does not 1y compromising or tempor- izing policy vegarding the tarift. He is for war, not upon parts of the law, but agninst the whole of it, and he will ac- cept nothing less than this, He looks upon the proposition to attack ouly cer- tain features of the tariff as amounting to n surrender of the democratic posi- tion, and he will not be a party to such aplan. It will be entirely v for Mr. David A. Wells or anybody olse to now plead with Mr. Mills to allow the Springor policy to provail. Having de- clared himself and proclaimed what he regavds as the duty of the party, the Corsican statesman is not the sort of man to retreat, or what would be practi- cally the same thing to permit those who entertain opposite views to put them in effect without a contest. Me. Mills will 'undoubtedly bo from in the house at an early duy. program of the ways and means mittee has been made out according to the Springer plan, and the work of car- rying it out will probably be entered upon this week. The start will be made when the ways and means committeo ro- ports the bill to put wool on the free list, and this will bo Mr. Mills’ oppor- tunity. In the meantime those who are opposed to the Springer policy of attack- ing the taviff by soparate bills are causing the weys and means committee some anxiety and embarrassment by threatening to bombard it with resolu- tions instructing the committee to re- port bilis putting various articles on the free list. Anindication of this design is seen in the resolution relating toagri- al implements, is altogether probable that Springer policy will prevail, but Mills will be able to rally a strong mi- nority of the democrats of the house in opposition to it, and if he brings tu the contest which he proposes to m:fke his usual earnestness and virror he can make the dominant faction feel very uncom- fortable. The effect of his attitude must be to perpetunte and perhaps in- tensify the dissension in the democratic ranks and to cairry it into the national convention, where, from all present in- dications, there will be one of the hottest and bitter conflicts ever had in a political convention, ARED NIMSELF. any doubt ns to believe in oless heard I'he rom- the Mr., THE VIADUCT UNSAFE. THe Brr has repeatedly expressed the opinion that the Sixteenth street wooden viaduct should be replaced with one of iron and stecl upon stone piers, The principal reason for urging the change has been that the present struc- ture is not adequate to the traffic which would naturally pass over it and is now in urgent need of repair. These argu- ments in favor of an entirely new via- duct ave strongly reinforced by the re- experts who have re-exnmined thin the last few days and who agree that the wooden bridge is unsafe for travel and is & menace to the lives of the thousands who are daily compelled to pass over it either in their own vehi- el on foot or in the motor cars. Although efforts are now being made to strengthen the bridge, and iv may be made reasonably safe for ordinary travel, it is useless to attempt to patch up the structure so as to relieve the pub- lic from a reasonable apprehension of danger. The city engineer is convinced that heavily loaded motor trains tax the strength of the spans to the danger limit, and he will recommend that an ordin- ance be passed regulating the movement of motor trains upon the viaduct. This s proper, but it is a mere makeshift, The principal thoroughfare of the city of Omaha is Sixte:nth street. It will always be the traflic street between Omaha and South Omaha. It will be absurd as well as dangerous to insist upon continuing to use this long, nur- row wooden bridge. There is no way to escape rebuilding the viaduct. It should be as wide and strong as thut on Tenth street and the council ought not to delay the ordinance compelling the rail- ways to replace the present structure with one ample for the future growth of the two cities. The injury and death of one train lond of motor passengers would involve the city in dumages fur bevond the cost of a new and thorcughly sub- stantial vinduet, The responsibility is one of which the city should be relieved without de¢ KANSAS Crry is to have a $2,000,000 federal buitding. The Journal prints a .cut of the design, and states that Super- vising Avchitect Edbrooke will shortly it Kansas City to examine the site n person. Ivis to be hoped Mr. Edbrooke may find time to come to Omaha alsc There are some people in this city who would be pleased to point out some de- foets in his design for the Omaha build- g Tue committee appointed to select a spealer to present Omaha’s cluiws to the people’s party at St Louis for the ational convention will do well to seleet an orator who is neither an active par- tisun politician nor a railroad attorney, THE residence streets on which light travel only is expected, and which are ordinarily clean and passable, are heing rapidly ruined by constant dict-hauling in heavy vehiclos. There must be some- thing done to abate the nuisance. ONCE more Tune Beg monsteates against the insufferable divt wagon and the filth and discomfort it occasions. Tue grand jury is sending cold chills through the civeulatory systems of the bocdle gang. Too Good to Thrive, G- Democrat. The anti-Hill movemeut in New York isa nice, polite, ladylike affair, but it doesu’t count for the purposes of practical politics wilon, Chicago Tribune. Mr. Thurston's explanation that e is not seaking a nowination as viee president, but “'canuot provent his fricuds from putting DAILY name,” suggests that, for a still bigher oMe, there are sevoral groups of friend. who have about the same kind of Thurston, $bto speak Good Republican Advice. " Mione wpotis Trimne And now if (iovernor Thayer vacate the guberuatorial chair forward is wiso he without An En - 1y of the State. Chicago Post. The uniform divorce law of Senator Kslo of South Dakota appears to aim a blow at oo industries. 1t would holp to depopulate Sioux Faus! - Te Took His Medicine, Chicago News “Physioian, heal thyssif™ is & aifffeult svggestion to follow. Sir Moreell Mackenzie, the great English authorfty on throat and lung troubles, fell a victiig to bronchitis. —— A Nationul Straddie. Cineinnati Commercial, Tho democrats in_congress uro showing a great deal of timidity regarding the siiver question. They are afraid to declare a policy onit. The scheme, therofore, will be to talk free coinage in parts of the country where that craze oxists, and honest money in com- munities whoro the democrats have not lost their heads, PR Just His Caliber, Philadelphia Inquirer. ew York 1s behind with its appropriation for the World's fair. So far behind is it that a delegation of the most prominent business men of New York City went to Albany tho other day to advceate an appropriation o° £500,000. The suggestion seemed to stagger Governor Flower, who represents Senator Hill at the capitol. He leaned back in his chair and remarked: “Rats!” * % But what great deeds of statecraft can Governor Plower possibly have concealed behind the gubernatorial utterance of “Ratst' . THE EMPIRE BUSS. The fill boom tha western Washingion Post (rop.) : has vet to do business with blizzards New York Advertiser (dem.): As between Murray Hill and David B. Hill we are in clined—from a strictly sporting standpoint— to lay a few pence on David. New York World (dem.): Theunanimity of the domocratic newspapers of the state in condemning the midwinter convention call sufficiently shows what the party thinks of the snap-judemont plan. Globe Democrat (rep.) : Several big demo- cratic papers in the west ana south aro vitching into Hill vigorously, but will they bolt him if he should gain the canaidacy ! Ho has still some chance of doing this, Puiladelphia Inquirer (ren.): But out of these bitter contests is tho fecling not likely to spread that a new candidate must bo selocted—Gorman for instance? Thevein is the danger to boulr Hill and Cleveland. Philadelphia Ledger (rep.): In the con tention among the New York aspirants for the democratic presidential nomination it looks as if it is'not to be all *‘up Hill"” work, but that thevd will besome “down Hul" work, too. Chicago Herald (dem.): The protest of the mugwumps and doubtful democrats in New York neafiist an early convention is a senseless nowl. It 1s doubtless the voice of disappointment at the condition of sentiment there, rather thau a manly opposition to un- fair methods, Depyer epublican: Evidently the war is on between tha Hill and Cleveland factions in New York. The more they kuife each other the bettor it-will be for lhe country, as a fratricidalwar botween the democrats will insure the. re election of the present administration for another tevm. Now York Tribune (rep.): It begins to look now as though the cemetery dovoted to blasted politicak ambitions was ‘destined to contain a littlo-headstouo with this lettering onit: Here lies the Presidential Boom of David B. Hill. _Died of a “suap’ convention at Albany, N, Y., February 22, 1502 R. I P, Minneapolis fourpal (ind, ren): A for- midable revolt against Hill is foreshadowed in New York, where there is serious tlk by the Cleveland faction of holding a separaio couvention and sending a Cleveland delega -tion to Chicago. This kick against Hill's machine i likely to set off some fireworks in April or May. Denver Sun (rep.): David B. Hill smil ingly intimatos that it was at_his persoaal suggestion that Washington's birthday was fixed as the date at which to hold his ixew York state convention. This was eminently firting. There 1s o striking resemblance be- tween Washington and Mr. Hill. Woshiug- ton never told a he. Murat Halsteaa: This is simply a_strug- gle touse the state to coerce the national democratic party. It 1s of a foredoomod nawro. It kills Cleveland, but Cleveland’ frieuds have the force and the will to knife Mr. Hill through and_through; and the able Mr. Fiower, now a gubernatorial bud, will burst {nto 'full bloom as a prosidential blossom and shiue through one gorceous summer, to wither in November. —-Like popples sprend, You seize the flower, 115 hloon Or, like the snowtall i the 1) A moment white, th gone forever. THE JOKERS SAY. Epoch: Fanglo—1t scoms tome very strange h Mrs. Melunsin snould iy sh 50 mueh affection on thut homely pug dog, (Hmm; -Not at all. You ought to sce her now how muny thiies 1 have heard him give himself awiy. Now York Thero wus somo- thing romuntic about tic way Mr. Scadds pre posed to the womian he married, Camso—How wis thut? “8ho was i poor girl, and tho first thine ho saw her was ina strost car. He noticed b ke room for another Womnn on the soat be- side hier. The et touchod him, ho learned who sho was, ealled that very evening, and proposed.” Washington Star: “You look as if you huve having a Jolly tme.” have; do you know. T thiak this is one of ost wenfal, hospitablo and cuitivated I the country?" SWhere have yon boen? “Went out and patd w fow bills Just now." EXTREMELY PLEASANT. Clothier and Furnisier, How pleasant 18 It every mor As on tho oileloth floor you Heht, With frigid foetto zrope for hours Forsippers that ire out of sizht, Miss Suiith ata pretty home you Miss Johuson ! have now, Quite Queen Anne-- is 1t not? Mis Johnson=Y¥es: Que and Mary Aun avihe back, Anne 1 front, In loaving his acro- butie carcer fonshe pulplt, Goc p Hunlon, anie of the asiiedrothors of that uune, lonves Lelind bim all vaulting amoition, A THIOLE Jude. Bhe gave me a simple no An | btaghing huns her head, Ir was by the wavoes' sud tlow, Sl ga vir e w sinpie uo. When Lusged her shouid I so And soidgny rivil instead, Sl 2 vi e i st plo no Aud bifdhing hung hor head Philadelphia Lo e 1o his ckn i Epoch: “My/de#r.” suid Mr. Cubly wife, who wis ddageronsly 111, M rs, KK 13 Gownstaies and Wints (0 s you." SWhat s she 50t o wshed the dy wonin, feebls. g o it her I don't belfeve you u were, said the bal 0 provess Of Shiving. SN0, Lhiat wis rouily n biz s1i of 1y chin just then, 18 houvy 0 Cumso, dur you took out roplied Cuinso. Philnde!phin Recora: Ultimatuis work so we. L thit 16t shE De 4 200U 5. 1000 10 Ley one on Garza VISIONS. N, Roundy. Visions ome and go Leaving in their uiry i Just @ Fhs it soft und OFf their woveinent to aud fro Sometting 1ike un old re "Tis the way with suwmer rain; Tis the WAy WiLh )9y und pain; *“Pis the way wita ali we ken Of the lives of mortal men; St Lo como, thew o wyuiv, | THEY MAKE THE WIRES HUM Associated Press Operators Who Have Rev- olutionized the Art of Telegraphing. DEVICES WHICH HAVE HELPED THEM | machine and thus double the cap: | wires and furnish a typewritten copy. The Typewriter and Have M T Patent Attae ¢ It Possible to Do £l mes as Much Work as in the 010 Days, The story of one of the groat steps forward In newspaper and telegraph progress has never been adequately told. It is the record of a change in mothods littio short of mar velous and perhaps even moro far-reaching 10 its practical benefit and diroct results than bstitution of Morse's first wires for the pigeons and pontes that oricinally carried the news of the day for all the Uniteu States, Though little understood by many of the magnates and workers in nowspaper and telegraph circles, probavly because too littlo talked of by those to whom the credit is due, the facts are nevertheless of wido and per- manent interest' To ono mau's quick per- coplion, persistent energy and intelliger £rasv of a complex problom, aud to the pluck skill and perseverauce in the face of the gen- @<l ridicule of a score of others, emulating | tho spirit of their chief, is to be atributed the extraorinary success achieved. 1t was oarly in 1585 that the iden of organ- 1ZIng a gonors lines throughout the west for news as t1on purposes was couceived with the twin project of utlizing the typewriter for en- hancing the value alike of the operator’s se vices and the time of the wires. De- spite the loudly-vaunted prases of latter day imitators, the matter first took definite shape in the offices of the Associated 1’ress, was designed for the advantage of its service and was brought to perfection wholly by men identified with the Associated Press system. The superintendent of telegraph, night manager for the Associated Press at that time as now was Addison C. Thomas of Chicago, strangely enough moro genorally known for his ability and force in strictly newspaper work for the past soventeen years in conngction with the haudling of veports of national conventions and other world-stirring fevents :than for originating and bringing to success the most distinctive features of telegraph work for the news- papers—a system of leased lines turning out 1o news of the universe in copy so perfect as pracically to require for publication only the addition of headlines. Prior to the new departure, press dis patchies were dealt out to the newspavers, great and small, atso much a word. To save telegraph tolls everything was ‘“in skoleton,” that is, all small’ words such as “of’* aud “'the"” were omitted, and the news itself on extraordinary occasions was re duced 1o the barest outlines of facts. The result was a collation that while decidealy the best known at the time, compared with wihiat goes into the newspaper offices now-a- days, wus as dry and differentas salt cod- fish 1s from terrapin stew. Matters approacted a focus whon General Mavager William Henry Smith and the board of directors of the Associated Press decided to try for a few mouths what was thought merdy un experiment—the leasiug of wires for themselves from the telegraph company. ‘I'he operators selected by Mr. Thomnas were the pick of the profession, and tho esprit du corps that he fustered and their magnificent work lightened the burdens of hundreds of weary telegraph editors from New York to San Francisco. Dispatches were no longer ‘‘skaletonized,” news was rounded out with life and color, and the vol- ume quadrupled. But tho “‘experiment,” pleasant as were the results, was proving a costly oue, and the operators, though vaid relatively high sularies, felt that they were mantaining a killing pace. It was at this juncture that the application of the typewriter to the ser- vica as a solution of the question of expense and of the other aificulties made the “leased wire system’ a national fixture, the use of which' is expanding from year to vear, Under the encouragement of the superin- tendent, Operator John A. Payne of Nash ville, Tenn.. first made himse!t proficient in employing the instrument to transcribe the news dispatches as they were rattled off at what was supposed to be the phenomenal eait of forty words a minute. Then others of the staff learnod, and contests for prizes offerod by Mr. Thomas soon made-all the men experts; the first cash prize being cap- tured by George . Allhanas of Louisville, the second by I, B. Williams of l’lunh\ng tawnliarly known as “Fatty Willinms, ‘The whole matter was elinched by an in- genlous device, the personal invention of the superintendent, for which letters of pacent were issued to him by the United States gov- ernment, This was the feed guide. Press Qispatebies being furnished in common to @ number of newspapers in each largo city have from tine inmemorial been necessarily taken on manifold tissue paper with carbon shoots botween. How to handle such a cumbrous bundle in a typewriter was a puzzle; but the familiar tin slide, *‘the ‘Thomas feed-guide,” now attached to every telegrapher's machine, mado the method clear as Columbus’ explanation of how aa egg could stand on end. Tho important fact should be voted that John Payne's beau- tiful work, and that of individuals at widely scattered points who haa before haud, more or less unsuccessfully essayed the feat accomplishea by him, was wholly on asinglo copy of dispatches, No manifold was used or could be used unul the inven- tion of the feed-guide, and 1t is simplo cffroutery, not to say idiocy, tnat would seck todispute the record: it is, brietly, that months before anv other organization the Associated Press had i operation on a leased wire system of its own & brillinnt corps of tpowritor tolo zraphers doing for the news- papers of Awmerica what had never beforo Bobn thought of, muoh less Undereaken. Th trath is that the iirst successful plan for briuging the typewriter into gen- eral usu for telegraph purposes was con coived within three days after tho Asso- ciated PPress leased-wire service started. Mr, Payne was withdrawn (rom his regular work in the Associated Press oftice at Nasn ville, und s expenses and salary paid whilo ho visited, “machine” 1 haud, the Associated Press ofices at Washington, New York, Phitadeiphia, Baltimore and all the larger cites east and ' west of the Alle- ghanies, The purpose of the tour was to give the Associated Press operators a chance to see for themselves the possibilities opened up. It was thus that concerted action cured on the part of what proved was_ se- to bea compacet body of pioneers, ana the Associated | «dod where 'beforo failure had veen uniform with others and even with itself. The introduction of the muchine opened up o new ficla for 1ts usefulness for the benefit of the telegrapk editor and proof reader, The old style manifold, or more Press suc familiarly known to newspaper men as ‘“‘the | flimsy,” " was abandoned white' paper, vractically print papor except whiter aud of finer texture and light weight, This paper was made especiaily for the use of the Associated Press under the personal superyision of Mr Thomas, who lirst suggested the machine manifold paper and gave an order for its pocaliar manufucture, which made it possi- blo 10 prodica as high us thirty copies at ane writing. This paper was manufuctured ex. asly for tho Associated P’ress by Mrs- de of Chicago, who 18 the daughter of the ntor of manifold paper, and who bas for yonrs carried on the business. If it were possibie to genuinely dispute with the Associmied Press the houor for the inception of the tvoewriter service, the statement would be due that ® Mr. IS, 1% Porter of Chicago tirst used the typewriter 1o making sioglo copies of mes sagos from sound for the Western Union Telegraph company s far back as 1574, His work aud that of the tvpewriter whiie other- wise good proved a failure, however, owing o the fact that & ribbon suitable for duplicatingthe ink characters was then not in existence, Hence the maehine was avandoned for Lelegraph seryice. W. 1. Vigus, chief clerk for Genoral Auson Staver, vice pre ident of the Western Uniun Pl company, aud for miuy years con uceted with tho Asscoiated Fress,” invented later the since widely-kuown “'cop 1b bo 1," and endeavorcd to push the machi e into telegrapn and press use; but agaw it failed, owin¥ 10 the imperiections of the ma- chine on account of not haviog capital levers Business men objected Lo the copy and Wil bur 1", Storey, proprietor and editor of tho Chicago Pimes, ~ emphatically protested ugainst the use of it by the Associated Pross in eopyiug the reports of the Beecher trial for the cheap the ‘samo as ubandoned and the Western ( rusted out in A w. Tribune ganeral wrote an_operator, wi which ho could | rocoipt of this I man to Chics offorts in the office to make it books, ote. over ih until 1885, | . Mr. Wyckoft Benediet, of New machine was be Associated P called on Superin A bid for the tra, the ty powritor w | years “bufore, an count of certain ¢ writer appliance the Agal for manifold $6,000 wo Wyekoff said ho could not be mad thelr experts at Now York, Hart and were at the carrvied o telecraph work, in the ficld, of result was that grapn, tho Smith tho land. In the m by Mr. was made in Chic Washington, Bal delphin and _all ern cities, tho now ing the prote: Western U of old-timo ope stylus mot its W Union oftices are in your telegraph a_dozen ol the tape in uniy sway. An Association York City. missioner, The A. Walker of the Technology, and inent maunufacture retary and treasu West Newton, Known work on pi tive committeo tor, four manufac son, practice the and a professor o business, who of profit shari tems of uniting t aud employos. lish & burenu of iv various commercial and dis reform, G. Conn, a Elkbart, Ind., div ployes IPebraa; basis, five of bis o the other werkme which thev stood. tno plan bas boen concerned cousid In 1878, Whitelaw manager of the that ho had an application from ono Wellnor 10 claimed to havo atonee telographed Mr. to stop the wire company Press would make a contr b of machine whero writing machines ntime a dovice was studied Thomas Immediately a job lot of Thomas’ feed guides Machines departure s aud discouragements of the ators machinos dispatches to Tur Bre pen, the pencil and the “monkoy,” tha sub stitute for tho old Morso Sharing has receatly been Mass., Pennsylvauia colloge. brings together men of science and of firms interested in profit-sharing, publications and other clubs to promote tho ussion and extension « The annual feo for oben to all interested, is &3. tions should be addressed to the AS 8 consequence the project was once more | 00 machines purshased by nion Telograph _company arehouse in Now York Reid of the New York Wiillam Houry Smith, Associated Pross. a codo use in connection with the ity of the On otter William Henry Smith Rerd to send on his Wellner, after repoated Pross’ Chicago ave it up as ho had to change the nifold n the stylus bad a victory machine and beid ite supremacy of Wyckolf, Seamans & k, on hearing that tho olug tulkod of anew by the camo_to Chicago, and tondent Thomas and made e. He was irformed that as thrown out nearly ten d had remained out dofects : butthatif the 'l would nvent holding and feoding books, tho Associated et for &,000 or us a starter. Mr. belioved such an_ invention o, but that thoy would put vork. Thomas then visited fora, Conn.. and other citios aro manufactured, shops his suggestions ut for numerous changes in the machine to perfect them for press and the object beiug to prevent # monopoly of any certain writing muchines pened for their use. The the Remington, tho Cali h and other machines were 8001 pressed into active service throughout out and patents apphed for. cawo and rushed through to timore, New York, I’ other eastern und wost- woro ordered and started notwithstand- n and tho projudices “Then it was that tho iterloo. Today the \Western filled with typewriters, and room is heard tho click of recording the special whero years ago tho zister, recling off itelligiblo characters, bold PROFIT-SHARING, for the Promotion of Profit formed in New Unitea States labor com. Carroll D. Wright, is president, the two vico presidents being President I, Massachusetts Institute of Mr. N. O. Nolson, a prom- or in St. Louis. The sec- ror is Nicholas P. Gilman, author of the well rofitsharing. Tho exocu- consists of a railroad direc- turers, who, liko Me. Nel- systom in_ thelr business, of political economy in & The association thus men of desiro the extension ng and kindvod sys- he interests of employers It 1s their intention to ostab- nformation for the beuefit and by addresses before of this industrinl membership, All communica- secretary. leadine manufacturer of ided $9,000 among s em 1 on the profit-suaring oremen receiving §75) cach, while the remaindor was apportioned umong n according to the class in This is the second yoar tried by Mr. Conn, and all EDUCATION AL, Nearly 60 por cont of the highest oftic are held by collees graduates. the countes Prof. John Wil who receives $1,00 s in liams White of Harvard 0 a yenr, is_considering an offer of the chair of Greek in the new Chi- cago university at 57,000, The registration of the law departmont at the University of which is 200 moro thau at law school in poin “Two willion doi fect the removal of Columbia college, York City, to the sum § Michigan has reached 6; rvard, the next t of nynber: lars will be nocessary to ef- Now Bloomingdale site. Of this ,000 has been subscribed, Yalo's new dormitory, the gift of Pierce N. ally 1t will buildings that now Dr. Enoch class of Yale's u the sylvania. in 1520, tributed Mrs, Madison. An athbletic clu has ceen incorpo the name of the The aim is to athletics, There 1,500, William Ireland by Chicago. aaily papers, Viz., Cornell and Brow out three times o a week. Princeton’s new lectura cotirses,c. ings. Th and the form semi hold 1,500 people, Ships of £,000 enc Philadelphia, full seholarship w Andrew Carneg 000 endowment | bra main building b brick and terracot building. the Kuropean sch of Collegiate Aluu listen to loctures ¢ versity of Berlin, been subjected to the students, Oune of the pr overseers sbould cuus constituted almos | neu Harvard is subject 10 charges of vivewalism, It want to avoid and it is probabie that s west- | ern man will soon Welch, 15 noaring completion. be an imposiug addition to the iithian of is the oldest colloge graduate living, teor, years professor of mod Yale university, nas fessor of the department languages and lite Fivo colleges and universitie y by @ cool §100,000 on co Miss Gentry, the American girl Architectur- w adorn the cawpus. Greenwich, N. J., Ho was 1816, University of Penn- oldest alumnus graduatea The new chapel recently dedicated at Be. loit is the gem of It cost £30,000, over half of which wi all the colle buildings. cou Amelia B, H. Doyon of b, strictly of college mon, rated in New York, under Umversity Athletié elub, encourag intercollegiate is already a membership of Kuapp, for tho past thiv languages in od b 1 pro- of tho romunce ature of the University o beea now publish Yale, Harvard, Michigun, n. Tho Princetonian comos week and the Pennsylvan ian of the University of Peunnsylvauia, twice auditorium, which 15 nearly completed, will be used for commencements, icerts and all large gathor- aterial is granite and brown ston circulur. It is expectod Lo Over #450,000 has been added to the Vassar college funds in tio years and two scholn h, These were gi Miss Perry of Albany und Mlss K Hereaitor the amount of 111 be $3,000, io has increased his & a f tho Pittsburg pubiic li- | dition that the o of granite rather than ta, There is no memorial grunite likely to enduro lougor than a library | who won larship of the Association i, has beon allowed to o mathematics at the Uni- but it is said that she bas considerable unnoyance by wcipal topics at Harvard just | 8t present is furnished in the discussion as to Whother or not oue member of the bourd of come from tho west. He- of the fact that the present board is t wholly of New England pro~ this that the authorities be found on the board. NO FAVORS FOR VETERAMN ! Little Hope For a General Pension Bill at Present. DEMOCRATS WILL OPPOSE THE MEASURE Howling Ex.Confederatos the Mo ®eity in 1 the No Indiente House No the Policy Subject Seat Wasnixgrox Beneav or e Bae, 13 FovrreesTit Strser, l Wasiixaroy, DG, Feb' 7. ) here will not only bo no legislation 1 this congress intonded to generally affect vensions, but no opportunity will be missed in the house to cast odiom upon the policy of pensions, There may be somo geueral pen sion bills passed by tho sena'e, but not as much iuterest will bo takon by that body as usual, on account of tho well known fact that 1t 18 next 1o an impossibility to got acy gen oral legisiation through this house, Thotirst t the maco, tho emblom of nuthority, hus boen broaght forward in the Present congross was in the houso the other when un ox-soldier was making an appea a hoaring 1 the intorest of o gonerd peusion bill. The house had wasted o unmber of days in the discussion of the ruales und had come to what was in effect a deadloek, Democrutic members bad howled themseives howrse, and made their arms tired ‘n shaking' their fists at eacl other and at the ropublican sido, when Major Pickler of South Da kota aroso and asked iuw very temporute tone and wodest manuer if it would not be o good time to take a rest on the discussion of o ruios and give consideration to a general veusion bill, the merits of which we Diain on its fac dobate. The moment the word *pensions’ passed his lips Buck Kilgore of Texas, the lowiing X confederate, WHo NOVer misses an - oppor- tunity of rising and declaiming against pen- sions, sprang to s feet and yelled an - ob jection, 1t was unnccessary, however, for that gentleman to enter a protost, for ‘moro than 100 men on the democratic si e began to 4roan and murmur, “oh! oh! oh!" Again and again Major Pickler uttempted to app 10 the reason of the liouse if not to the pity and charity of those who had the power to bestow assistanco to the veteraus, their widows and orphaus, but in every effort his words wero woed by a chorus from the side, where there woro jeers, ridiculo and ‘tho very picturo of disgust as cach one exclaimed “On! oh! oh!" The scenc was ono which would have stirred the blood in uny patriot's heart After a_persistent and patriotic appoal to the house, which met with the most cordial sympathy on the t of every republican and a few democrats, but with "the ridiculo of o groat numver and a lavge majority of the followers of Crisp and Mills, the attempt to fix a day for securing the consideration of the pension bill was abandoned, and for a mowent at least tho last hope of pension legislation was dofeated. Three Bills In Two Months. Attention was the other day called to tho fact that altbouzh the presentisession of con gress has cousumed wo montus but three- bilis had been adopted by the house. There aro now nearly $,000 bills upon the rocordsy of the clerk’s documont rooin and the pro: pects are that the eutire number of measuros which will be introduced st the prosent. scssion of this house wil) exceed by 2,000 or ,000 tho number introduced into the previous congress, and there are those who believe that the aggregate of bills which will be in- troduced in the present house will number over 15,000, Uusually the percent of the bills introduced in congress which become laws varies from 6 to 4, and thero bave not been more than 10 per cent of the ageregato weasures proposed which have become laws In the lust cobgress about b poer cent of the bills introduced wero found upon_ the statutes when th n expired. Itlooks now that thera wil not bo2 pe cont of the bills proposed in this conBress in law when the term expires on March 4, 15, In the matter of the introduction of bills iu cougress the democrals are proving thom selves as demagorical as thoy aro in pro claiming upon the hustings during their campaign, when all sorts of promises are made bubnono fulfilied. It has been the policy of tho democrats for many years to simply introduce measures and promise tinal action but by prearrangement o dotoat final thero boing a doublo aim in ths policy. In the first placo it contemplates an senditure of public funas to_enforee most of the legislation of congress. Iv the second place a great wauy members are enablod to retain a hold upon their constituents by cous tinually promising them this and that logis. latiou, the consummation of which deprive thom of most of thefr politi ital. Some of the vills which have been intro- ion convenod in Decom ber last bave been upon tho calendurs of congross for many years. Some of them, for private persion legislation, have recoived favoravle action t tho hands of the ponsion committees, and have appeared every two yoars for more that: u decade. It wonld bo easy to sccure final action upon u large number of theso bilis, but by continually omising legislution, and carctully provent- t, the demazogues are enabled t retain their hold upon thoso directly interested. No Seat No Fare in Congress, A provosition has been made in congress relating to the conduct of streot cars in this city whicii may prove a wholosome oxumplo to the organized government in many eitios, | 1t 15 proposed to pass u law forbidding the drivers or conductors of street cars 1o take on_ moro than can be seated. 1f more passcngers are permit ted to enter curs than can be seated tho passongers may either refuso o pay fare or institute” damuge proceedings. e object is (o compel the strect car come panies to supply enough cars to accommodatg the public. Should this proposition becoiho & alaw it would bo no real hardship for tho companics, for they have an enormous for- tune in their franchises which enablo them to pay dividends two or three timos as lorgo as other juaicious investments yield. It 1s simply & question now whether tho stroct onr companies can $o influence congress as 1o acfeat the measure introduced io the interest of the publie. The corporations havo not, - howaver, been successful 1 dofeating lopis Lation, for during the last session a bill was passed providing that the horse car lines should be converted into cablo within twenty-four months, and millions are being oxpended in muking eable lines out of what wis tho slow and poor transportution by herses, & S, M. D iy, » no { { ® v would al cop- passenge COULD NOT Missixsippl's Governor Unable to s 1 to u Sherlit o Jacksox, Miss, I'eb. 7.—Governor Stono received a telegram this afternoon from H. 5. Walker, sheriff of Claiborne county, Mi sissippl, stating that Lwo mon wore about 1o ! bo mobbed at Martin and that he was unable to protect them, and asking the governor oud him a military company at ounco. The governor tried and failod to got tho transpor tation for troops and wired tho sheru? that he could not get the transportatios: in tino to roliove bim #nd Lo wire the situation, T'hore is 00 appropriation Lo puy the necos sary oxpenses Lo mest omergencies of this kind, and yet the governor is expected Lo sco the Luws onforced and vindicated and says ho must do s0 at the risk of baving L assumo Lhe exponse. Muny mombers of the present legisiature | are now fighting such an appropriation. 10 Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S, Gov't Report. Baking ooes POWder