Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 14, 1892, Page 4

TH E DAILY BEE. E. ROSEWATER, Eptrron 1Y MORNI TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION (without Sunday) Onoe Year Sundny, One ¥ or LR 00 hs. One Vear. Ong Your. One Year. OFFICF Cmade, The Bee Buildin EcuthOnahn, corner N nnd 20th Btreets Counell Binfm: nrl Stro Chicn: o Offico, d New York, Roousl Wushington, 513 Fi Tribune Buliding con ANl communications reluting to news and editorial matier shonld be addressed tc the Editerial Department. S LETTERS A1l Tustness letters and remittances shonld 16 nddres ) The Hee Publishing Company, On'ulin. Drafis. checks and postofice orders 10 be mude pryable to the order of the com- piny. e Bee Publishing Company, Proprigtor FWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION, Htate of Nebraskn ton ty of Douglas. | Geo. W, Tzschuck, secrotary of The Bee 1 ublishine compun: does solemnly swear: hut the setual oireaiation of THE DATLY jor the week ending March 12, 1502, wa follow Fundn Nonds 1 BUSIN . Mareh 6, , March 7 ueadny, March 8 Wocnesday, Marci o "Thuraday, March 10, Stireh 11 Euturday. March i3 SIOTERR GEO. i MUCK. Eworn 0 lefore ne and_subscribed in my Tresence this I5th day of March. A. D. 1802 EXAL N. P. L., Notary Pablie. == - E Average Clrenlation for Febraary 24,5610, F1¥ ' street property owners have staying and fighting qualities. It 18 becoming painfully apparent to the English government organs that Balfour is not equal to the present emergency. LATEST advices from New Hampshire bring the gratifying intelligence that ex-Senator Blair is satisfied with the presidential outlool Tuose international nuisunces, Mitch- ell, Slavin and Sullivan, have been staining their reputations a good deal more with ink than blood lately. SOONER or later the inter-urban “traffic of Omaha will require viaduets aceross the railronds for all the streets now blocked by tracks, but they canaot all be constructed at once. Now that the principal contractor for city hall work has practically completed his part of the building, it might be well for the council to pay some atten- tion to hastening the movements of the special contractors. UrAH has shown conclusively that she is not vet ready for statehood. Her legislaturo adjourned without passing an appropriation for an exhibit at the World’s fair. Utah has not yet caught up with the Ninateenth century. GROVER CLEYELAND appears to have boen his own Sackville West in the ante-convention campaign. Cleveland cannot expect help from n democrat congress which he says has committed blunders that kave never been exceeded. AMONG the foreign exhibits at the World’s fair will be a fac simile of the Irish village of Donogal with peasants engaged in spinning, weaving, lace- making, ote. It is to be presumed the food and drink of the peasants will also be characteristic. s A 1rrrLE reflection will reveal the necessity of a city electrician or in- spector whose duty it shall be to sec that slectric wire conncetions are properly made in all buildings and who shall muke it his business to inspect the work already donon this direction through- out the city. I¥ Omaha would encourage brick building as Kansas City and Denver have done, tho price of brick would go down materially and brick dwellings would be as cheap as frame houses. A city built of brick and stone nas a sub- stantial appearanceand impresses strang- ors with confidence in its stability. Now that the petroleum trust is dis- solving, the Chicago breweries have pooled their issues and formed a beer trust. The Standard Oil monopoly hus always claimed that the trust has cheap- ened the price of oil for the people and it remains to be seen now whether the brewery trust will cheapen the price of beer. A REFORMED hangman is the latest fad in English reformers. After ad- justing the noose to 140 necks this in- teresting individual whose name is Berry is lecturing against capital pun- ishment. The worst of it is that with . true English appreciation of the murket value of notoriety in this country the great necktie man threatens to invade Anmerica. —— Mg, RET CLARKSON of Iowa, New York and the country at large must feel much chagrined at the results of the Des Moines district republican con- vention. While that body recommends him for delegate-at-large from the state it very significantly left the editor of the Des Moines Register off the list of delegates to the state convention and adopted resolutions endorsing the ad- ministration of President Harrison. The Des Moines end of Clarkson’s vice presidential boom is not very threaten- ing. —— ‘"'HE Fifth ward kickers are striking out wild in every direction and wasting their ammunition. Let thom concen- trate their efforts for reform nearer home. For instance, there isa large tract of land worth from $300,000 to $500,000 in the heart of the Fifth ward knowu as the old fair ground. It is pri- vate property ownea by bankers and money lenders. Lot the kickers from Kickersville appoint a commitiee to wait upon the Fifth ward assessor and ascertuin why that tract of land is not returned for taxation whon every poor man who owns a little collage has to pay taxes not only on his house but aiso upon ais stove and bedstead . THE PROPOSED "AlL TELEGRAPH. Postmaster General Wanamaker is about to renew his efforts to establish postal telegraphs. The bill framed last winter in conformity with his views has been re-introduced by Congressman Hop- kins of Tllinois, with some modifications that have suggested themseives since t year, Under this bill the government may contract with any telegraph company for the tramsmission of private respondence, press dispatches and pos money orders petween points to be des jgnated by the Postoffice department in connection with the postal service under rules and regulations prescribed by the postmaster general, and at such rates as may be agreed on by the contracting parties, The charges for transmission und delivery must be prepaid by stamp The advertising and letting of the ¢ tracts provided for must be conducted in the manner prescribed by the laws re- Iating to contracts for inland mail transportation, o far as may be applica- ble. Itis provided thatin conducting the postal telograph business no new additional offices shall be created, nor additional clerks employed by reason of thesame in the Postoffice department or in postoffices, nor any expenditure of money be made or coutracted for beyond the sums received for the delivery charge of said messages. The bill pro- vides that all statutes prescribing pun- ishment for violations of laws of the postal service shall be extended and made applicable to the postal telegraph service; also that the postmaster general. with the ad- vice und consent of the president, may conclude treatios and convontions with foreign countries for the extension and connection of the postal telegraph sorvico, including the interchange of postal telograph money orders botweon them and the United States. There would bea very marked dis- tinction between government postal telegraphs now in operation in England, France and other European countries and the corporate postal telegraphs which are contempiated under this bill. The European system excludes private ownership of telographs and makes the entire system a componeat part of the postoftice. The proposed bill would con- tinue corporate ownership of telegraphs and merely give the people the benefit of a limited postal telegraph conducted asan adjunct of the postal systsm, In other words the Wanamaker plan does not coniemplate the purchase or ab- sorption of existing telegraph lines or the construction of competing telegraph lines. It merely contemplates tho use of public buildings in tho prineipal cities and the employment of postal car- riers and use of postoffice facilities by any telegraph compiny or companies that may see fit to avail themselves of the benclits broposed in exchange for a concession us to regulations and tele- graph tolls, This is by no means such a postal tel- egraph as the country will eventually secure when the American people fully realize the necessity of substituting for the present wasteful system operated by stock jobbers for the-profit of construc= tion rings and speculators a telegraph operated by the government for the use and benctit of the psople as an integral part of the postal system. It may be better, however, to accept half a loaf than no bread. The private postal telegraph would be a long step in the direction of government telegraph, and under present conditions and preju- dices the Hopkins bill is all that can be procured at the hands of congress. ros o SEVEN MEN BUT ONLY THREE CATTLE, Cable dispaiches from London an- nounce that seven men died on the steamor Navarro, loaded with cattle on the voyage from New York, but that only three cattie .were lost The men were suffocated by coal gas on the first night out and seven others nar- rowly escaped a similar death. The cattlemen and the crew worked hero- ically during the remainder of the voyage and their labors were rewarded in sav- ing nearly ali the cattle, The animals were in excellent condition on arrival at port, but the men looked like ghosts and were almost exhausted. The cattlemen wore partly to blame for their fate. They went aboard the ship intoxicated and they did not have sense enough to provide for properly ventilating the forccastle. The steam- ship company is primarily responsible, howevor, for the awful events of the twenty-four days buffeting with ocean storms. To save money the steamship company provided an inferior quality of ooal. It incrensed the length of the voyage and its nauseous guses caused the death of the seven men. Better care was taken to prevent the death of the dumb animals than to make the lives of human beings secure. Why? The dumb animals possessed a cash value, The dead men have been buried in the sea. Thelr friends miy wmoutn for them. The steamship company loses 1no money by their death. Human life is too cheap on ocean steamers, Greed and uvarice are not moved by human suffering. Chenp coal may kil off mon by overworking them at the engines or by suffocatiog them in their bunks, but it saves the owners of the vessel a few dollars, There is too much indiffereace to human misery everywhere, and espe- cially on merchantmen and stock steam- ers, There is n most pressing necessity for closer inspection of these vessels, in- spection which shall force their owners to consider something els: than the almighty dollar. There is a whole ser- mon against cupidity, covetousness and parsimony in the telegraphic announce- ment that only three cattle were lost on the voyage of the Navarro, but seven men were buried in mid ocean. —_— FACTS ABOUT CHICAGO. Chicago covers an ares of forty-eight square miles or very nearly double the ground space covered by the city of Paris, The valuation of property with- in the city limits of Chicago has been assessed for the year 1892 at $256,500,- 674, The actual value of the real prop- erty of the city of Chicago exceeds one billion, The 2 per cent tax on the as- sossod valuation of Chicago will pro- duce $5,131.991. The estimated revenuva expected during the present year from the liguor trafic license will approxi- mate #3,000,000. The grand totul of monevs 10 be exnended for muaicipal THE OMAHA purposes by the city government and the school board of Chicago in 1802 will oxceed 10,000,000, From this must bo deducted for interest on the bonded debt of Chicago 31,007,342, In other words Chieago pays as much interest every two yearsas would cancel the entire bonded debt of Omaha, and the running exponses of the Chi chine this year, exclusive of her public schools, would meet all the expenditures of the state of Nebraska, including state officers’ salaries, maintenance of public institutions, state militia, ropairs of pubtic buildings and the average of new public buildings for the next five years. Chicago is a great city. Tiw democratic papers claim to have discovered a most formidable revolt in the ranks of the republican party of In- dinna against President Harrison. In proof of this assumption they cito the great commotion that took place the other day at tho republican state con- vention of Indiana when ex-Congress- man White led the opposition to the resolutions instructing the delegates to support Benjamin Harrison for renomi- nation. The democrats can got very littlo comfort out of this alleged revolt It was a tempest in a teapot. The reso- lutions to instruct in favor of Harrison were carried unanimously. One thousand and seventeen delegates voted for the resolutions; six delogates hailing from Allen county deciined to vote and left the convention hall, INSTEAD of consolidating missions to South America and elsewhere the true policy of our government should be to increase their number. Denmark and Sweden and Norway will very properly resont tho proposed consolidation and our promising trade relations with South American republics are liable to suffer by decreasing the number of diplomatic renresentatives there. A suving of $60,000 in the total consular and diplomatic bill will not remunerate this government for the ill-will of any friendly nation. The senate may be relied upon, wo hope, to prevent the foolish cheese-paring to which the house committee on foreign relations has com- mitted itself. HENRY M. STANLE edited with an ambition to enter Pariiament as a representative from Wales. The chiel drawback to the consummation of his ambition is that he is still an American and cannot be naturalized in time for the coming election. The fact that he has been an Americin would not inter- fore, however, with his success in Par- liament. On the contrary it would be of advantage to him and to Great Brit- ain. A few genuine American ideas backed up by American vigor in the Houss of Commons would infuse life into that body. 15 ¢ MORALLY the bribe giver and the bribe taker are equally guilty but prac- tically the bribe taker cannot usually be convicted unless the bribe giver is freed from all danger of punishment. He can then be compelled to give testimony against the bribe taker. z BRICK-MAKING is a home industry which employs labor. About 90 per cent of the cost of making brick is labor. herefore brick-making should be en- couraged in every way practicable. He Donesu’t Object, Chicago Times. Mr. Holman's frinds are mentioning him for the presidency. and, though ears bo strained, 10 one has yet heard him cry, *1 object.” —_— Opposition That Helps. Globe-Demoerat. About the only big republicans who are opposed to Harrison's renomination are Platt, Quay and Cameron, and their hos- tility helps rather than hurts him. —~——— Home for the Feeble Minded. St. Paul Pioneer Press. Mrs. Hopkins-Searies’ 5,000,000 castle at Great Barrington, Mass., is now deserted, and it is thonght will eventually bo made a stato institution. As & home for demented old lagies it would not fall far suort of its original use. — - Juck Tar's Modesty. St. Paul Plonzer Press, After sizing up the domauds of the Balti- more's sailors the Chilians may conclude that it would be cheaper to hand oyer the stono fence which constitutes their domain to the sailors aforesaid and let them run the thing until they get their money's worth. The American sailor justly sets a high estimate upon his value, but forsigners unucquainted with his worth will bo amazed at first sight of it. ———— Life in u Lofiy Camp, Creede (Colo.) Amethyst. Slantiug Aunie, the acknowledged belle of the dance house, was competled to take a fresb young tenderfoot down a few notches last night. He danced with her twice, and the last timo refused to buy the drinks, Annie stabbed him in the left shoulder as he was fleolng out of the front door. Aunnie is always peaceable and polite, but she will not stand sy monkeying like that. The tender- foot will now doubtless write back home of the toughness of this camp, when he is to blame for last night's affair, ——————— athusiam for Blair, Boston Herald. The Blair boom sesms to be gradually catehing on up in Now Hampshirs, One man has written to Blair plodging the voto of North Walpolo for him in the convention, and 10 his letter ho quotes & striking sentence from holy writ: “The stone wh'eh the builders rejocted has bacomwe the head of the corner.”” Another, who controls the re- publicau party of Epping Four Corners, sends a postal card, which he writes: “A good man is like yeast: you can't keep him down. Epping Four Corners is for Blair for vresident.” Keep the ball rolling? - . A Cypher at Home, Paul Globe, The enthusiasm at Omaba is still rising over the big nugzet that is to fall luto its prospective pocket in the shaps of tns great oconvention of the poople's party. The pros- pects of hot olood, excited aud loug-drawn out debates, with possible splits, but add to the satisfaction with which the gathering is anticipatea. The 2,0)) delegates are ex- peoted to bo present with ten tmos us many outsidors and partisans. lo glowing mom- ents the figures often reach 100,00, The greater the dissensions sud divisions the longer the crowd will remain, The material gains to the community from such a gather- ing to continue @ week or more must be very great and then the hularity aud vivacity that will attend it. The republican gathering at the other twia will be thrown iuto the shade Whatever tho financial views of the conven- tion, the million or more dollars to bo dropped at Omaba in conuection with it will all have the volden bue. Way did uot Ig- ago municipal ma- | DAITLY [ natius thine of the matropolis of the state that so honoj 1.."‘1 loves him! Had he secured this' phize for St. Paul the wiid turore for his candidacy might have foroad the honor upon him. Now there is almost | indifforence whether he is put at the front or dropped intpthe unsavory diteh with the debris of sublimated hope - 1S A LIAR WHEN SICK. Doubt Expressed as to the Sex of Dr, Hen Stade, the Clairvoyant A Jackson, M&h,, special to the Chicago Tribune contais the following astounding statements: DF Honry Slado, the famous spiritualist ana dlairvoyant, who is sick here, is said to be a woman. A well known physi cian of this place said to the Tribune corre spondant today : “I have seen Slade twico during the last tow days. Ho seomed averso to my placing my hands on him and frequen:ly said: ‘You will not botray mo, doctor?’ He was finally 80 averse to rocoiving my attentions that I loft him and another doctor was called. In fact, several have boen called in one way or avother. Tho doctor who took my placo came 1o me in great excitemont, saying Siade was & woman; that he had cried, admitted his sex and told a strange story. I told him to calm himself, observe further, and report to me. Ho paid sovoral visits subsequently and revorted the most sstoundiug things.” Another doctor said: "1 was than Df. and _suspected something from the symptoms. I told Slade of my sus- picions, and he admitted that he was a woman, begging me not to betray him. I re- fused to treat him.’" **How did Slade account for his mustache doctor?” was askod, “‘Ho said he forced it to grow, and was growing hair on his head in the same way.' ‘The correspondent interviewed Slade at his room 1a the hotel. I might suy such things when 1 am sick,” sn‘l\l!i\‘lnuu. *In fact, I Lie like Satan when I am 1L But the doctors say on theirown responsi- bility vou ure a woman.'* “They are knaves to say anything about me when I am sick." *Did you tell Dr, —— that you are the mother of u child now in Amsterdam, Eu- rope!" “If T did it was a lie like the rest of what said. Isay Iama — liar when I'm sick.” Dr. Slade says he is 47 yeurs old. He be- gan his performances as'a medium in this city thirty-two years ago and was thon nearly, if not quite, 50. He had o beardiess, pale face, woro his hair long, and dressea i most remarkable style, St overnor Tangled, foux City Journal. Attention has been callad in the Journal to the published statement of Governor Boyd to the offect that 1 replying to his circular letter conceruing the advisability of a callea session of the legislature, he said: *1 find universal opposition on the partof tho re- publican members to the latter subject (the necessicy of establishing reasonable maxi mum rates of transportation by railroads), and they think no railroad logislation is needod.” It is suggestod that tnis statement made for political effect in the coming cam- paign. If that is the case, the reported synopsis made by the governor of the replies to his circularletter, as published in yestor- day’s Omaha ‘Bee, shows that either tho synopsis or the governor’s statement is sing- ularly inaceurata, Tu the synopsis or ‘“tabulated summary’ of the replies, it is alloged, “'of those sena- tors roplying, fourteen favored the proposi- tion for a maximym rate bill, cleven were opposed and threo non-committal.” Of the cleven opvosed: sx declared that ‘‘nothing less than the Newberry bill would bo accept- able.” This 1gaves only a possible five sena tors who expressed themselves -hostile to rauroad legislation. Theve were seven ro- /pubjicans in tha senate. 8110 | 4 pa Of the members fu the house wlioroplied, the “'tabuluted ‘suminary” figures that *ifty favored railroad legislation, iwenty-six were opposed and niueteen were non-committal.” Of the twenty-six opposed twenty-throe do- clared that ‘‘nothing less than the Newbverry bill would be acceprable.” So tho greatost 'possible number of repub- licans in the house who expressed themselves opposed to any' railroad legislation wus three. There are twenty-oue republicans in the house. All the members of the house answered the circular according to the tabu- lated summary, except five, The governor will piease explain what he meant by alleging that he found *“‘universal opposition on the partof republicaa members to railroaa legislation.” There are twenty-eight republican mem- bers in the two houses and, according to the governor's tabulation, ouly'ten mambers of both houses exvressed themselves averse to railroad legislation. What has become of the other eighteen ! Let us grant, for the sake of argument, that the two semators and the five members that did not answer the circular letter are all republicans.. Then that leaves still eleven republican members who aid not op- pose all railroad: legislation ln their answors to the gubernatorial couundrums. r'igure it as he will, he cannot make out that even a majority of 'the republicans replying said a word ugainst railroad legisiation. e e Sworn Testimony, Chicago Times. American courts of law are nothing if not orthodox in theolog Witnesses hold vp their right hands and are sworn with a de- gree of celerity that admits of no hesitancy as to the purport of the oath. Sometimes un added sanctity is giveu to tie oath by com- pelling the witness to kiss a bible or a dic- tionary which is bound to look like one. It is all very intelligent and very reverent, and one is moved to wonder whother the cause of religion or the credipility of witnesses is the more affected by that peirfunctory oath- taking. In a Chicago divorce court yesterday thore occurred an accident not without interest to the student of that corner-stone of justice, sworn testimony. . A 7-year-old boy was the witness, andl as usua), there was some ques- tion as to the admission of his testimony. Do you know what would happen if you told a lie!" inquired the court with severity. “Yes, sir. God would punish me,” “How " “By placing me in the greay big fire.” This being satisfactory to the court the lit- tle witness was gllowed o proceed. Itis to be feared, howgver, that the test upplied to bim would bar,gut most older wituesses. ‘The oath shaujd be abolished in tho courts, 1t is either blagphemous or silly. The man- ner in which it.s administered Tobs it of ail solemnity. Maj Who intend to perjure then selves are not (L:urrud by fear ‘of divine wrath. If the courts would abandon the no- tion that the Almjghty may be relicd upon to chastise in the, fext world the mau who gives falso testimgny in o lawsuit, and would take steps to punish 1o this life a tew of the perjurers who, £ unwhipped, though their offanso 1s nolorigys the ends of justice would be mightily furthared. oyt - ol the Lesson. Lhdpicoln News. The republicaus of Nevraska after a some- what disustroukl'experience, brought on largely by intéiecme conflict and in a less decree by the iw&laurance to questions of public and party .nterest which a powerful and strongly establisned party 0o often ex- hibits, e awakenod 1o u realization of the fact that if victory is to be acnieved in the coming campaign it must bo at the price of barmony. And tho realizatioa of this fact bas caused & wiespread aud generally. ex- pressed desire for LLo boliteration of sectional lines, the settlctaent of past differences and the compiete unification of party interosts, This se.timent is today expressed by almost every leading republican uevspuper in the | state, aud it is backed by the iotelligent opinion of the party leaders, The appreciation of the gravity of the situ- ation aud the necessities of the case bas not come any too s000. Hal Lo same spirit which scems 10 s0 generally prevail now been wanifesied in 1890 tho humiliation of defeat would have vecn saved The was o repub- | | Licun party, und ropublican aefeat in a strony | republican state is indoed humiliating. But | this is pnst. Past history, however, lights | the toreh for future progress, and the devel | opments of the last faw yonrs make plain the | duty of the party in the time that is now and | the time that is to come | Two evils menace the welfare of the party the strong sectional spirit which prevails | in some portions of tho state, and the ani- | mosity which past conflicts has' stirred up between the factions. Geography nocessarily has un important place in politics: but goography is not evorsthing, and tho repub- lican party can no longer afford 1o _have its strength wenkened and destroyod by the bit | torness of ons city, county or soction toward another cily, ‘county or section, or by the attempted usurpation by one section of the rights and priviloges which velong to other seotions, So with the petty wrangling of factions. Ante-convention contosis have been 30 bitter that it has boon impossible to overcome the bitterness in the subsequent campuigns, and the party has suffered in consequence. Disappointment has too often been but another word for resentment, and resentment oasily develops into open nostil- ity, and hostility and diccord from within the party bring defeat. In the approaching struggle the party should unite on good aien, and having nominated them, they should re- ceivo united and hearty support. The fulfillment of theso conditions means success and 1t is encouraging to noto the oaraest efforts now beine made in this direc- tion. But while the indications presace har- mouy and victory, it must by romembered that the active work of tho campaign has not even commeunced. A nood deal of care must bo exercised if the prosent good feeling is to be maintained, In the nomination for governor especially thore is a strong possibility of discord. This must be avoided. The first consideration stiould bo tho adaptability and capability of the ocandidate, and if the proper man is named ho should be warmly supported whether ho is or has beon iaentified with this or that so-called faction—whother he comes from this or that section of the state. Harmony and duo consideration for the public welfarc—willingness to comply with tho reasonabie domands of the peoplo—will restoro tho republican party to its former and rightful place. RELIGIO What iy ¥ Don Worl W Yorg, March ‘There now seems 0 be good reason for believing that the pro- posed parliament of religion i connection with the World's fair will bs a success. Rev. John Henry Burrows, the chairman of the goneral committee on religions congresses in 1803, bas just issued tho first report of the committee, giving the result of its oorre- spondence with the religious leaders of the world. Favorable responses have boen re- ceived from Mr. Gladstone, Whittier, Cardi- nal Gibbons, Archbishops Ireland and Ryan, Rev. Drs. Edward Hale, R.S. Storrs, also many college vresidents and theological pro- fessors; also Oliver Wendall Holmes, Sir Edwin Arnold, William Stead, Lord Edger- ton and mauy others, that indicate clearly enough that the idea will recéive the support of all the denominations, both Catholic and Protestant, The following scheme of dates has been decided upon: Parliament of religions, Au- gust 25 10 September 3; Catbolic_congress, September 5 to U; other churches from tember 6 to 10; congress of missions, Septem- bar 12 to 17; Evangelical atliance, September 19to 24: Sunday Rest congresses, September 26 to 20; Christian Endeavor day, Septembor ““We believe, says the report, ‘‘that the views presented by Cardiual Gibbons will be vealized; that the expectations of the most sanguine of those who gave their minds to this’ plan a year ago will bo dwarfed by the gigantic realities; that the congresses of re- lizion will be so noteworthy as to make an epoch in history.” Special Sunday service will be held in the various churches and various other groat de- nominational and interdenominational meet- ings will be held, the dates of which aro not yet decided upon. The Baptists and Lutherans are planning 8 world’s conference; the Presbyterians may have @ conference, ‘and many associations 1ike the Brotherhood of St. Andrew and the Young Men’s Christian ana Temparance as- sociations will hold their conferences, the zeneral result of which will bea full and sdogquato picture of the religious world as existing in 1893, It is expected that thoso meetings will be held at the magnificent Memorial hall art place, where there are twenty halls, each capable ot holding 2,000 people. There will also be more than twenty smaller balls, which will be used for smaller meotings. The committeo suggosts that.a special committeo consisting of Dr. William Hayves Ward of the Independent, Prof. Henry Coppo of Lehigh university, Rev. William C. Gannett, Richard Watson Gilder of the Century, Mrs. Elizabeth S. Ward, Prof. W. C. Wilkinson ana Bishop John H. Viucent, be appointed 1o compile & cotlection of original hymns to bo used at the meotings, the coliection to contain some hymns which the people of all religions will equaily delight to sing. e SUGGESTING SMILES. Washington Star: An intollectual young woman who mukes n fad of the study of me- chunics refers to an fce cream spoon is one of the noteworthy varieties of cold chisel. New York Herald: Hanks—I've Just discov- the renson why Closeflst is 5o small, Banks—\What is (t? Hanks—Iic expects to have to crawl through the oye of & neeaie son Judge: Mr. Wayback—Be yew the waiter? Waiter—Y os, sih Mr. Wayback—Dow yew know. I've been a-wonderin’ all along Why they called theso places chop house know now. Will yow lonse bring mo an ax? T want tow cat this steak. Dial: Husband—But tell me, why do you persist in letting the two rooms? Thoere Is no that you know very well. fut vou forzet thut” we have three Dl anught w be honest,” deul s lie his oxchunge. “Is the p2 home? rmer owner, trankly, “*he ading home, it you're halter ¢ No," replied ain't. but he's wor 8oing In thut direction. HOL WoLK New York Herald, Tho wolf who outside hungors for a starveling wreteh 1iko me Is w wolf most Injudiclous, as a cnila conld plainly sce Why hungor for a ske und fat, Just duwn the street he might wayluy a well fou plutocrat. Detrolt Froo Press: A tonchor of wsthetio gymnustics says that there 18 a whole science HOW (0 enter n room and loave it ompished burglur oan o il n. when rotund, rich prop Philadelphia is Intoxicated wit girl is willing tho buy iy be udvisedly res When a young man e right © und the -pluin-gold-ring curo tod to. Raw's Horn: It you claim In cluss meoting that you love God with all your strength don't Stind uround with your hunda in Your pociats while your wife /s pumping the water todo u two weeks' washing. uth Reglste sunniest smiles when you w usual favor from yo weir my brinfest te oston Juster: Coddlinz—You didn't roturn Miss Viypp's bow, ald you? Hunker—No: she glvos e one so'seldom | thought I'dkeep it. YOU Woar your 10 gt an un and?" 18 1 roprohonusible ( fish stories are Lent. Biuzhauitor | be u squaro ing hini roun landlord may depend on fud- Columbus Post; sod 10 stri » poor seissora grinder the ragged edge. “What do vou ke e questionnd hor that nighit. As neiir the smou doring firo they sat And watched its liekering Hght ne In the best? 1 think I like you best," she said, o her v, Oli, yes. | know, Phiat business sult you wear. " o questioned tenderly, His eye's bent on ber face, Where now and then a triint blush Wou'd lenye its tell-tale truce “And w “HBo uuse.” she answered with a sigh, Hor eyes turnod BOW aw .y, “When yun huve on y You uke 0 fur away. " HE MAKES RUMBUGGERY PAY How Hon, William 8. Holman of Indiana Bamboozles the Hoosier Voters, ABOUT HIS CHEESE PARING METHODS Instncere Other Astate dgnorance ¢ wn “Hate [T Opposition to Peop ening Wants a iy Extravag Missourt Excoriate Wasmixaroy, D, C., March 13, —[Spectal to e Ber, | —William 8. Holman of Indiana 13 a political anomaly. He has achieved gen- eral prominence by individual insigniticance He is popular at homo, chiofiy. on account of his unvovularity abroad, His consiituents see in him all the virtues of Spartan simplic ity joinod to Jacksonian devotion to the con stitution and unytelding opposition to an age of reckloss and profligate extravagance in tho administration of public affairs, Ho has beon dubbed the “Watchdog of the Treas ury.” It isobserved that he nover growlis in ms own dooryard. Homely asa southern heago fence, studiously slovonly fn lis at- uire, full of phrases to catch rural constitu- encies, eager to rush in whero political angels would ocoupy a front soat and taking to the woods in regions wnero hoavenly visitors hunting after homo votes would fear to tread, Mr. Holman is one of tho most trans- varent of humbugs in the present congress. e This year ho is in his eloment. Ho has his hand on the throttle of general appropria- tions and feols that ho controls the right of way for all other bills requiring money for their admivistration, Ho met h's mateh in Hatch tho other day when ho attempted to provent tho passago of the agricultural de- ficiency bill, and be will run into a dozen more snags beforo the senson is over. Hol- man is a first class humbug, He poses as an aconomist, and a constitutional striot cou- structionist when doing so will not him politically. Ho whines aud grapevines and begs around when his district is inen aced by the eco.omical mania. Holman's 1dea of economy is to look at a treasury sti- mate and then cut it in haif, irrespective of results. Next year a deficioney is passed to make up the difference. In other woras, Hulman’s economy is basod on the theory that the public can't remember from ono year to another, and that two appropriations spread a vear apart, with hundreds of un paid clerks in betwden, is the proper method of providing for the executive departments. inpress Liast yeur, while the navy bill was under consideration, Holman was protesting as usual against building ships aud guns. Wo didn't need 'em. They weren't necossary. The people 1n his deestrict had not callod for them. Congressman McAdoo replied with some heat that he hoped to live long enough to see the magnificent work done by Amer- ican gun foundries so oxtended and so 1m- proved that a zun would bo built powerful enough to penetrate a barn in the gentleman from Indiana's district and to kill an old rod cow therein. *Then,” said Mr. McAdoo, “‘the great economist will be howling for appropriations for coast defense and ships, au {ucreased navy and tho glory of tho Amer: ican flag.” .. *x Holman's power fies in the fact that a large proportion of the business of congress must be done by unamimous consent. A single objection very often provents considoration. 4 single objection as often sholves forever o measure which has passed througn the droary routine of introduction, reference, committes consideration, report back to the house or senate, and which has wearily worked its \WAY UD o the top of the calenaar. Nothing is ensier than for a congressman sitting in his seat 10 interpose objections to measures sceking consideravion and which can only come up by unanimous consent, to kill others which are pending, by poiating out the ab- | sence of a quorum, or toraise points of order on bills to which they are applicable, how- over worthy the object or however desirous an overwhelming majority of members muy be 1o see the measure passed. Ithas been by tactics of this caaractor that Holmun has made himself prominent. His name is identifiod with no measure of national importance. His voico rings out in tho house on no great economical question. He is tho apostle of “chease paring,” the prophet of parsimony, the evangel of minute moanness. - Dopartment clerks aro harmloss politically. Holman is for cutting down their salaries or making them vrait a year for thoir pay. The army and navy do not vote. Hol- man is the persistent advocate of reduced ap- propriations for both. The District of Co. lumbia has been long disfrancnised. Tho gentleman from Indiwna makes an annual raid on tha district bill and swings his eco- nomical suickersnee over pavemeats and sew- ers, parks anareservations, Public build- ings are demanded at a goodly distance from Indiana. Mr. Holma lies in wait for a fit- ting chance and paralyzes the member who ventures to ask for unanimous consent. His humbuggery 1s mado diaphanous, how- ever, whon a measure in which Ingiana is in torested comes up. Mr. Holmuu's bark then becomes & mellow whino, His oft re- peated howls for economy dio away into & whisper of dissent so faint that bis nearest ueighbors cannot hear it. He bogs for votos and cries for quarter. In the Fifty-first con gress the pablio buildings committeo headed off all Holman's opposition by aeliborately holding up & measuro in which he was intor- estod until it hal passed a batch of bills to which he would have certainly objected had o not foared that ho would have been shut out from the pork barrel in conscquence, The same method has beon emploved with success in the pensions committes, It is tha only one that is cortain of success with tha most arrant demagogue in the houso This {s tho dressing down that Me. Hol man roceivod from a member of his own party, Chairman Hateh of the agricultural committeoe, on last Saturday, whon tue groat objoctor attempted to block the agri cultural deficiency bill, Mr. Hatch said “1 do not agree with tho gentloman from Indiana, or his mothods, or his rules, or his laws of interpretation or construction. 1 have seon him time and time again whon he would take the knife of the constitution and pare an uppropriation so closo that you could not seo it under a microscope, and whon his own state was futerosted I bave scen hita open the door broader than would allow this capitol to go throngh. " Cneers, applause and wild laughter on both sides of tho chamber showed that Hatch 's it had told. . Notbing is ensier than for a congressional domagogue to attain notorioty. So long as the notoriety is eained at the expenso of other sections than that which ne deponds upon for his votes, the howls and exocrations and criticisms and sarcasm do not injure his political prospocts, His constituency takos notoriety for reputation, and is proud of the prominence gained by its ropresentativo. lolman 1s invincible in his district. Ho looks most carefully after his fonces. He tickles the farmer with vlatitudes about agriculturo, Ho warms the old soldiors’ hearts with panegyrics on patriotism. Every two vears ho makes a school house campaigi throughout the counties' in his district, ovades national issues. glides easily over every disturbing topic and then toads boldiy up to his record. He retails in detail tho work ho has done for his rionds at home. Ho catalogues the money ho has *'saved" tho government by knocking out items in_appro- priation biils.” And tho louest farmers of the Fourth Indiana district smilo in_approv ing rosponse, and chant in unison *‘Great is Democracy and Bill Holman is its Prophot.” W. E. AL RE e . PAYS IN DAWSON., ol W In kift § LEXINGTON, Nob., March 18 to Tk Bk} —Charles Armbrustor was ono of Dawson county’s first settlers. Ho camo to this county in April, 1874, from Forreston, Ogle county, Il He landed in Plum Creek with one team of horses, two cows and & in cash, His first purchaso was 320 acros of Union Pacific raiivoad lands, which ho pur- chased on ten years time, paying one-tenth sh, the first payment being §160. Ho built himseif a small frame_house, broke cighty acres in the year 1874 and planted it to sod corn. Tho crop was a total failure. In 18 he piunted this same land again to crop and the grasshoppers took everything in sight. By ‘this time the ola homesteaders be. came tired of Dawson county and left for new fields, but Mr. Armbrustor abandoned his raiiroad land and made o homestead entry on 160 acres adjoluing his former farm. Ho also made a tree claim entry in the year 1876, He kopt at farming, with the aid of his family, (ho himyelf being employed on the railroad section to support his wifo and cutidren,) until the vear 1580, when he succeeded 1o’ raising bis first crop worth any mention. Since then hic has by his own hard work and good management secured enough of this worla’s £oods to satisfy him. At prosent he owns 40 acros of land six miles northwest of Lexington, under oo’ cullivation, four farms valued at 0 p acre, and bLe also has 100 head of good blooded cattle, thirty-five or forty good horses, besides' a 320 acro farm in Frontier county valued at §2,500, a good proud bau!t account of several thousand. fis wealth amounts to at least §0,000, A. Henry owns a farm of 320 ncres twolvo miles northwest of Lexington, He came to Dawsoa county in the year 1575 and has been one of the old pioneors. He bas seen all tho hard times of an oarly pioneor in a now country, and_can_tell some hard facts about grasshoppers and drouth 1 tho early '70s, Mr. Henry first settled on a homestead of 160 s, and in the year 1550 be purchased an additional 100 of the Uuion Pacific Kailroad company, piying therofor & per acre, (then the usual price,) in ten annual payments. At present Mr. H. is looked upon as one of Daw- 50D county's most substantial facmers. He is the proud possessor of a fine herd of cattlo of forty or fifty head, scven or eight good teams and plenty of all kinds of feed and rain, with froit of his own, growing such as grapes, apples, peaches and smaller varieties, By strictly logitimato farming and a_judicious husbanding of his resources he hns accumulated _property which will rate him ns worth $10,000 or $11,000, and his_success is fairly equaled by others of the industrious citizens of Dawson o unty. T, A. Taylor of Cozad came here in 1574 with buta~ fow dollars in hand and a lareo family. He has seen all of the pioneer times, and in the early days supported his family in tho summer time by chopping cedar and hauling it to market, a distauce of fifiy-five miles. In the winter he would shoulder his gun and go for wild game, such as antelop el und deer, of which this country abundance, and_great was his succoss. In the year 1580 he commonced farmirg toa large oxtent on a furm of 100 acres of gov- ernmont land and 160 acres of railroad land and ne has prospered sinco. Today he can be credited with 640 acras of good land, fine improvements, pastures full of stack and his judicious management has placed him among the pumber of Dawson county’s best farmors, and he is rated as worth 0,000 in real estate and personal property. FARMING Tillers of the ROWNING,KING & Cco. W, Corner 15th anl Douglas St Shamrocks or St. Patrick's Day--- We have made B . arrangements for a supply of shamrocks, the picture on the left being a lifelike rep- resentation. These beautiful shamrocks will arrive in time to be given away to those who call at our store on St, Patrick’s day. It don’t make any dif- ference whether you are a regular customer or never have or never expect to trade with us, you are welcome to one as long as we have any. The handsomest but Browning, Open Saturdays tll 19 p. Other ovenings ti o:0 tonieres in the city. King & Co |S. W. Corner 15th and Douglas ¢