Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 26, 1892, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE:; MONDAY THE DAILY BEE —_— E ROSEWATER, Enrron | PUBLISHED EVERY OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY. o252 THRMS OF 8UBSCRIPTION. Datly Dee (withont Eunday) One Vear. Datly and Sunday. One Year... . Bix Months, Months MORNING, ——eenSe £838888 Snturday Ree, One Venr Weekly Rec, ono ¥oar OFFICKSS Omaha, The e Bullding Bouth Omnna, corner N Counell Blufts. 12 Pear Chileago Oftice, §17 Chamber of Commeros. New York, Rooms 14, 14 and 15, Tribune Butding. Washington. o1 Fourteenth Street ENCH, AVl ool rolating to editorinl d Worial nows and to the I BUNINESS 1 ETTRRS. 0% lettors and remittances shonld be addressed o The Hiee Publishing Company, Omaha. Drafta checks and postofice orders to be made DPAYALI6 Lo tho order of tha company. THE BEE PUBLISHING 170\”’/\’1\(_ == STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. T County o1 Dotglas, Georgo ll. 7174 uck. ecretary of Tig WeR Pub 1 iy, does salemnly swear that. the 101 o1 Ttk DATLY BIK for e wook Sunday, Soptemer 1§ Mpteintor 19 Friday, Septon: Bnturday, sept Average Sworn to hofore me ence this 24th day of Average “WHAT has our unsocked friend, Jerry, to suy ubout tho way Weaver and Mrs, Lease have carried Georgia? ONE Prof. Wenver fell from & balloon in Indiany last week. The Weavers aro evidently vlaying in hard luck just now. THE populists of this district have nominated Christinn OriY as their candi- date for congress. But 892 is not an Orfl year. T'nr shipment by ihe Kearney cotton mills of 76,000 yards of cotton cloth io points outside the state marks an epoch in Nebraski’s histor It 18 now time for the Missouri river cities to combine and treat with com- binea railroads in a determined manuer, which is sure to be successiul. THE father-in-law of President Diaz 18 bis secretary of stato. How the peo- ple of this country would ronr against our executive attempting such flagrant nepotism. THERE can be no sccurity in Omaha against an epidemic of contagion, chol- ora or maluria, so long as the city does not compel the wretched squatters on the river front to vacate that pestilence breeding spot. WHILE J. Sterling Morton was telling the people of Omaha how froe trade was the only logical doctrine, David B. Hill was tolling the people of Buffalo that “tariff taxation will continue to be the permanent policy of the government.” CERTAINLY 1o better nor more logi- cal sil speech has been delivered during this campaign than that of Mr. Morton 1n this city Saturday night. But bow can democrats of the First district support free silver Bryan and honest money Morton? THE objections to Dave Mercer as o representative in congress are not be- cause ho is too you Ho is five yoars older now than Albinus Nance was when he became governor of this state. It is not o question of age but of capac- ity and integrity. GOVERNOR BOIES is carrying Iowa only in the columns of democratic papers. There is no chance for democ- racy in Towa this year. Since prohibi- tion has no part in the campaign, Boies has no influence on the stump, and liko Othello, his occupntion’s gone. IT 18 astonishing how well certain wards of this eity are being supplied with arc lights now that vhe election is app oaching. But it will not be forgot- ten that Omaha pays $175 a year for arc lights where Lincoin pnys $120, Sioux City $100 and Ottumwa, In., only $44 a year, There is a margin for boodle councilmen in electric lighting in Omaha, IT 18 not at all surprising to observe * that immediately after tie city council had voted to adopt the Wilton carpet the Board of Public Works asked for a roll top desk and a leather couch, By all means lot them have it and anything else they want. So long as $1 remains In the city hall fund there will be noth- Ing but scheming und plotting how to spend the surplus, —— THESE be grievous days for Henry Watterson. 1In his rage at the protec- tionist democrats he cries, **All the shrewd and trenchant ra¥eals seem to have got into the republican party and all the chucklehends and cowards into the democrati> party.” We thus ob- sorve that Henrl is pushing that hearse along that wournful road leading *from tho elaughtorhouse to tho open grave.” —— NEBRASKA will be a great fiold dur- Ing the coming year for Omaha whole- sale dealors and manufucturers. The lowest estimate of the value of this year’s crops is $100,000,000, ‘That means an abundance of circulating medium smong our farmers und a healthy re- vival of trade with country merchants. Omaha is accessible to every part of the state and if our dealers and manufac- turers exert themselves us they ought to they will be able to eontrol the bulk of the stute trade. e THE political cyclone from Kansas, Mrs. Lease, is progressing rapidly in the art of campaign speuking. In Georgia the other day she characterized an Atlanta newspaper us u lying sheet and its representative as a liar. The newspaper man referred to was at a dis- advantage. He could not chastise a woman, but he offered to whip any man who would come forward as her repre- sontative. Mr, Lease is saving himself 8 good deal of bodily injury by not tr: eling with the combination. GENERAL VIFQUAIN AND THE FARM Hon. Victor - Vifquain, the demo- cratic candidate for congress in the Fourth distriot, declared in a recent speech that protection helps the labor- ing man to the detriment of the farmer:; that under protection the manufacturer roaps all the benefit while the tiller of the soil gots nothing. Will the farmors who soll their onts to the ont mill factories; their hemp to the binding twine factories; their corn and vegetables to the canning factories; their boots to the bast dugar refineries, ete,, eto., agres with the proposition of Mr. Vifquain? Wa thini not. Genoral Vifquain is o Fronchman and ought to be familiar with the history of France. The poliey of protection is not an Amorican’ or republican device raiso rovenue and stimnlate home in- dustry. It was fathered by Colbert, one of the most illustrious statesmen France ever produced. As the finnnce minister of Louis XIV., Colbert inangurated pro- tection in France, under which Krance became the successful rival of England and Holland in manufactures and com merce. The French silk industries and carpot. and cloth munufactures given an impotus and employed thou- sands of skilled workmen who had mi grated from Flanders, Holland and Enyg- 1and because of the high wages paid in France, When the armies of Loms X1V, were overthrown at the bawtle of Blen heim the duke of Marlborough *who commanded the ~ victorious Dritish armios dictated as one of the conditions of the troaty of peace tho abandonment of the policy of prtoction. In England this was regarded as o master stroke of diplomacy and so it proved in due time. Nosooner had Krance abolished hov protective import duties than her manu- fuctures became prostrate and thou ands of the factory hands that had been profitably employed were compoliled to migrate to other lands while the Prench farmers weredaprived of the henefits of a home market that had been their mainstay, 0 This was the experience of France just 200 years ago, and history would re: peat itself in - America wero free #rade substituted for the protective policy. “An injury to onme is an injury to all,” of the maxims of the farmers allinzee. An injury the mill and factory hands would be an injury to the trades people, and in due time to the farmer. The towns and cities that were built up chiefly by the factories would be deserted and the factory hands from being profitable patrons of the farmer would become damaging competitors by being driven into agricultural pursuits. to were is one to WILL DOW It 18 a desperate and which the democratic leaders are mak- ing to convince the people that the taviff plank of the Chicago platform does not mean what it s: This effort was begun very soon after the national convention adjourned, but it is only within a few weeks that the party lead- ers have evinced serious anxiety regard- ing the effect of the tariff plank of the platform. In his address when notiiied of his nomination Mr. Cleveland tried to quiet popular apprehension, and now Senator Hill is assuring the people of New York that there is no danger and that the tariff plank is really a very in- nocent enunciation. In his speech at Bufialo on Saturday Senator Hill said: *There can be no reasonable doubt that tariff taxation will continue to be the permanent polic of the government, notwithstanding the opinions of sincere but imprac theorists who advise its abandonment,” Such statements might be reassuring if the people could foraet the circum- swances under which the tariff plank was adopted. The deliberate sense of the convention is expressed in that plank, which was adopted by a nearly two- thirds vote as a substitute for the plank submitted by the committee on resolu- tions, which recognized the necessity of arvanging tariff schedules with refer cnce to the difference botween wi in the United States and in Europe The plank adopted was endorsed by nearly 600 members of the convention after & mosv earnest discussion. The people do not forget this, nor do they forget the fact that the demacratic majority in the houso of representn- tives passed half a dozen distinctly free trade measures, thus demonstrat- ing that the representatives of the democratic party in congress were in complete aceord with the tariff plank of the national platform. The democratic party will not be per- mitted to discredit the action of the na— tional convention, deliberately taken, regarding tho tariff, Neither will it be allowad to escape responsibilivy for its utterance in favorof restoring state bank issues. ‘Tno determination of the party to destroy protection to American indus- tries and to open the way fore flooding the country with a worthless currency hus been clearly exprossed in language that leaves only one construction, und no amount of sophistical explanations will now avail. Having declared that protection is unconstitutionat and thore- by in effect pronouncec: for free trade, the party must stand by that declara- tion. The democracy promised an ag- yrrossive cninpaign, but the leaders ave engaged in trying to defond their blun- dering plutform and convince the people thut it doesn’t mean what it says and does meun what it does not say. The republicans, on the contrary, ure not denying noything in their plavform or trying to give nuy part of it a meaning not clearly expressed in {ts language, They do not need to explain their plat form, becuuse it oxplains itself. It is straightforward and unequivoeal, and neads no apology or defense. _—— A FORCIBLE CONTRAST. An Iowa farmer, who says that general furming bhas been his business for moro thao forty years, writes w0 the New York Zrvibune giving some facts in his experience which do not mike a fuvor- able showing for the period when the country had a tariff for revenue only, such as the democratic party now de- mands shall replace the protective taritl, The farmer correspondent of the 7hib- une, writing of the changed cond itions, romurks that one noticeable change is in the purchusing power of sowme of the Nor . futile cffort producta of the farm, such as pork, but- ter and eggs. In 1850 the farmer, who dressed his hogs and sold them ready for pueking, realized usually only $1.25 por 100 pounds, and often he was unable to obtain for his pork more than one-halt in grocerfes. White sugar (light brown) sold for 10 cents per pounds peints, 10 to 12} cents per yard—hence the farmer got one pound of sugar and one yard of prints for sixteen pounds of dressed pork. Now he gets about~$ cents a pound for live hogs, and they have recently been higher than that, receiv- ing cash, while everything he has to buy is very much cheaper than it was forty years ago. ‘‘Contrast eight pounds of dressed pork,” says this farmer cor- respandent of the Tribune, ‘“‘for one pound of light brown sugar in the days of honest democratle laws with these days of class legislation and one pound of fine granulated sugar for one pound oflive hog. Wé then got one pound of hight brown sugar for one pound of but- ter; now we get five pounds of fine gran- ulated sugar for one pound of butter. We then got 6 cents (in dry goods) per dozen for eggs; now we got more than twice that in cash.” Such was the condition in the “‘good old times” of a revenue tariff only and n state bank currency, both of which would be rvestored if the democratic party should be given control of the gov- ernment, unless their lasy national plat- form, which some of the leaders are now trying in part to discredit, was not in- tunded to mean what it says, The fact that the farmer is now enabled to sell his products for much better prices than forty years ago is due to his having a greatly enlarged home market, which is steadily growiug under the policy of vrotection, while the great dovelopment of manufacturing industries supplies him with the goods he must buy at greatly veduced prices. In 1850 the American farmer was compelled to buy prints made in Burope and to pay what- ever price the foreign manufacturer askod, together with the cost of trans- portation, but now he ean purchase prints made in his own country and com- petition has lowered the price untila pound of butter will exchange for five or six yards of prints, Eve ent farmer who knows this to be the case must see that his interest lies in main- taining the policy which has developed the manufacturing interests of the country” and built up a great home market for his products. A policy that would eripple ing industries and put a stop to the growth of manufactur- ing enterprises wowid turn loose tens of thousands of workers many of whom would go into agriculture, and assuredly the farmers of the country do not desive this. They would prefer to see the num- ber of the agricultural class reduced. Manifestly the farmor is the man who will be the larger gainer from the devel- opment of American industries, and this is possible only under a pelicy of pro- tection. exis THE COST OF COAL, Anticipated advances in anthracite coal, to be made on October 1, will probably increase the' retaii price in this city to $11 per ton. Possibly it may be alittle less than that at the begin- ning of the month, but all indications are to the eflect that this figure will soon be reached. Reperts to the Coal Trade Jouwrnal from all parts of tho country show that the price of anthra- cite is expected to advance on the first of next month. In all localities where the present price approaches the figure named a great demand for bituminous coal is reported. This means, of course, ling off in the consumption of an- thracite. Judging by the present out- look the anthracite coal combine will lose money in the long run by forcing consumers to buy soft coal. The bituminous conl product of the wost is rapidly increasing. New mines have recently been opened in Ohio, Towa, Indiana, Wyoming, Oregon, Washington and elsewhere in the west- ern country. This coal finds a ready sale und is steadily taking the place of anthracite among the poorer classos, who cannot afford to pay the cnormous prices charged for anthracite. THERE has been a good deal of mys- terious monkeying with the Twenty- second street paving which must be completed before winter sets in in order 1o enable the army officers in churge of the government storehouses to haul the vast stores that are handled at this depot. All sorts of obstructions have been placed in the way of this pave- ment by influences that seem to control the actiou of the council and Board of Puplic Works, Two weeks ago the or- dinance to pave the street was finally pussed and the contract let, Now it is discovered thal there has been no pro- vision made for the curbing, which of course means anothor two weeks’ delay. The blame will, as usual, be shifted from the shoulders of one official to those of another, but it begins tolook as if there is a huge darkey hiding in that stone pile somewhere. THE acquittal of Chancellor Creighton of charges preferred against him will meet with general approval. But as much eannot be said of his personal en- omies who have pursued the chancellor through motives of personal revenge, The damage done to the educational in- stitution which Mr. Creighton has helped to build up will be irreparable, 1t is bad business, to say the leust. — I'r 18 noticeuble that the independent stump orators have commenced to ad- mit that the farmers of Nebraska are prosperous and tnat the state is not go- ing pellmell to the demnition bow-wows, T'wo seasons of abundant crops have re- deemed the state and lost to the people’s party many a vote, — Tue Nebraska counury aerchant is in clover this season. He is selling more goods and getting his pay promptly, Therefore the record of failures is con- fined to men of poor business ability or wmen who seek to profit by a resort to bankruptey. —ee J. STERLING MORTON has never been our ideal for governor, senator or con- gressman, But the great Cobden club free trader is to be commended for the courage he displays in ripping up and brushing away Bryan's free silver fallacres. gn who has the courage of his honest fetions is very seldom wopular. but he never loses his solf respect or thy gpspect of honest men, whatever parky shey may belong to. THE BEe dévétes a column to the un- precedented P of the American hog in the Omahg,market. It is demon. strated that ther continved high price of hogs has ‘tfle the Omaha market famous. Thi§ fias been a great season for hog growers. *THE people Wave not forgotten the record made by the allinnce legislature two years ago. That junket of the house to the gulf at an oxpense to the tax- payers of 3450 bids fair to cost the peo- ple’s party more than 4,500 votes. Tar epidemic of joint political de- bates in this state have shown that par- tisans depend more upon packing the houses with strong lunged enthusiasts than they do upon converting voters on lines of solid argument. Long Enough to co Defent, Globe-Democrat, Ttis said that Cleveland’s ceptance will comprise 2,000 words, That was about the length, by the way, of the free trade message (nat defeated him four years ago. letter of ac -~ Cause tor Congratnlation, Chicago News Record, The country at large, without respect to olitics, party, sect or tribe, congratulates Tr. and Mes, Harr{son on the report that the lady of the white house is probably on the rapid rond to recovery. It is the uuani- mous "hope that her convalescence will be speedy. e Whero New York Stands, New York Su Nobndy needs to be told whers New York, Wwith tho democrats in the majority, stands on tho tariff ssue, Its factories and work- shops and the labor of those in them, enor- mously produciive and steadily increasing, answer thut question and point out the utter folly of a fight on free trade lines hero, —— The id Army. Philadviphta Times, Separated by the course of years from the differences of the past and freed from com- plications both with politicians and with claim agents, the Grand Army has never had a broader fold than now (o grow con- tinually i public confidence and respact and o uphold the honor and dignity of the American volunteer, g Tho M. Halstead in New York Herald. The democratic party has reduced the south to servitude, and confirmed its grasp upon the section by the same gigantic schome that combines enumeration and apportionment with disfranchisoment, The fraudulency of the system has not been confined by the colored line. There is & white revolt, and it may go far and wide and deep. Even two ov three southern states taken out of the democratic column would, 1 many contin- gencics, told the balance of power. e b The Railrond Boom in Jerusalem, New York Tribune, Tho ofticial opetting of the railroad from Jaffa on the seacoast to Jerusalem took plece this week in the presence of the Ottoman and consular authorities. The line has been built by a French cempany, and its torminus is on the west of the road to Bethleher, about half a mile distant from the holy city. Luckily the temple site, with Gothserano and the Mount of Olives, lies on the opposite 1e of Jerusalem, hence the pious medita- tions of the nineteenth century pilerims are not likely to be disturbed by the roise of the railroad “when visiting the scones so in- timately assoclated: with the foundation of Christianity, ————— TERSE AND TICKLISH. Lowell Courigr: A suflerer from a severe cough suys that his complaint hus one of the modern finprovements—a pneumatic ure. Yonkers Statesmu ust take a turn around the biock,” is just what the busy man suid to the orzun grinder who was playing in front of his oflice. Eluira Guzette of men who start f past quarantine, Jazson says there are lots caven oo late to get Binghamton Republican: When na wite iears a dull thud on the doorstep she knows that the lodge hus adjourned. Boston Courler: Diner—*“Waiter! this feather doinz in this soup?" “Dat's o tell its chicken sonp, suh. Life: “All the giris wear them, Jo you siill call yourself a giri? “Why not? My husband Is stil! one of the Loys, though my senlor by twenty years." Chleago Inter Oc The mun that carries bis baltin a jug nover gets the drop on the sh. Wiat's Waiter— olis Journal: “Adam, dear,” said was out In the woods today. and the fail stvles of louves are just positively bee-yuti- full And so chean, 1oo. Cnn't I have a’ new dress tomorrow, thit's n dear?” “That rk Autony, Washin:ton Sta yours 18 numed M “Yeos, papn.” “IL 80t very pleasant for a toe thu Mark, but if he com more L am afraid I must.” oung man of believe,"” n to have to around here any Boston Courler: Beeker—Peoplo are saying thut Sipper is showin: evidences of reform He certulnly fsn't drioking as much as for- merly; vorkiaps it is due to his baving lost a tasto for It. Suzemin—) tatall. s thirst is the same us ever, but ki credit tsn't. Chicago News: “Why1s it that M proved such a flit failire in society ¢ Mhat's cusy enouzh to answer. e talked sense when out ut soclal funculons.” Atchison Globe: 1t 18 all right to wait till the clouds roll by It you aro sponding the time earning monéy to buy an umbrelin. Atchlson Globe: Teople learn everything else, but they never loarn to sneezo gracefuily. Thie larger the shirt stud o man' weurs the imora solled Is his shirt bosom, as rule. Happy Is the man who dies 'young und does not need to grow buld and wrinkled and old. Avout the worst thing that can happen to o woman 18 to get married and €0 to boarding. It 18 u pity, but Deople never soem to realizo whut fools they iare untll they reach the age when they ure too 0ld to learn new trioks. . Hardy Phitadelphia Times: Boil everything ex- cept compromising political letiers. Burn them. i ADVICHAO AUTRORS. Atladta Constitution. In writing poems, tor the press—no what thioy b It sonnets tolipur sweetheart or your mother— . Use one side of the paper—for the editor, you s00, ; May want to write & local on the other. And don’t forgot to put In stamps—with these bo very froo, . ;. And paste the 186" no wind will make them sall offy o Not necessurily fosprint, but as & goaranteo That the editor will get his daily mail ofil B i UNCLE AND NEPHEW. S. W, M“fi Yankee Blade, 1x cents for diuney is enough For any man thabgbralny— Two cents for mush, two cents for millk, T'wo conts for miseoliuny— Four conts for brouk fuss, four for tos, Was ull a fellow uewded; was all Jack wanted, and no man Noeds any nore thun ne did. matter “Bes'des,"” sald Jack, “men spend for clothes, And such exLruvagunces, Good money that should never be Speut on such foolish fanocies. An'old mew! bug for pantuloous, A bedtick for & Jucket, And for suspenders u z0od rope Will guite stand any racket. t o%nu s week, unday. eed me protty full 1 have enough for Monday. 8ottty dollure iu the yaur 1s ail Ispend for 1iving, But hut my mosey in the bank Aund render up thanksgiviog. Jagk dicd and left his nephew Bill Ntue hundred thousund dollurs, And Bill he spent a thousand quick d tor collurs. noy rizht and left, Maud snd Jenny. Aud one yeur from bis uncle's death Ile wash's worth a penuy. SEPTEMBER 26, 1892. GIVE MERCBR A FATR STOW, Osana, Sept. M4.—To the Editor of Tuw Ber: Pormit me to say that I think you do not give our oandidate for congress, young David H. Mercer, credit for the good ‘quaii- ties e possesses. He has many which com- mend bim to candid poople. 1 have known him since 1808, when he landed in Brown- ville, a little tow-houdea lad of a dozen yoars. His father was the village black- smith, honest, intelligont, sturdy and fo- dustrious, but in very moderate circum- stances, Dave entered the public schoois of Brownville as a pupil of a lady who is now recognized as one of the best teachers in the Omaha High school. He pursued his studies untl he graduated from the High school under Prof. W. Ricli, then regarded one of the most thorough and couscientious educa- tors in the state, F'rom the High school ho went to the State university at Lincoin and taking high rank comploted the classical courss thero with Juage Allen W. Flield, the republican candidate for congiess in the First distriot He was recognized asone of the ablest young men of a very able class, pearly overy momver of which has since distinguished himsolf. Not satisfioa with theso acquiremonts and desiring to fiv himself for the practice of Iaw, Mr. Mercer spent two years at Ann Arbor, graduating from the University of Michiwan law school with a creditablo stand- ing. He had no wealthy father to back him, but he struggled as many another ambitions young Avierican has strugglod until he had lma the vroad foundation of a good educa- 100 as the basis for a future career. Ll Dave Mercer is not now eminent at the DAY us a practitioner it 1s because ho has not been able financially to enaure the long period of starvation which almost every young lawyer is forced to facs as a prelude toa remunerative practica, o has been obliged to make a living and sometimes to help others secure a livelihood. 1 know from my own experience and you know from yours what sacrifices of worthy ambition tho necessity of a steady iucowe has forced upon many a tiopeful young man. During all these twenty-four years I have known Dave Mercer, and nave yet to find him unfaithful to any task imposed upon him in school, in society, 1n business or in volitics. 1 believe he will make this district 4 useful man in congross. While wantiug in actual logisiative experience ho is not want- ing in native abiliny, education or tho grace of public speech, and overybody kuows ho can make friends and hold them in the face of relorticss antagonisms aud bitter porsonal disabpointments When Davo Mercer was a boy 1n school ho had as his playmates the following well kunown citizens of Omaha and can_fearlessly refer to them for a certificate of character from childhooa to man’s estate: Dr. [ Arnold, H. B, Gates, Assistant Tellor Eirst National i D. Muir, of Muir & Gaylord; Edson Rich, attornoy atlaw: Dr. H. 1" McCoy, John W. Thompson, editor of tho American B. Piper, cashier Union Trust company, and doubtiess others whoso names have escaped wy memory for the time being, Give him a show and he will prove himsolf worthy of confidence. T, W. BLACKBURN. [Note: In this republic every man must stand on his own bottom. Thé good deeds of the fathers and mothoers confer no immu- ity from censure upon their sons and daughters any more than the bad acts of the £0ns and daughters cau be justly laid at the door of their mothers and fathers, 1t Dave Mercor had been as honest, indus- trious ana sturdy as nis father,hie would today have a rightful claim to public contidence. Had he worked at a trade and made himself master of it or nad he wrestled with poverty and want in his effort to become a good and trustworthy lawver, as have hun- dreds of poor men's boys who toduy rank high our bar, although they did not enjoy the educational aavantages which Mr. Mercer possessed when be located in Omaha, bis aspirations to represent this district in congress would have received hearty encouragement and loyal support at the hands of Tu: Brr, despite the fact that e lacks legislative ex- perience. The fact that Dave Mercer was a schoolmate with men who rank among our most honorable and high-minded citizens counts for nothing. Jeff Davis and most of the rebel generals of prominence were educated at Viest Point military academy with Grant, Sherman and Sheridan. Admit, if you please, that Mer- cer has enjoyed good schooling and you only wake it cleaver that e lacks character and intexrity. It would nave been more to his credit to have s ed dirt in the streets or earned a living Lonestly like any unlettered bootolack than to have prostituted himseif to the despicable work of an oil room caprer and tho professional politician. The opposition to Mercer's candidacy springs frow no porsonal disappointment aud no re- lentless antagonism. It has been solely in- spired by the abnorrence ot an example to our growing gencration of boys. To them Mercer’s selection is a proclamation that the road to preferment and high honor in politics leads through the looby which undermines the very foundation of our free institutions by decoying the peonle's represeatatives from the path of duty and makes our legis- lation a criminal farce.—Eviton Bze.) — UCATIONAL at Miss Wallup has been appolated a school toucher in a Kansas town, Three young women have received the de- gree of Bachelor of Music at Trinity unt versity, Torcnto, ‘There is something very pitiful about the way apoor man will strigzie along to give his’ daughter n good education, and the fac that for his reward she so often feels su rior to her parents when she has acquired it. The Stauford (Cal.) university has begun its second year with 600 students, The fresh man class” numbers 270; of them more than onc-third are from tne east. Nearly one- third ot tho applicants for admission were rejected. Prof. Charles W. Scriboer of Cornell uni- versity has accepted the chair of mechanical engincering at the University of Illinois. Prof. Scribner- graduated from Princeton college in 1850 and 1rom Steven’s Iustitute of Technology 1n 1852, St. Andrew’s, the oldest of Scotch univer- sitfes, not only offers to women the privi. Legos of its classes with a viow to graduation in arts, science, theology or medicine, but gencrously makes provision for them to share in its pecuniary bonefits, The University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn,, announuces the publication of the Sewauoe Review, a montnly, devoted in the main Lo theology, bistory and general litera- tare. ‘I'he Review 1s ‘under the cditorial control of the faculty of the univorsity, Few men have such an appropriate and noble a monument as has the late John Henry Towne in the Scnool of Science of the Pennsylvania university. Bv the death of Mrs, Towne the scnool comes into pos ses sion of about §175,000, which will still fur ther extend 1ts usefulness. In 1870 the proportion of rertificated women eachors was 45 in every 100, today it is 06, Similarly, the numoer of women assistauts nas risen from 60 10 77 per 100. 1n 1870 there were7,274 girls and 5,500 boy teachers, Thero are now 21,771 girls and only 6,360 boys learn- iug the art of teaching. "I'he amount appropriated last year for pub- lic schools by the Russian government was 2,502,000 How pitifully smail this 1s for a groat country like Russia is vividly brought out by the fact that for tho vear 1500 the amount expended for tho publiic sctools in the state of New York was §15,214,057.55, President Andrews of Brown university, Providence, R. L, does not uuderstand wh women students are not admitted to all Cn{: leges, He says the examinations aiready passed at Brown “have evinced remarkable proficiency on the vart of the young women taking thew —proficiency averaging decid- edly above that of the young mea n college, examiued iz the same branches.” The Chautauqua college, & department of the Chautauqua educational system distinet from the reaalog circles, offers the regular college curriculum and spocial colloge and Preparalory courses o studeuts at home who are no longer able Lo attend school or college, The work is accomplished through a svstem | of correspondence between individual students in ull parts of this and other coun- | tries and professors in leading American in- stitutions, THEENERGY OF THE CENTURY ‘onspicnons Advance in the Distribution of Eleotrical Power, FIELD OF UNLIMITED USEFULNESS Prospective Farms—Ro mployment in the W Ing the Ancient Cam- palgn Toreh—An Al Fen- ture of Domestie Eeonomy. Notwithstauding the almost universal use of electricity, a great many people have a very hazy idea of how it1s generated, and the inquiry is froquently made, “What is a dynamo!” Briefly, the aynamo is the only means known of genarating powerful cur ronts of electricity in an economical manner. ‘'he principie which underlies the construc- tlon of ail dynamos s the powerful inductive eff ctsof magnetism. The permaunontmagnet, or electro-magnet, whon magnetized, givos off from ita voles an fnfluonce which may ba likened to rays of light issuing trom tho poiut of illumination. What are represonted by “rays” in light are called “lines of forco’ In magnotism. Unitke toe rays of light, however, the lines of fo cannot be seen, but their presence is easiiy proved. A conductor or wirs caused to pass iu front of either pole, s0 as o cut the lines of forco, will have induced into 1t a current of olec- tricity. It is only a momentarv current, and 80 S00n A8 tae moilon is stopped the current ceases, howaver, n numbver of wires are bound around a framowork, say 1o the form of a wheol, and the 'wheel i3 ro- tated, curronts of electricity would bo gon crated 1w each coll of wire' in sucoession ‘The wheel, or combination of coils, is tech- nically known as an avmatare. If (he our- ronts generat, are to beutilized, means must be provided for their passage from the wire in which they are induced. This is done n a very simple way. A number of motal sec- tlons are bound together in circular form, occupying what would bo the hub or center of the wheel already mentioned, and this de. vice, which 1s calied a collector’ or commu- tator, Is revolved with the armature and receives the currents of electricity that are Induce I'rom the commutator the current 18 taken by what 18 catled n_ biush, which usually consists of plates of coppor, wire gauze or carbon. One end of the brush is allowed to rost on tho commutator and the otber has a wire attached to it. Thus when the commutator revolves, cachi section with its charge of current vasses, and is sligntly rubbed by tho brush, through which it passes to the wire which conducts it to the oxternal cirenit. S)a dynamo may be said to consist of one or moro powerfui maguets; Au armature or series of coils of wir rota- tng in the field of the magnets; and brasbes to carry off te current to the outer clreuit, legraphing Meteorotogical Reports, hie attempt which 18 now being made to utilize the telephone in the sys o tra mission of reports of approaching storms to central stations, from whence thoy can be forwarded to meteorolozical stations for warning purposes, has led to the considern tion of the possibility of & further use of the telegraph in assisting the work of the weather bureau. Tt has beon suggested that the meteorological reports would gain groatly in value it tnoy contained statements from electricians in every larze center of tele- £raphic communication s 1o the electrical phenomena exhibited in the ntmosphere, At toe different stations tho wires could be opened at certain definite times of the day or nightand in a very few moments 1 formia- tion could be obtamed by the use of the test- ing fnstruments as to the quantity of elec- tricity as well as the quautily of moisturo present i the atmosphere. That at- mosptieric loctrioity has a marked effect on telegraph wires is well known, and at the Umo of tbe recent aurora it was oven possi- vle to sond messages without the use of bat- teries, ectrielty for Farmers, T'hio auestion of the construction of electric roads in country districts, and the g eneral distribuuon of electricity for use in farming operations, is considered in a recent paper by W. N. Black. Mr. Bluck consiuers that “the most hoverul solution of the problem of difliculty avd discouragement that surrounds tho American farmer of today is to bo looked for in the general distribution of clectric power over the wllole countr from central ~stations, and its utilization, not merely for transportation, but for' all the work of the farm, now carricd on 50 expensively, faboriously and inefici- outly by the musoular power of men and animals. 1t uneeds but httle study of tho actual figures to appreciate how enormous would by the magnitude of the siving if this most flexible and tractable of all agents could bo made o do evenn comparatively small portion of the farm work of the Unitod States. Iv will be cheaper and moresensiblo to rendor the improved highways unnecos- sary than it will bo to get the highways.” Mr. Black estimates that electrical high- ways can be constructed for 3,500 per mile in districts where the grade is not more thau 10 per cent. Where light tresties or em- bankmeuts were needed the exponditure would bo greater; but probaoly over %) ver cent of the roadways of the United States could be coverod at this cost and as thero would be, taking an average section of ter miles square, about 100 miles of road, the total cost for the district would be only §330,- 000. With a central station large enough to drive all the roaa wagons of the district that would be in use at uny one timo, the capital- ization would ho less than $10 per acro, and the interest account Jess than 60 cents per anpum to the ucre, | plate formine a Hat hopp | September 7. But Mr. Black proposes 2ZBROWNING, KING= A much wider applioation of electricity than this capitalization would meet. Iis 1des is that this lrpilmll\!ll should be thorough, And should include the suppiying of power for all agricultural purpuses, for manu faoturin; and for electrio light as wol as for transpor 1Ation, and he estimates that this could b, done on A capitalization of #3,000,000 for the 100 square miles of territory. M maintains that the interest on this sum, § per nore, is Insignificant when the total value of the pr auct on & properly tultivaied acre of fortilo soil Is considered. Mr. Black lasists that electricity is_demanded in the country in. comparably moro thau in town with its paved troets, its steam enginos and its gas mains, T'he farmers need oloctricity grosly mors than they noed money at L per cent. Preparing for the Electrie Light. One of the signa of how genoral s bacom. ing the appreciation of electricity and the desire to eojoy 118 benelits is the practice which now obtains of making provision for clectric light wiring in houses newly erectod in parts or suburbs of cities 1 which there is no central station, and whero, conso. quently, some timo may elspse before o cur- rent is made availablo in the distriot. An exnmpie of this has just occurred 10 New York. A leading and weil known wost side physician is compieting the eroction of costly nouse on West Eighty-first stroet, aud dlthough the electric streot mamns are still two miles away ho bas had the build ing tubed and wired for about 120 lights, and hience as 000 as the current is brought to his door he can switeh it on without disturb ing walls or decorations. Ho has also Made claborato provision for the use of electrie light aud vower, not only us part of the do- mestic economy, but as A spocial feature of convenionco avd ssistanco in tho consulta: tion rooms, The Eleotrio Light i Campaigning, One of the features of the present political campaign 1s the substitution of the clootria toreh for the time-honoced oil torchlight of former presidential campaien parades. Thea cloctrical supply factories throughout the country have vaen besioged with orders, mMany cases amounting to thousanas of dollars, for electric torches, lanterns aud helmots, e sides those simple devices arrangoments are beine mado in many auariers for slaborate lighting effects arranged ou w platform, with a complete lighting plaat, so that it ean bo drawn all over a city and_at_the same time carry itsown current. Many of these mintature wstallations will exhibit’ beautiful designs aud figuros of vari-colored light and will be a very interosting foaturo of night parades. The managers of campaign clubs can secure somo valuable biuts on this subjoct from more than ouno enterprising theatrical mwanager who has during the past season produced some marvelous spectacular effects by means of the olectric light Connting Cains by Electricity, A now counting machino for brouze coins has been placed in the Loudon mwint. Tuo machine bas four distitet sots of counting apparatas, each of which cau b worked in- dependently of the others, and when all four are in full work upwards of 3,000 nence can be counted per winute, Two tabes aro vlaced on a piatform and tha coin is raised to vel of these by u litt worked by an tric motor, which also dvives tho count- ing machines, A pair ol the machines is fea trom cach of the two tables, the coms pass- ing from the tablo down an inelined iron ¢, from which they issuo in singte file through a channel of suit- able widin. Thenext process is the gri of the comns by apair of rubber driv wheels, aud their forcing past the rim of a thin diSe provided with recessos in its cir- camferenco to fit the circular edges of the coins. As the disc is thus made to revolve, the coins are pushed forward, falling into bag placed to recoive them. When tho bag is full the counting wheel is stoppod auto- watically, sud the bag is removed. Firing Naval Guns by Lleotricity, It is proposed in all future steel navy ves- sols to make urrangements for firing the guns by clectricity, and when automobilo torpedoes o supplied they will also be fitted so that they can be discharged from tho oridgo, or from some vomt at which the divection of the torpedo tabe is indicated. By a complete electrical firing svstem tho whole offensive encrgy of the ship cun thus be brought under the direct control of the captain, and at eloso quarters or in smooth water, when the guns can bo kept constantiy on tho object, the firo of the ship can be do- itvered effectively from tha bridge. —-— NEBRASKA ON WHEELS. for the Routo of the State Advertising Traln, The Nebraska exhibit train is being ar- ranged at the Union Puacific yards, foot of Webster street and Thirteenth, and Seore- tary Holmn states that the train will bo ready to exiibit to the Owmaha peovle at tho union depot by 10 o'clock this morning, and will remain on exhibition until time to leavo—4:40 p. 1, —over the Burhugton road. “If thero -was ever n palaco on wheels,” said Mr. Hodgin, “the Nebraska exhibit train will be one this year, and it is certainly very important for every business mnan in Omaha to visit this train next Monda; Tho following scheduio has been arranged for tne next few days: Loave Omaha over tne Burlington road, 4:40 p. m., Monday, the 20th instant. Stop thirty midutes at Plattsmouth, Neb., arriv- g in Briggsville, Ill, Tuesday morning, Exnimt’ at Briggsville from So'clock to 10 a .m., Septomber 27. Kirk- wood 10:30 a. m. to 2 p. m, September 27. Monmouth 2:30 p. m. to 8 p. m., September Yates City 1:30 p. m. to 8 p. m., Sep- tember 98, Bilenwood 3:3) p. m. to' ¢ m., September 23, Wil arrive 1n Peorla the night of the and romain there Thursduy and Friday, Sep- tember 20 and 30, exhibiling at the 'S Fair zrounds. Loave Peoria the night of tho 30th for Galesburg, and remain in Galesburg Saturday ana Sunday, Octobor 1 and 2. & co. Larzest Manufacturers and Deuiers of Clolh tailor-made. Browning,King&Co oxoept Satue- days, when we close at 10 p. w “T'was ever thus Since Columbus discovered America, at-least. before you know it. The little urchin brother, under the sofa, can be made a man of too, with his choice of one of the nobbiest lines of boys make them and we make them gool, tailor-made, they wear like tailor-made, in fact they are ' suits ever made up. & o vhe World, The young man likes it and so does the young lady provided he is a nice looking y. m.and he don't have to be handsome to be a nice looking y. m. | either. One of our fall suits will do the busines: We have some suits so loud she can't hear the coclk strike and others so ¢ married in one of them We They look like 15th & Douglas St, e e 3 s s