Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 16, 1893, Page 10

INGALLS 0N BLAIN Masterly and Mordant Mental Measurement | of the’ Man from Maine, REASON FOR THE RUIN OF HIS HIGH HOPES | That Jest on Roscoe Uonkling Responsible for Later Republican Reverses, SECRET OF THE PLUMED KNIGHT'S POWER ‘Not by Logic, But by the Pervasivo Magio | of His Personality PARALLELED WITH THE ELDER PITT Strong in His Affections, Tuten rolonting in His Antipathies, Ho Equally Adulation and Malediction 1s Place in Political History. (Copyrighted, 18 more powerfully to the pagination of the merican people than uy other political lead crof his time His individuality was the most interesting nd impressive of his reneration, and when this personal force is N uo longer felt or re membered it will be difficult for the his torian of the future to detect the secret of his extraordinary and phenomenal influence over his contemporaries, by whose reason and judgment he was never wholly approved, and by many of whom, justly or unjustly, he |“ LAINE APPEALED b L2 was suspected and distrusted, even when | most admived and apolauded | Ho was the object of irrational idolatry | and adulation, and of equally inexplicable | malediction, but in both there was a singu- lar reservation, for his political associates never gave him their full confidence, and his political enemies, even in their most fervid indictments and tampoons, felt for hima | sentimentof personal kinduess. His place in_history, therefore, cannot now be coer tainly predicted, but it ms probable that the historic Blaine will not have the propor- tions of the “Blaine of Maine,” whose name, | with its explosive detonating rhythm, was chanted by millions as they marched under his glittering standard and followed his fall ing fortunes with unwavering constancy through an unbroken succession of fatal dis. asters, culminating in defeat that involved leaders and followers in irremediable havoe | and destruction The world has never found the meaf on which its Ciesars fed and grew so great “The shop at which this nutriment was sold Cassius could not discover, nor any envious, rival ana competitor before nor scription for greatness has not been written. The laboratory in which genius is compounded has not been dis- closed. There is no receipt nor formula for making o great man, and of the two that are grinding at the same mill no prophet cax foretell which one shall be taken .and which be left. After our heroes have been gauged and scrutinized, after their | cubic contents and specific gravity have been ascertained, after their capacity for speech, toil and accumulation has been measured, there is a subtle something that escapes annlysis; that eludes the apothecary's scruple and defies detection—the un- discernible attribute thav makes them great and distinguishes them from the rest of mankind. This was pre-emi- nently the case with Blaine. He was one of a constellation of extraoiinary men, differ- ing in gifts, endowments, attainments and functions as one star from another in glory. His epoch was populous with great com- manders, orators, politicians, statesmen, men of affairs, and in every province he was surpassed by some contemporary. But in what 18 called *‘popularity power to kindle enthusiasm among the masses, Blaine led and overtopped them ull, What is Fame? The passion for military glory is insati- able. The successful captain is a popular 1dol, and in civil war especially has activity in the tield been considered an indispensable condition of renown. But although Blaine had no vart in the war of the rebellion as a soldier, and was often taunted with the re- proach that he sent a substitute by his ad- ‘versaries, itis no disparsgement to Grant and Sherman and Sheridan to affirm that they could not more profoundly stir the decps of public tecling than he, and that an- other of the greatest of our military leaders yoluntarily took subordinate station with him in onc of the most memorable political conflicts of modern times As a constructive legislator his name is not inseparably associated with any of the great measures of finance and veconstruction dur fng his service in congress, He had no ca- city for items nor for plodding. His tem perament was dramatic. - His parliamentary orbit was meteoric rather than planetary He shone with a_light brilliant, startlin and dazzling, like the lightning's flash across & tempestuous and cloudy firmanent, and not the changeless blaze of the beacon burniug upon the headland to warn and direct the mariner through the storm with beneficent and steady ray. There was o theatrical ele. ment in his character, a tendency toward sensations, surprises and spectacles, a dispo- sition to capture position by sudden and im petuous assault, rather than by elaborate nvestment and approach. But the architects of these great stututes, the builders of that fabricof restoration ey dered necessary by the convulsions of the re bellion, are already forgotten. They did a tremendous and indispensable task, but. they left no impress upon the public retina. The antiquarian wil! discover them and rocord their deeds, but no chord of love or pride vi- brates at the repetition of their names. There are fow who can recall the authors of the coustitutional amendments, the legal tender enactments, the reconstriction meas. ures, and to the present generation Ste vens, Schencl, S ng and th ates of Biuine in congress have scarcely oy the distinetion of tradition. I hey have gone “glimmering through the dream of things that were," azp are not even a schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour. ¢ The Secret of His Power. In the large sense Blaine was not an ora- tor like Webster or Sumner or Winter Dayis or Conkhing. He seldom formal speoches, and those were tot remarka bly ef fective, but he was a dobater of unrivaled force, alertness and power. In the sharp hand-to-hand contests of the house and sen ate be never had a superior. He often con. trasted in conversation the dull, deliberate mothods of the senate with the flerce colloquial fiveminute debates of the house, and contended that the shock and collision of the latter were im- mensely more effective in elucidating truth, overthrowing error and reaching great re. sults than the studied and laborious orations which emptied the chamber and put the gal- Jeries to sicep. On the platform or the stump” he was irresistible, He carried his sudiences not by logic or highly wrought rhetorical periods, but by the indescribable and pervasive magic of his personality. His velumphs were moro like those of a great singer, or a popular actor, due to his own tributes and faculties, and the respousive sensibilities of bis hearers, more than to his theme orits troatmeat. These cannot be transmittad W posterity, The types caunot THE OMAHA DAILY BE rocord thom They perish and disappear with the occasion of their origin Changed the Course of We road tho orations of V undorstani why ho is groat. 'The of mankind is intelligible, but we follow tho reported s of Piit and Clay with disappointmont. They do not account for the infatuation of thair worshipsrs, They in timent and con struction. T pancy is irreconcilable The spell isab The charm has van ished. The wand of the enchanter is broke And 8o the reported utterances of Blaine will not convey to posterity an adequate im prossion. They witl not explain his rola tions to the constituencies ha represented, the audiences he swayed, the conventions he controlled, and to the party of which he was so long the uncrowned king In common estimation he was a boyish, ox uberant, unsophisticated eathusiast: but in fact his nature was caleulating and cautious. He had o shrewd eye for the main chance He looked farther'into a grindstone than most men. His affoctions were strong and ardent, bat his hatreds and antipathios were bitter, intense and unrelenting. They changed the course of history, aud were the predominant factors in bringing about the tinal catastrophe of the republ The Blalne-Conkling Duel. History, the actual account of mon and events, 18 never written. Results ave nar rated, but the causes are concealed. The duel in the house between Blaine and Conk ling will have no_ place in our annals except as o picturesque and entertaining incident but it was the head waters of the Mississipni of our woes. Blaine could sist the temptation to satirize the tur gobbler strut and the Hyperion curl of Conkling. it was an amusing thrust, but it was never forgotten mnor forgiven. 1t aroused the inexorable resentment of & haaghty ive and implacable spirit BLAINL'S CHARACTERISTIC POSE IN SPEAKING fhe joke was not bad, but it was ex pensive. It cost Blaine the presidency. But for that fatal jest he would have_been nom inated in 1876, He was defeated by the in- domitable hostility of Conkling and his friends. In 1880 he was again the most prominent and formidable candidate for the nomination. His success emed inevitable, but the resources of his great enemy were not exhausted. Conscious that F ine could not be beaten by ordmary intrigue and ma- nocuyer, the he ppeal for a third term for & made to the party he had twice led to victor Grant not consulted. He was absent_on his_tour around the world, and when advised of the movement protested, although his reluctance was finally overcome. It was wauton and criuel abuse of a noble and trusting nature, but it was politics. It was necessary to beat Blaine. There was no other name with which to conjure. The immortal 306 inter- posed their indomitable squadrons agamst the ambition of Blame, and Garfield was nominated and elected, largely by the efforts of Conkling and Grant. Embittered by the ascendancy of Blaine in the new administration, and the continuance of the warfare against his frienas in New York, Conkling resigned from the senate, ex- pecting to be re-clected immediately with letters of marque and reprisal. Thwarted by the efforts of the president and seeretary of state, and no_longer predominant in na- tional politics, the vengeance of his adher- ents in 1554 gave New York to Cleveland and secured bis election. This was practically theend of the tragedy, which has now finally closed by the death of both of the actors, who have departed to that dark mon- archy where ambition can no longer stimu- lato nor glory th:ill. Remotely thi s same quarrel turned the frenzied brain of Guiteauand resulted in the death of Garfield and the succession of Arthur, who was entitled to the nomination in '84. But he had incurred the hostility of Blaine by reorganizing Garfield's cabinet, and 5o the vendetta was continued and the curtam fell on another act ot the drama whose epilogue was pronounced on the 4th of March, 1583, Vengeance Is Mine. In February, 1844, Blaine said to a friend who asked him about his personal relations to the pending campaign, that he had re- ived above 7,000 letters from different parts of the country asking his wishes ana offering istunce,to no one of whicn had he replied. He coutinued: “I neither expect nor desire the nomination, but there is one thing I in- tend to do, and' that is to prevent that man in the white house from getting it.” His mysterious course in the last campaign is susceptible of a similar explanation. He could not have expected to be nominated, or, if nominated, to be elected, or, if elected, to survive his ioauguration, It was strange that he did not perceive that the same sinis- ter elements that u: ant to overthrow him in 1880 were using him with similar in- sincerity to overthrow Harrison in 152, Muchthat seemed inexplicable in his con- duct, m later life especially, his vacillation, his indecision, the absence of seif-control, was due to ill health. Blaine was always a nvpochondriac. His old friend and associate, Hannibal Hamlin, said there had never been 4 day since he knew him when, if any person told him he was looking badly, he would not immediately return home, go to bed and send for a doctor. This was' probably good na- tured exaggeration, but it illustrates the morbid tendency-to rotrospection, which al- ways implies ~ some obscure mnervous lesion, though it i not incom- patible with longevity. He had the dread which all public men feel of being considered an invalid, like Crawford of Ceorgia, who was a candidate f-r the presidency when helpless from paralysis, his condition being sedulously concealed from the public. No man is well who thinks heis ill. He may have no organic or fatal ailment, but something is the matter with him, and no man known to be an invalid can cither anticipate or rationally desire the highest distinctions of the public service The tremendous physical strain, the eud repetition and routine of frivolous the irritatiug perplexiti i 3 of hubits and hours, the agitationsiof ani- bitiou and the perpetual servitude to all classes and conditions of men exhaust the most vigorous vitality and test the most robus: and rugged endurance. An luteresting Paral “There is & curious and interesting parallel between the closiug days of Blaine and the elder Pitt, as described by Macaulay in his essay upon the earl of Chatham: “The fort of Pitt seemed to flourish; but his health was worse than ever. He remained some months in profound retirement at Hayes, his favorite villa, scarcely moving, except from his arm chair to ms bed and from his bed to his arm chair, and often employed his wife as his amanuensis in his most confidential com crce. Some of his detractors whis that his invisibility was to be ascribed quite a3 much to affectation as to gout. In truth, his churacter. high and splendid as it was wanted simplicity. With a genius that did not need the aid of stage tricks, and with a spivit that should have boen far above them, he had not yet been, tarough life, in the habit of practicing 'them. 1t was, there- fore, now surmised that, having acquired all the consideration which could be derived from eloquence and from great services to the state. he had dotermined not to make himself choap by often appearing iu public, but, under the pretoxt of ill health, to sur: round himself with mystery, to emerge only at long intervals and " on momentous occa- sions, and at other times to deliver his ora cles only t & few favored.votaries, who woro sapposed to make pligrimages to his I shrine. If such were his object it was for a v imefully attained. Never was the magio of his name so powerful; never was ho re garded by his country with such supes tious veneration as during this yoar of sile and seclusion.’ Blaine's Personal Sorrows. Tn addition to these infirmities, Blaine was the victim of a malign and cruel fate that subjected him to the most utolerable per sonal sorrows aad be nents. There 1s 1o doom in the tragedies of schylus more somber in its hopeless desolation. 1 camo first to know him well in the preliminary campnign of 1876, He seemed then at the summit of earthly felicity, with an illimit able prospect of glory spread out before hiu His rise had been rapid, and prophetic of greater triumphs yet to come. His career was an unbroken succossion of vietor With ample resources that enabled him dispense generous hospitality, and personal qualities that disarmed partisan animosity, tie was the central figure in social and offi- cial lifo atv the capital. He was radiant with hope. His conversation w tric and exhilarating. 1t flashed and scintilated with intellectual brilliancy, 1t was not a shallow splendor that glittered and corus- cated superficially, but un interior illumination that = glowed with inces- sant flame. His address was _capti- vating, and his demeanor engaging. He was familiar without flippancy, and possessed that faciie flexibility of adaptation which is one of the rarest social traits, His kuowl- edge of men and events was bioad, tnough not profound, and it seemed that there was | no clovation which he might not justly an- ticipate. As speaker of the house he had exhibited ideal characteristi nd no exi geney had risen to which he had not shown instant superiority. He was fortunate in ature, features and bearing; in dress, neither'a fop nor a sloven, and in conduct | clearly without priggishness or ascetic His years were in the prime, his sun at ridian, and the sky without a cloud an instant the fatal bolt descended, and he | lay unconscious on the threshold of the sanctuary that moment his pathway sloped downward to the grave. The Beginning of the End, Every ambition was thwarted. By hope was blasted. Thrice aefeated as a candidate for the presidential nomination, once nominated and uns ccessful at the nis health steadily declined, and a jon of afflictions followed » befallen few of the human them with composure and dignit One pathetic_and indignant protest broke the silence of his wounded aud suffering spirit, at the wanton violation of the de cencies of private life; but if the disap- pointments of his public career gave him grief he made no sign and uttered no complaint. He received the bulletins of the convention in 1880 in the senate cham- ber, and read them with as little apparent concern as though he were a stranger. He betrayed no feeling as his vote dechined, and after the thirty-fourth ballot predicted the nomination of Garfield. When the final an- nouncement came he said: I have accom- plished the one thing tl I desired, and that is the destruction of the third term idea in this country. It will never be heard of again!” After his temporary retirement he occupied his teisure in the composition of his “Twenty Ye of Congr " the incompara monu- ment of his genius, on which his fame will largely rest. Itisa remarkable tribute to his versatilo powers that the chiet victims of his eritical vivisection have had the con- siderate prudence to wait for his death be- fore they ventured to reply. Intense Amerlcanism, Blaine’s Americanism was a_passion. His sympathies were American and for Ameri- can interests, He wa believer iu the con tinental policy and claimed the western hemisphere as the arena for the develop- ment of American institutions and American destiny. But he made no original contribu- tions to the stock of American ideas, per. haps because none are possible and our pro- gram is complete.- He is in popular estima tion the representative of the theory of pro- tection to American labor, but Hamilton and Clay were his prototypes. Reciprocity was the dream of Douglas and mauy others of our statesmen before and since. The c f American republics was a logical in- from the Monroe doctrine and M, vy, as secretary of state, had orgapized the congress of Panama with the same pur- pose fifty years before. But it was reserved for Blaine to reassemble these fundamer principles from the past and emphasize their importance to his own epoch, (e e IMPIETIE! Many of tne most_interesting features of the conference at Holyoke, says the Spring field (Mass.) Republican, are to be found, not in the regular meetings, but in_the informal gatherings in the vestry, or lobby, as some of the delegates irreverently call it. Here things are very far from being solemn or sanctimonious. - People walk around with their hats on and talk with an animation strongly suggestive of the Stock exchange. Occasional suatches of conversation ma heard that show even the most saintl elders can have his own opinion in regard to his brethren and express it when there is occasion. ““That fellow,” said a benevolent looking parson, as a handsome and dashing looking oung minister passed, “has the cheek of a Chicago alderman. It makes me sick to see him around everywhere, leading n_prayer as if he had a monopoly on the Lord's office house.” *‘He's a good fellow, Smith s, other timidl “Good fellow your grandmother ! wouldn't stir a step 1o help me out of a hole for less than $15 and-expenses a Sunday ; that's the kind of a good fellow heis.” said the How a clergyman ‘ought to dress in the pulpit becomes i burning question m view of the reported resignation of Rev. Mr. Mc- Neille of the South Congregational church g Bridgeport, Conn. Some time s Boston Herald, Rev. Mr, McNeille adopted evening dress for his attive when preachin The deacons and some of the older heads o jected to the minister's clawhammer coat. Some_reasoned that it was not au fait to ap- pear in a dress suit until after § o'clock Others that it looked too much like after-din- ner speaking, and one of the deacons ob- jected to Rev. Mr. MeNeille's garb because he looked to the deacon just as if he had hurried back from New York to preach after attending those Depew dinuers and did not have time to change his clothes before read- ing the opening hymn. Accordingly, Rev Mr. McNeille has resigned his charge, and it is probably safe to say that the new preacher in this pulpit will be clothed with humility It was at a late quarf y meeting of Seventh Day Baptist churches in Wisconsin that two clergymen were to present papers on_the same day, and_the question of prec dence having avisen, Mr. A. spraug to h feet and said: “I think Brother B. ought to have the best place on the program; he is an older man than Iam, and, besides 1s full of his subject.” When the audience remem- bered that Brother B.'s subject was “The Devil” & cheerful smile seemed to beam around the church. The brethren do so enjoy these little thing A clergyman in Scotland invited Bishop Selwyn o preach in his church. His lord- ship ‘gave an impressive and beautiful ser- mon, which at the same time was perfectly plain and simple. The rector was dolighted, and said so on meeting onc of the most regular members cf his congregation “Well, sir, I don't think so much of i%," rejoined the man. *It was so simple any child could have understood it For my part, I like a sermon that confuses your head for a week. I don't kuow uny which beats yours for that, sir.” First Burglar—Did "you hear what the chaplain said in his sermon today, Bill, about our carrying our talents ito' the next world? Second Burglar—Yes, and 1'm glad of it. F. B.—Why, you don't expect that they'li enable you tobreak into heaven, do you? 5. B.~No, but they might enablea fellow 10 break out of the other place. ‘Horse thief!” asked the tourist, as he looked out the car ndow and observed an amorphous object swinging from a telograph pole. w,"” said the station agent, ‘“‘editor. the preacher at this place and an other preacher from up the creek hud a four- days debate last week, and the fool editor put it in his paper under the head of * ing Event,” APRIL 16, 189 IF YOU are going to erect a building employ an architect. IF YOU are going to furnish a house consult one experienced in the line. IF YOU would economize, go where you can see the best assortmemt and get most for your money. IF INTERESTED in secing an entirely new stock of Draperies, Carpets, Linoleums and Mattings, it will give us pleasure to show you, if not ready to buy. URCHAED & WILHELM CARPET (D, (Successors to S. A. Orchard.) Douglas St., bet 14th and 15th SEEKING HOMES IN NEBRASK Thousands of Immigrants Pouring Into the up the country and can do a great | cement, and the fence about them an ugly State This Year, deal more than they have done if they | and tawdry iron one. He says: “The esti a e asyg Majority Belng Honest Farmers From the Eastern and Mid- per acre, Today it is worth 8% and Any dlo Western States. Immigration into the western states, and | State s interested, every citizen should do | of 4 city by causing electrolysis. At meet especially into Nebraska, seems not to have Ma, abated, although times have been somewhat depressed throughout the whole country. | *We are unable to giv te state- | disappeared by the action of the electric cur People will always keep on moving as long | ment as to the nts who | rent, and a like result had attended the use as there is a prospect of bettering their con- dition, and it is no wonder that they are at- | interfores gomewhat. but tiis will be only tracted to the great west, for to those who | tempo must begin at the bottom round of the lad- | now coming seem to be from the middle | undoubtedly ow. der there is nota better place to go. Ne- | Western states. They seem to have learned | ric cars. It tisfactory to know that ng as she does unsurpassed re- sources, obtains her full quota of this immi- | vesting again in cheaper lands in Nebr baska, enjoy’ and obtained is quite extensive, and that the | ing people to the state, and our extensive | April been in the mmnistry for coming ~ constitute make a valuable acqui vopulation of the state. The immigration s the states of Iow t present seems to befrom | missioner's office of the Union Pacific rail- Hlinois, Wisconsin, To- | way, said: “Our sales of land arc three diana, Michigan and some adjoining states. | timcs larger than those of any year since These people are a thrifty and intelligent | 1857, and they are made mostly to those who class and will make good citizens, and they re coming into Nebraska in large numbers. | we sell are mainly from lowa, Iliinois and than usual, owing to the cholera, govern- Of course this does not signify mental restrictions and higher ~steamship Some of the restrictions have of late ! ver, and the inflow is | department. Our sales are mainly in the | an Anglican service on the 24th day of 'June, beginning to iber: W. Munn, chief clerk of the passenger | where lands are sold from .50 to §10 per Fremont, Elkhorn & | acre. During the first quarter of 1503 we | sions of the Presbyterian church for the Sold only in Omaha by railroad, said: “The people | sold, exclusive of re-sales, 21,000 acres and | eleven months of the fiscal year amount to re now settling in northern and north- | expect to do a large business in this line dur- 3 B 302,03 for the same mostly from lowa and | ng the remainder of the year." jod one year persons are disposing of e A Now Jersey Mothodist conforence has higher priced land {5y those states and buy- y 14th and Farnam, Sole agents for Nebraska, department Missouri Valle © just as good and much There 15 very little immigrationof | Our electric companies vepresent §100,000,- 2loss 50 dofective in oducation and foreigners to the territory through which we | oo, I can think Row of only a few Russians ing lands in this sf vknow, has no lands | g Vi valid tricycle” chair. A storage bat- ML Sl e e consequently we cannct | yopy ynder the seat supplies, it is claimed, | yesigned a few daysago. The congrezation e ercer Ans - aaticate o of sufficient for fifty miles, without re- | hag elected him pastor emeritus, and is s Omaha’s Newest Hotel COR. 12TH AND HONARD 375 immigration perhaps can whigh as. same do have lands for sale sctric A o BucT should say that thero is promiso of @ | electric-lighting effocts at the Worlds fair | among tie Lutheran, - Koformed, 1 neavy immigration ipto Neb ‘from Wis- | aro to surpass anything of the kind here aindist and Baptisis (Fydera. Tudiand and Lilinois after tho | fore atiompted. 1t is owing solely to tho ! tion dos kglises) las been agitated of late I year's crops are gathered. These immi- aut of the electrical exhibit'that the Prance ||.: Im,.l. is to pre ‘Ew‘.;” undls frants, being privcipally farmers, do not | fair is to be open every evening instead of | vided evangelica over agains move much in sumihdr. - During ) and. winter they meke their changes and | ! : gk Iy tntheir new places by the | yical vegotation oxterminator, which s de. | recently at San Fraucisco, had beeu itontt ] OPINED AUGUST opening of springu wOue expeotations of 8 | jgned o lail tho rank veoiation whict | fisd with the work of o Lrotestant, Wi - — arge influx are i ot tha rrows along railroad beds and highways in church since have advertised extansively throughout that | Frost A 00 Fato8S s B e Miilua & nd have given and will fgive num 1ropieal oo app i us. Asto the number | G 20 0 4 furnishes o current’ which is | author of church works Lo won considerable 3 ‘.“’,"“fl‘ ome this year, | sent through ull the adjazent vegotation by | distinction ] - o opare likely to come during the remuinder | means of u prush when the car is moved | Rev. Thomas Van o has just been Of it, we can give you no definite idea.” : ral passenger agont of the | plicable, of course, to tho weeds and grasses | church of Boston, is only a little over ’ “We are haviug a very large immigration of young men, principally armers from Indiana, ous harvest excurs Burlington, of well-to-do housand a week D e abgor than last year. and 1| at the time is not mentioned think it is perfocily safo to say thatit is | G. Wilfred Pearce of Now Brunswick, N nes as large as that of any year has issued an address to the elect: during the past ten years. The increase is | of the country, asking them to raise money due principally to the energy displayed by | to put the tombs of Benjamin Franklin a . our company in the way of advertising. We | his wife in good order, erect a uew fc .-I have even ‘covered Germany, Norway and | and a bronze memorial tablet, At presont oo In Sweden with our lit ture. Then again | the graves are sadly neglected, the tomnb- the boards of trade have done much to settle | stones going to decay because of the lack of will set about it. This they can do by pub- { mated cost of repairing tomb and making lishing at stated times a ement of the | fence and tablet is 1,000, and in ovder that growth of their towns and asking its citizens | all may contribute I would suggest that 10 why should this not be done! Such work | there are others who care to gi larger is beneficial not only to the towns and the | sums an endowment fund will be created and THEY' ARE ALL INDUSTRIOUS CITIZENS | to send 1t to their friends in the cast. And | cents be the sum from each sabscriber. 1f 18(}3 f But ¥Few of Them Aro Forelgners, the | company, but to the state at large. Look at ! the income devoted to eping the tomb in T Perkins ‘and Grant counties, for instance. | repair for many years to come.- HIPRO\ ED Al A year ago land there was worth about 35 A considerable amount of anxiety has re- cently been caused, especially among corpor one can see the benefits to be derived from | rations controlling water works. by the (1s- increase of immigration, and we think s | covery that the passugo of electric cars has o a business proposition in which the whole | tendency to seriously injure the water pipes he can to encouragp it." ing of a water works association an elec- Kenzie, chief clerk to the general iEinGar i atatad: ‘thav ! in soms onscs snger agent of the Union Pacific said: | ynder his observation lead pipe had entir GASOLI) are coming into the state, but know that it |“of iron, galvanized iron. brass aud rustless: is quite large. The World's fair undoubtedly | pipes. The corrosive action takes place where ¢ the current leaves the pipe and not where it I'he largest percentage of those [ enters it, and the phenomena mentioned were he operation of el pue way of making money. They are sell- | should the electrolysis of water pipes become ing valuable places in those states and in- | agserious a question as it is thought by some g h s it may, a certain remedy, although it ‘would One impetus to the increased immi- | jnc the costof water installations, would With a view of learning something of the | ration is the _ extensive irrigation | be the jnsulation of the conduits immgration which is coming into the state at the present time a representative of TiE | canal which will water ~ 100,000 acres of Bee visited several Omuha representatives | ground and west of this the Laramie and b of the railway and steamship companies | Scotts Bluff canal, which will water an equal an expression of opinion as to the influx of population at the present time. e figures could mnot be given, some ideas were sug interesting reading. These | the swate. T again the harvest excur- schemes under way in the western part of the state. North of Sianey is the Belmont 55 RELIGIOU, The world over the Baptist membership Then there are a great many smaller | has increased from 542 in 1850 to 4,0 ones which will pace several thousand acres | 6% in 1802, . under cultivation. These undertak- | The D ran Association of arc attracting wide attention and do- | North America is threatened with a split on sted in a eeneral w ing much to e the western part of | the question of the inspiration of the bible. that immigration at | sious are doing much in the way of attract- ted his 8ath birthday. at Reading on advertising is doing much more. We expect | over sixty y S PPOSTIERONS Y G : Alva Gage has presented to the Unitarian A, L. Lynch, land clerk in the land com- | oeh QeS8 EET REERBIEE (0 HE8 o ome brick parish house, costing over $11,000. 1t will be finished during the summer. Father George Deshon, acting superior of the Paulist fathers. graduatcd in the same class with and was in servi is somewhat lighter forcign purchasers being very | during the e 3 of the war. S Signif) Bishop Nichols of California proposes to t the immigration of foreigners into the | mark the spoton the coast where Sir Fran- [ poo oo “ 15 not Intiso. T oan speats only for our | cis Drake's chaplain. Francis Fleteher, held | Fourth y adjoining lands. Outsiders to whom central and western parts of the state with an appropriate memorial The roceipts of the Board of Home Mjs. LVEry New Processy ELECTRICAL NOTES, Just rejected a class of applicants for the inistry with the remark that they never with such large familie: A useful application of the eloctric motor | Rey. Dr. George Patton, who has heen Cherry county. Our b ii4ya4 of giving easily controlled power to tor of tho Third Presbyterian church 'of character of the of those companies | CR4ring, ata spec d of eight miles an hour. 1 pajsing a fund to pay his salary as such The electrical fountains and other artistic ‘The project of forming a federal union Churches, Methodist and Baptists (Fede 0 Rooms at §2, por day. {0)i00ms al§5.00 per day. Roman Catholic church During the autumn | occasionally, as at first planned : Bishop William Ingraham Kip, who died A Memphis man has a patent for an ¢ iscopal bishop of Californin, As a con Newly | tri tor Lo re ous public jons and as au ing dynamo and engine or batteries, is placed | tributor to religious publications and us un along the track. The sume principle is ap- | clected pastor of the Second Unitarian years old and was graduated from the Cam a cultivated feld 208 U i bridge Divinity school in 15853 He began his Londoners are trying to show that Benja- Rev. Edward A, Laurence, pastor of the First Congregational church of Baltimore wealthy and aristocrati spheri stric churches in the city, has left his handsome Swiss colonie vo | theory of atmospheric electricity. At this | cht § . - handson (-sum.u)ism:;; the | time ho was living in & small Bohemian | house and made his abode in the tenement g 424 | house district. He has taken two rooms on ' Corner Cottaze Grove ave. Bumber of actual settlers coming | village and he constructed a rod having #24 | house distri fo has taken two rooms on quLu s FMR""‘ our roads would | needle points, connecting the bottom of it to | the third floor ¢ The immigration is Mr. Laurenc NEW PROCESS E RANGE A Many New Features Bishop Howe of central Peunsylvania cel- Valuable Improvements " 150 More sold than allother makes It is the best, because— It cannot explode. All parts rust proof It cannot burn out 10Reoms with Bath at §19) prriar, 10 Rooms with Bath at 3.9 Lo §.8) par 11y, 18 was the first [ Slodern in Kvery Kespoct. hed Throaghout C. S. ERB. Pro. MURRAY HOTEL 51 E Joulder, Colo., built a church The nly hotel o h ho! ad co!d Pounaylvania; Wisconsin, * fowes | min Franidin was not the first experimenter | ministry at Boulder, Colo, bUlls & COUISH | Tne nlyhotel in sbe oity with hot and co'd n, Tilinols, Towa aud Missouri, Tney | in atmospheric electricity, or the inventor of | UBCTe wiid HAH B Tubl wn 1 dining roo:m service unyirpagssl aro usuaily persons of means who pay cash | the lightuing rod. It is said that a Catholic for their lands, and are a good class of citi- | priest named Proconius Diwisch as early as Then again there is a large number of | June 15, 1754, noticed that lightuing was an PP L Russians and Swedes coming in and in Per- | electric spark and worked out a complete RATES $2.50 TO $4.00. Epecial rates on uppiication. B. SILLOWAY, Ty Huronoan, #1.60 au e § 't advertise the fact | laboring familics. 1t is his desire t becomo clags Kar the earth. Why ho didn't advertise the fact | [SR0FHE (NN TG (ViR the poor. poonle aud HOTEL DELAWARE gEa 8 O help thom if ho can, Frank D, Thompson,s | HOTEL DELA o Apri) 24 Johna Hoplcing university svudent, lives with |~ o oo 0 | it L, clas 1's Fair. Opoas Rond for elr