Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 19, 1893, Page 4

1. ROSEWATER. : . PURLISITED EVERY MORNING — TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One Yenr Kditor. Dafly Bee (edthont Snndas Dafly and Sundag, One Yoar 1% Monthis hiree Mgnitis iy T, O e Y One Ve JOFFICES, it wenty sfonrth streets. t 317 Chambor of Commeres, yi# 19, 14 dnd 15, Tribrme biilding Fotirteenth street newa and To the Editor of 1 B PUBLISHING COMPANY. SWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Cor Douiglas, | Tzscliek, soeretary of Tie BEE Pub. pany. does solemnly swear that the (tion of Tik DAILY BEE for the woeek 1808, was a8 follows 5,030 Wedne i Satiiniiy 3 GrONGE B TZ8CnUCK » i subscribed fn of December \ry Public. 'Rk silver annonnces its intention of contesting with Hawaii for the privilege of being the paramount issue. JUDGING from the length of President Cloveland’s second message to congress there must be & “heap of trouble on the old man’s mind THosE democratic congressmen who ave insisting upon the passage of some kind of & bankruptey bill evidently an- ticipate the possible requirements of their own political futures. HERE is nothing effective as promptness in the administration of justice for the muepose of discouraging lawless people from resorting to mob violence. The murder trial at Platts- mouth is a striking example. 80 THi: men who are favoring Senator Hill's plan for a fed legacy tax must not forget that such a measure will cut away much of the revenue devived from inheritance taxes now secured by the state treasuries of various castern stat, SENATOR VOORHE thinks no one ought to be surprised at his introdue- tion of a bill for increasing the circula- tion of silver in the United States. Quite right! No one would be surprised at anything Senator Voorhees might do. SARAH | HARD' memoirs, soon 10 be published, will hardly be complete without including the story of her fivst appearance in Omaha. It is to be feared, nowever, that that episode is not one of those which she cares to have remem- bered. "1 insurance agents in Omaha seem to think that the fire department should be conduct at their dictation and threaten to raise the insurance rates every fime ono of their demands meets opposition. Brandishing this club too often will deprive it of its effect. s than an hour after a burglary was discovered at Council Bluffs word was received that the criminals haa beoen apprettended with the booty in their possession. by the Omaha police. This is the kind of work that reflects credit upon the members of our loeal police force. IN L AND now Charles Nordhoff informs the public that an income tax in time of peace will ruin any party that accepts the responsibility of imposing it upon the people of the United States. This might be timely warning for the demo- crats in congress were it not for the fact that it is dificult to ruin-a political party already well on the way to ruin, NO INDUSTRY has given Nebraska greater prominence than that of the culture of sugar beots and manufacture of beet sugar at Grand Island or Nor- folk. Its success has been fully demon- strated. The element of uncertainty as to final results will not embarrass the mon who propose to start the factory in Omaha if suflicient acreage of beets can be guarvanteed, Every business man knows the benefits of a large manu- facturing establishment, and the intelli- gont farmers of Douglas and neighbor- ing counties know that a crop of sugar baots is the most profitable of any. THE reasons assigned for the new orders proscribing the public from the senate chamberat Washington ard from the nse of pacticular elevators and cor- ridors ave rather flimsy protexts for “drawing tho line of senatorial exclusive- ness sharper than ever befove. The sonate has oceupied its present hall for about thirty years and during that time an inquisitive constituency has been allowed during the morning hours to oxamine at will the textuve of the vel- vety carpet and the matervials used in the mahogany desks, =0 loug as they were not disturbing the venerable disciples of senatovial dignity. Senators of today, however, find thomselves unable to put up with what their predecessors fo yoars have stood without grumbling. 'he senate is rapidly becoming an American house of lord T Union Pacific division of the Railway Employes association has not yot applied to the federal court for an order restoring the old scale of wages. One of the best attorneys of Omaha is of the opinion that the court has the authority not only to fix the salaries of receivers but the wages of cmployes as well. In fact, the veceivers are but the ageonts of the court, as are also the em- ployeson the line. We concede that the road was compelled to reduce wages owing to hard times and poor business, but we insist that the employes have a vight to be heard in court. The fact that they have not appealed to the court only emphasizes the utter worth- lessness of the employes association and the subserviency of its leaders to the \jue officials of the road. Otherwise it would never have been permitted t0 xish, THEOMAHA I);\IrLYVIWE.‘ | formed as to | caudor, THE _OMAHA DAILY B MR.CLEV n The American people are at last in- the real position of the government regarding Hawaii, concern- ing which there has been a great deal of misrepresentation and unwarranted apprehension, The president gives a plain, straightforward, lucid history, from the official information at his com- mand, of the events connected with the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy and the installation of the provisional government, related with such evident sincerity of conviction and earnest desire to deal justly with roference to maintaining the honor and integrity of the United States, that it cannot fail to make a most favorable impression upon all fair- minded men. Having stated the rea- sons, which ave entively valid, why pro- posed annexation was interfored with by the present administration, the president devotes considerable space to showing the spirit and anmus which prompted the course of Minister Stevens in affording every assistance and sup- port to the revolutionary movement, and his upon the conduct of the minister are pointed and sovere. In regard to the demonstration made by the forces of the United States on the soil of Honolulu, Mr. Cleveland characterizes itas of itself an actof war, ‘unless made either with the consentof the government of Hawaii or for the bona fide purpose of protecting the imperiled lives and property of citizens of the United States.” But there was nothing of the kind to justify the land- ing of the American forces, ‘and the president implies that the only excuse for landing them was the eager zeal of the American minister in behaif of the revolutionists and the cause of annexa- tion, which was at the bottom of the movement. Thus tho whole responsi- bility for the overthrow of the monarchy is placed by the president upon the diplomatic representative of the United States. ‘lebelieve,” he says, hat a candid and thorough examination of the facts will force the conviction that the provisional government owes its existence to anarmed invasion by the United States. Faiv-minded people, with the evidence before them, will havdly claim that the Hawaiian government was overthrown by the people of the islands, or that the provisional govern- ment has ever existed with their con- sent.” Taking this view, the president says that a substantial wrong has been done which a due regard for our na- tional character, as well as the rights of the injured people, required that wo should endeavor to vepair. As to the policy of restoration it con- templated no use of force on the part of the United States. Those who fancied that the president might have decided upon a course that would overstep the limitations of his powers in this respect will learn from the message that he knew fully the extent of his authority and did not propose toexceed it. Min- ister Willis was simply instructed to assuro the deposed queen that the pre dent desired to aid in restoring the status which existed before her abdica- tion under protest and with a view to submitting the situation to the govorn- ment of the United States, and in order that she should receive this aid the con- ditions were imposed that the resto- ration should be without proju- dice to any one identified with the revolutionary inovement and that the bona fide acts and obligations of the provisional government should be recog- nized. These conditions the queen de- clined, at last advices, to accept, and thereby probably lost all chance of re- gaining power. So far as the question of annexation is concerned, the president will not give 1t further consideration, but he will co- operate inany legislative plan for the solution of the problem that is *‘con- sistent with American honor, integrity and morality.” comments RAILWAY EIVERSHIPS. Some idea of the magnitude of the movement by which a large part of the railways of the country are being thrown into the hands of receivers can be gath- ered from an article upon that subject that has recently appeaved in the Rail- way Aye veviewing the operations of the year, The statements there made show that during the year now closing nearly 13 per cent of the entive railway mileago of the United States, representing over 12 per cent of the entive capitalization, has gone into the hands of receivers. During the two years 1892 und 1893 the companies for which receivers weve ap- pointed represented over 19 per cent of the mileage and nearly 16 per cent of the capital stock and bonds of all the railways in the country. The yeur 189 will be memorable as a year unprec dented in the number and importance of railway bankruptcies, Daring 1o otter period of like dur tion have so many large railway systems been made subjects of applications for the appointment of veceivers. Pivst the teading, then the Novthern Pacilic and finally the Union Pacitic was forcea by one cause or another to suceumb to the pressure, while the list of lesser lines that huve gone down in practical bank- riptey is too long for enumeration. The receivership has become a railway fad; it is an excoption to the vule of railway management 80 common vhat it no longer excites remark. In tho past teu yours the numbar of railroads which went into the haunds of recivers added up a total of 306, with a mileage of 67,490 miles and a capital- ization in stock and bonds of #3,332,48 000, the one year, 1863, the number was seveuty-one, the mileage : i miles and the capitalization $1 2 000. In other words, the number of roads which went into veceivership during the Last yoar of the ton was nearly a third of that for the whols period, while tho mileage and capitalization w more than a third of those for the whole period. Any oné reflecting upon the meaning of this must see that the bankruptey of these railroads means that they ave no longerable to pay dividends and inter est upon & wmany tiwes inflated capi- talization, It mesns that roads honestly built and honestly conducted havo set a pace in facilities and rates that the rouds loaded down with watéred stoek ‘@ uuable to follow. The logical eud cf a receivership is either a reocganiza- tion or a sale in foreclosure, hoth of which consist chiefly in wringing out some of the superfluous water that has been poured into the concern. The winding up of a receivership has, as a rule, been a tedious procedure, but as the order of the court is only temporary in its nature the winding up is bound to come in the due course of time. If, after the depression is over, the re- ceivers shall restore the railroads to the people minus the burden of illegiti- mately watered stock the era of railway receiverships will not have been use- lessly endured TURN OVER AN LEAF. The change in county and city govern- ments will take place on January 2. This is virtually beginning a new year from New Year's day. The new board of county commissioners and the new coun- cil are expected to inaugurate some im- portant reforms in the management of the affairs of the city and county. It is to be hoped that they will start out with a determination to enforce business methods in the conduet of the business which they are called upon to supervise and transact, Iivery department and branch of city government should be administered with a view to effie ¢ and economy. All supernumeraries and drones should be pruned out. The same poliey should bo pursued by the county commission- ers. The court house should not be a retreat for political pensioners. Every employe of the county should be com- petent to fill the position he ‘occupies and be made to devote his whole time to the tazk for which he is draw- ing pay. The finances of the county should be placed on a cash basis. Doug- las county warrants should beas good as gold and made payable on presentation. This can be done by pursuing a business policy and confining all expenditures within the limits of the law. The distribu- tion of charity and care of paupers and in- sano should be in the hands of men of approved integrity and sobriety. We believe that a good servant is worthy of his hire.. The salaries should be liberal, but not extravagant. A man whoshirks duty or shows himself to be incom petent or recklessly negligent is unfit to con- tinue in public employ. The loose method that has provailed in the pur chase of suppliesshould be discontinued. Livery dollar expended for materials, whether fuel, drugs, stationery or tools. should be bought on bids of respousible dealers and duplicate or triplicate vouch- ors should he required in order that frauds may be prevented. There should be no favoritism or discrimination in the purchase of supplies, and care should be had that the quality and quantity of the articles delivered corvespond with the bills rendered and contract stipula- tions. On 'this score there is room for great improvement in the city hall and court house. What applies to the council and county commissioners applies with equal force to the incoming school board. The present Board of Education has set a bad example of extravagance and loose methods in purchases, repairsand super- numeraries. It is time that all our municipal and county officiais turn over u new leaf. THE SUGAR TRUST AND THE BOUNTY. The New York 7Tribune says that there is at least one element of the community which would look upon the vepeal of the sugar bounty with pro- found satisfaction and that is the Sugar trust. No law on the statute books, says that paper, not even the anti-trust legislation, is so offensive to the great monopoly as this provision for the pay- ment of bounties to American sugar producers. *It has been a thorn in the side of the trust from the beginning and every year itassumes a more menacing form toward the interests of the sugar kings. There are few things they can desire more than its abolition.” A New Orleans paper that is friendly to the administration declares in effect that if the government will only keep faith with the domestic sugar industry the iron rule of the trust 1s doomed. It says: ‘‘Were the bounty allowed to con- tinue undisturbed, and the beet sugar of the west, as well as our own cane indus- try, be permitted to develop at the rate of the last few years, il would be but a comparatively short time before the masses of the people, instead of having competition in sugar, with the attend- ant cheapening of prices during a fow wonths only, would have such competi- tion during the greater part of the year, while the bulk of the sugar con- sumed would be the product of home industry and labor,” A prominent Louisiana sugar planter explains why the bounty law is so offen- sive to the trust. He states that during the Louisiana sugar campaign there are several hundred independent pro- ducers in the field, most of them making, or capable of making, sugar suitable for consumption. Many of these sugavs are distributed divect from the planters and veceived by the jobbers without the in- tervention of the middle men. To meet this competition the trust refineries reduce the price of theiv sugars. When the Louisiana crop is all marketed there 18 but one source to draw from, the raw foreign sugars. These come to the coun- try and pass under the control of one groat corporation, able to fix the price at almost any figure, If the domestio in- dustry were destroyed there would be absolutely no competition whaiever throughout the year, one gigantic con- cern importing, refining and selling all the sugar consumed in the entire country. The planter who presents these arguments against abolishing the bounty commends to poptlar considera- tion the question where consumers of sugar ave wost likely to get lower prices from—one great trust or 600 producers in their own country, who, if let alone, will in five years produce enough sugar to supply more than half of the demand in the United States, and who are today spending every dollur they can muke in improye- ments which are bound to cheapen the pries of sugar to the consumer. He de- clares that if the country wants cheap sugar the bounty must be let alone. There can be no question as to the soundness of the proposition that foster- ing the growth of the domestic sugar industry is igimical to the inteiests of | aims the sugar mnnow»ly, #0 that it is an en- tirely reasonable, vipw that the trust desires the aboltion of the bounty. Will congress fridih this concession to the wishes of the greedy and extortion- ate combination®( The new tariff bill a mild Dlo§ at tho trust by reducing the daty on from one-half tonequarter of a cent a pound, the assumption being that-this will cut down one-half the profits of the trugt, which are estimated to amount to $2&000,000 annually, but why should the American people be sub- jected to an exaction of $10,000,000 annu- ally upon such,a necessury to every household as sugar? It is highly prob- ablé that the sugar schedule will be amended when it gets beforo congress, but nobody can predict with any degree of certainty what the nature of the amendment will be, It is tobo appre- hended that the house will put a daty on raw sugar and abolish the duty at once, in which event the hope of saving the bounty will be fu the republicans of the senate. There is reason to believe that th n at least be depended on to make a determined fight for it. excessive ANOTHER effort is to be made to se- cure uniform bankruptey legislation from the present congress, but the pros- pect of its success is not regarded as altogether bright. The chief objection to the defeated measure was its provi- sion for involuntary bankruptey, and the opuosition to the bill claimed that this fault was so interwoven with the whole framowork of the measure that it was impossible to eliminate it and the only thing to do was to kill the bill as a whole. Whether ov not there was any merit in this claim it is not now worth while to inquire. A new bill, providing only for voluntavy bankruptey, is in the hands of the house judiciary com- mittes, but according to a ported statement of the chairman of the committee there is very little chance of its being passed. The reason, it soems, lies in the jealousy existing between the friends of Mr. Oates, who had charge of the Torrey bankruptey bill, and of Mr. Bailey, who introduced the new bill. It is proposed to intro- duco an amended revision of the former measure as a substitute for the latter one and the belief is that the entire southern contingent will vote against the bill which M®. Oates will offer. Tt is therefore expected that this measure will certainly be defeated. while its sup- porters have declared that the Bailey bill shall never come to a vote. Thus it is probable that logislation which has been asked for by; nearly the unanimous voice of the business interests of the country will not!be'obtained from the present congress, RUMOR has' it° that two prominent democrats are alrpady setting the. stakes for their party's nomination for the presidency in ;1896 and that these two democrats ate no lesser personages than Vice Presidént Stevenson and Sen- ator Voorhees of the senate finance com- mittee. Both of'them have been trying for some time to play to all wings of the party at one and the same time and have omitted nothing that gave promise of - cultivating, & . genoral popularity, They count upen having President Cleveland out of the, race, thus leaving them a free field, and they think the states of [llinois and Indiana, respectively to be of sufficient impor- tance to demand recognition from a democrat national convention. Tt is necessarily a triflo early to anticipate which way the political wind will blow in two yeavs to come, but democratic modesty wiil not permit these public spirited aspirants for presidential honors to longer remain in the back- ground. : ‘WHILE the insurance agents are cast- ing about for pretests that will justify inereased premium rates we recommend that they devote some attention to the matter of state oil inspection. The people must use coal oil. Nearly every fire insurance policy contuins a specific exemption clause forbidding the careless use of coal oil, gasoline,-benzine and other explosives. This is all right, but the fuct that these combustibles are used of necessity should not invalidate in- surance policies, which in these degen- erate days are weighed down by ex- emption clauses to such an extent that the assured never knows what his policy is worth until he has suffered a loss by firo and the degree of protection is de- fined by an imported adjustor or finally by a court of competent jurisdiction, It is to the interest of insurance companies and their patrons that state oil inspec- tion shall be good and afford the protec- tion demanded by the people. THE attorneys representing the rail- ways in the maximum freight rate in- junction case say that they expect to try the merits of the controversy in the early part of Januavy, When tho temporary restraining order was issued last July they said the question would be decided within a month. It is to be hoped that theiv latest announcements will turn ouv better than the others, —t— The Wabash Weather Vane. (lelee-Democrat, The introductiofi‘of silver coinage bill by Senator Voorhees fiiditates that the periodi- cal wind which ciuges the tin rooster on the barn of his coffviétions is blowing again. pltait - iintdy How the tfigtity fias Fallen, New' Yok Sun. Poor Larry Neal! /They say he, too, is sneaking away kow\gm great and unoble doctrine of & taryd for revenue ouly, We hope McKinley williido somethiog for him now he has turned protectionist. e —— An uuu}gx‘pppnrluully. Louisulllg Coyrier-Journal, If Secretary prfim will impart to the farmers of the Unlted States some of his in- terest in the subjoct of good roads, he may at last set squUATHIY on its feet a reform which has so far halted and hesitated be- cause of the indifferenca of the very people who have most 1o gain from good highways. Revis If Prof. Wilshu was gesolved to tip over the American sa flsll?: he should flrst have familiarized Hunself with its contents. He should put a revenue duty on salt, except us follows ‘. P Saline springs, lakes, Mo, be adwitted free if uneva Rock salt dn the original be admitted Iree. Saline holes to Le admitted free. We suggest to Hou. Jerry Simpson te carry » lltwe Kansas salt to Prof. Wilson and explain what it is and how it 1s made, and oceaus to ted. ne, unbored, to refined sugar | EE: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1893, PROPLE AND THINGS, Thrice blessed are the pect nothing. Adam Bodeau has acquired a fous, corporation and a dislike for federal regula tion 1tis true ad verse Colorado in a hole. golden lining. verian restora might earn a living in this coun s leader of the Calams. are said to be 80,000 poets ink No wonder the country hankersfor a few more lunely, faraway isles. Because he objected to the admission of \o territory, it does not follow that Hon m Reed is 'the original Arizona kicke pplicants for the vacant ltalidn mission cted to file a certificate of contribu- “not mecessarily for publication who give and ex- silver The ol istation put developed & fails to work, it is cheering to observe that the oficer disbursing federal fat in Nebraska uncon sciously permits a few crumbs to drop into the family pantry Philadelphia democ a condition, Republi been d at acy is wrestling with u’ oficehoiders have 1, but so limited is the num- ber of local patriots it is feared some must bo imported to Al the vacancies 1t §s widely published that a fashionablo New York chiurch will dispense with Chifst mas docorations and instead use the cash 500~ for charitable purposes. The novelty of tho act doubtless accounts for the brass band announcement. One of thoso coincidences that are as mysterious as they are interesting occurred in"conuection with ¥he death of Johu an ofticer of the superior coutt of New Y Last Snturany he “took a notion™ to lis will, and, s he was in oxcellent health, was chaffed by his whom ho asked to witness it. It was signed and sealed that afteruoon, and the next day he died of heart discase. Little Minnie aged i was once taken to sce her en us Julict, In the scene where Julietdrinks her potion Miss Terry was clad in white robes of a_dressing £OWIL, Or robe do nuit order. At this point little Minnie, who had a decided idea of the properties, turned to Mr. Gilbert, who chanced 1o be in the box. +No, no!" she ex- claimed, putting her small fingers over her eyes, “‘you musn't look ! A bald-neaded Chicago man, reared within gunshot of Stoney Tsland avenue, was toid of a hair renovator capable of sprouting moss on a rubber mat. He swallowed tho tale and invested. The friction produced by rubbing in the moss evower on his glow- ing dome caused an _oxplosion which mowed his capilliry fringe and cavried away a slice of his right ear. His pictorial experience and after taking will not be published ome day “The campaign for the mayoralty cawo, which closes to been a hot one. ' Therespective machines moved along without friction until early last week when the Svoruost flopped from Hopicins to Swift. The democricy was stunned a mo: ment the odds appeared overwhelming and the cause hopele: lien it was Worwarts glidea from Swift to Hopkins, restoring the equilibrium. The outcome i$ now in doubt, as the supply of snorts and warts is not equal to the demana. i TO MAIL CHRISTMAS PRESENTS, in Chi- Postal Information ‘Fhut May Prevent Mis- takes and Dolny, g the holiday season unusual de- s made upon the mails for the transmission of Christmas and New Year's presents. A familiarity with the postal regulationz on the part of the public facilitates the handlingof the increased mail and prevents many annoying mistakes. The following general information and sugges- tions, if observed, will greatly diminish the unmailable matter which collects at this seasor, The rates of postage of foreign countries, except Canada and Mexico, which are the same as domestic, are follows Letters, per half ouuce.dcents; postal cards, each, 2 cents; newspapers and other printed matter, per two ounces, L cent; com- wercial papers, packets not in excess of ten ounces, 5 cents, commercial papers, each ad- ditional two ounces. 1 cent; samples of meg- chandise, each additional two ounces not in excess of the limit, eight and three.quarters ounces, 1 cent; registration fee on letters and packages, 8 cent The following general suggestions ave offered : very package should be presented at the il ‘stamp windows in the postoffice or substations for weighing and inspection be- fore mailing. Articles of value should be registered. Packages should be wrapped in heavy wrapping paper, tied with strong twine, and the name and address of the sender, as well as the addressee, should be written thercon in ink, Christmas and New Year's or other cards, and photographs with frames, or articles bearing Christmas and New Year's greeting $0 elaborate in their desizn as to have an in- trinsic value outside of the sentiment at- tached to them caunnot be mailed to coun- tries other than Canada and Mexico at less than letter rates of postage, and only when they conform to the rules proscribed. Care should be taken to see that no pres- s, such as scarfs, handkerchiefs, or any kind of merchandise orletters, are concealed in newspapers Photographs, pictures and printed cards shoula not be closed and sealed and marked ““Photographs only, “'or *Printed matte “Book post,” but must be tied with string or left so as to be easy to inspect. The public often obtains rate of postage on such articles without saying that they ave sealed or about 1o be sealed, Do not leave packages on boxes, as they may neve office. top of street reach the post- —————— ANGKY ARMENIA They Fight Furiously in a Providence, Churc Provipexce, Dec. 15.--The trouble whic! has been brewing between the rival factios of the Armenians in this city for ten days past culminated yesterday in a riot in the Armenian church on Exchange place. Last weck the legal court interpreter, John Cnarl- son, and Mardirus Gravoonian were arrested, charged with assault with intentto kill rabred Cravoonian, Charlson was tried 'riday and discharged. The trial aroused much ill feeling and an Armeman priest from Boston was called here yesterday to try to smooth over the trouble. T'he Armenians met in their place of wor- ship at noon yesterday and the appearance of the Boston vriest wus the signal for the openiog of the battle. It was claimed he represented the anti-Charlson faction and Charlson's ends contended that he should not preach, A fierce battle was waged, dur- ing which the nterior of the church was wrecked and ten of the participants badly cut and bruised. Mardirus Gravoonian sud Sabred Baediville were both dangerously in- Jured. The polive dispersed the rioters and the priest was escorted to a place of safety. e — Primer Lessous in £olitics, Phtladelphia Inquirer. In reporting the first meeting of the Den- ver women who propose to tuke an active iu- terest in politics under the provisions of the woman's suffrage law, adopted at the No- vember election in Colorado, the Denver papers note the fact that the éntire session was taken up with a rather sorry effort to grasp tho intricacies of pariiamentary law. We fail to see anything remarkable inthe fact, if it has been correctly reportcl. An aggregation of men who had never attempted ¢ the principles of parliamentary law would have a sorry time of it themselves in a similar meeting. Give the ladies a chance. It is a strong indication of their earnestuess that they began where they did. ——— The Cost of Folly, New Kok World, President Wilbur of the Lehigh Valley road says that the recent strike cost the ompany about §700,000, The stockholders of the road have lost that money. What have they got in return for it? As the public understands the mat- ter, the terms on which the dificulty was ended are practically such as the men were willing and reaay to make betore it began. If those terms had been made then by ra- tional agreement the stockholders of the road would now e about §700.000 more money than they have, the men would be better off ana there would be no memory or suspicion of injustice anywhere o create further trouble, | harmonic society at DYORAK'S SYMPHONY “From the New World” the Talented ¢ poser s Catied 1t The second public rehearsal Music hall of the Phil Iriday was | certainly among the most notable of recent orchestral concerts, marked as {twas by the first performance from manuscript of a new and important symphonic work from the pen of the foremost symphonic writer of the doy, Dr. Dvorak, entitled “From the New World Mr. Reginald De Koven es of itin the New York World: Any important work by poser at its initial nearing attract the attention S and amate 0 noted a com would naturally and interest of mu- but this particular work d0es so to an unusual extent, owing to the fact that it is the first really mportant work produced by Dr. Dvorak since he threw in his lot among us, as well as one avowedly inspired —as to its essential contents at least~by indigenous musical material, and written under the influence of surroundings and conditions peculiar to this country, if not in the strictest senso of the term’ na tional It is manifestiy to properl similate so important and extended a work as Dr. Dyvorak's new symphony on a single hearing, without having had an opportunity 1o see the score. A first impression rather than a final critical judgment or anulysis can aione therefore bo properly recorded at this time. Tn this symphony, according to his own statement, Dr. Dvorai, notably in- fluenced by his American surroundings, has endeavored to reproduco the fun characteristics of the Indian and nes odies he found here and made a study of in their essential meaning rather than their formal external traits, by means of the spe- cifically musical resources which his inspira- tion furnished. "The symphony must thus be an exemplification of the spirit terof what Dr, Dvorak is call national American musi will be accepted as character tional in the spirit of 1ts compose! and purpose, or whethor, indeed, negro or Indian melodies, or imitations or reproduc tions of them, howe or scientific, can_justly be considered reprosenting. national ‘musical thonght, are questions which can hardly be discussed here. 1t 15, however, certain that in this, his fifth symphony, Dr. Dvorak has given to the d, a work attractive, interesting and masterly, both in the melodic fresnness and individuality of its themes, and the skill and™ ingenuity with which the themat material s andled and orchestrally expressed, as well s one which must be considered as a most important addition to modern symphonic lit ve. Of the four movements, the first is probably the most gencrally attractive and spon. taucous, as it i3 also the ono which besy illustrates the composer's meaning and intent. "U'wo of the three princival themes set forth i this movement, which also donunate the entive work as they recur in various forms in each of the thret su 1- ing movements, are appreciably negro in character, Tndeed, throughout the entive work the inftuence of the negro melodies has ovidently been paramount with De. Dyorak although the Indiau melodies, being less familiar, one can hardly tell just to what oxtent they have inspired h One would think tnat the scherzo, a by liant, spirited, rhythmically forcible ment, perhaps move than 2 writteu under the Indian influence. larghetto. a droamy, languorous movement, suggesting the unbroken quict of a virgin forest which is full of charm, is almost too placid, too poetic, too contemplative in *ter to be considered characteristically national in spivit, In the last movement, which is broad and massive, with a curious, majestic sort. of plaintivencss, it is a little difticult to trace the purpose of the composer, oxcept in the splendidly effective coda wher the principal themes are wovked up into a climax fawly thrilling intensity and vower. As n whole. difieult arded as hor than pleased to Whetner it tically na s meaning the gestivo rather than de or pictorial. 1t is highly interest- ing as an_exemplification of the influence of new surroundings and conditions of life on o highly trained musical mind, wha' be its bearing upon so-cailed’ national mus or the foundation of a dist school, and.also highly instructive in show- ing what effective artistic use may be 1 of the musical material indigenous to this country, which lies ready to the hand of any one who will but take it. Whether Dr. Dyvorak has borrowed his themwes or not—-had he been an American he would certainly be accused of so doing in soveral instunces—the work asa whole is cminently individual in style and trcatment, splendidiy scored with delightfully vavied color, episode aud meident, and must on the whole be regarded as a successful accomplish- ment of its composer’s object and purpose in writing it. ‘I'he symphony s thoroughly well played by the orchestra, and read with great understanding and in evident accord thy with the composer's meaning Promoting Huvoe, Philadelphia Ledger. Mr. Voorhees has iutroduced a firebrand in congress in the shape of a bill to provide for the comage of the seigniorage at the rate of #2,000.000 a month, and, after that has been exausted, for the purchase of 000,000 of silver bullion 4 month, to be coine into doilars. The bill is not likely to get through all the stages of legislation, but it is well calculated to play havoe with the democratic party just before the next elec- tion for members of congres fine elothe The largest makers and g+llers of NERKASKA AND NERRASK LNY A Baptist Young People’s union has beos organized at Rushville The Pender Times has started on its ninth year with evory sign of prosperity The Missouri viver has frozen over at Ne braska City and skaters venture on the ioe. John Ayer, for thirty vears a resklent of Liberty, is dead. Hc ‘was a native of England Uhree thousand dollars in takon by burglars from Levi Kime at Unady A thiof enterad the office dentist and carried off & vlate and ten silver dollars notes _were the lumber office o of & Norfolk worth of wola 1118 reprted that the First National bank of Rushville will become a state institution | after the first of the year timothy Kinnoy of North Bond is foeding 5,000 sheep and witl soon coive 8000 more to wintey I'hey all come from Oregon. Mrs. George Sierth, well known in_Cass Otoe, Sarny and Dougl Atchison, Kan., last Sa | Her fathier settled 1 Omaha in 1855, The tr ed by the bank failure at Rushville has been toid in many ways, Rushvillo News Aking of the tr ntaccorded Prosident Low May, says “George Comer of Pine Ridge agency had | only a few hundred dollars in the Bank of Rushville, but as hie had been inatramental | in securing deposizors for the among Pine Ridge morchants ho very naturally 10 town to tgate.” Mr. May rather abraptly informod him that de ositors would be oblived to take theit nces with all th vest of the creditors. his remark created considerable excite mentand stirred un intense foeling against Mr. May, who loft town in great haste to avoid trouble. If he had given the peo some little assurance that the depositors' in teres(s would be considered as soon as the bank examiner had made his report there woula have been no excitement or ill feeling exhibited among the depositors. came - - SEICY cnat Not even acanal horse 10t he didn't have s pult Washington Star: Tt s n poo o trust that has notmors than one String to (LS vow. 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