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* " " " " " " " * ' * " - - THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : SATURDAY. NOYE1MBER 0. 1880 , THE DAILY BEE , PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. mum or fitTn. onpTtos ! Dnllr ( Mnrnl.tff Edition ) lnclndln Sunday JIK.K , Unn Vonr . . . . (1001 T'nrBlx Months . . fill 1'orTlirro Montl'i . . . . . . . 2 I/O I'lio omntm Sunday IIKK , ninlloJ to any ulditws , One Vcnr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 nrnrr. Nn. Ml > NI > nil FAI-.VAM STIIKBT. Nrw VOIIK urrtcr. . IIOOM iv > , TIIIIIPNH IIIMI.IHXO. WASIIINOTOX omcz. Nn. cohnr.ieoNnr.NCE : All communto.itmns rclntlntf toiioird nnrtrdl- tnrliil mntlorshouM bo luldrosscd lu thu hlil- TOIt OK TUB tlKB. BUSINESS i.r.rrittMi All lmlno ° s l 'ttorn mid romlt tnncoi should lie ddros. ctl to TDK It ! : < I'uiii.i.sinvu COMI-ANV , OMMM , Drafts. clioek mill pn tollk-o orders to bo Hindu payable to t ho ordtrof thu company. m BEE POBLISmTcOMPm , PROPRIETORS , E. IlOSEVVATBIl. KniToi : . Tim DAILY HKK. Sworn Statement of Circulation. Slate of Nebraska , 1 , County of Donglns. fs > B < < ! ro. U. Tzsclmck , secretary of Tlio Uco Publishing company , does solemnly swear thatthu actual circulation of the Daily Bets for liio week enillnj ; Oct. UUtli , 1SSO , was as follows : Saturday. Oct.SI . 13,01 f ; Htimlav. M . UI.O.W Monday , as. . Tnesilav.(5 ( . W.OW Wednesday. ST. . 12,7fi Thursday. 'J1 * . . W.HY , Friday , Ml . .wtt.B A vcraco . . . < 8no. It. Tzsj-mvK. Sworn to and subscribed In mv luosrnco UiisSOIIi day of October , A. J ) . , l&r. . fSEAM iNoijiry Puhi'le. (5co. II. T/scluick , boliiff flr.n duly sworn , deposes nnd says that liu is secretary of the Jlce Piittllslilmrconmaiiy , that the actual nv- crau'o dully circulation of the Duliv Ueo for , . 1880 , 1.1,030 copies. Quo. H. T/sciiucic. Subscribed and sworn to bcforo mo this 2d day of October , A.D. , ISSfl. N. 1 . FKII. , ISKAM Notary 1'ubllc. Tmi moro the returns arc revised the more clearly they fullill the HKK'S predic tions , made the morning ufter the elec tion. Six out of ton of the legislative delega tion , including two senators , is n sub stantial victory for Douglas county re- publicans. COIJNTV Attorney Sinioral ran way ahead of the republican .state ticket , ilis BIICCUSS is gratifying to members of the bar without regard to party. "Tin : Two Jolina" wore in town last night John L. Sullivan and John A. Me- Slittno. They bear a striking similarity to each other in one respect. Each has knocked his man out. ! I Bin. CI.KVIM.ANII has perhaps observed that the leading organs of democratic opinion in New York do not agree with his view that the administration was not on trial in Tuesday's election. Tun Knights of Labor did valiant work ngainst Church Howe throughout the district. The labor vote throughout the country on Tuesday was powerfully ex ercised in behalf of good government. Mit. MOUNT was another candidate who felt the pleasant cflects of popularity , re sulting from a good record. .Tho reputa tion which IIP won in the assessor's ollice aidud him materially in the canvass , and landed him in the board of commis sioners by a handsome majority. DOUGLAS county has taken the first slops towards providing for its sick and unfortunate in the projected hospital. Months must , however , elapse before the building can bo constructed. Meantime our people should see to it that the many rases ot suH'ering in the city are relieved. URNKKAL H.utiuso.N's splendid cam paign in Indiana is said to have con siderably advanced him in republican opinion at Washington as a possible presi dential candidate in 18S8. Ho , has cer tainly shown ability in organization and leadership worthy of all admiration. TUB viaducts arc greatly delayed but tlmy will doubtless bo completed before winter sets in. Thu value of thoso'con- ncclions with that part of the city lying across the tracks will bo shown next spring in increased travel and hcavv building operations in that portion of Omaha. Tin : nomination of Judge Pccklwm iu New York was duo to the magnanimity of ( Jovcrnor Hill , the judge having been among the most pronounced enemies of Tammany and an out-and-out Cleveland man. His rescue from defeat is also credited to the same source , he having made n personal appeal to the governor. NeverthpJcf s , the vote for him shows n heavy democratic loss as compared with thu vote of lust ynar. Only the president Js capable of deriving any satisfaction from sueh a showing and eoiistrulng it as nn endorsement of the ndniinistnitioii. IN a fmv weeks wo shall probably know the fate of the legislative amendment lethe the constitution providing for an increase in the length of the legislative session from forty to sixty days. At present it Is extremely doubtful whether it has cur ried. The decision of the courts that .1 constitutional aiiumdmunt must receive a majority of all voto.s cast at the election iuakc..s its adoption in a campaign whuro ollinr Issues are paramount , a doubtful matter. In addition , the practice of printing the governor's proolumation in papers which circulate most heavily among exchanges is a drawback whoso cD'eot is invariably soon in each election when the pconlo nru called to vote upon mioh propositions. TDK burning of the new Marker build- iiigin lest than thirty minutes after thtulls covory of the Hro shows what aitangeroiis iiro trap it was. it WHS simply a wooden tinder-box , veneered with a mere tnvtonso of brick , If the building inspection law had been strictly enforced wu don't be- lie.vo suoh a structure could hnve boeu erected within thu Iiro limits. . It is to bo hopcil that it will not bo puvmittud to l-o rebuilt according to the originu ! plaus. Siich a iiro trap in the Imnrt o ! the city is too dangerous to life ami property. Jlad the Wilding bn-'h 'oc- oupii-d , several live * ) would undoubtedly linvo been lost. Had there been a he-.ivy wind the tire would have swnpt the city. It would have been n Culoago conlhurra- tion from the starting point 'to the city limit * . .Let us hwu no mure tuicli tire The Next House. The last report of estimates maJo al Washington as to the probable strciiRth of parties in the next liouso of represent atives , gave a Fiiiall majority to the re publicans over the democrats , the labor representatives , live in number , being set aside as an unknown ( juantity. Ad vices received since the estimates wore made , however , nssurn the election of lomocrats which was then regarded ns doubtful , and it appears safe to conclude Hint the democrats will have a small ma jority over the republicans , with the not unlikely circum.itanco of labor represent atives holding the balance ol power. In such an event the question of the organ isation of the next house becomes n matter - tor of supreme interest , and linked under any eirctimstaiiccs it is likely to bo u most interesting matter in view of thu exceptionally Humorous changes that will occur in the membership of that body and the inllucnee which lliu popu lar opinion implied in those changes must exert. It is already determined that tlm next honso will contain a less number of dem ocratic turilV reformers than the present body , and the probability is that they will be less aggressive also. The defeat of Morrison , the narrow escape ot Carlisle , and the reduced vote for Springer , all ascribed to the opposition to the tarlft"views of tiioso gentlemen , will bo very likely to make a deep impression ujion the men in the next congress whoso opinions take a similar direction and render them timid in advancing their views on this subject. For these reasons the chances of Mr. Carlisle for ru-ulec- tion to thcspeakor.shp will bo materially uHected. With a diminished democratic mr.joritv ho will encounter a disposition to pursue a more conservative policy than ho represents with respect to the taritl' , and thu indications are that he may bo compelled to yield his leadership to another. It is already intimated thai the Hon. S. S. Cox , who is not unknown in this relation , is likely to have a consider able following , and ho ought to have ac quired some additional prestige with the party by reason of the exceptional cir cumstances of his re-election to con- gross. JJut lii.s very cordial relations with the administration , implying a sup port of its entire policy , would probably not promote his chances. If Mr. Cox is devoted to civil service reform and the Wall street system of finance as reflected by the administration , ho has litllo to hope for from a democratic house. Mr. Kimdall will of course be a candidate , but manifestly n hopeless one. It is hardly possible to conceive of any combination of circumstances under which that gentleman could bo elevated to the spoaker-ship of the house so long as there are democrats in that body who remember his course in the present congress and regard it as having been inimical to the welfare of the party. Certainly in the next house the democrats who fool this way will bo snflicieutly numerous lo easily defeat him. Moreover , the majority of the party at largo has no desire to promote the as pirations of Mr. Randall , and nothing that could happen would moro com pletely demoralize the party throughout the country than his election to thespeak- orshin. Obviously the democratic di lemma promises to be moat perplexing lo thu parly and interesting to the country , Assuming that the labor vote will hold the balance of power , as now appears not improbable , and the possible situa tion presents another interesting as pect. To which side would this vote bo most likely to go ? While tiioso live representatives would undoubtedly demand conspicuous con- sideralioa4 , in the oraanixation of the house , tiioy wonld probably not presume to ask the speakor.ship for one of their own number. Hut ou the other hand they would not give their votes to any man not in full sympathy witn them. So far as the tarill'question entered into the contest and it seems likely that it will play no inconsiderable part it is to bo presumed that the sympii thy of the labor representatives would lie with the republi cans. Whether wisely or not , the or ganized labor of the country is evidently favorable to the existing tarilT system , and its inlluenco would be exerted upon its representatives in congress. It would not support Carlisle or Cox. It migjjt support Uamlall , but ha cannot have the following of his own party. In such a contingency the possibility of electing a conservative republican a man who pos sesscs the confidence of thu labor element could not bo regarded ns out of thu ( Hicstion , and clearly such a result would give the labor representatives a greater vimtage ground than would the election of a democrat by their support. An ar rangement of this kind wotild of course dismiss from consideration thugoutlonieii who are now prominently named us pos sible republican candidates. It will thus be seen tliat thu probable sit uation , as it is now presunted.gives prom ise of a contest of unusual interest , with possible results of vast importance to elthor of the great political parties. rut it J.nvn. The slugging matches with which Omaha is being infostcd should bo "knocked out. " They are u diFgitbllng nul ance , brutal iu their iiitliionue. and injurious to thu morals of the commun ity. Other cities are promptly suppress ing them. Even Now York no longer purmilK Mich exhibitions , The manly at" of snlf-defent-'n is right enough in iis place. "Learn to box , my son,11 sa'il an Knglitih lord , "because goino brute may Insult you , and as you cannot call him out yon Miould bo ubiu to knock him down. " In eortaiu situations a man's lists may seno him , They should not , however , be permitted to take Iho placn of brains in making him a living. Just nt present the art of sulf.ditfun.su is a struggle on the part of a fo\v drunken and disrepu table brutes to "knock out" dollars from tliw public pocket and to defend "hippo- dromers" from Inti.-rfcroneu on the part of the polieo.Vccallupou \ thu mithori ties of this city to put down the slugging tmitch abomination. Tlm Valtio of TlciputiUloii , The results of Uionlectiou in the First district show the surprising value of reputation in nn appeal fur popular en- donienifpt Thediifeut of Church Hewn by nn agricultural and laboring cou.stlt- uoncy quite oulside tliH vote of the largo cities was thn rebuke which honest men , entirely frryspective of party , gave to. a cunditiatu whoso name hud been' stench in the nostrils of Nebraska republicans i for more than .too years. ' Year nflcr year the political trickster and lobbyist had succeeded in twisting local pride tea a local ondorsomuntt The present canvass was the first in which a large part of Nebraska republicanism was given n chance lo oxprcssits opinion of the man and the politician. It has been done so effectually and so emphat ically that Church Howe disappears for ever as n factor in the politics of the stale. Olhor elements contributed doubt less in rolling up the monumental ma jority under which lip was buried , but the personal and political record of the can didate was the loading force which over whelmed him. If tlio lesson of the election is taken tc heart by the great jiolitic.il party which disgraced Itself by placing Church Howe in nomination , it will have been cheaply bought. Personal reputation counts in business. It carries Its weight In litera ture and art. It Is ofTcctlvu In every Held of human endeavor. The political parly which imagines for a moment that repu tation has no weight in determining llm success or defeat of partv organization simply closes Its eyes to a fact which soone.r or later asserts itself against the most obMinatu unbeliever. Out of Polities. Thu Into ( lovernor Dawcs was beaten out of his boots in his own county through the republican nominations for the legisla ture and .stale convention. Ho joined hands with Tobo Castor , the democratic bo s in Saline county , to beat the repub lican ticket and especially Durus , the re publican candidate for senator. A llur- llngton contractor , named Lnnlrim , was sot up as an independent er-.ndidale for Iho senate and the railroad democrats under Tobo Castor's lead endorsed him witli the private understanding that Dawes would pull him through. Mr. Durhs is elected and Dawes hasn't a soul to represent his burstod senatorial boom- let in the next legislature. The Honorable Kd Cams is among tlio missing , lie loaded the republican stomach ach with an anti-Van Wvck ticket , and the load was too much. Seward county , which always lias elected republicans to the legislature by large majorities , has returned u solid democratic delegation. This leaves Cairns out in the cold as a factor in tlio senatorial fight. The senatorial air castle of Albinus Nance will no longer disturb his dreams. Polk county , which is his homo and stronghold , sends a Van Wyck represen tative lo the legislature and a Van Wyck senator to the upper liouso. Last but not least among the dead ducks is Church Howe , who only a few weeks ago regarded himself as the pos sessor of a scat in 'congreKS and heir ox- pcctant to a cushioned chair in the son- ate. The Nemaha renegade will now retire - tire to his farm and prepare his spring crop of railroad ties for the Missouri Pacific. O.v Sunday next wo begin the publica tion of a weekly letter from New York by General Adam Hadeati , formerly consul general at London and Havana , and so long the military and confidential secre tary of General Grant , liadcaifs "Mili tary History of Grant , " liis Cuban ro- inanco of "Conspiracy. " and his work on "Aristocracy in Kiigland , " have made his literary ropntation familiar , while his longollicial residence abroad , his posi tion for many years at the headquarters of the army , and his life at tlio white house , liavo given him a wide oxpori encu and an acquaintance with many of the most notable people of the time. Of all this ho proposes to make am ple use to embroider his papers with recollections and incidents known only to few and many familiar to him self alono. He does not , however , expect to confine himself to reminiscences ; ho retains his relation with political , fash ionable and literary people , and will endeavor to keep abreast of the day in mailers pertaining to society , literature anil art , 1-Juropoan as well as American. When ho discusses politics , it will bo with no partisan purposes , bill rather from a personal .standpoint , and bits of secret history , foreign aiid domestic , may often be revealed to illustrate current events. We invite tlio attention of our renders to these letters , .which we trust may become an important feature in the journal of the day. NOUODV hassaul anything about the board of public works during Iho campaign , but Hie JJernlil has kept harping on ono string about the danger of its being abolished. As a matter of fact the board has been an expensive luxury since Jim Crcighton transferred his energies to contracting. It has not earned its pay. The board may have to be roorg.uii/.od or ils duties moro clearly defined. There is ono tiling cer tain. If the board is retained there is no use. for a street commissioner. The whole cam and supervision of our streets should bo under thu control of the boarder or ulse under iho control of ( hu council , with a board of public worKS made up of city ollictjrs acting as an advisory body , Thu campaign being over , the canard about Ihe schema to make City Kiigineor Ilosowativ head of all our public works , may as ' .veil bo dropped. . Il has swell Us purpose on the part of lloyd and Mil ler , late contractors iii patronage , and can safely bo shelved. Andrew Itosu- walfir intends to retire from the city en gineer's ollico next April , if not sooner , and will probably sfioud next summer in Juropo in professional study and travel. Otliur ImmlH Thau Uussia scums lo be slowly winning bur WHY to a realization of her dopes in the lialkaiis , Stondily , but with Muscovite porsislcncy , the agents of the c/.ar are ballllng opposition and wearing out thu Uulgarian regency with alternate threats and inliigiKi , The. t > obrunju has opened at Tiniovft with an overwhelming ma jority in favor of Uulgarian indepen dence , but the menace of Russian gun boats at Varna and Kusslaa threats of occupation , has made its mpmbors more eonscrvutivo than was expected. The powers decline to intorfero. The occu pation of Varna is excused by Austria am ! Germany under the circumstances muter which Kitfsia explains it by main- luioiiig that it U only done to protect Kussian subjecls in Ihilgaria from moro or less pronounced tribulations at thu hands of the untl-Hussiau government of the little country. And u slight demon- Hlndionof the kind now going on iu Varna and Tirnova may sulticieutly reduce the bcllic-oso spirit of .Bulgaria to iiinku her'nmenublu once more to Russian muudUts : ! , Bulgaria Is'not free to choose her form of government , this having been import ! upon ncr by tuo power * lu the treaty of .Berlin. She will probably be glad to end the contention by selecting for prinpo any candidate in reason whom Hussiivyill suggest , nnd will perhaps tie fortunulo if Russia Indicates nouody more objectionable than Prince Waldo- mar. The ienoral reduction of rents in ono districf qf thu West of Ireland is a proof of the inability or unwillingness of the lory government to protect the landlords , Ol coursx ) , the landlords havu given up part ofho \ renl in order to make sure of what tjury do not remit. If this process goes on ever all Ireland It may result in a postnonomont of the critical struggle for homo rule. This postponement can bo only temporary. The Irish are In tlio unfortunate predicament of having' what ever line of conduct they adopt used against them. If lliey are quiet their quietude is adduced as proof that they need no now legislation , If they are out rageous their outrages are adduced as proof that tlmy need coercing. Irish his tory justifies them , however , in expect ing that , so long as they do not make themselves acutely disagreeable to Kng- lishmcn , Englishmen will do nothing for them. At the session of the Belgian parlia ment , which is about to open , tlio reor ganisation of the army will bo the most important matter discussed. At the present time ( ho Belgian army Is recruited according to the old system a system based upon conscription and replacement by payni'Mil ' of a certain sum. Ever since 1870 this method has been found lo bo very defective , yet no ministry lias dated to propose a change and substitute an obligatory service , such as it exists in Franco amUJernmn.v. The riots of last March demonstrated clearly th.t : Iho recruiling system would have to bo moil- itied , and since then public opinion has forced the government to take the matter in hand. A law , prepared by M. Adrlon d'Oultremont , deputy for Brussels , as sisted by several stall'oflieors , will be submitted to Parliament as soon as it moots , and it iff understood the govern ment accepts this law and will favor ils . * " passage. * The misery is great in all llm larger Russian citios. In Saint Petersburg , within a stone's throw of the Imperial palace , poverty lifts its hideous head. Out of DM,000 inhabitants , ( ttu.OOO are poor. These unfortunate wretches sock shelter in out-of-the-way corners , cellars , anil night refuges. Tlio luckiest ones crowd together in bauds of twenties or more in miserable houses , and sloop ou the ground or on boards. In the houses of the poor where thuro are beds , each couch having u mattress is occupied oy three persons , wilhout regard lo age , sex or relationship. Invalids or well persons are crowded into those places , unit poor workmen who have no place to sleep are also received into thesu same houses al a price which is less than two cents a night from each lodger. With such statistics it is not , surprising that lii'ty-soven per cent of iho conscripts of the Russian capi tal have.been found unfit for military service , , Mr. H. E. Bornur , of the Norwegian Storthing ( Parliament ) , has boon visiting London , Paris and Burlin. He says that the burning question in the Scandinavian peninsula at present is not whether Nor way shall declare for the republic or not , but whether the union bulwuen llic sister kingdoms , Norway and Sweden , shall continue. Mr Berner , although a radi cal on nil other questions , i.s an "oppor tunist" on this ono. Ho believes that the true interests of Norway ho in "letting well enough alone. " In the rccnnt struggle with King Oscar , liis royal highness was forced to capitulate to the "peasants of the Stroth- ing , " and Mr. Berucr thinks that the wisest policy to pur.suo is to go quietly on in t tic way of internal reforms and general progress , so that when the day comes ( or the adoption of tlio republican form of government , Iho country will not have exhausted any of its energies in a struggle for what must happen naturally sooner or later. "You have about half a million of people in the United States who speak our language , " said Mr. Bonier , taking up another topic , "which was the number of inhabitants in Norway when our present constitution was adopted in 1811.Vu have now ever I wo millions. So you sec wo are increas ing in population , notwithstanding the largo annual emigration to the United Stales. " Tlio titlio war in Wales continues to bo waged with unabated vigor. Meetings have been hold al Caorgwrio , Nannorcli , and in the Vale of Llangollon. The solo apparent difference in the sentiments of the farmers in Iliesu different , localities is in regard to the amount of abatement claimed. In the Caorgwrio district the tithe-payers scorn an ollcred reduction of 10 per cent , and demand 25. In Nun- nerch and the Vale of Llaugollcn on Iho other hand , an abatement of 10 per cent , would bring the quarrel to an cud. Jl is staled that in the latter district thu vicar has al length yielded the point. * * * TUB slow-moving Russian government , finding th railroad facilities inadequate for carrying tlio output of petroleum from Iho-Miores of Iho Caspian sea to Iho Black sea , has now made propositions lor the b lilding of anoluoduei , or "pipo lino"fro ulBiiku to Batouni capable of transmit ! nig 10I,000,0W ( , ( gallons of oil a year. Tmv pipe is to bo laid in three years , and for twenty years the company laying it is to bo allowed to charge $ 3.2r per Ion , ar about 1 cent a gallon , for transportation. The line will be (100 ( miles long , , and presents no creator en gineering dillioiilty than a lift of n.'OO fuel in crossliur the elevated lands between the two heap. Tlio pipe line company will not bo allowed lo iiiicngo in refining oil nor become the owner of oil wells. UUUltliNT TOl'ICH. Them are over a million negro .Methodists in the United States. . The Brotherhood of Locomotive has raised the salary of Uhlct Arthur to 55,000. The Vermont legislature hns passed an oleomargarine law prohiblliuc the bale nnd niantifactmo of spurious butter under a line of 8500. Five suul'jiiU of Eulham collesc , Indiana , have boc-il expelled' au.'l ' seventeen placed ou their BOW ! behavior for ottendliij : a repfcscn- tation.of "Richard III. " Now is the whiter of their discontent. Fr.iukH. Wiilworth.-wlio Killed Ids father .atiheSturUivauthouse , New York , iu 1SW to nvenRolus mother's -wTomrs , Is dead , Ho was sentenced to Imprisonment for life , but was pardoned In 18T7. After Chnunccy M. Depow had concluded his oMtlou nt the tinvellln r of th llartholdl statue he said It wns the first time hn hail cur addressed an nmlionco of nwhiuillmt steam boats. He ml lit have addressed them as his cs-steamed friends , John Heard and Annie I'crtao , of Auburn , N. Y. , wet o to have bet n married on Friday. i he uroiuii and his Iricmls went to church , but the bride did not appear , ami a visit to her house disclosed the luct that her lather had tied n knot other than a matrimonial , having fiulcncd lu.-r lo n bedstead with a rope. Roland Worthlnclon , editor of the Boston Traveller , recalls that when he took hold of that paper , thirty year * ago , it wns the most successful one in tin ; city nnd printed l.-t- > copies each of the live days of Iho week and ten extra conlrs Saturdays. The paper Is still travelliii : on its ancient reputation , and has lo t little of clictilatlon. Holier ! (5. ( InciTMill Is ntlornev for Chailrs H. Revnolds. who Is tmucrS.VX ) bill at Morris- town. N. .1. , ehnrued with plii.spliemy. This Is the ilrst ease of tlio kind ever tried muter the unropi-aleil "blasphemy laws" wlilrlt are Incorporate ! ) in the. statutes of New Jersey. Reynolds was ntrested In lloonloii. S. ,1. , a few \\ceks ami. He delivered leoliiic.s aj'idiisl the bible , and afterward wrote n p.nuiiihlet called "ulaspiioiuy. " Tlm Traveler. ; : . 1 1' . dihtcr. I met a traveler on the road Whose bark was bout henentli a load ; Ills face was worn wllh moral care : Ills trame beneath Its burden shook ; Yet on ward , restless , lie did fnio U'itli men nnleldiiu'ly , lixed , a look Set t'oiwanl lu theeuiptv air , As If he load al ) unseen hook , What was It In his smile that Mil red My snul lo pity' ' When I diew Moie nar it seemed as if 1 hoard The tirokcn echo ol'a tune Leaiiicd lu some tar and happy June. His lips were patted , but unmoved Hy words. He saup as dreamei.s do Ami not as If he heard and loved The so iii,1 ho saiif , ' . I hear it now. lie stood bi'.shlo the level lirnok , Nor ilH-iielicd | Ids thirst , nnr bathed his brow , Mnr from his hack Iho imrden .shook. He stoiid , anil yet lie did not rcsl ; Ills eyes e.lliulveil up lu aimless quest ; Then close did to that mirror bow And looking down , I saw , lu place Ol his , my own familiar face. The rmidy nutolicr. St. Louis Globe Democrat : "ft takes nn artist to sell books on Iho railroad cars. You ncvor see an artist slam into a car , bang tlio door , and start right down the aisle , hit or miss , throwing a Lifo of tles.su James down by a. minister , Gems from Moody 's sermons by a Texas cow boy , A'lan Pinkcrton's detective books by a voting lady from Vassar , and Bou quets of Verso by a sherill' taking a pris oner lo Sing Sing. Your artist saunters noiselessly into a car without a book , tells the brakeman a funny story , while ho si/.es UP tlio crowd , and moves leisure ly down tlio aisle pickinir out suckers. When ho has studied the people long enough he determines just how ho will strike each one , and gets liis stock ready. Then hu sits down by the minister and talks to him gravely and in a pleasant , subdued tone about Moody's great work. Ho drinks sonic of tlio cowboy's whisky and tells him a story that keeps him laughing all the war to Utica. Ho dis cusses ! poetry with the y < Miug woman from Vassar , and converses in an engag ing manner about "trends" with the slim young salesman from the dry goods store. The re.Milt is that lie catches everyone ono of them. Those are the men who make $50 or § 7f > a weeK and throw the peanut and fruit stock out of the window rather than bother with it. Ain't they artists' The Hebrcwclothing merchant's down in Baxter street think that it is a great thing to sell n man a coat at all. Thai's simply nothing to selling a man a book that ho doesn't want , can't road , and has been importuned a hundred times in three days to buy. And that's what booksellers who are artists do. "Now , there was 'Homely Dave , 'red headed , uirly as a hedge fence , without a single handsome feature ho could talk any man that ever lived into buying a bo'olc. Did you ever hoar about Senator Kvarts' experience with Davu ? It was when Mr. Kvarts wan secretary of state under Mr. Hayes. Ho had been out to California on a Kind of a jaunt , and was coming back with a number of distin guished gentlemen senators , congress men and ollicials. They struck Dave's run at Council Blull's. liufore they had trono ton miles Dave had looked thu party over and determined to still them some books. Ho decided thai he would make his first assault upon Secretary Kvarts. Mr. Kvarts was not fouling very well that day , anil when he saw Dave coming ho turned away impatiently and motioned tlio poster to put him out. " ' 1 been bored death have to by news agents and book peddlers ever sine ? 1 left San Francisco , and I am heartily sick of it. ' " 'Homely Davo' wiis not frightened in the least. Ho said , with a bland smile' ' "Kxcuso mo , Mr. Secretary , but I don't want to sell you anything. I just want to read you a page or two oul of a book just issued. Have you seen it ? ' "Mr. Kvarts glanced at the title page and said he hadn't. " 'Now ' lot , the just mo beguile tedious- nos.s of llio journey by reading the first page to you ' "So , Dave , who had a remarkably clear and sweet voice , read on , not only the first , but the second and third pages , with Mr. Evarts a deeply interested listener. When 'Homely Davo' stopped Mr. Kvarts simply said : 'I'll ' take that book. Name your price. Now , what olfco have you Kol1 "That book was 'Edwin Arnold's Light of Asia. ' It had ju.si come out then. After Mr. Kvarts had picked out a lot of other books ho called the senators and congressmen , introduced Dave to ihnm , and made them sit down and listen while Dave read a lot of tilings. Ho sold moro than $ -J0 ( ! worth of books to the o people bcforo they got to Chicago. You bet ho didn't touch Iho peanut basket that trip. "That was red-headed 'Homely Davo.1 There ain't ' miinv now.s agents in the bus iness nowadays that can equal thai per formance , " HnlilicrM for Oinahn , "Tho concentration of the soldiers of Iho Second infantry at Fort Omaha clous not mean anything ; " said a member of the Department of the Platte .stall' to are- porter for the Bii : ; yoHcrday. "Tho fact is. that all the poils of this department are crowded now , and each one has moro than ils usual quota of soldiers. Ton companies will lie stationed at this post alono. No , I do not think that the num ber of regiments in this department is too largo. An uprising of the Sioux In dians to the north ol us would demon strate tlio fad that ( hi ) number ot soldiers was not iargcrthaii , for rcasonsof .safety , il ought to lie. " The companies of the Second infantry , which will ha transferred to this depart ment , are expected to arrive hero from the western posts within a day or so. Mcs-rs Handle and Kay will probably Icavo to-day tor Lcavonworth , Kail. , to attend a meeting of the roprosunta- tives of the western loniruo to bo held in that city- Upon Inoir return a meet ing of tlio Omaha stockholders is to beheld hold , probably on Tuesday evening to take the final stops of organization. I'lio lirst assessment on the stockholders will theii bo levied , and the work of signing players commenced. It is thu intention / > f tlto Omaha men to got together a lir.st class nine , arid good jdayuH only will bo engaged- LINCOLN'S EARLY LIFE , Ho Wns Born nnd Beared to Poverty and Haul Work , Grniul fill her ijlncotn nnd Dnnlcl JliiotiR In Kontmiky A Sorry Hini- nrnnl : ; Train In Indiana The Kutitro President at Work and Study. Abraham Lincoln , the grandfather of the president of that name , went to Ken tucky from Virginia with Daniel IJjono some years after that great frontiersman lirhtmailo himself famous. Tlo ( Lincolns and Uooues wore distant relatives. In tlm November Century Js'lcohiy and Hay give the following account of thu Lin coln's adventures in their now homo : The life of the pioneer Abraham Lin coln teen came to a disastrous close , llu had settled in Jell'orson county , on thu land ho had brought from the govern mc.nt , and cleared a small farm in the forest. One morning in the ye.ar 1780 lui started with his throe sons Monlecal. ilnsiah , and Thomas lo tllu edge of the ami began the day's work. A shot from the brush killed the father ; Mordecai , thu oldest sou , ran instinctively to the house , ilosiah lo the neighboring fort ( Hughes station ) for assistance , and Thomas , the youngest , u child of seven , was loft with the corpse of liis father. Mordoeal , reachinjr the cabin , seized the rillo , and saw through Iho loophole an Indian iu his war-paint sloooiug to raise the child from the ground , lie took dolibcrato aim at a white ornament on the breast of the savage and brought him down. The little boy , thus n.loascd , ran to the cabin , and Mnrdecai , from tin ; loll , renewed his lire ution tlie. savages , who began to show themselves from the thicket , dosiali re turned with assistance Irom the stockade , and the assailants lied. This tragedy made an indelible impression on thu mind of Mordoeai. Kilhor a spirit of revenge - vengo for his murdered father , or a sportsmanlike pleasure in his successful .shot , made him a determined Indian stalker , and ho rarely stopped to inquire whether the red man who eumo in range of his rillo was friendly or hostile. Tlie head of the family being gone , the Widow Lincoln soon removed to a moro thickly sol tied neighborhood in Washing ton count v. There her children grow up. Mordecai and .losiah became reputable citizens ; the two daughters married two men named Online and lionfield. Thomas , to whom wuro reserved the hon ors of an illustrious paternity , learned the trade of a carpenter. Jlo was an easy-going man , entirely without ambi tion , but not without self-respect. Though the friendliest and most jovial of gossips , ho was not insensible ! to all'routs ; and when his slow anger was aroused lie. was a formidable udvisar.y. Several border bullies.at. dillbrcnttimes , crowded him imliserotely , and were promptly and thoroughly whipped. Ho was strong , well knit , sinewy , but little over the me dium height , though in other respects lie scons to have resembled his sou in ap pearance. On the 121li of June 1800. while learn ing his trade in the carpenter shop of Joseph Hanks , in Kli/.abothtown , ho mar ried Nancy Hanks , a niece of his em ployer , near ISccchlaml , in Washington county. She. was OIK ; of u large family who had emigrated from Virginia , with tlie Lincolns and with another family called Sparrow. They had endured to gether tlie trials of pioneer life , and their close relations continued for many years after and were cemented by frequent inter-matriage. Thcro was no hint of future glory in the wedding or the bringing home of Nancy Lincoln. All accounts represent her as a handsome young woman of il ! ! , ol appearance and intellect superior to her lowly fortunes. She could read and write a remarkable-accomplishment in her circle and oven taught her husband to form .ho letters of his name , fie had no such valuable wedding gift to bestow upon her ; ho brought her to a little house in Klizabethtown , where ho and she and want dwelt together in fourteen foot square. The next year a daughter was born to them , and tlie young carpenter , not rinding his work remunerative enough for his growing budget , removed to a little farm which he had bought on the easy terms then prevalent in Ken tucky , on the Dig South fork of North creukin what was then llardin.and is now La Kuo county , three miles frum llodg- cnsvillo. The ground had nothing at tractive about it , but its cheapness. It was hardly moro grateful than Iho rocky hill slopes of Now 1-Jtighind. It required full as earnest and intelligent industry to persuade a living out of these barren hillocks and weedy hollows , covered with stunted and scrubby undorbrunh , ns it would amid the rocks and sands of tlm northern coast. Thomas Lincoln settled down in this dismal solitude to a deeper poverty than any of his iiamo hud over known , and there , in tlie midst of the most unpromising circumstances that ever witnesseil the advent of n hero into this world , Abraham Lincoln was born on the 18th day of February , 180 ! ) . Of Thomas Lincoln's removal to In diana and his life there the following ac count i.s given ; Thomas Lincoln , concluding that Ken tucky was no place for a poor man , de termined to seek his fortune in Indiana. Ho had heard of rich and unoccupied lauds in Perry county in that slate , and thither ho determined to go. He built a rude raft , loaded it with his kit of tools and 400 uallnns of whisky , and trusted his fortune to the winding vvator-coiiretth lie nml with only ono accident on hm way Ids raft edpsi/cd in iho Ohio river , but he fisiied up liis kit of tools and most of the ardent spirits , and arrived safely at the place of a settler named IVsoy. with whom ho loft his odd invoice of household COOIH ! for the wilderness , while he started on foot to look for a homo in thu deu = e forest Ho selected a .spot which pleased him in his lirnt ( lay's journey , lie then walked buck to Knob eivel ; and brought his family on to their new homo. No humbler cavalcade over invaded the Indians Umber. linsldcs hi.s wifii mid two children his earthly posses sions were of Ihu slightest , for tlio batiks of two borrowed IIOIY-OS siilliecd for the load. Jii-iiillicicnt bedding and clothing , a low pans mid kettles wore their s.olo niov.-ihid wealth. They relied on Lin coln's kit of tool * for their furniture , and on liis rillo for their food. At Posoy's they hired a wagon and literally hewed a path through iho wilderness to their now habitation , near Liitlel'igeon creek , a mile and a half cast ol U-tuitryvillo , in a rich nnd lerliln forot country. Thomas Lincoln , with the assistance of his wife and ohihlrcu , built a temporary nholtor of the vort called in the trontier language "a half faced namp. " merely a .shed ol' poles which defended Hut in- mated on Ihreu hides from iho foul weather , but left them open to its in- rilemHiicy in front , l-'or u whole year his family lived it. lids wretched fold , while ho was clearing a litllo patch of ground for planting corn and building a rough cabin for a. permanent residence. Voting Aura ham's efforts lo gain an education after receiving less than a year's schooling in various log Kohool hoiiKOs are related as follows : "Hut ho road everything he could lay his hands upon , anil ho was certainly fortunate in Iho few books of which ho became the posnctisor. It wonld hardly bo possible to select a bettor handful of classics for a youth in his eircumstaiice.s than the few volumes ho turned with a uiiihtly nnd daily hand--the bible , 'vfcsop's l''ablus , " "lUibinson Crusoe. , " "The Pilgrim's Progress , " a hlst..rN Oi the United States , and "Wcema1 L.I , ol Washington. " These wcro ( liu br < M M < ( ( those ho road over and over unt i itl ) knew them almost by heart. Hyt Ms voracity for anything printed K.JC u , . satiable. Ho would .sit In the t\till iit and road a dictionary as long as he rould Mio , lie used to go to David Turn < mi the town constable's and devoid tjP' , revised statutes of Indiana a boys in our day do the "Three ( , . , , , men. " Of the books I e d > . | not own ho took voluminous notes , ( iiim iiiS copy-book with choice extracts , and | , , lir | Ing'over thorn until tlmy were liv -i m his memory , Hu could not uil-.i- . | iu waste paper upon his own oiigiimi , . , ti , position. Hu would sit by the IT- -\i \ night and cover the wooden sno\c ! , , ( , essays and arithmetical exorcises | , . | hu would shave oil'and begin ag-mi. It is touching to think of this great - \ - . \ , . , clilld battling year nflur year against In * evil star , wasting his ingenuity iqmn < lc vices and makeshifts , his high iui gcnco starving for want of the xnupfij pliaiiccs of education which are now fored gn.tis to the poorest and most. . . dilleroiit. Ho did a man's work Irom iiie tlmu ho lull school ; his strengtti and stature were already far beyond tin.Mof ordinary men. liu wrought his up. pointed tasks ungrudgingly , tl\i \ , ht without enthusiasm ; but when Ins , -m ployor'.s day was ever his own begun John Hanks .says : ' 'When Ahcumll returned lo the house from WOIK no would go lo thu cupboard , sium-lt piece of corn broad , take down a I k sn down , cock his legs up as liiirhm : * head , stud road. " The pictuio ma. . lie lacking iu grace , but its trulhfnin , - , beyond ( ] iieslioii. The habit rcni.iini-ii w.th him . , always. Sonic of Insgn i T work in later years was done m , , H grotesque Western fashion "silti n < tt\\ \ his shoulder blades. " Ol his habits and dealings with > : . T moil at tins early period tnc fulo\wn ! \ ; , - < given ! Uuo of his eniiloycrs | , undii//lcd l > x ro. cent history , taithlully remembers Unit young Abe liked his dinner and Ins nay bettor than his work ; there i.s Min-ly nothing alien to ordinary mortality iii tins. It is also reported thai he stum- times impeded tlio celerity of harvest op erations by making burlc.-quo npecelus , or worse than that , comic .sermons , from Ihe top of some tempting slump , to tin1 delight of the hired hands and ( he ox. porution of the tanner. His budding cuts us a writer were not always ifo * ' ' erectly. Ho was too much given to coarse- satires and chronicles in prose , and in sonielhiug which had to him ami his friends the air of verse. From tins arose occasional heart burnings and feuds , in which Abraham bore his part according to tnc custom of the country. Despite Ins ( junker ancestry and hi * nat ural love of peace , ho was no nonresistant - ant , and when he mice entered upon a quarrel the opponent usually had tlio wor.il of it. Hut ho was generous ami plaealile , anil .some of his best friends were those with whom ho had had ( tiller- encus , dud hail sol tied them in a w.iy then prevalent - in a ring of serious spec tators , calmly and critically chewing their cuds under tlio shade of some spreading oak , al Iho odgu of the timber. He was not remarkably precocious , ills mind was slow in acquisition , and Ins powers of reasoning and rhetoric im proved constantly lo the end of his life , at a rale of progress marvclouslv regular and sustained. But then ; was that about him , oven at the ago of lil , wlueh might well justify his admiring friends iu i re- paging for him an unusual career He had read every book ho could lind , and could "spell down" the whole country at their orthographical contests. Bduij \ of constant practice ho had acquii admirably clear anil * serviceable writing. He occasionally astounded ft , companions by such glimpses of ooeul science as thai the world is round mnr that the sun Is relatively stationary. Hu wrote , for his own amusement and odili- calion , essays on polities , of which gt-n lldiiun of filandinir who had been favored with a perusal said willi authority , at the cross-roads grocery : "The world can't ' bout it. " One or two of these eoinpoM lions got. . into print and vastly increased the author's faiiiu. Ho was also a mag nanimous boy , with a larger and kindlier spirit than common. His generosity , courage , and capability of discerning Iwo sides to a dispute wer remarkable oven then and won him the admiration of those to whom such qualities wore mi known. But. perhaps after al ! the ( lung which gained and fixed his mastery ever his fellows was ' lo a' great degree his gigantic .stature and strength He attained his full growth , six feet and four inches , two years fore he came of ago. liu rarely met Wilh a man whom lie could not not easily handle. His strength is Mil ! a tradition in Spencer county. Ono aged man says he has seen him ' . 'pick up and carry away a chicken house weiulnng 000 'pounds. " Al another time seeing some men preparing a contrivance for lifting some largo posts , Abu quickly shouldered the posts and look them where Ihuy wuro needed. One of iiis em ployers says : "il could sink an ax deeper into wood than any man 1 ever saw. " With strength like this and a brain to direct it , a man was a born lender in tliut country at that time. Honoring Alum Mater , On next Sunday the S.IOth anniversary of the founding of Harvard college Will be celebrated throughout , the country. In this city the occasion will be littingly commemorated by all the uradtialen of Alma Mater and especially so at the ) Unity church , whore iho paMor , Key , * E. Copc.land. graduate of the el > * ( 1 SCO , will hold special services. 'I hef.o services will b < ! of a most interesting cihur neter , and will bit nllendi.d iu a body by lias Harvard club of this city , which is composed of a number of our prominent , cili/.ens , ami of which Judge S.iv.ige Is president , The.-c services , as pre\io < ly noted , are hold everywhere throughout the country where a net of IJ.'n.uvl'H ' graduates arc to ho found. In thi > manner - nor the memory < if liie ci h-br.-ited .n-'i . w . tutloii , with its lonsf and in ' . -fi , cent career , i.s happily perpeluated i Died iwiiy from lloiild. I The death of Mr. Patrick Furlong , ft father of Mrs. Thomas ( tenth unii , of ! North Sixteenth hired , was a > id 01 f runcii. It happened while lioth t ; . < i - cuaM.-d and his wit'ow ' wcro h-'i- ou a visit from Springlh'hl. Ills , 'o ' t'ur ' daughter , nnd was uucMieeii-il i i i-i' , whou both loft home , iMr. 1urloiisii ) > in tlio enjoynioni ol good Inmlth for u to iii hc.vciily-thrco years of ngo. Hold of t.i'i sous wuro telegraphed ol Iho sad n- " < r- rnnco and arrivedI liiiru last uit-'U ! I'ic ' l'iini-ril : look plai-i ) today Irom < M > eliuroh of the Holy Family , and i > " i- - maiiis wnro iiilurroi ! m the Holv o i---- ttiry Jiupidoliro. A VcrillcM I'mO'llrioii Tiilogruphic \ \ ports from L > iu . . ' < i . - to that the supreme court al Lincoln t'Jj just rendered a decision for d ix-niP ( i , M. O'Brien in the ao bt'iw > i-i t' ' at gisntloimin ami < ! ud"oiialiti. . ivi.-h h.is for yours been pcuiimg. The * > u t iaono which involves about about sis . tl ivo acres ot land jntt we t of llansi-mti j/nri. , worth .soiuii iflt.rjOil or .fl.U'JO ' an aero , and Iho ownership of wlm-h i.-t clauucil by both O'Brien and ( Jasliu , .liickiniio in ciiic-n o. Private advices received in the citjva tentaylstatothat \ \ . il.-.Iaekmitn fi.-rw ' capture Nat Brown , of the Merrhai.ts ollerod a reward oftlOO , is nou u , ( cago. Ho Is laying-low il : ro. c.-uii-i 'lusirliig to uiuajiij hu IK/lieu tt p.-- ' . cage polieo.