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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE , ; MONDAY , NOVEMBER 21 , 1887. THE DAILY BEE. KVKHY MOUN1XO. TKIIM8 OP BUIIHCIUITIOtf. pnllyAfotntnR ( IMItlon ) lucluillug Buudliy irir.Onn : year . , . 110 m ForHlx Months . . . A J Kor'ilirre Monthi. . "W The Omaha Hundnr llsr , nmltr < l to nnj- nit * ilrvMi , One Vear . 2(0 ( OWAII t Orricr No. 914 AM > Vin KIINAM STIU.KT. NKW YOIIK Oft IUK , ItooMlVi , TIIIIIUNK lltrii.ii- 1X1. OttlUK , i\O. D1J KuUlt TXKMZIlBTItKKr. _ txmiiKsi'ON miser. . AH communication * rclutliiK now * nnd editorial inatlcr should bo aiulrcs-cil to tlio KuiTouur Tin : HI.K , JIUHINHSS UVrTEItS : All business ! ctl < rs iinil remittance * Miould be ( IclruHKil to 1'itr. llt.K I'UIIMHIIINO Cowpt.NT. OM MIA. Drafts , checks and postolllco orders to lie uiudo payiiblo to tliu order of tliu company. Proprietors , U. UOSEWATKK , KOITOK. : DAIIjV 11KK. Sworn Statement of Circulation. Btntoof Nriiru'Ocn , I , . County of DiniKln . | lS > Oto. li.T/Mlnul : , ecm'tnry of The rioo Pub- ni ; coiniiHiiy , ifovN polemnly swear that tlie Hrluiilr IrttilHtlim of the Daily flee for the week rndlnc Nov. 18. 1W7.Mi iia follows : Puttirdny. Nov. IS . 20.3 Hiiiulny , Nov. 1 1 . IV-IH Monday , Nov. II . 1S.7.V ) Tuesday , Nov. 15 . . Wednesday. Nov. 10 . 14NiU Thursday. Nov. 17 . 14.7ttt 1'llduy , .Nov. 18. . . , . .II.7AI Average . ir > .730 duo. H. T/.xcilt'tK. Pworntoand subscribed In my preocnco this IHth day of November , A. I ) . 17. * > ( KKAti. ) ' Notiiry * Public Btutuof Nebr.-nkn. I Cotintvof Dousing. f" > 3 > ( Ipo. 11. Tzkchuck , bolnc llrs.1 duly worn , do- rows anil sajB that he In sem tary of Tim liee 1'tibllBhliiR company , Unit thu actual u\crato dully cli dilution of thw Dally llee for the month of November , 1PM1 , l.tHS ; copies : for December. istrt , 1.T.S37 copies ; for January , 1SI-7 , llV-T.fi . copies ; for I'eb- OKO. H.T7.SCHUCK. Rworn to and sub cilbed In my presence this Cth day of October , A. 1) ) . 18H7. N. 1' . 1'KI I , . ( bKAI , . ) Notary I'ubllc. IT might bo recorded that the firat snow btonn of the bouson did not stop the st/cot curs. TUB press of the country seems to unite in demanding Unit congress Bluill regulate the telegraph. BOOMS , bombs and boodle is the allit erative combination that should be avoided by all politicians. ANOTHKU frightful disaster nt sea is reported. This time n , ship goes down , off Dover , losing almost two hundred lives. SlOUX CITY is already making ar rangements for the next corn palace. Sioux City should give St. Paul a chance with her ice pulnco. is a movement on foot in Georgia to raise a memorial fund for Jefferson Davis. Mr.'Davis should have been raised long ago. TIIK country would bo pleased now to enjoy a rest from Miss Van Zandt. If she cannot marry an anarchist let her marry Dennis Koarnoy. Mu. LAMAH has shown no serious symptoms of resigning. In relinquish ing his ollico Mr. Sparks bc'at the record of the democratic party. AN aerolite weighing thrco tons re cently dropped in the streets of Now York. The heavenly visitor had doubt less been thrown at Ilorr Most. Mn. TuAlN has delivered hia "lostad- dress on American soil before expatria tion forovcr , " at "Watcrvillo , Maine. Ho read a poem just before leaving. TIIK Iowa legislature , it is predicted by knowing ones , will bo captured by the railroads. In fact , the railroads capture and control all legislatures. A MiriorAN was recently fined heav ily for soiling watered milk to a railway oiHcial. His crime was evidently an infringement on a patent watering process. Tin : Now York Jlcntld is to enjoy n two million dollar libel suit to bo brought by the Anchor lino. The Her ald's circulation demanded a cordial of some kind. THE fanning apparatus of the winds , that occasionally sweeps our streets is not only cheaper but better in what it aims to do than the Fanning it Co. ap paratus employed by our cit.v council. K nnmo of Edward L. Morritt now appears as editor of the Herald. Mr. Morritt ifl n now resident of Omaha , coining from Springllold , Illinois. His work on the Herald shows that ho is an experienced nowspaiwr man. TIIK editor of the Now York World spent two days in Washington without calling on the president. This is re garded as ominous of the course of that paper in the presidential campaign. Whether Mr. Cleveland or the ether side should bo congratulated is the question. TIIK Illinois legislature at its last ses sion enacted a law prohibiting the making or disposing of dynamite bombs. It is to bo regretted that a similar slat- ute was not passed , treating as a felony punishable by impritfonment , the writ ing or disusing of stories about bomta which wore never found and which were not bombs. TIIOSK who nro inclined to think that Omaha could not accommodate the largo number of people who will at tend the National Republican conven tion , should remember that Omaha's live citizens have never yet made a fail ure of anything they undertook. Desig nate Omaha oa the place , and every visitor will bo pleased with the city's : hospitality. K ngo of Lamar has bccomo an issue which for the moment has super seded all others. If ho is only sixty- two ho id eligible to the supromobonch ; if ho is sixty-eight ho is not eligible , There seems to bo records to prove either. If Mr. Lntnnr knows his ago he ought to speak up and Bottla the contra vorsy. But wo believe ho has alwayi been effeminately sou&itiva on thii i/olnt / Ttm Artmlnlstrntloii IMnn. Mr. Carlisle ( s reported to hare snid Lhnt he thinks n reduction of revenue to the extent of 870,000,000 will bo Bufllolont very likely on the ground that it might L > o safe to go beyond this amount , al though the ( surplus for the last fiscal year wtw $10'I,000,000nnd will bo greater Tor the current year If the present rnto of taxation is maintained. Of the $70- 000,000 reduction Mr. Carlisle would tnko from forty-llvo to fifty millions out of the customs by enlarging the free list for raw materials and reducing the duties in certain prime necessaries used by the whole people , and the remainder out of the internal revenue , chlolly by cutting down the tobacco tax. It was said that unless the tariff men would ac cept this form of compensation ho would oppose any interference with the exclso taxes. If this correctly represents the posi tion of Mr. Carlisle it may fairly bo as sumed to foreshadow the attitude which the administration will tnko on this question of reduction. What ehnueo will there bo of the success of such a nlan ? It is to bo apprehended thcro will not bo any. It may bo regarded as certainty that the tariff men will under no circumstances accept ti compromise which would require any general sur render of customs duties to the extent of more than one-half of whatever amount may bo agreed upon as expedi ent. Tliu line on which this issue is to bo fought was pretty plainly indicated in the late state cam paigns by several prominent lenders , among their. Senator Sherman , of Ohio , and Senators Evarts and Iliscock , of Now York. None of these gentlemen contemplate any general interference with tariff duties. All of them made it very clear that if any concessions are made they will bo extremely moderate , so far as they nro concerned , and not generally in the direction which it seems Mr. Carlisle and his following will ask. It will undoubtedly bo found that the tarill men have modified their views to only a very limited extent since the lust congress , and it is not apparent that the revenue reformers have made any great change from what they were willing to do in the last congress. Thcro may bo a little bettor disposition now than was exhibited then to arrive at some jwlicy , but the obstacles appear to bo as formidable as over. Thcro is no encouragement for the jKsoplo in the situation. It is pretty evident that party and class interests will still dominate the national coun cils , with every probability that "they will be found stronger than the popular demand for relief and consideration for the public welfare as affected by an ex cessive and dangerous accumulation of the people's money in the national treasury. It is always to bo hoped that the people's representatives will at last place the interests of the people before all other considerations , and such a hope may still bo ontortaincd respecting the present exigency , but certainly the out look is not promising. If the plan said to have boon outlined by Mr. Carlisle is that of the administration , and it has been determined to adhere to it , a dead lock and the failure of all attempts at revenue legislation at the next session of congress may bo regarded as inev itable. The Corruption Fund. It is estimated that the cost of the recent election in the city of New York was $041,200. Thcso figures arc based upon the assessment of each candidate and tire declared by reasonably good authority to bo correct. The amount expended by all the candidates for the supreme court is stated at $75,000. Candidates for city court judge paid $40,000 , and an equal sum was paid by candidates for comptroller. The candi dates for district attorney expended $75,000 , those for civil justices $123,000 , for aldermen the sum of $100,000. The injunction to keep the "judiciary pure" is lost in the sight of these start ling figures. That such a largo sum of money should bo expended even were it claimed to bo a legitimate expenditure only shows a recklc&s extravagance that honesty could not endorse. But to know that so many thousands of dollars were poured out to the heeler and striker is ample cause for serious minds to wonder whore such practices will end. The fact that the candidates for judicial positions opened a cor ruption fund of such magnitude , suggests that the inouoy was not their own not the party campaign fund , but a purto raised by men who would defeat the law by placing their tools in power. Of this high-handed outrngo a New York paiier indignantly snys : "Does anybody believe that near a million dollars wore legitimately expended in Now York ? Anybody is welcome to believe that who chooses. Wo do not believe it , nor do wo believe campaign funds are ever necessary to the amount demanded anywhere. They are dis tributed among characterless men in great part , handed over to men who live by the custom , and who would bo tramps and outlaws if not maintained by such vicious methods. It is all wrong , utterly and viciousjy wrong , and it is a wrong bound to bo peremp torily halted everywhere at no distant day. " It was not nlono in Now York that such open and flagrant violations of law were indulged in , but throughout the entire country. If such a custom is much longer continued , its evil results will work great mischief to our country and people. If abandoned wretches who nro prostituted to venality and villainy propose to stop in and bid with money for places of trust and honor , something must bo done and done quickly. In a pure ballot and an honcsl count is found the strength and safotj of our nation. Tlio Crisis and tlio Canal. The ministerial crisfs in Franco if likely to prove very dangerous to the olTort of M. do Losseps to secure another - other loan for the Panama canal. Aftoi having proclaimed that no further loan would bo needed by-the company , the optimistic old engineer only a few dayi ago appealed to Prime Minister Uouviei for authority to raise a now loan by the issue of lottery bonds. In the existing cireuinbtunces Rouvier cun of course take no action in the matter , while it may reasonably bo supposed that the French people nro in no htato of mind to respond favorably to another demand for money to bo buried irretrievably in the ditch that has already swallowed up nearly 8200,000,000. , Confronted by the possibility of political com plications that may bcriously ef fect tlio financial and commer cial interests of the nation compli cations the outcome of which no man can forecast with certainty it can readily be understood that the people of Franco will prefer for the present to hold on to their hard-earned savings , oven wore a scheme far less hopeless than tlio Panama canal asking their support. A recent estimate puts the cost of com pleting the canal at $600,000,000 , and on the basis of what has already boon ex pended this is doubtless not an exag gerated sum. Vast as have been the obstacles overcome , those yet to bo encumbered - cumbered are equally formidable. At the Culobra section , in Costa Rlciv , hills tto'J ' foot above the sea level had to bo pierced , and hero the quantity of rocks and earth still to bo removed assumes gigantic proportions. At least 15,000- 000 cubic yards must bo transported more than ton miles and thrown into the Panama bay , as the Valley of Pa- raise will bo filled when 8.000,000 cubic yntsls shall have been thrown there , and the same will bo true in two other places. The works on the Chngrcs river , scarcely begun , will bo the most difficult and costly of all. The dam will bo 1,800 yards in length , 470 yards wide and , 48 yards high. Behind it thcro will bo 3,000,000 cubic metres of water baukod up. The hills on which the flanks of thisgigantio dam will rest will bo 'tunnelled , and through these tunnels will flow to another watershed the waters which otherwise would follow the course of the canal , and they will find their way to the sea at points many inilos distant from their former outlets , The company is now bankrupt , or nearly so , and unless it can obtain finan cial relief at a very early day the work must bo discontinued. Once abandoned it would very likely not bo resumed , or at all events not for many years. The only hope of the company is in the people - plo of Franco , and under present condi tions it can expect very little from that source. The urgency will demand all of Do LCBSOP'S courage and diplomacy , ivith which ho has shown himself in the [ lust to bo most generally endowed. THE authorities of the university of Pennsylvania have issued an order pro hibiting smoking within the precincts of their temple of knowledge. While the faculty has done only its duty , it yet Tails to supply a long needed demand. That young and growing boys should not smoke tobacco , has long ago been decided by medical science. Medical science has failed , however , to keep boys from smoking when they feel bo inclined. TIIK city hall project has at last as sumcd definite shape , the council hav ing accepted the bill of Wm. Novin & Co. , for the building of the superstruct ure. The company of the firm is W. H. B. Stout. In deference to Omaha's workingmen the council passed a reso lution to the effect that convict labor should not bo used in furnishing mater ial for the building. Under the resolu tion the bill of Nevin's & Co. was sub mitted and accented. TIIK bitter war between the pro hibitionists and " men" "whisky now on at Atlanta , Georgia , could all be avoided by adopting the high license system , such as Nebraska has. A little more temperance in their politics , at least , would look bettor. CLAUA LOUISK KKM-OOO'S last ad vertising dodge has worked to perfec tion. Thcro have been many and doubt less bettor women married without all the newspaper talk this last announce ment has caused. STATIC AND THHU1TOUY. Nebrhskn. .Jottings. Crete has closed a contract for water works. Blair is driving n profitable trade in baled hay with Omaha. The product of the Fremont creamery will reach 15,000 pounds this year. The grade of the Missouri Pacific from Crete to Talmugo is completed. "Any good , strong and popular man but Blftino , " is the rallying cry of the Hastings Gazette-Journal. The annual mooting of the State grange will bo held at Grand Island the second Tuesday in December. Bhiino county went democratic ut the last election. It in now Jn order to change the name to Cleveland. The inability the contractors to got the pipe will prevent the completion of the North Platte waterworks this year. The people of Superior , Nuckolls county , are negotiating for an extension of the Elkhorn Valley road to thai point. The North Bond Flail is pounding a narrow section of Dodge county in favoi of Bliuno of Maine. The Flail is at homo in a graveyard. Judge Humor's majority in the Tenth district was over 1,000. His vernal op ponent is still running for "Greene fields and pastures new. " After a struggle of twenty yours ttio farmers now have a. chance Ao drive well their too into the hide of the chap who seeks a royalty. A wearied and woeful'dynamito boml strayed into the Gordon Herald ollico recently and after sadly Booking some thing to devour , foil upon a patent in side and gasped without a kick. One of the antique relics of justice ii Platte county , recently dug up , is a re plevin suit in which a "tall , rod-hairoi man , name unknown , " was defendant Naturally the contest was possession o a white horse. The Nebraska City News is thirty three yearn old. It displays all the vigor , shape and settled features of ma turity , but it clings to its ragged sui with more energy than discretion. I needs recasting in n modern mold. The Indian element is now an im portant and jxjcuniary factor in Dakota county politics. Politicians with a rdl can count on them every timo. Over one hundred of them voted the demo cratic ticket at il ahead at the last elec tion. tion.Tho Fremont militia company mudo a sortie for fodder a few evenings ago They surrounded the residence of Henry Wohncr , lived n volley in the nlr and > yscnrlng him hulf to death secured he freedom ot the pimtry and took the ako , A "roast pig one hundred years old served on n plnttor" was one of the lainty toolliHomos served nt a church sociable in Norfolk lust week. The church oyster n-ems to have lost UH vlnsomo smiilo and lustrous charms he olie hunters. The Fremont Herald believer that Sparks was two-thirds right in his con- rovorsy with Lumar. "Tho otlleial vhom the republican machine and modlors are so anxious to get out , must uivo a good deal of merit as well as lonosty and grit. " Nebraska City alTeoN surprlso at the Indlng of a fovdl in the city a few foot roni the surface. With largo herds 'tinning loose on the surface , it was an nexcusablo waste of labor to dig for hem. The find is a good pointer to the ising generation to plant them deep. The state officials made tin oxamina- ion of the work already done on the soldiers' homo building in Grand 1s- and last week , and expressed them selves satisfied. The brick work lias cached tlio second story and the con- ractor expects to have the building en closed by January 15. The Nebraska City News figures out i directory population of 10.500 by the nultlplo M , and tolls a whopping un- ruth in saying that Omaha uses 4 } for ho same purpose. Omaha's directory contains over 82,000 namesand the niul- , iplo three will give the city's ' popula tion without exaggeration. The Lincoln Democrat soberly de clares that "tho democratic party must cease to bo the advocate and friend of whisky or it will forovcr bo in the minority in the northwest. " This is the crudest edict yet issued by the capital iruclu and will produce a chorus of lisscs from the hoopsnakes of the party. The family washtub occisioiially ; gets , n a lick at the domestic circle. Though lot as energotio as gasoline and the shotgun , it never misses Hro when loaded with hot water. Near Broken Bow last week the little daughter of John Sauor tumbled in with family washing and joined the choir of innocents sacrificed by carelessness. A distressing accident happened at South Sioux City a few days ngo. The three-year-old boy of Mr. Stcolo rushed out to greet "papa" and attempted to climb over the wheel into the wagon where his father sat. The team moved and the child was caught and crushed between the wheel and the standard. Death was instantaneous. The Falls City Journal mournfully says : "It is a pity that Church Howe is so dead politically that the people will never got ivchanco at him again. It would bo a beautiful spectacle to BCO the tricked , traded and outraged publio jumping on Church Howe with Loavy nails in their boots. " Popoon is some thing of a grave digger himself , and his soul is now filled with maddening regrets that ho helped to plant Howe too deep for resurrection. The O'Neill Free Press and its putrid plates and pibox hnvo been gathered up and transported to some Wyoming town , where the untainted air will for a time improve it's circulation as a bunko steerer for a bank. With immeasurable mouth and an unlimited stock of lie abilities , Doc Matthews will cut a broad swntho for a brief period among the bull-punchers of the territory , unless he chafes his chin on the bin a 11 end of a revolving popper box. O'Neill and Holt county have good cause for a hearty Thanksgiving. The overwhelming defeat of the burm barrister ticket in the Third district provoked this from the Scuuylor Guilt : "When the political standing of the re publican party in the Third district gets so low that the Omaha Republican out fit and the Vandorbum-Hawes-Thurs- ton brigade runs it , it is time that the people kicked it out. That judicial dis trict has a-heavy republican majority , but there are independent vutorsenough in it to see that the party is not used to further the interests of unprincipled political rogues. " Edward F. Leprohon , the dashing young blood of Nebraska City , who is now cooling off and exercising himself on the btone pile in the penitentiary , writes a confession that his sentence is just and "a good warning to young men too anxious to obtain riches by un just means. " Edward permitted hits talents to run to autographs on chocks and quiet raids on other men's bank ac counts. The past was loided ; with warn ings , but ho heeded them not , and those who follow his btylo will flash in the dock and splutter in penitentiary stripes. The young man of to-day who lives be yond his earnings is cultivating a Moshor mattress with castiron uphols tery. Such is the irony of fato. lown Items. Sigournoy has struck a slight vein of natural gas. The dads of Dubuque have declared war on the sparrows. There are thirteen miles of street railway in Burlington. The big bridge at Dubuque will bo dedicated November 29. The order of Odd Fellows in the slate comprises 471 lodges , with 22,500 mem bers. The Burlington Hawkeye has de clared war on scarlet women , the moral anarchists of the town. The Davenport base ball association has boon incorporated , with n capital of $ . ) ,000 , "for the purpose of elevating base ball playing and making it respect able and honorable. " Master Evans Holbrook , of Sioux City , has received a courteous note of tlmnkn from Mrs. Cleveland in return for a bouquet presented her on the morning of her visit to the corn palace. Over 100,000 farmers in the state and between one and two million farmers in the United States are alTected by the decision of the United States supreme court that the drive-well patents are illegal on account of priority of use. A Creston lover who addressed a lovo-ftcented letter to the object of his affections , asking the young lady to Ixicomo his partner through life , in scribed on one corner of the envelope , "Sealed proposal. " The result was ho was awarded the contract. Dubuquo1ms a man who announces himself us Ills Satanio Majesty , fresh from the regions of the imps and lost souls. Ho claims to have been deserted bv the Almighty and to have become chief of the triboB of the infernal re gions. Ho has scoured a thirty-day on- gngcmont in the city jail. A woman with a family of fifteen children arrived in Cedar Rapids from St. Louis last Saturday night. The ages of the children range from six months to eighteen years. The fathoi of the family is dead , and the mothoi with the colony of children was on hoi way to Sibloy , where they expect to lo cate. Diikotn. A largo deposit of roofing shite has been discovered near Deadwood. The fountain for the now flouring mill tit Oaks is nearly completed. The M rue- tit ro will cost $10,000 and huvoaeapiii'it } of 150 barrels per day. Two now railroads , the Catholic cathedral , a do w briuk blocks , 200 residences and many other improve ments tivo looming up ns the improve ments booked for next year in Van It- ton. ton.Tlio Tlio Rapid City Joufnnl wiy ? ; "Tho favorable report of Prof. Clark as to the application of the leaching process in Lhe treatment ot the Ruby onsln and Bald mountain ores is received with very general satisfaction throughout Lho Hills. It was assorted years ago by i noted mineralogist that the free millIng - Ing ores of the Hills were but as a drop In the bucket in comparison to the min eral wealth of the country. The truth of this assertion is becoming every day more plain. " Homo TcloKfiiph History. r.leclrleal llevtac. The history of some of the additions of water to Western Union Telegraph company slock reads like the wildest oinanco of Hpcculnlion. In 1SOO , for xamplo , congress offered a bonus of 40,000 a year for ton years to any pnr- ties who would undertake the construc tion of a. telegraph line from the Mis souri river to the Pacific coast. Certain directors of the Western Union company accepted this offer , and 1,100 miles of wire were strung between Brownsville , Nob. , and Salt Lake City , whore con nection was made with an existing line to San Francisco , The cost of this 1,100 miles of telegraph line was $147.000 , or $ ! Ji4 a mile , and largo profits were made by the contractors at this figure. Subsequently $1.000,000 , in stock of the Pacific Telegraph company was issued on this expenditure , and when that company wan absorbed by the Western Union $2,000,000 of stock of the latter company was issued in payment for the Pacific Telegraph stock. Soon afterward the stock of the Western Union was trebled , and thus by a simple process of manipulation an original ex penditure of $147,000 of itself tin ex orbitant outlay was swolon until it ctuno to represent $0,000,000 of Western Union stock , to pay dividends upon which the business of the country has boon taxed for nearly a quarter of ft century. More than this , the property thus represented had within ton years been nearly thrice paid for by the gov ernment bonus of $40,000 a year. , T. Imwrcnco Sullivan's Kcccption. Chicago Tribune : It has often boon remarked that when an Irishman gets a fair chance of association with people , hpwovor much they may bo opposed to him. ho inevitably exorcises a fascinat ing influence upon them. This has boon exemplified in England lately. Since the discussion of home rule some of the Irish orators , notably Parnoll , have had an opportunity to get through the crust of isolation with which Englishmen surround themselvesand in no instance have they failed to captivate their hear ers or charm the society with which they have boon brought in contact. Our eminent Irish fellow-citizen , Prof. J. L. Sullivan , is another instance of this trait. In fact , Parnoll on the hustings , and Sullivan on the bustlings , arc car rying everything before them. Prof. Sullivan was not unknown to the Eng lish muscle men before ho went over , but he had not made that enthusiastic impression upon thorn which boa since resulted from personal association with him. No man , not oven the Duke of Wellington returned from Waterloo , or Disraeli from Berlin bringing "peace with honor , " over had such a reception as that accorded to the eminent Boston knock-out when ho arrived at the Brit ish Capital. Even the police could not control the Britishers at the depot , and the Irishman was obliged to avoid their multitudinous affection by a ruso. His reception at St. James' Hall , Piccadilly , though it took two sovereigns ( $10.50) ) tind a swallow-tail to got in , was equally enthusiastic. This was the artistic re ception , and it did notXfall behind the moro democratic one in the streets and at the station. When the Irish-Ameri can champion came forward and an nounced to the ladies and gentlemen that ho had come to England to show what sort of timber lie was made of and remained "yours truly , " the great and elegant audience was captivated and expressed its delight with round upon round of applause ; but it was not until ho came out in his fighting trim and en countered the big boxer who consents to bo knocked about by the champion for the delectation of tlio crowd that the rapture of the British nobility bo- caino. unbounded. And when it was all over ho entered his carriage tind was driven to a club house with the aris tocracy following and shouting itself hoarse. No other show in London stood any ehanco not oven Buffalo Bill's Wild West. The lord mayor's pageant foil dead and fiat. Even Salisbury's tory speech was made to empty benches. Much of thisenthusiaMii may bo credited to the English love of pugilism , but more to the rare facinations which an Irishman exercises over Englishmen ; and when that Irishman happens to bo , or is prepared to show that ho is , the "best man" from the knock down point of view in the new or old world , it is not remarkable that ho should captivate both the English aristocracy and dem ocracy. Should ho succeed in carrying away the honors from the Briton , Jem Smith , no limit can bo placed to the ex tent of his conquests anipug the British. It will then bo voni , vidi , vici. Tlio Mayor AVas Cross. Chicago Tribune : I was in the "Two Orphans" saloon at Eagle Pass City , Wyp. , one day engaged in the fatiguing business of loaning against the wall and watching the barkeeper polish the glasses when tv strikingly lai'ge man with ii ferocious black moustache and u hand the si/.o of a St. Paul man's snowshoe - shoe came in and directly to where I stood. I tried to look as if I wasn't doing anything and got one corner of my eye on the side door. The man re garded mo scornfully for a moment , then suddenly jumped up and cracked bib heels together twice , brought his list down on the edge of a card table so that it tipped over and rolled away and with a whoop that jarred the chandelier yelled : "Stranger , I eat snakes ! " As I remember it , I replied that I had no doubt of it , and that I fully believed lie was the only man in the country who did eat snakes , and that I presumed ho rather preferred rattlesnakes and yel low-headed moccasins , when ho made a ionp at mo and again whooped : ' 'Stranger , I'm a wolf ! Hoar mo howl ! " I was backing toward the door and trying to look iu > sociable and agreeable as possible , when ho added with aston ishing emphasis : "I'm n wildcat ! I want blood ! I want it to drink ! ' 1 was now moving on the door so rap idly as to resemble n. dark colored Hlroak several yards long , when ho started for mo , howling : "I'm a man cuter ! I'm ' from Bitter Creek ! Gimme BOIUO raw snakes ! Ixmimo at him ! " All the time kicking the chairs through the air and making the building tromblo. I managed to got through the door and foil across an alloy and two vacant lots. Fifteen minutes later when I ven tured out on another btreot , I happened to moot the barkeeper and said : "What was the matter with that man who tried to kill mo at your * place ? " "Mayor Everta , you moan , I reckon. Oh , nothing much ; only the council pawed an ordinance , that he had ve- toud , over hiuhead hist night and it has made him cross ull day. " AWFUl EVILS OF CA11BUNC , Rov. O. W. Savidgo Sponks on the Subject. A WARNING TO CHRISTIANS. Tlio Church name of Clinnce Con demned anil thu Fish 1'oiul Kclunno nntl I'rlr.o Ciikn Not Hntiut toned. A Sermon on At the Sowurd street M. 1C. church lust ovculng Nov. C. W. Suvldcc. the pastor , prunuhod to n largo audicmco on the subject , "Gambling , " taking his text from Mntthow 07lfi : ! : "Thoy parted my garments nmoiiR thorn , nud upon my vcsturo did they cast lots. " Gambllnp , snld tlio ppcalcor , Ii risk ing something with the expectation of win ning moro than you hazard. It is gcttlug something without ever having rendered un equivalent. Oftlmcs It conn's very ncur being the Rotting of something for nothing. The Instruments of the art are well known the curds , the cue and balls , the dlco ami various other Implements. Gambling is carried on iu rooms kept and often built es pecial ! 5- for that purpose. The house of the lost woman and the Rambling house have the most elegant furniture , though I am very glad to say that In this city the nub ile gambling houses have been dosed in con- Bcquunco of a prohibitory law against gam bling enacted last winter by tlto legislature of Nebraska. This law makes gambling u crime to which a heavy penalty is afllxcd. This law went into effect the 4th of last July , and whatever gambling Is done now iu this city is done secretly. I am glad to hear , too , that Mayor liocho , of Chlwigo , has walked into that ofUce and has driven every gambler out of the city and has reformed the saloons just us far as the laws of his sUite will per mit to do it. A first rate mayor and a first rate Judge can reform a city , even if the city council is not sanctified , lint I am sorry to say that we , as a people , do not stop gambling when the rooms hitherto used for that pur pose uro shut up. If our people can't gamble ono way , they will another. The uieti who go to sco the great leagues play bull but on oue sale or the othor. 11 the gambling element wi-ro taken out of tlio Ainerie.in game' to day , it would amount to nothing. Men go to horse races for the name purpose. lam told that Hiram WoodrufT was an honest anil humane- man , hut the horses lie trained caused many a dollar to change hands. Un the great trucks to-day fortunes uro made and lost , and us the telegraph has nearly eliminated time and space , men in Omaha bet on the base ball in Boston or the horse race at Long Uraneh. Lotteries , too , nro all the ruga at present. Wo are told that a few years ago a man in Chicago found im unprofitable building on his hands and ho resolved to make all this country help him out of the dllllculty. Lot tery olllces were opened in all the gicat cities. Philadelphia bought over $ JO,000 worth of tickets , New York took $100,000 worth. As the time for the drawing approached preached , the trains were loaded to their fullest capacity. The man who held Iho ticket r > SOUO drew the opcia house and this so-called fortunate man soon died of drunk enness and the house which had been rank-it away was soon b.ick iu the hands of the original owner. This lottery business has become a curse. Last Monday a prominent man living at Orleans , Neb. , in the Repub lican Volley , received word that the ticket ho held in a certain lottery entitled him to $15,000. The result will bo that hundreds of poor men who cannot afford it , will buy tickets and they will never get a cent for their trouble. Men also gamble in the grain markets. They call it "buying options. " Men gamble in churches. You pay 6 cents for the privilege of fishing with hook and line in the lish pond. You pay 35 cents for u clianeo for the cake with the five-dollar gold piece or the ring in it , and the principle is the same as if you bought a ticket iu the Louisana lottery. Ono evening ono of the daughters of General Sherman was trying to induce him to take shares in a chance scheme for n church fair , and the general replied , "Why , Ituehol , wo have gotten along ull our lives thus far with out gambling , do you think wo had bolter begin now ! " Let General Sherman's words bo told to the Christians who play progressive euchro. Boys as a rule are not allowed In gambling houses that is to say , this is the rule but 1 am sorry to say it is often bioKuu. Men of all classes gamble both rich and poor. I have known preachers' sons to be infatuated with the game. A few years ago ono of my own church members drew a horse in a lot tery and ho worked that horse for many a day. We ore often told that gamblers arc very honest men , reliable , men of their word , and that they are liberal. It is to their in terest to bo BO considered. But they arc lib eral with ether men's money , and uro houcst when they have that mouoy , out when their "luck turns" they will rob you quick enough. If I am called to ofllciuto at the funeral of a gambler I shall not call him u line fellow. Ho is n robber , for ho takes what ho never earned. If you ask mo why men gamble , I would say they do so for various reasons. The church member in a social company plays "progressive ouchro" for pleasure ami to get the gift or stake that is offered. Some men gamble for the plonsum and fas cination there is iu it.Life , " you know , "is such u hum-drum affair" that they have to have something interesting , lint the great majority play because thoie is a possibility of making largo sums of money quickly and with very little capital. What a force there is in that thought to the massof men , "Largo sums , quickly made , and with little capital. " Men ask , "Is gambling wrong , and why ! " Without question it In wrong. It ii death to honest toil. Look ut the gambler's hands 1 They aii ) as white unit soft as u woman's. Ho was born tired. I ask you how many men in this town who were gamblers before July 4 , Ib37 , are now engaged iu honest le gitimate work I Men lese their money by means of gaming. At ono time iu Italy f 14,000,000 were an nually expended by the poorer population in lottery tickets. The most of this money , of course , was lost. Men uot only lese their own inouey In this way , but that of their employers , and oven trust funds. When a celebrated bank iu this country fulled , it was found that the officers had expended the em bezzled fuuds In lotteries , and of course , lost. A Boston clerk took f IS.XX ( ) of his employer's money and spent It In this way. The money lost in gambling in our city would build many a coy and beautiful cottage and fur nish it , too. This gambling is a destroyer of human life. After a lottery m England , thcro were llfty suicides of these Who had held unlucky num bers. At the great gambling renters suicides nro so common that the game is not long do- luycd. The blood Is washed up and every thing moves on us before. In the city of Lmi vor on the evening of November 14 Charles K. Henry. young gambler nine years of ago. took tlio life of u young woman. 1 cannot explain the fact to you , but It is the case that the gambler places u very low esti mate on human life. IJut by gaming , character is lost. Money and physical lifo uro tliu loss valuable but character is all. Tlio clerk becomes u thief by this fascination and ho steals from his em ployer. Ho goes from bad to worse. I know this to bo a fact , that the men who gamble go in droves to the homo of the lost woman Ono vice leads to another , till all that was good and put o Is lost. And you sco my | Xint now. The BOU ! itself is the prirolcss stuko that is put up and lost. to vou see the price the gambler pays ) The disposition to do honest work hard-earned or Inherited money physical lifo character the iuimor- tul soul. You usk for the euro. Lot our present law on this vice bo enforced and bo continued to bo enforced. "Ktornul vigilance U the price of liberty. " Lot us ull content ourselves with safe ways of making a living and choose enjoyments that have no sting. Let us make what wo huvo. "I'lui'k is a hern , and Luck Is a fool. " Let us stick to straight honest lines of business It us pruy for our ehurches with the tltliw wo ewe to God 'tis not a gift but u debt duo Him. And let. it not bo said of any of us who profess the name of Jesus , that wo taught ono soul this de stroying vico. Let no ono say , " 1 was Intro duced to a game ot ehnneo In your parlor and from Unit I went on and down till I lost mid ! . " "Khun the nioiiov , character HOU very uiHjuranco | | of evil. " Ask God for u pure heart. The Hey nt the Dime Mmcnm. Arkansas Traveler } A woman , on whoso face deep lines hnd tmcod the words "old without ngo , " walked nbont iu a dime museum leading a boy. "IIoo , wo ! " the boy exclaimed , "looV there. " "That's the fat woman. " "What made her so fat ? " "I don't know. " "Eating HO much ? " " 1 don't know , I toll you. " 'Will ' you over bo that tat ? " " 1 hope not. " "Why ? " "Because I don't want to be so fat. " "Does it hurt ? " 'No , I think not. " "Theiiwhy don't you want to bo so fat ? " "Because I couldn't got around. " "But you wouldn't have to got around. Papa could get a big t blo an' you could bet on it an " "Hush. " "Why ? " "If you don't hush I'll ttuto you out of hero. " "Do you hnvo to pay to go out ? " "No/ / " "But you had to pity to come in.didn't you ? " "Yes. " "Why don't you have to pay to go out ? " "H you don't " "Oh , look there ! What's that man doing ? " " . " "Spinning glass. "How spinning it ? " "I don't know. " "Then how do you know he's spinning it ? " "If you don't hush this very minute I'll spank you when I got homo. You trilling little rascal , you annoy mo al most to death. " After a short silence. "Ma , what's annoy ? " "Bolhor. " "What's bother ? " "Are you going to hush ? " turning fiercolv upon him. "Oh , what's that ? " "The Circassian lady. " "What's the matter with her hair ? " "Nothing , it's natural. " "How natural ? " "It was always that way. " "Whon she was n little tiency baby ? ' ' "Gracious alive , no. " "Then how could it be that way al ways ? " She took hold of his car. "Ouch , now ! " "Don't you cry here. If you do i'U whip you when wo get homo. " "Why mustn't I cry hero ? " "Everybody would laugh at you. " "Would the fat woman laugh ? " "Yos. " "Why ? " "Aro you going to hush ? " "Yossum. What are them mon doin ? " ' "Thoy are cowboys showing " "What's a cowboy ? " "A man that drives cattle on the plains. " "If he's a man , how can ho bo a boy ? " "Didn't I tell \on that I'd whip you if you didn't hush ? " "Ye.ssum. Are there any calf boys ? " "I think not. " "Little children would bo calf boyi , would'nt they ? " "I suppose HO. " "Am 1 a calf boy ? " "No. " "Why ? " "If you don't hush this very in in ute I'll wear you out. You shall never go anywhere with mo again , never , never so long as you live. " "I couldn't go utter I quit livin' could I ? " "No. " "I'll bo an angel then , won't I ? " "I suppose so. " "Will I look like a bird ? ' . "I don't know , " "Liko a chicken ? " "Merciful heavens , no ! " "What will 1 look like ? " ' 1 don't know. Now , hush. " "But I can lly , can't It" "Yes. " " ' ? " 'Way up high "Yes/1 "Won'tI fall ? " "No. " "I can ketch birds , can't I ? " "I don't know. " "But if I can lly fast I can , cau't I ? " "I suppose so. " "Will 1 go around and wrestle with people ? " ' What ! You trifling rascal , what do you mean , say ? " "Why , you read in the bible that Jacob wrestled with an angel. " "I'm goinj , ' to tell your father to whip you just us soon as we got homo. You'll see , sir mind if you don't. YOU prom ised to bo a good boy , but you have been meaner than you over were bo- fore. " ' Please don't toll him. " "Will you be good ? " "Yesjuui. " After a few moments * of silence. "Look at that man , got ou woman' * clothes. " "That's not a man. It'b the boarded lady. " "How boarded ? " "Got whiskers ? " "Will you have whiskor3'tf "No. " "Why ? " "I don't look hero , didn't you toll mo that you would bo good ? You give mo the horrors. " "What's the horrors ? " ' Come here to me. " She seized him , and , ixs she was hurrying from the houio n man addressed her , saying that the performance had begun down stairs. "Ma , what's the performance ? " She jerked him through the door and dragged him away. Aberdeen has been designated as tlio permanent headquarters of the terri torial Farmers' allianee. A largo ware house will bo built at that point. Sneezing Catarrh. 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