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TIIKUU is going to bo a good deal of
free and easy , imlopomletil voting in
the ulioicc of councilincn.
IT may bo well to rominil our people
that they inny look for bfjually weather
after a vreolv from to-iluy. Congress re
assembles oil the first Monday in Do-
coinbcr.
PAT Foitn boasts that ho is worth
forty thousand dollars. "Whon L'at
went into the council four yours ago ho
was not known to bo worth four hundred
dollars. How did he muko his money ?
GKNKKAL SIIKIUDAN'S memoirs have
just been simullnncoujjly issued in.Lon-
don anil Now York , and the people of
both England and America will bo eager
to learn the story of the civil war from
the lips of our greatest cavalry soldier.
IT is safe to any that at the primaries
none but mon of business , of character
and ability will Bland a chance of suc
cess in the ward. It is well that our
people have awalconod to the fact. The
city election will bo a taxpayer's and
business man's victory.
. MK. Sl AVKN's brothor-in-law , Lowry ,
choked oil the taxpayers' meeting in
the First ward with his street sweeping
gang. The question is whether the
taxpnying democrats of that ward will
relish that sort of treatment from their
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rep'-csontativo in the council.
CIIAULKY FANNING has made no se
cret of it that the contractors raised
eighteen hundred dollars two years ago
to give Pat Ford a second term. The
contractors don't invest eighteen hun
dred dollars in a councilman unless
they can get their money back with
compound interest.
NIKE cloan-handed men olcctod to
the council will suvo this city from
bankruptcy and will turn the rascals
out who are hi cahoots with contractors'
rings and combines. The taxpayers of
Omaha will find this an easy matter if
they attend their primaries and nomi
nate the right kind of mon.
ST. Louis is very much disappointed
over the result of the boot trust investi
gation hold in that city last week by
the senate committee. The testimony
elicited from slock shippers was in ef
fect that C lioago was a larger .market
and more favored by the railroads than
St. Louis. The local butohors gave in
ovidencu that they could not compete
witli ttie Chicago dressed beef packers.
Out of this St. Louis can extract very
little comfort. The testimony went to
show that St. Louis must take a secon
dary place as a cattle market.
Tun coal buroiis of the Monongahola
river district of Pennsylvania have no-
tilled their employes that they will shut
, down their mines for mi indefinite period -
riod after December 1. This moans the
enforced idleness of savoral thousand
minors and mon employed in shipping
the coal down the river. The reason
for putting a stop to iho mining opora-
' tlotis is the old plea of an overstocked
roul market and falling prices. In the
light of factstho oxeuso is ridiculous.
The consumer certainly has not profltod
by any such conditions. The truth of
the matter is , the coal barons have
simply agreed among themselves to
bcrow up the price of coal another notch
for their own profit by limiting the
supply. - . . - . - - . , . _ .
TIIK joint con volition of the cattleman
and butchers nt St. Louis has broken up
in a row. The question of state inspec
tion was tha rock on which the conven
tion split. The drcssod bout mon , the
commission merchants and the majority
of the cattle raisers united against the
butchers. The convention was in borne
respects a remarkable one. It was the
flfbt time that the dressed hoof industry
was squarely banded together against
the butchers , who demanded a rigid
state inspootlou of oattlu on the hoof.
. The buUwors were outnumbered and
withdraw , which practically brought
the conference to an end. The question
of state inspection of cuttlo Isono which
necessarily would bo oxpeusivo and
liable in the end to prove unsatisfactory.
A national inspection , on the other
hand , would bo a guaranty of good faith ,
Acceptable lu the markets at homo as
well as abroad. As botli the boot pack
ers and the butohors favor a national
iiibpcctloii , the dV D'jultios now existing
in the dressed boot industry ore likely
to b
It AMMO AD TACTICS Iff IOWA.
Mr. J. A. Phillips , of Dunlap , Iowa ,
takes exceptions to the declaration
mndc by Tun HKK that Mr. Peter A.
I > cy was elected railroad commissioner
through the combined inlluunco of the
railroads In Io\vn. \ Mr. Phillips says :
The people of Iowa , irrespective of party ,
nro satisfied with the present board of rail
road commissioners ; thousands of repub
lican * voted for Mr. ioy because they were
in favor of a non-partisan board , and to these
facts Mr. Doy owes hi * election.
When you stnto that the confederated rail
road managers pooled their forces to defeat
Mali I n , you slate only a part of the truth.
Their purpose was to defeat four of the re
publican candidates : Grander , candidate for
Juil c , and Smith , Campbell and Mnliin , for
rullrnutl commissioners , and of the four ,
Mahln. the only onb defeated , Is the cmuli-
dntc they would have preferred to elect , if
they could have secured even one.
Tills will do to toll the marines. Ev
erybody within ono hundred miles of
Omaha knows that the railroads did
not want to defeat Spencer Smith ,
whose printshop nt Council UlutTs Is
choked with railroad jobworlc , If the
railroads wcronot , backing Mr. Dey ,
how did ho overcome thirty-two thous
and majority ?
If Mr. Phillips had been as well in
formed about railroad methods as
wo are , ho would not have boon
taken in by the fulse pro ten so that the
people , regardless of party , voted for
Day because they wanted a nonpartisan
san board.
Hero in Nebraska wo have had a sim
ilar experience , only the railroads
failed in their conspiracy. Attorney
General Leebo was scratched by thou
sands of republicans nt the iiibtancc of
railroad managers , and if his compet
itor , Mr. Munger , had been elected ,
the railroad organs would have claimed
that Lecse was very unpopular and
Munger enjoyed popular confidence in
an eminent degree. The people of
Iowa are just beginning to learn what
the people of Nebraska tiave found out
by hard experience in their contests
with railroad politicians.
HKASOXS ron AN EXTRA session.
The question of an extra session of
the Fifty-first congress is receiving
wide attention among republicans.
Events at the coming session of con
gress may , however , render a spacial
session of the next congress less neces
sary than now seems probable. On the
presumption that the unexpected will
not happen , it will bo pertinent to refer
to the reasons which are urged in favor
of assembling the next congress BOOH
after the induction of the new adminis
tration.
Tlio most important reason is the de
mand for legislation to reduce the rev
enues of the government , which it is
universally felt should not wait for the
regular session of the next congress a
year hence. Nobody expects any com
pleted legislation on this subject at the
coming sossiou. Doubtless the senate
will pass its revenue measure as a sub
stitute for that of the house , but it is
not at nil likely that the house
will surrender its own measure.
It is very nearly a certainty ,
therefore , that there will bo no
change respecting this question at
the close of the present congress.
The country will have to face
the assurance of a steady accumulation of
surplus for ut least another year unless
an extra session is called to provide
legislation for reducing the revenues.
Another reason for an extra session is
the expediency of early legislation for
the admission to statehood of the terri
tories that are ready to bo mad'o states.
It has boon noted that democratic sen
timent regarding the admission of the
territories has shown indications of a
change , suggesting the possibility that
the obstructions hitherto presented by
the representatives ot that jarty )
in congress would bo with
drawn , or at all events that a
sufficient numlior of them would refuse
to continue the mistake of the past to
give success to the republican policy
regarding the territories. There is
ground for the hone tlmt this will bo
done , but it cannot bo regarded as cer
tain. The prospect of an extra session
with this question as ono of the chief
matters to bo considered might have a
wholesome influence upon democratic
bontimcnt , and this consideration has
induced the suggestion that the people
of the torr'tories ' shall make a united
movement in favor of an extra session.
It is urged , and the significance of
the proposition is in the fact that
it proceeds from the homo city
of the president-elect , that a joint con
vention of the representatives of all the
four torrilories might profitably bo held
ut an early day at some central point to
give uttottinco to the general voice on
the subject of admibsiou , and appoint a
joint delegation to represent all the ter
ritories in Washington this winter for
Iho purpose of advancing the Interests
of all the communities aspiring tostatn-
liood. If this should fail to accomplish
anything with the present congress the
inlluonco of such a delegation could bo
brought to boar upon the now adminis
tration in favor of an extra session of tlio
next congress , so that those territories
should not ho forced to wait another
year for the legislation necessary to
their admission. It Is cogently nrgued
that if n battle of patience and endur
ance is to bo fought over the now states
it may ns well begin next summer as
next winter.
Still another reason urged in favor of
an extra session is Iho certainty of an
unusual number of contests in the next
congress , which if loft to bo determined
at the regular session must consume a
largo amount of tlraa to the delay of
other urgent business that will press
upon the now congress. The house will
bo very close , and both parties will flglit
desperately to secure a safe control.
Kvory contest will consequently be gone
Into with the utmost thoroughness and
will necessarily occupy n great deal of
time and attention that must bo taken
from other matters. It is urged that in
the interest of the public welfare the
organization of the house should bo com
pleted and that/ body put into full work
ing order in odvunoa of the regular ses
sion , even if nothing more than this
could bo accomplished ,
The country generally has qulto
enough of congress in the regular way ,
and will not rognrd tha promise of an
extra fiosaiou with untnlxcd eratificaUou ,
but it must bo conceded that the chief
reasons urged in favor of an extra so.-
nlon possess great force. The question
is ono over which the next president
will have entire control , and ho may bo
depended upon to decide it with rcfer-
cnco to Ihe boat intorcsts of the nation.
A CAl'lTAJ.
The sttito capital question is already
n source ot agitation among the people
of Dakota , whoio oxporlcncc promises
to ho a repetition of that of the people of
nearly all the other territories following
their admission to statehood. The ad
mission of Dakota 113 ono state would
probably simplify the issue. , but in the
event of two states being carved out of
that territory , a very lively and inter
esting contoiition between the several
towns which aspire to be the scats of
government may l > 3 expected.
In North Dakota the rival cities for
capital honors tire Jamestown , Fargo ,
Ulsmnrck and Wnhpototi , with tlio first
three apparently pretty evenly divided
in popular favor. Jamestown is one of
the handsomest and most proparoU3
cities in the territory , but the centre of
wealth and population is Fargo , which
is also the most accsssiblc point in the
territory , Inn-ing railroads reaching
out in every direction. Ilor paoplo are
onterprwintr and liberal , and it is
thought will bo propurcd to offer very
generous inducements for the honor
mid advantage of b-jing undo the capi
tal city. Uismarck , the territorial cup-
itol , has claims , chief among which is
the fact that the public buildings and
lands donated by the people are valued
tit a quarter of a million dollar. ? , and
the argument against abandoning
this property and taxing the
people to erect public build
ings at some other paint will bo urged
with all the force that so considerable
a pecuniary consideration can give. At
present Bisiniirolc and Fargo appear to
stand host in popular favor.
In south Dakota there are half a dozen
cities that will outer the capital race ,
the most prominent of which are
Huron , Pierre and Mitchell , Huron
being the designated capital under the
present state constitution. In the event
of an irrepressible conflict between
those places , one of three othor.s might
win the prize Sioux Falls , Aberdeen
and Wutertown but nt present the
chanoos as indicated in the expressions
of popular preference appear to bo
largely in favor of Huron , which in lo
cation and other advantages presents
superior claims.
The question of statehood has never
been discussed by the puoplo of Dakota
with profounder interest than at pres
ent , for the obvious reason that they
now see their way clear to the early re
alization of along deferred hope , and all
matters incidental to the prime question
nro receiving more or less attention. It
being reasonably certain that the terri
tory will be divided the capital question
has become one of leading interest in
popular discussion.
JvA'OC-A'JiYG DOWN A STRAW MAX.
Putting up a straw man and then
knocking him down is a pastime which
valiant swashbucklers often resort to.
In its anxiety to antagonize TUB J3nn
about the city hall question , our atnia-
blo contemporary , the Jlcjntblicun , pur
posely misquoted this paper as regards
City Attorney Webster's views on the
legality of the ordinance which the
mayor lias just vetoed. The report , as
it appeared in Tun Bun , reads as fol
lows :
City Attorney Webster knew nothing of
the ordinance. Had never seen it. Was not
present at last night's council meeting.
Could give no opinion as to what the ordi
nance required. Ho was satisfied , however ,
upoa examining the city charter that ten
days' ' notice was sufficient. He thought the
question could be submitted , and if passed
would bo perfectly log.il.
Thereupon Mr. Webster is repre
sented by the Itepullicuii as declaring
positively that the bond proposition , as
embodied in the vetoed ordinance ,
is Valid. Having put up a straw
man by misquoting Mr. Web
ster , it knocks him down by
declaring that Mr. Webster must have
changed his opinion -within two days.
As a matter of fact , Webster had ex
pressly stated that ho could give no
opinion , as ho had never soon the or
dinance. . Had the ordinance simply
contained a proposition to submit the
question of relocation , ton days' notice
would have been ample. Hut the or
dinance coupled with the submission of
location a proposition to issue three
hundred thousand dollars in bonds.
That made it necessary to glvo twenty
days' published notice. Had the mayor
signed the ordinance the bonds voted
under it could not have boon legally is
sued. Capitalists who buy such bonds
are very particular about compliant
with every provision of the law. A
bond voted on a ton day's notice could
not bo dibposod of at any prico.
TIIK railroads of the country have no
hotter customers than the thousands of
commercial mon who patroni/.o the vari
ous lines the year around. They are
the vanguard of trade. Through their
exertions the store-keeper of the small
est town in the land is brought in di
rect commercial dealings with the inor-
ohantsof the great uities. It is thoru-
fore to the interest of the railroads to
encourage the growth of the drummer
syfctem by making low and uniform rates
and by giving commercial travelers
such facilities as will aid the extension
of trade. The onc-thousund-mllo ticket
was originally devised for that purpose.
But the development of business in the
last ton , years and the needs of the drum
mer now demand a-spoclal low rate
wilongo ticket , good on every -railroad.
A movement has been sot on foot for
issuing u universal flvo-thousand-mllo
ticket lor the especial use ot travel ing
men. The schema is heartily endorsed
by the commercial fraternity as well us
by the lending trunk lines of the coun
try. Tlio co-operation ot u majority of
the railroads , however , is necessary to
muko the project practicable , and it behooves -
hooves the commercial mon to use their
united influence to bring about the do-
Blrod result.
THK military authorities have pre
pared a don BUS of the Indian population
in Dakota. The total number , includ
ing the Sioux and olhor tribes , IB loss
than thirty thousand. The interior de
partment has for some time stood In
need of thi § fnfurination. During the
recent negotiations for the opening ol
the Sioux rijsorYation the commission
was somewhil iuindlcnppod for lack o
this knowledge. When the negotia
tions como 'up again the governmcn' '
will be the iiiorc able to arrive at some
equitable basis for opening the lands
and protecting the intorcsls of the In
uiati3.
BTAXK
rtr !
David City's- slicker factory is now rcaJy
to begin business ,
There is n great demand for more houses
In South Sioux City.
There nro 1OM head of cattle feeding at
the Clcarxvatcr yarJs.
"Is marriage 11 fiillural" will be debated by
the Columbus lyccum.
A joint stock company has been formed lo
erect it creamery ut Harvard.
The York county agricultural soclcly
cleared f.VJ by Us fair this year.
Hog cholera Is silll devastating many
drovesof swlno la Vork county.
There was only ono republican vote cast In
Lincoln township , Cummgcounty , at the late
election.
Thu Arlington roller mills nro now almost
completed ana will begin work on the llrsl of
December.
They are trying hard , but ara having
tough work forming a literary society nt
Dcadman , Dnwes county.
It Is said that an aRrecmcnt has been tnado
that Columbus' new postmaster will move
the ofllco to the north side.
The caio of .1. H. Ituuter , charged with the
inurdor of. Harry H. Hall is on trial before
the district court at Culbcrtson.
David Furbush , of Loup City , has voted
for sixteen presidential candidates and is
now eighty-one year * of ago. Can any ono
nhow n better record.
I3y an error TIIK HUE made J. T. Leo sn-
ponntondcnt of the Norfolk Insane asylum.
Mr , Leo is supervisor of the Institution and
Dr. 13. A. IColly is superintendent.
Johnnie Hnrinou Platts-
, a twelve-year-old -
mouth boy , climbed Into a tree that his
brother was cutting down and full with It to
Ihc ground , receiving fatal injuries.
Madison now has a reverend weather
prophet In the person of Parson Hicks. The
gentleman is said to be more successful in
bis predictions than Prophet Wiggins.
A number of McCook merchants mourn the
loss of L. M. Cross , who run the star
restaurant. Ho skipped bv the light of the
moon and hauled all li'm effects away at the
same time.
The Humphry Independent becoming "tired
and weary of the charge that the name of the
paper has been 'i false representation of Its
political views and principles , " has changed
its name to the Humphrey Republican.
.Tames M. Harrison , of Herman. Washing
ton county , a nephew of the president-elect ,
1ms a contest pending in tlio Neligh land of-
Ilce. The land involved is a valuable piece
of property in Washington county uud the
contestant and claimant are both juakiug im
provements on the property.
A workman on the standpipe of the
Stromsimrg waterworks had a narrow esc.ipe
from instant doiUh the other day. He wus
standing at the foot of the standpipe when n
piece ot iron , weighing sovcnly-live pounds
foil from the top of the structure , a distance
of sixty foot , ami lint missed him by a few
inches. The causA of the fall was the break
ing of a chain securing the iron. The piece
of metal , which is uboqt two feet In length ,
struck on end and was imbedded hall its
length in the earth ,
town.
A tow factory is. a now enterprise at Rock
Rnpida.
Riverside's uqvr pottery works are well un
der way.
The oj'1 sVito capital at DCS Moines will bo
sold Nuiberu'l ) .
A party of Hoonu hunters nt Spirit Lake
killed 110 ducks in two days' shooting.
Dr. Schrader has made his report regarding
ing- the diphtheria outbreak at Oxford Junc
tion. It was the impure water.
A Mahnska county farmer named Phillips
lays claim to an car of corn measuring four
teen and a half inches in leugth.
A little three-year-old child \Vatcrloo \
ventured out on the thin ice of the river ,
broke through and was drowned.
At Acklcy.aftor almost unheard of troubles
and trials in the well line , and reaching a
depth of 1,30(1 , ( feet , the hole is abandoned ,
and a new well commenced only twelve foot
from the old one.
The executive council appointed Miss Lucy
Curtis superintendent of schools at State
Center , to bo a member of the state educa
tional board of examiners in place of Mrs.
P. B. Durloy , wl.ojo time has expired.
The attorney general has ruled that under
the existing laws , any inmates of the Sol
diers' Home at Marshalltown who become in
sane and are transferred to the insane hos
pital nro to bo considered as residents of
Marshall county.
Last Thursday night about 11 o'clock , dur
ing the soveru thunder storm , Miss Scrog-
gio , of Earlville , was partly awakened by a
noise in her room. She raised up to listen
and was struck by some one standing near
her bed. The blow rendered her senseless
and before she recovered , the thief had es
caped , carrying with him her shopping bag
which contained only ahandkerchiot.
CUIIKUNT JNITISUATUUE.
POKMS OP Pi.RASi'nn , by Ella Wheeler \V11-
cox ; 13 mo , : published by Bel ford , Clark
& Co. , of Chicago , New York aud San
Francisco.
If any one believes that Ella Whoolcr
Wiluox is not a true poet , ho is mis
taken. She has all the qualities of
genuine poets , the knowledge of form ,
and the power to create original forms ,
the sense of music , both in rhythm and
rhyme , and above all the gift of what
the Greek critics called enargoiu , or the
faculty of making word pictures with
out verbiage. Nothing in fact so stumps
the real poet ns the quality of condensa
tion , and if a writer finds that ho can
fcny a thing either didactic or descrip
tive more tersely in prose than in poetry
he has within him a witness that ho is
not a poet. It Is for this- reason that
the highest critics admit Burns to
Parnassus and shut the door on Lord
Byron , in spite of his many partisans
and passionate adherents. Some people
ple suppose that Klla Wheeler Wilcox -
cox is an imitator of Swinburne ,
but this springs from the perception
that she has boon influenced by him to
spurn the reticence which Knglibh
pouts have observed on the topic of love.
Swinburne went back very unneces
sarily to pagan tjincs , in his horror of
prudery which ho attributed to Chris
tianity' instead of assigning it us ho
should have done to the dark view of
Christianity taken by the Puritans.
Hllu Wheeler Wilbox t\kes the sensible
ground that what God touches the birds
to do to bing of tlio happiness thoj find
in the ties ot lovp , cannot seemingly bo
forbidden to human beings that can
sing so much more dovinuly than any
nightingale of thum all. It is strange
thattiuy ono should take the oirposito
view , and yet accept the Song of Solo
mon us an Inspired production. Wo
cannot help thnrUing that a pootio par
aphrase of that idyl by Ella Wheeler
Wilcox would bo a most charming work ,
and would give the prurient prudes of
America something which they might
confaidorwlth grout profit to themselves.
The sombre shadow which Puritanism
throw over the Anjflo-Saxons and An-
L'lo-AniorieanB is no part of OhrUlian-
Ity , and the world owes much to every
bravo soul that lights his way out of it
Into God's blessed sunlight. Specially
commendable poems in this volume ure
"Throo in Ono , " "Dawn" and "Tho
Birth of the Opal. "
i'nn MATLUSOX Mrnoiiih 2 volume * , lui-
ixjrial octavo. Published by Uelfonl ,
Clurko & Co. , of Chicago , New York uud
San Francisco.
No man can gnugo tlio importance of
a man to himself until ho reveals It by ,
writing his memoirs. J. H. Maploson ,
called sportively and on carpet consid
erations Colonel Maploson , is a well
known manager of concert ami oporn ,
companies , and tlrst anil last has had
much to do with AdolinaPattl , the only
true soprano queen of song since Julin
Grisi died. Muplcson knows ovary ono ,
and every ono knows Maploson , and
therefore lila memoirs nro certain to bo
extensively read. Moreover they are
worth reading , for they reveal to the
uninitiated the sorrels of the world of
fipanglcs and velvet and tinsel. Occas
ionally there are men nnd women on
the musical stage who do honor to
human nntuno , but for the most part
singers , nnd moro especially Italian
singers , both men and women , nro ex
traordinary compounds of greediness.
Buporstition , bad faith , bad morn.ls , and
bad tempers , alloviatcd by touches of
compiisdion'ntciH'ss and generosity.
Mnploson records nil this nitilessly ,
but forgets that ho reveals to the roadur
that he , though an Englishman , is of
the same kidney. Ho recolvod the ed
ucation of a singer , nnd appeared upon
the boards ot Italian opera houses in
role" of some Importance. Either ho
possessed naturally the disposition of
the average oingor , or ho acquired it
professionally , but to tell the truth
there is not one ludicrous story about
any prominent singer as told by him
vliioh could not bo duplicated about
himself. One cannot help reading these
memoirs , though they go airninst the
moral sotiso , for ( hero is a heap of fun
in thorn. The two volumes tire hand
somely bound nnd the paper is good ,
but the types usi'd are old and and worn
out. Therefore the work reminds ono
not a little of the doughty colonel's lit
tle operatic monnncss. He must have
haggled to the last cent with Bulford
& Co. , a publishing house of excellent
repute , who would never have boon
puilty of the crime of using biich typo
if Maplcson had not beaten them down
beyond the limit of possible good work.
Hut Maploson did not care , lie know
that the world would read his gossip
and scandal with avidity , and it was to
him a matter of supreme indifference
whether his book was well or ill-
printed.
LITTI.B OXK'.S ' ANXUAI. . Stories and poems ,
profusely illustrated. Small quarto. Pub
lished by Kotos & Lauriut , Huston.
It would bo dink-nit to find a bettor
Christmas gift for a child than this
very volume , oi which ono may truth
fully say that the matter is as good as
the illustrations. The latter contain
many bits of beautiful engraving beyond
the appreciation of all but big little
ones , if the expression may bo per
mitted. Illustration for children is by
no means an easy matter , but , broadly
stated , these that are crudest impress
them most forcibly. They require
power with crudity , and weakness anil
poiiitlcssncss are fatal faults in child
books. Bertie's cornpoppor , on pages
" 4 and 25 , is an admirable instance of
illustrations that are crude , but very
powerful ut the sumo time , and
the publishers no doubt found out that
pictures in this style were what the
majority of children wished to havo.
They are pen and ink drawings repro
duced by the gelatine film process , and
are the handy work of some ono who
realized that he was drawing for child
ren. The beautiful wood engraving on
pageM _ , "Tableaux in the Nursery , " is
too fine , too delicate , top artistic for
children , but it must delight the papas
nnd manias and the grown up brothers
and sisters of the children , who have
been blessed with copies of this work.
The illustrations on pages 184 and 185
will charm all imaginative children ,
but will be cavairo to the commonplace
ones. This volumj is meant to bo Cath
olic obvioufely to delight all manner of
children , the grave , the gay , , the
thoughtful , the boisterous , the artistic ,
the matter-of-fact , and it does it thor
oughly.
Tun Pioi-u : ANU THE RAILWAYS ; 12 mo. ; by
Appleton Morgan ; published by Uelford.
Clark & Co. , of Chicago , New York nnd
San Francisco.
This is a defense of railroad thieves
by a lawyer. There is a class of legal
vermin that mukos a specialty of de
fending criminals. The murderer with
his hands smoking with the blood of his
victim sends for ono of these as soon us
ho has beer lodged in jail , and the law
yer in the defense of his client stoops
to everything and stops at nothing. Ho
bribes witnesses , ho brow-beats those
who cannot be bribed , ho insinuates
criminality against honest men , ho at
tempts to hoodwink the jury by appeal
ing to God to witness his own belief in
the spotless innocence of the man who
has privately confessed his guilt to him.
This abominable license of the legal
profession is the plague spot in the
national life. The public does
not know yet that there nro
men so base as to write books filled with
lies and with cobweb sophistries , and
suppose that there must bo a side to the
railroad question favorable to these
scoundrelly robbers or men would not
bo found disinterested men too save
Lho mark too argue upon their bide.
It is needless to analyze this volume ,
which is professedly an answer to the
work on the same subject written by
James F. Hudson , from the other stand
point. If people could bo induced to
[ cad this n iss of hiu poured forth with
such ainuzing elTrontory , the result
would bo an uprising of every voter in
, ho United States with n demand that
awvors should bo declared constitution
ally" incapable of holding any olllco ,
save a judicial one. This Is what wo
are coming to , and this is the inevitable
end of the abuse of a noble profession.
1'llK LOVKH AND OrilKIt PAl'liU.S B.V
Richard Stcolo , Reprinted in duodecimo
form at 30 cents , by L o & Snephord , pub
lishers , of Hoston.
The publishing hoiibo of Lee & Shop-
lord , of the Hub , nro Issuing a series
of volumes oaliod "Good Company , "
vhich includes standard works of every
igo , which have fallen into undcborvcd
loglcct. Men who know their British
essayists fairly well , and are perfectly
conversant with the Tutlor , the Specta
tor , nnd the Guardian , will learn with
iurpriso that Sir Richard Steele Honied ,
nadditiontc these , no less than nine
other periodical publications , The
Lover , Town Talk , Chit-Chal , The
1'hoatro , Tlio Englishman , The Render ,
i'ho Tea Table , The Plobotnn , and
The Drummer. None of these were
ong-livcd , nnd of Homo only a few
lumbers were published. The bobt
Kipors have boon selected from among
.hcso for the present volume , and the
coder will nnd thorn well worthy his
lorusal. Honestly , to mon of tlio pres-
iiit day thuso essays are us goou as
Ucelo's best in the Taller "inul Spoola-
or , but these periodicals hit the fancy
> f the town , and so obtained celebrity.
To us , all Ihal is attractive Is the style
of the writer , and we uro incapable of
tppruciating the fine points which inudo
thcso fcorips of essays popular when they
voro written , nnd relegated thorn to
ho tender mercies of the trunk maker.
The world of literature is under oblfga-
ions to Leo k Shepard for rescuing
ho latter from their long obscurity and
estoring them to the Ufa of polite
otters.
After a sleepless night ut.o Angostura
Bitters to tone up your sybtoin. Buy
only the genuine , manufactured by Dr.
Siegort & Sons.
'ALL A DELUSION AND A SNARE
The Rooont Move of the Rallronde
Toward Frolpht Reduction.
SUNDAY GUESTS AT THE CAPITAL
" " " " "
Patrick Kgan oil tlio Business Out <
, look of the Couniry Tlio
World's Secretary of the
Y. M. C. A.
UCUEAU opTrtnOwiiti Use , )
1029 P SriiKKT , V
LINCOLN' , Nov. " 3 )
There has been an opinion here for u
few days past that the railroads oper
ating in the elate would shortly innki1
freight reduction orders corresponding
somewhat with Iho Into order of tlm
state board of transportation. Tl\is ,
however , docs not sooin nt all certain ,
and the chances nro Unit the talk Hint
way has been for the ostensible purpose
ot keeping the board quiet until the
stale legislature convenes. It is again
staled ihutthc recent Burlington move
on its northwestern extension was
for the special purpose of further
quieting the board , so wording
the Kllpatrick conlract that worlt
on Ihu extension can bo suspended on
ton days' notice. This menus , it would
seem , that railroad building in the state
by the Burllnglon hinges upon Iho
uclion of Iho state board of transporta-
lion , rclalivo to the foreign rcduclion
order ; tlmt , in short , the road will con-
tlnuo to build and extend lines In Ne
braska , providing railroad corporations
are permitted to make their own freight
regulations and charges. For a species
of rank inlimidntion this lakes Iho
cako. But Attorney General Loose
proposes to call up the sleeping order tit
the regular mooting in December , and
another vote upon the reduction ques
tion will be spread upon Iho records.
II is also utalcd that the present board
of secretaries will bo continued until
next April , at least. They are still at
work on the annual report. Just when
it will bo finished no one seems to know
or care. Judge Mason still thinks that
freight rates ought to bo reduced , nnd
until recently Munger lias been thought
to hold a like opinion. Ager belongs to
the railroad brigade. It Is noticeable
that Munpor fails to go upon record ns
to tlio legality of the original order.
He dissentotl'to Mason's filed opinion ,
but took the matter under advisement.
It is possible , however , that ho is ready
to go upon record when the board next
meets In regular session.
LINCOLN'S SUNDAY OUESTS.
At the Capital T. E. Dawson and
wife , Chicago ; D. E. Kitridgo , Now
York : J. E. Minor , jr. , Chicago ; J. M.
Oliver , Now York ; K. Morlhis , Chicago
cage ; A. Christollo , Minneapolis ; E. D.
Webster , Slrullon ; .1. E. Miner , sr. , Chicago
cage ; William Patlorson , St. Louis ; W.
D. Bowers , Seward ; E. E. HillBeatrice ;
F. F. Osborn , AspenColo.T. ; J. Morgan ,
St. Joe ; II. M. Ives , Boston ; George
Bechel , Omaha ; William Bruno , Milwaukee
waukeo ; O. J. Johnson , St. Louis ; W
H. Wright , Bryan , O. ; James Gnskill
Montpelier , O. ; R. H. Hondershot am
J. C. llendershot , Ashland , Ore. ; Fraul
Linden , Chicago ; C. U. Elmo.Syracuse
C. K. Gettings , Wilbur ; D. A
Hurley. Omaha ; W. E. Baird , Crete
A. Andrews , Akron , Colo. ; C. G
Smyth. Gorrytown , Colo. ; 11. D. Vnlon
tine , Hustings ; C. M. Whitney , Har
vnrd ; P. S. Real , Graf ton ; M. A. Harti
gan , Hustings ; William LccseSoward
A. E. Yale , New York ; Alee Auschiiles
and wife , Ainsworth ; W. J. Barringer ,
Detroit ; Robert Tucker juid Stowari
Richards , York.
At the Windsor L. R. Rorebrook
Ottumwa , la. , R. K. Cooper , St. Joseph ;
Churlos Howard , Chicago ; Charles
Keith , St. Louis ; D. A. Forte , Chicago ;
John F. Quinn , Kansas City ; Henrv R.
Fay , Glen Rock. Wyo. ; B. Willis , Chicago
cage ; J. A. Rawlings. St. Louis ; J. P.
Minor , St. Paul ; C. A. Ilonovcr , Chicago
cage ; W. C. Goodwin , Bristol , Conn. ;
J. T. Phelps , Chicago ; F. B. Newell ,
Poona , 111. ; J. A. McMillin , Denton -
ton ; M. S. Van Evern , St.
Louis ; J. W. Buchanan , Chicago
cage ; M. Shuirman , Dos Moines ; Edwin
C. Hurt , Chicago ; John M. Pratt , Grand
Rapids. Mich. ; F. T. Staples , Chicago ;
S. M. Childs. Milwaukee ; II. A. Hollon ,
Denver ; S. M. Carroll , Chicago ; A. A.
Schutto. St. Louis ; W. H. Sloroy , Chicago
cage ; W. H. Dudley , Rochester ; J. G.
Goldsmith , Chicago ; R. Stindell , New
ark ; J. B. Cooley , St. Joe ; E. Baldwin ,
Chicago.
At Opelts C. F. McLnin , Omaha ;
E. S. Ellsworth , DCS Moines ; D. J.
Mitchell , Michigan City ; C. J. Temple-
ton , Chicago ; J. W. Sargeant , St. Jon ;
Ed. E. IlotVman , Crete ; C. A. Furgoson ,
Chicago ; M. J. Walrow , Council Blulls ;
Bon Bickett , Kearney ; J. B. Strode nnd
daughter , Kansas City ; R. D.Valentino ,
Omaha ; A. II. Gillham , St. Louis ; Ed.
Mosier , York ; J. O. Gorch , Quincy ; F.
D. Warigh , Peoria ; W. E. Phil
lips , Manhattan , Kan. ; E. B.
Hooker , Chicago ; Ed. Davis , Kan
sas City ; J. B. Hayes , Beatrice ;
John Wykoff , Chicago ; Thomas IIul-
burt , Now York ; Ed. H. Hockmun , St.
Louis ; U. F. Floyd , St. Louis ; W. M.
Gentry , Quincy ; W. S. Troxwell , St.
Joe ; Charles Corby , Chicago ; Gcorgo
Dovott , Atchison ; W. S. GoornbeJ ,
Janesvillo , Wis , ; II. C. Williams , St.
Joe ; J. A. Archibald , St. Louis ; J.
T. Burry , DoKulb , 111. ; W. A. Kauf
man , St. Joe ; Mrs. Louie Lord , Miss
Lydia Cook. Mrs. Myra Lowe , L. J. Carter -
tor , Harry Richards , E. M. Allen , Jack
Tucker , Harry C. Stanley , Chicago. '
KOAN OX TIIK I1USINKSS OUTLOOK.
"Well , Mr. Egun , what have you to
say about your extended visit to the
east , of general interest to the nubliu'r"
"Nothing in particular , but Now
Yorkers continue to wear their rees
ters. If there is anything in indica
tions the country is on the era of gen
eral prosporily , such as has not been ex
perienced for borne years. Businessmen
mon have confidence in the udminislra-
lion-olocl. Manufacturers are prepar
ing for more active work everywhere.
You will find a spontanoily of aclivily
lliat can not fall to produce good re-
flullBln every department of domestic
commerce. The producers will bo as
much honofiUud as any other class ,
C'ontldonco in monoycontros and circles
is Iho groundwork of property , and this
is unbounded. Yes , sir ; this can bo ut-
tributod to a republican success. "
"What opinions are expressed among
prominent politicians of Iho Hlato re
garding iho mako-up of Harrlbon'H oab-
inolV"
" It is pretty generally . thought thai
Sonalor Sherman will bo tendered tha
Q'tlon of secretary of btalo. Warner
or will undoubledly become aocro-
tary of the treasury. As to the rest of
the cabinet appointments there is con-
bidorublo doubt. .But the opinion is
general that the prcsldont-oloct will
maUo no mistake in surrounding him
self with his ohlof advisors. Harrison
Imu won the conlldonco of everybody
and a grout deal is expected of him. "
IJISTINOUISIIIU * OHKST8.
L. D. WUhard , Iho world's bcorolary
of the Y. M. C. A , , accompanied by his
wife , will vibit Lincoln on next Wednes
day. A reception will bo given at the
rooms of the nssooiallon on the evening
ul thai day. The programme arranged
for the occasion will 1 > o very Interest
ing. Mr. nnd Mrs. Wlshord will bo hero
during Thursday and Friday , and a pub
lic meeting1 will bo held during their
slay , M-hou the secretary will doltvor nn
address. The citizens of Lincoln will
doubtless give him n sntandid hearing.
From hero thcso distinguished pucati
will slart on Iholr journey for the
heathen lands , where they will rlovoto
their titno nnd talents to o'rganlzlng as
sociations ami uinoliorullng the condi
tion of the people with whom they cast
their lot. They will spend a borics of
years in foreign hinds.
tMTY NinVS AND NOTKS.
The Presbyterian and St. Paul's M.
E. churches hold their annual L , R.
and A. society meetings to-night.
Thcso meetings were unusually inter
esting. Besides claboratu reports ,
good music and addresses enlivened the
order of exercises.
R. II. DruckiMi , formerly of the flro
department , mot with a serious ncol-
donl nt the sUite house yesterday even
ing. Whllo there to draw his pay for
his week's work ho went up into the
dome , and when descending ho uuido a
misstep nnd fell about thirty foot ,
breaking his right lee between the
ankle and knco. Dr. Hart attended to
his injuries.
Mrs. Dr. Painter , Mrs. Bigolow anil
Mrs. Porkcy have boon elected dele
gates U > the woman's suffrage conven
tion , to be held at Omaha Deeombor 3.
The Lincoln suffragists are still of the
opinion that women have as much right
to sing bass as a man.
The bowels of the earth continue to
giviiup queer llmls at Hio Aittulupu
woll. Yesterday specimens ot the finny
Iriho were brought to the nurfaco and
Marshal Cooper has named thorn
celaciit spermaceti ! . lie is rocogni/.wl
authority on things fishy. The fish
specimens will cither bo presented to
the stale university or forwarded to the
Smithsonian institute.
The board of public lands and build
ings mot yesterday afternoon to Bottle '
with W. T. Scott , contractor of the [ I
building for the soldiers' and sailors'
homo at Grand Island , and it was
found that $5,1 ! 13 is still due him on the
conlract and for exit-as. It was also
found that $1,090.81 is duo on the heal
ing contract. A deficiency appropria
tion will bo asked of the logUlalure to
cover these bills.
Strand Richards is still at largo. It
now begins to loojc as though the break
for liberty last night would prove suc
cessful. As Mtatod by Tun BKK this
morning , he was on his was lo the scene
of a dastardly erimo ho undoubtedly
committed at York lust April , on the
person of Blanche Shooks ,
which uroubod great indignation
ut tha timo. Ho was cap
tured at Grccnvicw , 111. , whore ho was
sailing under the name ot C. E. Bur-
tcllo. Richards is certainly slick. By
good behavior during his journey from
Greenyiew to this place ho disarmed
suspicion nnd bided his timo. It cumo ,
and he is again a fugitive from justice ,
He is doberibed as about twenty
vours of age , live foot seven inches
high , weight 180 pounds , dark hair , cut
diort , eyes dark gray and dressed in a
alack cutaway suit. Deputy Sheriff
I'ruitt offers n reward of $ U- " > for his ro-
capluro.
Dainty ClirlHttnns Trifles.
New York World : Hero are some
pretty trilles which are being made by
women who cannot afford expensive
Christmas presents , but who can offer
some dainty bit of their own handiwork
ns thn mosl charming of gifls. A yachot
is made of white linen duck , pain ton
wiln heliotropes or violets ana 1111'od
with sachet powder of the pprfumo ol
the flower painted on the outside. It is
twelve inches long and eight wide ,
fringed at each end and tied around ono
end with n ribbon and bow of lilac rib
bon to match the painted flowers. A
very pretty little square sachet bhows
white satin ends and pink satin sides ,
over which is a square of boltincr cloth ,
hand-painted with daisies. The edges
are cut in small squares and gilded.
Across ono end' is tied a narrow pink
satin ribbon with a tiny bow , on which
is pain toil in gilt IctlerH , "Merry
Chrislmas. " Novel sachets for boxes of
letter paper are in cardboard tied up in
envelope form with tiny ribnons , ono
side hand-painted with llpwcrs'and the
other side uddressod with a palnlod
slamp and postmark. Anolhcr square :
sachet in duck is painted with clover
blossoms and with a bow of pink satin
ribbon in one corner.
Those who take Dr. Jones'Red Clovei
Tonic never have dyspepsia , costiveness -
ness , bad breath , piles , pimples , uguo
and malaria , poor uppolilo , low spirits ,
headache or kidney troubles. Price 60
cents. Goodman Drug Co.
Want lo 8iII n Ul lit to Tax.
This advertisement , published in aNew
Now York paper , was calculated to provoke -
voko curiosity :
Notice The municipality of the city of
Panama is now ready to receive tenders for
the leanoof the tax on circus and all o.invns
shows in the aforesaid city ior the period of
one yuar , commencing on the 1st of January ,
18S ! ) . The tax to bo collected , according to
law , is f 100. Colombian currency , for every
performance , as bus been hitherto , been
charged by Mr. Donnovun , of Now York , the
present lusseo. For information and partic
ulars on the subject apply to dor.mlo Lewis ,
Gllsey House , cornoy Broadway and 29lh
btreut , Now York City.
Senor Lewis , who is a member of the
municipality of Panama , explained it to
n reporter. Hefotoforo Foster it Don
novun , who uro proprietors of u eircuH ,
lonhod fur M,6UOyearly the right of tax
ing all circus nnd canvas shows not only
[ n the city of Panama but in the towns
along the canal. This year the munlci-
[ mlily of Panama concluded thai the
right ought to oo worth at least $ lf > OU
for the city alone , Fohtor & Doiiiinvan
refused to pay that Humbut leased from
the profuct of tlio province the right to
exhibit their own oircns nnd tax all
ntlior tent shows in the towns along the
: annl , Consequently the municipality
csolvcd to find a Icssoo olhowhoro for
.ho Panama city privilege.
Constitutional Catarrh ,
Ko elnglu dlucaiio lia.i cntnllcd more unircrlnf !
orhnstunid the breaking up or thotouitltnllou
than Caliiirh. The Henna of i.mell , of taste , of
nljht , ot hcarlnc , the huiniin voice , 11m mind ,
niu or more , niiutioiiKitliiieH nil , yluld to lUidu-
Htructiva Inllurnco. Tim polNnn It distribute *
hn.uguoul tlwHyatoiniiUu. . t. > , every vital fence ,
Hid bri'HK8 up thu most robuitof roiigtltutloiis
wnori-cl , bocaiisu but llllJe umli-ratuod , by moat
ilirMclniiH , Impoti'iitly uvtuilud by ( IIIUCKH niul
JiurlittuiiH , thu e biitfeiliiK Horn it fmve Illlla
lopu to bu rullovccl of U tills alOe of the cruvo.
t Is lime , then , tlmt the populnr truutniciit of
his tvrrlblu rilscuho by rumtxllos wltlilu tlio
euch otiill panted ImohanilHiituncocoinpetont
MM ! tniBtwoithv. 'Iho new mid hitherto untried
notliod mtoptfUby Dr. Kuliford In tlio prupura-
Ion of his lUDH'Al , UIFIIR lui won thu hearty
ipnrovaldf thousands , It IN InititntnnoouH In
illordliiRroliuf In till head coldK.HiiuezuiK. Hiillf-
llnuniiil obstructed brvathltii ; , unil nipldiy re-
novel tlimiioiit oppressive uymptoms , cltarlnu'
hs head , KivoftcnhiK tlm drouth , restoring tlio
rnte * of smi'lUiistu and ncnrine.anil injutrnll/-
UK tha conitlltiltlonal t iidnncy of thu dtaeauti
ownnlK thu lutign , llvtir nnd Uinloyn.
SAHrOIIIl'H ItAIHUAIi UllltK COllwUtH Of OIKI
Kittle of tlm lUDKMb CUIIE , ( Jiio box of ( U >
Aiuiiixi , HOI.VKNT , and luruuvtu Itf-
MLKit ; price , II.
1'orjEii Ilium &OniMiOAi ! < Co. , llogTOif.
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