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Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-07
Miseries of Women Workers.

Nell Nelson, who exposed the miseries of
women workers in the wholesale furnishing
houses of Chicago, has been engaged by the
New York World, and her first article upon
the metropolitan s,op shops appeared almost
simultaneously with the publication Of her
Chicago experiences in book form. This
lady is doing excellent work, and every
honest man will wish more power TO her pen.
Something must be wrong in the system
which is repeating in a christian land, and
IN free America the horrors of effete Rome
in the age of Aurellan. But no one need
lose faith in America for all that. Every
civilization which has ever existed upon this
earth has persisted from vices inherent in its
system, and there can be no more hopeful
sign than the appearance Of our inherent de-
fects at time when we possess the strength
and elasticity of youth and can conquer
them. Our conquest over slavery has made
other victories the easier, for those who OPP
pose reform can figure accurately now the
strength which lies in popular detestation
of wrong, and the power of the people 10 put
that detestation into practical legislation. 1t
is possible that there may be disagreement
among reformers as TO the cause OF the state
of things which Nell Nelson has pointed out,
and this would lead TO differences as to the
necessary remedy. For our part we
believe that the root of the evil lies in two
things - the practical divorce between those
who maze and those who sell ia the first
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-07

ferred to the state central mmitt aud
they decided on Monday in favor of c. r..
Keckley, whom the Signal cheerfully en-
dorses. Z"
The Weeping Water Republican says:
''The democrats in their nomination of j.
Sterling Morton for congress, could not have
named a man whom i would be so easy to
defeat. His CONNECTION with the b. s. NJ.
railroad will take eyery laboring mans
vote away from hinA while his free trade
Cobdon club ideas Will drive the reading
democrats to vote for the other candidate"
The legislative campaign in Adams county
wakes decidedly warm, but the Hastings Ne
braskan remarks: stripped Of all side is
sues and local questions, only raised to con-
fuse the voter, the issue is plainly before the
people of Adams county whether they shall
send democrats or republicans to represent
them in the state legislature. The prohibit
ton and union labor candidates cannot
muster enough votes to secure election. The
election of either the republican or demo-
cratic candidates is inevitable and the in
telligent voter IN such an emergency must
decide which he prefers"
The Madison Reporter sums up the Laws
matter as follows: secretary Laws, in
order to make sure of his nomination, voted
last July, with Attorney General Leese and
Treasurer Willard for the reduction Of rail-
road rates on all the roads in the state; and
laNer, when he as one of the state board,
voted to allow the different roads more time
to present evidence, the people
thought he was an honest man
yet, and that he would be fair
between the roads and the people when the
time anne, little dreaming that he meant TO
betray them as soon as he received the nomi.
ton at their hands, No man Of this stripe
should be allowed to hold an Office who will
not recognize the people who send him forth
to deal justly by all, and falter by the way.
side for his own individual benefit. Party
lines must be laid aside long enough to rout
out these tools in politics. Laws has nc
right to expect the support of the party that
nominated him after he has betrayed it, and
shown to everybody that he is a dishones,
tool, or not competent to fill the place he
seeks at the hands Of the republican party
of Nebraska"
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-07
APPROPRIATION DOCTORS.
Will the Oman Medical College Go
to tho University?

In the Lincoln column of yesterdays
BEE Will be found a reference to the attempt
to revive the medical department Of the state
university at Lincoln. 1t states that DR..
Moore, of this city, who is a mi Of the
faculty of the Omaha Medical college, made
a proposition to the regents of the university
that if a certain appropriation could BIO SO.
cured to sustain the college as a department
Of the state university, the Omaha college
would be disbanded in its favor and
the faculty would give every possi-
BILE aid for its success and perpetuity.
1t is stated that DIR. Moore has represented
that the college has outgrown It's present
quarters and that a liberal application to
pockets must be made to erect q new college.
1t is also reported that the college here will
live until the proposed change is made.
The announcement has caused some sur
prise to the average citizen, but not to a
class of physicians who have long been idcn-
titled with the late medical department of
the state university. One Of these was seen
to-day, and gave n history of the move. AT
the request of the regents of the university,a
numbcr Of physicians of the state volunteered
their services to establish Il medical depart.
mcnt of that institution. The latter were
told that there was no money to pay them,
but that when the next Legislature met, an APP
preparation would be secured for the conduct
of the place. The doctors worked two years.
The session of the legislature came and
went, and no appropriation was made, 1t
was claimed that the Omaha Medical college
was represented by il lobby which killed tho
appropriation. Two more years passed: an
other legislature met. No appropriation, cx-
Cept in a general way for the support of tho
university, was made, and from this the re-
gents were to extract as much as
they thought advisable to reimburse
for past services and pay for
the future work of the faculty. Only u NOM
inal sum was suggested. The faculty were
dissatisfied. They refused to act, and early
in the summer of the present year the medi-
cal department closed. Now said one Of
the faculty, "these people want TO so in with
the university when before they did all they
could to kill its medical department. We
won't do anything about it, however. There
were nine of us in the university. We gave
four years of time and experience for moth
ing, lost money and had about fifty pupils.
The college here last year had twenty four
students. II is paying expenscs-that IL
about all 1t is doing. The professors haven't
been able to get anything. ~
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-07
IMPLEMENTS DESTROYED.
A Disastrous Fire at an Early Hour
Saturday Morning.

A destructive fire occurred about 4 O'clock
Saturday morning at the corner of Eighth
street and Capitol avenue, near the Union
Pacific shops, in which about 5000 worth
of property went up in smoke.
There were two frame buildings consumed,
both of which were formerly occupied by the
barb wire company. OF late the one on the
corner was used by the Omaha Coal. Coke
and Lime company as a storage house for
lime and cement, and the other was
used as an agricultural implement
warehouse by William Deerlng 81
Co. There was in IL "A large guam
tlty of reapcrs and mowers, slcighs aud val
liable household goods. To day it had been
intended to put in about S?,00) worth Of lum-
Der. The loss is over 81 ,0tO and is but par
TALLY covered by insurance, having a policy
with the New York Insurance company for
e., 600. The loss OF the Coal, Coke and Llmo
company is less than S2,O0O and is also par
TALLY covered with insurance.
The cause of the fire is unknown, but it Is
supposed that it was caused by II spark from
a passing locomotive or was set on fire by
tramps aud newsboys, who, it is stated, have
been making their rendezvous under tho
building, The structures were old and
the fire spread so rapidly that
by the time the fire department reached tho
scene 1t was too late to save anything and
both buildings and nearly the entire contents
were consumed.
remained TO watch the ruins 10 see that
nothing was taken away, nevertheless somo
siiverware and chinaware which had been
stored there were stolen.
Deering ~ Co. will erect q fine brick warc-
house on this spot next spring,
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-07
WE do not propose to impugn the mo.

WE do not propose to impugn the mo-
tives which actuate the chairman of the
republican county central committee in
holding back the call for a meeting of
the committee to fix the date of the
coming county convention. We do,
however, consider it imprudent for the
party to delay its nominations unreas-
Onably. AT least ten days notice should
be given of the primaries and conven-
ton, and two weeks is not too long for a
county campaign which involves the
election of twelve members of the legis-
lature. Owing to the submission plank
the advantage in this campaign is with
the democrats of Douglas county.
The odds against the republican ticket
by reason of local defcctions must be
made up in a ticket of the very best
material at the party's disposal, and the
candidates must have time to make a
personal canvass that will rally to their
support elements that are disposed to be
hostile and perfect an organization that
will bring out the voters on election
day.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-07

THERE appears to be considerable
mystery connected with the railroad
that is pushing its way through Wiscon-
sin, Minnesota and Iowa to Omaha.
The question is, who are its hackers?
1t Is known as the Winona & South
western and is said TO be a link in the
Delaware q L~ackawana system. But
there are knowing ones who claim that
it is being backed by a no less powerful
syndicate than the Canadian Pacific.
1t is we'll known that the Canadian Pa
cifc has recently undertaken several
projects of magnitude. There may be
some color therefore to the report, since
that railroad has obtained n strong foot
hold in Wisconsin and Minnesota and
is pushing out feeders in various direc-
tiOns.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-07
Autumn.
october Table TAU.

''N' h'''t s'Nfs
October haze o'crhangs the willing Earth,
And nature in her garb of gaudy tints
Bares her fair brow TO catch the fan of Au-
tumn.
O bCuntcous Autumn Surely thou art she
Whom Earth should meet with kisses.
Eagerly
She Graves the fruits that load thy mcllowing
lap
The fresh, crisp mornings, and tn all-tem-
pered days
Now pregnant with thy vigor-giying breath;
Twill brace her for the time 1T comes apace-
When melancholy winds, through wood and
grove,
Fetch their deep signs, and moan, and fret
thy leaves
To fail, and dance and whirl like giddy
maskcrs
In the ball room maze,
lis called the sobbing time Of year, and then,
Scar Earth, stripped for her shroud, oil
lifeless lies,
And trees with widowed branchlets web
the skies.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-07

Carp" Under the agreement
made with THE BEE and sew
eral OF the great American
dailies, Mr.. Carpenter will traverse
and write up sections Of the Orient not
usually visited by the average globe
trotter." and the results are the eXclu-
sive property of the journals inter-
ested. Mr.. Carpenters first letters will
be from Japan, thence he will journey
to China, drifting from the Flowery
Kingdom through the islands of the
western Pacific to Siam, and thence by
way of the Straights Of Malacca and
Ceylon to India. From India he will
go to Palestine and Turkey, and thence
to Egypt and the palace of the
khedive. Dispute the Russian rage
against American newspaper COR
respondents due to George Ken
mans articles on Siberia, Carp"
proposes to traverse the Caucasus and
southern Russia visiting the domains
OF the car and Greece. This is a nota-
BILE programme and promises the collec-
ton Of fund of interesting information
lIOui ouu-ol-Wuy pluOto NhlSi / plo'o
of great novelty and interest. That the
letters will be more than readable goes
without saying. No journalist of the
day writes more ~piquant and charming
gossip than Carp" He has an eye for
novel situations, a nose for news and a
pen which mterprets as truly as a pho
tographer's camera. The readers oil
M, L ,,,. ,,,, l., ,,,,-1 ,l,t =, r1.r, ,
treat is in store for them during the
coming year from Mr.. Carpenters ver-
satile pen, and they will no doubt await
his successive letters with all the impa.
patience of a reader interested in a
| novel which is "to be continued in oui
next"
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-07

The installation of Melville w. Fuller
as chief justice OF the supreme court of
the United States will take place to-
morrow. 1t will be the eighth event of
the kind in the history of the govern
ment, and though usually attended with
only the simplest ceremonies, its relative
Importance is not thereby diminished,
for the induction into office of the chief
justice Of the greatest judicial tribunal
on earth is a matter only less serious
and significant han the inauguration of
apresidentof the republic. When Chief
Justice Chase was inauguratcd the cere-
mony was extended somewhat beyond the
practice that had before been observed,
and it is understood that n similar cere-
mony will be gone through with in the
case of Chief Justice Fuller. The law
requires the chief justice to take two
oaths, the first being the one which all
officials under the government, except
the president, must take, and which de-
clares past loyalty and future faith and
allegiance to the government. The
other is the oath originally prescribed
anu Iuhcu ny All Jic Culcl JuSlltcS anu
associate justices since the foundation
of the government, and is a pledge tt
administer justice impartially and
faithfully discharge the duties
of the Office. This oath il
taken in open court, while the custom
has been to administer the first in the
robing room with only the associate
justices present.
When Chief Justice Fuller takes hi
place on the supreme bench the politi
cal division of that tribunal will be 81,
republicans and three democrats. The
precarious health of Justice Matthew
has created an apprehension that tn,
time is not remote when his place viii
have to be filed, while it is highl,
probable that two or three of the othe.
justices will retire within the next fou
years, as it will be their privilege to do
1t Is quite possible, therefore, that ther,
will be a change in the political division
of the supreme court within the mex
two or three years, and this possibilit.
has some Significance in connection
with the que stion of who is to be tn
next president.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-07

SINCE electricity has been substituted
for han ging in the execution Of crimi-
mails condemned to death in the state of
New York, several scientists have come
forward to advocate tho old system Of
capital punishment. Among these DR..
Richardson and DR.. Hammond, well
known in their profession, claim that
there is danger that the criminal will
not be killed by the electric shock.
They are answered, however, by sew
eral French and English scientists who
have made a careful study of the SUBJ
ject. Death is not only instantaneous,
but the electric shock, when rightly
directed, would kill any living object
il the tension of the induced current was
made sufficiently strong. There can be no
question that the substitution of cleo
tricity for hanging is to be desired.
Hanging is brutal and a survival Of a
barbarous custom. Execution by cleo
tricity is not only humane, but in keep
ing with the progress of the age. There
can be but little doubt that every state
In the union will follow the example OF
New York by putting the gallows tree
in the chamber OF horrors and adopting
electricity as the agent for inhicting
capital punishment.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-07
The Penalties Of Truth.

COWnnfrcbH Aupt'tlStT.
"Here are these confounded newspapers
telling the truth again." Is a complaint which
statesmen have been often called upon to
make. Bismarck is now reiterating it against
the editors of the Rundschau for their publ
cation of extracts from the late Emperor
Frederick's diary, which extracts, though
Bismarck at first said that they were gar
bled, are now, by, the National Gazette,
which has had them compared with the orig
inal, said to agree with it, word for word.
The conductors of the National Gazette will
now have to answer to the prince for this
assertion, and likely enough they will soon
find themselves in ias1L Professor Geffcken,
who is charged with furnishing the Rund-
schau with the extrafts from the diary, has
been arrested and is on the high road to
prison. Behold how good a thing it is to tell
the truth under despotisml
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-07

comparison. Cotton, rice and sugar
are left so far behind as 10 be almost
out OF sight in the race. Few people ia this
part of the country have any idea how COM
pletely they are dependent for many of the
necessaries and comforts of life on the
mighty corn fields that lie in the valley of
Mississippi Every pound Of beef, pork or NUT
ton that is brought into Faneuil Hall market
from the Chicago packing house has been
fattened on Indian corn. Few OF us could
have our Christmas and Thanksgiving turkey
if the ears Of yellow maize were blasted.
The carriage horses aud the street car horses
are strong because they are fed on this most
nutritious OF grains. Directly or indirectly
a great share of all the industries and Of all
the material ~enioyments of the American
people have their basis in maize.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-07
Bob Won't Like 1t.

A Philadelphia court has taken a stand on
the intidel question which will certainly
arouse the wrath Of Robert Ingersoll and all
the more because its constitutlonality may
be called into controversy y Hungarian
applied for his final papers of naturalization
When asked to take the oath he stated that
he neither swore nor affirmed, and further
that he did not believe in any kind of petty.
The judge then refused to proceed with the
ceremony, upon the ground that if he did not
take the oath of allegiance he could not OBJ
tain his papers, and he added to this decision
the unkind cut that there were too many in
tidels in this country already.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-07
The Cold Truth.
Minneapolis Tribune.

The high license law has closed a thousand
saloons in Minnesota. A vote for the third
party prohibition candidate is a vote to open
not only that thousand but several thousand
more, simply to allow some impracticable
people to try to close them a different way,
They would probably succeed in a great
many of the smaller towns, but for every
saloon closed in the country there would be
two opened in the cities and larger towns of
the state. The best way to go forward is
not to take two steps backward but to hold
the ground already won and fight for more to
add to it. Regular and steady progress to
the total abolition of the saloon lies through
the intermediate means of high license and
1pcal nptinn
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-07
Send Us a Sample.
Denrer Republican,.

DtIITtT IItUUDTICTV.
In the Omaha BEE of last Sunday the fol
lowing appears as an editorial paragraph
perhaps it it is necessary to whisper in the
ears of the board of education that a little
less attention to base bail and a little more
regard toward warming school rooms Is the
proper thing for thiss season Of the year"
What a contrast this is to the condition of
educational matters in Denver. Denver has,
with one exception, the largest high school
building IN the United States, and the school
boards are alive and wide-awake to the in
terests of public instruction.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-07
Theodore Thomas Retircs.

Theodore Thomas is going out of the con-
cert field. This will awaken regret in the
minds Of all lovers of music, but it is incvi-
table, for he has been for the past three
years a target for constant abuse of the most
vonemous character from musicians, and he
has not received compensating support from
the general public to a corresponding degree.
The plain fact is that Americans like music,
from the domestic piano p!aying standpoint,
and are not enthusiastic over classic har-
monies. The experiment has been tried so
often that the fact is notorious. Theodore
Thomas himself has been the hero of count
less musical enterprises which were remun-
erative so long as they were fashionable,
and which ceased to be fashionable when
the gloss of novelty had worn off. We are
what we are, ana cannot be made otherwise
by the most eloquent lamentations of the
music, minded.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-07
CURRENT TOPICS.
A Hubbub at the Hub.

In Boston the election OF a president has
become a matter of secondary consideration
The burning question in the Hub is con
nected with the administration Of the public
schools. A reader compiled BY the well
known John Swinton was objected to, and
the objection was subsequently sustained, be
cause it contained a foot-note intimating
somewhat ambiguously that the Catholic
priesthood sold indulgences which were not
only pardons for the SINS which had been COM
mitted, but a virtual absolution for sins yet
to be done. The fact that the objection was
sustained aroused a very bitter feeling among
the Protestant women of Boston, and as they
can vote upon school questions numbers de-
termincd to register and elect a school board
that should be distinctly Protestant. When
a knowledge Of this increased registration
came to the ears of the Catholic women of
the Hub, they immediately proceeded to
register also, and up to date %, l49 women
nave registered with an estimated Protest
ant majority of 900. Now this will puzzle
the western mind, for in Nebraska the fair
city of Boston has always been considered
transccndentally liberal, and this whole busl.
ness sayors of bigotry.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-07
Electric Execution.

On and after the first day of January,
1889. throughout the great state of New
York all criminals condemned to the death
penalty are to be executed by electricity.
This certainly is not progress, though il
masks under that name, and it is questiona-
BILE whether the legislature, in making this
law, was not actuated by a morbid curiosity
to know how the new-fangled system would
work. There will certainly come a reac ton
against electricity, which has shown itself
to be a dangerous agent, hard to control, and
presenting many undesirable features. 1t
probably will be retained in some forms, but
it's use as a universal factor of force is ut
terly chimerical, for it is only cheap under
certain conditions, and it can never be made
perfectly innocuous, even TO the operatives
who constantly handle the wires.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-07
Corn Is King.

In the old ante-bellum days the sturdy
farmers of the northwest were wont to an
swer the vainglorious boast of the south,
Cotton is king" by saying "No! Corn is
king" Whoever studies the relation of
which maize stands to American economics
will be strongly impressed with a sense of
the k~inglyness of his subject. Not far from
2,OOO, 0OO, 900 bushels of this product are
raised annually in the United States. No
other product approaches this in
value. Rye. oats, barley and even
wheat. are Insignificant items. by
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-07
Langtry's Hat.

There are some women who can be con-
soled by a hat for the loss of a husband, and,
perhaps, Mrs. Langtry is one Of them. AT
least, it is to be hoped so, for the sake of her
public performances, which are really excel
lent. Yesterdays %telegraphic letter from
Paris to The BEE informs us that
Madame Augusta has created for the Lily a
new type of hat, not, the reader will observe,
a new combination of existing types, but an
actual creation. The feminine mind will at
once be on thorns of expectation to know
what sort Of thing this new creation is, but
this will never be known until the footlights
reveal it on her opening night. The question
arises, whether the art Of the costumer is not
becoming somewhat too prominent in things
theatrical, for it must be remembered that
the infection has spread from actresses to &C
tors, and Kyrle Bellew has obtained from
Worth a series of costumes for Romeo that
will, by their poetry of conception and splcu-
dor Of color, utterly eclipse any interest the
public might be supposed to feel in the lines
Of Shakespeare.