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Omaha daily bee., 1888-07-24
From "The Ancient Roman"

Washington Critic.
In the Roman Forum:
Groverius: Where is Thurmano! Where is
the Ancient Roman?
Thurmano: ] am here Groverius.
Groverius. What do the augurics portend,
Thurmanoi
Thurmano' Much good. Groverius. But by
the yellow Theirs food the people call for
more bandanas.
Observation-Disclosures: Pull down your
toga, Thurmano. This wilt be no bandana
campaign.
Thurmano-astonished BY all the gods,
Groverius, art thou mad'
Groverius: No, good Thurmano, but |
would have you understand that l shall con-
duct this campaign on principles of political
economy for the benefit of the republic.
Thurmano excitedly: How now! How
now, Grovcriusl
Groverius-calmly: AS | remarked be-
fore, Thurmano, pull down your toga. Am |
running this thing or are youi Is it ban
danas or principles!
Thurmano-mOdestly: Groverius, it is not
for me to say. | will hence to the Sybils, and
leave your question there. They'll tell US by
November's Ides. Adleu, Groverius.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-07-24

convention would be to secure such con-
cert of action between the cattle
~raisers, the butchers and the retailers
throughout the country as would cfrec-
tually prevent the operations of any
rings, and it is thought would correct
many of the abuses now said to prevail.
1t is claimed by those who are urging
this movement that at the present time
cattle raising is not paying satisfactory
interest on the money invested in the
business. Statistics show that there is
no Ovcrproduction of cattle in
the United States, and there are
less cattle to-day per head of population
in the country than there were at n time
when cattle values were one-third
higher thar they are now and the bust
ness was prosperous. Consumers are
buying, on an average throughout the
United States, as much as they did
when cattle values were high. Yet
producers claim that they are not get
ting an adequate return on their capi-
tai, and if the industry is not to dcterio-
rate IL radical reform in the method
OF doing business is necessary. To
effect this would he the prime object of
the proposed national convention.
Interest in this matter reaches
everybody, and if there is really u
formidable combination or ring
which has been plundering both
the producers and consumers, as al
legged, besides practicing other abuses
against the general welfare, its eX-
posture and overthrow cannot come too
soon. The senate committee has the
most ample latitude for prosecuting an
investigation, and will doubtless go TO
the bottom of the matter. Meanwhile,
regarding the matter solely from the
side of the consumers, it is by no mean
assured that combination of producers,
butchers and retailers would be more
favorable to them than is the ring
| which is now said to exist, and to which
all the alleged abuses in the cattle trade
arc charged.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-07-24

in Canada are so great that Canadian farm
ers' wagons would certainly occupy the
stands around the Buffalo markets without
hindrance on all market days, If it were not
for the protective influence Of the
present tariff. The Erie county people
realize that the Mills bill, while giving the
Canadians so many advantages. does not SCI
cure TO the residents OF the UnitCd States
any return whatever for the concessions
made. II is not u reciprocal measure by any
means, but is purely n one-sidcd device for
the detrimcnt of the agriculturalists on the
American side of the border. This statement
is so easily verified that the least posted men
in political cconOiav readily realize the wis
dom of the republican party in opposing the
Mills bill. Hence protection has u wider fol-
lowing in Mr.. Clevcland's own county to-day
than IL ever had before, and he himself is re
sponsible for it.
With all these obstacles to meet Cleveland
is not likely to find himself as we'll supported
in this section of the empire state ms he was
III lSNl, and even the most sauguine demo
Gratis admit that the outlook is not At all
bright. On the other hand, | have found
many conservative men who have always
voted at the party's call who do not hesitate
to say that in their judgment the vote against
them will show a majority of at least thirty
five hundred and possible five thousand for
Harrison and Morton, and protection to
American industries, in the county of Erie,
which once gave Grover Cleveland a major
ity of 1000 when he was a candidate for gov
pInDr
Omaha daily bee., 1888-07-24
Dissention and Disaster.

Another game OF snap-judgment on
the rank and file. of the republicans of
Douglas county has been played by the
county committee, which cannot fail to
provoke discord and lead to disaster. 1t
was bad enough for the state committee
to have departed from all former usage
in fixing the date of the state V
tion in the middle of the dog days, and
openly playing into the hands of the
political managers Of the railway COR
porations, who intend to dictate the
state and legislative nominations.
But the county committee has done
even worse. The tuctics OF last spring
whereby the country precincts were
disfranchiscd through the snap judy
mcnt call which gave no chance for pub
Lefty outside Of this city were offensive
enough. Why attempt the same tactics
now What object could the commit
tee have in setting the date Of the
primaries twenty days before the state
conventions? What object have they in
selecting the delegates for the congress
sional convention on the ith Of August
when the convention does not
take place until the Goth Of Sep
tcmber? Why did they not give
the voters ample time to canvass the
pending issues and discuss the candi-
dates hat are asking for their sutfrages.
On the face of it, the action Of the
county committee looks like a job pu
up by factional schcmers who want to
pack the convention and repeat the dis
graceful dummy-farce Of last spring,
when Charley Greene was given leave
TO make up a delegation for himself
after the convention had adjourned,
and carried his dummies to Ashland
h~and-cufTed, tagged and gagged, to be
bartered and traded away to the best
bidder.
What may we expect if the same
high-handcd and uurepublican job is
repeated? Are the republicans of the
metropolis of Nebraska likely to submit
to such palpable prostitution of the
party machinery without resentment
and vigorous protest? And if their pro-
tests remain UNDECIDED, are they not
certain to express their dissent through
the bollot box next fall in a manner
which must be disastrous to local candi-
dates and may even jeopardize the o n
%gressionai ticket.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-07-24
STATE AND TERRITORY.
Nebraska Jottings,

The erection Of IA new Catholic churchiwill
be begun at York this week.
The shell fake man caught a number of
suckers in Columbus last week.
The Cherry county Sunday school conven-
ton will be held at Valentine July rs and 20.
Eight democrats in one precinct IN Cherry
county have renowned allegiance to the
party and came out for Harrison and Morton.
The first annual reunion of the Old Set
tiers association of the Republican valley
will be held at Republican City September IA
and IL,
Pelican, crane, geese, ducks, chickens,
plover and snipe abound in all parts of
Greeley county, and entitle il to the appella-
tion OF the ''sportsman's paradise"
The Grand Army State Line reunion, to
be held between Hardy and Warwick,
July 81, August |, . and 8, will be one of the
most noted events Of the season in that por-.
tion of the state. ''' ,...
There was a great horse race at Norfolk
Saturday and a big crowd was in attendance,
but tho local papers, out of respect for the
Omaha daily bee., 1888-07-24
HE READ TO THE NEIoHBoRHooO
An Incident in the Campaign Of 1910
The "S,raight-Outs."

Portland O]rCgOnian' THE repub'
licans have nominated n candidate Tor
president since YOU were III town last, '
was a remark which greeted General
Lish A~ppleeatc, who called At the local
news room Of the Orcgoniau Just be-
fore time" was called yesterday even.
ing.
"Yes. and a good selection they make,
too responded the we'll known pioneer
Where were YOU IN the great cam
paign Of lSi02" asked a reporter.
II was a reader in those days, back in
Missouri. - was the response,
"A ~'readerr' What sort OF an ocCupa-
ton was that" asked the reporter
II used TO read TO The neighbor-
hood
''ltead what
''Whv. tho newspapers. Thirty or
forty of the ncighbOrs would gather on
the front porch and | would read the St.
Louis Republican out loud to them"
There must have been IA good many
democrats III your ue~ighbOrhOod % sug-
gested n Republican reporter.
well, yes, there was Il good sprink-
ling OF, them. The Republican was il
democratic paper. but 1t supported Har-
rison. 1t was a red-hot campaign, and
the straight-outs had a hnrd time OF 1t"
What is a straight-outt'
"You see, lots OF democrats voted Tor
Harrison that year. They were called
'straight-outs,' and the democrats hated
them worse than the republicans do h
mugwuinps now, They tried TO keep
the 'straight-outs' from voting, and
there was u terrible row at Osceola
election day. dim breckenridge, a
Omaha daily bee., 1888-07-24

ACCORDING to General Manderson's
private secretary, General Henderson
is the only visible straight republican
candidate for General Manderson's seat
in the United States senate. That de-
ponds through what s]pcctacles you are
scanning the political horizon and what
you call a straight republican. If Cen
eral Henderson is the only visible
straight republican candidate at this
time there are at least half "a dozen cam
didates that will become visible before
the total eclipse Of the political sui
next January. Felinstance, Johnem-
thurston, Georgewedorsey, Johnccowin,
and last, but probably not least, John
mthaVer.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-07-24

THE national democratic campaign
committee VINO have charge of Mr..
Cleveland's election bureau is made up
OF railroad men. The four principal
figure heads who will manage the cam
paign, Calvin Brice, of Ohio; Bill Scott,
of Pennsylvania; Arthur Sewall, OF
Maine, and Billy Barnum, Of Connecti-
cut, are the presidents and directors Of
two thirds of the railroads in this coun.
try. These magnates propose to rail-
road their candidate through by blowing
Off the heads of their ''bar'lsn and by
furnishing free transportation in the
doubtful states.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-07-24
How bismarck Keeps Down Fat.

The system of Prof. Ernst Souvenir
ger for the treatment of obesity, which
was introduced here about two wears
ago. says the Now York Sun. has bv
this time been sufficiently tested todcm-
onstratc that anybody who will deter
miucdlv follow the regimen prescribed
by 1T can rcducc his flesh To any reason
able degree desired, IT being under
stood, of course. that his physical con-
dition is not such by reason of incurable
heart or kidney disease rs to make re-
duction p%erilous. And there is one
thing about it that is hard to get used
TO. That is the absolute prohibition of
all liquids during meals and for nm
hour before and an hour after each
neal. 1t docs not seem 50 difficult to do
without fluids to wash down ones food
until it is tried, and the iron pressure
OF habit in slipping and gulping
water, wine, milk, tea or coffee while
eating is realized. The very fact of
prohibition seems to make one more in
tcnselN thirsty. n the j~uicycst food
takes on the astriugcnt drvncss of
chcwed pomcgrauate rind. OF course,
one ecomCs accustomed to it after "A
while. eventually does not feel any de-
sire for liquids at the prohibited times.
and even finds less disposition to drink
at any time than he ever had before.
Then his reward comes, not only in the
reduction of flesh, but in II surprising
dlmlnutiOn of h nuisance of pcrspira-
ton, which is the misery Of all fat men.
1t must not be supposed that this shut
ting of OF liquids is the whole of the
treatment. though it appears to be the
most important requirement. That
ranking next to it is that one must not
gorge with food, especially food in
whlch,sugar and starch are largely COM
poncnt parts.
The Iron Chancellor still lives by
Schwcringcr rules, and in so doing
keeps down his tendency to growing
lat, and remains u wonder of vitality
and vigor at his advanced age. No
longer ago than last April the Suns
special dispatches told how he restricted
himself in eating to a light breakfast
and substantial dinner, with no liquids
at meals, and only a single glass of wine
daily, taken just before retiring. One
experiment with the bogus system of
three piuts of water before breakfast by
Bismarck would doubtless afford Ger
many another iirst-class funeral.
There is no royal road to relief from
~corpulence that may be travelled with
ease and safety, aud without self sacri-
flee. Nostrums are from time to time
advertised rs affOrding it-such as one
now doomed in England, and finding
not a few dupcs hcre-but they do not.
Starvation a la Banting, and the nos
trum cures that profess to reduce glut-
tons while practicing their gluttony, if
they Will only take n wineglass at each
meal" are alike dangerous %humbugs.
Re%nounciug liquids seems to be demon
strated the safest and best thing when
accompanied by due moderation in eat
ing. But in no case is il absolutely safe
for a fat person to adopt any really eff
fcctive measures for reducing weight
without thorough preliminary knowl-
edge of the actual condition of his vital
organs
Omaha daily bee., 1888-07-24
/. BRECKENRIDGE. was

cousin of John G. breckenridge. was
the leader OF tho 'strsight-outs. and he
came near being killed. The demo-
Gratis armed themselves with clubs and
stones and about the middle of the
afternoon undertook to drive the
'straight-outs' from the polls. 1t WIS
the toughest and biggest fight l. eyer
saw. My father still carries scars that
he received that day. The wings held
aloof and let the other two crowds fight
1T out. | guess it lasted over an hour"
Did the 'straight-outs' get to votc?"
0"Gos: after both sides were worn out.
the fight stopped, aud the straight
outs voted. We don't have any such
COMMUNICATING mnMndnNs.N
Omaha daily bee., 1888-07-24
How Victims of the Heat are Treated.

Philadelphia Telegraph: DR.. Harvey
Shoemaker Of the Pennsylvania hos
pital has been kept busy during the
past week in treating patients afflicted
with sunstroke. There is Il big white
tent in the hospital yard containing all
the appliances for the treatment of
these cases.
1.-THE first thing to be done" said DR..
Shoemaker, sis TO strip the patient en-
tirely, and. If al extreme case, apply
ice literally, to the head and body gem
orally. If the temperature be only u
few degrees above the normal n liberal
appliance of cold water under some CIR
cumstances will have the desired effect,
which is to rcducc-thc temperature.
With this accomplished, and the circu-
latory and respiratory organs working,
recovery is pretty sure, unless mcnin-
gifts or other complications set in.
Il have a remarkable case which
came in yesterday. We bring the sun
stroke cases here because the air is
frcshcr and the rapid evaporation from
the stone surface keeps the temperature
down. This man. Alexander Anderson,
was brought in yesterday afternoon,
having beer at work on a tin roof. He
is a Scotchman and has been N week
in the country. For four hours he was
in commissions, and after they were sub
ducd his pulse was not pcrceptible,
Respiration had almost ceased. Hypo-
dermic n Injections of ch%loroform were adj
mini~tcred to check the commissions.
To accelerate respiration incisions were
made in the veins Of both arms and
back Of the ears. 1t was necessary to
pump the clottcd blood out, as it re-
fused to flow. This started the c~ircula-
ton, and, although ii was the most
ln,,Alagg anE. AtJ,,. - 81 az tlA ,,Nnn L..
now comfortable and will probably pull
through"
Has drink or diet much to do with
the primary causcs?"
"Only in Il general way. Thermic
fever, which includes all types Of sun
stroke, is supcrinduccd by any form Of
heat. A majority Of the cases already
received this season came from the
sugar refncricS. glass works and
ioundrics. Exposure to the direct rays
of the sun has n similar effect. Before
prostration n violent headache is the
danger signal and a person should avoid
the heat, whether natural or artificial,
and keep quiet.
Heat exhaustion which until recent
ly had been confounded with sunstrOke,
produces opposite symptoms. There is
II general collapse, attended with low
temperature and loose skin. The treat
mcnt is the reverse Of sunArote, re-
curing stimulants, friction Of the skin,
and the usual methods required for ex-
IRENE nervous shock. DIR. II. Wood,
professor of therapeutics and nervous
diseases at the University Of Pensylva-
MIA, first distinguished the difference
between heat exhaustion and sunstroke.
The hest advice at this time TO the pub
lie at large would be to dress for com
fort and take the usual precautions that
would be observed to avoid fevers gem
ally or any form OF sickness"
Omaha daily bee., 1888-07-24
SnjkeS.

F'h'S
President Charles Francis Adams of the
Union Pacific will arrive in the city early
next month.
The Rock Island has met the rates made by
the st. Paul and the Burlington between
Chicago and st, Paul.
W. a. Ross, auditor of the Fort Worth &
Denver railroad, is in the city for a few DAYS
on IA visit TO his family.
General Manager Holdrege, of the b. &
M, returned yesterday from Chicago. Mr..
Holdredge's family went to Boston.
All Say and Ack Sen, Union Pacific super
intendents of Chinese labor mt Rock Spring,
near Wyoming, were at Union Pacific head
quarters yesterday.
The b. & M. will, on August /, run an ex-
cursion to Madrid Oh the Cheyenne branch
from this city. II is one of the series of regu-
lar excursions to western points.
The Pullman Palace Car company me in
Chicago Saturday and declared "a quarterly
dividend of - per share, payable on and
after August 10 to stockholders Of record at
the close of business August /.
Several eastern boat clubs, among them
the Harvard college CLUB, nave asked the
Union Pacific to give them excursion rates to
Salt Lake City in September. A movement
is on foot to get up "A grand regatta at that
time in which all the leading boat clubs Of
the country will participate,
The switchmcn's strike at Denver is off.
II was a trivial affair at best. The pay car
Hdu liSScu lnTbuSh III u IlldS anu SOlllC OF
the men had INDUCED frequently in the cup
that cheers, consequently they fancied they
had a grievance. Sunday they had re
covered so far as TO permit common sense to
once more resume its sway and returned to
work.
Mr.. w. S. Howell has been appointed tray
cling passenger agent for the Chicago IL
Northwestern. with headquarters at Omaha.
Nob., vice A. NJ, Gazlay, resigned, Mr.
Howelns duties comprise advertising and so.
Letting passenger business in Nebraska and
Colorado and on the line OF the Union Pacific
railway east of and including Laramie, Wyo
The appointment went into effect July %.
In a very short time the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe will have a direct connection
with Omaha Via the Fremont, Elkhorn Il
Missouri Valley from Geneva. The latter
road is building an extension to that point
aud the Santa Fe are coming northward.
This is the great transcontinental scheme of
which so much has been said and is merely
a coalition between the two roads, which,
however, cannot but help Omaha. The Ere
mont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley are also
building two more extensions, one from
Creighton To Verdigre, Neb., a distance of
fourteen miles, which is nearly completed,
and one from Glenrock to Ft, Casper, Wyo,
Omaha daily bee., 1888-07-24
a Question OF Beef.

Ever since Senators Vest and Plumb
attacked the alleged beef monopoly, eX-
posing its methods and charging it with
being the most oppressive and eXacting
combination in the country, there has
been n great deal OF public interest
manifested in the subject. The senate
adopted a resolution appointing n COM
mittee TO thoroughly investigate the
cattle trade, ana it viii enter upon its
work Immediately after the adjourn
ment Of congress. Meantime the mat
ter is not being allowed to drop out Of
public attention. The National Associ-
alton Of Butchers, at its recent conven-
tioE at Philadelphia, denounced
the beef ring in unmeasured
terms. The International Range, an
association with a membership of nearly
one thousand, and representing fifteen
million head Of cattle and an enormous
capital, is arrayed against the alleged
ring with the determination of destroy
ing it. Other influences are at work,
so that probably no other combination
in the country is being attacked more
vigorously than the one which is
charged with practically controlling the
beef supply of the country.
As further means Of arOusing public
sentiment against the combination and
uniting in the war against it all those
having a common interest in its over,
throw, it is proposed TO hold n national
convention of beef producers. probably
at some date in next September. The
chief object to be accomplished by this
Omaha daily bee., 1888-07-24
Da kOta.

A lady Lightweight years old made proof
of residence on a quarter section of land in
Brule county last week. This is the second
100 acres she has proved up on.
A little boy nearly two years old, belong
ing to :. M. Johnson, of Huron, while in II
photograph gallery got hold of a bottle con
tanning cyanide of potassium and drank "a
small quantity of it. Death resulted in a few
minutes.
while four men were building a barn on
the farm of T. ]. Lathrop, in Minnehaha
county, the scaffolding gave way and precip-
itated the men to the ground, a distance of
twenty-eight feet. Erick Erickson will die
of his injuries, Johnas Garrison was badly
bruised, and the others escaped injury.
Competition between hotel runners at
Mitchell has reached that point where the
representative of one hotel has to take IA base
ball club TO the trains to keep his rivals at Il
distance and round up travellers.
The Lead City Herald says that a picnic at
that place was abandoned through lack of
capital, lack of enterprise, lack of girls or a
feeling of Observation-Disclosures
S. IL. Hopkins, a pioneer settler of the
west part of Beadlc county, dropped dead
while washing his hands for supper.
At the recent meeting of the Grant county
board of commissioners a very large petition
was presented asking to have the question of
the sale of intoxicating liquors submitted to
"A vote next fall, and the board granted the
prayer.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-07-24

SENATOR CoLQUlTT, OF Georgia, has
received a rebuke which he will be
likely to remember. 1t is generally
known that he was commissioned to
tender to Representative Mckinley, of
Ohio, an invitation to attend the south
ern Chautauqua to be held near At
lanta, and to make an address there on
protection, Mr.. Carlisle being invited
to speak on tariff reform. Colquitt
conveyed the invitation TO Carlisle but
declined to invite Mckinley, saying in
explanation that he did not want any
republican protectionist to talk TO his
people. The and bigotry
OF this declaration aroused the indigna-
ton OF Senator Brown, Of Georgia,
and of Editor Grady, Of the
Atlanta Constitution, who are in.
terested in the success Of
the Chautauqua, and are also not in
sympathy with Colquitt's tariff views,
and they determined that Mckinley
should attend and address the people II
he could be induced to accept after
learning OF Colquitt's conduct. Ac-
cordingly Senator Brown waited upon
the Ohio representative, stated the cir
c~umstauces, and the invitation was &C.
copied. The people of Georgia will
thus have m opportunity TO listen to n
Republican protectionist,' and one Of
the ablest among them, and whatever
opinion they may form OF his views
they will mt least be convinced that he
is a gentleman worthy OF the respect OF
any people. Very likely Colquitt rep
resents the sentiment OF a majority OF
the people Of Georgia, and it is such
exhibitions OF narrowness and partisan
bitterness that impair faith in the
professed progress Of the "new south"
toward more liberal ideas.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-07-24

TIE young Napoleon of Finance"
Henry S. Ives, whose star went down in
a Waterloo Of disasters a few months
When he gets into Canada a sheriff is
after him, and when he crosses into
this country Il dozen warrants are
sworn out Tor his arrest. His st. Helena
will be Sing Sing before long.