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Omaha daily bee., 1888-05-06
Electric Versus Gable Roads.

Electric Versus Gable Roads.
A very strong opinion in favor of cleo
trio as compared with cable roads has
just been given by Colonel Henry Flad,
one Of the foremost civil engineers in
this country aud at present at the head
OF the board oftpublic improvements in
st. Louis. Colonel Flad recognizes the
many advantages of the cable system,
making it an Improvement over animal
power, but he believes. that Tits applica-
tion will soon Be confined to the opera
ton of lines on which heavy gradients
occur" He speaks of what he has seen
of the cable system in St. Louis and
states hat OF the largest cable roads
there the effective force of traction is
only Is to 20 per cen of tbs power of
the engine, while the troubles and in
terruptions have been numerous and
serious. In his opinion it is the storage
car that is destined to supply the neces-
sites of all our large street railroads,
except those of very heavy grades, and
the chief recommendation in his eyes
is the fact that the storage car is al in
dependent unit. "The Importance of
this, particularly in large cities and
with long lines, cannot be overesti-
mated; and l would recommend the
electric motor, with storage batteries,
even il a cable road could be constructed
and operated at less expense" .
Omaha daily bee., 1888-05-06
Train Lighting.

The use of electric lighting on trains
in Europe has been attenden by very
encouraging results, a. reported by
Herr Voigt lately before the Frankfort
branch of the Society of German Engi-
neers. On the Wurtemburg roads,
where electric lighting has been in use
some time, the average expense is
shown TO be considerably below that of
oil gas, and though the cost of the plant
is n little heavier, the apparatus itself
is lighter, so that less weight has TO be
pulled by the locomotive. 1t is also
mentioned that an engineering firm at
Esslingcn has already fitted up O num-
Der of trains for electric lighting, OF
which six are running on the Novara-
Seregno road In Italy, and others on
the Russian Southwestern line. These
trains, it would appear, carry their own
dynamos, q s"they are occasionally
boarded byiaD attendant, who oils the
machinery, Which seems otherwise to
be left pretty much to itself. Further
details would be interesting, but
enough are given to show that train
light in Europe, as here, is very much
or the advance.
An Electric Coal Cutting Machine.
The application of an electric motor
to impart motion to cOal-cutting ma
chinery is proposed by Messrs. Bower,
blackburn and Mort, of Woodlesford,
Yorkshire, England. The fran work
or bed-plate of the machine is supported
on wheels. Within the framework is
mounted or applied the electric motor,
which may be of any suitable construc-
ton, and to this motor the electromo-
tive force is impaired through suitable
cables from a dynamo machine placed
on the surface. A rotary motion is
transmitted TO the shaft carrying the
cutter bar through gearing. The lower
part OF the framework to which the
upper part of the framework Is attached
forms a circular turntable, and is fitted
so as to be capable of a rotary movement
on the bed-pIate, this rotary movement
being effected by means Of a worm,
Omaha daily bee., 1888-05-06

Hon. A. E. Judevine, of Hardwick, VT,
has given by will one fourth Of his estate to
the university at Burlington. The bequest IS
thought TO be worth 5000 600
Omaha daily bee., 1888-05-06

No. I've shall offer to the people of
Omaha and to the entire Northwest
some speciality
For tomorrow, Monday, our first day,
we will offer One Hundred Dozen
WHITE LAUNDRIED SHIRTS, pure
2,10U linen bosom, with 20 fine pleats,
reinforced front, bodies made of New
York Mills muslin, patent stays in back
and sleeves; in fact, an A No. l made
Omaha daily bee., 1888-05-06
MONDAY, RAIN OR SHINE

shirt in every respect. This shirt is
actually worth Sl.75. For Monday
THIS DAY ONLY-wo will sell them
for 99c.
No. "A hummer of an UNLAUN-
DRIED WHITE SHIRT, made of q
good grade of muslin, pure linen bosom,
reinforced back and front, patent stay
ings and facings, well made in every
particular; actually worth 75c. Our
price to-morrow-Monday ~only-29c.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-05-06

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Omaha daily bee., 1888-05-06

The old time flush days of Frisce-"the
days. of all the days OF gold-the days of
'~'i9"-have gone. When men tipped a pretty
waiter with $50 gold pieees,-when faro, In
fact all sorts of gamas were openly played In
the hotel offices, before law and order soeie-
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-03-17
THE PITCHFORK IN IOWA POII.

We have lately read a curious inter-
view with a Republican Congressman
from Iowa, published in a Washington
paper. 1t is all about a talkative Sweede
and a pitchfork as factors in the politics
of that State. The voters Of Iowa, be it
remembered. are largely an agricultural
people, who are becoming discontinued
under the operation Of the tariff law as it
stands. There has recently been a rapid
di~sintegration of the Republican party in
that quarter, partly on account of prohi-
bition and partly in consequence of the
tariff. According to the interviewed
Congressman an eloquent Sweede has
been playing the mischief with things in
general up there. 1t appears that this
Sweede about a year ago visited his for
mer home in the old country. While
over there he ran across a pitchfork Of
American manufacture that was selling
at retail in the foreign market for one
dollar. 1t happened that this Sweede
had been charged one dollar and fifty
cents for the identical same ~pitchfork,
same make and brand, at his home in
Iowa. The incident caused him to stretch
his eyes, and on looking about he found
other articles on the same relative level.
He was a Republican and had been Of
that faith all his life, but he drew the
line at pitchforks. He jumped at the
conclusion at once that the high protec.
tive principle was wrong, and that under
it the Iowa farmers were practically be.
ing despoiled of their birthright. Return.
ing to his home in the Northwest. he at
once mounted the stump for tariff reform
aud a general scaling down of duties.
There is an immense Swedish population
in Iowa, and the Republican Congressman
10 question declares that one harapgue
from this farmer Sweede, with the pitch
fork for his text, carries more weight
with voters than the ablest grafton by
the most gifted and eloquent of stump
orators. From all accounts it would ap-
pear that Iowa had been put in the
doubtful column through the vigor with
which this Sweede handles the pitchfork.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-03-17
the GIRLS TO THE FRONT.

We would like to know how our Re.
publican friends are going to overcome
this kind of business. We don't want
to discourage them, but il this kind Of
thing is going to go Oh, they had as we'll
disband before the campaign opens. The
young ladies of Greensburg, in the pivotal
State of Indiana, have organized q Fran.
ces Folsom Cleveland Club for active
work in the Presidential campaign, in
favor Of the reelection Of President
Cleveland, and they propose to turn out
and march with the boys, and have q
bang up time on every occasion that Of
fers. The members of the club are to
have perfect heavenly uniforms and
torches, in the form Of brooms, made es.
pecially for their use. They propose to
make a clean sweep. and withhold their
bewitching smiles from every man who
refuses to vote for Grover. II is a plan
of campaign that may work wonders on
the susceptible boosters Of Hoosierdom.
1t is barely possible, however, that their
enthusiasm may not last, unless stimu-
lated in the good old Democratic way.
There is a-world Of patriotism in a black
bottle about election times. If the girls
are going to take 3 hand in the fight, in
heavenly uniforms" they must expect
to go the whole figure and sing campaign
songs and tip glasses to the success Of
the party until four o'clock in the morn.
ing. Then. Of course, there will be stall
wart ward strikers to trundle them home
in wheelbarrows should they be overcome
by enthusiasm or fatigue. The Frances
Folsom Cleveland Club Of Greensburg.
Indiana. smacks quite strongly Of female
idiocy in that particular neck of woods.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-03-17
A BRILLIANT IDIOT.

In a debate in the Senate Of the United
States, recently, Senator Ingalls, OF Kan.
sas referred to Generals Mcclellan and
Hancock as ~"allies Of the Confederate
cause The a~llusion Of the Senator was
nothing short Of an outrage upon decency
and humanity. Ii was more: it was q
foul dissertation Of two houored graves.
1t would ave been an outrage had the
men been living; to speak thus Of the
dead shows the Senator from Kansas to
be a monstrosity in human form. capable
Of any degree or depth Of moral coward
ice and inhuman atrocity. We care moth
ing for his coarse attack on President
Cleveland. The President is alive and
able to take care Of himself. That part
of his speech was simply a lowering oil
the dignity Of the Senate. But his as
sault on the illustrious dead merits no
conformation here or hereafter. Whatever
place may be assigned Mcclellan in his
tory, it cannot be denied that he was a
great and loyal soldier. The fact that
he was not permitted to fight the battles
Of his country to the end, cannot detract
from his valued service in the cause OF
the Union at the beginning Of the war.
But to talk of Hancock. the superb"
as an "ally" Of the enemies Of his
try, twenty.four years after the war by
a skulker like this Kansas Senator, is
positively monstrous. Everybody loved
Hancock; he was the ideal soldier of the
war, and the very backbone Of the Army
of the Potomac through all Of its eventful
history. Lincoln had confidence in him,
and Grant leaned upon him as his great.
est and most valued support. Think OF
that hell of rain, of shell and shot which
he withstood on Cemetery Heights, sav.
ing the day, and with it, the Union, fall
ing himself nearly mortally wounded,
and then think Of this cowardly Kansas
jayhawker, attempting to destroy his
cherished memory with bitter vitupera-
ton and vile SANDER Aud where was
this defamer OF the heroic dead during
the war A Judge Advocate of volun.
teers, always safely in the rear Of the
army, never once smelling ~gunpowder,
but putting in his time, as Senator Black
burn expressed it, ain the p~erilous duty
of trying men for rifing henroosts." Such
is the man who, from his high place in
the Senate, which he disgraces, would
desecrate graves sacred to millions and
consecrated to the holy cause Of patriot
ism | Ones nature instinctively revolts
at such a character. We have admired
and often complimented this wretch for
the brilliancy of his intellect. We did
not until now know of the craven that is
in him. Brilliant though he may be, his
touch is pollution, but in charity be may
be classed a idiot.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-03-17
About DivOces.

More divorces. always divorces. They
crop up every day in the year. and are as
plentiful when the mercury is below
zero as when it climbs to the nineties.
One is inclined to ask why men and
women 20 through the form Of matri.
mony when it is reasonably certain that
strained relations will begin in . couple
Of years and an open rupture will occur
soon after.
A correspondent writes to ask what
We would advise a couple to do when the
cat and dog season opens. Well. we don't
believe in a cat and dog season. Scratch
ng and barking should be strictly con
fined to quadrupeds. Two human beings
who eyer thought enough Of each other
to join hands ought to know enough to
tolerate each other under almost any cir
cumstances. We never knew Q domestic
row in which both parties were not about
equally at fault. 1t takes two always to
make q first.clsss quarrel, and when PEG
pie are respectable and intend to do
the square thing they ought to find some
way to work in double harness without
e~ternally snarling and swapping at each
other.
Our observation leads us to say that
in nine cases out Of ten a divorce ia
wholly unnecessary, and il men and
women would spend more time in plan
ming how to get along with each other
amicably, and less time in trying to get
away from each other, our homes would
look brighter and be hsppier.-N. Y.
Herald.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-03-17
civic sERyICE Pensions.

We notice that Boston is agitating a
proposition to place certain worn out mu-
nicipal officers as pensioners on the bounty
Of the city. This is the logical outcome
of the doctrine Of Civil Service Reform.
by which we mean hat certain people
may hold Office during life or good be-
havior. 1t is un-American and repugnant
to every principle Of Republican Govern.
ment. There should be no preferred
office .holding class in this country. 1t
means a privileged class to the exclu-
sion of all others, no matter how deserv.
ing. 1t is the system of the Old World,
particularly Of England. II may be toll
Grated under a monarchy, but never in a
free country. But what else is to be done
with the worn-outs, but TO pension them!
When a man has worn himself out in the
(civil) of his country, it will not
do to abandon him in his old age. He
must be cared for when no longer able to
care for himself. And this is what q
never-changing, non.partisan Civil Ser.
vice leads up to inevitably. Civil Service
Reform, under whatever guise, and in
whatever place, Nation, State or munich.
thy name pure and simple is Hum
bug, with q big II.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-03-17
sLUsH.

Although devoted to slush, we are
hopeful that this article shall not be es-
pecially slushy in the newspaper sense.
We use the heading as a meal to an end
simply. We want to draw the slush line
between Nevada and all Of its less favored
neighbors, both East and West. There
is never any slush in Nevada for more
than a day or two at q time. The pecu.
liar sandy nature of our soil. coupled
with our excellent drainage, renders our
streets and roads always passable for both
man and beast. In two days after a storm
has passed, or the snow has melted, q
lady may freely cross and recross the
streets Of any Of our Nevada towns with.
out the slightest injury to immaculate
skirts. Pedestrians everywhere in Me-
vada, like the Israelites crossing the Red
Sea of Biblical record, go dry shod. The
same cannot be said Of any other part of
the United States. The mud in the East
is simply abominable. and the worst Of it
is, it never seems to "dry up" 1t is Of
that nasty, sticky, consistency that rem
ders locomotion impossible and life q
burden. There is no shaking it," When
you take q fence picket and scrape it from
one foot you suck up forty pounds with
the other at the first step. We all re-
member the adhesive red clay Of the old
States. 1t gets worse as the soil gets
poorer. The valley towns of California
are no better. They are seas of slush
and slumgullion during all the rainy
season, which comprises from four to five
months of each year. To cross a street
in Los Angeles, or Stockton or Sacra.
mento at this time of year, one should be
provided with a life preserver. And this
same mud, when it does finally dry
makes the most annoying and penetrat-
ing dust in all the world. The people
of the Nevada really do not appreciate
how much better they are off than the
rest of mankind. We are freer of annoy.
suces and pests of every description than
any other portion of the universe. Es.
pecially have we the call by an incon.
ceivably large majority in the matter Of
slnsh
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-03-17
women whist Players.

As every one undoubtedly knows. says
an exchange, the game Of whist should be
played as quiet as possible, and as few
little bon mots exchanged between the
players as politeness will allow. CONVEX.
sation havinga tendency to take the
players thoughts off the game. Ii is
this and this alone, that male whist
players rank above the opposite sex. The
female whistler may have the run OF
the game down finer than . hair On q
bees eyebrow, but just at the critical
moment, when the game depends IN her
play she will spoil the whole business by
beginning to talk fashions, Or something
equally absurd with the other lady at
the table. OF course there are excep-
tions, but as q general thing. . woman,
in order TO be 3 rip-snorting good whist
player. has TO be possessed with . wonder
full will power, so that she . keep her
tongue in repose.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-03-17
nEArn.HEp RErENrANCE

When a fellow has sinned all Of his
life aud repents on his Geath.bed, his
conversion is always accepted with good
deal Of allowance. There is generally a
feeling that he does it with mental res
ervations, and il he happens to pull
through is liable to go back on the whole
business. Senator Sherman, after voting
for unlimited Chinese immigration all his
life, suddenly reaches the conclusion that
it is proper that the heather be excluded
from our shores. The Senator is on the
death.bed Of his Presidential aspirations.
II is now or never with him. He is get.
ting too far advanced in years to ever
make another contest. The Pacific Coast
has a good many votes, both in the Re-
publican National Convention and in the
Electoral College. Candidate Sherman
now sees his way clear to do that which
Senator Sherman could never be brought
to understand. But his eleventh hour
conversion will fool no one. Everybody
on this coast will realize that if he were
not a candidate he wonld still be vocif-
Grating and voting for his friend, the
C~hinaman. Nor has he come around sui.
ficiently TO be Of any real benefit to our
cause. As Chairman Of the Senate For.
eign Relations Committee he has reported
a poor halfway and half.hearted meas.
ure under which the Chinese may come
and go at will for six months. His bill
is not claimed to be anything more than
a temporary makeshift, and a very poor
one at that. He accompanies it with a
resolution requesting the President to
conclude a new treaty with the Emperor
of China. His resolution is as glaringly
deceptive as his bill. There was no need
Of such a resolution. President Cleve.
land had already taken steps looking to
a new treaty long before the Sherman
request" was thought Of. But he and
his prof. Chinese colleagues on the Senate
Committee wanted a pull on the Pacific
Coast for partisan purposes, and so de-
vised the scheme we have described.
There is 10 honesty in any part of it, as
any man with as much brains as a tom
tit will discern at a glance. At heart
John Sherman is as much in favor OF the
Chinaman to-day as at any time in the
past when voting against all Of the various
restriction measures that have gone be.
fore the Senate. The whole truth is that
Blaine is the only Eastern Republican Of
prominence who has stood with us on the
Chinese question. All Of the bills to re-
ceive favorable consideration were passed
by Democratic votes in both houses Of
Congress,
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-03-17

Speaking Of the recent Sullivan
Mithell mill, the Examiner somewhat
sarcastically says: According to the
dispatches the Sullivan.M Mitchell fight,
which lasted for three hours and eleven
minutes. was a desperate one, and both
men received black eyes. 1t was indeed
desperate. When we read OF a Lancashire
purring match, in which the contestants
kicked each others legs to pieces with
iron.toed boots, or Of Greek ~sluggers
breaking their opponents skulls with
leaden knuckles, or Of Roman gladiators
perforating the vanquished performers
with short shovel. shaped swords to please
the ladies in the dress circle, we may
think we begin to realize the ferocity OF
human nature, but we really know moth.
ing about it until two abandoned desper.
ADDE'S like Smith and Kilrain or Sullivan
and Mitchell face each other with
steam.hammer fists for LOG or 80 rounds,
as the case may be. Both Sullivan and
Mitchell now have black eyes, and moth.
ing but an everything Providence saved
them from bloody noses"
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-03-17
pox.r.c.I

We have once more drifted around to
the time when election straws are noted
with interest. There has already been
some voting done in 1883. II these pre-
limiusry skirmishes mean anything they
indicate that the Democrats are getting
the best OF things. At the special Con-
gressional election held recently in a
Michigan District to fIl a vacancy caused
by death, the Democrats pulled down q
former 1000 majority to less than 4OO.
This is especially significant, coming SO
close on the heels Of the Presidents cele'
brated tariff message. Still more recently
the Democrats elected the Mayor OF SYRIA
cuse, New York, for the first time since
the war. The Republican majority there
had usually been in the thousands, but
this was reversed, and the Democrats
got away with the municipal election by
several hundred. In Iowa, last week,
the town elections all over the State par.
tOOk OF the nature VI betiOStashS siu"'
wave. 1t was 9 cold wave for our Re-
publican friends, and they got left pretty
much everywhere. Maine, the home OF
Mr.. Blaine. is the only spot so far this
year where old Republican msjorities
have been maintained and increased. 1t
was doubtless q boom for the absent
statesman, his neighbors determining to
show to the world that they are still Wig
liant and active for the cause which he
SO ably expounds. But taking the whole
field over, the Democrats have more
cause for c~ongrstulation than their oppo-
nents on what has thus far transpired in
the Presidential year Of 1888. II these
straws denote anything, they clearly de-
monstrate that Mr.. Cleveland has not
completely knocked the life out Of his
party by his stand on the subject Of the
tariff, as has been so generally predicted.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-03-17
No Nutrimens In Politics.

Dolph Richardson, Of Bloomington.
ILL.,, was an inveterate politician, and
spent the greater part of his time saving
his country, or at least his own ward.
Meantime bis wife worked hard and late
in a brave effort to make both ends meet.
but found il discouraging business and
Il nally grew very tired. One day her
patriotic husband rushed in with the dec
laration that he wanted his dinner in
stantly, as he must be back to the poll
ing place inside of five minutes. He sat
up to the table. and a moment later his
wife placed before him q glass Of water
aud a platter heaped up with election
tickets. Nj. Richardson was not slow
to see the grim humor Of the thing. and
abjured politics as q business. since which
time his larder has been filed with some.
thipg more edible than ballots.