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Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-18
SUMMER SCINTInLATIONS,

Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph: 'India is
q very warm country, 1 believe" remarked
Squildig.
"Yes,'' replied McSwilligcu.
"That accounts for the fact hat the ma
tives are so Hindoo-lent."
Lowell Citizen: First swell-You seem to
BIO down on George. What IS the trouble
between youi
Second swell-Well, you see, we were
always friends; but now he has gone and
got a par of trousers at least two inches
wider than minel
Texas Siftings: Servant enters and an
nounces that the Marquis de Montmorency
de BOOZE Frappe desires to pay his respects.
Buffalo Bill (disgusted): "Bahl Only a
marquis. 1 don't give shucks for mar
quises and after awhile Pm going to shut
down on dukes. Tell HIN 1 haven't got any
thing for him to-day"
Lawrence American: Miss Charity-Is
your husband addicted TO the use of alcoholic
stimulants2
Recipient of alms-No, indade, num-, not
he; his only failin' is drinkin'.
Terre Haute Express: Did you ever no.
tice that the "ice' is only three-ffths the
size of the ''price"
Atchison Globe: Next 70 marrying a girl
who is a beauty, the man thinks himself
most fortunate who marries a girl who thinks
he is one.
Atchison Globe: This is the season of
the year when a man expects his wife to
cook him great big hot dinners without get
ting the stove hot.
Philadelphia Record: After all the objec-
tions made to executing criminals by cleo
tricity, it Is urged by the advocates of that
system that after u person has tried the new
method once he will never use any other
after.
Atchison Globe: This is the weather
when every friend q man has is a warm one.
The dead letter office is a great place for
uncalled for remarks.
Puck: The 'dinner'' hour-Shippen
Clerke-"Goo gracious, Rich, why do you
eat so fastl You'll choke yoursolfl" Rich
mond Stratecott-"Why. can't you see there's
only twenty-five minutes left US to smoke
cigarettes in2n
New York Mercury: Frosts are generally
dew before they come.
New York Mercury: Hush money-the
wages of the baby's nurse.
Texas Siftings: A dog will bark up a tree.
So will a horse, if hitched to one too long.
Chicago Tribune: willie" said his father
sternly, reaching for the trunk strap, ''your
mother sent you up here an hour ago to be
punished, and because 1 was busy ut the mo-
ment you sneaked down stairs again. What
did you do that for!" II went down, SIR"
replied the boy, looking his father fearlessly
in the face, ''to avoid punishment"
Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-18
NORTH PLATTE LAND OFFICE.
Is Henderson Responsible For the
Delay in ANNOUNCEMENTS?

NORTH PLATTE, Neb., July Ito the
Editor of THE BEE: Is there a deadlock in
the Nebraska congressional delegation as re-
CARDS the places to be filled in the North
Platte land object Will there be any places
TO fill These are questions which agitate
the tired and hungry place-seeSers, and, in
a less degree, tho general public. It is
limited that there is q hitch in the matter of
these appointments, and that the present in
cation agrees on the candidates. The infer
ence. is that the responsibility for the dead
lock that exists, if deadlock there is. rests
with Senator Henderson. However that
may be, it is unfortunate for the republican
party in this county that the matter should
not have been promptly settled in the one
way that would have given general s~atisfac-
tion.
1t is only within three years that there has
been an organized republican party in Lin
coin county. Previous to 1856 it was divided
INTO factions; now one side uppermost, now
another, and always a double delegation to
state, congressional and judicial conventions.
After years of contention, wise counsels at last
prevailed, and in 1885 for the first time the
party presented a united 'front.'; and in 1886,
as in 1888, through an organized effort, they
carried everything before them.
Now they present to the representatives
in congress the names Of two of North
the land office TO be filed by republicans
after the appointecs of Cleveland shall have
served the four years which custom and
civil service prescribes. The Endorsement is
hearty and emphatic, and will doubtless re-
ceive due consideration. x.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-18

wives, that ''no p%osthumous child of the
Crown Prince Rudolph will be born"
The National Association Of Journalists In
England has been holding a convention in
London, and devoted one Of its sessions to
women journalists. The latter were repro
sented by Mrs. Fenwick Miller. American
women newspaper workers have not had the
practical recognition which their English
sisters have received, and there are not
nearly as many women in the profession here
as in England.
The latest addition TO Women's clubs 10
the Jamaica Women's club OF which Mrs.
Mabel Miller Smith is president and Mrs.
Cogswell vice-president. The club gave a
reception on Friday evening at the residence
OF Mrs. Serene Spader on Fulton street.
The president, who is the daughter OF Mrs.
Olive Thorne Miller, the writer on birds, pro-
sided, and Mrs Laura Holloway delivered an
Informal address.
Miss Mary Wanamaker, the postmaster
generals daughter, will max her debut in
Washington society next fall. She is not
yet out Of her teens, but 10 an accomplished
girl of considerable beauty. She has had
the training of an excellent education, and
is skilled in music and languages.
The following advertisement recently APP
peared in q western paper; "A middle-aged
woman, who is capable, honest, and indus
trious, but as homely as a stone fence, wants
york ~
Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-18

republicans. Il is the latter class who
are perhaps the most dangerous. The
aim OF the democrats is TO handle all
who are not stalwart and loyal republic
cans, and IL they should succeed in
doing this and putting a fusion ticket
in the field there would be ground for
apprehension. The republican mana
gers outside OF the two states should
understand this situation OF affairs and
take measures to defeat the scheme.
1t is equally necessary that the repub-
licans should be alert and active in the
other new states, for while there APP
pears TO be less danger from demo-
cratic scheming in them OF the kind
threatened in the Dakotas, it Is m
thing to be expected. AT any rate
there should be no delay on the part Of
the republican managers in making
preparations in all the new states to
meet whatever plans the democrats may
develop.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-18
IGNORED VERY Low BIDS.
Frank Murphy's Censure OF tn
Council Gas Committee

Frank Murphy's Censure OF the
Council Gas Committee.
The announcement that the council COM
mittee on gas and electric lights had re-
ported in favor of adopting the bid of the
Thompson.H Houston Electric ompany for
lighting the city, as appears in THE BEES re.
port of that meeting, and especially the adop-
ton of that report by the council
was a surprise to the members
of the Omaha Gas Manufacturing company.
sThe committee" said Mr., Frank Muir
ply, ''ignored our bid on gas. The CHAIR
man reported and left the people under tho
impression that we were charging the old
figure, $50 per lamp per year. such IS not
the case. We put in a bid for 22-candle gas
at S25 per lamp, which the committee ig-
nored. AT that rate there would have been
a saving to the city per year of - 5000
"What are you going TO do about itP'
ave will have TO bring tho matter 10 the
| attention of the council. There is no use of
going TO the committee. We can't get any
thing from it,"
ave nut one in under the name or the
Omaha Gas Manufacturing company, which
| was a great deal lower than the Thompson
Houston company. That company's bid was
l6-candlc incandescent light at S22 per lamp
'"0ur bid was for 9O-candle power mean
| descent electric light for only s26 per lamp
''On the basis Of our figures the Thompson-
Houston bid ought TO be Sass per lamp per
year. We give nearly double the llght LOT
an increase of only - more per lamp each
year. We did not bid on arc lights
Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-18

and It's connections than Omaha, and that
the protection that you and your connections
now afford and a for q long time afforded
Kansas City packers, is unjust, unreasona~
BILE and ruinous TO our interests,
We therefore ask that your road and its
connections carefully consider the situation
as herein outlined and so modify tho tariffs
on packing house products TO the destina-
tions named by either advancing the Kansas
City or lowering the Omaha rates, or both;
that the rates shall be cqualized and that
neither Of the two cities named shall be
caused to suffer from unjust discrimination
at your hands. We await your reply. Very
respectfully yours,
TIM ARMOUR CupAuY PACKING Co.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-18
POSSIBLE DEMOCRATIC PLANS.

1t is not doubted that the democratic
managers are giving careful attention
to the question of what kind of a cam
paign they shall conduct in the new
states. The situation is not without
difficulties for them. If they conduct
their campaign on the lines of the last
national contest it will recOmmit the
party to a position which some of its
leaders believe was fatal to it, and in
the event that it made no impression on
the agricultural population of the new
states, the effect might be to put the
party in a dilemma three years hence.
On the other hand, to ignore the posi-
ton would be accepted as a confession
on the part of the managers that they
were afraid Of the tariff reform atti-
tude Of the party as developed by
Cleveland, Carlisle and Mills, which
might also put the party in a dilemma
three years hence, and interfere ma
terially in the meantime with Its get
ting together.
The managers do not want for advice,
and much of it is OF the radical sort.
For example, the Philadelphia Record
counsels them to send the 'ablest
representatives OF the democratic
doctrine of tariff reform" into the new
states to meet the republican rep
resentatives who are expected to stump
these states during the coming cam
paign. The Record names a number of
prominent democratic advocates Of
tariff reform whom it thinks would
%cheerfully give their services to the
cause in the new states, and it would
have the party courageously proclaim
reform Of the tariff as the cardinal
principle for which it still proposes to
battle. 1t is by no means improbable
that this course will be pursued by the
democratic managers. 1t is obviously
dictated by expodience, il it be not I'M
peratively necessary. And if judi
ciously pursued it may give the repub-
licans some trouble.
1t will be wise for the republican
managers not to permit over
confidence with respect to any
| of the new states to make them indif-
fercnt or %apathetic, The Dakotas are
doubtless secure, but effort there will
not be thrown away. Already there is
talk of a fusion there between the
Farmers alliance and the democrats,
and il is quite conceivable that the lat
| ter will readily offer every inducement
| to bring this about. II is thought that
II such an amalgamation could be- con-
spmmated and held together it would
easily hold the balance of power and
could elect the officers OF both the new
states. There may be a reasonable
Edoubt as to the probability of such an
alliance being effected, but it is OBJ
viously possible and therefore to be
guarded against. Those who have had an
opportunity to soc the inside working
Of politics in the Dakotas say that des-
perate attempts are being made to
bring about a fusion. The democrats
are working cautiously, tempting the
farmers with promises of offices, and
they are being assisted by d~isgruntled
Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-18
WHERE THE RUB COMES.

The plea of the county commissioners
that because other cities in the state
exempt all society property from taxa
ton is a very poor reason why this kind
of property should not bear its just
proportion of taxation in this city. The
laws of Nebraska governing the taxing
OF society property are broad-gauged
and liberal, and they should not be SUD-
verted through a false sense of delicacy.
In Omaha especially it is of the highest
Importance that all taxable property
should bear its equitable share. due to
the fact that in a rapidly growing COM
munity like ours municipal wants press
close upon the march of improvements.
AT this moment there is inadequate fire
protection in the suburbs OF this city.
The proper authorities claim that they
are unable to afford relief until they
have sufficient funds on hand
TO equip the localities with
the ueedful fire appliances.
Now it stands to reason if the millions
of dollars Of taxable property held by
benevolent and purely social corpora
tions in this city were subject to taxa
ton as provided by law, a sufficient rev.
enue might be derived to afford fire
and police protection where needed
without heaping on the taxpayer addi-
tional and inequitable burdens. The
county commissioners have a plain duty
to perform. In the question of taxation
all citizens stand on an equality, and it
is harmful to the city's interest as we'll
as a gross injustice to discriminate
against one for the benefit of the other.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-18
STATE AND TERRIFIC nY.
Jottings

Craig is to have q large furniture store.
A Baptist church has been organized at
Arnold, Custer county.
The plans for Kearnoy's now cotton mills
will arrive in about ten days.
Cattle In some portions of Logan county
are reported dying with the black leg.
The Platte county teachers institute will
begin August IL and hold for two weeks.
Mrs. John Il. Gordon, of Grant township,
Cunning county, has 10000 silk cocoons ready
for shipment.
The supervisors of Madison county have
allowed SIPS bounty for the scalps of sixty.
four prairie wolves.
DIR. Robert McConaugh, of York, has re.
ceived the appointment of grand medical
examiner for the A. o. u. w. in Nebraska.
A gentlemen's driving park association
has been formed at Hastings, and 1T is the
intention to have a trot every week or two.
S. Harrod, an old settler, died at WILDER
Tuesday. aged sixty.siy. He was q veteran
OF the war and had resided In Saline county
twenty years.
The creditors of defunct Farmers and
Merchants bank of Humboldt will hold a
meeting next Monday 70 choose an assignee
to succeed the sheriff.
Because the Wells-Fargo company refused
to give Edgar free express delivery, the busl-
ness men OF that town have resolved TO boy
colt the company and ship their goods by
freight only.
The Beatrice Democrat announces that the
suspension of the Omaha Herald leaves the
Democrat as the leading democratic daily in
the state. The Democrat, while realizing
the Importance of the position it occupies,
modestly accepts the trust, and will steer
the democratic party to success. Now is the
time to subscribe.
An old grave has been discovered at st.
Helena, Cedar county, which contains the
remains of fifteen people, one Of whom was
q man whose skull was crushed, and tho
others being women and children. There 10
much speculation In regard to tine matter,
some thinking that the remains are those Of
u party which was massacred by Indians.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-18

THE magnitude OF the scientific work
undertaken for the benefit of the farm
ers of the United States surpasses the
efforts made by any other nation in the
cause Of agriculture. 1t can not be said,
however, that the benefits derived have
been proportionally as great. AS long
as fourteen years ago experimental sta
tions were established in different parts
of the country for the purpose of agri-
cultural and animal Investigations.
While many of these stations have been
more or less satisfactory, it is yet to be
proven that any n great discovery has
been made by which the farmers have
been benefited.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-18
THE MIGRATION OF INDUSTRIES

THE MIGRATION OF INDUSTRIES.
The steady decline OF the iron and
steel industries of New England, which
has been going on for a full decade,
threatens within another ten years to
leave that section without any indus
trial enterprises OF this kind. In one
or two states where a few years ago
there were extensive establishments
there are now lone of any consequence,
and everywhere in New England the
iron and steel industries are anguish
ing and Improbable. The assump-
tion that this state OF affairs
is due to other han natural
causes, and that the removal Of
artificial restriction, as it is proposed
by some Of the manufacturers to ask OF
congress, would produce a change for
the better, may no be we'll founded.
The truth is that the New England iron
and steel industries are at a disadvan-
tage which no changes or notifications
of the tariff could overcome. The cost
of raising iron ore to the surface and
getting it to the furnaces is greater in
New England han it is in New York or
Pennsylvania. Another fatal disadvan-
tage is the lack of coal. 1t Is urged that
the removal of the tariff on coal would
remove this disadvantage, but granting
that it would do so this would not be
sufficient to place the New England
iron and steel industries on an equality
with those elsewhere, because it is not
the only disadvantage to be overcome,
and the others appear insurmountable.
Production, other things being equal.
follows the natural law, and as other
things can never be rendered equal SO
far as iron and steel production is con-
cerned in New England, the business
will migrate elsewhere.
Following the natural law of
material progress, the production of
iron and steel is moving south
ward and westward. The vast mineral
deposits OF the south and west and the
~juxtaposition OF ore, coal and limestone
in the south amply explain the growth
of the iron industry there. Nowhere
in the world car iron of equal excel
lence be manufactured more .cheaply
than in the south, and it would seem
lueVlUdDlc Lndt DIV u uOb very FeLlOGe
time this industry must become more
largely developed in that section than
in any other, with the effect Of further
c~heapening the price of iron and
steel throughout the country. AS
to the west, it is impossible
that in portions of it where the iron
industry is now extensive it will ex-
perience a decline anti the business will
migrate to other portions, where the
advantages are greater. There are coal
and iron deposits in the west awaiting
development, which will certainly in
vite manufacturing on a large scale,
and another generation may witness
the products OF new P~ittsburgs and
Birminghams contesting for supremacy
in the markets of the country. Our re-
sources in this respect are by no means
fully ascertained, and whenever they
shall be, and the enterprise of the
country is fully enlisted in their devel-
opment. there will be no demand any
where for a protective tariff, for we
shall then manufacture lion and steel
to uudersell the world.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-18

THE victories Of the Massachusetts
riflemen in England, OF which mention
was made a few days ago, have been cut
down during the past week. The rea
son for this Il hot far to find. In their
first matcKesH they met organiza-
tions like themselves, militia rifle
men, representing local districts.
Latterly, however, they have been
pitted against some Of the crack shots
in the British army in individual
matches. The result is that while the
Yankee rilemen have put the English
on their mettle, they have been unable
to score a straight string of victories.
Nevertheless, our marksmen abroad are
doing themselves proud, and will come
home with remarkably fine score TO
their credit.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-18

THE last legislature made a sweeping
change in the time-honored law OF in
heritance affecting a wife's interest in
her husbands estate. Heretofore a
wife could claim on the death of her
husband only the use during life of one
third of the real estate owned
by him. Under the revised statute
the widow is entitled in fee simple
TO a certain share of his estate.
The portion which she shall take is
thus provided for: If the husband
leaves no issue, the widow takes one
half of his real property and his parents
the remainder. If he leaves a child,
the property is divided equally between
mother and child. If he leaves two or
more children the widow takes one
third. II the widow alone survives, but
Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-18

IT is probable that North Dakota will
have a clause incorporated in her con-
stitution making the governor, the Sec
rotary of state and state auditor q board
Of railroad assessors. This scheme is
doubtless inspired by the railroad ennis
saries. Such a clause in n state consti-
tuition will practically place the rail-
road assessment in the hands of the
railway managers, who will always see
to il that the conventions nominate
state officers friendly to the monopo-
lies.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-18
THE TEA.

"
Clarisse-Did you attend Miss Smooth
bore's pink tea? Mathilde-No; but l went
to a blue dinner there once.
A man in Cleveland makes affidavit that he
suffered 1872 consecutive days with the tooth
ache and yet never whipped one of his Chill
dren or said a cross word to his wife. No
human being will believe him.
Mrs. Tonay (after passing a newly painted
house)-Good graciousi And / have been
brushing close UP 10 it all the way. Do
please look, Mrs Sharpe, and see if Nv got
any paint on me- Mrs. Sharpe-I don't
think there is any on your clothing, Mrs.
Tonay. 'h'
Outside of those in public office there are
four persons in the United States who are
entitled to send atd receive mPil matter free
OF postage. They are the widows of Presi-
dents Polk, Tyler, Garfield and Grant. The
privilege Is granted by special act of con-
gress. MOI
The longest day. Is in June, they say
The shortest paDecember.
They did not come TO me that way:
The shortest l remember
You came a day with mt to stay,
And filled my heart with laughter;
The longest day-you were away
Tine very next day after.
Archduchess Stephanie Of Austria has
been released from the quasi-imprisonment
in which she has lived since. she became a
widow. The family statutes OF the house Of
Hapsburg require that the widow of any
| prince who is in the line of succession shall
be attended day and night by a couple Of
sworn duennas who take the duty turn
about for at least four months after her
husbands death, and during that period she
is not allowed to leave the country. Last
week the Emperor Francis Joseph received
a formal notification, backed by the certifi-
Gates Of the court accoucheurs and mid
Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-18

THERE is a melancholy satisfaction in
contemplating that there was a
trust or pool formed for the benefit OF
the The combination just
formed by the leading publishers of
school books, like the proposed salt trust
or railroad pool has but one object,
namely, to maintain, il not to raise,
prices and to divide the profits. The
consumer can be benefited only where
trade is unrestricted aud competition is
free.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-18

THE proposition of the Thompson
Houston Electric Light company to fur
nish for a term of five years a twenty
four thousand eight hundred candle
power light as a substitute for the pres
emit gas lamps, computed to sup
ply fifteen thousand three hundred
and forty candle power at a cost equiv
alent to that charged by the gas COM
pany, seems fair on its face. The pro
posal should, however, not be acted
upon hastily. Possibly the gas com
.pany wall meet tie competition by
marked reduction.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-18
Canada Convenient; Cuba Undesir,
able.

Annexation should be continental. The
United States does not want outposts in the
form of islands to wrangle about. Canada is
convenient: Cuba undesirable. We have
territory enough already, and it would be
wretched policy to annex islands which
would be troublesome in themselves and
likely to lead to foreign complications of an
annoying and costly if not dangerous nature.
The downfall of many governments in the
past can be traced to the aggressive spirit of
annexation and conquest.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-18

CHAUNCEY M. DEPEw is said to be
dining and wining in London with all
the swelldom of British aristocracy.
The people Of England must have heard
of his fame as an after dinner speaker.