Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 1, 1881, Page 4

A Pablished every morning, except Sunday. e only Monday morning daily. TERMS BY MATL:—~ Three Months L‘l.m MHE WEEKLY BEE, published ev. oty Wednesday. Omabha Bee.|, purify the rpublican primaries in Witen the effort was made a year ago this county by a system of registration and the adoption of supervisory regu- Iations that would prevent fraud, the organ of the Union Pacifie, witharepub- lican brand, insisted that the only way to rcform the known abuses at primary clections was by the enactment of a law. When the legislature was in session last winter and a law to punish TERMS POST PATD:— frauds at primary olections had One Year......82.00 | ThreeMonths.. 80| o0 " " fonate, the U. P : .00 | O W | P 4 b monopoly henchmen strangled the CORRESPONT —All Communi- | proposed reform in the lower house, oations relating to News and Editorial mat- ters should be addressed to the Eprron o¥ Tar B BUSINESS LETTERS—AIl Busines fietters and Remittances should be ad dressed to THE OMAMA PUBLISHING COM- pany, OmAnA. Drafts, Checks and Post- office Orders to be made payable to the ordor of the Company. OMAHA PUBLISHING 0., Prop'rs E.ROSEWATER, Editor. £dwin Davis, Manager of City Circulation. John H, Pierce is in Charee of the Mail Cirenation of THE DAILY BEE THE GARFIELD MONUMENT. CrLevELAND, September 27, To the People of the United States: The movement to secure funds for the erection of a monument over Gen. James A. Garfield is being responded to from all sections of the country, oast, west, south and north. In order to make it popular, it is desirable for the citizens of all the states to imme- diately organize, The committee re- spectfully requests private banks and bankers and postmas‘ers to receive contributions to this fund and remit the same to the Second National bank of Cloveland which has been desig- nated as the tresurer of this fund. Also send the names and postoffice ad- dresses of contributors. J. H. Wabg, H. B. Pavxg, Jos. PERKINS, Committeo. In response to this call Tue Bee would earnestly urge upon all patri- otic citizens who desire to perpetuate the memory of the lamented prasident to contribute their mite to the pro- posed national monument. In this city contributions will be re- ceived at the following named bank- ing houses: First Nationa! bank, ‘Omaha National bauk, State bank of i Nebraska, and Caldwell, Hamilton & Co. We would also urge the organiza- tion of local and state mcnument as- sociations. Patrons of THE Bre may forrard their contributions di- rect to this office and we shall ac- knowledge the receipt of all such con- tributions through the columns of Tae Bee. Owixa to the superhuman efforts of Jim Wilson, Towa will go republican on the eleventh of October by a hand- some majonty. BisMarck has consented to the ap- pointment of another Catholic bish- op. The vatican has proved the only oppohent which the premier has failed to conquer, Tug primaries are the fountain head of our system of government. Once polluted and contaminated in 1its source the stream is certain to reek with contagion throughout its whole course, Tue Cheyenne Leader lays down the law for trying and hanging Guiteau. The Cheyenne papers ought to be good authority on abrupt sus- O e . PENNSYLVANIA politics are greatly agitated by the independent candida- cy of Hon. Charles 8. Wolfe for the state treasurership. The Camerons don't like like such a Wolfe in the re- publican fold. Iuuivows has already one cabinet officer, Robt. Lincoln, who, accord- ing to all accounts, is to be retained by President Arthur in his recon- structed cabinet. And now wo are informed by the most reliable Wash- ington gossip that General Logan, Emory Storrs, and Green B. Raum are also to be members of the recon- structed cabinet. If Illinois has any more great men ahe had better not be 50 bashful. — W have a society for the preven- tion of cruelty to animals, but we also need & society for the prevention of cruelty to childcen. The prevailing practice among teachers in our cen- tral achool of compelling children be- tween the ages of five and eight to re- main unsheltered on the achool grounds during violent rainstorms until the exact moment school begins, and &Q’.'pfioq ejection of these children out of the school house into not be too severely denounced. ‘It may’ ient for teachers in the grades | to have & noisy swarm little chil- dren in their schoolrooms during re- oess hours, but 8 common humanity would dictate that thess children should not be to pitiless rain- storms, while teachers are com- And now the Union Pacific organ, with a republican brand, has the im- pudence to assert that laws to punish frauds at primary elections are im- praciical and useless, When and whore have such laws boeen proved useless and impractical? They have had such laws in Ohio since 1871, and they have effectively prevented the most flagrant abuses, such as repeat- ing and voting of non-residents. In California the primary election law has been in force for three years, and it has given general satisfaction. In Pennsylvania a law embodying the principles of the Ohio enacted last winter and tested this sum- mer for the first time,in Philadelphia. All the reports that have reached us through the pross from Fhiladelphia express decided satisfaction with their new law. It is not to be expected, however, that the political managers of the Union Pacific monopoly will ever fa- vor any measure that will put an end to frauds and corruption at primaries. Such regulations, either voluntary or enforced by law, would put. an end to their vocation. They know that they obtain control of party machinery entirely through Dbribery, ballot-box stuffing, repeating, These political pirates care very little wheth- er thoy wreck the partics they pre- tend to support. They are hired for such work and they have no compunc- tion about the consequences. law was and bulldozing of employes. Wk shall not be surprised if the re- port that President Arthur has ten- dered a cabinet position to Roscoe Conkling's successor, Senator Lapham, will prove true. There is no doubt that Mr. Conkling’s ambition is to re- enter the senate and re-occupy the seat he vacated last spring. As Sena- tor he can exercise a8 much influence with the administration as he could exert as member of the cabinet. Senator Lapham, on the other hand, would regard a cabinet position as preferable to a short term in the United States senate. By resigning his seat an opportunity will bo af- forded to Mr. Conkhing to secure what he will deem a vindication--in a re-election by the legislature, With the adtive backing of the administra- tion, Roscoe Conkling will encounter little difficulty in securing his old scat in the senate. Once in the sen- ate he will become the recognized ad- ministration leader, and in that ca- pacity he can render greater service to President Arthur than in the cabinet. Whether Conkling's return to the senate will strengthen the administra- tion-depends entirely upon his future deportment. Roscoe Conkling is an intellectual giant, but his implacable hatreds and bitter resentments have destroyed his popularity. Unless he profits by the experience of the past six months, his return to public life will prove disastrous to his friends and the republican party. CHIcAGO i8 about to test the prac- ticability in the - working of under- ground telegraph wives, The Mutual Union company has made arrange- ments to place all the wires conter- ing in that city under the streets, fhere has aslways been a ques: tion whether the interference from induction between currents un- derground parallel and in proximity would not seriously interfere with the work of such lines. The Western Union has repeatedly declared that ¢ OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. ‘The all absorbing thume in foreign lands during the past week has been the death and obsequies of President Garfield. A wave of sympathy be- ginning with England on the west has swept through FEurope. In Eng- land the great commercial classes in many instances gave up the day to sorrow and the half-drawn blinds of the shopkeepers, the black draperies in the streets and the flags at halt- mast testified to the prevailing senti- ment. Memorial services were held in many of the churches and the occa- sion was generally observed as one f mourning. At Liverpool business was entirely suspended, the bells tolled mufled peals and all the city offi- cials attended the special vices at the pro-cathedral. In Paris the solemn ceremonies were held at a late hour in the afternoon, so as to coincide in time with the actual funer- al rites in Cleveland, and members of the French cabinet and the diplomatic bodies were present. Similar services were held in Berlin and most of the large cities of the continent. Even in far off Egypt the day was not forgot- ten, all the ministers of state and the entire diplomatic corps attending the American mission church at Cairo, where appropriate addresses were de- livered. Such marks of sympathy manifest the high esteem in which the United States is held by foreign peoples and sements still closer the ties of friendship that bind us to the mother country. One English paper @ven suggests that this feeling should find more substantial expression in the shape of an informal union of Great. Britain and America for the preven- tion of future conflicts, The comments of the foreign press upon the death of General Garfield were singularly intelligent and sym- pathetic. The Pall Mall Gazette said, editorially: “For a hundred years England has had to pay the penalty of the folly of her obstinate monarch, ser- thie would be the result of such an experiment and on this ground has defeated all efforts of the city council to com- pel them to bury their wires. The Mutual Union telegraph company thinks differently. It believes that the wires can be buried for the short distance that they pass through the city, and still transmit currents with- out much difficulty from induction, It has patent process of insula- tion which it proposes to use in trying the experiment ~tor experiment it is, itds true. A copper wire, not insu- lated, is run through a small glass tube just large énough to contain it. Many of these glass tubes are tied together and inclosed in a lead tube sbout two inches or more in diameter, and the tube is then filled with an in- sulating material. The pipes are laid underground and the wires are ready for work. The outcome of this expe- riment will be closely watched, not only in Chicago, but in ‘every city where the tel pole nuisance is ‘becoming unbearable. Tunex out of the seven delegates to the republican county convention from the first ward are railway and postal clerks, The railwey mail ser- vice evidently takes a deep interest in thio selection of our gounty officers, but at last it appears that the expiation is complete, and in sentiment the cld country and the new are united by ties as deep, as tender and as strong as if the tea had never been thrown into Boston harbor, and the echoes of the Concord fight had never reverber- ated round the world.” The Evening Standard said: ‘‘Around the new- made grave, which closes to-day over the remains of General Garfield, stand in sorrowing attitude the whole Amer- ican people, and their deep sorrow finds a sympathetic response in the heart of the whole English nation. Although a thousana leagues of ocean roll between our shores and those of the nation whose chief citizen the dead man was, still we take part in the melancholy drama being enacted at Oleveland under the eyes of our Amenican brethren.” The Echo said: *‘Sovereigns and statesmen of Europe would do well to reflect upon ' this cos- mopolitan sorrow. Were every one of them swept away to-morrow the peoples would not be half so deoply touched, Furopean sovereigns and statesmen still maintain their control over the bodies and posscssions of those whose lives and treasures are lavished in dynastic aggrandizement, but they have lost the hearts of the people. In the hour of her sorrow the great cosmopelitan republic com- mands far more sympathy beyond its border than the proudest historic monarchy of Continental Europe could command over its subjects,” Asiatic cholera still rages’ virulent- ly in Russia and Austria and accord- ing to the rule which has heretofore governed its progress will be due in America in 1883, Ayoob Khan, the victorious and dreaded Afghan chief, has been wholly defeatea by Abdul Rahman, and has rotived to Herat to recuperate. It is now two months since Ayoob ad- vanced so near to Cabul that it created fears of the security of the English frontier. Having captured Candahar, having a large force at his command, and having beaten the Ameer at every point, it seemed impossible that he should not capture Cabul and over- throw the Ameer, who had made preparation for & flight to Eastern Turkestan. How it was that the en- ervated Ameer roused himself enough to route his adversary, unless he had received assurances of British aid, it is impossible to tell. Such probably was the case. Abdul Rahman, it is said, has 20w marched toward Herat. In this he probably acts by British advice, for he would not do it of his own accord, and ‘would be satisfied with his victory, but to othar eyes it would appear that he has no other re- sort except to capture Ayoob or to suffer from his periodic attacks, Mr. Gladstone has made six peers lately. Two of the peerages were given to pay off election debts,—that is to say, Sir Heury Tifton was made a baron because he had at great ex- peuse contested succossively three un- promising districts and suffored three defeats for the good of the liberal par- ty; Sir Harcourt Johnstone resigned a seat in the commons in order to let in # cabinet minister who had been unseated because his electioneering agents bribed, and wo Sir Harcourt is made a lord. Sir Dudley Coutts Marjoribanks is & brewer and baunker. The Earl of Howth, an Irish peer, ek oMaHA B PAlpgE: N _ and the Marquis of Tweeddale, a Scotoh, are made British peors, and 80 is Lord Reay, alsoa Scotch peer, and the only man of the whole six whose attainments mark him as es- pecially fitted for the highest legisla- tive body of the empire. Reports from Tarkish railways show an increase of business last year over the year before, In passengers and express, it was 20 per cent; in freight, 5 per cent. From military transport it is estimated that 20 per cont. of the total was derived. Of passengers, 521,376 were carried, against 408,464 in 1879, and the re- coipts from them were £57,000 as against £62,000. From express the receipts were £52,000 as against £40,- 000, and from freight £106,000 as against £100,000. The total receipts wero £215,000, or £247 per mile, the miles of road in operation being 872. Bismarck's overtures to the pope have made him the most hated enemy of ‘the young Italy party, and has once more drawn them to the French as the enemy of papal rule who, afew weoks ago, they were cursing for their occupation of Tunis, The hopes which at that time they entertained ot wresting Nice and Savoy from the French by German aid have been widely dispelled. Instead of allying himself with the Ttalian democracy, Bismarck became the sworn friend of the Italian king, and held out\a hand of friendship to the most hated enemy of young Ttaly, the pope. King Hom- bert was only too glad to notice these friendly overtures of the Ger- man chancellor, for his con- science smote him that the head of his church should be so implacably persecuted by his people, and his wife, Margerita, upbraided him be- cause he did not exercise his royal power to protect the Holy Father. But the Italian people, who had al- ready hoped that, by repealing the law of the Papal guarantees, they might succeed in ridding Rome and Italy of the Holy See altogether, were simply thunderstruck. Thus it has come to pass that the execrations of young Italy against Germany are now bitter and passionate, and that France is once again clasped to the Italian heart at any rate equally op- posed to the Papal rule. King Hum- bert has lost the rest of his populari- ty; and the many rumors of pending negotiations between the Italian mon- archy and the emperor of Austria. Hungary for closer friendship and mutual support have even changed from sentiments of affection and re- spect te feelings of enmity. There is more wealth in the island of England than in any other country on the globe of equal size—and, per- haps, as a result, for the greatest wealth and the greatest squalor are often To9ma’Sde by side, there id more poverty in England than anywhere elso, too, The statistics show that the number of paupers has decreased in the last ten years, and this is taken as a proof that the poor classes are improving in their condition. Still there are a great many paupers in the United Kingdom— 1,011,389 on the books as recipients of parish relief alone in January, 1881, indicating a total of 3,639,000 persons who re- ceived aid during the year. And this isnot all. Mr. Wm. Hoyle, ot Tot- tington, stated at a recent meeting in England, that there are not fewer than 7,000,000 persons who are either pau- pers or constantly on the verge of want and compelled to ask relief from friends and neighbors. This is one- fifth of the whole population, or one person in every five a recipient of charity. The congress of Americanistas has been holding its sessions in Madrid. The congress is composed of savants and antiquarians who organized a so- ciety in 1873 for the purpose of gath- ering information concerning America bofore its discovery by Christopher Columbus, The society was founded in France, and this is the fourth con- gress held under its auspices. The first took place at Nancy in the first year of the society’s existence; the second was held at Luxembourg, in 1877, and the third at Brussels, in 1879, The labors of this congress, as in the others, will be distributed among several sections, the more in- teresting of which will be those of history, ethnography, linguistic pal- wontology, palography, and archeol- ogy. Since the institution of the first congress much has been accomplished in the way of discovering and collect- ing documents and data of America prior to discovery, and also during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Much of the information thus far col- lected has come from American, Eng- lish, French and German sources, The growth of the telegraph system in Japan has been rapid. It in: troduced in 1871, and at the beginning of last year comprised 3929 miles of lines and 9345 miles of wire. During last year the total number of telegrams reached 1,272,766, of which about 96 per cent Japanese. Including the five submarine cables the total receipts were £108,323, and the expenditures £101,674. 1t was the first year when the lines returned an excess of reve- nue, Operators are trained from among the youths of Japan in a spe- cial school recently opened for that|Arth SATURDAY OCTOBER ), 1831 purpose. During this year 22, were appointed to positions and 77 sill re- main under tuition. They aronught to write English and French. for 20 characters in the Japanese langiage, for a distance of 60 miles, the aarage rete is about 3 sen, ora little loss han 2 cents. German Americans are highly n- dignant because the German empert and his parliament neglected or di- clined to follow other European m- tions in sending expressions of cond lence and sympathy to the Ameriea people over the death of General G field. In such a universal recognitien | of the calamity which has overtaken! this great Republic, the silence of a kindred nation becomes all the more strange and the more conspicnous be- | cause this world-wide tribute has been paid not only to the memory of a chief magistrate, not only in execra- tion of a deed as cruel as any which has ever stained the pages of history, but also to the memory of a good man who had endeared himself to the world by the heroism of humanity. This strange indifference seems all the stranger when the close rela- tions between America and Germany are considered. Next to English and Irish in our population come the Ger- mans, and at the present rate of emi- gration the Germans will soon out- number all other foreigners in our midst. They embrace an element of whicn Americans have long been proud, and who hold many of the highest positions of commercial trust and political honor in our country. Tt is not a matter of surprise that under the circumstances our German-Amer- icans feel that a great injustice has been done their native country by the silence of the German emperor. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Remenyi opens the St. Joe star course October 1, Miss Anna Bock, the pianist, will play with Maurice Dengremont in his concerts throughout the country. “Pinafore” has at last got over to Ber- lin, and will soon be produced at the Friedrich-Wilhelms theatre as “‘Amor an Bord.” Miss Minnie Hauk, according to the Musical World, is_still at Baden-Baden, the guest of her friend and patron, Baro- ness de Witzleben, Xaver Scharwenka, the pianist and ~ mposer, announces in German papers that he will open a new comservatory in Berlin on October 1st. The listof teachers shows that it will be in Germany. Mme. Christine Nilsson has returned to Paris after spending a month at Mont- Dore. Fizaro says she will probably go to America this winter, Mr. Jarrett having endeavored to secure her for a tour, Fanny Davenport’s principal support during the coming season will be Edmund Tearle, brother of Osmond, George Darrel (astar for many years in Australia), May Davenport (a sister of Fanny), and others, The death of Joseph Labitzky, who with Lanner a- d Strauss constitutedfor so many years the bright triad of Teutonic waltz-composers, occurred on the ¢arl morning ot the 19th ultimo »t Cnrluhch Labitzky was born at Schonfeld, Bohemia. A new play is being written in which the here ' found lost and flying in the desert, chained to the bareback of a bi- cycle. His deliverer proves to be a prine- ess, who marries him and m kes him cap- tain of a base ball nine.—[Albany Times. Miss Griswold, says the Paris Figaro, has been asked by the manager of the Lyceo theatre in Barcelona to sing with M. Maurel in “Hamlet” as Ophelia on some festive occasion. The Lyceo has seats for 5,000 spzctators, and it is expected that on thig sion all Catalonia will be pres- ent. M, Vaucorbeil, however, has re- fused his pupil permission to go, on account of the state of her health, Eawin Booth, supported by Cyril Seale, Sam Piercy, David Anderson, Rob- ert Pateman, Bella Pateman, Eva Gar- rick, Mrs, C. Calvert, Miss V. Calvert and Louisa Eldridge, with Maze Edwards as acting nanager, and Marcus Rittager, business agent, ovens Booth's theatre or the 3d of October, *‘Michael Strogoff” Dbeing withdrawn in heighth of prosperous r. Mr, Booth will open with ““Riche- Fraulein Brandt, of Berlin, and Herr Winkelmann, of Hamburg, have already gone to Bayrouth to study their roles of Kundry and Parsifal under Wagner's per- sonal instruction. To prevent any repeti- tion of the accidents which occurred in 1876, and also to give more_variety, Frau Materna, of Vienna, and Herr Vogel, of Munich, as well as Herr Jager and Frau Vogel, will alternate with Brandt and Winklemann in these parts, The other arts have been assigned to Scari, Siehr, Reichmaun, Beck, Schelper and Hill, PEPPERMINT DROPS, The Missouri teal business on the C. O. Omediately Down, The drouth has been very severe on tramps, They have been compelled to forego their daily bath, “‘Look out for the James family when the train stops,” is how signs on Missouri railroads will read hereafter. An Italian idol was recently found in Kansas, It w:s made of earthenware, was brown in color, snd has a handle, It will hold two quarts. Niagara Falls is so brilliaatly illumi- nated by the electric light every evening that after paying the hackman you can easily see whether there is anything left in your pocket-book. Fggs are worth twenty-five cents a dozen in New Jersey, and the hens are working_extra hours to supsly the de- mand. Funny lecturers should ‘clip this out and paste it on their cheeks, A Massachusetts paper says General Sher- man was affected to tears at Worcester the other day when the school children marched " by him singing “Marching Through Ge"‘f“{; but * doesn’t explain whether it was tight boots or poor singing, ‘The Indiana secretary of state recently recently received the following jndicial re- Vv”" from & justice of the peace at Fort ayne: ‘*‘You are s lire when you told the ba) made for me. T s a_justis and I know what my rights are. You are a fule, I am the worst democrat in this town and all T want is my rights, T hope you wont tell any more lies about me,” ‘‘Yeos,” whispered the boy to Mr. Bar. num, “Dm ready topay for my ticket, but I want the xlg\‘r lewze of crawling under the ¥ robbers transact , principle. Come tent.” An Barnum agreed and or- dered the not to interfere with the lad, and after the boy had performed the feat Mr, Barnum went inside and asked him his reasons for it, and the ladexplained that he had got over #7 bet ~ with the bo who had tried the crawl and failed that he would succeed in it. Shlnrokud her head in at the office win- dow of the village postmaster, snd inuo- cently observed: "I expected a letter trom ur torday, What do you suppose was r ther that 1 said the laws were | The the reason he didn’t write?” Annoyed by the intrusion the federal official sharply responded: *‘I don’t know, but perhaps he was engaged in writing to another woman Inst might.” Tt happened, nnfortunately for the postmacter, that the lady who sought the information was a niece of the congressman for that Jistrict, and thenext month his official head rolled in the basket. New cure for the toothache: A New Haven woman, learnine that nitro.gl - ine was a new medicine for toothache, in- duced her husband to bring home a small can of it in his vest pocket. Just the mo- ment he put the can opener to it to get a few drops to put in the aching tooth there was & slight sizzling noise, a hole in the roof of the house, and two individuals running about the room without a hair left on their heads and their clothing in shreds, However, the tooth stopped ach- ing.—New Haven Register. “Twas a sultry and wuegy day, but the agent wiping the perspiration from his low but somewhat manly brow and_throwing his linen duster back, I"’EY‘": “Madam band abont?” “Ves, but T 'tend to all acents that show tl «lves around hore, What is it? sducing a threshing machine in this ighborhood, and—"" **Not in this neigh- orhood, you “aint, if T knowit. I'm com- jetent £ do all the thrashing needed o this farm, You ask my boys, Bill and fan, and if you don’t believe them ask my nan just over in the lot there,” anda -light acvance that she made in his directi n shested to him that he had better move 1 before she tried her power on him,— |Nw Haven Register, EDUCATIONAL NOTES. Itis announced that all prizes, honors and wgrees which the Royal university of Irelaul can confer are open to women as well to men, Darimouth has a freshmen class of sevent;-five members—two less than the numbei that entered last year. The new curricium provides a great many elec- tives, epecially in foreign languages. Thirt; Indian students from the Hamp-. ton Nomal school, who have finished their ecucation, are to go to Dakota to teach ibes, Their their res\:e W places inthe school lled Dy new students, Tt is projosed to re n the Sonth Caro- lina, miliary acade It has been closed sinet tha war, aud the citadel ocen- pied by the government as captured prop- erty. Anefort is beine made to secure from the gveinment rent for the years passed sindg the restoration of the state, The cnyil{cr corps of the T army has bien awarded the the internatinal geogrphical cor cently in sesfin at Vienna, for the best display of mis, surveys, etc., and_to the i y was_awarded the i« proficiency in predicting and for the perfect details in its system, Professor A.\Cayley, Sadlerian professor of pure mathettics at Cambridge uni- versity, will sodn visit Baltimore, and will take a regular pact in_the mathematical instruction of John Hopkins university until the close of the session next June. Besides giving lectures to mathematicians, Professor (‘,nrlsy will take part in the mathematical seminary, and will be accessible for* conaltation to advanced students. Superintendent Cole, of Albany, sug- gests that the board oi education provide twenty-five cnrius of ome good juvenilé magazine for the use of the reading-classes in the lower grades of the public schools, The Albany teachers have begun system- atically to furnish lists of books for home reading suited to the ageand mental pro- gress of their pupils. 1t is too soon to judge how much use will be made of these liats, but it is alveady evicint that the pu- pils take great interest in them. General Garfield, in & conversation sey- eral months ago, paid a fine tribute his wife, who in early life wasn pupil of his school. “T taught her Latin,” he said, “and she wus as_good a pupil as [ had. She is now teaching the samo Latin to my two big boys, to get them for the academy ot Concord, Mass.” While speak- ing of the matrimonialinfelicities ot public men he said: have been wonderft blessed in the disc etion of is one of the coolest and bes men I ever saw."” The school teachers of Sa a recent meeting rejected by jority a proposition to abolish to adopt oral examinations i a discussion on the marking intendent Taylor said that w school he was a firm believer in credits and carried the system much further than was done in that department. But he was beginning to doubs its fulness in the school department of ths city. He said that the questions given at examinations could be answered by one or two words selected from a paragraph -in the text book and that to pass the examinationit was not necessary to knmow much of the subject. The trouble is thatchildren’s minds run wholly to percentages. Butin most cases high percentages show very weak minds, He wished that the abuses of the system could be abolished. Many parents look to their children’s crelits, Children are not heard talking of the n facts that they have learned or the ng principles they have been taught, bat” of percentages and standing. And it is so with the parents, He did not remember a single parent with whom he had talked who bad ever mentioned a new fact of ‘n- terest that his child had learned. Heonly heard of 80 many credits earned. Crediti, as now used, draw the attention of the pu- pils from the true ohject of educatic . perintendent Taylor's statements are worth consideration by teachers throughout the country, CONNUBIALITIES, large ma- ittenand A man of75 and*a woman of 50 were the principals in a Muscatine wedding the other day. Mdlle, Litta, the song bird, is f{ning to mate soon. r. Cleveland, the well known tenor, is the happy man. Governor Plaisted of Maine has been married to Miss Mabel F. Hill, the daugh- ter of Hon, F. W, Hill, of Exeter. Ex-Governor A, P.’}(. Safford, of Ari- zona, was married at Tucson, on the 10th instant, to Miss Bouillas, a Spanish lady of that city. At a recent London wedding a number of small boys were dressed as ylweu. in ruby velvet coats and knee-breeches, with lace ruffles and cravats, red silk stockings, red velvet three-cornered hats and white satin waistcoasts, A Denver girl advertised for proposals of marriage. Her father published a card 10 say that her advertisement was merely a foolish freak, and that nobody should re- gard it urinunlg. The girl came out with a declaration that, being of legal age to choose a husband for he self, she had taken her own means of getting suited, and Jid not mean to abandon the vlan, The in New York of Miss Berryman and Mr, Lerillard Spencer will, it is said, be celebrated very soon after the arrival in this country of Mrs, Wil- linm Spencer, who has announced her in- tention of being present on the occasion. Princess Cencia, a sister of Mr. Spen- cer and_one of the Indies of the house of Queen Margherita of Italy, will not come over to the wedding, as was first expected. Beds of Down Feel Hard All beds seem hard to the rheumatic. Then harken ye peevish sufferers. A, rlj Dy, Thomas' Klectric Oil to your wB ing joints and muscles. . Rely upom it that ot will experience immediate reliof. uch, ut least, in the testimony of those who hive used it. - The remedy is likewise wuccessfully resorted to for throat and lung diseases, sprains, bruises, etc. Dexter L. Thomas, ATTORNEY - AT - LAW 1w A NEW ADDITION ! T e Omaha. THE BEST BARGAINS Ever Offered IN THIS CITY. NO CASH PAYMENTS Required of Persons Desir- in to Build. LOTS ON IAYMENTS o S5TOS1O PER M‘BNTH.‘ MoneyAg¢vanced- We Now Ofer For Sale 85 Sblendid RESIDENCE LOTS, Located on 27th, 28th, 29th and 30th ireets, between Farnham, Dofglasand the pro- posed extension of Dodge St., v|112 to 14 Bbcks from Court *| House and Post Office, AL PRICES ranging from $300 to $400 which is about Two-Thirds of their Value, on Smnull Monthly Payment ot‘f65 to $10. Parties desiving to Build and Improve Nead Not Make any Payment for one or two years, but can usq all their Means for | Improving. . Persons having $100 or $200 of their own, But not Enough to Build sych a house as they want, can/ take a lot and we will Loan them enough to com- plete theiy Building. These lots are located between the MAIN BUSINESS STREETS of the city, within 12 minutes walk of the Business Center. Good Sidewalks ex tend the Entire Distance on Dodge Strvet, and the lots can be reached by way of either Farnham, Douglas or Dodge Streets. _They lie in a part of the city that is very 1dly Improy- ing ard consequently Increasing in Value, and purchasers may reasonably hope togidouble their Money within & short ufife, Som Mbf the most Sightly Locations in the ®Ry may be selected from these lots, elspecially on 30th Street. We will build houses on a Smal Cash Payment of $160 or $200, and sell house and lo¢ on small monthly nayments. Ttis expected that these lots;will be rapidly sold on these liberal terms, and persons wishing to purchase sheuld call ‘at our office and secure their lots at the earliest moment. We are ready to show these lots to all persons wishing to purchase. BOGGS & HILL, Regl Estate Brokers, 1408 N Bide of Farnham Street, 2p. Grand Central Eotal, SJMAHA NHEB, { ( —