Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 4, 1886, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, THURSDAY, MARCH 4. 1886 ATA OFFICE,NO, 014 AND gIgFARN AM ST YORK OFFICE, ROOM 65, TRIBUNE BUTLDING ARHINGTON OFFICE, NO. B15 FounTeERNTit 8T, biished every morning, except Sunday. Tho jonday morning paper published in the $10.00Three Months ix Months. . 5.00/0me Month. ...... Bk WeekLy Bre, Published Bvory Wednesday. TRRMS, POSTPALD: ~ One Year, with premium {One Yenr. withont promitim TERMS BY MATL: .50 100 jx Months, without premium. . e Month, on trial ~ Al communications relating = forinl matters should be addressed to the Epi ~ %OR OF “RE URE. : NPSS LETTERS! mittances ghov ¢ 1IEE PURLISHING COMP checks and postoffic be mado prynble t THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS he order of the compan; Now is the time when the remarks of Ay passenger agent are of a cut- ting natu We have not yet heard whether Dr. " Miller and Charley Brown have met in Washington, and which spoke first as he passed by. By the way what has become of the . domocratic war cry, “Turn the raseals out?”’ Has the democratic throat become worn out with shouting? AN ocean cable is to be laid_ between New Zealand, via Hawaii and San Fran- eisco, at a cost of §8,000,000. This wili complete the clectric girdle around the globe. Dr. MiLLER'S paper tells us that the doctor “has no olive branches” for “slot- ter house'’ democrats. The Herald speaks the truth. The doctor has no “olive branches.” Parson Downs, the notorious Boston ex-pulvit pounder, is rapidly developing into a pugilist. His latest exploitis the knocking out of a newspaper reporter. He will soon be in demand as a dime mu- seum attraction. Tue hydrophobia scare has done some good, especially in London, where it has cansed the slaughter of 10,000 dogs. Omaha needs a hydrophobia scare, if it will have the same efiect he This city can spare 10,000 canines. They never would be missed. ik public domain has nearly all been disposed of, and it will bo only a few years when it will be a difficult matter to obtain a homestead. The state of Texas, which until quite recently had a vast public domain, has exhausted its avail- aple lands and now has no land to meet certificates already issued to railroads and other corporations for internal improvements. Tue Rhode Islanders, herctofore chiefly engaged in manufacturing, have lately begun to turn their attention to " agriculture and dairying. This is a . somewhat surprising statement if true, for we have always been led to belicve that Khode Island ‘isn't aslarge as an ordinary Nebraska farm, and that it is too small for even a fair-sized potato pateh, or a cow pasture, Ik senate committes on public tands has reported adversely on Dement, surveyor- general of Colorado, who had a great story of land frauds in his district, The senate committee on public lands seems to be stop- ping very heavily in the neighborhood of Gardner, even if Mr. Van Wyck IS chairman of the committee.—Herald. Mr. Van Wyckdoes not happen to be chairman of the committee named. Try again, Mg. GERE is convinced that it would be very bad taste in General Thayer to allow his name to be brought forward for governor as long as he remains com- mander of the G. A. R. Perhaps Mr. Gere would not consider it in taste if his name were brought out for the governor- ship, although he is regent of the univ sity. $2,00) railroad commissioner, and has unlimited suction in the swill barrel of the state house. ‘Tar first stop towards a general prose- cution of the oleomargine manufacturers Bas been taken in Baltimore. The Pro- ~ duce Exchange is prosecuting the e, and has detectives on the lookout for ‘Enhs selling the bogus-butter as real. is about time that a similar step be taken in Omaha. Nebraska has an anti- oleomargarine law, which can be en- ' foreea if parties interested will only take the matter in hand. ALEXANDER SHAW, 54 years old, and 'wife, dying of consumption, are in prisen " in New York, charged with the larceny * of a spread which Shaw took from the bed in their poorly furnished rented room ‘%0 pawn for 60 cents, with which to buy bread for his sick wife. On the same day ‘on which Shaw was arraigned Juke ‘Sharp was badgering an investigating nmittee and showing his questioners easy it is for a millionaire to steal $5,000,000 without fear of the police or . TEe era of Jeflersonian simplicity ‘whieh was to be inaugurated at Washing- ‘ton with the democratic administration failed up to last advices to put in an ance. All authorities agree that winter has been the gayest on record ut the capital. The Jeflersonian pre: dent is surpussing President Arthur in ~ the magnificence of his receptions, the” uet and sparkle of his wines, and the number of glasses which adorn each e 's plate at the tabie. The cabinet fleers are splurging with a display hich discounts the palmiest days of b Grant regune, and senators and " representatives alike are vieing in the q nce of their new residences and the b exhibition of wealth which they i . Balls, routs, and roceptions each other in the most bewildering jusion, and the press of the capital that Washington has never in all annals shown itself to beder advan- to its titled visitors than during the year of Mr. Cleveland's administra- . Saint Thomas and his boasted eity did well enough for campaign al, but Mammon was promptly on the pedestal the moment the reins governmeat were taken well in band. General Terry's Promotion. The president, in spite of all prodic: tions to the contrary, has filled the va- cancy in the list of major generals, eaused by the death of Hancock, by the selection of Brigadier Ge Terry, now commanding the department of Dakota. General expectation had contered on Howard as the successor of Hancock. Rank, past services and the strong support of influentinl friends all were in his favor. The action of the president in passing over General How- ard and in promoting his junior to out- rank him scems to be without justifiable excuse, and will not meet with the approval of fair men in or out of the service. Under the law promotions in the army are by sc- niority in the regiment up to the rank of field officer, and by seniority in the branch of the service through the grades of major, lieutenant colonel and colonel. In nominations for brigadier and major general the president s given an arbi- trary choice. He may appoint by se- niority or may utterly ignore the consid- ion of relative rank. This latitude is given to the chief exceutive as com- wder-in-chief of the army for a spe v and presumably for exerc under special cirewmstances. The sole aim and ovject of this divergence from the general rule is to assuve the sclection of able men for the highest commands In time of war good regimental com- manders are often found who would be entirely incapable as directors of a brigade. Under the wise discretion given e president their juniors of greater abilities or better habits can be sclected to outrank them. But i times of peace rcise of the power of disre y is avery questionable one. The rarvely benefitted, and the rri- tation induced is demoralizing. In the case of Generals Howard and Terry - the fecling is almost universal that though the nomination was made clearly within the power of the president the vesult is a grave injustice to a Dbra ofticer and a soldier whose record in active service is without o stain. There could have been no question in the mind of the president as to General Howard's fitness for the aney. A general whose valor won him the thanks of congress, who served both in the armies of the east and west with distingnished efliciency and who led during the war far larger commands than our entire army as P! nt constituted was sur eligible for the office. To pass him ove 3 of perscnal antagonisms and politi pressure was, we repeat, an act of grave injustice. ‘Upon the army at large this action of the executive will be most demoral- izing in its tendency. Ambi- tious army officers will now t themselves more than ever to wicld political influence at the capital. The fecling that promotion is to go by favor and not by rank will make every officer anxious to lay wires through which hjs claims, present or prospective, may reach i The strain will be in the ¢ for promotion, not atten- tion to duty, with the certainty that pro- motion will follow. We have nothing to say against Gen- eral Terry, who is a brave soldier of ex- cellent record and a fine executive A Connceticut lawyer before the war, he is the sole representative of the volunteers in the ranks of the major generals of the army. He won well de- served laurels at Fort Fisher, and has increased his popularity since the war in and out of the service by his firm and brilliant administration of business in his various commands. He is an officer of clear head, large brains and generous impulses. But for all these considera- tions, his friends should have been con- tent to have pushed him for the coming vacancy to be made on the 16th of this month by General Pope’s retirement, which would have given him the coveted grade with the same relative rank to which he was entitled as a brigadicer, g the County Koads. The poor condition of the roads and bridges of Douglas county is a matter of frequent complaint both on the part of residents in the country who have bu ness in Omaha and citizens who have business to transact in the country. With the largest taxable population of any county in the state and with a propor- tionately large levy available for road and general purposes, Douglas county in the condition of her highways and bridges is far behind a dozen coun- ties of half her size and a quarter of her wealth. Some attention and considerable amounts of money have been spent on the highways leading into the city in the pust few years. The im- provements have been badly made in some instances. The state road law, which makes all section lines county roads, is the worst possible for this por- tion of the state, however eatisfactory it may prove in the western and more level portions, Its effect in the eastern part of Douglus county is to make the county roads the shortest distance, but the longest time between any two points, and to necessitate an enor mous amount of needle: grading in the roads running west from the city. Many of our county roads would be quicker and better thoroughfares if the hills over which they pass conld be circled instead of surmounted. The inci 1 distance would be more than made up in the shortened time and saving in horse flesh. But with matters as they are, too little attention and money bave been de- voted to the roads of Douglas county. The improyements made were for a num- ber of years scattered indiscriminately. There was mno definite plan of # general scheme for highway im- provement, The commissioners have scomed to comsider more how the distribution of the funds would effect votes than its effect upon elers and vebicles. During the past four years there has been an improvement in this respect and the board has begun to spend money for the future as well as for the present, The permanent improvements on the extension of Farnam street, of Thirtcenth street and of Cuming street, were all steps in the right divee- tion. The work done was well done and will last. In this respect it differs from the one-horse-and-a-scraper jobs which have in times past been ridiculous commentaries on the inefliciency and short-sightedness of previous county boards. Douglas county has a right to demand that her highways shall be the best in the state, her bridges equal to the best, and her facilities for internal cemmunication second to none. The roads leading into Omaha and the principal highways bisecting them north and south should be first taken in hand and placed in proper condition, graded and ditched, the i wooden bridges replaced I stantial iron trusses, and such cl in the lines made as can be carried out with little expense for the general benefit. Every increase in the quality of the high- ways leading out from this city benefits the city and the county, and saves muscle, sinew and patience on the part of those who travel over them. England Wants Silver. London bankers several wecks ago published to the world their solemn pro- test against the demonetization of silver and their position is now reinforced by the chamber of commerce of that city The assembled merchants of the greatest il center in the world ve it as y unanimous opinion that the decline in silver and 1ts disuse as money Fecting British commerce unfavor- ably and greatly disturbing trade. The chamber, after a full discussion of the subject, resolved to urge upon the govern- ment to unite with other countries in an endeayor to restore silver to its former functions as a legal tender. This is n serious blow to the arguments of the monometallists who would drive silver from its position as a correlative standard of value beeause Germany and England refuse (o resuseitate the Latin union by returning to a double standard basis. As amatter of fact, in the two countries which have been the most determined opponents of silver the condition of teade and industry is the worst. German merchants ave petitioning through the reichstag for the remonetization of the metal, and English traders are awakening to the disadvantages which acerue in international dealings from the use of a single standard. Itis the knowledge of movements such as these which make the people of the United States unwilling to assume that the only cause of business and industrial depression is the volume of the rency and their refusal to make the A ndard of value in this country. If England and Germany would unite with the people of this country in sup- porting silver, its fluctuations would ase, and gold would assume national ratio to its metal. A City of Homes. Omaha is rapidly becoming a city of homes. It has been her good fortune to escape the horrors of tenement life filth and the discomfort of the apartment house system. Hundreds of our workingmen own their own little cottages planted in the middle of what in other cities would be called a generous lot, with plenty of sunshine and an abundance of fresh air. With the funds hoarded little by little in savings banks, or accmulated through the various loan or building associations, our workingmen and mechanics are yearly adding to the number of family hearthstones, and taking the first step towards a com- fortable independence by building their own homes. The advantages of owner- ship over tenantey cannot be too strongly impressed upon our people. Where the landlord is least powerful poverty shows its head the least. The prosperity of Philadelphia’s working classes is largely due to the fact that a great proportion of mechanics and laborers, greater than in any other city in the union, own their own homes. From an economical point of view, proprietorship of home 18 cheaper than rent paying, even when inte taxes and insurance are taken into consideration. Even with a mortgage on the property it is better than a rented house. Habits of saving are often induced by the onfio ced economy necessary to pay for a house and lot which are the foundation upon which future wealth is built. Experience has demonstrated that ownership of homes is a powerful in- centive to good citizenship. The house- holder and tax payer has the best of re: sons to work for efticient and honest government and for the general interest of the community of which he is a part. GovERrNOR DAWES has appointed Mr, M. L. Hayward to the vacant judgeship in the second judicial district, which oftice the supreme court has created by 1sing to iterpret the constitution asit Mr. Hayward, it will be remem- «d, was Thurston's candidate for the place of Amasa Cobb on the supremo bench, and whose place Hayward will take as soon as Thurston and the Union Pacific are able to put him there, M Hayward’s political services to the r: roads in the past entitled him to this po- sition, and Governor Dawes, in serving the railroads by appointing him will not disappoint the people. Nothing better was expected of him, The man whom the bur desired for the position, if it was to go to Otoe county, was F. E. Warren, of Nebraska City, who has a legal mind sccond to none in the state, and is pre-eminently fitted for the bench. But Mr. Warren has never log-rolled for the railroads, and has never packed a convention in their interest. Hence Governor Dawes’ pref- erence for Mr, Hayward, who has often distinguished himself in that regard. As to the legality of the oftice, we express the honest views of ninety-nine out of every hundred attorneys, including those who represented Mr. Mitchell before the supreme conrt, when we say that the act creating the second judgeship is a fla- grant violation of the constitution, and if a non-resident tax-payer could carry a ease involving the non-payment of the judge's salary to the supreme court of the United States we believe that the oflice would be decreey illegally ereated. Tug introduction of bills in three legis- latures for boards of arbitration to settle labor disputes shows how strongly the importance of the subject is impressing itself upon the public. The bill before the New York legislature 1s one of the simplest. It provides for the formation of local boards whenever disputes arise, of which two members are to be chosen by the employers, two by the men, and a chairman to be chosen by these four. These boards are to organize, hear the case, give their decision and adjourn, an appeal lying to the state bourd if either party is dissatis The mem- bers of these local boards are to serve without pay and all the ex- penses of the hearing are to be borne by the county in which the ease urises The state commission of three is to be a permanert body, the members appointed by the governor and serving three years. The salary is to be $3,000, one member is 1o be chosen from three names submitted by the state workingmen's assembly, an- other to represent the manufacturers and a third to be a citizen at large. The large proportion of labor disputes arise from misunderstandings Between the two opuosing sides. A mutual discussion of differences often results m preventing mutual los A UNI France is loud in his denunciations of the gham economy of the present administra- tion. He had a weakness for sending his reports written microscopically on small picees of paper, so that it was hardly pos- gible to read what he had written without the aid of a magnifying glass. The d partment failed to appreciate his exhi tion of penmanship and he was instruct- ed to be less economical in his paper, but no attention was paid to the instruction. After he had been written to several times without any reform being eflected, his removal was decided on and notice of that will doubtless secure his atteution when it reaches him —— KINGS AND QUEENS. The crown prince of Germany has seventy- two decorations. Queen Natalie is said to be the most beauti- ful woman in Servia. The czar of Kussia goes about photograph- ing everything within range. The king of Sweden stronger than coffee, and wears a blue ribbon, Thebaw’s queen dresses very plainly in yellow, but constantly wears a £00,000 dia- mond necklace, Queen Vietoria will give two drawing- room receptions in person at Buckingham palace in Mareh. The young king of Siam Is a reformer. Ie punishes all officials who are found guilty of aceepting bribes. The embarrassments of King George of Greeco are increasing. Iis ministers of war and navy threaten to resign unless war against Turkey is declared,and if war should be declared the combined fleet of the Euro- pean powers will proceed either to bombard Athens or dismantle the Greek navy. In this situation the best thing that King George can do s to resign along with his ministersand let the powers try their hand at governing the warlike population of mod- ern Greece. The emperor of Germany recently gave orders for the holding of another subscrip- tion ball at the Royal Opera March 4. For many years past there has been only one, but that of two weeks ago was so successful, 8,419 persons being present, and many more unable to cbtain entrance, that the second was decided upon. The addresses and gifts sent to the emperor on the occasion of his twenty-fifth anniversary are now publicl displayed at the royal castlé, forming a most brilliant collection, even 'njore magnificent than those received by I'rince Bismarck on his 70th birthday. e - The Trade Outlook. New York Journal. Dry goods men predict :an early and a prosperous spring trade. Salesmen lock havpier than a western congressman with a foreign mission. drinks nothing —— A Chance for Fun. St. Louis Glolg-Democrat. Geronimo intended to surrender until he heard that congress was going to send out a couple of cowboy regiments to hunt him down. Then he concluded that he couldn’t afford to miss such a chance for fun. ot oy The Reason Why. (Chicago Times. Mr. George Washington Childs believes that Mr. Garland is a much abused man. But Mr. Childs is a poet and naturally takes sides with a man who encouraged a fellow-bard in the person of Rogers. e The Cowboy Pianist. Chicago News. Babel, the “cowboy pianist,” who has so stirred up the New York critics, has been in and about Chicago for several months with- out attracting any very special attention. The fact is, cowboys who play like Rubinstein are very common in this part of the country. ——— No Moral to It. Chicago Tribune. Magdalen Miller of Greenville, Pa., is 90 years old, is in vigorous health, and has chewed tobacco for soventy years. The les- son conveyed by the record of this fine old lady is marred by the fact thatso many peo- ple who have chewed tobacco have not lived to the age of 9. There seems to be no moral to the case at all e Hard to Break Down a Great Name. St. Louis Republican. ‘There are many newspapers in this coun- try named after the journal so ably con- ducted by Horace Greeléy, but when the Bos- ton Herald habitually refers to “the Tribune” nobody has a doubt that the New York Tri- bune is meant. In this, as in other things, My, Whitelaw Reid is continually reminded that it is hard to break down a great name, e The Mormon and the Chinama Columbus Dispatch. A Mormon going southward; A Chinaman going west— “They stopped buncath a siguboard T6 sit them down to rest. “Now what a blanked mean country “Fhis is,” the Mormon said ; “A 100 muchee must glo countlee!” And Chin \ong shook bis head, “Oh, whel you gloin’, Molmon?” “Look up and you will know,” The Chinee elimbed the signboard And read, “To Mexico §&™."" d where you going, heathen®” L00k upeé,” said Chin Wong; oy read the other signboard, “his road to reach Hong Kong L&~ ST STATE AND TERRITORY. NebraskaJottings, Cedar county is out of d#bbfl Chauntauqua and Shakspeare clubs are trumps in Exeter. ' Hog cholera prevails in' the neighbor- nood of Tecumseh. Oakdale is erying for a fire department and squirting apparatus, Ponca is looking lunfmg{\' for the loca- tion of a Lutheran college there, A hook and laddey, outfit has been added to the Norfolk lire department, W akefield boasts that in‘the matter of chess players it can down” any town in the state. The census {lwt completed in Fremont shows 1,286 children of school age, a gain of TTinay John Smith still lives, though he dropped two fingers in a corn sheller at Schuyler a few days ago. Appropos of Nebraska City's fatherless babe the Press hints, *'Tis a wise kid that knows his own dad.”’ Seward has a market day each month, >t aside especially for the purpose of ex- hibiting and selling cattle and stock. A Fillmore county man claims the pre- mium. He reports'a turkey under snow for fift du{n with no food, but lving when found. The Plattsmovth canning factory has already a stock of 250,000 cans ready to be filled when the season opens, The factory is to be enlarged. A man at Crab Orcbard undertook to liven up & fire by a dose of keroscne. The subsequent livening up applied rather to the man than the fire. Milkmen at Rushville got into a row and cat on prices until they got down to two_cents per quart. Their milk kept getting thinner as they went down. A Wisner cat pounced on a weddin eake while the knot was being tied, and chewed up the sugar-conted decorations, The mew sickencd and died, purr thing. A Hastings school inarm got left by the rain ten miles away from home last Sat- ay night at 9 o'clock, and she walked it in just two hours and twenty minntes, The Plattsmouth Morning Mail died hard—up. Over its grave in the journal- istic boneyard this epitaph should be placed in letters a yard wide: “No eredit given hepe!” Butler county goes Wheeler two better and trots out a gold find. Wheeler county is just recovering from the paralysis pro- duced by a salted coal vein, xuu{ Butler will doubtless experience the first symp- toms of pectniary remorse about Ay Pote O'Sullivan, the leading pur of bourbon literature in Cuming count does not seem to be seriously depressed by the failure of his efforts to ‘‘turn_the rascals out™ of the local postoflice. In a lition of the Progress he makes the ing tall bid tor the presidency of the Elks: ‘A Cuming county farmer has a porker which was buried forty-five days under a fifteen foot snow drift, coming out a little distigured butstillin the M There v lington du Y. The Odd Fellows of Creston propose to build a business block this year. There were thirty-four fires in Daven- year, involving a loss of $52,057. The amount of coal shipped from the different Lehigh mines and sold Web ster City during the winter 7 10,000 tons a month, The democrats scored soveral vietories in the municipal elections Monday. Even Puacific Junction joined the procession by electing a democratic mayor. A reward of $200 is offered for the re- turn, dead or alive, of ph Hazlett, who' mysteriously disappeared from his home at " Nashua onthe night of ‘ebruary 9. The foundry of the Union works at Clinton was blown down by the fierce wind whi: on last Thursday 'he building w a large brick structure erected recently to re- place the one destroyed by fire a fow months ago. Mayor Ernst venport was of age las and i been a dent of the city thirty-thr years, A large number of citizens took fudvantage of his anniversary to present him with an elegant family carringe, completely furnishied, and a superb team of horses. y-nine deaths in Bur- Cla Dakota. Extensive prairie fires prevailed last week upon the reservation near Pierre. A Chinese laundry run by a Dutch- an has been established on” the banks of Crow Lake, The farmers in the vicinitv of Okobojo have about completed the work of sowing their spring wheat. The Dakota Press association will hold the next annual meeting at Aberdeen some time in July next. Nathan Wood of New York has pur- chased the water power at Buffalo Gap, and will improve and develop the stone quarrics. Some of the citizens in Watertown and farmers in Codington county have formed a Joint stock company for the purpose of holding county fairs. The limit of the capital stock is $10,000. Placer mining is about to be resumed on French creek and its numerous tribu- taries. The continuance of mld weather has caused an earlier start in this direc- tion than usual, and many miners have perfected arrangements for the season’s work. Robbery is still rampant at the Gap, and to such an extent is it carried that peaceable citizens arc in jeor when they are within the loc their own residences. 'Three robberics were committed by breaking down the locked doors of private residences and holding up the occupants. A Deadwood paper says: “An orror occurred in the makeup on the first page of this pa and was not discovered until the edition was run off. Eight lines at the foot of the second column of read- ing matter should be at the head of the same column. The funcral of the offend- ing foreman will take place Tuesday at 3 p.m, Friends invited.' Wyoming. Wyoming merchants are not troubled with n war of rates. The merchants of Cheyenne are trying to organize a board of trade. Laramie is to get the territorial univer- sity as an oflset to the capitol s Cheyenne. J. K. McGuire, quartermaster’s clerk at Camp Carlin, was found frozen to death near the camp, Sunday last. He leaves o widow and four Iren Cheyenne expects to distance all pre- vious records of prosperity this ) The certainty of $150,000 being expend in a capitol building, has given business a tremendous boost. A company has nlso been incorporated to build a railroad north, and give the city connection with the Northwestern road” when it reaches central Wyoming. The legislature has K“m“l a bill organ- izing the counties of Niobrara and Fet- terman, The f will be half as large as the present county of Laramie. Fetter- man will be smn?]nr than western and especially territorial counties usunll?' are expected to be, but possesses several very ile valleys and some fine grazi in" the northeastern por 5 The area will be about 2,800 square miles. e Lkl Rl Federal Collections. The receipts in the oflice of the collector of internal revenue w omew hat larger for February than for the ing month inlast year. Following are the collections for the past month: Collected on lists Beer stamps sold. Spirit stamps sold’ . Cigar stamps sold Tobacco samps soid Special tax stamps.. Total ... Correspondin; . The receipts at the custom hous ing the past month were small, as very litglo importing is done during 'the first partof the year. Following are the i Total. Corresponding month, 158 X I The Lost Found. Frank Hinek, father-in-law of Oflicer Peter Matza, and whose mysterious dis- appearance was chronicled in yesterday’s Beg, has been found, He was traced to South Omaha, where it was found t hie had been out in the couutry sine Thursday last engaged in buying horses. Although an old ‘man of 76 years Mr. Hinek is still able to take eare of himself and is rather nettled to think that his business trip should huve caused any anxiety. Better Gas. Gas Inspector Gilbert says that the quality of the gas manufactured is at present better than it has been for some months pagt. The fact is mainly due that the intense cold weather does not inter- fere with the process of manufacturing the gas, causing undue condensution. IMPORTANCE OF ARBOR-DAY. Not for Treeless Rogions Alone, but for the Replenishing of Wasted Forests. J. Sterling Morton Builded Better Than He Knew When He Gave Origin to This Day. (N, H. Egoteston, tn the Popular Seience Monthiy.) Among the agencies by which we hope to remedy the evils threatening us on count of the rapid wasting of our forests, Arbor-day promises to bo among one of tho most important. A little thing to be- gin with, it is capable of such expansion as to become a wide-spread power for good. For the settler on the naked, wind swept prairie, to plant trees was one of the first necessitios of life. -Certainly, without the presenoe of trees existence there could not be comfortable, and the tendency of one’s surroundings was to forbid any but a low type of civilization or of domestie life. Fertile soil is not all that is needful, nor can 1aan live, as he was designed 1o live, by bread nlone, But manifest as was the need of tree- planting under the circumstances advert- ed to, it was not easy to effect the work The very magnitude of it was as discour- aging as its necossity was imperative. What could the planting done by a few scttlers amount to on those wide seas of verdure, trecless and shoreless? Driven by necessity, as we have eaid, they did, many of them at least, plant their little groves of cottonwood and other quick growing but frail trees around their cab- in; These gave some shelter to the cabins and their inmates. But what was to shelter the cattle and the erops? The hap-hazard efforts of a few, working here and there without concert, easil, pent themselves in attaining results far short of what were needed. It was the happy fortune of one living “a proneer in the treeless rogion of the {, not only to feel with those around him the evils of their peculiar_situation, but to devise an instrumentality which would arouse an_interest in the” needed work and an enthusiasm for it that would convert the necessary labor,to a large ex- L least take from it acter and irksomeness of a drud- The plan was, to fix upon a par- ticular day, at the season of the year when the trees are starting into tresh life and to invite those in the same gene region to engage together on that d: the work of tree-planting. The designa- tion of a particular day had the effect to prevent the propitious’scason of panting trom shpping by unobserved, while it had also the advantage and stimulative effcct attendant upon co-operative en- deavor. The thought of tree-planting was thus at a certain time made as it were to pervade the atmosphere, or rath- er, perhaps, to become an atmosphere. Thus Arbor-day, or I'rce-planting-day, origmated, and tho_person who put the question, not long since, in the columns of one of our newspapers, *‘Who invent- ed Arbor-day?'’ used the right word. We commonly apply the term invention to some machine or mechanical contrivance. But there is no reason for thus restrict- ing its meaning. Arbor-day is truly an invention as the cotton-gin “or the steam engine, and, | those notuble inven- tions, its importance and beneficial ro- sults will be recognized in increasing measure with the lipse of years. Gov- ernor Morton builded better than he Kknew when he gave origin to this day. He was thinking chiefly of his own state, Nebraska, of beautiful name, but swept by the fierce blizzards of the northwest and the hardly less harmful sirocco: blasts from the torrid south. He was contriving a plan to raise up against these harmful agencies the eflective bar- rier of the leafy trees. His plan com- mended itself at once to his fellow-citi- zens, and in the first year of its adoption more than ten million trees were planted. Nor was the happy invention limited in its application by the boundaries of & single state. The people of neighboring states and territories, with similar needs, one after another, adopted it, until it may be said to have become a fixed in- stitution throughout the prairic region of the country. But Arbor-day is not for the treeless regions of the west alone, The principle of associated and simultaneous action which it embodies commendsit for adoj tion almost everywhere. States wher once the trees were so abundant as to be in the way of agricultural improvement, and to call for ! 1 the fi move them as spe y as poss where their value for lumber had oc ioned their rapid and general di ment, are now welcoming Arbor-d: assist them in regaining the condition which they lost by the inconsiderate des- f their st friends. Thus Iately a wilderness of forest, and even ending to market annually more lumber than any other state, but becoming sensible of the need of trees for other use than to bo converted into lum- ber, has made experiment of Arbor-day, and in his designation of the 11th of April last, by public proclamation, Governor Algor carnestly recommended that on that day *‘we planttrees by the road-side, by our ¥l\l‘m-huusuu, in our fields, parks, villages and_cities around our school- houses, and in the cemeteries where sleep our beloved dead, * % We may not id, “‘to enjoy the full fruits of but our children, and our chil the benefit of Pennsyly in keeping with that wise wtion of the value of trees which am Penn to preseribe, among the early laws of his colony, “that clearing the ground carc be taken tolo one acre of trees for every five acres ," has followed Michigan in the nt adoption of Arhor-day. wstern states in forestry as compara- rec ‘I'he older northern and have not the same inte the prairvic states. tively well wooded. even among them, such have been the encroachments upon'the woodlands by the axe and by fire as seriously to afleet the flow of streams, and the manufacturing and ng- ricultural interests dependent upon them. ral of these states atlention has subject, and_its mau fest importance has led to legislative ac- tion looking to the protection of what forests remitin, and to the planting of new ones, Mostof the New England states are now engaged in the ous ;n\'mnfi - tion of th forestral condition, ' honrds of agriculture have taken it into consideration, and some of them have urged the adoption of Arbor-day as an instrumentality of importauce to the in- terests of th cs. Thus the Arbor-day idea is seen to have spread far beyond the I» ace of its origin 11 has been formally adopted already by seventeen of our states, and bids fuir to be adopted soon by many oth A noticeable and important develop- ment of the Arbor-day movement is ils connection with the public sehools. This may be said to date from the memorable tree planting by ti pils of the public schools of Cincinnati on the oceasion of the meeting of the Amer congress in that city in the b‘n No one who was present will ever the scene, when, “on a lovely May twenty thousand school childrei shaled by their teach formed a partof the grand procession which, amid ban: ners flurtering from every window, and with the accompaniment of military bat- talions and bands of musie, went out to thie beautiful and well-named Eden Park, there, in Authors' grove, planted trees in memory of the most eminent authors and statesmen of our own and other lands. Tt was a lesson in practical forestry and of practical edueation at the same time, It was a frand and impress- ive object-lesson of the best character, and one that reached far befond the circle of those immodiutely engaged in it. If the children were taken out among the trees for a holiday, the trees were thenc forth and thereby brought into the schools of Cincinnati, and the sweet influences of nature, sonnected with the school-room and its studies as never before, That holiday was made a most impressive and valuable school-day. It was for the time the school in the open air, face to face with nature and her most healthful and instructive agencies. It was only a little while after that scene in Cineinnati that the superin ent of the schools of West Virgima. moved altke by a desire to arouse a prop- er sentiment in behalf of forestry and to promote the interests of education, sig- nalized his administration by desiguatin an Arbor-day and inviting its special o servance by tho schools of the state, His appeal met aready response, and the day was widely observed. And by all means should Arbor-day in- vito the children to engage in its obse ance, It wasa most happy thought to connect the schools with it,and thus en- large its scope. It was so, whether we consider the interests of forestry or the terests of education. The pupilsin the schools to-day will soon be the men and women, the honscholders and eitizens of the country, holding its character and destiny in thoir hands, They will be all- powerful, Itis most important, there- fore, that they should come into their in- fluential pluce in society prepared to use their influence in the best manner and for the best ends, And this is to be secured by the best training in their school 5 such o traini will fit them to deal wisely W facts and conditions of practieal life. Therr education should be 80 conducted a8 to be not a |l|'|ul;_n-r?' but, a delight. And this it will be made if the mind of the pupil is engaged with objocts which interest it, with objects close about it, rather than those away and with which it has no concern. Set the child to study the geography of his own town, or first his own school house grounds, in- stead of that of Kamschatka,and he will be interested. Engage him in noticing the forms of the trees that grow about the school-place—the bitds, the flowers, the rocks whicl ho secs overy day—and his mind will become all alive with interest in them, Tl re akin to his own na- ture. He l. hold of them as by an in- stinet, Give him these objects of study in place of much of the customary task- work of arithmetic and grammer, for in- stance, and you inspire within him such « loving and ardent desire of knowledge, and such an awakening of facilities, that the world around him will be his school- room o long as he lives, in which he will be studying to the last, and in which he will find perpetual delight. It is sad to know that so much of our school-time has been and still is wasted, and that the children so frequently have eome out from the place of education, as it is called, with so little knowledge of the world in which they live and in which 50 soon to occupy positions of and responsibility, ‘Ihere are no studies in which the young are so much interested as those which re- late to the natural world, and there are none h better serve the purpose of disciplining the mind for the work of coming life. The general adoption of Arbor-du, therefore, and its con- nection h our schools would boe a pleasant starting-point for -introduction into them of the natural iences with all their healthful and help- ful influen And just here, also, if we mistake not, is our best guarantee for the promotion of forestry and for tho solution of a great national problem, The children, who have been invited and assisted to plant shrub and tree on their school-house grounds, will soon be interested in the work of their elders, as they plant trees along the borders of the streets, and will ask to join in it. Next, they will be ready to assist in brin in‘f trees, with which it may be sought perhaps to give the village cemetery a more pleasant look; or they will enter with sympathy into the work of converting some neglected spot of ground into a comel, park, of clearing a rough piece of wood- l:md 80 us to make it a desirable place of resort and recreation. Thus, going on from ydar to year, a new generation will soon have come to manhood and woman- hood, a generation full of the love of trees as such, and not estimating them merely for their value as lumber or cord- wood.” They will even have a poetic sensibility in respect to the trees. Like the old Grecks, they will sometimes peo- ple the woods and groves with dryads,or, as our ancestors_did, with gnomes and sprites. They will have iearned, also, as their fati.crs have not, the important relations which the forests sustain to. climate, to the precinitation and distrib- ution of moisture from the sky and clouds, and its exhalation from tho round. ~ They will be sensible of their nfluence upon the hot and cold currents of the air, and their value to agriculture by sorving as effective barriers againss them. They will have learned, as their fathers have not, how nicely adjusted to each other are the forces of the natural world, and how hazardous it 15 to disturb their equihibrium, yet how easily in our ignorance or recklessness we may do it, The fact will be familiur to them that the woodman, by an improvident use of his axe upon the hill-side, may lct loose the torrent or the ava he, whichmay hurl ruin upon the fertile valley below. ” Well knowing these and many other things respecting trees, of which the present generation for the most part are ignor- ant, or which they are slow to learn, the new generation will recognize, as we do not, that the trees are essential to man's highest welfare, that they are his best friends, that they are the constituted artners of the world with him, that human life in fact would be impossible without them. 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