Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 9, 1886, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. O8AA OPFIcR No. 914 AND 0T0FARN AM ST ~ KEW YORK Orrice, ROOM 05, TRIDUN® BUILDING - WasmNGTON Orrice, No. 513 FOURTRENTH ST, Published every morning, except Sunday. The n&Jndu m':,ymnm paper published ‘in the et 3 gra ,{”" $10.00/Threo Months ix Month: 5.000ne Month - Myte Werkia Dire, Publishod Every Wednesany. i TRRMS, POSTPAT e Your, with premium. ... Yene, without premium iix Months, without premium e Month, on trinl. TERMS DY MAIL: 9250 100 3 CORRESPORDENCE: ~ ATl communications relating to news and edi- torinl mattors should be addrossed to tho Epie FOR OF “HE BEE. BUSINESS LETTERS: All bu siness Iatters and romittances shonld bo modcessed to THE DEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAfA. Drafts, checks and postoffice erdors | 10 b mado payable to the order of the company. - THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETONS. E. ROSEWATER. Eorron. ] Tie silence of the president in regard " o Nebraska appointments is so thick that it might be ent with aknife. Dr. Miller's promised war of extermination still waits behind the skirmish lines. Trere scems to be a lull in the attacks L on Attorney General Garland. The Bell telephono managers have pulled in their horns or else the funds for the relief of ed organs have given out. SENATOR J © and persists in offering his heart and I hand to the two millionairess, Miss Palm, | which leads the Boston Record to romark " mittee of the whole on the state of the . union. i GENERAL T r the Di- wvision of the Atlantic ports a true, and those who clai pW insist that Geners hbon will step into John Pope's on the 16th inst. We still bet on Howard’s chances on the grounds of war record and seniority in the THEY have a woman at the Paris cireus who jumps from one horse to another while the horses are going around the ring in opposite direction. That's noth- ing. We have politicians in Nebraska who can jump from and to se op- L posite platforms ,at the same time with- out apparently losing their balance. 8ENATOR RIDDLEBERGER ought to pe suppressed promptly. He has dared to jest at Senator Edmunds, and has ven- tured to charge thatsome of the senator’s private secretaries are ‘‘lobbvists and blackmailers.” The senate generally rushes into executive session the moment Riddleberger takes the floor. Those who claim to know insist that the ‘‘cold tea of the senate r urant is chiefly re- sponsible for Riddlcherger’s outbursts, and it will not be surprising if a prohibi- tion sentiment is awakened as the result of his drunken charges up and down the floor of the senate chamber, THE railroads scem to have some gpecial grudge against sheop. In the west they refuse to haul them alive in double decks; in the east they charge 90c¢ || per cwt. for hauling dressed mutton, | while dressod hogs go at 80c, and drassad cattlo (new rate), at 0bc. At the last Bession of the Nebraska legislature an at- tempt was made to pass a bill compelling railroads to furnish double-deck cars, but . the railroads, of course, succeeded in | pidetracking the mensure. Just why the | railronds should persist in keeping up an unjust discrimination against sheep is - something that puzzles the average mind and arouses the indignation of the farmers, Mgr. SorEN LIsTOE writes to the St. Paul Pioncer Press from Copenhagen to correct a recently published story to the effect that Minister Anderson on his flrst | presentation to the queen of Denmark | was guilty of several blunders in the matter of etiquette. He says that the statement that the new minister took a I chair unasked snd sat down for a famil- | iar chat with the queen, greatly shocking the attendants, could not have been true, because the queen always recieves | foreign ministers alone; and, sec- I ondly, because there were no " chairs in the room. As to the “Amcrican colony "being filled with holy horror at all this, Mr, Listoe says that the _ golony, so far as he has been able to dis- | cover, consists of Paul du Chaillu, the " traveler, Mr. L. Meldal of Minneapolis, * and one or two others, and that none of “ them have cver heard of any blunders " gommitted by Minister Anderson. On [ the contrary, our representative is quite . popular in the city, and is well roceived - at court and in all literary circlos. It is " surmised in Copenhagen, saysthe Pioneer Press, that the (um;y stories about Mr. ‘Anderson emanate from his disgruntled 8501 - SENATOR PLump has introduced an ‘mmendment to the Cullom railrond bill, ~ providing that passes shall neither be d to nor accepted by persons in the ge of the governmentunder penalty of fine or imprisonment. This is a proper . It has been one of the greatest dals of army life in the west that on duty, especially on the staff, e been able to add to their pay by ing mileage for expenses never in- rred, or if incurred covered by the transportation issued by the rail- ds. Within the past five years hun- of dollars have been paid by pay- m, s for traveling expenses of ofticers Journeys ordered from headquarters, never cost the beneficiaries a cent. proceeds were considered a per- isite of oftice and were pocketed by the welers. Scveral years ago this abuse mileage stimulated by free passes ched such o stage that it was pertin- “eutly referrcd to by the adjutant general 40 a cireular from any headquarters in Washington. When ofticers are not ling at publiz expense there may be exeuse for the acceptuince of free ortation over the railroads. But Lk takes a streteh of conscience to justify eertificution of nmuleage which was with- expense to the travelers, Itway be that the same abuse exists the cases of senators and man who use passes and draw msation for (raveling expenses. or Plumb knows bow it is himself, ket book is bursting upen with aururl:niou tendered lum over a ~trunk lines. He has not paida waorth of railroad fare in years. ition Le carries a Pullman annual 50"“ fayor, aud only given to pa way be counted upon to return ue for the complment. Why Rainfall Increases. The New York Zimes quotes the BEe's statement asto the retreat of the desert westward, and queries why rainfall is in- creasing in the section once given oyer to grazing and considered unfit for cultiva- tion. Observers and scientific men are agreed that the turning up of the soil increases rainfall by retaining moisture in the earth which otherwise would run off rapidly into the tributaries of the rivers and through them to the sea. The moisture thus retained is slowly evapor- ated and taken up into the atmosphere to return as rain in the region where it first fell. This is doubtless one reason of the increased rainfall, but there are others equally important The planting of trees has a vowerful influence in retaining moisture in the soil and in increasing the oxygen of the Plants take in carbonic acid and give out oxygen, one of the prineipal components of water. It is noted singular fact that the building and ope tion of railroads and telegraph lines, in advance ot settlement, is generally fol- lowed by a steadily increasing rainfall. This result is attributed to the effect of the electrical currents running on rails and wires. In the ¢ of the railroads the effect is more probably produced by the disturbance of the atmospnere attend- ant upon the rushing of the ns. Heavy rainfalls are known to fol- low artiller battles as the re- sult of the detonations of the guns. The same result takes place through the disturbanco of the atmosphere by the trains flying over the iron rails But of all these causes the most potent 18 undoubtedly cultivation of the soil, tree planting and the growth of crops which prevent the rapid drainage of the rainfall to the sea through the neighbor- ing streams. The hard sod of the prairie almost impervious to water sheds the showers from 1ts back like a roof. The plowed fields absorb the moisture and yield it gradaally back to its native ele- ment whenee it returns again and again to fructify the soil. The trees and groves, the broad acres of tall corn, all in their way t in the transformatiom of de- sent to farm land while railroad and tele graph lines may perhaps be adjuncts as suggested. The New Navy. The plans of Secretary Whitney for the new navy are embodied in the bill before the committee of naval affairs. Should they be adopted by congress, the United States will have an effective iron- clad fleet of twenty-two vessels. This es- tablishment, while not large, will be nearly equal to that of the German em- pire in strength, a little less than half the size of England and France, and more powerful than those of any and all of the South American republics combined. At present Chili and Peru excel us in the fighting capacity of their best iron-clads, As agreed upon by the committee, the naval bill provides in the first piace for two sea-going armored vessels of about 6,000 tons displacement, with engines of 6,000 horse power, and capable of a speed of sixteen knots an hour. These two cruisers will be veritable sea mon- ster: capable not only of pro- tecting the country’s coast, but of pursuing any enemy who may yenture into Ameriean watars, Ships of such tonnage and speed are extremely rave in the navies of the world. The great German cruisers have a speed of twelve miles an hour. Besides these two leviathans, the bill provides for three other new armored cruisers of not less than 8,500 nor more than 5,000 tons di: placement, and to have the highest prac- ticable speed; for four first-class torpedo boats, and for one torpedo cruiser, of about 800 tons displacement, with full torpedo outfit, rifle batteries, steel deck, and a sea specd of twenty-two knots an hour. A torpedo cruiser of such speed and destructive power would make havoc in an enemy’s slow-going fleet. The bill further provides for the completion of the double-turreted monitors Puritan, dnock, Amphitrite and Terror. ion is also made for the armament of the four ironclad vessels authorized by the act of March 8d, 1885. Of the four ships under the John Roach contract, the Chicago, the Atlanta, the Boston and the Dolphin, the latter only is completed and in servico. When all are finished under this and former legislation the country will be in possession of an cffective full- armored scagoing fleet of twenty-two vessels, The country has become fully aroused to the necessity of rebuilding our navy and making it equal to its duty of protecting American interests on the high seas. We are now pratically defenseless agninst ag- gressions from powers much smaller and weaker than our own government, Our sea coast defences are not worthy of the name, and we have no fleet to patrol our coast in time of war, With such a fleet a8 that proposed, there will be less necessity for the extensive line of coast defenses which have been urged so strongly. The fast cruisors will aflord much of the protection needed. They will possess the additional advantage of being able to pursue an aggressor into his own waters and destroy his shipping. Now that a new administration of their own party controls naval afluirs the democrats who have for years opposed all naval construction because republicans controlled the expenditurcs, will have no good reason for refusing to place the merican navy on the solid basis de- manded by every consideration of public salely. — A pisearen from Washington an- nounces that the fear of impending labor troubles is giving a black eye to building operations, Tho ramor that there will be a gencral strike on May 1st for vight hours as a day’s work with a consequent advance of 20 per cent as a day’s pay is forcing contractors to advance all bids on projected improvements. Architeets are advising against building this year on the ground of enhanced expense, and the prospects are that the number of men who will find employment at the short- ened hours will be less instead of greater than under the old schedule. Grand Master Powderly, of the Knights of Labor, in a recent interview denied that ten hours' pay would be askod for cight hours' labor, but the does not seem to be the general under- standing. It is very questionable whether the wage earners of the country ean afford a reduction of working hours which carries with it a twenty per cent. reduction’ of wages for a day’s work, simaply to give the extra two hours to the uncmployed, There eight-hour question, as there ure to every other important issue. If eight hours means the smme pay for cight Lows' are two sides to the | THE OMAHA DAILY BEE work as it does for ten, it means an ad- vance of twenty per cent. in the cost of production. If it mesns a proportionate decrease in the pay of workingmen it amounts to a twenty per cent. decroase in the wages of individual laborers and mechanics. Men like Mr. Powderly argne that if the same amount of work is to bo done the same amount of wages will be paid out to an increased force of workingmen, and that the num- ber of the unemployed will be lessened. This is undoubtedly so. But 1t is a seri- ous question whether the average laborer and mechanic can afford tostand the loss of two hours pay in order to give two hours work toanother, and it is an equal- Iy serious question whother a twenty per cent. advance in the cost of production will not re-act unfavorably to the best in teres of laborin case the same demanded for two hours less work as v under the old schedule. The Business Situation. The labor troubles that are cropping out in various sections of the country with the approach of spring are no doubt already having & somewhat depressing effcct upon trade, and the fact that the labor movement for higher wagos and concessions has only begun is not all conducive to the creation of anything like a boom in trade, manufacturing and indust circles, as capital i3 becoming rather timid. However, it is to be hoped that all diflerences will be amicably adjusted, and that the laboring element will succeed in securing all just and asonable demands. In that event the AT promis a most pros one in nes branch of tra industry At the wholesale trade centers business lias been only moderate during the past week. The general distribution of me chandise has fallen short of earlier antic of the son, but vidence of marked improvement in comparison with the same period last year, Trade exchanges ding commercial centres sj en- of the outloo The number failures in the United States shows a slight decrease, last week as compared with recent The total for the whole country, including Canada was 246, as against 248 the previous week and 286 the week be- fore. There has been a sharp advance in cot- ton prices. The is not supported by any material change in the statisti- cal position nor in the condition of consumptive demand, but seems to be the result of a growing sentiment that prices had been unduly depressed. This feel- ing has stimulated speculation, and the has been an extensiye covering of short lines as well as liberal purchases for in- vestment, under which New York prices for future delivery have ad- vanced forty-eight to fifty points as compared with week before last. The wool trade has continued sluggish and unsatisfactory. There is noquotable change in values, but ou all descriptions except low wools, which are scarce, the position favors buyers. Dry goods have been fairly active, although business has been retarded a little by the severe weatner, which has delayed the depletion of retail stocks, The market {s firmer' for cotton goods, and there is more confidence in the woolen goods trade, but few actual changes in prices. There has been less general activity in the iron trade, but good business is reported in plate and sheet iron. The car-shops are getting large orders, and there is promise of further large sales of steel rails during the next few weeks. The general situa- tion is strong. A stronger feeling has characterized the grain markets. The strength is due to the moderate improvement tly noted in the foreign demand. Liverpool stocks are being gradually reduced, and there is a little better inquiry from English buy- ers, but mostof the sales for export are on orders from the continent. The for- eign demand at best is only fair, but it contrasts favorably with the extreme dullness prevalent a few weeks ago. The riseis greater in actual wheat than in options, and this is an evidence of grow- ing confidence among the trade. A large amount of wheat delivered on March contracts has been absorbed by specu- lators, who have heretofore paid hand- somely to the professional carriers to take their maturing contracts off their hands and give them later “options” in exchange. The result is an appreciation in the value of cash wheat that has narrowed the difference in price between the options until there is no longer the usual margin over regu- lar storage charges from month tomonth, The mterior movement is moderate, and the visible supply in this country is 700,000 bushels less than week before last, but afloat stocks show an increase of 520,000 bushels, which is made up chiefly by the increase in the home supply brought out by the recent speculative flurry in New York. This change in the statistical con- dition has not shaken confidence in the market, as there is a well sustained de- mand for home consumption, and the ex- port trade, though not active, is very fair. Provisions are more active speculatively, but some products are weaker. Exports of hog products are moderate, and for last week fell a little below the total for the same time last year. IN no city of the country have women found more difficulty in entering the medical profession than in Philadelphia, yet there are in that city eight women physicians who have an annual practice of about $20,000 each, twelve who have an income of over $10,000 each, and twenty-two whose income is over §5,000 each. There is no good reason why a thoroughly educated woman physician should not have an extensive practice anywhere, for as a rule women naturally prefer to be treated by one of their own sex, provided they have confidence in the ability of the woman physician, Trg passage of the Blair educational bill by the senate, apvropriating $79,- 000,000, leads the Chicago Mail to make the suggestion that a portion of this sum ought to be set aside for the purpose of teaching people who send communica- tions to the newspapers not to write on both sides of the paper. The BEEalso suggests that people ought to be taught to write more prose and less poetry, SEVERAL Chicago “‘art dealers'’ attend- ed the sale of the Morgan art treasures in Now York, expecting to pick up numer- ous bargulns, but when they found the prices reiguing from $1,000 to §16,525, they acdjourned to a chdapilohn establish- ment and invested inaldot of chromos, which they intend te palm off on their Chicago patrons as genuine works of art. —_———— Somrof the old Maryladd slaveholders still cling to the idea that the government may possibly compensate them for the loss of their chaitles, and they have peti- tioned their congressional representatives to work for legislation with thatend in view. When the government redcems the confederate bonds, theh perhaps will it pay the holders for their slaves, and not before ———— It is reported that nearly half of Florida’s orange crop was frozen during the recent cold, the monotary loss being $1,500,000. We cannot believe this re- port in view of the fact that recent Florida “resolutions” are to the effect that not a single orange was frozen. There is nothing like resolutions to settle a question beyond all deubt. allest state in the Union, but she produces some of the most original ideas. A proposed wmend- ment to the constitution authorizes women to elect a general assembly, to be composed of women only, with concur- rent power and authority with the gen- eral assembly, which shall remain com- posed of men only. No lieutenant governor has ever be- come governor in Nebraska, and it is not that the precedent will be shed. Licut. Gov. Shedd may as well turn his ambition in some other direction. — tit Nalmgmnarmik Tysarumin ssumik Umckat is a Greenland publication. It takes two compositors a day’s time to setup its title. PROMINENT PERSONS. Frederick Douglas intends to o to fEurove in the spring on a two years’ rs' tour, Mrs. Hancoek's friends in Washington are talking of presenting her a house in that cit, Kate Field's estimate of the presidentis that he is a man of firm convictions and a desire to do right. Julius Ceesar, Augustus Cesar and another Cwsar are partners in business in Cincinnati. They have no Brutus in their employ. Anna Dickinson stlll contemplates return- ing to the stage, and is said to be negotiating with Loz don managers to that effect. “Mrs. Langtry,” says the London World, ias made an immense stride and placed herself, once for all, on the roll of se riou actre 3 Millionaire Hostetter wryml Allegheny county, Pa., last week, as &, common pleas juror. It was a dose of Ditters whichhe doesn’t like. k Mr. Hamilton Disston; of Philadelphia, 18 said to be the most heavily - insured man in America, having policies aggregating $475, 000 on his lite, 1ol A Buffalo man mentions it s one of Cleye- land’s strong points that he can trudge along astream all day without catching any fish and never getdrunk, { Pauline Lucea writes to friénds in London that her health is completely restored and that she will resume the duties of her pro- fession in Berlin in April. ! Sam Jones, sensationnl evangelist, was rormerly in the employ of Austin Curtin, of Pennsylvania, who is interested in iron works at Cartersville, Ga. Henry Watterson, having progressed well on the convalescent list, is in receipt of friendly warnings against eating another Jacksonian dinner at Columbus. Pittowkahanapywiyin, alias Poundmaker, chief of the rebel Crees, was recently bap- tized in the Manitoba penitentiary, IHis name was immersed in sections, Gen. Sherman says he hes no idea of aban- doning St. Louis as hils permanent residence, but Mrs. Sherman and himself will perhaps reside in New York City for the next two years. Squande; Ak ey g the Public Domain. Ohicago Tribune. At least a large part of the 170,000,000 acres of the public domain has been squandered by the sworn servants of the people. ekttt et Slang Revision, Chicago Times, If anyone is undertaking a revised edition of the slang dictionary, he should not fail to examine Sam Jon TImons Mayor Vaughan Ought to Issue a Proclamation. Siowz City Journal. There appears to be no reason why Mayor Vaughan should not issue a proclamation stating that out of a total vote of 2,600 at Council Bluffs he received, as an independ- ent candidate for mayor, Just 251, or less than one vote out of ten, e * Poor Old Kansas City,"” Kansas City Times, People are not to be blamed if in this howling waste of mud they cry out “Poor old Kansas City!” And the men as they go to business and the men as they stand helpless at the corners think— O for the tonch of a walk that is dry, And the sight of a street that is paved. Libi ki Already a Great Oity. O'Neill. Frontier., Avisitto Omaha last week convinces the writer that our metropolis is already a great city, and that it is destined to be the greatest west of Chicago. All Nebraskans are proud of Omaha, but we of the Elkhorn valley know that its prosperity and our own would bo greatly auemented liad wo direct railway communleation, If Omaha capitalists perinit another year to pass without bringing this about wé shall lose faith in their enterprise and judgment, e Gold Discoveries ip hrbruskn. Milford Neb The recent sensational accounts of the dis- covery of gold-producing ore in the muddy Missouri bottoms at Omala and in the bluffs near David City would seem to indicate, not that untold wealth is hidden beneath our soil, but that the fools are not all dead yet, Itis no doubt a profitable busintss o “salt” claims and create a boom to eateli'suckers in mining territory, but it won't work in this state, Ne- braska's wealth is on the surface, Plattsmouth Was Eptifjed to the Oftice. Papillion Times. M. L. Hayward, of Nebraska City, has been appointed by Governor Dawes, as judge of the seeond judicial district, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Mitchell. The proper man for the place was Sam M. Chap- man, of Plattsmouth, who, in point of ability, is far superior to Hayward. Besides Platts- mouth was entitled to the office, for no mem- ber of the bar of that town has ever asked for or held the office heretofore. B e A Truly Wonderful Machine. O'Neil Frontier. In our opinion the finest sight we saw on our recent visit to Omaha was the Scott per- fecting press of the Bel ation, Itis atruly wonderful machine. Theblank paper is ted from a large eylinder at the rear of the press and comes out at the other end printed, pasted and folded, ready for the newsboys. lu fifteen winutes after the press is started TUESDAY, MARCH 9. 1886, the p: are seattored all over the city. The forms of the paper are stereotyped and placed on cylinders also. e (Plain Talk. Plattsmonth Horald, The young man who is hired to abuse Ne- braska democrats in the editorial columns of the Omaha Herald, is venturing a good deal when he refers to Charles H Brown of Omaha 03 & ‘‘characterless” person. Somebody ought to vut him on a dunce block and put a fool's cap on his head. The public would know then just what he was. This young noodle forgets that Charles H. Brown has re- peatedly been sent to the state senate by the democrats of Douglas county, and two years ago was the party nominee for congross in this district. 1f he were “‘characterless” what sort of a party isit he has represented? 1s it an unclean bird, that befouls its own nest? The fellow who writes such stuff is a bigger fool than Do, Miller. - Endorsement of Senator Van Wyck. Grand Istand Times, The entire west will endorse the bill of Senator Van Wyek to give the accumulation of £5,000,000 of the Union Pacitic sinking fund back into the hands of the company to build the necossary branches to protect the main line from being bankrupted by the en- croachments of other lines itory: to assist it to pursue an aggressive instead of its vresent passive volicy. Espocially is this endorsed by the people because they believe the Adams’ administration of the road to be honest. If this bili passes with its present restrictions and security for the government, it will largely increase railroad building in the west. Let Van Wyck boom that bill, for itisin every respect tobe preferred to tho eighty-year bill of Senator Ho: — Question and Answer. New York World, Pa. what's an alderman? An alderman, my son, nd ail elso {one— Last year he r: The haunt of roughs he ow Especially the ots, And bigger grows from day to day, Whene'er the couneil mcets, Pa, what's a franchise? A profitable thing, Wiich ouzht to yield a revenue Enougli for any king, And which our lordly aldermen Toss toa “gang” or “ring.” Grow up, my boy, and do your best T'o be an alderman, Then run the city that you serve Upon the bandit plan: Grow rich and great, and keep outside State prison if you can. tiste b sl Van Wyck's Railroad Bell. Springfield (Neb.) Monitor. introduced a nato, permitting the Union Pacitic railroad to use the funds which have been deposited in the treasury un- der the Thurman act, for the purpose of biulding branch roads in Nebraska and Kansas. The following from the Omaha BEE states the object of the bill in a nut shell: Senator Van Wyck's bill aims to ac- complish a two-fold object. It will re- lieve the company from the condition of practical insolveney into which it has been plunged by s of corrupt man- agements. The road has been milked dry of funds and its present owners find thémselves unable to meet competition by extending branch lines into their in- vaded territory. By the use of the funds lying idle in the treasury or invested in Bonds bearing a low rate of interost the road will be placed upon its feet in the region where it is now handicapped and helpless, Another result of the Van Wyck Dbill, if it secures a passage, will be to merease the value ot the gove ment lien upon theroad, The Sinkipe fund, now unproductive, will b jpvested in lines of road_on whic tie govern- ment will hayg a first lien, and” which under the 3rovisions of the bill must be honesily * constructed with their debentures based on an actual expendi- ture of mon This, briefly stated is the gist and object of the bill which the howling dervishes of the brass brigade are ‘wuiming to as a vyiolent ‘“‘somer- sault” from the anti-monopoly ranks. Nothing would suit_these nicompoops better than to succeed mm demonstrating that objection railroad abuses xmfi obstruction to railroad extension are one and the same thing, It cannot be done. g Ly Cases of Strong Memory. Contemporary Review: The following case given by Dr. John Abercrombie, much abbreviated for want of space,shows most strikingly that memory is a power unlimited in ifs operation, and that in its unconscious workings it is most vigorous and overmastering where its subjects are least cultured and nearest the condition of the animal world. A girl of seven eurs, employed in tending cattle, slept n an apartment next to the one occupied by an itinerant fiddler, a musician of considerablo who frequently spent the in performing pleces of a cription. She ell ill, was taken care of by a lady, and eventually became her servant, Some years elapsed, and the family were often surprised to hear music during the night. At length the sound was traced to the sleeping-room of the girl, who, fast asleep, was warbling in a manner exactly resembling the sweetest tones of a small violin. It was found that after bein, two hours in bed she became restless nufi began to mutter to herself; then, uttering noises rs-m-mblmg the tuning of a_violin, she dashed off, after some prelude, into elaborate picces of music, which she per- formed in a clear and accurate manner, A year or two passed away, and she began to vary her performances by imitating the sounds of an old piano in the house, the singing of the inmates, and further on she began to dis- course on & variety of topics. The just- ness and trath of her remarks on all sub- jeets excited the utmost astonishment in those who were acquainted with her limited means of acquiring informa- tion. She was rectly Latin v sev sentences in her oxysms it was almost impossible to wake her, and when her eyelids were raised and a candle brought near the eye she seemed insensible to light, About 16 she began to obscrye those who were in the and answercd questions put r with astonishing ucuL-,lmxs. This affection went on for tenor eleven yeurs, Shewas when awake, a dull, awkward girl, slow in receiving any kind of in- struction, without any turn for music, or appa '.l,v any recollection of what \er sleep. At the age of 21 she 'musvd in ¢ 0 | beame immoral and was dismissed. It is believed that she afterward became in- Dr. Moffat relates that afte preaching a sermon on “Eternity” to Some Africans he heard a simple-iooking young man repeat it all over sgain (o & group of natives with uncommon ‘]m sion, the very gestures being reproduced. On telling him that he had done more than the original preacher could do, re- peat the sermon verbatim, the savage touchaed his forehead and said, “‘When'1 hear anything gv it remains there,” ——————— What It Means. little Johnny Me- does this mean that 1 aper so often?’ What is it, Johnny*" 4 “Why, ‘a public ‘oftice 15 a public trust.’ “It means that the public must trust the man that holds the ollice and let him do what he likes.” GULLED BY A PIOUS DARKY. Many Glasgow Lassies in Love With D, Viotor Adolphus Nero Letters From 100 Girls Found in tho Missonri Negro's Potit Maison— Engaged to Marry Three At Once. New York Sun: Early in February a cable disy the staid burgh of Glasgow, Scotland, had been engrossed for a week by the es- capades of David Ne an Ameriean negro preacher and adventurer, who had been arrested for swindling pious church men, staid matrons and pretty maidens. The story of his arrest, when printed in St. Louis and othe: s of Missouri, awaked a sympathesic interost, for he and his methods were very well known in that state. Nero's full name is David Vietor Adol- phus Nero. The cards which he carriod with him when he sailed for Glasgow bore the legend oLrnus Nrio, , now of ¥t v. D, Vicronr rom West A Missourt I “He e hindsome darky, more than six feet tall, and straight as an arrow, and has a framo and - muscular. develop: ment that make himwell-nigh perfect vhysieally. His skin is coal black. He was born in Demerara, British Guiana. Little is known of his o life, except that he was thoroughly " edue n June, 1878, he went to St. that he had come from made application for 1 plac in, tho public schools. Ilo pussed the principal’s examination with eredit, and was mado principal of Carondelet colored school 6. He was serupulously neat in his dress, and had the bearing” and manners of a gentleman, and for the first year he made at success as ateacher, Then a man amed Dorsey went before the authori- ties and charged Nero with selling books that had been confided to him for free dis- tribution, and pocketing the proceed: was also rumored that fie had_made lov improperly to one of his pupils. Supel intendent "Long and {the school board in- vestigated the charges and Nero cleared himself, but the people of the district would not accept the whitew: and Nero was transferred to anothe; trict. At the end of the year in that district the superintendent discovered that the fig- ures in Nero’s report of the use of sup- plies had been falsitied, and Nero had to Zo.. He next appeared in Kansas City, where he obtained a place as teacher in'the pub- lic schools. Within a year his popular excited the envy of some of his colore: fellow citizens, who began {o investigate his previous career, and as a result learn- ed that before reaching St. Louis he had ied a girl in Cleveland, and after ng with fier one day had fled the city, carrying his wife's gold watch and other portable property along. Nero was suspumlm(‘]x'mn his school at ) e had while in Kunsas City mar- ried ure»]l)u ble colorei glrf. She re- mained fa fiu‘u]l to him when the expos- es were made, und Nero resolved to i down. His Cleveland aced to Nebraska, where she i ied again, and Nero got a di- voree from her, married his Kunsas City wife over again, and started life anew. Another school was given to him and he made it a desided success, c izen. But Kansas City v, pent-up Utiga 2, confrs in June, 18 He annout t his powers for- 5, he landed at a n institution de- voted to training young negroes for mis- sionary work in” Africa, and that he had been sent to England to s funds to enable the school to widen its usefulne As credentials, he carried a certifica from the Presbytery of M , duly authenticated by the signatures of the moderator and the secretary, and another from the oflicers of the college which he suid he represented. The appearance of the man, his evi- dent culture, and his earnestness opened the way for him at once, and enlisted the enlisted the sympathies of clergy and laity alike. The churches and chapels were opened for him to speak in, and the houses of the church members became as free to him as his own home in Kan- sas City. His preaching was fervid, and had a rude eloquence about it that’ car- ried the people’ by storm, and when he inveigled against “those who hoard this world’s goods and proclaimed the r: wards that await the pious who give t the gospel may be spread in the dar corners of the earth, ponnds and shillings and sixpences dropped softly url]in;:lin;; ly together in the contribution box until the ha reached ghousands of pounds. Then he branched out and went to Liv- erpool and to London, where he became Spurgeon’s guest, and was introduced to the pions nobility as a sample of what ed- ucation could do for the nogro. He lec- tured on ‘“Ine American Negro,” and his talent is evident from the universal commendation shich his effort received from cultivated London audiences. Just how it hnrpunml that he awakened spicions of the people with whom d is not known, for, like a cer- tamn eminent Chautauqua statesman, he knew enough to destroy the shells whon- ever he sucked the eggsin a nest. And et he was wonderfully audacious. Pretty white girls, fascinated by his m:mlT vigor and eloguence in the pulpit, foolishly fell in love with him, and a dovecote which he established in a suburb of Glasgow changed mistresses often. At the same time he made love to matrons and maids of high degree, and was en- gaged to marry three diffo white women of excellent fa same time, with the full approval of th varents. ch poor soul expeeted to go with him to Af; and live a life of bliss and usefulness ching the Hottentots the error of their ways. One poor girl went with him to Ameriea on a flying », which is supposed to have been made to scereto some of his booty, and was deserted by hin in Kansas City when he left there. Finally the crash came. A West End minister beeame aroused to the necessity of looking up the antecedents of the man who was making loose change a searce commodity in the pockets of the congre- : | in some other guilible pat atch to the Sun announced that | M g‘. L. Kimball, §5; Mrs. William W t Sunday and Tuesday evening, club on Saturday evenin, sa8. him on the journey, and immediate needs on | might not be tempted friends. who were strangers in the city to get work to do,and engnged work to be given them, good living for lllunhnl\rs“' A Merry Judge W Henderson (N. ) Gold Leaf: Judgo o { conve; colored man, into conversation, in whi ofl a The driver, not knowing the Judge quired: what in that “What i colored in state penite gation, and he wrote to the Rev, John F Cowan, f the Missouri Pre , Mo. This is Jan, 23, 1580, M ) rof dato Jan. ' 18 hias i have to suy Vietor McChert Dear Sir: Your lett just reached me. In reply. ihat 10 such person s the Rtev. 1. Adolphus Nero 15 known, or known, to the Presbytery of Mis : ollege as that of which your speaks cxiat within Uie bounids of ‘sa Stated Clerk of M 0's sun had set. H { away to his dusk o in Kansas City, but bobbies came down him in. A veam of sw hundreds of dainty mis he loyings of ns, and th built" trousers w bobbies eaptur In corners of the newspupers were un- d faithful unfecling m and ran maids and ot “summer all thut the paivs about feeling gibes at the susceptible young women who had been smitt t charms, so that in his late career | achicved greater potoriety than be did at v hi ng by i first. During his sojourn in Englan& Nero had traveled on a leave of absence from his colored school in Kansas City, but when he brought the pretty white mistress home with him at the time ho made his flying visit last fall a scandal arc and "Nero q‘uivl\ly dusted. His punishment will probably not be severe, even 1f he is convicted on his trial in England. While the aggregate of his collections were enormous, the individual sums were rarely over $100, and but few complainants will be found braye enough to wrosccute, A yearor twoin pison and Nero will be able to lr{ his eloquence ct of the world, or toreturn to Kansas City and mako another effort to live his record down, woMma 'S WORR. Monthly Report of the Women's Christian Association, The following is & condensed report of the W. C. 1 U. for the month of Febru Mr. J. €. Mol began a course of sixteen leotures on (February 1, continuing six- toon nights. The lastovening he was on gaged and paid by the Reform elub, num- bering 200, which is the result of his labor among us. A numbor in this club aro members of the Y. M. C. A, and other Christian socictios, who joined to help the boys in their eforts to save fothers. The Reform club is organized with the usual ofticers, and holdsregular mectings urday evening. The reading room is the hourly rosort of men who spent their time formerly in saloons. Mr. Joe Critehticld followed Mr. Holt with lectures full of sound argument and genuine wit. Ben Hogan has been in at- tendance several evonings, Work has been found for eleven girls and four men during the month. Letters of thanks are often reccived for favors done. Two girls sentto the Home of tho Friendless coln, one to the Reform Home at Des Moines. Sick man and woman cared for about two weeks; food furnished by the W C. A, prepared and carried to them by the W. G. 1. U The jail committee reported at ladies’ prayer meeting that seventeen prisoners had signed the pledge, and requested that the signers be the subject of prayer that day. ‘Two of the boys called the rooms as soon as released from jail and renewed their promise to lead livi Papers and magazines for distri- bution at the jail are fur) Rev. Harsha, Mr. Seaman, and the Beg, Her- ald, Excelsior, World and Republican offices. One young man who had lost his situa- tion on account of drinking und black mark opposite his name, wa stored to his position because of inter- cession in his behalf. A member of the Band of Hope has 1 the truth of Scripture, A little 11 lead them,” by pleading with ng father to attend Mr. Holt’s tings and sign the pledge until he aying he would reform o please 1. He taken one step more and joined th M. E. chureh on pro- bation. Members of the Reform club who have been converted atour meetings are now _represented in the First Presb; hild terian, First Congregational and First Mcthodist ahurehigs and onie young girl converted at the meetings united with the Baptist church. The winte work seems to be known all over th ate. W er Omahia pe le are equally intorest 1 be shown y rallying around the few who are carry- g on the great work. T'he union wishes to expr thanks to the press for their favors, and to frln:inl; who have responded to our ap- peals. The Buckingham will need assist- ance g month or two longer and volun- tary donations sent eare of Buckingham will save the ladies and a receipt will be promptly returned with thanks. Donations received for Februa pense: . Reuben Gaylord, $5 hster, lark, $10; Mrs. Howard h Mrs. P. L, Perine, r. 6 Pacific Hotel com- , $10; Mr. Flint, $5; Mr. A. P. Wood, Ir, J. L. Richard, %1, Mr. D. E $2; O'Donnhue & Sherfy, $2; M S Warner, $1; Mr. Sam Burns, § from Craig, Neb., $4. Donations received in January and r ported without name rs. J. L. Pior- son, 50c; Mrs. George Tilden, $1; Mrs, Lyman, 50c; Mrs. Waugh, 50 Murs. Muul, $1; Mrs. P. H. rp, 0. F. Davis, $1; Mrs. Mo ¥ Mrs. Millard, maga- three turkeys. Sum total of pledges collected for January and February tt, $6, Mrs. Manning, Forsythe, $3; Mrs. 1. Mills, §: Parks, 50c; Mrs. J. L. Welshans, §! My .\\'m.l. Welsh Densie Collier I Iy weluding M be given in next month’s report mperance meetings at the Al Morris, tho hias boon invited to roformed gamble T s 1 hold meetings at the hall on the evenings it is not engaged, and join with us for the purpose of saving the b The FKifteenth street lunch room has given sixty-two meals to men and women out of employment. ployed girls to obtain homes and work, twi [ who had_ just boen Assisted unem- inty-two. Helped two girls to redeem thes and vulu:n{»l s in piavwn. One man dise] from the penitentinry was ussistec ting a pass rom the county to go to friends in Kan- He was furnished with lunch to lnst #1 eash for his 1, that _he before meeting sewing women Has helped fiv 50 that now they are earning a T. U, o Cracked a Joke, on his way to Oxford Court, was Yed from lis place through the sountry in a light hack, driven by a The driver drew the Judge the latier got d, in- “Is you a drummer SRome- line,” replied his lonor, your linet” persisted the tividual. “Dromming for the ' was the reply B0 Wi re inform good thing, ~EXTRACTS MOST PERTECT MADE Furest aud strongost Natural Fruit Flarers. tavor &b deliistely aud Raburaily aa bhe trult. PRILE EAKING POWDER €O CE10A60. " LU