Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 26, 1886, Page 5

THEY NEED IMPROVEMENTS. | Public Works to be Commenced at Linosln, With a Few Suggestions, A VERY PLOT. | SENSATIONAL Fividence Discove I Which, If True, Will Liberate a 1 Convict From the Pen—State Capi- tal Jottings. |FROM THE BEW'S LINCOLN BUREAUT. The bitter experience of the past winter awught the people of Lincoln that sewer- nd paving are immediate necessities, and it is now well assured that extensive work in both improvements will be under- taken before fall. Never before in the his- tory of the city were the streets so well nigh impassable as during the three montfis from January 15 to April 15, All through the cen- tral portion of the town the mud was hub and business of all kinds that depend- ¢ Jargely ou teaming for succoss wad fear- | fully crippled, and in some instances totally suspended. ‘That oracle of wisdom, the old- est inhabitant, viewing the bottomless bed of | mud on Eleventh street, in front of the Com- mercial hotel, and the equaly disgraceful condition of Tenth street, was ataloss to | discern the cause, and instead of trying to | nvent a remedy, passed his time in assuring complaining teamsters that the roads would “he all vight as soon as the mud dried up.” One conservative man, a large property own- er, and poss of good, sound business ability, amirmed one day’ that he couldn'’t understand why the streets were in guch horrible sh He had lived in Lincoln ten vears id, and never saw them so badly cut up before.” The statement vy the Bie man that the tratfic of the city stly inereased during the past v | 1s it continied to grow the streets wonld ne more and more untit for teaming, un- il paved, was an electrical revelation to him, as it was to others when reveated. The in: tormation fell on good ground, however, and has borne fruit in the shape of a general de- oF permanent improvements that is not likely to die out in whirry, With-the exam- ple of Omaha to pattern atter, no_effort will be made to pave the streets uitil a- thorough Bystemn of seweraze pipes are laid, and con- etions made from: every lot to them, as s mains. In'this nt- of | failur conne pments o , where the the propy 1o see that th tions were all_made before the were put down has resulted in a series of un- sihtly patehes on the asphalt —with which many of the streets are covercd, Tlie plans on which M Warng is now engaged will provide ample sanitary drainage for the settled por- tion of the city for Some years to come, at an expense of about S hie idea is'to put in wains and laterals that ean be added to from time to time, as the city grows, without alteration or disturbance of the " original plant. This work will, in all provability, be completed this summer, when the more " im- portant and expensive ‘item of paving will Petikon . Fhore are thirty-tives biocks, ning 12,000 running feet that should b at the carliest practieal moment. ritory consists of nine bloeks on O 'street, from Sixth to Fifteenths five on P, from Seventh to Twelfth; four'on Q, from Seyenth to Bleventh; three on N, from Ninth to Pwelfth; three on Ninth, from Q to N three on Tenth, from Q to N5 four on Eleventh, from_Q to M; and two on Twelfth from P to N. With these streets paved business can be ed on successtully for years to come, and extensions made from timeé Lo time in various direetions as property owners may call for. The bugbear of cxpense may frighten timid _ people for awhile, but A ghost that s easily cised. It is the experience of the world the the true prosperity of cities dates from th day t public” improvements are_con menced. Every dollar honestly expended in sewerage. paving, and simil hances ke valtie 0 property fus though paid out for paint and b And besides the money goes into the hands of the labori who are compelled to immediately « hants, and thus there ke increase in trade. v that the yalue of property in Lincoln will not warrant the proposed tax is an idle one. 1t is an indisputs ct that residence property is held as high here to-day propor- tion as in Omaba, and the rents, for anything like desirable locations, ara cyen higher. ~As Omaha has prospered under her works of public improvements, houestly and economically done, so will Lincoln, provided the barnacles can ' be seraped off,’ and th smooth] men of enterprise allowed fair sail- ing. % A CHANCE FOR A NOVELIST, If the statementof the Bradshaw-Voor- s given tothe public by friends, is true, the case fur- fora story worthy of a Le- coeq or Gaborieau. Bradshaw was convicted in Giage county in 1853, of the murder of a man named Yoorhees, and sent to the peni- tentiary for life, It was siown by flio prose- cuting attorney that Voorhees and Bradshaw had come from Missouri land _hunting, and that, after Voor body was found in Gage county, Bradshaw was traced to his old home in Missouri and arres In_ his pos- sion was a wrench, which was identified a3 belonging to Voorhees, and on_ this mea- eretestimony, fn the absenco of anything file o defense, a verdictof murder n the second degree was obtained. The prisoner’s law: ked for a continuance in order 10 obtain witnesses, which the trial court overruled. An exception was taken, and Saturday this exception was dismi y the state supreme court on the technical cround that the time had = been al- owed to lapse. The justices, how- agreed that the new evidence presented went far toward estaolishing Bradshaw’s in- noeence, and it Is probable tiat a petition for his pardon will be presented. This evidence is to the effect that Bradshaw and Voorhees joined in their travels by two men from 'nna, Ohio, where, they” were known as racters, ‘These men went with s Brownville, where Bradshaw and turned back home. This his wifo them as far left the part is sworn to by John Henton an T Qagnver, woo were qt Brownyille 1ime. At tnar cme BiausiBW it SE¥ : was going to Humburg, lowa, and tfie ofher three went west. ‘Iliere are witnesses to show that Bradshaw did o to Hambu was there at the time of the murder, also bo shown that the wreneh supposed to belong to Voorlioes, was obtained from a re- putable citizen of Hambure, and that much of the testimony against Bradshaw on the first trial was glven by men of bad charac- ters, BRIEF MENTION, rvi > held in the Episcopal, Tniversalist and Methodist churches yesterday morning, and despite the thr ing weather attracted large consi The Kuights Templar of Mount M 1 mandery attended at St. Paul’s Mothodist church in full regalia and attracted consider- able atwention, “The papers of the Union Steel Nail com- hany, of which George ‘T Walker, William 1aven, W. N, McCandlish and Isaae Haseall are the incorporators, have been placed on reeord in the seeretary of state's office, The capital of the company is 150,000, lie recent concert 1n aid of the Home for the Friendless netted $221,00, Special trains will be run-over the B. & M, and Uuion Pacific roads this morning to Omaha to carry the Odd ellows to the anui- YOIsary evercises. W, Mosher's carriage team took a wild run across postoftice sqtiare Saturday after- noon, dumping the mmates of the vehicle out on the grass and furnishing an exciting stimulant for the gang of loafers on the cor- ner of Tenth and O strec % “There was a slight fire at the National Hotel Saturday morning, during which Po- Jiceman Fowler received u severe blow on the ankle from the nozzle of the hose which fell from the hands of the tiremen on the roof, John Brown, of Bennett, is defendant in an action brought by M. A. DePeel to rec £1,000 for slander. The plaintiff allezes t Brown eharged him with butehering and sell- fng diseased hoj - LOUP CITY. Its First Railroad—The Prospects and Advantages of a Thriving Tow Lour Ciry, April 21.—[Correspondence of the Brk.J—The grand bustle and pleased countenance of our populace in- dicate - that some great and important avent in the history of our embryo city is about to occur. The fact is that the wack layers of the Unton Pacific are now 1 Judae within eight miles of our villuge, and a THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, APRIL 26, 18S6. approaching at the rate of about one mile per day. As this is our first railroad connection with the outer world, our friends cannot but appreciste our joy at forevermore being able to discontinue our driving and freighting forty or fifty miles through mud and blizzards to other railrond towns, has been our neces- sity heretofore. The grand boom will strike us within the next two weeks, and then we expect a great rush_ of business. Then mechanics and capitalists, who, secing the great advantages of our town will loc with us. Loup City will be the present terminus of this branch of the Union Pa- cifie, and will control the trade of a large scope of fertile farming country. This territory tributary to our trade is thickly settled by farme and stock growers, whose productions gnarantee prosperity N a thriving town of 5,000 to 10,000 int nts Our superior water power iz a great inducement to manufacturers. Our healthful and pleasant climate is an in- cont .‘Im.l W the home-see i distrigt coppt hps just gdiourned, 3 «lin («s»}ul Judge Hamer in disposing of a large docket. One of our largest town-lot owners has just reduced the price of lots until May 1st, about the expected time of the arrival of the railrond, so as to give all a chance to buy and make some money out of the boom. Many buitdings are con- templated on the entry of lumber by rail Among the attorneys who attended our court was Hon. "G. M. L son, Lincoln, and I Calkins, Kearney, both of by theit cloquence and suc Imjration and conti whom of our ci 150 coming gin our townand on adjoin- Rich lands can be bought o ten dollars per ucre, and this y eheap compared with the price of ind 100 and 200 miles west of here the crops are uncert et that Sherman count 50 to 60 bushels of corn to tl took the Qrvmium once at the state on frut Now is_the time for land and home ers and business men to visit Loup Cit, ARG OPOLLS, A New Town Which Bids Fair to Have a Rapid Growth, Smertos, Neb., Apul 24, — [Corre- spondence of the Bk ]—Neopohs is the caption that designates an infant town which has recently made its advent, and bids fair to do honor to its title. It 1s situated in the northern rt of Buffulo county, in Garfield township, and will be at the junction of the Union Pacific running from St. Paul westward and a branch of the B. & M. extending from Grand Island. The town is admir bids fair to enjoy reach considerable size scope of countr miles for bly located, apid growth and It commands a some twenty in extent, which cannot be exc the fertility of its The surrounding “country is ly settled by prosperous fi S who will weleome n nearer market, as they have had to go from fifteen to twenty five miles to d s of their pro- duce find secure provisions. Neopolis is situated on the South Loup river which affords magnificent water power for_all manufacturing, purposes, and its being situated at the junction of the two leading railronds of Nebraska guarantees to it the cheapest transporta- tion. The town has already been surveyed and platted and arragements ha been made to construct several business and dence hous the summer is ver a town w the spot which itly been a part_of the open . The interests of Neopolis are m nds of wide awake business men who offer liberal inducements to all classes who may be st a desirable location. e The Anti-Polish Agitation in Prussia, Lysses, Neb., April 23.—To the Ed- itor: In answer to a special inquiry con- cerning the recent anti-Polish agitation in Prussia, [ have received the following reply from Germany, which may be of general interest. Respectfull H. Eme Dear Sir: On February 28 I received your leiter concerning the Poles, et It was too late to take any action, but I can set forth to you how matters stand. The German government has recently discovered an organized system of mili- tary espionage supported by the sceret fund of the French ministry of w Its four principal agents were twoDancs and two Poles, stationed av four headquarters in Germany. It has furnished to the French war department; Fivst, the com- plete German plans of mobilization in the f with France or with Ku: 5 A rge por- tions of cam thirdly, dr ings and sy all 8 gunnery, explo: duced or projected in ; fourthly, plans of countless fortifications. ‘I'h discovery of this espionage has resulted Firstly, in a certain tension iu German, diplomatic attitude toward France; sec- ondly, in_great humiliation in_high mil- itary circles in Germany; thirdly, in the conviction and sentence to nine years’ penal servitude of Saranu and Kraszew- ski, the Puot (since pardoned on account e g hewlth “and for pessous policy); tourthily, in” the adoption b Bismarck of u rep policy towards alien subjects of Pru The” Poles, be- ing the largest and most antl-German 1, the point of his meas- ures is dirceted mainly against them; hence, a, & (}'cuty bep{cuu Russin and Prussia (not Germany) by which each per- invites the other to pel sub- jocts of the other whose presence is not felt to be an obvious advan Under this treaty Prussia has expelled 80,000 Russian Poles and many Rus aria tollowed suit in producin; with Russia, i \imous an opposition in the cham- t the reactionary cabinet has not dared to act upon it except in quite isol; ted instances, The reichstag ot the Ger- man empire also emphatically con- tuwmnod tho action of Prussia. e, Bis. marck has asked, and 1 think obtained a credit of 800,000,000 marks, orT.a,um‘w», to buy out the Polish landlords. He in- tends to settle Germans in their place by letting to them estates at a low rate or ¢ parcelling the estates and settling German farmers on them Bismarck does not intend to banish Prussian Poles outright; on the contrary, he thinks he can Germanize the mu]iorily of the population by the aid of schools, my. I think he will embit he Poles so much as to defs his own ends, ‘Two-thi of the deputies of the national diet condemn his actions in no measured terms and he uses the tac- ties adopted every now and then by the British commons towards the lords, i. e., threats of abolishment. 1 have not heard that the Poles are emigrating, ex cept the 30,000 Russiun Poles, who return to Russian Poland or go to Austria. Yours truly, * - Rabbi Benson's Lecture, Last eveni commenced closing = services at the synago- gue of the Hebrew Jewish Feast of Pass- over of 5,646. The day is known by the Hebrows as ‘‘the Seventh day of Pass- over.” Rabbi subject of the Rehigion.” RSON. the Benson lectured upon the volution and Value of A GREAT NATIONAL PROBLEM. The Indian Question Discussed by Senator Dawes, THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE ilare of Civilization and Chris- tianity to Change the Indian— Paupers or Tramps?—Civili- zation Imperative. [COPYRIGHTED 1886.] The fact that the Indianis here at all in this day is conclusive proof that there i3 something wrong in the life of the whit man with whom he live It is now years since civilization and christianity came in contact with the savage life of the red man. It is believed that the num ber of Indians nplnn this -vlmlnvn\ when £ me here wagabout the same that is hgre pow and t! Yomfil\im. of the indians in character, in mode of life, and in all the traits which distinguish them, differs very little now from the condition of those who cted the Pilgrims at | Plymouth Ro avaliers on the | James river. There are, of course, ex- | eeptions, and there is of late considerable progress toward a radical change in all these particulars; yet no such impression has been made by the life and eharacter brought here by our fathers upon that they found among the people who wer here before them which need qualify tl statement here made o cannot | found in the history of the world lel to this fact, Nowhere else h lization and christianity come in con tact with barbarism and savage life and le so little impression upon then [t would be interesting to dwel lIength upon the canse of this failur 't of the white people who ¢ here to force out of existence the barbar- irst encountered. The Indian: me life of idlenc ay of the langi civilization and christianity e, refuse ns V(‘|‘\'1~'H‘IIH to ways and adopt their faith outset. Why is it? annot help Iw?it\\ ng that this con- dition of things is rgely the fault of those who boast a higher lifeand a better faith. There is too much reason to be- lieve that the failure on the part of civil- zation and christianity in the struggle with this barba owing to their lack of honesty and r dealing with tne In- dian tribes they encountered. They never dealt fairly and squarely with the In di nd they never able to teach the Indians te trust them, beceause they never kept faith with them. Fhey treated with the Indians as an independent and then they violated their and violated them as soon as the foar which oviginated them had pas away. They bought the Ind lands and cheated ‘them out of the pay. Theyquarrclied with them when the whites grew stronger and adopted the Indian methods of e, lying in ambush for them, violati s Of truce, ng waste their habitations and sluwughs ng their women and children. And in later years, after wars with the Indians have scemed ' to be impossible, devices that between white men themselves would be denounced as frauds have been orted to to deprive them of what r mains of their heritage; and now we wonder why they do not adopt our mode of life, our "language and our religion. wounder is Tather that it is possible 2 such treatment to make any im- pression at all upon the Indian’ charac- ter. ignorant to-d MEASURE FOR MEASURE. While this mode of treatment is not de- nied many seem to think it is justifi wise the Indians have failed to b with the patience and foreh saints. They have, it is true, met this kind of treatment with savage retaliation and they have sometimes me 1 orgies the eruelties which w 3 inflicted upon them, and in doing this ave not been' far away from the Is which those ast of their e pursued with their fellow men. Measure for measure is not meted out by E e alone. If one at this day hes to repeat the question, why the In- dian has remained a crvel savage for these many of contact with white men, let hini study thoroughly the tr ment that the Indian has received at the hands of the white man and he will find an answer. Brielly, this is the In THE INDIAN ALW WITH US. The Indianof the pi t is that same Indian substantially in all his main char- acter but living under conditions very different from those under which he livéd during the many years of struggle for his rights. Tho asttr ment of the Indian was largely upon the theory that h h before the onward progress of civilization in this country, The white men were to ir ¢ and the Indians to decrease. They wer le out and pass away be- fore the irresistible progress of civiliza- tion. But a more thorough study of In- dian life has made it very clear that this theory was crroncous. In point of fact he does not decrease. There have been periods, without doubt, in the history of the Indian tribes in this country since they were first known here, in which their numbers have diminished very ravid- ly. There have been a gr " sons for this dcerease, some, have entirely passed away. ceased between Indinn tribes, Indians and white men. Their expo s of the climate, to the ravage: 5 Tasta want. hava been greatly diminished and wherever thei condifion hus improved their numbe have i d, and the last quarter of a g witnessed a very considerable their number, 1t is now a fyot well estyblished that the Indian is u'fwnys 0 be with us; but he is to be no longer with us the Indign of the past. He can no longer live as his ‘f;nlu\r* lived, The handful that they met first at Ply- mouth and Jamestown “have multiplied into 60,000,000. The boundless heritage of wilderness over which the Indian roamed unmolested in the past has given way to cities and towns and 1- ways and telegraphs and 1 the tevming life and business of eivilization., The game upon which he subsisted has .nm].,.mrm ‘There is not an acre of soil left to him eapable of cultivation that he can safely call his own. There is no seclusion to which this unfortunate peo- ple can betake themselyes that the ag- gressive foot of the white man will not reach before they have built a wigwam. They are lucmfiy surrounded, and the ranks are closing in upon them. All this while they are still untutored and un- trained zes, speaking an unknown tongue, untaught in the ways of civili life and utterly powerless to sustain themselves by ‘the labor of their own hands. It requires no argument to con- vince the thoughtful that a body of idle, ignorant 08 300,000 strong, with no abiding place among the people, with no means of support at their own command and with no ability or disposition to earn their own livelihood, bred in everything thatis savage and crue brooding over wrongs inflicted and hard- ships unjustly brought upon them, is a dangerous element I society. They have never known restraint, they are utterly ignorant of the laws whicli impose re straint upon them; never possessing property of their own, they knpw not what it means to others: They are gov- erned by their necessities, and by power only when it shall be laid upon them AN ARMY OF PAUPERS OR TRAMPS. of the past. The Indian problem of the day is. no light question to be solved off-hand :or cast one side as of no consequence. - We see frequently in the public * prints ;md‘ hear in publi¢ disenssions, new solutions of the Indian ' problem as it is called, taken up and dispesed of as if it were tho work of an hour, but to those upon whom the administration of Indian affairs has devolved and whose duty it is to provide against the evil consequences likely to follow a continuance of the existing con- dition of affairs, it seems full of diffi- cultic To them there is no way out of the present condition of things, nor are the methods of treatment easy. This al- ternative presents itself to them at eve step. An army of paupers to be sup- ported in ignorance and in idleness at an enormous and - ever increasing ex- pense to the nation, or an army of savage tramps taking their own livelihood into their own hands, knowing no law but that of might, and held under no other restraint than that the bru instinct of foar imposes upon them, sc tered throughout communities uny tected from their lawlessness and con- stantly exposed to the outrages which savago instint shall suggest '1'|x<i.«y‘ man, the philgnthropis 1446 ch [ "‘mu':{ feel that either alternati unendurable, and that no poliey of this government toward the Indians which leaves them, as they are, ¢ in to b come the one or the other of those di turbing and dangerous elements in soc ety, can be maintained for a moment, What, then, is left to_be done with the Indian in the future? He is certain to be the beggar or the tramp if left to himself, He will not die. He will not starve. 1f he remains an idle savage in our midst we must feed him or he will feed himself The nation has beer rod while coming to face this condition of things. It been unwilling to deal with the Indians any other theory than that they shall vy and cease to trouble us. They ried all other methods except one that admits the fact that the Indian is to remain with us. Gradually, until lately, but now very generally, the truth has “been forced upon the nation that it must accept this among the prob- lems of our government, that they are to have the Indian as well as the negro art of our permanent population. W e forced to consider, with the Indian o1l as the negro, whether he shall ¢ main a distinet, alien and barbarous race among our people, refusing to assimilate, an insoluble substance in the body poli* tie, or whether by some method he may not be made a part of the people who are compelled to hive with him, Dbearing with them the burdens and en- joying the immunities of a common gov- ernment, FORCED TO CIVILIZ Thus have we been led step by step to the policy which by a general concurren of public opinion now prevails. We hav heen forced to the conclusion that there is no other way open to us than to at- tempt to muke something out of the Indian, Haying failed 1 all other met ods, it ittle to our eredit that we now trying this, the only one left to us. The success of Captain Pratt at St. Augustine in controlling wild prisoners of war by teaching them how to work has suggested to the government the method now pursued. Captain Pratt took his ans to the school at Hampton, and tient endeavor brought out of hree gavage and brutal Indians ¥-one well equipped and Intelligent men now engaged in useful occupations and discharging with credit to themselves and benefit to their fellow men the duties and obligations ot citizens. From this beginnimg has grown the poliey of Indian. education and civiliza- tion which has now enlisted the general support of the public and the ea co- operation of . the government. hit are other auxiliary methods, such as the allotment to Indignsof lands in severalty, the kindling in his breast of the desire to acquire and ‘keep property of his own, and with it the disposition'to keep with those around him. aching him_and winning him barbarous life are constantly opening, and _the progress made in the work, which many sides and many phases, but is rally described as the effort to make something out of the In- dian, is most encouraging. RAPID GROWTIH OF INDIAN SCHOOLS. Indian schools constitute the main fea- ture of this wor 1t is but ten years since the first genc appropriation for Indian schools was made by congress anda the constant increase in these appropria- tions is a good mensure of the faith of the covernment and those enlisted with it in this work have in its succe The fi appropriation for this purpose in 1876 was only $20,000. In 1877 it was $30,000; in 1878, $00,000; in_ 1879, $80,000; in 1880, $30,000; in 1881, $85,000; in 1882, $150,0003 in 1883, $080,000; in 1884, $992,000; in 1885, $1,107,000. The'schools’ themselves have not only increased in number, but they have in'a much larger ratio increased in eflici y. Indian educati r better understood now than w under- taken ten years d4go. Ne; -half of all the Indian children of the school age have been brought to attend more or less upon these schools and the adult Indians have also made great advances toward civilization and se 1.huw.nrp There are now 261 boarding and day schools supported in whole or in part by government, and the average att f scholars during the last y t upplementing this work of school education is what umf be called farming educati Asum of money has been appropriated for two or three years past, amounting the present year o §50,000, for the employment of assistant or | tical farmers among the Indians whose busi s to show the Indians how to cultiv: 0il. The result from this appropriation has been very encourag- ing—so much so that (his feature of In- dian education is commending itself so strongly that there are those who advo- cate it in preference to any other kind of Indian education. LAND IN SEVERALITY. With this comes land in severalty, or the allotment to individual Indians so far advanced as to know the value of land, of 160 ner b, to be his in feg, with the single limitation that he shall not allenaté {1t 16 tenfy-five years, There are yery many minor auxiliaries to this s?\h-m of education whic commend themselves to those who are in the work, but whien be pointed out in detail. They arise on this spot and are the suggestions ofminds quick to see the necessitjes and,opportunities of the In- dians with whom they have to deal. The good results that arc'to follow from this policy, pursusd with vigor and intelli- gence and - pepsisted in with - tience and perseverence, can hard- ly as yet ,be measured, for itis hardly ten yeavs since it was begun, but the reports from the Indian agen- cies, as a whole, give gratfying assur co that the ‘T i King healthy Progress tow ad self-sup port, It enables. the government each year to make swaller appropriations for the subsistence of the Indians and more for their civ on. In the pending In- appre on bill more than $100,- 000 has been taken from the head of sub sistence and support nsferred to that of education and_civili . And thus this work is being 5 pushed forward more and year without addition to the te _appropriations for the Ind 8¢ se.f@There isirensoy to believe that tho time is not distant when the Indian will disappear in the self-supporting, in- telligent and useful citizen, - THE INDIAN. ny When Baby was sick, we gave ber Oastoris, When she was a Child, she cried for Castoris, When she bcame Migs, she clang to Castoria, Whea she had Children, she gave them Castoria 3 e THE.CITY MISSION. The Sewing School Branch of the Work—Interesting Facts. : A reporter passing aleng Tenth strect Saturday dropped into the Omaha City Mission between Capitol avenue and Dodge str He found the rooms of the mussion crowded with girls, rangimg from 8 to 15 or 16 years of age, busily en- gaged in sewing. They secmed vor much in earnest over the work and, save for an oceasional word here here and there, in reply to the question of some teacher, the silence was unbroken. Mrs. S, I Clarke, who is superintend- ent of the mission and has charge of the sewing school branch of the work, kindly volunteered to give the BEg some do sired information. ““The mission school,’* she snid ‘I.! s lu-.l»u r\lllninv_',lhrr hout rs, having been started iv ttle rogm on Donglis m-'.{m § he sewing school was opened at the same time with the mission and has been in_operation eversince, At present we have about 150 or more scholars enrolled, though to-day there are but 138 in the room These are divided up into classes of about six or seven. No, there is no grading in the classes, The work is confined mainly to plain sewing, such as making of un- derwear, aprons, ete. been made, but not is entitled to everything Some of the girls are proficient, and” cut and sew with astonishing skill. of them, however, come here with out the slightest knowledge of needle L and have to learn slowly and by We consider this branch of most mmportant one, for the classes ought to have a thorough nowledge of the very thingswe are teaching. The school undoubtedly doing a great deal of good. The only trouble 13 to seeure the nee 'y funds to carry on the work—to buy cloth and different materials which the scholars themselves are too poor to purchas Then again we want teachers. Some of are too large to allow the seholars to learn rapidly. There really ought not to be more than_three or four in a class—at the most, five. Yes, the school is earried on all the year round, in summer as well as winter.” In addition to the la n room which the sewing y aro held, there is a small cutting room in the rear where the scholars are taught to cut the arments which they sew. The girls ke their turn at the cutting board, and are required to work rapidly, and at the same time as neatly R kilifully as pos- sible. In connection with th there are opening exercises of song and prayer, led by the suverintendent. At ning o'clock, Jmm the school is opencd, d at eleven o’clock the work closed. Promptly at that time, the youthful seam- stresses lay aside their sewing to take it up on tho following Saturday. This branch of work 1s a deserving one, and certainly ought to have the support of ail the charitably inclined. Smoked on tho Sabbath, Shortly after the doors of the police court were thrown open Saturd: a very excited individual came rusl i He gave his name as Wolf Cahn. “Judge,” he said, I wantto plead guilty to making an assault on another man. want you to fine me right away.” “I can’t do that,” revlied Judge Sten- berg, “until I have heard both sides of the ease. What have you got to say Cahn, who is a_ GermanJew, went on to tell how afellow countr named G. Gruber, had tr: c cter by telling 1t about town 4| he (Cahn) had smoked cigarettes on the Jewish Sabbath, which was in violation of a strict rule of their réligion. The next time the two met, a lively racket ensued in which Gruber was con worsted . 1 just finished ling h 1 the plaintifi’ came rushing i 1 the same story with va in his favor. Judge Stenber, posed of the m atter by fining Cahn ¥5 and costs she reall is in ewing school, Bold Tramps. Among the prisoners brought before Judge Stenberg aturday were v large number of tramps, They had b captured by the police nearthe packing house Fridak evening, and are supposed to have be- longed toa gang which waylaid and obbed three men on the B. & M. tracks y afternoon, among the number ding,” who is employed in ng house. They were vely rations, doing everything ylight, and were gathered in large numbers as to preclude all den of resistance on the part of their vie- tims ding was unable to identify any of the tramps as belonging to the band which wsnt through him, Going to Minneapolis. The object of the visit was to assist a similar delegation from Chicago in the formation of a new lodge, which is to be form with a charter membership of sixty persons. The Omaha_party left on’ a special train on the C P, M. & O, and reached Minne s'on Sunday in’ time to assist in the institution of the new lodge. Easter Egg Sociable. This evening the ladies 0 the Seward Street M. E church will give an Easter egg sosiable in the parlors of the church, to which all their friends and the friends of the church are cordially invited, Th will baan abundajce of oggs, ag (e, y the hens throughout that part of the Gity Have been laying well lately, and they will be gaily decorated. A short literary pro- cramme hy 'lwund]n'upurud, and a good time is anticipated, . ‘When Boycott Was Called Jmbargo, Detroit. Evening Journal, Bu.x'cullin:_: did not originate in Amer- , but it was started long before the very troubles became annoying. The sott, like the whirling chair, the Vir- nd Kentucky resolutions, and the ne to defend our coasts by batteries on wheels, origmated with Thomas Jef- ferson. It will be remembered that by the embargo we boycotted every spee: glish goods; we neither bought of company nor sold to he v i New England were suffe ting at the wharves and American for trade was at a complete standstill famous, or infamous, Hartford conven- tion, with its debutes on secession, was toe result of that boycott, and the luke warmness of the east in the war of 1513 be traced to that. It was nota \ly successful boyeott, but it occupied a pretty big place in history. - PILES! PlLES! PILES A sure cure for Blind, Bleeding, Itchin and Uleerated Piles has been discovered by Dr. Willigis, (an Indian remedy), called Dt Williams' Indian Pile Ointment.” A singla box has cured the worst chronic eases of 25 or 80 years standing, No one need sutfer minutos after upplying this wonderful ing medicine, " Lotions and instrume more harm than good, Williams' Indian Pile Ointment absorbs the tumors, allays the intense itching, (particularly at night’ after geiting warm in bed), acts as a poultice, giye nstant relief, and is prepared only for Piles, itehing of private parts, and for nothing else! SKIN DISEASES CURED. Dr. Frazier's Mazic Ointinent cures as by magie, Piuples, Black Heads or Grubs, Blotelies and Eruptions: on the face, leaving the skin cle utiful. Also cures Lch, S Nipples, Sore Lips, and Old Obstinate Ulcers, the Sold by droggists, or mailed on recoipt of s, Ketailed by Kulin & Co., and Schroeter & Conrad. At wholesale by 0. F. Gooduai. - - LR The Leading Questions. Cuaproy, Neb., April 23.—~[To the Editor:]-Your valuable paper scems to have taken the lead in this state on all questions of political and social reform and [ should like to contribute my mite to what are the most leading questions of the day, viz. land and labor trouble. Every \uul_‘ scems to have somo grievances, hut no one scems to know what _ they wa to s fy them Some want arbritration, some co-operation and others land pur and home rule, but nobody has any nite idea of the cause of all this dis- nee except one man Henry George pointed out the cause | and predicted the result of these troubles fifteen years ago, and 1s the only man in 1 who has given a remedy, yot | smedy and the man have alike been @gn And why? because this remedy strikes ause—titles in land rs are homeopathic in compar- ison with thist This is a cure from the old school which has sought the cause and preseribed for it regardless of all symptoms. What good will home iule and land purchase do with the Irish people if it went into effeet to-morrow? At most it would be but temporary and would cventuate in the same condition of affu S NOW eNists he small land owners would become arge land owners, some will fail to make therr pavments and the more successful will relieve them of their charge, and be- come land lords in their turn, Besides, the agricultural people of Treland do nof comprise the entire population. What will the mill operatives in Belfast do? Will 1t better their condition any? Most certainly not;and yet, they outnumber the ag laborers by In this country no land question s agitated in the great strikes of to-day. That ques- tion over-looked ontirely, and why? beeause this is a sparsely settled country as yet, but it won't be for long if 1ml- roads and land syndicates succeed in their land grabbing schemes in the future as woll as they have in_the past. People forget that the Pacilic coast will ‘be reached in a few years, but immigration from the old countrie: will continue until the United es will be s densely settled as Europe is to-day, al then ‘what will be the difference in our condition? None whatev All the l\\u tions and difficulties will confront us then as surely as they do the stonians and the English people to-day. Mr. Powderly 1s asked to solve the strike troubles of the west and southwest for the congressiol committee. Will he solve it on the land basis or not? 1f not, he wlm certainly fail to doa permancnt yood. All the writers of our d. cknowledge the existing evils, such ‘as the Pacilic railrond steal, tarifl for protection, con- wration of capital, stock watering, cte., but they keep away from the on solution of the problem that has ev been given to the people of any age, that is to abolish titles in land and all taxes, except on land valaution. This may prove untenable, but in the absence of any other definite solution, why not gitate it and prove so instead ot de- nouncing it as too radical? 3 ———— The life-giving essences of the forest are found in St. Jacobs Oil. cents, — The brick hor which has so long stood on the south corner of Fourteenth and Dodge streets has been torn down. Mr. Gruenig will erect upon the old site a three-story brick block, which is al- ready about to commence. 'MCOUE%E‘_,EWUUF CONSUMPTION s pine Fifty oSWEET GUM- MULLEIN. The sweet gum, as gathered from & tree of the s8imy DR, KTOWINK LIong Lho Amal streams In the Southern Btates, containa o stmulating ex- peotorant principlo Lt loosens tho pbiegu pro- olug the'aurly morniig cougn, and suiulates the child tothrowoff the false membrane in croup snd whoopingcough, “Whon combined witih the Bealing mucliagino cipie n the mulieln lant 0t the oid fic onts in TAYLONS HEROKEE RENEDY OF SWEET GUM AND MUL- LEIN tho inest known remedy for Conghs, Croup, Whooping-cough nd consumption; and so paise b It g pleased to take 1t. - Ask your d &i" 1l $1.00, ’\A'LI?A [ ’--Lllllll G For sale by the H. T. 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