Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 17, 1886, Page 4

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T'rIr, Notary Pubiie. will gladly exchange the ‘“‘cold wave'' fo “wet wave,” Jnr Lamp (s i,rnnd 'o;;lli.s muscle, but the question is whether Nebraska wants to be represented by rowdies in congress? ot e TuE best publicity for such a villain as the man Wooldridge would be as an at- tachment to a telegraph pole or conve- mient tree limb. Tre Provident Savings bank of St. Louis, whose cashier ran off with every- thing but the safe, ought to haveits nanme cnanged to the Improvident bank. A Jury has been finally secured for the Chicago anarchists, The general imp sion is that it will be as diflicult to secure an agrecment as it was to obtain a full jury box. SeNaTor Vest tried to do a good thing for the oll Missouri river yesterday by moving to increase the appropriation from 375,000 to $500,000, but the senaic Yoled it down. OPEN cesspools, stagnant water, filthy alleys and slaughter houses sending out their stenclies over the city are good hot- beds for cholera germs, The board of ‘health should roll up its sleeves and get down to business. —— ‘WHEN you meet a candidate for a state office in these days, he wants it distinctly understood that he doesn’t want to be committed on any vital issue that affects the people’s welfare until after the con- vention has adjourned. ‘Tue First distriet will nomimate a can- didate just one week before the state con- wention. Church Howe has set his mouse- trap as skillfully as if his name were Jay Gould, He now can pledge the Nemaha delegation to half a dozen candidates for every state office and he will not be obliged: to show his fine Italian hand until after the sold out delegations have delivered their goods to him. I appears from a report just received thestate department at Washington w-drom Consul General Rain at Berlin, that cases of trichinosis have not been decreased in Germany since the exclusion of the American hog from t| country. ‘Ihe consul states an instance in which of twenty hogs of German growth micro- secopically examined fourteen were found full of trichinw, and he says that such developments ave convineing people of " the fallacy of the theories which led to ~ the exclusion of American pork from ~ the German market, The fact is that B *nwu never any better reason for ' such exclusion than the clamor of tho - German hog producers who wished to ~ eontrol the home markot. ! ———— | Tue reports submitted in the United | States senate on Thursday, adverse to an | dnvestigation of the alleged use of cor- “rupt means in the election of Senator Payne, do not exculpate the aceused ox- eept to the extent of saying that he isnot rsonally inculpated—that is, he did not imself engage in buying up members to " wote for himself. Nobody ever suggested “or supposed that hodid; but is not & man ed 3 ? The report of the republicau mbers of the senate committee who d against an investigation is a mass spoeial pleading wholly unconvincing d inconclusive, and while it may have effect of throwing the case out of the tribunal having jurisdietion, does vindicate My. Payne, — THERE is very great probability that river and harbor bill will die either the hands of congress or by the eto of tho president. It is notan en- simple matter to get at the mo- jves which exe behind the conduct of cer in members of both houses of congress relation to this bill—which by the way always a bone of disagreeable conten- and has for several years Lecome and more a svurce of sectional dif- ges—but there is an evident disposi- with some to handieap the bill for . The considoration of the bill in enato Thursday elicited an acrima- s debate that did not improve the ion, though it served to show the ry romething of the fecling that respecting this moasure. It ap- 10 be understood that unless the up- priation. under the Lill is kept within to figuros the president will not of it § THE Through Thick and Thin, Goneral Thayer has boen subjected to | the exhausting pump of the Lincoln organ of railroad republicans. The gen eral declared upon his honor that he has entered into no political alliance with Senator Van Wyck and has made no pledges on the senatorial issue to any of Van Wyck's friends, Thayer has doubtless told the Senator Van Wyck is not tr candi dates for buttles The people whom he has faith fully and well will care of his cs n if the eandidates for state offices hang back for fear of offending the ral roads and professional politician I'ha has also assured the pump handle at Lincoln that he lias been a staunch republican through thick and thin and has never failed to support any sandidate who had the seal of & conyen- tion on his coat tails. This will doubt loss bo yery satisfactory to the machine republicans who believe that conventions annot err and prefer a diskonest repub- lican to an honest democrat. From our stundpoint this thick and thin party de votion does no ereditto General Thay: intelligence. A man must have a iron digestion to stomach some of the candidates that have been foisted upon the varty in Nebrask by railrond corruptionists within t past ten years, and an unusually elastic conscience to say grace after such foul meal® We have had not only very { men nominated for high positions, but men who were utterly unfic for the discharge of the trust by reason of notori- ous incompetency, dissipation or want of brains, The refusal of large numbers of republicans to support such eandidates been no discredit to theiv patriotism ov integrity. It takes greater moral cour- age to oppose party candidates improp- erly nominated than to follow the bell weathers, Good government can only b obtainad theanehaoos o gl alty to country should alwaysstand above loyalty to party w 'ty is wrong or is heing used for disreputable ends by bad men. Genel truth g to enli o8 to fight h serv state of! General A Disgrace to the State. Nebraska hag been disgraced by the Dloated rowdy who represents the Second congressional district in the halls of con- gress. Tho use of vile language followed by personal violence may commiend Jim Laird to the cowboys and saloon bum- mers, who have been his mainstay during his public life, but respectable citizens, regurdless of party, will hang their heads in shame over the spectacle whicn he made of himself in the affray at the national capital. It was bad enough in Laird to have been connected with the gang of bogus pre- emptors on Stinking Water creek. It was the height of brazen impudence in him to champion these land swindlors n the house by attacking the commissioncr of public lands ‘and moving to strike out the appropriation for paring svecial in- speetors of land entries. In his encoun- ter with Mr. Cobb last week on this ques- tion Laird was confronted with his own record from the reports of republican m- spectors who had exposed the true in- wardness of the Stinking Water frauds. Lashed into a fury by the stinging re- buke = which the house admini tered in refusing to sustain his mo- tion to abolish inspection of entries, Laird sought to reopen the controversy and to make a personal issue with the chairman of the public lands committee, In place of argument this whisky bloated congressman used his fist to convinee his opponent and made a scene which ought to retire im forever from public life. 1f the republicans of the Second district attempt to inflict this man on the state again they deserve to be disfranchised forever. The Limit of Tariff Taxation. “Those who refuse to be encouraged by prosperity,” declares the chairman of the ways and means committee in his able exposure of Sam Randall's apple- dack tariftf bill, “mav still take comfort in that public necessity which requires a revenue of $160,000,000 to be derived an- nually from custom house 2 “Itis to be assumed,” says Seceretary Manming in his last report to cong “that doring the present and the next fiscal year quite one hundred and fifty millions of dollars must annually be aised by duties on merchandize “‘Figures won't lic.”’ The estimates of the sceretary of the treasury and the chairman of the revenue committee of congress are given as the basis of the Ber's assertion that an average reduc- tion of little more than ten per centin existing tariff dues will bring the re- ceipts down to the revenue requirements of the government. The fact that a heavy deficiency in last year's appropria- tions has made an apparent increase in tho surplus revenue must be taken into account in estimates for the future. The certain expenditure of many millions in naval construction, sea coast defense and an increasing pension list cannot be overlooked. The revenue requirements of the government when these expend- itures are considered, will be greatly in- creased over the total of §245,000,000 of the last fiscal year. With the internal revenue taxes as they are and the tavif cut down by the amount named, though a wise enlargement of the free list and a reduction in the duties imposcd on the necessities of life, the receipts of the gov- ernment will be brought very nearly to a rovenuc ha This is the view of men who look beyond the present to the fu- ture, T'o talk about the abolition of internal revenue taxes is absurd, Rumors of Uabinet Changes, Our Washington correspondent notes the fact that there is a good deal being said just now relative to 1mpending changes in the cabinet, the gentlemen affcoted being Sceretary Manning and Attorney-General Garlund, Regarding the former the correspondent expresses the opinion that it is @8 near a fixed cer- tainty as anything can be in politics that Mr. Manning will notreturn to the severe duties of the treasury, while regarding Mr. Garland the oft-reported statementis reiterated that he desives to leave the cabinet whenever he ean do so with eredit, both for personal ressons and to relieve the pdministration of all enbarrassment incidons to his being a part of it. With respeet to Mr. Manning, apart from the considerations touching his health, another very strong reason that may lwpel bin to retire from the troasury portfolio is the action. ot the house of representatives a fow days ago in declar- ing, by an overwhelming wajority, & “want of confdence’ in his method of ‘managing the department reference to the publie It we not misapprehend with debt, do the | character of Mr. Manning, he is not only but is and he very tenacious of his opinions, very sensitive under rebuke must therefore feel keenly the con- demuation visited upon him in the pas sage of the Morrison resolution. He can- not do otherwise than regard that action 18 a notice from the large majority of his party in the lower branch of congrees that his fi of any value, and that so fa associates in the house they would require and expect from him nothing more than a faithful pertor nce of the executive functions of the oflice. The situation must be particu- larly humilating, also, to Mr. Manning when he remembers that during republi can administrations no democeratic house of representatives ever felt ealled upon to pass such a resolution as that of Mr. Morrison. Under such circumstances few men of self-respect wonld remain 1 oflice, and since Mr. Manning has an ex- cellent excuse in s broken health for retirement it is more than probable he will not resume the dutics of secretary of the treasury, With respect land, would be gratifying that that gentleman determined to satisfy a as his party concerned to Mz, Gar- it know ad definitely very general puplie desire for his retive- ment from the department of justice, but he has so persistently held on’in despite of this desire that very little contidence can be feltin reports tha dit him with a purpose to surrender an ofiic which his usefulness has been gr impaired, if not wholly destroyed Mr. Garland is awaiting the time when he can leave the office with eredit we are quitesure he will never find a period more propitious than the present, with respect eithey (0 himself o tha admeet tration, That remaming in office will not remove whatever stain attaches to him or rehabilit; him in public conli- dence, he ought to be able to understand as clearly as every other rational man does. e ought also to see that his pre ence in the government is a embarrassment to the which it is a piece of gross ingratitude to continue. Evenifit be clamed that the ident has desired him to remain, the answer is that there was a point of honor involved which, with a sensitive man, would have outweighed the president's wish, while if it be said that Mr. Garland has remained in office with the idea of living down public opinion, it ought to be plain to himself and his friends that the effort is futile, and that defiqnee of public opinion is not thg route by which 1o regain populur confidence. The Mexican Pension Bill, Both houses have the bill to pen- sion vet ind the measure has now gone to President Cleve- land for his It will searcely be withheld. ors of the struggle of 1848 are fe nd in the natural course of events their remaining | cannot he many, The demand upon the treasury by the annual requirements of the bill will be a steadily deereasmg one, Under the proyisions of the bill, $8 a month is granted to all soldiers and sail- ors who served sixty days in the Mexican war or who were employed an equal time cn route to the seat of war, or who w in actual battle and were honorably dis- chargea. The same sum 15 granted to surviving widows not remarried. Every soldier, disabled or not, who is now sixty-two years of age becomes a Leneficiary under the act, and those who are not thus advanced m years will draw the pension when that age is attained. But all soldiers, without reference to the age limit, who have the infirmities recog- nized in other laws as a claim to pen- sion become at once entitled to the pen- sion named. Soldiers drawing pensions for disabilities incurred in the war of the rebellion are excepted, In e a soldier has lost his discharge papers secondary evidence will be accepted as proof of his service, Nebraska has o nwmber of vet- erans of the Mexican war who will be benefitted by the operations of the bill, Epyuxns and Logan had a tilt yester- in the senate. It was only a'war of words, and did not amount to anything when comparea to the pugilistic set-to between Laird and Cobb in the house. Other Lands Than Ours, The elections have decided Mr, Glad- stone’s downfall. The majority of thirty against his measure for home rule has been swelled at the polling booths to seventy-five. A coalition ministry will probably be formed within a few weeks with Salisbury at the helm and Lord Hartington assisting. The programme proposed is suid to include a local govern- ment bill for England, Scotland and Ire- land, together with other tempting meas- ures which might be deseribed as springes to catoh woodeock.” [t is not the first time that the tories have stolen the thunder of the liberals, and it is the: fore not unlikely that some such scheme is in contemplation, especially as the calmness and moderation which Irish- men have shown during the recent polit- 1cal excitement have left uo excuse for the re-establishment of a policy of coer- cion. For years it has been argued that Irishmen were naturally incapaciated for self-government, and if any suggestion were made as to giving them legislative independence it was based brutally and sarcastically on the und that they had “a right to go to the devil in their own way.” Now, however, when defeat has not even raised the semblance of retalia- tion, it is seen that coercion would not be a question with which to come before the country, and Lord Salisbury may, therefore, bring forward something which, of course, will not satisfy Ireland, but the rejection of which he will use as an argument to prove the inherent dis- content of Irishmen. "y The czar is not waiting to hear from the other European powers before pro- ceeding with his warlike pi rations, and all the news from St. Petersburg in- creases tho general impression that Rus- sia means war. Two regiments of the imperial guard have joined the other Russian troops in Bessarabia, and are quarterad n Kishinev, the capital of that provinee, whence Russia invaded Rou- wania nine yoars ago. The sum of 16,- 000,000 roubles has also been set apart to improve the ports upon the Black sea and the Sea of Azov, which inereases the prospect that the ezar may attempt the immediate conguest of Turkey. Mean- while, Lord Roseberry is preparing a pro- ancial views are not esteemed | test to be forwarded to Russia, which will probably be signed by Germany, Austri and Ttaly as well, Itas thought that, in o of war, these powers will act together, t Britatn taking the it ative. The circumstance that a tory gov ernment is likely to conduet these oper: ations makes the vrobability of resolute and warlike action by the British greater, and in this case the home rule question may be indefinitely deferred. The ezar one great advantage over ngland, in that, being an absolute mon ch, he can move his troops and avpro- priate his revenne at will, as the oec sion demands, instead of being obliged to defer to popular sentiment or await a vote in parliament. It soems hardly possible, however, that the other states will overlook Russia's violation of the treaty of Berlin, or that anything but force will prevent the czar from keeping the port of Batoum closed, e The ninety-seventh annivorsary of the taking of the bastile was celebrated Wednesday evening under the suspices of the French Americans of St. Louis, From the time of its foundation in 1360 to its destruction July 14, 1780, the bastile was the emblem of the arbitrary tyranny throngh which the anointed kings of France asserted their divine right to rule. Liberty in Amer has been constructive, but in France it was destractive because until tyranny was overthrown it could ¢ no foundation. The one act in the rench revolution ch all lovers of genuine liberty may approve without res- the razing of the structure which for for so many centuries had n enslaved people. The 4th and 14th ot July will always be sacred to liberty, because on the one day a freetom was established and on the other a tyranny overthrown The duke of Argvle has undertaken to explain to Ameriea that th in wo- found ignos tion which Ireland sustaing to Engls This may be so, but the duke’s i of mat- tors pertaining to British attairs is equally as profound. When he w seeretary of state for India, and Russia had oceupied Mery, he announced in parliament that the place was only a collection of mud- holes, whereas.its strategic importence wits so great that its possession enabled Russia to get much neaver to her long cherished desire of scizing upon eastern India. v“; The expulsion of the T has evidently given ench princes new impetus to the monarchi propaganda in France. everal royalist journalists have been giyen a lengthy conférence with the ex- iled Comte de Pa nd the conse- quences of this mepting are already manifest. The army is sdid to be almost ready for a change in the government, in every part of the republic a new stimu- us has been given the reaction, and i need surprise no one before another ye ; The growing power of rogalty was offici- ally recognized and advertised, not checked nor impeded, by driving out the pretender, " While the daily mortality from cholera in Italy does not rapidly increase, the death rate among those who are attacked is exceptionally large. The number of new cases in Brindisi for the first three days of the week was 316 and the number of deaths was 132, The number of new cases in Fontana was 147, while the num- The large death rate is accounted for by the statement which comes from Rome that those at- tacked suffer terribly, and that in many cases the patients die within an hour after the appearance of the disease. It is said that the villages near ‘Lrieste and Fiume are now aflected. Probably the reports of mortality do not cover half of the deaths, and there 18 reason to believe that the disease is at work in many places from which reports are not sent out for vublication SENATORIAL POINTERS, Fully half the heads of United States sena- tors are bald or silvered. In the seventies there are but two senators, Payne being 7 and Morrill 76, Out of a total of seventy-six senators thirty- four have been born in the states they repre- sent, Senator Morrill has been in congress thirty years, and is twenty years older than K munds, Butler, at 50, from his thin gray hair and white moustache, looks nearly as old as Con- ger at 08, Nine persons out of ten would say that Blackburn, at 47, presents as old an appear- ane: as Gieorge, at Senator Vest has an idea of challenging the executive to a fishing bout, but he has uo chance. Lamont selects the bait, Nine senators appear not to know the month in which they were born, and two, Allison and- Van Wyck, knowing the month, know not the day, Vestat fifty-five looksas old as Pugh at sixty- five. Sawyer is sixty-nine, yet few persons would take him to be ten years older than Hoar, who will be sixty next August. Sherman at sixty-three, although some- what lacking by nature in vitality, is a well- preserved man, not a bald spot belug visible through his iron gray hair. 2 Warner, of Missouri, Mc¢Comas, of Mary- land, Reid, of Nerth Carolina, Crisp, of Georgia, Hepburn, of fow, ayd Belmont, of New York, arve quite passable billiard play- ers. Rvarts, at sixty-eight, although lis hair is darkly gray, shows not & sign of baldness, while Millér the other Newo York senator, more than fwenty years his junior, shows i deal of top head thiough his tine silken hair, 1f the shoulders of Mornill, the oldest sen- ator in the chamber, were less bent he would apoear younger than the “sslipole bachelor,” Saulsbury, whose orded years are sixty- elght and therefore ht years less than those of the Vermont senator. An examination of ages shows that in the thirties there is but one, Senator Kenna, whose age is thirty-eight and who is therefore the youngest meuber of [the upper branch of w In the forties ghere are fourteen 3, Riddleberger, the second youngest senator, being 41; Sabin and 8 Al- drich, 44; Berry, 45; Gray and Jones, of Ar- kansas, 46; Blackbuyn, Miller and Mitchell, of Pennsylvania, 47; Plumb 45; Manderson 49, Senator ferry’s principal recreati bil- liard playing, He has certainly '“"‘é ‘tico enough to make him an expert. While he was governor of Arkansas he was widely known as a patron of the science. A good player always found a welcome at the execu- tive mansion and had ial attentions show ered on him. The governor had one of Col- lender’s costiiest tables and a set of cues which cost a year's salary. Cockrell, whose years number half a cen- tury, plus one, looks to be ten years older than Lokan, while in fact he is nine years- younger, the hair and beaid of the foruier be ug a Tight gray. the halr and iistaclc of the iatter being comparatively as black as the plumage of the raven. Ouly ufty-three yoars of this world’s life | which is covered with a kin OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1886, hiag McPherson seen, yet from his whitening locks. hollowed cheeks and feeble gait he would quickly be taken to be eight or ten years older than Beck, who is eloven years Ius sentor, but who, in appearance, at least, is as muselilar as an_ox Beck's head, ¢ coat 0t brown s o dime can on hair, not a barejspot as large be seen, Washington Hatehet acon-Shakspeare coniroversy Hearst was asked. “What is it *Nuther one of Sparks’ rulings (ievled the senator. “Oh, wol 108 a literary dispute. They say now that Bacon wrofe Shakspeare's “plavs. What do you about 1Y “Don’t know anytuing about it, Don’t care, neither. Always some fuss'bout who writes things, Why, it was ouly the other day that | see something aboit who wrote ‘Heautiful Snow.” And now here's an- other hullabaloo.” “What i your opin- The Scientific Moloch, W. . Gildor and W. I, Grifiith started from New London, Conn., last week to tind the north pole. 1t Is hardly time, as yet, to take up a collection to send relief to them, but we may as well begin work on the monument. — - Omaha Rceal Estate Doalers, Atehison Globe, The dealer in Kansas City real ostate options is very proud and haughty in Atch- ison and 8t. Joe, but when he goes to Omaha he conduets himself with great humility, for the Omaha dealer in real estate options not only sports clusters of diamonds, but wears silk drawers with gold buttons, -— Sticks to His Par St. Louis Globe Demoerat. Weare indebted to a recent inferviewer for the information that Attorney General Garland has “lost the elasticity of his sena- torial days.” He has also lost tho popular respeet which used to go with said “elasti city.” But he still retains his telephone stock. ilectric, —_— Wili Be Settlod Some Day. Ch g0 Tribune, At Iatest accounts Dakota had not been ad- mitted into the union, though having every elaim to the thing. At latest accounts, too, Dakota wee. anke i i » party which will be against the demoer settled some d The Buicidal Mania in Towa. New York Times, The village of Wilton, twenty miles west of Davenport, 1a., with 500 inhabitants, has tur- nished seven sweides since January 1, and thirteen instances of self destruction within two years. Itis believed that, in proportion to the population, more deaths have resulted from the suieidal maufa in Wilton than in any other village in the United States, ‘The desire for self-destruction was made the spe- cial subject of discussion by the members of the Towa and Ilinois District Medical s . The doctors expressed the opinion tha think | 1 suicide is due to the absence of moral train- ing. [ L How Frankie Stirred up the Old Man. Erchange. “‘Grover, dear, is this a democratic admin- istration?"” “Of course it ankie. sakedon’t let anyone b foolish qnestion.” “well, if itis, why aren’t the democrats all 1n office?” “I haven’t had enough time yet to make al the chan, For heaven’s you ask such a you are a candidate for another term, dor’t you think u had better stay home from fishing and make a few thousand change “Eran “0h, d ie, that's my business.” ! You are getting ero ss already.’ L e Chicago Gets the Roses! Stanley Waterloo in Chicago Tribune, In_coming to us, fairest Rose, You show, as e'er your worit is, Wisdom and taste; none better knows Wiere the Pievian font is. Come West, and grow up in theseat Of poctry and learning And packing hogs and selling wheat And real artistic yearning. Here flowers of thought of gentle mind Have atmosphere for blowing, Here lofty aspirations find Room, and to spare, for growing; You'll feel at home—it must be so— Here no harsh eritie’s r Shall blight your inuse; it’s bound to grow With occidental vigor. The magnet, whe You'll come; your proper home i$ here, The home of all the graces; It must be so: while other towns May gather common vosie: 1n Fortune’s book 'tis written down Chicago gets the Roses! e Why 1s It? Oxana, July 16.—To the Editor of the Bee: A number of ns of Douglas county are anxious to build on West nam street. Plans for their houses have been drawn and lots purchased. The ard of county commissioners have en appealed to time and again to’ex- tend the grade of the strect. All the par- ties interested have petitioned the board to assess a third of the cost of such im- provement upon the adjacent property, and the petition has been signed by some thirty odd lot owners. Under the state law the commissioners are fully em- powered to proceed with the work. But more than two months have now been frittered sway in needless obstruc- tion on the part of the county surveyors and neglect by the board. The total amount of eurth to be moved is only 4,500 ards. The last reason given for delay is hat the county surveyor objects to the trouble of making out”a detailed asses mont for cach of the iots improved, Prop- erty owners ccordingly asked to put up the money in advunce to save the county surveyor and clerk the work of entering the special assessment on the recoras, ‘I'he question is which is supremo, tho law or the commissioners? Hundreds of thousands of yards of grading have been done in the county and city durving the past year without a doliar’s worth of cost 1o the property owners benefitied. Men who are “‘solid” with the comu oners find no difliculty in having their proverty improved at litile or no expense. In tho ))rusvul ase, the property owners apply ling under the law and ask to” be their share of the cost E mpl[) n order to hasten the that they can erect substantial and build themselves homes. e cost of the work is so slight that it 15 dificult to see what good reason can be advanoced for the continued delays, W, Good Work, To the Editor of the Brg Allow me simply us an outsider to speak of a wo that is being carridd on in this city by a few ladies that I am sure is not fully ap- preciated by most of our citizens. In factit1s impossible to realize the extent of the work without secing 1t. But allow me in a fow words to tell the work that the ludies ave doing st the | Buckingham on Twelfth street. Only a day or two ago a young man from one of the first families in the east, a graduate f Yale colloge, was brought there verg ing on delirium tremeus. The ladies kindly nursed him, and with the a ance of one or two young men. lahored with him hour after hour all thiough the night and day, bringing him back to reason and manhood, and pointing him I to a higher power to save him from bis appetite. That me afterncon | lxur men - - eame in to sign the pledge, and one stood at the door s he took his bottle titled with whisky and sowmething of | ! dashed it on the gronnd hese ladies have in the last six months rescued over tifty young men, most of whom have be- come good citizens and members of some of our churches, And_yet these ladies have to beg ds ter day for the means of support. . When th give their time and all to this work, should not the citi zens of Omaha support if, and not leave them to fear that each month wili be the last? Mrs, Clark 18 peculiarly adapted 10 this work and is nccomplishing grand things. In conclusion I want to say that am_writing this without the ladies knowing it, and with the desire that it may arouse somcone to come to their help. G. —— A Victory for Women. Toston Herali The victory won by women at the pres ent season of college anniversarvies is nothing short of a revolution in the ide of what is proper to bo done within the Ten years most of the colle dared to say anything in favor of the ad- mission of women to the privileges of a collegiate education. The Harvard Annex n by apologizing for itsclf, and has not yet had a fair show at Harvard, and Wellesiey and Smith and Bryn Mawr colleges “are yet in the gristle of experi- ment; but public sentiment has shot be- yond the heads and trustees of the older and more conservative institutions, and now there are but three colloges—Y ale, Amherst and Williams -among the older institutions that are not open to women in some form. This is a revolution in female education, and is destined to work a great change in the culture of the coun- try and in professional lite. Women S{vl d culture better than men, bocause they have more time for it. 1 the pres- entdemand for the higher education of women continues, and there is no reason that it should be less, it will shortly come about that co-education will be an o complished fact in the higher institution asitis a reality in many of the e MCIEB1AT ROTIELY 1HbAt BeLoIR SviiGte pri "““2 instruction is given. It would seem as if the drift at the present moment werg decidedly in this direction, The revoruon 1s one wiat wight have been anticipated, but it has come almost with- it obse ion in many of the older col s, Brown University, for instance, is yielded the point quite as a matter of course; while at the west, and in many of the state coileges, the two sexes have for some time Deen on sub stantially the same footing. The good results of the higher education of women have vindicated the action of the leading institutions which had ziready opencd their doors to women, and the full enjoy- ment of collegiate cducation of womcn nly a question of time every To have reached thi hout special effort, and as an act of justice to the other sex, is one of the great educational victories of the age. 1t is also one of the signs that the ideas of our own people ate working toward great Wl realitiesin Ameriean life. There is no aristoeracy in the United States but that of the intellect, and the opening of our institutions to women on a large seale is to be one of the sources of the sustentation of the larger eulture and the wider sense of things that is growing up among us. It will make itself felt in the elevation of the middle class to the plane of agentler and more subdued life. It will Tielp powerfully to create the sense of refinement that is now y lacking where one expeets to find it. The victory for women s, in fact, so wide-reaching that it is diflicult to point toa department of life or society that will not be affected byit. The change has come not a mo- ment too soon, but it will be well to vance slowly enouoh to avoid the re usual with revolutions, e re bloodless. Sicrt U SINGULARITIE a brave man in arlette, Mich., the other day, two young children ate several nutmegs, 'They were taken ill, and before morning the younger, a boy about six years old, died. A clam opener in a Westehester, Pa., res- taurant found a live mouse among his clams the other morning, one elam holding it se- curely by the foot and auother by the tail. A Kentucky farmer says he gathered about twenty of the cut-worms which have been devastating the crons of his section and put them in ar-box half filled with dirt, cov- ered the same with a pane of glass, and sct itin the sun. The resuit in less than two weeks was a brood of grasshioppy Two summer visitors at Mayport, Fla., caught a shark, shot it and tried to pull it ashore, As they were hunting with might and wain, anotlier huge shark swam up and bit the captured fish in half. When the half on the hook was hauled to land the fisher- men found in it five young sharks alive and kicking. itizen has a chicken that has two tails and . When the fowl is L three legs after the tool. When it walks it uses but two, the third, it is said, “sticking out behind like a ship's spankerboom,” In Indiana a rattlesnake was recently cut in two with eythe by a fanmer while mow- grass in St.loseph county. ‘The snake ained enough vitality to fasten its fangs inthe foot of a woman who followed the soythe with a rake, and it required the use of tongs 1o vry the teeth apart in order to re- move the foot, The woman will recover, towned by a farmer in Wert county, 5 long beéen noted for its rat-killing One day last week, when her ent to the barn, he saw a lar jump from a barrel. Looking into the barrel he discovered a litter of young rats. e fm- mediately went for his famous cat, expecting 10 see her exterminate the incivient pests, but to his surprise she treated them with the greatest tenderness, as a mother would, and after a few days be had to kill thew himself, SirJohn Lubbock, at a recent meeting of a natural science association in London, e Iiblted & very strange pet, 16 wis @ o wasp which” had been in his possession for about three months. It ate sugar from his hand and allowed him to stroke it. The wasp had every appearance of health and happi: n and, although it enjoyed an “outing” oceasionally, it readily returned to its bottle, whieh it seemea to rezard as a home. Tho buffalo gnats, the pest of the lower Mississippi valley, have of d struction among the stock of Tennessee. | jorts of cattle, horses and mules havi heen goaded to death by these inseets are re- coived daily. A colored wan was recently stung and ehoked to death by them. He had been in the Languille swawp, and it " is sup- posed that he tried to run away from the gnats; thatihe insects drove Iim wild and unally, becoming exhausted, he fell pros. trate, and was then simothered by the swarms of enwts, The female spider Is fiereer and larger than the mate, In one tribe of spiders the female is 1,500 times larger an- the male, The spider’s thread is _eomposed of innumerable small threads of fibers. One of these small threads has peen estimated to he one two- millionth of the thickness of & hair, A selen- tilic experimenter once drew ont’ from the body ot a single spider ) vards of thread or spider silk—a length o little short of three wiles. Stk may be woven of spiders thread, and It s more glossy and brilhant than that of the sillke worin, being of den color, An enthusiastic entomologist seceured onough of it for the weaving of a suit of clothes for Louis X1V —— Third District Central Committee, g 1 Committeemen for the Thizd g onal Distriet: ‘There will be & committee me the Eno hotel, in Fremont, Neb,, July 23, 1836, at 7 p. m. Al are requested to bo prosont J. W. Love, Chzirman, L 1RWIN, Secretary. Freme ting at on Fri- bers Whon Faby was sick, we gave her Oasteria, ‘Whoeu she was a Child, she eried for Castoria, Whes ehe ame Miss, sle clung o Castoria, Whi sho had Child-vn, she gave bhem Caatosin OLD SARPY. The Political Situation 1n Connt SeRINGFIELD, July 15.—[To the Editor of the Bre: Our political eampaig scarce open yet, but already the several elements are getting ready to work the conventions of the two parties, whicl usually held in this county but few hours before election day. Shcoe the year Sarpy county was organized the demo crats have always had a good working majority, and have, until last yes erally filled every county office . rels within the party have cost them severely, until now the entire board of commissioners is republican, and a re publican fills the office of superintendent of schools, Sarpy county has always been considered an anti-monopoly strong hold, but contrary to the usual order of things, this aunti-monopoly sentiment is lary in the democratic ranks. Not a dollar’s worth of railroad bonds has been or ever will be saddled on the county Ihe people are not opposed to railronds coming to this county n a legitimate mannct, but welcome them warmly. But our people, irrespective of party, recog- nize the fatal intluence of railroad attor- ys upon state aflairs at Lincoln, and going to send to the legislature next aman who will labor for the inter- ests of this and other agricultural com- munities, and one who will be first, Tast and all the time in favor of returning to the United States senate from this state that noblest champion of the rights of the people—General Van Wyek, So strong is the Van Wyck sentiment that even with their one hundred majorit, the county, it will be impossible for democrats to elect their legislative didate unless he be a pronounced friend of Van Wyck, and will promise to sup- port him, provided the democrats do not hold a majority in the nest legisly If the democratie eandidate will not make such promise, then the Van Wyck will unite upon a Van Wyck repub- 1 and will certainly elect' him. The prohibitionists will put up a full tukak heat fall, and will na 1T0sF voto than Altogeether pofitics in Sarpy county are rather mixed, but one trathis plam--the great mass of voters favor the re-clection of Van Wyek, and will faith- tully guard his interests here. - You may be assured that Sarpy county’s represen- tative in the next legislature, be he dem- ocrat, republican or prohivitionist vote always for our favorite—Se Van Wyck. H. e 4 Recent Changes in Japan. Rev. James H. Pette The emperor has come out from his seclusion, makes tours through the country, is scen by common people, even dines with his mer- ehants, who, us a class, stood lowest in the old-time social seale. Three hundred miles of railway, steamship line ph business that amounts to complete postoflice department, ez postal order and bank syse tems, lightl:ouses, telephones, steam mills with complicated wachinery, n new ewvil nd erimmal code based” on that of ance, a well-cquipped army and navy, fine mint, oflicial obse nee of tho th, adoption of the Christian ealen- nd complete religions freedom-— these ave the striking features of new apan. She also has one university witl flihated colleges, and in all 30,66 schools, with 3000018 students—two- twenty-fif whole population. A society for Romanizing the tanguage now numbers 6,000 members and publishes a paper. English is taught in some of tho schools and will be 1 all as soon as teachers ean be prepared for the work. 1885, only fifty-three for- eigner in the employ of various government departinents, including that cducation, as compared with hundred a few years since. Japan’s for] i amounts annually to $17, 000,000, against less than one-quarter of million in 1850. During the past two horers have emigrated to o contract {o work on sugar plantations. They send home their surplus earnings. —— is uyer bere ede zin he word “queer’” wble origi tributed to it. 2 night, when the performancoe at Drury Lane was finished, the celebrated Quing miany of whose okes aro still ve- membered, offered to bet a young noble- man £100° that next mornig . word would be in umversal use which had never been heard before. The nobleman accepted the wager and left the theatre. Then Quin summoned all the “supers’’ who happened to be yery numerous, and aavo each a large pices of chalk, Ho told them to go through ali the leading thoroughfares of London and write at inter on the flags the word “‘queer.’ Quin’s orders were faithfully carried out, and on the following mornipg, of course, people were astonished—the word was in everyvody’s mouth, ‘The great actor with little difliculty made good his elaim to the nobleman’s bank-note, while be- queathing a new word to the language. S A Suburban Robbery. Paul Weec nan livin the ecity limits on the Bellevue ported at nolice headquarters to-day that a Jew peddler entered his house yester- day, while his wife was in the back part, and stole a silver wateh, double gold --:miu and other articles of jewelry. No clue. ITCHING. Skin Diseases Instantly Relieved by Cuticura, NT.—A warm bath with and a single applics tho wreat Skin Cure. 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