Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 5, 1886, Page 4

THE DAILY BER.| PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. | TERMA OF SCRSORTPTION Daily Moeniaz Edition) inciuding Bunday Brp. Ono ¥ear £10 0 For 8ix Month f 00 For Threo Mon ] The Omahn Sandiy addross, Ono Year 1k, madied o any 20 Al torial TOR OF 1 | the Kot Ivess All bue tor ghould b addrossod to Tk 1 OMAN A, Drafts, oh 10 be made payable to the or THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPAAY, E. ROSEWATER. And romittance PUBLISIING COMPANY s 0 toffice order company, panpRlr ragrnit Eprtor. ane Uiy THE DAILY BEE. Bworn Statement of Circ Btate of Nebraska, a8, County of Douglas. i % Geo, B, Tzsehuck seeretary of the Bee Pub- Hishine company, dovs solemniy swear that the actual cirevlation of the Daily Be for the week cnding Sept. 5, 186, was as follows: lation. Baturday, Sunday. . Monday, 50th. ... . day, S1st day, 1st., Thursday, Friday, . Average, .. TZ5CHUCK. me this Gro, I Subseribed and_sworn to 4th day of Sept., 185, . P, FEIL, [SEAT | Notarv Public. Geo, B. Tzsehuck, being first duly sworn,de- Jotes and says that i s secretary of' the lice 2ublishing company, that the actual average daily circulation of the Daily Bee for the month of January, 186, was 10,373 coples; for February, 154, 10,503 copies; for Mareh, 886, 11,557 copies: for Avril, 1838, 12,100 copies: for May, 1886, 12,430 copies: for June, 1856, 12,205 copies ; for July, 1856, 12,514 copies for August, 155, 12,464 copies. Gro. B, TzscHuek. Subseribed and sworn to before me, this 4th day of Sept., A. D. 1880, N. P. FEIn, [SEAL. | Notary Pubie. Contents of the Sunday Bee. Tage 1. New York Herald Cablegrams— Specials to the Ber.—General Telegraphic News. Page2 Towa and Nebraska News.—City News.—Miscellany, Page 8. Specinl Advertisements,—General and Local Markets, ge 4. Editorials,.—Political ~Points.— Pross Comments.—An Eminent Methodlst. Page 5 Lincoln Letter—,City Miscellany.--Local Adyertisements. 15 Council Bluffs News.—Miscellany, —Advertisements, Page 7. The Poet John G, Saxe.~My Son, a Story, Abbreviated from La Figare Miscellany, - Advertisements. Pagoe 8. ° General City News tisements. Women's W Paged, Seeing in Ita by Miriam Chase, Tany.--Advertisements. 10. San Francisco erdone, by ath,—Methodism in :braska, by George W. Frost.—Miscellany,—Advertise- ments, Page 11. Laughs on the IHalf Shell, in Prose and Poetry.—Iloney for the Ladies.— Pevpermint Drops.—Impicties,—Musical and Dramatie, el lducation: Poetry Page 1 (s’ Coupled Uy Fingors for Bliss, a sketeh by Matthews.—Bridal Bells and Blossoms. vertisements, WiiaT doos Omaha propose to do for the Charleston sufferers? Cuurcen Howe claims the earth. Brag is a dog which will not win in the kirst district. EvEN an earthquake could not Nebraska from the vrosperity which is following in the wake of the energe endeavor of her active citizens. Froons, drouths, fires, war and pesti- lence, combined with the greatest earth- quakes of the century, will long make the present year memorable in the annals of history. « MEeXI10AN diplomacy on paper may be weak, but when it is combined with “‘chuli-con-carne” and mescal juice, no American envoy is safe in its immediate neighborhood. Tue “Mendacious Carpenter” trom Mendota continues to keep at a safe dis- tance from s native town. Enraged citizens of Illinois who have been swin dled and bilked by this notorious scal aro longing for his return in order to present him with a fall suit of tar and feathers, JENERAL Drus telegraphs that the report that Geronimo was surrounded is a canard which he does not believe, General Drum beats sympathetically with the rest of the country. No one else believes it cither. A photograph of Geronimo in wrons will be the best evi- dence to the public that the wily Apache has been really trapped, ‘Tue return to Dublin of the Irish patriots O’Brien and Redmond, who eame over to the Chicago convention of the national league as the representa- tives of My, Parneli, was greoted with an ovation. The address of the former gentleman was of the kind to fire the Celtic heart, and indicated that he had rotained all the enthusiasm and zeal im- partod by the Chicago mecting, perhaps o little intensitied by contact with Irish air, which seems to have a peculiarly gimulating effect upon the combative quality, Mr. O'Brien, however, gave no assurances in behalt of Irish-Americans | find themselves dist THE OMAHA DAILY Build For the Fature, Omaha shonld build for the The day for narrow guage pol private, is past. We are tropolis of a magnifi- | the depot of sup future pub to be a cios, lic or is At city, th g em nt section of country es, the outlet of a section, and th nancial center of a vast n of tribi territ I'o-day a s W i in num em advan m now will be tly mista fai tho failure city of Our becanse their framer to p th Omaha requirements of hould plan to-day f iis bas Our pavements, and sidewalks should all be built of stantial and durable materials capable of aqua v million inhabitants hould be construet onr sewers sub. sustaining the traffic which isto pass over their surface or the inerease will result from a greatly inc lation. It will be the cconomy to build requirements Ten years from now Oma will look back upon the present as one of the years of her infanc e will have outgrown her swaddling clothes, The two and three story brick blocks will *be shamed by ight and ten story structures lining her streets ‘Fhe property owners who have myested in temporary improvements will wnced by those whose wisdom and foresight induced them to lay their foundations deep and toercet substantial superstructnres. Stone pave- ments will still_be meeting the proper requirements of traflic, while less durable material will be replaced by the oui pavement fit for a great city. ‘Il citizens who built for the future will be reaping the benefits of thew sound judgment, while those who imag incd that « penny wise and pound foolish policy would pay will be discovering their costly mistake. Enterprise, push, vigor in extending our facilitics for trad and commeree, liberality in providing for a population and rush of business which is already in sight, a willingness to incur indebtedness because incurring debt will pay the debt ten times over in the near future—these will be the motive powers which will foree Omaha into the position she deserves and can maintain as the Queen City of the trans-Missouri country. use which wsed popu- height of false for present Unfair to Taxpaye: At the last meeting of the city ~ council the Belt Line company made application for the extension of the water sorvice to points along its track. This request, it granted, means additional taxation levied on the citizens of Omaha for in- creased hydrant service. In taking it into consideration, the conncil will do well to ask what taxes the Bedt Line pays into the city treasury in return for the ad- vantages of fire and police protection, water service and other adjuncts of pub- lic mprovement. It will surprise many readers of the Bek to be told that not a single Iroad running in or out of Omaha, the Belt Line included, pays a dollar of city taxes on their depots, depot grounds, side tracks, shops and right of way. The in- significant sum which they turn in as taxes on this class of corporation proper- ty goes into the county treasury. By a forced and false construction of the rev. enuc law they are entirely exempt from city taxation. Every other taxpayer in Omaha is obliged to contribute to the city fund. The poorest property owner who works in the shops pays his proportion of the expenses of building up this city and maintaining its government, The railroads alone are permitted to escape scot free, to reap the benefits of public improvements for which they were not taxed, the protee- tion of police for which they do not puy and of courts for whose maintenance they refuse to contribute a dollar. ‘This is all wrong. It s without a par- allel in any other state ot which we hav knowledge. Omaha wants her railroads to share in the general prosperity. But she should insist, with every other city in the state, that the railroads shall not reap where they do not sow or force upon others burdens which they are themselves unwilliv American It is unpleas ed Race. be told, on the au- thority of indisputable statistics, that in the matter of longevity the American people are inferior to those of several other countries. Yet if the fact shall lead to an accurate ascertainment of th ises of this inferiority, and thus indi- cate the remedies, it is well to know it. A medical journal of high character re- cently pubbished & comparative analys of the mortality statistics of the United States, France, England and Ireland, which does not make a flattering show- ing of the probabilitics of life in this country. The analysis was made up from data covering the same period i the' several countries, and as during this time there was no unusual development of disease n either country, the record presumed to present a fair average of other yoar These statistics show the average dura- tion of life in the United States to be less than twenty years; that is, of all those born quite .onc-hulf die before reach- taat they will not honor on demand, and it is not to be donbted that the knowl- edge that this is so will have a very great influence in strengthening the courage and hope of Irishmen at home, while it ean scarcely be entively impotent inats effect upon- popular sentiment in En, land. The Irish cause 1s more than hol “* ing its ground. A LADY stenographer in the Indian bu reau at Washington, who has been faith- fully performing her monotonous duties for many years without attracting any outside consideration, has at lnst reaped the reward of fame which sometimes—- unhappily not always—comes to fidelity and patient merit, The absence of the commissioner gave the lady a chance, or wather foreed it upon her, to show her peal worth, and as a result it is found that the simple stenographer, whom few re- rded, has the wisest head with respect to Indian affairs of any one connected ® with the bureau, besides good judgment and exceutive ability, Miss Minnie Moore —-how trippingly goés the ulliteration—i to be congratulated, and wo take pleas wre in heralding her doubtless well- earned fame. Unguestionably the nation has other fuithful servants in petticoats no less worthy of being publicly known and commended. It is such facts as these that ave steadily strengthening the claim of woman to consideration in the practi #al afluirs of life. ing their twentieth year, Of course the death rate s largest among young children, about forty per cent. dying before the age of rive, and in this one class the death rate in England is somewhat higher thau it is here. But after that period the rate with us is maintained on a high scale, it being shown that only twenty-two American men and women out of 100 live to be fitty years old, and only about four out of 100 live to be eighty. The figures for Eng- land and Ircland make a better showing of longevity than this, while those for are still more largely to our dis- ze, the Krench statistics showing that forty-eight people out of 100 attain the age of fifty, and 25 per cent. of all those born live to be three-score and ten, The death rate among children under five years is also very much less in France than in the United States, as it is like- wise in Ireland. In short, the attested figures show that at all periods of life, up to the time when natural causes assert their power, the mortality in the United States is relatively greater than in either of the other countries whose statistics are brought iuto comparison. Commenting upon this disagreeab! trutha contemporary finds an explanation in the injudicious and harmful systems of social and business life in this country The high rate of mortality among young want of physical strengt parents, and abnormal o Among those between years of age the most socia! excitement bor vation, and the severe m cal strain incident to ¢ education increasing the nif yus tension and ive i \ later period of tremenc that pervade ness and profc States, which thing like the same degr In the eager alth, the Ame of the upon the vital forees, wi and which in t its speedy pena mental decay I'his, it may It is sugg: prominent man s falls at his <s of labor and t could no longe some lif not | sional country coss and w thonghtless reat d renay brings and death anew lesson. be 1 some busir by ¢ nature when down under a pr mortal endurance and is lum, if not to the gray cile porsonal experience of th themselves intensely strnggle of life, and the little heeded s not repetition impor 1 its aspe and cannot be too often that goes to illustrate it more impressive. post, professional ssuro too great for encouraging Nevertheless itis a lesson too BEE: hon the part of onditions of life ten and twenty probable exuses lering on ental and methods dissi physi ur of The cause most largely oper rortality nccount is tound in t busi o in United resent to ee in any for wh artment of the any other conflict S Iy nkes is he ¥ lich he can never 1sanls of Ity in physical and untimely cmarked, is not ested every time in the world of overwhelmed lie strain which ¢ withstand, man breaks rican Iraft or taken to an asy a hopeless imbe It comes home aimost daily to the ousands who are engaged in the fact that it is so to its ots to be ignorei retold, with all and render it An Engine of Destr The straggie of the 1o century in modern n designers of defensive ar struction of the rifled g to hurl solid shot an eleven miles of space blow to wooden ships of the Armstrongritled ordinance called modern ironelad. Eve been a race between the and the armor ing to invent a would penctrate any the other workmg t an armor which would def; of the ordnance of Kruvy So far no ship has yet which ecan There is o limt to the ar pacity of scaworthy v been reached has wl val been between the gun makers makers, the been be consider fon. st quarter of a warfare has and the rmor. The con- un with capaeity A shell throngh dealt the d line. ; out the r since there has ordance mukers one striv which and »rojectile defense, manu the us: y and Armstrong. constructed shot proof ing o red rmor sels and that limit ien twenty-four inches of steel have been welded togethe into an armor plate. T’k made that the French shell which can not on through eighteen inches nine feet of teak bucking inches of steel plate helt good as ever when is startling if true. ends the controvers; ships are conceened. s0 could be devised could stand for stant against such ¢ such a gun the const fort could sink wit the best armored vessel the Fremch gun is ordnance makers have t selves, Men-of-war will useless except us comme wenker vessels and eru poores: \e announcement have invented a Iy pass straight of steel armor, r and ten more ind that, butis as its journey is over, Such a projectile us armored armor that an in- leviathan, With equipped sea shot far No h a single in the world. If actuality the he field to them- be practically sree destroyers of isers to employ endency of modern warfare is to ase the destructive ants and thus to shorten facilities of com- the contest. Long protracted wars are things of the pust, ‘The breech-loadir gun are the modern pe mighty powers is a thr tions of inter: menace against trouble “War means tight and f as General Sherman put scientific discovery is that meaning more and tional peace. engines of maval warfare ng rifle and rifled cemakers whose it against mfrac- The great stand as a e on the waters. ight means kill”” s it, and modern arly emphasizing mote, The Exhibition Open. The Omaha exhibitic There will be few of t on is now onen. e great crowds who visit it who will not agree that the promises of the manage more thau fulfilled, faithful service e resmdt which 1s a credit t rment have been Hard work and accomplished the o the city and to those who have the details in charge. The exmhition is full, nd interesting a suggestive. Every available inch of room is occupied and well oc collection is a feature groatly fated of our m are handsome and and striking, Omahia enterprise and loc coupied. The art > which will be The displays manufacturers picturing I netivity. The people of this city, ana_especially our workingmen, have n aflorded a chance to se and they should not allc nity to pa exhibition will be throw ss by unimproved, never before been e such a display, ow the opportu- To-day the n open in the af- ternoon, so that thousands whose time is tally employed during tend. The building shos the week ean at- uld be crowded. address before association, a short time Iducation and Moth The discussion of the ot woman has devel newly brought forwars startling theory as to motherhood. In his British medical ago, Dr. Withers Moo cully deelared that the of woman is a mistuke, that its physical effects in a direction that n ho od. higher education oped, or rather d, & somewhat its offects upon the s most emphati- higher education on the ground are deteriorating militates against mothernood, He referred especially to American experience ns supporting his views, ar illustrating and id sand that if the causes in operation m this country whici he he motherhood continue to next half century in t they have for the past 110 bo productive of the decay of increase for tae he same ratio as fifty years, the omen who are to be the mothers in this republic must be drawn tic homes. from a source entitled t side attention here, and some prominent medi ing the theory have been published doctors of course disag is shown that there ar some who are quite as cating this view as the man, New York Woman's opi perience in his hospital practice. tion hus quite naturally attr Among these is Dr, trom tramsatlan- So pronounced an opinion 0 res con cted the views of cal men regard- The ce, and the fact re in this country radical in advo. English medic mmet of the hospital, whose pectfu fon is grounded upon personal ex- An other not only aflirms his faith in the theory from experienc but says it is children may be due to iusuflicient cave, i based on well-known scientitic principles SUNDAY 1+ manifests itself in and has the authorigy of Lorbert Spencer | and other sociolofists and But the number w& think this way are n a small minority{ The weight of opin ion is heavily agaiif® the theory Nevertheless the decl of motherhood in the United States is an admitted fact, and if it be not due cited by Dr.Moore,what other canse or eauses must t be aseribed to? Thd g regards the demands of cioty the chiof ¢ “Women waste the known, in the way they in their habits of living and in the to maintain the of soc And another: “The t prolific cause ciety is fanlty, biologists eral opinion fashion and so Sags one 18 is well wear clothing effort oty den Is cman rouble finds a more n tne foolish tenets of <o I'he ent The corsct is an abomination perhaps the worst. A woman's skirts, swinging to her waist with a mere band, and depending for thei fixity of position upon the which they girt the t of enfecbled ph vower. Cosmetics are a third and very fraitful eause ™ A distike of maternal duties and household cares, with the limitations they vily impose upon freedom of which is doubtless more g with American women than those of any other country, is another cause that ought not to be disregarded, But while it is that the almost those learned doctors who h pressed themselves on this inte and highly important subjoct is opposed to the theory that higher cducation is to any serions extent responsible for the il mitted decline of motherhood in this country, the other canses to which the un fortunate deterioration is attributed are of a nature that docs not permit of gre hope of remedy, at least for some gener tions. The misfortune scems to be that th American woman is every year increasing her devotion to the de- mands of fashion and socicty, and there- fore nccelerating her speed along the line of deterioration noted. How shall women be brought to surrender the pleasures of society, the allurements of shion, and the freedom of a childless o, for the ¢ sof home and the suc rifices of wmotherhood? Only perhaps through the general diffusion of that higher education which shall teach them the hollowness and mockery of the one, and the sacredness, the beanty, the real delight, and the perennial satisfaction of the othe system of female dress i i htness with dy, is another ral source necessi action, heral to find of very unanimous o3 pleasing, nion average vos Tue first touches of frost have been feltin the state, and acenrate ports of the condition of our corn crop based upon shucking and helting will soon be in order. Notwithslanding all the roor backs of the past four months, most of which oviginated in the fertile brains of speculators, it will be found that Ne br A iias suflered less from the long season of dry weather than any of her sister state I'he Bek has kept its - ers well informed of the erop prospects, and the aceuracy and rehability of its re ports will be proved before many weeks are over. The ~crops for 186 will show a fair av re. The yield of small grain hag been excellent, that of hay below the average, while our great stapie corn will return at leasta two-thirds crop with an increased acre- ve. A singular feature of the harvest will be the rewurns from the woestern part of the state insections where, five years ago, agriculture was considered imprac- ticable. The “arid region™ is “arid”’ no longer. Abundant rainfall now visits it, and farmers who oceupy ranges for years iven over to ranchmen now proudly ex- hibit their produets in agricultural so- cicties, side by side with those from the river counties, Mernopists will find two articies of special interest to their religious denom- ination in the present 1ssuc of the Sunday Bie. The growth of Methodism in Ne- bras| is ably discussed in an article from the pen of one of the ablest of pioneers of the church in Nebraska, while 2 sketch of the life and labors of Bishop Fowler, the most briliiant of the leaders of thut denomination, will be found i another column, Methodism hias been a progressive and an_ aggressiv religious foree in the west, and nowhere have the results been largerin proportion to themeans than in the ficld of Nebraska., QuEEN VicToria_telegraphs her pathy with the Charleston sufl Vic ympathy is cheap, and never any more substantial manncr than a dead head message, POLL AL POINTS, The prohibitionists have organized in more than fifty counties in P'ennsylvani Over 100,000 copiesof Blaine's Sebago Inke ch were ordered for circulation in Maine, Senator Dawes seems to be cutting out the work for congressman I ong in the senatorial fight. ‘I'ne Providence Journa: remarks that Mr, Blaine’s bugle blast has a slight twang of the fish-horn, Judze Noah Davis declines point blank to be a candidate for the New York court of peals bench, An eastern paper says Elijan M, Haines Is a wore piccuresque figure in Ilinols politics than John A, Logan, Rhode Island prohibitionists will vote thelr own ticket in spite of tempting overtures from the republicans, Governor Hill ias evidently eoneluded to foster his boow by prompt action against the New York ringsters. Frederick 0. Prince of Boston will not angle for the democratic noliination for goy- ernor of Massachusetts thi year, Congressman Henderson, renominated in the Eleventh Iilinois distriet, is known as “the best friend of the Hennepin canal,” Ex-Congressman Thompson, secretary of tife democratic congressional campaign com- mittee, thinks Cleveland Is certain w be re- nominated, Lhe managzers of both palitical parties are complaining of lack of funds, Formerly such complaints were beard wainly from democratic managers, Ex-Congressman Howey s candidate for governor by the republicans, They bhave been looking for a man for some time. Frank Lawler, the Chicago statesman, may be found any day during the racess of con gress mixing drinks behind his own bar, ‘T'hat is a position Le is caleulated to adorn, Nathan Goff, of West Virginia, declines to stand again for the national house, although he can kave the republican nomination for the asking. He has got Lis ey on the senate. There will be three complete state tickets in Michigan for the fall election, ‘The dewmo- alked of as W Jerse diligently SEPTEMBER crats and greenbackers furuish one and the republicans and prohibitionists the other two. Cougressman Wise, of Virginia, has writ- 1886.~TWELVE ten a letter declining to stand for renomina tion, but in consequen numerous later developments he may be induced to recon- sider hils decision, The talk about making ex-i eral the prohibition andidate for governor of New Y s said by that gentle. man's friends to be unauthorized and unwar vanted, Mr* James is said to be in sympathy with the objects of the prohibitior but ng to become thewr candidate for any sstmaster Gene James sts, umwil Didn't Care Much St ‘ For Vesuvius, Ves as Ben Butler Massachusetts, us is again in eruption: but aslong t running for governor of n't car for Ve The Scum of the About the despicable earth is the man who backsa visiting te against the home players and then exults in their defeat. As the hoodlums say in the grand stand, “Put him out - After the Battle, Phitadelphia Times Roger A, T who acted as John R. MeLean's second in the recent talk be- tween the latter and Murat Halstead, hos to Bar Harbor to recover from the ef 15 of that terrible affair, Before Noon. Boston Advertisey Rev, Mr. Noon is to become president of the Little ltock, Ark., university, Tereafte tudents of the institution who 1eceive a rep rimand ean elaim the title of A. M., because tiiey lave been ealled before noon. i Farth. Tost or Gen. yor, fe Tangible Proof. Boston Transeript, The supposed sen serpent seen near Gloncester snggests a useful field for amateur photographers. An_ instantan- cous photograph taken af such a time would not only furnish tangibie proof of the oceur- rence but would possess considerable seien- titie value now so often - The Earthquake a Blessing. Providenee Journal, urrence of earthquakes can neve . be prevented. Nor should the re of such preventlon, sinee w now know for surety what was long dimly seen, that these dreaded shocks arean almost indispensable benetit to man. Scienee shows that theyare in reality the instruments by which the erust of the earth is protected trom more terible catastrophies. g Literature in Chicago. Philadelphia Record, Strictly literary ventures do not seem to flourish in the atmosphere of Chicago. That go-ahead town has no time for wsthetie ye- Iaxation. Between the ups and downs of the pork and grain market, the tumults of pro- pagandists who use the boyeott and prop: gandists who throw bombs, and. the vieissi- tudes of the base ball business, the Chi- cagoans m age to get on without any htera- ture to speak of except the literature of their vivacious newspapers. —-— “The Seasons and Earthquakes. St. Louix Globe-Democrat, A sortof law of connection between sea- sons and earthquakes has been traced. The number has been found to be greatest about the time of the equinoxes (March 20 and Sep- tember 20), and to predominate around that of September. “This will account, perhaps, for the number ot shoeks experienced in v rions parts of the world in the past few and also prepare us 1o expeet simlar b festations in the coming two or three weeks. Henry George New Yok Sun. Henry Georgo lives ina substantial-looking house on_ Pl avenue, just above 120th strect. He s in the business of publishing his own works at 18 Astor place. He floats around evenings in the beer saloons in I lem and feclsthe political pulse of the worl ingman. He has come to several conelusions since his name was mentioned for mayor. At first he positively declined to run, urging lathe was in good business, and that it would not pay him. Then he said, so badiy would the workingmen be deteated, that he felt, as their eandidate, the varnish on his reputation would be washed away. Then a number of his admirers persuaded him to re- consider his decislon, and he has done so, and it was made_public at last Thursday night's meeting. No doubt the Central Labor Union will try to get the assurances of the unions that they will give him 30000 votes. An admirer promises to give 310,000 to help along his canvass. at Home. The Old Cottage Porch. Naihan D. Urner in New York Mercury. Al, few are the paintings, once fresh and bright, In memory’s halls sublime, “That are not discolored or blac By the pitiless hand of tine But oné there is which oblivion's toreh Hath spared in that picture dome, And that is the vine-wreathed cottage porch Of my boyhood’s country home. The honeysuckles and rose vines swoet Soft shelterea it from the sun, 1t was my mother’s favorite seat Wiien her household work was done, And, with her sewing or darning, she Would hin to lerself a song, While I was playing about her knee As glad as'the day was long, 2 it the Iawn sloped down to the brook A vering onks and limes; And my too. I its leafy n Sought rest and s pipe betime And his talk to my mother I bring to mind OF how happily, years before, e had led her, a bridé, through that roliage- twined 0ld porch to the cottage door, And often, too, as the nizht winds sung In the hush of the sultry eves, When the crickets ehirped and the fireflies Wil ‘Iheir lanterns amid the leaves His tallk was yet of remoter joys, " “Whose breath I could vagilely feel, When those vines were stirred by the whir- ring noise 0Of bis grandmother’s spinning-wheel, 1 remember, too, how I helped to bear, One after another, those Dear coffined forms through the old poreh there To the churchyard’s restful close, And soon after that, by stranger forms Alone were the old seats tilled, Whilo I was breasting the storms Here and there, as destiny willed. world’s dark But still "tis my prayer that the day will come, ough the seas now roll between, When ere with faculties weak and numb On the staff ot old age I lean, Though winter freeze or midsumiier scorch, 1 shall yet have the power to roai Back, back once more to the cottage poreh Of my boyhood's country hoine, - - A Definite Answe Merchant Traveler: One hot afternoor. in July a traveller stopped ata far.n house and asked for a drink. A country girl barefooted and sun bonneted passed him out a dipper and swid *'there’s the welly” He was evidently inclined to indulge in a little rural flivtation, and after making all the known varieties of *sheep's eyes' at her over the edge of the dipper, he made bold to inqure What might your name be, miss*"’ “Wall. she said, in & matier-of-fact tone. “Ef I ean convinee young Smiler that it'’s about time to come down to business, 1t might be Mrs. Mary Jane Smiler before next winter. At present it ain’t nothin’ but Mary Jane Simpkins.” There is on exhibition at_one of the Osh osh, Wis,, drugestores a book valued at $2,000, the property ot Dr. Lempster. Itiy the Catholic chureh service writien by hand in the tenth century, bound in oak’ wood, covered with leather, and baviug bronze clasps and corners. PAGES. THE EMINENT ~METHODIST. North Nebraska Conference. A SKETCH OF HIS CAREER Scholar and morable An Accomplishe quent Preacher—IHis Me Eulogy Lincoln Reminls- cences of Bishop Simpson the Omaha Sunday B Nebraska « [ 1Written f The No Methodist Ey sion Cekamah oth inst. Tho pro C. H. Fowler, whose espiscopal residence is in San Francisco Bishop Fowler is well known in Omaha, by the large body of Methodists, and by many citizens who have heard him pre lere, and who have known himom Ch cago, where he resided for many years I'he bishop is by birth a Canadian, but his eariy life was spent in the states, and le studied and - graduated at the instit- of his adopted country Heo for a time at Cazenovia, Moth- odist institution, and graduated, we be lieve, at the Northwoestern Umversity. There is scarcely o postof honor within the church taat the bishop has not filled His first work after his graduation was in Chicago, where he filled the pulpit of three of the largest churclies in sucees- sion and gained the reputation of being one of the most suceessful and eloquent preachers of the northwest. One of the first public addresses that attracted al most universal attention was his eulogy on President Lincoln. The address ranked among the best dehivered in the country and at the request ot the leading men of Chieago 1t was repeated, so uni versal was the desire to hear it. His Tl dress on the death of Bishop Simpson, de- livered in San Francisco, had searcely a lm vand no superior in the country Sishop Fowler was successively eleetéd to the very responsible positions of pres- ident of the Northwestern —uni vorsity, missionary seeretary _and editor of the New York Christiann Advoeate, the most widely eir- culated paver of the Methodist church It tinds its way into all the states and territories, and s read in every English speaking country on the th. It has 60,000 Subserib and 8 by many thought to be the most important relig ious journal in the world. In all these variad positions Bishop Fowler took front rank, ‘There is not a position that be has filled that did not require all the energy, and resources, and zeal and de- votion of the strongest and most versatile of men. The head of w uniyersity of the size and importance of the Northwestern, has continued drafts drawn upon heart and brain, that, if responded to, give little’ time for thought or recreation outside the constant and arduons dutics and responsibilities that pressupon every moment of his time, The work of a missionary secretary of the Methodist churchis one to break down the strongest constitution. The labor, the long journeys all over the country, the public addresses in an hundred con rences during the year, he has strength to wmake them, the care of all the missions extending all over the world, and not only the spiritual bat the temporal interests of the mssions to at- tend to, make a record in afaithful seer tary of labors, and anxiety that cannot be surpassed in the annals of Ch nd work. v one knows who has had the least expericnee the constant strain that comes upon the editor of a great journal, who must be the brains and heart of the whole enterprise. If his brain does not coin all thearticlest he spreads before his read- ers it must atleast know whatothers have written and it must pass I review through his mind before he can judge of its fitness for publication or its adapta- tion to the wants and wishes of his read- ers, Itisn treadmill life, the great iron wheel rolls round daily or weekly or monthly as the case may be, but it comes with dreadtul certainty and his articles cannot be pigeon-holéd to be brushed up and rounded oft for his readers, but they must be spread out to the public gaze with every issue and be fair game for public eviti¢ism. In all these Bishop Fowler has maintained a position far above medioe eft the - press of his individuality on all these rious enterpriscs that make up so much the life and suceess of the church. It was only nral that the church should have its eye on such a man when selecting, from its thousands of winisters, men to occupy the most re sponsible and honorable position at its disposal—that of bishop, or superintend ent of all the interests of the charch, both temporal and spivitual. No man can look over the work assigned to him as bishop of the M. E. Churehand not feel the insyiration of John Wesley when he exclaimed , “THE WORLD 1§ MY PARISIL e is a bishop of no ¢ of no divis- ion of the charch, but his mission extends all over the world, in every chuvch and conference, and mission: ation on the globe, within his denomination, and he superintends and influences the spiritual wants and needsof 25,000,000 of the hu man family. your 1s the full measure of the appoint- ment of ny preacher except the officers of the gencral confession, and a fow other exceptions, From ten to thirteen bishops do all this vast work overy year, in more than an hundred conferences, the world over. One or two bishops yisit foroign countries annually. Bishop Fowler’s sucsess as a bishop been fully equal to that of any of all the re spon @ ble positions that he has held duy- g his busy public life. He is known and honored throughout the church, and of course is known by all denowinations of Christians. But with 1 these honors crowded thickly upon him in little more than w score of years, perhaps the crown ing power of Hi-«,mn ‘-n\\l:-l s life is found in his masterly vulpit addr, He is, we have often thought, more ut home here than on the platform orin any other role of public speakiag, though he excels in all, " Itis thought by many that the mantle of the orloss Bishop Simpson has fallen upon him more than upon any bishop of the church, and yet no two men could be more un like " in_ thewr treatment of subjects. Bishop Simpson at times carried away his congregation with a strange power of sympathetie enthusiasm such as but fow orators ever excreised over an andience Men rose unes iously to theiw crowded around the forum where he was speaking as thongh their life dopended on catching every —word that foll from his inspired lips, He swayed them i the fields of grain ready for the harvest with the wins of heaven. We saw this old time power of the bishops, that he had practiced i so many dillorent und varied addressos, particularly in his conference sermons and war addresses, when he spoke nearly at the close of his life, whon at the eaumenical conforenos 1n’ London He delivered an address at Exeter hall on the death of President Garfield Ho followed James Russell Lowell, who dc livered a scholarly and ftinished address, but when Bishop Simpson arose the audi ence was spell-hound, and he held them as the magician holds his votaries, with absolute sway, to lead them whitherso ever he would. Men wept, stood upon the seats, waved their hats, responded and women waved their handker- chicfs, stood upon their feet and seemed lost to all but the mference of i holds it ( commencing on the ling officer is Bishop ch tions was [ Bishop Fowler, Who Will Proside Over the | feet and | wonderful influchee of the great ¢ | . Bishop Fowler, in his pulpit addr | amazes you as he unfolds his subject w | the impregnable strength of his posit ¢ and his wonderful know!edge of | theme he is presenting to his audic | He seems to cover the whole ground leave nothing to be sad, and in flights of fancy or when reaching t climax of his discussion you seem to re 18 to be seen, as thongh t ghty subject were in a nut ch hearer conld mprehend ed speaker all the he and length and breadth You go away f be uscl to listen orator again, as he has said all to be said, but if its a mc discourse and you hear him again in t evening you find him speaking widely different theme, N‘ul with same” power, the same compreher view, the same power of concentrat and Fou go away fecling that the even | sermon is the masterpiece of | We welcome tho bishop to Ne | where he presides at three conference -, | and we very much regret that the ¢ the impassi and depth them it will th is | gagoments of the bistion will not pormit him to preach in Omaba during t | sion of the conference. Every effort wos | made to induce him to spend a Sabba'h | here, but his time was so fully occupicd with' conforence work that it was im- practicable. ho sese OUR FARMERS AND SILVER, An Interview With Mr. Moreton Frewen, Moreton Frewen passed throngle Omaha last week, and as he has taken @ | promiment part in England in the move« ment to remonetize silver, and is also { nearly related to Lord Randolple Churehill, the tory chancellor of the ex- chequer, we think his views upon the present silver erisis will be of interest. They will be found in the following in- terview Reporter—1t was stated recently m the New York Sun that financial authoritics in England have been unable to establish the fact that a close connection exists be< tween the price of silver and the prica of whost, 80 {liat when thie price of sile ver is depressed the price of corn, wheat, cotton and_other commoditics that wd export to Europe will coatinue to fall, This is_a featurd of the silver guestion which is of the first importance to our farmers, and I should like to know whether in your ovinion such is the cuso. Me. Frewen—Cortainly it is the casos The great Asiatic nations use silver ag currency, not gold, and thus the lower the price of silver the morc of it they obe tainin exchange for theic exports. Take the case of India. The Indian farmes vants rupees; the rupee is his standard of value just as the dollar is yours, e seliy Ins wheat and cotton in_the London mars ket for gold, and with that gold buys sils ver, which the Indian_government coin 1or him into rupees. Now, owing to tha fall in the price of silver he gots more sile ver than hefore for wheat, because wherens the English pound sterhng used only to buy ten rupees it now buys fifteen, Reporter—So that in fact if gold prices in England had remained steady, the Da- kota wheat farmer would have’ got tha une price as of old for his wheat in Lon- don; hut the Indian wheat farmer would have received 50 per cent more rupees and would be therefore able to undersell ourown farmer and foree him to reduca his price. But surely if the Indian farmer gets more rupees for bis wheat yet the rupee must in that proportion hive lost its value in Indin? Mr. Frewen—But this is exactly what has pot happened. *The rupee will buy just as much land, or wheat, or cotton as when silver was 30 per cent dearer. The Al commission, now sitting in London, has been able to establish tae fact thak prices in India have not only not risen, hut have slightly fallen, that to say, the rupee is worth aidittle more than'it used to be to buy land, labor or other Ins dizn commodities; therefore, you will recognize that owing to the fall in tha wrice of silver Asin is able to undersell America in European markets, Reporter—What ean be done to remedy this? Mr. Frewen—The remedy is simplo: Restore silver here to free coinage. The. price of silver has fallen because by leg- islation here and m Germany the natural coinage demand - for silver has beer cut off. 1f your mints instead of coining two million dollars per month would coin_five mil+ lions, you would find that the increased demand for silyer would raise its l)ru‘n s0 that the siiver bullion in the Bland dollar would be worth as mucl: as the gold bullion in the gold dollar; supposa that you were dealing with the values of beef “and mutton, not with silver and gold, and your legislators decreed |I|u? no one might eat mutton, what would happen? The value of sheep would de- cline to the mere value of their wool, just as silver has declined to 1ts mere valuo in use for silver spoors; on the other hand the demand for beef would be stim- ulated immensely and the price of beef would risc rapidly. The world would, in short, have to pay a famine price for beef, just a8 the world is now paying a faming price for gold. You are now giving more heef and more whe wd labor for gold beeause legislation, by demonetizing and depressing silver, has thrown the strength of an immensely increased des mand on the gold stocks U?I’m world. On account of your large export trade to Kurope you are vitally concerned to se- cure that the competition of the Asistic nations is not as at present stimulated by the cheapness of silver. It is quite within the power of this country by giving suffi] cient employment to silver in currency to re-estabiish its former price, and make your stundard dollar of the same bullion value as your gold dollar, Until Eus ropean legislation in 1878 began to play tricks with silver, your standard doflar of the same weight us to-duy was wortl cents more than your gold dollar, Your trea ury oflicials have for the last elght years, it scoms to me, done more to des stroy your trade, to ruin your farmers, p lepress all prices, than conld have { from all other causes, rings, mos nopolies und strikes combined, 1t Bad Man from Kokomo. Leadville Herald: He was a had man from Kokomo, or at least he said he was, and some of the people in & State strect | dance AT oY s v shaggy and uncouth appearance, with one ey and several fingers gone, and an ugly looking scar across his fuce, he oor- “‘“[v\ looked unterrified monster that he portrayed as he stood with his | back to the bar and a huge forty-four in | his hand. Y “Come up and drink!” he shouted with a voice resembling the rour of & moun- vinlion. “Iam wWiid Bill of the Rockics, | and everybody drinks with me.” | A few of the more timid :m|~|l,vm1 the wvitation as if under protest, but the lurger portion of old timers guzed on the specimen with eoasiderable curiosity and | some amusement. | “Coie up and drink, I say," rogred the | human brate, us he noticed ‘the unmoved | figures standing near. Then, as the su- | dience wore quictly watehing o see what the awful man would do, a quict little soliceman stepped up, and, placing one hand on the gun and’ the other on his | shoulder, said:” “I'll take this and you, | to. remarkable change at onc | cume oyer the “‘terror,” the gun slinped | from his nevyeless hand into that of the | officer, and he walked off in comvuny with his captor as meekly as a lamb to the slaughter. On Monday he will face the terrors of the law, and will probably e fined for carrying weapons. General John D, Terry, .of 8t. Louis, iforierly president of the Kansus Paci.o & in the city om @ visit, Mr