Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 12, 1886, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. pToe n) including Sunday y ek, muiled to nny 200 A OFFICE, MK OFFICE N OFFiC ), 910 FARNAM STREPT 14 FOURTRENTI 81 REET ews and edi ) the Ebl nications re ahould be & Brx WUSTNESS LETTERS ATl bisinoes lottors an hould bo Mdirossed (o THE Bie PUY COMPANY, OMAIA. Drafts, chooks and postoffic orders to be made paywble t0 the order of the company. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS, ROSEWATER, Entror TOR OF 1T ™ Bworn Statement of Circulation. State of Nebi Leis County of Douglas, (& & Geo, B, Tzschck,secretary of the Bee Pub- Tishine company, dovs solemnly swear that the actnal cireilation of the Daily Dee for the week ending Sept. 10th, 1856, was as follows: DAILY B TZECHUCK, Subseribed and sworn to before me this 11th day of Sept., 1856, . FriL, [KEAL, | ary Public. Geo. B, 'Tzscliuck, belng first duly sworn, do- ses and says that he s secretary of the 2ublishing company, that the actual averace daily cireulation of ‘the Daily Bee for month of 18 for Februnry, 15 o 188, 11,597 copies: for April, coples: for May. 183, 12,450 copies 186, 12,208 coples ; for July, 1 for August, 1556, 12,464 copies, Gro. B, Tzscruver, Subseribed and sworn to before me, this 4th dny of Sept., A, D, 1886 N, P, Frm, Notary Pubfte. for March, 1886, 12,191 or Jun 4 cop [BEAL ntents of the Sunday Bee. Page 1. New York Her: to the Brr—General and Speelal Teleg ‘elozraph, City News, and Miscel- Adyertlsement . Markets and Special Advertise- ments, Pace 4. Editorials. Comments.—Mise Political Points.—Press Tree Plant- Stranger than Fiction,—Other Miscel- dvertisements. Lightning nen of Omaba, by 9, The Caunse of Eav@Rquakes, by E. st.—The Fire Department, by 1. AL —A_Riebel Spy.—Paris’ Tall Tower English Charley Ross. Page 10. Women in Various Moods.— Aoney for the Ladies—Musical and Dra- matic.—Peppermint Droy ueational.— Natural Curfosities. — Impicties.— Poetrv.— Ancient oss.—Fun on an lowa . Page 11. The Temperance Dilemma, by felix Oswald.—The Nution’s Library Colonel Bill's Romance.—Onio Scoops th Country,—Other Miscellan Page 12, Among the W Strange Disappearance dence, by Wilkie Collins,.—Other Miscellany. 1 will be built. Tk city h: Tk Apache war is now ended. 1t will ¥e poor policy to start a Sioux war by mtting down the rations at the northern agencies. Domocratie retrenchment can find better employment in other direc tions. in Omaha are They will always BUILDING operations now at their height. with eapital enough to furnish =n ample sunply of material early in the spring need it the mo: Tre Bek continues to furnish thieving contemporaries with the bulk of their 50 called “news,” stolen bodily from 1ts columns from twelve to twenty-four hours after publication The small-bore pirates deceive only themselves, The reading public1s not deceived by such operations. S or EpMuNDs has carried Ver- mont by the usual majority, and Mr, Bluine’s friends profess themselves satis- fied with the resuit. There is no occasion for the fool friends of either of th zentlomen stirring up strife between shem, Neither Senator £dmands nor Mr. Blaino need fear the other at the next national republican conventioa, Tite: “Mendota Carpeater,” who was expelled from the Grand Army of Hlinois for embezzlement, has been landed in the Grand Island jail on a charge of swindling., Wilcox's threat of stamping the state against Van Wyck in revenge for the Brk's exposure, will fall flat. No community would permit him to take the “stump” unless it was chained to the ground. Ty dedication of the Bartholdi statue of Liberty will take place next month, and s yet the French government has not been asked to send ropresentatives to take part in the ceremonies. The atten- tion ot the president has been called to this omission, but he is said to hesitate on the ground that he does noi tnink he has the authority to invite anybody. A dedi- cation of this noble gitt of the French people at which they were not fully and oflicially represonted would be most in- complete and unsatisfactory, if not a positive nfivont to the French nation, Veny favorable reports regarding the crop outlook, and advices of a steady im- provement of business at allthe trade centers, are the cheering facts of the sitnation in this country. All the condi- tions and promises are of the most en- couraging el ter alike for the manu- facturer and the merchant, the farmer and the wage worker—in a word, for all interests and industries, The business revival is general thronghout the country, and there are excellent reasons for be lieving that it will be maintained, Tur experiment of the acting soere- tary of the treasury in inviting holders of three per cent. bonds to send them in for rodemption will prove a failure, as it was expected to do by most people out- side of the treasu Investments in Zovernment seeurities are 50 satisfactory wnd entirely safe that very few dis- posed to give them up willingly. Hence their redemption in largo sums will be efiected only by forecd calls. Thus far the smonnt survendered under the mvi- tation of the departmert does not much excoed $1,000,000, and it expires on the 10tk iustant THE OMAHA DAILY A Case For the Commission. The outrageous and tyrannical discrimi- nation freqnently practiced by railroads is well illustrated in the case of the towot Algernon, Custer county. The B. & M railrond runs through that town to Broken Bow, twenty five miles beyond The t of Algernon, which isa place ot about one hundred and fifty peo- ple, is owned by Major Ellison and F. P, darks. These gentlemen upon the ap proach of the railroad offered to give the Lincoln Land company B, & M. ring under the management of Captain Phillips—a half interest in the town provided a depot was located there The offer was rejected, however, and Phullips insisted that the land should be sold outright at €10 an o, although it lered worth at jeast three times that sum. He finally declined to locate a depot under uny circumstances, and procecded to lay out a B, & M. town. site and depot called Ansley, four wmiles from Algernon, with the evident in tion of ruining the latter place move placed Algernon about midws tween Ansley and Mason City it without a depot or sidetrack. The B & M. trains are run through the town without stopping, although it is a post office, and the people are compelied to go to cither Ansley or Mason City to catch the trains, while they are also forced to hanl all their goods by wagon from one place or theother. All appeals to the B & M. management to rectify this wrong have been in vain. No greater act of oppre sion of the kind has ever been perpet in Nebraska except perhaps that at Blue Springs by the same corporation. It was not until the supreme court compelle the B & M. to build a depot and tracks and stop its trains at Blue Springs that the people of that place obtained relief. It is rather singular that in the face of the Blue Syrings decision the South te Town Lot syndicate and the B. & railroad manage: should dare commit « similar outrage upon the people of Algernon. When it is considered that Algernon is a lively little town, beantifully situated, and having five general stores, one hotel, onc shoe store, two blacksmith shovs, one wagon shop, one livery stable, one flour mill of a capacity of cighty barrels per one lumber yard and one drug store, with tweo churches, one store and two school houses m process of crection, the enormity of this high handed picce of business can be appreciated. Of course the B. & M, will be obliged to eyentually give A'gernon proper facili- but meantime the management, out of a spirit of scllishness and meanness, is doing everythmg possiblg to kil the town. Here is a case for the railroad commission, and when thoy get through it will be ease for the courts, wn site which is an in- side Wi The Contract Executed. At the urgent request of a majority of the citv council expressed in writing over their own names, Acting Mayor Bechel has signed the contract for the construction of the basement of city hall. This action ensures the beginning of work during the present week and its vigorous prosecution until winter sets in. The contractor is confident that he can complete the foundations and sub-base- ment within the next sixty days, and in the early spring he will have material enough on hand to push his contract to completion, If the funds necessary to complete the building are voted at the city election in April as they doubtless will be, the building can be under roof by the first of January, 1888, The citizens of Omaha with the excep- tion of 4 handful of marplots and dis- gruntled politicians, will heartily ap- prove the action of the council and Act- ing-Mayor Beckel. Nearly a year has already passed by since the people made the location and approved the plans. Large investors in the neighborhood of the court house have held back building prospects because of the dels No time was to be lost if the building of the base- ment was to be completed this yea The opposition from certain” quarters has sprung mainly from personal and political gpleen. There has been no basis whatever for the pretext of jobbery. From the outset every step has been open and above bourd, submitted to the sev tests of public criticism and adopted by two-thirds of the council in response to the endorsement of more than two- thirds of the voters of the eity. The loca- tion oposite to the court house is where svery sensible man desires to have it 'he plans adopted are arafted by a fa- mous architect and provide for a build- ing handsome, commodious and fireproof. The contract let is pronounced very rea- sonable by expert mechanics and experi- enced builders. The contract 1tself, drawn by City Attorney Connell, is iron clad, It embodies every item of material to be used and labor to be done, and a schedule of prices to be used therefor, There is no loophole for fraud unless the board of public works fails in its duty of enforcingits provisions A Word to Our dobbers, The complaints of Omaha jobbers, that vailway discriminations in favor of eustern merchants seriously interfere with their business, are based on a solid foundation of fact. Every Nebraska rail- road, with single exception, 1s simply a feeder for castern trunk lines. The Burlington and Northwestern extensions in this state have been pushed worth, south and woest to secure traflic for the main ronds whose terminals are in Chi- ago. So long as they ean do so without losing what is a large and a paying traf- lie from Omaka merchants, they will use their best exertions to divert business in order to secure the long haul, This is a sitnation which must be faced. Itis forced upon the attention of Omaha ship- pers every day, The damage already done is large. That it has not been ruin- ous is due to the increasing commereinl importance of Omaba in directions wh wetiv oad competition has prevented any one iine blocking the road over which our wholesalers are traveling and pushing their trade Inspite of every obsts th path Omaha jobbers are doing & handsowe business, It eun be materially i wsedd by their own efforts, In the in- f the voluwic ot trade lies one of the roads to a solutiun of the problem of rail- i No system can long afford to continue diseriminations against a eity able to throw a large traflic from the cast into the hands of rivals, The loss in freights into Omaha will be found in the end to more than counter- balance the traflic gained by diverting t bound freights from this eity and in- ducing Nebraska merchants to purchase tlo thrown in BEE: | clsowhers. Meantime, Omaha Jobbert should push things. Every nerve must be stramed to secure trade in spite of all obstacles and against all competi- tion Ther are complaints that in several lines our merchants fail to do business on small enough margins or to carry large enongh stocks to meel the trade requirements, These complaints must be overcome. The best railroad fa- cilities will be of little material advan- tage to jobbers who cannot secure trade on the merits of their goods, The question of railroad tion will be shortly settled. If 1t is not in one way it will be in another. All other plans failing, Omaha capital will be forthcoming to build its own roads and to furnish a competition which will compete in fact as well as in name. Discussing U The subject of fire insurance has a widespread interest. It concerns every owner of a house or business block, fac- tory or mill cts and viaws pre- sented at the session of the Fire Under- writers’ Association of the Northwest, just held at Chicago, are therefore worthy of passing attention. 1In the line of facts it was stated that there are now in the United States 1,600 fire insurance com- panies, with over $100,000,000 of eapital, and ussets aggregating nearly 000 000. It is thus shown to be s business of large proportions, but contrary to th general opinion it had not been profi able. This will not seem incredible when it is ed that the annual destruction of property in the United States amounts to the immense sum of $100,000,000, a loss which the president of the association said 15 “appalling and woula bankrupt any nation but this.” According to the testimony of these observant gentlemen, whose business 1t is to note the character of building construction. there is an un- fortunate tendency to *‘erect mammoth, showy buildings without regard to non- combustibility, which might be terwed ‘vencered lumber piles.’’’ As one means of reform in this direction it was urged that special agents should bring their influence to bear upon architeets and builders, with a view to inducing them to “‘encourage indestructibilit; to materials and compartment division: thereby reducing fire losses to a minl mum and obviating the necessity for im- POSINg upon property owners an onerous, if not prohibitory, fire tax.” Otherexpe- dients suggested for reducing fire losses were higher rat system of ‘‘fire coro- ners’ to examine into every fire and get at its origin, and a plan of limited co-in- surance, so that in no case can the ured recover the entire amountof loss. The public distrust of fire insurance com- panies was fully recognized and was re- forred to several causes, of which the improper and unfair manner in which losses are often adjusted and settled, the deceptions practiced by disreputable solicitors, and the abuses of irresponsible agents, whose only idea is to gain com- missions, are the principal ones. The policy of co-operation was generally ap- proved, as baving shown its merit by results. The present condition of the business was represented to be fairly prosperous and the promise of the future most favi wade evident, however, from what was said, that rad- ical changes and reforms in the methods of the business are necessury. Fire rates must be { upon fire risks, Cil a should learn the lesson without the costly experi of heavy losses, Cheap buildings, vencered shells, walls of brick and par- titions of studding and lath may pay temporary return, but they,are risky in- vestments, The men who build the strongest and the sufest are the wise men of the day. They insure themselves against a laxge portion of the dangers from fire, secure heavier rents from tenants and find no difficulty in obtaining the lowest premiums from *he best compani diserimina- irance. A Remnant of lntolerance. The action of the Scottish Protestany Alliance, formally communicated to Lord Randolph Churchill, inadopting at its re- cent meeting a resolution referring to the appointment of a Roman Catholic to the oflice of home secretary in the Salisbury government, and protesting against ‘‘the elevation of Roman Catholiesto positions of power and trust in the British em- pire,” is chiefly interesting as evidence that there still exists a remnant of re- ligious intolerance. The fact, however, that this evidence is supplied from Scot- land renders it somewhat less significant than it would be coming from any other enlightened country, for the reason that whatever progress the liberal views and tendencios of the age have made in up- rooting old prejudices and driving out ancient bigotries in other directions in that land, they have accomplished com- paratively little in reducing the spirit of religious intolerance there. The Protest- ant sentiment of Scotlund, if less nggres- sive now than in the past, is no less deop- ly and uncompromisingly hostile to the Catholic enemy than it has ever been, It keeps alive and actiye the old spirit, although it cannot manifest it as formerly. The Catholicism that bears the label of Rome is as earnestly hated, by the great majority of Scotch Protestants, as it ever was, Every presumption deduced from the na- ture and characteristics of these people leads to the conciusion that this feeling will be still long maintained. The reply of Lord Churchill to the reso- lution of the Alliance, in which he char- acterized its conclusions as “‘senseless,’’ will probably operate rather to intensify than to check the feeling which the reso- lution expresses. Still the almost univer- sal verdict of enlightened and unpreju- diced opinion will acquiesce in the judg- ment of Churchill, The declarations of the Alliance are senseless in every part, and the wonder is that they could be seriously put forth by intelligent rien at this time as the conclusions of their care- ful and dehberate judgment. It does not involye a defense of the Roman Catholic church tosay that its present course and policy, as they are diselosed to the world, embrace none of the conditions and ¢on- template none of the results . which are set forth in the resolution of the Scottish Alliance. If the papacy is elaiming *universal supremacy of all sovereigns' itis doing 8o in a wholly unobtrusive and harmless way. So far a8 we are aware no sovereign is mak- ing any such concession, except as to his individual spiritual allegiance, and a elaim that nobody regards is not a particulurly menacing matter. Neither is it apparent that there is any just ground for assuming—and it is a very old assumption—that Roman Catholics arein SUNDA any degree controlled or restricted in their allegiance to the governments un der which they: live. They are not bhe- lieved to be so in the United States, and there is no evidence that they are so in Great Britain. The temporal authority of the Catholig.cipurch is 1 y an affair of the past, and if there is an occasional attempt to assert it on the part of some representative of the church who, like the Scottish Prpgastant Alliance, is not in sympathy withithe liberal sentiment of the age, he geRgrally finds the effort failure. Even the papacy has found it expedient not to wholly ignore the de mands of enlightened progress. The statement that it is the avowed aim of the papacy “to reduce, Great Britain to sub- jection to the vatican 1s the most sense- less of all the declarations of the Alliance, when considered as having been made to excite apprehiension. The absurdity of this statement of the Alliance is too ob- vious to require clucidation. In a word the Scottish tant Alliance is evidently an association of anachrists, who have got the age in which they live confounded with a period a contury or so anterior to it. They are mamfestly de- riving their intellectual pabulum from musty traditions, and know little or nothing of the widened views or broad- ened tendencies of this t quarter of the nineteenth century, before which all old prejudices and bigotries, and the hatreds born thereot, are disappearing. The Al- liance is living in the shadows of the dead past. It will find that the world has advanced, and that the spirit and the sympathy to which it addressed itself have but a very limited habitation re- maming., It will be well if the pointed response of Lord Churchill shall letin a ay of sunshine upon the darkness that seems to envelope the Scottish Protestant Alliance, Protes A Novel Case. Lawyers and chents alike wil in terested in a novel case just brought in the district court of Douglas county in which a Nebraska lawyer is sued by an -conyict for damages in the sum of $30,000. The ground for the suit is al- leged to be the failure of the lawyer to secure the acquittal of his client from the charge of manslaughter of which he was convicted and for which he served a term of ten years in the penitentiary. The suceess of such a suit would raise a cloud ies. Every lawyer would be. come a penite msurer taking risks for his clients and subjecting himself to pay indemnity in ¢ failed to influ- eneejudge and jury. very lawyer who takes Mr. Willams' case would lay him- self open to dam: in the event of los- inga verdict. The natural result of adecision would be to raise the price of lawyers' fees. No responsible lawyer could afford to take the risk of losing a case and paying damages to his client in nsequence unless he were amply secured in advanc Criminals would find it hard work to secu! and there would be a gener from the court room when the judge adjusted his spectacles preparatory to assigning counsel. In case Mr. Williams sub- stantiates hi pl the effect of the verdict will fall most heavily upon the younger members of tho bar. Their youth would farnish a constant incentive' to designing con- viets to bring suits for damages based upon their inexperience. Defending criminaus, with its $20 counsel fee paid by the county, would not be a lucrative business under such circumstances, and the steps to the county attorney’s oflice, which are supposed to lie in the dircction of cheap oratory in criminal cases, would be carpeted with damage snits and thickly strewn with judgments, The bar willrise en masse in protesting against this new move in the legal arena. It strikes a blow at the most valuable immunity of the profession. Doctors have for many ars practiced under the disagreeable contingency of haying to defend their professional repu- tation in court agaiust the assaults of ungratefur patients, but lawyers have hitherto been mpt from legal eriticism of thejr professional abilities wlen hon- estly employed. Tie marked and costly improvements which the B s made within the 4 3 n every department ot its establis ment have culminated in the addition to our press facilities, which places this paper upon an equal footing in that re- spect with the leading journals of the country. Only the great dailies of the very largest cities are better equipped for rapid newspaper vprinting. With two great Web presses the Bee has double the press facilities of any paper in this sec- tlon, and many v must pass befor any other Omaha paper will even rival in this respect. The BEE is in a condi- tion now to print a quarter of a million copies of its daily or weekly editions be- tween sunrise and sundown and give its presses an hour rest for dinner. Tue alarming raports of the massacre and persccution of christians in China ought to unite the nations m a peremp- tory demand upon the Chinese govern- ment to put a stop to these fearful crimes, and as far us possible visit condign pun- ishment upon those who are guilty of them. It dons not appear that the goy- ernment has takéi any notice of these terrible outrages, which are permitted to continue withoit" the slightest eflort at repression, The’'éhristian nations may yet have to combfrie to require ot Chiny the fullest accountibility for fuilure to protect the lives ‘and vroperty of the christians resident within her territory, now continually menaced by native ig- norance and fandticism, St —— 'UAL POINTS . ‘Two republican #x-governors of lowa are candidates for conrbss this year, “The Vhiladelphia, Times thinks tiie bottle as well as the barral (1s becoming too promi- nent in politics. Senator Allison’s lowa friends are begi ning to push his presidential boom to tue e: tent of their ability Michigan republicans base their hope of success ou the fact that their ticket bears the names of five soldiers. ; Senator Sabin, of Minnesota, may resign on account of ill-health, and . K. Davis Is being put fortheas his successor. Detroit Tribune: Third party prohibition in Maine is saving at the spigot and looking at the bunghole. Aud that is about the slze of it everywhere, Chicago News: Why should a man, every time he is elected ehairman of anything,from a uational convention to a ward eaucus,avem it necessary to fire & speech at the meeting? Providence Journal: Senater Mahone de- clines to be a candidate for the bouse of 1ep- SEPTEMBER 12, 1886.~-TWELVE PAGES. resentatives from the Fourth Virginia dis- trict, It is to his credit that he knows how to let go with dignity. Gen. Fisk, prohibition candidate for gov- ernor of New Jersey, Is said to be part owner of the Seabright Inn, where liquor has been sold during the summer. So it would seem that in New Jersey prohibition does not even prohibit its leading advocates from dealing in the ardent, Sunset Cox will leave Havre for New York Oct. 24 on the steamship La Champagne, and his humor is expected to sparkle more ever before. Ile is coming home on a “vaca- tiol and will improve the opportunity while home to look after his election to con- gress from the ninth district, to succoed Mr. Pulitzer. Mr. Cox is said to be thoroughly satistied with his experiment in the diplo- matie service under the present administra- tion, Rhode Island has been an anomaly among the states of the north for a generation. While every other state has advanced steadily towards more liberal provisions in its suf- frage laws, Rhode Island has stubbornly maintained the restrictions imposed upon its voters before the revolutionary war, Al the otner states adinit foreign-born citizens to the ballot-box on an equality with native-born hut the little state surrounding » aganset bay alone demands that they shall be owners of real estate of a certain valuo be- fore they ean vote, Threc of a Kind, The salvation army announced as speakers at Cohoes for Sunday last: “Ashbarrel Jimmy,” “The Saved Weed Eater,” and the “Couvertad Cowboy.” —— Surprised at the Exposure. Brooklyn Eagle, Chicago has a case of exposure of bribes to her aldermen. The public are more sur- prised at the exposure than anything els A Clumsy Phr Chicago Herald, “Putin an appearance,” a clumsy and ridiculons p ning appeared, is in common use i pers. It is a mon- strosity. Shaken Before Taken. Chicagy Herald, ‘T'he north has capturea Charleston by kind- ness, thoush it failed to do so with guns and ships during the war. Evidently it was des- tined to be shaken before being taken. “‘Where are the Nine." Boston Post. A St. Louis minister announced as his text last Sunday, “Where aie the nin Andabase ball enthusiast in a rear pew shouted, ostly sold out to Detroit.” st What of Tt? Chicago Time Mr. Sedgwick got drunk, to be sure, but what of that? As the late Mr. Tilden once told Dan Lamont: *“All great men get drun zwick was undoubtedly a Tilden demc Egte Cheap Enough. London Figa In my travels along the coast this week I came on a certain seaside place in which the “visitors list” was headed with this signifl cant notice: *“The word ‘Fsq.’ charged 3d, prepaid.” Surely acheaper method of beco- ing a gentlenan wasnever yet devised, - They Owe Him a G Chicago Herald. The death nnounced in- Vermont of the pioneer in the shoddy business in America, one Dewey, who began operations mar years ago. It is rather strange that the have been no meetings of mourners, as many members of the self-styled better cla: a good deal to him, at Deal, — Does Prohibition Prohibit? Boston “Globe. Towa s strugeling in a most interesting way to solve the time-worn conundrum, “Does prohibition prohibit?” The license men there, or rather the advoeates of a license system, declare that it does not, and point to the acknowledgment of the prohi- bitionists themselves that it is almost impo sible to enforce the law in the Jarge cities. A welltegulated license system has been proved to be superior in Massachusetts, as shown by the fact that the prohibitionists have never been able to make any progress among the voters since the practical test given their ideas here twenty years ago. ot o A Castle in the Air. London Truth. Tbuilta eastle in the air, it rose at my com- maad, fairy builders reared the pile in Faney's happy land; And in its'vast enchanted halls there dwelt v lady fair- all for loy the air. I wooed her there with tender words, T won her for my bride, And throuzh Jlons years of dreamy bliss [ kept her by my side; All joy and peace surrounded us, for worldly want or care Had never found the entranee to my castle in the air. But years went by, the vietor years which surely conquer all: With tempest’s breath and battle’s rage they shook my castle wall; “They wrought their cruel work at length, and now, in lone despair, Lstand wiiid tho uins Gt my castie in. the alr, But beautiful in ruin still its crumbling walls appeor, Ars To me the véry moss that hides its stones is dear; For tho' its halls aré empty now, and tho its rth is bare, that_buill it bas outlived my eastle in the u S of her 1 built my castle in gray-worn Politeness and Its Value, PhiladelphiaRecord, an this bustlin, nd practieal age we are too apt to be careless as Lo graces of and cony tion, We look casionally on the days of I S, when the Athemans talked in high- sounding praises and’ saluted each other with the deference which subjocts now only give to kings, or on the days of the ancient rogime, when the courtiers of a Louls were conspicuous for a conven- tional politeness and grace that searcely served to conceal th tred, the venom, the meanness and vulgarity that lay be- neath. And, therefore, associating polite cither with a state of society ere there 15 but little freedom of thought, speech or action, and whore the social fabrieis built up of classes who ure divided by laws of caste, or else with sloepy oriental countries where men lewd the life of lotus-eaters and rust away in idlencss, the study of manners engages but - htle of our thoughts, We taeitly admit, of course, that the exerciso of such an attribute is all right; but our weakness 18 to look to results in stead of to details, and we are too apt to forget that those results are brou about by the very means which we ni light of. 1t must_be admitted, howeve thist we admire politeness in orhers a people, beneath the rough exte which we 0 often assume w pathetie and o kindly alive to a tale of distrgss and are to respond to the ery of suffering; but we are too eareless of the little courtesics which add such a charm to oither social or business intercourse. Polituess may be atyled one of the delic u i it sweetens existence; and, besides being a bigh social virtue, it is--and this is somethiog worthy of attention in such a practical roally useful miny ways and proves itself to be a sate and remunorative businessinvestment. It . bardly possible te humanitic W estimate the | amount of unconscions egotism to be found in every man and woman. It 4-|w» up in the most mn-\\w sted quarter: exercises a large influence on the com mon_affairs of life. Civility, therefore, affects us more than native modesty | fould probably care to acknowledge We look for it in others, no_matter what may bo the particy rolation which they sustain to us and we to them, and we teel disappomted and are rufiled by | its absence. The larger the city and the more crowded the community the less do we find commercial politeness; to scems to dwindle away in an_inverse ratio to the square of business, Men will tell you if they evor stop to discuss the matter, that they have no time to bestow on hol low phrises and superflons convention alitics, and that there is no_place in the counting-room, the store, the warchouse or the factory for the meanmgloss and stereotyped gonnflections of the conrt or drawing room. This may be tru but there is “ample room and ve enough” for the happy medium of which Horace sings without ‘transforming our selves into boors or Tarveydrops We smile when witnessing “Pinafor t the absurb suggestion of Sir Joseph Porter that the captain of that ship shall say “1f you please™ to his men when giving them iy command. And yet, after all, ther a sound principle underly this picee of burlesque. The man who is kind ard rracious to those who for the time being are under him will certainly have his re ward. Every reader of Dickens can re- member the despairing ery of Joe, the street waif in “Bleak Hounse,” “he wor eal good to me, he wor.” T'his portion of the scum of a great seething city, with searcely aglimmering instinet or an 1dea as to wright or wrong, was touched by by Kindness and by gentleness. He conld not understand it;” he did not compre- liend its significence or meaning; but it was something diflerent from what he had ever met with or known, and so in his blind and ignorant groping he came upon the truth as to That best poriion of a good man’s life, His little, naweless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love, Men will argue sometimes that they have no time to be polite, forgetting that it takes the same amountof time to be un- civil and disagreeable. There are moro things nceded to insure success than moncy, experience and integrity. Thoe amenities which some despise so much also potent factors; :m& even if yon i point out & man’ who is rude and churlish and yet suceesstul in life, that is no argument against the truth of the theory--1t simply shows that ho has succeeded 1n spite of the want of politene: If, therefore, civility pe such a large and potentinl ingredient *of suc- cess, it is strange that it should be used so sparmgly. It costs nothing; it requires no room for storage, and can, in fact, be carried in a vest pocket or put in a glove-box,and the more of it that is given the more remains. When people ean bo made to understand that the use of 1t may bring dollars and cents, then the; may also hegin to consider it in its mor aspect and make life brizhter by snow ingitinits finer w nd more subtle forms, § OI' CALLAWAY. wce of Union Pacific raders, CALLAWAY,Neb.,Scpt. 5.--[Correspond- ence of the BEE. |—On the night ot the BIsvult. tais locality was surrounded by darkn nd gloom. A cold rain p: tered on the roofs of the many new buildings in ( y, and_the chilly air sugges the need of heating stoy coul to cheer and comfort the we traveler who might huppen in our midst. While we were meditating on the misfortune of those who might be called upon to hunt their w cross the trackless prairie a night like this, a sudden rumbling and ratthng sound e rolling in upon us through the black obscurity and loncli- ness of the hllls toward the south. At once all the fearful scenes depieted by > chironiclers of the di and woeful dents cnacted during the earth- in and about tho ter en city of Charlesion across our vivid imagination, as greatly enlivened by the arkness of the night and the storm. Nearer and nearer thundering and rombling noise We could feel the earth tremble beneath us, and began to expect with dismay, to soon gee great yawning chasms at our fect threaten” to enxulf us in their horrid maws, and to bid an eternal fare well to the delightful and fevtile valley of the South Loup. It was heart-rending to contemplate woceful destraetion of this cight weexs old town, the maryel o f Nebr with its sixty odd newly bmit, well painted houses that any old riilroad town would be prowd of in the manner so horriby and cruelly sug od as by the y of an anticipated rihquak: Still ne I’\]\slnn,': elegant Holw nerves br come, we pre; THE TOWN The Appe fitted which tian vailin the comes the rumbling and acket. We gather at the nd sp arn of Messis wnd Schne with our ced for the worst t wight are to stand the test of the danger that seems right upon us. Jusi as the eries seems to have hed us, suddenly from out the why gust of t noise of the ap- Ta shrill voic proqching indie whose depth hungry hollo stood pierced our ears, with the usual “helloo” of the benighted and storm tried teaveler, In reply to the r “What's wanted,” came back th L graders come to bwld th ! Union'Pacitic road from Calloway east and we waut shelter for fifvy teams and our men for the wmght, as it is too_dark and stormy to go to ecamp.” Never were words moro josfully received in an inland town craving a tailrond connec- tion with the outer world and threatened ey shuking up, and never \quake more quickly e n by the arrival of that vum ratling b of fifty wagons tonded with serapers and grading tools for the Callaway extension of the Union Pacitic rurond These teams cutting out dirt along the verdur the “silvery stream mill tale through re now piling up and with great expedition lad banks of the that rushes like o gh the valey known as the South Loup. Our town is now taking on the rand flourish and growth of n sucond Chadron, Buildings are going up o every sido like mushrooms.” The mer chants have their by full, and the number of mechanies is not half enough We need & man Lo open up s fine quarry just opposite our town, for no one is yet makimg brick heve, and we sndly foel ihe need of stone or brick for ehimneys and toundations. We have yel room for merchunts, mechanics, and taborers in fact, with (h ind boom to-day of the young town of wnyone will do well that con ty, in any hine of business s alzo ready and ean stand anothe rthgquike” like the one that is r along the South Lonp and the U ARGUS. A Prayer by Any Other Ny | Boston Post: A mother bad boen teach ing her infant daughter a litthe prayer, the refrain of which was * ‘e not O Lord," and hecause of the litte givl’ forgetfulness her attgntion had heen wlled to the flower of that name, in the hope that it oviation with the ) r would improve ber memory. After csupposed the bild had her L ty well dearn mother, one ning, i the presence of company, anxious to exhibit her “daugh coeity, to_recite | prayer the compan by sh s buttons, O Lord? The two flowers grow side by side in the tanily garden, HINTS TO TIOME BUILDERS, @. Whittier's Call to ‘““Wanderen' From Ancestral Soil.” LOVE OF HOME NOT AN ART, John Tt 1s the Instinct of Humanity, the GIft of God-Outward and Iy ward Adornments 1 Make a Ho How Happy. The Homestead John Greenteaf Whitt O, wanderers from ancestral soil, 1.eave noisome mill and chaffering store, Gird up vour loins for sturdier toil And build the home once mq Come back to bayberry-seented slopes And fragrant fern and gronndnut vine; Breathe airs blown over hill and « Sweet with black birch and pine. What matter if the That lite's nis supply? Your homest ves you all Ihat idle wealth can buy, » small All that the many-dollared erave, The brick-walled slave of changze and mart, Lawns, trees, fresh air, and towers you have, More dear for lack of art, Your own soul masters, freedom-willed, With none to bid you'vo or stay; il the old telds your fathers tillid, As manly men as they! With skitl that spares your toiling hands, And chemie aid that science brines, Reclaim the waste and outworn lands, And reign thereon as kings, The Love of Home. Bill Arp, in Atlanta Constitution: The Tove of home is net an art nor an accom plishment, 1t does not come from early training or education, It'is the instinet of humanity. It is the gift of God. It is purc emotion and brings joy and com- fort to the humble and great. “Bo it ever o numble, there isno place like home.” No wonder that the simple song of John Howard Payne endeared him to the world. The world felt its touching, tender truth and wept a sympathetio tear. It is tho want of a home that makes tramps and vagabonds and desper- ate men. Sometimes I think the nation could well afford to give every her and mother a home. Besides the love of those who are dear to us there is something in the locality us—something in the famihar se the trees, the fields, the branch running spring, or the generous We iove the trees and vines that have berne us fruit or given us shade; the open five-pl that gives us welcome on & winter night: the bed that gives us rest and sleep, and the everpleasing prospect. of the distant hills and mountains that ‘m as if reaching up to God. Kyen the beasts and birds " are conscious of this love of home. The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea,” as the _catt their accustomed’ place. The loving dog will travel miles and to reach ity and the eat eannot be weaned from the chimney corne: has made use of this ne ailing, neve ceasing love of the carrier pigeon, and it commands onr respeet and admiration when we see it released from its unwill- ing prison in a distant land and ascend and circle and take its bearings, and then, with swift and tireless wing, make for its home by the nearest lin What Makes Hon City and Country: A well-kept house with beautiful — adormings, a well- prenare table, is pleasing to the fancy, but th d adornings are of little we unless there is the warminward cheer dwelling i the hearts of the mmates. Vain indeed will be our efforts to make home beautiful or att tive 1f we negleet this most important element of all—to beautify ourselves body and soul. A sweet, loving word and a warm clasp of the hand are far more to the guest than the most elabor- y embrowlered lambrequins at your windows or the most exquisite damask on your table, The cabin homes that have been remembered with pleasuro beeause of the beautiful, loving presency ol the inmates, while many stately pal- v 1t'but the impression of an icehere on the mind on account of the cold, chilly atmosphere within, - It1s no use to plant beautiful lowers in the yard or lawn, or to decorate the walls of the lhome with rich and rare specimens of fine rt, while on our f Iurks the dark, seltish frown and we are coarse and un- feeling in our nets. A truly beautiful be havior 1s a thausand times” more artistie ned and pleasure giving tian ou fornings made by painter or art- Muny of onr homes, aithongh not king in outward adorning, are dark 1 ehecrless, beeause there is no sun- shine in the hearts of the inmates. Let us then strive to render homes more tractive by bringing into our lives more stunshine to warm and cheer the surround- ever remembering that there are ny thirsty souls striving for kind looks and gentle ton Thenatas a duty we owe to ourselves aid to all around us, to 1 cheerful face, and let the sunshine of love beam on our countenance. that cffcets 108, , tho 1 To Make a Happy Home, 1. Learn to govern yourselves and to heo gentle and patient i A . Guurd your tempers, especially in sons of ill-health, ivritation and frou- , und soften them by prayers and a muse of your own shortcomings and Never speak or aet in anger until you prayed over your words or acts ind ded that Christ: would have done 50 10 your pl 4. Remember that, valuable ns 3 gift of speceh, silence i often mor e, 5. Do not expect wo much from others, but remember that all have an ure, whose development we st andd that we shoalt forbear and fo ws we often o forbearance and giveness ourselves 0. Never retort & shary socoml word the u- or angry word, that anukes the rr Beware of the first 8. Loewrn to ik ina reement, entle tone of n o say kind and pleasant things whenever opportunity offers, 10, Stody the charactors of each, and symputhize with all in their troubles, however smull 11. Do not negleet Ntule things if ean aflect the comfort of othors smallest degree 12, Avoid moads and pets sulkiness. 1 basen to deny yourself, for athers 14, Beware of meddiors and they tho of and fits and pre. tale-bear. ors 15, Nover bad motive if & oo « oneevahl 16, Be gentle and firm with ehildren 17. Do ot aliow your chiliren o be y from home at night without know: whe thay Do not allow them to go whore they s the Sabbath Do not furnish pending moncy charge thew with mueh - Aiun Back aiel : Cans ept. 10 A spueial di Ca I W Beeretary English ministerat Washin ton, for immediaie sud unconditional of the satling veasels recently Laska coast by United Sta Is. 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