Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 17, 1886, Page 5

e ————— e prise of our municipal government, the | ’ TR The ght to Prohibit THE DAILY DEE, 1 Wer Phillips, in his intense | evidences of push, the spirit of our oiti- | PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING ) mnced the consti ; zenship no lor passes ug by for other . nas “aleague with hell,” he fur- | fields. Our population has quadrupled TERMA OF S1neCHIPT] ' 1 her in the | our factories have quintupled in number. o DA sl 8100 ry as a | Our streets onghs of despond | v 8i% Mor 5 B |« Bible to | lined with rick % w ring out i Crakn BT =1 from their pavements the sounds of a nddrons, Oue ' fugit 1 w heavy trafl which hoes from R TR , s in A with a | the ry blocks Nrw ¥ ' Y r right of | ¢ water is e 4 w cruel an edict 1 nd system of | fr i s tunnelled I 1 | T ‘ out mix over to I rty | as est 1l tha the most 1 t of Wppit | situated city on Missouri I'hex of cver v n bt to co-operation of the county with fr fruits of his own labor is | officials the th hfares into | ] \ il en 1en ) sining country are being made | nirteenth amendment 1o the con broud and casy to travel while the foun THE DAILY BEL. | tary vituc 1 superfluons exeept ! uburl sidence centers w h wnl} Sworn Statement of Circulation, i wation of Independ- | add g 10 the attractions of the cor State of Nebrash [ way with munity : z County of Douglis, K Owihia has proved that public improve Geo, 13, chinek, secretary of The Bee | quuartors of a ntur ments pay when w ly inauguarated on et e s Bt AT amendment the basis of expericnce and honestly car. for weck cnding Oct. 15th, ¢ been ¢ we own- | ried ont to meet the wants of the people follows: ors, and they bmit- [ With all the exp ures of the past six Ry 0 e constitutional amendment | years there is not a property owner who Monday, 11, o slavery. Wonld its adoption | watehes the ste rise in his real estate dncsday, 13, by three-fourths of the states have been ey, T binding upon the wholo country? We Friday, 15 m that it would not, any more than Average. o ST an wment to make the Protestant Gio. B 7scivek. | religion eompulsory upon all the people Sworn to and subseribed in my presence | would be this 161h day of October, A, L8 bt i SREE Lol Ty 18] THyelvet it [SEAL] Noiary Publie. proposed submission of a probibit Geo. B. Tzschuck, being first daly sworn, | amendment. It isnot aquestion of regu deposes and says that he 13 seeretary of the which we con but it ing the liguor 1 traflic, the Bee Publishing com ctinl av erage daily eirenlati any, t the 1) r | cede as right Prop: the month of Janua Atiens SRR § TR harangue. 1 expeets to et 1 1605 copies; ‘\‘I'i“‘“”‘ tie) kil i ot svetim of | through explaining his entire record be- cople April, I ple derlying systel re tho clection he will be Woll ocenpie ¢ for May, 1 ) opie overnment. The AT (O Bt ““;‘ T b ahicsibr Septoiber, L S AR ’)‘" i1 | tions. 1o should vegin with his LR L b e o g TS i Massachusetts carcer and his army ex vibed and sworn to before ine this 24 | may at first blush appear unquestioned, | 1 ASSeAISCHS eateor and WS sy o day of October, A, D., 1886, N, P. Frir., But thore is 1mit beyond which free | Periences. iere 1s u Iarge field of ora: . Nah it there i hmit beyond which fr e stord [SEAL Notaty Publle. | (U0t eannot. go oven under tho | tOFY in that branchi of his record to i = forms of popular sovereignty or consti- | Which ~one specch —would searcely Contents of Sunday Bee, TR SRR T bt .o | do justice. Another .cvening could A i disappearance of ono Morgan who was | When as United States — marshal and Nebraska New L'to havo divulged the soerots of Freo. | 18 bled every poor suitor who ny. g h : ik S > | fo his clutehes and acted as general and Loeal Murkets, 3 N asonic party. 2 AL, 4 & Sl Paco 4. Editoriale.—Politieal Points.— | known ns the anti-masonic party. Its | o e )0 Union Pacific rond. His ap- Press Coniments.—Sunday Gossip., Pago 5. Lincoln News.—Freedom’s Breath of Firo, by Alfred Sorenson.—City News.— Advertisements. Page 6. Council Blufls News.—Miscellany, —Advertisement Page 7. The Week in O) Miscellany.—Advertisements. Page 8, General City News.—Local Ad- vertisenients, Page . Assorted Talk on Ties.—Theatrical Aceidents—A Thrilling . Life Roman The Bonanza Family.—A Cannibal King's Boss. Page 10. Among the Wits Rall Yarns Running Wild. Women.—The L erey of the D muster at th over the settled s A nu eonvention was held and nommated Wirt and president and viee president of the Unitec States. es like a_prairic fire in ha Society.— ria in :l the state of Pennsyl wlidate for governor. Like the proh bitionists of to-duay the anti-Masoni fanatics of 1 d Wags Fields for t Souls of Siberia.—Degen- Pk 11, Adveninres of Major Nortn, by | Was to save the nation by prohibiting se- [ (i 10 b€ HeRIErey, A anbibymihe Altred Sorenson.—Edueational. —Sinzularl- | eret benevolent societies and to make it [ go %3 P18 wSents of Ghe TE B e viont b Qonnilblallvesi | crimo or any manito bblang o tham, ot ot HERAEDT (BRE e )5 T e e Y 4 - | work to prevent the cour clec- Nitte s o o amaUerBRIAOUSSRING |EN i ok bhitt dthes8 i fanntioa lind P S A O, Tho Nebraska Tishrles, by B, | asked the legislaturo ot Ponnsylvania 1o [ ywo io Gl b o fruitful themio of whot - O'Brien.—Women and their Ways.—Some | i 3 3 5 CONS| S - BIakEArsots Y ubmit an amendinent to the constitution intricacies every republican zht of that state to abolish Musvury, | ¢ domand n full wxplanation. The fac M. By has been giving tho Lon. [ 044 Fellowship and other 8o- | 11o'on rocord in the journals of the N gy his opinions upon retribution, | et societic DLl braska legislature and cannot be laughe Tho uxperionco of the Inst elevon years [ W40 at this duy concede the right of the | 4o0hor turned wside by a joke by this ennblos Mr. Heecher to speak on tho sub- | legistuture o submit such an amond- | 'y ippers will be particu- Ject with feeling and from bitter experi- [ lentt Would nny. i "“,"I‘““‘ I Tarly interested in- Chureh Howe's ex- enco. ‘l';;'*'(“*"n""”:’:‘ Bt of the boale of | pianation of is work for a T IR T e T e : : b Fof : monopolics. Our browe IN demanding bottor and. fairer teans. | constitntional probibition: Would” not | RloPORes | Dur Biawers and, ftior portation facilities the merchants of | sueh a co nstitutional prohibition be null 4 E - Bl X e L Eesiatatit BEen ¢ theories regarding the disbursement of oi““ ”:‘u“:m :::Lh.” : 1‘: (:l‘\i :‘x‘n:‘l and void on l'w"‘;‘l“lx’ll'n““l;wnn de- | o fund cdltoibuy o OlintohiH s ols xeevt such advantage as is give sonal liborty of the in- f (L RT s & ¢ ! advocacy of prohibition. Sporting men by Omaha's nearness to markets which fual citizen? It may bo said that | (AVOCACY of 1 L she is able to supply. The grave injust- nst which they protest and which they are moving to remedy is the defiant iscrimination which, for private ends, overrides a general public interest. Our citizens cannot and will not permit them- selves to be barred out, by artificial bar- riers, from trade territory which is theirs by the laws of natur any particnlar religious seet or establish. ing slavery is not i any w prolubiting the manufacture iquors which so many prime cause of all the and vices which affoct humanity. the bed-rock prineiple of mdividua liberty rests under all. We all know tha king itself power fal by showing its enemies, political ana social, that it is uble and ready to defend its own interests. Every politician who has risen on the ruins of luborers' homes by the favors of corporate eapital should be taught to aspire no ionger for work- ingmen’s votes. In his place should be put men whose record and character have shown them to be friendsof the producing elasses, open to convietion on issues be- tween lubor and eapital, and willing to endure the jo il gibes of the mon- opoly press than to surrender their convictions of right and justice, have gone erazy over religion, W. that fathers : butchered their own children believing that they were follow ing the example cf Abraham. Mormenism in its zamy saps the moral : vools of weil ordered society, Anc yet no rational thinker has ever vroposec to abolish religion in any of its forms. All we have done with regard to the Mormons is to punish erime Constitutional prohibition is to override indi by the Declaration of Independenc Mujorities in some states have over the unwritten law whick barrier pgainst usurpation and tyranny doctrine of Tk New York Herald believes that the presidential eleotion in 1888 will hinge | Majorities are ofton more tyrannical than | gonvenient. Above all it should upon the mayoralty election i New York | kings, but their might does not make be buit with the most eareful aity this fall, and is therefore urging all | right. The regulation of the liquor traf- | yogard to its sanitary feutures. the demooratic factions to unite on Hew- | fie, where the courts have passed upon it, | The Ber has aiready suggested it But, with the committee of 100 in- dorsing George, and the prospect that he will draw largely from Tammany and Trving Hall, the chances for the eleotion of Roosevelt, the republicun candidate, are very bright indeed, and should that ive New York City and, consequently, measure. efticiency depends- -entirely upon the it 15 put into effect. In other words, the state to us in 1888 , we will thank ) is the most practical as well as George much, the most equitable way of pro tecting society against the evils of RAL THAYER should take his coat right off and work for Chnrch Howe in this district. Church is such a good friend of the general’s, A year ago he worked hard to prevent Tha, boing made chaivman of the republican eonvention. This year when General Phayer had received 806 yotes on the in- formal ballot, and the proposition was mude to make his nomination by ue- glamation, Church Howe rose in his majesty and protested, remarking that ghere had been too much of this acelama- tion business, Later in the convention Chureh Howe torgot "all about his con- geientions scruples and voted to nom- i S b y acolamation four ather oficers on the state ticket, emEressee———— Tue hauling down of the American flag on the schoouer Mirion Grimes in Shelburne harbor by Captain Quigley, of the Dowinion cruiser, was a mistuke which has greatly disturbed the govern- ment at Ottawa, The schooner had not been seized for a violation of the fisher intemperanc Havlan or Bufialo' county to pr county. the vight of Douglas county to regulate county. to establish constitutional prohibition should vete for it. How They Pay. The impression which a drive around Omaba, made upon the visiting delega, tion of Pennsylvania railroad oftic that gained by all visitors to the oity. “Lhe best paved city in the west, with the most complete system of public im. vrovements,” is the universal expression of opinion. Omuba's public improve ments carefully conceived and eonscicn tiously earried out huve more than y they h: verous eity. With their inauguration ! began the first genuine. growth fes law, but was detained for omission to | Omata has experienced for years, feport Lefore leaving the harbor. But | Our muddy strects, dirty alleys, Capusin Landry, of the schooner, made a | impure water and lack of drain Mmustake also. At the request of Captain | age had operated to disgust wll Visitors, to banish new enterp build up our rivals at our own expense. Quigley he hauled down his tiag when he was notified that the vessel was under detention, but afterward, remenmbering that it was bis birthday, ran it up agan, &nd refusing to lower it, Captain Quigle did it for bim. Oue mistake may offset the other and lot the Canucks out of an swbarressing dilomm our people m- mortgaging the future to advanece the interests of the pres Capital, attracted by the vigor and ente following was move numerous in propos- tion to population than the prohibitionists day. The excitement swept 1881 Ellmaker for The party became so strong that and elected Rittner, the anti-Masonie had but one idea and that abolishing secret socicties, prohibiting y parallel to wd sale of rogard as the crimes But thousands of men and women in asylums know We know and strikes at 1 attempt lual rights guaranteed den is the strongest has only been adjudged legal as a police In its nature it must be local like all other police measures beeause its moral support of the community in whicn | )j, home rule through local admlnistrations We deny the right of cribe domestic police regulations for Douglas For the same reason we deny | p, the liguor trafiic for Buffalo and Adams We deny the right of the state aven though nine-tenths of the people 5, i8 id for themselves in the added attractions ve given to a thriving and pros- tuat | es and to The changed appearance of the Omaha of to-duy over the OUmaha of seyen yvears ugo is Jargely the result of the wisdom of at; investiments who is not ready to admit that the money paid has been well spent and the indebtedness entered into wisel incurred. His Time Occupied. Church Howe's stumping tour in the First district is wearing heavily on his stitution. His speeches far have consisted of parts of personal ex- planation and one of straight republican Church nine pearance in Nebraska with the money twisted out of the marshalship, and his conneetion with the e grange, which, as grand master, he slaughtered at the dictation of the railronds, could not pos sibly be fully treated in less than a week of oratory. But when this mountebank and frand takes up his legislative record there should bu a series of protracted meetings held, in order to give him time to do it ample justic His vault from granger- ism to the demoeracy, his employment 1 will insist that a whole cvening at least be devoted to his remarks about the best way to kill bills making gambling a fel- ony, with special reference to a certain gotten up in Omaha and Lincoln, ms of all classes will not conceal 1ety that he should deal in de- tail with all these varied and various subjects. To do so satisfactorilv to the voters of the First distriet will keep Church Howe well occupied. 1 t o The County Infirmary. 3 The county commissioners show a de- sire to take plenty oftime in selecting f | plans for the new hospital and have ex- hibited commendable sense in throwing U] the doors wide open for competition. 1| The proposition to sell & portion of tue - | poor farm will doubtless carry by a heav ® | majority and funds in abundance will in consequence be provided for the con. struction of the new building. There should be no penny-wise and pound-fool- ish policy adopted in selecting plans for the proposed structure. The building should be constructed on the most ap- - | proved models, Lt should be sightly and that an advisory board of physicians should be called into consultation with the commissioners before any plans are ® | finally adopted, and Commissioner Cor- assures us that the suggeston has ) | already met the approval of the board. The hospital wards for contagious di- ses and the maternity wards should " | certainly be isolated in the plans from emainder of the structure and so ar- 1 that they may be destroyed and d at a comparatively trifling cost 2 such nction is demanded, The t hospital wards are built on the ® | pavilion plan of cheap materals with their replacement in w should their walls become saturated L) with the germs of disease. A hospital which communicates disease instead of leading to its cure is considered now-a-days a costly inyestment. I Douglas county is anxious that its poor, sick and unfortunate should be well ed for, Itis able and willing to pro- vide comfortable quarters for this pur- - | pose, It remains for the commissioners | tosee that we are not saddled with an Yailding | + | architectural monsirosity oF & A I | whieh will prove inadequate for the pur- - | poses intended Our National Banks, In view of the rapid calling in of the 8 per cent bonds which largely form the 1 | busis of our national bank eirculation, a correspondent in the New York Evening . | Post suggests that the threatened reduc- , | tion of Lunk civeulation in this way can - | be avoided by the banks leaving the gold 1 | paid to them for the ealled bonds in the treasury as a security tor an equivalent awount of elreulation in lieu of the bonds. Of course no better security for s bank bill could be had than its face vulue in gold coin, but the same difficulty would n | exist in this euse as in that of leaving the called bonds after interest ceased on the letter of the law, which - | them, viz: es that “interest-bearing securi ties'" of the United States shall be depo: ited for such cireutation. The law can be it 1s trues Tt will soon have to Lin any cvent 1f our bank sys perpetuated 13 bring gold 1n the the banks have ther 1 deposited for the y receive only § requ nged chang tem is to United 8 market on demand fore practicall cirenlation now, but the in bills for eve bond de¢ Ihey are required to deposit 5 per cent of cireulation for a red n hould the law be changed coin for bonds, dollar for do per cent fund, of course, would wed. The banks would then receive $100,000 in bills to use for an equal amount of gold deposited, instead of £00,000 for $100,000 of bor now, which is reduced to 85,500 by the redemption fond, With this increase in cireulation tor amount deposite nd a removal of tax onu cir culation, the banks could well forego the present interest on their bond deposit If it should be objected to this scheme that it would lock up too much gold, the coin deposit could b half cach in gold and siiver Complaint is made that the fund for redemption of notes of national banks ailed, in liquidation or reducing their reulation, amounting to nearly forty millions, is a needless withdrawal of cireulating medium, Bat it is not so. ‘The notes of these banks are in circula- tion until presented for redemption in greenpacks, which constitute this fund. “The exchange of one for the other neither ses por inereases cireulation. It is that some important, legislation must be had very soon in regard to our national bank system. Some other than bond sceurity must be devised for cirenlation. The 8 per cents will all be redecmed with in two years, and the Dbanks are not likely, indeed, cannot aflord, to pay 112 to $128 for 44 and 4 per cent bonds todeposit and reccive only $85.50 in bills to use. No banking system was ever devised so safe as ours, but we are rapidly paying the debt upon which itis based, and yet no vrovision is made for its con- tinuance when the debt is paid. No r question, none so important aits the action of congress to-day. But, as usual, not until the very last mo- ment will it be taken up, and then in the hurry erade and undigested action is likely to result Dogs. The dog has been from the remotest ages the companion of man. It hus been man’s sentinel, savior, defender and ser- vitor in all_countries, and woman's pet and plaything as well. It is the syno- nym for faithfulness :ind affection. It has never shown ingratitude or revenge, and it licks the hand of’ its master when beaten. There i€ no human creature however wretehed but some dog equally miserable wilt love him, follow him, starve and die with him. 'AQ* In the early days, o tuns a tale, dogs had human speech.” There reignad then in the cast o king who ' had many minis- ters and friends, but the one he loved and trusted most was his ‘dog Tlderim. In those days dogs weie the comrades and counselors of men, who' knew how much wiser than they, were. dogs, and they sought to take profit of that wisdom, and throughout all the land dogs were held in high honor. They were guardians of gold, and took no bribes; they were war- riors, and d no star or spoil; the were public servants, and mado no pri- vate purse; they were counsclors of kings, and traflicked in no nation’s liberties; they were strangely unlike men in all things ue But [lderim, when no one else dared, told the king, his friend, that the young and beautiful wife whom he had taken in his old age was playing him false. The king, in his blind love for his wife, forgot Hderim's great services, and the many times he had saved his life, and drawing his dagger he killed his faithful friend on the spot. So from that hour, sceing that death by the hand of a fool and ingrate was the onl compense that fealty and truth brought to llderim, his race de- clared that nevermore would they utter human speech. The oath was taken anew by gencration after generation, and grad- ually the knowledge of thatspecch passed from the race and hasnever been learned again. They still know the meaning of men when they speak, but they know men to be still what they were in the days of that king, and dogs are still the same, only now they are silent. > Among the Greeks and Romans the dog was held in high esteem, and in the sculp- tured history of Egypt on monument and temple the dog is always found. But the decadence of the later generations of the East is marked by the light esteem in which dogs are held. In Constantino- ple, Jafta, Jerusalem, and all other cities under Moslem sway, sneaking, mangy curs throng in thousands; they are attached to no household, belong to no master, but prowl the streets and grab their food where they can. The measure of dis-esteem 1 which a dog 15 held by Mahomet's followers 15 shown by the use of its name to indicate the acme of con- tempt, as when they say: “Dog of a Christian!” ) *"e The instinct of #' dog, which almost equals human intélligence, the docility, the susceptibility to education and train- ing, make him a more valuable seryitor of man in many situations than any other animal, and in some where no other animal could'serve, as in drawing sledges in the arctic 'regions and i r cuing lives in the snqws of the Alps, A dog's vigilance as a sentinel rever tires, and he will face any danger m defense of -)" Ctrust or his master, The only nfean, thing a dog is :a-fiy bo glteak 4 de ever known to 4o ;340 #!4ck “the under dogina fight.” This He always does; but in joining the miajority against the weak and defenccless he but follows the example of most men—and women, e We have seen right here in Omaha a man do a meaner thing than a dog could be found to do from the creation to this day. A miserable creature, gleaning odds and ends in our streets and alle, as Ruth gleaned in the fields of Boaz, and as the Chiffonier does in the streets of Paris, picked up and thrust into his sack a lot of paper, strings, ete., which had just been swept out of a store into the alley. Only the wretchedly poor who are still to proud to beg know the scant value that is in the refuse of the streets, aud only they could turn it into use and SUNDAY, OCTOBER 17 1886.~TWELVE PAGES. food. But the poor oreaturs was ob. served through the windows as he gath- ered up the spoil, and & man came out and compelled him to empty his sack of tnis refuse paper and warned him away, while a lighted mateh was apphied to the pile and the meanest man that lives stood by till it was consumed. This might be compared to the fablo of the dog in a manger, but the dog, though ne could not eat the hay, yet found it a comfortable bed, and henee his refusal to allow the ox to touch it. But this man preferred 1k which was worthle to himself to to destroy wing it to be made uscful to a Dogs are thoroughly improvident 1 natur Many insccts store their winter's food; woodpeckers in the bark of trees for winter use, and squir: rels and other animals lay up a store of food from one hurvest season to another But a dog, however homeless or friend- less, never provides a dinner until he needs it he gives no thought for the mor row. He may have supreme faith in his store rorns capacity to “rustle,” or his faith may be that the haman family, to which he has attached himself has provided some thing, or left something somewhere for his use. When he gets it he no more re members his last hunger or thinks of his next than the Bohemian type of man who is equally earcless and mprovident. The dog may have learned this from man; if so he is to he congratulated that from his long association he has learned nothing wor: By contrast with men his character shines resplendent with many virtues, and he was a wise man who said: ““I'he more I know of men, the higher I respeet —— dogs.™’ s ‘Tirus far 1836 is a year which will long be notable in the history of this country for the great disasters it has brought us, and the polls are mot yot closed. We have had cyclones, tornadoes, earth- quakes and tidal waves. The destruction from winds was most extensive in the west and north, while the earthquuke and tidal wave did their work in the south. The loss of life in all cases has been very great, but that at Sabine Pass probably equals if it does not surpass all the others combined. These destructive natural phenomena appear to be on the increase, not only in this country, but in Lurope, for recent statistics in Germany show that vielent thunder storms have groatly incrensed there, and the deaths from lightning during the past year were greater than ever before. What this in- crease in natural violence portends, scientific men have not explained—prob- ably cannot explain, nor have they yet been able to teach us how the destruetion of property may be averted. Man’s hand annot control the winds, the waves or ill the shaking earth. All that science an do—and it may yet be able todo that —is to forewarn us in time of approach- ing convulsions, and so enable us to pro- toct human life by getting away from the locality of danger. To tluis end let all the resources of science be di- rected, and possibly the future may be s to life than the past. Ator Vav Wyek like John Brown’s soul, goes marching on. The general is strengthening himself with the people wherever he goes. He has no flattering promises to make of future performancs. He contents him- self with pointing tc his six years of earn- st and hard work for his state, in which the interests of the poorest of his con- stituents have been as fully considered as the wealthiest of corporations. As a man of the peovle, Senator Van Wyck confidently submuts his record to the peo- ple who made him their representative and asks a re-clection on the judgment drawn from its stud, EVERY voter should see that the name of C. H. Van Wyck is on his ballot on election day. The popular vote, now first appealed to muder our constitution, should be so large as to force the con- tinuance of this method by which the people will in the future choose their senators by clipping the wi of un- serupulous and ambitious politicians. Tirk boodle colony at Montreal are re- ported happy. The only singular fact of their Canadian residence is that nine out of ten of the embezzling cashiers, fugi- tive aldermen and defaulting bank presidents report that they have moved from the POLITICAL POINTS. Ex-Senator James R. Doolittle is the demo- cratic candidate for congress inthe First Wisconsin distric Ex-Senator Wallace, of Pennsylvanla, will not go to congress. He withdrew from the contest for the nominati A heater in an Akron iron mill has been nominated for congress by the domocrats. Heisa Knight of Labor and a member of the Ironworkers’ union. Governor Alger, Senator Conger and ex- Senator Ferry are republican aspirants for the Michigan senatorship, The first thing to do is to carry the legislature, Roepresentative Murphy, the lowa demo- cratie congressman, sheds no tears because he was not renominated. “Leaving me at home,” he says, “is one of the most sensible things the lowa democrats have done. Bob Taylor and his fiddle have aroused so much enthusiasm among the susceptible Tennessecans that le is now confidently spoken of as the coming United States sena- tor, Oliver Ames, the republican condidate for governor of Massachusetts, s to appear be- fore congress personally next winter with a petition to have the stain from his father's nawe removed, Andrew W, McGill left Crawford county, Pennsylvania, at the age of sixteen with $3 in his pocket. He is now running for gov- ernor of Minnesota, and hopes to haveat least §3 left at the end of his canvass, Robert Smalls, the negro statesman, has been alegted to congress five times, He will 110 doubt secure his sixth élection In Noveulr ber, as he has been renominated in the Sev- enth district of South Carolina, where there is a dense colored population, President Cleveland’s administration, say the democratic organs, has paid $155,000,000 of the national debt in the last eighteen months. But they carelessly omit to wen- tion the Dmportant fact that the president and his cabinet have paid this amount out of thelr private pockets. Colonel Ingersoll Is eredited with the wish that the laboring men could have a president of their own and a majority in congress, that they might learn how little could be done by legislation, *They will find,” he thiuks, “that making & living in this world 1s an in dividual affair, and that each man must look out for himself.” Abe Hewitt, the welancloly Dane of New ates to educate their tamilies. | York, has reconsidered retire from politics, elect me after my declaration of my power lessness to do any good, why I shall go back to Washington even it I should die there. [Curtain to slow musie.| The tRev. Myron W. Reed, formerly Indianopolis,has been nominated for co by the Denver democrats, but the old Bour bons do not take to him very kindly., They say that ho is in polities what he is in rel gion—neither fish, flesh, fowl, nor red her ring. ' don’t know whether lie is e publican. a democrat, or a greenbacker, One of Mr, Reed's admirers songht to satisfy them by saying that he had becn all three, It would perhaps be proper to ¢ a mugwump. - Full of Paradoxes, Todd county has voted against liquor. Kentueky is full of paradoxes. Geronimo Shonld Be Congratulated, Chicago Times, General Miles ias issued an order form ally announcing the close of the Apache and congratulating the troops on But the party that isnext to be campaign the result. congratulated on the result is a party by the ronimo, name of i A Touching Sight to See. Boston Record, Amateur Fhotographer—I reat season in making pictures. itherine (admiringtly)—In England you ton eur Photographer—I did very well ingland, to be sure—took Gladstone cut- But that's nothing to my ide. in ting down a tree. triumph on thi Amateur Photographer—I secured an in- stantaneous view of Cousin Ben Folsom weeping at Washington’s tomb, ublimity. John A Joyee., I hear in the voice of the thunder ‘The glory and greatness of God; 1 see In the flash of the lightning The sweep of his glittering rod. I feelin the rush of the rain ‘T'he flow of his melting tears, And [ hear in the midnight winds ‘T'he music of all the spheres, Lsee in the limitless ocean ‘The swell of his heaving breast, And 1 long for the hour whin 1 shall sink To Lis bosom of infinite rest. - Y GOSsIP, SUN AvTiovn there are a great many good business buildings going up in Omaha there is plenty of room for them. This s especlally true of North Sixteenth street. which is one of the busiest thoroushfares i the city. “There are too many squatty two-story build- ings on thatstreet. Ground is becoming too val le for anything but four-story struct- ures, and the man who builds anything else makes a serious mistake, Jrsst L. WILLravs, who died the other day at his home in Fort Wayne, Ind., in his eightieth year, was oncea government diree- tor of the Union Pacific railroad. He was appointed by Lincoln, and was the only gov- crument director retained by Presidents Johnson and Grant. 1t was from his reports and estimates of construction that the credit mobilier scheme was first brought to the at- tention of congress. Ile leaves property val- ued at upwards of §1,000,000, largely lands in Dakota, Michigan and Indiana, and stocks in variousbanks and railroads. Tie New York Tribune's gossipper has this to say concerning one of Nebraska’s itest young men: “J. Sterling Morton, of Nebraska, has a son Paul, who probably is the youngest general passenger agent in the country. Mr. Morton spoke to me about him in this way: ‘Paul is twenty-nine years old and at twenty-one he was the second man in the treight devartment of the Chicago, Bur- lington & Quincy railroad. He held that position through eight years and has now beer made general passenger agent of the same road. 1 advised him agalnst taking the position and wrote him that I had never heard of a general passenger agent belng promoted toa general manager, You see it is the freight department that earns the money for the railroads. Passenger traflic is not largely profitable. But youth 18 ambi- tious and Paul wrote me back that he thought a general manager ought to know all branches of railroading. and that as he knew the freight business thoroughly, he thought it wise to accept a position where he could also learn the passenger business,’” J.STERLING MorToN, who recently ro- turned from an extended European trip, says he saw more drunkenness on Baturday night in the streets of Glasgow than one would see ina whole rof travel in American, Toa New York Tribune reporter he said: *“They ascribe it to the climate, but I think it Is due rather to their habits of living. They breakfast on a bit of marmalade and toast and a little tea. It is pretty lixht diet and by 110'clock a man foels so faint and empty that he resorts to stimulants tw enable him to work., One drink is followed by another until by night he be- comes saturated with liquor, I was greatly amused at an Incident which oc- curred here in the St. James hotel just after my arrival home. There wero three Kuoglish- men and a Texan who had como over on the steamer. The American Invited his com- panions totake a drink with him. When the liquor was set out on the bar so that every man might help himself,the Englishmen were astonished. In the old country drinks are carefully measured ont and served by the bar-keeper. No map helps himself, One of the Englishmen sald that if the Ameviean custom prevailed in London, a person would not be able to reach the bar for the drunken men who would be viled up on the stroet in front of the saloon. He seemed further as- tonished when I told him that out In the western country a host generally showed the generosity of lis hospitality by turning his back when his guest poured out the liquor that was set on the table before him.” “Tuis I8 my third or fourth visit to Omaha,” said Mr. C, G. Greene, a prominent real estate owner and capitalist of Cedar Rapids,lowa. 1amon my way west to take o look at some 12,000 acres of land which Ihave recently purchased in Dawson county, Ne- braska. Ihave stopped over a day in Omaha 10 note once again the remarkable changes in this eity, There is no question in my mind— and Lhave traveled extensively throughout the west during the last three years—that Omaha 1s the future great city between Chicago and the Pacilic coast. Her situation with refer- ence 10 the river and bLer commanding position with reference o the I!xlell; af taritory wre BIIDII_KH argunients to support my views, while the ac tivity and push of your citizens, and the en- terprise as shown In the advancing public improvements all go to refnforce it. Omaha is belng more talked about to-day than any other olty iu the west. Every visitor who drives over your paveiments notes the large number of new business buildings and private residences and the lmmense amount of busi- ness dono in the railroad yards. e goes away to spread his impressions in other com wunities, and thus indirectiy aids to boom your town,” “I'us crowded condition of the rallroad yards,” snid a railroad ofticial the other day, “is becoming a most serious question for the consideration of rallroad wanagers. There is Do doubt in wy wind that a large portion determination to While reiterating his Inability to do any good at Washington, he now says: “If they see fit to go ahead and of | s ity him of the transterring business must b across the river at an early day, and 10 good reason why it should not be on as possible. Omaha Is growin idly that a year from now the mer | rise in revolt against the provoking | the yards if more room is not pro no other place of its size do railroads | the business of making up trains in | of the city. There is plenty of roon bottoms opposite for thirty or side tracks and swit and w double-track bridge across the riyer could be brought over Lere with 1 delay than fsnow experfenced them from one crossing to another move would not Injure Omaha tn t I'he crews of men requi switehing hiere would be lage in while the few railroad employes w) do the work on the other sido of the woul ly be missed ina growi like Omaha. Al our demand that frelght should rapidly as possible. As matters i merchiants wait from two to thiec y after their ears arrive in the yards iu On: g while the switchmen, yardmasters and gineers are vainly endeavoring to find a tieular ear among the thousands of ciny and loaded cars,” seare commercial 1 be dellve OxE of the greatest deficiencles of Oy with all ier public improvements, her ty miles of paved strects and alleys, and better class of buildings which are goin on the principal streets, 18 her lack of o distinctively residence quartes The ¢ residences are scattered from Dan to P sheba, 50 10 speak, We have no street which can be called our best residence street ana no quarter which can be fairly denominated our best residence seetion. Mr. Popploton's house stands at the end of Shern Mr. Woolworth's resldence is on & avenue: three or four handsome residences aro located on the extension of Cuming street, anaa dozen others are scattered here and there. There are indications that this condition of affairs will shortly be r D died by the action of several large property { owners who are placiug on the marks | under certain restrictions farge tracts of vafu. able land which have been withheld from sale for years. In North Omaha Mr, Mers man Kountzo, for instance, has platted twenty acres of his homestead, which he Is ( selling only to parties who will bulld resie 1 dences to cost not less than a certain amount, In other portions of the city the high prica vlaced upon lots is attracting a better clags ot residences, which little by little are driving out the smaller houses. The most marked effort in this alrection is that of Mr. Kountze with his South Omaha property, adjacent to his beautiful home, overlooking the river. Mr. Kountze has lately divided his property in that section, in the mneignhborhood of Brownell hall and Bishop Worthington's new residence, Into large lots, and is selling them only to parties personally kuown to him- self, who will agree to erect houses of elther stone or brick, not to cost less than 87,000, Mr, John F. Coots is building an eclegant mansion in that vieinity. Messrs, Steubben- dort and Drexel are following suit. Bishop Worthington's house is already constructed, A handsome Episcopal church edifice will ba built on the corner opposite the new Brow- nell hall, which is rapidly approschiug com- pletion. Wealthy and well-to-do cltizens have purchased lots in that locality, and before another year rolls round they will have buflt handsome and costly houses, ‘I'his movement of Mr. Kountze is likely to make that sectjon across the tracks one of the most distined ively residence quarters of Omalia, a8 no stores or places of business are to e allowed there by the termsof the deeds. The same plan is under consideration by property owne ers in West Omaha, and in other parts of the city, and before many years we shall doubt- less be able to drive visitors through streets lined with as beautitul and attractive resf- dences as those which now adorn the ave- nues of Minneapolis, St. Paul and Denver. venue “ADJUTA: G RAL Drus, while re- cently acting as_secretary ot war, attempted to crush General Crook,” said an army offi- cer. “It was rather a funny episode. Itwas in connection with the case of Lieutenant McBlain, of the Ninth cavalry, who was tried at Cheyenno for having procured an alleged fraudulent divorce. General Crook, as cum- mander of the department of the Platte, ordered the court which tried Mec- Blain, and, deeming the sentence of dis- missal unwarranted by the evidence, disap- proyed the sentence and restored the officer to duty with nis troops. 'When the orders In the case reached the war department, Gen- eral Drum telegraphed to General Crook to revoke the court-martial order, setting aside the sentence, and General Crook aid so in & general order. General Drum, as acting sec- retary, assumed that General Crook haa no rightto take action in the case, but as soon his own action became known he received advice which led to further telegraphing to ieneral Crook, who issued another general order to the effect that ‘acting secretery of war, having recalled his instructions direct- ing the revocation of court-martial orders, the order of September 25 is hereby revoked.” Thus a distinguished ofticer sat upon him- self, and now that he has been relegeted to his proper duties it Is probable that he' will be called upon to administer upon himself in other ca 1 understand that Secretary Endicott when Informed of tne proceedings was lughly incensed at the conduct of Gen- eral Drum, and expressod surpriso and aston= ishment at the way the case bad begn man- aged.” “LuAavi read with considerable Interest the recent publications regarding Dr. Pavy's daughterin France, who appeals to Ameri- cans for aid,” sald an Omaha gentleman, “It recalls some Incidents in the career of the late Dr. Pavy, which was related to me some $imo ago. In the Franco-Prussian war he had under his command for a time a company of 100 guerillas, whom he equipped at his own expense, He was captured and condemned to death, butas he was being conducted to the place of execution his guerillas rescned hiw away from his guards and carried him away in safety, Coming to Amerlca he traveled all over the continent, as he hud done in Europe, visitiug all the principal citles and places of interest, and mopting with adventures of every description. While in San Francizeo he became an enthusiast in the matter of Arctic explorations, and de- termed to organize a North Pole expeditiou, Becoming acquainted with Ralston, the banier, he induced him to back the enterprise, but the suiclde of Ralston prevented its being carried out, Pavy was in attendance at a ball and was dancing at the time he heard the nows of the seusational sulcide. He stopped in the mid- dlo of the dance, bade adieu to his partner, and left the ball. From that time he beeame a wanderer—virtually a tran He finaly Ianded in Missourl, and one day while be was tishing In a river, Kev. Nr. Stoneran across L, and Legrd bhin quotivg Latin from Hog- ace, Thatatramp should be 80 Well posted in the classies rather astonlshed the roverend gentleman, who invited him o Lis house near by and learned his history. To make & long story short, Mr. Stone assisted him in various ways, and finally gave his dsughter in marelage to Pavy, who had fatlen deeply in love with her. Mrs. Pavy ls the sister of Dr. Stoue of this city. e Marriage and Divorce, Philadelphia Kecord. If the new cauon proposed for adoption Ly the Episcopal convention relating to mar- riaze and divoree could, as far as apuropriate, be incorporated fnto the laws of all the states it would be a&reform of widespread mosal advantage.