Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 24, 1886, Page 4

kS THE DAILY BEE.! PUBLISHED EVtRV MORNING. TERVE OF KU Daily (Moeniag Eaition) incl PTION ding Bundny Ber, One Yoar 1000 For 8% Months 5 0 For Threo Months 25 The Omaha Swnday fke, malled to any addross, Oue Year 200 98 FARNAM TR AR BCLLOTNG 13 FOURTERN 111 8 FREET OMATA OPprCr. NO. 014 AN NEW York Orvice. Roow WARHING TON OFFICE, NO. OONRESIONDERCE! All eommunioations re torial matter should be TOR OF TiEE Bk nting to news i 1w the nUs PTTERS AN bueiness et romittanoes should be Rddrossed 1o THE PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMARA. Drafts, checks and_postoflice order 0 be minde payable to the order of the compiny, THE BEE POBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS, ¥. ROSEWATER TorT THE DA Y B Sworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebrask Connty of I Geo, B, Trsehuck, Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual cirenlation of the Daily Bee for the week ending Oct. 22d, 1556, was as follows: Saturday, Oct.16 Sunday. 17 . 18, ry of The Bee wecr! de Average. G Swort to and subseribed 0 my | this 25d day of October, A. 1., 1586, . Frn, [SEAL) Notary Pubiie. Geo. B. Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that ho 15 secretary of the Bee Publishing company, that tho actual av- eraee daily cirenlation of the Daily Bee for tho month of January, 185, was 10 copic or Apr pies; for June, July, 1850, 12314 copies iesifor September, st 1896, 12, 1886, 13,030 coples, scribed and sworn to before 1 tober, A. D., 186, N, P, FEIL, Ll Notary Pubile. Contents of Bunday Bee. aeo 1. General Tolegraphic News. City News.—Miscellany. Special Advertisements,—General o8, and Local M Pace 4. litorials. —Politieal Points,— Press Common Gossip, Page Lineoln News.—Miscollany.—Ad- isements, Page 6. Council Bluffs News.—Miscellany. ~—Advertisements. Page The Week in Omaha Society.— Miscellany.—Advertisement age 8. General City New Local Ad- vertisements, Page 9, Miss Tickle Love in ices—The Tragedy of a Glance, by Fred Nye.—Sunday in Paris and America. ago 10 Hints for House Builders.—Col- onel Bowio and Hiy Knife.—A Delaware Ghost Story. Page 11~ Adventures of M Alfred Sorenson.—The Panis Rothschil Honey for the Ladie pnnubialiti Retigious.—Peppermint Drops.—I mpic Musical and Dramatic.—Educational, fayeito's Graye, Page 12, Among the Wits and W An Entertaining Trio.—Clara Belie, Omar Jamas and David G. Croly.—A Carecr of Romance, or North, by REGISTE | register, register, THis is the last week of registration. ur preference for Dox'r fuil to vote yo United States senator. HUNDREDS of voters lost thorr right to vote last year through a failure to regis- tor. REAL estate in Omaha more than holds #ts own. It is proving a bonanza for wisc investo Do not trust to friends to register your name. Call in person at the regis- trar's office. Vorers should not fail to see that their names are placed on the registration lists this week. ONE by one the roses fade. One by one the democratic eandidatos decline to beslaughtered to make a bourbon holi- day. Tiae town of Freehold, New Jersey, has been photographed by lightning. The possibilities of Jersey lightning seem wnlimited. OMARA’S prosperity is not bound up in the success or failure of any one enter- priso, but she needs an independent rail- voad outlet to the west for all that. CLEARD vk again passed the four million point. The volume of ©Omaha’s bank clearings are the surest indication of the prosperous condition of trade. Oyana democrats evidontly believe in the principle that the office should seck the man. The men are not seeking the office to any great extent in local demo- oratic circles. Tre eable car system will soon be put fnto winter quarters. It has heen the worst managed enterprise with which Omaha capitalists have dealt in years, A cowbination of brains, ‘‘get up' and money would have had it in operation wooks ago. Th@ question for honest republican voters to consider is whether they will be whipped into voting for a selfcon- vieted bribe er, a party traitor and a consummate scoundrel simply because his name happens to be printed on a re- public sket BECRETARY 1corr has ordered Geronimo and his bands to Florids with- out throwing any further light on the disputed question whether the surrender was unconditional or not. The action of the secretary seems to leave further con- joetures on the subject unnec y. Every voter should seo that the name of C. H. Van Wyck is on his ballot on eloetion dny. The popular vote, now first appealed to under our counstitution, shoval bo so large as to force the con- tinuance of this method by which the in the future choose their vy clipping the wings of un- serupulous and smbitious politicians. Em—e=T Mg. EpMENDs gave his findd shot to the collapsed Blaine campaign in V swhen he declined to be cross questioned #s to his future position on the presiden- tial issue and in the face of his refusal received 228 out of the 250 votes cast in the Vermont legislature for United States senator. Mr. Edmunds is probably still of the opinion that & Western man should be sclected as the republican curdidate 1888, THE The Hoffman Label Suit After six days trial the jury in the case ol J. M. Hoffman ward Rose water hn red a verdiot awarding tam plaintiff for s gainst rend tion. Such a.verdiet would have been rendercd nowhere in Nebraska outside At the outsct this suit was instigated by the rings and vlundercrs who h around the state eapital, and by newspapers that make it their by ness to shield every dishonest man who holds an office. Behind these came 11 volitical ban ich, in o on with rreat railroad, has kept in abject sub. jection the business community at the state eapital. To that class of cormorants Rosewater and the BEE have years been a mortal terror With a populace prejudiced by a venal yress and overawed by money power and ite house influence there was very little chance for fair play and justice it twenty In any other county a verdict for the plaintiff, in the face of the testimony, would never have been rendered. An appeal for a new trial has been made, and the reasons why it are ample logal should be granted he precedent established in this case wili not deter us from doing our duty in dealing with public men, and denoune ing conspiracics and conspirator: thieves and official knaves deom it ¢ to good government The verdict of this Lincoln jury has not vindicated Governor Dawes and his pri vate seeretary. The high-handed outrage which took place at the capital when the wooden Jegged man was shot down in cold blood by the detectives for a reward, which the goyernor had promised, will nover be forgotten or condoncd. To pumsh the editor of this paper for calling attention to this ,cowardly plot and mur- dor was fully 4% wfamous as the plot itself. publie whenever we nduc Gere's Scarecrow, dlarm prevails at the state cap- Gr ital over the discovery that Van Wyck's appeal for a popular endorsement” will destroy all the chances of defeating the choice of tho people. So Mr. Gore, the great ruilrogne editor, has raised a scare- crow with which he expects to frighten people from voting for Van Wyck. He solemnly warns everybody against print- Van ing Wyck's name on the reg- ular tickots, and goes so far as to say that any man who at- taches Van Wyck's name to the ticket with a paster wtll have to go to the peni- tentiary for violating the law against fraudulent tickets. This man Gere evi- dently imagines that the people of Ne- braska are a set of idiots. Voting for Van Wyck is not voting for a candidate, but merely an_ expression of preference for a candidate to be chosen by the legislature. It is perfectly proper and legal for any man to print, either in the middle or at the bottom of the ticket his “‘preference’” for United ates senator. Mr. Gere's pretense that use Van Wyck 1s nominated by any be party for the oflice his name cannot be inserted on any regular ticket is The law against fraudulent tickets simply refers to candidates who are elected dizectly by the people, and then only the name inserted in place of another candi- te whose name is omitted from the ticket cannot be counted. The United States senatorship is not anclective oftic and Van Wyck's name will not in any way tend to deceive the voter who might de- siro to vote for the candidate of another party. It is perfectly prepostrous to threaten anybody with penalties for voting with pasters. The law has no such intention and pasters have becn voted all over the state at every election since the law was passed. Mr. Gere's advice to vote on separate tickets for sen- ator is in keeping with his scare-crow threats. All the candidates are voted on ong ticket at a general election. Even when voting for presidential electors no soparate ticket is wsed. The judges of election will tbrow out the separate tickets if offered. The whole thingisa stupid attempt to frighten timid people who do not know their rights in the premises. It is a notorious fact that sev- eral hundred votes were polled at the election of 1879 for United States senator, and returned by the canvassers to the state board 1l bosh. The Park Question, Kansas City is agitating the question of a park system to affocd broathing places for its poor and recreation and pleas- ure grounds for its citizens. Min- neapolis and St. Paul have al- ready takon steps to provide them- selves with a chain of parks to beautify their suburbs and add to the appearance of these cities. Sooner or later the same question will force itself upon the people of Omaha. Public purks become a neces- sity in large cities, They are desirable to aflord fresh air to parents and children whose lives are passed largely indoors and in the cramped quarters of tune- ments, factories and flats. They are im- vortant for the general sanitation of citics where the free play of cutrents of air is blocked and hampered by tall houses and still taller chimneys. They are no less important us adding to the at- tractiveness of citics asg plu of pleas- ant residence in building up the localities by which they are enclosed with hand- some places and ample grounds. Every nere of park room adds twice its value to the neighboring property, The cost of & mile of parked boulevard is quickly repaid by the advancing value of adjoi- ing real estate, while the city as a whole shares in the improvement which trees and luwns and convenient ope air resorts add to the con- veniences of _ the emtire cowmunity. Omaha will yet regret that the bonlevard project agitated a year ago was not car- ried into effect whon the price of prop- erty was comparatively low and the own ers of large tracts of suburban property stood ready to forward the improvement by liberal contributions of veal estate. The sooner that any necessary public improvement which involves in any way the condemnation of property is fos- ered and pushed to a beginning the more economical it is for the city. Growth in population means rising real estate values and added cost to tuxpayers when the delayed work is finally begun. — iss Winnie Davis Insulted. With updesvantable stupidity but yet eharnctoristio cisec; the people of Rich- mond lust weok soughi 0 glorify the “lost enuse” by gettng the president of the United States and his wife to psy public court to thy ex-president of the southern confederaoy, through his daugh- jury to his feelings and reputa- | OMAHA DAILY | tér Winnie, at an offibial_reception to be | givon by the governor of Virginia. Miss but recently, at a confederate | reunion, formally and officially adopted as “the daughter of the confed erficy,” Governor Fitzhugh Lee escorting her and presenting her at the coremony On the oceasion of the visit of President Cloveland and his wife to Richmond in formal invitation, it w arranged, not that Jefl' Davis’ daughte Miss Winnie, should be a simple guest at the governor's oflicial reception, but that | Inavis was soldiers’ response to a should be the presiaing genius there of. She was, in her official pacity a8 daughter of the confederacy.’ to form- | ally re ve the the wi ts, with the president of the United States stand 1 | ing at her side and assisting her! The | blue and the gray, not as represented by humble soldicrs of the ranks and on | equal footing, were to meet again, but is time they were to be represented by the familics of the union president and and that of the rebel was to hold the ehief pl of honor. How clearly t proves that bourbon ism forgets nothing and learns nothing. I'iie south does not forget its treason, but still glovies init, and it has not yet learned that the popular heart of the north will not glorify treason or traitors. ‘The most the north is prepared to do s to forgive the rebel presi those who show works meet for repen- tan It is possible that Mr, Cleveland was caught 1 a trap, that he was not duly advised of the use that was to be made of himselt and wife in the old con te capitol, but he should have fore seen it and n steps to guard against it. As a democrat he wouid of course have been in congenial company, but at the last moment he perceived, or there were those about him shrewd enough to verceive, that it would be disastrous to democrucy for him and his wife to play the parts ussigned them in this apotheo: of Jeff Davis ana the dead confederac and so at the last moment he decided to ve his wife in Washington, and de- clined himself to attend the reception arranged for. Whatisthe consequence? The southern chivalry 18 up in arms, and declare that Mrs. Cleveland’s absence was ‘‘an insult to Miss Winnie Davis and the best families of Richmond.” They do not explain why Mrs, Cleveland was called upon to honor Miss Davis by her pres- ence ; they do not perceive that they had arranged for an insult to Mrs, Cleveland in the part assigned to her, and through her to the loyal north. They are only chagrimed that their nice little scheme to exhibit the president and his wifc as cel- ebrating the moral victory of the con- federacy, the ssically defeated, was frustrated. what the south expected from a democratic yictory. It shows ulso that the north is not prepared to gratify that expectation 1 Cruclty to Animals. Elsewhere is published a notice of the meeting of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which will be held to-morrow evening at the residence of Judge Savage, on Twent street. It is gratifying to learn eftort made several years ago to main- tain a branch of this worthy or; tion in our city has not been allowed to die out. Although it has not courted no- toriety or forced itself much upon the public notice, the society has already ac- complished much good. Arrests have been made under the provisions of the law and for some time an agent was reg- ularly employed to enter complaints against offenders. It is now the de- termination of its membors to reorgan- ize the society on a broader basis commensurate with the work which the growth of the city provides for its atten- tion. Every friend of humanity should gladly co-operate. Not a day passes without glaring violations on our streets of the ordinance prohibiting ecruelty to animals. Over-londed arays and trucks drawn by staggering horses pass 1o and fro. Crowded horse cars groan up our hills dragged by straining ard over- tasked teams. Abuse of dumb animals stare us in the face on nearly every street where grading operations are in pro- gress. Months ago the Bee published a letter from a stranger visiting our city, caling attention to the need of notive work by a strong society for the prevention of cruclfy to antmals and commenting in stinging langnage upon the neglect of the west, so far ad- vanced in so many other reformatory movements, to engage heartily in a work whose results arc now shown so strongly in cities further east. The BEE will gladly lend its voice and assistance towards futhering the work of the soci- ety. It1s an educationul as well as a benevolent work. Its influence in lessen- ing the brutalizing effects of cruclty upon the growing generation is by no means an unimportant feature of its oper- ations. Results of Prohibition. The BEE of Saturday contained a dis- patch from Atlanta, Ga., showing that the effect of prohibition 1n that state has already been to largely increase illicit distilling. FProhbition having closed the saloons, moonshine whisky is peddled about in wagons, covered up with apples, which travel tnrongh the country and stand in secluded streets in towns, giving all needed facilities to negroes and poor whites for getting all they want of the most yillainous whisky mac Well-to- do people send abroad for th liguor and drink as much as ever. Thus pro- libition does not prohibit in Georgia. In one day, recently, in Portland, Me. , fifteen liquor cases, » part only of a very long docket, were passed upon in the su- perior court, and fines and costs imnosed awounting to $4,685.85. Nothing more conclusive than this can be cited to show BEK: thut the general senument of that city does mot sustain probibition, or men wonld not be found to incur such pen- alties for selling liquor. I'he Providence Journal s that 1n that ity since the law went into effect club rooms have sprung up in all diree- tions, All that is required by the club manager is a petsonal knowledge of the thirsty applicant and then he is furnished with a key. ‘Lhe more introductions he gets to the mauagers the more kevs he gets, 50 that in a short time his ring is full enough to gain him admission all over the oity, and his keys notonly admit him- self but all bis friends. In the high-toned elubs a fee of §1 is charged for initiation, and then the key is furnished and a punched slip for which the new member pays and which be uses until its purchas- ing power is exhausted, when & fresh slip 4 s taken. 7 ho snme paper describes the Newport SUNDAY, oalled the Avadink company, of New York, sends therf what is known as Ava dink tonie, which is sold at lifteen cents a bott The bottle 18 packed in a ne pasteboard box Heaging the namo of the company and the faet that it cont “A tonic for general use ~ A good appe tizer Aids dig . Price 15 cents.” TI'he tops of thoj bpxes bear eithor tlie letter “w'' or “g," Wwhich signilies the na- ture of the cocktail—that is, tonic—in side. The bottle eantains one cocklail and the directions say: “Empty con tents in a glass, add a little piece of ice, stir and drink The tonic is said to have a labge sale, and as none is genuine unless the name the bottle the company must be coining money. Do the people of Nebraska wish to sce this state of things become general inour state ¥ Do they think it better to have drug converted into aloons and such clab rooms as above deseribed. established in oar cities and large towns, than to retain our well regu Iatea system, with local option to pro hibit ¢ Governor Rice, of Massachus etts, says the prohibition law of 1876 has proved afailurc in that and drunken 198 has increased instead of diminished The people of that stats, thercfore, are opposed to prohibitory laws, bocause they do not believe temperance is best secured by sueh el Has this not been tion of thinking is blown in our stores actments, confirmed by the obsery people everywhere ? Temperance must result from a general conviction of its desirabloness, to be brought abont by a gradual change of public opinion, and eannot be compelled by any law that was ever framed The Latest Shocks. Smce the widespread earthquake shocks of August 31 there have been fre quent recurrences of slight disturbances inthe region about Charleston, but these have generally not been so marked as to oceasion any alurm ve among the ex: tremely ignorant and superstitious, and confidence had become quite generally restored. Cn Friday, however, sharp shocks were folt through a considerable portion of the area in the south that was affected by the great seismic disturbance, and in scme localities there was a re- newal of the fecling of alarm andanxiety which prevailed after the first calan tous visitation, At two or three pluces these last shocks are said to have been as severe as those felt in August. They did not, however, do any damage, beyond opening seams in the earth, which oc- curred m a pertion of Virginia, and up- setting type in the fourth story of a news- paper oftice in Washington city. This pronounced recurrence of the dis- turbsnces will still more distinetly indi- e the area in which the conditions pro- ducing them are present in force, or in which at least they are pe culiarle suseeptible to scismic inflnen ce. but whether the demonstration will be of any considerable value to sci ence, one is compelled to doubt, in view of the very little that has apparently :n definitely learned from the August sturbunces. The investigation and study given to these phenomens seem not to have brought the scientists nearer together as to the cause and gin of carthgakes than they were befor or, in fact, than they have been at any time in the last half-century during which this subject has been a matter of scientific stuay. There have been printed during the past five or six weeks any ex- tent of theories, all learned and most of them plausible, but no two in full agree ment, so that there is still no undisputed ground upon which sciesmolog meet in nccounting for the origin of eartn- quakes. The phenomena, hewever, have become of such great interest that they will continue to be & subject of earnest study, and every fresh revelation that may contribute to a better understanding of their causes and nature will be care- fully noted ori- Examr your tickets carefully and see to it that you yote your choice for United States senator. POLI POIN DAL Tbe Memphis knights have nominated five members for lezislative positions. The Utica (N. Y.) workmen have nated a molder for the legislature, Ex-Congressman Belford 1s leading an in- dependent republican revolt in Colorado. ‘The Louisville trades assembly have pro- pounded a series of questions to candidates, The industrial party of Maryland has nom- inated wmunicipal candidates In twenty wards. Some of the Iowa papers are booming Sen- ator allison for the presidency with much carnestness. i The San Francisco labor party have nomi- nated Henry George's old Daily Post partner for mayor. Congressman Ranney, of Massachusetts, left a practice of $30,000 per annum when he entered political life, Ex-Governor Brown, of Tennessee, says the democratic ticket in that state will be elected by & majority of 30,000, Charles A, Garter Is a candiaate for con- gress in Callfornia. If woman suffrage pre- vailed in that state, Mr, Garter would have a tremendous run, ‘The independent labor party at Detroit Mich,, has put up a congressional, legislative and senatorial ticket. There are three old piinters on the ticket. Politically speaking, San Franciseo seems to present a scene of Inextricable confusion, There are ten tickets in’ the field and others in course of preparatiqu. John Tyler Cooper, the self-nominated rohibitionist camdidate for mayor of ., Is a @randson of President 50 of James Fenimore Cooper. nator Malione will bid farewell to poli- tics at the expiration of his term as senator, and will go into the yeal estate business at Washington, where Le has recently made large Investments, Secretary Manning announces that he in- tends to stand by Cleveland so long asthe is president, 1t might bs mentioned in passing that Mother-in-Law Foléom has expressed a similar determination Bob Taylor, the dewocratic candidate for governor of Tennessee, married a cousin of Senator Zeb Vance. He used to ride on Lorseback seventy-five miles over the moun- tains to woo the fair maiden, J. B, Belford, erstwhile known in congr: as “The Red Headed Rooster of the Rockies, and famous for his convivial habits,has joinea the Total Abstinence league. But this step toward reform is counteracied and overshad- owed by the fact that he has also joined the democratie party, Amos J. Cummings, E. J. Merriam and F. J. Conkling, booked for congress from New York, are all members of the editorial staff of the New York Sun, They are bright and hardworking journalists, and they probably want to secure & season of complete intel- leetual rest by golng to congress. nomi- method of $7ading tae law. 4 company | General Saw Carey is 1o wake hficen dew- | Mississippi, representativ would like to meet OCTOBER 24, 1884--~TWELVE PAGES him in the e halls, The New York voters liave in frequent in stances demanded of t patronize to take down the tures of lenr | ers are to talk Great enth the labor organizations, but the wn tightly by the political powers tion day. not be ¢ y G k for s storekeepers they graph pic: Five hundred speak George until elee m prevails among lines will rge Henry uutil a day or two before election. - The Office Seeking the Cousir, Benjamin New Folsc York World m, of Buffalo, the nawly appointed American consul to Sheflield, Eng land, says that he did not urge himself upon the presiden honors, 1t t oas was ing for the cousin, It commendable prv ceches In Michizan during the SUNDAY GOSSIP campaign~or, rather, Will deliver |- pyrrrrgws aro beinz oirculated for paving | one speech fifteen times, That same old | o goiyn Sixteentn street. Tire section of | whig-abolitionist-republioan-greenback-dem - | gyt SR e Which it 18 pro ovratic-teperance effort will again e |'j,eq to mnke this * improvement, lies te DISAREE 1T WORYE SSTVICE. tween Howard and Vinton streets, Tho his Colonel Wind is running for congress in | tory of {he improvement of Sixteenth strect one of the Wisconsin districts and is making | during the last four years Is an interesting 1o blow about It. Colonel Quavle, of Mis- | chapter. No one who stood at the eorner of souri, is also pluming his wings for a con- | Farpam street and looked toward the so gressional flight, and Colonel Bob White, of would ever have imagined | part of the city that within a few level and unobstrue ing from one end of the eily and paved its entire length, | the liveliest and bu the west. To-day there I8 more on Sixteenth, from Douglas to A than on any other street in Omahn Being the only paved north and south street for any great distane ¢ it attracts traflic from the mills, factories, luniber and coal yards and freight yards, which are so rapidly grow ing up in the north part of the eity, while it also draws the heavy wheeling for distribution | on the side strects running from it westward ths there would be a ( thotough pxtend to the other, one of making st tsin to the hills. As a pleasant drive for light vehicles it has long since become ihe most an_apolicant for ofielal | yopuiar in Omaha. Between 5 and 7 o%clock a clear case of the office | jy the evening it becomes alimost im able found him with mptness, Powderly's Salary. There is some ill-naw t that the the fa Powderly w o il be § Powderly’s services are to the organizatio ieago Mail ed comment over alary of Grand Master )0 hereafter. Mr, worth that mueh Equal ability could not be procured in the world's market for double the amount. Why Cousin B 1tis said that the reason Cousin som got an office was that he had thre: to spend the winter at the white house. habs, after all, in dealing with such a case, ch - n Got an Offico. icago Times., Ben Fol ened Por- the president is exeusable for once throwing off the restraint imposed by civil reform har- ness, - 1t Has Got Away. Transeript, The president went on a deer hunt the other day, and a magnificent buck sprang up. Out of courtesy to the preside conceded his claim to it. nt the others The result was that the buck came near getting away, but was finally killed by another member of the party reform. M. Sine The report originating iu I Macl that Bonanza ce it Itis just the same with civil service has been turned over to Cleveland it is in danger of getting e An Ordinary Matter. Chi icago Herald. is to the effect loaned the Bul- had garian government $2,000,000 doubtless grew out of the fact wite a few dre throu:h the clearin osity. here the economy. A ro and how he stand on el e85! that he has been buying his and his checks passing house excited some curi- Such transactions may seem like gov- ernment loans to people In common Zurope, but over matters of domestic reat Discovery. New York Sun. said Rutherford B, he pacied some of the freshest-looking e; p, “Christopher Columbus was a great ,"" replied the I wiis a noble achievement.” 1 to his intimate knowled aught a; L “his discovery of of eggs, t the world to make them That was a grand discovery. 1 suppose he must bave kept hens.” Has the Big Head. Chicago Trilune. Public Printer Benedict has a great head. Indeed, many tact with him say he has the big head. Deo) ple who have came in con- He professes to have made some startling dis- coveries in his oftice, but declines to mal tiem publie till just before the then, ho say: election, and New York , it will bea bombshell, and carry weight before it can be denied.” vance paign lie of a circus, ‘Thls dvertisement Mr. Benedict should travel ahead in the of ature of an ad- fortheoming cam- ———— The Jus Tale of Life. tin MeCarthy. Man is to-day what man was yesterday— Will be to-morrow; let him cur: or pray. Drink or be dull, he learns not, nor shall learn ‘I'he lesson that will laugh the world away. ‘The world as gray or just as golden shines, 'he wine a s weet or just as bitter flows For you as me; and you, like me, may find Perfume or eanker in the reddest rose. The tale of life is hard to understand; B But while the cup waits ready to your hand Drink, and declare the summer ros s blow As red in London as in Samarcand. T flat English or Pé re as swi ot to kiss and eyes as bright ¢d Omar with delight: an,while the mouth is fair, What can it matter how it says good night? —~— Putting the Stovepipe Up. [Written for the Omaha Sunday Bee.) The man stands on the tipsy box, With all his reason fled, And glares up at the stovepipe joint e holds above his head. 11is hands are black with polish paste, 1lis face tattooed with soot; And down his arms and down his back, Sharp pains unnumbered shoot, . Ten thousand ways, ten thousand times, He's tried to make a fit; Themore of ways and times he's tried, The more he is from it. . Wis wife and children are outside, All petrified with fear, Awaiting the eatastrophe That comes this time of year, V. “Then comes a burst of adjectives, And then a maduwan’s roar, And man and box with earthquake shocks, And stovepipe, flood the floor, * * * VI * * . - The doctor comes with arnica The tinner cowne nd little blister eup; 15 usual, And puts the stovepipe up. Lu B. CAKE, he Book Agent's Song. H. H. Heath, in Tid-Bits, Talk, talk 1k Till my tonzue is heavy as lead, And walk, w alk, Till my feet are as sore as my head, Which to-day was stauck by a rolling'vin And erushed by a baseball ba While a bootjack took me acro i the shin, And a frying-pan ruined my hat. Its lie, lie, lie, Till once an innocent youth, 1 rl-nllr and positively wish I may die 11 1 know Besides which fact the how L 0 utte the truth, e renaing A rather more stubborn one yet, That I've told 50 many no penitent pains, Forgiveness for me would get, 1It's sell, sell, “Though nobody 1 suppose for & sain sell, er will buy, twould be all very well, Bui it makes me wish 1 could ery, My sleep is troubled by phantoms gray Of my landlady otfering her bill, £l if 1 kuew how I balieve I woild pray For 8 job in & rolling mill. One encrgetic takes advan advertises: ‘em down I" wfil “barleston merchant of the - earthquake, and rthquake prices | Shake from Dodge to Nicholas, while the newly paved portion from Nicholas north to Millard & Caldwell's addition s filled with the handsomest turnouts in Omaha. Frow Vinton street to the grounds is about four miles, and one can readily imazine how much more popular as a drive-way this will become when the whole length is Inid with a smooth and attractive pavement, SWireN you next come to Washington, sald Colonel Switzler, who has been visiting hisson in this city, “Iwill take pleasure in introducing you to the present president as well as the next president. They are combined in the same individual,Grover Cleveland. It has been rather amusing to me to read in many of the western republican papers so far from the seene of politieal action the bold predietions that Cleveland’s re-nomination is out of the question or at least problematical. Heis stronger in Now York to-day, in spite of reports to the contrary, than he ever was, and Governor fill, whom he made, is his able and taithful lieutenant. Mr. course so fay en conservative business interests of the east, and men of both political parties who beheve in a strong and well administered government will come as earnestly to his support in 1888 as they did in 1884, As for Abe Hewitt's alleged opposi- tlon Ldon't believe there is a word of truth init. Hewitt has resigned from congress be- cause he is a worn out man, He 15 afiicted with insomania and has scarcely had a healthy night's sleep for years, The wear and worry, the elashing of factionalism in the house, the difficulty experienced in seeur ing the passage of measures which he believes to bo vital to the interests of the nation, have led him to retiro for the present from active national politieal life. The idea that he has left congress to secure the mayoralty of New York simply in order to oppose the president in his own state and wield the patronage of the great metrovolis in favor of his supposed adversary is simply absurd,” *"a Colonel Switzler, who hails from Missouri, is an office-holder. He holds down the chief chairin the bureau of statistics. Ilad he been a disappointed office-secker, his inter- view mizht not have been quite so favorable to President Cleveland, Circumstances alter cases. “I wAs rather amused,” said a prominent railroad man the other day, “at hearing one of the clerks in one of our railway headguar- ters complaining about the drudzery of h work and the poor prospects of advance- ment. As a matter of fact there is no busi- ness in_which brains, energy and willing- ness to learn its most minute defails, tell as thoroughly as in railroading. Many of onr most prominent ratlroad managers and presi- dents have becun work at the lowest round of the Iadder, and have advanced steadily by Showing ability to hold subordinate posi- tions and do the best of work in the lowest of offices, George Roberts, president of the Pennsylvania railroad, began his carcer as a workman on the road. Tom Potte well known, was a station agent. € Clark was a brakeman on the New Centr; An instance ot what push will do is the career of George W. Holdrege. Gradu- ating with high honors at Harvard, the stroke oar of a winning crew for several years, popular among all classes of students by reason of his position in athletic sports, he left Boston and joined his fortunes to the . & M. railroad as a brakeman, He worked his way steadily up, mastering the Jdetails of ev branch of the serviee until finally he occupiod the superin- tendent’s position with a knowledge of all the details of railroad construction and oper- ation. Mr, Holdrege is now general mana ger, and there are tew men in the west who have brighter prospeets. He 18 backed by the strongest controlling influence of one of the largest railroad systems in the country. Helas proved himself able to hold any position, from a forty-dollar-a-moxin place to that of & five-thousand-lolar berth, There are plenty of othér men who have risen from the ranks to high positions, J. T, Clark, formerly gene superintendent of the Union Pacific, and now holding the same position on the Chicago, Milwaukeo & St. Paul, at a salary of $10,000 a year, started out as & brakeman. P. P, 8helby, general west- ern traffic manager of the Union Pacific, was formerly a clerk. Paul Morton, who is not yet thirty years of age, has risen on his mer- its from a clerkship to be general passenger agent of the great Burlington road, after hav- ing ably filled for a time the office of assistant general freight agent,”” A. Ausrapr (“Little Bismarek”) wants it distinetly understood that, although he Is a republican, he is not for Chureh Howe, whom he charges with being a prohibitionist, “Bismarek” is the man who made himself famous by overruling the supreme court while he was a justice of the peace at North Platte. 1t was at the time an effort was being made to enforce the Slocumb high license law. A test case was brought before his honor and without any explanation or delay “Bismarck” decided in favor or the delend. ant, and threw the case out of court, The at- torney for the prosecution protested vigor- ously agalust summary action, saying that there was but one side to the ease, as the supreme court had passed upon the Slocumb law and declared it to be constitutional, “1f the supreme judges have mnde d—-d fools of themselves,” sald Bismarck, “I can't Lelp it. Ioverrule the supreme court,” "“SoME of the resl estate men of Omaha are laying the toundation formuch business for the lawyers,” said a careful real estate dealer yesterday. “Here are two sam- ples: Recently au agent sold a lot which be longed to two brothers, and In making the deed recited that the property was conye by ‘George Jones and Amanda Jones and Willimm Jones single,’ though George and Amanda Jones were man and wife, which t had to be stated u order to maie a good transfer of their (itle, Whis week a mort- gage was brought to my oftice for acknowl- edgment. 1t was given o secure the pay ment of a portion of the pinrchase price, purchasers were one of the solid firms of the city, and the mortgage recited that ‘we | Brown and Robinson hereby sell and convey, el I was told that the de 10 them ran the same way, and of course the acknowledginent, but toid the gen- tlewan presenting. It that he ‘Lad veter | bave & - nmew deed made JunniNg | if they wanted & legal title to v they were purchasing. 1 have 1amnes n theso cases, bit they o bf & carelossness which will for instan | the prope | wiven fictitiors are fairsunp | cause endless litigation in the future | . Spraking of real estate men,” he con tinued, it was & furny story one of the city papers told recently of a hotel-keeper ot Kansas, who came to Omaha two years ago | with §1,400 capital, went into the real estate bu: ess and is now worth 150,000 T'he | truth is, there are but thres men in the bus ness wiio are worth (hat amount, and they | have been in Omaha for a quarter of & cen | tury, or thereabouts, There are not more | than taree others who could clean up tho | hatf ot 000 if their debts were paid, Uhis ex-hotel-keepor of Kansas is represented | ascasually remarking to the roporter that his sales during the past thirty days had netted him $25,000. How much property do you suppose he would have to soll to earn that sum? An even million dollars, provided he ot the bigeest commission allowed on large deals, and these would necessarily be large deal Mason Crver, of Southport. England, who is visiting in Omaka, to attend to somo raal estate matters, is by no meads a strangor here. He was one of the early settlers of Omaha, and is full of reminiscenc the stirring scenes of the famous elaim elub. “When U elub started,” sald Major Cryer, se Lowe was president. Ho sent forme one day and _asked moe to make requisition on General Thayer for arms and ammunition for the defense of the property of the elub, General Thayer had charge of the government arms which were placed in lis care for the defense of the Iife and proy claim was erty of citizens, A fow days before he had received particular fnstiuction from Jofler son €, Davis, then secrotary of war, to ba most earctul about thelssue of arms, ete., fo citizens for defense against Indians, Ho hesitated & long time in honorlng my requisition, but finally consented, after exacting a pledze that they should all be ac counted for every threo months during their retention by the club, Of course the mem- bers of the elub had no earthly right to the government arms any more than any other private citizens who might wish to go on & shooting expedition. Lowe knew this per- fectly well, and told me that he had called on me to make the requisition because, being a minor, they would have diflieulty in holding e responsible in ease of any trouble. Most of the guns never got back, They mystorl ously disappenred, and how they wore set- tled for I have no means of knowing. I can remember George and Joe Barker in those days lylng under the bill on their claim with the barrels of their old muskets glittering in the moonlight to keep off olaim- jumpers. [ was then holding down a olaim on the Papillion, and had also a jumper’s titlo to the ground on which the Willow Springs distillery is now located. The claim club offered to confirm my title to the Willow Springs claim if [ would relinquish my Pa- villion farm. Having a pre-cmptor's right on the Papillion land and no right under heaven to the Willow Springs tract, I accor- dingly gave up the latter.” TOM ECKERT'S FIRST LOVE O1d Breac of Promise Sulc Against the General Manager of An the Western Union Ravived. Cleveland Leader: One of the most important eascs ever heard in Wayne county, Ohio, involyving many delicate techniealities, and springing from an old o Mair, is waiting the decision of Judge Parsons in the common plens court. In September, 1815, Mary E Fleming, of Wooster,” sued Thomas T Eekert, now general mu of the Western Union graph_ comy with headquarters At New city, for bronch of promise to marry. She received judg- ment to the amount of zainst the defendant. About that time *“Tom,” as as he was then known to the people of Wooster, was u jovial rollicking sort of a fellow. He soon after settled down, how- ever, beeame an expert oporator, was then appointed postmaster of Wooster, and durig the war held the position as managing operator of the Army of the Potomne, which finally culminated in his present po: Nostrenuous effort was do to colleet the judgment, ns the ' supposed it would be settled with- . The interest on the judgment amount o $5,000, not one cent r hayving been paid, Judgment was obtained June 16. 1815. The exceution 1 in 1850 and returned unsatis- . Kight years later the judgment renewed in the name of “Mary K, Bartol, the plaintifi having in the moane time married John Bartol, of Wooster, now deceased. Last June n motion was filed throngh Eckert's attorney, Hon. John McSweeney, to quash the service, It was 1 before Judge Parsons and sustained. Last Saturday morning Hou, M A. Dougherty, of Columbus, wp- veared on the scene as alirney for Mary K. Bartol, nnd pioceeded to open up the ecase and for a rnvc-rxuf of Parsons’ ate de The cas atched with unparallelod in owing to its age and the promine the parties to the suit. The great qu 8- tion seems to ba upon the constructicn 1o be given to the statute of limitations, particularly in respeet to revivor of judge the plaintiff’s attornoy | i lined to take | l to Rovert A. Brown and Conrad Kobiusen, sisted that the motion is not to revive the original action, but that it 1s simply a continuation of jurisdiction once ‘no- quired. Argument on both sides 1s com- pleted, but Judee Pursons reserved | decision, which will not be given for se ernl weeks, i« he is now on The bench as Millorsburpe. - - Somoe Big Figures, A mathematical euleulation which i just old enongh to muke interesting Siun- day reading once more is based on the following passage from the Book of Rov- clation: “And he measured the city with the reed 12,000 furlongs. ‘The length and the breadth and the heighth of it are equal.’’ This pretty littlo ealculntion, which 18 being freshly quoted, is as fol lows: ““I'welve thondand furongs, 7,920,- 000 feet, which being cubed 1 497,701,093 - 000,000,000,000 cubic f Half of this we will reserye for the throne of God and the court of heaven, and half the balunce for streots, leaving s remainder of 124,168,- 472,000,000 000,000 cubic fo Divide this y 4,008, the cubical feet I & room six- n'feot square, and there will bo 50,421, - 0,000,000 rooms, We will now sup- t the world always did and u‘] ways will contain 990,000.0 0 inhabitants, and that a generation lasta for thirt threo and onc-third years, making in all 2,070,000,000 eyery century, und that the vl will stand 100,000 years, or 1,000 centurics, making in' all, 2,070,000,000,000 inhabitants. Then suppose there were 100 worlds equal to this in number of in- babitunts and duration of years, making a total of 297,000,000,000,000 persons, there would be more than one hundied rooms sixteen fect square for each pe son.' 's Rabbit Plague. i The farmers of till troubled by rube bits, h breed o that country at a most enormous rate. One man has just aceeptod a tender for wire netung which is to make a rabbit-proof fonce froum Nurrowine to Bourke, aud will extend Austral lignani's Austra over & distauce of 208 wiles. If the un- fortunate rabhits search along to find the end of the ol uction they will be a it weary before they have arrived at their tination, 1t4s said that the work will ost £15,000, and at that rate, if & mun 1 offer such a figure, 1t proves that bbit must be the st destructive the r auimul 1w the