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

> TIHE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. T Daily Mow w Edit Bre. One Y oear For 8ix Months For Throo Monthe The Omaha Swoday Ber, m: wddress, One Year BEORTPTION ¢ m including Sunday to any OMATA OFFICE. N0, 011 A5 NEw YORK (1F10E WAsHINGTON OPFicR COMRESTO: All communications relating to news A torinl i ull be addressed 10 tho TOR OF THk Brt. RUSTNRSS LETTERS ! ATl business lot ddressed 1o Tik Bk PUBLISIHING COMPANY, OMARA. Drafts, checks and_postofice orders 10 be made piyable Lo the order of the company, THE BEE PUBLISAING COMPANY, PROPRICTORS, E. ROSEWATER, a1% FARS AN STREE TR N ® BUGLDT FouU R o STREET. Kot Eort THE DAILY BEF Sworn Statement of Circulation. State of Nebraska, | County of Douglas, ie0. B. Tzschick, 88, seeretary of The Bee Publishing com does solemnly swear that the actual circuintion of the Daily Bee for the week ending Dec, 1011, 155, Wwas a3 followe: Saturday, De Sundav, Dee, Monday, Dec. 6 Tuesday, Dec, 7.... Wednesday, Dee. 5. Thursday, Dec, 9., Fiiday, Dee. 10.. Average. .. Gro. b, TZ&CHUCK, Subscribed and sworn to before me this 1th v of Dedember, A, D., 15%, N, P’ FEir, ISEA L] Notary Publie, Geo. B, Tzsehuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is secretary of the « Bee Publishing company, that the actual av- erace daily cireulation of the Daily Bee for the month of January was 10,578 copies, for Il 1505 copies; for March, 1556, copies: ‘for April, 188, copes: for May, 1855, 12,450 copies: fol 1856, 19,208 copies: for Il {copies; for Angust, 155, 12,464 copies:for September, 1886, 13,030 copies: for October, 1855, 12,050 3 for Novembe L3148 copies, ZSCHUCK. Sworn to and subseribed before me this 6th day of Noyember, A . . 153}, [SEAL.| N. P. Frr, Notary Publi Contents ¢ © Sunday Bee. Pagel, New York Herald Cablegram Specials to the Bre—General Telegr News, Page 2. Telegraphic News, Miscellany. Page 3. Special Advertisements.—General and Local Markets.. Page 4. Editorials.—Politicat Pross Comments.—Sunday Gossip, Page 5. Lincoln News.—alisceliany.—Ad- vertisements, Page 6. Council Bluffs News.—Miscellany, —Advertisenients., Page 7. Social Events - Omaha.—Misecl- lany. Pago8, General City News.—Local Ad- sements. ge . An Interesting Letter From Clara —Amid the Ruins of Poland, by Poc- n's Valet, a Story.—Poe- phic City News.— Points,— ¥ Belle try, Fage 10. Guardians o Our Homes —Among, the Wits and Wags.—An Old Georgia Trag: edy.—Advertisements. _Page11. Why Men Do Not Mar Selence of Sicep.—Grumbling About ( Advertisements, Page 12 A Nowsy Letter From New York, by Adam Badeau.—French_ Books and Dr: by rd King.—Educational. Religious.—Musical and Dramatic.—Honey Tor the Ladies.—A Remarkable Separation. —Advertisements, ‘The ub, IN the matte nk cl Omaha keeps steadily increasing. Her clearances lust weck footed up $5,146,372, and her percentage of increase over the corresponding week of lust year was 80.1. mees, Axorner Sunday Beg brings to ats readers the choicest and fullest news and the best assortment of general reading furnished by any paper in this section of the west, Compare 1t with others and note the difference. It cannot be too often urged that the revenue reform needed by Omaha can be most easily sceured by o change in the method sessment. We do not need increased tion. Ourlevyis already too high. A fuir asscssment will result in decreased taxation of taxpayers with a corresponding increase in the paid by the tax shirkers. This latter class are the men who are opposing rev- enue reform. Tuere s considerable mconsistency in the claim of Fraee to a sharein the gov- ernment of Egypt, especially after the craven way in which the republic acted in regard to the Arabi Pasha movement. He who fights and runs away mav live to fight another day; but if he should do worse than this, and runaway at the first sight of danger without even striking a blow, it would hardly be in accordance with the rules of equity to award him af- terwards a share of the spoils. VERY encouragement should be given to the movement for a charity ball. We have had two successful experients in this line and the third can be made to bring in double returns of the last. Indi- rect taxation is always the easiest to col- lect. This is the secret of the handsome returns for “‘sweet charity” secured from such an entertainment where otherwise subscription papers fail in opening the clasps of heavy purses and pocket hooks. There will be much suffering in Omaha this winter. If we cancollect from $5,000 to $10,000 to allevinte it, let us by all means do it to the accompaniment of music and fair dames and flying feet, Tue powers and duties of the proposed park commission should be tully defined by the charter. These officials, as else- where, should serve without pay. They ought to be given power to secure ground for park purposes by gift, condemnation or 1ssuance of hmproyement bonds se- cured s our paving bonds are by the lien on the adjacent property, or by all three of these methods combined, Omaha needs a park system and needs it badly She should be wise enough to make her preparations m accordance with methods dictated by the successful experience of Jarger cities, WoMEeN naturally aristocrats though ardent admirers of howe rule are an « preciable eloment in the democrati agitations of the old world these days, In the Iate labor demonstrations 1 Bel- gium 500 women dressed in mourning walked in line keeping step to u funeral march. The bavners which they bore demanded universal suffrage and pardon for poliucal offenders. 1t was & very pieturesque thing in processions anc striking by reason of its novelty, The wonien of England, even those of gentie blood, are not above the business of poli- tics. 'Phe Primrose league, composed ot the most aristocratic women of the land, threw flowers in the path of Lord Balis: bury on his return to power, and within the last few montis the liberals have been reluforeed by an association to work for Mr. Gladstone's return Lo power. | hood shie had dwelt in fechle fancy upon sts and remittances should ha The “Danghter of the Oonfederacy. wtch from New York records fact that the entire family of Mr. Jef- rson Davis have found a great deal of | gratification from the visit to the north | of Miss Winnie Davis, tie “Daughter of the Confederacy.” Miss Winnie, it ap pear<, in reporting her experiences to the | old folks at home,” has given pleasing of the attention and courtesy she has everywhere received, the enjoy- ment she has had, and the wonders she has scen. Transported from the dull, uneventful Tife of the modest family home at Beauvoir, where through her child- accounts marvelons things of the outside 1d, that were told of to her from the | columns of the newspapers, by traveled companions and at the fireside, 1t is not icult to understand that she should be lappy cven to ecstacy when brought into contact with this world of which she liad but famtly dreamed. It was all an overwhelming revelation to her. She wrote to her parents that she found Rich- mond, which had been taught to regard with cspecial favor, much beyond her ideal, but her wonder grew advanced northward, and the great city of New York filled her with amazement. It conld not fail to have that cffect upon any young lady fresh from the hum-drum life of a Mississippi home, but with Miss Dayis the sensation was probably rendered more acute than t would be to the average young woman for the reason that her socinl and sight- seeing “opportunitics were better. She liked the people, she was pleased with her reception, she enjoyed the amuse- ments, and s 18 natural to youth she more than all liked the rush that so greatly contrasted with the plodding, sleepy methods of Beauvoir. In short, Miss Davis seems to have found the new world to which she has been introduced more than she expected and all that she could wish it to be. 1t is quite impossible not to feel a pleas- ure in the fact that Miss Winnie Davis has found her trip so rich in sources of gladness and gratitication, She is rep resented to be a most amiable and agree- able young woman, with suflicient of the accomplishments and graces to com- mend her to good society. She is un- doubtedly eapable of appreciating cour tesy and kindness, ana there is not: single good reason why these should mot be everywhere shown her, just as they would be to any young woman who dJeserved them. Miss Davis has no faults of her own to answer for to sociely that should exclude her from such consideration. It would be manifestly unjust to visit upon her the sins of the father, and it will be generous to excuse her for having per- mitted the silly exhibition at Richmond when she was given the by no means distingnished title of “Danghter of the Confederacy.” An inexperienced girl of twenty, reared under unfortunate political surronndings, could not be supposed to understand the folly ot such a proceed- ing, or if she did ecould not be expeeted to very vigorously oppose it. Miss Davis will probably in time, if she does not al- ready, understand the ridiculous position in which the Virginia zealots placed her, and will feel the contempt for their idle ceremony and injudicious conduet which they merit. Meanwhile Miss Davis may rest assured that the people of the north have the most kindly wish for her per- sonal welfare, and will be always ready to accord her every consideration which she is entitled to as an American regardless of her ancestry or their sins. perhaps she The Gas Question Again Superintendent Collins, of the gas works, has seen [it to have himself inter. viewed in a local paper regarding the sue of monopoly in gas fitting claimed by the company. If coreetly reported, Superintendent Colling 15 evidently a young man with a greater regard for the mterests of his corporation than for his own reputation for truthfulness, There s not & word of truth in his statement that the associate editor of this paper “‘demanded the right to tap the gas com- pany’s mains.”” There s as little truth in the assertion that he threatened *“to make it hot" for somebody when his request was refused. Neither Mr, Collins or the clerk with whom the conversation was held knew who it was who asked for the simple information where the gas main had been cut opposite the place where the questioner resided in n rented house. Th rude and ungentlemanly treatment ac- corded the person muking the request for information was undoubtedly the same accorded every citizen unfortunate enough to be thrown in contact with the employes of the Omaha Gas company. No demand to “tap” the main was made because no gas was wanted. The right of a citizen to lay a service pipe in his own lot which the gas company could join at some future time by cutting its own mains und putting iy its own meter was the point and the sole point at issue. It happencd be the assoclate editor of the who accidently, while acting for anothes purty, brought out the facts of the un- warranted and dangerous position which the Omaha Gus company is occupying As the facts came under his own knowl- edge he is able to discuss them intelli- gently, As he has no possible personal interest in the matter Le can treat the discussion impartially Keep the issue clear. Has the Zas company a monopoly of the it to lay pipes inside the lot lines as well as from the main to the curb? Are property owners who cannot seeure service from the company after months of waiting debarred from the right to use gas because the gas compuany will not muke conneetions in the winter ot According to My Murphy bis corporation declines to ay serviee pipes in winter because it costs the com- pany too much, At the same time it re- fuses to permit citizens to employ work men to make the connection and pay the expense. In other words the p | ground between the upper and nether | millstones of an arbitrary rule and a still move arbitrary refusal to permit competition in a business which is guite outside of the provinee of the Omaba Gas | Manufucturing compuny, It will not do. A test case most be made to determine the rights of and the tives of the g ny. e Opening With Coercion. Word comes from over the cables that | the next session of purhament will be | opened with a renewal of the coercion act in Ireland. The menaces of the tory gov- ernment which have failed to silence the. Irish leaders are to bo followed by another to serviee ns preroga- | the disgr unbareing of the strong arm of the law. The bayonet is to take the place of the basket in the famishing portions of West ern Ireland, and red coats will change the colors worn on the streets of Dublin and Cork. There 1s to be an open declaration of The anti-rent movement is ! ing and the ery of ireland for the Iris raging with renewed gusto on platform and hustings, ‘The spirit of nationality will not down at Churchill’s bidding. All the forces of the unholy alliance of whig and tory unionists have been unable to stem the tide which is rolling over the United Kingdom in a mighty wave, do- manding home rule and a locai parlia ment on College Green It a dangerous experiment which Lord Churcnill is about to renew. 1t has been tried many times before, and has always reaeted upon the anthors- Mr. Foster was the last to use the boomerang of coc n. Kilmainham jail was filled with prisoners and its cells crowded with suspects and political offenders. But Tvish juries steadfastly refused to convict the suppressed laad league blossomed out into the national league with its vast network of loeal organizations, with Par- nell, “the unerowned king of Ireland™ and all his associates national heroes Coercion converted Mr. Gladstone to an ardent advoeate of home rule, sent Foster 1o his death-bed and called up 2,000,000 votes at the last election for Irish inde pen It needs only another cam- paign of cocrcion to finish the work. e, Beginning the New Navy. It is noted that Sceretary Whitney in his report calls for no new appropriations this year for naval construction. He urges appropriations for coast defense and the establishment of foundries where armored plates can be made for future men-of-war, and large guns st for cruiser now under construction, but leaves the question of additional war ships to be considered when the navy depart mentis in better condition to design them and American manutacturers to build and equip them. Meanwhile the secretary is preparing to assure the coun- try of three (ivst-class vessels for which congress has made appropriation, and the keels for the first shins of the new navy will soon be laid. The cruoiser Charleston will be built in San Francisco, the cruiser Baltimore by the Philadel- phia firm of Cramp & Sons, and gunhoat No. 2 by a Baltimore company. The con- tract for zunboat No. 1 has not been made," as Cramp & Sons proposed to build it after their own plans; the next lowest bid is that of Reeder & Sons, of Baltimore. Yor the cruiser Newark no award can be made, as the lowest bid exceeds the approvria- tion bv congress. It will be necessary for congress to appropriate more money or for the department to alter the plans to bring the cost within the appropria- tion. But the work has been begun and the minor difticnlties in regard to the ships not yet contracted for will doubt- less soon be overcome. These lettings have rather surprised the partisans of Mr. John Roach, who had persuaded themselves that no one else 1n the coun- try would undertake the construction of ships of war. But these ships will be built without a dollar of contribution to the Washington lobby or to any political campaign fund. Whatever profit may De in the work willgo to the enterprismg contractors, When the ships shall have been suceessfully finished, to the entire satisfaction of the government, congress will be encouraged to make stiil farther appropriations for the new navy. i-Tempered Legislators, As a rule the men who go to congress do not leave behind them all the frailties and weaknesses which mark them as of the “common elay™ of which all human kind are said to be made. The political and social elevation which the preferment of ther fellow citizens gives them, the ac- knowledgment of personal merit and superior fitness assumed—not always justly—to be made n theit selection, may induce them to keep in check their more violent passions and repress the most objectionable tendencies of their nature, but generally these influences are eftcet- ive only toalimited degree, and at times become wholly inoperative. Not only 18 the popular branch of congress almost uniformly a babel of hot and eager contention, in which passionate personal denunciation and angry recrimination are conspicuous, but strong and bitter enmitics are en- gendered which in some cases last u life time, affecting relations far beyond those of the individuals involved. Examples of these will readily occur to the mind of the well-informed reader. Thev have been numerous in our history, and their consequences have been disastrous to in- dividnals and fatar to parties. Bitter words uttered in the heat of debate brought about the al meeting between Graves and Cilley. Randolph's scathing denunciation of Clay sent them to the “lield of honor,” An offensive characterization of Conk Iing by Blaine on the floor of the house mude a wound that is not yet healed, and verhaps never will be, Threatening and hostile demon tions by members of congress a ’ of almost daily occurrence, and in de- butes that involve scetional diflerences it frequently hapoens that the intercession of friends is necessary to ke exasper ated members from actual battle on the floor of the The hot-tempered disputants, disregarding the rules of the body, and utterly indifferent to the char- acter of their positions or the considel tion due their collcagues, are prevented from overt acts of hostility only by the in- ternosition of cooler heads orof the mag. sterial powe There were two or three notable instances of tius kind at the last session, in one of whicha challenge to an encounter was given and a blow struck, n rongh-and-tumble fight having been vented with much difficulty and per- sunsion by the friends of the parties to oful seene. Thus in the present session no serious display of ill- temper has happened, but at a meeting of the conference committee on the inter-state commer il a few days before the assembling of the session. Mr. Reagan was guilty, in a moment of anger, of a marked breach of propriety, i retiecting upon the honesty and sin- cerity of the senate conferces, which Senator Cullom felt called upon to re- sent. The Texas congressman disavowed any intention of reflecting on the motives of tiwe senator or. his associates and withdrow his remark, but the fact has gone to the country . and is being house. DECEMBER 12, 1886.-—-TWELVE PAGES used to the disadyantage of Mr. Reagan in Ins senatorial eanvass, It need hardly be sud that hibitions of extréme ill-temper, venting itself in personal denunciation and hosti threats, by members of congress, are dis graceful, and deserve the most unsparing reprobation. It will be conceded that there may be occasions when a mem- ber's zeal and solicitude in behalf of measure, or in advocacy of a policy, which he believes to be of vital impor tance, may leag Him to an excusable manifestation of ¢xcessive ardor and carncsiness, but it is not to be admntted that there can be any circumstance or exigency that would justify him in violating the rules of the house of which he is a member, degrading the dignity of the body, and disregarding the obligation of respect due to his col leagues, by giving way to his temper in acoarse tirade of personal villification, in derogatory reflections upon the motives ot others, and in hostile threats, A man who will be guilty of such conduct has no claim to the title of gentleman, and should not be permitted to sit among those who have, The difficnlty is that those who have not this stain upon their record are so much in the minority that they are powerless to properly punish offenders ex Forestry and the Lumber Tax. Commissioner of Agricnlture Coleman is deeply impressed with the urgent need of measures for preventing the ruthless destruction of American forests He says thut by the present system, which allows railroad companies, mining oper- ators and settlers to fell the timber on government lands without restraint, n premium is put upon fraud, theft and immorality. Because of the limited sup- ervision ot the extensive mountain ranges the forests of the public domain are shamefully devastated, The com- missioner recommends the establishment by the government of schools of forestry in the trecless states and tervitories, and that a beginning be made in the nulitar, reservations belonging to the govern- ment. In hisopinion it is only by ex- tensive and systematic planting of trecs that the climate conditions of the west- erns plains can be essentially modified. Nebraska was the pioneer in teaching the people of the treeless west a practical lesson in forestry. Her arbor da idly becoming a national custon. lowing Nebraska's lead, hundreds thousands of trees are annually planted i various states in this broad country of ours on arbor days, School children are taught the lesson that waste must be replenished or that want is certain to fol- low. But it scems avsurd to eall the atten tion of congress to the urgent need of forest protection when a useless and dis astrous tarifl tux stimulates the destrue tion of American timber by locking the doors upon Canadian lumber. The lum- ber barons reap rich returns from their monopoly, while the trecless states pay the piper. The tax on lumber is n pre- mium on forest destruction. McClellan's Story. General MeClellun’s - posthiumous view of the war in which he was n dis- tinguished actor has at last been pub- lished. We provose later to oxamine its story at length, It is a book which com- mands attention, filled with controversial points and which will not luck for read- ers or erities. No general of the great rebellion was subjeeted to such bitter censure or loaded down with such evi dences of affection from his troops as George B. McClellan. His merits and demerits were savagely canvassed. His loyalty itself was questioned. It was a time when men judged by results and refused to consider obstacles. Jeal- ousy and rivalry and disappointed expec- tation, unxious apprehension and parti- san feeling, all exercised their sway In a sense General MeCleflan was their vietim, His training and education, his undoubted abilit an organizer, the enthusiastic devotion which he inspired in the army under his command, raised high hopes which were not fulfilled be. fore his retirement trom the service of the country. For twenty years the old commender of the great army of the Potomae held his peace, refusing to reply to criticism, and grimly worked away upon his memoirs which™ are now given to the public several months after their author joined the innumerable ¢ van of the dead soldiers of the rebellion, Goneral McClellan in his hook treats savagely of the contests be- tween himself on the one side and Stanton and Halleck on the other, with President Lincoln as the final arbi- ter. He repeats his charge that he was a political sucrifice. He gathers facts from which he deduces the inference that republican leaders feared that the war would be closed before slavery should be abolished and demanded his removal to vrolong its existence, Unfortunately many of the dead gencral’s arguments on this point are vased on assumptions which history disproves. No one who served in the war oflice, as the editor of the Ber did at the time in question, doubts that MeClellun's removal re sulted from the honest judgment of Mr, Lincoln that was too good an engineer to make an eflicient leader of an attacking army His loyalty was never guestioned by the president, nor bis invaluable services an organizer of the army which Meade and Grant afterwards jed 1o victory, As we have said, success was measured in those trying times by results, and the out come wus not satisfactory to the impa tient north, General MeClellan's re moval was the consequence, A City of Churches, Omaha 15 rapidly becoming u city of churches. All denominations and creeds find in her their honie and there are fow which have not thtived sufliciently to count several churel} edifices among the ornaments of the gity. Church exten- sion has gone hand in hand with the growth of the city. As new additions have been laid out and new centers of religions interest formed, additional church accommodaiions n at hand have naturally been demanded. Those virile missionari the Catholies, have added church after church to the number of their edifices until every section of Omaha he: the sounds of matins and vespers. The modest little church in which the Episcopalians once worshipped on Ninth street bas long since passsd out of their hands and 15 now used for more secular purposes, but tive branches have sprung from its roots and are blossoming into practical usefuluess in different see tions of the city, Cougregationalists, e Methodists, Preshyterians and Jows all can boust of several flonrishing organiza tions and handsome edifices, while Luth- erans, Baptists, Unitarians and even Lat: ter Day Saints count up large member- ships in their congregations and pretens tious houses in which to worship. Omaha has already more than fifs churches and the number is stead:ly on the increase, It is a larger number in proportion to population than is found m most western cities, Aurist Jony Mrnvasy, one of the most original creative geniuses of Ameri can art, is soon to pay Omaha a visit Mr. Mulvany is said to be a specialist on “flesh color.”” He will find opportunity for the further study of his art in a glance at the complexions which daily rally around the Wabash corner, POLITICAL POINTS, T'he colored vote in ‘Tennessee grows nore and wore Independent. In the recent election South Carolina cast less than one vote to the square mile. Ex-Senator Conklin's friends say that political ambition is wholly dead with himn, nator Plumb, of Kansas, has 1o douot that Cleveland and Blaine will head the tickets in 18ss, Ex-Senator Dootittle wants to give every liead of a family two votes, one for himself d one for the houseliold, Governor Sherman of lowa is mentione as a candidate for the senate in opposition to Senator Wilson's re-election. x-Senator Spencer, of Alabama, now en- gaged in mining enterprises, predicts the re- nomination of Cleveland and Blaine, John Sherman for president aud Hawley for vice president is the wested for 1858 by the Cincinnati cial-Gazette. Hlenry George is in_correspondence with Blanton Dunean, of Kentucky. coucerning the next presidency. Mr. Duncan knows more about how not to make presidents than any manin the United States. Senator Voorhees has moved his Washing- ton quarters into the house in which Jolmn Quiney Adams lived when he was nominated and clected to the presidency, The aspiring senator should remember that ightning dom strikes tivice in the same place. Nevada is about to eleet a republican seti- ator.and the chief anxicty seews to be to find the man who ecan satisty the boys and take good care of the silver interests, Ex- Senator Stewart is favorably mentioned, Attorney-General Garland writes to an Arkansas friend that e longs for rest and quict. Up to the hour of going to press there has been no general public protest against the immediate retirement of the Pan-Eleetric lawyer to the peaceful quietude of Hominy 1l - She Didn't Take Them With Her, The late Mrs. A. ‘I. Stewart left jewels worth over three-quartc . < of a million 1 will be observed that she left them. - Gould in Literature. It id Jay Gould is going into liter ture, The report probably arose ihrongh his ordering a new invoice of eheck-books. Senaton 't sug- Commer- Season sgestion, Baltimore American. One suegestion for the coming Christias season is not 1o send the same. Christmas rds back to the people who gave them lust 1. Send them to somebody else, ———— Death of a Great Man. Alta Calj, Mike McCool is dead. fighter, but he will live in originated the shutup.” Michael w: literature famous phras S A prize for he ut up or A A Useless Expenditure. 1w Orleans Pieayu A diity of 31,750 has been collected on seven Egyutian mummies recently landed in- this country. This is absurd when a better icle of mummiy can be made right here, - The Glory of Minneapo St. Louis has not yet quit bragging about that squabble in the American opera com- pany. It is the first advertisement the town has had since Mr. Maxwell packed up his friend Mr. Preller e A Place for St. John, Cineago. Tribune. Jolin P. St John s suggested as the most available American candidate for the Bul- garian throne. ilis capacity for throwing cold water upon the schemes of the crafty czar is inexhaustible, e The Record of Failure, St, Lovis Globe-Democrat, The most important fact in connection with the president’s message i3 that it fails to point out a single thing which the present administration has done in - nearly two years of power (o justify the assertions and prom- 15es upon which the democratic victory of 1554 was brought to pass. T The 'President Should ho Cautious. New York Warld, The president’s motuer in-la journing at his country y ton, is said to have recontly been educated in theuse of a pistol with a view of protect- ing herself in her country retreat. Possibly this is wise, but it would be well for Mr. Cleveland to be cautions about visiting his vural home unannounced in the evening, He is not as hard (o hitas a sualler man would be, There are other considerations which those who have prejudices against mother-in- laws will be inclined to dwell upon, but it wonld be unkind to allude to them, who in so- near Washing- Al the talk now is about coast defense and the cost thereof. Sowme of the newspapers are auite alarming and the defenseless con- dition of our sea coast 15 shown 1 50 gravh ically thatsome people are Lalf inclined to remove to the i rior. ‘The season is so far advanced that adequate fortfications cannot be thrown up before spring, and in the mean time we shall have to put owr faith in Zalen- ski's dynawmite gun and the diving torpedo boat known as the *Peacemake Maan- while, it nay be remarked that our foreign foes are quite lethargie and, under the cfr- cumstances, there is no eause for a panie Gt HThey Say " AN well, suppose the the story trne? “['ley say ! Does thal confi Gossip, nlas | is sometimes bought By winning specches all untauznt Why count onrselves among the they Who whisper what they dare not say? ale rehearse, They say ! Must we the Thus helping 1o make matters worse T'o none n benetit acerue fepeating what may be untrue, Aud, surely, ’tis & novle plan o speak of 'all the good we ean, They say " Well, if it's really so, Wiy need we tell a tale of wo? Wiil it one single wronz redress, Or make the pang of sorrow less? Will it the ereing one restore, Henceforth 10 0 and sin 1o mor In fact, we all should look within, Where we will find the greatest sin, And watoh, lest in tewptation's hour We, too, should fall beneath its power. Pity the frail, weep o'er their fall, And speak of good, or not at all b SR S L Mrs. L. M. Jacobs and son have gone to Pasedena, Cal., to speud the winter. SUNDAY GOssIP, “BREVITY is said to be the soul of wit,’ ohserved a prominent Omaha business man, “and, to my mind, it is no less the soul ot correspondence, Give me & man who write A letter in six or cight lines in prefe ence to the person who spins out his ideas over four or five pa I remember when 1 was a student at Eastman’s business collece at Poughkeepsie, New Yok, that Mr, man was particularly ansious to impress upon the students the great advantage of condens- ing their thoughts in all business correspond- ence. Hestated that at one time he tele- grophed to a prominent lecturer in New York and asked lim to deliver a lecture to the students, ‘The whole correspondence consisted of eight words: ‘Can yon lecture? nswer. When? ‘Yes, Thurs day mght.” © reply was “That reminds me,” said Mr. &, M. Mors man, general superintendent of the Pacitie express,“of an agent on one of our lines who wasmore economical in the use of words in his letters than any other man in the company’s service. We furnish to all agents blank en- velopes having printed on them the address ‘Agent, Omaha, Neb.! One day 1received from this agent a letter addressed to *1 M, Morsman, general superintendent.’ The economical agent had seratehed out ‘ag’ from the word ‘agent’ and had prefived ‘superin- tend’ to the ‘ent,’ ti coeding in mak ing use of the last thvee printed letters, to- gether with the words, ‘Omana. Neb.' " “le was not quite so economical as onr esteen townsman and old settier, Mr. Aaron Hoel,” chimed in a bystander. My 1oel frequently signs his name by simply writing an A and punching a hole in the paver, Fact contracted leading Lawynns frequentiy take views of questions,” remarked o Omaha merchant, “and upon every issue wherea business proposition is involved | always like to obtain in addition to a law- ver's advice the ovinion of some long-headed business man. Very often a lawyer will look simply at the legal points involved, and will consider only the constiuction of the statutes, entirely ignoring the commereial issues and equities, which, when brought to the attention of the courts, would surely be incorporated in the decisions, In some ot the eastern states, notably New Jersey, they have what are called lay judges, who sit with the law judges in the courts of highest resort. These lay judges are seleeted trom clear- headed and intelligent business men throueh- out the state. Their function is to consult with and advise the equity of the judgesupon questions coming beforo the court. Very often the lay judges are of very great assistance to a scholarly judge of the supreme court in considering points which the arguing attorneys have failed to bring out. Again, a business man is frequently able to greatly assist in formingan opinion based on grounds of equity, where otherwise the wdges have only the printed briefs or the isome arguments of the counsellors to fall back on, and perhaps in their briefs and arguments the attorneys ted to toueh the vital and common sense points in the case.” Iirue were two keen-eyed men at the trial of Shelienberger at Nebraska City who saw things justas they were when the jury came in with a verdict of murder in the first degree, to-wit, viz: (wo newspaper reporters, one of whom thus deseribes the scene: “*Dur- inz il of the prosecutor’stouching argument the inhuman prisoner showed not the least sign of emotion, not a musele of his rigid countenance quivered, and when the verdiet, ‘guilty of murderin the first degree,” was read, he was still composed and passionless.” The other remarks: “When Judge Pound read the verdict there was a very observabie change in the defendant. marked by those quiet outlined rings which the strongest mind rarely prevents mortal face irom show- ing. His faceseemed to grow sunken on the instant, 11is body coilapsed into the small- est space, no ery, no sob, but the line of pain deepened into agony “It's the best business that ever come to Omaha,” remarked a rouzhly dressed man to companion as they came from the Humane society meeting last Tuesday night, “and I'magoin’ to put a stop to the beatin’ and poundin’ on the grade. ‘Ihat's the worst place in the world. They’ll wear a team out and then hammer them and kick them be- cause they don’t pull. It's like pilin® 150 pounds onto the back of a man that can car- ry only 100 pounds.” Tk New York World has this tosay of a gentleman well known in Omaha and the trans-Missouri country: “Among the ‘tran- sionts at the Brevort house a few days ago was a tall young Englishman whose example our dudes and anglo-maniaes would do well to contemplate, Coming fresh from his ‘varsity a few years ago with small means and no prospects worth speaking of, he de- termined to eschew club life and fox-hunting and go to America and scek a fortune on the ranches. At lirst he had some rough experi- ences as a ‘tenderfoot,” but being agood horseman with plenty of ‘sand’ and staying power, and a shrewd head, he overcame all obstacles and is to-day a man of wealth and a power among the ranch owners. Ilis name is Moreton Frewen, and he is a son-in- law of Mr. Leonard Jerome. His wife, n Sister of Lady Randolph Churchill, spends much of her time with her husband on his ranch in Wyoming, It is a singular fact that two of the most enterprising and suceessful of westeru ranch- men should be this English university eradu- ate and a voung French nobleman, the Mar- quis de Mores, a son of the Duchesse de Val- lambrosa. These young gentlemen have con- tributed more efficiently perhaps than any two individuals, foreign or ive, towards the placine of western beef on the Eastern markets, the Marquis de Mores being the hewd of the eompany whose red stores are conspicuous about New York as the places where trans-Mississippian ribs and tender- loins ean be bought at retml prices without the intervention of the obnoxions ‘middle man. Like Mr. Frowen, the marquis had a rough experienee in the beginning, On one aceasion he was obliged in self-defense to %Il his man, a sviudietive eowboy who had started in seaveh of Lim with a baitery of re-- volvers and other small artillery for the | avowed purpose of shooting him at sight. Phe marquis was expected by his enemy to show the white feather and leave the coun- tey, Instead of this, however, he proceede straight 1o bis camp, waited for the blood thirsty cowboy, got in his shot first, stood triad and was duly acquitted by a jury of plainsmoen, ‘Ihe marquis is a frequent visi tor to New York and micht be wistaken for the gilded youth who promenade Fitth ae und patronlze Delmonico's cafe.” Burraro Bin's Wild West show con- | tinues to 1l Ma nig crowd of intere York World, and has among small boys that wany of them expert in li and fence clothes lines. scare from A st ‘Tuesday W square ted spectators, sa tly with a sthe New popular | are already | nydrants posts with pieces of the The audience reee aceidont to Buck evening whiel lave bro au ordinary wan’s back The buckivg pony Mugwump, after zigrag ing around tho track with Lim in a series of extraordinary jumps, came down solid on ber forefeet and ~landed Taylor on his back | under ber nose. The thud of the fall was audible the garden, and for an in staut everyoue held bis breath. Yaylos DecoIne $o they waoild s he trotted behind the scenos ho was fole lowed by storm of cheers. Tall IMorse, chief of the Pawnee Indians, was very much disconeerted when he came out to show him elf by a small boy in the crowd who eried: “Come oft there, Roger.” “It would not surptise me in the least,” said a railroad man yesterday, “to see S, H 1L Clark call a certain Union Pacifie raile way official here to St. Louis as a member of his official cabinet, and it is not unlikely that hie may call at least two of prominent railway men to him, My opinion is based on the tact that Mr. Clark entertains a high ap preciation of the abilitios of these men, and knows that if they contribuled to his suceess inthe past they will do so again, 1t is natural for a general manager tobring about i strong men, especially those for whom hie holds & warm personal regard.” Ax old Iady, welghed down by and misfortunes of many tound her way to the residence of ‘a clirlstian woman of this city noted for er charity,a few weeks ago, and asked for shelter, 1 have sons and daughters,” she said, “but they have turned meaway. But for them L could gain en- trance to the poor house, The authoritics will not admit me because my children are able to support me And with this the tecble old sonl broke down, Sho was admitted, and has been given a home ever since. “The Home of the Friends less has been asked to take herand will probe ably do so. She told a story of long suflering for heretildren and heartless treatment by them in return, until she wasdriven from tho Nhoma where she had a right to live and had carncd a tastine welcome most mothers do, Inlier younger days she welcomed to her home the son-in-law and - daughter, who had not yet gained a foot-hold in the world, and who would have starved but for her timely aid. These are the ones who have driven lier away in_ the days of their prosperity. . They * have just builtan ecight-room louse i North Omaha, and every indication aronnd then points to an abundance of worldly goods. They are also prominent in a reorcanized chureh. Probably it needs reorcanizing. Certainly this devout son and daughter do. The ol lady's granddaughters, who are young ladics, have avowed that “wrandma cannot live hereif we do.” No cause is as- signed, except that she isold and in the way, She isn't *'stylish” enough for the eirls, the cared | pend not ess than s who are just besinning to wear dresses that button in front. How a daughter can tr a mother so heartlessly is beyond thie compro- liension of anyono with a semblanee of a HAT BIG DRANT. . P, 0. Hawes Stands Respects to Dawes and Leese, Lovisviiee, Ky, Dee. To the Editor of the Bre: 1see by the Republie 1 of the 5th inst that vcouple of amas smen, one D one suddenly become agitated, and have taken spasmodie effort, as Goyernor Dawes suys in his_communis ion to Attorney General Leese, “to protect the state” of Nebraska. = His patriotism is cortainly asubjeet of adimi- ration. As to his duty, let us sce. 1 re- ceived the draft for §15,031.23 on the 215t day of lust August in Washington, r turning to Omaha on the 28th - day of Au- gustInotitied the governor that I had draft. He demanded ity I orefused o e it up until I was paid. At the timo received this draft I published the fact inthe Brr, what it was for, ete. I have had number of interviews with the governor and attorney-gencral on this subjeet, in which I refused to giv up this draft until I was paid. Governor Dawes' demand on me was on the 20th of August. He must have heen asleep nearly four months, hut evidently he has been ‘aroused. So wm I Suppose we ventuare an opinion asto the cause of sueh sudden zeal to do duty as a publie fune- tionary in the few remaining hours of our tenure of oflic I had the inde- pendence and the manhood to e 150 the right and privilege of an American citizen to vote pleased ut the late congressional election. 1 am mformed that the threat was repeatedly made that “1Lwould have a red hot time in getting my pay this winter.” This was said sev eral times in the corridors of the Paxton hotel, and at other places in Omaha. [ was further informed that certain South Platte politicians were grinding their broad axes for my decapitation. After the clection ~ was over, the the governor commences on me. 1 only the question, whether a plumeil kmght has been in'the kitchen cabinet of his excelleney? I desire to inform the publie that 1 am right about this matter, and will publisi my report in the Bre when | return, as soon after as Lean write it, and that 1 have no fears of any two' men whose heads are not larger than Sullivan’s hsts but twice us hard. 1 have been running around in the timber ‘and had chunks thrown at me long cnough. Now I pro pose in the future to come out not with muscle but with what under the hair of my head. If G Dawes sends his peneral after me, the probabiliti there will be nothing I ginger colored chin whiskers and his West Virgima boot heels. If the e to I have wernor commonwealth of Nebraska a thousand draws for at- rene or, they could only find two ch those two worthies,andthose cards would be deuces If they propose to play draw with me, they l.n} tter stand pat. 1 will be liome in about u week. Yours suvagely Parriek O'BANNON Hatwves. -~ pt of Court. Perhups the astounding ease of con the one in which Chief Justi Towa, was nonplussed years ago, The five members of the supreme beneh were reetifying the errors and approving the decrees of the lower courts with the't precision and dignity. Among the yers sat soman distinguished in the ern part of the state Tor his great and reckless conviviality. He blinked and nodded insensibly at the court. T case in which he appeared as plaintif’s attorney he had won step by sten through months of litigation. When it was catled he avose uneertainly to enterappearan and added: “May it please the court 1 am convineed of having com mitte n gre nmistake n this en Justice and trwth are on the side of defendant. Al n sympathies ure defendant, anit if your honors will in tavor of the detendant, Pl give y ‘Tl siloned of several minutes wing was ulmost stifling. At lengti Justice Miller found speceh Sir,said be, pufling up with apoplectic symptoms, *your ~ condition CAINOL €X0IAC NOX YOUI Teputation save you mdignity “May it interrupted the law with the buck of ) think you misappreliend me. What Fintended 1o say was that if the court decides the case in favor of e defendant T will give cech of your hionors ¥ L this the chief justice collapsed, wud the oftender was 1 from the court room. he o that commen surato yond th most, 1pt on record id Miller, ot law west tulents the with the el U 4D, benel de nishment 15 b ) of the court Brownelt's New Chapel in the spr new el s to be 1 innediate th of Brownell ha which is to be known as the chapel of ¢ institution, 1t is to be the gift of k. D, S don, ot Chi hias guarantoed 5000 i its eroction will be one of the most - beautitul structis of its kiud o the conntry, and will be r for occupaticy beloie, the Cluse 0f next smi Earl erech A0, W was on bils leel immediately, however, sad wer