Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 6, 1887, Page 4

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Lincoin New Badeai’s Letter.—A dvertisetmonts, o 6, Council BLUITS News.—Miscellany. « Advertisements, Telecraphle News,.—~City News,— cial Advertisements, itorials.—Political Points.— Joe Howard's Lot- Social Events in Omaha. al market: Page 8, City Ne Advertisements. Page . Advertisements. Page 10. Selected for Men Mainly.—Gags Both Gravo and Gay.—A Bad Chureh Mouse, ~~Advertisements. Page 11, The Matrimonial Bureau.—Clara Bolle's Letter.—Mid the Merry Masker A ;’l.l;:?‘ Letter by Chauve Souris.—Advertise- nents Page 12. Iloney for the Ladies.—Musical ln'sfiml,)ll',muut‘lc ](‘mlnublléllllli(;t& —Impieties. e ermint drops, — Religious. — Educa- tlonal.—Advert n:sms. : General T defeat of the charter will be a bad black eye for the real estate boom. — Faxous Joe Howard con tributes an in- ‘teresting letter to the Suxpay Bee. He is the king of New York correspondents, A ¥EW more factories built of brick and mortar and fewer built of wind would materially assist the growth of this thriy- ing city. —— New York is suffering from a coal famine. ff present prospects hold out Omaha will soon be in a position to help the cffete east out on the coal question. 1r corporate monopolies ure to dictate our luws and make and unmake our city charters al will our state houses and city halls should be changed into railroad headquarters to save the exvcnse of double rent. — How will Omaha enjoy operating her city government under a charter framed for a city of 80,000? This will be the in- evitable result of tho defeat of the new charter which the confederated corpora- tions ave now assailing. Crrizens of Omaha will to it in case of the defeat of the new charter that the responsibility for the damage done to this city is placed on the shoulders where Jt belongs. There is such a thing as sow- Ang tne wind to reap the whirlwind, Tuere will be wailing and gnashing of teeth among the long haired men and short haired women throughout the coun- try. ‘The supreme court of Washington territory has declared unconstitut onal the law of 1885 granting female suffrage. Henny Warp HER scores the Knights of Labor. Mr. Beechor is a - preacher of spotless character and high ~ Btandard of morals who some years ag preseribea bread and water as a healthy ‘lllet for American workingmen, | Mg. Baigp, of Dakota county, troduced a bill to prevent swindling. T'his will bo highly appreciated by Mr Baird's constituents who were swindled by the gentleman from Dakota out of a - profossed friend of Van Wyck in the late senatorial contest, AvrLicAnTs for positions on the na- tional railway comuission are said to be degion in number. General Van Wyck, - all veports to the contrary notwithstand- ing, 15 not among the numbe: Tmport- | ant business will occupy him in Nebraska for several years to come. | Tug third boodle alderman has reached * Bing Singand itis confiaently expectod £ that the remaining three will plead guilty and save the cxpenses of a trial. The sword of justice 15 glistening in unpleas- ant nearness to the head of Jake Sharp, - who is to be the next to receive the atten- .~ tion of the Now York authorities, 3 —— MINNESOTA i5 10 pass a law compolling railroads to furnish annual passes to state officials, judges and members of the legis- Jature. The theory is that what is now done by the railroads as o favor will be * ghanged to an obligation on the part of the companies from which they cannot nably look for returns to the detri- auent of the public. The idea is a good one. It could be adopted in Nebraska with great benetit to the people. he ~ deluge of annuals which 15 showered upon ~every oflici ate, county and legislative, to wmtluence their action upon matters _ pelating to the railroads, would not be in- . ereased. The transportation account of the companies would sutfer no loss. But . the state and the public would be the “iuer. ph 43 The Sunday Ber has taken rank as one of the best Sunday papers in tho United States. Among its leading special teatures are the New York Herald's eablegrams from (he prinoipsl capitals and news centers of Burope, Clara Belle's gossip, Adam Badeau's letter, William J. Bok's “Literary Leaves,® P. S. Heath's Washington chat, Frans Sepel’s Boston budget, and severst European lotters, les special telegrams from all 1mpor- tant points in this conntry. To-day the Bee adds another very at- tractive special feature—a weakly letter Joc Howard, the famous New York alist. Howard is beyond all ques- the most brillinnt, versatile and enterlaining correspondent 1n this country For over a quar- ter of a century he has been a prom- inent tigure in metropolitan journalism. His letters to the Bewr will no doubt be greatly enjoyed by our readers. With such a briliiant spread of good things the readers of the Suspay Bee will certainly have a literary feast. All these special contributions cost a great deal of money, but as the public appre- ciate enterprise the Bse spares no ex- pense in giving its readers the very best the market afford tion Our Trade Relations With Canada. Everybody understands that a policy of commercial non-intercourse toward Canada would not be entirely onesided in its results. The Dowminian affords a liberal market for the products of the United States, tho loss of which would cortainly be felt by many interests in this country. It 1s not the policy of the United States to lessen the number of its markets, but to increase them, and to en- large its business with thoso it already possesses. Only the most extraordinary circumstanees couid jusufy a departure from this policy. On the other Land, Canada finds the largest market for its products in the Umted States, and there is searcely aninterestin that country that would not sufler very seriously if de- prived of this market. A protracted period of commercial non-intercourse would undoubtedly bring ruin to thou- sands of business men in the Dominion, proye most disastrous to labor, and well nigh paralyze the financial and indus- tri irs of the country. Hero the ef- fect upon the gencral business and pros- perity would be hard pe htible There it would be most marked and de- cisive. The United States can staud non- intercourse without serious detriment to the general welfare. Canada can not. In w of these obvious facts, it is most remarkable that the Dominion goy- ermment has persisted in its aggressive course until it has reached the point of compeiling the United States to consider the necessity for a retaliatory policy. Yet there are men prominent in that govern- ment who profess to thunk that such a policy would fall not less severely upon the United States than upon Canada, ap- parently not understanding that if it were possible for the former to lose ten times more than the latter the effectupon its general welfare and prosperity would be less serious than . the case of the latter. According to a statement furnished by the Dominion minister of customs, the imports into Canada trom the United States during the fiscal yoar of 1856 amounted to about $40,000,000, wlile Canada exported to this country products to the amount of $36,000,000, leaving the trade balance in favor of the United States $4,000,000. In the thirteen years from [ to 1885 Canada purchased in this country products to the vulue, in round figures, of $610,000,000, and sold to the United States products to the value of $456,000,000, showing o of trade against the Dominion for that period of $154,000,000, an average of a little less than $12,000,000 a year, It wlll be seen from these figures that the loss of business to Canada from being deprived of the American market would very nearly equal in value the loss of the trade of this country with the Dominion. In the case of the latter 1t would be an alimost complete loss, since Canada could not readily find new mar- kets, while the United States might not find it dificult to secure equally profitable markets elsewhere for the few million dollars, worth of produocts the Dominion annually buys here. But if the material consequences to the United States were certain to be twenty times more serious than they possibly could be under existing conditions, thi country could not afford to avoid them a the sacrifice of its nuational character, which has already suffered from its patient forbearance under the outrages, insults and nggressive hostility of the Dominion authorities. The insistence of the government upon a recognition of its international and treaty rights should be firmly adbered to, and it will be sustained m every policy deemed necessary to en- force them. Sparks and the Land Thieves. General Sparks is pushing the prosecu- tions aganst the land swindlers, bogus pre-emptors and fraudulent homesteaders wherever found. Re tly R. B. Presson and John R. King, of Benklemen, R. D. Babceock, of Hastings, and R, H. Criswell, of Inaianola, all of this state, were con- victed in the federal courts of conspiracy in connection with bogus timber claims, and scores of other indictments are now drawn up awuiting presentation in similur cases, Commissioner Sparks is doing his best to preserve the public do- main for honest settlers in spite of tt howls of th id grant corporations and the rage of eattle syndieates and claim sharks. His policy of rigid inyestigation of all entries 13 already bearing fruit in this section of the west. Actual settlers arc taking possession of ownerless claims and communities which contained thou- sands of acres of land which had never seen a plow or a sod house are being built up by honest proprictors and hard- working farm So far from General Sparks’ policy having injured the west it has been of inestimable benelit in stimu- lating actual settlement and in wresting from ringsters and Jand syndicates millions of acres of land held for specu lation. The fences have gone and with the illegal fences have disappeared the pliant tools of the cattle syndicates who monopolized the best locations along the streams in order 10 “‘hold the range'’ for their employers. Compliance with the law is now being generally enforced through public sentiment and more care- tul supervision of the local land offices. Land 1s being preserved for the landless and not for the landlord, and the public is being correspondingly benefitted. The bowls against Sparks in this 3 from the throats ‘o men who never pass a federal court without s shiver or road the calt for a grand jucg without a naweless dread. S—— The Fish Commission’s Work, In their cighth annual report, the Ne- Draska fish commission present an inter- esting resume of their excellent work in stooking the waters of Nebraska with food fish, The duties of the commission- ers seem to have been performed as much as a labor of loyo as a requirement of the office which they held. All three are old residents of Nebraska, old sportsmen and ardent studonts of fish cultuve, That they have made tho most of ‘the small appropriation placed at their dispnsal by the legislature the report very clearly shows. During the past year 5,050,000 wall eyed pike, 108000 broo! trout, 55,000 salmon trout, 9,000 California mountain trout and 8,720 German carp have been distributed from the hatcher- 1es and planted in various ponds, streams and lakes in the state. Reports fromn every section of the state have been re- ceived showing that the fish are rapidly multiplying and that fish culture is no longer an experiment in Nebraska, The work of the fish commission is a practi- eal one. The amm is to furnish our veo. pe with an ample supply of fresh water fish for food as well as for sport, to determinoe what streams are suitah for the various species of fishes, and what conditions are most e for theiwr development, The legislature owes it to the state to support Liberally the work of the fish commission. For the next two y estimates have been handed i for £06,250.00 a year, which will cover all ex penses of salaries, labor, apparatus, free distribution, repairs and buildings. The state funds could searcely be bestowed to better and more economical advant orcing the Brain. In 2 recent address before the teenth Century elub of New Yor! William A. Hammond discussed the in- teresting tovie of brain foreihg in the ed- ueation of children, deprecating some of the prevailing methodslof the schools as unnatural and harmful, and making « plea for more object lessons in teaching. The views of Dr. Hammond are worthy of attention, even if all of them cannot be endorsed. The schoolmaster of s age, he remarked, forgets that children become mentally fatigued from light causes even when they arve interested in them. An hour of intense mental exer- tion will weary an adult more than will an equul time of physieal labor. Iow mueh more, then, will it wear out a youngster? The pursuit of knowledge begins with the infant at the very earliest period, and the pereeptive organs are the first brought into play. * For the first ten or twelve years of a child's lite system- atic education should be conducted throngh the pereeptive organs, and until a child bas attained this age it were better, in the opinion of Dr. Hammond, not to confine it to the close study of books. Giving a child a multiplicity of studies at once is condemned as dis astrous to the mental faculties. It is as if a man were asked to look alternately for ten minutes through a microscone and a telescope, which would wear his eyes out. Dr. Hammond would banish the grammar until the senior year in a university course, characterizing the study of it in the schools as an*‘ingenious device todrive a litde bramn into early decrepitude.’” He boldly aflirms that *“‘no cnild ever learned to speak good English by study- ing grammar,”and says the only reason 1t does no man harm is that no one really understands its ruls The school child learns by memory, and mewory is not knowledge. It is culture gained at the expense of other faculties. 'The text books take too much for granted on the part of the pupils. Memory passes for knowledge in the schools. The pupil recites well—so does the parrot. ‘The men and women who have made the most of themselves are those who began to study after adultlife, Students of mature life study the things themselves and not the description of them. Object lessons should be more generally employed. The extreme views of Dr. Hammond are those of a physiolo- gist rather than of the practical educator, and yet almost every intelligent experi- ence will give approval to much of what he says. The practice of giving a multiplicity of studies at once, and of putting the whole labor upon the memory to the exclusion of all the other facultics, @ errors of the vrevailing system of teaching which are recogni by many practical educators, whos fluence is at work for their remoy Some progress been made in th direction, but there is room for much more, and such radical reformers as Dr, Hammond can help it on, There 18 cer- tainly no matter of greater concern to every citizen, and none to which he should give more careful and solicitous attention. IXCEPTION is taken to the Bre's eriti- cism of the teaching of German in our public schools by the instructor in that branch, The trouble with Mrs. Weinha- gon’s reply is that her criticisms do not apply to the points sed by the B which failed to rvefer directly or indi- rectly to her ability as an instructress. The objection of the Brk was to the luck of method by which instruction in Ger- man is given to one class only, in which all pupils of whatever deg of previous advancement are indiseriminately jum- bled. Asthe Bek said a week ago, those who commence the study are not given time enough to advance and the pupils who are adyanced must waiton those who are learning their primer, These are the cold facts. Mrs Weinhagen makes a mistake losing her temper and assuming that the editc of the Bk has no children studying G man in the schools and does not know om versonal investigation the trath of his ussertions. The contrary happens to be the case. not calling mto question Mrs. Weinhagen's ability. But it certainly requires ability of a high order for a single teacher to make head- way with a class tive or six times as large as it should be and composed of children of all grades of advancement in the study of German. The ablest teacher wmight well shrink from the attempt. In doing 80 he would be heartily endorsed by the parents of children who are trying to ac- complish the impossible. SgE—p————— Tue Union Pacific 1s not very far out of politics this year, so far as is percepti- ble tothe people of Nebrasks. It still interests itself in defemging all popular legislation which might affect the reven- ues of the road. Mr. ‘Charles Francis Adams is & charming Yad delighsful theorist. As A practiesd railroad re- former be is not & monumental success. POIATICATL, POINTS, Jesse damos s now vepstad alive in Ari- zona. 'This can searcely he trae, or the Mis- souri democrats would have long sinee dis- ecovered and plaoed hilm in some Important oftice. The re-election of Senator Dawes in Massachusetts Is regarded by tho Brooklyn Kaglo as & triumph of the bald-heads, and as @ proof thatthe boys are no mateh for their grandfathers in politios. There is a strong classical atmosphere about Frank Hiscock’s life, He was born at Pompey. practiced law at Tully, went fre quently to Rome, finally settled in Syracuse, and Is now & senator, Senator-clect Quay, of Pennsylvania, is de- seribed as & very commonplace man, but he and Mr. Bla attended the sameo college. The senator-elect cannot afford to have any of his strong points overlooked. President Cleveland, says Henry Watter- son, 18 a good chtistian in one respect at loast. “I1e takes mote joy in one republican who has repented and become a migwump than in ninety and mime democrats who have never gone astray.’” Sceretary Manning, it is positively asserted, will shortly resign and aceept the presidency of a bank in New York. Unfortunately there is no confirmation of the rumor that Mr. Garland will resien to aceept the presi- deney of a telephone company. Seven-Mule Barnum makes av iron at his Salisbhury works 5o tough that bars an inch square have sustained a prossure of 30,000 pounds without breaking.” num’ alleged political conscience is supposed to be made of the same material, Judge Hoadly's removal to New York 1s thought by somoe knowing ones to be made with an eye to his apvointment as one of the justices of the United States suprome court. Ohio already having two justices his ehaneces would undoubtedly be Letter as a dent of New York in case President Cleveland should have an opportunity to appoint, Philip Zeigler of Butfalo is evidently try- g to qualify himself for the pos United Stu senator from k place of Jones. For thirty-six e days he called at the house of pr Dicckman and, thoush he milted to see her, he left tive offers of marriage, had him arrested. ty Lena < never per- y-sIx conseeu- Then the cruel gl Representative Crain, the only native-born “Texan in the Lore Star state delegation, was educated in the north, He says: “Wedon't bulidoze. We don’t have to bulldoze, even if we have the inelination, The majority is 100 biz. Do you know what a party with a big majority is like? Well, it's like a hug splenditl locomotive wi uk brake on 1Us glorious when it gets going, but ther nothing to stop it it there’s dangor ahead. New Yor 3 . Frank Hiscock, who will succeed Warner Miller in the sen. ate, is lueky as well as lazy. e lay quietly back, opencd his mouth und the senatorial vlum dropped into it 1t will be twenty years next June since "he accidentally dropped into polities. His elder brother, u member of the coustitutional convention, was shot and killed at Stanwix hall, Atbany, by General Cole, for the alleged seduction of his wife, and indignant S, atonce clected 'Frank to take his 2 picee of pure luck, and the vein | eversinee. Yet Mr, Hiscock will make a very respectable senator, of fair ability and average honesty. SOME ODDLY NAMED PERSONS. Coflin C. Bier is the appropriate and sng- gestive name of a prominent undertaker at Leno, Nev. Mr. Moon is brought forward as a dark horse in the New Jersey senatorial contest. Beifore this Moon gets full of senatori lonors he will probably be reduced to his last quarter. Colovel Jack Frost is editor of the Clarence (Mo.) Courier, Ie is careful to give credit forall selected matter, consequently e is not the “nipping Frost,” we otten hear of; but his editorials are sometimes quite biting. John Steer of Des Moines, Is a genuine wicked war, e lately gave a money-lende a chattel mortgaze on “five white stee and when an officer went for the stock he was shown Mr. Steer’s five promising boys as the property covered by the mortgage. And for this little joke Mr. Steer is compelled to answer to the red- - A Good Ma Chicago Times. Senator Van Wyck is mentioned for one of the new railroad commissioners, He isa good man to appoint, He wouldn't allow the railroads to construe the new bill in a way to please only themselves, Eyes of Two Hemisphere Chicagn 3 We trust that cousin Ben Folsom 15 com- porting himself with becoming circums) tion in the present erisis and remembers that as a relative of the administration ey©s of two hemispheres are upon bini, - By Direct Vote of the People, Detrott Free Press. Senator Van Wyck’s proposition to amend the constitution s0 as to provide that United States senators shall be elected by a direct vote of the people will be sure of at least two votes if it is brought up in the senate, Sena- tor Vance, ot North Cavolina, he convert, ‘The tacties pursued by the legislature in In- dianaand New Jersey ouzht o be enough to couvert a good many senators besides Vauce 2 Ll Sullly Arm. Chicago Tomes, ‘The Minneapolis doctor that undertook to set John Sullivan's broken arm seems to have made an imperfect job of it, and th Iimb has had tobe re But it may bea question, perliaps, if the surgery that inte feres with Sullivan’s business is not the best surgery after all, however unseientitic and unskillful it may be in the eyes of experts, o i - A Winter Sabbath, Clinton Scollard in Travelers' Record, round the chimneys of the town ful gusts the north wind blows, er the hills comes hustling down ‘I'he ey vanguard of the snows, Arec On Him, g the I see along the dismal strect The few who brave the biting air Go hurrying by with quickened feet 0 join in anthem and it prayer. he belt its parting peal has flung From out the ehurch's crann The choir its hymn of praise has sung, And now the preacher holds the hour; tower; £, before the eheerful blaze, muanionship | find, Look out across the whitened ways And hear wy sermon in the wind, It hias beheld each passing scene sinee dawned ereation’s earliest day— “The wighty whole from Which we gleam The scanty knowledze that we niay, 1t gives the tongueless past a voice; It proph:esies ot time o beg Andseems o sorrow and rejolce In turn with weak huwanity, And as upon my tense-wrought ear A soothing sound falls, soitly tiown, 1 dream o'er all the earth 1 hear God's beuediction in its tone, - - Senatorial Qualifications, Cleveland Plain-Dealer. ‘There are two questions that govern the election in wost of the republican states in the selection of a United States scuator. First, is the candidate favorable to the rail- roads? Second, 18 bis bavk account lurgel enough te sitwidize the logislatnco? Wnloss the answors to thase questions are in the afiemalive there is not muoh chance of & candidate ssouring the prive, - - . Ofn This Bs Possible? New Tork World The Memoriad Diplomatiqne annonnces that “Cousin Bea"” Folsom has rasigned hiv offica of United States consol at Shetield. Can this be possible? Why, it was only the other day that we heard that Cousin Ben was ailigently ongaged In introducang base bail to the Britishers, - - Some Hops for St Louis, Chicago News, With Jesse James alive in Arizona and Bricham Young still astiv in Nebraska thero is =ome hope that even old St. Louis will one | of these,days arise, shake out the felds of her shroud, and walk fortha breathing thing of 1f this is the age of miracles, nothing of course, s to be impossibie, — THAT CABINET BABY, THE TRIUMPIANT YAVY DEPARTMENT. National Republican, Jan. 4. 1t is appropriate for the president to order a national salute in honor of the state of Now York. Mrs. Secretary Whitney has won the prize in giving birth tofa datghter—the first administration baby. 'The first new vessel for the American navy should receive her name. Be glad upon vour decks,ye satlors of the soa, And toss yonr bumpers gayly to our own navee! The shore will answer back, and pledge yon glass tor elass, To the pretty little craft, Whitney lass, Dadi her! 11 ndsiman ! First administration Whitney lass! ¥ TIE NAMING OF T BABY, York Sum, Mrs, Seerctary Whitney's new baby has been nawed by Mrs, Cleveland, Frances Cleveland Whitney is the name under which the enild will grow up; and if she has the beauty, the goodness, the sweetness and the intellectual abilities of her will indeed be one of the most fortunate of mortals. to the winsome il her? ailor! baby! the winsome *e THE FIFTILINSTANCE, The birdh of Secretary Whitney’s daughter is the fifth instance in twenty years ot the occurrence of such an event in the fanily of a cabinet member while in oftice. Secretary MeCuiloch and Postuaster General Denison under Johnson, General Belknap and Secre- tary Robeson under Grant were the fathers of the four other cabinet babie * THE BABY, Washington Critie, ‘There's a baby up at Whitney's And the Secretary’s glad; e is waiting, only. waiting. Just to hear iteall him dad, There’s a charm about a baby Whicl i utterly unknown To every living person Till Tie lias one of his own. “Then ho swears by ail that's With a crazy sort of mirth, ‘Thiat this individual bab S the prettiest one on earth, holy, 15 the same if there’s a dozen, With a twin or so beside, For by multiplving babies e but multivlies his pride. Now, hurrah for Billy Whitney! And hurrah tor Billy’s kidy And may some folks that we know of* Do as well as Billy did. P. 8. The fourth stanza of this pocm may not'be as truthiul as it is poetic, but thatisn’t what we are here for, w*x GROVER LOOKING OUT FOR A SQUALL. tanta Constitution. “Dan.” said Grover, “have you notified all the cabinet about the next meeting?” “1 have, sir.” “And willall the members be present?” “Yes, all, sir, except Mr, Whitney.” And why not hin “Well, sir, the baby, you know, and he been kept up lots this week mixing paragoric and singing lullabies.” “Well, Dan, we must excuse Lim. We must be lenient with the unfortunate, for there's no telling when trouble will overtake “Tug election of Frank Hiscock, of Syra- cuse, to the United States scnate from the Empire e, vividly calls to mind a very sensational trag- edy,” remarked an old New Yorker last nizht. “Politically Frank Hiscock grow up from the grave of his brother, for his first prominence was given when he suceeeded the deceased relative to a membership in the eelebrated New York constitotional con- vention of 1% L was on the ground in Albany when that trag- cdy occurred, and it requires tl sweeping of but very few cobwebs from memory to seo it all vivialy, bloody, start- ling and sensational, to-da The con- vention had assembled and organized, Hon William 1L Wheeler, of Malone, lats vice president of the United States, had been chosen president of the convention, Seats had been selected by drawing and general preliminary work commenced, The Onon- daga county delezation, on which the de ceased Hiscock was, were very much dis- satisfied with their luck in the lottery. They had nearly all secured back scats in the assemb| chainber, where the convention was held, and means and ways were beine diseussed outside as to some method to better their position. One night in June, 1% crossed over from the Delavan house to the side entrance of Stanwix hall, the old polit- ical hall of Albany, in company with the Hon. Patrick Corbett,the young ‘Lrish Eagle of the East,” who was & member of the Onon- daga delegation, As we entered the oflice lobby Corbett espled Hiscock and, saylng to me, ‘[ must see what has be: doue about the seats,’ Corbett started towards his colleague, The latter stood with his back towards us, his left arm around one of the iron pillars, and he was talking to a gentleman from the west part of the stawe, Before Corbett had taken two steps a dark visaged man with a swall military should Dak carclessly thrown around him passed rapidly ~ towards the place where Hiscock was standin s he approached he made s0Me extraord remark and as Hiscock turned the newcomer shot him. I'he assassin was General Cole. Hiscock, a large, heavy man, fell on the marble floor like a log. Cole cast one glance to see that his work had been well done and then turned toward the Broadway or north entrance of the hotel. Corbett knew him well, for both were Syracusans, and springing towards him hesald: “My God, general, what Is this! W hat have you done?” e 1o thunder elap of exeitement, however, had broken out among the erowd ot politi- cians in the room and Corbett headed the rush- ing erowd to the body of Iiseock lying cold in death, A dark stream of blood irregularly warked its erimson course over the tloor, tel seized the silent pulse, were sent for others, raised the head of the but all was over, Meantime neral Cole had leisurely alked across Broadway to a restaurant, hesitating in his steps & if waitiug to be rested. About an hour afterwards he was taken in charge by a policeman and electric toneues had lnformed the whole nation that Ibauy biad bad its Sickles case, All that tender bands dead man THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1887, —~TWELVE PAGES FDFNlI‘anlllre! of the Sunday Be ;m;r:\ of the west -coms T Teas e (General Cole wonld say was that ho had shot Hiseook becansd ho had outraged his wife, s “Among the firet friends of tho murderer 10 ArrIve was his orother, Cornelius A. Cole, United Statos senator at that time from Oali- fornia. The case was daly tried by the pross and the saliont facts, something like those, wore brought to light: Goje and Hiscook ha d been intimate fricnds in Syracuse. The former went to the war and no man who ever wora the blue was braver, Before departing he placed the care of all Wis property In Lawyer Hiscock’s charge. This was the pecasion of many visits to Mr Cole, & woman somewhiat of the Mrs, Sickles weakness of character, though older, and edu- cated in a less excitable senool. ‘Time ran on and the doings of tho legal adviser bocamo gossip. Syr sebeeame too small to hold the venom of the scanaal tongue and it soon hissed in the s of #o soldier before the walls of Richmond. The hissing grew londer and more fatal to the husband’s mind. 1o brooded over it, an{ testimony showed it un- balanced his mind attimes, He came home, and it is said, after a time, his wifo made n confession most damnable to Hiscock. She was romoved to Pompey, near Syracuse, where the Miscocks and Coles had long ro- sided. The general determined toslay tho spoiler of his happiness, and he followed Lliscock to Albany for that purpose. e “When the trial eame off the best eriminal lezal ability in New York was sccured. Among the attorneys for the defonse was James T Brady, the ‘little giant of the bar,’ and the most famous criminal lawyer in the land. Al Cole's military acquaintances and army ates sided with him. In fact the caso partook somewhat of the potitieal feelings of that day in New York., Senator Cole was with his brother all the tine, and it is said spent all his millions earned in - Cali- fornia on the defense. The defenso was in- sanity and the Sickles' easo was the stand- ardauthority of the defense. When the summing-up came the old Albany court room eould not half hold tha legal fraternity, and state notables, to say nothing of the e verybody wanted to liear Brady. 1o jury but it was as304 wde a long specch to the disappointing in every way to the speetators v mere ranting resums of the evidence, which every one who had heard the great ad- vocate on other occasions, said was not ‘Brady effort’ atall, Tt had its effect, how- ever, for the jury disagreed—six to six. An- other trinl was ordered, 'The jury paida con- gratulatory visit (o tho gencral in the jait, the bad taste of which and their disagroe- ment called down the eriticisiof tho pres- on all sides. w¥e “I nad oceasion to call on James T. atthe Delavan houso on the evening of the day on which he spoke. An admiring mem- ber of the visiting party commenced to com- pliment Lim on his address to the jury. Lauzhingly he replied: ‘Gentlemen, I thank you sincerely, but 1 know full well that | deserve no prai: In fact that was the worst address in a cor- tain way I ever made in my life. 1t was for cffecton the jury and 1sucesedsd. On that panel ware two or three dog fanciers—you recollect how mueh time I devoted to man’ love for dumb butes. In fact L knew befor hand every man’s whim and hobby and my aim was to tickle them. The resultshows that the dog-lovers were the first to start out for acquittal, and they held the jury and would have done so until doomsday. Yes, eloquent remarks toa jury are all very well in their place, but sometimes other kind of talk is more effective. Brady **u “1 pelieve that was the last trial of impor- tance 1n which Jame: rady was engaged. He died a short time afterwards and no lawyer’s name—not even that of the great Charles O'Conor—is more rovered in New York than his. ** “The second trial of General Cole resulted in an acquittal. The jury brought in a verdiet which to tnis day stands on the record as the most peculiar in the history of American jur- isprudence. The twelve wise men found that “the defendant was sane immedtely pre- ceding the fatal shooting, sane immediately atterwards, but insane the moment of tir- ing. It must have been something else than a ‘dog-love’ that worked upon this panel. *Fu “Cole was set free. He went with bis brother to Califoruia where he is now lost to public sight and almost public memory. Frank Hisceck was almost unanimously chosen to succeed his deceased brother in the constitutional convention, and from the echo of that terrible shot in the Stanwix starf the political progress of the senator- from New York,” BurrAcro Biry closes h son at Madigon Square Garden, New York, this month. He will then pay a brief visit to Nebraska, after which in the latter part of Mareh he will take s show to London, He has made a bushel of money in New York, and he expects to make a barrel of it across the water. According to the New York correspondent of the Philadelpnia Record, the latest society “fad’” in the me- tropolis is Buffalo Bill, “The ladies listen to his weird storles of adventure,” says the correspondent “as to a second Othello, and love him for the ene he has made—and shot, Senator Conkling also cottons to the hero of the Wild West, and delights to ade Broad v with him, heir necktics unique. A sympathetic point, ect Wild West sea- eighth annual report of the Nebraska fish commission, which has been issued in neat pamphlet form, is an interesting docu- ment. Besides giving complete information about the state fishery, it contains several at- tractive lithograplie pictures, among which are illustrations of the trout pond, superin- tendent’s dwelling, and various fishe We regret, however, that the little volume does not econtain a picture of Hon, W. L. May, of the fish commission, who has done more than any other man towards advancing the fish interests of this state. e is an enthusiast upon the subject, and has spent considerable of his own woney in promoting tish culture in Nebraska. “Tuese stories about Brigham Young being alive are getting rather wearisome,” said a man from Salt Lake City at the Grand Pacilic toa Chicago Herald representative “Aboul five years ago a newspaper corre spondent at Omaha sifted s brains of their imagination, and with the mat thus secured constructed a weird story about the Mormon prophet’s death and burial, This yarn was to the effeet that Brigham was still alive, buiial was only the part of a gigantie 1o L0 assist the prophet in getting a better grip on his people when he should suddenly appear like one risen from the towb, The story was sent to Chicago and New Yoik, where it w printed simultancously. In Salt Lake City, where Brigham's deatt and intorment were a matger of history, serecd was received with considerable wmeriment. 1t was sueh an ingenious, not to say ingenucus fake, that even the Mormons w 1 seen their leader in his coflin could not help admiring the man who was possessed of such vivid imagina tic To @ person who knows Brigham Youug to be as dead as Jullus Casar all this Tot is very amusing.” - A case of delirium tremens in a girl, caused by chewing tea leaves, ported in the Lancet, - John Manning, keeper of the Mont- eagle hotel at Ningara Falls, is a brother of Beerctary Dan Manning. JARBlaR. wnch delighted 0 b youn, is re The Bostonians are mu with Sam Joues' proviucialisws, [BRIGEAM YOUNG'S ~ CUIDE. The Mormon Am@s Historic Journay Across the Rockios, THE FRONTIERSMAN. NELSON, How He Led the Mormon Chief Over the Mountains and Into Salt Lake Valley-A Patriarch Who Playod wehre fn A Genial Way, New York World: John Y. Nelson, the guide who in 1846 piloted Brigham Young across the plains and over the tocky mountains to the site of the pres ent capital of mormondom, is one of tho most interesting of the strangoe band of pionecrs and savages now depicting the pleasures and perils of frontier life for the delectation of effete vasterners with Buflalo Bill in the Madison Square gar- den, Nelson may not be as handsome as was his namesake of naval fame, but his spare sinewy frame, long gray hair and beard, and koon bluo eyss, mark a man whose sixty years of hfe’s battlo hav called forth something of the heroic. For forty years and more Nelson h; lived the free life of the fronticrsman- hunting and trapving, minicg and ranch ing, now a government scont and guide in war or exploration, anon leading his clan in the tribal warfare of the red man. For ho east his lot with the nomad race that roamed the prai He told the tale of his journe, apostle of mormondom, to wh events have given histo importance, wmid surroundings irresistibly suggest: ive of Tennyson's thought: Mated with a squalid savage, What to mo were s 1, the heirof all the ages 1n the forem ost files of time? Ho was seated on acamp-stool 1 ono of the score or so of tents that line the sides of the broad upper corridor at thoe wenty-sixth street side of Mudison Square garden, his wife, & Sioux squaw, squatted at his feot industriously stiteh mg with shreds of buftalo tendon for tiread, a boy of twelve stretched on o couch of deerskins in one corner, and a copper-colored lassie of eight Sleeping peacetully on a 1k of blankets in an- other corner. Others of ther dusky brood romped in the long passaze outsido with the pappoose of the Pawnee or the the Siou nd came at their white father’s bidding to shako with the visitor. Bright eyed black-haired, blithe and quick, the ele: ments of sy and civilized blood seemed strangly blended in theiv natures., There had been nine children of this e, the old trapper said, of whom five were living, the cldest, o givl of fif- HBEES i O L0 O TR R FOBII & ling school. To earn provision for their support and edueation he has turned his baek on his loved mountains., Ocea- sionally the tent-opening was darkened as the tail form of a Sioux or Pawnce 11 hi: nt and ng his afternoon Altogether there was a ngely interesting realism about this Indian eamp, visible only to the initinted, that in many respeets is more striking than any of the scenes presented with slaboration in the regular show below stuirs. “It was late in the fall of 1816, [ think,"” Nelson began as he lit his pipo and shoved back his broad sombroro. T was at Cottonwood Springs, Nebraska, living with an old Mexican half-breed, who knew every inch of the Rockies like a book. We were doing nothing in partie- ular and ready for a job when Brigham Young came along and asked my Soxi- can friend o s guidey across the s, promising us good pay. e had four ¢ompanions, Mormon elders, 1 think, but 1 cannot remember their names, Seven in all, we started with two emigrant wagons, one of them loaded with tlour, bacon, coffee and bis- cuit, enough for two years' supply. I don’t beheve Brigham had any idea when he started just where he was going nor when he would get back. It was a sort of u prospeeting trip. He and the elders called cach other ‘brother,’ and the old man was a good natured, jolly sort of fellow. He talked a good deal”of relig- 1ous lingo, but he was not the Sunday- school, pious Jonah kind; would siy ‘damn it’ just th ne as 1 would, and played a good hand at euchre. I was quite a young fellow in those days, and asthe old Mexican didn't speak much English, Brigham talked a good deal with me and tiied to convert me to Mor- monism “He was about forty, well sot up and with a big, strong head and neck. didn’t take muek stock his arguments defending polygamy which Joo Smith had recently introduced as a revelation among the saints, But Brigham mo the idoa of a man who was protty firm in what he e constitutional. or & We didn't hurry ourselves mueh, mak- ing only about twenty miies o day with the wagons, pitching our tents for three or tour days ut u time when we got into region where gamo was plenty, and exvloring the country for mil around. Idon’t think we et a white man all the way across. There were lots or Indians, but they didn’t troul us, just coming into cainp to trade off fresh meat or skins for bacon and m«" 0, ‘To wards Christmas we struck Ham's Fork after making a journey of nearly a thou sand miles. Plicre we were suowed up until the spring. That was ticularly hard wirter, and the snow W forty tect doep in places where it had drifted over the canyon. But wedidn't sufler; provisions were plenty, there was lots of game, and when we couldn’t get water we got snow and melted it, Our camp at Hun's Fork was pitched in g sheltering valley, and we got all the elk, antelope and bear we could shoot, ite 1 the spring, had melted, we struck camp and started straight up the wmountain about forty miles, Right up on top of the mountain we found a large lake, fed by a living suring. ehuek full of trout that beat any: thing in the world, The smallest of them was about two feet long and weighed five or six pounds, and the flavor--1"* The old trapper smuacked s lips as the recollection of the gustatory gratification of forly years befor 5@ in his mind. “Brighum was all the time spying out the lay of the land, and as he looked from the wp of the mountain over the level streteh of desert nearly fifty miles away, he suid he promised land is in A" We made our way down tho wountain without any accident worth mentioning and when we struck the water now known as Salt Lake, Brigha m allowed a mouthful and nained it the ut Salt Lake. Then we struck out about six_miles to the northwest and Brigham Young stopped suddenly i the widdle of the valley and shouted: “I'his i spot, this is spot revealed to me by reat Spirit ina dream long ago. we will build the Now Jorusalem!” We stayed in the neighborhood about six weeks.” Brigham staked out the place 50 that we could find it again easily and wade a sort of map of it. Then we sturted back to Coltonwood Springs, which we reached late in the sumwer, Brigham and his friends went on o Nauvoo, [1l, and 1 went off on & deep huut with my Indian fricods. Next yewr Brigham took a large purty of Mormons over and Salt Lake ety was built oo the very spot to which I guided him.” -~ — Not an actor or actress attended Alice 1 Oates’ funeral in Philadelphia, when the snow