Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 6, 1887, Page 5

= S2IIE DAILY BEE. i PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SURSCRIPTION ! Daily Moeniax Editi Ber, One Year nday hrea Months Omaha Sunday Bek, mailed to any address, Une Year. ... . 2 an orrice, No. 014 AND 018 FARNAM RTREE ROOM %, TRIBUNE BUILDIN W YORK OFFICE, ) NO. 615 FOURTEENTU STREE ASHINGION OFFI CORRESPONDENCE? Al communications relating to news and edi. torial matter should be addressed to the Ebi- FOR OF THE Bre. BUSINESS LETTERS? All bueiness lotters and remittances should be #ddressed to THE BEg PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAHA. Drafts, checks and postofice orders %0 be inade payable to the order of the company, THE BEE POBLISHING CONPARY, PROBRIETORS, F. ROSEWATER, Epiror. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation, Btate of Nebraska, County of Douglas. }* L Geo, B. Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual circulation of the Daily Bee =olr‘ the week ending Feb, 25th, 1857, was as ollows Tuesday, Feb, 22, Waednesday, Feb. 23 hursday, Feb, 24. riaay, Feb. %5.. uro. B, TzscHu Bubseribed in my presence and sworn to be- fore me this 26th day of February A. D. 1857, . P. Frir, [SEALI Notarv Publle. Geo. B, 'I'zschuck, b.ln:i first duly sworn, fiqm and says that he 1s secretary of 'The Publishing company, that the actual av- erage dally circulation’ of the Daliy Bee for the month of Fubruary, 1886, was 10,505 coples; for March, 1 11,637 coples; for AJyrll 1880, 12,191 copies: for for May, 1858, 12,439 coples; for June, 1856, 12,208 copies lor.luln 1846, 12,314 coples; for Aueust, 1856, 13,4 enplu;f'nr September, 1856, 13,030 coples; for October, 1556, 12,980 coples; for November, 1836, 13,348 cobles; for December, 1886, 13,237 copies for January, 1587, 16,266 copies. GEo. B, Tzscnuex. Subseribed and sworn to before me this 8th dnlxor February A. D, 1587, SEAL.| . P. Fr1L. Notary Publle. Contents of the Sunday Bee. New York Herald Cablegrams— the Bre.—General Telegraphic Page 1. Specils 10 ews, 2. Telecraphic Nows.—City News.— any, Special Advertisemonts, Editorlals.—Lolitical * Points.— . ufi; A Most Remark- able Dream, by Perry S. Heath, Tage6, Council Bluffs N ., —Miscellany, Social Events In Omaha. General and local markets, , Page8. City Nows.—Advertisements. Pave 9 The Barbaritv of Hanging, by oe Howard.—Brake Twisters’ Battle, b; nz Sepel.—Honey for the Ladies. wvertisements. Page 10. Sentiments of Sunshine.—The orror of the Catacombs.—Homeand House- ping.—Guardians of Goodness.—Story of American Mail Service.—Advertlsements, Page 11. Hubbles Have Hobbies.—A Wyoming \g.eddlng. by H. B, Haxton.—Ad- Plnmf: Bench 8h f Beautles, b; 'age enc oW of ea 2“?“ Belle.—Queen of the Mimic Wo;fi‘ b; kldam_ Badeau.— Connubialities.— Musical and Dramatic.—Singularities,—Religlous.— Advertisoments. e OmANA has three cable railway com- punies. What we need most, however, is a cable railway. ONE Chicago firm this year sold 13,000 toboggans. Can it be possible that so many people are going down hill? Sr. JosePH has a roal estate boom of wonderful proportions. It is said that Kausas City is green with jealousy. ATTENTION is called to the ordinances published in the BEE regarding the pro- posed granting of franchises to cable railways, TaE legislature will probably appro- priate $3,800 to the relief of Kearney county for the prosecution of Matt Zim- merman. The bill ought to be sent to Lawyer Burr. ] Ir the $14,000,000 appropriation for our Davy1snot all squandered in securing gllns and specitications, there is some inpe of securing & barge or two within the noxt few years. b ______J A TWO column article appears in an exchange stating ‘‘the reason why Mrs. Langtry went on the stage.”” The reason why she does not go off the stage, is the question of the hour. Tue Texas legislature will submit the question of prohibition. The Lone Star state without whiskey would be likea session of the legislature without a ‘‘re- Jiet” bill for Tom Kennard. Pat O, HAWES is greatly relieved. The Jegislature has passed that relief bill, and Governor Thayer has attached his auto- 'gnph thereto. Legislatures are not al- ¥ ays ungratoful towards i Tar appropriation for the pay of mem- bers and employes of the legislature has " Dbeen exhausted. It is said the greatest excitoment prevails and confiding mem- bers and elerks are negotiating loans. A rroMPTLY tabled motion was intro- duced in the senate to cut off all news- papers and stamps during the remaining twenty days of the the legislature. ‘I'he members propose to read about them- selves, Ir Ben Butterworth, of Ohio, had not consumed so much time talking about %goast defenses,”” Omaha might have secured the appropriation long needed her postoffice. St. Louis spectral i rses and coust defense bills have occu- pied too much ti \ e here of late. ‘Tiere has been no effort on the part of the legislature to dispense with stoves in the Omaha street cars, but on the other - hand there have been many people wen- dering it a law would not be passed com- lling street car comparies to Leat their :fl during the winter months, e e Tne Herald says it speaks by the card . I aunouncing: *‘The people of northern Nebraska need not worry. They are ~ sure to have a direct road into Omaha.” Perhaps the proprietor of the Herakd, Congressman McShane, proposcs to make his Omaha & Northern railroad S seheme bloom again with the tlowers of 23 ErEEgee——— 1Ix the character of their gods the lead- ing idea of tho ancients was power— the THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY. \MARCH 6, 1887.—~TWELVE PAGES. A Strange Fatality, There is a strange fatality in the career of the Omaha Republican, Twenty years ago, just as Nebraska entered the aister- hood of states, that paper was the lead- g daily of this section, [t was a recog- nized factor in the political affairs of the state, prosperous and potentml. Then came a change of proprictors, followed by a succession of reverses brought on by stupid blunders, dishonest management, and disreputable journalistic methods, From a paying property the concern became a great sink-hole, into which were dumped fortunes aggregating hundreds of thousands of dollars. In the first six years after the BEr was established over £60,000 were sunk in a desperate but fruitless effort to smother a little sheet that had no capital to back it and the most powerful political and financial combinations to oppose it. Then the syndicate that came into its control de- termined to rejuvenate and by a com- bined effort all along the line to raise it to the old standard of party leadership. New editors were placed at the helm and all the available artillery of slander and defamation belched forth against the BEE and its editor from every federal of- fice stronghold and from Union Pacific headquarters. Levies were made upon customs officers, land office receivers and postmasters, and enormous contributions poured in from the surveying ring or- ganized under the old Boss Cunningham regime, ‘To reduce expenses, the editors of the Republican were put on the Union Pacitic pay-roll, and the bulk of job patronage which that corporation had at its disposal was thrown into the bottomless pit. But the fatality which had become part of its career, continued to-blast all efforts to give the paper in- fluence and popular confidence. Then came another change. A smart young man, with a smattering of dime-noyel literature and an ambition to illumine the political ~sky with his tallow-dip genius, induced his father to purchase a half interest, which placed him in editorial charge. Following in the old ruts of the fated fools who had pre- ceded shim, he devoted himself earnestly and zealously to the same old task of tearing down every thing The BEE had helped to bwld up, opposing every policy it advocated, and filling all available space with dis- gusting slanders and bare faced false- hoods concerning the editor of the BEk. Agamn a change of proprietors took vlace, and again the ill-fated Republican has been rejuvenated. The prospectus was, 1f anything, more bombastic than any that had been promulgated since the days of the mammoth consolidation. The new management entered the tield with a grand flourish of trumpets and their greet- ing proclaimed amnesty to mankind in general ana former political adversaries in particular. We were assured that they had decided to turn over a new leat in the policy of the paper, which was to be in striking contrast with the sad and gloomy past. But the fatal- ity which clings to the ill-starred sheet is mora manifest now than ever. The paper has not only proved a flat failure, by a lamentable lack of all that is essen- tialn the make-up of a metropolitan daily, but it has absolutely gone from bad to worse editorially. The editor-in- chief imported by the ‘new man- agement” possesses in an eminent degree the by no means rare talent of emitting froth, which he expects this community to swallow as old vintage. He plumes himself on his brilliant scin- tillations, swashbuckler bravado and bar-room billingsgate. A miniature Wilkes Booth, he is imbued with an in- sane desire for tragic notoriety. He would rather be remembered as the man that fired the Ephesian dome than the great architect who built it. Priding himself on the high social posi- tion which has been accorded to him since his brief residence in Omaha, he revels in the boon companionship of the devotees of the lowest vices and brings into his paper the vulgar and disgusting manners and language of the pot house and brothel. There is no uovelty, however, in his coarse opithets and vile adjectives. They have al! been exhausted by hired black- guards who wrecked the former manage- ments and reduced it to its present low level. In fact, former proprictors were more polite. They issued scurrilous little slander sheets with filthy falsehoods, but they took care to conceal their ownership and interest in them. For our part, we regret that the latest effort to elevate the moral tone and standard of the Republi- can has been a disappointment to tho community. ‘This paper has no interest in keeping its contemporaries on the low level of a mining-camp sheet. It would give us pleasure to see them maintain the high character and standard to which a aty of Omaha’s population is entitled. As far as the recent efforts to traduce us are concerned, we can well afford to give the brilliant newspaper wrecker all the benefit which he can derive from such indecent attacks. Extending Reforin, Either because of Mr, Cleveland's de- sire, forgetfulness or indifference, the anti-polygamy bill becomes a law. The detection and prosecution of poiyga- mists, together with the destruction of the civil power of the Mormon church of Utah, is the strongest section of the new measure. Under the Edmunds law of 1883 touching the iniquity of claimed saints and undoubted sinners in that be- nighted land, together with the fearless enforcement of the law on the part of judges and other officials, it bas been be- lieved that a solution of the Mormon question was almost reached. By many men this question has been regarded as serious and dangerous. And itis true that religious fanaticism makes dangerous men, The great body ot Mormons were sincere in their belicf, but were the stupid dupes of greedy, unprincipled Their system of and educated sharpers. government is a despotism of profound worldly wisdom, It is amazing that a great bady of people could be so grossly imposed upon. But every man of them was in the lowest poverty and was offered a home and plenty. He was ignorant and a beast of burden. He received privileges and opportunities he had never dreamed of. With all his tithes and oppressions expression of which predominates in their most sublime formations. If Mr. “Agee had lived, say four thousand years . ago, and made some of the powerful e he is making to-day, without s y we venture to say that in eyery he was better off in his worldly affurs than he had been or had ever hoped to be. He was under the heel of the church, but he was made to feel that he was part of the church, The baser passions of his nature were stimulated, and his belief in sttt pdmarit e, e would bave been set up aud worshiped. the supernatural encouraged. He was made to believe that he was oppressed by the government, and that lefence lay 1n his own right arm. Failing in the effort to become one of the sisterhood of states, the territory to a degree has been powerless for evil. But Brigham Young and his elders were biding their time, The Mormon had begun to believe that some day he must defend his home and his religion by force of arms. Accord- ingly every man was skilled with the rifle. The government saw this and knew that strict legislation was neces- sary. A fearless administration of the Iaw has rendered powerless the oligarchy of the saints, Saints and bishops have skulkea from sight and hid themselves in unknown places. Alarm has taken the place of arrogance and shreats. Under the present law the country can look for & new revelation renouncing all former visions and remanding their misguided followers to truth and decency. The be- lievers of the Mormon faith are by no means lost. They have only been wicked because of gross imposition. There is reason to believe that these blind people may yet be made to see. Garvey and Knox. Mn. Kyox and Mr, Garvey are to be con- kratulated upon thair ability to write minor- ity reports. They don’t mince matters and are not afraid tv exvress their convictions.— Republican. Garvey and Knox had no more to do with writing that minority report than they had with writing the governor's message. Their report bears on its face the ear marks of Vandervoort, and the conspirators who have bargamed with the Omana contractors’ gung to mu- tilate the charter, Garvey ana Knox were too full for utterance on the very night when their report was being prepared, but even if they had been strictly sober they are not competent to write such a report. In signing it they have given themselves away. The puff which thy bestow upon the committee on judiciary, whose chairman is playing monkey for the oil room gang, is in itself the best proof of its origin. The pit that a respectable and decent old man like Mr. Knox should become a victiin to the crafty cappers of the railroad lobby. A Perjod of Social Rest. One of the happy results of the final adjournment of congress is the rehef it brings to society in Washington. During the session social life at the national cap- italisa continual strain. [t makes an exacting demand upon the physicalforces of those who are compelled to regard its requirements, and to muny it is a great drain upon financial resources which is most grudgingly borne. It is probably not wholly beneficial in its moral influ- ences, though in this respect perhaps no worse than social life elsewhere which involves similar ekcesses and torms of dissipation: But the peculiarity of this life at the national cavital which renders it especially burdensome is the fact that it is o continual conflict. Nowhere else is the spirit of rivalry so strong, and no- where else do loud display and all the op- posites to simplicity and moderation count for so much. The present winter has not fallen be- hind any preceding scason during the short session of congress in the number or brilliancy of the social eventsin Wash- ington. The apprehension that society might be disturbed some innovations on the part of Mrs. Cleveland was not reahzed. The president’s accomplished wife seems to have shown most admirable tact, wisely acquies- cing in the situation a&s she found it, rather than seeking reforms that would have cast her more or less annoyance and not increased the num- ber of h r frieuds. She found it neces- sary to modify her original programme in one or two cases, due to the imposition of the publie, but this was comparatively a non-essential, The important fact was that the social status was not disturbed. Consequently the season, so far as Mrs. Cleveland is concerned, was entirely suc- cessful, and undoubtedly she stands as well in public esteem as any lady who has ever graced the white house. A lead- ing social event was the arrival of “‘baby Whitney,”” which although putting a stop to the brilliant receptions and sump- tuous dinners for which the secretary of the navy and his lady are famous, brought compensation in a world of curious in- terest and speculation as to what name the infant girl woula receive, We are not sure whether that important question has yet been determined. Washington will now have an extended period of social rest, in which society ean recuper- ate for the long strain that will come with the new congress. In the mean- while the caterers and florists will be the chief sufferers, though for some other in- terests in Washington, which we leave to conjecture, prosperity ceases when congress devarts. What Shall the Harvest Be? The occupation of a farmer 1s more di- rectly an alliance with and depend ence upon that providence which governs the universe than any other calling among men. There is a logie between the farm- er’s labor and its results that exists in no other field of human effort; there is a re- liance, not usually religious or reverent, but none the less complete, upon nature and nature's GGod in all the farmer’s toil. He knows that Paul may plant and Apol- los water, but that God only can give the increase. He knows more; he knows that the harvest will be as he plants and sows, corn for corn, wheat for wheat, oats for oats, barley for barley. He does not expect to gather grapes from thorns or figs from thistles. He knows that if he havea harvest at all it will be that and that only which he has done his allotted share to p-~duce, for nature gives like for like, and he rests with su- preme confidence upon the promise which the bow in the cloud witnesses, that seed time and harvest, summer and winter shall not fail, » e In all other avocations of life men de- pend for their success upon the skill, the judgment, the diligence which belong to their characters by inheritance or are ac- quired by study and experience. Some pursue only honest and honorable meth- ods while others rely upon lying, cheat- ing and imposture, Both clusses seek the harvest of gain from their eftorts, but both at the same time—the former more or less consciously and intentionally, the latter indifferently—sow seed for an- other harvest, and what shall that har- vest bet In every act of his daily bu ness life the upright waa sows the seeds of rectitude in the hearts of his employes and subordinates by his example; he tesches that his chief reliance for sug- cess Is honesty, and that character with- out stain is beyond price. The tricky man mixes shoddy with his wool, puts paper where leather ought to be in the soles of his shoes, gives light weight and short measure, lies to the eredulous, de- ceives the contiding and cheats the un- wary. Thus he daily sows the sceds of fraud in the hearts 6 hfs employes with- out thought of what the harvest shall be, until he himselt is robbed by the thieves he has educated, but then he does not recognize that he has repped that which he has sown. s In the homes of the people, in the domestic circle, parcnts too commonly sow seed for a harvest of lying, deceit, contention and dishonor among their children. They quarrel intheir children's presence and indulge in bitter and acri- monious language; they teach their chil- dren to disrespect them by exhibiting a want of spect for each other in their presence; they deccive their children and the children discover it; they teach their children to tell the lies of society for them, and thus the children see no harm n lying for themselves; they live lives of false pretenses before the world under the daily observation of the forming minds and characters given to their care for traiming in the paths of truth, honesty, modesty and honor, and in after years they reap in tears and sorrow the harvest whose seeds they have sown. Why do they not before it is too late stop and ask themselves what shall the har- vest be t » "% Wealth is always honored and success flattered no matter how attained. It is so in the church, the communinity, the state. Trusts are betrayed, power abused, office prostituted to private gain, an the money thereby acquired sccures immunity from punishment through laxity of courts or the chicanery of law- yers, The man who retires from public oftice with more money than the oflice should rightly give him, and retains both the spoil and his standing in society, gives increased eagerness to the pursuit by others for the office he vacates, and they will the more readily resort to the corruption of voters, to frauds upon ballot boxes, and to every dishonorable and devious device to attain the place that they also may share in the spoil and achieve additional distinction by suceess. Yet when the people have reaped the baleful harvest of official de- faulters, corrupted courts, prostituted elections and betrayed confidence in thoso whom they honored and trusted, they wonder when the seed was sown, who cultivated, watered and nursed 1t, forgetful that them®elyps were the chief husbandmen. When all the people in all the walks of life, private, public. commercial and official, stop and ask themselves in referefice fo their own acts: What shall the harvest be? that harvest will doubtless be a lngh&r grade of com- mercial probity, a loftier sense of official integrity and a truer appreciation of pa- rental duty and the gmportance ot good example. Tue farlure of theittle subsidy scheme which the senate tacked onto the post- office appropriation Bll, - and finally abandoned after a stubbozn fight, will not be regretted by anv one outside of the steamship companies which would have reaped the benefit. It was not al- together the small Amount involved—half a million dollars—that made the scheme objectionable, but the fact that its suc- cess would have been an entering wedge opening the way to a subsidy policy the extent of which could not have been fore- seen. The next congress wonld be asked, had this scheme carried, to subsidize the Paciflc steamship lines, and the freshly made precedent would have proved al- most irresistible. Other demands would follow and the companies receiving sub- sidies would seck to have them increased. Thus step by step the country would be led into the adoption of a policy of subsi- dies from which retreat would be ex- tremely difficult. It 1s well that such a situation has been avoided, especially since in doing so it is not apparent that the general interests of the country will be in the least degree injuriously affected. THe growing city of Grand Island, in being selected asthe site for the soldiers’ home, secured a valuable prize. Her enterprising and wide-awake citizens are to be congratulated. Grand Island has always been selected as the place for holding the state soldiers' reunions, and it was fitting that the home should be es- tablished there. Wo bclieve, too, that the many open-handed citizens of this prosperous city north of the Platte will find both pride and pleasure 1n assisting the soldier boys in beautifying and erna- menting their grounds after the home is completed. The soldicrs’ home at Day- ton, O, is the pride of the Buckeye state. Visitors are charmed with the beauty o its surroundings, So we believe it will be at Grand Island GEORC M. PuLLMAN has been knighted by King Humbert of Italy. His royal nibs may now expect to be pre- sented with one of Pullman’s palace ears, Had not the inter-state commerce law been passed Pullman might have reci rocated with a free pass over all his America sleeping-car lines, IN THE LI VEIN, ‘T man who takes to the glass is gener- ally taken to the jug, 15 4oing out of date, but ns in all ot its worm- Tur chestnut the chestnut rew: eaten glory, I'nr few days of summer, the first of the month, suggested the street sprinkler and vanilla eoolness. STRAWBFRRIES have put in an appearance and a syndieate compused of twenty New York milliouaires is negotiating for one of them, A BEER BoycorT 15 the gavtion of a long article in a New York paper. Just ring the bell gently while we remark that it has caught many a boy, “THERE is nothing new under the sun,” says Solomon, yet the manner in which some women wear their hair is certainly a modern couception. A ST. Lous paper deseribes the terror of “May wheat.” That’s nothing. May Vernon was in Lineoln recently with ler royal troupe of burlesque artists. 'WHEN the poet wrote about “*A tixed figure for the time of scorn To point her slow, unmoving finger at.” he certainly received his inspiration from the woman at the theatre with a tall hat. “PARADISE LosT" Was 8 sl recently ex- nibited in Chicago, We are cawrapped in mystery when we wonder why they would attempt to lind it in Chicago. BETWEEN the disappointment in securing the passage of the coast defense bill and the anxioty oceasioned regarding our peach crop, the average American cltizen does not rest well at night, and gets but little sleep. 1¥ the sweet and hallowed pretty soon, according to the logio of Sam Jones, It will be determined whether or not death ends all. In the meantime let us not forget that cter- nal vigilance is the price of liberty, and the season approaches when our wives need new spring hats, A VIRGINIA negro died the other day at the mellow age of 100 years. He could neither rend nor write. Few men in this age who attempt to write poetry live over thirty years ~—if they deliver their productions in person to the editor. After all, knowledge has its disadvantages. “Tre whisky question,” said an excited prohibitionist, “s, shall we allow this infer- nal whisky to get away with us, or, brothers, shall we, by uniting, get the best of it?” To this a pink-nosed bum in the audience said : *Pass around your bottle, old man, and we'll meet the enemy on the last proposition.” bt e POLITICAL POINTS. Ben Butler must be getting himself in shape to stand as the landless candidate for the presidency next year. He has lately sold a little strip of 27,000 acres in Wisconsin. Mr. James Russell Liowell says the practi- cal politician must go. He is going, he has gone—to congress, to the legislature and to other places where offices are to be filled. Secretary Bayard, if a nameless Ohlo dem- ocratic congress may be believed, *‘has a burning anxiety to be president,” and wants to be transferred to the treasury department in the hope that it may iuctease his popu- larity. San Francisco Alta: 1t is said that Charley Farwell’s caucus nomination to the senate cost him §20,000. It Seem$ Silly to Ecour over $uch an In$ignificant sum. It would hardly purchaSe a $eat in the legiSlature in §ome State§. Chicago Times: Secretary Whitney is credited with a desire to promote a little pres- idential boom of his own. s prospeets at present do not look hopeful, but there is no telling what may be accomplished by perse- verance and Standard oil, Chicago Times: P. T. Barnum asserts that he shall vot under any eircumstances aceept the prohibition nomination for the presi- dency. Mr. Barnum’s moral impulses are completely satisfied by his great moral circus. Besides, he has got all the white elephants on his hands that he can possibly reauire, Chicago Tribune: An item is going the rounds to the effect that Senator Vestis much given to reading the Bible and can quote whole chapters from memory. Some man who is jealous of his popularity has started this story in order to ruin his chances of ever being elected again as senator from Missouri, G ey THE LECTURE FIELD. Greeley pald for Chappaqua by his lectures. Bayard Taylor cleared §5,500 in one season. Mark T'wain has made between $25,000 and §30,000 by his lectures. Tilton used to deliver fifty lecturesina season at §75 and $100, Chapin made $30,000 by his lectures and Emerson got rich in the same manner, Colonel Ingersoll says he will deliver no more anti-religious lectures. His law prac- tice takes all his time, Dr. Phillips Brooks has been in Philadel- phia arranging for the publication in book form of the lectures he delivered there. Anna Dickinson was at one time worth $15,000, all made by lectures, but it was lost through mismanagement. Josh Billings had all the lecturs engage- ments he wanted at $100, and left an estate of 875,000 all made after he had passed forty. Henry Ward Beecher has received more money for lectures than any other man on the platform record. He has been lecturing for torty years, his fees have increased from $50 to §200, and the agzregate amount being estimated at $250,000. Most of this money, however, has been lost. S Very Thin, Chicagn Times. Sarah Bernhardt 1s playing In Washing- ton. Mr. Watterson says she is not half so thin as civil-service reform e A Bad Egg. Norvistown Herald, A western lecturer has selected for his sub- Ject: ¢ Bad Egg.” This subject often strikes a lecturer unfavorably, » e A Blot. New York World, Nevertheless, it isa blot upon the clviliza- zation of the empire statq thatit should hang a woman in the year of grace 1857, 2 Ll From the People’s Pocket, Philadelphia Ttem. Boodle may indeed be derived from the Dutceh, but the general impression is that it is taken from the pockets of the people. ——— And the Corpse Will Be Ready, Indianapolis Journal, Occasionally we read of a cheerful crank who orders his own coffin before he dies. The demoeracy of Indiana have gone further and dag their own grave. Make the Walking Good. Chicago Times. The new railroad bill will abolish passes, and it would seem to behoove the legislature to give considerable attention to the improve- ment to state roads so as to insure good walking. - -— We May Be Ha y Yet. Peoria Transcript. If there is anything in the theory of evolu- fion the mugwump may become useful after all. If the monkey that wags his tail can be made to work, why can’t the muzwump that wags his iaws be brought to the saine condi- tion? e Books of Influence. Washington Critie, Gladstone’s latest article is on ‘‘Books That Have Influence Me.” Gladstone I8 English, you know, and can do no wrong; butif he were an American politician, now, he would write on **Pocketbooks That Have Influenced Me.” e A Satisfactory Explanation. Chicagn Tribune. Will Carleton says no man ought to do lit- erary work after 8 o’clock p. m., his brain not being in its best condition beyond that hour, We have but little doubt that same of Mr. Carleton’s poems of late years were written long after midnight, -—— Boston's Famous Trio. Chicago News. Literary Boston has just scored another great triumph. It has demonstrated that it contains the best fighting dog in New Eng- land. Literary Boston has lost its great writers, but it now has a slugger, a base ball player and a bull dog that it can deck with laurels. A Miller Who d No Grist, Chicago Tri®une. Dr. George L. Miller, one of Cleveland’s few warm supporters inthe west, hassold the Omaha flerald to John A. McShane. This Miller evidently got tired of grinding when uo ofticial grist was brought to his will SUNDAY GOSSIP, EnwAnp Ky, who was found dead In bed the other day, was a queer character. Ho was a widely known man in this city and to many he was a very mysterious person. He had lived in Omaha for about twenty years, By trade be was a shoomaker. Many credulous people believed him to be possessed of supernatural pow- ers which enabled him to read the past and foretell the future. Kuehl claimed to be the son of a German executioner, whose ances- tors had been executioners for many genera- tions, He also elaimed to be the seventh son of a seventh daughter, and to have been born under peculiar and favorable astrological conditions, Whethier or not he was a prophet, it Is certain that he made a profit- able living from those who took stock in his pretensions, While he soled boots and shoes he also sold a great many people, some of whom, perhaps, would mot like to see their names In print in this connection. With some timid and superstitious persons he inspired a certain amount of fear and awe by his pretended mystic power, and this was the cause of several deaths, mostly sul- cides. e In 1871 a highly educated German, em- ployed in the military headquarters, commit- ted suicide by shooting. A prominent Ger- maun professor was called upon to deliver the funeral address. The professor occupied a room adjoining Kuehl's quarters in a little frame building on Tenth street, near Farnam. Upon returning from the funeral Kueht pre- dicted to the professor that witnin less than six months he (the professor) would commit sulcide. This weighed heavily on the profes- sor’s mind, and he soon was continually brooding over the matter. To obtain relief he left tho city and Jocated at Grand Island. A few weeks afterwards the report was re- ceived 1n Omaha that the professor had iilled himself by shooting. The fatal prediction being known here among hig friends, the oc- currence added to the fame of Kuehl, the “magister of the departed,” as he was pleased to advertise himself. * Some years later I)“r.“\'nn Hoosen, whose office was next door to Kuehl's shop, was found dead on the floor in his bedroom, in the rear of the building, with his throat cut. e had committed suicide with a razor. It was generally believed that Dr. Van Hoosen was led to kill himself by some prediction by Kuehl, with whom he was very intimate. * Theeffect of Kueill's peculiar influenco was very strongly illustrated in the case of John Berlitt, who was employed as business manager of the BEr ofice in 187 Berlitt was an intelligent young man, healthy and of robust physique. He had a natural contempt for Kuehl's pretensions and did not hesitate to call the “magister of the departed” a fraud to his face. During one of their controversies Kuchl became enraged and picking up a piece of fresh meat he nailed It to the floor. ‘"“Now, sir,” suid he to Berlitt, *assoon as that meat bezins to decay you will commence to fade away.” Berlitt laughedat him, but a day or two later he began to complain of general depression and from that hour he rapidly weakened. It was then that Kuehl's prediction struck him very forcibly,and work- ing upon his mind it threw bim into a dan- gerous illness. Finally thedoctors held a con- sultation and came to the conclusion that in order to save his life he must take a sea voyage. He was at once supplied with funds and transportation and started for Germany. lmmediately upon getting out of sight of land he began to re- cover, and soon atter reaching Germany he entirely regaied his health. He lives there yet, and probably will be relieved to know that the “‘magister of the departed”’ can no more worry any one with his gloomy predic- tions. There were other cases, somewhat similar, but these are sufficient to show to what extent the mysterious old man ex- ercised his influence upon certain persons, He time and again admitted to the writer— who some years azo gave him considerable free advertising in the shape of miysterlous sensations—that he wasan arrant fraud. He frequently lauzhed about the matter, confi- dentially telling about the pranks he played upon his victims. “People like to be hum- bugged,” said he, *‘and so long as they want that kind of medicine [ am going to feed it to them.” x*n The was a great deal of humor in Kuehl’s composition. No one enjoyed a practical joke better than he. [n fact his whole life in Omaha was made up of practical jokes, as he termed his mysterious practices. He wound up his eareer with a practical joke by making u will that his remains should be cremated, and that his ashes, collected in an urn,should be placed over the bar ot a popular saloon. His wish in this matter will be strictly car- ried out. WHEN the vast andience at the exposition buiiding listened to Patti and Scaleni in the duet from *‘Semniramide,” no one supposed for an instant that there was the most bitter Jjealousy on the part of the great contralto to- wards Pattl, But such was the fact. It originated in the City of Mexico, whera the audience went wild over Patti in the first part of the programme, and fairly showered her with floral tributes, Scalchi received butone bouquet, and this made ber furious with rage. She threw the lonely bonquet back towards thie audience, incidently carom- ing on the bald-head of Arditi in the orchestra, greatly surprising the aged leader as well as the audlence. But there was in store a much greater surprise. When they sang the duet from “Semiramide” they were encored, and Pattl reached for the hand of Scalehi to lead her forward and acknowl- edge the compliment. Secalchi flew at Latti and drove her nails into her hand, bringing the blood. The sensational scene was wit- nessed by the entire audionee, and caused great excitement, Pattl, however, with her usual coolness and to show that she bore no ill will; towards Sealehi, turned round and kissed her, and then went forward tothe front of the stage with her, The affair was published in the Mexican papers, but was suppressed outside of Mexico. 1t was two or three weeks after this before Scalchi would even speak to Patti, While Scalchi may be applauded for her singing, such freaks of jealousy are not likely to elicit much adm ira- tion for her personally. “WneN John A. McShane bought the Herald establishment,” said a prominent citizen, “he zot a good thing, at least so far as the real estate is concerned. It is one of the best corners in the city, and it will only be & short thme when it will be worth alone as much as was paid for the paper and the realty. I would liketo seea good first-class hotel built on that corner. It is an excellent location, and there is plenty of room for ho- n Omaha, Additional ground can be secured by MeShane, I lhope he can be in- duced to erect the finest hotelbuilding in Omaha; He has plenty of money, and if he hasn't he can get all he wants, Mr. sleShar has not yet done his share to 1s Omaha’s welfare In the way of bmldings. Hereisa splendid opportunity for him to erect a hotel that will be an honor to himself and the city. That 1t would be a paying enter- prise there Is no doubt. Such elegant buildings as Frank J. Ramge’s—one of the finest in the city—Withuell block, Paxton’s Granite block, and Paxton’s building, are worthy of better neigubors than the old Herald office,” “My few reminders on negro minstrelsy last week have, I am glad to say, made memory rather active in this respect,” writes & correspondent of the Gossip. “1t served as a kind of cocktail after a long night ofa kind of dissipation in which forgetfulness furnished the material for the revelry. Ob, yos, Ican go back through maoy years and hear the music, listen to the repartees, onjoy the burlesques, keep time with the teprsichor eans just as if [ was was an attendant at ona of the performances to-night, And do you believe it when 1 hear some of theold fokes now a days they don’t seem like ‘chestn at all, but merely a kind of “Tonch the I Gently My Pretty Louiso and Sing Moo Song that I Love! The Morrls Brothers, Poll and Trowbridge wero greas minstrels and 1 think they gave a more practical coloring to tho *American opera’ than any troupe that trave eled, Their programme was exceedingly varied and captured the galleries every tin, Johnny Pell occupied the bone end and way afatson of Momus very similar to Billy Itice of the present day. He was one of tin first and best bone soloists and did a railway train imitation that would almost make ono imagine that he was & Nebraska legislator, and had a pocketful of passes, Billy Morris tipped the tambo, and was noticeable for his immense moustache and valuable diamonds, Matt Peel was really the first minstrcl who made & walking jewelry shop of himself, but Billy Morris exceeded him in the diamond circle. L on Morris was not very far benind. He owned a fast horse and of courso a diamond 18 as necessary behind a stepver as his tail. Londidn’t appear very prominently on the programme, and they do say he was a star actor where Faro shifted the green scenes, T'rowbridge acted as in- terlocutor and gave the baritone solos— excellent and unequalled in those days. ‘Near the Bank of the Lone River' was one of his songs and I think even now [ can hear the sweet musical whispers undulat. ing the reeds and rushes, This was a tsoston troupe and & good one. With it appeared tho best artists in all branches of the profession, The lank and lean and mayhap hungry Bar- naby, now of operatic constellation, mado his first successful appearance with the Mor- rls Brothers. So too, Campbell and Castle, the greatest American basso and tenor of their day. Dick Sliter, the champion jig dancer of the world, a Buffalo, N. Y., pro- digy, first shook the sawdust and made music with his feet under the auspices of this troupe, Then comes England’s clog dancer, Dick Sands. [His appearance with his Lancashire wooden shoes took the country by storm and America really got its first view of clog ex- ercise from the Morris Brothers’ show. Af- terwards Tom Iayes came over as arival. He and Dick, however, soon joined hands (or rather feet) and were the first clog team in America. Ad Weaver, and Master Barney first appeared with tho troupe in their button-bursting pieces. That ‘feefteen cents worth of leever’ of the duet was a taking card fora long time. If 1re- member right the tall, ungainly Nelse Sey- mour, after a long season with the Bryants, was with the Morrls Brothers, and he, Johnny Pell and Japanese Tommy used to do the ‘military’ act In which big drums and musical instruments were attached, to little more principal features, especially when they sang: Oh, I'm goin’ down to Washington, And don’t you think I oughter; For I'm goin’ down to Washington To tight for Abraham’s daughter. Tommy Drummond,the jig champlon, Mose Case, the Albany Albino banjoist, and this well known specialist in burnt cork, were with the Morris Brothers once, » “Kelly and Leon v‘:'o;!e great minstrel peo- ple. Their style was the operatie, aud they had no equals, exoept perhaps to Uns. worth and Eugene. The latter, however, did most of their work in London with the Christys, and America could not pass a good critique on their work., Leon took the fe- male character, and as he was effominate in overy way he suited the castsplendidly. His real name is Patrick Glassy. and he was originally & boy singer in St. Stephon's chureh, New York city, It was then the fashionable Catholie church of the metropo- lis. The cathedral was on Mott street, down town, Father McGlynn, its present pastor, was in old Saint Peter on Barclay street, and Dr. Cumings, the most popular priest ever In New York,was pastor of Saint Stephen’s, Leon or Glassyaattracted his at- tention. He had his voice cultivated, and the young boy sang soprano parts in the choir for a long time. Kelly and Leon, though comedians, were mixed up in a trag. edy of note in New York. For some reason they were bad friends with Sam Sharply, the celgbrated Monitor minstrel and his brother. The quartet were auditors at a matinee at the Fifth avenuo theatre, After the per- formance a street encounter occurred be- tween the four,and a scene worthy of & frontier town in hurrah days was the result. Several shot were discharged. Sbarply’s brother was killed by Kelly, and the jlatter was seriously wounded. Though Kelly and Leon appeared on the stage afterwards they never met with the old success. Sharply’s blood had apparently stained public appre- ciation, so that their garish lights failed to ghsten very brightly.” e The World From the Sidewalk. Did you ever stand in the crowded street, Inthe light of a city lawp, And list to the tread of a millron feet, In their quaintly musical tramp? AS the surging crowd £oes to and fro, “Tis a pleasant sight, I ween, ‘To mark the figures that come and go In the ever changing scene. Here the (mbllc:m walks with the sinneg o And the priest in his gloomy cowl, And Diveswalks by i fhe motloy crowd, With Lazarus, chaek by jow! And the daugliter of tofl, A o At otioss fame, 5 pure as her spotiess 3 Keeu rnwu with the woman who makes heg mart In the Launts of sin and shame., How lightly trips the country lass In the ml’:l:il of the city’s IYls. As freshly pure as the daisied grass ‘That grows on her native hills; And the beggar, too, with hunery eye, And lcan, wan face and ¢ Bestows a blessing on the pass As he gives him little or mueh. \When time shall have beaten the day's tate too, And in dusky armor night Is treading with echoless footstep through ‘I'ne gloom of the silent night, Some_ few of these shall be dair iy fed And sink to slumbers sweet, While many will go to a slecpless bed With never a crumb to eat! Ah, me! when the hours go joyfuily by, How little we stop to heed Our brothers' and sisters' despalring ery In their woe and bitter need. Yet such a world as the angels sought ‘This world of ours we'd call, If the brotherly love our father taught Was felt by each for all. Yet a few years more and this motley throng Will all have passed away, And the rich, and poor, and old, and young, Will be undistinguished elay; And the lips that laugh, and the lips thas moan, Will in silence alike be sealed, And some will rest under -tuu-by stones, And some in the potter's field. But the sun will be shining just as bright, And so will the silver moon, And just such a crowd will bo there at night, And just sueh a crowd at noon ; And men will be wicked and women will sin, As ever sinee Adand's fall, with tha same wide world to labor in, And the same over all. —— A Comforting Reflection, St Louls Globe-Dowoerat, The English court of appeals has reversed the recent decision granting an injunction to Miss Fay Templeton against the theatrical mnmflex who discharged her because of her pecullar style of stage dress, which, like the uri spring, bezins too lata ave M d Gm soon, It is probable, therefore, that will not play in London any more, ~ But ean carry away with her the eamrnrnnf e flection ny l' ith her fresh 0 d’ it Brown book he celebrates in glowe