Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 13, 1887, Page 4

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'Uzschuck, Mln1 first duly sworn, deposes and says that he Is secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual av- erace daily eirculation of the Dally Bee for the month of March, mm‘ 11,557 coples; for Aqsrll. 1886, 12,191 copres: forfor May, 1885, 12,- 439 coples; for June, 1846, 12,208 coples; for July, 188, 18,314 coples: for Aucust, 1850, 12,404 copies; for September, 1836, 13,030 copies; for October, 1886, 12,080 copies; for November, 1856, 13,348 covies; for December, 1886, 13,237 copies; for January, 1887, 16,266 coples; for Fobruary, 1887, 14,198 copies. k0. B. TZ8CHUCK. Subseribed and sworn to before me this 9th day of March, A. D), 1857, [SEAL.| Frir. Notary Public. Contents of the Sunday Bee. Pagol. New York Herald Cablegrams— gwcmla to the Brk.—General Telegraphic o Telegraphic News.—City News.— ¥, 8. ” Special Advertisements. 4. Editorials.—Political Pofnts.— 0881p. Lincoln News.—Miscellany—Ad- wvertisements, l'l:‘zalL Council Blufts News.—Miscellany, —Advertisements, Page 7. General and local markets,—Mis- cellany, Page 8. City News.—Advertisements. Page 9. Social Events,.—Politics Pure Per- simmons.—Advertisements. " Pave10, “An Applied Astronormy.”—I8s It Sense or Nonsense? by William P. Palmer —Labor Lacking Leisure—Advertisements, Page 11, Hearthstone _Happiness.— Omaha Millinery Supplies.—Some Charac- ters of Omaha.—Honey for the Ladies.—Mus- ! == f{cal and Dramatic.—Connublalities.—Adver- tisements. Page 12. ‘*Fistianlas Fair Female’s,” by lara Belle.—*' Skeletons,” by Adam Badeau ~—Singularities.—Religiovs,— Educational. — I’rov.erba Relating to Clouds,—Advertise- ments. For one week Lieutenant Governor Shedd has been avsent from the senate, but the government at Lincoln stll lives. SoMmE of the members of the legislature are like the servant girl who lost her ‘‘character” while on board of ship crossing the Atlantic. OMARA can hoast of the most dangerous rallrond crossing in America. Kansas City, Minneapolis and St. Paul are simply nowhere in that regard. —— Don't mention it to anybody: Mayor Boyd is willing to sacrifice himself once more 1if the citizens of the Third ward and Pat Ford insist upon it. Em————e—— It is given out that Governor Hill's boom is ripemng. It may wear itself out before the convention meets. Mr. Hull's friends have been too fast. It is supposed that Colonel Tom Ochil- tree will lenve Texas when the prohibi- tion bill becomes alaw. After all there ‘was & method in that legislative's seem- ing madness. \ ——— ‘Tue gay and bewildering French capi- tal, Paris, experienced an earthquake yesterday, and many walls of buildings were cracked and the populace was badly frightened —— ArTER soveral threats to continue all summer, the Dakota legislature has finally adjourned. Nebraska would re- Jolce if our statesmen would follow Da- kota in such a move. E—— Tue Chieago anarchists will have their hearing in the supreme court March 17. In the meantime Miss VanZando will continue in wax-—after which she b will probably wane. Mgs. Oscar NEEBE, wife of the an- archist, will be buried in Chicago to-day. ‘Ten thousand people will follow the re- mains to the grave, [f the procession is mot in a hurry it ought not disperse until the 17th inst., and then it might march again. Spies and his crowd will be tried on that date. em——— ACCORDING to our Washington dis- patches the name of J. Sterling Mor- ton has been favorably mentioned as one of the persons to investi- gate the Union Pacific ralroad. Our correspondent says Mr. Morton is an anti- eorporation man. This will be news to the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy road, and his son, its general passenger agent. e 1r is refreshing to read in a Philadel- phia paper the following false creation. An advertisement is going the rounds Just now, bearing the oft-quoted caption, “All men are liars,”” The quotation should be changed to read all eastern newspaper men avoid telling the trath, if this is an attempt in that direction: ‘Those who followed the advice of the late lamented Horace Greeley—went west and grew up with the country—have bad a rather hard time of it so far this winter, Between blizzards, the wind blowing at the rate of seventy-three miles an hour, the nipping of the frost, the thermometer marking forty- three degrees below zero, and the bandits who m to be unusually feroclous, the dwellers In the far west have had their lives made a burden. Nebruskans have passed a very fair winter. Stock has done well, and the ther- mometer hus been very moderate. These bandits, of which the eastern paper speaks, must be the bummers in Lincoln who been “‘holding up’ ‘so 3 many | different and attempting to on hones Ingilation. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE Don't Disgrace the State. The candidaey of Paul Vanderyoort for the honorable position of trustee of the new Soldiers' home is a disgrace to the state, and an insult to self respecting vet- erans of the Union army. Vandervoort is one of those blatant impostors who pass for brave warriors, IHe never came within gun shot of the rebels and never fought a battle except with his iron jaw. He never held a commission in the army, and never even received as much as a scrateh during the few weeks he served n the field, Tt was an imposition on the Grand Army that a man with Vander- voort's record should ever have been elected commander. But brass and rail- road ties were chiefly responsible for that. It1s not, however,on account of his impudent pretentions as a veteran that Vandervoort has proved himself offen- sive to all decent men, but on account of his disreputable personal conduct. His career in Omaha has been that of alow bummer and political parasite. As chief clerk of the railway mail service he made a most infamous record. He made the service subscrvient to political ends and schemes of knavery which brought scandal upon the department. In 1876 he was the chief conspirator con- nected with the memorable murderous assault by Curry, who was sent to the penitentiary for doing Vundervoort's cowardly bidding. The full testi- mony of Vandervoort's connection with this, criminal assault s still in our possession, together with Distriot Attorney Connell’s certifi- cate, showing that Vandervoort only es- caped indictment as an accessory be- catse proof was insufficient as to his knowledge of the deadly weapon (o be used in the assault. General Gresham dismissed this blatherskite from the postal ce for disobedience and in- competency, but he has found shelter under the benevolent wings of the Union Pacific railway which retamns him on its pay roll. During the present session of the legislature he has been in his element, carowsing with other bummers and vagabonds that have hired out to manipulate the weaklings and purchasable element of the legisla- ture. Issucha man fitto be a trustee of the Nebraska Soldiers home? Are the veterans of Nobraska fallen so low as to have no better choice from their ranks? Do they want another “Mendota Carpenter” to disgrace them before the world® We hope that we have reached a period in Nebraska's history when men without character can no longer aspire to positions of honor and trust. . The Science of Destruction. Probably in no period of the world's history has mankind given so much thought to the means of killing men and the destruction of the work of men’ hands as at the present. In every lized country the most eminent scient- ists, the most distinguished engineer: the most skillful mechanics and special- ists are engaged upon tho study of how to produce the most destructive explo- sives, the most powerful and far-reach- ing guns and the most invulnerable ships for attack and defense. Infinitely more thought, skill and money are now being ‘expended upon the means of destroying life and property than in all the efforts to advance civilization, education, mor- ality and the social comfort and well- being of the people. New and more rapid-firing guns for men’s hands and improved death-dealing ammunition tor use in them are replacing the old. Guns of size, strength and weight of projectile beyond former conception or supposed capacity to produce are now being turned out by thousands of skilled human hands, aided by the most perfect modern machinery. New steel ships of supposed increased power of resistance and the greatest possible speed to carry these guns are supplanting the old iron ships that cost untold millions of the product of peaceful human labor. Bombs and torpedoes of the most irre- sistable character for use above water and below, to be filled with new chem- ical explosives of almost infinitely greater power than powder, are being devised, tested and made ready for the harvest of havoe and death. In view of all this can it ba truthfully claimed that our civilization is anything more than a veneering? Does it not all prove that we may scratch the sottest human skin and find bYeneath it an orig- inal savage? Does it not prove that not- withstanding our high-sounding wvrofes- sions of regard for the rights of man, in spite of our lip-worship of Him who came to teach us peace, justice, charity and long-suffering, we are as combative, aus aggressive, as indifferent to ‘the rights which stand in the way of our ambitious and selfish purposes as when our race consisted of nomadic and ever-warring tribes? Governments claiming to exist for the defense of the rights of man have become agencies for man’s oppression, and to-day the world is an armed camp of greater magnitude than ever. Millions toil that other millions may be placed in battle array against each other, mainly for aggression and the gratification of the ambition of rulers. Europe is a rum- bling, threatening voleano, and when the explosion comes and the lurid flames of war break forth, the loss of human life, the destruction of peaceful homes and fair fields and the suffering of the innocent and helpless caused by the savagery of man and the brutal ambition of rulers, will far sur- pass the results of nature's recent con- vulsions. And will anything be settled permanently? Nothing. The victor of to-day will not long be satisfied with his gains nor will the defeated long submit to his losses, and thus the savagery of the race will continue to kill, burn and destroy, pretending to uphold the right, to maintain justice, to advance.the cause of religion, and yet marring and scarring all that is beautiful in nature whiie no human wrongs are redressed, no true civilization advanced. E———————— The Budding Navy. Notwithstanding the report that Secre- tary Whitney is contemplating retire- ment from the navy department within a few months, Washington advices repre- sent him as being leisurely but steadily de- voting himself to the task develved upon his department by the appropriations of congress for reinforeing the n There will be more work for this department during the next year than it has been called upod to do in any other year since the war. Under existing law the seretary is authorized to get his plans from any source, 80 that s sole dependence need not be upon the construction and steam- engineering bureau of his department. UNDAY MARCH 13, 1887.~TWELVE PAGES ‘This 18 agreeably to the policy which Mr. Whitney, so far as we are aware, is the first secretary of the navy to inaugurate, and it is at least to be hoped that the de- parture will have good results. It has subjected the seeretary to some criticism, chiefly for the reeson that he has shown a strong disposition to favor foreign vlans, and it 1s very certain that unless the policy is justified by unmistakable advantages Mr. Whitney must be a con- siderable loser in popularity. However, there are unquestionably sound reasons why this government should avail itself of the best wisdom and experi- ence 1t can command in recon- structing the navy. The progress of this work will be regarded by the country with steadily increasing interest. Very few people, we suppose, have an accurate knowledge of what proviston las been made by congress for giving the country a navy, or, at least, the nucleus We have to start with the old monitor Miantoromah. Next comes the steel cruisers, the Boston, Chicago and Atlanta, and the dispatch boat, the Dol- phin. Then there are the four steel cruisers authorized by the act of 1885, and for which the contracts were recently let. Last year's act provided for two armed of about 6,000 tons each, the plans for which are now being drawn, and also for four monitors, the bids for whose ar- mor and guns are now being rec The estimates further include one torpe- do bo; done cruiser with dynamite guns. This eruiser, which is designed to be simply a floating gun-carriage posses- sing extraordinary speed, will carry one of the Zalinski dynamite guns, charac- terized by the London 7imes as *‘the most infernal triumph of American inge- nuity."” The speed of this cruiser 15 to be at st twenty knots though much more is expected. The guns now in process of construction will throw 400 pounds of nitro-gelatine to a caleulated distance of two miles. If this boat can do the work claimed, the de- structiveness of its bombardment can scarcely be realized. The bill passed near the close of the last session provided for six more steel cruisers and one tor- pedo boat, All this, when carried out, will give us a navy of sixteen steel cruisers, five monitors, two heavily armored vessels, and two torpedo boats The cruisers, ept the dynamite boat, will carry from six to ten guns. This will certainly be a very respect- able beginning, and with the start thus made the work of creating such a navy as the country ought to haye may be ex- peeted to continue until we have an adequate supply of thoroughly service- able modern ships, capable of protecting the commerce of the nation should there ever be a demand for its protection, The cruisers now in prospect are not intended to be war ships, but will be designed rather as commerce destroyers, yet they will be constructed with refer- ence to any exigency that ght arise demanding their employment. The measures providing for these vessels carried with them provision for steel guns and armor, and it will not be long before a large gun factory will be fully under way near Washington, where mod- ern ordnance for naval use will be manu- factured. It will thus be seen that the navy department no longer has any ox- cuse for being a nursery of idleness, while the country is to be congratulated upon the fact that in this direction at least we are making progre A Promised Acquisition to the Stage, The cable has recently been doing gen- erous service in behalf of Mrs. Jumes Brown-Potter in acquainting the Ameri- can public with the purposes and plans of that accomplished lady now sojourn- ing in London. Presuming there are some of our readers who do not know who Mrs. Potter is, 1t isnecessary to state that she is a handsome and talented American woman, the wife of a wealthy New York banker,. Itis less than two years since this lady became something of a social sensation, although she had enjoyed a prominent place in the society of New York for a much longer period. The circumstances that gave her national netoriety, if the term be admissible, was her reading of the now well known poem entitled, ‘*’Ostler Joe,”" at a ladies’ re- ception given by Mrs. Secretary Whitney in Washington. As an elocutionary ef- fort the reading was a pronounced suc- cess, but the subject did not meet with goneral approval, A number of the la- dies in attendance professed to have been very much shocked, and the matter be- came atheme of disturbing social con- troversy which kept the currents of so- ciety life at the national capital greatly agitated for some time. The circum- stance was widely discussed in the news- papers of the country, the poem was everywhere published to the great ad- vantage of the author, and Mrs. Potter was elevated into a social sensation. The de- mand for her greatly increased, flattering attentions were continually showered on her, and a social occasion at which she was an attraction enjoyed a special dis- tinction. Mrs. Potter sought further conquests in England, and achieved them. With no greater difficulty than other pretty and accomplished women have had she secured the favor of the prince of Wales, and, as doesn't often follow, that of the princess also. Having always cherished a taste and desire for the stage, Mrs. Potter's marked successes as a reader intensitied her wish to become a “footlight favorite” and confirmed her faith in her histrionic talent. There was no lack of friends to encourage her. Besides, if Mrs. Langtry could succeed why not she, who had received much better training and was very nearly the peer of the English woman in beauty of face? Mrs. Potler went to Paris and be- came a pupil of Mme. Plessy, a former member of the Theatre Francais. Here she quite naturally found further encour- agement, which under the stimulus of liberal fees the French teacher was not sparing of. 8he found Mrs. Potter “‘a genius of remarkable magnetism,” and predicted that she would be ‘‘the Rachel of the future,” which to a French actress is superlative encomium. Under this generous and genial instigation Mrs. Potter did not long hesitate in deciding her course. And she is now under en- gagement for a season at the Haymarket, Londoun, where she will make her debut as ‘Ann Sylvester in “Man and Wife.”’ Next September, if her London engage- ment does not prove a failure, she will come to the United States. 1t is t> be hoped that the ambition of Mrs. Potter to win genuine artistic success” will be fully gratified. Ameri- cans will most heartily welcome her suc- cess, and feel proud of the fact that their country has contributed to art another talented woman. American women have done much for the glory of their country in the old world. Mary Anderson achieved a trivmph in England greater than has been won by any other actross in this generation, and she 1s ;going back there with the almost certain promise of re- newing it. Three or four years ago au American girl, Adelaide Detchon, went to London to try her fortune as a reader, and to-day she enjoys throughout the united kingdom an unrivalled reputa- tion as an artist. Five years ago anotber American girl, Miss Ella Russell, made her debut as a soprano singer at Prato, Italy. She was immediately successful, and has since scored brilliant triumphs in most of the musical centers of Europe, having been especially honored in Lon- don, where she sang last summer, The character and talent of American women are honored abroad by these rep- resentatives of their country, and the list of such cannot be too greatly en- larged. 1t will be very pleasing if Mrs. James Brown-Potter shall prove to be worthy to enter the 1i WE nave received from a firm in 1his city an inquiry as to whether the recent decision of the supreme court of the United States, declaring state laws taxing commercial travelers from other states to be repugnant to the clause of the constitution devolving uvon congress the exclusive power to regulate com- merce among the states, will apply to Montana. We do not think there can be any question regarding its application there as elsewhere. The decision is gen- eral in its scope. The claim of the Mon- tana authorities that the law there is con- stitutional ‘“‘because they tax the job- bers of their own territory as well as those coming from the states,”” wassetup in defense of the Tennessce law against which the supreme court decision was rendered. The chief justice and two of the associate justices regarded this claim as valid and dissented from the, decision, holding that to relieve foreign drummers from a tax imposed upon those belong- ing in the state would be a discrimination agamst the citizens of the state, but the majority of the court did not regard this claim as having any value. It was held that no regulation can be made by the state directly aflecting inter-stats com- merce, and that to tax the sale of goods before the sale is clearly a tax on inter- state commerce itself. The Montana law not stand under this decision. wholesale Tug Herald, in reply to an inquiry, says that trade dollars can now, and for a period of six months from the 4th of March, be used as a circulating medium. Seckers after knowledge should in all cases address their Inquiries to the BEE, and they can rely ipon getting correct information. The law passed by the late congress did not make trade dollars a legal tender; it simply provided for their redemption by the government in standard dollars or fractional silver coins. No one could; pay a debt of $20 in the trade coins now, if the creditor re- fused to receive them, any more than he could any time for years p: THERE was another shocking exhibi- tion of anger in the senate Friday. Dur- ing a spirted dobate, Mr. Keckley said that Mr. Colby was a bully and a cow- ard. Mr. Colby, as 18 his custom, ex- claimed, “You are a liar.”” Mr. Keckley. undertook to resent the accusation, and struck atthe malitia man with such force that had not Tom Majors—brave, daring, generous, self-sacrificing Tom—fell upon Colby's neck, the gentleman from Gage would never have introduced another bill, DuRING the winter months in Omaha, railroads, large factories, imposing buildings and many different enterprises are contemplated, but some way or other, the spring fails to thaw some of them out. St. Paul and her slster city boast of their ice palace in the winter months, and during the heated term the residents bathe in the laughing waters of the Falls of Minnehaha. Nature has made these pleasures rossible, In a generous mood “nature was more lavish in creation, in that particular part of the northwest, than she has been with the pres- ent generation of people there. If the fol- lowing items from the Ploneer-Press are to be belleved, Comanche Indians could have acted no worse than those claiming clviliza- tion, during Patti’s concert: ‘There's no person on earth who can sing against 5,000 people all talking, ‘The small boys in the windows ot more excitement [or thelr money than anybody in or about the house. There was one thing which served to mar Patti’s superb performance for the portion of theaudience occupying the seats fronting the center of the house. It was the noise made by small boys who had climbed upon the roof and were taking in the concert through the clere-story windows. The clat- ter had been a niusance from the beginning, and w! Patti began to sing it was more noticeabl Minneapolis and her sister city should put their money into arespectable opern house, It was a disgrace that Patti should be obliged to appear in an unsightly skating rink, ‘The men, we insist should build an opera house instead of anice palace, while the mothers of the unruly urchins should stop sliding down hills on toboggans and teach their children how te act before com- pany. AN eastern paper by a dpzen illustrations, has shown how tight shogs fnjure women's feet. In order to make latge pictures of the chords and museles, plctyres of the feet of Lincoln girls were used. | IN a somewhat lengthy pditorial the Kan- sas City Journal says, earhustly, that “a po- liceman and his club is the only outward visible symbol of powér publicly known in Amer If thisis ttie America Is cer- tainly in a pad way. A NEW play, by Auna Katherine Greene, is just out. Anna goes 4long way around the bush to slap Sara Bérnhardt, but it is nicely done as follows: “What! Yon poor rail williout a gewgaw on him Yon peaked, plain, serimipd man in leaden hose? If 1 were horn so small l‘Ll‘)mnz yselt But [ would get more flesh, A 100K entitled “How He Lost Her,” is on our table. It fairly chu¢kles with fiendish delight. We have not tinkhed the narrative but enough was read tojhow that she was Loveisblind. Yet itito be remarked that it never stood on the sreet all day and ground out horrible souads from a hand organ. *“A WomAN's CLun” hat been organized In New York. Most marriedmen are familiar ‘with its workings. ELLA WurerLes WILLOX has gone to Ouba. Ella must remember that passionate poetic license will allow “ruby” to rhyme with the name of that southern country. But tuba would be too shrill a blast, dear Ella—pray be careful ——— PROMINENT PERSONS, There are thirteen candidates for mayor- alty houors In Cincinnati, Congressman Campbell is a canaidate for the democratic nomination for governor of Ohio. James G. Blane and John 8. Wise are sug- guested by an “original southern republi- can™ as a strong combination for 1588, Ex-Senator Hill, of Colorado, says he has withdrawn entirely from politics and is de- voting his attention entirely to businoss. Congressman Hepburn, of lowa, having been defeated for nomination, will take the field as a soldier candidate for Senator Wil- son’s seat. ‘The Providence Journal says the supre- ‘macy of the republican party in Rhode Island is now seriously threatened, for the first time since the war. ‘The vote on the prohibition amondment in Michigan will probably be materially atfected Dy the decision of the third party to put & ticket in the field, Chicago Tribune: Secretary Manning is going to Eurove. He can evidently stand a wide separation from the administration for which he took the contract of furnishing brains. Cassius M. Clay has canceled his appoint- ments to speak throughout the state of Ken- tucky, but adheres to his purpose to run for the oftice of governor. In this respect he re- mains a Kentuckian. Congressman McComas, of Maryland, be- lieves that Sherman and Hawley would be an invineible presidential ticket for the re- publicans to nominate next year. But he thinks also that Blaine will get the nomi na- tion if he wants it Ex-Senator Thurman is said to consider Cleveland as “a man of courage, coolness and wisdom.” From the ‘‘old Roman's standpoint there is no difficulty in recogniz- ing the coolness, at least, whatever may be thought of the wisdom, Congressman Scott, of the Twent venth Pennsylvania district, gave $25,000 to the and campaign fund at a critieal period, reputed much disgruntled at the pre: dent’s lack ot appreciation of his valuable services and threatening to resizn his seat. It is said he has long been ambitious to go into the cabinetas secretary of the navy in place of Whitney. The Inaia Muddle. Atlanta Constitution. The Indiana democrats appear to be stiil inamuddle. A muddle in Indiana appears to be muddlier than in any other state, On the*lnstaliment Plan. Chicagy Tribune, ‘There is one thing certain—if ladles’ hats get any taller the fashion papors will have to be enlarged or the pictures of the hats given to the public on the installment plan. RBeecher's Shoes. Chicago Times. ‘Che preacher that receives a call to Plym- mouth church will probably not accept it without considerable hesitation. It will take a very large man not to rattle 'round in Plymouth pulpit like a lone seed in a gourd. — —— When the Two Booms Meet. Philadelphia Bulletin, The presidential boom for Governor Hill, in New York,seeins to be growing with great rapidity. But it remains to be seen whether it has enough substance in it to stand the rude collision which it must inevitably meet with a Cleveland boom organized under the auspices of the federal machinein New York state. e A Wise Provision. Chicago Tribune, ‘The Minnesota legislature has passed a law with a provision that no person can bring suit against a newspaper orother publication without giving three days’ notice, during which time a retraction may be published, and such retraction must be received in evi- dence when the suit is tried. - This seems a direct blow at one industry of the varlety of lawyers known as “‘jack. i Shown Up in Its True Light. San Fraicisco Chronicle. The Mormon who was willing to live with his thira and youngest wife, but preferred the penitentiary to his aged wife, revealed the true feeling of most ot his class of luw- breakers. The women who have grown old in slaving tor their husbands are looked upon only in the hight of incumbrances, and the domestic love whichexists in most mono- oagamous households is wholly lacking. There was never a truer revelation of the selfish- ness and lust of Mormanism than this old reprobate unconsclously made in the court- room. We T What s life? 1 ask—and you? We who have known its joys and sorro we, 1ts sullen and its fair to-morrows; We who have thou.ht it perfect day And fallen fainting by the way— What use 1s life to us—we two? What use is love? I ask—and you? We who have revelled in its blisses, Drunk ourselves drunk with its kisses, ‘And seon its dawn maolt into night, Leaving behind but baleful blight; What use is love to us—we two? What use are friends? 1 ask—and you? We have tested them together In sunshine and in rainy weather, And find few left when storms portend, And none to stand fast to the end; What use are friends to us—we two? ‘What uge is hope? I ask—and you? We who, through many stern denials And sickening pain and piteous trials, Haye kissed the threshold of the world o find it still but long deferred— What use is hope to us—we two? What use is faith? I ask—and you? We who have toiled and” wrought and strived, And falled, and prayed to be forgiven, ‘And watched and waited everywhere, But heard no answer to our prayer; What use 1s faith to us—we two? Shall we then glve up life—we two? 1f we shall fall fainting by the way There cometh yet a pertect day; We need both sad and brizht " to-morrows, Jovs would not be joys without sorrows; 1 will not give up life—will you? Shall we then [flva up loves—we two? 1f it goes on in a baleful blight, ‘I'ne morning followeth the night; “Thero are yet left for us its Kisses If we but cherish well its blisses; 1 will not give up love-—will you? Shall we then give up friends—we two? We have not waited till the end For those who stand when storms portend ; Alayhap in clear and cloudy weather They’ll rise and fall with us to-ether; 1 will not give up friends—will you? Shall we then give nr hope--we two? We may yet pass, though long deferred, ‘The threshold of that gracious world, And find, thmu‘m many pains and trials, Made glorious all our stern denials; 1 wiil not give up hope—will you? Shall we give u[- faith—we two? 1f we walt patiently our prayer Will soon be answered everywhere; For fallure we mn‘ be forgiven, Since humbly we have toiled and striven; 1 will not give up faith—will you? st United Labor's Platform. 8t. Louis, March 12.—The umited labor party in convention last night nominated a eity ticket to be voted for at the next spring election. A long platform was adopted, the ief features of which are obposition to : taxation and over-paid city officials, n of the eight-hour law, abolition of the tenement house system, equal taxing of the rich and roor and giving of track facill- ties to all railroads SUNDAY GOSSIP. ‘The Denver papers a few days age con- tained an item of considerable interest toa great many Omaha poople, especially the earlior settlers. It was the announcement of the death of Mrs. Annie Dean Clopper, half- sister of the once famous nctress, Julih Dean Iayne. Two weeks be- fore her death she had & dream in which she saw her approaching end, saw her body lald in the coftin, and the scene im- pressed itself so vividly on her mind that she observed the dress in which she was clothed, the manner in which her hair wasar- ranged. and even the ornaments in her col- lar. Al efforts on the part of her friends to laugh away this unpleasant memory were un- availing. She believed that her hour was appronching, and at the time she especially charged her friends that when she died she wanted to be ciothed just as she bad ap peared to herself in the coffin, Her reque was complied with, and the corpse was dressed for burlal and every detail arranged w8 she had partieularly requested, even to the position of the head, ' Mrs. Annie Dean Clopper was the wite of Colonel John Y. Clopper, who died in Denver about three vears ago. Colonel Clop- per and his wife were for a number of years residents of Omaha. When the Caldwell block was built Colonel Clopper, John L. Redick and S, 8. Caldwell united and built the Academy of Music, now the People’s theatre. Mrs. Clopper was a very handsome woman and moved in the best circles of Omaha society. Her sister Julia Dean Hayne was the leading character in the first theatrical entertainment ever witnessed in Omaha. The performance was given in the summer of 1860, in the dining room of the Herndon nhoyse, now the Union Pacific head- quacters. “[have wholly forgotten who the other actors were or what the play was,” said an old settler. *L do not think the company were on a professional tour, as they had no scenery, They borrowed a bolt of muslin at ‘Tootle & Jackson’s store to make the cur- tain.” “Tie newspaper men will always remem- ber the late Henry Ward Beecher th kind regard,” remarked an old New York re- vorter Iast evening, **Of all prominent pub- lic men I think he was the most approach- oble. Even during his great trials—both church and state—the eminent divine was affable to the humblest scribe though the latter may have boen connected with a papor that was anti-Beecher, and a duty assigned him that was to discolor the bright plush of Plymouth’s pulpit. True it 1$ that his coun- sel and friends kept Henry Ward Beecher as much aloof as possible from interviews by press representatives, and well they might, for words had been placed in type—in cold tead-that never fell from the great preach- er'smouth, and ‘Bohemian’ translations were given to his expressions as far removed from the truth as an KEzyptian hieroglyphic 18 from a hanging-order to a sheriff, **u “The last time I met Henry Ward Beecher was in the Brackett house, Rochester, N. Y., when he and his private secretary were on their way to Salt Lake. This was sometime atter the last trial and shortly subsequent to the time when he was chosen chaplain of the Thirteenth (Brooklyn) regiment of the New York National guard. He had been absent from home several days, haviag made the trip to the point named via the Erie road as he wished to pay a visit to his brotner, Thomas, in Elmira. I tound him in the hotel parlor waiting for the western train, He was reaaing by the aid of a half burned wax candle which he held in his hand close to the paper, although there was the usual ample gas light in the room. Very pleasantly he remarked that his eyesight had grown dim and necessitated a nearer light than that renerally afforded by the illuminating fixtures in public places. He said he was making a western trip, per- haps for the last time, and that only one more extensive journey was in his contempla- tion, and that was across the sea. ‘I hate,’ he said, ‘togo to Europe and have people ask me about places of note in my own coun- try, and then have to confess I never saw them., Hence, I intend to make very close observations during this western journey.’ On being asked if he did not think the ordeal through which the Tilton scondal had forced him would occasion- him rather unpleasant publiclty, he sald he had never given that matter a thouzht since the case had ended in the courts.” In fact, as the newspapers had made it their own proverty, he did not even then have a first mortgage on the scandal. It 80 happened that on the day referred to Frank Leslie’s illustrated journal had arrived with the first paze picture representing Henry Ward Beecher in the full mulitary dress of the chaplain of the Thirteenth, When it was shown him for the first time he laughed heartily and remarked that the picture was very life-like indeed, especially as he had never worn the uniform, and in fact had not at that time ordered it. He hoped, however, that the tailor would make as good a fit as the sketch artist had and also as cheap. Wendell Phillips had lectured in Rochester that night on ‘Daniel O'Connell’ When Mr. Beecher heard of this he became very en- thusiastic In praise of the great orator, and expressed his regret at not being in the city atan hour that would have parmifted his attondance at the lecture. ‘Wendell and L have been friends for a lifetime.” he sald, ‘and there is only one thing 1 have to blame him for. He ought to have been a ministor, What good he could have done! Yes, he might have been a chaplain of a militia regi- ment, and I do not doubt in the least that had he taken clerical orders he would have been the target of seandalous tongues and pons. One thing is certain, however, he has done more than a reziment of soldiers and preachers for the freedom ot the negro, and if Ireland had one or two such cham- pions, that distressed country would need no Fenian organization.” s “Just before M. Beecher departed for the west Wendell Phillips arrived at the depot to take the train for the east. The meeting between the two great American orators was of the most cordial character, and profuse regrets were heartily expressed that they were not going in the same direction. Thus ended an interview ever to be remembered. Henry Ward Beecher, of course, had not thought of Grover Cleveland’s candidacy then and of jumping the republican party traces, so the democratic journals had nothin, but eriticism for him, As a resdlt it happened that the printed interview the next miorning gave the evening bourbon papers a good oppor- tunity to comment on the propriety of Mr, Beecher's Salt Lake journey, and to advance the suggestion that his permanent resi- dence there would not be out of place.” “I sge W. Irving Bishop, the mind- reader, is creating quite a furore in the east,”’ remarked an old newspaper man yesterds “1 knew him very well long before reputation in his peculiar sphere was at ifs zenith, Long before he went to Europe and set all the canny Scoteh theologians in Edinburgh agog, 1 knew on one occaston when his mind-reading didn’t pan out worth a cent. 1 was in an New York town and Bishop was there. The *Evangeline’ troupe was there, too, on its first provincial trip. Then it was at its best. Poor Harry Hunter, now deceased, was the Lone Fisherman, and Henry F. Dixey, the phenomenal Adonis, was doing the ‘front legs' in the heifer dance. There were some very pretty girls in the cast, among them 1 think the late Venie Clancy. At any rate Bishop was ‘mashed,’ to use an inelegant term on one of the ‘Evanzeline’s.” - @onse- quently, wherever that troupe went the mind reader's name was sure o appear or the same hotel register. One night after the curtains had ru ¢ down on ‘Evangeline.’ ti.e male members of the party, Inclnding Rice, the .composer, George Cassady, busines manager, Dixey, Iunter and all the prominent boys, mot forgotting some of the newspaper fraternity, were us sembled for a little lquid eriticlsm, 11 course of time Bishop and Rice besan talkin.: on different things, theatrical dates, ct when the former came to me and said, ‘I wish you would keep this pocket-book until I to the hotol, as there are so many stranger here and the wine is flowing rather free may lose 1t.” 1 took the old money rece| cle, put it in my side pocket and never gave it athought until the party broke up, or sometime afterward. Now comes the fail of mind reading. Bishop went to his hote: and the next morning missed his pocket book, which contained $2,000 in bills. | finished my nights’ work, went to my honi in the gray of the morning, never dreaming that I had so much money in iy possession and only too happy that 1 had quarter to meet the requirements of a ‘morn ing’s morning.’ Of course I aid mot show up until duty called in the afternoon and stil all thought of Bishop‘and his pocketbook hac never entered my mind. As I subsequently learned he had searched the different places where he had been the night before high aud low—he had notified;} the police~he had ad- vertised in the evening papers and got dod gers out offering a reward for the return of his property. I met him in the oftice, met him on the street. Finally the second day after wards ny wife in looking over my ecoat dis. covered the strange wallet and the whola Bishop loss came to me at once. I sought himout and the property was at once re- stored. e may have had many other happy days in life but 1 think up to that time this occasion took the cake. Where was his mind reading though? Ie had met me fre quently during the time the pocket book was in my possession and never mentioned his loss, The thought of having it had faded entirely from my mind and there is no tell- ing when [ would have remembered its pos- session were it not for that accidental dise covery.” THE ATIH‘A '!;TALI'}. The Pioncers of the City's Shady Spots Food for the Axe, “Woodman spare that tree’” has often been thought of by men with gray, thin hair who never heard the song. Tha demands of civilization and mod- ern progress, plant and destroy forests as convenience or profit de: mands. Not only are the foliage and fruit trees, planted to exemplify the tasto of a land owner, removed by a subse- quent possessor, but the sturdy monarchs of forests primeval fall obedient to the wood-hewer's axe to furnish fuel or a resting place tor man's habitations whether on farms or in tongregated cities. Great historical events have hap- pened beneath the rustling leaves on wide branched shady trees. Yet their stately presence at such events affords no greater immunity from the destruction wrought by time, than Is afforded the human participants in the events. A small marble shaft, half covered with weeds, and surrounded with n rickety, rotten paling fence stands in lieu of Penn's great Treaty tree in Philadelphia, while around are shipyards, the rumblo of carts over the cobble-stone payvements, the cry of the fish woman and hawker and the noise of industry in every man- “ner manifested. The city has its history in Independence hall. In Omaha workman arc now engaged in cutting down large trees, not forest trees that were planted by nawre beforo Omaha was ever dreamed of and when lolling deer lazily licked their haunches where the Millard hotel stands and more lazy Indians smoked in their tepees where Iler’s distillery steadily turns out its liquids, but trees that were planted by Omuha's early settlers, men who are dead and have passed away save in tho memory of a few friends and now these largo full grown shade trees are being chopped and trimmed until naught but the trunk stands when it will come ¢rash- ng to the ground before the “irresistible destruction’’ of improvement. - Abouy 1865 Councilman Goodrich's father owned the property at the curuui of Sixteenth and Farnam strcets. A that time the old court house stood whera the Paxton building now is being erected and the city hall rookery was not iu ex- istence at all. Sixtcenth street was about eight feet lower than it now is aod re- mained so until about seven years ago when it was filled up to its present level Avout the time first spoken of, twent two years ago, Mr. Goodrich, sr., em- ployed Thomus Smith, who is still lfvinfi in Omaha, to plant a row of cottonwoos trees along the west line of his lot; the east side of Sixteenth street. Thoy were planted and grew rn‘)i(lly.thny were & great favorite for this reason, though men of better judgment in tree planting had pronounced them nothing but “‘big weeds.” Some timo afterwards, when fire engine No. 3 had its houso built the firemen and citizens of leisure would spend many sunny, summer hours under the shade of these trees, smoking cob pipes and telling old down east yarns, while waiting the arrival of tho steamboat, a prairie schooner train or something equally exciting. Mr. Good- rich,sr., died about twelye years ago and now workmen are busy cutting down these trees which he and the Omaha of his days deemed a neat adornment to tha city. New buildings are going up. ‘The same time the Goodrich trees were planted J. P. Black, who was at the time an extensive hardware and stove dealer, planted cottonwood trees on Bixteenth and Dodge, on bothsides of his property, They have grown big and strong and healthy. His house, which stood under them on the corner, was then deemed an aristocratic mansion, Until a fow weeks ago it was a black,humped,cracked, win- dowless, home for vagrants aud rats. 1t has been taken away and now its protectors, the strong-limbed proneers of the city, are doomed. The oung Men's Christian association are about to erect an imposing ediice, in keeping with the progress of the city, and the sign is hung among the brauches that the trees must be removed. Mr. Black, their planter, moved to Chicago some time ago and is dead. ‘These old trees looked around Omaha when there were not 5,000 people in it; when lots between houses were many and eusily had; when the blufl on Farnam streev rose abruptly, shutting off the view of the western prairie beyond; where no house or other human habita- tion stood,and the wind whistled through their boughs each recurring winter, as they welcomed the thousands who since have swelled Omaha's 'mpumuou until it now demands that they be laid low to make room for less romantic improve- ments. i Fatal Rallroad Wreck. (= ] 81, Louis, March 12,—The outbound train on the Jacksonville & Southeastern railroad broke a wheel yesterday while crossing a trestletwo miles north of Girard. IlL, and two coaches were thrown down the embanke ment fifteen feet. Thero were about thirty Emuenzm in the two cars, State Senator . Southworth, of lsynchfield, 11l., was seri- ously injured internally. Mrs. l'efft, of Jack- sonville, and George Parks, of Girard, ara not expected to live from injuries, Four more were also Injured, e A Milwaukee Anarchist, MILwAUKEE, March lfl.—J‘udfu Dyer of the United States district court this morning sustained .the demurer toithe indictment for perjury sgainst Grottkou, who, 1t it claimed, made an aflidavit of ecitizenship a' the lust election, The judge held that Grott kou's affidavit was wot required by law at proof of his residence and that two freehold ers who witn the tlfavll were Jeally the guilty parties. There 18 stlil an indict- nan{ for rioting pending against Grotikuw