Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 20, 1887, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. * PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSORIPTION ¢ ily (Morniag Edition) Including Bunday One Yoear...... for Bix Months .. .. ‘ot Three Months The Omaha Sunds address, One Yo 10 00 ‘Ano 20 200 o ¥ STREMY W YoRK OFFICE, ROOM &, TRIBUNE BUILDING. ATIA OPPICE, NO. 014 AND 18 FARNAM 3 ABBINGTON OFPFICE, NO. 513 FOURTEENTU STREET. CORRESPONDENCE: All communications relating to news and edl- torial matter should be sddressed to the Eul- O OF THE BrE. BUSINESS LETTERS? All business letters and remittances should be da 1o THE BE® PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAHA. Drafts, checks and postofiico orders 10 be made payable to the order of the sompany, THE BEE POBLISHIG COMPANY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER, EpiTor. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebraska, County of Douglas, }" . Geo, B. Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swear tha the actual circuiation of the Daily Beo the week ending Mar. 11th 1887, wus as g:llowl 2 'riday, Mar. 11, kS Z8CHUCK. Subscribed in my presence and sworn to be- fore me this 12th day of March A. D., 1857, . P. FEIL, ISEALI Notary Publie. Geo. B, ‘'zschuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he lssecretary of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual av- eraze daily circulation” of the Dally Bee for the month of March, 1 ‘Agrfl. 1886, 12,191 copres: coples; for June, 1856, 12,208 Ju%.‘ 1886, 12,314 coples; for A 18, coples; for September, 1886, 13,030 coples; for October, 1886, 12,989 copies; for November, 1856, copies; for December. 1880, 13,287 copies: for January, 1887, 16 copies; for Fubruary, 1887, 14,198 copies. Gro. B. 178CHUCK, Bubseribed and sworn to before me this 9th @ay of March, A. D). 1887, Ré!AL.I N. P. Friv, Notarv Public. " Contents of the Sunday Bee. Pagel. New York Herald Cablegrams— als to the Bre.—General Telegraphic ews, Pace 2. Telegraphic News,—City News.— Miscellany, Page 3. ° Special Advertisements, Page 4. Editorials,—Political Points.— Bunday Gossip. Page 5. Lincoln News.—Miscellany—Ad- yertisements. T’age8. Council Bluffs News.—Miscellany. —Advertisemerts, General and local markets,—Mis- ¥, ge 8, City News.— Advertisements. Page®. (iin Palacesin Gotham, Howard.— Fann Talking in France.—Blood and Iron,— Animal Stories.—Advertisements. Page10. Fractional Feminalities.—Pleas- res of Penman. — Chinese American judents.—Dainty Dudedom’s Doings, by 'ranz Sepel.—Advertisements. Page 11. Matrimonial Merriment.—Singu- rities.—Honey for the Ladlies,.—Educa- o:’:};’.— Religious.— Impieties,— Advertise- n"nza 12, Buchanan’s Bad Breaks, by Adam deau.—Fixing Feminine Faces, by Clara ello.—Musical and Dramatical.—A "Hindoo oliday.—Advertisements. SE— THE Chicago boodlers are being prose- cuted. Poor old St. Louis breathes yet #nd that is all. EeS———— ‘Tur Buffalo horror again suggests the Sdea that public buildings must be pro- wided with a better system of fire escapes. ———— THE members of the house, when Gar- 4ey introduced an abusive resolution, wyotel it down. They knew better than o accept the utterances of a till-tapper. —— ‘TAHE salary of the governor of Ohio, has recently been raised, by an act of the Jegislature, to $8,000 per year. And yet Pir, Foraker would like to be president. m—— 1t is almost time for ambitious politi- pians to bring out their dark horse for the presidential race. The dark horse merally is among the first named can- Slidates. CE——— GENERAL BRrAGG, of Wisconsin, is ‘#hreatened with the terrible affliction of blindness, In this misfortune the demo- eratic party loses one of its most effective Jworkers. 8 OvER 800 men are anxiously awaiting * #0 be appointed on the inter-state com- fuerce commission. As only six are re- , and 204 statesmen will neces- . .garily be appointed. —— THE Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage will lec- $ure in Omaha during this montn. His . bject is, “The Bright Side of Things.” 'he legislative judiciary committee _#hould hear him talk. E—— It 13 estimated that 8,000 versons are mlnz in Nebraska each day this month. estimate comes from a reliable ce and is certainly most gratifying. here is yet ample room for all who wish come. e ! Nexr year that great and unquestion- good man, Robert Furnas, will sub- it a bill to the legislature reading, ‘‘for mervices rendered in lobbying through ‘uy last appropriation, $2,600.” And out any question of doubt the greedy ibitor will receive the money. Em———— Tur legislature occupied the time of rday in adopting resolutions in con- _@emaing the cditor of this paper. Less nine members have been charged crime. But it has been said if a is thrown among a thousand dogs, one hit is certain to howl. Mr. Pem- 's actions yesterday are sugestive —————— NOTWITHSTANDING all the miserable @waddle written by the subsidized pre: subject of Mr. Rosewater's deo- i it should be remembered that . Be will be in Omaha in a few days. The b Ity members of the judiciary commit- | if they ever possessed one sacred $hought, would be inclined to pray that editor of the Bee would remain f . until the legislature adjourns. 4 E———— . In the Massachusetts legislature the - nen suffrage committee has reported r bly ona bill which offers greater eges to the ‘‘down-trodden’’ women. principal feature of the new measure &ive to every womun whose name appear on the regster of voters of L QRN b TS T L T T WA R THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY., MARCH 20, 1887~TWELVE PAGES. Mr. Rosewater's Charges. The attempt on the part of the organs of the boodlers, jobbers and railway cor- porations to make capital in the interest of the parties who have been charged with bribery and conspiracy in connect- jon with the anti-gambling bill, because the editor of the BEEk has seen fit to go east on private business, is in keeping with their course ever since the legis- Iature has been in session. More than three wecks ago Mr. Rosewater made known 1{o various parties that he would be obliged to make abusiness trip to Chi- cago, and perhaps further east, between the 15th and 20th of March. Among these parties were Senator Lininger, W. J. Connell, Fred W. Gray, Frank Murphy and a dozen others. The charges were filed on Monday, March 14. The next morning, just as soon as notice was served on him that the committee was orzanized, Mr. Rose- water appeared before that body with a carefully prepared memorandum giving all the particulars and details which formed the basis of his charges. He pub- licly stated to the committee that this memorandum would enable them to send for all the witnesses and cary on a very thorough investi- gation in case anything should befall him personally, or if for some rea- son he could not be present. At the re- quest of the committee Mr. Rosewater went before the clerk of the supreme court and certified under oath that this memorandum contained the facts known to him in this case. It will be remembered that the house adopted the original resolutions, after a long and full debate, to make the investi- gation within closed doors. Acting upon the belief that this procedure would be strictly followed, Mr. Rosewater took pains to prepare his memorandum, but when the house rescinded its action and directed the committee to take no testi- mony unless the members of the judiei- ary committee were present, he withdrew his memorandum, as he had a nght to do. Had he left it with the committee the parties implicated would at once have been placed in possession of all the proofs which were likely to be brought against them. They would have been enabled to concoct a story of their own to counteract and contradict the proba- ble testimony, and to block the wheels of investigation by sending away witnesses or controlling such as were willing to become their tools. The fact is that the reactionary work of the house was the result of a plot got- ten up by members of the judiciary com- mittee who had become frightened over the prospect that their crooked work would be exposed to the public if the in- vestigation were carried on within closed doors and each witness testified by him- self without knowing what any other witness had told. It would have been utterly impossible for the conspirators in the separate examination to agree npon any story that could not have been broken up by cross-examination. If each one, however, could hear what the others testified or read the testimony before he testitied it would be but natural for him to adopt his answers to the explanations given by his confederates, So far as run- ning away or evading the responsibility Mr. Rosewater expressly declares in his letter to the committee that he will re- turn in a few days and hold himself ready to proceed, even if the house per- sists in carrying on the inquiry under conditions which on their face are in- tended to frustrate the main object of the investigation. The fact that a re- sponsible editor would prefer a grave criminal charge against members of the committee, face them on the floor of the house when the charges were presented, and remain about the capital when threats were freely made against his life both by members and outside parties, is in itself & sufficient answer. Mr. Rose- water not only presented those charges in good faith but was ready to prosecute the case in equally good faith. He had all the proots within his reach to sustain the charges. The rogues and their apolo- gists may make themselves merry over his absence but he will return soon enough to plague them and refute all the slanders they may heap upon him. It was Mr. Rosewater’s intention to o to New York immediately after the investi- gation, but because of the adjournment of the house from Tuesday to Friday he decided to go onlv as far as Cleveland and return in time to take a hand in this business, if a fair chance is given. He will be absent just one week from the day he left Omaha, unless something unavoid- able occurs to detain him. As to star-chamber sessions, it will be remembered that two years ago, when Mr. Rosewater was called as a witness in the school land fraud investigation before the legislature, he refused to testify un- less outside parties, including reporters, were excluded. Heinsisted that he would not disclose the names of his informants for the benetit of the accused parties, who might take advantage of their knowl- edge and induce the witnesses to place themselyes beyond the reach of the ser- geant-at-arms. The committes carried out Mr. Rosowater's request and held the in- vestigation with closed dvors. It is true that the committee afterwards did open the doors and thereby make a complete farce of the investigation just as was in- tended by the parties who had manipu- lated the committee. e—— Chances For Advancement, If the question were asked, How many men 1n Great Britain arose from the condition in which they were born? the answer would probably be, not more than one 1In & thousand. The reply to the guestion as to the United States would be, 999 out of every thousand of those born to poverty and toil, both expect and do attain a bettered condi- tion. A large number accumulate pro- perty. Some make position and wealth, Like drops'of water in the ocean—the surface is going down and those at the bottom are coming up. The Astors, whose grandfather carried a pack, tur- ned up their aristocratic noses at the Vanderbilts as plebiuns, Gould's first adventure was with a mouse trap—he caught golden mice. Abraham Lincoln was called therail splitter—he be- came the foremost man of all this world. Sweep the whole circle of those who have attained places of homor and trust, almost without exception they nature of things position must change in this country. Yet between great wealth and abject poverty, the ‘middle classes’" are the happiest of heaven born creatures. There is Plenty of Time. It is an easy matter for any person to make an accusation. One may carelessly charge that a man is a thief, ar.4 while he may be morally certain that he is correct, it may be impossible to obtain positive proof to substantiate the assertion. On the principle that nice distinctions are troublesome, the world lives in ignorance of men as they actually are. The scoun- drel generally boasts of his honor. The libertine prates of his virtue, The liar grimly refers to truth, and thieves and plunderers form conspiracies to insinuate themselves into respectability. It is sel- dom that individuals are called before the bar to prove assertions made in con- versation. A man’s reputation is always considered in estimating his testimony. It he bears a spotless character, and is not given to vromiscuous lying, the story he tells of his neighbor has weight. If investigation shows that his story is untrue, he is excused by the statement that he was misinformed or mistaken. If he happens to be a man who lies for pleasure and would rather utter a falsehood than tell the truth, no attention is paid to his creations. A newspaper stands in an entirely different position. From the fact that it is sup- posed to have a general circulation, the law requires that it shall be cautious, and before making a charge impugning the character of a fellow citizen, it must have what it deems, and what a jury would deem ‘‘sufficient evidence” to warrant its action. . The same is true of written charges. The recent howl set up by the corpor- ate press, regarding charges preferred by the editor of this paper against a cer- tain committee of the legislature, suggests these remarks. As is shown in Mr. Rose- water's letter to the chairman of the in- vestigating committ specitic charges were made, the witnesses named and the committee invited to proceed with the ex- amination. We believe there is no ques- tion as to the guilt of the parties. But after a plot was conceived and executed to change the investigation to a public farce, to give the scoundrels a chance to corroborate the plausiblelie of their part- ners in crime, the editor of the BEe deemed it advisable to withhold his eyi- dence, and save the state the expense of the whitewashing procedure certain to follow. The hirelings may howl until they are blue in the face. The apprehended crim- inals may congratulate one another upon their imagined escape. But they must remember that this mztter does not end with the legislature. There 15 yet a higher court. In due time and season the case will be presented to the people. Such serious crimes must not be lightly treated. The South and Education, The recent action of the legislature of Tennessee, in passing a bill increasing the amount of the permanent fund avail- able for school purposes from §2,000.000 to $5,000,000, thereby much more than doubling the annual contribution of the state to public education, has invited at- tention and commendation as an exam- vle of the growing interest in the south with respect to the education of the masses. It will be gratifying to find the example generally emulated. It 1s per- haps not to be expected that all of the other southern states can increase their contributions to public education to the generous extent that Tennessee proposes. That state has been growing rapidly in material wealth of late years, and the foundations of her prosperity are strong and substantial, assuring a steady pro- gress and accumulation of wealth, But there are several other states that are moving vigorously along the road of material advancement which can safely enlarge their educational allowances by liberal additions, and all of them can do more than they are now doing in this direction. It is time that thesouth experienced an awakening of interest and a quickening of zeal on this subject. In respect to no other important consideration affecting their welfare have the people of that sec- tion shown greater indifference in the past. The consequence is a degree and extent of illiteracy that has been the shame of the nation and an especial stigma upon the southern people. Ten- nessee does not present the worst record, but in that state, according to the census of 1880, there were 204,875 of ten years and over who could not read, and 410,723 who could not write, the total population being 1,062,280, Georgia was in a much worse condition, having a total of 966,000 who either could not read or could not write, with a population about the same as that of Tennessee, while the record of illiteracy in the cava- lious, in Alabama, in Mississippi and in Virginia was not much below that of Georgia relatively to pupulation, Even Kentucky had 158,186 persons of ten years and over who could not read, and 848,392 who could not write, and Louisi- ana had an equal number 1n a population but little more than half that of Ken- tucky. It may be interesting to note, also, the stinted provision which some of these states have made for public educa- tion, as shown by the report of the com- missioner of education for 1883-84. The total expenditures of Georgia for the year covered by this report amounted to $613,647, and of Louisiana, $466,930, being together nearly $700,000 less than wasex- pended 1n the same year by the little state of Connecticut, the total of whose illiterates in 1880 was in round numbers 49,000, and nearly $800,000 less than Ne- braska expended, whose illiterates at the date of the last national census numbered only a traction over 19,000, In short, the aggregate expenditures for public schools of all the southern states, during the year covered by the report from which these figures are taken, did not equal by nearly three million dollars the total ex- penditures 1n the same time of the iwo states of Ohio and Illinois, and exceeded only by a very small amount the aggre- gate of those of Ohio ana Massachusetts. In the years that I have interviewed since these records were made up there has unquestionably been educational progress in the south, bug it has not kept pace with the advanoce in other sections, but has it been entirely due to improved interest on the part of the south- ern people in behalf of public education, In very large measure it has as in all others, are gertainly growing bettet in the ‘‘new south.” The material progress of that section is begetting a wholesome sense of 'self-reliance and self-help which has been needed there, and which, if wisely exercised will be productive of great good. It ean exert itself in no more usetu), important and necessary direction than in enlarging and improving the public school system, the corner-stone of popular intelligence, sociul order and public morality. Ma- terial advancement 1s to be welcomed and encouraged. The promotion of industry and the accummulation of the things that make wealth, as mills, factories and workshops, are worthy objects to_be earnestly sought and subserved. But hand-in-hand with the effort for their at- tainment there must be maintained a generous policy of popular education to the end that the intellectual and moral requirements of society shall not suffer in the race for material benefits. Every evidence that the people of the south are beginning to comprekend this is grati- fying. — Lauer Not Guiity. The Lauer trial, which has created con- siderable interest throughout the state, and which has been the all-absorbing topic in Omaha for several days past, has ended. The jury returned a verdict of not guity. The prosecution exerted every effort to present all possible eyi- dence to prove the guilt of the prisoner, while the defense took advantage of every inch of ground and made a wond- erful exhibit in his favor. From the fact that Lauer in his first trial was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary, this verdict making him a free man and exonerat- ing him from the serious charge of mur- der will be a surprise to the citizens of Omaha and & most happy surprise to the prisoner. Mr. Lauer, it will be remembered, shot his wife during the night time, mistaking her for a burglar. This was his claim from first to last. Had it not been for Mr. Lauer’s jealous and cruel treatment of his beautiful young wife, which fact had become generally known to the pub- lic, he never would have been placed on trial for s life. His otherwise good reputation as a citizen would have given credit to his story at once. There would have been no question raised as to his guilt. His almost brutal treatment of lus wife however, nearly proved a fatal error. It assisted largely in forming the chain of circumstantial eyidence. But now that Mr. Lauer has been declared, by twelve jurymen, to be an innocent man, the only evidence brought against him and which once found him guilty points a strong moral, | Justice Without Law. The wires bring an account of a fear- ful tragedy from Hastings. A cure-all doctor named Randall tthdertook to pro- fessionally treat an innoBent little girl only eleven years old. ° As the evidence showed, Randall’s wife assisted the fiend incarnate in a hellish scheme to rape the girl, The deed was' accomplished. After having remained with the scoundrel a week or more, the outraged child es- caped to her paremts who lived in a neighboring town. ' Telling her story, Randall was at once urrésted. The trial WAas 10 progress. 1‘l|o vrisoner was in the court room. When his bond was be- mg prepared some unknown man entered the court room, placed a re- volver to Randall’s head, fired and blew out the brains of the brutal dog. The man escaped. No effort will be made to find him. There would be no occasion to ascertain his whereabouts or to learn his name, unless 'twould be to give the good citizens of Hastings an opportunity to congratulate him. There are times when law seems a mockery. This was certainly one of the times. Hastings was wild with excitement last night. There was serious talk of lynching Randall’s wife. Mob law is not to be encouraged. Yet if the story of the little girl be true, Mrs. Rundall should not escape severe legal punishment. The burning of the Richmond hotel at Buffalo, New York, furnishes fresh and forcible argument in favor of requiring tetegraph and railroad companies to place their wires under ground, Accord- ing to our dispatches, the hotel was sur- rounded and covered with such a net- work of wires that the work of the fire- men was seriously impeded and delayed, and at points about the building it was found impossible to locate ladders. A score of lives were lost, and more than double that number of people were more or less injured. It cannot be doubted that could the work of the fire depart- ment have been carried on without the interference noted, the calamitous results of this conflagration might have been largely or wholly prevented. There are buildings in Omaha literally webbed-in with telegraph and telephone wires, which, if they took fire, would be as dif- ficult of access as was the Buffalo hotel. Would it not be well for us to profit by the bitter lesson that comes from Buftalo, and take timely steps to avoid a similar danger and possible calamity? The lesson, if exceptional in 1ts severity, is not a new one, but as with some others, those who have charge of the people’s in- terests have been slow to heed it. — Tue editor of the Lincoln Journal writes his copy with 'a type-writer. As is known, after a line is almost finished on one of those machines, a bell rings. Generally it is to warn the operator that the line 18 completed. In the case of Editor Gere the little ‘bell seems to say, “Chestnuts, chestnuts.” Especially when he writes of his circulation. Em— ALL the world knows how old King George I fancied 'hinjself to be an eight-day clock, and i the corner of his darkened room ticked:away the remnant of a miserable life. And all Nebraska will remember how Uolonel Colby imag- ined himself a statesman, and on the floor of the senate brayed away sixty days of the people’s time. —— Ir is said that when Russell was elected commander of the G. A. R., the immortal Church Howe threw his hat to the ceiling of the room and fairly screamed with de- light, Church Howe isa fit companion for a man of Russell's cahbre, ——— Mr. Blal Uneasiness. New York World, A friend of Mr. Blaine says that the great IN THE LIGHTER VEIN, A NEW anti-fat medicine company has of- fered Sara Bernhardt a handsome sum for a testimonial, Torr: beantiful adage, “lot the man without sin heave the first boulder,” receives but lit- tle consideration these times, Miss KATE FIELD says “‘women are like sheep.” Charming ate may be correct, vet we fail to remember of ever seeing a sheep chew gum all day. TuAT patriotic air, *Yankee Doodle” used to cause the fires of patriotism to glow and burn, but in these more degenerate days it seems that the Yankee's boodle works up the same feeling. AN EASTERN paper says “Miss Susan B, Anthony s hugging a delusion.” 1t is im- polite for anyone to criticise a woman of Miss Anthony’s age. She certainly has a right to hug something. Tk report comes in of an Ohio man, who, whenever he made an enemy sought revenge by drinking him to death. It!s hardly pos- sible that hatred could be coupled with such a beautiful plan of annihiation. A SNAKFE measuring 437 foet, with eyes like two eight dynamo electric plants and a three months' gas bill, was recently seen in the neighborhood of Springfield, Mo. 1t was constructed in the latest Quean Anne style, having brass tipped lightning rods every hun- dred feet down its spinal column. Thirteen men and seven trainod dogs started in pur- suit, Just as we are woing to press all the dogs have been devoured by the serpent, as have also six of the men—the last man sit- ting on the point of the second lightning rod wildly and madly waving a signal of dis- tress, Six women are in pursuit. The above is the style and 1nanner in which snake sto- ries will appear this season, SPRING, sweet, balmy spring Is here. It came in the darkness of a dey this week, and will continue three months toward eternity. It is a time when the birds sing, the sun shines, and nature buds in her grandest glory and the air is filled with the sweet odor of vernal bloom. Itisa time for fasting and for prayer. 1t is the time when the good wife, with an eagerness and strength resem- bling only a cyclone, throws everything in the house in a pile of disturbed grandeur, and scrubs, and sweeps, and vapers, and scours, and plans for the next house-clean- ing time along in the fall. The husband grows weary and sick at heart. He yoarns to veto some of the bills this renovation in- volves, but the determined woman says it must not be. The ceiling must be decorated. ‘The house must be newly painted. The window broken by the white-haired, laugh- ing boy in playing a game of *'boot-jack lew" with his little sister must be replaced, while the friendly bolster that through the long winter months kept out the erstwhile inquis- itive winter's wind is laid back for a similar contingency and marked *‘future reference.” As the wife proudly orders the servants around, and the husband comes to his dinner and finds the table empty and upside down in the back yard, he murmurs only to him- self and departs in silence. The hired girl is in the back yard, too, administering cold death to the fickle bedbug, and the scene is one of grandeur, but not ot joy. In his day dreams proud man may live in an ideal world and fondly imagine that he is master of many, but cruel realization robs from him the glory, and for at least three days in this sweet springtime the good wife reigns su- vreme, Cam POLITICAL POINTS. In Oregon the state election occurs in June, and an amendment is to be submitted changing the time to November. Only seven members of the Rhode Island house of representatives voted against the submission of a woman suffrage amendment. Senator Cullom thinks the recent session of congress was one of the most important ever held. As proof he points to the passage of the interstate commerce bill. Ex-Senator John I. Mitchell of Pennsyl- vania retires to private law practice at Wellsboro after more than fourteen years continuous service in public life. Senator Henry B. Payne regrets that he cannot explain what the letter B stands for in his name. There s a general impression in Ohio that it stands for *‘Boodle.” President Cleveland has given $100 for the Hendricks monument fund. This action will perhaps be rezarded in some quarters as evidence and guarantee of democratic good faith, Sackett, the newly appointed postmaster at Buffalo, is an undertaker., One of the Buffalo democrats who opposed him told the president that his appointment would unite the party in death, Ex-Governor Smith, of Virginia, obtained the sobrigquet, “Extra Billy Smith,” by a de- mand he made on the government for extra compensation for carrying the malls from Washington to Milledgeville, Ga. “Andrew Jackson could not have done bet- ter than that,”is the exclamation of the demo- cratic Charleston News and Courier after pointing to the statument that Cleveland has given the democrats 50,000 offices in two years, Ex-Governor Hoadly announces that he has rone to New York solely to practice law, and that he is “'done with politics forever.” This, notwithstanding the fact that his peculiar brand of politics is in such high favor at the metropolis. SOME ODDLY NAMED PERSONS. Colonel Piano was the name of the Italian cemmander recently captured in Abyssinia. ‘The Abyssinians seem to have played Plano for a flat. Let us see whether he will have charms sufficient to soothe the savage breast. ‘Thomas M, Gruelle Is the very appropriate nawe of the chairman of the executive com- mittee of the new mistit party lately born at Cinclnnatl. The oficlal pap of the infant is likely to be very thin for several years, Mz, Gobble is mayor of Muscatine, He is by no means the only member of that family who occupies a similar position, thougn the others do not hang out their sign. R John Buzzard is an applicant for the office of pension agent at Knoxville, formerly held by Governor Taylor. Mr. Buzzard's proper place would seem to be in the northwest, —_— Something Decidedly Queer. St. Louls Republican. It would be queer if Nova Scotia was admitted 1nto the union before Dakota. e Humbert’'s Mistake, Detroit Free Prease, King Humbert of 1taly has knighted Mr. George M. Pullman, of car-building fame. If the king had known a little more about rela tive rank and supremacy In the sleeping-car business he would have knighted all the por- ters instead of Mr. Pullman, What Frohibition Doing for lowa. Chicago Tribune. A great deal of cider is now sold in Towa, A barrel of the kind most popular over theje was subjeoted to analysis ashort time ago and was found to contain more aleohol than cider. Yet some people insist that prohibl- tion has done nothing for Iowa. Good Advice. Lancoin Democral, In view of the laudation of Colonel . C. Russell, a distinguished member of the pres- s logislature, by our very highly esteemed , the Omaha Republican, we ture to sugxest, purely out of friendly re- that it recall and dwell upon ‘the rude and unhappy sundering of the ties that erst bound itto Major Church Howe. Censure with mildness; applaud in moderation; be not wholly committed to aught or any. —~~— Find the Flaws Pirst, 3 Chicago Heraldd After a railroad bridge has fallen under a train of cars it is comparatively an easy matter for the engineers of the corporation to plek out the faulty truss or stringer. A much more satisfactory way all around would be for them to locate these cracks and flaws In advance of the train, —_— - Count and Noaccount. Chieago Herald, Nilsson has been married at last to a count Nothing is said about nim, but it he is like most of the counts the countess will be likely tomake a few farewell tours of America be- fore sho settles down. The average tickot - sellerat a Chicago theatre handles more money in & week than the average European count ever saw. A Serious Mistake. Lineoln Democrat, ‘I'he Omaha Republican makes 4 serious mis- take in morals at least when it speaks of Harlan as “a tool in the speaker's chair,” and of the special committee to investigate nounced the word “Omahs,” which had never been heard before. Those who heard it adopted It as the name of their tribe Another story is that the town was named after & white man who was an Indlan doctor, and who took the name of Omaha from the tribe of Indians of that name, Mr. James C. Savery, who in carly days was a promin- ent eitizen of Towa, and bullt the Savery house at Des Moines, tells an interesting story in connection with the naming of this city. Mr, Savery, who is now a resident of Montana, while on his way east recently, said to a member of the Bek staff: “*Colonel James Redfield, of Albany, was really the projector of Omaha, He and eleven others went into the Counell Bluffs & Omaha Ferry company, each putting in $400. Colonel Redtield borrowed his $400 and got me to endorse for him. The coi pany then platted the town. When Red- field’s note came due he couldn't pay It, and he then offered mo his share of the town- site, but I dectined to accept it. There was a white crank with long hair who claimed to be an Indian doctor, and went by the name of Omaha, Onenizhtat the Pacific house, in Council Blufts, while the townsite men were on adrunk, it was agreed to call the new town Omahaafter this erank Indian doctor. That's how Omaha got her name. 1n due time Colonel Rediield sold his interest at Rosewater's charges against the judiciary committee as a “‘malformation.” It is com- posed of square and honest men in the main. Most of its members are first-class men, ‘whose honesty In person and purpose can be impeached. in no direction. The man or men who attempt to impugn in advance the motive and character of such a committee simply plead guilty, and that is all thero is about it I SR Thy Mothor. Kate Hogan in Springfleld Republican. Leaa thy mother tenderly Down life’s steep decline: Once her arm was thy support, Now she leans on thine, See upon her loving face ‘Those deep lines of care: Think—it was her toil for thee Left that record there. Ne'er forget her tireless watch Kent by day and night, Taking from her step the grace, From her (’f‘l‘fl the light: Cheerish well ner faithtul heart, Which through weary years, Echoed with its sympatly All thy smiles and tears. Thank God for. lh( mother’s love, Guard the priceless boon ; For the bitter parting hour Cometh all too soon. ‘When thy grateful tenderness Loses power to save, Earth will hold no dearer spot Than thy mother’s grave. pakliiz adhigiol SBUNDAY GOSSIP. “ATKINS LAWREN who was hurriedly called here to take a leading part in ‘Zitka' last week, 18 no ordinary actor,” remarked a gentleman last evening. ‘*‘Besides “being an artist of the first rank he is also a gentleman of rare excellence of character. He looks now like Lester Wallack in his palmiest davs before time and the gout gave their heavy parts to New York's favorite actor. 1 have had the pleasure of seeing Atkins Lawrence many times, but when he was with Mary Anderson in 1879 an event occurred which will always make his acquaintance marked to me. At that time John W. Norton was Miss § Anderson’s leading support. Her manager was Sylvester Hickey, at one time lessee of the Syracuse,N. Y.,opera house. He was ‘dead in love,’ as theboys say, with Mary, and was always ‘in her shadow.’ The re- doubtable Dr. Ham Grifiin, Mary’s step- father, didn’t seem to care whether Hickey’s attentions were favorably received or mot. Mrs. Griffin, however, was very perturbed over the matter. Hickey was a Catholic and Mary & devout member of that church, and he was undoubtedly doing the best he could to have religion hold a potent sway in his domain ot Cupid. Just before the troupe ar- peared in Cincinnatl, in the year named, and while Hickey’s attention to the star was the talk of all the members, Atkins Lawrence said to me ‘there will be trouble come out of this infatuation and you take my word for it. There is 8 woman following Hickey and 1 shouldn’t wonder a bit but she will kill him and perhaps Miss Aunderson, She Is Hick- ey’s mistress and has noticed his infatuation for our great tragedienne. 1 have seen her several times following us up from eity to cityand she is one of those plercing, black- eyed women that mean death every time when they are crossed. I have watched for her to-night, but strange to say she has not put in an appearance,’ e *“She did though. The train had hardly left for the west with the Anderson party on board bound for Cincinnati, when a closely velled woman rushed into the depot, The answer to her inquiries that the train had gone com- pletety prostrated her. ‘Never mind, I will get him yet. When does the next train leaye for Cincinnati?” On being told she returned to a hotel. She did ‘get him’ and Atkins Lawrence’s forebodings became realistic, *x *“Two days afterwards Hickey was called to the parlors of the Burnett house bya woman. A few words passed, a pistol shot laid him out in what was thought to be fa- tality, and another killed Klorence Percy, the woman in black. It seems she had been his mistress and the atten- tion to Mary Anderson had maddened her. She hunted him down and when she received no satistaction she attempted to kill him and thinking she had succeeded took her own life, e “It is unnecessary to say the excitement in Cincinnati was at fever heat that night. Mary Anderson could not play. She was overcome by the occurrence although far re- moved in every way from the scandal. In fact the news was suppressed on the Western Union wires, but the country received it through other lines and the tragedy was the talk of the day. Dr. Ham Griflin swore more than he ever did before, which is putting It strong. Lit- tle Mrs. Griffin, Mary's mother, had sixty hysteries a minute, with a hun- dred ‘1 tolG you so doctor,’ & second, and the star tragedienne of the mimic stage had a regular and real play ot blood, to think of in hrer home affairs. Hickey laid at the point of death for a long time. e was, of course, dismissed from the management of the party. Dr. Grifiin assumed that responsibility him- self, which he has retained ever since; and they do say that Mary Anderson's first and only love-light went out with Hickey's dis- grace, The poor Magdelene was buried with little ceremony, and that tragedy has passed from memory, except with those who, like Atkins Lawrence, have occasion to recall it by meeting old friends. e was the first one except & bell boy on the scene. The woman in black died in his arms, Sylvester Hickey, who had a ‘leading’ chauce to be Mary Anderson’s husband, was carried by Lawrence in a supposable dying condition from the Burnett parlors.” THERE are several lezends as to how this city was given the name of “Omaha.” By some of the old-timers it is claimed that the name s suggested by Jesse Lowe. “Omaba” was the name of & tribe of Indians in the immediate vicinity, The meaning of the name, It is clalmed, 1s “above the water.” The tradition s that two tribes of 1ndians had, » great many years ago, met on the Missouri river, and had engaged in & hostile encounter, in which all on one s! were killed but one, who had been thrown into the river, Rising suddenly from what 'was thoueht to bo & watery grave, he lifted bis head above the surface, and pro- cost. 1le wasa colonel in tiie union army ot the war of the rebellion and was killed on the field of battle.” A Goob story is told of an Omaha doctor. Some years ago he became engaged 1n a fight with another man, whom he finally knocked down with a heavy china pitcher. The man received an ugly sealp wound, which the doctor sewed up. Oae would naturally sup- pose that the vietim would not have been called upon to pay for the surgieal attend- ance, but it is a fact that the doctor presonted a bill for $20, and what is more he got the money. There’s nothing like having an eye to business. —————— THE GIDDY OLD EARTH. It is Constan Rising and Falling and has Little Stability to Boast of. The notion that the ground is natur. ally steadfast is an error—an error wpich arises from the incapacity of our senes to appreciate any but the ‘most palpuble, and, at the same time, most exceptional of its movements, says Professor N. 8. Shaler in Scribner’s Magazine. The idea of terra lirma belongs with the ancient belief that the earth wasthe center of the universe. It is indeed, by their mobility that the continents survive the unceas- g assaults of the ocean waves and the continuous down-wearing which the rivers and glaciers bring about. Were it not that the continents grow d, from age to age, at a rate which l s for their erosion, there would be no lands fit fora theatre of life; if they hed grown too slowly their natural cnemies, the waves and rain, would have kept them to the ocean lovel; if too fast, they would lift new surfaces into the regions of eternal cold. As it is the incessunt growth has been so well measured to the needs that for a 100,000,000 years, more or less, the lands have afforded the stage for prosperous life. 'This upward growth, Wllcfl meas- ured in terms of human _experience; i probably does not exceed, on the aver- age, oué foot in three or four thousand years, The rate varies in times and places. Under varying conditions, as when a glacial sheet 15 imposed on the continent— as it was, in the immediate past, on the northern part of North Ameriea—a wide aren of the ice-laden land sank beneath the sea, to recover its level when the depressing burden was removed. Still the tentency of the con- tinents 18 to elevation, and even the tem- porary siukinfi of one portion of their area is probably, in all' cases, compen- sated by uplifts on anotiier part by which new realms are won from the sea. -— A Little Talk with the Moon. Hartford Times: It is singulur why people who are usually kind and sensi- ble should become angry at honest dif- ferences of opinion when under mutual discussion. Emerson once said tbat he “never allowed himself to enter into a controversy with anybody.”” But Emer- son, unlike ordinary people, could rest serencly on intentivn, having an out- let for his id m his books, behind which he could fire s unorthodox bul- lets, hitting orthodox, unretaliating world that seldom came in personal contact with him. And if all persons made up their minds never to argue, society would come to a standstill, In meeting with violent opposition my- self, I always wish to think of | 001, or rather one particular conversation it once held with me, though I am sure to forgot 1t when excited and angry, which is a sorrow and mortification afterward, since 1t took 8o much trouble to teach me better. It pened in this way. [ never knew much about the laws of astronomy, ravitation and attraction, but gazing ully at an unusually luminous moon one summer evening, it suddenly flashed a double flood of hgh: through my con- sciousness, and in a most social, confiden- tial, but unexpected way, smd: “You see 1 am held here in space in spite of myself, by opposite forces pulling both ways at once.’” *Is that the reason you don't fall down?" | exclaimed in delighted aston- 1shment. ‘I have often wondered why you didn’t, especially into the arms of your faithful lover, the sea.” ," reflected the moun, ‘‘the sea possesses a mysterious attraction for me and yet there are higher powers that draw me away and keep me safely bal- anced between them all, where, unless some of them give way, which is improb- able, I am likely to remain here for some time to come to come to make your funny little world as pleasant as I possibly on This was quite a long speech for the moon, and after fully recovering from its effects I timidly ventured, “'1 long to see your other mde. I know you have an- other one, because I have seen just the very be, nninf of it through a big tele- vhone in Washington.” “True, and I have often noticed that telescope and many others pointed at me,"" she proudly laughed, mim»)nuvuufll{ added: “Iney don’t know me yet. haye another side, and—" but as if re- called to a sense of her dignity and mys- stery, she drew a fleecy veil of silvery cloud over her brillinnt, mocking face, and shut out all further revelations. But she nas given me a needful lesson for which [ was truly grateful. After- ward 1 went to somebody wno kuew, and he said it was really so; that the moon had tola me falsely of the sublime way in which she holds her place 1n the heavens. Itis the same with human beings. Their different opinions are the world's great spiritual forces, pulling in extreme and opposite directions to keep 1t moving safely balanced and free from the stag- nation that would end it if everybody thought alike. This is not saying that people cannot change their opinion As that is constantly bappen! in many different directions 1t keeps the balance even 1n the spiral circles of pro- gressive thought evolution. And as the moon repeats every time she sheds her light upon this partly enlightened little planet. ““What 1s ‘the use of getting angry at the wise and natural law that keeps us where we all belong?" e A recent visitor to th eMammoth cave looked up at the sides ot the great dome and asked the gulde what the large black answer he went to the neare: took down a small bat. ‘The of them, all hanging by the foe and in & comatose condition. the wintor han, Infl up here, and prefer, as did gers of the ataly ARk In Koow enough when put back 1o “eateh on.”