Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 9, 1887, Page 4

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Ur to vpresent writing the new opera house scheme is all on paper. ——— ArriL is well advanced,and a thorough cleaning of the streets is imperatively demanded. CororADO'S legislature mi]ourned this week. Thanksgiving day shou!d happen about this time of year. Tne cable road has given Harney street the go-by. That will make Harney street the most elegant drive in the city after the asphalt payement is extended. It is a bad practice, sometimes, for a snobocrat to go digging after ancestors. They say it 18 a wise child who knows its own father, lct alone its grandfather. BAroN NORDENSKFOLD, the German ex- plorer, will attempt to find the south pole. That is what we want. The north pole would be a chestnut now even if they would find it. Coxaress faled to appropriate enough funds for the inter-state commussion, and the board announces that it is out of money. The members should haye made & short haul first. ACCORDING to the city attorney the board of education still has a lease of life, in spite of the omission of the new law to provide for members with unex- pired terms to hold over. WEe are assured that the ‘‘combine” of the anti-Rosewater press has been dis- solved by mutual consent, It was an unholy alliance, and could not hold to- gether any great length of time. e THIRTEEN is regarded as a rather om- inous number., 1t is said that to sit down at the table with thirteen is an evil omen. It is a marvel how the thirteen true blues of the senate survived the sixty day siege ot corruption. —_— We don't know what will become of the Beg, judging by the remarks of dis- interested journalistic adventurers, Every time a reporter or employe takes a notion to quit or has his pay cut short the com- munity is assured that the bottom has droppod out of the concern with its de- parted brawms. THE great solicitude of Admiral Porter respecting the merchant marine of the country may be entirely commendable. It is a very important matter with which some time or other it may be necessary to deal in a thoroughly practical way. Of theories there have been a limitless sup- ply. Hardly any other subject has been more talked about in the last twenty years. Unfortunately for the influence of Admiral Porter’s views they throw no mew light on the question. He 1 & mem- ber of the subsidy army and therefore outside of popular sympathy. The peo- ple are not now and are never likely to be favorable to building up the merchant marine or any other special interest out of the public treasury. Atall events there are other expedients for restoring the country’s shipping interests which must be first tried, and if these are found inad- equate it will then bo time to talk seri- ously of the subsidy plan. Recourse to that will be had ouly as the last resort. —— TuE republican defeat in Rhode Island ought to convey a unseful lesson to the party everywhere. It it shall do this it is & result which no honest republican will regret. The party iu the little common- wealth had been under the complete domination of the machine, which was managed by a thoroughly corrunt and unscrupulous sot of bosses at the head of whom was the republican candidate for governor. Law-respecting republicans had hecome completely disgusted with the high-handed course of this ring, whose corrupting influence was mani- fested in every department of the state government, and when it brazenly asked an oxtension of power these republicans properly revolted, Nothing could better attest the obnoxious character of the ring oandidates than the facs that they wero most vigorously fought by the Provi- denoce Journal, the leading republican pewspaper of the state. The defeat of such a crowd is always to be welcomed, without reference to the political ad- wantagea that may acerue o th ose in op- position. Republican success is to be de- mred only when it places or retains in public oftice men of character and in- togrity. The True ard the Falthless. The journals of the legislature are by no means a trustworthy record of tho acts of its members. The jobbers, trick- sters and corporate attorneys are usually very careful in covering their tracks, They ure assisted in this deception by tho chief clerks and secretaries who make up the journals to suit the mem- bers with whom they have been secretly in collusion in expediting jobs and de- feating good measures. The execrable reputation which the late legislature has made for itself is Jargely due to the se- lection of notorious boodlers to positions as clerical officers. ‘This choice of course was at the outset brought about by the influence of the ratlroad and jobbers' lobby who foisted upon the legislature men who had time and again served their corrupt purposcs in conventions and legislatures. As a matter of justice to the tried and faithful minority of the legislature, as well as tor the guidance of the people in the future, we deem 1t our duty to make public our estimate of the respective members, based upon personal observa- tion, both of the editor of the Bk and its reporters. Beginning with the senate, its thirty- three members may be grouped into four classes: First, the men who were true blue and voted and acted out the pledges made to their constituents. Second, the men who made a fair record, but proved weak-kneed on vital issues at the critical moment. Third, the railrond attorneys who were right on most ali questions except the railroad issue. And, lastly, the black List, In the first class are included Senators Calkins, Casper, Duras, Higgins of Cass, Higgins of Colfax, Keckley, Lininger, Meiklejohn, Sprick, Sterling, Tzschuck, Walbach and Wright. Mr. Calkins, although a man of moder- ate ability, is strictly honest and con- scientious. At times he wa misled by influential parties from his* section, but he was beyond their control on the vital questions, Mr. Casper was one of the most fuith- ful workers and was true blue on every 19sue that affected the welfare of the state. From beginning to end he stood up maufully for the right and inst all jobs and steals. A man of few words, he nearly always managed to it the nail squarely on the head, and hit it hard. Mr. Duras made an excellent record from Dbeginuing to end. He was staunch and unswerving on therailway issue, and opposed jobbery and extravagance at every step. He is aman of rare intelligence and thoroughly posted about law, although not a lawyer. He merits the full confidence of his con- stituents. Mr. Higgins, of Cass, stood as firm as rock against all blandishments of cor porate monopoly and boodlers. His con- stituents have reason to be well satisfied with him, acd may trust him in every in- stance as being loyal to their interests. Mr, Higgins, of Colfax, although not a brilliant man, proved himself to be thoroughly reliable. Mr. Keckley achieved more than ordi- nary prominence, and made a gullant, manly and unswerving fight for the peo- ple from first to last. Mr. Lininger made an enviable record in every issue that came before the sen- ate. His bearing, sound judgment and unyielding devotion to the interests of the state at large and his im- mediate constituents in particutar can- not be too highly commended. Through- out the session he merited the confidence and received the respect of his colleagues without regard to party or faction. Mr. Meiklejohn, who was elevated be- yond his years to his position of acting president of the senate, made a brilliant and irreproachable record. While op- posed to Van Wyck on the senatorial is- sue, he acted in accord with the faction that nominated and elected him. On other vital issues and notably in the rail- road issue, Mr. Meiklejohn sided with the people and voted for the people, Mr. Sprick at this session only con- firmed the good opinions won by him in former legislatures. He never disap- pointed the friends of honest and econo- mic government. Mr. Sterling, although a lawyer, was not retained by the railvoads and had nothing in common with the jobbers. He remained loyal in the senatorial 1ssue and made a straight and vigorous fight for raillway regulation and railway taxation, Fillmore county can afford to trust him in the fu- ture. Mr. Tzschuck was in his seat during the ontire session battling faithfully for the people and opposing extravagance and steals. He discharged his obliga- tions with marked zeal, Mr. Walbach showed himself through- out a clear-headed and reliable repre- sentative. He resisted to the utmost the intense pressure brought upon him by corporate and local influences, and re- mained true to the trust reposed in him. Mr. Wright, although a quiet man, was always to ba relied upon when it came to any issue in which the people and tax- payers were deeply concerncd. His fidelity to his constitucnts eannot be called in question, In tho second groun we can eclass Senators Hartwell, Holmes, Kent, Linn, Moore and Schminke. Mr. Hartwell is 8 man of more than ordinary ability, honest and weil-mean- ing, but his business and political rela- tions with the railroadsrendered him un- reliable on all issucs affecting the pro- ducers. Mr. Holmes is a natural wobbler who held a seat to which another man was fairly entitled. The bargain by which he retained his seat and his political aflimties with the railrogues made him a cats-paw for the monopolies, claim brokers and appropriation gobblers. Mr. Kent was very much the same sort of a man as Mr. Hartwell—honest but held down by railroad ties. Mr, Linn was disposed to do right, but hamperea by his grain elevator and made uareliable by his political afliliations. Mr. Moore made a good representative for Lancaster county hut a very poor one for the balance of the state. He pulled through heavy appropriations for Lin- coln and had to tie up with all sorts of frauds to got through what his constitu- ents wanted. He was right on the rail- road taxation issue, but wrong cn all other railway legslation. Mr. Sohminke was a vigorous worker and most of the time fought on the right side of every question. But he became very weak toward the end of the session, mainly through the influsnce exerted THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, over him by his golleague, Watson, who went over to the railroads and traders. The third class is yery small. [t is composed of Senators Brown and Lind- say. Mr. Brown is a railroad attorney and consequently was handeu fled on the sen- atorial and railroad questions. But he proved hiniself honest and a vigorous op- ponent of jobbery and reckless appropri- ations, Mr. Lindsay is also a railroad attorney and through this influence became more or less invoived in the support of bad measures which the railroad lobby had contracted to pull throngh. But Mr, Lindsay is not a boodler, as far as we couid observe. In the last group, which Gomprises men who have proven themselves un- trustworthy and dangerous as legislators, we have placed Senators Bonesteel, Burnhain, Campbell, Colby, Conger, Fuller, Majors, McNamar, Robbins, Sher- vin, Snell and Vandemark. Mr. Bonesteel acted in accord with the wishes of his constituents on the sena- torial issue, but after the senatorial con- test ailied himself witk the jobbers and railtogues. His conduct became a mat- ter of general scandal. 5 Mr. Burnham might haye been excus- able for voting with the appropriation combine, but he cannot justify his steady support of all the jobs and opposition to decent legislation, Mr. Campbell was the cipher of the senate, except that he voted steadily for jobs, steals and bogus claimg, and against all railrond legislation except such as was supported by the railrogues. Mr. Colby acted throughout as the at- torney for the railroads and champion of all sorts of legalized robbery, IHis fidel- ity to his corporate employers and job- bing retainers has doubtless been liber- ally rewarded. Mr. Conger's conduct at this session was more than suspicious. His intimacy with boodlers and jobbers explains his record on the vital issues. Mr, Fuller played the traitor in the Van Wyck camp, and playea fast and lose ever after during the balance of the session. While he managed to place Norfolk under obligations on the insane asylum appropriations he proved mm self untrustworthy to the people at large. Mr. Majors disappointed his bost friends, by adopting the peculiar tactics of Chureh Howe. He studiously kept up appearances of decency, but was nearly always to be found in the under- current with the worst men in the legis- lature. Mr. MeNamar was a railroad attorney and acted that part throughout regardless of the public welfare. Mr. Robbing’ conduct during the scna- torial contest left nothing to be expeeted of him during the remainder of the ses- sion. His reputation down at Lincoln waas that of a boodler, and his behavior did not contradict the prevailing impres- sion. Mr. Shervin's record up to a certain period of the session was above reproach, and thereafter he acted very suspiciously and voted with the members ypon who m the railroads and jobbers relied. Mr. Snell made a bad impression dur- ing the previous legislature, and justified during the present session his classifi tion among the railrogues. He was a running-mate for Colby and no better. Mr. Vandemark was the wart upon the political body known as the senate. Ho came in with lond professions of honesty and anti-monopoly, and went out black- ened all over with disrepute. He was thronghout a cheap tool of all the rascals who hovered around the legislature. His dissolute conduct left him in a condition that disgraced him asa man and dis- honored the county he mis-represented. The Opera Festival, The opera testival which begins in this city on Monday will be the dramatic and musical event of this season. Theodore Thomas and his unrivaled orchestra of sixty alone are an attraction suflicient to draw thousands of the music loving people of Nebraska and lowa to the exposition building. But the grand orchestra 1s by no means the pri mary feature of the operatic entertain- ment, The voeal talent of the American Opera company, its magnificent cos- tumes, grand chor’uses, famous ballet and matebloss scenery, will each of themselves afford a treat to the lovers of music, dramatic and terpsichorean art. This dramatic company, it should be borne in mind, is better equipped mn re- spect to orchestra, costumes, cho- ruses, sconery and ballet than any of the grand opera companies that have ever appeared on the American stage. Over three hundred persons, cluding some of the most famous artists, will take part. It is to be hoped that the peoble of this section of the country will avail themselves of this opportunity which they may not have again for years to come. ‘Wastea Sympathy. There are always some sentimental people who waste their sympathies on causes that least deserve them, It is so with the ladies ot the W. C. T. U. who have rushed to the defense of the Salva- tion army tramps. They allow them- selves to be imposed on by women who are devoid of that inborn modesty which characterizes the good and virtuous of their sex in every clime and under every condition of life. When a woman, no matter under what pretense, courts the notoriety of a street pa- rade and delights in surroundings which rob her of the respect and esteem in which we all desire to hold our moth- ers, sisters and daughters, she 1s on the border line of indecency. It is no use to mince matters in dealing with this so- ealled free religious exercise. There must be a limit somewhcere to the toler- ance which any community extends to- ward these tamborine and base dram mendicants, Their female eaptains and lieutenants have everywhere sought no- toriety and sympathy by conflicts with the police. They delight in the martyr- dom not because of the fervor with which they love the Lord, but because deluded sympathizers are always found to contribute liberally to their tramping fund, It pays them to be insulted, arrested and harrassed, We e no patience with the hypo- critical cant of certain Omaha editors who profess to be shocked over the so- oalled outrago in the arrest ot the Salva- tion army women. These hypocrites are merely imvosing upon the oredulity of their readers. They do not believe what they preach, and are simply catering to a false sentimeutality. Our city jail is not s proper place for respectable men or women, but tho Sal- vation army women have no right to complain since they went there of their own free will, when they had the choice of freedom by abiding the orders of the police until the council had re- voked them. They voluntarily eame into contact with indecent women in the juil, just as they do every day with the hoodlum elemeng #ho tramp through the streets with the, | It 15 no excuse for them to cite the that minstrel bands and fakirs are asnpch of & nuisance as they are. This dfds of nuisances should be avated also, ———— The New District Judges. Governor Thayer has appointed six out of the eight adaitional district judges, created uuder the new apportionment of judicial districts. With one single ex- ception, these appointments are excellent and will meet with popular approval. In the third district which com- prises Douglas, Washington, Burt and Sarpy counties, the governor's choice will' give universal satisfaction. Messrs. Groft' and Hopewell are both eminently qualified for the position. They are highly esteemed by the bar, and enjoy the respect and confidence of the people in an emineat degree. The selection of Hon. William Mar- shall, of Dodge county, for judge ot the Fourth district will be commended not only by the people of his county, but by men of all parties in the district. The governor's appointment in the Seventh district does not strike us as satisfactory. Mr. Powers’ record as a lawmaker will not bear investigation, and s con- duct as attorney general was not above reproach—1o use a very mild term. The governor did a graceful thing in appoint- ing Hon. T. O, Harrison, of Hall, as judge of theNinth district. Mr. Marri- is well qualified for the bench, and has proved himself a staunch friend of the governor on a trying oceasion, By all odds the most popular and best selection that could huve been made for the Twelfth district, is the appomtment of Honorable M. P. Kinkad, of Holt coun Mr. Kinkaid ranks with the i attorneys in the state. He is a elean man with a cl and will make an honest, fearless and impartial judge. ONE of our local cotemporaries boasts that it prints and pays for more special telegraphic news than any other paper between Chicago and San Francisco, The same paper for atime claimed to have the largest “paid-up” cireulation be- tween the Lake City and the Golden Gate. These bogus claims can deceive nobody. If that paper desires to com- pare its telegraph company receipts for ispatches with the recetpts for money paid out by the B or specials, we will cheerfully publish them and credit it with its claim. Meunwhile we beg leave to assert that the Bk pays more money for telegraphic news, special and press, then all the Omaha dailies to- gether. n there. Wiy a man whose grandfather was reputed to be an spostate French Jew talks about the traits of that raceina contemptuons manner it only shows the degeneraey of fellow who inherited a quarter of a million dollars from the apostate three cent silver keg man and now prides hmmself so much on his aristoeracy. Has Mr, McShane bought out Dr. Miller with the understanding that the Miller democrats were to have all the plums from the federal fruitorchard ¢ It looks very much that way to a man up a tree. Pritchett, Crites and Chard have already been taken care of. Next! A CHINE £5,000 for the head of King Kalaks the San-wish Islands. Tne Ching a keen appreciation of the beautiful. business firm has offered of Emperor William cats his bread without butter. Emperor William always goes to bed by 10 o’clock. The king of Holland has a remarkable his- torical collection of harness. The empress of Austria is about to publish a volume of her adventures while yatching incognito in the Lev: Prince Albett Victor, eldest son of the of Wales, wearsti.e tallest collars of any young man in England. The eldest son of the German crown prinee is such an intense partisan and hater of France that he refuses even to drink champagne, and will arink only German wines. London Life: I hear from Pekin that the emperor of China is likely to be fully the mateh of Louis XVILI,-as a wourmet and zourmand. He insists upon the most excep- tional dainties. Camels’ humps, bears’ paws, and monkeys’ lips are particularly rehished by his majest: All the Moving about the quiet ways, Sitting beside the hearth, ‘esting as best she can and may In the careless household mirth; Yet always through the haunted night, As through the restless day, Feeling—another hour is sed, Of the time that flies away ‘I'he last frail strana of the cable Is parting slow and sure, That never again to the harbor sido My bonnie boat will moor. My bonnie boat that may como azain, God temper the wave and wind ! To gladden sad eyes and vearniug hearts, ‘That now are left belpd; May come again, but not to lie fe by the old home shore; anchor of youth is aljuost weighed; They will cast it never more. And it's O, and its O, for the sinking dread, Tt's O for the climbink Borrow, As ever the cruel creepin 2 night Brings on a weary mu{‘m\vl Love that istrue must hush itself, _Nor pain by its useless ery, For the young must gox and the old must bear, ) And time goes by, goes by, oAl e Ll STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings, Weeping Water proposes to erect a stone pile gymnasium for tramps. The Republiean of Weeping Water is fl;e years old and overflowing with live ads. Norfolk’s pull at the state lrnlulasln -the next two years will amount to The voters of Greenwood rejected a proposition to invest $1,500 in water- works. They pot their trust in blazes, That fatal combination of & boy and a Wm Wer rud\il,y parted near Long Pine ednesday. Boy died, aged eight. Weeping Water views the future with a du:roe of complacency welded by a 000 church, a $10, school, a large tel, briok depot an waterworks. The B, & M. company bas plastered » APRIL 9, 1887, mortqn‘e for $11,780,000 on its branch lines in this state, Drafts on the late campaign fund will now be honored. The Hastings Gazette-Journal will ap- chr asa morning paper on the 1st of lay. The Journal swings a bright and discriminating scissors, on the editoriul page. A large quantity of school land in Box Butte, Chase, Cherry and Dawes counties will be placed in the market next Tues day by the state board of public lands and buildings. The Omahba Southern is sklrmhmnf; in the vicinity of Nebraska City in search of a grade, and it is intimated, on the quiet, that a bonus would enable the company llo see its way to town without much de- ay. Tha Aurora postoflice has been fur- nished with 500 combination lock boxes and drawers, Patrons of the office will be provided with might keys put up “in cases of extreme necessity.” In this age of wonders springing from the lap of necessity, thero is nothing new or striking in the construction of rail- roads on paper, Crete's first experi- ment in this line gives her the champion belt, seven miles long and studded with stations and pie stands.” The road is temporarily recuperating in the Vidette office. The Norfolk Gazette publicly an- nounces ‘‘to whom it may concern’ that the editor is in from 9 a. m, to 12 p. m., and is always ready to receive advice on the conduct of the paper from_ kickers and chronics of every grade. His sole object 1n life is to please the community. Itis well to state, confidentially, that Van Voart emphasizes his periods with a number sixteen, screw heeled. lowa [tems. Green peus are a luxury in Des Moines at $1 a quart. Des Moines hopes to pile up an nssess- ment roll of $17,000,000. A two months’ babe in Ottumwa weighs three pounds in full dress, The police court of Keokuk with drunks and disorderlies. A patch of 400 acres of corn will be planted for the Davenvort cannery. Creston has gathered up bad debts to the amount of $20,000, and placed them in 5 per cent bonds. The victorious Knights ot Labor at the Dubuque election on Mond: y the lirst act of the new administration will be to raise saloon licenses 100 per cent more than they now are. A grand wedding oceurred at Dubuque on Tuesday evening, the contracting parties being Elton ane, son of the ex- postmaster of that city, and Nellie Rider, daughter of one of the leading dry goods merchants there. The event e out the most fashionable circle of society. A chair passenge ach was dis- covered on fire on Tuesday morning as the train was entering Seymour and an excited and horrifying scene followed. L. B. Westbrook, "of Newton, had the nce of mind to grasp the automatic ke cord and stop the entire train. fortunate act, and undoubtedly saved a carful of sleeping women and children. The car was completely de- stroyed. is loaded Dakota. Ther: e fourteen prohibition counties in the territory. An addition to the Jamestown college is to be madec, to cost $19,765. The late flood damaged %30,000 worth of property in Campbell county. Yankton is ready to give a well-filled purs to the Nebraska Contral if it is built that way, Agitation against prohibition and in favor of high license has been inaugu- rated in Charles Mix county by a large meeting of farmers, at which & Catholic priest was the principal speak I'he new Lake Park hotel at Madison 1s at length ops for business. The build- ing is three stories and- basement high. The walls are of Dell Rapids jasper, and the hotel has all modern conveniences. ——— The Inter-state Commerce Law. Phtladelphia Record There is not a more intelligent and wide-awake body of workers in America than the commercial travelers. They visit all parts of the country and, ming- ling with the people, exert a great deal of influence upon public opinion in regard to various questions. These busy men of business, as well as the suburbun resi- dents roundabout Philadelphia, have snffered an unjust attack at the hands of the railrond companies. The commer- cinl travelers have been notified by some of the railroad companies that hereafter they will receive no more mileage and com- mutation tickets, The pretended reason for this change of policy on the part of the railroads has been found in the pro- hibitions of the inter-state commeree act. But the commercial travelers know full well that the law expressly declares that nothing in it shall apply to “'the 1ssuance of mileage, exeursion o1 commutation passenger tickets.”” The law has not af- fected 1n tho slightest degree the policy under which mileage tickets have been issned to mercantile men traveling long distances and going from town to town- There never has been any complaint in regard to this policy, because there 1s nu\hin% unjust or unreasonable in it. t the trunk railroad compa ostentatiously signalize their obedience to the inter-state com- merce law by doing away with a hberal gystem that the law distinctly excepts from its provisions, The merchants and commercial travelers of the country ean- not fail to understand the motives that dictate this action of the trumk railroads. By striking the business men who are compelled to spend a large portion of their time on the road it is expected to drive them 1nto hostility to the inter- state commerce law and to bring their influence to bear on public opinion in favor of its repeal. Instead of accom- plishing their object, the trunk roads will only strengthen the demend for maintain- ing the law in its fuli force. 1 B Protection in Dakota, St Louls Repblican, A large Dakota wheat farmer, who is a republican, while on a recent visit to New York, expressed some v unre- publican opinions on the tariff. ‘“‘We farmers in the northwest,'’ said he, ‘‘have found out that a hgh tanfl is a bad thing for us. It makes our farming im- plements, our clothing, our blankets. in- deed almost everything we buy, higher than they otherwise would be; and, on the other hand, it doesn't bring us in any more for what we have to sell.” 1t has taken republican farmers of the north- west a long time to come to this blunt, common-sense view of the matter, but they are coming to it at last, and it is probable that their change of opinion will bring about important modifications in the ulfllgnmcnl of parties. A protec- tive tariff which takes millions of dollars from northwestern agriculture every year to build up manufacturies 1,500 miles distant, and to give #$100 per capita of bunk deposits to the laboring population of the eastern states, cannot Le anything else than an injustice. Yet, the republican party which the north- western states have long supported is pledged to its policy. It is a part of re- publicanism, The “party established it when it eame into power twenty-six years ago, and it exists to this day. Once ~in 1883—a republican congress made a pretence of n‘nrmmx the tariff, but it was only to juggle the duties without re- ducing them or giving any real reform— and the need of a genuine revision of the taniff has been more pressing since 1833 than it was before. Meantime north- western farmers are continuing to pay more for everything they buy than they would, but for t protective tarift; and now t are to debarred from European murkets by higher duties lovied there on their grnin.*n retaliation for the duties we levy on European manufac- tures, e — A GOOD WAR STORY, How a Young Patriot Proved M for the Copperheads. Boston Transeript: *‘You have set the fashion of telling home war stories," writes a correspondent of the Listener, “and 1 have one to offer vou that 1 am uite sure has never been in print before, tsscene wns a village in the town of Sandwich, where they happencd to have a considerable number of copperheads. The mass of the people there were in- tensely loyal, perhaps all the more so on account of the presence of these oppone ents of the war, and the copperheads had frequent occasion to make several out- ward signs of loyalty, even if they did not feel the sentiment inwardly. ‘* ‘Hang out your flag to-night,’ a man would say to another, us he pusses by a shop door. “*I'don’t see any reason why [ should hang out my flag,” the man in the shop would say. ‘* ‘Hang out your flag to-night just the same,’ the other would say again. “‘But I ain't got any flag anyway.' ‘“ ‘Hang out your flag to-mght!’ the word cnme again; and the man who had seryed the notice passed on quietly. “Nine times out of ten the flag would ng out. very town had a liberty pole then, upon which the union flag was kept fly- ing, often day and night. The liberty- pole at Sandwich was very lofty, and Was in two pieces, with small cleats or foot ‘ph‘m‘s nailed on so that it might be climbed in case of need. At the top of the lower section of the pole, where it joined the topmast, there wuas a cros tree. The rope which run up the flag held it inits place was made fast at he: Too “One morning when the people of Sand- wich got up, they found the flag that been flying at the top of the liberty pole lying in the dust of the street. It had been pulled down by some copperhead the night, and basely dishonored. It dusted and run upto the top again, amid cheers. “There it flew all day, but the next mormng it was again found in the dust, while a shameful object, no less revolt: mg than the figure of a dead eat hung head downward, had taken its place at the top of the pole. “Then a young mun of the village, a mere stripling, came running up as the crowd gathered in horror and indigna- tind, with a hatchet in his hand, and picked up the flag from the ground. He climbed the pole with the flag wrapped around his oulders. Ip he went; sted & moment at the cross-tree, where body expected to see him try to run dowi the object at the top and run up the flag. Butimn an ant he started up up again, climbing the swaying topmast until he reached the very top. “Here he lost no time'in_ cutting loose with a blow the object which hung tuere, and it came crashing down. Next he cut loose the rope itself, and the people won- d t he doing. The W for in a minute he had the edge of the flag agninst the pole, and, with nails that be took from his pocket, he was nailing the flag to the mast with the back of the hatehet. When that work was thoroughly done, and the flag flapped sgain in the breeze, cheers of lht:xooplc below, the boy begnn todescend, nd then it was plain that he had a new use for his hatchet, came down he knocked off, cleat by cleat, the little pieces upen which his own foet had climbed the pole, One after anothor they fell off, and the blows of the hatchet left the pode ns smooth and clean be- fore these picees had been tacked on. Again he rested at the cross-tree, and again began duscmldinr, knocking ofl’ every piece as fast as he left it, and when he jumped upon the zround not only was the union flag flying proudly at the top of the pole, but its removal had been put beyond human genuity and ability. ““The flag hung there amid the stor until, long afterward, it had beaten itself intoshreds. And the people of Sand- wich were prouder of the tattered flag than they would have been of any new one that could have been raised, for it told to them a story of patriotism and bravery. It is not much wonder that the youth who nailed this flag to the mast became a trusted and active citizen in the western | state to which he afterward removed, and was named not long ago for one of the highest oflicial honors in that state, His modesty regarding the incident is very great, however, and it has almost faded out of sight.” S M Changes in the Circus B New York Sun. for as he iness. “Traveling by rail has made many changes in_ the circus business,”” said R. F. Ham- ilton, “und when you come to figure it up, the circus is a big source of revenue to the railroads. Sometimes it costs §1,000 a day for the transportation ot a bigshow. Now, mstead of goin, into the town on a turnpike, tired an covered with dust, the circus people ar- rive by cars in good condition, and give a streot parade with some spirit. The advent of a circus is not looked upon as a calamity, moral or financial, any more. Business men understand thuf, in a small town or city, everybody who has anything to sell is direct y benefitted by the circus. It draws the country peoplo into town and stimulates the circulation of money. A fair share of the cash taken at the tent goes directly back into the pockets of the townspeople. Some- times the officials try to bleed the circus by charging an enormous license fee, but that does not pay. The city of Holy- oke, Mass., one year, raised the circus license from $150 to $900 as soon as Bar- num announced that he would show there. The result was that Barnum changed his arrangements and pitehed his tents in Chicopee, a few miles away. The Hol- yoke business men made a great fuss and the next year Holyoke notified Barnum that the license fee had been reduced to the old figures. There isa good side to the circus business when yoa come to know all about it, and there are some re- deeming features that the public never heard of. Two or three years ago, when I was laying out the line of march for the New York street parade, Barnum re- ceived a letter fro entleman un- known to him, in which the writer said that his little boy was ill and could not go out, but was anxious to see the pro- cession, and wanted to know if the procession passed his house. Mr. Bar- num gave me the letter, and we changed the line of march three or four blocks from the original route in order to give that sick boy a chance to see ihe parade from the window. Mr. Hutchinson once ot & letter from o littie fellow who said fia wanted to go to the eircus, but his aunt, with whom he lived, was too poor to afford the expense of a tickct. A ticket was sent to him at once. 1t was a small matter to the management, but it made one youngster happy. The circus men are not such bad fellows when yon come to know them.” e — A Lucky Man. i ul “A lucky man is rarer than a white eiys Juvenal, and wo think he . 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