Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 17, 1887, Page 4

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Contents of the Sunday Be Page1. New York Herald Cablegrams— Specials to the Brk.—General Telegraphic . Telezraphle News.—City News,.— ny, 3. Special Advertisements, Page 4. Editorials.—Political Btriking Events of the Week Page 5. Lincoln News. Cdlls.—Adyertisements. T'age6, Council Bluffs News.—Miscellany. Points.— issane in the ~—Advertisoments. Page 7. Queer People and Things.—Gen- eral and Local Markets.—Advertisements. Page8. City News.—-Advertisenents. Tage 9. Omaba Society Omahan {n Germany.—Advertisements. - _Pago10. Husbands and Helpmeets neineer’s Story, by Helen M. Winslow, parkling Spring Smiles. —Advertisements. Page 1L Women Worthily Working. Honey for the Ladies.—Musical and Dramatic ~ - e-8ingularities.—Advertisements. Tage 12, Gotham Gab and Gossip, by Clara lle.~Twonty-two Years’ ‘Tulk, by Adam Badeau.—Connubialitics.—Advertisements. SEE——————— 1IN Montana the legislature this winter assed a law licensing gambling houses. lontana will now become the Gamblers “ Paradiso. AMERICA will bo well represented 1n $he jubilee railroads’ exhibition to be held &t Paris this summer. Omaha could ex- hibit many railroads on pa; —— BosTox has had a successful dog show, and she now proposes to have a show of cats. Culture covers a multitude of sius, 28 well as cats. Pious old Boston! ¢ Ir is asingular fact that since the edi- tors have given up their passcs, nota volce has been raised for throe whole .weeks in defense of the fraudulent rail- road commission. ARBOR day comes the latter part of this month. It is estimated that 605,000, 000 of trees are now thriving where but a w yoars since none were to be seen, and all as a result of Arbor day. With Shis fact before us we can forgive J. Bterling Morton for opposing Church Howe. r— A DRUGGIST in Brattleboro, Vt., has oonnected every bottle contamning poison ‘with the prescription desk by electricity, #0 that whenever one {8 touched a bell Rives warning and wakes the compounder up to see, by a second look, whether he Bas the bottle he wants or mnot. This would be a tell-tale apparatus in a Kan- ®as drug store. —— TuE German government has pur- ohased for $250,000 an invention for steor- Ing balloons, Itissaid that this valua- ble invention will solve the problem of air ships, When lines of air ships are dntroduced in this country the inter-state commussion can ride around adjusting railroad rates without in any way plac- ing themselves under obligations to the terra firma cormorants. | 8Sroux Orry is wrestling with the prob- 2em of a union depot. One of the papers of that town Inshes itself into madden- Jng misery and says upon the subject: “There has been more lying in Sioux City about this depot matter than there has been in court over the Haddoek case, and this will sufliciontly illustrate to the out- pide reader the extent of pervarieation that has been indulged in,” Omaha has ;lumon depot construeted on similar ans, Tne soclety of the Army of the Cum- berland have determined to rearrangoe the oflicial programme in such a wiy hat thoro will be no room or timo far a moemorial address at the unveiling of the @arficld statue. This Is a direct and rsonal thrust at J. Warren Kieffer. ‘et tho goneral of speakership fame will explain to his Ohio friends that ‘‘his law practice at Springfield”’ makes it impos- siblo for him to be prosent upon this great ocension, ‘No woNpER President Cloveland signed the inter-state commerce law. Notwith- standing the fact that it was just such a Iaw as the people have long needed, his motive no doubt was a seliish one. An officer of the interior department re- cently said: “The withdrawal of rail- ‘way passes has pretty efectually stopped the coming of delegutes and of individu- als to urge appointments and press claims here. Before the inter-stato law went into effect there wasn't & day passed fhat we did not have delegations and in- dividuals here for one purpose or an- othor. They would come from the Fa- ollic coast and the far uorthwest. Bus mow, since free passes have been can soled, we don't have many suchk caiors | contempor: | brilliant Young Blood in Politics. Among the toasts drank at the now historic postmasters’ banquet was “Young Blood 1n Polities.” The re- &ponse to this toast is commended by v editors as a masterly and fort and the respondent, W. F. Gurley, is held up to the admiration of the rising generation of voters and citi- zens s the ideal young politician, he theme of this toast was within it- self appropriate, in view of the disparity between the ages of the incoming and outgoing postmasters For aught we know, tne oratory of Mr. Gurley may have surpassed in {Inish and pathos the polished efforts of Roscos Conkling or Robert G. Tugersoll. But patriotic citi rus of all parties und factions who keenly feel the pernicions influences tha have d { American politics, more especially the politics of Nebraska, have reason to resent this attempt to make Mr. Gurley g el for young vot ors to pattern after. ‘The idea is too re- volting to any man who hopes to see the standard of our politica elevated and purifiea through the young blood that is not yet contaminated by the fatal con- tagion of corrupt and dissolute lobbies. One of the sadlest and most lament- able sights at the late legisiature was this young man, endowed with natural gifts thut would have made him an orna- ment to his profession, cireling in the dendly whirlpool of debaucheries and orgies which destroy sout and bady, and make drunken beasts and conscic rogues of the participants. With a brain steeped in rum and con- ience dulled by constant commur with the depraved, who 1 of legislators from the path ot hono: integrity a profitable calling, this b and eloquent young man rounded up his career at Lincolu by becoming one of of the Omaha gam re men and papers want him to personify our young blood in polities. How could this young lnwyer who, loss than three ago held a confidential position at Washington, get stranded on the rocks of dissipaticn and corruption in such a short time? He had fallen into bad hands and taken as his exomy men who had achieved prominence the expense of honor and reputation, The young man had chosen as dard of political morals, silver-tongued and brazen-cheeked railroad lawyers who figure prominently but not rept bly at our state conyentions and legisl tures. With these men he took his les- sons in gilded infamy, and through them he imbibed the poison which has made our body politie rotten to the core, his stan- T'hese whitened sepulehers are to.day as dangerous to the virtue and geod name of our young men as the other whitened sepulchers have been to young women. Such dreadful wrecks should furnish food for serious reflection for young men ambitious to gain eminence and fame in our politics. It is to the young blond that America looks hopefully, although dispaivingly, for reforms. Nebraska, of all other states, needs self-purification in her poli- tics. She has suffered inefluble disgrace and degradation through vicious and venal politicians who had no higher aim than success at any cost and through any agency however immoral, criminal and destructive of social order and good gov- ernment. Look to the West, Very few people realize the magnitude of material growth of the section directly west of Nebraska. Wyoming 1s destined to become tie Pennsvivania of the west. She has been for twenty years a colony of one corporation, and for years was known as Jav Gould's province. The Union Pacific has kept closed to the world the coal, the iron and the o1l which Nebraska's next neighbor 15 more than rich in, But & new day has dawned. The giant corporation that for years throttled every individual enterprise in Wyoming, is no longer autocrat. The Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley railroad al- ready reachos to Douglas, the center of the cattle and coal region. In two years it will tap the oil fields. The B.& M. has incorporated under the laws of the terri- tory, and will be there in 1833. The Rock Islund has a survey. The Milwaukee is pointing that way. There 18 no pretenso in these projects. They aro practical. They mean develop- ment. Where now are less people than live in Omaha there will be a half million long ULefore the end of this century. These railroads are not speculating on something thoy believe to exist. They know 1t is there, The tales of men who ex- plored the ‘‘great American desert” in Nebraska, are no longer called chimerionl. Nor are they in Wyoming. These railroads are to prove them to all to be realities. From the Silver Crown mining distriet, 1n which Colorado miners are putting a half million, and from the mountain of hematite iron, which stands within thirty miles of Cheyenne, north- ward to the river platte, over 100 miles, the Black Hills range of the Rockeys is rich in ore. Along the Platte are vast beds of coal and immense ledges of gran- ite and marble; coal as good as sells for £ aton in this city; granite as enduring as is brought from Maine; and marble as Hne as is found in Kentucky or Teunes- see. Follow up the Platte, westward less than 100 miles, and the great oil basins aro found. Oil bubbles up like spring wator in the Catskills. It flows fifty bar- rels o day from two wells, side by side and Jes3 than 200 feet deep. There are 1,000 square miles of it. At Laramie City and in northern Carbon county are whole lakes — more than twenty-five square wiles—of pure soda. A mullion cattle can always graze on the plains. In John- son and Crook counties and on streams which flow into the Platte, Laramie, Green and Bear rivers slight irrigation raises ns good wheat as grows in Colo- rado and vogetables which rival Cali- fornia. Thereisa kingdom of coal in Wyoming; an imperiality of iron. Its fields of oil aro vast and inexhaustible. There will be the Birmingham and the Pittsburg of the west, No city can be built in Wyoming whioh can supply the wants of the great mining and mechanical industrial population sure to gather there. No railroad will make any place there a tefminus. While they will develop the territory Ly passing through it, they will not center. *“All roads lcad to Rome" waa a bit of ban- combe. But if it had been literally true thare was not much brilliance In it, It many roads had not led to Rome. there ‘would havo been no Rome worthy to be styled the imperial mistress of the world. Omuha may maintain its marvelous cominercial progress by recogmizing its chances. Lot it keep pace with the devel- opment of this younger sister of Ne- braska. For the iron and coal, the oil, the soda, and the cattle, Omaha needs steel works, refineries, baking powder factories, and boef packing housos. In return for her pigiron, her crude oil, her native soda, her granite, and Rer beeves, send back to Wyoming flour, clothing, provisions, dressed beef, pork, and canned meat, together with other neces- sities of civilized life. the With four great reilroad systems which cally rerminate here as much as they do at Chieago, Wyoming is Omala's door. Her people should be to regard this city as their mart. capital which is daily coming here for ir vestinent should be shown what a mar ket for Omaha is growing up just west, No pent up Ut should contine this city's commerc Arms of steel are reaching into an undeveloped part of our natural territory. Omaha should pre vare to extend to the people who are thereand who will go there an invit tion to bring their products here for ex- hun chung tty Years of School Work. M husetts is the fountain from which the public school system of the United States has derived a very large part of its most healthful and stimulating miluences. Other states now tems ol publie education qui and excellent, but they all owe more o loss to the wisdom, devotion and exp ence of the educators of Massachusetts, In this view there is a measure of gen eral interest in the report recently issued by the ary of the Massachusetts board of cdueation, which reviews the progress the state has made in training ildren during the last lifty years. In some of the imstructive facts the exper: ence of Massachusetts has been repeated in other stu y year: ago public education even in Massachusetts was on a very low arade. Thore was a paucity of compe- tent teachers, and the small salaries paid sle men out of this work, for at that time it was largely in the hands of men. e methods, also, were crude, there w: a lack of books, and there was no carcful and ade nate pervision of schools. The ure for education with the es was far less urgent than no that while about six months then su for the s age school year, over eight now demanded. A particularly in- terosting fact is the decline in the num- ber of male teachers and the increase in the numiber of women instructc White fifty vears ago the number of women teachers exceeded the men by only about one-third, at this time the proportion is cight to one in favor of the women. Surely the gentler n lay strong claim to honor in this tield ot labor and point with pride to the educutional pro gress of Massachusetts as evidence of the eapacity of women at least in teach- ing “the young idea how to shoot.” The timate of the money value of teaching has also experienced a ver lod ad- vance. The pedagogues of fifty ago had to he sparing of the luxurics of life. Then the. average monthly wages of men were $25.44, and of women §1 including bourd, the latter doubtle bemngesulliciently plain not to interfere with sedentery and studious habits, Nowr the corresponding figuras are $111.23 for men ang $13.97 for women, and Massachusetts is still more economical with her teachers than most other states no better ally for teach- er, that at pres- ent the supply is in excessof the demand, as indeed it is getting to be quite gen- erally. The qualifications of teacliers have of course greatly mereased in the half cen- tury. Fifty years ago there were no Nor- mal schools, and as the report says the work of the teach ronsisted mainly in keeping order, and in having parrot-like recitations of lessons which had been memorized with a more or less dim re- gard for theirimeaning. All this has been changed, and the average teacher of to- day occupies a place far above his or her predecessor half a century ago, not alone in intellectual attaibments, but in a knowledge of methods and all the minor requirements of successful teaching. As evidenca of the growtli in popular regard of the public school system, it is stated that a- lurger provortion of the school- children of the state are in the public schools now than in 18 but it is suggested thai future reports may show o change in recording a larger number of children who attend schools at institutions not supported by the state. On the whole, the exhibit made ot the half coentury’s progress in the school work of Mussa- chusetts is entirely gratifying, but tho secretary of the state board submits that there is still room for further advance ment. The problem of education is con- tinually presenting new phases and de- mands, aud no system anywhere is yot in sight of perfection, Progress at the Vatfcan, In the swiftly running cutrent of mod- orn events, nothing is more interesting as showing the drift of the tide than the evidences of progress at the Vatican. After having been for half a gencration, or since, in 1870, Pope Pius secluded him- self a voluntary prisoner, n the back- ground of moral anda political activity, the Vatican has emerged from the clond that enveloped 1t and become again a recognized and potent force in the affairs of the world. The wisdom that elevated Leo XIIL to the pontificate, in recogni- tion of qualities in which his predecessor was sadly deficient, has been most fully justified by results. He entered upon his reign encumbered with many difficulties and embarrassments. Pius, after pur- suing for a time a policy of humanity and good will with respect to the struggling and oppressed peoples of Europe that caused him to be hailed as a deliverer, finally receded from this wise position and thereafter maintained a course dis- tinetly reactionary. He remained to the end hostile to united Italy, and was in open conflict with most of the other powers, He denounced the Aus- trians, visited indignities upon the en- voys ot Russia, and exasperated Ger- many. The people of Italy rose aganst him and he was forced to find retreat from the popular hostility in exile and voluntary imprisonment. In this situ- ation his antagonism to all seeintitic and political progress becamentensifled, and in every way that was left to him he sought to create discussion and strife. THE OMAMA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY. APRIL 17, 1887.~TWELVE PAGES The effect was seriously damaging to both the moral and temy; influence of the church, The difficult taskd fluence was impose 6 destoring this in- on ®ope Leo, aud he has shown himself iW e#try way equal to it. The most conspicuous example of his wise moderation agd diplomatic tact was shown in the cg nI ro-establish- ment of friendly re! s between Ger- many and the Vat # When Leo as- cended the papal Joldic the Cathoi church in Germany was subjected to in- numerable restraints, Bishops were forced to go into exile, priests forbidden to teach in any publie school, and orders pte driven from the country. All this is now practically at aa end, and only recently Bismarck has borne public testimowy in the warmest and most eulogiste terms to the EL es rendered by the pepe to peace andto the German cempive. Russin no longer Lolds enmity toward the vatican, and the friendship of Austria has been fully regained. England pas learncd to regard Leo friend to hw and order and to government who csn be trusted. France is most favorably disposed toward him. Spain and Portugal are his devoted friends, though for many years the latter country was very cold toward the Vati- can. While ull this has been accom- plished, the work of the ehurch has not been neglected. In China, Japan, Aus- tralia, the Indes, and Pes new ficlds have been opened to missienaries, and so i the church grewn in Amer y of a third Amer d to have been al- r i i ready discussed. In the work of education, also, the wis- dom and liberality of this broad-minded pontiff are also strikingly exhibited. New colleges have been opened for the educa tion of priests, among the sest of which is the America colloge. The schools of Rome have been greatly improved, and orders have gone out to the bishops and ergy everywhere for tie good and offi- :nt education of the young people under their charges. The pope has taken an active int also, 1 the consideration of social hor questions, and has exhibited an enlightened and liberal ten- dency with regard to all of them. While nly not in sympathy with any o " sudliness to all prover and legitimate efforts which men may my through organization, for the im- provement of their social and material welfare. His ncceptance of the views of Cardinal Gibbons regarding the Knights of Labor st levidence of this. All Americans have been geatified by the recoguition recently given an eminent prelate of this conntry, who boldly main- tains that the church must deal with Amerieans as such, add must regard American laws and institutions, and while American Protestants must respeet the pope for the emlightened liberality which enables him to acquiesce in such views, American Roman Catholies must specially rejol at it ys assuring for church accelerated progress in this coun- try. An alhiance of the church of Rome and modern progress, which it 1s the evi- dent purpose of Pope Leo to effect, and which in fact he | measureably effected already, would be a consummation that all men should heartily welcome. son to doubt his fr AUSTRAL cording to the report of the Ame! at, New South Walss having becone affected with tariff idens, has quite naturally directod them most sharply against the fountain of the protection doctrine—the United States. Heavy duties have been imposed on nearly all American wares. Those formerly on the free list have been sub. jected to u duty, and on others the rate of duty has been largely increased. In order to protect the home manufacturers of kerosene, which is inferior to the American product, the people are re- quired to pay a tax of 12 conts a gallon. This is a single interesting example of what the protection idea may wvroduce. The people continue to buy American oil asfreely as ever, but the home manu- facturer gets 12 cents a gallon more for s0 much of his product as he sells. As yet American locomotives and machinery hold their own, despite tariff discrimina- tion, against all competition, and it is believed will in time supersede those of all other countries. There is a sharp con- test for the growing trade of Australia, of which the share of the United States i 1836 was to the value of nearly $11,000,000. It is gratifying to'know that the ap- pearunce of the Easter bonnet proclaimed to all the world that flowers, instead of birds, will, for this season at least, orna- ment the head-piece of America’s women. The reckless slaughter of the tens of thousands of innocent birds, made neces- sary the past few seasons to gratify fash- jon’s fancy, will be stopped, and inta- tion tlowers from artistic hands, will adorn and beautify the much-talked-of bonnet. The bonnet of this spring, be it said with alarm, is higher than last, both in price and altitude. From the demure shaker of a few years ago, to the rich and gaudy, long-drawn out flower- crowned and richly ornamented new fangled contrivance of these later years, no comparison is admissible. Yet not- withstanding the demands of unfeelin; fashion plates, woman 1s always beau tul. Tie New York Herald's pearing each morning as $pe: Big, are an attractive gnd instructive feat- e of this paper. This Sinday morning we can point with pride to the well-nlled columns of foreign news. 1 The verhatim report ot the proceedings of the house of commons, yesterday morning, appearing in full within twenty-four hours, iz a bit of enterprise to be apvrgciated by the 15,000 subscribers of the )Suxpay BeE. All the principal cities und important news centers of the old world are repre- sented in our special New York Herald cablegrams, and trom each point comes a complete news summary. A WASHINGTON correspondent says Commissioner Bragg. of the Interstate Commerce Commission, has made him- self known to Washingtonians by wear- ing a hat the like of which is only pos- sessed by three other prominent citizens in that city. At any distance the owners of these hats can be identided. The eor- respondent assumes that these hats alone have made their wearers great. It has been noticed, however, that that which is in the hat has more to do with greatness than auything else. THe Pennsylyan legislature has passed what is known in the eastasa “high license” law. It provides that the license in cities of the first, second and third class shall be $500; in all other cities $300; in boroughs $150 and in town- ships § This would be considered a very low license law in this state. Ex SexatoR VAN Wyck is by no means entirely indifferent as to what is goingon d, recent ringing speech t of the ovppressed of Ireland citizen he still down-trodden of showed that as a private sympathizes with the all nations. POINTS, ‘The Boston Herald suspects John Sher- man of trying to capture the mugwutp vote. Proliibitionists oppose high license laws because they tend to render prohibition un- necessary. ‘I'here is nothing in the returns of the re- cent election to show that Michigan will not be a close state next year. Congressman Springer agrees with ex-Gov- ernor Palmer that there is no doubt that Cloveland will be for the second time the democratic nominee. William T, Coleman of California, who is trying to cultivate a presidential boom, is baldheaded. All his hair has gone into his moustache, whicli is prodigious. Jesse Grant, son of the general, takes a lively interest in polities,. He is for Blaine, though he savs he found it hard to vote for the Maine statesman in 1884, I'he New York republican club admits no member who did not vote for the Blaine electors in 1884, ‘T'his prevents any mug- wump luterference. Itisthe policy of re- venge. It is understood that Colonel Georga Bliss, of gNew York, and ex-Senator T. C. Platt, who have been at swords’ points in polities for some years, have buried the hatehet, handle and all. Senator Reagan of Texas, having sur- vrised the world by taking a bath and declar- ing for prohibition, is now nourishing a very largge and eaptivating vice-presidential bee in his bonnet. John W. Davis, democratic govern who has been -elected : of Rhode Island, 1§ be- tween sixty and sixty-live years of age. He is in good health, possesses an erect and commanding ficure, and a genial and in- tellectual face. Ilis utterances are always forceful and original. Senator Hearst's paper, the San Francisco Examiner, recently devoted an entire page to the vizorous booming of William 'T. Cole- wan, the San Franeisco twenty-millionaire, who has erected a wolden-tipped lightning rod In the vain hobe that it may be struck by the presidential llzhtning. Ex-Secretary Lincoln, dontial chances, : “yudge Gresham would be very strong, especially in the west. tle is an able, upright, fearless, experienced public man. [ thinl it is his preference, how- over, to stay on the bench. e has 50 ex- pressed himself to his friends, but, of course, that would not weigh against the pressure of a presidential nomination if it should be offered to him.” poaking of presi -— Rather Changeable. Fall 1 Herald, “Phe weather is as changeable as a cheap politician, and as unreliable as a seven- dollar wateh. ey Too Many Colleges. Washington Critic, It is remarked that there are twelve col- leges in Pennsylvania which admit both selxes to equal standing, It might also be re- marked that twelve ‘“‘colleges” in one state, are at least ten more than thero ought to be for sither sex. — @The Poor Man's Crown, Hanna More Kohaus, No embers burned upon the ashen hearth The room was wrapped in chilling, gloomy dearth: Within its center stood a sable bier, And plain, ungarnished casket, sadly drear; ‘The wintry sun shone sickly as it gleamed Through frost-barred window panes, but brightly seemed To streteh across the barren floor and lay Athwart the casket with effulgent ray, And rested on_the still, white, marble form ‘That death had chiseled in the early morn, With one swift blow from his relentless hand— That hand whose keen, cold blade none can withstand, But yesterday he was so poor—alas!-— One of the many whom we doubtless pass Tach day, nor question, are they amply fed— His great and tender heart so sorely bied For wife and offspring, he himself denied, That thoy, with nourishment could be sip- lied .\mfl.u. withouta murmured, word or sign, That any could his sacritice divine, He weaker grew and weaker, till the clay Drovped from the noble soul and far away It s;larm(ll unfettered, whore sweet rest is ound, Aud where by angels hands nis head was crowned. Soon learned men, with bared hends, gath ered near, And gazed with reveront awe upon the bier. Whilsin an undertone they softly said: “This man from slow starvation here lies da Upon the coffin lay the wife and bitter sobbed : “It was for us—for us—himself he robbod, ‘That we might feel no loss nor hunger’s pain O God! roward the deed with heaven's rich gain !” "Twas then, through pitying tears, I noted how “The radiant sunlight rested on his brow With such ethereal, supernatural rays, No mortal eye could long endure to gaze; No wonder! "twas not strange; he bLad gon whence He'd enter into an inheritance! For was not he in vel ruth the son Of heaven’s majestic Kim{‘.‘ co-heir with Oue Whose footsteps he unfal nr|nzly trod, Along the sacriticial road to God? Mightnot the lignt that dazzled mortal eyes Reflect from his starred crown in paradise,” Mattie's Wants Wishes, _ I wants a pieco of talito — o make my dol] a dreaz: doesn’t wint abig piece, A yard'll do, I guess. 1 wish yowd fred my needle, Ana tind my fimble, too. 1 has such heaps o' sewing 1 don’t know what to do. My Hepsy tored her apron a'lin’ down the stair, wsarlost his pantaloons I pair, must have a jackat, zzer one’s too small, I wants to 2o to grandma’s Ju promised me | might; 1 know shelike to sece me— I'll wants togo to-night. She lets me wash the dishes, And see in grandpa’s wateh— Wish 1'd free, four pennies T'o buy some butter-scotoh. 1 wants some newer mittens; { wish you'd knit me some, ’Cause inost my Lingers fry They lcak 0 in the thumb. 1 wored it out last summer slod ; t laugh se— 1t hurts we in my head. 1 wish I had a cooky, I'm hungry’s I can be: 1t you hasi't pretty large ones, You'd better bring me free. Applies as Well to Nebraska as to Colorado. Denver Iepublican. Now that the editors of the state press have severed their relations with tho rall- roads, by the return of their annual passes, they will be able to discuss the railroad prob- lem from an Independent standpoint, free to tell the truth and to more fully educate the people of Colorado on this ?:.Cll.fl- Lot them begin by showing that legislatuce which adjourned last week was oontrolled body, soul and breeches by the railroads. —_—— t Be a Mistako. Washington Critic, It is reported that somebody has been de- | tected robbing a railroad. ‘This must be a mistake, ‘The Associated press will probably make the correction to-day that it was a rail- road which was trying to rob somebody. - A Beautiful Opportunity, New York Sun. Queen Vietoris has a beautiful opportunity of making her jubiles year forever memor able by knighting Buffalo Bill. If she wants aknight of the stalwart kind, she cannot tind a better man. And Mr. Cody can throw the lasso better than Launcelot of the Lake could in his best days. - Catholics for High License. New York Heyald, Whatever else we may say about the Cath- olic chureh, it must be admitted that it is des perately sensible on the subject of temper- ance. Seeing that prohibition, however de sirable, is practically impossible, it has thrown itself earnestly in favor of the high license bill. Bishop Ireland said in Buffalo: tree government, depending uvon uni- versal suffrage, isnot safe unless the deepest roverence for law permeates the public mi By its defiance of law the liquor traflic is ef- fectually undermining the foundations of so- ciety and working toward the disruption of the ropublic. The traftic is to-day the most dangerous encmy the country knows, and it amazes me beyond my power to tell, that the American people, proud of their republican institutions, and conseious of their high mls- sion to maintain bricht and strong, for the teaching of the entire world the light of liberty, can stand idly by, as they do, and vermit, almost without a protest, the liquor traflie to mock the enactment of the state and to proclaim its power to be a mere phan- tom. STRIKING EV The Kissane sensat ince the disclosu by the Sacramento Iee, is attracting unive sal attention on the Pacific coast. The full particulars from New York and Cleveland, as telegraphed by the ociated Press three weeks ago, were suppressed at that time b$ all California newspape Kisssne 1s a mil liouaire, living in California, moving in tue nighest and most relined eircles of society. 1lis wite is of & prominent and influential southern family, and all of his relatives are “among the upper crust.” The fact develop- ing that Kissane is an ex-convict, a murderer, a forger, and guilty of all the crimesin the catalozue, has fairly paralyzed the city of San Francisco. The B s correspondent to-day gives a full and complete history of the man and his crimes ot thirty-tive years azo. The life of Kissane, if the storles per- taininz to his adventures are true, and they seem verilied, would make a book, stranger than the strangest liction. The climax is yet to come. After throwing away all vices, re- forming and attempting to live a life of up- rightness, to have the curtain of thirty-five years ago drawn aside, and reveal a man steeped to the very lips in crime and sin, shows the caprices of fortune, and teaches a lesson for all men to heed. Do nothing to-day of which you will be ashamed to-morrow. THE WEEK, e The murdered girl at Rahway, N. J., has been temporarily consigned to the tomb. Her identity remained unestablished, notwith- standing the untiring energy of New York officials and reporters to unravel the mystery. All attempts to reveal the desired information proved fruitiess. This tragedy, trom the time the body was found on the river’s boulk, until it was placed to rest, has each day developed some frightful fact. It seemed strange at first, to the casual news- paper reader, that a young woman could be lost for many davs and not be missed. 1t seemed stranzer, too, that she could leave New York, go to the village of Rahway, be as- saulted and murdered, and yet not be secen by a single verson, except, of course, the per- petrators of the atrocious ecrime. The thorough search instituted by the New York pavers, the rewards offered by them for in- formation concerning the saa affair, natu- rally directed the public’s attention to the mysterious happening. The announcement that the body of an unknown girl had been found, developed the fact that over one hundred girls are missing from their homes in the greatcity of New York, and that thelr parents are in total ignorance of their daugliters’ whereabouts. ‘There was some- thing suggestive and solemn in the fact that nearly two hundred heart-broken mothers, oneatatime visited Rahway, gazed upon the corpse of the unknown woman, and each turned away disappointed to find that it was not the body of her own wayward girl. Itis indeed startling information to know that:almoss two hundred girls have either been enticed away froin their homes for imn- ‘moral purposes or that they have been foully dealt with. It will certainly cause parents 1n large citles increased anxlety and justified alarm, * « @ All over the country the base ball scason has opened. The first game in New York was Wwitnessed by over 8,000 persons. Those who figure on the propriety of sports in America, have expressed it as their opinion that base ball will finally absorb all other out-door games, and receive the lion’s share of publie patron- That it is a healthful, innocent and ex- ¢ game, none will deny. Croquet, lawn tennis, crickett, and similar games have al- most had their run, while base ball playing has become u profession—-backed by money and influence of largo cities. Y Reports from Ozark, Mo., say that the most exciting happening ever occuring in that part of the state is the arrost and trial of the Bald-Knobbers. o ovizinal intention of this organization was to suppress crime. Being a secret society, some of its members grew bold and lawless. The murder of an innocent man finally arensid public atten- tish, and it was discovered that members of the society had done the killing. The fact was disclosed that many good citizens had taken the oath of initiation, and once within the fold feared to betray the murderous gang. These men certainly reasoned wildly before they could have tonsontod to Join such a band, Wiiaiaver was the orig- inal Intantion of the outlaws, it is safe to say that not onasacred thought or utterance was ever given in the secrot councils of the Bald Kuobber raiders. A prominent Baptist min- ister of Ozark has expressed it as his boliet that thero were fully 100 members of his chureh 1u Christian county under oath of alleglance to the Bald Knob organization. This saino statement tho preachier had made last fall, and in roiterating the rather sensa- tionaldeclaration he said the observation of several mouths furnished no grounds for moditieation of the former remark. Parson Simmons, who now languishesin the Spring- tield jail, is not the only Chrstian eounty preacher suspeciod of having attended the nightly gatherings of the maskel brother- hood. ~ Other ministers of tho same faith, far more prominect i pulpit reputation than thisunhappy divine, are openly ckarged with active particivation iu the nocturnal deliber- ations of the Bald Knobbers. Last Sunday some new converts rofused baptisin at tho hands of an old and well known minister pecause the latter was accused of boing a Bald Knobber. In Christian county n &rong feeling exists against the organization, and 1t is pre- dictea that many ties of nelehborly friend- ship must be forever sundered by the mem- orles of the black masks and its kindred &rips, signs and pass-words, e Among the evouts of this year, none equals the reported dishonesty of the freight em- ployes of the Pan Handle ratiroad. 1t1s sai that ot eighty “‘crews” running freight drains on that road, seventy-five of them woro crooked, and leagued together to steal mer chandise from the trains, Thay eut holes in the freight cars, robbed them of packages of more or less value and reported tho cars as damaged by accident. Outside parties allied with them stood ready to purchase the plun der. Their stealings oxtended over a pariod of two or three years, and tho amount stolen reachos a half million of dollars, It wasga thorough and completo organization, banded together to rob their employers, and tho statement that the result shows what Knights of Labor will do, I3 entirely false. That sociely had nothjng whatever to dojwith it. Upon this subject the Chicago Herald sensibly says: “They were not Knights of vabor, they were Chevallers d’Industrie of a different sort. To the modern knighthood that breaks into freight trains In its charge, robs them of their valuable con- tonts, and does not shrink from the use of murderous weapons when occaslon sorves, labor is only the secondary means for the ac: complishment of erime. It there were any Knights of Labor in that Infamous gang they will get no countenanco from that organiza- tion; on the contrary, it will lend its vigor- ous aid in their prosecution and punishment, 1tis gratifying to the Brotherhood of Lioco- motive Engineers that not one of its mem- bers belonged to this ctiminal conspiracy.” The most remarkable thing of the entire plot is the fact that there was not one honest man in the seventy-tive “‘crews.” A crow consists of four men. Iad there been one Juda among them, the entire system could have been broken up long ago. The old and homely saying that there is “honor among thieves” proves itself l:uc in this instance, Miss Catharine Woltes who died In New York at the age of sixty years, was the wealthiest single woman in Ameriea. With her money two magniticient churches were crected and supported in New York. Sho was a thoroughly Christian women, and her a In her will she lle spirit she had She bequeathed her showed the same high p evineed through life. entire art connection, which i3 one of the finest in the country, tothe Metropolitan Museum of Art. It will be at tho service of art students and lovers of the beautiful thronghout all time, The Wolfe heirs will be a few bundred thousand dollars tho poorer, but they seem to share the lofty senti- ments of their relative, for it is reported of them tiat, when the will was read, they all expressed themselves thoroughly satistied with the division of the property. The Metro- politan museum was rich in art troasures be- fore. Now it will compare with famous European galleries. It may not contain as many paintings as the National gallery, or the Luxembourg, but among the can \ will founa N t conspicuous of these will be the “ierse Fair,” by Rosa Bonheur, which Cornelius Vanderbilt bought at the Stewart sale to ore- sent to the museum. —— How William Reached Ninety. New York Herald of Health: While at home in the palace at Beriin he broak- fasts at 7:80 o'clock every morning, in- variably using coffee, with a large al- lowance of milk and bread without but- ter. Weather permitting, he takes walk- ing exercises daily before luncheon, which is served at 1 o’clock. Boiled crabs is a favorite dish at this meal, and is par- taken of with great rel; Between luncheon and dinaer, affairs of state are attended to for three hours and some- times longer. Then he rests until it is tme to dress for dinner, The hour fixed for this is 4. Every morning the chief cook submits thebill of fare for approval. It usually consists of five courses. Tho emperor nas a decided preference for_plan food. Heis liberal in the use of fruit, and drinks mineral water procured from & natural spring. A cup of tea, without bread or cake, is the only refreshment he takes between dinner and bedtime, Ho makes a point of resting half an hour after breaktast and lunchcon, and an hour after dinner. When there are guests invited to dinner they meet him in an ante-chamber. A quarter of an hdur is spent in chatting. He tl leads the way to the dinner room. Theinvitations are always sent out at an early hour, and the seats discussed with the court mar- shal. When there are no guests the em- peror dines with the empress, und the cook takes orders from her. In summer, while at Gastein or some other watering place, the emperor gocs to the bath_room at 7:30 o'clock n the morning. Ho brenkfasts at 8, walks at 10, sccompanied by a personal adjutant and a special attendant. Luncheon is served at11. Between the hours of 13 and 3 he confers with the officers of the civil and military cabinets who arein waiting. Dinner 1s served at4. It con- sists of soup, fish, boiled beef, two en- treos, dessort and fruit, All the mom- bers of the imperial suit attend. At6 o'clock he takes a carringe ride, makes a social call and chats for an hour or longer. He isneverout of bed later than 10 o'clock. A, These Americans,” Rome letter in Chicago News: I have an old servant man who has been in my service several years; he can neithor read nor write, was a common soldier, carter, cobbler, by turns in his young days, then a concierge or doorkeeper, and has grad- ually worked himself to his present OXI"I— tortable condition. Last night when he was serving my cena, or supper, [ related to him a curious story I had just hoard of an American and his wife who are among those who fled from Nice to Rome last week, The husband had been sutlering for a long while from a spinal trouble, which made him helploss and bedridden. ‘They came to Nice from Carlsbad this winier. During the earthquake last woek the poor wife saw with torror the walls of their room crumble away, her husband's bed in the centre of the tu bling stones, bricks and a thick cloud of dust. Of course, she expected the shock alone would kill him. Great was her surprise, however, to sce the helpless man leap suddenly from the bed and begin to dress himself unaided. He is king about the streets of Rome. 1d servant listened with great in- terest to the story. This mornicg when pussing through'an ante-camera at the Toot of the itehen stairs, 1 overheard him repeating the story to s wife with veritable dramatic " passion, He stood where 1 could see him without his secing me. When he eame to the point wher tho husband leaped out of bed he set his teeth drow up his shoulders, and went no with marvelous power, in action as well as 1o words ed upon the bedridden mun, and wound up in his dialect of the ches thus: 1t was either to be killed or cured. I think it wonld have killed an Ttalian, but you see he was an Amorican! Ab, these Awmericans! What encrgy they have!" — A Spaniel Roscues Kitty. London Globe: A spuniel living on a furm in Flanders had for & compunion a beautiful young at, whom tho ruthless farmer had doomed to extermination Tying a stone round her neck, ho throw her into the river, But the spanic! “'pre cipitated himyself resolute into the stream, and brought her back in triumph to the house, Will it be belioved thut the heart of the farmer remained hardened ¢ Again he threw poor pussinto the Meuse; but again, like anothar Horatius, the spaniel--thongh without *‘his harmess on his back," that had been resoryed (or next market day—"‘plunged hendlun‘ in the tide.” Not only o, but again he drow heor safe to shore. And-—mark the point of the story—it to the further shore of the Mecuse; he would uot trust his friend to the mcicies of the hoe sids agsin, e