Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 5, 1887, Page 4

. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, MAY 5. 1887. THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION ¢ Daily (Morniag Edition) including Sunday Brg, Ono Yoar... OMATA OPPICE, NO. 014 AND 918 FARNA EW YORK OVFICE, ROOM 63, TRIRCNE BU ASHINGTON OFFPICE, N ORRESPONDENCR: All communiontions relating to news and edi- vorial matter should be addressed to the Evl- FOIt OF THE BRE. BUSINESS LETTRRS: Al business letters and romittances should bs addrossed to THE BEe PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAHA. Drafts, checks 4 postoffice orders 10 be inndo payuble t0 the order of the compuny, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS. E. ROSEWATER, Epitor. Sworn Statement of Circulation. State of Nebraska, | o o ('mmmi' of Douglas, | ™ ™ Geo. B. 'zschuck, secretary of The Bee Pubiishing company. does solemnly swnr that the actual circulation of the Daily Bee for the week ending April 20, 1857, was a8 follows: Baturday, April 23, Sunday, Aril 24 Monday, Apri ‘Tuesday, Apri Wednesday, April 27. Thursday, April 28, Friday, April 29.. 1E0, B. TzSCHUCK. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 80th day of April, 1557, N. . FE1L, [SEALL.) Notary Pubile. Geo. B. Tzschuck, belng first duly sworn, deposes and says that_he is secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual average daily circulation 'of the Daily Bee for the month of April, 1586, 12,101 copies: for May, 15, 12,439 copiess for June, 188 12208 cobles; for July, 184, 12314 coples: for August, 1556, 12,464 copies: for Septem- ber, 18%, 1 copies; for Octobor, 1856, 12,8 copies: for November, 1586, ' 13,43 copies;: for December, 1556, coples; for January, 1857, 16,200 copies; for Febriary, 1847, 14,105 copies; for March, 1857, 14,400 copies, Gro. B. Tzscnuck, Subseribed and sworn to before me this 15th dayof April, A, D [SEAL.| N. P. Fer, Notary Public. As a candidaté Unitt proved o cipher. o0 | Which are baving a *‘boom, | ing with respect to the real nature of the | ity of Om LONG was rather short on yotes _this time. Mg. GAry the old stand. AU will continue business at Mixy Le .‘ufouhemiwllh both feet in spite of Mr. Vanderbum’s displeasure. CoUNCILMAN BAILEY received an en- dorsement of which he can feel proud. Tre pipes laid by the gas company on election day were rather suggestive than otherwise. ——— ONE thing is settled very definitely. Mr. Humphrey Moynihan will not be chief of police. Tie most remarkable outcome of this election 18 that Isaac Hascall runs way ahead of everybody. Tue only thing that still agitates the voliticians of Omaha is the coming po- lice and fire commission, — Now Mr. Broatch will discover what tortures are in store for the man who has official appointments at his disposal. Tue election of W. J. Broatch, as mayor, means good government for Omaha. The dives and crooks must go, ‘I'ne democrats are now kicking them- selves because they didn’'t make Boyd run for mayor. Young blood was rather thin this time. — THERE was an earthquake shock in Texas yesterday. It was nothing com- pared to the shock which the democrats received in Omaha. ACCORDING to the Herald the splendid republican victory in the city election was won by boodle. How about Gar- neau boodle in the Third ward? PromIBITION made & good scarecrow for the democrats, but the pronibition candidates received barely enough votes to entitle them to a record on the oflicial canvass returns. CHARLEY GOODRICH is & heavy weight, but on a political race track he is a fiyer. It he had been the democratic candidate for mayor the republicans might have had a close call. THE demand for Grant's Memoirs still keeps up. The edition of 825,000 copies is nearly exhausted, and a new one 18 now in preparation, though it will not be 80 large as the first one. Tie St. Louis @lode-Democrat says: *The members of the Grand Army of the Republic may rest assured that they will be fully protected against all manner of extortion during their encampment here this year."" S———— Tuey call an Indian domain a reserva- tion because the savage retains the reser- vation to skip out and raise hair when- ever his war-paint does not set well on his stomach. Indian preservation should be the question of the hour. AND now there 18 more trouble in Washington. The proposed Friday evening dinner is about to be declared off because Queen Kapiolani is *“‘darker than midnight.” ‘Two cabinet officers have drawn the line—the color line, this time. Si1sTER ROSE has returned to her first calling by accepting the position of first assistant in s well known school for young ladies in New York City. We can now rest assured that no more ‘poems of Rose Elizabeth will spread woe through the country. e——— Tue Atlanta Constitution says: *‘Me- morial day in Atlanta was celebrated with something of the old time fervor. The New York Zribune will please take notice.”” Editor Grady loves to tight the battles over again. He always could do mr fighting on paper than on the E———— NexT month and Ignatius Donnelly, Esq.,it is presumed, will totally demolish William Bhakespeare. It will cost us a pang or two to part with William, for he has been a wise friend, a true guide and & companion 1n times of need. Howover, when he is gone, we. .shall still have Ig- Better Than a Boom. A communication from Mr. E, F. Test, a citizen of Omaha, in the Chicago 7'ri- bune of Tuesday, deprecates the practice of including this city among those places " a8 mislead- rapidly advancing growth snd prosper- ha, Says the writer of the communication: *“So far as Omaha is concerned there is no ‘boom’ here. On the contrary it is nothing but legitimate growth.” He states tho familiar fact that the rush of immigration into Ne- braska is enormous, probably unparal- leled in the history of any state, justify- ing the expectation that the next national consus will give Nebraska between 1,500,- 000 and 2,000,000 inhabitants. Omaha is receiving its share of this rapid growth of populatlon, while as the metropolis of an extensive region itis having a steadily expunding market that keeps every department of business in rigorous activity. If the proportion of the city's population to that of the state should be maintained at about 1 to 10, as it usu- ully has been, Omaha could, with entire safety, count upon 150,000 inhabitants in 1800, and it is by no means an over-san- guine estimate that the city will have at that time at least 130,000 people. The percentage of growth in the financial and commercial business of Omaha up to that period will undoubtedly be very much greater. The foundations of Omaha's growth and prosperity are permanent. All the conditions that have made the city what itisand are now contributing to its ad- vancement, are lasting and progressive. There is a vast country tributary to it capable of sustaining millions of popula- tion whose people are now counted by thousands. A great part of this country is among the most inviting to the settler on the con- tinent, and wiil continue to be sought for many years to come by the indus- trious and thrifty people who I overcrowded east for the larger oppor- tunities of the west, and by those who come from other lands to create homes in this country. Were Omaha dependent for its future upon Nebraska alone 1t would have the certainty of becoming one of the larger cities of the country, though less rapidly, but it is now, and 1n the future is still more to be, the metro- polis not merely of a single state, but of a region embracing several states and from which others will be created. Having its foundations firmly laid, and with all the conditions at hand by which great cities are made and maintained, Omaha's progress is purely legitimate, and cannot justly be enumerated with what are commonly termed “booms,” in many cases the work of speculators or the result of some superficial or temporary conditions. We have heretofore shown that the assump- tion that real estate prices in Omaha are exorbitant 18 not justified by a com- parison with other cities, even those of less population and business, and with fower of the solid and permanent condi- tions to prosperity. We think no one who will acquaint himself with the real position of Omaha as the necessary me- tropolis of a great and growing country, can doubt that it still offers to capital the assurance of profitable investment. — Showinga Better Disposition. A dispatch from Ottawa, the capital of the Dominion, reports that the cor- respondence in the fisheries controversy has been laid before parliament. All the information it contains of interest to Americans was communicated to con- gress by Secretary Bayard. The com- munications that passed between the Do- minion authorities and those of the im- perial government are of minor conse- quence, or perhaps none at all, to the people of this country. The fact is stated that the officers in command of the fisheries protection vessels have been instructed to grant the largest lLiberty compatible with the protection of Canadian interests to United States fi ing vessels in obtaining shelter, repairs, wood and water. Thereis evidence 1n this of a better disposition, The proposition of Lord Salisbury, that the two countries should return to the old arrangement, omitting the compensation that was required of the +United States, ap- pears to be regarded in Canada as a most generous concession that ought to at once silence all complaint on the part of this country. It is not apparentthat that is largely the feeling here. The United States government has not been in quest of concessions; it has simply been seck- ing international and treaty rights, The passion into which certain papers of the Dominion have worked themselves over this proposition they might have spared themselves in view of the extreme im- probability of this country giving any serious consideration to the assumed lib- eral arrangement proposed by the Brit- ish premier, Even did the proposition appear to thiscountry to be as generous as the Canadians affect to regard it, there would be little disposition here to accept it1f it was offensive to any considerable party in the Dominion. An sgreement entered into under such circumstances could not be made to work satis- factorily, There is, however, a large element of the Canadian people who judiciously believe that it is wise to meet this country in an amicable spirit and wake as good a bargain as they can. If this element were in the majority it is not questionable that this difference could be easily and speedily adjusted. But as yet the hot heads constitute the larger party, though there ‘is reason to believe they are losing ground. The question of losses snd benefits concerns the Canadian people chiefly, and they must determine it for themselves. The government of the United States has no new propositions to make and no con- cessions to offer. Its position has been proclaimed and its policy defined. It has determined to secure its just de- mands or stop intercourse with a people who refuse them. We can afford to take the consequences. There are indica- tions of a better disposition growing in the Dominion that may result in obvi- ating the last resort of the American government for the protection of the rights of its citizens involved in this controversy. —— The Uity Redeemead. ‘The brilliant victory achieved by the republicans of Omaha is not merely a gratifying triumph for the party aad its suecessful candidates, but a victory of law-respecting citizens over the law-defy- g elements. The election of W. J. Broatch as mayor of Omaha redeems the city from the domination of thugs, crooks and keepers of dangerous resorts. While Mr. Broateh 1s not a fanatic on temper- ance or any other ism, he will enforce better government and draw the line sharply between decent and respectable places and the hot-bed of the vicious and licentious clement. The fact that all the cess-pools of vice and crime were emptied in the Third ward against him, and an on- slaught was made upon him by the in- mates of the slums and dives in all parts of the city, because he would not pledge himself to a free-and-easy platform, is highly creditable to the new mayor. It places him in position to do his duty without fear or favor from a class that has heretofore dictated the policy of the city government. The election of a ma- jority of councilmen who are in accord with him politically and otherwise will enable the new mayor to give Omaha a clean and reputable administration, TuEe sentiment that prompted the peo- ple of San Francisco to petition the sec- retary of the navy not to sell the ship Hartford, made famous by Farragut, is doubtless entirely commendable, but they are hardly to be commended for getting ‘‘hot” because the secretary was not touched by their sentiment and there- tore took a purely practical view of the matter. His duty is too plain to be ques- tioned. The Hartford is value to the government, and in such cases the secre- tary of the navy is required to dispose of a vessel by sale. Such vesscls do not im- prove with age, and the sooner they can be disposed of after being condemned the better it will be for the government. s undoubtedly the view of the secre- whose business it is to consider what wiil be for the best in- terests of the government. Itis a vrac- tical matter purely, and spiteful flings at the secretary’s patriotism are childish. 1f the people of San Francisco want the Hartford preseryed as a memorial let them buy her contribution to the statis- tics of convict labor, from the national labor bureau, has just been completed and will soon issua from the government inting oftice. The report will present an elaborate review of the subject, bring- ing the record of facts down to the close of 1885. In that year it is shown there were 45,000 persons in the prisons of the United States engaged in civie labor. The average value of their productions amounting to $146,000,000. The goods most produced were boots and shoes, over $10,000,000 worth having been mac in that year. Hardware ranks next, and after that the largest items are stoves, brushes, brooms and clothing. An his- torical discussion of the various systems of convict labor from the earliest times down to the present will be unnexed to the report. The abolition of all systems of convict labor is recommended, and 1f this be not done the state account sys- tem is referred to as the least objectiona- sble. The report is the result of the first investigation of the kind ever carried on by the government. A VALUABL Wik all the franchise propositions enrried by a large majority over the ne- gative vote, it is a question whether they have actually received a legal majority. City Attorney Connell holds that it re- quired a majority of all the total votes cast at the election. The total vote cast was about 8,000, and unless the total vote in favor of any franchise exceeds 4,000 1t is defeated, even if the vote against the proposition is only 25 or 50. THE present national administration seems determined to make a record for benevolence. Secretary Endicott has just given §5 to the Centennial Associa- tiod of Marietta, O. Adding this to the $20 contributed by the president to the Charleston sufferers, makes a record foir the administration thus far of $25 de- voted to charitable and benevolent ob- Jects, Tue conduct of a large majority of the colored voters in the Third ward was dis- gusting and disgraceful. They offered themselves in the market and shame- lessly deserted their colors for a paltry gain. Such conduct tends to prejudice men against their race and makes it questionable whether the franchise given to them was in their own interest or for the public welfare. THE election of Mr. Berka as police judge will create a vacancy n the oflice of justice of the peace of the first district, which the county commissioners will be required to fill. 1t is to be jhoped tbat the commissioners will appoint a com- petent man whose integrity is unim- peachable, — Thk city hall bonds have been carried, and if the council acts promptly in ad- vertising for bids, the building may be enclosed by the end of the year and be finished by next spring. TuE advice given by the BEE to the people to vote against railroad employes has been generally heeded. It is not safe to trust the affairs of this city in the hands of men who wear brass collars. Par Forp lost a good deal of money on the election. But that is nothing compared to the grief over the loss of his prestige, and the chance of dictating the appointments on the police force. A GREAT many of the young republican bloods, whose absence was notable at the polls, now profess to be very jubilant over the election. They are one day older, and want some favors, —— FORTUNE AND MISFORTUNE, Millionaire Corcoran who d oes more for ‘Washington than all the other millionalres lumped together, pays taxes on $9,100,000 'worth of property. F, M. Davis, known in the Cceur d’Alenes a8 ““Dream Davis,” who found Dream Gulch ina vision and cleaned up $10,000, has spent all his wealth and committed sulcide at Los Angeles, Cal. Charles Lux, who recently died in San Francisco worth $20,000,000, began life as a butcher in New York, His success as an ac- camulator of money would indicate that he continued the same business in California, Dan Rice, the old clown, indignantly de- nies that he is either a drunkard or a poor man. Hesays: “lftoown 300,000 acres of land in Texas and New Mexico, and 1,000 in Calboun county, Mississippl, and 1,000 in Lincoln county. Kansas, is to be abjectly poor, then I am poor indeed.” Dan Riee, the once celebrated clown, who made and lost severat large fortunes in the clrcus ring, now lives in Cinglnnatl, old: and poor, and dependenton the charity of friends foraliving. Rice’s first appearance in pub- lie was as a pugilist, and in 1828 the Penn- sylvania legislature adjourned to witness a boxing contest between George Kensett ana Dan Rice. Louis Dub left Russia about two years azo and reached Cideinnati, O., without a cent. He blacked boots and soon saved $300, e then sent money to his mother in Russia and she came to Cinelnnati. Louis now owns two fine horses which he rides for plea- sure. Ile faatpresent making money sell- ing eye-glasses. ITe will soon take a plea- sure trip to California. One of the most eccentric rich men'in New York city is the venerable Benjamin Rich- ardson. e is said to be worth $2.000,000 or more, but lives sin a small tumble down house in Harlem. He holds a mortgage for 8500,000 against one of the most prominent insurance companies in the city. Mr. Rich- ardson owns the historic Washington coach, which he lets out whenever there is a de- mand for this revolutionary relic. A Reform Needed. North Americans ‘The practice of paying bills is what keeps 80 many people po peideie = — They Want the Earth. Life. Man is 90 per cent water, and yet the pro- hibitionists are not satisfied. s rhindy He Took to the Water, Kansas City Journal, Within three months 613 women in New York city, widows, grass widows, young women and spinsters have proposed mar- riage to the editor of the New York World. We now see why Mr. Pulitzer has purchased Tilden’s yacht, e ey They Would Pass, Salt Lake Tribuue. The country will approve Judge Cooley’s ruling that the railroad companies may give passes to sisters of charity, under the clause which gives the companies permission to grant passes to ministers of religion. If sivters of charity are not real ministers of re- ligion, there are none in the word. They wear out their lives with no reward in this world except hard tare and poor clothing and such peace as their work brings to them, 1f the true minister of relizion is one who de- votes his or her life, without reward to the service of aftlicted humanity. then surely sisters of charity are such ministers, - - Lohengrin. Susan Coolidge in Scribner's Magazine for May. ‘To have touched heaven, and failed to enter n Ah, Elsa. proncunon the lonely shore, Watching the swan-wings beat along the blue, Watching the glitter of the silver mail, Like flash of foam, till all are lost to view! ‘What may thy sorrow or thy watch avail? He cometh nevermore. All gone the new hope of thy yesterday ! The tender gaze and strong, like dewy fire, ‘The gracious form with airs with heaven bedight, ‘The love that warmed thy being like a sun: "Thou hadst “thy choico of noonday o of night, Now the swart shadows gather. one by one, To give thea thy desire! ‘To every life one heayenly chance befalls; To eyery soul a moment, big with fate, When grown importunate with need and fear, It cries for help. and lo! from close at hand, The voica Celostial answers. L am here !’ Oh, blessed souls. made wiso to_understand, Made brayely glad to wait But thou, pale watcher on the lonely shore, Where the surt thunders, and the foam bells fly, Is there no place for penitence and pain? No saving grace iu thy all piteous rue? Will the brizht vision never coine again? Alas, the swan wings vanish in the blue, There cometh no reply. STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebrasku Jottings. Plattsmouth celebrates to-day. Grand Island 1s blessed with mayors. . The republicans captured the bakery in Omuha. The Utica Herald and the Ashland Herald are listed with the dead. The Broatch wili be a popular jewel in Omaha for the next two years. The 1nnocents of St. Paul recently con- tributed $100 to a snide jewelry fakir, The school treasury of FKremont is financially well fixed, having $16,000 cash in sight. Norfolk is promised two new _railroads if the residents rustle around with a lib- eral bonus. A locomotive smote John Hipp, a sec- tion polisher at Lawrence, on the thigh, and knocked him off and out. The court house in Fremont is suffer- ing from premature decay, and threatens to topple into a graye unless promptly posted and propped. The_ {ifth annual tournament of the State Firemen’s association will be held in Kearney, July 1822, Cash prizes amounting” to $3,200 and a number of medals will be distributed. The school treasurer of Lec's Park, Valley county, has disgraced the default- ing profession’ by disappearing with the insignificant sum of §200, The upper circles of boodledom arc mortally of- fended. Mr. and Mrs. Nels C. Nelson, of Fre: mont, met with a severe runaway acci- dent while returning from the funeral of their infant child. “They were thrown out of the wagon, and Mrs. Nelson dan- gerously injured about the head. An untamed poet in Nebraska City tearfully asks ‘'‘Could I borrow Pe- trarch’s lyre?”” Can’t answer for the Eli of antiquity, but the luxuriant cireulation liar of our e. ¢’s. can be had for the ask: ing. He possesses the natural and ac- quired talents to fill the bill. Two foolish young ladies in Grand Is- land, for a wager, kept perfectly quiet and mute for one hour and a haif. The jawbone of the winner lost its power,of action for three days, while the other silly maiden hovered between earth and angeldom for eightecn hours. This should be a warning against restricting the flow of natural gas. Over 200 miles of the Broken Bow ex- tension of the B. & M. railroad has been built, and the compahy is now laying track thereon at the rate ot one mile per day. ltisa little singular that the Crane extension is not being pushed forward, as the company hasnot laid a rail or driven a spike this side of Central City. Judge Kinkaid has already secured a warm corner in public estimation by his prompt and rigorous dealings with crim- inals. The trial, conviction and sentence of the two negro ravishers at Niobrara and their imprisonment in the peniten- tiary within three days after the commis- sion of the fiendish grime will be remem- bered to his credit for years to come. Mr, Robert Hawke, a pioneer of Ne- braska City, is dead. Reared among the rugged navigators of the Mississippi, he devel nrd into a man of strong force and will r)war, and every enterprise he undertook was carried to success. He left & moderate fortune to his family, besides an honorable social and business career and the respect and friendship of the community. An ungrateful constitueney in Valley and adjoining counties perpetrates the lollowmq on a member of the late legis- lature: *‘Crane returned from Iowa this week with forty-six head of cattle. Wonder where he got the money to purchase? A ‘fox’ would have had suffi- cient self-respect to eover such visible manifestations; but a Crane, bah! feels 0o good to guard his actions."” Mr, and Mrs. Kirkland, iate of New York, settled down in Fremont ten ‘days ago... They were s fly. and ‘festive par two and were cutting a wide swath in church citcles when an old acquaintance cast a shadow on their path. It soon developed that Kirkland had deserted an invalid wife for his vivacious mistress, and wigrated to Fremont where eyery season is the summer of innocents. Kirk and his paramour skipped on the first train and their places in the choir are vacant. ‘At the last census,” says the Inde- pendent,*Grand Island stood third city in the state as to the number of school chil- dren enrolled; she also stood third city as to number of votes cast, and third as to number of school children in actual at- tendance at the public schools, Having stanced Hastings, we are now pulling away for a final contest with Lincoln, as to which city shall hold second place, with the chatices decidedly in favor of Grand Island, We now acknowledge no rival west of Lincoln, in Nebraska, and will enveavor to step up next to Omaha inthe near future.” » lowa ltems. Des Moines business men have started achamber of commerce building fund with $7,700. drilling for eight months at Web- y rently endless flow of 3 at the city well. There are fifty-three counties in the state where not a single person has been committed to the county jail during the entire past year. “Morningstar,” “Nooning,” ‘“‘Night,”’ and “Middlemorning” are the names of some new families which have recently moved to Des Moines. The suit of the Western Land company vs O'Brien County Squatters’ associution, and which was sent from O'Brien to Cherokce county, has been decided in favor of the Western Land company. Tiie ofticers at Lucas captured thirty- four dozen bottles of beer aund several kegs filled with contraband goods one day last week, and deposited them 1n the city prison for safe keeping. The same night the calaboose was broken into and the stufl carried off, and unto this day there has been no clue to the jail break- ers nor their spoils. Dakota. A premiurm of $250 was xiven for $10,- 000 worth of Yankton school bonds. The marriage department of a Dead- Ivolml paper is headed, ‘‘The Mineral Belt.” By the terms of its contract with the electric light company Bismarck is to take eight 1,200 candle power arc lights for streets, at a daily cost of 50 cents each, without other additional expense. The citizens of Redficld are consider- ing the matter of raising $2,000 in ad- dition to the $3,000 already donated for court house purposes. With a contribu- tion of $3,000 from the county fund a $10,000 building will be erected. The recent decision of the interior de- will throw ten townships, con- 230,000 acres of surveyed land, 't in the Devil's lake dis- triet, while the surveying contracts to be carried out cover six townships of 1. acres. A he: increase in immigra is looked for as the result. The marble beds of Pennington county are attracting considerable attention at the present time, not because the marble is found to be of any more superior qual- ity than hitherto known, buton account of the multifarious and multitudinous de- posits. In fact, 1t is said that Rapid City is immured within a marble wall, The trustees of the Rapid City school of mines have decided upon plans for the new metallugical and chemical labora- tory, and they have been forwarded to the governor for his approval. The ground for the new building will be broken as soon as the plans have received the aporoval of the governor. The plan contemplates a building 60x138 feet, ground dimensions, and 26 feet to the square, with stone ' foundations, the su- perstructure to be of brick, and to have a truss roof. The Woi St. Louts Globe-Democrat, April 23, Alittle over three centuries ago the greatest poet this world has held, since Homer, was born, Two hundred and sixty-one years ago, on his own birthday, he died. hose three centuries have car- ried English poetry through periods of more or less creative power,and it is now struggling once more for a breath of free- dom. Thosesame three centuries have created American literature. No group of English poets since Shakspeare equals in average power those gathered in the Athens of New England. Shaks, dealt with the past. can we conceive lent to his dram: had been uble to see the world a day? Printing was in its infancy, newspaper was virtually unknown. The drama was the only form of life that re- lieved the dull daily trend of the popu- lace. The theatre was the newspaper. It was everywhere, and in all forms—in open fields, in barns, in markets, in in- closures without roofs. Shakspeare was originally a strolling player. e can, 1n this age of the telegraph and railroad, have no conception of what the power of the theater must have beon, and how its arrival was heralded. The crudities of the age in morals were those of rusticity. The buflfoonery of Falstaff, and a few others of the great 's characters, wero for the aver- age crowd, Yethis genius is shown quite as strongly n his buffoons as in his heroes—for Falstafl is prince of his kind, as Hamlet is prince in Denmark. But the refinement of modern life is shown in no other direction more markedly than in the fact that these plays, to be put on the modern stage, must be ex- purgated. It is often said Shakspeare spoke as his age spoke. No, he did not— not, at least, in_his plays—but vastly above his age. English wit of the Eliza- bethan era was uncleanly, as is more manifest in Shakspeare's sonnets. The last flush ot such sensuous sentiment in literature was in Byron's Don Juan., It will never again find sufferance. Swin- burne and Whitman essayed cach a nude in poetry, but it was welcomed with uni- versal condemnation. L When will America be ripe enough to consumate itself in one master mind? OQur literature, so far; is diffusive, and es that produce it too di- > only school that has devel- s that of Boston—the trans- and that has passed its ex- clusiveness. It will be generations be- fore our literature will have gathered up the spirit and power of the continent, and given it expression. Enghsh litera- ture was hardly born before the four- teenth century. It is barely 500 years old, In it is now included a magnificent surfeit of genius. The tendency at pres- ent i8 not to create another Shakespeare, but to ayerage the talent of the people. ‘The same is true of the whole world. The newspaper, guin¥ with the railroad into every hamlet, distributes power of intellect. Yet there are also concentric forces. Probably the truly greatest men of our age are, aud for some time will be, scientists. Darwinism will not soon spend itself. All thought seems inferior compared with the drama of life. That now is feund to have been in progress for hundreds of millions of years. Beauty of e)lxlpreuinn is less valued than grasp of truth. But we shall not fail to observe in Shakespeare a marvelous snmming up and uge of the knowledgo that preceded him, His omnivorous reading and di- gestion is the most wonderful thing about the man. There seems to have been nothing rfulng that he did not make his own. Will the greater minds of the future surpass, therefore, the greatest of the past? There is no reason for placinj Shrkesveare. intéllectually ahead - ol Homer, The Shakespeara of the coming ages will probably in actual genius not surpass either the blind Greek or the Bard of Avon. It is the genius to use the whole L and to sum up 1n himself the whole past, and so to stand for humanity, that constitutes the universal mind. TOM POTTER. Some Gossip About the New First Vice President of the Union Pa- cific. Chicago Mail: The resignation of T. J. Potter from the Burlington, and his con- templated departure for Omaha, makes the first br at quintet of old- time practical railroaders who have managed from Chicago five of the biggest roads running out of here—Hughitt, of the Northwestern, Cable, of the Rock Island ewell, of the Lake Shore; Mc- Mullin, of the ¢ ago & Alton, and Pot- ter, ot the Chicag, ngton & Quincy. These tive general managers have been the dernier resort of the upholders of the theory that, in the west at any rate, managers of the big railroads were m who had earned their places by merit, not occupants of the best berths through their relations w the stock-jobbing directors. When 1. J. Potter was only a lineman on the embryo Burlington, Marvin Hughitt was one of the iwo telegraph operators who handled _all the business over Judge Caton's Northwestern telegraph line out of Chicago to the northwest. John New- ell, of the Lake Shore, was then a chain- man and_learning to be a civil engineer, while R. R. Cable, favored a little per- haps by his rich uncle, was keeping the books; buyi looking out for the repairs Il the rest of the work on one of the ivisions of the Rock Island, Tt has been no seeret here that these five railroaders have al- ways rubbed up against each _other with a little friction. When John Newell was on the Illinois Central Maryin Hughitt was with the same road, but it wasn't many months before it was plain that one or the other would hayve to go. Hughitt was the one, beeause Newell was the su- perior ofticer. All five are strong char- acters, j little too aggressive and un- compromising to get along together with- onal conllets. removal to Omaha is another sign that the railroad problems that are pressing are not western nor northwest- ern, but transcontinental. The Burling- ton road is now so far along, so well fed, and so strong, that its general manager- ship is not so much now a matter of practical railroading as good financier- ing. The inter-state commerce law has already greatly changed the methods of the roads out of here. Coups de main are not any longer possible. Rates can not be started over night, the business of a vast territory captured, and then rates restored the mnext week. The younger railroaders in this section of the west will find that tho tactics which made some of their seniors famous and fuve them preforence, have been prohi- bited. But in that territory west of St. Paul and of Omaha, the roads are still in that inchoate condition that requires brilliant management as well as careful liuuul:h:l'in%. The Union Pacific, the Northern Pacitic, the Denver & Rio Grande—in short about all the transcon- tinental roads are still in the condition the western and northwestern lines out of Chicago were ten or fifteen years It is no surprise to see them draftu big Chicago railroaders into their service to help them out. 5 There are peonle who believe that if Pot- ter had not accepted the ofter of the Union Pacific he might have been the president of the St. Paul. Phil Armour has always looked upon him with an eye of favor, and some of the knottiest ot the recent troubles in the old St. Paul & Omaha pools have been disentangled by these two men taking them overin the million- aire’s LaSulle street oftice. > B Chicago Herald:" Tho resignation of Vice President Potter, of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, has created quite a sensation among the many employes of that road. The Herald,in giving a sketch of Mr. Potter’s career some months ago, chronicled the fact that he is one of the most popular railway oflicials in the country. The employes of the Burling- ton cannot understand why Potter de- cided to leave them, and an lowa mem- ber of the Burlington’s staff offers the ex- planation that the transfer of Mr. Potter to the Union Pacific simply means that the ambitious Burlington intends making the Union and Central Pacilic roads a part of its great system, and that Potter 1s sent west to prepare the final ac- quirements. In marked opposition to this view is that of other railroaders, who say that Mr. Potter’s severance of ofticia! relation with the “Q s wholly due to the harassing difliculties existing between him and General Man- ager H. B. Stone. The latter is a brother- in-law to President Perkins, and sprung into prominence during the four years in the management of the Chi- cago, Burlington & Quincy, His progress from an obscure station to that of gen- eral manager, a position next to that of Mr. Potter in roint of authority, has been phenomenally rapid, and itis re- lated on excellent authority that on_sev- 1ons the first vice president and Mr, Stone came into sharp conflict. Potter is not a man who will yield a point or recede from a position once taken, and as a result of these occasional collisions the general manager is said to have emerged from the contest consider- ably flattened out and in anything but a pleasant frame of mind. Conscious that blood is thicker than water,and realizin, that his future management of the road would_Le attended with strained rela- tions, M. Potter is reported to have do- cided upon suvm‘imf his ofticial relations with the Chicago, Burlington & Quiney 1n order to avoid an open rupture. An Towa railroad man writes as follows to the Des Moines Leader: “It can be said without flattery or adulation, but to the eternal credit of the man, says the Des Moi Lea , that few, if any, railway ofti ng the prominence enjoyed by lom Potter, ever retained the affection, respect and unfaltering good will of all classes of em- ployes as 18 accorded him by the em- bloyes of the Chicago, Burlington & uiney, Years ago the writer fooled away several years of valuable time in the train service of the " vibrating between Ottumwa and Creston on the festive freight train, During these years t wis no uncommon occurrence to see Mr. Potter seated on the end of a tie or basking in the shade of a convenient wat k, talking over old times with conductors, engineers and others who had known him avout Ottumwa during the years he occupied the humbie bosi: tion' of linecman onthe B, & M. and Iater, when he became freight agent at Albia, where he seized the golden opportunity that eventually led to an enduring fame and deserved pro perity. In his relations with all em- ployes, from the poorest section man to ting his case before the court of last re- sort The result was that he came back to the division station, not with an order of reinstatement as conductor, but with | an_appointment as night (rainmaster right under the nose of that superintend- ent. He retained this position until about one year ago, when he resigned to accept a train on the Milwaukee & St. Paul, Mr. Potter has stated his intention, t fore leaving the Chicago, Burlington & Quiney, to make a tour of the entire sy tem, and bid the employes good-by, it is safe to assume that his departure will be viewed with a sincere regret that never has before, and probably never wtll again, follow & railway manager's separation from sny road.” —— A Flaw in the German Army. Boston Advertiser. A writer in the Bibliotheque Univer- selle, one of the best French reviews, has lately given important particulars about the German ,Army, to which attention has not been called before, showing that everything 18not perfect in that hitherto supposed perfect engine of aeath, The main fuct developed, and from which the others naturally flow, is that Ger- many does not retire her officers, as do almost all other nations, at a fixed age, that is to say, when it is considered that they have done their work and had bet- ter give place to younger men, but theirs is a life tenure of office. There is no discharge in that war."” She keeps them and uses them as long as they are good for anything. Frederick the Great would not consent to pension men who were in- c:\xuhln of rendering service. French traveller, M. le Marquis de Toulongan, wrote in 1786: **All the gen- erals I have seen in Berlin, except M. de Mollendorf and de Prinitz, are old, worn out, and incapable of making war.”” About the same time the Count of Diesbach wrote: *“L'here are adjutants (aides de camp of the king) of the great- division superintendents and officials of a higher grade, he was eminently just. One of the many instances that came un- der the observation of the writer will ilustrate: A certain conductor, whose identity is not essential, at one_time sev- eral years ago incurred the displeasure of the division superintendent, the latter of whom embraced the first opportunity offered to veil & personal gricvance behind an official act, and discharged the conductor. The latier applied to the superintendent for a pass to Chicago, stating his intention to appeal his case to Mr. Potter. The haughty official denied the discharged employe a pass, where- upon the couductor telegraphed Potter, requesting a hearing. A half hour later the arrogant superintendent received a message from the first vice president or- dering him to 1ssuc Bob PP~ a pass to Chicago and return, -‘Lhe pass was made out and soon the conductor was submit- est merit and capacity who stagnate in the grade of captains."* * * The greater part of our general officers are very old.” Some of these same oflicers were the opponents of Napoleon 20 years later, and could not mount their horses with- out help! The emperor William does not like to part with hisold servants. In vain the; tell him tuey are worn out with age, rid- dled with wounds, and that the time has come for rest. ‘Do I rest,” he answers, “am I on & bed of ¥ Hence the very unfortunate sit- n of matters in the army, which al writers do not hesitate to speak of, among others Col. Von Der, Goltz, whorefers to it at difierent times, as may be seeu in this extract from his book, “The Armed Nation:" “In the German army, all the men who occupy ligh positions have reached the age when the physical and intellectual faculties begin to™ fail. apoleon at forty-one complained that he had not his former strength. “T'he least horseback ride,” he wrote, ‘requires an effort on my part.’ Frederick t}m Great was forty- eight when he wrote, ‘I have the task of Hercules to accomplish at a time when my strength is leaving me, when my in- ftirmities are increasing, when—to speak plainly-—liope, that cosoler of tho un- luppy, has Just left me.” And this is the age of the mujority of our chiefs of bat- talion, who still "have to mount the greater part of the ladder of promotion, few of the colonels are under forty-eight. Among our generals of brigade you will hardly tine one who is not older. And it is only from this grade that the functions of a great commander begin to be im- portant. Men who are sixty or older certainly cannot have all the rapidity of comprehension, the memory or the vigor of their earlier years.”” eral Prince de Hohenlohe, in ary Letters,”’ did not hesitate to touch upon *‘the delicate point which we would prefer to pass in silence”—his own words—to wit: Prussin has not for her independent cavalry a sufficient num- ber of generals who, to ‘experience and knowledge of service, join the physical qualities necessary for this special and particularly diflicult command—excellent sight, vigor and thejhabit of remaining long in the saddle without fatigue. ixcept in case of war, the ofticers are promoted by seniority in the German army. For this reason promotion is yery slow, which causes much dissatisfaction. All those oflicers ambitious of promotion —their name is legion—and those who rightly teel the confined to grades below their merit, ¢ and fret at the restraint to their ambition, and urge the nation on to new conquests. Meanwhile the people, who bear the burden of this immense army, are asking for the dis- arming of the soldiers, as the socialists are now domng, or trying to limit the ap- propriations military purposes, In an army where the officers are not put on the retired list at a and promotion 1s too slow, the two ways of remedying the evi which makes a great many vs cics, or an iner of the army which will allow numerous promotions, as has recently been carried into effect in Germany. If we realize how the desire of promo- tion makes the army urge on and excite the people to .war, we may perheps be- lieve there was some truthin the words eneral Von Moltke and Prince Bis- marck when they declared there must be an increase of the army or war, an asser- tion which ean be interpreted more easily in view of the necessity of satisfy- ing the restless, ambitious spirits among the officers, It scems impossible to maintamn the (Gierman army much longer in the state in which 1t 18 now. Neither the finances of the state, the progress of parliamen- tary rule nor the democratic idea will permit it. As we have said above, the officers who have contributed to make the Prussian army what it has been tho past twenty years, fre growing very old, and must soon disappear from the scene of nction. Who will take their places? ‘This is certainly a serious question, for it involves, in a farge mensure, the future of that army, and consequently the for- tunes of Germany itsclf. -— If you are suffering with wesk or in- flamod eyes, or granulated _oyelids, you can be quickly cured by using Dr.'J711 MeLean's S trengthening Eye Salve. 25 cents a box. Twenty-five years ago, says the Lewis- ton (Me.) Journal, Albert Ellis, of Wins- low, filled up « clay vipe for s good smoke. He had used only half of its con- tents, for on the next day he went to war. He survived and came home but did not finish that smoke until a few days ago, when he happened to find the old pive, partly empty, just as he had left it. An old farmer at Kingston, N. Y., was hailed & day or two ago by & man who wanted & ride. 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