Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 8, 1887, Page 4

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'Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, does solemnly sweal that the actual circuiation of the Daily Bee for tho week ending May 0, 1857, was as follows: Saturday, 14,300 14,000 5 May2.. . nesday, Ma Wednesday, May 4 . Thursday, May 5...... Friday, May 6... AVErago...ooeuinnn Subscribed and sworn to before me this %th day of May, 1557 N, P. Frir, [SEAL.) Notary Publie. Geo. B. Taschuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is secretary of The Beo Publishing company, that the actual average daily cireulation of the Daily Bee for the month of May, 1555, 12,439 copies for June, 1596, 12.208 copies : for July, 186, 12,314 copi 0 Septem: 1850, 13,43 37 copies; for for_February, arch, 1587, 14,400 6 copies, B. Tzscuuck. before me this Tth 12,040 coples; for n copies; for December, 1880, Junuary, 1897, 16,266 copl 4857, 14,195 coples; for copies; for April, 187, 1 Subseribed and sworn @ay of May, A. D, 18¥ [SEAL.| 'P. Frr, Notary Public. Contents of the Sunday Bee. Pagol. New York Herald Cablegrams— pecials to the Bre.—General Telegraphic ews, Page 2. Telezraphic News.—City News.— Miscellany. + Page 3. " Special Advertisements, Page 4. Fditorials.—Political Points.— Press Comments. — Sunday Gossip Aighter Vein.—Passinv Events, Page 5. Lincoln ews.—MIscellany.— Advertisementa, Page6. Council Bluffs News.—Miscellany. »—Advertisements, + Page 7. Socl Events in Omaha.—Gen- eral and Local Markets. ' Page 8. General City News.—Local Ad- yertisements. Page 9. Opening & “John Kettle,” by lara Belle—Dining Hall Mendicancy, by ames Q. Howard,—Advertisements. Page 10. The Tie Which Cupid Binds.— nnublll"ias.—S‘IrHlng Gems of Jest.— licious.—Impietles.—Advertisements. » __Page 1L Our Gentle Home Rulers.— fHoney For the Ladies.—Musical and Dra- smatic—Advertiscments, Page 12. Playing For Grover's Seat, by rry S. Heath.—The Powder River Country, Gen. James S. Brisbin.—Toughest Hole in ation, written specially for the Omaha KE. —Joyous Salvationists, — Advertise- — " Tne St Paul Globe is laboring for a $ublic library of not less than 50,000 vol- ames to begin with, + No other virtue, just now, needs to be Do secdulously cultivated by the home fulers as that of patience. AN Indian has killed a United States marshal in Arkansas. The domestica- fonof the red man tails to domesticate. ! A neLIGI0US daily newspaper entitled gm Penny Press has been started in New ork City. T.DeWitt Talmage is onc of the heavy editorial writers. ‘Tuoe new union labor party claims £,200,000 members 1n the entire country. ¥n the election of 1892 the union labor rty will have strongth enough to justify tinued courtship from other nominees. . C——— ACCORDING to the new rule, every New ¥ork bachelor who gets married has to oontribute $500 to the bachelor's club, or got olubbed out of its society and Shen he climbs up the boarding housc s, ‘E. A. Forp, genoral passenger agent of the Pensylvania lines says that pas- msenger traflic receipts for April will ex- eced those of any corresponding month fn years. And yet there is no indications ghat passenger tariff will bo lowered. TyrE setting by machiner; @icted, will be among the achi of this year. Already the machines do pplendid work. All that is yet nccessary 2o be done is “'perfecting,’”” and the ma- ehines will supplant the intelligent com- e — The Omaha board of trado will take final action on the proposed organization of a freight bureau at its regular monthly mmeeting to-morrow. In view of the mag- mitude of the interests involved a full dis- cussion of the project in all 1ts bearings §s desirable. The propriety of this move s conceded on all hands. ‘The ouly dif- ference of opinion is with regard to the Ppropriety of drawing upon the treasury of the board of trade for the expenses in- eutred by the freight burcau. e————— Di. J. WiLias WHITE, professor of physical culture at the university, Phila- delphia, has dcelared that the smoking + of cigurottes by the young men who fre- quent tho gymnasium wmust coass, and his associates of the faculty havealso de- termined thut a liko prohibition shall be enforced within the limits of the coliege grounds, 'This is the first dircet thrust ut the vilo and poisonous cigarette from instructors, It is to be hopod thar an orgunized effort will be made to prohibht tho deadly practice in ull schools and colleges thiroughout the country. emmeTe———— COMMENTING upon the conspicnous- ness of J. Warren Keifer, the New York Times says the expression of public in- dignation and disgust falls upon him ke n shower of rose leaves upon & rhi- nocerous. The Times should have said that 1t falls upon khim like a shower of phinocerous on a rose leaf. Heis already flattencd. Heis one of those insecte of the hour who will hum hie little hum uno die and be forgotten. J. Warren had an opportunity. Like many another man he failod to grasp the situation. His am- bition is endivss but not oterual. He " may paw the air at the unveiling of the Garfleld statue, yet it would have been much botter bad ho declined the invita- tlon- -and nstly recigued when ho was teked 20 to do. (i . . THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, MAY 8, Mr. Powderly and the Knighta, Mr. Powderly's presence in Omaha will be haited as a harbinger of harmony and good will between wage-workers and their employers as the head of the most powerful labor organization in America. Mr. Powderly wields a most powerful influence in moulding the minds of the working classes and as a trusted leader of the Knights he has shown him- scit sagacious, clear-headed .and reso- lute. He has done more than any other mun to repress the spirit of the turbu- lence and restrain the discontented workingmen within the bounds of law. Under his leadership the battle "for labor is to be fought out by veaceful methods, Arbitration between the wage worker and employe is to be the substi- iute for strikes and lockouts. Mr. Powderly has defined his posi- tion so clearly that none can longer mis- understand the knights' objects and in- tentions. Simple justice 1s all they shall over ask or demand. The strong mem- bership will not make them ‘“‘quick on the trigger” or the assemblies and divisions imperious. Itis true that the consciousness of power tends to ar- rogance everywhere, It is exhibited by corporations and individuals. The man who is a millionaire is apt to be arrogant and the wealthy corporation is heedless of the rights of individuals. But in the knights' brotherhood, where the myriad atoms of strength constitute a vast power, there is no dag- ger that it will be abused. There is one great danger in the way of the Kmights of Labor, and that is unwise counsel. There are many men who make their way through the world and often gain high places by ofliciously championing popular questions. There are men now busily engaged in usiug the Knights of Labor to further their versonal ambition; men who hove to be sent to the legislature, to congress and even capture smaller offices by reason of their “friendship’’ for labor, when in point of fact they may never have done a day's manual labor in their lives. It is a very easy thing for a glib talker, a smooth writer, to argue that he is the champion of labor, and persnade many that his claims are good. This kiad of man never fails to indorse every step taken by those whom he is anxious to conciliate, Demagogues swarm in the wake of popular movements like sharks after a fever-stricken ship. The Knights, as Mr. Powderly said, will do well to steer clear of such schemers, however honorable they may appear to be. The man 1ntent on pleasing at any cost is the man to be avoided and is the person al- ways causing trouble to himself and to others. The Knight should keep well advised to his own interests, that he is not imposed upoh in the name of inde- pendence. He should insist upon the order not working harm to him or his. As long as it helps real labor, lawfully and successfully, he shonld give 1t his unqualified fealty, and there re- mains no question regarding such an orgunization accomplishing & great amount of good. An Unhappy Crowd. Information regarding the American colony of bribe-takers, embezzlers and defaulters in Canada represents them as being anything but a happy crowd. A few of the more hopelessly conscience- less and utterly shameless among them affect a degree of indifference to the dis- grace which thoy cannot help feeling, and mingle with men in apparent con- tentment, but the largest number seek seclusion and nurse their misery as much as possible away from the world. A cor- respondent who has recently inquired into the habits of the colony in Montreal reports that most of its members are conducting themselves very quietly and unobtrusively. They go to and from their places of abode by side doors and througn ittle traveled thor- oughfares, as if conscious that all men know their guilt. Three of the boodlers who would be welcomed by the authori- ties of New York, were found to take their meals even 1n a private apartment, being willing to pay an extra charge in order to avoid the gaze of other guests of the hotel. They avoid new acquaint- ances, as criminals who do not desire to cxtend the knowledge of their crimes. ‘They manifest continually the presence of aguilty conscience by exercising ex- traordinary precautions against the in- yasion of their retreats by strangers. Some of them seek relief in the wine cup, which brings its own prualty, al- though it may for a time silence the ac- cusing voice of conscience. But all lead to a life of dull and irksome monotony, which grows every day more “stale, flat and improfitable,” except for the hard labor involved, these men might as well be in Sing Sing as in Mon- treal for all the satisfaction that life af- fords them. It is then, after all, a pretty severe pen- alty which the criminals are serving. ‘I'here are few punishments harsher than to be abroad in the world and friendless; to go-about aniong men atraid to be known of them lest they spurn you; to be haunted continually with a sense of guilt, and with the fear that others are aware of it; to feel that somchow your crime is written on your face where every man may read it; to know that you have nothing to commend you to respect or tosympathy; to understand that you are shut out from the companionship of honest men, and must find it if all only with those as erimiual as yourself. Thisis the position of the Aincrican rogues who are sojourning in Caunada, and.it is con- ceivable that they might find life more tolerable within the walls of a prison, away from the inqusitive oyes of the world, where useful employment would give them something clse to think about besides their criiocs, and perhaps ease the lashings of conscience by the reflec- tion that they wero doing that which would in part repay the wrongs they bad comuntted, 1t Is certain that they weuld come forth from a term of service in prison with a botter claim to the world’s friendship and help than they can bave a8 refugees fromw justice. [t may be supposed that boodiers in all dircumstances are subject in some de- gree to the punishment which comes from a sense of their rascality. ‘T'he bribe-giver and the bribe- taker i3 not wholly relieved of this beesuse his misdeads have not beeu made patent to tae world, and he 1s still perniittud to wear the cloak of honesty and mingle with honest meu, It would be to renounce faith in conscience to as- rurae that such men, in the moments of introspection that come to all, are not touchod with some pangs of rcmorse and do not coufess to thumsolves in what con- tempt the world should and would hold them did it know their guilt. If this be the boodlers to whom Canada s giv- ing an asylum are not alone in their mis- ery. They may find numerous sympa- thizers in half the states of the union, some of them not less deserving than they to serve the state witin the walls of a prison. Should He Be Chief of Police? The attempt to foist Mr. Humphrey Moyuiban upon Omaha as clief of po- lice commenced months ago in & news- paper war agsinst Marshal Cummings. ‘The BeE is reliably informed that a peti- tion has been put in circulation in which Mr. Moynihan is commended to the ro- lice commission as the most competent person in Omaha for the head of our metropolitgn police force. Now we have no disposition to instruct the police commissioners in their duties, but it strikes us that of all men mentioned for chief of police Mr. Moyni- han is least fitted for this position by his training and afliliations, Mr. Moynihan claims to have been for years and is now a detective, wnd in our humble opinion no detective is a fit person to discharge the duties of chief of police. On this point we can do no better than quote from an excellent authority, which dis- cusses the question of volice duties 1n the Chicago Current of May 7: “Police are oflicers appointed by a municipality to preserve order and to enforce the municipal laws, and these are their only prover duties. To employ them as detectives is detrimental in as much as it excites the distrust of many persons, not all of whom are bad, From mere constables and watch- men the police have developed into a highly organized and eflicient military force, which is proper, for it is a much greater task to preserve order now than it was formerly. Formerly, in all our cities, and yet, in some of them, a place on the police force was the small bench- man’s share of the spoils of political vie- tory, but as the demand upon the force increased reform became necessary until now in the large cities a man must prove his fitness for the position in order to be appointed. * % #% % A large part of the power of the police is derived like that of the army, from the respect felt for them by the people, and whatever the merits of the detectives, it cannot be said that the people respect them yet. The people do not like to think of the policeman tak- ing off his uniform and going out as®a spy. They like to think of him as the frank, open representative of authority. It is not necessary or wise that he should be a spy, for men can be hired especially for that purpose. Our government 18 maintained more by the semblance than by actual authority, and if the people lose their respect for the police, the police will lose their power to enforce the law, for authority exists only by the sufferance of the people.” ‘Wo could scarcely have expressed our views with regard to the impropriety of appointing agletective to the position of chief of police with greater clearness and force. The BEE could cite a great many other reasons why Mr. Moynihan should not be placed in charge of our metro- politan police force, but we hardly con- sider it necessary. As for his petition we presume most of the men who signed it could be talked into sigming one for anybody else, including Frank Walter, *‘Sandy’ Knight or Jack Nugent. An Intolerable Bore. The most insufferable nuisance at our dramatic and operatic entertainments is the habitual arrival of fashionable peo- pleafter the honr set for the beginning of the play. This ill-bred intrusion by parties who otherwise pride themselves on their blue-blood manners is becoming more intolerable every season. The an- noyance and vexation to an audience listening intently to the tender sympho- nies of a masterpiece in music er the de- lineation of character by famous artists ocannot be eugforated. The aggravating custom o marching down the aisles of the opera house and other places of entertainment after the curtain has risen, should be broken up, either by the exclusion of late-comers while the curtain is up, or the forfeiture of recerved seats after the performance has begun, The former rule rigidly en- forced, would, we think, have the desired effect after it becomes generally known. Women who go to the opera or theatre merely to display their diamonds, dresses and bonnets, will doubtless prefer to re- main standing in the corridor until the falling of the curtain has given then the desired opportunity of marching through the audicnce on dress parade. Shal Be 2! An international copy-right convention was held at Berne last year, which adopted a plan for submission to the various governments to secure a uni- versal recognition of the rights in theiwr vroperty of authors, artists and musi- cians, Six Buropean countries, two Atrican states and one South American state have confirmed the action of this convention, and the question 18 now be- fore the German bundesrath. No doubt is felt that Germany will fall into line with the other European countries. The discussion of the question there has de- veloped no serious oppusition among those whose interests are involved. When Germany shali have done this, the UnitedfStates’ will be the only great civilized power perferring to cling to a system of literary piracy. The policy of this conntry in regard to this matter has not been to its credit. We ought not to stand alone among the enlighteced nations of the earth in refus- ing to deal fairly with the brain workers of other lands. There have been numer- our attempts made to change our atti- tude in this matter, but between the Scylla and Charybdis of conflicting inter- csts they havegone to pieces. A bill was framed and presented in the last con- gress, under the auspicies of the Ameri- can copyright league, of which James Lowell is president, but it was left on the calendar. In pastyears the opposition to international copyright has come from the cupidity, not to use any harsher term, of the publishers. A few others have joined with them, but these were not of the better class. At present the atuation is rather more favorable. American authors of repute are advocates of 4 just system ot international copyright, and there are fewer publishers than formerly who op- pose it. It is uot questionable that the cxistence of any serious opposition is a reflection upon our sense of fairness and our bonesty. There can be no sound reason given why the property right of an author in the produdt of his brain should not be recognized and protected just as any property ght is, and that being so, to take posshssibn of it without consideration and usa 1t for the profit of another, is clearly dishonest, All Ameri- can publishers have mot been in the habit of domng this. The more just and honorable among them have always recognized the principle of equity in the mattet and paid some- thing to the foreign author. But there are many others who have not, and the course of these has brought disparage- ment upon the whole class and upon the country. The door is still open for the continuance of this unscrupulous prac- tice, and it ought to be closed. If the American copyright league could be de- pended on for the zeal which other.classes of men show who want legislation, a bill would be passed at the next session of congress and the United States be re- lieved of the stigma of being the only great nation that still tolerates literary piracy. Those who have gathered the golden oranges from the trecs in the numerous groves around and about Los Angeles, or those who have been further north and plucked the lucious apricot, peach or pear, in the valleys of California’s fruit region, never thought that such a thing as an “over-production' of those delici- ous delicacies was possible. Yet it seems that just such a fear has seized the fruit growers of the Golden State. At a recent meeting of the Horticultural society ot that state, the question, “'Is there danger of an over-production of fruit in California™ was discussed. The Chronicle says the aflirmative of the question was maintained principally upon the supposed excess of -the coming apricot crop over the demand. It was stated that the crop for the present year will probably be about 20,000 tons; that the canneries of San Francisco, Oakland and SanJose could absorb about 5,000 tons, and that the bulk of the rest would have to be dried; that it would require 6,450 men to handle this crop, and that it was doubtful whether the labor could be procured to do the work effectively. The same speaker also spoke of the prune and raisin crops, but admitted in regard to prunes that last year's im- portation into the United States were about 60,000 pounds, while California produced 750,000 pounds. On the negative side it was argued that the question of disposing of the fruit depended very largely upon its quality. One speaker said, very truly, that more care should be taken in planting and pruning trees and in picking and pack- g fruit. Careful transportation, he said, should be attended to, low rates and rapid transit provided for, and noth- ing but good fruit put upon the market, and that if these rules Wwere observed overproduction would be a word without meaning. ' It was agreed that a foreign market should be sought for dried fruit, and it was urged that a cold-storage system should be adopted, so that fresh fruits could reach the eastern markets without loss of flavor or decay. The east already is the consumer of the famous Lusk canned goods—known - the 'world over. In this instance itis the fruits, rather than tho house which cans them, enjoying the reputation. The California fruits will never be too plentiful. They might be cheaper, and doubtless will when only reasonable freight tolls from the const are demanded. In the meantime, the suggestion urged at the meeting of the California Horticultural society, might with profit be remembered by the fruit growers of Nebraska. It wassimply and vlainly that no matter how lavish nature bas been, in giving climate and soil and adding flavor, there is yet demanded care and attention from those who would reap the largest profits and produce the best. — SEVERAL papers in the effete east are raising their voices against the brutal and unlawful practice of prize fighting. They claim .that under the names of ‘sparring,’ ‘boxing,’ or ‘friendly glove oncounters,’ the laws are openly violated, and disgusting exhibitions of ‘scientitic skill’ are given with all the surroundings of seconds, sponges, referees, ropes, rules, purses, stakes, gate money, pre- cisely like the old-fashioned prize fight. The results of the ‘‘centests,” such as broken arms, teeth knocked out, faces cut, distigured, noses smashed, and finally one or the other of the pugilists picked up bleeding and insensible, are the natural results of prize fighting, and the time has come when these ‘exhibi tions® must be called by their true name, and treated accordingly. Out here in the rowdy west there are few of any such exhibitions. An occasional thumper from the east stops in one of our cities for a night—nhires a haill and gives an hour's amusement in the manly art. They never “‘break arms,” swallow their teeth or commit any other rash act. The Cleveland Leader rushes out in the front yard of decency long enough to exclaim: It is time public opinion was aroused to the suppression of these pests of society, and when found violating the laws they should be promptly arrested, indicted, and sent to the penitentiary, wnere they can do the state some service.” Sem— . It is related, in a long and rambling story, that Senator Stanford earned his first money when six years old by send- ing to market a lot of horse-radish which grew in his father's garden. His second venture, which he declares was the most successful spoculation of his life, was selling tive bushels of ' chestnuts, which he and his brothers’ had gathered for family use, for twenty-five dollars. Those chestnuts have been used in explaining the start of every millionairein America. — POLITICALPOINTS, Massachusetts prohibitionists threaten ven- geance on the legislature at the next e lec tion, Kentucky will elect & legislature in Au- gust, which will choose a successor to Senator Beck. The senator will takea hand in the eampalgn. There is, doubtless, a fell purpose in pub- lishing the report that Roswell P, Flower has made more than a million dollars in the past year, Senator Hiscock thinks New York can be saved to the repuplicans by a little more elo- quence on the stump than has been expended in recent years. A New Jersey demnocratic assoclation is to be formed at Washington. The republicans from that state used to have a puwerful organization at the capital. Senators Caweron and Quay, of Pennsyl- 1887.~TWELVE PAGES vanla, have thus far refused to signify their preterence for candidates for the next state campaign. They aren’t quite ready. Ex-Senator Thurman having positively re- fused to be again slaughtered by Phe treach- erous democratic boodlers of ULio, General Thomas Powall, of Columbus, Is likely to capture the barren honor of a nomination for governor, Attorney General Garland will locate in New York when his term in President Cleveland’s cabinet shall have ended and begin the practice of law. Me is tired of politics and says that nothing—not even the pleasure of remaining & member of Mr. Cleveland's political household—will in- duce him to remain after the 4th day of March, 1889, Gath says: Mr, Evartshas had all the luck & professional man ean expect in politics. e 1sby no means repudiated as one of the eminent men of our time by many persons in his party. If he, for example, wersa moving through the western stytes at the present time, delivering a few speeches here and there, noting the development and improve. ment of the towns, colleges, etc., he would have a very good position beiore the nomi- nating convention. —_———— SOME ODDLY NAMED PERSONS, Mr. Drinkwater was a candidate for mem- ber of the Denver, Col., city eouncil recently. Among the great men whoare to wait upon the Queen of England when she is abroad may be mentioned the name of Major Bigye. Judge Hornblower, of San Francisco, fur- nishes still another illustration of the truth that “there’s nothing in a name,” He is one of the quietest and hardest working members of the bench on the coast. William T. Dust is a prominent candidate for the Detroit mayoralty. Of course he un- derstands that if ho expects his friends to “get up and dust” for him it will be neces- sary to “come down with the dust.” Mr. Million, of Newark, N. J.,has branched out in a new field of meteorolokical science, and thinks there is millions in it. e ad- vertises to furnish fair weather for balls, plenic or excursions weeks or months in ad- vance, the cash to accompany the order. Among the baptismal names in the list of the fiftieth congress are Jehu, Hilary, Adon- iram, Knute, Cherubusco, Beriah and Welty. Ln surnames the trades are well represented. There is a Baker, a Fisher, a Weaver, a Cooper, a Mason, a Glover, a Hunter, a Mil- ler, a Brewer, a Granger, a Turner, a Taylor, anda Sawyer. For the first time In years there is no Robinson in congress. The colors represented -are White, Gray, andoBrown. ‘There is only one Hoge among the members, graia) e, Spirit Willing, but Flesh Too Thin, Philadelphia Call, ‘The knee-breeches boom in Chicago has burst. The young men had the courage, but they didn’t have the legs. ooty Ancient History. Boston Globe. The esteemed Journal gravely states that “Roscoe Conkling has greatly impressed the bar of New York by his abilities as a lawyer.” This is intended as news, but properly comes under the head of ancient history. et St This is a Li—a Libel on the Sex. Shoe and Leather Reporter. A woman will face a frowning world and cling to the man she loves through the most bitter adversity, but she wouldn’t wear a hat three weeks behind the fashion to save the republic itself. e e——— Of Course. Philadelphia Record. As the Record supposed it would, the Stan- dard oil company got in its work yesterday in the senate and defeated the Billingsley pipe bill—yeas 18, nays 25. There was no occasion to oppose the measure in the house. ‘The noble senators are fewer in number than the representatives and quite as amenable to conviveing argument. LT Rough on Bernhardt, Damville Breeze: If all flesh is grass, Sarah Bernhardt must have been raised dur- ing a drouth. St. Paul Herald: Sarab Bernhardt is said tobe fond of fishing. The rumor started from the fact of her being such an angular woman, Lowell Citizen: A New York contempor- ary asserts that Sarah Bernhardt is a *born ruler,” That may be true, but to usshe looks more like a yardstick. datlatos Lo Trees in Nebraska. Atlanta_Constitution. Fifteen years ago it was thought that trees would not grow in Nebraska. The experi- ment was made and it has succeeded splen- didly. Nebraska originated Arbor day and no other state in the union has reaped such benefits from this institution. It is estimated tha 12,000,000 trees were planted on the first Arbor day in Nebraska. Millions more have been added on each succeeding anniversary of this tree feast. Georgla will celebrate her second Arbor day next November. She ought to cateh the spirit of this important occasion as Nebraska has done. o ———— The Bridge of Years, J. Ambrose Doyle. From manhood’s isle of duty T'o boyhood’s land of beauty A vast bridge stretches o'er the river Time. Yet, weary sizhing mortals May enter not its portals, And cross again to youth's departed prime. ‘Above the vapory arches ‘A spirit army marches, Events that filled the distant long ago; Lost chances, hopes and gladness, Wl‘lllbl in mist of sadness In spectral throngs are moving to and fro. ’Tis strewn with many a'token Of ties forever broken, Still dreams of love and friendship gone for 0 ay Assume their wanton splendor, When longings, sweet and tender, Across the mystic structure fondly stray. Thore, in the far-off_spaces, Rise half-forgotten faces, And peer from out the dim aconian past. Sad _voices, too, seem calling, ‘Their plaintive echoes falling Upon the soul, with sorrow’s gloom o'ereast. Oh! faded joysand pleasures! Life's early golden treasures Come back to me from childhood's sunny shore. teturn on wings of fleetness, With all your old-time sweetness, And glad m{ spirits as.in days of yore. Alas! In visions only, *Mid bours of musings lonely, Y outh’s by-gone happiness to us appears, In yain the heart's snd yearning-- Y et Memory’s beacon burning Gleams brightly o'er the mystic Bridge of Years, ST ST IN THE LIGHTEK VEIN, Dan ana Grover, “Sire, pray tell ine of these reports— 1 cannot understand them all, ‘They say that about half seas o'er You are to experience a dreadful squa! “[ts the telegraph's announcement, Dan, Saying before this term 15 over, That the welkin loud will ring With little Stephen Grover."” Love is blind. bills are saved. For this reason many gas Ir 18 meot and drink that is depriving maoy a family of food, THERE are 15,000 female students in the colleges in this country, and they all want to get married. 1T Is getting to bo that time of year which suggested to Josu Biflings the idea of say- ing, “Daroafil” “DoEs it pay to preach?” ‘asks & phil- osophic exchange. 1t may, but it Is the gen- eral experience that few men got paid gor preaching. Mexteo offers Catting $100 as a recompense for his imprisonment, the difference between them being §9,900, Anour the tamest business there is in this world of hard work is that of playing wild man i@ a dime museum, A voa show s In prozress in Boston. Judges, cobblers and thoroughbred dogs are now found on the “beneh.” A LIFE Insurance company with 860,000, 000 in cash on hand, always requires sixty days after death to pay a §2,000 poliey. IN South Ameriea enthusiastic theater goers toss costly pearl fans to their favoritos on the stage. In America they heave eab- bage heads at the star, AccorpING to common report the Presby- terian ministers have decided that the devil isat the bottom of spiritualism. From the fact that a nightly seance is held at Kansas City, this supposition is no doubt correct. ‘Tue latest information received from Can- ada sojourners is that John M. Hathaway, who escaped from Delaware, N. Y., with $12,000 of other people’s money, has re- turned. He could not twig the fashious to his limited income. - SUNDAY GOSSIP, ‘The class of business builaings going up this year in Omaha would be a credit to any city in the country. The most beautiful and Imposing structure will be Paxton’s new building at the northeast corner of Farnam and Sixteenth streets. Its architectural beauties are already becoming apparent and are daily attracting the attention and elicit- ing the admiration ot the public. This struc- ture will cost in the vicinity of $400,000, and will be a monument to the enterprise of Wil- liam A. Paxton, as well as to the archit tural skillof Mendelssohn & Lawrie. Tho most substantial building, designed by the same architects, will be the First National bank, which will be thoroughly fire-proof. It isbeing constructed with stone, brick and iron. While it is massive and solid in ap- pearance, it is not without architectural at- tractiven: espacially on the Farnam street front. "The cost of this structure will be in the vicinity of 230,000 The Merchants National bank, on the opposite corner, de- signed by Van Brunt & Howe,of Boston, will bean architectural beauty. It will be astriking pile as the style of architecture will be differ- ent from anything yet seen in Omaha. Its helght will be seven stories. The plans have been changed 8o as to make it fire-proof. The cost will be slightly less thau that of its neighbor across the way. The United States National folks are rushing along their new building, and will oceupy it this fall. This bank will also pre- sent an attractive appearance. The plans were drawn by Hodgson & Son. Another very handsome building. designed by Men- delssohn & Lawrie, is that of Frank J. Ramge, on Fitteenth street. It s nearly completed, the cost being over $93,000, Mr. Sheeley intends to put up a six-story build- ing just south of it, this season. The Bar- kers propose to build on the southwest corner of Farnam and Fifteenth streets, & handsomer structure than the one that was burned down. And now comes the New York Life Insurance company’s building at the northwest corner of Farnam and Seven- teenth streets. The BEE stated that this was to be sevon stories. 'This was a mistake, as Mr. C. T. Taylor, the company's general western agent—-who induced the company to build in Omaha—-says that it is to be ten full stories, It will be a fire proof structure, and will cost over $500,000. The plans, drawn by Babb, Cook & Millard, of New York, show that It will be a magnificent building. 1tis designed for office purpnses. The excavation is now being made. These are only a few ot the,buildingitems in Omaha. 1t would require ten or twelve columns of fine type to give even the briefest mention of all the bulld- ings thatare now in course of construction in Omaha. It will be the biggest vear both as to amount expended and number of bulld- ings erected that Omaha has yet bad. - “Whisky won, all the same,” sald Mr Richardson, the prohibition candidate for mayor, the morning after election. *‘How’s that?” he was asked. *It was used by both republicans and democrats, and the former got there.” “The variety stage” said an old timer the other night, who has for nearly twenty years been connected with the vaudeville, *‘is the best training school for the theatrical pro- fesslon. In fact, L may say that the cleverest people on the Amorican stage to-day are graduates trom that school. Nat Goodwin ‘was an old variety man, and it wasn’t many years azo that he was doing asong and dance turn—and not commanding very good wages, either, Who is this Henry Dixie who made sach a big hit in Adonis? ~ Nothing in the world butan old variety man. Not long ago he was working in a ‘free-and-easy place’ In New York city. And I remember distinctly seeing him hissed off the stage in a littlo Massachusetts town, where he gave an exhibition which was simply rotten. His partner used to be Richard Golden, the hus- band of Dora Wiley, who by the way, is an- other variety graduate. The team was Gol- den and Dixie then, and their work was anything but clever. In truth, their busl- ness was a by-word among the members of the vaudeville profession then. But after- wards they improved and when they separated each caught on to a line work which took with the people. ‘Tnen they began to rise—and you see where they are now. George S. Knight was another graduate from the variety stage--and where will you find a better man in his line of business than he is? Yot [ can remember the time when Knight was fired from a free-and-easy variety show in New York city for incompetency and drunkenness. James O'Nelll, the great Monte Cristo, was another man who got his start on the variety stage. 1’at Rooney, who had no superior in his branen of the pro fession, was doing a sonz and danee turn on the varlety stage several years ago, which brought him little glory and less money. Without going any furtler, I can assure you that If you'll take tie trouble to investigate, you'll tind neatly all of the best 2omedians on the American s to-duy sprung from the vaudeville school. ' “Wages are not what they used to be, the variety profession” said the & meditatively after a few moments sl “A mau who a few years ago eould command a week has hard work to ket 810 to day, What's the trouble? Oh, so0 many gre youngsters are coming 1nto the business now Ihesa dime museums, with their staco at- tachucnt, are doing a great deal to cheanen prices. A bootblack or a newsboy who picks up soma taking songs, or can 4o 4 neat song and dance furn, applies to the manager of naeof these places for a chance to try his work on the publie. Perhaps he makes a hit,aud then he kaepson until ba has galned a fow months’ experience—of a very cheap sort. ‘Then he stats out through the coun try as & variety man. Such fellows are being turned out by score every week in the larger cities. ‘U'he tastes of the patrons of these dime museums, are not of the niost elevated sort. ‘I'he consequence is that the youths who aspire to hold down the boards in these places do not possess, a8 a rulc, an unusyal amount of taleat. X e £\What is the average saiary of a Kood va- rioty man? ‘Uhat depends aitogether on of circumstances. A variely man conld affo¢ to play & month or &ix wecks engazement (n & theatre for much loss p rata than he could one week. Much alsody pends on how far you have to travel to reach the place in which you are to play, Lakiug these and other circumstances into consider- otion itmay be said that varlety men can command salaries ranging from $20 to $25) o week—according to the novelty and ‘eatehi ness' of the act each one may do. Outof this, of course, a man has to pay hisexpenscs and supply his wardrobe. e A serio-comlc variety actress does not ro « coive as good pay as the male actor. Forty or fifty dollars a week is a good salary aud it takes an exceptionally fino artist to draw &7 The lower class women, who play In variety theatres of very questionable repute, recelve $25 or 0 a weok, Of course, in her prime, & woman commands better pay than at any other period in her life. It she takes caro of her- self, and does not run 1nto alssipation, shio may last & long time. The trouble with D=t variety actresses is that they are inclined to become rockless and surrender themsealves to every form of dissipation. Their versonal charms and thelr abilities waste away, they can no longer draw the people—and they be- come reduced to the lowest level of woman- hood. Yes, thero is a goncrally entertained idea that all—or the vast majority—of variety actressos are dissolute, This is not truo. Still, L admit that the path of a wowan in this profession is fraught with dangers of which the average temale knows nothing."” lators have only rail- school land thieves, normal school appropriation plunderers, boodling Judiciary committees, and a few other less important matters to contend with. Down in Massachusetts the lite ot the lexislator is filled with woe and doubt. National topics like the lobster crowd in upon his reveries— haunt him in his sleep and in his day dreams. The tollowing bill has been introduced in the legislature in the old Bay stato: n 1. Whoever, at any season of the sells, offers for sale, or has in his vos- session with intent to sell, consume or de- stroy the lite of a lobster less than 10 inelies in length, shall be punished by a tine of §5 for every such lobster so sold, offered for sale, or had in possession with intent to consuime, or destroy the life of the same; and for the purposes of this act the measurement shall be taken from the extremity ot the bone projecting from- the head to the end of the bone of the middle flipper of the tail of the lobster, extended on its back its natural length, In all prosecutions undoer this sec- tion, tho possession of any lobster not of the required length shall be prima tacie evidence to convict, ‘While this bill does not provide for a state measurer, yet there will no doubt be a erying demand for one. The sclentist whose duty it will bs to measure the lobster from the bone of his middle flipper, will have an ex- citing time. Why not a dozen or so of the expectant candidates for police commis sions, oll inspectors, etc., go down to Massa- chusetts and apply for the position to bo created under the generous and humane provision of the above copied flipper bill, * The married persn"n':t property act, as passed by the Pennsylvania legislaturo this week, provides that a woman should not convey real estate except in conjunction with her husband. In view of the fact that a man cannot, under the present law in that state, deed his property to another and make aclear title without the co-operation of his wife, the law, it is thought, is a good one. ' Tur case of young Fotheringham tho ex- prass messenger, implicated in the Cum- mings robbary, was on trial at St. Louis this week, . Among the points which the com- pany urged were the fact that Fotheringham prior to the robbery made iuquiries with a view to getting another position: that he in- tended to leave the employ of the company; that he inquired of employes in the com- pany's office as to what nights the largest runs were seat ont. ‘Thenignt of the rob- bery was one of the heavy run nights, and he knew almost to a dollar the amount of money in the run; that several of his stato- ments regarding the entrance ot Witrock to the express car and the mannor of the rob- bery were not correct; that his story about receiving letters from the robber purporting to be from Superintendent Damsell and Route Agent Barrett, was only partly true, and that numerous other of his statemants were not correct, all going to show that he was in collusion with the robbers. However, he was discharged, and to-day’s dispatches announce that ho has sued the Adawns ex- press company for $100,000. * BARNU missed thé obportunity of a life- time In not making the discovery thus toid in a Washington special: “The United States man-of-war Galena arrived at the navy yard to~day from the tropics with a cargo of mon- keys and curiosities for the Smithsonian in- stitution on board, Among other things is the famous prehistosic image from the Kaster island, which is considered as great a curi- osity as the obelisk of Ezypt. It is now two vearasince Prof, Baird first set on foot ef- forts to secure one of these (idols, when the United States steamship Mohican was directed € to Easter island and secure one. ‘The islana is in the eastern part of the Pacific ocean, 2,300 miles from the coast of South America. It is about eleven miles long and six miles wide' with about a thou- sand inhabitants of the Polynesian race, who are seldom visited by navigators. They are are Christians, having been converted by some French missionaries in 1856. The is- land contains several nhundred of these gigantic statues, the antiquity of which s a sealed book to ethnological students. ‘The present Inhabitants of the island have no tools with which to have carved thew, not means with which to have moved thew, 1% secms certain, therefore, that they are tha product ot some former age. Native tradi- tion gives them a supernatural origl The Cardill Giant's ancestry is now known. Thig last find settles it, to *x AtGrenada, Miss., a"pastor of a chureh was shot by & commercial man. “I'ho shoot- ing oceurred in the “drummer’s” own house, the only witness being his wife. Just be- fore dying the prencher gaid that he alono was to blame, and e husband be unmolested. ‘There should be a certain limit to the intimney existing between a pastor and his floc! The clergyman who encourages members of Lis chyreh to come to him with family matters or secret cares should not be tolerated. p shouid not be permitted, and no familiarity countenanced, especially on the part of the fomale denowination. 1t 15 very easy for a woman, pious perhaps, but L times very soft and shallow, to come under the influence of a pastor, be roused, warmed, soothed, e , aud she may im- agine edified. In course of tine such action becomes A source of annoy- Ance and eorrow to both. It mast finally be understood that what worldly preachers and sentiinenta! women call ‘com- munion of roui’ and ‘kindred spirits,” ‘holy sympathy,’ ‘mutuai help’ and words in the samo strain Is not religzion—it s not even re- liglous. It 1s simply the lower nature, the Luman passion of one creature toward another. Had the Grenada woman thought of joy and peace and love and goodness, there would Liave been oue grave less aud & nusband bappy and no doubt contented, Of the scoundrel whe had stolen the livery of the coust of heaven to serve tue devil In-~ notbing eed be said. e During a recent cold spell & man cama into Renovo, 'a., from Tamarack Swump, bringiog with bini seven ground hoge whiob ‘he had found frozen to denth the mountain road leading to Renovo,