Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 15, 1887, Page 15

4 THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TRRMB OF BUBSCRIPTION ¢ ly (Morniag Edition) including Bunday ke, Ono Yoar..... 8100 ‘or Bix Months 50 for Three Montha e Omaha Sunday Bie, miled to any #ddross, UN YORT. ... .. .vvones ATIA OPPICR, NO. 814 AND EW YORK OPFICE, ROOM 65 ASHINGTON OF| . b1 2 20O 018 FARNAM STREEY TRINUNE BUILDING. FOURTEENTH STREET. CORRESPONDENCE: All communloations relating to news and edi. torial matter should be addressod to the Ebi- TOK OF THE BEK. RUSINESS LETTERS! ATl bueinoss Jotters and romittancos should be addressod 10 THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAIA. Drafts, checks and postofiico orders 0 be mado payable Lo the Order of the comipany, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS. E. ROSEWATER, Epitol THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Clrculation, Btate of Nebraska, } s County of Douzlas. oot Geo. B, 'l'zschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual circulation of the Daily Bee for the week ending May 6, 1557, was as lollows Saturday, April 30. Sunday, May 1. Monday, May 2. Tuesday, May Wednesday, May ‘Thursday, May 5. Friday, May 6.. AVerage....ivueie 3k0. 18, TZSCHUCK. Subseribed and sworn to before me this fth day of May, 1857, N, P, Frtr, [SEAL.) Notary Public. Geo. B. Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that_he is secretary of The Beo Publishing company. that the actual average daily circulation of the Daily Bes for the month of May, 15, 13,439 copies; for June, 184, 12208 coples for July, 1986, 12,314 copres: for ‘August, 189, 12,484 coples’ for Septem: ber, 18%, 13,030 copies; for Octobor, 1856, 12,4 coples: for November, 158, ' 13,143 coples; for December, 185, 13,237 copies: 'for Januaty, 18T 10,200 coples: for February. 1847, 14,195 copies; for AMarch, 1557, 14,400 copies; Tor April, 1857, 14,316 copi Gro, B. TZ8CHUCK. Subscribed and sworn to before me this Tth day of May, A, D., 1557, ISEAL.] "'P. Frir, Notary Public. ontents of the Sunday Bee. Pagel. New York Herald Cablegrams— Specials to the Bre.—General Telegraphic ews, Pace 2. Telegraphic News.—City News.— Miscellany. Page 3, Special Advertisements, Page 4. Editorials.—Prominent Persons.— Pross Comments,—Sunday Gossip.—Sunday Clllln Basket. Page 5 Lincoln News.—Miscellany. age 6, Council Bluffs News.—Miscellany. =—Advertisements, Paga 7. Soclety Events in Omaha.—Gen- eral and Loeal Markets. Pare 8. General City News.—Local Ad- vertisements, X 9, Kaisers Wilhelm’s Nephew, by o Blackless, a by Page 10. Our Ministering Angels.— Honey for the Ladies.—Religious.—Advertisements. Page 1L—S£rinu ime’s Sunny Smiles,— ingularities.—Connubialites,—Educational. =Musical and Draniatical.—Advertisements. Pago 12, In the Electrie Field.—Beating the Bandits,—Grouer and Kapiolani,—Ad- wvertisments, EE———— | RUSSELL SAGE has been before the in- westigating commission. As a cheerful ¥el puerless prevaricator, Mr, Sage is en- titled to great credit. Herg FALB insists that the earth is gradually drawing nearer thesun, and a collision will soon accur. This 18 grasify- fng iutelligence. A MONUMENT to Gulileo has been erected in Rome, and neither Jeff Davis mor Genera! Kiefer made a speech, and et the sun do move. E—— THE inter-state commissioners have re- turned to Washington. They have sus- vended every thing except the clause providing for their salary. ‘THE newspapers of Kansas City have built & “nowsboys’ home,” The sum of 3,000 was obtained from merchants for advortising, the proceeds of one day go- ing to the newsboys’ fund. Tue New York World, in its anniver- sary number, boasts of its accomplish- ments, Among other things mentioned 48 the fact that it brought ‘‘Jake Sharp before the bar ot justice.” What it should dois to get Jake Sharp behind the bars. A MASSACHUSETTS statesman has intro- duced a bill in the legislature to prohibit the admission of any child under fifteen years of age, unaccompanied by parent or guurdian, to any public show or sawusement which takes place after sun- set. The father no doubt occupies a front seat at the variety show and is afraid the son will see him. OuR old correspondent, ‘A Member of Parliament,” appears with an interest- dng letter among our London cablegrams to-day. His story of the late hours forced upon members of parliament, forcibly Teminds us of the last hours of our con- &ress, or the pictures presented during the closing days of a Nebraska legisla- ture. Since the advent of Buffalo Bill in England everything is becoming, “American, you know."” First the Par- mell forgery, and now confusion among the lords and statesmen. ———— ‘Tue destructive storms of the past few years have effectually disposed of the theory that there is a distinctive tornado Delt 1n this country, and that the west is the only region subject to their ravages. In the oast three years cyclones have vis- ited tho states of New York, Massachu- setts, Conneticut, Deleware, Pennsylva- mia. Virginia and South Carolina on the Atlantic sea-board, and in each instance Jives were lost and much property de- #troyed. Nebraska has been visited by these death dealing storms, yet she has escaped with little loss of life, £ e ] “WASHINGTON is more worldly, as bad as when congress is 1n session," writes a bright young woman, thoroughly ac- quainted with the capital city, its men and their ways, The young lady is cor- reot. Lhere is more of corruption, social a8 well as political, in Washington than 40 any other American city. There are men without number thriving by job- bery, whose very presence in any circle 4s almost certain evidence of sinister schowmes being on foot. There are hun- dreds of **high-tlying" women supported by men or corporations with jobs in pros- pect, who rely upon these women, who wemuin there the year round, to do ser- wices as lobbyists. A bunt for simplicity, womenly modesty aud genuine integrity ‘will prove more successful in probably . say other city in Awerca thau in the . Baton's capital. . . THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY. MAY 15, 1887 Improve the Parks. As the summer days draw near people of all classes and conditions are moved to think at times of the discomforts in- separable from the sweltering heat of July and August, and to reflect upon the means of relief that may be at their com- mand. To a few the weather is not a disturbing one. Their lines are cast in pleasant places, and not only is their time at their own disposal, but they have the means to gratify whatever determi- nation they may reach as to where and how 1t shall be disposed of, Such may hie them to the sea shore, if that shall seem best for social considerations or any other reason; or they may betake themselves to some northern lake resort, where the breezes are cooler than at the sea and the requirements of fashion less exacting; or they may go into the mountains, and sequestered there, away from the busy haunts of men and the “madding crowd,"’ commune with nature, finding gladness in the primeval forest and the sweetest of music in the rippling rill; or they may goto other lands, and there at once escape the dis- comforts of life at home, and gain a so- cial distinction for having been “‘abroad.” But it is only & few who are thus hap- pily situated. The very great majority must remain at the post of duty, no mat- ter what may betide. The wheels of trade end industry van no more be stop- ped in July and August than they can in December and January. They may re- volve g little less vigorously, but they must be kept going, That is necssary in order that the prosperous may continue in their prosperity '~ and that those who must labor shall en for a little time lose the reward rtoil. Itisthis grcat majority, this army of toilers that cannot stop the daily round, whether the temperature be cld or hot, who are now contemplating the approach of the summer solstice with forebodings of its inevitable discomforts. These are the peoble whoafter the weary work of the day in the close counting room, the crowded store, and the ill-ven- tilated shops, would find relicf and re- cuperation in some out of door breathing place where there were conveniences for rest and some attractions besides those which nature has placed tbere. Where shall they go? Omaha will undoubtedly some day have parks—perhups several of them. Atpresent thereis one, butit i not a particularly inviting spct. Many of those who go there do 80 becauss there is nothing better to attract them, and some sort of change of air they must have. It could be made an exceedingly attractive place, and ought to be. The expendi- ture necessary to accomplish this need not be great, but whatever the sum de- voted to this purpose, there is hardly any other way in which it conld be more judiciously employed for the general good. Hanscom park is being surrounded by fine residences, it is easily acoessible, its natural conditions need not be much altered. But the art of the landscape gardener could be utilized to a moderate extent. Some grading could be done, the existing walks could be imvroved and others made, and there might be a more liberal supply of seats, of course of iron. All this could be done at a reasonable outlay, and would render the parka wel- come resort for thousands. Jefferson Square, also, should be improved. Itis only an eyesore now, and being one of the “features’ of the city which cannot bo concealed from strangers, subjects us to ridicule. As a central ‘‘breathing spot’ it should be put in condition to meet that requirement. The man who shall bring about these desirable im- vrovements will deserve to be regarded as a public benefacto A Bit of History. Afew of the habitual and hardened liars of the state press have taken oceca- sion during the past two weeks, to insin- uate that Curry, the brutal, burly negro who was employed to assassinate Mr. Rosewater some ton years ago, wus the ‘victim of Mr. Rosewater’s cunning, that the ‘‘negro who was respectable’ “‘slightly touched Mr. Rosewater with a cane,” for which Curry served several years in the penitentiary. These stories eminated from the traitorous editor of the Lincoln Journal. We do not desire to burden our columns with a story which is yet remembered by all the old citizens of Omaha and the state at large —butto show the utter inconsistency of the reports circulated by the scabs of the country press, headed by the journalstic jackal who presides over the Lincoln Journal, and answer several letters ad- dressed to Mr. Rosewater regarding the assault, we print elsewhere the report as it appeared in the Herald the day after the crime was committed. Editorially the Herald denounced the outrage as a “brutal and cowardly assault,” and every honest man in the state knows that Curry was only playing his part in a great con- spiracy, conceived by a band of polit- ical rogues and mountebanks, to kill Mr. Rosewater, in order that they might con- tinue unmolested in their criminal prac- tices. Those who read the Herald's re- port of the infamous crime will at once see how inconsistent and unprofessional itis in the Lincoln Journal to print and circulate roports bearing no likeness to truth, decency or justice, — Commemorative Worl Fairs. France is projecting a national exposi- tion, to which she invites the world to contribute, to celebrate the centenary of the revolution of 1789. The success of the undertaking as 8 world's exhibition will be shightly impaired by the refusal of some of the Eurovean governments to participate. Russia will not be repre- sented, Germany will be represented only to a limited extent, and England is not expected to be a large contributor, The government feeling in all these countries is about the same respecting the motive of the project. As mounarchies they connot give countenance to any form of commemorating a movement in behalf of republicanism, The unfriendly attitude of these countries, howover, doubtless will mnot, as it certamnly should not, deter France from car- rying out the plan, The countries which have no dread of appearing to sympathize with liberty or republican in- stitutions, withthose whose sympathies are 2ll in that direction, ought to give such Zenerous countenance and support to the French exposition as will convince the unfriendly monarchies that they are not indispenzable to the success of such an enterprise. France and the United States could together mako am cxhibition that would surpass any the world has yot seen, and which wonld be worthy of uni- versal attention. The republics of Mexico and ot Central and South America could contribute vastly to the objects of interest and attraction. There would be more good and more glory from a successful exposition containing the contributions of republics ouly than from one under the circumstances which derived any large part of its attractions and its interest from the products of nations not in sympathy with republican institu- tions, It would demonstrate that indus- trial progress and achievement in all de- partments of art can and do flourish in countries whose people govern even more prosperously than in the nations where they are nided and encouraged by royal or imperial bounties. The Fronch exposition shonld be purely republican in its character, and from a practical point of view solely it would probably be more suceessful for being so. The 1dea of a world's fair in this coun- try in 1802, to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America, has received some consideration, so far as we have obscrved wholly of . a favorable nature. As such an en- terprise would be entirely free from any political objections, no nation could on that score, as iu the case of the French exposition, decline to participate in it. That the anniversary of the landing of Columbus on the shore of. America would from a sentimental point of view be an auspicious time to hold & world’s fair as a commemorative event will not be ques- tioned. What are the probabilities from the practical point of view? The exhibi- tion of 1876 was a success, and all the conditions that rendered it so will be greatly enlarged and augmented in 1892, 1t is not excessive to estimate the popula- tion ot the country at that of 75,020,000, or in the neighborhood of fifty per cent more than in 1876. Inevery department of industrial enterprise and achievement the nation will have made an even greater advance. Progress in the arts and in science has kept pace with all other forms of growth. Not only would every American departmeny exhibited in 1876 be greatly improved in 1892, but there would be a number of additional departments to illustrate what the inven- tive genius of the American peoplo had wccomplished since they mvited the world to witness what they had done dur- ing n hundred years of self-goyernment. With a much larger population and a more widely distributed prosperity from which to draw the financial supvort of such an exhibition, its success in this re- spect cannot be a matter of the least doubt. About 10,000,000 people visited the exhibition in1876, Certainly half as many niore, and probably doublo the number, would visit a world's fair in 1892 that possessed the attractions possible to it. These exhibiti have a value more or less important, as incentives to trade. They are grand advertisements of a people’s attainments and skill, which are shown at their be: They are useful also as educators. From all points of view, in short, these national or international exhibitions, held at in- tervals far enough apart to assure suc- cess, are benelicial. ‘Lhere appears to be the best of reasons in favor of such a one to commemorate the discovery of America. General Booth and His Army. The Salvation Army held a state en- campment in Council Bluffs last week, celebrating the seventh year of that or- ganization in the United States. If the programme was carried out ‘‘generals,” “'colonels’” snd ‘‘captains” were more plentiful in our sister city than they ever were in Missouri or Kentucky. General and Mrs. Booth, the recognized head of the army, were among the crowd, ad- mired by all subordinates, Just what good they accomplished, if any, we are unprepared to state. Wheth the introduction of pompous ceremonies s0 wmuch in contrast with the solemn pageants and mysterious creeds of the olden time, bad a marked effect upon the spiritual pulse of Coun- cil Bluffs we cannot imagine. While the BEE has already expressed its views on the Salvation army, it de- serves to be again remarked that the person who is softened or harmonized by the hushed atmosphere which surrounds him like a benediction upon entering a church, cannot associate ideas of chris- tianity with the jumping and howling of spiritual gymnasts beating tambourines and singing psalms to the tune of the “Girl I Left Bohind Me.” It is those solemn and holy ceremonies painting the christian life a sunny flower garden in- side the dark and toad-inhabited dun- geon of ascetics, which make a man or woman experience an actual change of heart. Temporary reconstructions of moral character do not possess our con- fidence, for they are eftected by passion rather than thought. There is no judg- ment—nothing but wild emotion. So far as we kuow General Booth and his numerous subordinates will not visit Omaha, If he does, and should insist on showing himself, we believe he should be requested to hire & hall, and omit the circus parade portion of his varied programme. An Unseasonable Subject. During the warm days soon to be upon us, when the scorching sun will consume the remnant of the Manitoba waye that attempts to reach us with its cool and refreshing moisture, and sweltering hu- manity will sigh for the shady retreats of Minnetonka, White Bear,Geneva or some other northern resort. California pavers are insisting that the coast is nature's only winter resort. The statement to this effect might be refreshing to the Esqui- maux, the Laplander or a weak-lunged citizen of Greenland, but in most any portion of the United States, the claim is a sun-stained chestnut. Beocause a slight froat happened to nip the oranges of Florida, the California real estate agents are now hurling volleys of abuse at the nome of the alligator and land of fathom- less swamps, The San Francisoco Chronicle says of the state of affuirs in Florda: But, sad to tell, one day there came a frost, an eager and a nipping frost, and the glory of Florida departed. The winter visitor no longer dispensed the nimble shilliug or the dollar of of his ancestors in that lavish way ich had gladdened, the Floridian heart. ‘I'he vast caravansaires which had been built to receive him and his sisters and his other relations stood idle untenanted, a home for the owl and the bat. No more did the beach at 8t. Augustine’s or the beaches of the St. Johna ever resound to the hollow cough of the ome-lunged Chicagosn, or the wheeze of the asthmatic Bostonian. Florida's prestige was gone, and the stream of Paoto- lus had been diverted into another channel. Because of the wild speculation of eastern capitalists imsouthorn California town lots, the Chronicle tnkes it for granted that Los Ahgtles, Santa Rosa, Santa Barbara. atfd’ dozens of other towns in the sands of California need only irrigation and pewspaper puffing to draw countless thousands of coughing consumptives, rheumatic ruins and de- cayinggwrecks to the golden gate. The truth is, the wan who goes to florida or California, attracted by the advertising circulars ot statements of in- terested parties certan to be disap- pointed. The hired liars who weave sentences to attract and allure tell their tales with Oriental .grandeur and un- blushingly furnish cvidence to sustain their most absurd and untruthful state- ments, They paint words into the rarest pictures, and frame them with such asur- rounding of manufactured plausibility that nothing short of the stern teachings of harshest experience proves to the ad- venturer that he has no business there. Half of Florida's population was gained solely by the unrestrained imag tions of designing men. They offercd the settler advantages and opportunities never existing, and which by reason of location and gen- eral surroundings never could exist. Invalids, wild in the desire to finda climate which might restore their vigor, wilingly gave their last dollar and found too late that they had been played for “dupes” and “‘suckers.” California is also overestimated, and 60 per cent of the visitors attracted to the coast are dis- appointed and swindled. There is no section of country entirely free from drawbacis and disadvantages:-but until a new region is discovered, N ebraska will oceupy a front chair as “an all around™ state. A St. PAurL paper tells how easy 1t is for Bernhardt, the great actress, to be pleasant and entertaining. It cites as an ingtance how nicely an engincer named Blaine, who brought her train through Valley Junction to Council Blufls, was treated. It says: *‘During the flight Bernhardt opened the door of her car and had her dress blown over her head, Maurice Grau was knocked over and a colored porter stepped on the pet tiger and rly turned white when he saw what it was. [t 13 said that at the end of this fast ride Blaine was given a neat check by Grau and a pass to the Omaha performance.” ADELINA PATTI 8ailed for Burope yes- terday, and the thousands who heard the peerless diva during her last visit to this countey will heartily unito in wishing her bon wvoyay Her farewell tour of America was a brilliant success, and must long live in hen memory as one of the most grateful experiences of her life. Those whose privilege it was to hear her can ¢ongratulate themselves upon a roc- ollection that will grow' more pledsing with time. Incomparaly the greatest singer of her time, she merits all the re- spect and adulation 'whiéh the American peovle have so gengrously bestowed on her. s Tk Westminster Preshyterian church, of St. Paul, Minn., is haying trouble with its pastor, the Rev. C. C. Herriott. The charge against the reverrnd gentleman is that his desire for earthly gains 1n the buying and selling of real estate has led him to almost forget his ministerial mis- sion. 1f he could only convince himself that there were bargains in real estate elsewhere than in St. Paul or on the I:)Ianet called earth, he no doubt would ccome an enthusiast, PROMINENT PERSONS, Hon, Levi P. Morton is erecting a palatial sandstone residence at Rhine CIiff on the Budson river. The size i3 115x81. B. P. Snillabor (Mrs Partington) is seven- ty-thres years old, but he_ still supports him- self at Chelsea by his industrious pen. General Fremont and his wife will pass the summer in the west for the purpose of gath- ering aaditional matetials for an elaborate life of Kit Carson. Major Kossuth, son of the celebrated Louis, isa very extensive railroad manipulator in Italy, eontroliinz the entire network of Western Italian roads. General Schenck is hale and hearty at the age of seventy-eight, and to a rceont inter- viewer smiled as blandly ‘‘as though he held a royal flush in the draw-game of life.” Martin Farquhar Tupper, the once popular English poet, is now almost entirely broken down in health. He is hardly able to read. He will be seventy-seven years old in July. Sir Edward Tichborne has offered *“‘The Claimant” a small annuity if he will make an aflidavit for publication after death of the true facts of the Orton-Castro conspiracy. “Sir Roger” has scornfully refused the offer. Masini, the tenor, who has just left Milan for Buenos Ayres, where he has an engage- ment, takes with him his private physician, his secretary and two valets de chambre, He can afford this, as he will earn §150,000. L’atti says that Americans ought to be very proud of Mrs. Cleveland. When the diva was in Washington she and the president’s wife exchanged pictures and autographs. M Mis. Claveland promised to visit Pattl at Craig-y-nos sowetime in the future. ‘With anxions teatures, worn and pale, Ho waits tho comin of the mail: ° Each day he asks, with hope and fear, “My letier, is my letter here?” Each day he hears in silence dumb; “Not yet, old man, it has not come." The harmless madman, old and gray, No one would jeer or drive away. “Ahme,” he says, “'loug years have past, But it will come, "twill come at last.” ‘And 50 he waits in silence dumb, ‘The letter that will never come. Through misty vision of his tears, He sees the long, far-sundered year The past comeg up before him there, ‘When he was Strong and she was fair, Once more he feels in very truth, ‘The leaping pulses of his youth; A strong, strange joy he fuels again The old wild fever in his brai An angry word, a careless tone, And she'has gone and he's alone. Since then he waits in silence dumb, ‘The letter that will never come. * Alus! his poor old wits are fled, He cannot know that she is dea And 50 he asks it, o'er and o'er, ‘Che same old question as before, He wakes with morning light to say : My letter, it will come to-day.” ‘With tottering limbs that almost fail, He creeps each morning to the mail, And hears with ever new regret, “Not yet, old man, not yet, not yet.” And 8o he waits in silence dumb, The lester that will never come, Ah me! poor madman eéven we Are dupes of fickle destiny; T coaseless hope we WAiting sit, For missive that were never writ, ‘© walt to see the harvest grown, Of seed that we have never sown; We seek the harbor mouth to hail The vessels that will never sail, ‘@ wait to see our garner filled With fruit of fields we have not tilled. @ wait 1n Enhennz stiliness dumb, For letters that will never come, “The Old Gentleman," Bostm Herald, Father McGlynn is not vespectful. He speaks of tho pope as “the old gentlewan ~TWELVE PAGES. over there in Rome.” The old gentleman has arod In pickle for Dr. MoGlynn, —— An American Exhibition. Chieago Tribune, Genoral Rosser has succeeded, on a small scale, in making a groat Awericau exhibition of himself. pa——— Give Him An Easy One, Chicago Herald. Instead of giving Kelly, their 810,000 prize athlete, a gold watch, the Bostonians ought to present him with a ball that he can hit, i - Loersaenid ‘What New Yorkers Want, Chicag Times. A New York paper tells about “a eyclone out west that picked up a barrel of whisky and dropved it into & prohibition state.”” But the cyclone that New Yorkers would most like to see 1s one that will blow a few open saloons into their town on Sunday. TS~ ey What Sunday Should Be, New York World. Any law that practically pws the people in Jail after they have worked hard for six days Is not in keeping with the spirit of the age. Sunday should be aday devoted to worship, rest and recreation, and psople should be permitted to select their methods, as on other days. —— Less Millionaires in the Senate. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, Perhaps it Senator Camden had taken a less lively interest in Ohio politics he would not be this day pumping up joy over the clection of a friend Instead of himself to the United States senate. tide seems to have turned against millionaires for the senate. The objection to Camden was that he had a great deal of money. Those who would have been glad to support him for the usual reasons did not dare to. — THE SUNDAY CHIP BASKET, A¥rER the Fourth of July a man can gam- bol, but he eannot gamble. TuEY are now using what they call sneeze- less snuff. It cheers, but does not iriebrlate. 1t is intended for prohibitionists who vote a straight ticket., DRr. Manry Warker continues to stir around Washington like a big rooster that justeame out of a misfit store. She is now working upananti-Chewing Tobaccosocioty. A FANATICAT exchange says: have been the cause of all trouble.” ‘T'he ice cream saloons are about the main trouble Just now; particularly to young men of mod- erate incomes. “Saloons HENRY BERrai, the animal’s friend, has printed rules on **How to approach a kicking borse.” What has long been needed to fill a yawning vacuum in this world of mysteries, are rules, “1ow to gracefully recede from a kicking mule.” A CORRESPONDENT writes us: “Is thar much stalk raising in Nebraska.” The gentlemen no doubt had heard of our won- dertul corn crop, and wants to know if re- ports are true. There is stalk raising and stock raising in Nebraska. ® “Wiy i3 it,” asks the New York Ilerald, “‘that Peter Smith, who was hanged yester- day in the courtyard of the Tombs prison, slept well the night before and ate a good breakfast within half an hour of his execu- tion?” Well, the thought that ho was get- ting out of New York probably accounts for his composure, Tur: Herald boasts that it Is the only paper that publishes ‘I'alinage’s sermon in this part of the state, The other day one of the rural readers of that paper dropped in and thus ad- dressed the editor-in-chief: “I've jist been areadin’ 'I'alinage’s sermon, and it sounds jist tor all like I had writ It myself. Ther's a splashin’ an’ a dashin‘of H—-ll—for—Sartin in it, and jist enough circus-bill eloquence to stirupa dimicrat on ’lection day, I won- der why the parson don’t run for congress.” Tue New York assembly has passed the bill allowing concert saloons to be accom- panied with copious draughts of beer. Fire water and music, as hath been said, possess charms to soothe the savage breast, and it should follow that the exhilerating elixer, known as hop juice mash, interspersed with strains of heavenly music drawn from a violin by an intoxicated fiddler, is all that is required to charm New York’s populace. The Herald made a fight for the bill, and claims, undisputed, the glory of its passage. TuERE haye not been a great many men in the history of the world who have suc- ceeded 1n accomplishing wonders more than onceduring their life times. 1f every man had succeeded in anchoring his name to even one great achievement, history would neces- sarily have been bullt on a much larzer scale than it has, andour libraries would have been by this time wonders in themselves in size and matter. The man who spent the biblical three score years and ten trying to corral a wonder, finally succeeded, as Is attested by the new hotel, cormer Tenth street and Farnam, and emphasized by other evidences in the cellar thereot. In fact it has been asserted t"at the wonder was more stupendous than was absolutely essential to the perpotuity of the projector’s name, and that it would have answered just as woll, for all practical purposes, it he had only made theexcavation and not filled it with tin cans or allowed it to be usest for a base ball ground. Tur unmarried ladies of Newton, New Jersey, have formed an anti-vice association, and resolved to boycott all young men who drink liquor or use tobacco. Ln view of this hich-handed and unheard of outrage, the question i3 presented how will this matter end? There 1s that old featherless and comely saying that what Is sauce for the goose Is sauce for the gander, and its apoli- cation 18 hable to leave the fair creatures of Newton high and dry upon the banks of that land where old maids marryeth not-—be- cause opportunity is wantingz. Suppose the gallant gentlemen should orler a boycott upon every lady who uses, or attempts to us for any purpose whatsoever, paint or powder? Suppose the royal edict should rule that who- soever shall practice the savage customs of banging, or frizzing, the hair; or resort to the more hideous custom of maintaining, for man’ssols delight, spit curls or pug dogs wouldn't Newton present a lonaly and deso- late appearance? We shudder tothink of tll(:zs things, and wonder whera it all will en Wrrm the street sprinkler, the man with the straw hat, and "the days when the mer- cury climbs upon the highest building in town and looks down with scorn upon the scorching streets crowded with sweltering humanity, the circas soason comes. The entleman who has traveled in al! countries, and whose stories would make Baroa Mun- chausen weep, comss alonz as the advance agent of the “Earth’s Wond: He nas grown round shouldered earrying thoe title of colonel. He pervades tho newspaper sane- tum and expactorates at randow in the hotel corridor. Hie Is the harbinger of one happy day for children, and the old folks are aceordingly delighted to know that their stern and solemn duty is to accompany the little ones to see the animaly, ‘I'he cireus 15 one of man’s richest creations in the amuse- ment line, and when old Noah started out with his costly consolidation of agregated wonders, he established a pracedent and gayve caste to the menagerie business whieh will make it through all ages the adwiration of both old and young. ‘Tur scales seem to be falling from off the oyes of Now York's oftic shown that on storied Cooey Island—the boast of ‘every patriotic citizen of the Em- plre state—political corruption has found its way. The wild beating waves ot the wide Atiantic had falled to wash away the sins of those holding positions of trust and honor. An Investigation is to follow, and the clam- bake, the round-a-bout swings and the mam- moth Jumbo—the wonder of every open- mouthed stranger-all have been polluted by the touch of eorruption.'And they do say that the morals of the tamous summer resort, do not reach that high standard of excollence, which it d of old should be attained. Yet, to the dust-stained and over-burdened citizen of the great, bustlin@and busy metrop- olis, Coney lsland with its salubrious and seductive sea broese, will always be enchant- Ing aud inviting, ‘To those weary aud heavy laden Coney 1sland, notwithstanding 1ts high prices and low morals, will ever pre- sent a picture like the glimpse of paradise the Peri caug ht. NepRASKA CITy is in a state of wild and rapturous delight because sho has been se- lected asone of the localities for a militia sta- tion. Major John C. Watson is now reeruit- ing the company, and thinks they will be in “fighting trim” within a week or ten days. Among the Incidents of the dashing major's experience nona perhaps was more striking than the speech he made upon receiving his commission. There was eathered in front of the famous ten-cent store acrowd of admiring and enthusiastic citizens, The major jumped upon an empty barrel, and with all the fire and passion of his soul turew out the follow- ing shafts of eloquence: My FrizNps—And when I say my friends, I mean every mother’s son of you. The war is upon us, I repeat that the war is upon us. Nay, friends, ’tis no jester’s jest, no dream- er'sdream, when lsay to you that the war is upon us. And whenl look around and about we and see the smile of happiness upon every face, and realize in 1ts fearful’ fullness the fact that { have just stated, namely, to- wit: That the war is upon us, 1 naturally en- quire what Is it doing on us, anyway! My My friends, I enlisted only a day or two ago, and am already a major. As Mr. Artemus Ward once said, “I'm doin’ middiin’ well.” But 1 digre The war 18 upon us. You must enlist. 1 have just made a requisition upon our commander, for the following cruel fmplements to be used in civil war: “'One Aneriol barometer; 1 artillery—1 dis- tillery, 1bilbo; 1 butress; 1 bushed gun;1 canister; 1 cimeter; 1 dynamite cartridge: 1 color guard—and 1 told them, my friends, not to be particular about the color; 1 corse- let: 1 eylinder-gauge and a half gallon cup.” [Prolonged cheers| The major was serenaded that night by Dr. Bishop's martial band, and it is said that he thought it was the enemy and commenced shooting out the window, 1t is confidentially reported to us that the major said had he known they were friendly troops, he could not have resisted shooting his own brother had he attempted to make such musie, — BUNDAY GOSS1P, ‘I AM out celebrating a little to-day,” said Joe Redmnan, ov Friday last. “Thirty years ago to-day, I, with my wite, and sons George and David, and my father. landed on the sand-bar north ot the present site of the Union Pacific shovs. The trip from Hollidaysburg, rennsylvania, was made on the steamer Omaha, and took thirty days. My father, now dead, was very enthuslastic about Omaha, and always main- tained that it was to be a great city. 1 have lived to see his prediction fulfilled, and ex- pect to live to see it a much greater place—at least a city of 200,000 people. My father planned the Omaha park on the old tarm, which I now own, and which is now within the city limits. We set our stake on the road half way between Omaha and Florence. 1 started a blacksmith shop there, and built a small house. The first winter we lived on corn dodgers and salt, for fully four months. Many a time did my wife lament the tact that we had no butter or syrup to put on those dodgers. But we don’t lack for butter or syrup now.” AT the recent convention held'at Ansley, for the purpose of dividing Custer county, one of the interesting questions which camz up was with reference to the naming of two of the new counties—the one in the southeast quarter and the other In the southwest quar- ter. The name of Cleveland was suggested for one, but that dian’s suit the republicans, and the name of a republican would not suit the democrats. It was therefore decided to select the name of some men who were fam- ous for their efforts in behalf of freedos Accordingly the proposed southeastern county was given the nameof Gladstone, aund the southwestern county was called Par- nell. ‘Che county seat of Gladstone will be Ansley, and Callaway will be the county seat of Parnell. It is likely that Parnell county will attract many new settlers of Irish extraction. - A vERY artistic work entitled “Omaha Il- lustrated” is soon to be published by Dunbar & Co., of this city. The early and modern history of this city 18 to be written by experi- enced writers, but the most attractive fea- tures will be found In the illustrations. This part of the work is being done by the best en- graving company in the world. ‘The latest process is being used, and the illustrations will be equal in artistic finish to those which adorn the pages of the Century and Harper's Magazine. The iinest residences, the best public bulldings, the leading streets, and picturesque placos are to be iliustrated, and the portraits of leading eitizens will embel- lish the publication. No expense is being spared to make the book a very handsome volume in every respect. The police commission will be in no hurry toapvointa chief of police, The appoint- ment will probably not be made for two weeks, as the commission desires to take time in ordorto secure the best man for the place. No man has as yet boon decided upon, and new applications for the place are being made almost every day. Among the latest candidates is Captain W. 5. Seavey, who Is endorsed by General Lowe, Major Wilcox, Colonel Matt Patrick, D. C. Sutphen, Martin Dunbiam and others. e went to the war as a private from Omaha, and eate out as cap- tain. e served under al Lowe. From . 1575 to 1870 Captain Beavey was city mar- sinl of Santa Barnard, Califoruia, whe made a good record. 1o s a republican. ¥ Another candidate for chiet of police is Major Georgo L, Dennis, who has li in Omaha six years, during which period he has been connected with the public works as inspector for the city. At present he is in spector of asphalt pavement for the city. Major Dennis fought gallantly for the union, and has a good record, both military and cvil. A veteran Boston lireman, in his anx- v to make a record the other nignt, mounted his carriage upon hearing an alarm and drove to the fire, utterly ig- it of the fact thatin his had forgotten to put on par s or boots. s his carriage tliew along the street n wag shouted : ve me, mother, the Indians sare after me," but still he drove on. Uvon arriving at the fire, says the Herald, 1t was laughuble to se the way he 'clung to his carrisge, wrapped in his blanket, and it will be a long whle befol ars the last of it from his fellow- riold is ~— A violin said to be 2306 yes Frauklin owned by Louis Dutrow, ol couunty, Pennsylvania e —— . A cougar measuring nine feet from tip to tip was killed » fow days ago by sn Idako rancher, G THE RUSTICS. Jackson Street Horse Market, - CHEATING IN HORSE yFLESH Traders Who are Sharpors ani Scamps—Their Varions Schemes ~“Doctoriog Up" @ Pfoor Horso, Written for the Siulay Bee by dfar. Burglars burgie in Omaba and tho public curses; foot-pads knock down and rob, and wn outraged people ealls for bt ter police protection; the contidence man swindles, and his victim howls aloud for justice. But there is one of thieves who work quietly and eftectively in this city, being allowed year in and year out to practice, unmolested, their infamous profession of swindling tho rustics who may hapoen to drop into Omaha, They are the horsetraders, Their manuner of conducting business amoun ts to nothing more or less than robbery, as the reader may infer upon perusing this articlo. But the robberyis effected 80 qui etly and so smoothly, that the victim rarely ever reports the swindle to the po- lice, " If, perchance, gome plucked inno- cent does muster up courage enough to inform the authorities, the swindler es- capes and is nowhere to be found. Soones on the ‘I'his article has no reference to the men who practice horse-traaing and selling honestly. ‘There are a number of theu in the city—despite the assertion that when it comes to trading a horse, St. Paul himself would cheat,” And all such need not attempt to wear a cap which is not intended to it them, ly horsetraders referred to may be divided into two classes: Kirst, those who live in the city and practice their business here; and second, the traveling gypsies who pass through Omaha from time to time, spend a few duys here, end then move on to other fields. The latter is by far the more dan- gerous class of horsetraders, The gyp sies are sharp, shrewd and unscrupulous, and they possess powers of eloquence which are irresistible to the average granger who has a borse to trade, Juckson strect, between ‘Lhirteenth and Fourteenth, is known as the horsc market of the city. Here the traders do their work, Here many a vietim is flecced in a manner so neat and expedi- tious that the most polished confidence man might loarn a lesson therefrom. Saturdays are the heaviest trading days. For then the farmers come into town. But on almost any day there is more or less trading going on. A reportor happened down into that locality the other day, in company with a friend who 1s well posted on the practices of these fellows. A horse trader was trying to induce a farmer to give him a pair of bay ponies for a rather doubtful * specimen of horseflesh which he held by a halter. The horse had a poir of badl bowed front legs, which made him wal lam The horse trader was a Jew, and a very smooth man at his business. “By sheminy Moses, my vrend,” ho said to the farmer, ‘‘don'd you know wen yon'vegod a snap? I'll trade you decs line, large, elegant horse for dose two ponies und geef you ten tollars to boot, Dotvos a 5rual pargain, m{ vrend", “But emurred the farmer, ‘“the horse'sfront legs are crookeder'n a bow.'’ **Dots all right, my vrend,"’ returned the horsetrader, ‘‘dond you worry mit yourself about dot. Dose legs will pe straight eef you geef dot horse plendy of rest. So hellup me Moses, deres noding de matter mit dot horse!” The granger thought a moment or two, and then gave in. “All right,”’ he said, “I reckon I'll trade ye, stranger. Gimme the $10aud the borse and the ponies are ourn.” b ‘The reporter and his friend at this juncture walkea away. ‘“Ihere,” said the lattor, “is a sample of the way a sucker is lleeced when he comes on the horse market. There is a horse that isn't worth §10. And yetthat farmer has ot him in exchange for his two ponies that were worth at least $150. That is the very simplest way these horsetraders have of swindling. There are a number of other schemes they are 1n the habit of working." “Name some of them,” suggested the reporter., *I could tell you of a fozen K‘“m that they have of ‘working a sucker.' For instance; suppose you come into town with a team of horses that you want $300 for. A, whois a horsetrader, comes to you and asks you what you 'want for your horses.” You tell him. He doesn’t want to buy them him- self, but he knows B, who has a pair of horses that you can trade for, ‘even up.’ B, by the way, is another trader, and his team is worth about $75, tihough both horses are fine looking. You hesitate about making the trade. Just then C comes along. He1s ostensibly a business man looking for a tcam of horses, but really he is the third ~ of the trio of sharks. He shakes hands with A, and asks him if he knows where he can buy & Zood pair of horses. A replies that B has a good team to seil. ‘Yes,' says C, ‘L know the team. 1'd give $350 cash for it, if I thought that would buy it.’ You, the farmer whom the three men aro working, think to yourself ‘Well, 1 can trado my horses for B's even up, and thon sell to C for 0, and just have that little $50 myself.' You go to I, make the trade, and then take your new team to C, with the remark that he can have it for §350. The three sharpers always arrange it 80 that the trade takes place after 3 olclock. When you ap- vroach €, he tells you “that lm cannot t the money as it is after banking hours. He fells you to come around to-morrow and he will buy the team. To-morrow dawns, but you cannot find C. You discover that you have been swindled, and that the team on your hands is a worthless one,"” **Another scheme these fellows work 18 to trade you & really good unimal yours, Then when your back is turned they prick the nose of your horse so as to make the animal bleed, or feed it something which makes it sick. You come to the conclusion that you have & worthless animal on your hands and you are glad w dispose of it for a small um, or even give it away.' *In swapping a horse, a horsetrader knows well how to cover lly his detects. Old age, which is very ul rable ina horse, is remedied by “fixing up the tecth, In a young horse the teeth have hollow cups in them, wh are nearl black. When a horse prows old, his tecth become smooth and the black is worn off. ‘The horsetrader remedies all this by fillng the horse's teeth 8o as to form the hollow cups, and then using some chem which causes them to turn bluck. In this way the app ice of a young horse's teeth is very ukillulil‘y counterfeited There are " hundreds of suc¢h tricks practiced; to deceive peoble who are mnot on the look- out.@1n sclling & broken-winded horse, which is known as s ‘windy' the horse: trader has to exercise a good deal of cure. He knows just how to drive the animal, so that it will not become ‘wini ' And as he is careful not to let the animal go out of his hands, until it is sold, the purchaser does not discover the defect until it is too late. A weak- backed animal is known asa ‘jimmy.’ A horse afilicted this way may go all right for a mile or so at a good pace and then, having reached the limit of his strength, falls to the ground as though dead. "The horsetrader manipulates the animal skillfully and the buyer never discovers the defect in the horse until he is driving him home. And then, again it is too late, The purchase has been made. *‘Yes, there are plenty of other tricks these fellows have. ~Come around again some day (sud LI'l . give you suothes chapter.” ‘ >