Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 20, 1887, Page 4

DAILY BEE PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSORIPTION Duily Morniag Edition) inciuding Sunday Beg, Ono Year. B For Bix Months For Throo Months The Omaha Swnday dress, Une Yoar. 0 00 1] 200 200 OMATIA OPPICE, N0, 814 AND 918 FATNAM STREEY. FW YORK OPFICE. ROOM 6, TRIRUNY BUILDING. ASHINGTON UFFICE, NO. 513 FOURTERNTI STREKT. CORRESPONDENCE! All communicntiona relating to news and edi- torial maiter should bo widressod to the Eni- TOK OF THE Bxr, BUSINGRE LETTRRS! All bueinoss Ictters and remittancos should be addressed to THE 1imR PUBLISHING COMPANY, OxAnA. Drafts, checks and postofice orders o be mado payable to tho order of the eompany, THE BEE PUBLISHIDG COMPARY, PROPRIETORS, F. ROSEWATER, EniTor. THE DAILY BEE, Swora Statement of Circulation. State of Nebraska, la. s County of Douzlas. {% Geo. B. 'I'zschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing mmlmnv, does solomnly swear that the actual cireulation of the Daily Bee for the week ending May 13, 1857, was as follows: Saturday. May 7. Sunday, May 8 Monday, May 9. Tuesday, May 10, Wednesday, Ma: Thuraday,” May Friday, May 13, .14.271 Average.... KT UOK GEO, 18 MCCK. Subseribed and sworn to before me this 16th day of May, 1857, N.P.F . P. FEIL, SEAL.] Notary Pubiic. Geo. B. Tzschuck, belng first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is secretary of Tho Bee Publishing company, that the actual average daily eirculation of the Dally Bee for the month of May, 155, 12,4 for June, 188, 12.208 copies ; for July, , 12,314 coples; for August, 196, 12,484 copies; for Septem: ber, 184, 13,030 copies; for October, 1 13,08 coples: for November, 1580, copies; for December, 1856, 13,257 copie: January, 1857, 16,268 coples; for February. 1857, 14,108 coples; for March, 1857, 14,400 copies; for April, 1857, 14,816 copies. Gro, B. Tzcnuck, Subseribed and sworn to before me this 7th d“’éfl:‘,\“}fr' A. D, Tne Eighth street viaduct has not yet received attention, 2, FiL, Notaty Public. IN County Cork William O'Brien ap- pears to be the hero of the hour. —_— WHEN the street cars can accommodate the laboring man by leaving the stables at 6 o'clock, &. m., it will be appreciated. ANOTHER train robbery in Texas. When Colonel James located in the Lone Starstate we predicted that he would keep before the people. ——— Tue dangerous man-trap, the Tenth strect railroad crossing, has not yet olaimed its victim. Until that time it will remain in its present condition. Wit ker superb pavements and wrotched sidewalks, Omaha appears like aman draped in an elegant dress suit with his toes sticking out of his boots. — PAT Forp hasbecome a great and good man very suddenly in the eyes of our imorning contemporaries. Pat is a mem- ber of the council committee on printing. THERE are thousands of planks loose in our sidewalks, which endanger the limbs of pedestrians, and render the city liavle to personal damage suits. They should be repaired without delay, THE many visiting Presbyterians to Omaha, will find here a city possessing all the advantages of the effete east, to- gethor with the enterprise of western life. They all admire Omaha. e——— MADAME JANAUSHER has introdnced the latest and most novel plan of adver- tising of the season. At New York she fell down a fight ot stairs and will cancel all engagements until the early fall, THE St. Joo Herald deserves great credit for its untiring work in securing ® contribution of 5,000 to be used in ereoting a woman's home 1n 8t. Joseph. And those who gave to the fund are equally deserving. eEE———— A sHARK weighing four tons and mea- suring -thirty-three feet has been cap- tured by Californians, off New Year's Pomnt, Ban Mateo county. There are many land sharks yet remaining on the coast, however. aE——— Jix LAIRD'S organ at Hastings has added a few more-yards of pewter plates, and prates of an ‘“‘enlarged” paper, What the people of Hastings want is mmore news and less wind from Stinking Water Jim's defender. In New York the boodlers, Sharp, Mec- Quade and Jaehne, perpetrated their criminal acts over a year ago. Sharp is yet on trial, and is liable to be for some time yet. And atl so nearto New Jersoy, Where jnstice has been immortallzed. Mg. Josian Kent will make an excel- lentstreet commissioner. Heis thoroughly qualitied for the duties of the position. Mr. Keut can do no better service to Omaha than to start out with a firm determina- tion to compel property owners to lay down substantial and uniform side- walks, e———— THE appointments of Mayor Broatch #o not give satistaction in certain quar- ters. They were not expected to. Had Mayor Broatch allowed those disgruntled editors to dictate the candidates they sought to impose on him for positions for which in his julgement they were unfit, all would have been as serene as Spoon lake on a clear and calm May day. e—— Tax Weetern Mutual Life Insurance company has filed amended articles of in- corporation with the secretary of state. Such actions are certainly admissions that the concorn has been, as the Bee claimed, an unmitigated fraud. With their many “‘articles of amendment,’ the graveyard concern may finely manage to transact an bonorable business. Yet itis bard te 1earn an old dog new tricks, SE————— CAPTAIN MOYNIHAN, who keeps a full supply of slung-shots on hand for bis patrons and friends, is very peraistent in his effors to be made chief of nolice. The eaptain is backed chiefly by the sluggers and outlaws who would teel perfeotly safe with Moynihan at the head of the ice force. 1t was mainly with this ob- n view that the Third ward pool, ‘which gave Garneau over five hundred A Bomba: Monatrosity. The double-barrelled and six-headed monstrosity known as the Nebraska rail- rond commission, has managed to at- tract public attention to its own exist- ence by a bombastic command to the managers of certain railronds to cut down their rates between Chicago, St. Louis and Lincoln. For sublime impu- dence this bogus commission is certainly matchless, The Nebraska commission, 8o called, 18 notoriously a hybrid of il- legitimate parentage, Created at the in- stance of the railway managers in defi- ance of an overwhelming popular pro- test, it was from the outset incapable of any action which would relieve the pat- ronsof tho railroads from exorbitant tolls, unless tho railway managers gener- ously consented to make rate reductions. At no time sinco its creation have the people of Nebraska looked to the cor- ruptly begotten commission for relief or redress. With the exception of Judge Mason, whose appointment by ex-Secre- tary Roggen gave such offense tothe rail- road managers and whom they are now attempting to supplant by one of their most pliant tools, the commission has been made up by nonentities and cheap jumping-jacks ever ready to do the bid- ding of their creators—the monopoly managers. But for the recreancy of a boodle legislature which was bodily under the control of the rail- way managers and their allied confed- erates, the jobbers and claim brokers, the monstrosity would have been strangled in its infancy. The farcical attempt offthe bogus com- mission at this juncture to exercise pow- ers conferred by the inter-state com- ree law upon the national commission is in keeping with all the exasperating imposture to which the people of Ne- braska have been compelled to submut for the past two ycars. What has the bogus commission done since it has come into existence except to draw salaries? What power has the commission to enforce its orders? Why does it attempt with a great flourish of trumpets what it knows to be beyond the scope of any state commission? Does it imagine 1t can make people believe it dares take any step which would seriously incom- mode the railroads or materially reduce their earnings? What are you giving us? Moonshine on a shovel! Why don’t the commission protest against the raising of rates all along the line since the inter-state commerce law went into effsct? Our constitution and the laws passed in conformity to it re- quire railroad tolls to be reasonable. The rates oxisting before April first were certainly reasonable, inasmuch as they were fixed and established by the railroad managers. Now if those rates were reasonable it was unreasonable to raise them under any pretext, excepting an increase of the cost of operating the roads. Why don’t the commission com- mand the Nebraska roads to reduce their local rates wherever they have been raised? If they cannot eonforce an order toreduce local rates within the state boundaries, how can they enforce a man- date that they reduce through ratesto and from poiants beyond the boundaries of the state? Americans and Royalty. Mr. Andrew Carnegie is a man of strong convictions, and he has the cour- ago to proclaim them, 1t is proposed by natives of Great Britain residing in New York city to celebrate, on June 20, the queen’s jubiles, and Mr. Carnegie, who is now absent from the country on his wedding tour, was invited to contribute to the fund for the - celebration and to give the occasion his personal counte- nance. The response of the author of “Triumphant Democracy’’ 18 what might have been expected of him. He informs the projectors of the celebration that as an American citizen and a staunch re- publican, “who rejects the monarchial idea as inconsistent with and insulting to his manhood,” to celebrate the reign of any hereditary ruler would be to stultify himself, He tells these admirers and sycophants of royalty that heis ‘‘at a loss to see what naturalized American citizens have to do celebrating the reign of any sovereign monarch,’” and suggests that if they are not loyal and true to the land of their adoption the way is always open to them to leave its shores and find homes elsewhere. *“The republic,” he says, ‘‘deserves to be served by citizens true to the fundamen- tal idea upon which her political institu- tions are based.” To those who remain abens and still enjoy the blessings of res- idence in the republic, he very properly suggests that the canons of good taste and a sense of gratitude ‘‘should lead them to hesitate before parading and forcing upon the knowledge of their per- haps too generous host that ther first allegiance is to a foreign ruler and their preference for political in- stitutions vitally opposed to those of the land in which they dwell and prosper.” Finally, this ster- ling Scotch-American believer in the re- public and its institutions suggests to his toadying countrymen that if they must celebrate something, let them select the 4th of July and make the occasion one of prayer, that “the day is not far distant when our less favored countrymen at home shall share with us the blessings of nstitutions founded upon the political equality of the citizen.” Our dispatches state the projectors of the proposed celebration are very indig- nant over Mr. Carnegie's implied reflec- tion upon their loyalty, and disparaging comment on the letter and the spirit that prompted it 18 freely made among them. Undoubtedly the author of the lotter expected this effect, and he can stand it. Heis ocertain to havo the approval of the vast majority of American citizens, and he will value this very much more highly than he would the cudorscment of the would-be courtiers of royalty, alien or native, who shall participate in this cele- bration, if such endorsement was to be gained only by a direct or tucit acquies- cence in this ‘project. Thore arc not a Rgreat many men who woulil have had the moral courage under the circumstances to take the unquestionably proper posi- tion in this matter that Mr. Carnegie has done, and it is therefore all the more honorable to him. 1f 1t be the manifesta- tion of ‘‘craze,’’ us the person who is to preside at the proposed celebration is quoted s saying, the craze is of the kind which the American people would like to sce become more general among those who come here from other lands to ac- cept the bospitality and share in the blessings of this free countsy. Were 1 0 there would be removed the great reason for a somewhat extended oppo- sition 1o further additions to our alien population, There is no among the focling of unkindness American people toward Victoria. As a personally amiable, harmless and rather commonplace woman she has a measure of respect. She might have much more had she used her opportunitics to promote the welfare of her people, but it may be just to charge her shortcomings to inherited defects which she cannot control. As a sovereign, however, the » American people ean have no sympathy with her, nor can they regard with anything buat disfavor the eftort of a class living among them to honor a reign which at the best has nothing save length of years to com- mend 1t. It covers a period of most won- derful progress, but to all this it con- tributed absolutely nothing. It has been rather an inereasing burden to the Brit- ish empire, for the prolific queen added steadily to the demands of the royal household upon the national exchequer for princes’ bounties. So far as the jubi- lee is concerned, it long ago degenerated into a farce in the estimation of thous- ands of the people of England, and what- ever interest is still maintained in it, out- side of the circles where “‘thrift may follow fawning,’ is kept up by the tradesmen and shopkeepers, to whom the coming and going of ‘‘her majesty™ means quick sales and large profits. The New York admirers of majesty will hold their celebration, but its glory will be a good deal dulled and dimmed by the proper and just reproof administered to them by Mr. Carnegie. To Whom Passes are Givon, A newspaper correspondent in the t with a pocket filled with annual passes, writing in defenso of the inter-state law, among his other logical propositions, says: ‘“‘Butif it shall turn out that the majority of the free passes haye been is- sued by trafic managers to shippers, and by ocutting off the passes less money wiil be received from freight."” He might as well have said that if it turned out that free passes have been is- sued alono to ministers, the companies now stand a poorer show for salvation. It is notoriously known that nine-tenths of the thousands of passes on which dead-heads, dead-beats and sore-eyed politicians rode over Nebraska were given alone for political intluence. Leg- islators were corrupted; newspapers were hushed; politicians were captured, and the entire band of *‘favored” mendi- cants worked industriously for all rail- Way measures. To-day in the state of Nebraska there are hundreds of one-horse politicians, fledgling lawyers and disreputable bum- mers being carried within the state free of charge on every line of railroad doing business in Nebraska. They come under the head of employes. The interstate law says it 1s unlawful ‘‘to make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or ad- vantage to any ‘particular person in any respect whatever, or to subject any par- ticular person to any undue or unreason- able prejudice or disadvantage in any re- spect whatever.” In another section the law permits railways to give free carriago to ‘‘their own officers and employes,” and to exchange ‘‘passes or tickets with other railroad companies for their officers and employes."” It may be that no passes have been issued to the alleged cmployes, good on lines of road outside of Nebraska, but if the ‘“employe” was cousidered ‘‘valu- able’’ enough, he no doubt could secure transportation 1n all of the states where the B. & M., the M. P. or U. P, own or control leased lines. ‘The railroad companies wearied of an- nually carrying exhausted strikers, and accordingly took advantage of the inter- state law to cut off the gratuities and when the next legislature meets, unless there is a radical change in public opin- ion, such strikers as Carns, Palmer, Humphrey, Lee, Greene, Walters, and in fact the entire troupe of railrogue blatherskites will have at their disposal books of blank passes, and every man who cares to serve the corporate bosses will become an ‘“‘employe’ during the session, The issuance of free passes is a corrupting evil, but the railroads, if it will serve their interests, desire corrup- tion, The New School Board, ‘The election of the new board of edu- cation will take place two weeks from next Monday. While we do not doubt that the intent of the law makers was to allow six members of the present bourd to hold over until their respective terms should expire, the letter of the law as interpreted by one of our ablest lawyers does not admit of such construction. According to Mr. J. M. Woolworth, the entire board has been legislated out of office, and the mne members to be elected on the first Monday in June will constitute the new board of education. The legislative blunder in retiring the entire board does not, howaver, seriously concern our citizens, since they have the privilege of re-electing any member who has proved himself efficient and trust- worthy. The main question now is, how to select nine reputable men qualified for the responsible duties imposed upon the managers of our public schools. The law-makers have pointed the way for us to vital reforms. They have decreed a divorce of our school manage- ment from partisanship by separating the election of the school board from the election of city officers. This was a very much needed reform. Under the old sys- tem members of the board of education were chosen by partisan nominating con- ventions, Asa natural consequence can- didates for the school board traded their volitical influence on primary elections and nominating conventions for the in- fluence of candidates tor city oflices and councilmen, On election day the choice of members of the school board became secondary to that of candidates for city offices, and very often a majority of the voters did not even oast & ballot for.school board. By holding separate elections for members of the Loard all barter at primaries and conven- tions is done away with and the atten- tion of voters formerly diverted by other issues ,will be centered onm the choice of public school managers. Another important reform will be in- augurated at the impending election. In order to arouse the patrons of our public schools to the discharge of their obligations the schools will be closed on election day and the school buildings sre to be made the voting places. In viow ofthe fact tbat women who pay rofled as pupils in the public schools have the privilege of voting for members of the board of education, the location of voting places at the school houses will tend to draw out a heavy vote froma class who have heretofore taken no part in our school elections. It is to be hoped that this new depar- ture will justify the expectations of the advocates of the reform. The Ber has never favored the exercise of political suffrage by women, but it heartily en- dorses the scheme of granting to the mothers of the boys and girls who are being educated in our public schools, & volee in the selection of the school board. It isa privilege they are as fully competent to exercise as the fathers and brothers of the school echil- dren. The experimental reforms 1n the choice of the new school board can not be a success, however, under the old methods of partisan nominations and party tickets, We must eliminate politi- cal creed as we do religious creed, from our school management. We must choose candidates by reason of their character and qualifications for managing our pub- lic schools, We must seck to elevate the standard of our public school system by inducing our ablest and best citizens to accept positions on the new school board. To this end the Bes will labor from now until the first Monday in June. Its columns will bo open to a full and frank exchange of pablic opinion as to methods of nomination and candidates. Every citizen of Omaha has a vital inter- est 1n securing a competent and harmon- ious board of education. Tue philanthropist is now turning his eye toward the workmen. Krastus Wiman, a wealthy New York business man, proposes in the Epoch a building plan by which he can give homes to the workingmen of New York. His plan, while not only novel but practicable, combines the work of the building and the life insurance companies. To illus- trate: “‘Suppose a man buys a house for $2.500; he will be asked to pay $500 down and given four years at 0 each to liquidate the balance. If he lives, it is expected that he will pay the entire amount; if he dies the agreement is that his wife gets the house and lot without any further payment. So that whether the husband lives or dies, the family is sure of a house and lot. The shorl term insurance for the awount of the cost of the house can readily be put on the man's life, and if he dies the insurance company pays to the building company tne amount of the volicy.'’ In this way there would not only be a strong induce- ment for the laboring man to save his earnings, but his rent would also cease. A home is what all men want, and when some plan is presented which givesa reasonable assurgnce that it can be ob- tained, it 1s wonderful how hard a man will labor to that end. ] Tae railroadicompanies will discover from the latest enuncipation of the inter- state commerce commission that a diffor- ent line of policy with respect to Section 4 of the law is to be hercafter pursued. Whether as the result of a more careful study of the act, or from the influence of public sentiment and'the Reagan letter, the commission has concluded that gen- eral suspensions of the long and short haul clause are not in accordance with the intent and purpose of the law, and it has also determined that investigation must precade suspension in epecial cases. It is a little surprising that so in- telligent a body, with one of the ablest jurists in the country at its head, should have fallen into the mistake of pursuing a course the opposite of that it now de- clares to be required by the law, but the country will be glad to tind that on Le- coming enlightened as to its duty the commission has not hesitated to re- nounce 1ts error and put itself at once on the right course. THE most absurd objection to C. E. Mayne's appointment on the board of public works is his alleged friendly rela- tion to the Omaha gas company. What could Mr. Mayne do as member of the board to favor the gas company? The company has a eontract with the city for lighting the streets, and the council has entire control of street lighting, meter rents, increase of lamp posts and pay- ment of gas bills. The only vossible business relation of the hoard to the gas company is in the placing of gas mains and connections. This is regulated by ordi- nance, and the chairman of the board and City Enginecer have supervision of this branch. Other members of the board have no more to do with the digging of gas-pipe ditches than an outsider. There may be other objections to Mr. Mayne, but he will hardly need to explode that gas bubble to insure his confirmation by the council. — WE have received, with the compli- mentsof Mr. £. Egan, a printed circu- lar giving the correspondence botween Richard Pigott and himself, in which the attempt of Pigott to blackmail the land league 18 clearly shown, and accompany- ing this circular fac similes of the al- loged letter of Parnell as printed in the London Z%mes and- of the handwriting of Pigott, charged with the forgery. The exposure of this whole rascally busi- ness has been most complete and con- vineing, to all whowere willing to be convinced, and we do _not think there is an unprejudiced rgap living who is not fully satisfied thgt:the alleged Parnell letter was a forggfy. Mr. Kgan, as the chief party to the ekposure of this re- markable piece off fhscality, performed a most important s@ffice to all concerned. — AccoriNG to Mr! Rounds, Pat Ford is a straight man,a ‘good official and a clever talker. Mr, Rounds evidently knows Pat more\intimately than any- body in Omaha’ ‘Pat electod himself councilman from the Third ward by pay- ing $3 a vote in public view. That makes him a straight man. Pat was placed on the pay roll of the Union Pacific soon after his election to the council, for im- aginary services. ‘I'hat makes him a good official. Pat has a masterly ability for saying nothing on important occasions. That makes him a clever talker. Mr. Rounds knows a hawk from a handsaw. —— Tiose who have been reading the evidence taken before the Pacific investi- gating committee cannot resist admira- tion for Jay Gould's charming men- dacity. He bas s flippant and creative style of prevarication, 1n which he is as muoh at home as a clam in high water. Mr, Gould's memory at times surprises its most prominent happening is rom bered only as a half forgotten dream when the night is passed. Mr. Gould scems to remember that the Lord loves a cheerful and successful liar. BriLping inspection not rigld enough in this eity., One man cannot perform the oflice work and properly carry on the outdoor 1nspection. While the building boom continues several as- sistantinspectors can be profitably em- ployed. The construction of wooden fire traps veneered with brick should by all means be stopped, and that can only be done by giving the inspector suflicient assistance to enable him to view every building in process of construction. STATE AND T RITORY, Nebraska Jottings. Fremont is figuring on a new hotel. Norfolk will celebrate the firecracker anniversary. The Fremont banks hold deposits amounting to $74 7. . Hastings has voted £60,000 in bonds to the Elkhorn Valley extension. The Oakdale Pen and Plow stepped on the tender toes of a number of townspeo- ple last week and contracted a boycott. The law passed by the last congress making a land ageney at Chadron has been inoperative because of a failure to appropriate funds with which to start the business of the of] The business men of Chadron have made arrangemcnts with the authorities to advance the neces- sary funds, and the land oflice is ex- pected to be in full operation by June 15. The report comes from Fremont, equal parts of truth and fiction, that tho town achelors wear knee-pads on their trous- ers, To the uninitiated this would seem an evidence of persistent piety, but the facts are that their sad-eyed appeals are directed to the unfurled ears of lonely maidens. Their lonesome condition is such that the sight of a woman scnds them to their knees in an instant, while declarations of love and constancy rend the air even though the idol be blocks away. The wrinkles and infirmities of age are as laudable in their eyes as the peach blossoms of youth, and time and rlnce never changes their ardor, The ogislature made a grievous mustuke in locating the asylum for incurables in Hastings. The highways and byways of editorial lifein the country are not always lrinFud with wild flowers. Between the delin- quent subscriber, battered plates and the scarcity of cash, moments come when even the paste sickens at the prospect. These are trifles, however, compared with the flock of bores who insist on showing the toil worn scribe how to build & newspaper and pulverize the questions uzlmlmfi the cross-roads com- munity, Such condition of gloom sur- rounded Editor Suttle in Leigh last week. He did not tackle the prohibition conundrum from a cold water poins of view, and the town refiuh\tor attempted to sit on him. Bob did not relish bein, cushioned without ceremony, so he struc| out with both dukes, and negatived the questioner, It was death to the paper, but Suattle extracted chunks of satisfac- tion from the hide of his adversary. Iowa Items. Burlington will make an eftort to se- cure the state, firemen's tournament for the summer of 1888, In the car brako tests being made at Burlington some wonderful results are being “attained through the use of elec- tricity. An Atlantic capitalist, whose ‘rroperty was of the portable km«l, loaded $40,000 in his grip and took up his residence in Omaha for a month at the time the as- sessor was making his rounds, Charles Gibbs, a Nebraska carpenter who was en route east with his wife, be- came violently insane at Burlington and was taken from the train. His present condition is due to excessive drinking. The attorney-general has officially ad- vised sheriffs and other state officers that when engaged in enforcing the pro- hibitory law they have the right of way and are to pay no attention to the inter- ference of fedoral authorities. The Chicago, Burlington & Quing; railroad has indeflnitely postponed build- ing a union depot at Ottumwa because it was imposaible to secure the necessary land for the purpose without paying an exorbitant price therefor. The Burlington small boy is altogether too handy with those playthings made with a rubber band and a forked stick. A Iittle girl wason Sunday struck in the eye by a missile thrown from one of these *nigger-shooters™ and is likely to lose her eye in consequence. Wyoming. The Laramie glass works will be in operation by September 1. The Denver, Utah & Pacitic will build a branch to Laramie and beyond. Cheyenne turned out in holidaxvm huy the capitol corner stone, last We ay. A large force of men are at work on the Northwestern extension west of Douglas. ‘The failure of the Swans has paralyzed. the credit of the cattle barous, Cheyenne is terribly hurt abont it. Superintendent Dickey's visit to Dou- glas squelched the exorbitant telegraph tolls which the oflice manager extracted from patrons and placea in bis own pocket. ¢ to ngs- Colorado. The carpenters of Denver are moving for nine hours. ‘The Lessig property on the corner of Sixteenth and California streets, Denver, sold for $125,080. The total assessed valuation of railroad property in the state is $20,696,066, an in- crease of $400,000 over last year. A rousing anti-coercion meeting was held in Denver recently, Addresses were delivered by Governor Adams, Senator Teller, Judge Belford and T, M. Patter- son. Colorado stone is coming to the front a8 s marketable commodity. 1n the last three years a business of $300,000 was worked up by H. B, Stout, of Nebraska, owner of the” Fort Collins sand stone quarrics. e Temptations of City Life, Chicago Tribune, The question of how far a municipal ad- ministration can go and the amount of moral good it can accomplish in remov- ing the temptations to immorality as well as to the corrupt waste of money that exist in all large cities is one of the most important that can occupy the attention of wise and moral-minded citizens. In the country the people ean raise children in almost Arcadian simplicity. During the week there is little opportunity for temptation, so fully are the days occu- pied with the labor of the farm in its va- rious details. Sunday the church offers advantages for religion, courting,jand gossip. The amusements are few and simple, and embrace nothing more tempting than apple-parings, corn-husk- ngs, quilting bees, spelling matches, and fishing on the rainy days when there is no weeding to do. Amid such environ- ments as these 1t 18 possible to raise a family which has not been exposed to se- rious tempatations, to lay a pretty sohd foundation of good principles, and to l start the sons count prejudi In the eity nd, thore i3 every species of temptation confronting young during the formative period Ji their lives. On the streets it maets them everywhere. It is in the schools, even. It hes to companionship. It presents itself in its most alluring shapes. 1t lurks in almost every form of amusement. Its conters nre alcohol, gambling, and licen- tiousness, and theso three vices abound in every possible variation. What, then, is to keep the young back or protect them if the mimstration of the city does notlend its help towards the suppres. gion of these temptations? Individual moral effort is of no account in closing up saloons, gambling-houses, dago-shops, pool-rooms, houses of ill-fame, pawn- shops, dives, and doggor 1f city ofli- ciuls shut their eyes to these things and take the position that the i to do with morals, then, indeed, it i possible to stay the food of vice and the terrible temptations to which the youth of our cities are exposed. 1t is an old, old experience—old as the davs of Sodom and Gomorrah, of Babylon and Nincvah—these terrible temptations of groat cities, which, 1f allowed to go un- checked, will ultimately destroy them as they destroyed the power of Rome. In proportion to their size and age, our American cities are no better than they. It is not Fmsiblc to restore virtue, but it is possiblo to check vice. It iswithin the power of every musicipal administration to make itself useful in more ways than political government or supplying ma- terial wants. Its police can stop the breeding of vice and crime, and a mayor with the right kind of conscience can check a great deal of the temptation and punish the tempters. Chicago in eight years has had no protection from vice and temptation. It has & mayor now who is making an eflort to suppress law- lessness and vice and to romove tempta- tions, and all moral men should lend him their support and encouragement. Let him not have to bear the burden of cleaning out the Augean stable without assistance, o s Industrial War, Baltimore Sun, In a recont address Professor Huxley dwelt upon the changing nature of the contests by which nations in modern times determine their position in the world. A distinction is commonly drawn between militarism or military organiza« tion and whatis called industrialism,very much to the advantage of the latter; but the professor is in doubt whether,looking at the results, there is much choice be- tween them. *“I would ask,” he says, “‘any one who is coguizant of the facts of the case, and who has pald any attention to the moaning of modern industry, fol- lowed by the mathods which are now pursued; whether, after all, it is not war under the form of peacet” Industrial warfare does not, 1t is true, break heads, and it does not shed blood,but *it starves the man who fails 1n the war of competi- tion, and the nation which succeeds in the war of competition beats the other by starvation.” This thought is elabor- ated by the Marquis of Hartington in an address delivered at a polytechnic insti- tute in London in support of a movement to romote the technical training of ritish and Irish working- men, with a view to strengthening the ' commercial position of the United Kingdom. To fail in the com- mercial struggle which Germany, Fran and other countries are now inaugurat- ing means, according to lord Harling- ton, for all classes of the queen’s sub- Jects, as complete ruin_as a disastrous war would produce. *‘The operation of economic laws,” he says. “is so certain and so swift that it must be a matter of absolute certainty that the nation which ceasos to produce what the world wants, or produces it in an inferior qu-litf', is being defeated in industrial competitlo and must soon feel the consequences of such defeat. 1t would mean for us be- sides the loss of our position of superior- ity, a disastrous change in the circum- stances and position of almost every pri- vate person--a loss of affluence to" those now rich, poverty to those now prosper- ous, and to the masses of the country, who are dependent upon the labor of their hands and intellects, 1t would mean famine, indigence and starvation.” It is not to be inferred from this plea for wider culture for the workingman that the marquis advises every one to join a peace society. On the contrary,he urges adequate military and naval preparation, on the ground ~that military disaster would bring with it industrial disaster, Both are to be provided against by inces- sant labor, if tho empire is to continue. e Essay on Men. By a Student of Vassar College: Men are peculiar; they wear No. 10 boots and snore. This is what makesit easy to recognize a man when you see one. on wear hats they are carcful of and carry umbrellas they are not careful of; when not loosing them they are ulw;r pokinF them into somebody's eyes. on don’t £ossip, but they go_to their clubs and talk over the “‘new#” Men don't paint or powder (often),but they raise whiskers that make them look like Scotch terriers, and coax little hair moles to grow on their chins. Men are not vain, but they never like the young lady who says they are not Landsome, Men are consistent. They hke to see the dress of a lady plain and sensible, ‘‘hate furbelows and flum- mery," but let a lady in a “plain, scnsi- ble'" dross enter acar where thesc men are seated and she may stand an hour and not one of them offer her a seat, but when a lady enters arrayed in the height of fashion every one of them will sprin, to his feet and glory in the honor ol standing for her sake, or rather for the sake of her clothes. Men never find any fault with themselves, not if they can help it. Adam showed them how they could help it, and they have §profited I:{ his instruction. Men take cold and thin they are going to die, and when jyou carry them a bowl of herh tea they turn pale and ask you if it is bitter, and if you don't suppose it would do just as well to take it mext week. Men don’t lead around a poodle dog with a blue ribbon, but they chew to- bacco and perfume their clothes with a pipe. Men are always wanting a clean shirt, and when they get one they are always ready to swear that therc not a button on it, when all the time the but- tons will be there, only they can’t find them. Men can never find anything. They pull off their boots and forget where they put them, and pretend they remember just all about it, and after they have rummaged around and turned everything upside down, and looked on all the shelves in zhu‘{)nntry. the sewing machine drawer, and upset your work- basket, sit down and romark that this is a deuce of a houso; a fellow never knows when he gets out of a thinf when he is going to set his oyes on it again; and when you bring his boots, that {ou have found™ right where he left them, he hands you his slippers and wants to know 1f vou “ean’t jab them in some out-of-the-way corner, where the old scratch would never look for'em.” Men think they know a lot, and they do somctimes. Men sre a trouble, but they are handy to have in the housc in a thunder shower, or when the wind blows, and they are not afraid of mice. I know this is true, because I once saw two men chase a mouse around a room for an hour (more or less),and neither appeared to be in the least alarmed. Toward the close of the chase one of the men stopped to wipe his brow and remarked that 1t was warm—an excecdingly cold observation, in.my opinion, as it was cold and comfor iublo up on tho bhead of the lounge waere was. THE CALIFORNIA MINES, The Original Story of the Discovery of Gold in Callfornia, Baltimore Sun: A lump of gold w in February, 1848, picked up 1n an ovey vation made for a mill-race_at Coloma, Cal. Three months later, Mexico have ing ceded Califorma to tho Umited States, a number of porsons - were al. ready engaged in searching for the precious motal, the first adventurers coming principally from the adjacent country, from Mexico, and from the Sandwich Island. Those were the days of slow transit by sea and ashore, and'i t took a long time for news of the discove ery to reach the Atlantic coast. The Sun published an authentic account of the great “find” which put the country in commotion. Bultimore,at the tine” the point of departure and val for vessely engaged in trade with points on the Pa- citic const and the Gulf of Mexico, and a t starting point also for overland ex- ions for the west, was to the most of the country the center for news from the far west and rordingly when the Sun gave the detailsof the discovery of a veritable El Dorado in our newly nac- quired territory, on September 19, 1848, it was extensively copied throughout the world, and contributed largely to the famous rush in the spring of 1849, The article referred to was as follows: “Animmense bed of gold, one hun- dred miles in extent, has been discovered m California on American Fork and Featner rivers, tributaries of the Sacra- mento, near Monterey, Mr. Colton, tha alealde of Monterey, states that the gold is found in the sand'in grains resembling squirrel shot flattened out. Some graing weigh an ounce each. It 18 got by wash- ing out the sand 1n any vessel, from a tea saucer to a warming pan. A single per. son can gather an ounce or two a day, and some even a hundree dollars’ worth. Two thousand whites and as many In- ans are on the ground. All the Ameri- n settlements are deserted and farming nearly suspended. The women only re main in the scttlements. Sailors and cap- taing desert the ships to go to the gold re- gion, and laborers refuse £10 a day o work on the farms. Mr. Uolton s *‘One man who resides next door to me, gathered $500 worth in six days. He has one lump which weighs over an ounce, A trough such as you feed pigs in wiil bring in the gold region $50. Put a piece of sheet-iron punched with holes on it, and it will bring $100. My friend, J. R., paid $16 for a little basket to wash out the gold in." More than $20,000 worth have been collected. Gov. Mason and his aid had gone to the district, which is five day's journey from Monterey. The navtives have gone for gold, the sailors havo run from the ships and the soldiers from their camps = for the same rnrpose. The last vessel that eft the coast was obliged to ship an entire new crew and pay each $50 a month. No one can be hired to dig gold short of $16to 820 a day; mcir prefer working on their own hook. He may make less than that, but he has a chance of making much more. ‘There flour is worth $32 per barrel; fifteen pounds of Boston crackers, in tin boxes, $10 a box; a cotton shirt, $10; boards, 500 per 100 feet. A carpenter can get $150 per day. Mr. L. paid for a common cradle troug| twelve feet long by three wide, to wash gold earth in, $150, less than a day's work to make it. At the date of this publication, ‘‘more than $20,000 worth of gold had been cot- lected. This was thought a great result, According to the last census, however, the gold product of California alone, ex- cluding the adjacent country, whose development was largely the work of the energetio forty-niners, aggregated up to 1880 as much as $1,200,000,000, not to mention her production of silver, mercury, cep- per, borax, wheat, wine, and luscious ruits. In the J-mduction of gold Cali- fornia still holds the first place among the gold producing countries, though the prosperity of her 900,000 people is not now dependent upon mining in the same degree formerly, agriculture and manu- facturing have omstripgcd the earlierin- dustry. California produced in the cen- sus year 51,88 per cent of the total gold product of tte United States, and as she continues to produce from $13,000,- 000 to $15,000,000 & year, thanks te the [S‘rent improvements in mining opeartions that time and experience have evolved. 1t is estimated that 100,000 men reached California in search of gold in 1849, trav- eling across the continent, or by way of Panama, or around the horn. Therr find- ings in 1850-53 averaged, it is estimated, about $65,000,000 a year, and, on the sup- position of 75,000 miners actually em- ploved, it is estimated that the average earnings were fully $8 a day per man, though during the {cnr tollowing the qirst diacovuri the average is thought o ave been a8 high as $20 a day. Their hegira to .the diggings, their wild life and adven- tures, constitute the most romantic page of our history. But something more sub- stantial than a romantic story has re- sulted from their vast expenditure of labor and thought. Great political so- cial and financial changes have been of- fected, and an empire rich in every form of wealth has been built up on the Pa- cific coast. To the lor‘;y-nlneru belongs the credit of having advanced by a hun- dred years, perhaps, the settlement of all that part of the United States west of the 100th meridian. Sl Evér since the yoar that General Cus- ter camped at Yankton, Dak., there has been a heavy crop of blue grasson the old camp-ground. Itis supposed that the ill-fated command carried blue grass for forage, and the scattered seed took root. e THE PERFECT Sell Revalving Churn Dasher Quickest Sellng Article Ever Invonted Neadsno taiking. bubreaily 1s the Protuost Showing rticle on the Market. 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