Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 29, 1887, Page 4

o THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED E—VE;‘V MORNING. JTERME OF RUBSORIPTION D‘Ily Morniag Edition) {neluding SBunday Y our e, or Bix A gur'rhrmy)i ha oiis he Omaha Sendny’ Bk, mailed o' any address, Une Year. CORRESPONDENCE: All oommunieations relating to nowa and edi. torial mattor should be addrossed w the kvl TOM OF THE DRk DUSINERS LETTERSS ANl bueinoas lotters and romitiances should b ddressed 10 TR EE PUBLISHING COMUANY, OMAHA. Drafts, d_postoMeo orderd 0 be imads peyal der of the company, THE BEE PUSLISHING COMPANY, PAOPRIETOAS, B THE DAl nt of Circulation. Btate of Nebraska, %, s County of Dourlas, ek Geo. “hick, secretary of The Beo Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual circulation of the Daily Bes for the week ending May 27, 1557, was as follows: Saturday, Sunday, Ma Monday, May 2. . Tuesday, May 4 Wednesday, May Thuraday, May 900 Friday, May 27.. 1114000 TN 8. Tzscnvek. ) before me this N. P. Fr1 Notary Pu first duly sworn, depotes and says that he is secretary of The Tice Publishing company, that the actual average daily irculation of the Dally Bes for the : or June, 1880 fcopies; r Septem- tobe Average........... [¢ Subscribed and swor! 255t day of May, 1557, A L] Geo. B. Tzsehuck, being ovember, copies; coniber, 159, o Jdanuary, L 16,208 copies: for Febrnary, 1887, 14,195 copies: for March, 1557, 14,400 copies; for April, 1357, 14,316 copies, day of M PSEATL Contents of the Sunday Bee. Pagel. New York Herald Cablegrams— Specials to the L1 —General Telegraphic o 9. Telegraphic News.—City News.— any. pecinl Advertisements, 4, Editorials,—Political ~ Points.— Chip Basket. Lincoln News.—Shining Lights in England, by Albion.—Adyertisements. Yage6, Council Bluffy News.—Miscellany, —Advertisements, Page 7. dociety In Omala.—General and Local Markets, Paze 8. General City News.—Local Ad- vertisements. Page 9. Spanish-American Pictures, from the Pen of an Omaha Lady.—The Giddy Girls of Gotham, by Clara’ Beile.—Remark- able and Romantie, by Franz Sepel.—N About Old Folks.—Advertisements Page 10. Hilarity for Hot \eather.— illing of Captain Crawford.—He Led a ual Existence.—Advertisements, Page 11. Facts About Feminine oney for the Ladies.—Devotion Deties Death.— Connubialities.—Singularities.—geligious.— Atll,wrummenm age 1% About Chained Lightnin Cndef Whitiaker.—Musical and Dyaniate— Chineso lemples and Altars,—The Rock of Gibraltar.—A'Night at the Opera.—-Adver- slsements. . —H —_— Mike MeANEY, Wiggins ana Professor Bruner object to the proposed non-parti- #an board of education, —_— Tne SUNDAY BEE speaks for itself this morning. A comparison with other papers will show that it leads. A TELEGRAM sent by_()‘Brien says he cannot visit Chicago. Heremembers too woell the sad fate of Mr. Lowell. THE czar was only &hof six days last week. Though eagerly demanded, no satisfactory explanation hus been offered for the off day. ATTORNEY GENERAL GARLAND in his old age appears to exhibit some appre- oation of human endurance. He pos- ftively declines to accept the supreme Justiceship. Dr. TALMAGE should publicly paste on his sermons *'Please read and return,” I such precaution was used no preacher ‘would be placed n the humiliating posi- tion of being accused of stealing them., Tue impudent attempt of the ward bummers to break up the movement that has for its object the divorce of our pub- lio echonl management from wolitics, will prove a dismal failure. Our citizens are waking up to the emergency. TaE longer they attempt to play, the more glaring the fact becomes that Lin- coln and Omaha base ball eiubs need wractice, and lots of it. The old-time game of “two-old-cat” is what both aines should play WHEN the excursion train of visiting wpreachers arrived at Lincoln yesterday, it Is said that 400 real estate agents met the good men at the depot and com- menced extolling the rare advantages of home in “Good-Luck.” *‘Horseshoe," irview” and “Sunnyside” additions. Such irreverent conduct is shocking. AT NEWCASTL cight convicts were publicly whipped and 2,000 peovle took it in. A Sulvation army was in the other part of the town, and notwithstand- ing its band of music and bewitching voeahsts, everybody left it to go to the whipping. Yet even that does not prove public whippings to be much of an at- traction, Mgz. VANDORN has shown his hand too early in his foolish scramble for member- #hip on the board of education. A can- didate for that position who would jon Meancy, Wiggins and Dan O'Keefe in attempt to bulldoze a meeting of citi called together for the purpose of taking preliminary steps for nominating a non- partisan school board, is sure to be snowed under, no matter what party places him on its ucket. — Tue Michigan legslature has surprised itself by passing a railrond bill regulat- ing vassenger and freight traflic on Michigan roads. The bill requires that all railroads shall conspicuously post pla- cards showing thewr passenger and freight rates in depots, prohibits pooling, ‘prohibits the charging of a larger or an equal rate for a short as for a long haul or charging a greater rate from one per- son than from another for.the same ser- wice. Violations of the bill are made punishable by fines of from §500 to $1,000 for the tirst offense and from $6,000 to $10,000 for & third offense. ‘The law is all might, and the question is, will it be en- torced? . 200 | Decoration Day. Inspired by & common sentiment of affection, gratitude and reverence, such s it is the privilege of no other people to feel, the American people will to-mor- 0w renew their annual tribute to the dead soldiers of the union. For days [ vast, in overy city, town and wvillage where repose the remains of honored he- roes, the preparations have been in progress for this sacred and solemn duty. ‘I'he choicest flowers have been gathored, and deft hands have twined and shaped them into many forms. To-morrow the labor of love will have its fruition, and a loyal and a grateful people will again at- test their devotion to the memory of the men whose valor and sacrifices preserved the nation. The observance of Decoration Day has grown with the years,and while patriotism remains to us it will continue to be ob- served. 1t is an oceasion that appeals to every good sentiment in the individual and the citizen, and serves to vitalize and gtrengthen them, With its every recur- rence there comes an awakening of the sense of gratitude, a freshened feeling of reverence for heroic loyalty, and an in- vigoration of patriotism which it is well for all of us sometimes to experience. Every grave upon which we lay a fra- grant tribute speaks to us of our duty as ns, while it tells us also what the faithful performance of that duty has cost. We cannot reflect upon the mean- ing of the beautiful service of this day without at least a passing consciousness of the great price ot the splendid heritage we enjoy, and with that thought must come the determina- tion to do any duty that shall fall to us for its preservation. ‘whis is the silent yet potential influence which the dead heroes exerton this day, and this it is that makes patriots, Letus, therefore, reverently weleome the return of the day which brings with it so much for reviving and elevating our bett ntiments both as individuals and citizens, and above the hallowed dust re we strew the floral tributes of grateful hearts, promise anew that the union preserved by the sacrilices of these heroes we will maintain, The Board of A devlorable indifference is manifested by many of our citizens with regard to the impending elcction of members of the board of education. They do not appear to realize how much Omaha has at stake in securing an houest, economic and eflicient administration of public schools. Every tax payer I8 vitally interested. The board of etucation will disburse over £300,000 during the coming year and more than that enormous amount during every succeeding year. These disbursements by the board require business capacity and integrity on the part of the mana- gers of our public funds. They include besides the salarics of more than two hundred teachers, janitors and employes, the expenditure of repairing school buildings, purchasing new school sites, constructing and furnishing new school houses, the purchase of school libraries and apparatus, stationery, heating, lighting and other incidental expenses. Every patron of our schools is vitally in- terested. The efficiency of our schools as educational institutions depend almost wholly upon the board of education. Its members absolute control over our public school system. They not only ap- point the superintendents and every teacher employed under them,but they di- rect the course of its teachers and select the text books used in our schools. Can any citizen who has the welfare of the city at heart remain indifferent about the character and competency of the members of our school board? Can any man or woman whose children are being educated in our public schools remsin in- different as to who shall discharge the important trust of selecting their teach- ers andidirecting their course of studys? E—— The Coming Assembly. Nebraska, although as a state young in years and young 1n a settled population, with permanent houses aud permanent pursuits, is nevertheless abreast with the times in popular education reaching beyond the common schools and the col- leges that are yet in their infancy. Throughout the east in almost every state and in many instances duplicated m the older states, there has grown in the pust score of years a system of out- door summer meetings and assemblies that are strictly educational in results, and which have done much to stimulate the general knowledge of the sciences and humbler arts that are so laboriously taught in the colleges of the land. These summer as- semblies are popular because they com- bine vacation and review and progres- sive work, all under the caption of an outing. Nebraska is not behind its elder sisters in the statehood in work of this character, and at the pleasantiy situated city of Crete for six years a Nebraska chautauqua and Sunday school assembly has been maintained until it has grown to become a popular pluce of meeting for thousands at the time of 1ts annual recurrence. That the state 1s largely peopled by a class who enjoy these summer 8chools ueed not be dwelt upon and that the people appre- ciate the assembly is evinced by the fact that one year ago ten thousand people upon the grounds in a single day was no uncommon eccurrence. The system of work at the Crete assembly is non-sec- tarlan and secular in many phases, The natal day of the land occurs during the summer meeting and it is accorded special privileges. A day is set apart for old soldier. day; the legal professton has its day and the combination of all forms a variety that can satiate the appetite of an army and all who enjoy a ten days of camp life surrounded by intellectual culture and the elements of advancement of knowledge. Popular education in Ne- braska is furthered by the work of such assemblies, and it is evident from the programme issued that talent has been secured in the selection of eminent in structors, esme————— An Evil of the Schools, Under this caption a writer in the cur- rent Forwm, who informs the reader that his conclnsions are the result of several 's experience as a member of a board of education of one of the largest cities of the union, takes the common Ischoo system to task for what he regards as the evil of too great dependence upon “printed words,’’ and too little attention to teaching the pupil to think. Taking as his text the complaint of Mr. Paine respecting the modern system of educa- tlon in France, which isthatit runsto the study of signs rather than objects, this writer says that the United States suffers more than France from this plague of printed words, and its ravages are worse in our common schools. An illustration of the ill-effects of this school ?nwm he finds in degencracy of modern xpression as found in the debal public bodies and in political discus- sion when compared with that of an ear- lier period even as remote as the time of the framers of the federal constitution. I'he earlier discussions were far more (o the point. Men knew better what they had to say,and knew much better how to ay it. Now, however, the characteris- tics of the writers and speakers on party politics are vaguencss and in tion, These may be sometimes affected, but the fact that those who affect them are suc- cessful in passing the counterfeit coin is proof that the people are not properly educated to detect the base metal, and therefore accept it as legal tender. The writer falls in with the opinion quite general among the better clrss of educators, that in our common schools we try to do too much, and we do notdo well what we seek to do. We lose from view what should be the chief aim, the action of the chil- dren’s minds. Th pupils are hurried from one study to ahother, from one grade to the next, with little care as to whether, when they have gone through these, they cun make any real use of the knowledge they have been pursuing. We forgot that the way in which the young are taught, for whom about ali we can do 18 to give them the habit and the love of mental work, is of far greater im- portance than wkat they are tanght. In the view of this writer, schooling at the public expense should be contined to what is generally denominated “pri- mary” instruction, and %his should be thorough as to each child,—not a process of storing or stufling the memorics of the pupils, but the training of thoir minds. There is nothing essentially new in the views of this writer, nor will it be pre- tended that they are altogether unassaila- ble, but they are still valuable as the re- suits of a practical experience in edt tional work and help to strengthen the similar position of others whoso opinions in this matter are entited to The simple proposition of thege crities of the common school system is that it shall be made less com- plex and more thorough in what it un- dertakes to accomplish; that it shall re- spond to the practical educational needs of the masses, which do not comprehend a curriculum that embraces two or three sciences, as many *‘philosoph and a course of languages, lving or dead. ‘T'here are unquestionably sound reasous in support of the proposition. Falling Leaders. Nothing so disastrous could befall the causeof (reland at this time as the death or enforced retirement from public life of Mr. Gladstone. Yetsuch a caiamity is said to be feared. The grand old man is reported to have aged very rapidiy within a year, and the signs of increasing feebleness grow every day more marked. On a famous occasion Mr. Gladstone said, referring to the home rule cause, “time is on our side,” but time, says a London correspondent, has been bhis chief enemy this session. His wonderful voice is gone, and his piereing glance is no longer what it was, Whebhever a provineial liberal who has not seen Mr. Gladstone for a year or two comes to London and meets him face to face, he can talk of nothing else for days but the fuct that it 13 no longer possible to count on Mr. Gladstone to fill his own place. All tins, says the correspondent, has been increas- ing very rapidly of late, "The respite which the great statesman will have during the recess of pariinment may enable him to regain strength, but there is reason to fear that his failing powers cannot be regarded 2s a merely passing debility. He is now in his 78th yoar, and no contemporary statesman of Europe has performed such increasing and wearing service as he during the more than half u century 1n which ho has been in public hfe. Having first entered parliament at the age of 23, Mr.Gladstone has been almost continually since that time in positions of labor and responsi- bility, and the last few years have been the most trying of his carcer. Bismarck is 72, but he has not labored continuously as Gladstone has. Beaconsticld died at 77, while Palmerston lived to be 81, Rus- sell 86, and Brougham 89, so that Mr, Gludstone is nearing the age when every unusual exaction upon his vital forees will count heavily. The great task he is now engaged in demands such exactions ly, and nature is yielding before rquences to the Irish cause of his disappearance from the scence could hardly fail to be fatal. He alone can hold the liberal party together at this juncture, and it would be a long time before any one would be found to fill his place. Home rule would fall with Gladstone, and it is impossible to say when it would rise again. ‘The condition of Mr. Parnell also con tinues to be such as to excite the gravest fears. He is deseribed as looking like a living dorpse. ‘The prediction is made that without changes almost too great to expect he will never lead his party again, The failing condition of the leaders, whose presence and labor on the scene of ‘ action are now so vital, may well appall the friends of the cause they champion, The Gold Fever. In the British possessions the gold fever is again atits height. Around Victo- ria, and on up the one time noted Frazier river, the fever exists. ‘‘Color” has also been found in Lower Californis, and for- tune seekers are attempting to secure claims where the precious metal is sup- posed to be, In all ages of the world, the pursuit of gold in other channels than those of le- gitimate industry has proven, in the long run, more or less futile in its re- sults, and ultimately disastrous to the fortunes of those who expended their time ana energies in chase of the phan- tom which, in ninety-nine probable cases out of a hundred, only glitters to delude . It might be thought by those who went through the rugged experiences of Cali- fornia gold discovery and witnessed the terrible scenes of suffering of the memor- able era of 1819, that the lessons of experience taught the bold and eager ad- venturers of that period would stand as monuments of warning to the too eager in the pursuit of sudden wealth, for many coming generations. - It seems, however, to be an unaltera- ble law in the economy of the mental man that certain grades and characters of knowledge should not be asquired by precept and exampls, but that nothing shortof the stern teachings of harsh ex- perience skould provide this knowledge. A notable exemplification of this truth is again developed in the condition of things among the motley adventurers who are now going to the places above men- tioned. In Missouri “lost” mines have been found, if sensational reporters tell the truth, and while the Sacramento river has given up its treasures there are yet those who will join in the mad rush to new discoveries fornia and feast their eyes on pyrites of iron or read unfounded reports, spending more time and money than they gather n return. Persever- ance, toil and endeavor in any legitimate business will always bring gold into the coffers of the industrious. The rich finds of '49 are not like'y to be repeated, and 'tis a fool's folly to be misled by sensational reports gotten up to boom a state or county. The Death of “Skip'" Willard. The news of the death of Mr. O.B. Wiilard, familiarly known as 1/ editor of the Sherman County Zumcs, will be received by his many friends in this state with deep sorrow. Informa- tion of the causes leading to this sad tragedy are meagre, but in any event the end cannot justify the means. To those who knew *‘Skip" Willard best, the news of his untimely death will cause more surprise, because none knew of his having an enemy. 1t is certain that he wus povular, and in public life, for a young man, was not without mflu- ence, and made many friends. Tue New York legislature recently passed an instracting the supreme court of that state to admit to practice as an attorney, Hong Yen Chang, a Chinaman, a8 his name would doubtless ‘I'he proviso that he should pass mination, of course accompanied the instructions. Of the almond-eyed disciple of Blackstone and Confucius, the New York World says: Hong Yen Chang came to this country about thirteen vears ago. He attended schools at Northampton, Springfield and Andover. He entered Yale college in 1879, Ia 1881 he was, with other Chincse students, cailed home. He entered a naval sabgol in China, but finally raised sufficiant money to ceturn to this country, He en- tered Columbia law school in 1885, and took a high stand. He desired to be- come a member of the Kings county bar, but found an act of the legislature neces- sary. SoME of the state papers are after Sen- ator Conger because he rides on a pass. If an annual pass is all the remuneration Mr. Couger received for his winter's work for the Burlington road’s interest, it is a mean man who will question his right to ride free during the year of '87. POLITICAL POINTS, Mr. Blaine is going abroad, but Sherman and Allison will stay at home and attead to business. Evidently a mammoth presidential bumble- bee is hustling around in young blr. Rovse- velt’s cowboy hat. Maryland will enjoy m tvely campaign for the demoeratic nomination for governor. ‘I'he election takes place in the fall, A national convention of delegates from republican clubs in all parts of the country is bein < arranged to take place in New York next fall. Ex-Congressman Converse, of Ohio, is be lieved to bave a little boom for himself con- cealed behind his apparent anxiety to secus the gubernatorial nomination for Thurmal Secretary Fairchild is so overrun with im portunate oflice seokers that he is frequently compelled to retreat to his house In order to find time to transact the pressing business of his oftice. Lawyer Bissell, Cleveland's former Buffalo law partner, 18 the latest and most anxious applicant for tue supreme court vacancy. Mr Bissell has at least vne qualification for the place. He weighs 50 pounds. Eugene Higeins, chief of the spolls- grab- bers in Cleveland’s administration, is going to Kurope next month. If anybody on the other side is Interested in that vacent Bul. garian throne it had better be taken In out of the wet. Senator-elect Pasco,of Florida,was born in England and hence can never aspire to be president, but he has a great record. He ‘was an active secessionist, 8 member of the rebel army, and presiding ofticer of the last Florida democratic convention. Ex-Governor Richard T. Jacobs of Ken- tucky, who has all his life been a Bourbon democrat of the straitest sect, has become disgusted with the complete surrender of his party to the ex-coniederates, and at the com- ing election will support the republican can- didates. Senator Cockrell is the latest suggestion for viee-president on the ticket with Cleve- land. 11is name is projected into the pool by the Washington correspondent of the Boston Herald, but that paper 18 of opinion that if a southern man is taken his name will be John G. Carlisle. Roger A. Pryor likes to talk polities. He thinks that most people are underestimating the strengtn of the new labor party. *That movement is a prodigy,” he exclaimed re- cently, “and is bound togiveall of us a great deal to think about in the near future. 1t will puzzle the politicians as early as the next presidential election.” William T. Coleman, whose name has been mentioned in conhection with the democratic presidential nomination, is strongly com- mended by the San Francisco Call for the very able and judicious mahner in which he controlled the famous vigilatice committee in that eity about thirty years ago. Thisls praise indeed. Senator Morrill, of Vermont, takes a very hopeful view of the political situation. He says: *1am convinced that Blaine or any other man wio may be nominated by the republican convention ean be elected. The republican party to-day Is harmonious and united, and its candidats for the presidency next year has every prospect of success, no matter who he way be.” e The Spring Liar Resumes Work, Philadelyhia News. ‘The hailstone as big a8 goose eggs 1s be- ginning to fall. It is believed the size of the geese varies extensively in this country, - Defend and Protect Us. Sutton Register, ‘There is some talk of an extra session of the legislature of Nebraska. Good Lord de- tend and protect us, give us hot winds, give us hail, eyclones, grasshoppers or Grover Cleveland tor a second term and protect us from an extra session of the legislature. - The Star of Bethlehem, St. Louts Globe-Demoerat, The report that the reappearing Star of Betblehem has been sighted in Kentueky would be easier to believe If it were not for the fact that, to serve the best purpose asa call to repentence and reform, it should be first seen in Texas, where the democratic ma jority Is $o much larger. o> Handlcapping a Boom., Chicag) Times. A New York paper motes that “General Lew Wallace has been suggested for the presidential nomination in 1883, ‘The man who suggests him lives in Crawfordsville, Ind. So does the general.” But outside that town, lowever, the Wallace booin has not yet Ben Hur-ed. They Ought to be Enlightencd. St. Lonis Globe-Democrat. A careful reading of the procecdinzs of the Southern Presbyterian assembly convinces us that only a portion of the Southern Pres- byterian clergymen have yet heard of the emancipation proclamation or the surrender of Lee, PR — The English Craze for Buffalo Bill. Chicago Tribune. Buffalo Bill, shrewd American (hat he is, declares that he has a great objection to talking about himself and a great Liorror of self-advertisement, but he has been so hand- somely treated in England that he cannot re- fuse the request! 1t is not inorder however, to Inquire too curlously into the cause of all this commotion. The Kuglish craze for Buffalo Bill 1s no more fidiotic than the Anglo-maniac craze in this country, and it i3 hardly gracious to lampoon the English women for running after Red Shirt when we remember how the American women ran after Oscar Wilds To-Morrow's F Rt T, Tardette, My dreams. Like ships that went to sea, _And got becalmed in sunnier climes, No wore returned, are lost to me, Faint echoes of those hopeful time And 1 have learned with doubt opni ‘There are no birds in next year's nest, The seed is sown in balmy spring, The summwer's sun to vivify, With his warm kisses ripening To golden harvest by and by, caught by dra ught, like all the rest— cre are no birds in next year's nest. The stock T bought at eighty-nine Broke down at once to twenty eight; Some squatters jumped my silver mine, ly own convéntion smashed my slato; No more in futures L'l invest— There are no birds in next year's nest, THE CH1 © Dear Bob I owe you a letter, And have, for the last ten days, But I've been fooling among the girls, And watching their lirting ways. Iam all broke up on a fair one Who they say’s of “uncertain age,” And my infernal nfonkey-shines Suggest “tool” instead of *sage.” Did you ever have the weakness And think you were treading air And make the girl real angry By praising her false hair? Well, ola fellow, if you didn't, You ought to take one whirl, Ou a quiet moon light evening With a black-eyed, protty girl, It ail at first seems funny, But you soon get over that As you look down in the loveliness Of a fourteen dollar hat. r, ou must always remember Things are not just whattheyseem,’” And one ot these little darlings Can eat two quarts of cream. Tue Bald-Kuobbers have been fined $100 each. What they need 13 a hair restorer. Tire New York Sun says “we begin to be governed 100 much.” Yes, butthink what a married man in Utah s obliged to endure. Tury have found the “hidden treasure’ mines in Missouri. This shows the reward of keeping an eye on coon-tracks and follow- ing them up. ALLEN G. Tuunsay, the Ohio warrior, announces that he would not accept the nom- ination for governor, There i3 occasionally a democratic curlosity. ‘TiE question now being debated in fashion circles is, *Why does Sara Barnhardt never wear corsets?” Might as well wonder why Paul Vanderbum doesn’t wear a bustle. Tue Louisville races will be on new in a day or two. The grand stand will contain thousands of colonels, who will wink at the pretey girls just beyond the barb wire fence. FaTuer McGLYNN recently expressed a wish to see the pope promenade Broadway with a stovepipe hat and an umbrella. If he wants to see a pleture of that kind let him look at Buffalo Bill's chief Red Shirt as he promenades in Rezent park with the royal fawily. Mns. JAMES BROWN POTIER IS now be- g severely criticised by Mme, Modjeska, Wwho usserts that . James B, P. will de- grade the stage instead of elevating it It is o be regretted that such a plan of advertis- ing is necessary. WuEN the excursion train of Presbyterian divines en route to Lincoln yesterday reached Askland, the white stakes that marked additions to the Capital City became sonumerous that a number of the clergy alighted from the train and viewed the town under the impression that they had reached their destination. Ittook all the eloquence of the conductor on the incoming regular traln to convince these strangers that they had failed entirely to see the interual city. Now THAT Judge Appleget has carried off the judicial persiminon in the First district, they say that Captain Humphrey is ve very mad. Why he should be mad is que tion that at once perplexes. iad he been ap- pointed, he could never have been elected. Joe Goudy 1s stil on top in I'awnee county, and Judge Davis, who, it is ciaimed wrote the letters which laid Humptrey out, will be a candidate for United States senate. While hecan’tbe judge, the gallant Captain can continue to write his original poems, but after being so unmercifully set upon he should never attempt to recite them in publie. A SAN FRANCISCO heiress was seized with an idea that sue would like to becomea widow—one of those gay, charming and at- tractive widows, which poets paint and art- ists emulate. Accordingly her physician was called upon, and the gushiug maiden who yearned for widow’s weeds implored him to find lher some young man who was dying—whose lanip of life would flicker out within three months' time. The wedding was arranged and cousammated. In her brief twilight dreams she imazined herselt on the grave of her one-lunged Mover, strew- {ng pansy blossoms and shedding gobs of tears, But alas, for all human plans. The groom has grown fat and healthy, and swears by all the fabled goas of war that he loves his wife, and will cling to her, come what may. The mind pictures of the tickle heiress are for sale at a sacritice, —— Syndersville (Ga.) Herald: Chunoy Mohair. & colored woman living on Mr, K. J. N. Walden's pluce near town, died on l-'rldnf' last, who is sail to have retiched the age of 115 years. She cawe to that plantation with the hands of Richardson, from near Savannah, who purchased the place during the war. The old woman was very infirm, but until quite lately able to be up generally, This is an instance of longevity rurely equaled in any country. MAY 20, 1887.—~TWELVE PAGES, Governor Thay: nd Omaha. State Journal. The attacks made upon Governor Thayer by the Omaha papers, the publican, Herald and World, in connece- tion with the appointment of thoe police commission and the appointee of that commission for police captain, oan well be deseribed by Tallyrand’s character- ization of the execution of the Due de Enghein as “Worse than a Crime—a Blunder."” 1t will always be a blunder in a state inhabited by a law-abiding people to at- tack a state official for a careful discharze of his duties, becausoe of the intcrest of sun persons adverse to correct ad- ministration. It 18 beyend question that the governor made an excellent seiection of the gentlemen that now compose the police commission of Omaha. They are old residents, they are business men and not politicians, they ure law and grder men who have no interest in suloons and gambling houses, and the governor was thoroughly quaimted with them and i tion. Accompanying the appointment, the governor wrote an open letter to the commission, éxplaining what he con- sidered was the vroper construction of use of the charter that provided anpointments should not be parti san in their character, assuming the re- sponsibilities that had for the first t in the history of the state been impi upon the executive and giving s views of the duties and responsivility of the board in taking charge of the police or- ganization of the city. The law makes the governor wiolly responsible for the character _and conduct of the commis- sioners. They are subject to removal by him for *‘misconduct in oflice” which is a very broad defimition, and was intended to be broad by the committee that framed that instrument to secure a better ad- ministration of the laws and ordinances in Omalh Without attacking the character of the appointments the three new hers men- tioned opened out « bitter and unscemly attack on the governor for writing this gencral letter to the commission. allege that it was an unwarrantable uilal I “non-resident’’ and_ alleged ti that was required of the executive was to appoint the commissioners and thereafter let Omaha run her own business. In view of the law thatall these editors had endorsed when it was before the legisluture this attack wasas impertinent ax it was indecent. if the eity wants to “run its own business” exclusively, did 1t with singular unamimity ash the legislature to give the police power wholly into the charge of the governor? Evidently it did not want the privilege of running itsown aflairs” or it would not have bothered the governor of this re- spousibilitv. The governor was doing nothing but his plain duty in the premises when he assumed the responsibility that had been thrust upon him. He is & man used to public business and isn’t afraid and never has been afraid to do what- ever the law expects him to do when he assumes an oflice. When the commission had selected a man as chief of the force of the cit assault on the governor was renews the abuse redoubled, simply becaus man appointed wasn’t the candic these editors individually favored, and he was again accused of meddling with business that did not concern him. Now it is pretty evident to the Jour- nal that the course of the governor has heen very gratifying to the taxpayers and business men of Omaha, and that itis merely the kick of the ward politicians that has been delivered by these papers. That being the case the peopleof tho state will have no difliculty in making up their minds that_the governor has done {Ilal about the rightthing. The ob- ject of the charter was to knock out the ward poli men of the the me! cians and give the business ty & chance to be heard in orgunization of the city govern- nent. Nothing conld be more fatal to the claims of these editors to_be considered the organs of public opinion in the state than these ill considered and impertinent attacks on the governor. He will be backed by the nclhl public opinion of the state if the police commission succeed, as 1t scems likely to, in giving Omaha a decent and effective police force that will enforce the laws and bring the criminal that now seems to be generally on top, to justice, or drive it out of the mum- cipality. ———— Let Speech be Free. New York Advertiscr, The right of free speech ison trial in several places at once just now in this country, notably at Morristown, in New Jersey, where the trial is a legal one, a man having been summoned to court on a charge of blasphemy, and notably also at Springficld, in Tennessee, where the trial is an illegal one, and an attempt was made last night to apply dynamite me: ures in order to prevent free expression of opinion on the part of pcople who be- lieve inaud do all they can to turther the prohibition of the liquor business. While the Rev. T. J. Duncan was deliv- ering a prohibition lecture in a Spring- field church an explosion shook the building, and examination showed that an attempt had been made to wreck in and, if not to kill, then to intimidate the speaker and the audience and so give them such a lesson as they would not be likely soon to forget. Not long ago 1t one of the western states—Wisconsin, we believe—the Rev. Mr. Haadock was mur- dered for a similar.offense by paid agents of the saloons, and shortly afterward an- other prohibitionist lecturer met the fate in Michigan. It woulll be possible to muitiply in- stances of similar outrages, but four will serve our purpose as well a5 400. Three of these attempts to suppress free speech are absolutely and unquahtiedly indefen- sibl2 and in the remaining one, which is now going on under the forms of law at Morristown, the prosecution is, to suy the least, ill advised, since it would have been better for all moral rea- sons—und the ground of the whole matter is really a moral one--to pass by with contempt a flippant fool who seeks notoriety through ap ridicule of what decent men hold to be at least respectable. Such trials defeat their own ohject;1f the prosecu- tion succeeds in them and the law is carried into effect, the men on trial may fairly cnough pose as martyrs and thus g, with the help of the state, the noto- viety they desire, and if ‘the trials fail'or nominal penalties are exucted.the law itse'f and the courts are made ridie- ulous, while only the puritans groan with interior satisfuction. This 1s all the whole affair amounts to, and a puritan’s is a poor exchange for common nse offended olent attempts to suppress free h are outrages against the very basic principles upon which our whole system of government is founded. The methods of the saloons are the methods ch i only another name b KNOWSs no stob or stay ment of its will, and which, ¢, selzes upon the most sivage weapons that eivilizat fashioned to its hand to undermin blow up the whole fabric of civil and law. By adopting the meas the saloons are taking the surest means to raise against them u public sentiment, the end of which can be but disastrous to the saloons themselves. They are al ready responsible for moroa evil than their complete obli ion ¢ould atone for, and it might eusily be taat tyranny on the part of the state should be the auswer to anarchistic methods on the part of the saloons. If they know whay is good for them they will bring all their encrgivs to bear on thedetection an pringing to justice of villaing who uro now as commonly identified with them in public estimation as Spics is with Most (NP —— Mr. Hoar on the Lobby. But these questions of etiquette areinfl. nitely trivial and frivplous, when great public interests are at stake. 1 doubt f 1 should exnggerate if 1 were to say tl this is one of the most important eveniy in our legisl ot the 1 time, the f; ally report. { 1, that a large sum of mo: ten tmes wl ed for necessary and legitimate ‘-\l-cuso for t purpose, hus been raised by the moters of a piece of special legislation 1) be nsed in securing its passage, raisc! too, even before the organization of the legislature, o that the agencies it shoul|l employ shonld be bronght to bear on th election of oflicers und the selection ot committees. It is proper that for such « purpose witnesses should attend and paid, statisties be collected, counsel em ployed to make an argument, and do. ments printed. Whatever is more than this cometh of evil. It is not suggest L that any member of the legislature | been corrupted, ar is even capable of co ruption. You were therefore free to miclo a precedent for all future time, without Appearing to impute wrong to_any por son in the public serviee, Itis smd that such things happened before, and have been done on both sides of the pr. ent case. They have never been dis closed to the public before, 1f this thing is becoming a practice, so much the more isita grave danger, and demands tha most serious consideration and the most heroie remedy. The plan of having a class of parliamentary council, according to the practice i England, whose nanics are recorded, who are subject to ruleand pline und control, like those in thy v courts, will be of advantage. But s it scems to me, will be so cfli- wn inflexible rule adopted by tio uch methods are 3 | or private legis. lation, that legisl all not be ha Thave no doubt public and morals grow better from age to ng in an age of wealth we are exposed dangers and_temptations which brings with it. To the congress which has just ended, the governor and each houso of the legislature of the third state in the union presented their memorial charging that the choice of a senator by th just preceding legislature was eflect by & wholesalo purchase; and John Sher- man, the other senator, declared in hiy place that the charge was belieyed by a large majority of the people of that state, without distinction of party. You know how busy the courts of the chief city of the union have been kept by the trial of the members of her city goycrnment. You know the reports that come to us from empl the capitals of other states. Is it not something, in these days, in which every citizen of \ achusetts may take a just pride, that the smell of fire has not come near her stainless robe? Since the first court of assistants met at Charle stown in 1630, to the time when James Otis pub- lished his vindication of the house of representatives of Massachusetts Bay, prefixing the motto: “Let such, such only, tread this sacred floor, who dare ta lové their country and be poor,’”” down to this hour, the honor of that great #s- sembly has been unstained, and its legis- lation has been pure and clean. The men who sit today in those scats, w here worthier and better men never sat, will forgive the anxiety of their fellow citi- zens lest, in their own conscious rectituds they may pernnt practices to spring up or o continue which her successors will have reason to regret, I am, truly and and faithfully yours. ). ¥, HoAr. WORCESTER, May 11, 1857, el e i New York's Future. National Republican: New York city aspires to and probably will become the commercial metropolis of the world, and, a8 a means to that end, it has now under consideration the following pro- jects: (1) A steam railroad (surface or elevated) along the water front on both rivers for the handy and economic move- ment of merchandise to and from the wharves, connecting with the trunk rail- road depo d also, where vractical, with the large and now rapidly multiply- ing public and private warehouses in the great commercial and manu- tacturing districts; (2) another freight railroad on the Brooklyn river front, likewise to facilitate the transfer of goods to and from ware- houses and vessels there, 80 a8 to super- sede the present slow and costly service of the truckmen; (3) a tunnel from or about Corlears Hook, sav to the foot of Grand street, \\'illllmuburr, providing the n Yy connections in order to unify the railroad s{utcm oa both sides of the river; (4) the Hudson river subma- rine tunnel, to cnable the great trunk roads which have their present termini at Jersey City,Hoboken and Weehawken cess to the territory of Man- tan and direct, and thus save the cost, loss of time and inconvenience incident to and i able from the present ferry system, especially in the winter scason, when navigation 18 impeded by ice; (5)a scries of ware- houses on the Jersey shore, from Cum- munipaw to Herfil-n Puint, to connect there either by a bridge or a tunnel with the Staten Island system, thus providing unlimited storage and warchouse facili- ties for wany miles along the Jersey shore; (6) a tunuel under the narrows to provide the Staten Island railroads con- nection with the Long Island system, and thus complete a grand circuit of termi- nal facilities which wouid in all proba- bility be ample for all the commercial requirements of the port for centuries to eome. i General Butler on the Inter-State Law I believe the law is right in principle, [ cannot sce how a law which requires cqual service for equal compensation can work ultimate injustice. Of course the railroads are doing all in their power to make the measurc unpopular, but the commission can stop that. The groat mistake that congress made was in put- ting the law into operation on the dute the commission entered oflice, instead of giving the board six months to prepare a bractical sehedule of rules in interpreta- tion of t nill. As at is, the railroads have construcd the law to suit them- selves, and the commission has not had an opportunity to formulate a code. It may be thut sote changes in the law will be found necessary, but I think the com- mission will find it possible nnder the present bill to enforce the intent of cor- gress in pussing it The railroads have unanimotisly comphed with the iong and ul provisions, not by reducing rutes, but by raising long- baul charges to the maximum level, Now, I think it is within the power of the commission to compel the roads to estublish & much lower level of charges, s was intended by the supporters of the bill, by reducing the shorthaul rates a great deal and raising the long haul rates in much smaller proportion. The effect of the law in cutting ofl pusses has already b g . cen good Over $7,000 ina I Near Barryville, N man named William Smulling, wio fo many years had lived a hermit's life in lonely shanty on the bunks of the D ware river, was found dead by the rc side & day or two ago. He had no rela. tives or intimates, in fact had shunned intercourse with his fellows, and wus supposed to be iiserably poor. On searching the little shaunty in which he liad lived for many years in apparent squalor and poverty, over $2,000 in gold, silver and bank notes were found, with bo;nh and mortgages excouding $5,000 in value, it's Shanty Y., an eccentr