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

4 THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. b x Months 0 ‘or Throe Monthe addross, One Year. ATA OPPICR, NO. 914 AND 918 FARNAM STREFY. W VORK OFPICK, ROOM 6, TRINUNE BUILDING. ASHINGTON OFFICE, NO. 513 FOURTEENTH STRAET. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION | (Morniag Edition) including Bund: CORRESPONDENCR: Al communientions relating to news and edi- torial matter should bo addressed 1o the Evi- FOR OF THE BRR. BUSINESS LETTERS: AT brisiness lotters and romittancos should bs addrossed to Tis BEe PUBLISRING OMANA. Drafts, checks and postoffice %0 bo tmade payable to the order of the eompany, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER, Eprron. THE DAILY BEE Bworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebraska, s Collnfh f Douzlas. 2 - Geo. B. Taschuck, secretary of The Beo Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual circulation of the Daily Bee for the week ending June 3, 1857, was as follows: Batorday, May 23. Bunday, May 20, Monday, May 30. . Tuesday, May Wednesday, June ‘Thuraday, June 2 Friday,June 3. #th day of June, 1887, N, P, Feir, [SEAL.] Notary Public. Geo. B. Tzschuck, belng first duly sworn, deposes and says that he Is secretary of ‘The Bes Publishing company, that the actunl or for _June. 1 12.208 for July, 188, 12814 ' copies; 1896, 12,464 copies: for Septem- 3,080 coples; for October, 1556, ovember, 19,04 cember, 189, 13,337 copies; ‘for 16,268 coples; for February, 187, 14,198 coples: for March. 1857, 14,400 coples: for Aril, 1897, 14,310 copies; for May, 7, 14,227 coples, GEo. B. Tzscnuck. Subseribed and ] to before me this 4th d? of June A. I A SEAL.| N. P, Frir, Notary Public. average daily circulation of the Dally Bee the month™ of copies; for A ber, 1 19,080 Uontents of the Sunday Bee. Pnffll. New York Herald Cablegrams— ?‘eu nls to the Bre.—General Telegraphic | Nows. <@ 2. Telearaphlc News.—City News.— Miscellany. | Page 3. * Special Advertisements, Page 4. ditorials,.—Political Polnts.— 1 Sunday Chip Basket. | Paged. Lincoln Nows.—Advertisements, 1 I‘TBO. Council Bluffs News.—Miscellany. !_fi eI 11| OMAbA ~Qénatal had @ 7. Society in Omaha.—General an Local Markets. Page 8. General City News.—Local Ad- | vertisements. | "Page 9, Costumes for Summer Wear, by Clara Belle.—Honoring its Loyal Dead, by 81 Sepel,—Mr. Dummel’s Adventure, by I‘:co . Reed.—SIngularities,—Advertise- ents. Page 10. Spanish American Pictures, Part I, h’ Grace Deave Hunt.—The Fun’::" Fel- ws' Forum.—An Old Time Showman ‘Gone.—Some of Big Bill Rice’s Work.—Ad- wvertisements. \ _Page 1L The Achlevements of Women.— {Hooey for the Ladies,—[mpleties.—Bill Nye and Gould.—Advertisements. Py 3. The Electrical World.—Religious. j=—tiome Hinta to Husbands.—Connubialitiea. —Musical and Drawatic.—Educational.—Ad- vertisements, E—— EVERY patron of the public schools is expected to do his duty to-morrow by woting for the non-partisan school board. E——————— REMEMBER that the election of mem- bers of the new board of education takes place to-morrow. Donot let it go by de- fault, THE man who votes a straight party ticket for members of the board of educa- tion 18 either a political bigot or a sap- headed chump. —— TrE women of Omaba who have child- ren in the public schools should not fail to exercise their privilege of voting for members of the board of education to- morrow. —— It is highly gratifying to see among Beavey's opponents 8o many prominent men who have suddenly become moral wzeformers. After all, the appointmeut of Seavey has done some good in the community. TaEre was a decrease in the New York bank reserves during the past week, but they are still considerably in excesd of the legal requirements and the supply of money at the country’s financial cen- ter is sufficient for all the logitimate de- mands. e——— SERrIOUs trouble is threatened when the owners of the Maxwell land grant begin therr ojectment suits. The settlers are exhibiting s determined spirit of resist- ance, and they are numerous enough to make a very intoresting row. PAavr. VANDERBUM who spent three months last winter at Lincoln as mana- @er of a railroad oil room, is on deck again 28 one of the chief buglars for the straight republican school board. At the ate city election Pavl was a mugwump sulking in his tent. emm—— UMARA 18 keoping up with the proces- slon 1 the way of improvements. The mumerous substantial business buildings that are being errected in the center of the city together with the thousands of dwollings in the residence portion show that Omaha 15 having a solid and healthy growth, Ep————— ‘Tue divorce between the publio school managoment and the partisan patronage brokers, which was decreed by the new #ohool law, can never bocome effective until the school board is emancipated from all obligations to the bummer and hoodium elements which usually con- trol caucussos and conventions. ————— SECRETARY BAYARD is quoted a8 say- fog that the reports regarding terms upon which Canada will sottle the fish- erins dispute are mere speculations, Propositions have been made on both sides, but no settiement has been arrived st and doubtless none cver will be so Jong as Mr. Bayard has anytning to say in the controve! SEeepees——— De. SAVILLE has again ventured bofore the publie. ‘This time he is & cundidate forthe board of education on the republi- can ticket. The lasttime Dr. Saville was in public life he was an Indian agent with a very bad record. If we remow- ber correctly Mr. Saville was dismissed as agent of the Red Cloud Sioux reser- wation, on charges of swindling the In- diaus and robbing the government. A man who has betrayed a public trust once - I8 not a fit person to manage our public sohoois. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUN JUNE 6. 1887, ~TWELVE PAGES. ‘The School Board Election. In response to the popular demand for reform in school elections the late legis- lature passed a law which is to be carried into practical operation through the elec- tion of a new board of education. That election will take place to-morrow. It devolves upon our reputable citizens to approve the new departure to vitalize the reform by the election of a non-par- tisan board of education. The move- ment for divorcing tne public schools of Omaha from partisan mfluence has cul- minated in the nomination of a ticket which the BEE can heartily commend to the support of every man and woman de- siring to place our public school manage- ment in safe and competent hands. These candidates are not the product of packed political ward caucuses, but the choce of respectable and reputable citizens assembled in open meeting, with only one object in view—the selection of candidates worthy of the great trust which deyolves upon the managers of our publie schools. T'he persistent and desperate opposition with which this non-partisan movement has met at every stage was by no means unexpected, Every vital reform, social or political, has had to overcome re- sistance from partisans, bigots and bour- Lons of every species. The usage which has prevailed in Omaha to di- vide the school board patronage among political spoilsmen as a reward for their activity in nominating and elect- ing members has become a source of great demoralization, if not absolute cor- ruption. There isa general feeling among the teachers that their advancement de- pends more upon political backing than upon merit. Whether this common be- lief is founded on fact or not, itis preju- dicial to the efticiency of the public schools, and a positive bar to the eleva- tion of the standard of education in the rchools. The BEE has earnestly and sincerely labored to give practical effect to the re- form which the lawmakers have provided for Omanha in requiring separate elections of school officers, and locating the poll- ing places in the school houses and giving mothers the privilege of saying who shall have control over the instruct- ors of their children as well as the methods of instruction. It now remains for the men and women of Omaha who desire with us to see the schools divorced from all political influences to voice their sentiment through the ballot box. A Great Medical Congress. The couvention of American physicians in session at Washington calls to mind that the present year will be one of ex- ceptional interest to medical men, from the fact that during its progression there will be a number of great gatherings of physicians and surgeons both - in the United Statos and in Europe. The ecen- ter of this intorest will be the United States, by reason of the fact that the in- ternational congress of medicine will hold its session in this country,meeting at Washington on the first Monday in Sep- tember and holding one week. This will be the ninth of these congresses in the world’s history, the seventh and mos t notable thus far having been held in Lon- don in 1881, and the eighth in Copen- hagen in 1884. At the latter Berlin and Paris vied with each other in efforts to be designated as the place for holding the congress of 1887, but the state of feeling between the Ger- mans and the French practically precluded the choiceof either city, and when Surgeon General John B. Hamul- ton, of the United States marine hospital service, and other prominent Americans, who had been designated as a committes by the American Modical Association in session at New Orleans to mako the ofter invited the congress to meet at Washing- ton, the proposal was assented to almost unanimously. The magnitude ot this congress is shown in the fact that therc will be sev- eral thousand delegates in attendanco, and to avoid overcrowding as well as to allow of the presentation of many valu- able papers, the congress, after the intro- ductory meetings, will be divided into sections, each with its special chairman and secrotary. There will be fifteen of these sections, and their chairmen have already been designated. The occasion will call together nearly all of the most ominent medical men 1n this country and & host of those equally distinguished in Europe. The English government has instructed the surgeon general of the army and navy to attend officially; France and the French academy of medicine have appointed distinguished delogates; the king of Bel- Rium has selected the famous Dr. Leo- pold Servia as the Belgian representa- tive, and the khedive of Egypt has nomi- nated the celebrated J. 8. Grant Bey, of Cairo, as his deloegate. An appropriation of $10,000 was made by congress for the use of the assembly and the expenses in excess of this amount will be defrayed from the fees of those in attendance. Any regular physician can become a member of the International Medical congress upon the payment of $10, which also entitles lum to receive the four octavo volumes containing a verbatim rescript of all the transactions of the cur- rent congress. The term ‘‘regular phy- sicians” is held to include all phy- sicians 1m good standing who ob- serve the general code of medical ethics, whether they be styled allopath. ists, hommpathists or eclectics. Physi- cians who advertise as specialists or tha compounde; of what are generally known as “‘patent” medicines are not in- ctuded. English, French and German are the official languages of the congress, and in these tongues the proceedings willbe conducted and the transactions transeribed. 1t is confidently asserted that the con- gress, the first of its kind on this side of the Atlantic, will be the most notable gathering of medical and surgical celeb- rities ever known. Its coming here 18 to be regarded as a very distinguished com- pliment to the medical profession of the United States, and the good effects upon the profession here will uudoubtedly be very great. Medical sclence in all its branches has been making steady prog- ress in tho United States, and it is doubtless a mistake to assume, as is commonly done, that the pro- fession here is still very far behind that of Europe in any respect. We be- lieve there are men in this country as profoundly learned in medicine, as skill- ful in surgery, and as thoroughly equiped ia all respects in the knowledge of the “'healing art,"” as the best that any other country can produce. But there is still very much to be lewrned, and in the interchange of thought and exper- ience which this congress of emi- nent practitioners from all the nations wiil atford there must be great benefit to the medical profession universally. The Nation's Historic Name. At the recent session of the American Historical and Economic association, in Boston, Profassor Moses Coit Tyler pre- sented a paper on *“The Historic Name of Our Country,'* which was at once in- teresting and instructive, He said that to many thoughtful people the technical and oflical designation of our coumtry— “‘United States of America’--is unsat- isfactory. They object to 1t, to begin with, because it is not a word, but a phrase; mot a single sound like France, Italy, Germany, England, but a mere ag- glomeration of words, a political formula, atonce awkward and utterly void and dry of ail that is picturesque and lovable. It is & designation from which we have o means of deseribing ourselves but by circumlocution. Then, too, that part of the phrase which is composed of the word ‘‘America” is ob- jected to as the monument of an injustice to Columbus. Furthermore, the word ““America,” it is said, doos not dis- tinguish our country, since it 18 equally applicable to the whole hemisphere. Finally, the words “‘United States” do not correot the indefiniteness, there being several other “Unmited States in this hemisphere. These objections have been felt ever since we became a nation, and many at- tempts bave been made, with more or less seriousness, to induce the people of this country to agree to adopt and use some one name as the exclusive and permanent sign of our national identity. Thus dur- ing the past one hundred years at least nine words have been brought forward for this purpose—Columbia, Allegania, Avpalachia, Washington, Vesperia, Free- land, Fredonia, Gabotia and Vinland, These attempts have, of course, failed, for the simple reason that a name by which a country and a people are known in the world is always a growth, and can never be manufactured to order. From this it follows that whenever the name of any nation has become matter of generi- cal usage among men, that name has be- come historic and has passed beyond the reach of criticism on whatever score, whether that of original injustice or of original indefinitences, or of lack of euphony, or what not. The question therefore is, has our country such a name. Some considerations will show that it has such—the single word Amer- ica; not North America or South Amer- iea, but just America, and this by a usage which begam 250 years ago and has stead- ily been growing ever sinco. The word “America,” said Professor Lyler, has been in existence just 880 years, and during that time it has passed through at least four distinct stages of meaning. Its first meaning, and apparently the only one - tended for it, was as the name of a sup- posed Asiatic locality—namely, that vast portion of the nowly discovered lands including what is now called Brazit and the country to the south of it. Appar- ently there was no intention thatthe word shou'd cover the central regions first seen by Columbus, or the northcrn regions lirst seen by Cabot. The second stage of the meaning began to appear after about thirty-four years, and was the extension of the word over the en- tire western continent. The third mean- ing was such a modification of this as came from the recognition of the two great bulks of land in the new world as forming two continents, and to be dis- tinguished as North and South America. In this way the word America has less and less been used asa separate conti- nental term, and was left comparatively free to be appropriated as it began to be during the first half of the seventeenti century, as the distinguishing name of the English portion of the northern con- tinent. = This leads up to the fourth meaning, a8 the collective name for the English colonies here 1n the seventeenth centuory, and adhering to them as they become grouped into thirteen colonies, and growing with them as they passed through their several constitutional forms as united colonies, as confederated states, and finally as states united into one na- tion. The progress of the usage is trace- able in colonial charters, state papers, parliamentary papers, colonial declara- tions, pamphlets and private correspond- ence down to the present--all going to oestablish the proposition that the word America is the historic name of our country, quite as much so in the usage of other peoples as of ourselves. A Movement for Stage Reform. Properly directed efforts to improve the stage are always to be commended, even though at the same time we must feel a degree of hopelessness regarding them. The stage is a very considerable influ- ence, and it ought to be made and kept as wholesome as possible. The war against an immoral stage, however, is a very old conflict, and bids fair to go on for some time to come, with ample cause forit. We do not believe the stage of to- day is any worse than it was when Addi- son and others inveighed against it, if so bad, but there is undoubtedly abundant room for improvement. We observe that Cincinnati, which has developed some in- torest 1n art in the past, has now started a movement for reforming the stage which is to bo entirely a labor of love, none of the projectors expecting any fi- nancial return from it. A num- ber of persons more or less prominent in that city have organ- ized “The American co-operative dramatic association,”” with the object of maintaining a company of capable aotors to present plays,-both serious and comic, that are meritorious and free from objectionable characteristics, in the hope of establishing the fact that there is or may be developed a public that will sus- tain such a drama, and which it will pay theatrical managers to cater to. The present condition of the stage is not un- justly arraigned in the following terms: During the last two decades there has been s marked degeneration of the American stage, on which morbid plctures of fast life in Paris, in which the demi-monde figure in the leading role, have largely supplanted those of American English domestic 1ife with its higher aims; on which mere sen- sation, devoid of literary or moral excellence, has crowded out graphic portrayals of real life, and on which comedy has dwindled into farce, and farce inco mere butfoonery, until both are well nigh absolutely divorceda from common sense. This shows a keen perception of exist- ing defccts, and it also suggests that the association has & wore tuan herculean task before it 1f it remove these defects, ever, that it doed crusade, but simpl example from which fho world shall learn that at least onfp stage can be maintained free from fall the offensive conditions that are above deseribed. It is to be hoped the demonstration will ba successfully made, but expericnce and some knowledge of the yverage popular taste with respect to the drama suggest a mispving. However, the experiment will be watched with considerable in- terest both by those wha are concerncd for the reform of the stage, if reform be practicable, and those who think it quite zood enough or as zood as it can be with tinancial profit. One other interesting feature of this movement is that 1t will open ancw field for American drams who have the ability to make play: or.ce sensibde and decent. The assoeis tion have now on hand and accepted two plays of home production, “Our Ameri can Cranks” and ““The Soul of Honor;” the former expected to be uproariously funny but clean, and the latter a high comedy dealing with American life. —— CONGRESSMAN Pavsow, the author of the act of congress of Murch 8, 1887, re- lating to alien land holding, construes the law as preventing the sale to aliens of the capital stock of a mining company whose mining property is in @®erritory of the United States. A party who was endeavoring to negotiate in England the sale of stock in a mine located in New Mexico was confronted by the law, and replied that it did not prohibit purchas- ing capital stock. He thereafter sub- mitted to Mr. Payson the question whether the law intended to or whether it should prevent the sale to English parties of tho capital stock of a mining company whose mining property isin a territory of the United States, es- pecially when, before the passage of the act alluded to, the company had been al- ready organized under the laws of the stute of Texas where 1t maintained its principal oftice, and also that when the became a law the parties in London were “‘about to purchase.”” In reply Mr, Paysonsays the law was in- tended to preyent the acquisition of real property in the territories by aliens, and he thinks covers the case presented, the fact that the London parties were about to purchase when the act becomes a law making no difterence. This opinion is of course not conclusive, but it will possess very groat interest for mining corpora- tions having designs on alien capitalists. Tue late William A. Wheeler was at the time of his nomination to the vice presidency in 1876 one of the strongest men in the country in..popular esteem and confidence. He had made a credita- ble record in congress, and his course as a member ot the committee of congress that went to New Orleans in 1874, to ar- range the conflict growing out of the Louisiana election of that year, com- mended him as a juficious andsafe man, whom his party could not afford to neglect. The issu¢ was compromised, without disadvantage ta,the republicans, as events bave since shown, and the credit of this resuls; was largely given and due to the fairand gonservative po- sition of Wheeler. I greatly advanced him 1n popular regard, and made him really a party leader. As vice president, he presided over the senate with uniform impartiality, increasing the respect he had won for fair and manly qualties, with which partisanship and the exigencies of poli- tics were not permitted to interfere. He was not a brilliant or aggressive man, but judicious und careful, and during his public carcer he performed the duties that fell to him with an ability and a con- scientious purpose that gave him an hon- orable claim to be remembered. E—— usly proposes to We take it, how- ot propose 8 to set an A YEAR ago this Spring Morris Morri- son was a self-nominated independent candidate for the clty council in the Second ward as agaivst Frank Kasper, the regular republican nominee. He was defeated by a round majority. Now Morris Morrison presents himuelf as the republican candidate for the board of education, a position for which he has no qualifications. What does a man of Mr. Morrison'’s stamp want on the school board? What will the public schools gain by the election of a man to the school board who hss for years been prominent as a ward striker and caucus packer. THE hand of death was 'y busy yes- terday. It removed ex o-President Wheeler of New York, and coming nearer home it took away Hon. O. F. Davisof Omaha, Hon. H. B. Nicodemus of Fremont, and Mr. D. Clemons, a prominent citizen of MuCook, while Rev. Mr. Pankow, the Lutheran minister at Norfolk, is at the point of death, —— Tue Burlington company proposes to reduce itsrates between St. Louis and Omaha and Council Bluffs. 1t makes tins move in order to retain its business, and no doubt it will force other roads to follow suit. This is regarded as the turning point in favor of shippers, and a victory for the long and short haul clause of the inter-state law. — WiikN Dr. Saville was Indian agent at Red Clond they used to deliver eighty pound sacks of flour for one hundred pounds and a hundred'head of cattle driven three times around the yards were credited to the meat donttactors as three hundred head. There wds money in an Indian beef contract in those days. — ‘THE Union Pacifi¢’ inyestigation com- mittee hus closed 1ts Boston session, 1t will begin its Omahs stssion June 20. During the two weeKs that it will sit in Umaha it ought to be able to unearth what Charles Francis' Adams would style ‘some very intéresting ancient his- tory." EiGHT months ago Mr. Henry T. Clarke was a prominent candidate for governor, To-day he is a candidate for member of the board of education. The whirlgig of tume brings about some re- markable changes, — WoseN bhave the privilege of voting to-morrow. They should vote for the best man, not the handsomest. Lerit be understood that the csudi- dates on the non-partisan school board ticket stand pledged to support Superin. tendent Juwmes for re-election, Their opponents may do as they please, as they are running at-large on no platform or pledge except that of dividing tl #poils among the ward politicians, AN attempt to swindle Sunset Cox yes- terday proved a failure. That is why he laughs. Tue SUNDAY BEE to-day is, as usual, an interesting issue. INTS. The Cincinnatl Times-Star predicts a solid Ohio delegation for Sherman. The Henry W. Grady boom for the vice presidency appears to be dwindling. Governor McEnery of Louisiana will be a dandidate for renomination next year. A contemporary remarks that the older the world grows the deeper it gets into poli- tes. Congressman Long, of Massachusetts, is booming Tom Reed, of Maiue, for the vice- vresidency. New York Mail and Express: T'he republi- can party seems to be gotting rid of & ood many barnacles, Ex-Secretary Chandler will be a candidate for United States scnator before the New Hampshire state legislature. Globe-Democrat: Fora man who Is sup- posed to be frigid in his nature, John Sher- man makes a very torrid speech. Henry B. Payne, of Ohio, 18 lightly re- ferred to by the irreverent paragrahers as “the sardine senator,” because **he Is so deep in oil” Senator-elect Quay, of Pennsylvania, is furthering his presidential boom by telling great tales about his recent fishing exploits in Florida. General Thos, E. Powell is sald tohavea rood chance for the democratic nomination for governor of Ohio, Ie is Congressman Foran’s candidate. Governor-elect Davis of Rhode Island,will goon address a Sunday school convention. It was generally suspected that it was a mis- take to clalin his election as a democratic vietory. Albany Journal: The man who takes po- litical straws on the trains is around already, ‘The Interstate commerce law ought to cover his case in some way. Senator Pugh of Alabamna, takes $100 worth of stock in the opinion that Cleveland will be renominated and re-elected. Colonel Sayre, the quarter-millionaire of Birming- ham, is the patty who differs with him in this opinion. It 13 said that $50,000 has been subscribed by prominent Tennessee democrats for the publication of a straight-out organ at Nash- ville. Senator Harris is reported to boe one of the heaviest stockholders, and Dr. Callender is mentioned as the probable editor. Senator Kenna, of West Virginia, has great resources as a political campaigner. When he starts out on an electioneering tour he carries with him a violin and a photo- graphic outfit. It is said that he has photo- graphed during the last few years at least two-thirds of his rural constituents. Senator Stewart of Nevada, says that in- stead of cutting off the railroad passes of senators and representatives, as has been done by the inter-state commerce law, he ‘would give them all passes and compel each man to travel at least 5,000 miles a year, in order to have them learn something about all parts of the country for which they have to lezislate, e Will Make 'Em Howl. Globe Demacrat. Senator Sherman's speech will have one glorious effect—it will make the democrats howl along the line. — Same Old Gang. Kansas City Timex. When Mr. Cleveland received the St. Louis delegation Monday he turned his head aside and said, wearily, “Ah | the same old gang.” An Insult to Jay Gould. St. Louts Republican. ‘The charga of *‘converting” only $5,000,000 is an insult to Mr. Jay Gould. He is not a man who holds himself capable of petty larceny. e iy There's Life in the O1d Land Yet. New Orlcans Times-] ocrat, ‘The law must fix a responsibility some- where in the management of the Standard il monopoly, and keep on its attacks until it render it unable to injure any one. ————— POLITICAL P A City of Picturesque Ruins, Kansas City Times. Another house tumbled down in St. Louis yesterday, lending additional plcturesque in- terest to the grand old ruins. Excursion- trains run on all roads; round trip one and one-fifth fare. ——— The Giant of Monopolies. Boston Globe, Less than twenty-five years ago the capital stock of the Standard Oll company was $25,000; now it is over $150,000,000, and has a cash dividend of $25,000,000 to pay out every year, to say nothing of the big sinking funds held in reserve. e An Odd Effect of the Inter-State Law. Chicago News. An odd effect of the inter-state commerce law is the resurrection of various dead towns along the Mississippl river. The old steam- boat wharves are being propped up ready for business, and yawning inhabitants are rub- bing thelr eyes and wondering if the days of railroad tratfic since the war have only been a horrible nightmare, — CHIP BASKET *Twas evening on the mount a year ago, And at the cottage porch sat Grover, He was the first man In the land Who lived in wedded clover, ‘The stars looked down and winked a wink, And twinkled in their happy glee, ‘That Grover now a twin star had In shape of sweetest little she, A year has flown—'tis a way years have— And something Grover’s comfort mars— With Dan at Saranae, to fish, He gloomily sits and counts the stars, He counts the plelades group and sighs— And as he earerly scans it over Oneis missing. Hedreamily says *ah, me, "T'is the same with little Stephen Grover.” It I8 said that 300,000 coples of ““She” have been sold in this country. According to this she was sold quite frequently, PATTI has a duplicate i paste,of every dia- mond she owns, and many of the people have duplicates in paste of one or more diamonds which they don’town. Tuk bodies of eighteen women in full dress were found in one spot In the ruins of the Paris theatre. [t Is seldom that wowmen in Parls wear a full dress. A BEN BUTLER club Is being formed. If enthusiastic members would take it and pound the cock-eyed goddess, twould notibe a matter of universal regret. A rory, “The Planting of the Chestnut Tree,” is disrespectfully declined. Nothing will be printed in this colnmn reflecting on the master mind which fills it ‘TrERE secms to be but little attention paid 1o the car stoves these times. A few wonths ago all the papers were demanding that they should go. This painful silence of late sug- gosts subsidy. AN eastern paper says: The state of Mis- sourl lls making an experlment that ought to rejoice tho Peace society, She is going to try to do without militia. Yet the number of colonels will not decrease. Lorp Corry Casrpert's unfortunate marriage has finally broken him up, and he lias taken refuge in the bankruptey court. Generally speaking, when a man is all broke up iu a little love affair, he takes to tho floin’ bowl. A woMAN of Berlin Ont.,recently gave birth 10 her twenty-first child, and both she and the little one aro thriving. And in the face of this statement of facts many woinen complain that they have nothuing to do, and how! for the privilege of voting. 1T was something like a breach of etiquette the othier day, when Lady Churchill asked Red Shirt if he liked London, and the slaughter house fiend replied “gimme two-bits —meraise hell,” And Lady Churchill re- Dlied, *Ah, you poor thing—so like Randy.” —_—— Wandering. Jasper Lec Hunt, Lam mll{ld'rlng to-day ’'mid my dreamland That 'l\tcy has touched with a deified light; ‘Where anthems etarnal are sune by the rills ’l‘lm'bu:-n:.| Ln their gladness from caverns of n And 1 sit gnn hands folded and list to the ny, Wlw(vfid melodies rise, sweet-voiced, unto od ; s trom my palms I fling to the day llow my couch on the emerald soc Iam wand’ring to-day by my idols of hooe, Where worshiptul years their devotions have lain; \vllorul)'fllll.h in {ts gambols on time's sunny slope Has pavsed In its course o'er life’s arid main, And I touch the harp laden with musical 8Ong, And list the sweet notes of rhythmical years As they float like the dream of an angel along, With the light laugh of joy and the silence of tears. 1 am wand’ring to-day amid memory’s groves, Where the myrtle and ivy their coronets hang; Aund I twine a bright garland to long ago oves, And whisper the songs which together we sang. Then I dream of the days In their sun-sheen gold, As they kissed and caressed and toyed with the hours And lingered and wold, And told me thelr story—the dream of the flowe! mboled in meadow and 1am wand’ring to-day mid the meadows of e, Wherthe sky arches blue o'er the young summer’s day; And m;ml-;»(uland free from all burden and strifo My spirits, as light as yon cloud, float away. And I wonder if aught in the life yet to be Canmar the bright dreams that ‘my fancy aswrought, Or sheear the pencil whose pictures to me Are ?lle fairest that hang in the temple of thought. I am wand’ring to-day by the river of time, Where the wusical waves apastme still glide; And [ l!.mus« here to weave this wandering 1 me And cyul it out on time's swelling tide. And I wonder if always the river will flow, Bearing me on with'its uncertain stream; And [ lay down my oars as onward 1 go, Am{i gaze on tho pletures of faney and ream. —— He Should Tarry at Jericho. Nebraska Signal. When S. P. Rounds bought the Omaha Ropublican he engaged Rothacker, of Denver to take charge of the editorial de- partment. Mr. Rothacker in his intro- ductory address to its patrons stated un- qualifiedly that he would do all in his power to heal the breach that then existed in the republican party. Instead of ad- hering to this wise declaration, 1n less than three weeks from that time he was one of the foremost in hurling firebrands whish separated farther and rendered more bitter the contending faction. This was 8 grave mistake, His assault on Rosewater was another. But the climax of his folly was capped by his attack on Governor Thayer ause the governor refused to appoint him on the Omaha police commission. ‘The governor, in making his Flollce ap- pointments, was guided by his usual judgment, and the masses through- out the state approve them and the views he expressed in his letter to the commis- sion as to its duties, are the views of the people. The services of Governor Thayer to the republic and state, in the forum and the field, cannot be blotted out from the memory of Nebraskans by the harsh criticisms_and the vile epithets, born of personal disappointment. The following from the Omaha Re- publican, 18 & sample of Mr. Roth- acker's ravings, and shows how little he knows about the life and charac- ter of the man he attempted to bring | into disfavor, and how far he has di- vu}gud from the lino of public sentiment: The garrulous old granny who has been ucting as governess of Nebraska has been pmhlhnz kll woes about the streets of this city for several days. Finally, fail- ing in ml‘»reuiuz the strect corners, ho has gone into a newspaper. The fact is, that the Republican has supported him several times against its judgment and largely throu ph?’. The ancient lady should go back to Lincoln and stay there, If it were not unchivalric, we might start a lighl that would be unpleasant, The gentleman has olom‘l{ shown a want ot capacity for successfully shaping the policy of a metropolitan mewspaper. His cause indicates the fact that his knowledge of Nebraska politics is very limited and his acquaintance with its public men much less. It might be very properly suggested that he ‘‘tarry at Jericho till bis beard grows."” e A Staggering Blow, Philadeiphia Record. @It has been msinuated in some quarters that the conviction by a Buffalo jury of two members of the Standard Oil com- pany was a miscarriange of justice caused by popular prejudice against the mo- nopoly. The plea has been made that these eminently respectable men could not haye been guilty of so knavish an act as the destruction of an oil factory whereby a great city was imperiled. On this ground :t has heen claimed that the jury was influenced more by a popular sentiment of hatred against the Standard Oil company than by the proofs in the case. It is very hikely, however, that the jurors were much more familiar with the ‘nclu upon which their verdict was made than are the people who so readily be- leve in the virtue of the Standard Ol monopolists. Yet what was this offense when compared with the series of con- spiracies against the public out of which the Standard monopoly was ereated and through which not less than %20,000,000 has been extorted from producers and consumers of oil in unjust and iniquitous diserimination? ‘Ihe bribery of g wretch to burn down the oil factory of a rival who could neither be bought nor bullied into submission was, indeed, a small matter compared with the corruption of state and municipal legisiatures. Yet aforetime notorious malefactors have toyed with lttle villain for did not Robert caire in the midst of his big suceess stoop to small acts of knavery? The fact the Standard 1l company has been given a blow that staggered it. e Lora Lacan, oue of the celebrated “light brigade,” is to be created a field marshal in honor of the queen’s ’ubl!m:. Sir William Armstrong, Sir Geoflrey Hornby and Sir Kdw: Malet, are to be among the new batch of ofticers. will | ECCENTRIC MRS. EMMOI Antics of A Woman Who Secks to 1. Iustrate How Odious Notorlety ls. Boston dispatch in New York Times, May 13: There was a guest at the ar ke r house today that fairly divided at. tention with the dusky visitors from the Sandwich lalands. This guest, who ar. rived about 9 o'clock in the morning, registerad as Mrs, Woltha A Emmons, of Washington, the missing wife of Pro« fessor Emmons and detendant in the ro cent sensational divorce suit. Mrs, Em- mons nearly drove a waiter dist: while eating breakfast. Evi ¥ knows me in - Washington,’” aid, “and pretty soon they will here. I have come to Boston on a'strange mission. [ am going to police headquarters, bo. canse I am afraid emi ios are after mo, They intend injury and 1 must escape. They want to put me in an insane asy- lum, but I shall not let them. My mind is made up, Boston is to be my futuro home, and I shall be protected in it by tho police. I am going on the stage and shall bocome an actress, Don't you think 1 would be a charming one?"” After breakfast Mrs. Emmons went to police headquarters, mado her way into the office of Supcrintendent Small, nnd while that oflicial was busy writing out the details of police for to-night's recep- tion of Queen Kapiolani, w! wpamd ng his ear the appalling words, “'1 am lunatic.”” The Superintendent and Mrs. Emmons straightened up at the same time, and before the oflicial could get his wits together the lady proceeded: 1y name is Mrs. Woltha Ann Emmons. [ have just arrived from Washington and my effects are now in the cab just out. side the front door. I callod,on you for the purvose of leaving my address. In case [ am missing I would like you to make inquiries at the insane asylums and hospitals, for I fear my enemies will try to put me in some institution without letting my friends know what they have done with me.” Mrs. nmons was turned over to a deputy, and at her request was taken to the chief detective's oflice. She was closeted with Chief Hanscomb about an hour, but the object or resultof the intere view is not known. —_— . Steam Yacht's Expenses. New York letter to Chicago Times Standing on the deck of a cumbersome ferry-boat called the Jay Gould, that plies between New York and Hoboken, I watched a magnificent steam yacht as- cend the river—having on board the man for whom the useful ferry-boat as named. This was the Atlanta that Gould uses daily during the season to transport him from his country place at Irvington to New York and return. She is a beautiful craft, fast enough to do- serve her name, although, like the my- thological maiden, she has found her Meilanion, Her master seldom cruises, and more seldom has guests aboard, an yet she costs him_ dear, §6,000 every month. It would be cheaper for Mr. Gould to patronize the railroad. A yacht still more expensive is the Alva, W. K. Vanderbilt's latest acquisition. She hag as yet made only one cruise, that to the Bermudas during the month of March, but Mr. Vanderbilt has planned others more extensive for large parties of his friends, and experts estimatq that he will get off cheaply if her expen- ses do not exceed $10,000 & month. Mr, William Astor seems to have noambition to write checks of extraordinary amount on account of his yacht, the Nourmahal, which 18 less frequently used than any ol the steam-yachts of New Yorkers. Por< haps that because he is not himself an en< thusiastio sailor, oocasionally falling a victim to seasickness and he seldom ap< Iuem at races or regattas. The Nourmaq hal is a famous vessel, however, and ag romllmy with ladies as with men, despita her invidious name. No other yacnt if 80 famous, 80 expensive and so nnjoyu\} as the Namouna, the vride of Jame: jordon Bennett's heart. kor twelvd months in the year he k(‘n[(hs her in com- mussion, and hardly a weck passes when her cabin is not the scene of some lavis entertainments. Entertainments, mor or less lavish, cost money, but how much Mr, Bennett spends in that way will re< main a mystery so far as this letter ig concerned, the only figures at hand be- ing the sum total of actual expenses of the Namouna—$48,000 a year—figurey that make one exclaim a yacht is a8 det as a wife. — - A Mysterious Man, Arcata (Cal.) Union: ‘Trinidad is no( much noted for sensations, though, for town of its size, it may clalm its share of them. It will be remembered that not many years ago one of its oldest citizens returned to his old home in the east, af: ter an absence of more than a quarter of 8 ceutury. Arriving there he found that he had been given up for dead lon ¥ before his retura. He visited hu amily, found his wife had remarried after along period of supposed widowhood, and his children grown ur. He left them as he found them, returning to Trinidad, where he died a few years ago. But the latest mystery is a man wha took up his abode in Trinidad about ona and a half years ago. A gentlemanly appearing man, he took a cabinin tha e of town, where he lived by himsel{ and to himself. He spent most of hig time at home, never permitting any one to enter his cabin upon any pretext what. ever., Heseemed to spend much of hig time in writing, occasionally going to the store to purchase supplics, al- ways presenting a $20 greenback to ba changed. Last fall he left Trinidad and took uK his residence near the beach above the Big Lagoon. There he built a cabin, where he is at present stopping, maintaining the same myaterious life, never going out except for sup- piies, and never ndln".lhl% any ono to his cabin. Who is be? What freak of dazzling romance— what plant ofgyouthful gloom hangs over him? Has he, like acob, stolen a father’s blessing, or is he another Enoch Arden? —_— Smoking Ulubs in Germany. In a city like Berlin, where the cluba- ble spirit is 8o all-pervading as to hava furnished eccentricitics like the ‘‘Verin der Kahlkopfen"” (Baldheaded Union) and the ‘‘Gesangverein Keuchhusten'* (Bronchritic Choral Union), smoking clubs are not liknl{ to be wanting. Theie origin mnst doubtless be referred to the smoking symposium of Fredirch Wils helm L. and his ministers andjgenerals at Potsdam, Common as they are in Prus- sin they appear to bo unknown in the south of Germany. In Berlin are several hundreds of these clubs, Harmless and unobtrusive 1n their objects, the most cu- rious point about them to an ousider is, perhaps,their nomenclature. as purely patriotic as “‘Barbarossa” and *‘Borussia.’ like ‘‘Concordia” and *‘Fidelibus," ex- plain themselves. The *‘Contented Cof- finlids'1s & somewhat gruesome title, denoting, presumably, placid resignation to the inevitable, *“Gunpowder Smoke'’ bespenks martial aspirations. Pipes and their belongings have naturally suggest- ed many club mames—*(iolden pe » “Pipe Bowl,""'Red Tassel,” “‘Gireen Tas sel,” *‘Blue Tassel,” *'Varinas .,” “*Var. inas 1., 1 “Aroma I1.," “Portorico, aud Jagimative For some years the German smoking clubs have ‘held an snnual reichs-smok- ers’ congress, e e A Piute Indian near Camp Ilarney, Ore., came very near paying a visit to the happy hnnting grounds recently. Ha ainted his gums a dark green ecth a deep red, and the paint him. A rugged constitution saved T'he manuseript of Burns' poem, “The Whistle," has recently been purchused for £283 by Lord Roseberry, w