Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 17, 1887, Page 4

] THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERWN OF SUBSORIPTION ¢ Dafly mw#, Edition) Ineluding Bunday eat 3 B, One $10 00 For Bix Months ., . 500 ‘or Throo Monthy i Loaw he Omaha Swnday Bk, malied to any address, One Year. ... 20 ATIA OFPICE, NO. 014 AND §18 FARNAM STREFN Ew VORK OPPICK. Roou 8 TRIAUNK BUILDING, ASHINGTON OFFICE, NO. 513 FOUNTEENTH STREET. CORRESPONDENCEE All communioations relating to news and ed torial mattor should be addressed to the Evl TOK OF THE Brn BUSINESS LETTERS! All business lotters and remittances should be dressed to THE Bre PUBLISHING COMPANY, AMA. Drafts, checks and postoffico orders %0 be made payable to the order of the sompany, THE BEE POBLISHIG COMPANY, PROPRIETGRS, E. ROSEWATER, Epiton. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nabrask: ‘ a8 Connl{ju( Douglas. Geo. B. ‘l'zschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing Sompany: does solemnly swear that the actual circulation of the Dally Bee torl the week ending June 10, 1557, was a8 lows Baturday. June 4..... Sunday, June 5, Monday, June 6, Tuesday, ‘ednesda Thursday, June Friday,June 10.. Average.............. . Geo, 1. 7 Subseribed and sworn to before mo this 11th day of June, 1887, N. P. Frir, [SEAL.] Notary Public. Geo. B. Tzschuck, belng first duly sworn, deposes and says that he I3 secretary of Tha Bee Publishing company, that thie actual average dally circulation of the Dally Bee for the mon of for June. 1585, 122 coples: for July, 153, 12314 copies; for mfis« 1888, 12,464 coples: for Septem: Der, 185, 13,080 copies: for October, 18% 12989 copies; for November, 1580, 13,348 eoples; for December, 158 les; for January, 1887, 16,966 co 1887, 1lm coples: for wm' for Ari , 14,397 coples. Geo. B. TzecHuek. Subaeribed and swnen to before me this 4th “1{5‘1’;’ .Jlulie A, lfi., 1897, » 14,203 14,200 ‘ebruary, 1857, 14,400 7, 14,316 copies; for May, A ruLic office is a Public Trust! S——— TRE next thing will be the surrender to South Carolinia of Fort Sumter, and Forts Jacksan and Saint Philip to Louis:- ana, SE— THE guns captared should now be re- turned to the unfortunate ‘‘volunteer organizations” who lost or surrendered them. Why not? EEE—EE——— Wio mada the ‘‘recommendation” for return of the eaptured flags? Was it drom any one who had expased his life in taking tham? We will bet money it was not, — “Ix discharging the pleasant duty” of serving in California during the eatire war, the adjutant general wus not aware of the dangors involved in capturing those flags, e ———— War ean’t our Fourth of July commit- tee invest a portion of its celebration funds in daylight fireworks such a8 may be soen any clear day duriog the season at Coney Island? How about that Thirteenth street rail- road bridge? Will the Union Paciticever complywith the orders of the counci. and remove those obstructions that h ave blocked that street for years? Toe flags were stolen property — ‘wrongfully taken from some gentlemanly ‘volunteer organizations down south. It 18 for this reason they are to be returned to their rightful owners by the president. E————— War trouble congress with passing an ®ot to rermburse the southern states for cotton and other proverty lost or de- stroyed during the war. Let the presi- dent order the seoratary of the treasury to pay all such olaims out of the treasury surplus. ET——— THE national entomotogist has perhaps done an inestimable service in discaver- ing the habits of the hop louse and how to get rid of him, but just now the aver- age housewife is chielly intorested in learning howto get rid of the prolitic and night-prowhing ciruer leciularius. THE ministers who bave recently so- Journed in Omaha have beatowed high oompliments upon this city and its stir~ xing enterprise through the eastern press, but nearly every compliment is coupled with the romak that the wretchad side- walks in Omaha are a great drawback to the comfort of visitors. ——— A VERY goad evidence of the growth of Omaha's populatien is to be seenin the 1n- ereaso of strect railroad traval. This has been quite marked within the past few months. The imconveniences and dis- comforts incident to this travel have also Increased, owing to the fact that the Krowth of business has not been met by ® commensurate increase of facilities. — DENVER 18 to have a new hotel at a cost of $1,350,000. She doesn’t uced anything of the kind, of course, but as Kansas City Is about lo bulld one costing §1.000,000 Denver can not afford to play second fiddle. Ouwaha has not yet been heard trom, but It iscertain that gnmu see Denver and raise her.—Chicago You are talking to the point. Omaha will not be outdone by any city this side of San Fraucisco. 1t is ouly a matter of time, and a very little time, that she will build a hotel as elegant and commodious as any cosmopolitan city ean hoast. E— ‘Tre stockholders and patrons of the Nebraska Nationa! bank are to be con- gratulated upon the scoession of Hon. Lewis 8. Reod to its active management in the position of fivst vice-president, to ‘which he has recontly been elected. 1If success is the measure of men’s abilities in any voeation, Lewis 8. Reed will take high rank among our ablest and most careful business men. During a twenty years' residence in Omaha, Mr. Reed has acquired a repatation for rare business ability and unbending integrity, which in itself would afford him abund- ant capital in any enterprise. Mr. Reed i3 one of the fow men whose faith in the future of Omaha has never been shaken, and his marked financial success is the reward of his sagacity and confidence. At the desk heretofore occupied by Mr. Henry W. Yates, the president of the Nebraska National, who has retired to loss exacting labor in the directors’ room, Mr. Reed will find a broader ficld for the exercise of bis superior business s bilities. The Retarn of the Flags. In ordering the return to the authori- ties of the statos that were ongaged in ro- bellion the flags taken in battie by the union forces, and which by act of con- gress have been preserved as trophies in the war department at Washington, President Cleveland commutted the gravest inistake of his public career. It was a mistake from the patriotic point of view, a mistake volitically, and a mis- take in being without authority ofaw, 80 far as nppears, and therefore purely arbitrary, It was ono of those mistakes for which it is impossible to find any adequate excuse, palliation or justifica- tion. Its most charitable explanation is found in assuming that it was the result of an impulse, followed with- out any consideration of it significance or possible effects, as Mr. Cleveland in- timated in his letter to-day. It has not been the understood habit of Mr. Cleveland, however, to yleld heedlessly either to his impulses or to advice, and therefore his explana- tion of ‘‘more eareful consideration” will hardly be generally accepted. Until the sweeping condemnation of his act by 850,000 indignant veterans brought him to a state of realization there appeared to be no fair reason to doubt that the action of the president, whether suggested or of his own conceiving, wnas taken deliberately. The proof of this would show that Mr. Cleve- Iand is wanting in several essential quali- ties, without which no man can com- mand the respect and eonfidence of a ma- Jority of the American peaple. The indignant condemnation of this procecding already pronounced and which will be heard i swelling chorus for some time to come, aotwithstanding bis compele backdown, is a natural and warrantable protest against what every loyal man must regard as a wholly un- justifiable surrender of the most sacred evidences of the valor and sacrifices of the soldiers of the union. Itis a kind of sacrilege which every man who fought to overthrow the cause these flags represent will feel bound to resont as he would the defamation of his eourage ar his loyalty, to which these blood-bought trophies beaf unimpeach- able tostimony. It is a derogation of patriotism, a crimination of those who preserved these relies of conquered re- bellion, a wrong to'the memory of the soldiers dead, and an insult to those liv- ing. It hows the head of loyalty to the fect of disloyalty, and rendering back the amblems of treason %o those who still honor them invites a renowal ot homage to the lost cause. It were better to de- atroy these flags—hurn them to ashes and seatter the ashes to the winds—than to thus dispose of them in the manner at first suggested by the president. It is quite conceivable that President Cleveland cannot appreciate the signifi- cance or moral worth of these relics. He was not a soldier, and it is not apparent that he has any sincere sympathy with soldiers. I he hasever concerned himself 1 any way for their welfare the fact has not been discovered, and as to having any sentiment regarding their valor and sacrifices he is not eapable of it. But in 80 grave o matter as this it might have been expected that the promptings of or- dinary diseretion and eommon sense would have dissuaded hm from the course he attempted to follow. A moment’s reflection should have convinced him, as he claims to have been latterly convinced, that the proceeding he ordered would be regarded by the loyal people of the country as the most serious of offenses. Was sueh reflection pre- cluded by his inordinate desire to still further commend himself to the affection and confidence of the coatrolling element of the southern democracy? . If 50, bis reconsideration at once places him in an unenviable sttitude. With re- spect to the president’s authority in this matter action was at once taken in the supremte ocourt of the District of Columbiato testit. Proceedings were also hastily instituted by Genmeral Boynton under instruetions from Governor For- aker, on behalf of the Grand Army of Ohio. A dispatch to a New York paver states that the order of the president was misconstrued by the adjutant general, and that instead of a general surrender of fings it authorized the return of only one flug. ‘Chis, however, is shown by the president’s last lattor to bo false. It is not probable that the secretary of war and the adjutant general would both musinterpret an order that must have beon couched in simpie and explicit terws, and from its very nature would command their closest attention. Unless all reports are badly at fanlt, the president will not be able, even by his retraetion of the order, to avoid his responsibility 1n this matter, or lessen the guavity of this supreme nustake Jof his public carver. e A Decision on Section Four. The inter-state eommerce commission grows wiser with experience. The deci- sion rendered on Wednesday regarding the meanmng of the perplexing fourth section of the intar-state commerce act, unanimmously concurred in by the eom- misaion, will be generally commended. It very greatly simplities the situa- tion by correetly defining, agreea- bly to the obvious intent of the law, the privileges of tho railroads and the hmited duties of the commission. It shows a complete departure from the policy which the commission has hereto- fore pursued, clearly without warrant in the language of the law. For example there will bc no more suspensions of the long and short haul cluuse upon the ap- plication of railroads for relief, It is decided that the roads must judge for themclves in making specinl rates whether they are acting within the requirements of the law, tak- ing the risk of the consequences. If a railroad comipany believes the circum- stances guch as to warrantit in departing from th®eneral rule it may proceed to do so, subject to accounmtability before the commission and ecourts upon a com- plaint made to either tribunal. The commission will take mo aetion in ad- vance, as it certainly has no authority to do so. The rsilroads will act with entire freedom of judgment, but with the liabil- ity of being called on at any time to show Justitication of their action. ‘This position is in aceordance with the view which the BEE has maintained since the commission began its labors. We pointed out when it adopted the policy which it has now abandoned thatit had misinterpreted the intent of the law and mistaken its fonction. 1t 15 sim- ply what it mow only pretends THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, JUNE 17. 1897, to be, a tribunal for determining the legality or illegality of the action of the raiiroads under the law, when such action is properly called in question in the way prescribed by the act. The construction Kiven by the commission to certain fea- tnres and phrases of the law, and the suggestions made for the guidance of the railroads in certain circumstances, are presented with a clearness that leaves no excuse for misinterpretation. There can be no doubt that the autitude now taken by the commission will have an excellent eftect. It certainly simplifies the situa- tion and puts the law on the right basis, and this is chiefly what has been needed. Encouraging Lawlessness. Mr. McShane's editor grace fully ad- mits that he was premature and incor- rect in announcing that the police regu- Iation ordinance vetoed by Mayor Broatch had been passed over his head by a two-third vote of the city council, ‘I'hat eminent expounder of municipal law still 1nsists, however, that the police commission eannot legally exercise its functions, and that Chief of Police Seavey is a mere usurper, because their respec- tive bonds have not been approved by the city council. This is a delusion and » snare. The city charter does not re- quire a bond from membersof the police commission or the chief of police as one of the prerequisite qualifications before entering upon their respective ofhicial duties. The only specific condition pre- cedent that each of these officials shall take and subscribe an oath to faithfully discharge his duties and file the same with the city clerk. The council has the right under the charter to require any city ofticial to give bonds. and to fix the amount of such bonds in each case, but the council can- not pass an ex-post facto or back action ordinance that would affect the valrdity of the police commission or any officer appointed by it, In other words, the council may sup- plement the specific provisions of the charter by ordaining that certain officers who are not expressly required by the charter to give bonds for the faithful discharge of their duties, shall give a bond to ba approved by the council, but they cannot ordain that any official who was legally appointed and installed into an affice befora the passage of such an ordinance shali be suspended until after the eouncil bas seen fit to apprave his offieial bond. Such legislation would be retroactive and hence unconstitutional, In view of the fact that each member of the com- mission and the chief of police have filed their bonds with the council, and thus have complied with the provisions of the new ordinance to the best of thewr ability, all talk about their ofticial action being llegal is mere twaddle. We should not deem it worth while to discuss this sub- joet any further were it not for the de- moralizing effect of the lawless, mislead- ing assertions which certain editars have made with af evident design to encourage insubordination 1n the police force and lawlessness among the dangerous classes who infest this community, RS — It seems to be a question whether the enterprising liquor dealer of Augusta, Maine, who imported his liquors and ex- posed them for sale in the eriginal pack- ages, is so thoroughly protected by na- tional statute that he can carry on a re- tail business regardless of the state law. It appears that similar cases were before the supreme court of the United States as far back as 1847, when it was held that a state could not impose on an importer a license for dealing in goods he had im- ported, since that would be practically the imposition of an increased import duty, and would therefore be unconstitu- tional. But Chief Justice Taney. by whom this view of the gourt was ex- pressed, also said that if any state, 1 the exercise of 1ts police powers, should deem the retail and internal traflic in ardent spirits injurious to its gitizens, he saw nothing in the con- stitution®o provent its regulating or totally prohibiting it. But even if this opinion were overturned the Augusta liquor dealer will find a restriction to re- tail trade in the custom luws. The small- est package of spirits in cask allowed to be brought into this country is fourteen gallons, The least quantity of wines or spirits perwmitted to bv imported in one package is twelve bottles. Each cus- tomer must consequently carry away at least adozen bottles of brandy or fourteen allons of rum or Irsh whisky to come within the provisions of the law. Mean- while, however, the Augusta man is doing business at the old stand, and at last acoounts the ‘“‘original packages” were movingoff with a briskness which showed they met a long amd largely felt waut. SETEE————— AN OTHER vigorous effort will be made to secure fram the next congress the legislation necessary to give Alaska a territorial form of government. It is be. lieved by those who advocate it to be the one thing necessary to give that region a boom, and about the ouly formidable op- position comes from the Alaska Seal compuny, whose monopaly might be in- terfered with by a ehange. There is no longer a doubt that Alaska possesses mineral wealth, and those best informed express the belief t! with encourage- ment from the government it would be the great gold country of the world. There is now on Douglass 1sland whatis said to be the greatest gold mine and the most extensive milling establishment in the world. The soil and climate of south- ern Alaskn are remarkable, considering the latitude, the winters there fre- quently not beiug as eoid,on the average, as here. Thasoil, says one who has made a study of it, is as good as that of Vermont and New Hampshire, and al- though Alaska will never be famous as a grain produeing country, it ean support millions of inhabitants with food. The land is ot cultivated now at all, for the reason that the pople are too busy with the more profitable industrics of mining, fishing and sealing, All provisions are carried up from the states, and very high prices are paid for them. The arguments in favor of giving Alaska a territorial government are certainly substantial, Ep——————— ‘THRRE are some portions of the city very much in need of eflicient aanitary treatment. If the officials charged with this duty will apply themselves with moderate diligence they will tind ample reward for their eflorts in some locali- ties in the northern part of the city. Ex- posed refusc matter germimates the seeds of disease very rapidly at this season, and it must not be permitted to accumulate. The authorities have no duty more important at this time than that of keeping the city clean. ee— UNLESs some gteps are taken by our citizens to retain the rifle range near Belleview we shadl run the risk of losing Fort Omaha and the department head- quarlers. ODDS AND ENDM. Are we to have a yollow fever epidemic?~ that s the Key-Westion. Even Ice seems to requirs a blanket wrapped around it to keep It comfortable in this weather. An art critie, describing a collection of bric-a-brae, says: “On entering the room the visitor's eye will be struck with a porcelain umbrella.” It is said of the poor whites of North Carolina thut when they move allthey have to do Is to pour & dipper of water on the fire and call the dog. A QGeorgia eagle, wholly devoia of fellne, tried to carry off a cat, but the Iatter came up to the scratch, and the eagle was glad to drop the subiject. In a fight between two New Orleans col- ored men, one made effective use of a file as & weapon, but the wounded man got even by filing & complaint. ‘There are said to be 2,000,000 native born Irish in the United States, besides 4,500,000 native Americans of Irish parentage. Green Erin has but 5,000,000 Lrish, about a third of the number at the beginning of the century. It was Augusta J. Evans Wilson who sai “Perish the mlcrocosm in the limnitless ma- crocnsin, and sink the feeble eatthly segre- gate in the boundless, rashing, choral agere- gation”—whatever that may happen to mean, A doctor has given it as his opinion that the swallowing of hot thick soups and the like, “‘excites hyper@mia, which becomes localized and may tead to veinous stasis, with all the subsequent mecrotic changes.” See? A committee of the Connecticut Legisla- ture investigated certain charges againsta member and reported: “While we believe every charge to be true, we don’t want the fact published to the world, and we therefora exonerate him.” ‘Women do not attend funerals in Mexico. It is against the rules of seciety, and the reason is said to be that they ery too much. A wife cannot go to her husband’s funeral, nor can a mother follow her bave to the grave. Ouaof the prettiest customs in Mex- fcois the universal respect which greets a passing funeral. Every man, from the mil- lionaize to the half-clad poor, takes off his hat till the sad train has passed. Well- dressed senoras bow their heads and cross themselves, while (ndian women kneel in prayer. Many of the towns in the great western land are curious and sound strange to old country ears. Here are a foew: A BC, Axle, Accident, Bepfe Hide, Big Bug, Big Fool, Brageadocio, Chicory. Coffee, Cow Boy, Crab Tree, Dammit, Dirt Town, Door Way, Frozen Creek, Good Land, Good Night, Good Luek, Gun Powder, Hat On, Hat Off, High Up, Hobbie, Inglenook, Jineo, Johnoy Cake, Jump Off Joe, Macphelah, Mad Indian, Matrimony, Nine Times, Num- ber One, Obligation, Qur Carter, Oz, Pat's Store, Patta Gumpus, Plevana (several), Quiz Quod, Rabbit Hash, Rat, U Bet (You Bet). S e Vassar'a Bachelors. Watertown Times. Thirty-six Vassar girls have beon made bachelors of arts, A bachelor of arts is maid of wisdom. e ‘Woman's Rights. Philadelyhta Press. For a week past the married women of Pennsylvania have been as free as maids to buy and sell and get gain and make con- tracts and debts indeperdently of their hus- bands, yet the bulwarks ot soclety still stand. The Marrted Woman’s Property act is now a law, and those who have business dealings ‘with married women will guide themselves aecordingly. B Cashicrs In China. St. Pawl Pioncer Press. In China whes a bank cashier defaults and i8 caught, he is walied up and left to starve to death, and every member of his family is beheaded. This arrangement has kept down the thieving easbiers in China to the mini- mum number. It such punishment were procialmed in this country the stealing would go on all the same, because the fel- lows would know that nobody would be walled up or beheaded, and Canada 1s de- lightfully near always. A Consolieg Cut-Off. Gothenburg Independent. ‘The Independent has repeatedly punished Mr. Rothacker, the editor of the Omaha Re- publican, for his rowdy like bebavior in using a slungshot against an unarmed man, who incurred his displeasure; for the rowdy principles which he expressed Lo proclaiming that Mr. Riehardsom of Lonp City, ought to have been killed becanse he is a mugwump; and for his Iying attacks on Governor Thaye er, who was of the seund opinion that a rowdy ought not to be appointed police com- missioner of Omaha. Thae rowdy editor has Dot been able to defend himselt, and seems o consider it a consoltion for his suffering soul to quit exchanging with the Indepen- dent, on whose table the Republican for some time bas not appeared. i the Republican will quit exchaneing with all the papers whose opinion about Rothacker and the Republican agrees with that of the Indepen- dent, the Republican will soon be without exchanges. We hoped that under the new management the itepublican would ocoupy a higher position than it did before. But the reverse has been ——— Sweet Summe! BY HUSAN HAR' Sweet Summer, leaning o’er a rustic fence, With marigolds beneath her freckled chin, How fal ! A pitying Providence H to,™is world of toil and sin. What though the sum that follows thine brown feet i "Too lavish may be with its glowing heat. What dawns thou bringost, bright with scar- et fire, To 'f.ml“ us from' dur downy couch of slee) And lure us on to pleasure where the brier Doth gayly through the breathless thiekets creep, 3 And busy hornets hidé within the bush. And rLllm:.l: snakes coll 'neath the blossom’s u What throbbing stars to peer through the green trees, Wh:hwhcllln. moops to light the per- caves, Where eooing lovers sit fn blissful ease, Awid the dim, moseuifo-haunted leaves. What restful nights misde tuneful by the trill Of festive crickets in the grasses still. What peace of mind, what watermelons cool, ‘What languid sails, what seas of sweet ice cream, hat doctor’s bills, what fishing in a pool When all the tish have vanished like a dream, What sudden waves of tender sentiment. What strange forgetting all you ever meant, Vacation in the woed that rings Tarough thy best days so fairy-like and \0 On, that's the time when to the old world clings kS An ampler ether, a diviner air. A little space it is, while sweet hours whisl, T'o court ad libitum a Summer girl! T s Altogether Tuwo Fresh. Aunn Post, Mr. Rothacker, of the Omahe Republfean, remarks: ‘*The governor shomld wrap bim- self in dignified silence,” to which the Ne- maha Times responds: ““The undignified blatherskito who edits the Republican should utllize the town branch occasionally “between drinks," to soak his head. Governor Thayer is a dignified. kind- hearted old gentleman, who knows his duty and dares to doit. This the people of Ne- braska belleve regardless of the unkind ef- forts of Omaha's latest editorial experiment to besmirch his good name." While we do not uphold the Times In twit- ting on facts by intimating that the Republl- can man needs his head cleaned or that he “bowls up,” we do think Mr, Rothacker alto- ther too fresh for a new comer. Governot hayer {8 too well known In Nebraska as a stalwart and true republiean, and while the disappointment of Mr. Rothacker may be reat, his efforts to belittle Governor Thayer ause, perchance, he could not use him, will avail nothing with the people of the state, and may do the Republican, as a paper, no small amount ot injury. John M. Ihayer is a gentleman, in every sense ot the word,and it Mr. Ruthacker desires to be considered as such, he must curb his temper. - STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings. The bustle of the Salvation army is contined to the drum. Work has commenced on the electric light building in Hastings. The Omaha, Wayne & Yankton rail- road appears to have died Young. A Keith county farmer named Graves is wrestling with death and a rattlesnake ite. Beatrice cavitalists failod to focus on & base bail club. The effort adjourned for a year, Knox county is again torn up with a county seat fight. The election will take place on the 25th. Premium lists are out for the ninth an- nual fair of Colfax county, to be held at Schuyler from September 21 to 23. Aleck McGovock, of Omaha, has pur- chased the Cooper farm of 300 acres in Sarpy county and will run it as a fancy stock ranch. Hastings proposes to send a delegation to the meeting of railroad men in Lin- coln next week to demand Missour river rates if the capital city 18 favored. A fossil strata has been discovered near the surface 1n Kimball, This gives a boost to the growing beliet tnat the old timers were not planted deep enough, Plattsmouth’s stock ot fossils appears to be inexhaustible. The Journal sighs a mighty sigh for a scraper sufliciently guwur(ul to scrape the moss off their acks, The Wahoo Trotting association has filled a number of purses with $1,200 cash, for the first annual meeting to be held on July 4, 5 and 6. The best horse- flesh in Saunders county will shake their outs on those days. Fairmont is moving ahead at a steady F“‘ George Rudisil 1s building & tasty usiness black, and the Masons and Odd Fellows have secured a site for a joint hall. The Fairmont Hotel company, cap- ital $20,000, has secured an_eligible site, and work on their building will com- mence at an early date. These, withtwo school houses, involve an outlay of $50,000. Billy Putt, of Fairmount, mounted on & bob tailed mule, invaded a pasture in which the family bull was browsing peacefully. The picture roused the bull to instant action, and before Mr. Putt could put himself on the safe side of a fenee he was thrown to an_altitude that ave him a brief but thrilling view of the surrotnding country. The mule fol- lowed the rider and both landed violently on the ground. The mule was gored to death and Putt saved by the timely ar- rival of neighbors. lowa Items. The soldiers’ reunion is in progress in Fort Madison. Twenty-six saloons have been nailed up by the courts in Muscatine. There is an old lady in Floyd county who is the mother of eleven union sol- diers. Her pension was recently in- creased from $8 to §12 per month. The dry weather and chintz bugs have nearl; estroyed the barley crobs in Audubon cqunty, and prohibitionists con- sider the circumstances as litlle short of providential. Hon. James Thorin; citizen of Davenport, died at Santa ke, N. M., on Monday. He was formerly member of congress from Iowa when the state had but two members. Samuel H. Jones, one of the ploneers of Burlington, and a man of considerable wealth, died at the Tremont house, Chi- eago, Sunday morning. He was a bach- elor and leaves a fortune of a quarter of & million for ms relatives. Exverts claim thatif the ground wires are connected with wire fences at a short distance, the chances of stock being killed by eclectricity passing over tho fence will be greatly lessened. Many cattle and horses are annually killed in Towa in consequence of standing by wire fonces during thunderstorms. Wyoming. Banker McCaQu‘ of Omuaha, invested $00,000 in a cbunk of land near Cheyenne recently. On authority of the presidemt, Secre- tary Endicott has set apart 1,400 aeres of land embraced within the limits of the Wind River, or Shoshone Indian reserva- tion, as_a mlitary reservation, for the post of Washakie. Mrs. Jeanie llerri'\s on trial in Choy- enne, together with three men, on the charge of murdering Robert Rice near Fort Laramie. This 18 the first instance in the story of the territory that a wo- man was brought to trial for a eapital offense. John F. Carroll, the *“noet cowhoy™ of Laramie plains, bas taken charge of the Cheyenne Leader. In saluting the pub- Lic he snys: “After an abseuce of over two years we again throw open the edi- torial throttle, and with a roaring fire of ambition 1n the furnace resume a career which we sincerely hope will be pleasant and proiitable both to our readers und to ourselves,’ A woman was found riding on afreight west of Laramie reeently, perched just over the counler, and hanging on to the brake-rod. She said she was going to Washington Territory, but had no money; but she had managed to beat her way more comfortably further east. When found she was nearly dead with fatigue and exposure to the ficree storm. A generous cowboy paid her way to Rawlins, and gave her money for food. Colorndo. ‘The Denver Democrat is the latest fac- tor in local polities and patronage. F. P. Riddle, a prominent stockman, residing forty miles from Fort Collins, was kicked to death by a horse recently. Denver is promised a million dollar hotel to be named the Metropole. It will be eight stories high, covering an entire block. A bicycier in Denver frightened a team attached to a sprinkling wagon and started a runaway. The driver, Hugh R. Wilhiams, was thrown from his seat and ground to death. Revorts from Manbattan, the new gold camp in the mountains of Larimer county, thirty-five miles west of Fort Collins, continue to be of the most en- couraging character. ‘The Episcopal council of Colorado, in session in Denver, came to a “dead loek™ in the election of delegates. The tie is ascribed to the ymperfeet canons of Ne- braska, under whieh Colorado is pro- ceeding, providing for voting by orders. ——— Another Break. The heavy rain of fast Monday made a washout on Sherman avenue near Nicho- olas street. A defective sewer seitling the pavement broke down. It is being , & prominent repaired. JAY GOULD'S PRONISING SON. Pen fketoh of a Rising Power in the Finau- ancial World, WEALTH SHORN OF VANITY, The Future Heir of Forty Millions at Work and Play—~Respected for His Abilities, Industry and Modesty. A young man of about twenty-four years of age, five feet ecight inches in height, with a rather swarthy complexion and jet black eyes, says & New York let- ter,enters the great Western Union build- ing every morning about 9 o'clock, goes up to the third story in the elevator, on- ters his private office, throws off his coat and plunges into work. About 4 o'clock he leaves the building,walks down to the Battery and boards a steam yacht, which immediately sails up the Hudson river, bound for Irvington, about twenty miles distant. The young man will one day be one of the great financial powers of this country. It is George G. Gould. son of Jay Gould, whose fame is world-wide. Young Gould during the winter hves in Forty-seventh street, one door below his father's large double brownstone house, on the correr of Fifth avenue and Forty- seventh strect. He and his wife will spend the summer with the elder Gould at Irvington, He is identified with the Western Union telegraph company, the Pacific mail steamship company, the Mauhattan elevated railroad and the Missouri I’m:iflnx Missouri, Kansus & Texas, Texas & Pacilic, St. Louis & Iron Mountain and other Gould roads. Asis well known, he has been married for about a year to a for- mer actress, who made some reputation on the stage as a soubrette. Young Gould 1s n sensible fellow, and this fact was lilustrated by a little incident on the day of lus wedding. Late on the ovent- ful day the fact that he was to be quietly married at his father's mansion in Irving- ton, became known in the ecity, and naturally the city editors, tnose journal- istic generals who command the repor- torial corps, were impressed with the im- portance of the occasion, and they sent their reporters here and there in a fran. tic hunt for the news. Few thought it worth while to go up to lrvington, but one bright young writer for a well known luminary decided that he would draw truth from the fountain head. Ar- riving at_Irvington, the plensant town named after the genial author of the “‘Sketch Book.” he hired a barouche and told the driver to take him up to the residence of Mr. Gould, several miles distant. They had E‘)na hardly more than s mile when the driver, nodding in the direction of an approaching equipage guy with jugling silver trappings and spirited horses, driven hi' a liveried coashman with & pompous little footman by his side, said: ‘*Shure, here comos Mr. Gould now, sor.” *‘Wheel around,” said the reperter, ‘‘and don’t let him beat you in getting back to the depot.” ‘The reportorial turnont was not one which a person would be proud to show in Central park. The horses were angu- lar in their appearance and seemed like embodied reminiscences of the seven years’ famine in Egypt. But if they seemed to lack speed, appearances were deceptive, for um{ won the_race to the depot by several lengths. Young Gould, as it proved, had just been married and on his wedding trip. When and saw the reporter he looked rather surprised and a little sheep- ish. Such aflairs are always unpleasant to newspaper men of ability and charac- ter, whatever may be the opinions of fat- witted snobs on the subject, and the young Writer in question of course had no wish to intrude upon a hlppg bride- groom, though he had known him for several years. He hoped that there might be some opportanity of securing & few particulars of the event on the train going dow New York from Mr. Gould himself, and thus avoid mistak that would tend to make the whole affair ridiculous. But the future millionaire having secured his tickets eame over to the newspaper man, shook hands pleas- antly, and in response to a few inquiries, and knowing he was talking to as thorough a gentleman as himself, gave a modost account of an affair in which the public were so much interested and which the mewspapers were thereforo compelled to notice, and it is of interest to add that the young millionaire after- ward sent a lotter uf thanks to the n: puper writer for the good taste in which his acconnt of the event was written, ‘The future heir to forty millions bad what some of the wealthy cads and enobs of this amnd other parts of the country would not have bad, namely, the good sense to recognize the fact that bis father’s prominence made the public interested 1n the son, and that & correct and modest uceount of the af- fair was better than the mistake or ex- aggerations that inight result from a re- fusal to set the newspapers right. *Make it modest,” was his ouly remark. This remurk was characteristic. Thero is nothing of the vain, pretentious snob about him. Many an idle young follow, heir to poasibly a fifueth” part of this young man's fortune, struts about with an insolent air, affects the English stare, and generally makes himself ridio- ulous, but George Gould is liked for his quiet, modest manners and respected for his abilities and industry. He is a gradu- ate of Cornell university and a member of the Uniou and Manbattan clubs. He relieves his father of mueh of the routine work of the various (iould interests. Mrs. George Gould is a patroness of several well known churities and the young couple in time will doubtless become promment in society. FORCE OF HABIT, Effect was startinj he alightec Its on Responsibility Human Action. Philadelphia Record: It is a nice ques- tion how much the force of habit dulls the edge of responsibility for human ac- tion. The first time a thinF is done there 1s a definito objeet and a definite choice in_the doing, unless it be ucei- dental. The next t.me, the choice hay- ing been preyious deterwined, there is less thought about it; and still less the next time, until the movement as to both the body and the mind becomes largely mechanical. When a path is continual trodden our feet learn the way so thut we go over it gafely and sure in the dark without the guide of the eyes, Uufortu- nately, the habit of doing wrong things as well a8 right tlxmgsfruw@ casier with every performance. The lirst cigarette sickens the simoker, the first debauch dis- gusts the debauchee; the first theft wor- ries the con ence of the embezzler; the i with it the reproach of But the habit smoothes For » rie Iturpituel all. Indulgenee overcomes repug- nce w1l the smoker must have his cigar and the toper his eup. The thief stenls till justice overtakes mm, and the liar lies until he is almost duped into believ- ing himself by the facility of his inven- tion, GROWTH OF GOOD HABITS. Good habits grow upon the constant doer of good actions with perhaps more Justy readiness than bad ones, for the reason that they are backed by an ntr proving conscience. Wrong must be cultivated until the conscience i subdued. while virtue is said to be its own reward. So.frugality, politetess, honesty, charity and cleanliness become imbedded in our natures by long custom, *‘for,"" ag Shake spearo has profoundly observed. ‘- use cnn almost change the stamyp of nature. A SHIFTING STANDARD. The mmportance of first impressions upon the winds of young people and of early training and association have been the theme of teachers and moralists from Train a childin the way he should go and ne will not depart from it. There is no doubt our way in the world is very largely shaped by the circumstances” that ~ hedge us around; but there is a curlous incon. sequence and arrationality about things that are sometimos done from torce of habit that are seldom taken into account in judging of the moral or phy- sical results nccomplished. For instanco, when one mr- his ‘mucilage brush into his ink-stand, how far 14 he accountable for n disaster which he did not intend to bring on? Yet poople with (ull-rrowu and robust habits are forever dipping mucilage brushes into ink-bottles—for- ever unconsciously thrusting nto unac- customed places incongruous thoughts and unconsidered actions. if the wron:- doer must be judged by the quality of the thing done, and not by the incitement or the moral purpose of Lis action, how 18 it with the Nicodemuses who have always lived up to the letter of the law. If habi- tual wickedness be no palliation for of- fense, does not habitual righteousness lessen the praiseworthiness of good deeds? 1f constant blood-letting make it eamer for a butcher to kill » man, does not constant benevolence make it less commendable for a giver to give? If the wrong be done with less compunction in the one case tho charity 18 ren dered with the less hesitation in the other, i CREATURES OF HABIT, Our habits, moral and physical, pethaps runon, and in our children take the shape and name heredity. It is a well sottled belief that there is ‘as much in the blood of humans as i the blood of horses or dogs. A Buffalo newspaper declares that the buttons that are still worn on the back of men's coats are there because ages sgo they were put there to sustain the sword belt, and a Rochester editor insists that dogs always turn round and round before they lie down because the original dogs in that way beat down a comfortable place in the original grass, which, according to Genesis, was made before the dogs were. 1t would be well to bring to the consideration of the faults and foibles, as well as the misdeeds, of mankind a fittlo of the eareful generaliza- tion by which it is sought to account for unnecesaary buttons and the premonitory movements of sleepy doge. We are crea- tures of habit. the beginning. vities, Dr. A. 8. Billings wishes to announce to his friends and “patrons that after a vacation of three mouths ho is now m his office again prepared to do all kinds of dental work. ‘The regular servicos at the synagogue will take place at the usual hour to- night. The concert for the benefit of the He- brew cemetery undor the auapices of tho Hebrew women's sewing society, on next Wednesday evening at the Casino, will be one of the tinest things of the season. ——— * La! Girl bas bad gfedod ity gmmer e b 10 vag ads, always keep HAGKN'S NAGNOLIA BALW." s sald Cora P, to her_compantons thi come bounding In from o romp over'the MACNOLIA BALM Q Pliable 8kin. A A Ligutd, apid'ta"s i i ouinens. " o ybmonn nacet Ditesw and al B! HAY FEVER. All sufferers frcm Hay Fover who o Smoke Ball and **Debaéllator” agesix weaks prior to Augustlst, 1887, aud havo the first symptoms of the diseado appeas after that date, we will REFUND THE Ilg B Last summer thi was by many sullerers, aud gave satiafaction in every case. “Carbolic Smoke" gives immediate rellef in Catarch, Asthma, lironchial and Thront Aflec tions, Huoadacke, Croup, Colds, Lung Disoases. ft h our Debol to cure every case. o parlors. 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