Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 19, 1887, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY. oUNs 19, 1887.~TWELVE PAGES Bweet Sixteen. ‘Tue Darey 8er made its advent N Omaha sixteen years ago to-day. It was issued as a tree distribution dodger, from a dingy old job office without the wusuai high-sounding proapectus full of great promiges coupled with the assarance that it had been destined to fill a “long-felt want.” Nobody wanted it in those days, not even its editor and publisher, who did not dream that he had planted the germ of one of the great dailies of America. To tell the whys and where- fores that impelled him to attempt this entervrise would make a rather long story which we must defer for another time. Suffice it to say that no other paper in Ameriea sixteen years old can point back to a more active and success- ful eareer, covering a period in the history of Omaha and the state that will ever be memorable for its fierce and bitter political strifes, marvel- ous industrial development and unpar- alled growth. It goes without saying that the BE® has been a very important factor in every political conflict fought in Nebraska since 1971, and has never failed to encourage every project and entoer- prise that has contributed to the material welfare of Nebraska and made Omaha the chief commercial center in the upper Miseouri valley. Having made no fulsome promises at its birth, the BEE is not disposed now to give a blanket mortgage on the future. Its destiny is bound up and linked for- ever with that of the city and state in which it has lived and flourished. What- ever befalls them must also affect it in DAILY BEE. BLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERVE OF SUBSORTPTION ! (Morniag Edition) including Sunday ’ e‘m o ~d $10 00 .80 LR 4 AND 918 FARNAM STRERT. oM 15, TRIAUNE BUILDING, 0. 513 FOURTRENTI STREET. ARA OFPICE, NoO, w YORK OFFICE, ASHINGTON OFFICE, CORRRSPONDENCE: All eommunications rolating to nows and edi- torial matter should bo addressed to the Kol WOR OF THE DRR. PUSTNESS LETTRERS! All business letters and romittances shoild ba @ddressod to THE BRe PUBLISHING COMPANY, OManA. Drafts, checks and postofice ordors %0 be made psyuble to tho order of the compuny, TH% BEE PUBLISHING CONPANY, PROPRIETORS. 2, Eprton. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Ulirculation. ite of Nebraska, }. . L‘uum{o Jouzlas. Geo. B. ‘T'zschuck, secretary of The Beo Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual eircuiation of the Daily Bee otl the week ending June 10, 1587, was as ows ¢ Baturday, June 4. unday, Jun. londay, June 6. esday, June 7 ‘edhesday, June irsday, June 9. iday,June 10.. Average........... % 0. B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 11th day of June, 1887, N. P. Frir, [SEAL.) Notary Pubiie. the years to come. “Gea. B sehug ¥. {»Lnr‘ first 1u|y !:vqun. ————— poses d says thal e I3 secretary of 'he Beo Publishing company, that the actual e tUE FENE average daily circulation of the Daily Bee The ingenious and designing efforts of for 2,208 the m(m'lh of for June. 1586, 1 the local press at the state capital to ar- copies; for July, 12,314 copies % i ( i . for August, 188, 10,404 coples. for Septem ray the state ng.mnstn Dmaha. in (Im'c(m ber, 183, 13,030 coples; for October, 1836, | troversy over railroad rates, are not likely 12,080 copies; for November, 1586, 13,48 | to enlist popular sympathy. The assur- eoypies; for December, 1886, 13,237 Jll\llnr{ 1887, 16,206 cople: 1887, 14,198 coples: for March. 1837, ance that the fight Lincoln is making against the “outrageous oppressions and exactions of the railroads’ is the fight of the state against Omaha is decidedly gauzy. The ‘‘outrageous oppressions and exactions” which Lincoln complains of consist chiefly in the fact that the rail- roads decline to concede to Lin- 14,400 eopies: for April, 1887, 14,316 copies; for May, 8, 1,291 copies, or ) Gro. B. TZSCRAUCK. Suhseribed and sworn to before me this 4th day of June A. D,, 1857, [C) | N. P. Frirn, Notary Public. Cont ts of the Sunday Bee. Pagel. Now York Herald Cablegrams— | €0l the same rate to and Bpecins to the Ber.—General Telegraphic | from Chicago and St. Louis which are accorded to shippers at Omaha and other points on the Missouri river. It is not a question of exorbitant charges, but a demand for unjust discrimination in favor of the Lincoln jobber as against the merchants who are compelled to com- pete with him on unequal terms west of Lincoln. In other words this is purely a local fight on the part of Lincoln in which the balance of the state has not the remotest Pa:e 2. Telezraphic News.—City News.— Miscellany. Page 3. " Special Advertisements, Pave 4. Editorials.—Political _Points.— Personalities.—Local.—The Chip Basket. Paze 3. Lincoln News Locals.—Adver- M. Counell Blufts Nows.—Miscoll "age 6, Councll Bluffs News.—Miscellany, =Advertisements, ¥ (ieneral and Local Markets.—-Ad- vertisements, Page 8, General City Pago 9, Soclety in Omaha—Tender Mem- News.—Adver- tisements. %s o{ M;exl(:')‘, ll‘{'e finm; 'llns.n. H-:I:..'.— interest. Omaha has suffered more from paring for the Keview, by F. S. Heal ‘‘oppressive exactions' at the hands 'l;:f:n':o' ,?;’.':“,.;.,’."' Bnhai‘.]:l—':'!“e?i-lfl‘.fl of railroads than Lincoln, but Women.—Honey for the Ladies.—Musical she makes no pretense of fighting the and Dramatic.—Adyertisements, L D >, t battles of the whole state as against a Pace 11 Hymen’s Hitching Srrap.—Con- bialities. aneatoma et sisti | common enemy, and does not designate ':fii:‘i’bm :xu‘l‘ml-lvt‘l’:.w mpali\-».—l‘ev- as that enemy one of the great cities of per —Ad men Yage 12. The Electrical World, —Doan | the stato. The people of the state at zh.—Bird Notes.—Kor Sweet Charity’s | large are interested fully as much in the e, by Clara Belle.—A Story of the Past. growth of the metropolis as they are in that of the Capital city. Omaha pays Wiiere was Humphrey Monyihan | one-tenth of the entire state tax, which When Seavey went out? goes a good way toward maintalping the T R T state institutions at Lincol? naha's Mg. BUAINE is in London leoking with | marveloas growth Lus done more luterest upon Buttalo Bill's boom, to advertiss Nebraska abroad than all other agencies combined. She Ir Seavy had not resigned yesterday. the story would have been circulated to- day that he was the original old man Bender. Tur New York World’s balloon, which grounded in a small Illinois town yester- day, may be regarded, to all intents and purposes, as a fizzle. has become a great financial centre, from which every city and village in the state draws more or less capital for local investment and enterprise, and she has with her own resources established great packing-houses and stock-yards, which afford a profitable and constant home market for the cattte-raiser and farmer. Within less than five years this market will absorb the greater part of the eattle produet, not only of Nebraska and Wy- oming, but of western Iowa and southern Dakota. The attempt to array the whole state against Omaha, under any pretext, is su- premely selfish, short-sighted and abor- tive. Whatever cripples Omaha cripples Nebraska. A man may cnut off his nose to spite his face, but the operation would not improve his digestion.® IN St. Loms to-daythe Sunduy law [oes into effect, but whether it will prove sffective is a question agitating the minds M the citizens of the spectral town. E——— ‘Tne report that dynamite is to be used furing the queen’s jubilee, should cause Jhe czar of all the Russins to telegraph his congratulations to the queen. Tne adumbrant form of Sarah Bern- h:dt is by this time across the Atlantio. son Maurice will doubtless write a book on what he knows about America. — Ruobe IsLAND will experiment with hibitton, while the local officials will called upon to experiment with those drink the exhilerating elixirs con- ry to law, eE—— Tue Boston Advertiser writes a column m favor of maintaining the political Etiel. Few object to such a plan, but The Board and the Schools. It will soon be the duty of the board of education to choose a superintendent of the schools, elect teachers, prescribe whatever new regulations the expanding system may require, and provide for needed reforms. We take it that every member of the board is duly sensible of the responsibility that attaches to this duty, and that their action will be guided by what to their hest judgment appears to be for the highest interest and welfare of the public schools. Omaha has much to be proud of in connection with her school system. We have no doubtit will compare favorably in character and results with that of most other cities of the country, or at least of the west. But it is not without faults and defects, some of which are quite serious, and which maintenance of some politicians has m looked upon as euicidal, Tur. legislature of California recently mmacted a law making adulteration of wine a misdemeanor. Unfortunately, Culifornia wines are generally adulterated watside of the wine cellars and outside of being capable of remedy, gen- e state. erally with lttle dimcuhy: ought CEE————— ANOTHER train robbery is reported from fo ‘be ~ promptly and thorosghly removed. Moreover, education is pro- gressive, and we must not be entirely content with things as they have been or a8 they are until it has been demonstrated that they cannot be improved upon. All over the country there is a tendency to leave some of the old ruts that have been 8o long followed in this most vital matter of public education, and to partially re- model the structure, so as to put it more nearly in consonance with the newer ideas of what is necessary to be taught n the schools of the people. We shall not here even suggest the several direc- tions of this movement, but it is the duty of enlightened educators and those hav- ing charge of the interests of popular education here to acquaint themsclves with this tendency and its directions, and to consider and determine how far it may be desirable and practical to follow them. There are several practical considera- tions relating to discipline and ef- ficiency in the conduct of the schools which may properly be suggested. First among these in importance is the neces- sity of clothing the superintendent with the full responsibility in the manage- ment of the schools, in determining the qualifications of teachers, and for the ef- ficiency of those subordinate to him. In no other way is it possible to secure and maintain discipline and the thorough at- tention of all to their respective duties. A divided responsibility, giving warrant for a feeling that recourse may be taken at any time, for whatever reasoy, toa hi gher authority, must be destructive of that prompt and willing obedience which is essential to harmony, the orderly pur- suit of duty, and .complete efliciency. Yexas. When Colonel James left Mis- wsouri, on account of its bad society, he said he proposed to embark in an enter- prise in Texas. He is evidently proving 2o dead-head. — ‘TaE trial of the father of boodlers, Mr. Jacob Sharp, appears to be progressing slowly. The distinguished gentleman 'wrill pass this bright Sabbath day in the Ladlow street jail—the same place where Boss Tweed died. L ] Cimcaao experienced fourteen fires in ome day —supposed to be caused by the excessive hoat from thesun. This recalls the idea of Ignatius Donaelly to the ef- flect that the great Chicago fire of '71 'was caused by the tail of a comet. —— Now that Seavey has stepped down and out we expect to see the great ex- pounders of the charter, who eclaimed that Seavey was only personating chief of police, take off their hats and bow to Mecbouald, who holds his commission - and gets his title to the oflice from the " #ame authority. It makes a great aiffer- _#noe how you expound the law. Tue Missouri legislature is certainly Dot regarded as a thing of beauty or a oy torever. The Bald Knobbers, who es- ‘@aped conviction by the Christian county d jury have served notice upon the > ring statesmon, at Jefterson City, Shat unless they adjourn by June 25, 3 w“y of Bal Knobbers will ) war and disband them in the There must be confidence in the judg- ment and integrity of the superin- tendent, and no man unworthy of such contidence should hold the po- sition. It has been a complaint of the present superintendent, whose qualiications are unquestionable, and whose single purpose we believe to be the advancement of the schools in every practical way, that his efforts to this end have been frequently thwarted by the in- terposition of the board, with results generally unsatisfactory and disadvanta- geous. Such a policy must in the nature of things be inimical to the welfare of the schools. Letthe superintendent be given full responsibility in the line of his duty, and hold him to a strict accountability for the faithful and judicious discharge of that daty. If more is required of him than one man 1n such a position can rea- sonably be expected to do, give him an assistant, keeping the entire responsi- bility, however, with the head. There 15 reason to believe that some weeding out will have to be done. There are teachers who havo outlived their use- fulness as such, and there are others who are hardly up o the standard that shoald be required. With regard to the former it would be much better in the long run to pension them than to continue them n seryice, while with respect to the latter they may properly be given an op- portunity to better fit themselves for the duties of teachers, if they desire to con- tinue 1n that vocation. Obviously the schools must not bo made an asylum for the disabled or a nursery for incapables. Young blood and well-trained brains are essential to the best results in our schools and to their continued welfare and pro- gress. We have no doubt that a more rigid and careful examination of candi- dates for teachers should be required. The law 1s not defective with re- gard to this matter, but its requirements are believed to be loosely complied with, The importance of re- form in this respect,if t ult snggested exists, will not be questioned. Threre are other considerations that might be sng- gested, but we have indicated those of most vital importance and commend them to the careful attention of the mem- bers of the b California’s Whent Crop. The harvesting of the California wheat crop this year is already begun in the earlier districts. While the winter’s rains were not as plentiful as expecte ot the yield from the great valleys promises to be very large, far in advance of what the most sanguine predicted in March and Avpril. While the papers of the coast are now indulging in wholesale advertising for their pecularly favored sectioas, one of them is honest enough to say, regard- ing thoir wheat crop that itwill fall short of what might have been expected on general principles from a total rain- fall of nineteen inches at this central point, wihich represents pretty closely the average of the state. or the smaller proportional one in any of the interior valleys, if as evenly distributed as usual would have sufficed for a large crop, but the very inadequate spring rains coupled with the tropical visitation last month can be farrly expected to lead only to such poor results as are foreshadowed by most of the recent reports. 1t has been onc of the drawbacks of the Golden State to experience almost total failures in different crops, regularly every other year, but it is now claimed that with the increased attention paid to the summoer fallowing and the increased use of irrigation, anything like an extreme failure is now out of the question, even in any part of the southern counties, where a wheat crop is likely to be at- tempted. Of the May estimates on this year's crop, the Chronicle says, ‘‘some high au- thorities still count on a surplus of 1,000,- 000 tons from this year's crop, but this estimate is neither borne out by the press dispatches nor by the published reports of the Produce Exchange, The official deduction from the latter is, in effect, that in the middle and southern countics referred to the crop on the whole will only reach half, while in the northern counties it will about equal that of last year. Now, the closest esti- mate 8o far of last year's crop is that of the Washington department,which places 1t at 36,000,000 bushels. Then, according to local calculations, two-thirds of this quantity must be credited to the middle and southern and one-third to the north- ern counties. It therefore follows that the vroduce exchange estimate is 24,000.000 bushels, which, deducting 10,020,000 bush- els for seed and home consumption,leaves a surplus of 14,000,000 bushels, or 8,400,- 000 centals. This is independent of the 2,000,000 contals to be carried over and the imports from Oregon and Washing- ton territory, which may again reach 1,- 600,000 centals, making in all a grand total of 12,000,000 centals. or 600,000 short tons for export. But it is quite possible that before harvesting is completed some middle point between the two estimates may yet be fixed upon_that will appeal more slmnfilv than either to the final judgment of the trade, Fall of the Coke Syndicate, There has been no recent industrial event of greater general interest, or of more significance as illustrating a prin- ciple, than the downfall of the coke syn- dicate in the Connelisville region of Pennsylvania. Pursuing the course that such monopolistic combinations always do, this syndicate had steadily ad vanced the price of coke, leaving labor in the meanwhile wholly out of consideration, although it had asked to be better paid. When the advance had reached 33 per cent the demand of labor for an increase of wages became imperative, and being refused a strike ensued. A tribunal of arbitration decided against the strikers, as did also the executive board of the Knights of Labor, but the men would not submit. ‘There was a general stoppage of production, a number of furnaces were blown out, and the injury to the iron industry extended to other branches of business. There was every indication two weeks ago that this state of affnirs would be long continued, with steadily increasing damage to the in- terests involved. The strikers, largely composed of foreigners imported by the syndicate, were very firm and resisted all efforts to replace them with other workmen. ‘The man to solve the difficulty was Mr. Andrew Carnegie, and in order to do so he had to array one syndicate against another. Being a member of both the coke and the Bessemer steel syndicates he decided to sacrifice the former to the This quantity, | coke firm with which he 18 1dentified to grant the advance asked by the work- men. It wassimply a choice between .osing money on their coke or eclosing their manufacturing establishments with steel rails at $43 a ton, There was a large falling off in the production of steel rails during the month of May, and the demand was so much in ex- cess of the supply that the deficiency had to be made up from Europe. There 18 a profit in steel certain to overbalance any possible loss on coke, and Mr., Carnegic and lus associate steel manufacturers were too shrewd to close their establish- ments and permit the foreign manufac- turers to get any share of this profit rather than yield a small advance to the coke workers. Hence the coke syndicate was made to surrender to the Bessemer monopol g There perhaps a lesson in this. cir- cumstance for those who contend that the protection policy is the bulwark of labor. It is this policy that enaBled the cable syndieate to advance the price of its product one-third, but if this had not produced the opposition of another pro- tected interest, brought about by the competition of foreign steel manufactu- rers it is more than probable that the coke miners would not have been sue- cessful, or if they finally won, the strug- gle would have been groatly prolonged. Wihen the conflict became one of mono- polies, labor was incidentally benefitted. In this case it was not protection that helped labor, but foreign competition in despite of protection. Honoring the Actors, *Good, my lord, will you see the play=- ers well bestow'd? Do you hear, lot them be well uscd; for these are the ab- stracts and brief clronicles of the time After your death you had better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live. o said Hamlet to old Palo- nius, reflecting the sentiment of Shake speare's time, but in these modern the actor is held in lighter esteem. hat the dramatie profession is not without honor in this practical age, however, found novel illustration in the reception and luncheon given the actors by the lord mayor of London last Wednesda, The event was not only unique, but ex ceedingly interesting alike in what oc- curred and in its sugzestiveness. There were present those who had once 1llumed the stages with the brilliancy of their tal- ents, andj many more who are contrib- uting to 18 worth and glory to-day. It was a gay und merry throng, and we may be sure there was enough of wit and wisdom distilled to make a vol- ume of rare reading. The lord mayor, who was recently made a baronet and has been celebrating the honor, in happy terms told his guests that the luncheon was an acknowledgment of a debt of gratitude, and Mr. Irving, in most graceful speech, showed that he is quite as competent to think for himselt as to interpret the thoughts of others. Perhaps there was no precedent for this affair. We do not remember ever to have read of any other lord mayor doing anythiug at all like it. So much the more credit, thercfore, should he of to-day have for a finer and juster dis- crimination than his predecessors. But actors 1 England have not in the past lacked distinguished favor, ot only of lord mayors and the lesser Jights of no- bility, but of royalty. Garrick was more honored than any actor has been since his day, and that wonderful man was worthy of it all. But John Philip Kem- ble, Edmund Kean, his son Charles Kean, Macready, and a number of others, had entre to the very highest circles of Eng- lish aristocracy. And it is not recorded that any one of them ever abused what then was esteemed the first of earthly privileges. The stage hasits share of the base and the shallow, and unfortu- nately by those it is often judged; but it also has true and noble men and women who are worthy to be honored by any station in life. The lord mayor's en- tertainment of the actors does not make this truth any stronger, but it does pro- claim it. Tue New York boodle aldermen who are sojourning in Montreal, are accord- ing to a correspondent ‘‘thoroughly sick of their prolonged residence there and will be heartily glad whén they can once more return to New York. The useless, idle existence they are leading and the almost total lack of amusement has a dampening effect on their spirits. Day after day they may be seen loating around hotels, smoking cigars, and look- ing listless and dissatistied. None of them have been received inte society. This should be a timely warning to all boodlers. Even after escaping the vin- dictive vengeance of the outraged law, to know that in a foreign country a cold shoulder is turned, 1t is little if any bet- than a prison life. AMONG the varied boasts and claims of Kansas City, the Star says the literary taste of that community ranks far above that of other cities, and offers as its evi- dence the alleged fact that *“Ben Hur, “Les Misorables” and ‘‘Monte Cristo'’ are among the books most frequently n demand at the public library in that city. For just what reason people of Kansas City read Walluace's “Ben Hur" we can- not imagine, unless 'tis for the excellent contrast it furnishes, There are many unreformed Jean Val Jeans there holding up the populace at mights, which doubt- less explains their lovefor ‘‘Les Miser- ables,” and when we remember that the inflated town wants, ghe earth, it at once makes plain their devotion for “Monte Cristo,” whose boas® wia that the world 0 was his. ! — THE Denver Republican says other places 1n Colorado dffer better opportun- ities to young men than fenver. Omaha presents to the yoyng man the same chance and guaranteas the same privi- leges as are enjoyed’ !y older men. EINTS. republican convention will probably be held in Harrisburg August 7. Iowa politicians are guessing at what Gen- eral Weaver will do next. The labor party has dropped him. ‘The Manitoba legislature has passed a bill giving to all females who are property own- ers the right to vote at municipal elections. ‘The Baltimore American says that if the president goes to St. Louis, as rumored, he will swing around the circle of all the west- ern cities. ‘The elaction next August on a prohibition smendment in Texas will be the climax of a campaign more exciting than one for the choice of state officers. latter, aad he thereupon cabled to the | Thereiss disagreement between the re- ~ _hopes, may iuspire her. publican senate and the democratic house of the Rhode Island legislature as to when a constitutional convention should be held. A Boston contemporary propounds the full-faced query, *‘What is economy?’ Feon- omy, thou fair barbaran, is the watchword of the present administration. ‘The entire democratic state administration of Texas Is solidly against the prohibition amendment and it s using its influence to bring about a defeat of the proposition at the August elections, ‘The prohibitionists propose to spend £30,- 000 in this year's campalgn in the state of New York. Added to what the brewers and liquor dealers will contribute, that sum ought to enliven the proceedings apprecia- bly. Gath quotes an ex-cabinet officer as saying: “Bob Lincoln is a great deal more of a man than he gets credit for among politicians, but 1 sincerely believe he is the only man in this country to whom the presidential nomination would come without any satisfaction. 1 believe that he would decline 1t.” — - PERSONALITIES. ‘The duchess of Cumberland is still quite Insane, but her physical condition has im- proved, and she has had many lucld inter- vals. Ladies will be interested in knowing that £33,245 was realized during March ‘at Port Eljzabeth, South Africa, from the sale of 0s- trich feathers. ‘When Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes wants to read one of his poems in public he has it printed in large type in unbound sheets. Boston loves its Holmes. The prineess of Wales has completely sub- dued the great chief and the big braves of the Wild West show. BufTalo Bill yields her, it 13 said, undisguised homage, John Hay says he and six others know who wrote the “Breadwinners,” but that they are pledged not to “give it away.” The book has been a well-kept library sceret, Lady Randolph Churchill intends bringing her husband over to America this year. So the ongdees say: She desire to inoculate Randy with a little republicanism. Mrs. Henry Wood used her ven fluently and profitably, ller estate at the time of her death was valued at $180,000. Her greatest revenue came from “East Lyne.” Mrs, Langtry intends to write oetry when she visits Yosemita valley. The big trees, she Whatever tho Lily will be published on silk, with lace Matthew Arnold says that the hest English is spoken by well-bred Englishwomen. Matthew has never heard a Hoosier girl choppinz up United States with a set of store teeth, Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher will pass the summer with her daughter, at Stamford, Conn. She bears up bravely in the face of her great sorrow, butshe is the widow of a brave man. Miss Anthony, lawyer, of Dublin, the only lady lawyer at the Irish capital, abandoned her suit against the editor of the Irish Times because one of the jury laughed. Uow dif- ferently would our own Susan B. Anthony have acted. She would have marked that juryman. Governor Hill, of New York, is a lover of ood music. He had placed in the executive mansion at Albany a piano valved at $1,500. It is proper to state “here and now” that Governor Hill does not play the piano him- self. e Down-Easter Gittin' a Nobraska Home Written for the Sunday Bee by Lu B. Cake, % A square, hearty hug ye give me wife; You're glad 1'm back it seems, A1’ o amn [, too, I’ve thought bout you, Been seein’ ye in my dreams. T've got our land though, half section, wife, Pre-empsion an’ timber elaim, An’ when 1 prove up six months from now, LIl take a homestead the same. 1. \Whar 'bouts? in Nebraska, course 1t i3, Way out whar folks back here, Thinks nothin’ but Injuns an’ cactus grows, An't rains only once a year, 1 heerd it so long 1 thought so, too, That’s why when you coaxed me 89, 1sez to the neighbors—*Iknow’ts no good, I’ll go to please her, you know.”” . But when I got thar an’ seed the soll, Smooth prairies as rich as cream, The green bottom lands a stretchin’ out, With timber along the stream The cattle an’ sheep, the fields of grain, My head jast begin to buzz, Ilooked—an® I looked—until I gasped— “Waal, what a durn fool 1 wuz!” . Fer miles an’ fer more they ride an’ plow, No stumps, not a stun n sight, Keep goin’ until the furrow’s so long, ‘I'hey never git back till night. ‘The do all she work with machines out thar, One hoss will jest pull more load, Than two kin pull here, fer man an’ beast Life ain’t sech an up-hilt road. Be hardships out thar same’s everywhar, But, Polly, a few rough days. Had better bo stood an’ git a home, Than drudgin’ "roud here always. We'll wear ourselves out where lan ds so high A poor man has got no show: Out thar it is free, and we'll have some, Fer the childreny’ suke you know, ‘They’ll have a chance when they’re grown, out thar, They’ll have but a npoor one here, A slavin’ to live from hand to mouth, As we've done from year to year. One year more an’ Tom kin take a claim, 1 wish every child was twin, We'd spread out the fam’ly over claims Au’ take a whole township in. So gis yourself ready, Polly dear, ‘To pull for the golden West, I've found us a home that’s all our own, ‘The place that I know’s the best, Right out in Nebraska, choice of all, An’ close by a county seat, L've got us two elaims will make us a home ‘That Eden itself can’t beat. el Why Old Maids Prefer Cats. New Haven News. Miss Hitone says she can’t take ‘‘Pugey” to the beach this summer. He barked at the wrong time the other day and spoiled a pro- vosal. e A Master Piece. Beatrice Reyublican, Hon. John M. Thaver is the most polished and cultured gentleman that ever graced the gubernatorial ehair of Nebrasks. His speech to the middle class of the high sehool in this city, last week, was a master piece of elo- quere?. e Just Out of Reach. Tid-Bits. It is now that the childlike, impulsive son of Italy comes round with his big organ at 6 a m. and plays selections from the “MI- kado” under your chamber window for one consecutive hour, R R A Pecrless Prophet. St. Louls Republican. There will still be cakes and ale in spite of blue laws and blue coats to attempt to en- force them. There will likewise be baso ball, brass bands, beer and a number of other things as long as the people waut them, e B oo s The Unwritten Rule. Wayne Gazelte, Hon. Geo. W. E. Dorsey has been giving it dead away to a Chicago interviewer that ex-Senator Van Wyck has the largest follow- ing of any man in Nebraska, and that he may make it uncomfortably warin for Man- derson and Thurston two years hence. e further says that the unwritten rule of only one tefm for senators will probably defeat Manderson even as it did Van Wyck. George W. E. isu't much of a statesman, but he seems © be pretty well posted on Nebraska politics. —_—— How Are the Mighty Fallen, Detroit Journal. A few years ago one of the staunchest erit- les and assailants of the power of railroad corporations was Charles Francis Adams, of Massachusetts. His papers, his utte , were bold and scourging. 1e was fearless in his attacks upon the raseally methods by which railroad wreckers and speculators ac- quired their fortunes. To spike his gzuns he was made president of the Union Pacific road, lle has never fired a shot since. R i, Restore the Plander. Kansas City Star, As land grabbers railroads have shown enormouns capacity. ‘They have not only taken all that legally belonged to them, but have been willing to help themselves to the public’'s possessions. If Land Commis- sioner Sparks is correct, and it is presumed that he speaks from the books, the Burling- ton & Missouri River railroad has received land patents for 200,000 acres more than it was entitled to under the grants toit. This alleged plundering of the public domain calls for restitution. Railroads are public blessings, but they must remember that they cannot honestly take a foot more of land than the law allo el Still Advancing. St. Lowis Globe-Democrat. The boom in real estate throughout the west has lost something of the unprecedented impetus of a month ago, but ithas not by any means reached the point of reaction. There is still a healthy and steady tendency toward higher prices, and the volume of in- vestment continues to be larger than has been known In any previous year. The coun- try has an abundance of surplus money, and real estate offers the best opportunity for its profitable investment. We may, therefore, exypect the boom to be prolonged, particularly in towns and cities which have achieved a legitimate and substantial form of prosperity, S THE CHIP BASKET. WIHEN SHE COM When she comes home agai wayy TOME. ? A thousand I fashion, to myself, the tenderness Of my glad weicomo: 1 shall tremble—yes: And “touch her, as when arst in the old days Imucheld her girlish hand, nor dared up- rais , such was my faint heart’s sweet ess. Tlu-rll silence: And the perfume of her dress; ‘The room will sway a little, and a haze Cloy eyesizht—soul-sight, evén—fora space; And tears—yes: and the ache here in the throat, To know that I so ill deserve the place Her arms make for me: and the sobbing note 1 stay with kissaes, ere the tearful face Agatln is hidden in the old embrace. —James Whitcomb Riley. ‘This, though, is the way a married woman put it up while her husband was away at lodge: WHEN HE COMES HOME, When he comes home against a thousand Ways I fashion to myself, the festive sport ot my mad welcome. I sball drub him, yos; And pall his hair, as In the old days Mam used to wallop pap. ‘Then silence: The perfume of his breath; To him the room will sway a little, and a a haze Cloy his eyesight for a week ortwo If Ibut et a chance to heave at him The old potato masher, To know that he so well deserves 1t all, Fills me with fiendish glee-—and the swag- gering brute T'll pound full black and blue—ere his rum- colored face Acgain is hidden in the old embrace of his two galion jug, ‘Tur pled piper of Hamelin was the first man who was ever justified in erying rats. BeENJAMIN F. BUTLER 15 8 blacksmith in Colton, California, and a fraud in Massa- chusetts. A GroralA legislator proposes to tax cats ten cents per head, and the salvation army caterwaul free! A roEM, “On the Back Poreh My Cat Is Yauling,” is resvectfully dectined;with thead- vice to heave a brick at It. Eprror Gr Ay has a base ball club named after him. Fame comes to men like the cholera morbus iu eticumber time. BAnoN TENNYSON gives gout asa reason for not writing an ode. Maybe if he would quit writing poetry with his feet he could write poetry. Goveryonr Tonnes of Sonora, A.T. has is- sued a proclamation offering a reward of $500 for the head of each hostile Apache, to this date there in the Apache head business. A DESPERADO known as “Dago Joo,” was taken from the officers and lynched by a mob near Austin, Miss., Monday, and yet some veople will tusist that there is nothing in a name. 1IN Garfield eounty, Cal., there are 1,100 un- married men and only twenty-eight unmar- ried women, Here i8 a chance for 1,07 young ladies to improve an opportunity. And it Is said that opportunities are not vlentiful. EpwArp Evererr HALe told the stu- dents of Cornell that the best opportunity of studying human nature was to be had by en- tering the profession of schoolmaster, Ed- ward Everett perhaps never undertook to run for oftice, ‘FuE most plausible theory of the impure milk which has poisoned the York state people would be that the pump handle was broken, The idea that some cows in the neighborhood had hoot rot has no connec- tion with the case. IN the town of Harrison, Wis., last week an old lady was arrested for pasturing her cow in the road and fined $3 and costs. After she had paid up she produced a basket of rotten eggs and proceeded to pelt the man who complained of her. Here is a lesson and a moral earnestly and hopefully offered to the town cow of Nebraska City. Tne following improbable story is going the rounds of the eastern press: It is stated that a young lady in Nebraska, who was sitting on a spring lounge with her lover was struck with “lightning and killed. The lover was unharmed. ‘T'he true story is that two lovers were sit- ting on a lounge, and a hungry dog that was waitingand watching on the front step was struek by lightning and killed, and the lovers were not unarmed, A METEORIC stone weighing at least two tons, recently fell near St. Joseph, Ind.,bury- ing itself tifteen feet in the ground. The most singuiar thing about these meteoric stones is that they never strike a candidate for office or an amateur poet. To drive a poet fifteen feet in the ground and leave two tons of stone on him, all atasingle move, would be an achievement that gods would envy and the eutire populace applaud, OF a former fellow citizen, known as the froe-for-all excursionist, the Chicago News of a recant date says: *“Loyal L. Smith, who Attracted general attention two years ago through his dry goods escapade in Omaha and subsoquent trip to Canada, has been liv- ing in Chicago the past year, boarding at the Palmer house. e was In charge of a bucket- shop. ‘Telegrams trom Philadeiphia yest day announced that Mr. Griesmer, of the firm of Gieger & Griesmer, of that city, had seen Smith in Chicago, and, having an ac- count against him, had sworn out a writ and itis expected that his arrest will follow to-day. Axitem to the effect that a robin has buill a nest in the mouth of one of the IParrott guns that ornament the burial platof the tMoquoketa, Ia., Grand Army post, recalls the story of where, in Washington City, dur ing the darkestdays of the rebellion, when Lincoln and his trusted secretary, Stanton, were closoted one day in a room in the white house, eagerly wondering what the outcome would be, and earnestly discussing the seri- ous question; a drunken artist, for a long ime a privileged character at the wmansion, reeled into the room andsat down by a table, Iie remained in his drunken stupor several minutes, when he suddenly rose, for a moment only, took his pencil and serawled on a plece of paper: +Oh, that some bird from the sunny south Would bnild its nest in the cannon’s mouth And stop it's terrible roar.” KAN3AR CiTy newspapers announce that highwaymen are ‘*‘dangerously numerous” in that city and accordingly there is a crying demand for more police. In one week three citizens were “held up and robbed in one night.”” The Ttmes lashes itself into undua excitement and preseribes a code of ethies to oe followed in case a lank man with a bowle knife and a dark lantern suddenly springs upon a eonsumptive citizen who has nothing on his person except town lot statistics and a clearance record. It says “don’t shoot” In that farseeing and fatherly fashion for which all Kansas City papers are esteemed at homo and abroad, it advises every citizen to arm him- self with a hickory elub and a police whistle, The Times eontinues: The att: might come so sudden thal neither of these could be used, but there are nine cases in which a whistle conld be blown or a blow struck with a cane to one in which a pistol could be drawn and fired. While it may or may not be true that s man who has no musie in his soul will steal, thera are few citizens who would care to play a tune from the old masters on a police whistle, simply to ascertain whether a dis- ciple of Jonathin Wilde who had previously demanded your money or your life had music in his soul. The boldest and badest man who ever robbed a coach or throttled the throat of a lone pilgrim would fall down and weep when he thought of his modera- tion as compared with some of the real es- tate deals recontly consumated in a town where the papers are now denouncing high- waymen and yelling for more police. —_—— NOTES ABOUT OLD FOLKS, Lewis Allen, a veteran of the war of 1812, died at Whalepole,Mass.,June 9, aged ninety. one ye: John Goodrich dled June 4, at Springiield, Mass., aged eighty-tive. He wasa real estate dealer, and highly esteemed. General Baron Ungern Sternberg, owe of the Russian heroes of the Crimeau eampaign, died a few days ago in England,aged eighty- three years. ‘The Hon. Sir Charles Cooper, late chief justice of South Australia, died May 24, at his residence in Pulteney stre Bath, Eng- land, aged ninety-two. A printer up in Canada is said to be 103 ?’um’:« old. e has made so many typograph- tcnl errors during his carcer thathe'is afraid o die. Raloh l)nr, a native of Dover, Mass., dled in Boston, June 4, aged eighty-tive y ears. He was a carpenter, and ereeted, among other buildings in Cambridge, Porter's hotel, fifty- two years ago. Rev. Bela licks, died at Sandwich, Il June6. He was born in Stafford, July 1797, and was prominent in organizing most of the Baptist churches within a radius of twenty miles of that place, Lorenzo Dow Morris, azed eighty-one years, six months and cighteen days, died at his residence In White 1lall, IIl.," Wednes- day. He had been a resident of that county about ““K years, and leaves an estato valued at about $10,000. The Rt. Hon. Admiral Lord Edward Rus- sell, C. B., 1s dead at the age of eighty-two, The deconsed ofticer, who was the son of the sixth duke of Bedford, was a knight of the Legion of Honor, was naval side-de-camp to the queen from 1846 to 1860, and sat as mem- Im; of parliament for Tavistock from 1841 w 1847, Dr. August Pflizmaiel arist, died in Vienna eighty. Dr. Pflzmaier was a very high authority on Chinese and Japanese litera- ture and history, having devoted himsolf ex- clusively to the study of theso subjects for upwards of fifty He wrote several works on his favorite stndi ‘The death at the age of is announced of the Ve ¢ ton-Wykeham-Flen Lord Saye and Sele, He was the thirteentli baron of that name, and the twentieth in descent from Geoffrey. Lord Saye, who wasone of the twenty-tive barons appointed to_enforce tho provisions of Magna Charta. ‘The first baron of the Flennes family was beheaded by Juck Cude in 145L ederick Jones, for half a century a re- snected citizen of Boston, Mass., dled in that city June 7. He was born in Athol, Mass., August 31, 1503, being a descendant of Lewis Jones, who settled in Roxbury about 164 Tie has been a prominent beotand shoe deal er throughout nearly all his active business career, and has been an honored leader in religious circles, He was a man of sound judgment and very liberal in his gifts. He was quict and retired and neld lus friendships ting ones. iere appeared week before last in the obituary eolumns ot the Philadelphia Ledger notices of the deaths of fifteen jersons, hve men and ten women, who had lived to or be- ond the advanced age of 80 vears, to-wit: the eminent orient- ently at the age of hty-three years Frederick Twistle- Thomas Jobhnson, Wendell Wrich lary King, Mary Vaurhn, ¥ M liams, 503 Christiana Whartouby, phin MeAdlister, Susan Thomas, Rose O'Donvell, St tz, 84, Frederick Welte, 857 Margzaret Ke izaveth Wolfe, 95, Anna Bl i Maria Lyons, - During & thunderstorm at Hazelton, Jightming struch a_penknife in the hands of High iff’ Zierdt, who was bathing m & tub. he' came too nothing but small splinters could be found of the tub he had been bathing in, and the water it contained was equally distributed over the floor as if done with a mop in the hands of a scrubwoman. The metal in the knife was melted. No other evidence that the lightning had en- tered the room could be found. - Colonel Beach, of lin Valley, A, T, is the owner of a three-cyed colt. Ex eye is in possc: n of an upper and lower eyelid, delicately fringed with eye- lashes, but while the two in the custom- ary locality dimirish gradually toward the outer edges of the head, the lids be- longing to the mwiddle eye ' look, when closed, Jike the segments of a circlo. In addition to three eyes the colt sports a double set of nostrils, both of which aroe pertectly defined. Per Ashland, aged fourteen, of Adrian, Mich., has just returncd home from nearly a' 25.000-mile trip the last year. He made his own way with & otblack’s kit, never rode a brakebeam, and generally found comfortable quar- ters in the caboose or baggage car, o aid no fair, but put up ata hotel when he arrived in town. He 18 very bright, and well advanced in the "common branches of study, reaas the newspapersy and wrote his mother regularly,