Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 10, 1887, Page 6

THE DAILY BEE. " PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSORTPTION ¢ CORRESPONDENCE? All communiontions relating to news and edi- torial matter should be sddressed to the Eui %OL OF THE Drr. ¢ PUBLISHING COMPANY, 8, checks and postoffico orders be made payable to the order of the company, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS, THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statemeat of Ulrculation. Btate of Nebraska, County of Douvlas, 2 Geo. B. Tzschuck, secretary of The Beo Publishing company, does solemnly swear at the actual circulation of the Daily Bee lor the week ending July 8 1857, was as follows: Saturday.July 2.... unday, July 3.. omllv..lnl‘vi . Jul . v, ed! lmmwx, Jul; day, July Average. Gro, 8. T Sworn to and subseribed in my pre: this 9th day of July, A. D. 1857, N. P. Frir, . [SEAL. Notary Publie. Btate of Nebraska, }" Douglas County. | Geo. B. Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, 5 gapoa nd says that_he Is secretary of The 8 Publishing company, that the_ actual average daily circulation of the Daily Bee for the month of "July, 1880, 12314 copies; for August, 1856, 12,464 copies; for Septem- ber, 1856, 13,030 coples; for October, 18 12,089 coples: for November, 189, ' 1 coples; for December, 1856, 13,237 copie: Januaty 1857, 16,260 coples: for Februarv, 1887, 14,108 coples: for March. 1887, 14,400 a&;m: for April, 1587, 14,816 copies: for May, 1687, 14,927 copies; for June 1887, 14,147 eopies. for GEo. B. TZSCHUCK, Bubscribed and sworn to before me this 1st of July A, D,, 1837, EAL. N. P, FEin, Notary Public. Contents of the Sunday Bee. el. New York Herald Cablegrams— als to the Bre.—General Telegraphic ews. Pace 2. Teleeraphic News.—City News.— Miscellany, ge 3, Bcer-hl Advertisements, Page 4. Editorials.—Press Comments.— Miscellany. Page 5. Lincoln News—Miscellany—Ad- Isements. ‘-dga 6, Council Bluffs News.—Miscellany. =Advertisements, Page 7.—General and Local Markets,.—Ad- ‘wertisements. Page 8. General Clty Nows.—Local Adver- tisements. Page 9.—Socloty in Omaha. l#nyeuu, by Frank G. Carpenter. i e 10,—Sweet Fields of Canaan.—Irinces Iivmum—'l‘he Cunning of the Spider, Marquis de r. R. H.—The Hebrews ot Russia.— urch Fight Over a Window.—Nature’s stic Wonder.—A Duel to the Death.— vertisements. 1L—Don’t Forget the Devil.—That ard, by Thomas M’ Nally.—The Quaker 'edding. — Connublalities. — Educational.— letiea.—The High-Bounding Broncho.— ey for the Ladles.—Religious.—Musical and Dramatic.—A Poetical Appeal to ‘l'en- @erfeet.—Peppermint Drops.—Singularities. —Advertisements, @ 12.—Three Types of Femininity, by &n Belle.—Ingersoll on _Beecher.—A irsty Paradise.—Comstock’s Proud Death, a Captain Jack Crawford.—Mrs. Sharp's w. ————— TrHE number of celebrated mysterious murders whioh have taken place in Con- meoticut within the past eight years is in excoss of likemurders 1n the balance of the United States. For ways that are dark and crime that is hidden the Con- nectiout murderer loads all others. — AFTER almost two yoars delay of jus- tice, Maxwell, the eminent St. Louis murderer, hat arrived at the conclusion that his fato 18 sealed and ho will hang on the 28th proximo. The crank women of the Mound City are still lionizing vhe culprit by sending him flowers daily. — WhEN Thurston discovered that his ollents had put their foot in it by failing * to get a majority of the council on record for the resolution awarding to the Re- puwblican the contract fer official adver- Being, ho boldly adapted himself to the sitwation by claiming that there is no oontract yet, and could not be until the @ourt has dissolved the injunction. Then ‘why has the Republican been flaunting the Insoription, “Official paper of the oity” at the head of its local page for more than a week? —— GOVERNOR PaTrisoN is still trying Bard to hind somebody who could explain some of those singular U. P. vouchers. ‘When Mr. Poppleton’s nable colleague Judge Usher was before the Commis- alon at Kansas City the inquisitive chairman called his attontion to the fol- Jowing legal expense bills. E. W Dennis, Washington October 1870 $6.81,60 =Uigars and liquors for legislators $5.044,30, R. G. Ingersoll for legal ser- wioes in Washington in assisting to get pro-rata bill passed in 1874—$7.500. Judge Usher explained that there were allt. & number of men interested in the fmion Pacific stationed at Washington “in those days and they were very hungry and thirsty. The BEk has nodoubt ofit. Those oll room fellows always are awful dry and hungry. We venture to say nobody an these parts knows that fact better than John M. Thurston and we can prove it by him if he is not decoyed on her cat fish excursion the next tume is wanted. ———— THERE are some very interesting con- ‘tributions to ancient history being made by the Pacific railway commission, Whle rolating the history of the struggle for the location of the eastern terminus of the Pacific railroad bofore the com- mission at Kansas City Judge Usher, who was in Lincoln's cabinet at that time, sald: “The advantages of Sioux City, Kansas City and Omaha were vigorously advocated, but Omaha was finally se- Jected as the terminus of the main road, ghe other cities bewg reached by Dbranches which were designed to con- meet with the main line at the 100th me- widian. When the advantages of Omaha 'were first presented to President Lincoln &e remarked: ‘Why, I've got a quarter ¢ seotlon of land near there, and if 1 locato She 'minus at that pomnt people will say thit I am personally interested in the moatter,’ The foar of this,' continued Mr, - Waber, “‘did not prevent Lincoln from de- elding finally in favor of Omaha.” Bat in due time Lincoln was overruled and the terminus was relocated by Sidney ~ Pillons’ nephew, who was then United b eircuit judge and is now the gen consulting attorney of the Union THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY JTj'LY 10, 1887.~TWELVE PAGES, The Florid Humor of It. The supreme joke of the injunction suit against the city yesterday was the statement in Rosewater’s petition that the Republican “contract is so loosely drawn that it * * # places it in the power of said company to de- fraud the taxpayers, ad libitum, and sald contract Is vicious and contrary to sound business prineiples.” The florid humor ot this lles In the fact that the contract was copled verbatim from the one under which the Bee has acted for a year, the only change belng in a substitution of the titles of the papers. The truth is that, like everything else in the petition, this was sworn to recklessly, without any knowledge of the contract, or without any regard for the truth. In its way it is funny, however.—Republi- ean. This is by no means the first time that the power of the courts had to be invoked in Omana to restrain jobbery and reck- less methods in the letting of municipal contracts. The supreme joke of these injunction suits has been the discomfiture of boodlers, and tho florid humor of it is that John M. Thurston is nearly always on hand to plead in defense of the law- less and corrupt methods pursued by dishonest contractors and unprincipled councilmen, It is so again in this injunc- tion case, With all due deference to the veracity of our amiable contemporary, we still maintain that this bogus contract is loosely drawn, vicious and contrary to sound principles. The florid humor of it lies 1n the proposals and the bid, winch leaves to the publishers of the Republican the option to print the official adveruise- ments in any type they may sce fit to use, ure the same by any stundard which will yield them the largest income. This is the diflerence between this pe- culiar contract and those herctofore made by the city. Last year and every preceding year the pub- lished proposals for advertising made nonpareil type with ten lines to each square the basis of the bid. This year no standard of type or basis of measure- ment was exacted, and the bid of the Republican being blank on this v point, leaves its publishers free to estab- lish their own standard of type and measurement. The florid humor in this case relates also to the course of proced- ure by the council and the methods of procuring the award which we are as- sured was identical this time with the letting of last year. This is very funny. Last year the council directed the clerk to invite proposals for advertising by res- olution requiring each bidder to submit & sworn statement of circulation and to take as his basis ten lines per square nonpareil measurement. This was done on the first Tuesday in June. Bids were opened on June 10th and referred to the printing com That committee re- ported a week later that the BEE was the only bidder that had complied with the requirement as to city circulation. After two weeks of controversy the Brk was finally awarded the contract which was voted for by a majority of the entire council and approved on the same night by president of the council Bechel who was then acting mayor. There was nothing crooked or irregularin the whole transaction, nor was the rate excessive. On the contrary while the mercantile rawo for advertising had been raised by the BEE because of its large increase of circulation, the contract gave the city the rates of the preceding year How was it this year? Without reference to the express provisions of the charter, and contrary to common usage, a notice was inserted inviting proposats for the fiscal year ending July 1, 1888, for hay, oats, ice and printing. Rothaker and Taylor were in the clerk's oftice up to the last moment that bids were to close, ex- pecting, donbtless, that they were to be the only bidders. When thoy discovered 8 competitor in the BEE, they deposited three sovarate bids with the clerk. Taylor swears these bids were identical as to rates. Who ever heard of a con- tractor filing three bids for a job and all three the same in terms? The discrepancy between tho time fixed on the proposals and the time set by the charter for letting the official advertising was such as to raise a doubt in the mind of the editor of the BEE as to the validity of the proposals, even if they had not been altogether too indefimite about the basis for mensurement. The city attor- ney was asked for advice on this point, and expressed the bolief that no contract could be legally let for the period of ono year from July 1. Councilman Has- call, chairman of the judiciary commit- tee, expressed the same views, and went 80 far as to say that he would introduce a resolution directing the clerk to ro-advernse in accordance with the provisions of the charter. Thereupon aftor porsonally conferring with a ma- jority of the council, who each agreod to support the resolution for readvertising, the BEE's bid was withdrawn and the editor retired. And now Rothaker and Taylor began their underhanded work. Taylor withdrew his two bids and when the only remaining bid was opened and re- ferred to the committee on printing Tay- lor had this bid, which properly should have gone to Mr. Kitohen, the chairman— who was temporarily absent—vlaced in the hands of Manville, a member of the committee. Then Taylor drew up a report awarding the contract tothe Republican, This was copied by Manville and signed by Pat Ford and Manville. But the report was not presented until after midnight when eight councilmen had retired and a bare quorum remained. Then Rothaker had the report sprung on the council, The charter requires that each contract or resolution involy- mg an expenditure of money shall only be passed by arecorded vote of a ma- Jority of the entire council. Instead of ordoring the vote taken by ayes and noes the contract was awarded by a mere viva voce vote—in violation of the law. This bare faced job was railroaded through early next morning and the mayor’s ap- proval procured to a contract at variance in terms with the bid under which 1t had been awarded by the council. The con- tract was then deposited with the city comptroller. And the most florid humor of this swindle is that the mayor was im- posed on by the conniving city at. torney who solemnly declared. that the mayor's signature to a con- tract begotten by illegal methods was final and the courts alone could set it aside. And when this same city at- torney appeared before the court he in- sisted that there was no contract and that the court could not legally interfere because . the provision of the charter which requires a recorded ratification of each oontract before it is valid, ‘had not been complied with. In other words the wayor could not erase or strike out his signature to & paper which had not yot received tho required vote of ten council- men, nor could the court restrain the citylofficials from carrying it Into effect. This is very funny, isn't 1t, especially when the same attorney had insisted all along that the council had done 1ts work and the concurrence of the mayor had made the Republican the oflicial paper beyond recall. —— The Golden Shore Excursion. The people of San Krancisco and the Pacific coast 1n general are now upon the verge of ecstacy, 8o to speak, It is given out by the passenger agents of the wvarious railroads at the east that arrange- ments have boen perfected for the trans- portation of upwards of 60,000 eastern tourists from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and New England to the golden shores of the Paci- fic this fall. San Francisco already re- cognizes its inabulity to properly care for this great influx of sight seers and possi- ble investors. 1t is promised that they will be given a cordial welcome. They will be given the freedom of the city at the rate from three to ten dollars per day. The golden slope metropolis hopes there will be a hundreda thousand and ‘‘more the merrier.” The tickets upon which the announced 60,000 will travel will be good returning three months from date of starting. Sixty thousand people will leave a survlus of cash 1n the golden city at the lowest possible figure, $3 a day for each traveler. For one day this means a revenue to the hotels of San Francisco alone $180,000. For ninety days the volume would swell to $16,200,000. San Francisco can well afford to provide for their visitors in handsome style. In addition to hotel expenses every tourist 18 good, at the lowest possgible estimate, for $2 more per day. Thus it will be seen there will be added to the volume of circulating medium ia that section up- ward of $32,000,000, and it is safe to pre- sume it will reach $59,000,000 before the unsophisticated easterners have been al- lowed to turn their faces toward the ris- ing sun. Are not these flatering pros- pects quite suflicient to create broad smiles, and itching palms? The San Francisco papers are much wrought up ar the thought that there are not hotels enough to give the necessary accommodation. They advise the build- ing of more hotels, new theatres and a cleaning up of the city in general. The latter, of course, is badly needed. What scems to exercise tho editorial mind most is the absolute absence of bathing privileges. This latter appeal to capital and enter- prise is possibly subject to misconstruc- tion, and it might be well that an explan- ation be made before the excursionists enter upon their journey. It might be taken to mean that in the absence of the necessary bath privileges, that this auxilary to cleanliness and good health is not a custom of the San Francisco people. Upon the other hand it may be constraed into meaning that the eastern people will stand more in need of baths than anything olse—that they are unaccustomed to such conveni- ences at home. Then again the San Fran- ciscoian may know something of the eastern customs, and in order to keep the tourists within their borders the ninety days, it will be necessary to pro- vide them with such accommodations as they are in the habit of having. This is a very important question, and there should be no delay in settling it. The Kindergarten. There has been a marked growth of in- terest within a few years in the kinder- garten as a means of primary instruction, and the success achieved where this sys- tem has been most carefully employed, notably in St, Louis, has served to stimu- late this interest. The advocates of the kindergarten insist that it is the most ra- tional and scientific system of primary instruction because the most natural. It employs the methods and means that every child uses in becoming familiar with 1ts surroundings. It goes on the assumption that play is an im- portant part of child-life, and therefore makes use of the games of the children to impart in- struction. It happily combines work and play and makes both contri- bute to the mental improvement of the child. Its method rightly pursued is a constant and healthy stimulus to the child’s desire to acquire knowledge. The underlying theory is that spontaneity, or play, is alwavs serious in a child and not frivolous, and that this should be di- rected to external fact and truth. Thus these spontaneous powers may be di- rected and developed into self-culture, independent action and the love of knowledge. The process is synthetic. The object is placed before the child and means and opportunity given in & rational and harmoni- ous order for the child's mind to work spontaneously. The child observes, imutates, reproduces and in- vents forms, Every step, no matter how small, has 1ts significence and almost un- consciousiy inculcates its lesson. There is the same change and variety that is to be found in child’s play, and no ono game or losson is continued long enough to weary the child. The games include simple oatechisms that bring into play the variovs muscles of the body and in- sure physical as well as mental develop- ment, Romping is organized and made to do the service of the educator, and the delicate fancies of the child are trained in useful ways and with right models be- foreit. It is casy to see that the effect ot such a system, wisely conducted, must be to make the children eager seekers after knowledge, while at the same time itis a means of enjoyment and health- promoting recreation. No child having normal conditions and qualifications would quarrel with such a system, and the great majority could be depended upon acquiescing in ils requirements with delight. The first free kindergarten in St, Lounis was established in 1873 as an experiment. From that have grown sixty-eight, with an enroliment of nearly seven thousand chiidren and conducted at an annual ex- pense of about $30,000. Only children over six and under seven years are ad- mitted to the kindergarten, and after oue year's instruction there they enter the primary schools, Kindergarten cml- dren attend but one half day, so that the expense of training 18 keopt within the cost of primary instruction. Each kin- dergarten is under the charge of a direc- tor who has thoroughly swaied the most approved methods. and who is aided by one or more salaried assistants, accord- ing to the number of pupils. Volunteer, unpaid assissants are received into these schools to study the sysiom and receive fnstructions and practieal training from the directors. When qualified teey are employed as puid asslstants. During the last school year thére were em- ployed in the sixty-eight kindergar- tens fifty-two directors, eighty-five paid assistants, and fifty voluateer assistants, the aggregate expenditure being a little over $15,000. The results are stated to have been in the highest degree satisfac- tory, ‘The merits and advantages of the kin- dergarten system have certainly been most conclusively demonstrated In St. Louis, and while therp may be difliculties in the way of adopting it as a part of the public school system, it has been shown that these are not insurmountable. The most difficult question to solve appears to be that of adopung the primary in- struction to kindergarten methods, but evidently this is possible of accomplish- ment. The matter is certainly one which may very properly engage the attention of all progressive educators, as it is now doing of many of them. —— ive Boulanger.” Such was the acclaim that resounded through the streets of Paris on Friday when the favorite general of France was aboutto leave the capital to assume command of the thirteenth army corps, to which he was recently assigned by the minister of war. That cry, with the ex- pressions of popular hostility to the gov- ernment which accompanied it, was heard by the veteran president of the re- public, who doubled the guard about his palace, and was listened to by the minis- ters whose appointment was contingent upon the rejection of Boulanger with probably far from agreeable feelings. No vopular hero in France sinceGambetta has received such an ovation, and had Bou- langer then proclaimed that he would not leave Paris he might have remaimned there surrounded by a following which the government would have found it ex- tremely diflicult to control. No reasonable man can doubt, after this demonstration, that Boulanger is ex- tramely popular with the French people, if indeed he is not the most popular man in France. It plainly showed that the efforts of President Grevy and the min- isters of his creation to disparage the favorite general in the estimation of the people, and to break down his mfluence have not been success- ful. It isnot improbable on the contrary, that the course of the government toward Boulanger has had the effect to make him stronger with the people. His own course has been reserved, undemon- strative, and to all outward appearances patriotic. He gave 1o encouragment to the vast crowd that applauded him in the same breath thit it denounced the government. In all this he has acted with a prudent discretion which the French people will take at its full value. At the head of the thirteenth corps Bou- langer will not be forgotten. What are the. possibilities of the not far futura? It may be idle to conjecture. The present woek may be a most evontful one for France. It will witness the close of the national assembly, which it has been predicted would make the begmning of stirring events, There is no faith in the perma- nance of the present ministry. It 18 hardly possible that its dowufall could fail to bring Boulanger again to the front. In that event there might be hap- penings in which all the world would take an interest. —— High Sounding Titles. There is a suit at present on trial in a Baltimore court under the majestic and impressive title of “William H. Perkins, worthy raler of St. Thomas’ lodge, against Augustus Thomas, grand royal king of the united and consolidated order of brothers and sisters and sons and daughters of the knights of four men and the members of the supremo grand royal house.” The grotesque ab- surdity of this will not need to be im- pressed upon the attention of the reader. But 1t suggests the question whether there is not *'something too much” of .this sort of thing in connection with all societies essentially American in their origin. Those organizations which had their be- ginning in the old world, undes forms of government where titles of royalty and nobility abound, most naturally bor- rowed from these the designations of their officials, Not only were the originators of » such societies most familiar ‘with this class of titles, but their adoption had the excuse or justifica- tion there of being necessary to indicate grades of authority and dignity which were understood by everybody. This made them convenient for uso, besides which they imparted to the orders » cer- tain importance and impressiveness in the popular mind. In Ameriea, however, these considerations do not apply, Not only have societies originating here other titles which they can use so that the rank and power of their officials shall be prop- erly graded but the use of which would be much more appropriate. How much better, for example, than snch a ridiculously ex- travagant combination as ‘‘Grand Royal King” would be “Most Eminent Pres dent,”” allowing that something more than the simple title of president or gov- ernor should ot any time be necessary. Furthermore, these royal titles must be supplemented with all the, trappings and paraphernalia that are deomed necessary to mark and distinguish the persons upon whom they are bestowed. In the meet- ings of the societies ahd on public oc- casions these favored itdividuals are tricked out and bespangled often in the most gorgeous manner, making objects of themselves which”gréatly entertain the children but look extfemely ridicu- to older people of sensg. There may be no offense in this sort of thing, unless it be to good taste, but 1t: is conspicuously nonsensical. 1t ought to e reformed, so far as all societies of Ajnerican origin at least are concerned, All such should eliminate every title, symbol and insig- nia that1s borrowed from or suggests royalty, and make their official designa- tions and their forms and methods con- form to the character of the institutions under which they live. They will not thereby impnir either their usefulness or their i pressiveness, while they will be in harmony with the views and feclings of American: — Qur Clam Bake, The citizens of the cultared east, espe- cially around New York, are noted for their stupidity and general ignorance about matters at the great and boundless west. The average New Yorker is selfish, meroensry and the proud possessor of a heart colder than an iron wedge. In plainer language, he is & hog. The gen- orous hearted people at the west would not exchange dispositions with the dudes of the effete east if the entire woalth of Manhattan Island was given in boot, Deep, dark, green jealousy of the enter- priso and push of Omaha is lurking 1n their bosoms. Because at Omaha's re- cent ox roast a clam bake was as well a part of the day's festivities, merciless New York editors are attempting to create the impression that Omaha is be- coming too large for its clothes, and its citizens wish to make believe that beeause it can support a clam bake it is a seaport. Omaha is not a seaport and no one here has claimed such, but the day is not far distant when this, the most en- terprising and rapidly growing city on the Missouri river, will bea port of entry. Omaha clam bakes, like the city, will be- come one of the great institutions of the west, Little San Franciscoalso attempts to put on airs and turn up its wine col- ored nose at Omana's clam bakes. We may not have a great deep salt water front, but as the city is fast approaching 150,000 population, so will grow the clam bake and all its sweet influcnces of culture and good times in general. We are prepared to produce an afli- davit that a clam was baked in Omaha on the glorious Fourth, A Spurious Report. The Omaha manager of Dunn & C mereantile agency most emphatically pronounces as spurious the so-called re- view of building activity in leading Amorican citios which was sent out by the Associated press last week as emanat- mg from Dunn & Co.—so far at least as it relates to Omaha, There certainly is a most decided discrepancy between the report circulated by the Associated pr ~—in which Omaha 1s singled out as one of the centers where the building indus- tries had reached the stage of stagnati —and the printed circular of Dunn & Co. dated July 1, which embodies the gen- eral business outlook compiled review of commercial and financial operations and general condition of the building interests and real market. This circular contains the following under the head of Omanha: The business outlook, in Nebraska, has not in twenty years been brighter than to-day, with the one exception, that when the reaction in real estate speculation, which prevades every city, town and hamlet comes, and it is expected within twelve months, trouvle must ensue for those merchants and dealers who have gone outside of their legiti- mate lines, and in their haste to get rich as- sumed obligutions in the purchase of con- tract real estato—really option gambling— which must be met from their commercial gains, and, as a rule, tho very ones who thus speculate have not all the capital they should have for thelr business wants; with this ex- ception, Nebraska merchants are prosperous and content. Nearly 1,500 miles of railroad aro building within the state; new bridges, waterworks and gas plants are beingput in: manufacturers from adjacent states are seek- ing sites and erecting buildings. Banking capital, which has been somewhat deficient in the interior, Is being supplied by eastern men attracted by the rapid and apparently permanent growth of our towns and cities, and the higher rate of interest obtainable. Loan and investment compantes find this is a safe mnarket for thelr funds, and our people are enabled to borrow the capital so much needed in a new countiy at reasonable rates. Much doubt and fear of results were ex- pressed in the passage of the inter-state com- merce bill, but these have been, in a great measure, allayed. as it was found that imag- inatlon made the bugbear greater than it was, and confidence s now expressed that the bill will prove beneticial to the state, on the whole, in the long run. Nebraska has Rood cause to be content wlith its share of favors this year, with almost a cortainty of heavy crops, and with commercial and agri- cultural interests in excellent shape, and in- ternal improvements liberally entered upon, we hope to pay 100 cents at maturity, and have a healthy surplus. Collections have been fair,-and the rate of money is 8 to 10 per cent per annum, mostly the latter. ‘I'here hus been manifestly a mistake made by the reporter who compiled this review for the Associated press. There is nothing in it to justify the report that Omaha is one of the progressive western cities whose growth is on the standstill, and we feel tha} it wonld be great injus- tice to hold Dunn & Co., or its local man- ager, responsible for misrepresentations made by some reckless or careless re- porter. The King Goes Down. The climax in the mad career of King Kalakaua, of the Hawaii island, has been reached, and the king, though still occu- pying the throne, has been shorn of his prerogatives. His cabinet has been hurled from power and a new admimstration of ministerial oflicers have been placed in charge of the government. At this moment the wife of the king, Queen Kapaolania, is upon the bosom of the Atlantic enroute from London to New York, and will probably reach the Iatter city about Monday. Her mussion to England was to raise funds with which to aid the king in re- taining possession of the goverment, in which it is reported she was unsuccessful. The dusky queen can not know of the uprising of her peopte until she sails up the bay at New York. It Is true she was one of the royal guests at the jubilee of Queen Victoria, and that may compen- sate her for the loss of n throne to which the has no longer a title. The practical dethronement of King Kalakaua is not unexpected. He has been carrying things with a high hand. He lost signt of the interest of his people and was plunging his government hope- lessly 1n debt, and he himselt living a life of debauchery, ignoring all senses of morality and self respect, and his down- fall is but retributive justice and does not come too soon. This has not been a prosperous year for kings, In the Oid Fashion. A current item states that C. H. Over- man, a Minneapolis evangelist who at- tempted to preach on the strects of Sa- vannah, Georgia, without a permit from the mayor, has been sentenced to the chain gang for thirty days. Anoiher item runs that Dr. Bacon, who declared from the pulpit in Suvannah that he be- lieved the north was right in the late war, has caused great indignation in that com- munity. Georgia proudiy claims that 1t is the most advanced and progressive state in the south. It has made very de- cided material progress within a few years, and if the assurances of the Jead- ing orator and editor of that state may be accepted without question it has also improyed in its moral and political character. But it must be granted that such facts as the above coming from the second city of the state are calculated to cust a doubt upon such assurances, As to the first of these maitors it must be confessed that the evangelist ecommitted an error in disregarding the municipal regulation requiring hi to get a permnt from the mayor in order to preach on the streets, He should have complied with the law, regardless of his own view of it It may also besaid that it1s the sovereign right of the people of Savanah to make such a regulation if they do not want the gospel preached to them in the primitive way by anybody and everybody who may see a demand for this sort of mis- sionary work 1n that city. But we think everybody not of Savannah will agree that put’ing & man in the chain gang for such an offense as that of the evan- gelist in question is a punishment wholly out of proportion, Savoring of that sort of persecution with which the present time is wholly out of sympathy. As to the other fact, itsimply shows that a great deal of the old southern spirit still lingers notwithstanding the rehetorical assur- ances of Mr. Grady aud others regarding the changed sentiment of the new south. Obyiously thetwo facts noted go well together. A communnity that condemns an Evangelist to the chain gang for a trifling offense cannot be expected to hear with equanimity that the contest for the union was right. Evidently Savannah needs to be put to 1ts purgation both morally and politically. Peruars St. Louis can induce Colonel Dan Lamont to pay it a visit. He would mrke agood substitute, St. Lowis Globe-Democrat, ‘The observer of current events in our courts and our legislative bodies can not fail,to wonder from time to time how it comes thatso many privileges are given to lawyers which are denied to all other classes of citizens. Bysome curious pro- cess of favoritism all the ordinary rules of responsibility and propricty seem to have been suspended for the beneit of this particular fraternity; and tobe alaw- yer nowadays is to enjoy immunities that amount to practicul exemption from re- staints,which in the case of the gr majority of people are supposed to be in- dispensible to the safety and welfare of society. Hardly a day passes that this fact is not glaringly illustrated. Under the plea of professional privilege, the most flagrant breaches of personal rights and courtesy are constantly being com- mitted; and the victims of these outrrages are expected and required to submit, on the singular theory that a man who con- trives to gain admission to the bar is by that happy chance invested with the au- thority to violate the very laws and obli- gations which he undertakes to define and enforce. There are insults heaped upon witnes- ses in common logal proceedings by at- torneys pretending to be anxious only to discover the truth, which serve to make a mockery of the dignity and decency that should prevail 1n the halls of justice. The lawyef would not think for 'a mo- ment of taunting and provoking a man upon the street 1n any such fashion; nor would a man thus insulted in_any other place be obliged to forego the right of self defense. Individuals are promptl, and properly punished every day for of- fenses which lawycrs persistently indulge in for the mere purp of confusing honest witnesses and making the worse appear the bettor cause; and if the wit- ness asks for better protection, the judge savagely informs him that the lawyer is a much priviteged person, who must be allowed to choose his own methods of examination. There are cases, no doubt, where the bulldozing of men on the wit- ness stand is justitiable; but they are cer- tainly not 80 numerous that the attor- neys should be permitted to assume as a general rule that witnesses aro always ready to perjure themselves, and can only be prevented from doingso by sys- tematic rudeness on the part of the questioner. A still wider and harsher license of in- sult 18 practiced towards hitigants in the spoeches of the lawyers to judges and juries, The most pronounced slanders are frequently uttered; men’s motives are impugned and their acts misropresented quite as a matter of course, It happens far oftencr that the parties to a suit are treated with violent injustice than that they are dealt with in_a spirit of even tolerable fairness. The lawyer must make a vigorous and stirring” address, snd if the material is lacking he pro- coeds to invent it, regardless of the rights or foelings of the persons concerned. In short, it is held that what a private citi- zen may not do without being knocked down or compelled to pay damages o lawyer may do with the approval or the court, and be accovnted a model of profession] force and skill. It is difficult for the average observer to understand why blacky ism shoula be tolerated as an agency in the enforcement of the laws under any circumstances: but there can be no doubt about the fact that it isso recognized,and that all protests against it are met with the assurance simply that it is a privilege vested by custom and precedent in the legal profession. We are also taught that a lawyer may with perfect propriety accept a fee for acting as lobbyist and helping to pass or defeat given schemes of legisiation. If an editor, a minister, n physician, or a merchant takes money in that way we say he is bribed, and the community dis- trusts and denounces him accordingly. But a man having license to practice law may go into & legislature or a city council and, upon the pre- text of being employed as an erything 1n”his power to embarrass roper course of business and to thwart the will of the people, and weare estopped from suying that his behavior is dishonest and “mischievous. The courts will not even require him to appear as a witness and tell what he kuows about the corrupt appliances which may have been used, by himself or others, to bring about a particular re- sult. He has only to say that he can not give such testimony without divulging facts possessed in his capacity as a Jaw: yer, and he is at once excused. The shield of professional privilege conven- iently proteets him in all contingencics ot that sort. No matter how important his testimouy may be to the promotion of tho public interests, or the detection of actual and monstrons crime, he is al- lowed to withhold it by merely pleading that he has a client in" the case, who has paid him a retainer, and whose secrets \c is bound to keep, This is called pro- fessional honor; and learned judgos reso- lutely and solemnly uphold it as such. Possibly it is " n sary to grant to a special class so much in the way of priviloges to prevent the princi- ples und methods of justice, morality and propriety, which are rigidly applied to all other classes; but if so, 1t has yet to be satisfactorily demonstrated—and the average observer may therefore e par- doned for entertwining some doubt upon the subject, to suy the least. e Lds i ) Van Wyck's Excellent Work, North Bend Flail Ex-Senator Van Wyck did some excellent work in his expose of the B. & M. land mat- ters, and by the decision of the Interlor de- partment the gross frauds that railroad has been perpetuating against the government and against the people In the seizure of lands out ot its jurisdiction and above its Just dues are to be overhauled. There Is, bowover, wore work for the vigorous and energotic old gentleman to do. ILet him smother his friendship for Charles Franoly Adams and the Unfon Pacific road and give that institution a similar overhauling. When he opens out bravely on one of the most soulless monopolies that ever ground a peo- ple and brings the Union Paclfic railway company to understand that the people have rights that must be respected, then the Flail will agatn take him into its contidence and assist him In succeeding r'addock, who 1s likely to be at the most, a figurehead for the United States senate, Thoe M for Omaha, St. Joe Gazette, . James Tayloy, ot Texas, killed four men ata sitting and it wasn’t his day for killing either. Omaha would like to employ Mr, ‘Taylor to work around a spell among her base ball nine. ——— The Charter Tinkers, Grand Island Independent, It looks as though the Omaha Republican and some other tinkers got more than they bargained for when they gwent to tampering with the charter, It Is certain that their local troubles in regard to police and fire de purtments are seriously injuring the city in both reputation and progress. mhh" LSty The Bridge Controversy. Weat Point Progress. If there ever was a set of hoodlums they settled and llved and are still living in Coun: cil Blufts. As much as they detest the Union Pacilic railway, a road which has done them more damage than any other road has good, they take it up and fondle it as a mother would her child. Council Blufts has alwaya been fifty years behind the times. Out of ity Van Winkle sleep it partially awakened last spring to find the seed time past, and nothe ing but a small harvest of weeds to graze upon and fill its sickly stomach, It wanted g bridge. A company organized and asked the city for €50,000, which was granted, and there was a great blow of trnmpets which awakened even a few of the duck ralsers on the sandy bottom, But they dldn’tbuildl no, they rolled overand went to sleep again until the Nebraska Ceiftral asked for a site under a charter which it held—and then there was bedlam. These old toggies, headed by Evans, whose only purpose is to makea stake, foucht bitterly the road which would have divided the traflic with the Union Pas citic and cast a faint ray of light over this densely darkened and dead city, By conniving with Major Suter, government engineer, a tool In the hands ot the Union Paciie, they procured a decision in favor ot the Council Blufls Bridge company, which, in truth, is a decision in favor of the Union Pacific road. And now thure is the place where the stick I8 in the mud., This com- pany is composed of four capitalists from the Biuffs and four from Omanha, But the Omaka men, here they are, Unlon Pacitio men, every one of them. There is Guy Bar- ton; all who know him know he Isa Unlon Pacitic man. There Is Joo Millard, who is one of the foremost in the scheme: Joe handles all the Union Pacitic money through his bank. Frank Muiphy and another man, both Union Pacitics, were put in to fill up and dare not utter a word against the Unlon Pacific, With these wight men, four from the Bluffs, who are only wait ing to sell out to the highest bidder, and four from Omaha who do not want the bridge, and when it comes to afine point will not build, what can Council Bluffs do? And she has worked with all her power to uphold them in their base treachery. With- out this Nebraska Central bridge Council Bluffs will go on in her sleep and Omaha will be seriously crippled. 1t may effect West Poiut and it may not. Our advises and impressions are that the Nebraska Cen- tral will build, although they have great things to contend with, The road is able to do as it pleases with the Bluffs and Omaha, and it may decide to build at any risk. But there Is another plan, which we will not men- tion just at present, which the Progress would like to sce acted upon. This nation bas in past been run by men,in a great measure, who are the cheekiest mortals in existence, until they have been completely sat upon, and who are tools of great corpora- tions. A little “setting” in this Insiance would be commendable. it Rearing a Kangaroo Baby on a Bottle. Philadelphia Record: Keeper Murray and his baby are the principal features of interest in the Zoological gardens just at t. The baby is a long-legged and d little kangaroo, which was for- saken by its mother and taken in charge by the keeper, who is bringing up the little waif on a bottle, This 18 a state of aflairs that has never been known to exist before in this country, if, inleed, it has ever been heard of anywhere, As is well known to seientists, the female tuakes the young one at its birth and places it in the pouch which nature has provided for the purpose, earrying it there and nourish- ing it for about tive months, when the young jnmlpvr is old enough and strong enough to look out for itself, About four months ago the young kangaroo at the Zoo was born and at once placed in the pouch by the mother. There it remained until last W ednesday, when the mother became frightened or violently agitated from some unknown cause, und suddenly threw out the young one she had been carrying. The little one was not able to care for itself, and the keepers made several attempts to re- place 1t in the mother’s pouc Each time,ns soon a8 the keepers withdrew,the mother threw out the young one, and it became evident that the little waif must be provided for m some other way. It was so wenk aud hetpless, and its un- timely appearance was so contrary to the habits and nature of the kangaroo that the future of the litue one looked ex- tremely doubtful for a time. Keeper Murray had a bright idea. He bethought him “of the bottle system of the human family, and determined to try it on the charge which had been left in his hands. A healthy Angora goat was put to pasture close by where the Kkanguroos ure kept, and Koeper Murray milked her in a tumbler. He then fitted a lnrge rubber nipple to a nurs- ing bottle, and filling the bottle with milk he tried the novel experiment and found to his great satisfaction that the little stranger took to it as natural as life. ‘The milk was found to agree with the babe, and that metihod of feeding has been continued and is now in pro- gress. About every two hours during tho dauy the little kangaroo has a meal from the bottle, and to all appearances is thriving upon the novel treatmont. When first taken in charge it was too weak to stand on its long legs, but now itis able to hop about a little, 15 about as large as thut of a small cat, but its head, legsand tail are unnaturally large. There ix but little hair on 1ts body, and to protect it from theair it is put in a box filled with cotton, in which the little one burrows and hides. Should it live, and everything so indicates, 1t will be a case without precedent as far as is known, soh Iants, July 9.—Schnaebeles, the arrest of whom by the German police cime very neer being @ casus belli between Germany and Franee, has been appointed to a higher posis tion at Leon, He wanted to agaln be placed on the frontier, but this the government re- tused to do. . July 9.—John Vanst JoH. Cluw, Americans,were arrested ‘Thurs- day night at Paso del Norte, sand-bagging and highway robb Mexican code makes highway robbery a capis tal crime, and they will probably be shot, as the evidence is clear agalnst them. b it Bank Statement.* New Yoxk, July e weekly bank statement shows ~ the reserve Increa $2,701,000, The banks now hold $6,853,00 ig excess of logal requirements,