Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 15, 1887, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF 8UBSORIPTION ¢ Dafly Morniag Edition) Including Sunday Ber, Ono Yenr. .. .... For Bix Montha. ... For Three Months The Omaha Sundny address, Une Year. .. ARA 0. 914 AND 018 FARNAM STREEY ORR OFFICE, ROOM &, TRINUNE BUILDE ASHINGTON OFFICE, NO. 515 FOURTEENTH STRE . CORRESPONDENCE: All communioations relating to nows and edl- torial matter should be addressed 1o the Evr TOR OF THE Baa. BUSINEAS LETTERS? ATl bueiness letters and remittances should be add 10 THE PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAMA. Drafts, checks ‘and postofice orders to be made payable to the order of the eompany, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS. E. ROSEWATER, Ep1ToR. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Ulrculation. Bitu ot‘ Na'b{)usk 58 County of Douglas. & Geo. ¥l ‘I'zschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing wm'vmy, does solemnly swear that the actual circuiation of the Daily Bee for the week ending July 8, 1857, was as 4. Tuesdav, Ju(’y Bu... ‘Wednesday, July 6, Thursaay, July 7. ¥riday, July 8...... AVerage.....oiuin cerieene 00 14082 GrO, 8. TZSCHUCK. Sworn to and subseribed in my presence this 9th day of July, A. D. 1857, N. P. FrIn, [SEAL.] Notary Pubiie. Btate of Nebraska, | Donglas County. | Geo. B, Tzschuck, belng first duly sworn, deposes and says thiat he Is secretary of The Beo Publishing company, that the actual averago daily circulation of the Dally iee for the month” ot .mli.‘ 1886, 12,314 copies; for August, 1888, 12,461 coples; for Septem- ber, 188, 13,030 copies; for October, 1856, 12,959 coples; for November, 159, ' 13,35 coples; for December, 1886, 13,237 copies; for January 187, 10304 co sfes! for February, 1857, 14,105 coples; for March. 1857, 14,400 e’?&f s Tor April, 1857, 14,316 coples; for May, 1887, 14,227 copies; for June 1887, 14,147 coples. Gro. B. TZ8CITUCK. Subseribed and sworn fore me this 1st day ot July A, D,, 1887, SEAL.| P. Frin, Notary Public. = = N the fearless discussion of men and menasures this paper has never been gagged by threats of libel suits, E———— THerk are & fow planks loose yet, Major Balcombe, and a good many side- walke where there never were any planks, EE—— MaJor GEENERAL CoLBY will be a can- didate for district judge. Colby on the bench would be an ornament. He was the gem of the state senate, you know. BECAUSE the BEE has seen fit to op- pose the Moynihan protective mnight watch scheme, it has been denounced as a “drab” by Moynihan’s billy editor. Considering the source this is compli- mentary. — EX-SENATOR THURMAN positively de- clines to become the democratic can- didate for governor of Ohio. The old Roman exhibits great wisdom. He knows Ohio politics when he sees it, and none know better than he, that there is no hope for the democrats to carry the state, THE citizens of Council Bluffs may not be able to survive the disgrace that seems isto be put upon them by the opening of a club room in their new hotel. The pro- test against this “outrage” may possibly come from the fact that it costs $2 to be- come & member of the club. The story which is so graphically told of the Man- awa hotel, while not exactly blood-curd- ling, is evidently one of the great insu- tutions ot our sister city, thought 1t was constructed on wind and propped up by mechanics’ hens. Council Blufts is noth- ing it not highly sensational, It is a fact not generally known that as long ago a3 1850 the people of the southern countics of Ualifornia voted in favor of a division of the state, and the result was duly certitied to the secretary of state, by him to the governor, and by the governor to the president. The mat- ter has thus rested ever since, but if the people of Southern California want a new state they can demand it and can probably get it. ‘This result is believed 1o be only a question of time, as the mat- ter is now being agitated, A sprcies of boycott has been placed upon the millers of Connersville, Indi- ana, by the farmers under novel circum- stances, For years tho mills have been loaning to the farmers the sacks neces- sary to handle the new crop, but this year the millers umted in announcing thatno sacks would be furnished. In consequence the farmers of the surround- ing country have entered into a com- pact that not a bushel of grain will they bring to that city, and the prospect is that the bats will roost in the elevators. Meantime buyers at Lyon's Station, east of the city, and at Reeson’s station and Glenwood, north and south, are doing an immense busine: ThE prohibitionists of lowa eighteen delegates nominated a state ticket yesterday from governor down to superintendent of public instruction. The platform embraces more than a sep. arate political action in dealing with the liquor traftic. There is danger that they waut too much, Not content with pul- verizing the rum power they favor the reduction of passenger rates on rail- roads, the establishment of postal sav- ings banks, woman suflrage and a num- ber of other reforms. It s barely possi- ble that these people are taking too much upon their shoulders, If they are suc- cessful in establishing prohibition they will accomplish a great deal more than there is renson to belleve they will do. Too wany irons in the fire 1s not a good business princtpls with IN an interview with King Kalakaua printed on the first page of this paper the king admits that his position to-day is largely ono of ignorance as to what Is going on 1n his kingdom. From the con- fession of the king as to his ignorance of public affairs, we are inclined to the be- lief that it was a wise move upon the part of the people to depose bim from exer- cising the prerogatives of his position, While Kalakaaa evidentiy spprehends personal violence wmay be doue him, the country will hardly share In that bellef, He w an object of pity rather than of censure, and no ona belleves the aitinens of Hawatl wou'd infllet personal punish- ment upon one whaose iatelligence is of tuoh smsll oalider. Megitimate Insurance Companies. The country is full of ‘‘snide” insur- ance companies, and there 1s reason to believe that the evil is not decreasing. Notwithstanding the fact that most of the states have stringent insurance laws, these illegitimate schemes of pretended insurance are oontinually developing, assuming all sorts of forms and each professing to have a plan that surpasses all others 1n the conditions of cheapness, convenicnce and safety which make in- surance attractive to the average in- dividual. It does not require either a great amount of ingenuity or of capital, us some recent exposures in New York demonstrate, to start one of these com- panies, but being started they are capable of doing a great deal of wrong to the hundreds of gulbible people whom they victimize, It has been shown that in New York a npumber of professed insurance companies, under all sorts of catching titles, have been op- erating without a dollar of asscts from which to pay promised death losses, and it is not questionable that similar organ- izations are to be found in many other states. These swindling concerns run on until some one is robbed who has the will to inquire into their working, when they suddenly collapse and the company of two or three officials betake themselves to quarjers where they are unknown. It is generally deemed a waste of time and money to pursue them, and thus they es- cape merited punishment. 1t appears that Iowa has been respon. sible for more or less illegitimate busi- ness in the insurance line which it will be the duty of the legislature of that state to provide against in future. The trouvle scems to have been care- lessness on the part of the state officials 1n granting certificates to so- called insurance men to do business in Towa without suflicicnt inquiry as to whether or not they were responsible. Those who were irresponsible have used these certificates a8 credentiais of char- acter in other states, whose people have been fleeced without mercy. It 1s cer- tainly the fault of such states that they do not protect their people against such rascals by stringent laws. In Massachu- setts, for example, no msurance company located outside of that state can do busi- ness in the state without conforming to cortain laws and regulations which pro- tect the people against fraud. Only re- cently some sensation was created in in- surance ciroles there by the arrest of sev- eral agents of outside companies who dis- regarded these laws. But the want of adequate regulations fin other states does not relieve fowa of the duty of making such laws as will prevent her endorsement being used to the detriment of yeoplo elsewhere. Sound life insurance isa good thing. To a great many people 1t is the only in- vestment they can make as a provision for those dependent on them when they are left to shift for themselves. Becauso this is so it offers an inviting field for un- scrupulous adventurers who understand that there is always a large body of un- sophisticated and gullible people who can be victimized by the fictions these oily-tongued sharpers can so readily in- vent. Hence the necessity for stringent laws in this matter, which shall carry heavy penalties for their violation. There is no meaner form of swindling than that carried on by msurance sharps, and their punishment can hardly be too se- vere. Mr. Cleveland on His Office. Whenever President Cleveland drops into sentimental ratio~ination he be- comes interesting and suggestive. He did this on Wednesday evening at the banquet which closed the exercises in honor of the centennial of the town of Clinton, N. Y., where he responded to a toast, ‘“I'o the president of the United States.”” Mr. Cleveland’s remarks showed him to have a proper idea and estimate of the character and importance of the presidential oflice. The fact that it rep- resents the sovereignty of sixty millions of people must make a profound, if not 1 solemn, impression upon all intelligent minds, It is undeniably the most exalted position on earth, and its dignity and value should not be regarded lightly by any citizen, The president was right in saying that this great office should command the watcnful care and solicitude of the people, both with respect to the selection of an in- cumbent and in insisting that the powers and duties of the chief wmagistrate ave faithfully exercised within their constitu- tional limitations. It may also be admit- ted that the office should never be made subservient to selfish interests, or its in- cumbent forced to submit to a direction or dictation proceeding from only a part of the people. We have no doubt that the great majority of intelligent citizens will tind no fault with the proposition im- plied 1n the remarks of the president that the executive oflice represents the whole people, and that its incumbent should be given a measare of confidence and mag- nanimous forbearance comporting with the character of the office. But while such consideration is claimed for the presidential office and its incum- bent from the people, the chief magis- trate should be mindful of what is due from him to the people. Mr, Cleveland is not unconscious of this, for he said: “If your president should not be of the people and one of your fellow-citizens, he would be utterly unfit for the posi- tion, incapable of understanding the people’s wants, careless of their desires." How far has practice conformed to pre- cept n the case of Mr. Cleveland? Has it been his habit, since he became presi- dent, to be “of the people?’’ Outhe con- trary has he not rather studiously kept aloof, until recently, from the, people, as if indifferent regarding their wants and careless of their desires? It 18 not much, perhaps, that different from nearly every one of his vredecessors he held no social relations except of the most formal character with the oitizens of the national capital during the first year and a half of his administration, but there is a great deal in the fact that he persistently kept aloof from the repre- sontatives of the people in congress until the more self-respecting of them were compelled to retaliate by ignoring the president. Mr. Cleveland may have p culiar yiews asto how the chief magistrate shall be *‘of the people'’ and uire an understanding of their wants and deslres, but the general judgment will undoubt- edly be that the only practicable way Is by assoolation and consul- tation with the people's repre: sontatives. How little Nr. Cleveland has done this s a mattor of history so well suthentioated that his most ardent friends will pot attempt to galnsay it, and the THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, well-known effect has been to alienate from him some of the ablest and worthiest men of his party. It may be that Mr. Cleveland has grown wiser and will not continue during the remaining time of his administration the policy of obstinate exclusivenoss and seif-dependence which has thus far aignalized his administra- tion, but he certainly cannot point to his record as president in vindication of his most recently uttered opinion respecting the relations that should subsist between the chief magistrate and the people. It will be well for him, and perhaps for the country, it he shall put this opinion into practice. Every intelligent American citizen has a full appreciation of the elevated char- acter, the dignity, and the value of the presidential office, and it is a wrong to the people to imply otherwise. But it may easilly happen, and sometimes with sufficient warrant, that they will lose confidence n and respect « for an incumbent of that office. The condemnation of the individual does not necessarily involve disrepect to the office, and may even come from a conviction that the position is being abused by the incumbent, On the whole, however, it may justly be said that the American people are most for- bearing and magnanimous in their judg- ment of the conduct of their chief inagis- trates, allowing much to good intentions a8 an excuse for shortcomings. Sunstroke—The Preventive and Cure. A sudden prostration of the nervous system from extreme heat is commonly called sunstroke. It is a mistake, how- ever, to suppose that exposure to the sun’s rays is necessary to produce sun- stroke. Workmen who are exposed all day to the glaring sun do not have sun- stroke as often as persons of sedentary habits who walk on the shady side of the street. The visitation, however, may come alike to either the man in the sun- shine or the man in the shade. The symptoms of an approaching pros- tration are discernable. Ina great num- ber of cases a warning is given, while again there are others where there is uone, the victim falling down suddenly unconscious. The indications of an at- tack are a full, heavy foeling in the head, dizziness, faintness and diflicult breath- ing, accompanied not infrequently by a rapid pulsation of the heart. When these signs appear, the threatened person can avoid sunstroke by immediately ceasing from all mental and physical effort. He should retire to a cool place, bathe his head, but refrain from drinking much water in his overheated condition. When stricken by sunstroke the means to restore should be applied at once. The head should be swathed in ice, whilo the extremities should be stimulated by mustard applications and the nausea at the stomach always accompanying a sunstroke should be relieved by outward applications of mustard. Asevery one is liable in this weather to a sunstroke, and as the effects of it may be death or long suffering, these hints in regard to the matter are well worth remember- ing. While it may be held that sunstrokes are not wholly avoidable, precautions can be sensibly and reasonably used to escape cuch a dire visitation. The avoidance of ardent stimulants is the greatest requisition, while an over indul- gence in water-drinking, especially when iced, is as bad as alcoholic beverages. Regular habits and attention to one's diet will be the surest preventive against sunstroke, as they are against all the ills flesh is heir to. d The Salvationists. The BEE sometime ago characterized tho street parades of the Salvation army as a nuisance, and demanded that the same should be abated by the police, Thereupon the BER was violently as- sailed by various parties who charged that the paper had gone out of its way to attack religion. Under the circum- stances it is rather amusing to us to read a special dispatch from Lafayette, Ind., in the Chicago Z'imes of July 13, show- g that the Salvationists had been set down upon rather severely by such a strict religious Lody as the Presbyterians, Complaints had been frequently made by the congregation of the Second Presby- terian church, by whose edifice the army marched, that the loud signing and tam- borine beating necessitated the discon- tinuance of their service. Kindly appeals to the army resulted in contemptuous answers that they had a right to parade, and would do so. The authorities were at first disposed to prohibit parades al- together, but the army finally entered into a written agrecment not to use their tambourines on Sunday and not to sing while parading within two blocks of any church, It strikes us that when the Presbyterians oppose tambourine relig- ion in the streets, it is not out of place for a newspaper to do the same thing. The Bek still maintains that the Salvation army street parades, with the big bass drum, the rattle-box tambourines, and the falsetto voices of the female shrick- ers, are & nuisance, which ought to be abated. Work KFor the Health Officer. At this season of the year, the health officer of Omaha should excrcise the greatest vigilance and activity in pre- venting malaria and the spreading of disease germs. In some parts of the city stagnant water has been confined in the low places by the grading of the adja- cent grounds and air has been poisaned by putrid matter. ‘Lhe miasma in such neighborhoods engenders malarial fevers and diseases that have their source in filth and bad air. Inother sections of the city excavation of grounds saturated with the contents of cess-pools is not only offensive to people who live in the immediate vicinity, but tends to im- pregnate the atmosphere with health-de- stroying gases. While it may be difficuit for the health ofticers to carry into eflect sanitary measures by filling up the ponds and pools of stagnant water, they cer- tainly can and ought to compel parties engaged in exoavating oellars, drains and cesspools, elther to abstain from doing this work ia \he glaring July sun, or else to use disinfeotants to dispel the nauseating odore and purify the at- mosphere. The excavation of eesspools sud abandooed vaulis sbould, in our opinion, only be oarvied on under the supervision of the héaith officer. gy e— TEe majesty of the law has been avenged and Jske Sbarp has becn sen- tenced to four years in the penitentiary and fined §5,000. If & fow more boodlers of the Bbarp type were placed behind the bars it would have s wholesome effect upou the country, Sharp's appeal for mercy didn't meet with much favor from Judge Barrett. 1f Sharp had manifested a desire to pay back any part of his stolen millions to the city he would have received some consideration in the shape | of merey. The strong characteristics of the boodlers is to appesl for mercy when the penitentiary is staring them n the face. T8 is indeed the age of reform. The Christian people of Washington have pe- titioned Secretary of War Endicott to issue an order dispénsing with the regu- lar Sunday morning dress parade and inspection in the army. Do these people wish to deprive the dude officers from exhibiting their manly beauty in the presence of their sweet-hearts? ‘Ihis would be the saddest blow ever dealt to the army. Now that Queen Kopiolana will in all probability soon be reduced to the ranks of the common people, and no longer a throne to occupy, she should have stopped off at Umaba and invested her $2,000,000 which she procured in England 1n real estate, It would have done her far more good than going back home with the hope of building up her little govern- meont. OMAMNA bas been very liberal if not reckless in voting away street railway franchises. Now that all the horse rail- roads, cable roads and motor companies have been voted franchises 1n every di- rection, we want to see their projects materialize. Tae Chicago papers include Omaha among the cities which make an es- pecially creditable exhibit of school work in the collection brought together tor the ispection of the National Teach- ers’ association, now in convention n Chicago. UNnioN PaciFic economy — decrease clerks and salaries at headquarters, $25,000 & year. Increase of general manager's salary, $30,000 a year—net in- crease, §5,000. At this rate the company will soon be able to declare another divi- dend. Advertising His Patronage. A St Louis, Mich, dentist advertises weekly the names of his patients and the number of teeth extracted for each. e A Mugwamp Uniformed. Cineinnats Commercial Gazette. A composite photograph of Mr. Cleveland and his cabinet would look likea Boston wugwump in confederate upiforin. S The Simple Way Out, . Buffalo Courier. A simple way of settling things would be to allow Jay Gouldand the Standard Oil company to divide the earth between them. o e Just Enough' to Go Round. Colonel Bradley B. Smalley aanounces with pride that the democrats are in pos- session of every federal oflice in Vermont. He had just about enough good men to go around. ol Peace and Harmony, The meaning of “'peace and harmony” as understood in Calvert county, Virginia, was explained by a negro the other day as fol- lows: “Mr. John Thomas Bond ard his crowd gitall de oflices and Mr. Joe Wilson avd his frien’s git nuthin’ but ae harmony.” e Perhi He Does, Morton's Nebraska City News, Senator Manderson says he did not ap- point Michael for fun and proposes to stand by his appointment. Manderson says he duves not belleve the story published about Michael and says there is more malice than truth in them, Thatlsa very nice manner in which to call the republicans of Fremont, Grand 1sland and Sidney liars. Perhaps Manderson knows the class of men with whom he is dealing, —_— Drum and Sheridan, Chicago Herald ‘The relations between General Sheridan and General Drum continue strained. When the secretary of war is on deck Drum is sub- ordinate to Sheridan, but when the secretary goes out of town for a week or a month he makes Drum acting secretary, and then Sheridan is Drum's subordinate. There 1s liable to be a call for the police at almost any minute now, for Endicott is away and both Drum and Sheridan are in Washington, S Still Awaiting. Burdette in Brooklyn Eagle, “Husband in?” asked the assessor cheer- fully. *“No,” answered the woman, “le isn’t home.” xpecting him soon?” asked the assessor. “Well,” the woman replied, thoughtfully, “I don’t know exactly; 1I've been lookin’ for him seventeen years and he hasn’t showed up yet. You travel round a good deal, and if you see A man who looks as though he'd make me a pretty good hus- band, tell him I'm still a-waitin’ and send him along. How’s your wife?” But the as- sessor wrote something in his book and, without speaking, slid softly away with the cautious haste of a man walking over the thin place in the ice. A Torrid Day in Town, Edward E. Kidder, “ready!” the nude little villains stand on the brolling rock. “Let her go, Gallagher!”--splash! welcome the watery shock. “Cheese it; the cops are comin’ ’—each one dives like a rock. “Did you cateh them, Moriarity?” “Divil a one o’ the lot. Phew, but it’s hot.” Down in the tenement district children in wild platoons Swallowing penny ices, using their togues for spoons: Stealing the frozen Croton, greatest of sum- mer boons; Cooling their feet in the gutters, chasing the staggering sot. Thew, but it's hot! Clang! the ambulance dropped in the sirget; Splutter! the soda-fouhtain froths at the mouth with heat. Fap, and your moist discomfort seems but the more complote; Evep the open car a favoring breeze bLas not. Phew, but it's hot. ‘Tinkle!—the ice in the glass has the sound of a sweet refrain; “Beer and a julep, walter”—*Waiter, some more chanbagnd.” Down go the cooling (?) drinks, and up files the blood to the brain; And the temperature, 50 high, doesn’t lower a single jot. ¢ Whew, but ii's hot! Rush! for the seaside boats with their mobs and their awful bands, Bound for the breakers cool that hiss on the heated sands. There's a perfect Babel of talk, and a furious flutter of fans— “Captain, you let me off; you've got on an awful lot Phew, but it’s hot!” ‘Three p. m.: 'tis blazing; turn 0 mops: d Dinners are all uueaten—there's a run on the ice cream shop: Up from & mystic quarter a rain-cloud sud- denly popsi ‘There's a furlous flood of water—it's grateful, 18 it not? No, for it's hot! - Save from 25 to 50 iug Rose Bro's special tionery,; 1521 Dodge st. They flies--a man has handkerchiefs er;m by attend- sale of fine sta- JULY 15. 1887, PACIFIC ' INVESTIGATION. The Proof the Pudding is Chewing the String. York Democrat. The Pacific railroad investigation at Omaha, must have been very refroshing to the brass-collared organs throughout the state. The *‘straight'’ and *‘trooly loil" papers in every village and hamlet in Nebraska during the late session of the late lamented legislature, ridiculed the idea that the railroads had men at Lin- coln to control legislation in the interests of the corporations, Tho State Journal would venture the assertion that the idea of the presence of a paid ralroad lobby at the capitol, was nothing more nor less than a crazy anti-monop delusion, Immediately every tin whistle would pipe the news to their credulous readers. In the light of the facts devel- oped during the past week the Demoorat and those papers that had the courage to chargo that a corrupt and venal lobby of hxrofrmlro:ul tools were controlling and dictating the legislation for the great state of Nebraska were unmistaka- bly in the nght. Governor Pattison’s commission has exam- med mearly a dozen of the Union Pacific attorneys and ‘‘claim agents,” each of whom was cum}mlh\d to testify under oath that each of them was em- ployed by that company during the ses- sion of the late legislature, and the duties and only duties of each and every one of them were to influence members i the inter of that corporation. According to their own sworn testimony, their sal- aries for this dirty work was from $400 and expenses and upwards, and that money was paid from the general fund of the railroad company. Craw- ford, the leader of one of the gangs, testified that his duty was to hold the democrats togeth- er during the senatorial contest, in order to defeat Van Wyck, whom he denomi- nated as an anti-monovoly demagoghie and crank, and that his company wanted him defeated for prudential reasons be- cause he was considered a dangerous man in the United States senate for west- ern railroad intere: These facts have been forced from the lips of the conspira- tors themselves, and it is safe to predict that the one-tenth part has not been told. The railroad gang 1sin ||m]illcs tostay un- til the people unite and drive them out, the br: ollored corporation organs and tin-whistle brigade to the contrary notwithstanding. ———— STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. A city directory is_in the hands of tho printers in Grand Island. I'he hyphenated Leader-Sentinel, of Fall City, has pewtered out of existence. Eight ex-residents of Columbus were jailed in Hastings, Tuesday, for refusing to swear by the home team. Fremont's packing house will cover 95x132 teet of ground, to be built of brick, three stories high, and cost $40,000. The Columbus tire bugs are cooling off in jail in Hastings, A warm corner awaits them amid the ruins of their vil- lainy. Lightning tapped a fine horse, a colt, and thre s on the farm of J. T. Kel- logg, at Mayflower, Monday, killing the five at one clip. The stockholders of the Fremont creamery have just pocketed a semi-an- nual dividend of ten l)cr cent. L'k s buttering the biscuits of opulence on both sides. Ed. Carr, the murderer of Warren Long, in Boone county, has been added io the list of given until Nov negof comfortable corner in the hereafter. A capitalist from Whitehall, N. Y., proposes to start a fruit eanning plant in Nebraska City tnis fall. No better loca- tion can be had in the state, as Otoe county holds the banner m that line, Mr. Tyler, of Hastings, met and _ inter- viewed ihe fighting editor of the Nebras- kan. Mr. Tyler now wears a pair of blackened ey a painful memory of the encounter, and'a ngh opinion of the dec- orative abilities of the f. e. J. L, McCoy and bride, of Hull, honey- mooned in a Cheyenne hotel a fow days ago, and jumped” their board bill. The couple are evidently amateur Junatics, as no sane person would have stopped in Cheyenne on a bridal tour, The assessment roll of Burt county shows 6,515 horses, 27,023 cattle, 736 mules, 2,106 sheep, 28,701 hogs outside the Indian reservation, 2,157 wagons, 201,001 acres of land, ot which 138,426 acres are improved, — The assessed value of all property is $1,700,087.70, The Schuyler Herald rejoices that “Armour, the great meat packer of Chi- has deeided to locate one of his gigantic plishments at Omaha, thing for Omaha I It means hogs.” East Sioux City has contributed a score of town lots to give color and body to the fluid which igates Omaha. At the te the cutting is going on now 1t would take but a comparatively short time for the g‘rc ter portion of Easc Sioux City to fall into the river, causing a loss of thousands of dollars. Fire tackled the chuck in the railroad eating house in Chadron, masticated the building in short order, but collapsed and went out with a wild shriek when it descended to the pie counter. 1tis now proposed to arm the fire department with this potent fire protector, labeled on the crust *'In pie we trust.” Beware of imi- tutions, The Strang company of Omaha have been awarded the franchise for water- works in Norfolk. The company pro- }mfla to put in a first class plant, to cost rom $40,000 to $50,000, The city agrees 3,000 year for fifty hydrants, added to receipts frem private consumers, will make the plant a profita- ble one to the company, and a scource of security and comfort to the city. The Columbus Journal thus speaks of Omaha’s great suburb: “South Omaha is one of the liveliest, perhaps the very hiveliest community in the state at pres- ent, and, while it is wonderful how it has grown, its growth in the future promises to be still more of & marvel. Among the important business enterprises are a large brewery,a varnish factory, & wagon and carriage factory, four of the largest packing houses in the world, when Swift and Armeur have completed their estab- lishments—Armour has recently bought out Lipton, and purposes investing §: 000 to $300,000 in _an establishment that will have a capacity of 5,000 hogs a day. Soon the young city will have three dif- ferent systems of waterworks, and this fall and winter work will be pushed on a soweraze systom which will require a tunnel through the hills to the Missouri river, a mile and a half long au foet in diameter. Among the Columbus folks at South Omaha are Dan Condon,William Walker, George White, Harry' Arnold, Ernest Stenger, Jessie Roggen, Mat Leonard and George Peck, all of whom, it is said, are doing well e as well, better market for cattle and lowa News, Prairie hay is worth $7a ton in Burling- ton; new timothy $15, and old $17. ‘The sensation at Moulton last week was the elopment of Lewis Galliher aud Miss Della, daughter of Muyor Swift. '{huy were last heard from at Nebraska Jity. The third annual regatta of the lowa Amatear Rowing assoc wili be held at Spirit Lake, July 27, The gold medals offered as prizes are valued at $1,200. Prophet Foster predicts a danzerons droughty season for crops from July 15 to Angust 3 and from August 12 to § L tember 1, The dry region will not be | mdntprend‘ moroly patches re and ere. Ground has been broken in Cedar Ra- ids for a condensed milk factory, the uilding to be 560 by 150, three stories, The factory will havo a capacity of 160,- (m)gmmdu per day, using the product of 6,000 cows. The Marshalltown city council has passed a resolution offering a remission of all municipal taxes and all license fees for a term of five years to any one who shall build an opera house in that city, to chst not less than $35,000 and to have a scating capacity of not less than 1,000, Colorado. The News says lawyers are as thick in Denver as vagrant dogs. The license receipts of Denver from all sources for the past six months amounted to $388,040. A broom factory is to be established at Fort Collins, which will draw the raw material from Nebraska, The indictments against Sheriff Cramer, of Arapahoe county, and his deputies did not hold water in courtand were quashed. John Hicks, a Denver Ilahorer, father of five children, guyed and bantered a fellow workman named Me- Carty, aged seventeen, and when the lat- ter protested, Hicks pounded him bru- tally. Suddenly the boy freed himself from the man's grasp, and quickly pick- ing up a shovel lying near dealt Hicks a territic blow on the head. Hicks died from the eflects of the blow in about an hour. A coroner's inH\lost was held and {\):rnlict was returned of justifiable hom- cide. Meontana. The Drum Lummon mine turned out $203,800 worth of ore during June. The new court house at Helena has been paid for, dedicatea and opened for business. The Revenue mine in the Richmond Flat district has heen sold to Boston par- ties for $600,000. The ex-Rev. Miln is pounding “Ham- let' 1n territorial towns. A local critic avers that “‘the melancholy prince sets well on the mobile and intellectual face of Miln."” ’Tho Montana Central is making the dirt fly on the Butte branch. At the Wickes tunnel they are working under- ground from both ends. On the north side tho tunnel has been driven to & depth of 285 feet and they are timbering up close. The Helena Mining and Reduction company continue to show very gratify- ing results at the Wickes works. The value of the crude and refined bullion output for the first five months of the year foots up \'cr{ nearly $500,000. The single item of lead reached 4,126,156 Kounds of railway haulage. The total ullion output of the works for the year 1887 is estimated to exceed $1,200,000. ——— THE BLACK HILLS, ‘What the Inhabitants are Doing Dur- ing the Heated Term. Rarip City, Dak., July 12.—[Special Correspondence of the Bee.]—In these torrid days the Black Hills country does not give such encouragement to the ten- derfoot as earlier or later in the scason. One thing, and only one, can bé found to offer consolation. It is vossible to sleep. During the day the sun beats down with an intensity that is fierce, but when the night comes the hght air, easily cooled, looses all of the torridity of the day, and the long evenings are cool and pleasant and the nights very comfortable for sleep. ‘This alone makes hfe endurable m this region. But the people who come to the Black Hills were not enticed hither by the beauties of the climate. Climatic conditions are minor considerations when the allurement of the precious metals is held out. Quartzand carbonates, galena and sulphurites attract a class of citizens who are usually impervious to heat or cold such as ofiset ordinary ietals, All people in the Black Hills are not of this class, yet all exist. The busy granger is just now furbish- g up his mowing machine and hunting the self-binder out of the field whare he left it last fall. If not doing tms, he is in town making glad the heart of the im- plement man b{ purchasing harvest ma- chinery with a liberanty nlmnslprodi;fi b For the outlook for crops was never bet- ter in the history of the country, and the heart of the granger man is glad and the fieldless dweller 1 town is m{nim-d cor- respondingly. [n the Bluck Hills as else- where, times are good when crops are good and corn and wheat and oats in plenty cause money to circulate in abundance. The consumption in the Black Hills has more than doubled in two years, and last i‘v:nr crops were almost a total failure. During the win- ter and even now, Nebraska hay, corn, oats, fed the stock and Nebraska flour, beef, butter, eges, potatoes ed man in this country to exist. All this took money out” of the Hiils. A good crop will chs this condition, hence the general rejoicing. Next to the crop outlook, the chicfest topic of conversation in this region is tho firemen’s tournament, which closed at Lead City last week, That spirit which in other regions mduces young men to join military companies, runs in this sec- tion to ‘‘lire departments.’”” A double end is thus subserved. Deadwood loads tho Hills towns in point of number and in splendor of equipment of firemen, But with all their glory, the Deadwood fire- men failed to win the coveted honors,not to spoak of the peize money; their costly equipment availed nothing against the muscle and luck of the Lead City men, and not a purse worth having went away from the town that furnished the enter- tainment. A wrangle arose, the details of which are interesting, which threatens the disruption of the association. Small lory fcll to_the running teams from f- { City. Yet when the boys returned a reception was given them, A saloon- keeper invited lhcm in, and in his “par- lor" set forth; the sparkling champagne in hiberal quantities. *“‘A feast of reason and a flow of soul” followed. Other sa- loon men imitated the example of the first, beer took the vlace of champagne, song and speech vied with each other for i all was love beyond com- pare. n some inapired “individual slipped off and came back, and in an in- stant some twenty-five and thirty packs of fire cr: h floor. H sallied, some fifty or sixty strong, and the different stocks of fireworks in the city were levied on. Not only levied on, but exploded. Words cannot portray what followed. The entertainment has been likened to all similes, or synonyms for noise, yet not one of these can tell how the emen of Rapid City made night hideous and sleep impossible with their sport. Big erackers und little chasers” and torpedbes, and Roman candles, anything make & noise, and the racket of the explosion accompanied by a chorus of yelling that would put to shame In- dian gang that ever frightened a peace- ful white. It was the firemen, however, and as the honest citizen turned uneasily on his sleepless couch he mentally blessed the existence of the cause of his misery. The firemen of the Biack Hills are oailed on to face danger often, and their license is their only reward., And this heense is seldom abused Probably the most interesting topic umong miners i3 the controversy i tween Thomas H, White & mining ex bort of Deadwood, and the Horney Peak Mining company. The company lately attempted to place » large amount of tin property in London. Mr. White, in his capacity as self-constituted cruser of mining enterprizes, took the pains to write 8 letter to a Loundon paper, in which he dened the existonce \oe the company's |)ropeny,rnd pr make a number of very allegations, imputing anything bl orable intentions to the managers enterprigo. As the Horney Penk pany is to Rapid Ci‘y what the lHom n in heded to \[ions stake is to Deadwood, and the relations -~ between the towns are strained, it is casy to surmise the row that is in progress. Mr. White stands in a very promising way of damaging his reputation as a re- lieble mining critic, All through the Hills the people are busy, The farmer is preparing for har- vest, the miner for winter. Little fs doing in the towns. A building goes up now and then, yet no boom is heard. The railroad extension from Rapid City to Sturgis progresses, and yet Sturgis does not seem to have felt the impetusan approaching road gives a western town, A combination appoars to work agsinst her, and all are waiti & to see ‘‘which way the cat will jump.'” I'm watching with the others —_—— THE CARE OF CHILDREN. A Fow Timely Words to Those Who Are Now Oarrying a Heavy Burden. Mothers who in the Jong, hot days of this season are watching your poor little babies pining and fading away, while all experiments with various foods and med- icines fail to vanquish the terrible foe and summer scourge, and cholera infan- tum, try the following: o up at once the use of wmilk inany way prepared, either boiled, condensed, mlxnl. in large or small quantities, with any of the cereal foods; not a drop of milk, until the child is well and the eummer is over! Get a pound of lean fresh beef; the butcher must cut it at least an inch thick, from the finest portion of the round. Use one-. half of it for beef juice, by rule given later; take the other half raw upon a rlnm, hold it steady with a fork stueck irmly 1nt> the picce near the edge, and with a small, sharp steel knife, grasped partly by the blade as well as by the han- dle, scrape, away from yonu, the whole length of the beef across the top, What you thus take trom the beef will be a fine, smooth paste, and for a sick baby one-half u teaspoonful will be enough for the first feeding. Cover the rest of the beet closely with a saucer, and put it right away on ice, or in the coldest place, until pou want to scrape some more to feed the child again. Sprinkle the scraped beef with a little salt, and tako small pinches of it in your thumb and finger, and put it so upon the baby’s tongue. A child of five or six months can swallow and digest this fine, smooth puste when every drop of milk will turn to curd and acid and burn_its poor little stomach. Give the ohild water only to drink and crushed ice from a small spoon. To crush the 1ce .very fine and quickly, putinto_a clean stout cloth, about as’large as a handkerchief, s piece of ice the size of an flfi'f' Tuke up the four corners of the cloth loosely like a sling and strike the ice with three or four sharp, smart strokes upon the edge of a marble slab or stone window- sill. The ice will be mashed fine almost u8 snow. You can give five to ten dropp of brandy upon such crushed ice; it is & good plan to keep some brandy, in a small bottle, a little sweetened ready for use in this way. Feed the baby often with small quantities of the beecf—one- halt teaspoonful cvnrr hour—and brandy with ice between until you sce improve- ment; then you can give a little more at one time and not quite so often, and after forty-cight hours, perhaps sooner, some stale bread erumbs and beef juice. Crumb fine a picce of bread, stale but perfectly sweet and light, about two inches square. A little Championcracker will do, but bread is botter, Pour a very little boiling water upon it, enough to enable you to mash it to a smooth, stiff paste. Heat a plece of the other side of the beef over hot coals, but not enough to cook it, Take from the fire upon a hot plate, cut itinto pieces two Incpes square; score them with a sharp knife sprinkle o little salt upon them an squeeze the juice from them with a lemon squcezer. (Many poor have no lemon squeezers, Well, wash your hands very clean in cold water and do our best, squeezing with your hands, lix the bread paste and beef juice, an feed very slowly in small quantities to the baby. To a baby very weak ana young you must feed with your fingers; a stronger child can be fed with a spoon, but remember, only small bits at each wmouthful. If the child is old enough to swallow bread and butter, when it gets better, let it eat stale bread, sparely buttered, or crumbed into the beef juice, frecly,and give plenty of the raw,scraped beef. On this' diet three of my little children were saved from death by chol- cra infantum, and one ate nothing else for more than a year, n-,.\cnplmt: after two or three months,an oceasional baked potato mixed with the raw beef, and sometimes a littie well-boiled rice with a very little sweet butter and sugar, and drunk only water. A tablespoonful of milk would work instant mischief with these three children. Without dr have suceaeked in bringing several apparently dying chil- dren back to lifo upon this diet of raw beef paste and bread and beef juice. Sometimes the persistent use of milk has so inflamed the stomach and bowels with its sharp acid as to require a corrective, Then give lhittle powders of bi-corbonate of potash—two, three or five grains each, as the child is five or six monthsor a year old. Dissolve one in the crushed ice and feed the baby from it with a small spoon, a powder three or foJr timesa day. Itis vcr? tasteless. No doubt your doctor will laugh you to scorn while you try to bring your baby up on raw beef and bread and_ butfer! But “let those laugh who win!"" And this 18 the experience of A MoTHER OF NINE CHILDREN. Juiy 8. -~ A Strange Meeting at Gettysburg. S. P. Reed, in Richmond Dispatch: Among the many incidents of the reunion at Gettysburg [ was an eye-witness to one well worthy of mention. " Ser; E Smith, of company ¥, ginia infantry, had previous to this re- Iated to me that after passing the rock all he was wounded and fell near where General Armistead had fallen, and that a federal soldier came up and Kindly of- fered to assist him, which offer he de- clined in the hope thatour line would re- ceive reinforcements and he mght be re- imed. Soon after reaching the battle- field on Monday Iast a member of the Seventy-first ennsylvania regiment came up to me and stated that near the we were standing upon a confe gergeant fell wounded July 3, 18 of having offered to assist him from 1d. He expressed a_great desire to meet that man if living. I'told him that 1 was satisfied I could produce the man, I turned and saw Sergeant Smith stand- ing not far oft and called him up and in- troduced him to his captor, After a mo- ment’s conversation both men were per- foctly satisiied that they were the actors in the scene twenty-four rs ugo. The meeting was a cordial one, I agsure you. The Snake Understood English, New York Sun: It is related that some Americans recently going through the Jardin des Plantes of Paris stopped to look at a big rattlesnake in a cage. It lay motionless, apparently asleep, but two of the party who lingered be- began to speak English, it movea, N guve every gign of in- told their companions that stood english. The whole rty returned to the eage. ‘The © was apparently asieep ugnin. They conversed in Freneh, but the snake madao no movement; then the ladies began to speak in English. The snuke sturted, lifted its head, and showed the eame alertness as before ut the soends, he rattlesnake proved, on inquiry, 1o have come from Virglule. &