Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 17, 1887, Page 5

fny L 200 Oy, PIMEL VAN STRE g T & BUiLDI> N 6, 3 N0, 61 FOU FRENTH STREKT. - ‘onnnzsl-mm“c: nioations relating t nows and edi- uattor siould be addiesswd 1o the Ebi & Bik, v BUSINESS LETT) Y lotto ey nd remit should be PUBLISHISG COMPANY, s and postofice orders P the order of the sompuuy, ) NG COMPARY, PROPRIETORS. LWATER, Eprror ¥ THE DAILY BEE. 7ern Statement of Uirculation. of Nebraska, 5 ',nt{ of Douglas. %‘- 8 T0}, B3, "I'zschuck, secretary of The Beo 0Vishing company, does solemnly swear B { the actual clrculation of the Dally Bee he week ending July 15, 1887, was as Wi hacaze. N Gro, 8. Tz e¢t to and subseribed in my presence b day of July, A. D, 1887. N. P, FrIT, H [SEAL.1 Notary Publle. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County. Geo. B. Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, wm and says that he is secretary of The Publishing company, that the actual average daily circulation of the Daily Bes for e month of July, 1586, 12,314 copies; or August, 1558, 12,464 copies: for Septem- r, 169, 13,030 copies; for October, 1856, 8,00 copies: for rémber, 1 5,048 ar 5, 18,337 coples; for anuary 1857, 16,260 copies; for February, , 14,105 coples; for Ma les; for April, 1857, 14,316 copie: &. 14,237 coples; for June 1887, 14, opies. for Decem!| Gro. B. Tzscnuck, Bubseribed and sworn to before me this 1st @ay of July A. D,, 1857, l’éEAl..] N. P. Femw, Notary Public. Contents of the Sunday Bee. Page 1. General Telegraphic News, Pace 2 Telegraphic Nows.—City News,— scellany. age 3, Sgn-lnl Advertisements, e 4. Editorials.—Press Comments,— Miscellany. Page 5. Lincoln News—Aliscellany—Ad- rtisements, "age 6, Council Bluffs News.—Miscellany, =Advertisements. Page 7.—General and Local Markets.—Ad- ‘wertisements. Page 8. General City News.—Local Adver- ments. 'age 9. Soclety in Omaha,—Dr. McGlynn ‘and the Pope.—Misce! nnf'. Page 10, The Powder River Country, by neral James Brisbin.—The Internal” Con- on of Russia,—In the Electric Field.— ulators of Dakota.—Girls Have a Pur- Advertisements. go 1L The Drummer’s Will.—In the =P at Elk Mountain, by R. A. Eaton.—Re- ous.—Imploties,—¥or Kxpectant Bride- moln&— Honey for the Ladies Connubial- —Musical and Dramatic.—Educational. dAdvertisements, Page 12 Bullet Strewn Fields, by John T I.—Singularities,— Peppermint " Drops.. n Innocent at the Races, by Clara Belle.— 'n?lln‘ With the Spooks. — Advertise- ments. Now that the court has enjoined the #raudulent printing contract the proper course for the council to pursue is to order the city clerk to invite fair compe- tition for the oflicial advertisiag. Mgrs CLEVELAND exhibited no small imount of heroinism yesterday. She ravely faced the multitude numbering thousands, notwithstanding the fact she %ad a stye on her right eye. Brave little ‘woman, — S16N8 of peace and prosperity are grad- ually settling upon the brows of the overworked farmer. The great grain orop of the west is beginning to move, end in return the glittering dollars will awell the pockets of the country folk. —_— YESTERDAY and the day before were ‘She warmest days ever known 1 many docalities, In Cleveland and Dotroit the Shermometer went up several points digher than was ever before known ‘within the memory of the oldest inhab- Atant. HILToN'S left-handed defense of John #. Thurston’s Chautauqua billingsgate ‘oration is & most cruel piece of biting rcasm. The rich contralto voice of the , P, oil-room orator will probably never @gain be heard at the Nebraska Sunday sohool resort. — 8Sr. Louts does mot intend to be . ®hwarted 1 its efforts to secure the pres- ence of President Cleveland and his wife #n that city in Ootober during the fair. Perhaps Tuttle will object to this, For %his insult the man trom lowa may de- ®line to exhibit his mammoth pumpkin ¢t the fair. b _______J Sunser Cox in a recent speech about rebel flag incldent, called General irchild, commander of the Grand dArmy, a donkey because he opposed the turn of the flags to the southern states. rom Mr. Cox's standpoint General Fair- child was a donkey. He lost an arm fighting far the union while Cox bravely gemained with the home guards and cop- perheads. i ‘TuF. citizens of Washington are mak- Ang extensive arrangements to give ex- @Bovernor Alexander R. Shepherd, com- mmonly known us *‘Boss" Shephord, a wousing recoption on his arrival at the ‘oapital, where he will permanently reside n the future, having abandoned the mining damps of Mexico. The reception 18 to be tendered the veteran “Boss’ in pecognition of his services in beautifying and otherwise iniproving the city during his administration as governor of the district. This may produce pain and anguish in the democratic heart, and give the party a new issuein the next oampaigo. CEEE———— Tre asytum for the insane at Ward', Taland, New York, was recently discov eved to be n Tewksbury, and now the .~ ‘®aylum for similar unfortunates at Flat- Bush is found out to be equally a place of martyrdom. Horrible and brutal acts sof cruelly are reported. to have been the mommon custom of the keepers and at- dants fn their dealings with the pa- Abemts. It is a mockery upon the civiliza- of the day when such atrocities as * ‘Shese are disclosed, and the custodians of | %ho afilioted who maltreat them are en- Mitled to no mercy, but should suffer sondign punishment. B dKorond b; 170 [ntrymen in whom they Justly feel fnerous degree ot pride, and who seem poe justifying the high character they Mijoy at home. Mr. Blaine has been carrying himself with becoming dignity since he landed in England, and appears to have made an excellent impression without especially seeking to do so. Senator Hale is another gentleman well thought of at home who can be trusted not to do anything to depreciate the esti- mate in which distinguished Americans are held abroad. He is, of course, over- shadowed by the other Maine statesman, but he has borne himself creditably, and will continue to do so. Mr. Wayne MecVeagh is another who has done his full share to sustain American character. At a recent «dinner of the Savage club, which we understand to be one of the most sclect orgamzations of its kind in London, Mr. McVeagh won the honors 1n an after- dinner speech which was at once asurprise and delight to those who heard it, and which has re- ceived a great deal of complimentary comment. The favorable impression these gentlemen have made must satisfy the English people that the countrymen of their visitors have nlaced no mistaken estimate on them. This trio of distingnished American politicians will soon be joined by another, the Nestor among politicians, who at the ripe age of nearly ninety years, having seen and learned all there is of politics in his own land, has gone abroad to find 8 new sensation in observing and study- ing the politics of England. On last Thursday General Simon Cameron sailed} for Kurope, in quest of pleasure and knowledge, as the veteran him- self declared. His intention is to visit Gladstone and Parnell, and to study the Irish question i all its details. Still yielding to the politician’s instinet which has dominated his whole carcer, this 1 of nearly ninety years braves an occan voyage and whatever of discomforts and hardships may come of travel in order to acquaint himself by personal observation and association with foreign political life. Finding nothing new or interest- ing in his own land, he goes elsewhere to gratify the insatiable desire for polities, which he has fostered and fed for nearly seventy years. Other men tire of the conflicts of politics, when the years have been reached that should bring surcease of care and passion and struggle, but not 80 this veteran of the political arena, who 1n the day of his greatest power was a Hercules before whose valor and prowess the strongest opponents went down, and who even smmce he transferred his sceptre to much less able hands has not remamed wholly idle. Behind the scenes the retired sov- ereign has moved many puppets whi his heir was unable to manipulate. General Simon Cameron has be a commanding figure in American politics —few men have besn more so. For near- ly seventy years he has stood as the power and inspiration of successful poli- tics in Pennsylyania, and by reason of that position has exercised a strong and positive influence upon the politics of the nation. Possessing the political instinet in its fullest devslopment, with all the conditions of temperament and will nec- essary to support it, he followed its bid- ding aggressively and fearlessly. No obstacles baflled him, he was dismayed by no dangers, he hesitated at no labor. Having the qualities and qualifications of leadership, weaker men yielded a willing submission to his com- mands or were foreed to obey them. He brooked no divided power and requred the absolute allegiance of his followers. Inaword, Simon Cameron was in the period of his active career in the fullest sense a politician—ag gres- sive, fearless, sagacious, indefatigable, faithful to those who gave him their faith, rclentless to his enemies. Only such a man could have for almost sev- enty years held the second state in the union in bondage to his will, As the reward of all his political ef- fort Mr. Cameron hasbeen a United States senator, a member of the cabinet, and represented the government at a foreign court. He aspired to be presi- dentin 1860, but finding his chances hopeless he threw his influcnce to Lin- coln as against Seward, He played the part of Warwick again in 1870, when after an ineffectual support of Hart- ranft he guave the vote of Pennsylvania to Hayes in order to beat Blaine. As a representative American politician, who has served under both the democratic ‘and repub- lican standards, and knows our politics as thoroughly as any man who has ever participated in them, General Simon Cameron can be commended to the polit- 10al leaders of England as worthy of their most distinguished consideration. SE——— Inter-State Extradition, The governors of Massachusetts, Ver- mont, Connecticut, Pennsylyania and New York have united in an invitation for a meeting of representatives of all the states and territories, to convene in New York on the 23d of next month, the object being to institute a movement for a uniform system of rules and practice in the matter of the inter-state extradi- tion of fugitives from justice. The circu- 1ar sets forth that while the regulations and practice of the states in general may be considered substantially similar, they are widely divergent in details and par- ticular requirements. The ill consequen- ces of this divergence are obvious. Flee- mg criminals are afforded a better op- portunity of escape than they would have if a uniform system of extradition prevailed, tho officers of the law are put to a great deal of trouble that is often perplexing, vexatious and daogerous delays occur, and an unnecessary ex- pense is incurred. All these conditions are more or less serious obstructions to the prompt and cffective execution of justice, necessary both to the restraint and pumishment of crime. All means necessary to the speediest practicable ap- plication of the law, avoiding all hind- rances not essential to obviate injustice, are desirable, and the aim should be to reduce to the minimum the opportunities of criminals to escape the consequences of their acts, There is of course a steady increase of the criminal class. and therefore ot crimes, while the facilities of travel be- tween the states enable the crimivals to get easily and rapidly away from the scene of their depredations, It fre- quently happens that only these who have committed the more serious crimes are pursued, - chiefly for the reason n hunt oMt ordinary o comparatively small § . ticually moving about the ¢d state to state, virtually protected inharmonious system of extraditio This system also affords to the class of greater criminals opportunities of escape and of orgaunization to defeat justice which they not infrequently avail them- selves of. The organized raid on Cleve- lana detectives who were conveying a prisoner from Pittsburg a few months ago, in which the prisoner was released and one ot the detectives fatally injured, would probably not have occurred but for the delay in obtaining extradition papers. The several days required for this purpose enabled the prisoner to com- municate with his trusted colleagues in crime and they to rally to his rescue, not hesitating at murder to accomplish that object. On every account it s desirable that inter-state extradition laws shall be siml- plified and harmonized, so that they shall promote rather than impede justice, The proposed meeting is therefore an impore tant matter, which should receive the earnest attention of the authorities of all the states. Educational Convention, The national school association held its annual meeting at Chicago. Before adjourning the convention adopted a series of resolutions which, in the main, are unobjectionable, but in no respect origmal. The recommendation that politics should mot enter into the election of school officers is to be com- mended. Polities should be as rigidly excluded from school man- agement as scetariamism. Compulsory education is one among the numerous other recommendations. The sugges- tion is growing in popular favor, and one which will be ultimately adopted. So long as the people are taxed for the support of public schools elementary in- struction shouid be made universal. An apveal is made for a general advance in achers, salaries, and a system of pen- sions for teachers who have become una- ble to continue professional labor by rea- son of advanced age. On this point much may be said. The average pay of teach- ers is doubtless too low but in some cities, notably in Omaha, the teach- ers are the best paid class of wage workers in the community. The proposition to estabiish a retired list for teachers who have lost their health or become too old to continue in the pro- fession is worthy of consideration. It may be premature, but the tenaency to encourage men and women who excel in any calling is gaining ground. The pol- icy should however be to pay good wages, msure promotion to the meritorious and efficient, and inculeate industry, frugal- ity and thrift. A well paid teacher ought to be able'to save and lay by enough in the course of fifteen or twenty years to be in a condition to retire without a pon- sion. The legislatures are urged to provide for teaching the injurious effects of alco- hol and narcotics on the human system, to prombit the sale of impure literature and tobacco to the youth, This is the sum and substance of the recommendations made to the county by the National Teachers’ association. Those who expected grand things from this convention will be sadly disap- pointed. Papers were read and hours given to discussion, but in the main nothing prac- tical was suggested or proposed. Nearly all the leading lights devoted themselves to theoretical and speculative disserta- tion. The mass of the teachers were mystified with philosophical theorems and gorged with historical reminiscences from away back. The only exceptions were the discussion of manual training and comparison of ex:sting relations be- tween the common schools, colleges and umversities. The pretensions of the latter and their tendency to an exalted and luxurious system of over education were condemned. Education above all things should be made practical. In neglecting to formu- late or suggest any method by which the common school can be improved and en- larged in its uscfulness the convention signally failed of any good purpose. Sunday in ths Army. An attempt is being made for the rec- ognition and establishment of the iron- modeled Sunday 1 the regulararmy. A bouard of army officers has been 1n session revising the army regulations,but its work has been retarded by the work of the Puritan Sundayites. The demand is that parades and inspections shall be sus- pended on Sunday. The parades and spections in the army on Sunday are nothing more than hke ceremonies on other days, unless it be the inspections are a little more thorough. The soldier is required to keep clean on week days, to have his equipmonts in order, his barracks clean, and there is no reason why these same oflices should not be required of him on Sunday, and his arms and barracks be inspected to see that he has done as re- quired. Parades are a part of the mili- tary duty of a soldier, and he is as much on duty on Sunday as any other day. The military exercises on Sunday while differing of course from the Sunday preparations and work obligatory in civil life, are in fact just as much a part and as necessary to _the soldier’s life as the shaving, athing and other processes through which the civilian goes to prepare him- self for the observance of Suunday sc- cording to his liking. Because the soldier is paraded and inspected on Sun- day, his church principles are not cur- tailed. He can go to church if he wants to, and the church service in the post chapel is just as long as it is in the oa- thedral, church or meeting house of city, town or village. flis parade and inspec - tion intorferes with neither the devotion nor occupation of anybody else, for everybody when the parade occurs is en- gaged in it. Reform may be in order in the army, but the attempt to do away with Sunday dress parades is unealled for, TrRE project of & motor railway 1n Omaha and the probability that electric- ity will be employed gives local interest to the recent experiments in New York with an electric motor in propelling street cars, The results of these trials were very satisfactory, showing that en- 9s:halt been made in the els?trlh force to street The' Jflien system was York, that being regarded simple, economical and efli- h & single motor & speed of €lve to fifteen miles was obtalned, ® running can be regulated as may Be desired and withoutthe least difficulty. 1t is said that a car.can be run by this motor at a cost of $4.10 a day, or a little more than one-half the cost of horse power. Running street cars by electric motors is, however, no longer n novelty. More than 8,500,000 passengers are carried annually in this country in cars moved by this power. In Montgomery, Ala, elec- tricity is used on eleven miles of road, ata cost one-half that of horse power. Roads on which electricity takes the place of horses are found in Baltimore, Los Angeles, Port Huron, Detroit, Scran- ton, Appleton, Wis., and Denver. Elee- tric railways are in course of construc- tion or under contract in twelve other cities, and 1o thirty-seven companies havo been formed or other steps taken for the building of such roads. Upon none of the ronds now in operation in this country, however, is force supplied by storage batteries attached to the cars, In most cases power is communicated by an overhead conductor. More than 2,000,000 passengers are carried every year by electric railways in Europe. —_— THe man who said yesterday, *‘ls this hot enough for you,” was shot on sight, and the coroner’s jury rendered a ver- dict that it had served him right in the fiast degree. —_— PROM ENT PERSONS, Sarah Bernhardt has saved about $200,000. General Sherman has taken a cottage at Lake George for the summer. General Sherman is yachting with E, A, Bateman off the Maine coast. ‘William Waldorf Astor, ex-minister to Italy, is called *“Bill”” by his father, Dr. R. C. Flower, of Boston, has an inter- est in‘the mines at Silver Clift, Col., which he values at $14,000,000. Miss Daisy Garland, daughter of the attor- ney general, will make her debut in Wash- ington society next winter, Berry Wall, king of the dudes, is dressing and undressing ten times a day for the bene- fit of the Long Branch people. “ Kentucky will invite President Cleveland to attend an industrial and commercial con- vention at Louisville, October 4. Ex-Governor Pierce, of Dakota, will prob- ably accept the presidency of the Grand Forks university Ia that territory. Secretary Lamar’s sgn, who now has a gov- ernment clerkship, I8 not a bricht young man, but an excellent baseball player. The only surviving chiidd of the late Judge Poland, of Varmont, is his daughter Isabel, wife of A. E. Rankin, of St. Johns- bury. i Mrs. James Brown Yotter's husband says he is ‘‘entirely satisfied]’ with his wife's career on the stage. . If he wasn't it wouldn’t make much difference with the wmadame. i Mark Twain is spending the summer at his country home near ‘Eimira, N. Y., and is busily engaged on a new book. He is rich, but he wants more money. He does not work for fun. 4 Mr. George W. Childs has lately adeedto his valuable collection: of souvenirs the silk hat that General Grant wore during his tour around the world. The general’s initials in gold-plated letters are placed on the lining inside the crown. General Batcheller, of Saratoga, has a daughter only seventeen years os age who speaks seven languages fluently, She was with her father when he was judge of the in- ternational tribunal at Cairo, Egypt, and converses in Arablic better, if anything, than she does in English. General Francis E, Spinner, formerly treasurer of the United States, is greatly en- Jjoying life in his tent home on Pablo beach, Florida. At eighty years of age he ixas genial and hearty as ever, and welcomes hosts of visitors. He Is a particularly suc- cessful fisherinan, and envious rivals say toat when worms are scarce he uses his sig- nature for bait. A new novel entitled “At tho Merey of Tiberius,” by Augusta Evans Wilson, will be published in September. For many years Mrs. Wilson has been living in seclusion in a beautiful suburban home near Mobile, Ala., and it has been understood that, in obedi- ence to her husband’s wishes, she would never again resume her literary work, Mrs. Wilson, better known as Miss Evans, repre- sents a school of southern fiction that has passed away, while a fresher and better liter- ature has taken its place. — ODDS AND ENDS, STock in the South Omaha Land company is a pretty good thing to have, It pays a quarterly dividend of 25 per cent. Tie announcement 18 azain made that Tow Murray will soon complete his builaing, Murray’s bullding and Keely’s motor ought to be hitched up together. JonN M. TuumsTON has gone back to Spirit Lake. He has had the wires cut so that the Union Pacific investigating commit. tee can not reach him during the rest of the sumuwer. IT is now the base ball fashion to sell the players just the smne asa cattle king sells his live stock, but we haven’t heard of any- body wanting to purchase more than one or two of the members of the Omaha club. 17 has recently been shown that the water- ‘works eannot throw a stream to the top of our highest buildings. 'If the required can- not be secured, the proBabiljty is that steam engines will have to be o TuE public fountain s as dry as a basket of chips. We refer to the one near the Omaha National bank. It is now neither orna- mental nor useful, and, if it i3 not to be v;lnmd it ought to be.carted off to a junk shop. - Just BEFORE Andrew Cailisle resigned his position as book-keeper for James E. Boyd about eight years ago and went south, he Invested $400 in ‘four hcres of ground within the city limits, 1le Tecently returned to Omaha and sold the. property tor $10,000, which he has zeinvested in Omaha real estate. Ross RAYMOND, the newspaper man who developed Into a notorious contidence worker, —among whose victims was Dr, Miller, of Omaha,—I3 now behind the bars at Sing Sing) He 1s the assistant librarian of the prison, and is also an aide to the chapiain. This would seem to imply, says an exchange, that even within the prison walls he has success- fully practiced his confidence game. - Gore Might Have Stained the Jubilee. Pittaburg Chronicls, It is queer that Queen Victoria did not confer the Order of the Bath on some of Buffalo Bill's Indians. - Practically Covers the Ground, New York Tribune, High license with lccal option practically covers the ground. Where one will not apply the other will. The first for the cities, the second for the country, small towns and villages, offers each in its turn the policy best adapted to existing conditions. Prohl- bition cannot, at least as yet, conquor appe- tite In cities. Perhaps, New York World, Perhaps Brinski, Grover Cleveland’s army substitute, would be willing to represent the president at St, Louis for a consideration. —~— Preparing for an Emergenocy. St Louis Republican, ‘The Canadian militia is being reorganized. It is possible that the dominion is expecting another visit from Editor O’Brien. - - Good Advice. New Orleans Picayune, A young man going Into vpolities should give his character to the devil and his pock- ethook to his wife. When Le repents he may be saved. S — A Creditable Page. Hastings Independent. The editorial page of the SUNDAY OMAIA Ber was a credit to that city and the state. Nothing so becomes a metropolitan paper as a full and able editorial page. — - A Hint to Mr. Thurston, Neligh Leader, On lawyer's day at Crets, John M. Thurston took advantage of the opportunity to roast the press for the remarks it had made concerning his visit to Minnesota when the Pacific railway commission wanted him. 1f Mr. Thurston would be a little more honest in his dealings the press would give no occa- slon to feel grieved at its remarks, Olassical Slang. Boston Courier. Shakspeare seems to have been very well up in most of the slang phrases of the present day. Inj“‘Henry VIIL we have “‘too thin;" in “King John,”’ “‘come off!”" and “‘you are too green and fresh:” in ‘“Winter's Tale,” “What? Never?” and, although he does not exactly use the exclamation rats! we have in *‘Ham- let,” “A rat! a rat!” which is pretty near it. John Bunyau used the pbrase, ‘It is a cold day' in connection with adver- sity. —_—— Darling of Omaha. Written for the Sunday Bre by Lu B. Cake, Free as the fawn of her native plains, Darling of Omaha, Royal the tint of the sky-blue veins, Darling of Omaha, Brow n are her eyes and bright, Swift is her step and light, And on her lips is the red that tips Therose thatblooms where the sunshiue dips, And sweets no lioney bee ever sips— Darling of Omah: CHORUS, Darling of Omaha, Best girl you ever saw, And on the street she is dressed so neat, And looks so sweet as her dainty feet Go tripping th’ tune that your heart will beat— Darling of Omaha. ‘True is the love of her merry heart, Darling of Omaha, ‘Willing her hands for to do her part, Darling of Omaha, Mother, sweetheart, or wife, Anchor and joy of hife, Her eyes they’ll beam like the starlight’s gleam, When all is dark as a dungeon dream, And sweetly she'll murmur—*‘Another ice cream,”’— Darling ot Omaha. - Literary Notes. SCORIBYER'S MAGAZINE, published monthly by Charies Seribner & Sons, N. Y., price per number 26 cents. The opening paper, a profusely illus- trated article on ‘) Physieal Propor- tions of a Tpyical Man,”” 15 from an ath- letic standpoint of value and to the gen- eral reader truly instructive. The fourth installment of the unpublished letters of ‘Thackery appears in thisnumber. Some Illustrations of Napoleon and hu by John C. Ropes, reaches here the sec- ond paper. 1tis illustrated with some fine new portraits of Napoleon, one of which serves as the frontispiece to the magazine. Jemimy Bascom is the name of a very clever little love story. “A Girl's Life Eighty Ye: Ago,” 15 told in a selection of very interesting letters written by one of the wittiest and cleverest women of that time. The letters are reproduced as she wrote them to her intimate friends. They afford a fresh fountain of sparkling witand homely philosopnhy, such as is seldom met. The remaining articles are as follows: “On an Old Road,” Charles Markham; “A Great Patience,” Edward Irenmus Stephenson; ‘‘Seth's Brother’s Wife,”’ (chapters XXIV-XXV) Herold Frederic; *‘Silent Sorrow,’’ Louise Ct dler Moulton; “French Traits—The So- cial Instinct,”” W. C. Brownell; *“‘The Owl,” Charles Lotin Hildreth; ““A Peril- ous Incognito,” (part I) H. H. Boyesen. TnE Foruy, a monthly magazine, published at New York, 97 Fifth avenue. Price, $5.00 a year. Prof. W, T. Harris, in a leading article entitled “‘Henry George's Mistake about Land,” confronts the great land reformer with an array of statistics that contradict the premises upon which Henry George builds his entire theory. The position of Mr. Harris 18 strong enough to demand an answer. David A. Poo gives a very instructive idea of the “"Position of Can- ada,” from & political standpoint. Prof. A. P. Peabody contributes this month’s 1nstallment "of ‘“Books that Helped Me.” Grant Allen gives his idea of “What1s the Object of Life?" Frof. Newman Smyth asks a question which in the light of recent discussion if of timely import. That question is “‘Is Princeton Humanizing?’ His suggestions are clean cut and full of pertinent criticism of the article by Prof. Patton in the Forum of Iast month entitled, ‘‘Is Andover Roman- 1zing?" Mary Parmalee writes of the topic ‘“‘Relation, the Ultimate Truth, An elab- orate and interesting analytical treat- ment of “‘Loughter” is given by Professor 8i Georgs Mivart. Park Binybium on “The [nfliction of the Death Penalty;” Alice H. Rhine on “Race Prejudice” at Summer Resorts,’’ and Professor Boyesne on *“*Dangers of Unrestricted Immigra- tion,” complete the tovic 1n this volume of the Forum. MAGAZINE OF AMERICAN_ HISTORY, DUb- lished at 743 Broadway, New York, price $5 a year, The editress, Mrs. Martha J. Lamb, gives a very readable account of the im- brisonment of Henry Laurens, the revo- utionary patriot, in” the l.ondon tower A full length portrait of Henry Laurens adorns the number as a frontispiece. General Arthur F, Devereaux presents a graphic account of the famous charge ot Pickett's a¢ Gettysburg. One of the most valuable papers that has ever ap- peared in recent literature, is that con- tributed by Justin Winsor on “Man uscript Sources of American History." John Bishop gi some very useful information concerning “United States Mail Service.” Biography of the River and Harbor Bill' is told by Albert B. Hart, Ph, D, cur ious contribution is that of Geo. Fos- ter, on the very curious subject, “‘Journ- alism Among the Cherokee Indians.” Minor Topies, Not Queries, and the other regular departments are replote with interesting and instructive matter. WinE AWAKE published monthly at Boston by D. Lothrop & Co, Price §2.40 a year. The July WipE AwWAKE ought to be put iu the hands of every youngster in the land, for it opens with a long and de lightfal account of *“Washington's Boy- hood, Pursuits and Companions,” writ- by Williaw F. Carne, a citizen of the old Y. JULY 17. 1887.~TWELVE PAGES.] village of Belhaven, where the young ‘Washington lived in his early years. The paper is full of anecdotes and traits of the great president. It has a full-page illustration bf Howard Pyle. A stirring Fourth of July story, “The Use of 1t," is from the pen of Mrs. Harriet A, Cheever, *The Story of Keedon Bluffs,” by Charles Egbert Craddock, is very fresh and bright i its humor, and very strong and novel n its plot, Its man] mountain boys are new models of manli- ness and chivalry, Tho Harvard annex has a long article to itself from the pen of one of its graduates, Miss Fronie Marie Brooks: ‘““How One ‘Annex Maid’ Began Her Carcer;” it is fully illustrated and will be interesting to those young women who desire a Harvard college education, and also to the general pub- lic. 'The Queen’s Jubilee is commemor- ated by a pretty pair of ancedotes from the pen ot an Enghshwoman, Mrs, Ray- mond Blathayt, which 1s accompanied by a full page engraving of the famous sitting statute of the queen, by Bochm, which stands in the grand vestibule at Windsor ocastle; the article is entitied ery Inch a Queen.” ““The Secrets at Roseladies,” The Indian Mound serial bf' Mrs. Chatherwood, and ‘“The Lost Medicine of the Utes,” the western serial by Mrs. Champney, are delightrul this month. Mrs. Harriot Prescott Spofford’s “*Ballads of Authors,” is about Cowper,and is called **Beside the Ouse,'" finely illustrated by Garrett. The La Rose Blanche War-times story 1s entitled “‘Poor Whitey'" and relates to one of the Mount Vernon candlesticks of Washing- ton’s time, and deseribes a plantation fete and an episode of the war, The i a good piece of biography 1n the cossful Women" series, about Dr. Rad Littler Bodley, the _dean of the . delphia Women's Medical college, also much bright verse and picture, The Century magazine published monthly by the Century company, &uw York. Price, $1.00n year. The opening paper, entitled Flowers,” by John Burroughs, is an analytieal account of the flowers that muay be found in any delightful ramble among the wild meadows and forests in these hot and sultry y: other pastoral study 13 afford the ar- ticle on “'Sportsman’s Music,” by W. J. Henderson, giving pictures of live game birds and recording their musical notes. A very droll and amusing paper is that of ‘“‘Animal Locomotion in the Muybridge Photographs,” in which the tricking and kickimg mule, athletic jumping, ete., are given in_the progres- sive stages of action. Mr. H. 8. Edwards writes a very amusing story entitled “Sister Todhunter’s He It is gro- tvflqurl{ illustrated, Stockton’s ‘‘Hun- dredth Man" is continued. The Lincoln History closes up the Kan- sas troubles and discusses their corol- ary, the ‘‘Lincolu-Douglas Debate.” Interesting and unpublished letters by Lincoln and Greely are given. Bowing with becoming humility like good Amer- icans before the common fetich the hu- morist, readers who are interested in Lincoln will yet not fail to see how neces- sary toa knowledge of the president it 18 to know the Eoliticnl soil and atmosphere whichmade him what he was, At the same time the conviction that Messrs, Wicholay and Hay are the custodians of much of the most personal and intimate inside history of "Lincoln's administra- tion may well stimulate the impatient curiosity of the public, The veterap his- torian George Bancroft adds to the his- torical value ot the number by recount- ing ‘‘An Incident in the Life of John Adams,” to which there are added vpor- traits of Adams and Oliver Ellsworth, The War Serles, followed since the start by the closest attention of thous- ands, compasses this month the hundred days of battlo in ‘“I'he struggle for At- lanta,” compactly narrated by General 0. 0. Howard, with a two-page letter from General Sherman, regarding ‘“The March to the Sea,” while in the noxt number, General Joseph E. Johnston,his opponent, is to write of the fight against Sherman. Short communications appear from General Hunt, in geply to General Walker on **The Question of Command at Cemetery Ridge,"” and from General H. V. Boynton on the late Colonel R. R. Scott and his work on the war records, “Chnistian Science” and *“Mind Cure,” by Dr. Buckley. and ‘“The Potenttal En. ergy of ¥ood,"” by Professor Atwater,are two papers of a suggestive and valnable by oxperts in the investigations which they record. The volumo ends with the regular featpres—full of interesting mat- ter. Vild e ELECTRIC CARRIAGES. A Pittsburg Company to Make an Interesting Experiment. The extraordinary development of the electric railway system which has taken vlace within the last fow months has naturally lead to a numbver of inquiries as to when carriages will be propelled by electricity. A company has been formed in Pittsburg for the purpose of running carringes upon the same plan as now adopted in many vlaces for strect cars, and before the end of the year it will probably be known what the advantag of the new system may be. Four years ago Dr. J. R. Finney, of Pittsburg, "took out o number of paients covering a sys- tem of running carriages through the streets by electricity taken from an over- head wire. The system to be used is but little differont from that described n tho kinney patents, and is very similar to that used by existing lines of street cars which run by eclectricity taken from an overhead wire. In the oarriages to be used the niotor is placed under the back seat and is con- nected with the overhead wirs by a short wire running to a ‘‘trayeller,” similar to that with which strcet cars are con- nected. The connecting wire between the carringe and the little ‘‘traveller,” which runs ulun¥ the pverhead wire, is long enough and flexible enough to al low the earriage to be run from one sid of the street to the other, and the trav eller itself may be remove from the ov head wire whenever the driver of tho inge wishes to disconnect 1t entirely. The dificulties of the problem to le solved were many, owing to the weight of the motor and'the bad roads of our American cities. Every imgrovement which tends ighten the weight of the electric motor is a step_in advance for the electric carriage. 1t will be possible that all the carrige may have to travel at the same rate of spced as the horse csrs do now, but as that rate may be faster than the average horse speed, this would be no objection 1 a small town or village. In ease of accident or stoppage for any cause the carringe may be dis connected; so long as it is in connection with the main wire, it can be run up to the sidewalk, turned around, or moved in any direction the length of its con- necting wire, One of New York’s best exvpert to-day, in speaking of the possibiliti the Finney systom: “Much will depene upon the smoothness of the roads over which the carriages will be run. Given “ ,.‘.,r.-un’v mooth pavement, such as our asphalt, and there need be no dit ficulty whatever, With a block pave ment 1t requires from three to four times the power to run a earringe s on rails, and on an ordinary turnpike the power expended is from five tosix times as great. The motor torun an ordinary carriage holding four persons n not weigh more than 800 pounds, aud in this respect the over-head wire system is vastly superior to any use of u storage battery as we have it at present, tor if to tee weight of the motor we have to add the weight of the st. which is as yet avery he the that almost anything from its intelligent us ures of recent careful tests gives its ofe lk-ivlw‘y as 03 per cent.; that 18 to say, that of the clectric power put into the motor, it will give back 93 per cent, This is extraordinarily high as compared to the steam engine, which roturns about 15 per cent of the value of the coal burned. “When we come to compare the cost of running & tight carriage by eleo- tricity from an overhead wire with the cost of horse power, 1t will bo seen that there is a greater margin in favor of tricity than when street cars are ed about, for the car company uses 18 horses to the best advantage, while the private ~owner ma not get more than half the available work out of his carriage horse. As to the manner in which people could pay for the vice by tricity, that is still a matter for discussion. It is quite possis ble that in small towns the same oyer= head wires which are nsed for the stroot cars might bo used for carriages. “If the storage battery can be made much lighter than at present, and soarce 1y passes that we do not hear of soma step 1 this direction, it will, of courso, come into use for light carriages, In thi connection the uso of water power and windmill power is of great importance, Within the Iast year the improvements in storage batteries and in dynamos which feed them, have been such as to warrant any one in belicving that in the very near future w all'see windmills used to store up encrgy which can be eme ployed for lighhug or for running care ringes, One ditticuity has been the trouble in making a dynamo which would start and stop automatically, but that is being rapialy overcome. The stors age battery in connection with the wind. mills mey have a future impoatance of which we scarcely dream in furnishing cheap power and light.” Rt STYLES FOR DRESSY MEM What Fashionable People Will Woar s _to be ho The lnh‘-l?lo‘- carriage would nece very strong and require the heaviest kind of framing, axles and wheels. 1'he present elliciency of the electric motor is 5o great in Coats, Walstcoats, Scarfs, Eto. ‘There is no tendency to change the length of waistcoats, and all collars are made light on the turn. The one-button cutaway, known hero as the “English walking “coat,” is and will continue to be a staple favonte. I'he desire for lower rolls in coats will effect the double-breasted frock even for winter wear, and the roll will be to the third button. The two-button cutaway 18 a new coat which has at once taken its place in fashionable favor, and has many good features to recommend it. Double-breasted frock coats will be short both i uist and skirt lengths, as all ovi lave been growing shorter during the last two years. There are two marked departures fn style of coats for the coming season, con- sisting, firstly, in changes of roll, and secondly in number of buttons em- ployed. In trousers there is a general tendency to adont cighteen inches knee uand eigh- teen inches bottom for medivm-sized men, They aro made with vory little shaping. The length of a doubie-breasted froc| for a man of five feet eight inches will be from thirty-six to thirty-seven inches and that of the overcout trom thirty-seven %o thirty-ecights The turns an . notches in coats have not grown perceptibly in width, while lightness and grace are indispensible. Irt overconts, however, yery little of thig chango has been eftected., In sack coats the three and four button cutaway (but much less sharply ocut away than hitherto) are good sellers, with a roll of about five inches and no changes in length from last season. The downward development of roll from the three inches of two years ago has been marked, although gradual, until a standard of five inches has been ‘adop- ted, with a tendency towards six. In the way of faucy overcoats, ete., the long uister sack will be a favorite. To such ments, when trimmed with fur collars and cufls, loop trimmings will be used considerably in place of but- tons, The shoulders of all coats have grown slightly wider, and are made up soft without stiffening. Sleeves define the arm medium close and quite _hollow on the front seams, with cufls medium small and trimmed with two buttons and imitation buttonholes. Waistcoats roll considerably lower than the coats, the latter possessing soft fronts so as to roll free and display the shirt bosom to great advantage. The number of buttons on tha coat front has been diminishdd and the three-button cutaway 18 rapidly usurping the place in favor of its four button proto-type. Although much has been written about the prevalence of low cut vests, the fash- ion has not become general. The ten- dency is, undoubtedly, in this direction: and when the masses begin to adopt such f: probably cravats and bows will a bigerun. But hardly this scason. It will take at least another yvear, The straight front sack coat, buttoning and defining the figure medium close is still popular, ~ The one button cutaway sack is still a staple garment, but for winter use will not be in great demand In regard to the length of walking coats there hag been httle or no change in the length of waist and skirts as regards last season, For a period the small scarfs with an elongated kuot took well, then the de- mand subsided somewhat, only to come in again when this style was made up in the attractive patterns. The tecks and four-in-hands have enormous sale, and notwithstanding the many handsomo pat- terns at a low price, the sule on finer goods has not been interfered with, but {’mhur the best goods seemn to sell the est. e LETTER FROM BUFFALO BILL, 1 An Entertaining Description or His London Experience. Tho El Paso Inter-Republics of July 7 contains the following: Colonel William Koy, of this city, an old friend an# comrade of Buffalo ~Bill i in receipt of a frank and characterist letter from the great scout. It shows conclusively that he 18 the same Bill, howe'er fortune has smiled. The letter runs ns follows LoxDoN, June 23, 1857.~My Dear Colonel: 1t was a genuine pleasant surprise to receive your letter. I have often thought of you and ed what had ome of you, 8o glad you are still on top of the earth, Well, ever 8ince I got out of the mud hole in New Or- leans things have been coming my Wway protty smooth and I have cn]llumx this country from the queen down, and aw doing them to the tune of $10,000 'a day, ‘Talk about show business, there never was iny: thing like it ever known and never will be again, and, with my European reputation, you cap easily guess the business 1 will do when I get back to my own eountry, 1's protty hard work with two or three performances a day and the society racket, receptions, dinners, ete. — No nan, not even Grant, received better than your humble servant, I have dined with every one of the royalty from Alvert, prince of Wales, down, 1 sometimes wonder if itis the same old Bill Cody, the bull whacker. = Well, colonel, 1 still ‘'wear the same sized hat, and when I make my pile I am coming back 1o visit all the oid Boys. If you meet any of them tell them I ain't got the big-head worth a cent. I am over heye for dust. Will be glad to hear from any of them, Write me acain. — Your old-time friend, Biiw Cony, A e Preparing for Coercion, NEW Youk, July 10.—|Special Telegram to the Bie.|—The Tribune says: ‘The latost featuro in the Irish situation is deseribed in our special eable dispateh. 1t is a convens tion, which the members for county Cork, headed by O'Brien, have ealled to consider the best means of defending the tenants sgaiust the combination which the Cork landlords have made. The idea is likely tg ted thronzhont Ireland, in view of pression of the National league, wuq‘ coerelon goes iuto elfect,