Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 18, 1887, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERME OF BUBSORIPTION | (Morniag Edition) including Sunday Jp O Yoar. .. e 81000 For Bix Months. . e For Three Montha 13 200 The Omaha Swnd ny a“" OFFICE, NO. 014 AND 910 PARNAN STRERY. y iress, Oue Yoar. W YORK OFFICE. HOOM #) TRIRUNF BCILDING ASHINGTON OFFICE, NO. 01 FOURTEENTH STREET. CORRESPONDENCR: All commupieations relating to nows and edi- torial matter should be addroesed to the Evr TOK OF THE DrE. BUSINEAS LETTERS! All buelnoss lettors and remittances should bo ad 10 T Bee PUBLISRING COMPANY, OMARA. Drafts, ehocks and ?unlorll‘lv orders 0 be made payable to the order of the compuny, THE BEE POBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER, Epiton. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebraska, t s County of Douzlas. Geo. B. Tzschuck, secretary of The Bea Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual Jn'ulnllnn of the Daily Bee for the week ending July 15, 1357, was as follows: Saturday.July 9..... Bunday, July 10, Monday, July 18, ‘Tuesdav, Jjuly 12. Wednesday, July ‘hursaay. July 4. day, July 15..... Gro. 13. ] Sworn to and subscribed il my presence this 16th day of July, A, D, 18% N. I, Frir, [SEA L. Notary Publie. Btate of Nebraska, | oo Douglas County. | ® Geo. B. Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, g’eml s and says that he is seeretary of The lee Publishing company, that the actual average daily circulation of the Daily Bee f the month™ of July, 158, 12,314 copie for August, 1856, 12,434 copies; for Septem- ber, 18%, 13,030 copies; for October, 1855, 12,09 coples: for November, 1588, 13,548 coples; for December, 1856, 13,237 copies; for January 1857, 16,268 coples; for February, 1887, 14,198 coples: for March. 1547, 14,400 coples; for April, 1587, 14,316 copies ; for May, , 14,227 coples; for June 1887, 14,147 copies. Gro. B. TZSCHUCK. Subseribed and sworn to before me this 1st day ot July A, 1 887, [SEAL.] P. Feir, Notary Public. UNLESS a Manitoba wave rolls over this soction of the country pretty soon, Omaha is liable to lose its reputation as a sum- mer resort. It is gratitying to know that Colonel Dan Lamont was not compelled to send out an offtcial denial of the accident to the president's train. PrESIDENT CLEVELAND has had a lucky escape in a railroad accident. [ be so lucky in 1888. The republican en- gine will knock him clear off the track. IN the absence of any startling infor- mation regarding the war situation in the east, we stop the presses long enough to reiterate that the Omaba base ball club won a game on Saturday. TuE people down in Nuckolls county arc evidently possessed of the improved custom of dealing out justice to murder- ers. The Iynching of the man Coonrad, who murdered Farmer Sallen, swas per- formed with neatness and dispatch. Ex-GoverNor FosTer of Ohio having allowed it to be publicly proclaimed that he thinks Sherman a better man to nom- inate than Blaine, it will be well for the friends of the former to keep a vigilant watch on the future movements of Mr. Foster. JAY Gourp'sson Edward, aged twenty- ore, has just made $50,000 in Wall street by selling 10,000 shares of Western Union, and he is at once credited with being a very bright young man. It strikes us that a ten-year old boy could have done the same thing by means of “‘pointers’ from *‘the old man'’ Gould. —n Ir would be a good plan to benutify and adorn and otherwise render attrac- tive the parks we now have before we get any more, With a judicious expenditure of a reasonable amount of money every year Hancom park could easily be made one of the most beautiful spots in the country. It is a shame that it is neglected and allowed to retnrn to its original con- dition—simply a grove. It makes little difference to what polit- ioal party defaultor Harvy, of the treas- ury department, belonged. What is wanted in the treasury is a eystem of carrying on the business of the govern- ment where fraud can not be perpetrated. If thero is any place in this broad do- . minion where business principles and methods are not employed it 18 the treas- ury department at Washington. Tue Nebraska state firemen's associa- tion, which is to be held this week at Kearnoy, promises to be an enthusiastic success, All the larger towns in Nabras- ka, as well as quite a number of the smaller ones, have well-cquipped fire de- partments. The representation of fire- men will consequently be quite numer- ous. The contests between the various towns will no doubt be very exciting as the money prizes are sufficiently large to induce them to make their very best cfforts. ‘'hose who visit Kearney on this occasion will see one of the finest towns in the west, and they will be cordially welcomed and entertained by her hos- pitable citizens, A COMPRE SIVE plan of geological survey for the present fiscal year has been submitted by Major Powell, di- rector, to the seeretary »f the interior for approval. All the important work that has been entered upon will be continned, and some additional investigation is pro- posed. As a part of this work none is more interesting than the survey in the rich mountain region of Colorado, and i what promises to be an important coal, petroleum and natural gas field in the near future in Montana, There ap- poars to be no doubt that this territory is richly supplied with these involuable re- sources, which if developed to the prom- ised extent mustin a few years attract to it great wealth and a large popula- tien. This gives strong incentive for & vigorous exploration, and as the work is now in cnarge of Dr. Peale, the yeteran explorer, Dr. Hayden hav- ing retired because of failing health, itis expected to be pushed with great cnergy and zeal. Tbe results of explorations in thy Rocky mouptain re- gion lying within Colarado have been amportant and of most encouraging promise, and it 1s intended to push the ‘work in that quarter. The Utah State Movement. The action of the constitutional conven- tion of Utah, recently held, has attracted wide-tpread attention, and the move- ment 1t inaugurated for glving the terri- tory statehood is receiving extended dis- cussion by the press. Very generally this is not favorable to the movement, notwithstanding the fact that the con- vention took what upon its face is a most distinct and positive attitude against big- amy and polygamy, Each of these prac- tices 18 declared by a section of the eon- stitution adopted to be a misdemeanor and is forbidden, severe penalties being preseribed for a violation of this section. In order apparently to more forcibly at- test the sincerity of the convention, com- posed, it should be said, wholly of Mormons, it is vrovided that the section shall be operative without the aid of legislation, that the offenses prohibited by it shall not be barred by any statute of limitation within three years after their commis- sion, and that the power of pardon shall not extend thereto until approved by the president of the United States. ltis further provided that this section shall not be amended, revised or in any way changed without the approval and ratifi- oation of congress, which ghall be pro- claimed by the president, and 1f not so ratified and proclaimed the section shall remain perpetual. But this secemingly plain and straight- forward action, which on its face does not sngg ything in reserve, is de- ed by the Gentile population of Utah to be atrick, and this view is generally ne- cepted. It is maintained that since such an attitude is wholly inconsistent with a chief tenet of the Morman church its assumption by members of that church cannot be regarded as sincere, those teliing 1t believing that as soon as state- hood should be secured the constitutional provision could be disregarded by the Mormon officials who would bo in the control of all departments in the state government, the national government being then powerless to interfere. Pri- vate expressions of members of the con- vention are quoted to sustain this view, and the general spirit and policy of the church are cited to show that no confi- dence whatever can be placed in any- thing proceeding from or dirccted by that influence. It is said that the car- dinai object of the church is to secure political power, for which purpose it is ready to make any promises or conces- sions that may be asked, but having obtained which, it will keep its rreements only 8o far as its interests require 1t should. The non-Mormons having declined to take any part in the convention, the results are naturaliy as- sumed to have been dirccted by tne church authorities. It is quite possible that there is some warrant for the distrust with which the action of the convention has been re- ceived, but it may fairly be doubted whether in dealing with the question of the admission of Utah as a state con- gress should be asked to go below plain and palpable factsto seck out possible motives, or be required to consider as- sumed designs which are as likely not to have as to have existed. [t is possi- ble to be to the last rational de gree hostile to the whole system and yolicy of the Mormon church and yet see that there might be circumstances under which congress, following the well defined line of its constitutional duty, might not properly take cognizance of these. The duty of congress is to admit to statehood any territory having a sufli- cient poulation for the election of a rep- resentative in congress, when a majority of the people of such territory ask to be admitted, the only condition required by the constitution being that ‘‘the United States shall guarantee to overy stato 1n this union a republican form of government.”” This condition is undeni- ably political, and unless it could be shown that the conduct and policy of the Mormon church are unrepublican congress would doubtless hesitate to create a precedent by making them a reason for refusing statehood, as the gentiles of Utah demand. 1f plural mar- riages are unrepublican, as well as un- christian, the people who support that system cannot be given the rights of citizenship under a state organization; if they are simply the latter they cannot properly have any weight in determin- ing the question of statehood. With regard to what might follow statehood n the onse of Utah, thatis a matter which must take care ot itself, subject to the operation of the forces and influences which the new order ot things would inevitably produce, or which are certain to come in time. The idea that the government is at all hkely to be tricked to its embarrasment or disad- vantage by a few thousand Mor- mons who are opposed by 60,000, 000 of people is ore that a little ealm reflection is hikely to dismiss as bordering on the ridiculous. 1t might happen that for a brief time the Mor- mon control in the state government would tolerate a lax execution of the fundamer law against bigamy and polygamy, but at best their power would not be long continued, while it is not im- probable that these people, who *at least scem not to be entirely fools, would see for very potent reasons it would be wiser to respect the compact they had themselves drawn. In any event we cannot see any good ground for the ex- aggorated foars which the Gentile popu- lation of Utah and those who echo them profess to entertsn in this matter. In other words, we do not think the nation would be in any serious danger from the few thousand Mormouns iz Utah in case they become citizens of a state in- stead of a territory. The question of making Utah a state will, however, be immediately influenced more by considerations of policy than of equity. If the democrats coyclude that they cannot justly continue to deny state- hood to Dakota they probably will not hesitate to make a trade that will give them Utah. and perhaps the republicans would not reject a proposition of this kind, The Mormons evidently see this opportunity and are preparing to take advantage of 1t. San Francisco and Omaha. San Francisco wants a nyw postoflice, but it does not. want it bad enough to raise a bonus for Unele Sam. At the last session of congress $850,000 was appro- priated for a postoflice site in the Cali- fornia metropolis. Commissioners were appointed to invite proposals ro n prop- erty owners on the principai business streets for a piece of ground baving a frontage of 275 teet. When the hour set MAHA DAILY BEE for opening the bids had arrived not a single proposal had been received. The reason for this lack of interest on the part of San Francisco property own- ers is tersely stated by the Call of that city as follows: That munificent appropriation of §350,000, which Cleveland thought would be snapped up as a hungry Adirondack trout snaps at a fly, 1s not such a great pile. after all. Fifty- yard lots are still firm, with an upward ten- dency. The commissioners advertised for bids and did not get them, and the necessary conclusion is that the amount of money of- fered for the site is entirely too small, CENL D e e e e G i e ) If we are to have a new postoffiee, congress will have to try agaln and increase the limlt of price for the site. ‘This experience will convinee the president that San Francisco property has an appre- clable market value and that there is no great amount of speculation In fifty-yards at £350,000, Inasmuch as property 18 selling on Market street at from $2,500 to §4,300 a front foot, thejrush to sell Uncle Sam 275 feet front for 855,000 has not yet become apparent, nor is the government apt to be overwhelmed with bids on these terms. L T R A Y T Philadelphia got a §1,000,000 for her post- oftice site anfl there is no probability that any available or proper place, of sufticient Bl an be bought here under $600,000 or $700,000, It might justas well be realized now as at any other time that San Francisco has ceased to be a village and has become a city, and that she is tully entitled to the same consideration at the handsof the fed- eral government which other cities in the United States receive, This is indeed suggest parties in Omaha who have so persistently urged the council to donate Jeflerson square for a postoflice site on the strength of representation that the general govern- ment would mnever purchase grounds for a public building will now realize that such generosity is entirely uncalled for. Omaha is not as large as San Francisco, but she is entitled to the same cons tion in the matter of federal buildings. If the government desires a new post- oflice site at Omoha it can be sccured for less than ,000, The probabilities are that the present site will be ample and the building will be enlarged at an early date. Paying the Debr. The honesty of the Awmerican people has been abundantly vindicated by tho policy that has been pursued in paying off the war debt. More than fifteen hun- dred millions of dollars have been paid since the rebellion ended, the reduction of the interest-bearing debt last year mounting to $124,000,000. Thissplendid record has placed the eredit of the nation as high as that of any other couutr; nd every citizen of the country 1s justly proud of it. All the redeemable bonds having been called 1n, there was fair promise that for the next four years there would be a ces- sation of debt paying, and that mean- while the people could be relieved of a vart of the tax burden which they are carrying. There is very great need of this, and there is no urgeney for any new schemes to reduce the debt. But there is a class of linanciers who have grown into the belief abat nothing is so essential to national prosperity as to pay the war debt, and they would load just as much of this a8 possible on the present genera- tion. Some one of these has”come for- ward with a proposition for a refunding scheme of some kind which will leave a quota of bonds optional for payment each year, and as congress is always full of men who are eager to figurc as finan- ciers, doubtless this proposition will re- ceive the attention of some such. It would certainly seem that the gov- ernment should take the rest in the mat- ter of debt-paying which it can justly do under 1ts contract with its creditors, and use the opportanity for cutting down the war taxes. The bondholders are not anxious to be relieved of their in- vestments, and if they were the intorests of the masses of the people who are not bondholders should be first consulted. The war taxes mnst come down, and anything that comes in the way of this consummation must be swept out of the w There is no good reason why the next generation, which will share all the benefits of the preserved union, should not pay its fair proportion of the cost. We can go on paying the debt according to contract, but there is no necessity for any expedients that will load additional obligations in the present. THERE is very little probability that the effort of a San Francisco editor to bogm Governor Stanford for presidential honors will receive anything more than the merest passing attention. The vir- tues which the editor claims for the gov- ernor do not necessarily make him avail- able as the candidate of the republican party next year, chicly by reason of the fuct that liberality with money largely obtained by most questionable means could not be made useful for campaign purposes with the masses of the republi- can party and the voters of the country generally. The inquiry which the oppo- sition would certainly make as to the methods by which Governor Stanford se- cured his wealth would result in disclos- ure which it would be found quite impos- sible to explain awav. The republican party would simply invite disastrous de- feat by putting forward such a man as its standard bearer. If 1t has reached the point when it must have a plutocrat for its presidential candidate, it should by all means select some one whose millions have not been secured by methods which honest people cannot approve. Governor Stanford is not of this class. Renewing the Assault. = The strife over Chief of Police Seavey has again been rencwed, The assault on the chief comes from the same old com- bine. The pretext is a petition and reso- lution numerously signed by Grand Army of the Republic veteruns ana sol- diers, endorsing the appointment of Seavey and commending the mayor and the fire and police commissioners for sus- taining him. The petition is denounced a8 & picce of imposture,and an onslaught 15 made on Seavey for alleged miscon- duct as a Mason while in Calfornia. This is followed up by & demand that the council take steps to punish bim for per- sonating & police officer. For our part we fail to see how the veterans’ petition can affect the standing of Seavey as police oflicer one way or tho other. While it is true that the names of many of the signers are not to be found in the city directory, the list com- prises some of the best known and res- pected ex-army oflicers and volunfeer soldlers. These veterans have a right to endorse Seuvey as chief, but the favt bas no bear- ing on his fitness for the place. Stripped of all side issucs Mr. Seavey is legally and 1n fact chief of police, He has beon duly appointed by the police and fire commission which has exclusive author- ity to make the appointments. Seavey has the same right to personate the chiey of police as Mr, Howard Smith has to personate the secrctary of the police and fire commission, It was the duty and province of the commission to ascertain whether Seavey was qualitied for the place before they ‘made the appointment. They cannot now displace him except upon charges of neglect of duty, inefli- clency or malfeasance in oflice. Tho city council can take no steps to displace Seavey. They have no control over the police, and are not respon- sible for its government. All they can do is what any citizen may do, prefer charges against him be- fore the police commission. The core of this tiresome controversy is that the charges of immoral conduct against Seavey would have effect upon the better classes of the community, if they did not originate with a gang which is notorously 1n bad odor and disrepute. e ——— Tie boom of Governor Hill, of New York, for the presidency has taken.on new life. Tt is asserted in that state that the friends af Hill are at work openly in opposition to the re-nomination of Presi- dent Cleveland. It is argued that the flag episode and the president’s declina- tion to go to St. Louis has already done much to weaken him in New York as well as in many other parts of the north, If the New York convention to select del- egates to the pational convention was held at the present time there can hardiy be a doubt but & large majority of the representatives throughout the state would be found advocating the nomina- tion of Hill over Cleyeland. At present there is no enthusiasm in the Kmpire state for Cleveland while there is any amount of it for Hill. Governor Hill is more upon the order of a small bore pol- itician than a man of much breadth of ideas, and it might be that he would be the weaker idate of the two. Tue Rev. Dr. Savidge delivered a very able sermon yesterday to the industrious voung clothing gentlemen who earn and are certainly entitled to a half s holiday out of seven. The Dr. should next try his hand on the grand army of able bodied citizens who loiter upon the street corners six days and a half out of seven. THEe oat meal monopoly,which appears to have become pretty firmly established in this country, threatens to extend to Canada. A movement is on foot there to org: e for co-operation with Ameriean manufacturers in regulating the product and prices. This is the sort of commer- cial union which cannot be commended. BosToN is becoming quite English in the extreme. The city has purchased 155,000 Gladstone bricks to be used on the new court house, the bricks coming irom the kilns of the “‘grand old man.” This may be considered “speciman brick™ us to how Boston can ape the English. — TrAT fraudulent printing contract was signed and sealed, but 1t has not been delivered yet. Editors Have Rights, Boston Courier Hus there not b enough of this talk concerning the relation of editors to would-be countributors? An editor is a man who buys literary work, Why is he not at liberty to buy what he pleases,and to leave what he pleases, just as a person purchasing calico may take or leaye what he will? That an editor does not want a manuseript is always reason enough why he should not take it, and he is no more bound to examine what is sent to him 1f he does not choose than a customer is bound to examine every picce of goodsin the store. There is too much sentime tality mixed with what is a matter of iness, and every un- trained fledgling scribbling nousen: feels that he has & moral right to demand that the editor to whom he sends his trash shall waste time min g it ] itor is under no obliga- tions of this sort whatever. As a matter of fact, an editor usually does examine pretty carefully the manuseriptsent him, but he does it for his own benetit and at his own will, not to obl the writers or to discharge any obligation, real or fancied, toward them. “Authors, actual or would-be, would save themscl much heart burning and bitterness they could once get this principle firmly into their heads, and cease to fancy ul)l sorts of wild and absurd not only do not exist, have no b stence. Authors have, of course, their malicnable rights of being honestly and courteously dealt with, if they are dealt with at all, but they have no sort of claim that any editor who has not made proposals to them shall give any attention whatever to them if he 1s not inclined to. wrongs, which but which could - Serfous Charges Against Railroads. Cleveland Leader, There is no doubt that some of the rail- roads are gradually growing indiflerent to such portions of the inter-state com- merce law as do not suit them. Two or three have decided to ignore the long and short haul clause at competitive points, on the ground that the “conditions and circumstances” are not substantailly similar to those existing at other places, and the OChicago & Grand Trunk has been giving commer- cial travelers special rates, in de- fiance of the section of the law forbid- ding discrimination. Fhe defense of the company that these lower rites because ot the in - commodations they put up with on cer- tain oceasions and vecause of the large amount of business which they bring to the railroads, The salge excuss must be ziven for discrimination in favor of hum’y shippers, and if the law can be nullitied for such_ reasons 1t is of Little account. Thy most extraor dinary violation af the statute which has yet been charged against any road is id to have been committed by the St. inneapolis & nitoba line, in nity of St. Thomas, Dak. It is alleged that the farmers of that section are refused cars to skip their wheat un- less they sell it to a certain elevator com- pany and that by the use of passes as re as before the passage of the interstate law the railroad has succeeded in muzzling the loeal press, 'h picture may be over- drawn, but the farmers evidently make itin good faith, and the case should be vigorously investigated at ones. If any rallroad company in the country is ruilty of such infamous wrongs it seonld e made to suffer the full peualty of the law, and if the common carriers are not careful they will get into hotter water than they have ever folt yat. The pres- ent Inter-slate commerce law may be in- effloient, but one can be passed that will do the work intended. ONDAY. JULY 18, 1887 [STATE JO1TINGS. Kearney has a real estate boom. Seward’s cannery 18 in operation. Hebron has a Masonic hall under way. Wisner’s new rolling mill has started up. A current event in O'Neill—a cur rent by lightning. Lightning roasted a mule and a steer romsburg. Norfolk is trying to resurrect a street railway eompany. Fremont expects soon to enjoy calls from mail carricrs, A natural cyclone cave has been dis- covered 1 ar York, The dog Kkiller is scutthng wuscless barks in West Point. Lightning is turning in considerable business to the coroners. The Elkhorn Valley road is fifteen miles away from Seward. Rt. Rev. Bishop O'Connor has dedi- cated a church at Atkinson. West Point continues to bank on the building of the Milwaukee road from Omaha, The work of grading for the stock yards and packing house has commenced at Fremont, George Hapen, aged twenty-cight, was naled to the roof of a house in Lodge Pole by lightning. Members of the Fremont Silver Corsct band are strictly forbidden to chew gum during dress rehearsals, Ligiitning killed three horses and 2d_a barn belonging to Lee Woods, O'Neill last Monday. Willie Bonning, a David City lad, gave up a leg while vlaying brakesman in the Notthwostetn Fallond yueds, Charles Searles, a switchman, was 1n- stantl; lled in the yards at O'Neill, Thursday, MHe was thirty-eight years of age. Another installment of Sioux bucks from Pine Ridge have started for Europe to join Buflalo Bill and whoop up the ef- fete monarchs of the east, Charles Waterworth, a worthless, in- grate son, robbed his mother in Nemaha county of the family horse, cashed the animal and left the country. August Volwine slipped and fell head- foremost into a well near Brainrad. His head was crushed on the rocky walls, and death was instantaneous. The shallows murmur not and the depths are dumb concerning the recent hal)itat of Quin Bonanan, The jai yawns and the gibbet creaks in vain for an ccho. The Union Pacific company compli- ments the Grand fsland fire department by tendering the members a special train and a free ride to and from the Kearney tournament. The Wood River Gazette sees wonder- ful benefits growing out of the location of Armour in Omaha. This means that Omaha will be to Nebraska what Chi- eago has been to Illinois for years. A fool mule in Fremont attempted to climb a telegraph pole and hang him self on the wires. His fly brush proved too brief for a balance pole, snd he was forced to content himself with the gut. ter, The young son of Mrs, B, L. Bader, of Holt county, went out with an old army musket loaded for wolves and was brovght home a corpse. As usual the boy and the gun are inseparable only m death, A herd of thirty-four horses belonging to Messr: Wyatt and Abington, of Cheyenne ceunty. were stolen re- cently, driven to Holt county and sold to farmers, the thieves realizing a large profit. Some heartless or poverty - pinched mother in Hastings dropped her baby on the doorstep of lfic Hogle residence. It fell to kind hands, and Mr. and Mrs, Hogle propose to adopt 1t, The babe s about three weeks old. A sportiye bull in Wayne charged on the town fire engine while the machine was being tested. ~ The boys turned the hose on the bull's eye, and after four suc- cessive charges the animal retived to the field thoroughly cooled, Adam Wenzel, of Dakota county, had two horses and a hired man. The trio disappeared together and were inscpar- able companions until they fell into the arms of the Sherift of Wayne. The h. m. jailed and the animals pastured. A reward of £300 clean h will be pad by parties in ()'Nelil for the return of Oakley Burress, a horse lifter of con- siderable ability. = He picked up a band of ponies, auctioned them off and pock- cted the proceeds without consulting the owner. Hon. C. D. Caper, of the Butler County Press, has sold a half interest in the paper to Matt F. Maury. The new firm propose to put the Press in the forefront of country journals and extend its influ- ence for good among the producers of the state. Dr. J. L. Goudy, a slightly estcemed citizen of Richardson county, appeared in court in Falls City last Wednesday to answer the charge of perjury and horso lifting. The accomplished and versatile doctor gave bonds to appear for trial at the next term of the district court. Springficld, Sarpy county, will have a constitutional blowout next Friday, There will be a street parade and music by the band, a salute of 100 anvils and clanging of bells, a spoech by ex-Senator Van Wyck and a big dinner, races, shooting matehes ana base ball, a balloon that won't go up and a display of fire- works, A re\'ul(in[f exhibition of human de- pravity developed in Grand Island. A man named Andrew Flynn was arrested for pubhe soliciting for his wife that he might live off the proceeds of her degra- dation. The pair are steeped in deprav- ity and drink, and hail from Kansas, Flynn was fined $50 and costs and the woman $10, A couple of Crote's young dudes at- tampted to play the dotactive on a young iring her they had “‘got on Sho was dreadfully Seared the kids chuckled wnder 5. Next morning’s proceed- ings did not warrant migh Inughter, Thes kids were taken to court and - fined for their sport. The Columbus Demoerat: “‘Omaha is destined to be the meat packing center of Ameriea, Lying at the point most ac cessible to all of the live stock territory of the great west and now having tracted the capital of Armour and oth its great fature is assured. And the growth of the metropolis of Nebrasks a benetit to all the balance of the sta Dixon county has, according to the as sessors’ books, 4,134 horses, 16,710 head of cattle, 150 mules and asgses, 749 sheep, 9,087 hogs. The value of personal prop: erty is placed at $407,746.75, and of real $1,071,577. There a n the o ] acres 1 wheat, 30, in cor oats and 22,918 1n meadow. There are 21,327 fruit trees, 1,702,650 forest trecs and 9,203 grape yines. A cowardly, cold blooded murder was committed on the highway between Nel- son and St. Stevens, Nuckolls county, last Tuesday. Henry Sully, a young farmer, recontly from Fort Madison, lowa, while returning from Nelson, where he hud sold a load of hogs, was shot in the back and nstantly killed by an unknown man who was riding with him. The murderer took Sully’s money and disappeared. A chureh socinble and hugging bee at Eik Creek broke up in a row recently, A withéred remnant of u man, aching for a smack at w swoeet sixteen or there- abouts, ‘blew in fifteen cents and was blindfolded. The managers ran his wife against him and the squeezo he gave her wmade ber back ache. When the bandage . 11,832 in was removed and he discovered the swindle he howled like a wildman, smote the manager on the jaw and choked the treasurer till he refunded, A sickening story of heartlessness comes from Wilber, " The Prospect fam- 1y, man and wife, living in the southern part of the town, shamefully abused the mother of Mrs. Prospect and cast her out to starve. ‘The marshal found the old lady in a stable in a horrible condition— destitate of clothing, covered with filth, nearly starved to death and her limbs partly eaten by vermun, Itis astounding that a man and woman in good worldly circumstances could deliberately commit such a crime—a crime that would shame Satan. Laws are inadequate to punish such villamous inhumanity. ‘I'he Nebraska Signal at Fairmont has put on a summer suit of the latest pat- tern, and comes out a cheery, robust model of industry, thrift and vigor. The successful carcer of the Signal is a credit alike to the publisher, Mr. J. B. Brazel- ton, and the enterprising people of Fair- wont and Fillmore county. It has been a vigilant and consistent opponent of monopoly, fought in the ranksof the people and voiced their sentiments on all occasions. As a consequence it has re- ceived the solid support of the commun- ity, as its well filled pages of news, eom- ments and “‘ads” amply testify. The expeditions work of Sheriff Penn in ridding Custer county of the lawless heretofore drew out severe criticism from one of tho home guard editors, whose idea of an aflicial’'s duty is to let his cannon rust, while the bad man fills him with lead. That was the courageous way of giving the crook a chance for his life. Before the sherift started on the late ex pedition which resulted in the sudden demise of a horsethief, the fighting editor was invited to go along and participate 1 the scrap. Unfortunately the valiant seribe was behind in his work and unable to witness the slaughter. The invitation worked a wonderfal change in his tune. There was a wild circus tinie down in McCook one evening last week. A temale acrobat refused to pay her laun- dry bill, and invoked the aid ‘of the can- uon ball tosser. Together they cleancd out_the laundry, knocked the manglers right and left and made off with the linen. This precipitated a trial of strength be- tween the fakirs and the town. A grand rally and assault was made on the tented field by the oflicers and a pgsse of mus- cular ns and a free flight followed. One citizen, whose scalp was plowed by a Dago bullet, revenged himself by knocking down five of the ‘‘Hey Rubes,” and forcing the surrender of the re- mainder. The outfit was jailed and the bill paid with a large addition of damuges. McCook hits the bullseye every time. David D. Debur, a robust, romantic corn-puller, residing eighteen miles from Hastings, walked into town a few davs ago, to commune with his girl. The day was hot, the road dusty and David was very dr‘y when he struck the oitK. In- stead of bowing at the shrine of his lady love he threw himself at the nozzle of a beer keg and stayed with it several times, Ho then betook himself to the bower of his intended and rested his brewery on the doorstep. 'There were sounds of mirth and song within and it grated on his soui. David roused himself and with a mighty kick called for admittance. This annoyed the company and two of them fell upon David and caressed him hip and thigh and polished his face a deep, debilitated carmine. The greeting con- vinced him that he was not wanted there immediately. He dragged his weary frame townward, fell into the arms of a policeman and paid §5.60 next morning for his bunk and breakfast. THE NATIONAL SCHOOL EXHIBIT. Practical Illustrations of the Train- ing of the E; nd Hand. Chicago Tribune: The keynote of the symphony which makes up the harmony of the grand exhibit of the great work of the schools of the states of which Chicago is the metropolis is mdustrial, or as its more utilitarian friends sty! t, manual training. It is this purpose behind the thought, the unity in diversity, that characterizes this exhibit. ¢ learn to do by doing,” might well be blnzoned all over the great hall whose wealth of beauty voices the keen intellectnal life of its day vocalized by the sensible phase of utility. The State university, with all its classic dignity, brings the product of her thought materialized in artistic d sign, ingenious model, and manual skill, and places it beside the fruit of industry by which the feeble-minded have their mental powers germinated, invigorated, or developed, as the need may be. The St: te Normal school, with 1its profes- donal order, ~and 'the Cook County Normal with its Americanized Ger- man aspirations, bring here evi dences of the way in which the anchor the imagination to life through hand and eye, and place them beside the works of génius and art which the deaf, the dumb, the blind have wrought out under the inspiration of modern methods of utihzingand enlightening the defe Nor is this all. The exhibits of skill in arithmetical processes, graphie geogra- phy, graphic history, and ready writing show that not only is there no loss n power of mental development but there is & positive gain in intellectual rosults, The wood carving done by pupils in the Hlinois asylum for the fecble-minded is of a supreior quahty, It is the only institution where work of this kind is done. ‘T'wo fine butternut doors, clabor- ately caryed, have been made for the in- stitution by the pupils. The girls make all the dresses used, while all the laundry work is done by the boys and girls; sixty acres are also tilled by the boys. The Colorado state institute for tecble-minded exbibits some useful wearing apparel made by the pupils, some maps, and re- markably well written compositions, It is a notable fact that the penman- ship is uniformly good. The school for the deaf and dumb, a private institution under the direction ot Miss McCowan, must not be passed by, The lady i her work with very young pups tween the ages of four and five teaching them to observe the moy of the muscles of the throut and teaches them to articulate sounds. littie group around her answer her ques- tions very intelligentiy, Miss McCowun uses th arten methods, She be- gins to teach writing by using the whole arm movement by me: of which she briags about wondersul results, Her pu- vils puss from her training into the nor- al or high sehool, and find no diticnity in getung along after she has given a tew instructions to teachers, The school dumb compares very favorably with that done by pupils in our best schools. The water colors and charcoal and crayon skeiches are particularly fine. The Wis- consin school for the deaf and dumb, lo- cated in Delavan, accommodates 160 pu pils. The board of managers, executive committes, house supply, well as the exccutive force and finance committee and president of the institution are wo men. The work 15 excellent and r ranged in s methodical and pleasin iner. Hand and school work is well resented, ‘I'he lhnois institution for the educa tion of the blind exhibits some useful household articies, such as rag carpets, brooms, and mattresses, along with its school work The work done by pup:ls of | consiu 8chool for the blind in clay model- | ing, designs in colyrs, and neadlewarks, | 15 of grest interest to visitors A dis sected mup of the U States s 0 ut I eurately put together that ene marvels at the delicucy and precision - of th mght., One-httie i tha Wis. touch that supplies composition eloses with this puthetic sentence: “'l have mady so many mis tukes that [ do not thiuk [ can finish, and yet the writing is in - & boid, ‘fred Laad, straight pud legible, The Chicago West Division High school has an extrs ordinarily fine botanical oolloction on exhibition, Many of the specimens are rare and all are neatly kept and well mounted. The drawings = of vegetable sections under the WICTOSCOPE demonstrate that the pupils aroe carefully trained in the use of hand and eyc—a desirable thing in the study of lf’m science. The manual-training department of the hj school shows very creditable work in wood, demonstrating by the first fruits that the idea of grafting’it upon the syse tem was a thoroughly wise proceeding on the partof its advocates, Three out of the six township high schools of Cook county are represented, Professor Night- ingale, of the Lake View high school has fitted up his department so that it re- sembles & well-furnished library. Any visitor who will stop to examine the records can see the record of any pupil connected with the Institution, as well as ain an idea of the methods used, s, is of unusal merit. ass woik and outdoor sketches merit more than a passin, Some very fine work done by the Cwsar class bear eritical inspection. The Jeflerson high school devotes about half the space al- lotted to it to handwork done by pupils at home. The Evanston high school exhibits some excellent mechanical — drawings and superior work in clay modeling, Of the division high schools of Cook county Princeton is the oldest. Its art department is limited 1n quantity but fine in quabity, Several fine crayons attract a crowd of admirers about them, The Englewood high school art department comprises every depart- ment of art. Wisconsin, always in the van of educational work, is represented by two of its state normal schools, Osh- kosh and Whitewater, as well as by sev- eral high schools, The work on exhibi- tion is peculiarly fine. The blackboard illustration is only one feature out of many worthy of a special mention. The Museatine (Ia.) high school scems to have given considerable attention to business forms, of which it gives some fine speci- mens. It also shows some good mechan. ical drawings. The Omaha high school has a manual tramning department and the first year's work is on exhibition. It compares favorably with that of older stitutions. The most interesting work of the entire exhibition will be men- tioned in connection with elementary education in the city, town, and district schools represented. = 1 For eramps and colic: Brown'’s Ginger. adelphia, 1822, where. objec “The ori inal Frederick Brown,Phil- Sold by druggists every- L The COare of Swine. Practical Farmer: There is no animal kept on the farm that is not better cared for, so far us relates to lenlth, than the bog; he is frequently kept in a dark cellar, or in a cellar with only a small amount of light from one side of it, and during much of the time he 19 compelled to wallow in 2 mixture of water and manure, from which comes a stench suf- ficient to destroy the health of any am- mal 1 short time, but as the hog is to be kept but @ few months before he isto be killed and sent to market, the farmer usually gets him off his hands before disease has ad- vanced sufliciently to become fatal; but because death from discase does not com before killing time 1t does not follow fhal i not made 1ts apearance to an 'sson the prolits producing the pork, if it does not rednce the market price of the pork itself. The time has come when farmers should understand that hogs should not be kept in a dark cellar, half-filed with manure, from which' is constantly cseaping gas of the most poisonous nature. Another mistake is being made, which is in feeding everything to swine without regard to its nature. The feeding of olty swill is not only highly disagrecable to the whole neighborhood, but it is getting to be a practice that is highly dangerous to the life of the hog; large numbers have been lost during the past year by this practice. There seems to be but “very little doubt that the hog cholora has beon spread in this w“f It would be well to inquire whether the public are to be made to suffer that a few men may have the privilege of producing diseased pork at a rrulit by feeding city swill. If & person coeds city swill to his hogs, with the full knowledge that there is great danger that they will have the oholera, should he secure pay for them out of the public treasury when they have that disease? Should there not be some understanding about it, s0 that when a person know- ingly feeds his hogs in & manner to pro- duce cholera, he is not to make ot 5 pay for his loss? If the state is to stamp out discase among farm annmals, should there not be some measures taken to prevent the spread of disease by the feeding of im- proper food¥ 1t seems very certain that the hog cholera become 8o prevalent that 1t 1s dangerous to feed to swine uny- thing that has raw pork in it, and asswill always has more or”less uncooked sking of ham and other portions of the hog in it, is there any vrospect of stopping the spread of the cholera so long us city swill is fed to hogsin all parts of the statey He who expeets to have hwlllh{ hogs at the present time must keep them in 2ood, elean, healthy quarters, and feed them with food that 13 free from the erms of disense; it is also important thyt he should buy his pigs where he knows the stock to be healthy. S - For fear of 1, Ing a day's work, many persons put ufl'mkinfg physic until Sai- urday. The better plan is to not delay but take it as soon as needed, 1t may save yous hard spell of sicknoss. 1f you want the most benefit from the least amount of physic without causing you any mconvenience, loss of appetite or rest, take St. Patrick’'s l!li. Their action on the liver and bowels thorough, they give a freshn and vigor to the whole s; harmy with nature. e e are s, tone em and act in HACAN'S MACNOLIA BALFR, For the Neck, Arme and 1 18 & el d. G tecd i Inat fowonderfialy 4 Delleat A Complexion t ilushof th 101 i & hot walk or drive Gae 1§ ated dnd refreshed afier Ulug 11 nover Lo witkout 11, Give the BALM o Tvial?