Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 23, 1887, Page 4

JTHE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. e, malied 10" any l#'x:flfll. No. g‘ AND. FARNAN STREFY. Oriice. Nood o FRACNE BolL0ie INGTON OFPPICS, NO. 011 FOURTEENTH STREST. OORRESPONDENCE: ANl communications relating to news and edi- $orial matter should bo addressed to the Eor- TOK OF THE BEn. DUSINESS LETTERS? 1) businoss Jettors and romittances should bo iressod to Tnx Bus PUBLISHING COMPANY, AWA, Drafts, ohecks and postoffice orders 0 be made payable to the order of the company, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS. E. ROSEWATER, Epiton. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Clrculation. ite of Nebrask: o Pas. |88 County of Dou Geo. B. Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual ¢ tion of the Daily Bee the week ending July 15, 1857, was as llows : Saturday.July 9. Sunday, July 10, 12, ednesday, nI{ mnmu]..lul 4, day, July 1. Average.. "HUCK. presence GEO, B. worn to and subscribed in of July, A, D, 1887 ., P. FRIT, Notary Publie, 8 my this 16th day . [SEA L. Btate of Nebraska, | being first duly sworm, deposes and says that he is secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual average daily eirculation of the Daily Bee for July, 1886, 12,814 copies; 1888, 12,404 coples; for Septem- ber, 1 coples; for Octo 12,05 coples: for November, eopies; for December, 1! fg.}nm? 1887, 16, o":fllu lor. ea o A ppll e, 14c0pies for Mav, les;: for Apri o copies; for May, 14,297 ‘coplas; Tor” Jung 1987, 14,117 copies, Gro. B. Tzscnuck, Bubseribed and sworn to before me this 1st fi%nt July A, D,, 1887, [SEAL.| P. L. Notary Public. Tie amount of ex-United States Treas- urer Jordan's shortage of $2.50 may make a great issue inthe next campaign. EETE——— Itis Dr. McGlynn now that has the latest presidential hoom. The ticket may read McGlynn and George instead of Heorge and McGlynn. HELLo there! The Bell telephone mo- nopoly has won an important patent suit against the Globe company. Now look out for » temporary advance in Beil stock. + Cor.orADo has swallowed up the South Piatte river in its irrigation ditehes to he dotriment of the farmers of western WNebraska. Colorado ought to trade some of its Platte river water for Nebraska corn juice. ——— ROTHAKER vouches for the sobriety and good conduct of Mr. Bechel. As both of these gentlemen travel together in the police patrol wagon when they can't find & hack they ought to certify to each other's good behavior. TuE greatest freak of the age has been discovered at Bazoo, Mo. 1t isa man who would not pay for his mother-| law’s coftin. He has been urged to oceupy s place in & dime museum alongside of Bteve Brodie, the bridge jumper. e————— Trosk who claim that success or fail- are 18 the criterion of right and wrong have another instance. ‘‘Boss Sheppard,” who left the national capitol years ago with the curses of its inhatitants because of the many taxes which his far-reaching improvements entailed upon them, has mow returned with their blessing. He was a powerful man in his day. and agninst all opposition carried forward improvements that changed Washington trom a straggling village to a city of magnificent distances. When the taxes were heavy he was a bad man, but when they proved to be like bread thrown upon the waters he became purged of his sins. Mz. EDWARD ATKINSOX is going to Eu- rope on behalf ot this government to Mudy the silver question, a mission simi- lar to that of Mr. Manton Marble a oouple of years ago, Aside from the ab- wurdity of sending a man abroad for this speciul purpose, the choice in the present Instance is not a wise one. As a political economist Mr. Atkinson is a good deal of acharlatan, and moreover 1t is question- able whether any confidence cam be d in the integrity of his views after has made the investigation. Such knowledge as that gectleman possesses ke is apt to make profitable to himself on behalf of the side that can pay best for it. SEp—— ‘THE state: division question is again disturbing the peace of California, as it Nas done periodically for the past thirty years. According to the San Francisco Clironicle, however, the great majority of the people of the state take no interest in the question and do net desire a division, It says that every conceivable argument, exoept political preferment for a chosen feud, is against division, and makes botin ® practical and sentimental plea against such a proposition. The fact remains, however, that there 13 a good deal of a sen- timent in the southern counties favorable to division, and 1t is a question whether _umder the action taken in 1839, when division was voted, those counties cannot demand o be allowed to organize as a wew state. The wisdom of such a move- ment would be snother matter. S—— We have another iastance of demo- eratic economy. Last winter a bill was passed appropriating §25,000 for educa- tional purposes in Alaska. This sum, Mr. Swineford, governor of the colony, maid was ntterly inadequate. But now oeomes the first comptroller of the treasury and decides that if the secretary of the mterior considers it necessary, the com- missioner of education may wisit the Alaska schools, the expenses of such a trp—an unnecessary official excursion: 0 be taken out of the above named ap- propriation. This is democratic retrenchment. Any- one could tell it by the ear marks. Eoonomy of this kind is a fiting com- Panion piece to our modern Jeflersonian simplicity which enables & president, wth twice the salary of his predecessors, W pay certain expenses incurred at the white nouse out of the public treasury, winch they paid out of their own pockets. A “Dark Horse" on the Outlook. The steamship Etrorla, sailing from New York to-day, will take out as one of its passengers Mr. Chauncey M. Depew, the president of the New York Central & Hudson River railroad. It is a fact of general knowledge that in the effort of a paper at Toledo, 0., to ascer- tain the preferences of its readers for presidential candidates, Mr. Depew was shown to be the choice of about a score. This did not fairly represent that gentle- man's following, however. We have au- thority for saying that a great many re. publicans ot New York regard Mr. Depew as being an available candidafe for the presidency, and it is not at all im- probable that under certan circum- stances his name would be presented to the next republican national convention a3 the choice of New York. At all events it cannot be a mistake to place him in the list of ‘‘dark horses.” J Mr. Depew is afino lawyer and an orator of no mean degree. Heis also a politician and frequently talks politics. He did so a few days ago, expressing the opinion that the heads of the cld tickets will be renominated next year. He also believes there will be a labor party ticket in the field, and in that event he regards republican success as assured. From two-thirds to three-fourths of the voters enlisted in the labor party will be drawn from the democrats, and if that party should make any such showiug as it may reasonably be expected to under an or- ganized eflort in 1n a national eampaign the reduction it would make in the democratic vote would certainly lose that party New York, and probably all the northern states upon which that party is counting. And from present indications there appears to be nothing more certain than that there will be a labor candidate for the presidency next year, and that there will be a thoroughly organized mov t supporting him. How formidable thi likely to be can be better judged after the results are arcertained of the labor vote this year in the states where the labor party will run tickets, but in any event this 13 very sure to be & most im- portant factor in the next national cam- paign, with all the probabilities favoring the view expressed by Mr, Depew. The opinion of that gentleman that Mr. Blaine is certain to be the republican can- didate has its chief value as a reflection of the wisih ot that vortion of the party to which Mr. Depew belongs, and which in New York is per- haps the controlling portion. It is by no means necessary to the result which Mr, Depew prophecies that Mr. Blaine should be the republican candida The Differenc OMAHA, Nebs, July 20, 1887.—The BEn publishing Company, Gentlemen: Yourat. tention Is mvited to the tollowing: Sealed proposals will be received by the un- dersigned until 8 o'clock p, m. Saturday, July 23, 1887, from the daily papers of this city for the publication of all advertisements ot the board of education for a period of one year from date of contract, bidder tostate the price to be charged per square (ten lines nonpareil) or fraction thereof, for one, two, three, four, five and subsequent insertions. All advertisements to be set in solid non- parell. By order of the Board. Yours Traly, J. B, Piren, Secretary Board of Education. Now inark the difference between the course pursued by the board of educa- tion and the city council with regard to official advertising. When the city clerk was directed to invite proposals for of- ficial advertising last month he nserted an obscure ‘‘notice” asking for bids for hay, corn, ice, printing and coal. The bids were to cover the fiscal year begin- ning July 1, 1887 and ending July1, 1888. No standard type or measurement was given to enable bidders to make a uniform proposal. Asa matter of fact the fiscal year under the charter begins and ends with January, and the council is expressly required by the charter to let the official aavertising 1 Jannary of each year. The notice asking proposals with printing sandwiched between coal, ice and hay was manifestly a put up job. Instead of ordering the city clerk to re- advertise for fair competition, the coun- cil awarded a contract to the Republican without eompetition, and when the court enjoined this contract as fraudulent, they vassed a resolution by which the same job is sought to be perpetrated in a roundabout way. The advertising of the school bonrd will not exceed $200 a year. The city advertising will average $400 a month. — The Three Bosses. Hascall, Bechel and Ford have become the bosses of the council. Haseall's per- scnal grievance against Seavey has been magnified into an issue with the vpolice commission and supported under the pre- text that the dignity of the coupeil has been assailed. Bechel is disgruntled be- cause Broatch was made mayor, and js plotting with Rothacker and Moynihan to harrass and worry the mayor at every step. Pat Ford is desperate because his trade in police patronage has been broken up, and his boarders can no longer graduate with a commission on the police force. This triumvirate of bosses kecp the aity in constant turmoil and make it almost a disgrace tor any respectable man to remain in the council. They have managed so tar to enlist a majority of the council into a support of their dog: in-the-manger, rule-or-ruin policy, but the people are becoming impatient, and such reputable members as Bailey, Boyd, Counseman, Cheney, Snyder, Bedford and Van Camp can no longer ignore pub- lic sentiment. They can no longer justify the wnderhanded trickery of the council bosses. They cannot give good reasons why the couneil should refuse to approve the bouds of the police com- mission, when they are signed by such men as William A. Paxton, Herman Kountze, and other citizens equally re- sponsible. They cannot face their con- stituents, who demand better police protection, These members must break away from bad leader- ship if they want to maintain their own self-respuct and retain the. confidence of the people they represent. ——— A Division Called For. Umaha is now a city of more than 00,000 population. In point of intelli- gence, cuiture, social refinement, public spirit and enterprise, Omaha is the peer of any other American city. When Omaha secur®d a metropolitan charter it was expected that she would also become one of the best governed cities in the union. Unfortunately for Omaha her local legislature, the city council, bas by its per- THE verse, reckless andPlawless course blocked much needed reforms snd made elficlw police protection an impossibility.” The disgraceful contro- versy with the volice commission has now continued for more than two months. Under the pernicious leadership of rowdy editors and desperadoes, the council has gone from bad to worse, and aroused an inex- pressible resentment among respectable citizens of all classes. Instead of pursu- ing a manly, honorable course, and pay- ing respect to the mandate of the charter, a policy of obstruction has been pursued which tends to demoralize the police and incites other city officials and emvloyes to lawlessness. On behalf of the reputable citizens and taxpayers a division is called for. We believe that a majority of the council are disposed to do right. They have simply allowed themselves to be misled by un- principled and dishonest leaders. They do not realize that by standing in with this disreputable clique they have brought disgrace upon Omaha. Reputable and honest members must separate themselves from the rascals and boodlers. When we say rascals and boodlers we mean what those terms imply. There are six or seven members in the council who can be classed as such. These audacious scoundrels have duped decent members and made jumping jacks and stool pigeons of them. It is high time now for honest membersof the council to stand up and be counted. Their constituents want the sheep to separate from the goats. They will not stand trifling any longer. — Drunken Englneers. ) At the inquest growing out of the St. Thomas railway disaster last week, where nineteen lives were lost, witnesses swore the engineer of the excursion train was drunk, and that the conductor had also been drinking and was unfit to have charge of the train. There is a growing carclessness in the use of drink upon the part of railrond engineers that should be restricted by the most stringent law. While a drunken engincer is not a com- mon sight on American roads, there are a number of them do more or less drinking. There are some general officers of roads who have stopped long enough from their schemes to put up the rates of transportation to give a thought to the safety and comfort of the traveling pub- lic and have issued orders that an em- ploye in charge of a train will be dis- missed if found while on duty using stimulants of any kind. To remedy this evitand guarantee safety to those who travel from accidents occurring by the carelessness of intoxicated employes legislation is needed. and that very soon. —— PresipENT CLEVELAND and his beauti- ful wife do not have to be coaxed to come to Omaha, and great delegations of “prominent citizens” scnt to Wash- ington with bound petitions making appeals in order to give the place a business boom. Mr. Cleveland long ago said he intended coming to Omaha this fall, and of course he will do so. Mrs. Cleveland 1s the proud pos- sessor of sgome valuable real ite here and paturally she wishes to see the great city of the west in which she is most in- terested. They will be gladly welcomed and will be given the best the town af- fords. The first lowa crank who at- tempts to scare them awny will find his red remains scattered over sixteen coun- ties. ‘Tuk relations between O. H. Rothacker and the editor of the BEE are known to be of such a nature that any views we may venture to express about the crim- inal likel suit brought agninst Rothacker by G. M. Hitchcock would be ascribed to personal animosity. It goes without saying, however, that this community almost to a man is in sympathy with Mr. Hitcheock, and reprobates the indecent and brutal assault upon him wluch 1s the basis of his complaint. eE——— ‘TaE hanging of David Hoffman at Ne- braska City is the first instance of a man being executed for the crime of train- wrecking. Governor Thayer is to be commended for the firm stand which he took in this matter. The deed was a most dastardly one, as it caused the death of an engineer and jeopardized the lves of a whole train load ot other innocent persons. IT was to have been expected that the Chang of the Herald would sympathize with Eng of the Republican. ‘Those Siamese twins are bonnd together by a ligature of flesh and blood which naturalists designate by the name of Moynihan. Other Lands Than Qurs. The coereion act having become a law, the question that naturally suggests itself is, what will the government do with it? Ireland must be made peaceful. ‘The passage of the law was only made possable by the promise of settling the disquiet so long existing in treland. The conservatives will be held to their prom- ises, and no excuse will be available. Unless within a reasonable time the as- surances they have given the country of what could be accomplished under this Jaw and realized in results, they can- not expect to continue in the confidence of the country, upon which their holda would scem to be steadily weakening. is their last chance, and they will stand or fall by it. Briefly summarized the act authorizes the lord licutenant to “‘pro- claim" a district, or any number of dis- tricts, at will, the law becoming’ applica- ble to such sections immediately. That official may also declare any organiza- tion *‘dangerous,” and by proclamation and by force prohibit and suppress it. This is aimed at the Land league, of course. He hkewise has power to search any and all houses for arms and amuni- tion, and, subject to the approval of his council, he may at will make, revoke, add to amd alter many sections of the law so as to render it more bindiyg in certain cases where men eannot be reached in any other manner. The vari- ous courts in Ireland are given summary jurisdiction of the offenses under the act growing out of the disputes between landlords and tenants; special juries may be had at any time for the trial of prisoners; arrests for interfering with the collection of rents either by word or deed may be summar- illy made; witneases may be com pelled to attend courts, and, on applica- tion by the prosecution, causes may be removed from one county to another in Ireland, or to England, if deemed proper. 1t OMAHA DAILY No legal language cfi} fonvey an ade- quate idea of the tyrgiiny which. is pos- sible undor the act. LR is intended to repress agitation against existing laws, to fasten the land injustjee more firmly on the people, to render, evictions more ensy and to make any outery a felony. It will fill the prisons, clog the courts and vastly increase the misery of the voor. It with suchalaw and all the power the consarvative: government of England fails to achieve the pacification of Ircland as all_unprejadiced men be- lieve 1t will fail, itsirepudiation is sure, and the ministry of 8alisbury will have made a record as thé most unworthy in the history of modorn England. Great interest has been centered in the rec- ent ULy-clections in England, all of which have resulted in liberal gains, giving evidenco that the tide of public opimion is setting strongly toward Mr. Gladstone again. The gains made by the Gladstonian candldates in the three English constituencies wheve clec- tions occurred this week average as high as those made in Spaiding, Paddington and Coventry in the early part of this month. In two of tho three districts the tory majorities were so large in Decem- ber, 1885, that the liberals did not attempt to contest them a year ago. In the third the vote of the tories in July, 1886, was nearly double that of theliberals. The latter could therefore have had no pros- vect of success to inspive them with con- filence or to arouse their enthusiasm. Their vote must be taken as an expres- sion of opinion—nothing more. Per- haps the most significant feature of these recent elections is the proof they furnish that the Gladstonians are not only stronger in the constituencies now than they were a year ago, but that they are stronger than they were in December, 1885, when the home rule issue had not been raised and the liberals were appar- ently united. The results justify the re- cent exultant speeches of Mr. Gladstone. That Lord Rar.dolph Churchill is still a force in Engligh politics is well shown in the influence he exerted in obtaining tory concessions on the land bill. Whatever his motive may be, his action 1s com- mendable, and it is now well assured that the bill will be so modified in the com- mitteo a8 to relieve it of the most obnox- ious features and give it a compara- tively fair character. Some unionist members would undoubtedly prefer to sce the measure shelved for the pres- ent, and wait for the outcome of events under the erimes act. They are not only losing heart but also the confidence of their constituents, and if they cannot succeed in passing bills in the interest of other parts ot the ki lom their chances of re-election will bes small, indeed. In the words of Mr. Gltdstone: ‘‘Ireland blocks the way, and the blows which Lord Randolph and his friends are di- recting against the Ijnd bill may bring about a defeat which, if 1¢ do not lead to a concession of homte rul('y, will at least advance the time of its coming.” » **% French affairs have'becéme more peace- ful, and as one of the ednditions ot the change the decline jof Boulanger as a popular idol is natural. There has per- haps never existed any, just reason for supposing that the favorife general ever had any other than patriotic motives for the course he has pursued. He is both o thorough Frenchman and a soldieggand while regarding Germany with all the hostility which is an essential part of French patriotism, his vocation would inevitably lead him to pursue a policy recessary to put France in a position to successfully resent any future encroachments from the hated power. If he went beyond the reason- able limit in this direction he but followed the soldier instinct. But it is evident that the people are becoming convinced that the policy of the ex-war minister was not what France required. It was not only enormously expressive, but it was amenace to peace which was adverse to the interests of the republic. The second sober thought having come to them they therefore put the preservation and security of the republic before all else, and while not denying to Boulanger all that can be claimed for him asa soldier are content to leave with others the functions of statesmauship. They have been brought to understand that supreme devotion to the ambition er interests of any man, to the disparage- ment of those to whose hands had been committed the duties and responsibih- ties of government is perilous to the gen- eral welfare. Hence the idol is being de- gerted and French patriotism grows warmer toward the republic. It 1s a cheering fact, which it may be poped will continue and grow stronger. 1Us ten- dency is to lessen the doubts of those who have felt that tne present republic of France does not rest ou very firm foun- datious, and to encourage the hopes of those who desire that this strong repub- lican leaven in Europe shall remain. » *te . It has been observed by an intelligent writer that the world has been so intent upon regarding the mulitary operations of Germany that it has lost sight of the great progress she has made in commerce ana industry. This vrogress can only be compared to that made by France under the seeond empire while it hus this single advantage that it is in the main the result of individual enterprise, not of state initiative and im- pulse. The industrial development of Germany has preceded pari passu with her military aggrandizement ; and when- ever she is relieved (fsom the dread of immediate attack, whieh, 'with or with- out reason, is her ddminant thought at the present moment, a8 it _has been ever since the late war, hervpolicy will neces- sarily be detected by eommercial rather than strategical condiderations. Ger- many has all the conditions required for the creation of & gfeat mercantile community. She has,a Iarge and hurd- working population, 8 o¢ntral position; her people have the n'rling and coloniz- ing instinet; her merchants have estab- lished themselves successfally in all parts of the globe. All that she requires to become a first-class mercantile power is free access to the sea and the com- mand of a large seafaring population. Given these conditions, it is not difficult to foretell that Germuany, if she retains her military supremaey, will not rest content without having a better seaboard than she at present possesses, Sooner or later the Austrian ports on the Mediter- ranean will probably be made available for the extemsion and development of German trade. ... Bulgaria is still occupying a place in the arena of European interest. The la- BEE: SATURDAY. JULY 23. 1887. test information states that Prince Ferdi- nand may decline the throne, probably frightened from his first apparent eager- ness to accept the prize by the attitude of Russia in declining to regard the action of the sobranjo as valid. Ferdinand is described as a poor, insignificant, weak creature, and 1if this does him justice heis clearly not the man to govern Bul- garia under present conditions. The fuct that he is a person of this character may explain the apparent indifference of the other powers regarding his selection. The present appearances are that Russia's will in the matter will be again respgoted. » o The resignation of the grand vizier of Tarkey is likely to further complicate the sultan in the position which he has assumed on the Egyptian question, and his endeavor to persuade the British commissioner to postpone his departure from Constantinople shows that he fully understands the gravity of the situation. Much as @reat Brit- ain would no doubt like to be relieved from the burden of longer main- taining a large army of occupation in Egypt, she is not likely to agree to a moditication of the terms of the conven- tion. A change in a Turkish ministry meuns a great deal, and the sultan’s fears of internal revolt may yet prove stronger than the feeling of alarm with which he has been viewing the opposition of France and Russia. PROMINENT PERSONS. President Cleveland writes with a stub pen and a cork penholder. Ex-Senator Allen G. Thurman has been spending the past few weeks with his mar- ried daughters in Long Island. Secretary Lamar is an ungraceful horse- back rider, but he is partial to the exercise, ‘Valentine Baker Pacha never drinks any- thing except brandy and soda. e says it kept him alive in his Egyptian campaign. Miss Bary Sherman, the pretty blonde daughter of the senator from Ohio, is highty educated, but of a retiring and gentle dispo- sition. Mayer Hewitt refuses to have his rest broken by reporters, and wards them off by saying that he isn’t reading newspapers dur- ing his stay at Saratoga. ‘The duke of Hamilton, who was one of the heaviest plungers on the English turf, now devotes all his time to yachting. He has just returned from the Red sea. Dr. Edward Schaitzar, now best known as Emin Pacha, the hero of the equatorial prov- inces, whom Mr. Stanley was on the way to relive, was born at Oppein, in Selesia. He was the son of a German merchant. Georgo Franeis Train now permits adults to approach and address him, having aban- doned his rule of not allowing them within arm’s reach and compelling them to commu- nicate with him In writing handed in by a child, Dr. Henry Carpenter, who died recently at Lancaster, Pa., was the family physician of Thaddens Stevens and James Buchanan,and attended them both in their last illnesses. 1t was at his wedding that they met for the last time, and he was the mediator who ef- fected a reconciliation between tnem after a long estrangement. Of all the great personages who witnessed the public procession, Buffalo Bill was the onlyoneto receive recognition from the royal family. The queen nodded to him as she passed his seat, and the Prince of Wales took off his hat and saluted as he led the royal guard of honor by. 1t seems that even royalty knows a man when it sees one. —~— He Will Peter Out. Chic 1go Mail. . “What will Dr. Mec(ilynn do now?” asks an exchange. He will probably work his boom for all there 18 in it and then ‘“‘peter out.” ——— ‘War On the Hip Pocket. Atlanta Constitution. ‘Texas has begun war on the hip pocket in earnest. A statutc has been passed which strietly forbids concealed weapons of all kinds. Now if the grand juries and judges will honestly enforce this law we shall see a cheering decrease in the numbver of Texas howmicides. — e e— Gold Will Prove Its Ruin, Philadelphia Kecord. If it should turn out to be true that paying gold mines have been discovered in Michigan we fear 1t will ruin the greenback party in that state. The rag baby is a creature of more lusty life among the Wolverines than in other parts of the country, but it could not live atop & gold mine. A L In Missouri. t. Jos Gazette, A bust of Georze Washington sits in a back i—nnl on upper Third street and the weeds have grown up around 1t until they scrateh the old man’s neck. A catapillai’s nest is in one ear and a hop-toad has established his country seat on the top of the patriot’s Lead. Where? Oh, where is Tuttle? At no point In Missouri would a bust of Jesse James be al'owed such neglect and des- ecration. Where? Oh, where is Missouri’s respect for the Father of our Country? A Pair of Harpies. New York Tines. Following the recent example of the Stan- dard oil trust, whieh it resembles in many respects, the Bell telephone company has de- clared an extra dividend of 4 per cent in ad- dition to the very large reaular dividends which are annually distributed upon its watered stock. The trust’s wealth has been gained by cruel and unlawtuloppression, the Bell company's by fraud and extortion. Both are monopolies—one supported by conspiracy and the other by law. ‘The Bell eompany’s extra dividends are drawn from the prolits of annual rents of $14 for instruments whose entire cost is $3.42,and from the stock which subordinate companies have been compelled to surrender. The money which supplies those dividends ought to remain in the pockets of the users of telephones, and most of it would be there it legislators had done their plain duty. - Smile Whenever You Can. When thimgs don’t go to suit you And the world seems upside down, Don’t waste your time in fretting, But drive away that frown ; Since life is oft perplexing, "T'is mueh the wisest plan ‘To bear all trials bravely, And smile when'er you can. ‘Why should Jynu dread the morrow, And thus despoil to-day? For when you borrow trouble You always have to pay. It is a good old maxim, Whieh often should be preached— Don’t eross the bridge before you Until the bridge is reached. You might be spared much sighing If you would keep in mind The thought that good and evil Are olways well combined. ‘I'here must be something wanting, And though you roll in wealth You may miss from your casket That precious jewel--Lealth, And though you're strong and sturdy You may have an embty purse (And earth has many trials Which I eonsider worse) ; But whether joy or sorrow Fill up your mortal span, *I'will make your pathway brighter ‘To smile whena'er yon can. —— Cheyenne has cribbed a burglar whose boast 1s that he lost $70,000 in gambling in two years, STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottinge. “Beware of the foaming bowl—always blow off the collar."—Dave. Hoffman, The Missouri Pacific will take a hand in the street car business in Nobraska City. Creto 18 preparing for the fall rush by reorganizing the board of trade and eut- ting down the weeds. L. A. Clark, of Columbus, has been elected president of the association of railroad station agents. Nebraske City will vote August 23 on the question of issuing $39,000 in bonds for sewer and paving purposes. “The printers of North Platte,"” -gu the Telegraph, ‘‘send greeting to J. M. Thurston, of Omaha, and it reads thus: Printers 13, lawyers Valentine and vicinity secured another crop of hailstones last Tuesday. The man who attempted to measure one of them was Killed on the spot. Crete had scarcely recovered from the effect of the Chautaunqua when her base ball club was pounded out of shape by a Friend pine and burglars hit her for §7. Hall county feels sore in the region of her eash box, by reason of Judge Dundy’s decision in the Union Pacitic tax cases. ’l‘hum%eciswn is equivalent to the loss of The refreshing news comes from Kear- ney that Plattemouth and Holdrege took first premium in_the ‘‘green' races. It is reported that Fremont was barred out, as it was conceded that she would take everything in sight. The three-year-old child of Charles Dean, night™ watchman on the Blair bridge, over the Missouri river, fell through the trestle work to the ground below, a distance of fifty feet and miracu- lously escaped serious injury. An nccummod:\flnfi eyclone struck |the young town of Wallace on the B. & M. in Lincoln county, and carted the con- tents of two lumber yards and a hard- ware store to convenient sites for rebuild- ing. Had a sufficicnt number of car- penters been around at the time, all the material on hand might have been turned into buildings in an instant, During the construction of Hoffman’s choker in the jail yard in Nebraska City, a workman place iece ot timber on the window of Lee Shellenberger,s cell. The child-murderer grew wrothy, swore like a pirate and expressed a consuming desire to salute the workman and ‘‘cut his d——d heart out.” lee is working his throat for all 1t is worth, as his time on earth is limted. lowa ltems. Armour threatens to plant a packing house in Sioux City. The old settlers of western lowa will have a reunion at Macedonia August 1. A candy and cracker factory, wita a capacity of fifty hands, will start up in Sioux City September 1. The faith cure physician is creating the periodical sensational at Anamosa. Faith in cooler weather ought to be cheering to the average mortal during these hotdays. A woman at Burlington has become in- sane from the effect of undue religious excitement. She had been attending a meeting of the evangelists and ran screaming through the streets. There is sorrow at Dubuque. The dirges of bitter woe fill the air. The cir- cus didn’t come as advertised. After the sham battle acciaent at Clinton it skipped into Wisconsin the day it was to have showed there, thus leaving all Dubuque 1n the anguish of disappointment, Dakoca. The total assessed valuation of Hyde county is $627,000. The Methodists at DeSmet dedicated a church last Sunday costing $2,300. The local option petitions are now cre- ating considerable excitement in several counties of the territory. Judge Thomas has decided the cele- brated town site case involving the title to a large tract of land within the limits of Rapid City 1n favor of the city, by de- claring the deed 18 ucd by Probate Judge Benedict illegal. Harry Wilhelm, who returned to Dead- wood a few days ago from the reserva- tion round-up, reports in the Times that cattle losses have been enormous. The Harlan company gathered 150 of a brand of 1,500: Kennedy found a solitary steer out of 200 on the range !ast fall; Parker, out of 185, drove in three; the Hash Knifa lost 43,000 cattle and 400 horses, and so it goes. Loss of sheep was not as heavy, as indicated in one instance by a count of 1,800 out of 2,600. The 1,300 have dropped 800 lambs: Wilhelm does not believe that much of a drift will be found elsewhere. He saw few carcasses or skeletons, but is of the opinion that re- mains were washed out by spring fresh- ets. 'I'he Hash Knite has a large drive on the road in and others are restocking. Very little -beef will be sent to market this scason. ‘Wyoming. 3 Laramie county has a debt of $260,766, mostly railroad bonds. Burlington surveyors are at work in the coal fields near Sundance. There are 150 more miles of taxable railroad in Laramie county this year than last. The territory uniyersity, just completed in Laramie at a cost of §$50,000, will be opened September 5. The fakirs of the circus, which camped in Laramie recently, robbed the residents of 1,000 and escaped alive. The assessed valuation of Laramie county foots ur £9,563 561, exclusive of railroad and telegraph lines. ‘The plat of the Cheyenne & Burlington railroad has been returned to the Chey- enne land office from the department of the interior, with the sceretary’s ap- proval. The road will enter Wyoming at a point on the Colorado line one mile east of Crow creck, and crosses the Union Pacific a mile southenst of the Cheyenne city limits. The tirst test of the sand which is to be used in the manufacture of glass in the iaramie glassworks was made last Mon- day and the result was a success beyond all'that had been hoped for by those n- terested 1n the project. The glas blowers who are to go to work September 1 in the massive stone structure that is now nearing completion, have been ar- riving on every train for the past weck, and there are now fifteen expert work- men in town, These will be followed by thirtv otner. A A Taking a Mud Bath. A well-known gentleman who lives at the Fifth Avenue hotel, New York, came into the corridor from the strect recently looking as if he had been scoured for a week., He sat down, took a long breath and hghting o long cigar, began to puff vluomu»l‘y‘. A Mail and kxpress re- pom'n asked him f he wasill. He re- plied: ¥ “II1* No, I have just had a dirt bath. Don't know what a dirt bath is? Then 1’1l tell you. I coneluded that my system had run down and that I needed some- thing to start my blood to circulating rapidly—in faet,” a general vitalizer., 1 Vi i ed Lo take baths. These ery expensive. The attendant stood me up and began to ¢ r me with what is known as Fuller's earth. 1 was encased 1n this substanee with only my head sticking out. Then I was placed in a trough, a tube was inserted into the mud and an electric current turned on. ‘The sensation was most unique and al- most indescribable. The earth around m( body soon became charged with clec- tricity, and snapped and coquetted with my skin in & most tantalizing wa, times there would seem to be a race of small tacks down my back, and then the sensation of a brush gently passing over me. My flesh simply acted as a con- duetor, and enjoyed all the little prankq that a series of currents from a powerfu) eleotric battery ‘ean produce. After an hour I was stripped of the mud and ‘massaged’ for an hour by two stalwart attendants. A douche of water was then administered, ana I went home. But the bath cannot be fimished in one day. Iwent back the next morning and was given a cold-water bath and was rubbed again ety thoroughly. Then my feet were aced in water clhiarged with” eleetricity. he attendants then seized several larga sponges, dipped them in the water and began to rub me. It was an eleetrie bath, and the sponges fairly made mo howl with the shocks I rece . The next day 1 went back and finished the bath, I wag placed in a vat of large grained salt and rolled about until my flesh glowed with irritating excitemont. A rub-down and water bath then finished my mud bath, It takes only three days. I wanted tg ;{eramra and [ succoeded. Sometimes dream I am closed up in an armor of mud, and the prespiration comes from me in copious streams. If a man hag three solid days to spare I think nothing 18 more ilonmnt than to tuke a first-clusg mud bath.” ——— A THIEVES' PARADISE. Remarkable Condition of Oalifornia After Gold was Discovered, Comviled from the first yolume of H. H. Bancroft's Popular Tribunals: A re markable state of aftmirs existed in California for the first year after the dis- covery of gold. The trst miners were made up in a great measure of men al. rund{ living here; they were honest men, and had deserted the towns to dig finld, and not to defraud their neighbors, Many were known to each other, and few were wholly unknown. Pmccnbl{ and in u primitive way, each for himse H picked the precious metal from the river-beds and erovices, washed it from the sands that lined the streams, or sought a place of his own to dig for it, with no desire to enroach on ground chosen by another. Rights were respected; theft was unknown. A pick or shovel thrown upon the ground, sticks driven into the earth, or a written or posted notice that a certain spot way claimed, was suflicient to secure it against all comers. Miners lived much in the open air, 1n cloth tenements or rude huts, leaving their gold dust in bags or bottles unguarded in tent or cabin. The mer« chandise of the trader was secured only by walls of ecloth, which conld ba easily cut through with a pocket. knife. Goods stacked up by the roadside, miles from any camp, re« mained undisturbed for ~weeks and months. Horses und cattle were safe to roam at large. After the winter raing had ceased and water for washing gola bad disappeared, in certain® localities piles of rich dirt were thrown up to ba washed out when rain should come again. And though these heaps were often the result of great labor and con- taining much wealth, they remained un- disturbed during the summer, and when autumn came fell to their rightful owners. Differences of opinion were set- tled by ‘leaving it to the crowd.' And 80 it was the first comers found less dis- cord existing here than anywhere else in Christendom. Vessels arrived in San Francisco that they could find no accommodations for their cargoes on shore. Great quantities of merchandise of all kinds were dis- charged and piled up along the beach. All of it was wholly exposed, although much of it was valuable. Yed all this time thore was scarely a lock on the door of any dwelling, store or warehouse in Sun Francisco. During this truly golden age of integrity it never seemed to occur to those honest folks that there were any })erm)lls in the world who would wrong- ully take property from them. 1t s said that there was but one case of that in San Francisco prior to October, 1849, and this was a Mexican who stole some blankets, for which he was publicly whipped on the plaza. During the autumn of 1848 there wera no such things along the slopes of tho Sierras as government, judges; sheriffs, tax collectors or other oflicers of the law. All were absolutely free and were thrown upon their good behavior. But in good time it seemed to dawn upon the crim- nals of the world that a gold-yielding wilderness without jail or gallows must be the very paradise for thieves. Aund with the multitudes of honest and order- loving men came crowds from the pur- licus of crime—convict ecolonies poured out their villians and-eities emptied their slums. After landing at San Francisco they usually first made a tour of the mines, there forming the acquaintance of other gentlemen of their profession, whose ‘)mjm:t.s they were quite ready ' to join, n this new tield of enterprise evorything scemed to favor them; the absence of sirong government and the physical con. dition of the country were all that the most ambitious could desire, The con, stantly movin lmvalmce to place of miners and traders, and the intermixture of strangers, all tended to discourage in- quiry, to facilitate the operationg of outlaws, to allow them to move quickly from place to place without exciting suspicion. In partieular, the lonely and exposed con- dition of the roads, and the large amount of treasure constantly passing over them, offering alluring opportunities for high- wuy robbery. —Stage robbing, as prac- ticed by the profession in California, was rather a chivalrous oceupation. ‘The gentlemen of the road risked their liyes for whatever happened to be in the ex- press box, and, if no opposition was made, they generally contented them- selves with this, and neither robbed nor insulted the passengers. The Enghsh convicts from Australia were the worst element infesting the community. ‘They made their headquar- ters in San FKrancisco, at the base of Telegraph Hill. On one side rose the hill, broken and rugged, !hrowmq out spurs in various directions, and in places preseeting to the tide a lofty bluft on whose summit even the squatter had not ventured to perch his ey Round the base and up the little ravines were huts and tents little larger and among them were scattered imi nately low dance and ' loons. The rendezvous of thieves was in the heart of the district, and was called Sidney Town. Here during the day, schemes were corcocted that were to be worked out under cover of mght. The meetiags had their orators, and leaders were placed in charge of pillaging parti Singly or n_pairs they wonld perambulate the unlighted and unwatched streets, robbing, demol- ishing or murdering as passion or fa dictated, They had a way of” enticing or forcing their victims to some eminence rising from the bay, and thence hurlin, them to their death below. The beach round the northern point of the peninsuls was at one time strewn with human bones, washed up by the tide or half buried in the sand. s Death of a Wampum Manufacturer. ‘The Paterson Guardian of July 12 s: “James A. Campbell of Paseack, Borgen county, died Friday might after a long illnes He was an uncle of Prosecutor A. D. Campbell, and wa: years of age. senior member of that part of thy bell family which about 1 commenced the ma and the pusiness was family to this day. Many rs ago, James A, Campbell, to meet the neces- sity % for a more expeditious and tiner method of perfecting the work, invented a machine for boring holes n the shells ; this was & perfect contrivance, and no change has been made in it since. The factory at Pascack is the ovly one of its nature in the world, 'I'he work it turna out is very fine, and samples have boem exhibited at several world's fairs,"! npuin outinued in the