Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 31, 1887, Page 4

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Tzachuck, being first duly sworn, fiomb and gays that he Is secretary of The Publishing company, that the actual W dally circulation of the Daily Bee for month _of Jn}xi 1886, 12,314 copies; for Awm 1858, 12, co,alns- for Septem- 184, 13,030 copies; for October, 185, 18,99 coples; for November, 1880, ' 18,343 copies; for December, 1886, 13,337 copies; for Jlnqu 1857, 16,08 coples: for February. 1887, 14,196 coples: for March. 1857, 14, gopies; for Avril, 18, 4,3i6copies; for May, , 14,227 copies; for June 1887, 14,147 ooples. Gro. B, TzscHUCK, Subscribed and sworn to before me this 1st fi&nt July A, D, 1887, EAL{ N. P. FeiL. Notary Publie. —_— —= Contents of the Sunday Bee. Tagel. . General Telegraphic News. Paced. ‘Telegraphic News.—City Ne hoes From the Ante-Room.—Miscellany. Page 3, sg-clnl Advertisuments, Page 4. Editorials,—Political Points.— Edjtorial Comments—Sunday Gossip. Page 8. Lincoln News—Miscellany—Ad- wertisementa, 1'13(6 6, Councll Blufts News.—Miscellany, —Advertisements, Page 7.—Soclety in Omaha.~General and Local Markets,—Miscellany, Page 8. Geueral City News.—Local Adver- Wsements. Page 9.—The New Hot Weather Girl, by ara Belle.—In the Field of Literature.— round Niagara Falls.—Kayaking in Green- d.—Advertisements. Page 10.—HIistory of Spirituallsin, by Hud- zn Tuttle.—Is It & Plece of a Comet.—True jeots of matrimony.-Connublalities,-Musi- and Dramatic,—¥ly Knocks,—Thelr eels are Loaded.—Aniwals In Captivity.— n'vl";o Liveto Be & Hundred.—Advertise D1 me Page 1L—Some Summer Pleasantries.— ?nnnlnt rops. — Religlous. — Jollity nder Difticulties.—Educstional.—Summer mplaints.—1n the Electric tield.—Singu- larities.—Birds’ Nests, — Salt for Fresh Youth. Page 12.—Pro; of Pythianism.—Pop- Authors.—The Demoralized Doacon.— joney for the Iadies,—Impleties,—John urtwright's Deatl Mg. BLAINE, it is announced, will re- farn home from his Furopean trip at once. Thisis a sudden change in his programme. His friends say they fear he may be sick, and his opponents argue 4t is the result of the Ohio convention. A 8. Lours paper boasts that that city bas nineteen millionaires on one street. Next in order will be to tell us how many paupers St. Lonis can crowd into one tenement house. In that way we will be ablo to strike a true balance of its finan- cial and moral status. p— Irissnid that when Gould discoved he had been beaten to the extent of §20,000 by a western railroad contractor his grief and chagrin were so poignant that he went up into the Catskills and ate two codfish balls. If this 15 true the state of his mind opn 0821y bo inferred. Sge———— Tur Kansas City Journal puffs out its oheeks, sticks its thumbs in 1ts arm-holes and says: ‘‘We hereby extend a cordial foyitation to Omaha, Topeka, Atchison, Leaveuworth and Denver to run excur- sions to Kaunsas City on the occasion of the president’s visit.”” What a dust we fly on the wheel do kick up, to be sure. — REPUBLICAN papers are publishing lists of figures to show that there has been a “\clean sweep'’ in the postoflices of the country under Cleveland’s administra- tion. In a political sense this is proba- bly true, but the Omaha postoffice bears mo cvidence ot having been recently Wruck by » clean sweep in any other sense. E————— Two deaths from damp in an old well ‘at Lyons, this state. are reported. It people who propose to cleun out wells that have been unused for some time, would firat take the precaution of letting down a lighted candle, such calamities ‘eould easily be avoided. The flame of a ‘eandle will not burn where the air is so impure as to be fatal to human life, Ix Washington territory the law re- quires teachers to give instructions in physiology and hygiene; failure to do so Involving loss of puy. Pupils also make themselves liable to expulsion if thoy re- fuse to study these branches. Washing- tbn way be about as far west as a terri- sory can be, but it keops up with the wprocession pretty well, ‘THE revised editions of the Bible and New Testament have not been in much demand since the first curiosity regard- g them was satisfied. There are hun- dreds of thousands of volumes unsold upon the shelves of the publishers. An innovation of this kind will not gain ground rapidly. When the King James revision first came out many yeurs elnpsed before it replaced the vrevious transiations. Kioxe LuaNy DEva'WoNGse Varo- PRAKAN, ete., prince of Siam, arrives in New York this morning on the Cunard Umbria. Heison his way home from the Queen’s jubilee and is said to have Jeft the rest of his name Lehind to be sent on by freight. He is a brother of the oonquered king of Sism and 18 nominal- 1y the Siamese minister of foreign aftuirs #¢ Washington. He is said to be the ‘sixth native Siamese that ever set foot on American soil. The others were the Swius and the bairy family. state. extensive inspection and careful selec- . (THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY. JULY 31, 1887. “TWELVE PAGES, The Public Market Question. Among the improvements and facilities which the growth of Omaha will cer- tainly bring, a public market is not to be reckoned the least. That necessity will unquestionably be provided 1n time, but the question is how long the community must yet wait for it. It has been a “long felt want,” and is growing more urgent every year. hardly a family in the community that would not wolcorae the establishment of a public market as a most yaluable con- venience, and very tew that would not find it also a most material advantage. It can tablishe regarded as indispensable, and people would wonder how they managed with- out it. The thrifty class, who keep care- ful account of expenditures,would doubt- less also have cause to congratulate themselves upon the economical results. We venture to say there is 0 safely be said that being es- it would speedily come to be The public market is an institution almost coeval with oivilization, sad is so universal that it does not require any de- fense. Every considerable city or town of Europo has its public market, decined to be just as essential to the community as any other public institution, country there are few cities of the size of Omaha, similarly circumstanced—that is surrounded by a country where *‘market gnrdening' 18 froely carried on--that do not have their public market, and every- where these markets are carefully main- tained as a most necessary convenience and advantage to the communities. That they are both every careful head of a In this fumily whe has had any experience with them knows. The public market brings together numerous dealers, who are forced by the conditions of competition to offer only the best com- modities to be obtained and in tho best The buyer has the opportunity of tion, and the dealer with inferior articles has no chance to dispose of them, at loast at the prices asked for superior articles, on the plea that they were the best he could obtain, as not a few conscienceless hucksters and grocerymen are now in the habit of dving. Inthe public market, also, all buyers are on an equality. There are no preferred patrons, whose privi- lege it 18 to have the pick of things, or for whom the choicest articles are laid aside. The earlier marketers may, indeed, ob- tain some adyantage in the matter of se- lection and in getting their articles a lit- tle fresher than the later comers, but the right of the early bird to the fattest worm has never been ques- tioned. Another adyantage is that there would be a stated price for the same class of articles, instead of a variety of pricos, as must be the case under the strictly store system, and here again close competition would step in to regulate prices with reference to a rea- sonable profit. Consumers would deal largely with producers rather thaa with middlemen, which would effect a very material aggregate saving to the com- munity. In short, every practicai consideration 18in favor of the public market, It 1s essentially a people’s institution, & con- venience and benefit to ali who wish to make use of it, and indirectly beneticial to such as do not, since it very generally regulates the prices at large of all com- modities sold 1 it. So far as the cost of maintaining & public market 18 con- cerned, 1t not only can be made self- sustaining, but a source of revenue to the city, as such markets in most cities are. These considerations, and others which they will doubtless suggest to the intelligent reader, we think warrant us in saying that the question of a public market in Omaha is a very im- portant one, and that it is not too soon to seriously discuss plans for providing such an insiitutiol A City Hospltal. The increasing necessity for a free city hospital is genera'ly recognized, but the disposition to meet the requirement does not appear to be very strong. ‘Che preva- lent feeling seems to be that thisisa matter which can properly wait uotil other things deemed of groster ireuGt- tance to the public are provided, and yet the almost daily experien ce is that the absenco of this provision involves hard- ship and suffering to some unfortunate who must become a public charge. Trundling the victims of accident or other visitation, requiring medical treat- ment, proper handling, and good care, in the patrol wagon to the jail, isa pro- ceeding which in its effects in most cases comes pretty close to being barbarous,and certainly does not speak favorably of our humanity as a community. It should not be permitted to continue a day longer than a practicable way can be found for making provision for persons dependent on the city's care. Relief will be had when the county hos- pital is completed, but that 18 a matter of the indefinite future, and the demand for relief is immediate and of growing urgen- cy. The only practicable course which can be immediately taken is for the eity torent wardsin St. Joseph's hospital. This we understand can be done, and there does not appear to be any sufficient reason why it should not be. The 1nsti- tution is fully equipped with eyery appli- ance necessary to hospital service, the atendants are experienced in their work, the internal arrangements and the sur- roundings are all that can reasonably be desired, and the disposition is to deal liberally with the city. Al this being so, the question sinply is whether the city shall continue to subject the unfortunates who come under its care to the hardships and suffering inseparable from the exist- ing conditions, or by an additional ex- penditure that no one would find fault with secnre for them such care and com- forts as are demanded by the common instinct of humanity. ‘There can be no doubt as to the answer of all who can sympathize with the unfortunate. EE—spe— Russia’s Greatest Novelist. It may surprise many to learn that the greatest living novelist is a prince living a secluded life in middle Russia. Those who know nothing of his writings, and some of those who have read him, per- haps, may discredit this assertion. But the thoughtful, who have acquired knowledge and experience sufficient to understand him, who have puzzled over the “painful nddle of this earth,” will assent to such high estimate of him. Count Leon Tolstvi was one of the richest of Russia's nobility. In his younger days he was a nihilist, idling away his life botweon Moscow and St. Petersburg, after the manner of Russian, vrinces. He is now settled in rotirement on one of his estatesin the country, work- ing lke any.poasant. He bas given a large part of his property. This unusual departure indicates the earneat- ness of his character. Ho is terribly in earnest in all that he does. He possesses ulso an insight into the working of the human mind, an understanding of motives that make his fellow creatures open books to him. Bo his writings are a ruthless exposition of the hidden things in our porsonalities, of the deeps and shallows of our nature. We read them for tho first time with the fecling that they mark an epoch in our lives. And this power- ful impression s not, cannot be produced by u trickery of words. His style is sim- vle and direct. No need of rhetorical flourishes when one has something to say. It is his substance that is so im=- pressive, Turn from him to one of our English or American writers of the prev- alent whipped-cream style, and how thin and tasteless it scems. We tind no par- ticular meaning in him, nothing below the delicate tracery of ihe surface. Tolstvi says nothing he does not mean, His knowledge and earnestuess are over- whelming. Heis the master of modern realism and picture. His characteristics are de- nominated by that inexorable fate which is implanted in character, which is char- acter, in real life. Ho does not tell us how things might be, should be: he simply reports without editorial comment, Only in describing Napoleon, in “War and Peace,” does there seem to be a suspicion of prejudice. He places that strong man also among the wire-drawn puppets whose contorcions are produced by the action of universal force. His great victories were simply the incidents of a tendency of that time. Tolstvi has written but few novels, and he now looks upon them as the pro- ducts of wasted energy. His last one he burned. The work on which he has spent much time and study, and upon which he looks with most sutisfaction, is his confession of faith, entitled, *‘My Re- ligion.” In this he declares that the doctrines of Christ shoula be taken lit- erally. The central point of his teach- ings is, *‘resist not evil."’ Not under any circumstances. Be killed first. In ac- cordance with such a doctrine he now shapes his daily life. The only good to be found in exist- ence, he claims, is to live for others. He is now happy. In his former life of slothfulness, of scepticiom, he experienced nothing but dark despair. But he does not believe in a life here- after. He claims that there is no war- rant tor such a belief in the scriptures. In his younger days Tolstvi was a sol- dier uls», and took part in the Crimean campaign. Here he gained those im- pressions of war which he has described a8 no ono else ever described it. Some of Tolstoi’s works are in our pub- lic library. S—— Prohibition in Council. Last Tuesday might thirty-two repres- entatives of the prohibition party, from as many states, slipped quietly into Cleveland, Ohio, and on the next day as quietly slipped away again. The pur- pose of the meeting, intended to be an entirely sccret one, was to formulate a plan of action for the presidential cam- paign of 1888, The delegation was com- posed of the chairmen of the state com- mittees, and Hon. John B. Fincn, chair- man of the national committee, was the presiding officer. Among the more nota- ble prohibitionists present were J.N. Templin, of Nebraska; Fred F. Wheeler, of Albany, N.Y.; James W. Hart, of Illinois; A. D. Powers, of Michigan; John Sobieski, of Missouri, and others. Mr. Finch, having been captured by a re- porter, much to his surprise, as it was supposed uo one knew of the presence of the prohibitionists, he stated that he con- sidered the prospects for a large vote next yenr satisfactory. The next meet- ing of state representatives will be held just before .the national convention, the date of which has not yet been decided upon. ‘The desire of the conyention was to effoct a olofée Organization of the party, that its work in the future may be carried on more effectively than hereto- tore. Lhere can be no objection to a meeting of this kind, and perhaps the party will be benefitted by it, but why these at- tempts at secrecy? If the party were older, it would know thatit is not very well possible for a meeting like this to take place 1n a city of the size of Cleve- land avithout the knowledge of the local reporter. Similar attempts to work out of sight of the public wero made by the New York branch of the prohibition party last year, with the result of weak- oning its effectiveness. — Remarkable Hallucination, The denouement in the fictitious Stone- Crowninshield romance, of which eastern papers have recently been full, discloses a remarkable case ot long sustained hal- luciuation. For more than ten years Miss Florenco Stone, a governess in New York and Boston families, has been tell- ing her relatives and nearest friends a romance of love and courtship in which she herself figured as heroine. So minute and consistent were her revelations that her mythical lover, Crowinshicld, a rich English nobleman, booame a definite en- tity to all to whom her story was told, and whom they all learned to esteem highly, They believed in his existence for years, inquired after his health, heard letters read which he was supposed to have written and followed the imiginary personage in his imaginary wanderings with much interest. Her story, briefly told is as follows: Over ten years ago Miss Stone began telling of her acquaintance with an English, aristocratic millionaire; this acquaintanceship ripened into love, courtship and betrothal. Then came an estrangement and the engagement was broken. But she kept track of his wher- abouts and her friends were informed of his doings from time to time, through letters which she herself wrote. Recently she said that she had met him in Boston where their engagement was renewed. From Boston she started him across the continent to San Francisco, whence he sailed west to return to England by the Indias. From his home, Crowninshield sent Miss Stone an invitation to come to England to be married and to take with her as many of her friends as she liked. She and the latter, a large number, made preparations for the voyage and were on the point of lesving when Miss Stone, in. a grief stricken manner, told her friends that a cablegram had in- formed her the mythical bridegroom was dead. Them investigations proved that the whole romance had /been woven out of Miss Stone's remarks! Her feat of keeping up the deception so long, and the remarkable ingenuity she displayed in making her story appear reasonable, has neyer been equalled. She deserves a high place among the masters of tiction, and her; agting was beyond what is accomplished on the stage. ble imagination, But she has landed in an insane asylum, Her mind is undopbtedly unsound, but for years those who have employed her have founa her a quiet, unassuming, well educated lady, who preferred to earn her own bread to bewg supported by her richer relatives. Modern pathology of the mind will refer her hallucination to diseased brain tissue, and in this way absolve her from responsi- bility, but she might have been burned a8 a witch in former times. Oae ex- planation of this case may be that she commenced with a simple untruth by stating that she was engaged to a rich nobleman, hoping thereby to gain more respect from her employers. Such a falschood would require further addi- tions 1n order to save herself from the consequences of being found out asa liar, until she became dominated by her story upon which she latterly spent all her energies until her moral and intel- lectual bulance was overturned. Among other vagaries she informed [ one of her friends that he was to be the pastor of a church which her lover in- tended to erect at Brookline, and mourn- ing apparel, which she intended to put on when the news of Crowninshields death came, were faund among her effects. She comes of good New Eng- land stock. — Lorp CHARLES BERESFORD, & junior lord of the English admiralty, was sup- posed to be a good man. But alas for human nature, he has shown himself to be depraved in the very care of his being, When the recent marine tomfoolery in connection with the queen’s celebration was going on, this depraved lord was on board her majesty’s yacht. His wife was on the Enchantress of the queen's navy. Now the British fleet has « code of sig- nals by which one vessel can send mes- sages to another when within sight. And what did this depraved lord do? He actually had the abnormal audacity, in some localities it would be called “‘zall,” to send a pri- vate message from Victoria’s yacht —her very majesty's very yacht, remember— to the captain of the Enchantress asking him to *‘tell Lady Charles to go immedi- ately aboard thé Lancashire Witen, where lwill join her.” His erime is almost teo; awful to con- template. The nobility of England is coavulsed. The wicked man has re- signed his office of Jumdr lord of the ad- ‘miralty. And well be might. Why didn't he kill himself, ,or—or move to Kansas City? When aiman so far for- gnts himself as to send a private message to his wife from tho,royal yacht, the Vie- toria and Albert, owned by the quean of Great Britain and Jreland, Empress of India, Defendress of the faith, and such things, he should be niade an example of. Let the punishiment fit the crime. MR. JOoHN SWINTON, who is one of the most earnest and intelligent among the champions of labor, seems to take a somewhat gloomy view of the situation. Finding the record of the pastsix months more prolific of labor disturbances than an equal period of any other year, with fewer successes for labor, Mr. Swinton does not regard the situation as hopeful for the cause which he unquestionably has first at heart, The principal causes, he thinks, are the rapid growth of com- bination among employers and the wide- spread weakening of many of the organi- zations of wage-workers. The process of disintegration in the ranks of organ- ized labor has been very marked in the last few months, and seems to be still going on. “There arg doubtless othay gauses than this** syrites Mr. Swinton, “‘for the recent poor luck of labor, and political economists will be ready to deny that this has had anything to do with 1t; yet, it is a fact that labor's luck was better during the two years of rapid organization (1886-7) than it has been since the decline of or- ganization.” At the present time strik- ing appears to have come to s pause. The number of strikes from the begin- ning of January last till the close of June, in the United States, was 525, ex- ceeding all previous records for an equal period. THE special dispateh from David City, published 1n this morning's BEE was filed at David City yesterday afternoon at 1:40. The first partof the dispatch was received in the operating room of the Western Union in Omaha at 2:30 and the last at 8:45 o'clock, but did not reach the check room until 4:10, and arrived at the BEE office by messenger at4:35. The dispatch was received in Omabain ample time for our evening edition, for which it was 1ntended, but owing to the neghgent way of doing business in the Western Union office the evening edition of the BEE was deprived of all benefit from it, and this too in spite of the fact that in- quiries were made at the telegraph office by us for this very special. We say this much more to show our readers that we spare neither pains mor expense to give them the latest news. Although the Bee had a good sccount of the David City disaster, it would have bad full particulars 'bag it not been for the negligence of the Western Union. The patrons of the Western Union de- serve better treatment than they are re- ceiving. Some reform is necessary. THE temperance question is actively agitated in Dakota. In nearly all the counties petitions are'in dirculation ask- ing for an election thigfallunder the pro- visions of the new couaty optional law. All the signs point toa **Mghlicense victory in most counties and. *'no license'' 1n the rest. The earnestness of the inhabitants in the matter is unquestionable, but oc- casionally a humerous piase creeps in. In Pembina oounty 1,700 people had signed one of thesa petitious, which was given to a bartender to keep during the dinner hour of the day when the county commissioners met. He stepped over into Manitoba and the petition went with him. The temperance people are hard at work getting up another, The good effects of the high license law in Minne- sota, which has been in operation about two months, are already telt. In Minne- apolis last year 834 saloons, at $500 each, paid into the treasury $167,000. This year 205 saloons have ‘paid $1,000 esch. The weeding out of saloons by high li- censo is bound to have & salutary effect in aoy oity. THE Frenoch nation must always have & public hero, and he must be a French subject. ¥renchmen know of no great people out of their own conntry. In this they are unlike the English and Amer- jican people, who usually import their heroes. The idol of the time is General Boulanger, and he is so because he has a handsome person, lives up to his income, is devoted to the fair sex both old and young, and because he is plucky. When he was a boy he went to school 1n Eng- land where his companions constantly assailed him on account of his French name, French accent and French clothes, He thrashed his fellows into not calling him “froggy.’”” In reality Boulanger is somewhat blatant, but not the less liked for that among the common people. THE oldest newspaper in existence i the King-Pan of China, which is nearly one thousand years old. At first it was issued at irregular periods. In 1361 it was mado a weekly and in 1804 1t becamo adaily. If the paper isa fearless and firey one it probably makes things hot for the ruler of that country occasionally, POLITICAL POINTS. Neal Dow 18 going to stump New York for the prohibitionists. Mr. Carlisie’s friends at Washington feel certain of his re-election as speaker. Both parties are pledged to tariff revision. 1t Is a question of moment which gets therc first, Miss Susan B. Anthony will speak at nine woman suffrage conventions in Kansas dur- ing October. Governor Foraker, of Ohlo, tells in the August Forum why the republican party should be restored to power. Mr. Conkling's avowed Ignoranee of cur- rent political affairs is accepted asa mild and amuable piece of humor, Various plans are under consideration to harmonize the New York republicans. A meeting of party leaders with the state com- mittee is one of them. The democrats of Birks county, Pennsyl- vania, are slightly disturbed by the canvass of thirty-one candidates for the oftice of county commissioner. Pliladelphia Press: 1f anybody zoes out to look for the presidency boom for David Beu- nett Hill he stiould be sure to take a search- warrant along with him. Senator Eustis, of Louisiana, classities the democratic party of that state into two fac- tions—"'the dominant, to which I belong,” and the reform democracy, ‘“composed of misguided people,” Carl Schurz made his first break Into public life as aldernan of she Fitth ward of Water- town, Wis., which position he held several terms. e wasa candidate for lieutenant- governor of Wisconsin on the republican ticket in 1858, and was defeated. John R. McLean issaid to be possessed of a wild ambition to succeed Senator Payne in 1880, and to this end Is willing to let the pres- ident win a nominal vietory now 1in order to gain substantial advantages hereafter. Hence the nomination of Powell and the in- dorsement of the administration. Ex-Senator Windom is passing tho sum- mer In the reorganization of a number of mining and milling companies in which he 1s heavily interested. His shattered fortnnes are being rapidly repaired, and it is said the political bee still gently buzzes in his bon- net. Chris Buckley, the democratic boss of San Franciseo, is totally blind, is reputed to be worth $1,000,000, and of conrse runs a saloon, Fifteen years aco he was a bartender in a Kearney street saloon in San Francisco, and {vas the lust person looked upon as & flture leader In politics. After he became blind it was impossible to continue mixing drinks, so he set to scheming in politics and organized & system, with enlmins and lieatenants, whereby he could tell within ten votes how many voters there were tv be relied upon in a district. Whenever he made a promise of support he kept It, and it is said that through his influence alone a man could be elected to any oftice. PRI An Unsatisfactory Opponent, Macon Telegraph. 1t is much harder to satisfy a man who fishts with his moyth than one sfio Gsos & wun. e Family Jugs. Loudsville Courier-Journai, ‘The one Kentueky distillery that has re- fused to shut down for a year is doubtless driven to this seemingly obstinate course by large orders from Georgla. —— A Gentle Hint, Chicago News. If President Cleveland wishes to knew ex- actly how great a man he is in the estimation of the great west let lum venture to come out here without Mrs., Cleveland. ———— win ry Own Lincoln Journal, Armour isn’t going to St. Joe. Not he. He has given it out cold and flat that all his packing houses shall be ranged on {he line of the Milwaukee road. That is his road and heis going to carry his own pork if he knows himself, Pork. ———— The Chicago Hog. Knox County News. Omaha would not be presumning enough to boast as many hoys as Chicago, but at pres- ent is killing as many as the latter place. One trouble with the Chicago hog is that it does not get killed as often as it gets up a corner on wheat. e —— A Plea For Peace, San Angelo (Texras) Enterprise, Let us have peace. Give Cleveland a rest. Give Dr. McGlynn a rest. Give poor old Joif Davis a rest. Give the train robberies a rest. Give the ‘‘rebel” flags a rest. Give the Grand Army of the Republic a rest. *Give us a rest” all around during the hot weather. [ —— Nipped in the Bud. St. Paul Pioneer Press. Editor Grady’s boom has played out In the New York Herald oftice, but the colonel bas had ilitia encampment named after him in GGeorgia. Even boomed editors will have to be satistied with comparatively small favors sometimes, when the boom has been chilled. e Below the Belt. Lineoln Jowrnal. ‘The Hon. John M. Thurston thinks the business of running a decent newspaper hardly equal to that of beating widows and orphans out of the property leftthem by death. Editors who perform tho first service are not so well dressed, usually, as the jack- leg lawyers who engage 'n the latter. il il Two Bad F k8. York Times, John M. Thurston was a very popular man in York county six weeks ago, but two bad breaks have somewhat dimmed the lustre of his fame, The first was the lecture on “Grant,” which was caloulated to Impeach his ability, and the second was his break for Minnesota when the investigation commit- tee wanted him so badly, which was an Im- peachment of his integrity, e Lot Suspicious of Buffalo Bi. London Times, English people have long been accustomed torécognize In the people of the Western continent a race of renowned showmen. How are they to know that Buffalo Bill isa cow- boy Barnum with a troupe of clever profes- slonal actors, acrobats and equestrians? A country whose showmen have produced wooly horses and petriied men, whose mer- chants have put upon the market wooden nutmegs, sawdust hams, chemically manu- factured eggs and oysters, Is surely capable also of sending over to England cirous cow- boys and sideshow Indians, with concocted “records” and trained horses. e Material For New York Jurors. Norristown Herald, Atatrial at the Clay county, Georgla, court the other day, two witnesses were put upon the stand, “‘who did not know who made them, had never heard of heaven or hell, and did not know whether a lle was right or wrong.” In New York thoy would have been put in the jury box. i Survival of the Fitte Philadelphia Recond. ‘We are making more iron than ever before this year, but one-third of our furnaces are out of blast. In the meantime prices have risen, until heavy importations of iron have been made to supply the demand. The quiet furnaces are probably nurslings of protec- tion, planted where it is impossible to make iron at & reasonable profit. Better located eslablishments are doing the work and get- ting the trade. When there shalt be enongh of them importations will cease, and they will eat one another up until only the fiftest shall survive, With a proper rate of tarift only the fittest would ever have been built, and the consumers of iron would have been saved an immense amount of money and fin- prudent investors great griof and loss, Early Closing Movement. Chicago Tribune, The early elosing movement? 'Tisa most benignant scheme, "T'ls the practieal fulfillment of a philan- thropic dream, And, 1f carried out in politics, with what ex- ceeding zest Would they work it in Missouri on the mouth of Mr. Vest! —————— @D August, == A Frank Dempster Sherman, in St Nicholas, August, month where summer lies Sleeping under sapphire skies: Open all the windows wide, Drink the orchard's fragrant tide,— Breath of grass at morning mown Through the leafy vistas blown,— Hear the clinking of the scythe Sound mellifluent and blithe. August, month everywhere Musie floats upon the air From the harps of minstrel zales Playing down the hills and dales: August, month where sleepy cows Seek the shade of spreading boughs ‘W here the robin quirks his head Contemplating cherries red: August, month of twilights when Day half goes and comes again: August days are guards who keep ‘Watch while summer lies asleep. b ity SUNDAY GOSSIP, It 18 quite the rage now to employ hotel stenographers, The leading Omablia hotels are each supplied with one. » "o MADAME MonsrssA and the Count Bozenta are the guests of thelr son, Ralph Modjeska, of this city, and will remaln here two weeks. Mndame Modjeska says that the reports of her investing large sums In Los Anceles property are without foundation, ¥ LaLy LANGTRY's English body guard isa daisy. He hasn’t a very high opinion of American newspaper men. ‘The other day an Omaha reporter attempted to in- terview the Lily,but the brawny Englishman prevented him. The consequence was a war of words. ““Who are you?" asked the re- vorter. “1 am the peer of any newspaper reporter in America.” The reporter fainted. s “D1AMONDSs would not long be considered precious if they were worn all over the country as they are worn at Long Branch. To see dlamond ear-rings glistening in shell- like ears, and diamond bracelets glowing on snowy arms at tho breakfast tableis the rule rather than the exception. Thers was a time when it was considored zoud form only to wear diamonds in the evening, but we have changed all that”” The above Is from the New York Morning Journal, which adds: “One young lady even wears jewelr) in bathing, butghe is from ths afly of Humana 1 andshiolid be excused.” The attent the Journal is called to the fact that it was only a day ortwo ago that an Omaha lady had her teeth lilled with diamonds by an ex- pertdental artist. Asto wearing jewelry in bathing the Omaha ¢irls think nothing of that at Manawa lake. It's quite the fashion there. **e AMONG the building permits, as published inone of the papers the other day, was vne for the erection of a two-story frame addi- tion, with a marble floor, to the Omaha Na- tional bank building, As the Omaha National bank is a four-story and high base- ment brick, it struck the reader as rather singular that it was to be enlarged by a two- story frame addition. Furthermore the fire limit ordinance prohibits any such improve- ments. Inquiry, however, revealed the fact that the Omaha National bank building is to be materially improved. ‘T'wo stories are to be added to it for the accommodation of the Western Unlon company, whose constantly increasing business demands more room. ‘The two stories, by the way,are tobe of brick., So says Mr. Joseph H. Millard, the president, and his statement is corroborated by Messrs. Wyman and Wallace. Other improvements are also to be made. The location of the ele- vator is to be changed, as 15 also the main en- trance of the building. e Mg, NauaN Fravko Is acknowledged to be an excellent violinist. His music is full of harmony, but his carcer i@ Omana has been full of discord. Soon atter his advent in Omana he had a falling out with Julius Meayer,who had a monopoly on fiddle-strings, wind instruments, bass drums, and musie generally, The consequence WS that two factions were created in the inusical world of Omaha, one under the leadership of Meyer and the other under that of Franko. Each of these leaders abused the other, aud neither had any rest. Neither was there any rest for the newspapers, which were compelled daily to glve each side a hearing. Mr. Franko, how- ever, finally managed to get himself into print more than Meyer for the reason that he engaged In other fights. At last accounts it appears that Mr. Franko's enemies had got the better of him,but he is “still on deck although a little distieured.” For some unaccountable reason nothing has occurred within the last twenty-four hours to cause him to ventilate his grievances through the newspanpers. 1er- haps he has been temporarily overzome by the heat. Then again maybe it is only the calm before the storm, \When Le breaks out again it will be over. Later—A rumor is current on the streets that Mr. Franko and Meyer have kissed and made up, and that all is now harmony. Still Later—1The atove rumor is denied by Mr. Meyer. The California salmon planted i Pine lake, Chippewa county, Wisconsin, huve become numerous enough to drive out all the buss. e A now town in the southern part of San Luis Obispo eounty, California, has been christoned E1 Olivar, There was n ]um; wrestle to obtain a pame significant of the olive, and yet nobody was thoughtful enough to suggest Olivet. EARLY DAYS ON THE PLAINS. A Wild Western Tale Told in the Smoking Room of a Sleeping Car, Chicago ‘I'mes: In the smoking seo- tion of » lluumnghclr on the St. Paul road, aftor supper the other day, the con- vorsation turned on tricks at car one of the party asserted tha Bill'"" was the originator of that peculiar industry. A lantern-jawed man from Wyoming, who had been an attentive listener, remarked: *‘(jentlemen, you are wrong. [saw a ‘sucker’ play it to my sorrow before Cun- ada Bill ever thought of it.” In resporse to urgent rnuuclu, the res- ident of the sage-brush district in tha west went on with his story: ‘““The last year of the war, [, b"“fl a boy of eighteon, cut loose and drifted toward the then newly discovered gold mines of Montana. On tho way I beoame separated from the outfit I was traveling with, and drifted along from one frontier ranch or trading station to another, until I finally made a halt at the crossing of Big Laramie river, on the old stage road, at n ranch kept by Al Smith. Smith's ranch consisted of » log building, 20x40, all in one room, 1n which he ran a gen- eral store and saloon. As thera was no water for fifteen miles either way, ranch was a camping ground trains bound east or west. The Ind were bad in those days, and every ranch- man kept as large a force about him as possible, and siragglers like myself were received with open hospitality and urged to prolong their stay. I remained at Smith’s ranch for several months a wel- come guest. Swapping horses, hunting antelope, drinking whisky, playing poker. and trading in government mules, which in those days was considered all over tho west as legitimate as selling whisky or any other respectable and honorable in- dustry, [ made plenty of money, and had occasional Indian skirmishes and lots of excitement. There were several of us young fellows there, and every evening we would indulge in poker by ourselves when we could not get a stranger in, but when we could we took him in, and we Rgot them almost every night, and, as money was abundant, we were all well fixed, ~ One evening, late in the fall of 1865, & cadaverous, lank, homely-looking specimen of humanity rode up tothe ranch on a poor, scrawny mare pony, followed by a half starved colt. He wus dressed in ragged romnants of a threadbare broadcluth suit, & number of rents in hig trousers showing & tattered pair of gray ones underneath. An old pair of congress gaiters adorned ha ex- tra large feet, and an antiguated stiff hat scarcely protected him from the sun. His hair was long, hisface unshaven. ¥rom his shoulder, hung by a piece of rope, an old flour sack stuffed full of old clothes, whilo under his right arm he carried a bundle wrapped in an old striped hickory shirt. 'He awkwardly crawled off his Rosinante, and n a draw- ing, stuttering yoice ing uired if he could ‘git to stay all nighty' He was informed that he could spread his blanket on the floor and could eat with us such as we had, but that the nearest hotel was 300 miles down the rond. His stuttering speech and gawky manner caused us youngsters unlimited amusoment, and we guyed him most unmercifully, all of whteh he took in good part. *‘Before night & number of trains went into camp and by dark the log cabin was lively. Freighters and tenmsters were buying goous and drlnklnf whisky, ana nlayhnq curds for canned fruit—the one groat luxury of the western pilgrims. At an early hour, long before any o else had thought of sleep, ‘Rusty,’ as we called him, spread his blankets on the floor, and with bis old artillery saddle for nplliow turned in and tried to sleep. Your of us youngsters drew around a table and proposed to start a poker game if we could get some one to_come in and make it five-handed. ‘Rusty’ jumped up and said as it was 1mpos- sible to sleep he would pl a little while for fun. . that we did klmlly informed him not play for fun, but u quarter ante, just to make it interesting. He demurred at first, but linally agreed to rlay §5 worth. We did not want him to play on account of his poverty, but when he produced a fat leather pocketbook stuffed with green. backs, our scruples diminished und the game began. Unover saw as awkward a man with cards in my life, but [ am froe to confess that I nover saw a man have such luck as he did, The flushes, threes, full hands and straights thpy man beld were jomarkable. By 1 o'clock 1 had 350 and wad broke, By 2 Frank Jones had lost over $500 und had to quit for lack of funds. Frank Williams lasted until 4 o'clock, when he got knocked out, and the game progressed single handed be- tween Joe Lowery, & superintendent of the Overland e company, and our simple fricnd, who by this time was over §2,000 winuner. Joe wus considera= bly out but had about $200 left. ‘Old Rusty’ kept up a runuiog tire of silly rej marks, bul we none of us had any su- perfluous hilarity left. As wo all by this time commenced to smell a large- sized rodent, we were watching Rusty with all of our eight eyes. The ante had been raised to 1, with $2.50 blind. It was Rusty's deal, and Joe Lowery went $2.50 blind. After the deal Rusty saw the blind aud Joe made it good ana raised him 830. Rusty saw the raise and raised Joe back , which Joe called, it taking all the money Joe had left to call. Joe had three gueens and drew two cards; Rusty drew three, but I saw him take one of them from the bottom of the pack, and called Joe's attention to it. Joe grabbed the stakes, when Rusty whipped out a 45- revolver, and, cocking it, ordered Joe to ‘drop that money.’ Frank Jones drew a revolver and fired at Rusty, missing him, when Rusty fired in return, killing Jones instantly.” Joe and I both reached for our revolvers, but a shot from Rus- ty’s revolver hit Joe in the heart and ho fell, but as he kecled over his gun went off, hitting Frank Williams in the back of the head, the ball penetrating his brain killing him. At the same instant I fire at Rusty and broke his left arm. He re- turned “the fire, hitting me in the heart, and I fell dea: As he hesitated, the crowd ecast re- proachful glances at him, and a fat man 73 with gold spectacles remuriked that it was about bedtime. New York in 1888, Chtcago Herald. The cock-sure assumption now so widely accepted that “the people living within ten miles of the city hall in New York" are to decide the next presiden tial election will not bear close examina- tion. They have decided the lasttwo elections, but they are not likely to con- tinue as umpirea in_ the presidential game. [n 1880 they decided the contest in favor of Garfield by tailing to vote for Hancock, as they were expected to do. In 1834 they gave Cleveland the majority which gave him the state, and the state elected him. In all the other presiden- elections since 1856, New York has her been on the losing side or ¢lse tho candidate for whom 1t voted would have been elected anyhow. There is no reason to believe that the remainder of the American people are to stand as they have stood for a ge tion and leave to ew York the deciding 1 politics. Just now pvements in the metrop- olis which continued, muy give that state to the republicans, It 15 1o be re- membered that it was given to the demo- crats in 1363 when nearly uli the other states were carried by the republicans. In 1872 it voted for “Grang, but Grant would have been clected without the vote of New York. 3 there are local -— Nearly $50,000 18 to he spent in altera- tion and refitting of the old cataedral ad St. Augustine, Fla.