Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 7, 1887, Page 6

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County of Douzlas, {° " zschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actaal circuiation of the Daily Bee 'ofl the week ending Augustb, 1357, was as lows : Baturdas unday, July 31. londay, August 1 ‘Tuesday, August 2. edne Ursaay. day, August5... Average...... uflzn. B, TZSCHUCK. Sworn to and subscribed in my presence this 6th day of August, A. D, 1897, N, P, Frir,, [SEAL.] Notary Public. Itfi!: of Nebraska, | o uglas County, { Geo. B. Tzschuck, belng first duly sworn, ses and says that he is secretary of The Publishing company, that the actual average daily circulation of the Daily Bee for 6 month of July, 1886, 12,314 copies; or August, 155, 12,404 eoples; for Septem- 185, 18,00 coples; for October, sy 12,08 copies; for November, 1880, coples; for December, 1898, 13,337 copies; for anu: 887, 16,268 coples: for February, 1887, 14,196 copies; for March. 1857, X goples: for April, 187, 14,310 copies: for May, 1 I.fl,m coples; for' June 1597, 14,147 eoples. Gro. B. Tz8CHUCK, Bubseribed and sworn to before me this 1st @ay ot July A, D., 1887, EA L. N. P. FriL. Notary Public. ‘Contents of the Bunday Bee, Pagel. New York Herald Cables to the x. EE. Pace 3. Telezraphic News.—City Nows.— dvertisoments. Page 3. Special Advertisements, Page 4. Editorials,—Political Points.— , Comments—Sunday Gossip.—By the ath Tub Route—Current Topies, Page 5 Lincoln Letter—In the Ante- R?0m~M|wellln —Advertisements, 6. Council Bluffs News—Miscellany vertisements, Page 7. Geoeral and Local Markets— Miscellany, Page 8,” General City News—Advertise- ments. n Page 9. Omaha Soclal News—John Swin- ton on Strikes-~The Kxplosion of the Major —Advertisements. Page 10. The Life of a Prospector, by J. b, 8.—Pepermint Drops—Fanze Sepel in dverpool—Music and Dramatic—The In- nce of Books—Memoirs of the Metropolis =Impleties—Beauties of Los Augeles, by J. \ The Small llo{. Page 11, The Faith Cure Discussed, by ancis Power Cobbe—Siberian Diet—Singu- arities—Surrounded by Electricity—Spark- ling Summer Smiles —'The Shooting of Stone- wall Jackson—Advertisements. Page 12, Maidens, wives and Widows— Honey for the Tadies--Religious—Educa- tlonal—Some Matrimonial Storles—Con- mubialities—Advertisements. EE—— Tue Kansas City base ball club, it is true, can play a little ball. They could do better were they not so possessed of the Kansas BoME of our able local contemporarics are very much wrought up regarding the question of ‘‘associate editor.”” From a careful review of the columns of the able journals discussing this very important subject, it would appear that both the editor and the associate perform their dutics with a scond shovel. SpE—— FarMeEr HaLroway, the owner and captain of the craft Manawa, which by courtesy was termed a steam boat, ad- mitted yesterday before the coroner's fury that he knew nothing about steam navigation, but had a fair knowledge of the science of baling hay. Mr. Hallo- way should apply for a captaincy in the American navy. WiLLiaxM O'Brie first of a series of dian Rights." in the United Ireland. In these he wall detail his experiences in his recent crusade against the governor gen- eral of the dominion. Mr, O'Brien first ‘won fame as a racy correspondent, and he will no doubt pen an entertaining chapter in the story of the contest for home rule. —— ‘Tne sugar industry of Louisana is de- elining. A New Orleans paper, review- ing the business of sugar-raising for the past five years, admits that it has been steadily diminishing, and that the sugar erop is barely half what 1t was at the highest point. As Louisiana sugar is protected against foreign competition by & duty of 75 per cent, the facts reported by the New Orleans paper conclusively show that in this case tariff protection has not proved to be a stimulant to de- velopment. has letters called “‘Cana- published the BAN FrRANCISCO takes the first rank as a divorce centre. According to the Call of that city, it is doubtful it so large a provortion of marriages prove failures in any other part of the world. That Journal says that in San Francisco in 1886-87, there were 430 judgwments ren- dered granting divorces, which is 49 above the average for the past tive years. As there were 2,077 licenses issued it may be said roughly that there was one mar- riage dissolved for every seven that were eontracted. Thisis about the average for the past five years. ———— WAsHINGTON will have next month the most important gathering of medical men ever brought together on this conti- ment. This will be the international medical congress, composed of the most eminent surgeons end physicians of all nations, of which the session in Wash- ington will be the ninth. These gather- ings, which have year by year increased in importance until now they have en- listed the active co-operation of leading medical scientists the world over, are usually held in the capital city of the se- lected country. It is expected that the sttendance at the coming. congress will number five hundred, and among those who will be sent as the representatives of MEuropean governments are s dumber who enjoy world-wide fame. A consid- erable part of the proceedings will be in ‘the French language, and. the coungress will it in sections, so to speak, there being of oourse no hall large enough to soccommodate the entite body. Tho ses- Give the Boys a Chance. What shall be done with the boye is an extremely important quostion alike to parents. society and the boys themselves, and becomes graver and more urgont every year. nual report of the bureau of statistics of labor of the state of New York is devoted to boy and girl labor. jeet of the commissioner was to show that the widesproad employment of this kind of labor is an obstruction and a kindrance to the material progress of the country, and in a measure at least to Justity quite He examine that mechanics and artisans are moved to put restrictions on apprentices by the fear that if they do not limit the number of boys at trades they will soon be com- pelled to work at lower wages or per- haps be thrown nut of work altogether. The inquiries and investigations of the commissioner resulted in bringing to- gether a large array of statistics which show that boy labor is always in large supply and that there is also much of tho time a good demand for it. conclusion is that in many branches of employment this labor is brought into competition with adult labor to the dis- advantage of the latter, and this ap- pears to be borne out by the great number of advertisements for situations regularly appearing in the newapapers, Nearly haif of the last an. The apparent ob- the general oxplains this anti=apprentice policy among workingmen. that he was led to snbject by the fact The natural in which nearly all departments of in- dustry are represented. While the New York commissioner makes plain his hos- tility te the promiscuous employment of boy and girl lubor and his partial sym- pathy at least with the restrictive policy regarding apprentices, he is still forced to make the following admission: “We may a3 well look the fact square in the face that thereis a rizing generation, and that it cannot be allowed to grow up without ability-" This pointedly presents the situation so that the least intelligent can comprehend it. The boys are here, and it 1s not only a duty to maintain them as boys, but to permit them to acquire the practical knowledge and ability necessary to their self-maintenance when they grow to be men, and to enable them to provide for the boys who will fall to their care. We should not act upon the seltish and nar- row principle that each generation must take care of 1tszlf, for we can only repay what we oursclves owe to the past by making just and generous vro- visions for enabling those who suc- ceed us to secure whatever advantages their ability and labor shall entitle them to. It is the unfortunate tendency of the youth of this generation to avoid mechanical occupations, so that instead of putting obstructions in the way of the boys of to-day learning trades they need to be encouraged to do 80. ‘There isa great excessof young men in all of the large cities who are willing to be clerks, salesmen, or anything else that does not involve manual labor, even though the service be more exacting in other respects and less profitable. The vrofessions are full to overflowing, with thousands engaged in them who can never hope to rise above mediocrity, and scores of schools and colleges are adding to the number every year. The American youth has learned to regard manual labor as unworthy of him, view for which the folly and pride of parents are largely and perhaps primarily re- sponsible, and it is* getting to be more and more the fact that this country must devend for its skilled labor upon foreign- ers. If the prevailing tendency 15 per- mitted to go on uncheeked it must inev- itably happen in time that the great ma- jority of native-born Americans will be lawyers, doctors, clerks and salesmen, while the vast mechanical industries will be operated by artisans from other lands. Such a prospect i8 not one to be looked upou with complacency, whether re- garded from the material or patriotic standpoint, or both, tor the skill and muscle that manage the in- dustrial power of the nation will most surely control it financially and politi- cally. A movement has recently been started by two orguanizations, the master plumbers and master painters, which have held conventions in Chicago and New York, with the object of restoring the apprentice system to whut they re- gard as a fair and just basis. The view of the matter taken by the master paint- ers was expressed in a resolution, unani- mously adopted, asserting it to be the duty of each master painter to have as many apprentices as the state of his business would warrant. The reso- lution contained a further provision that an apprentice who served his full term and proved himself proticient should be given a certificate setting forth his capabilities, There was manifested a unanimous determination on the part of the members to return to the old system, A similar spirit was shown in the con- vention of master plumbers. ‘The results of the movement will be regarded with a great deal of interest. That it will en- counter a vigorous opposition is to be ex- pected, but if pursued judiciously, with a just regard for all interests and not solely with reference to advantages to be derived by the employers, it is more than likely to be successful. A restoration of the old system in its en- tirety is probably out of the question, and is perhaps not to be desired. Butit is possible to establish a fair basis on which all parties in interest can meet without disadvantage to either, but rather to the benefit of all. Tho selfishness of one party or the other will ne the chief obsta- cle to reaching such a basis. It is clear, however, that something must be done to give the boys a chance. industry and self-sustaining G The Fate of the Boodlers. The penalties awarded the Chicago boodlers by the jury aresaid to have greatly surprised and disappointed the prosecution, as doubtless they also did a very large majority of the public. Itis to be expected that the twelve citizens who enduored the hardships of the jury box during the hottest weather Chicago had known in a dozen years, patiently listening to the wrangling of the law- yers and unflinchingly taking the pelt- ings of the closing arguments, with other privations such as only a jurymaan knows, all for a consideration not much above the wages of a day laborer, will now have to suffer the ordeal ot being ruthlessly impaled on numerous editorial pens and held up to public scern and ridicule as men un- worthy to have been entrusted with the sacred duty of administering :justice, or a8 fellows. incapablo of understanding THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: NU ] the character of the orime for which the boodlers were tried. This is the sort of treatment usually accorded to juries that como short of public expectation, and it will doubtless not be omitted in this case, We are disposed to think, however, that the jury reached its conclusions con- scientiously, and with eareful and in the main just discrimination. Every one of the conspirators had the stain of guilt fixed upon him, but it ought not to be surprising to any one who followed the evidence that there should have been a dificrence made as to degrees of guilt in order to justly apportion the penalties. The law contemplates this and presumes that there are grades of conspiracy to defraud, the most aggra- vated form ot which it makes punishable with imprisonment of only three years and a fine of $1,000. Differences among jurymen are often adjusted by compro- mise where there is a chance of com- promise, and this doubtless ex- plains why no one of the boodlers re- ceived the full penalty. That the penal- ties ure lighter than they should be is'the fault of the law, which should have pre- scribed a three years' term of imprison- ment as the mimimum instead of the maximum punishment, with the addition of a much larger fine. The boodler cun hardly be dealt with too severely. The conviction of the Chicago conspir- ators ought to serve as a wholesome warning. There are men elsewhere whose official garments are as badly soiled as those of the Cook county bood- lers who should wisely determine to at once mend their ways, lest at an unexpect- ed moment the lightning bolt descend on them. Tne popular demand everywhere is that the boodlers shall be hunted down and punished, and those who persits in conspiring against the public for their personal gain are certain to be overtaken sooner or later and brought to an ac- counting. Varnell, Van Pelt, McCarthy, and the rest of the Chicago conspirators have their autitypes in nearly every con- siderable city in the country, and some of them arc pretty certain to reach a similar fate. The Value of College Education. The newly-tledged college graduate has now been fluttering about the country for about a month. The old question as to the value of a college education in the actual affairs of the world will begin to assume a personal interest for him. He has hitherto treated it lightly, called it an old *‘chestnut” with the complacency of youthful inexperience, and considered it too absurd for serious consideration. That anyone should doubt the efticacy of a colloge education, only showed to him that there is still much ignorance in the world which it will be his task, perhaps, to dispel. But during the past months his eyes have begun to open in some astonishment. He has run against snags that jarred his brains into an unwonted train of thought. The value of a college education to any man must depend almost altogether upon his character and the calling he means to pursue; upon the object he has in life, If this is mainly to make a living, to take a definite place in the business enterprises or the political evolutions that surround his daily life, the cducation he may have acquired in college will be of no material benelitto him. On the other hand, if he has the eapaeity to become & prominent figure in affairs either national or local, a college education, every kind of educa- tion will aid him. Many sneer at a col- lege learning on general principles, but this is no wiser than to form unreason- able expectations or make unreasonable claims because of college training. Lin- coln might perhaps have been stronger than he was 1n some respects had his earlier advantages been better. There was nothing to indicate that Clay was weakened because he wuas a college man. The main thing is the character that dominates a man. It is well known that you cannot make a wise man of a tool by shooting him through a college institu- tion from a tinancial catapult. The strong nature will torce its way forward to recognition and a detinite place in life be it through college or through the rude surroundings of a pioneer life. A col- lege education will aid such a nature. The instruction and experience a man gains at our educational institutions are not calculated in these times to aid him to an immediate hold upon the active aflairs of life. The time seems even to have come when the possession of u college sheepskin is a detriment to him, It has been proved that the gradu- ate must go through a course of special training to be fit for any special position, just as any one else must, Hence his ex- pectation to step right into the promi- nent places at once is treated with con- tempt. It is a sign of the times when advertisements appear announcing that the college graduate need not apply, The fact is that American coilege edu- cation leaves a man, 1n most cases, half educated but wholly dis- qualitied for trapoling with the stern problems ot existence. But perhaps our institutions of learning, and those who attend them, are not wholly to blame for this. The tendency of the times is to look upon life as an aflair for which we are in no way responsible, which in reality is not worth the exer- tions required to maintain it, and which it1s well to pass through as easily as possible. Our ancestors looked upon ex- istence here on earth as a matter of su- preme importance. Whatever exists seemed to them fixed by the de- crees of heaven. A man born 1n the humbler ranks of life con- sidered himself placed there by the ruler of the universe and he accepted the toil, the privations of his life, as an allot- ment to him from all eternity, from hich he had no business to try to escape. Life was real, earnest, of infimte importance. The sentiment now is that life is not worth hving. Let us get rich as soon as we can, by any means, and pass through it as comfortably as possible. So none now becomes an apprentice, or takes years of pains to make himself qualihed for the calling he wishes to follow. The world 1s full of young men hunting about for a ‘‘soft snap," and existence has become a universal scramble, without diguity, repose or ecomfort. 1n this scramble college edueation 1s of little avail as a means to attain most of the ends of life. In itself, as a source of intéllectual enjoyment or satisfaction, it has 1ts value and in some situations it is indispensible, but in summing up the question it must be aduitted that a ool egge education av little aid i makir thno 1s left to enj ment, present day affords a living and little it ns an accomplish- —— A CONVENTION which is likely to create gsome commotion in Catholic circles has been called to meet im Chicago on the Oth of September. ‘It i§ to be a conven- tion of German Catholics, and the object is stated to be to consider the differences existing between the German and Irish Catholics. The complaint of the former appears to be that they do not get equal recognition, and they desire to enforce their claim by dc‘nonsmmng the strength of the German Catholies in the United States, who are said to number ubout two millions, The favor shown to Irishmen in their appointment to dis- tinguished positions in the church in this country seems to be a chief cause of com« plaint on the part of tho Germans, but there are other causes of displeasure which they think justify them in eall ing the convention. The feeling that prevails was expressed by a German vriest, who after reviewing the causes of complaint, said: *‘[tell you these things must be remedied, or you may count the next generation of Germans out of the Catholic church. We have already borne enough of this odious elimination from the considerations of the church authori- ties, and the time is now ripe for an en- ergetic and persistent endeavor to right our wrongs. Rome will be called on to apply the proper remedies, and if she fails toact then I dread to think what will become of our German peopie 1n this country.” There would seem to be i this matter the conditions and the spirit for serious conflict. Ir the bullet headed editors of Kansas City will devote more space to mortgages and unpaid judgments in their courts, and refrain from misrepresenting the commercial prosperity of Omaha, they will supply a long-felt want and at the same time show a disposition to deal fairly with their readers. Omaha is not jealous because Kansas y resented to the president a ‘‘plush covered' inv tion to help out the boom. Omaha did mnot have to send an in- vitation to Mr. Cleveland. As much as one year ago the president and his charming wife said they were coming to Omaha this fall, It is only the obscure, and unknown villages that find it necessary to solicit subscriptions with which to pay for a gilt-edged invitation to induce the president of the United States to come within their boundaries. Upon this question, as upon all others, this growing metropolis 1s able to take care of itself, and 1 doing so it sacri- fices none of 1ts dignity. President Cleveland is glad to come here, without being conxed and the people of Omaha will be equally glad to welcome him, et IN our spccial cable dispatches this morning will be found! an interesting though, somewhat sénsational plan asal- leged to have been, conceived by Bis- marck for the acquisition of Holland hy Germany. The capturing of Holland by the Dutch is familiar to almost every school child; but that Germany has now set its eagle eye in that direction may be considered in the nature of news. —————— POLITICAL POINTS, ‘“‘Anything to beat Foraker"” s the demo- cratic policy this year in Olno. The mugwumps are making a faint effort to be pleased with the civil-service plank of the Ohio republicans. Jefferson Davis says he has no wish to en- ter publiclife. That wish will always be re- spected by the American people, The watchword for the republican party in Now York 1n the coming campaign appears tobe ‘‘Harmony and Hope.” Ben Butler has fully recovered from the effects of his fall last winter, but his presi- dential boom is still unable to move. The Ohio democrats ure playing for the same stake as they did in 1885, Boodle is trump, and the same aealer is now running for governor. ‘The Union Labor candidates ran remark- ably well in Kentucky, and the democratic claim that there is room for only two parties in that state seems to have been upset. General Edward J. Powell, of Delaware, 0., the democralic nominee for governor, is a man about fortv-five years of age, erect in figure, with bright blue eyes, a red head and very pleasing manner. Chicago Mail: Mr. Sherman is now before the country as the chosen candidate of his siate, as he is of a mizhty army of republi- cans in other states for the presidency. En- tering the raca with such an adventure, it will take something more than bluster to prevent his nomination. Chicago Tribune: John M. Langston, ex- minister to Laberia who is sald to have come dent, 1s no longer spoken of by the den cratic papers as a “nigger.” He Is the dis- tinguished Prof. Langston now. A remarkable omission is noticeable in the platform adopted by the democratic conven- tion recently held” at Cleveland, O. The civll service reform vlank is absent, and not even a crack in the joiners’ work is left to sh(:w where the pretentious imposter crawled out. e See That Yon Become One. Judge, 1t is pleasing in this weather to think of tue angels. For instance, they needn’t wear any clothes but their wings. - Meant for Omaha Councilmen, Toronto Globe, An unclaimed postal card lies in the Bow- manville postoflice addressed to “‘the wicked- est man in the town.” - e Newspaper Man Descriced. Allanta Constitution, ‘The man who works every day in the week is a leading member of the anti-poverty so- clety. Industry, sobriety and economy are the only remedies for poverty, Give the Rich Magp a Show, Boston Post, Andrew Carnegie thinks that “public sen- timent will come to by that the man wno dies rich dies disgraced.” ‘As long as he is not disgraced while he lives rich, the man will not be greatly troubled. By’ Better Come to Omaha, A Tucson (Arizons) vestaurant advertises to give for dinner, chu-lrfin §oup, roast mut- ton, turkey and pig, with mushroom sauce, chicken fricassee, boiled ham, oyster patties, jelly rolls, lemon pie, ice-cream and cakes, all for 25 cents. e Beware of ‘he Tail End of a Boom, San Franeisco Chronicls, 1t is of the nature of booms that, at their tail end, operators of asanguine tempera- ment come in who never can understand that there 18 any top to aD upward mo ment; they fall vietims to theiwr hopefulness. st Qollege Training Does Count. Pittsburg Dispateh, A student at Vanderbilt university, in ‘Tennessee has just beat the world’s record in high kicking, having succeeded in hitting a wark at the unprecedented height of nine fect, three and one-balf luches, And yet NDAY. AUGUST 7, 1887.~TWELVE PAGES. some people believe a collegé training 1sn't a | yesterday, after & long ejectment litigation, help to a young man. ——i Grammar Not a Speclalty, Chieago Tribunes Some sareastic comment lias been cansed by the fact that the Missourt delegation that went to Washington recently had a banner on the side of the car chartered for the trin contalning the inseription: “The people of St. Louis invites the president to visit St Louis.” It should be remembered, howe ver, that Missouri’s specialty Is not grammar, but eolonels. -—— Life's Journey. Etla Wheeler Wilcor As we speed out of youth's sunny station The track seems to shine in tne light, But it suddenly shoots over chasms Or sinks into tunnels of night, And the hearts that were brave in the worn- n Are nfird with repining and fears As they pause at the eity of sofrow Or pass thro' the Valley of Tears. But the road of this perilons journey The hana of the Master has made; With all its discomforts and dangers, e need not be sad or afraid, Paths leading from Iight into darkness, Ways plunging from gloow to dssm(r, Wind out thro* the tunnels of midnight ‘To ticlds that are blooming and fair. Tho' the rocks and the shadows surround us, Tho' we cateh not one gleam of the day Above us, fair cities are laughing And dipping white feet in some bay. And always, eternal, forever, Down over the hills In the west, The lnst tinal end of our joutney, There lins the Great Station of Rest. "T'is the Grand Central point of all railways, All roods centre here when they end; *Tis the final resort of all tourists, All rival lines meet here and blend, All tickets, all mile-books, all passes, It stolen or begied for or bought, On whatever road or division, Will bring you at last to this spot. If you pause at the City of Trouble Or wait in the Valley of Tears, Be patient, the train will move onward And rush down the track of the y Whatever the place is you seelk Whatever your aim or your quest, You shall coine at the last with rejoicing ‘l'o the beautiful City of Rest. Y ou shall store all your baggage and worries, You shall feel perfect peace in this realin, You shall sail with old friends on fair waters, _WIth joy and delight at the helm, You shall'wander in cool, fragrant gardens With those who have loved you the best, And the hopes that were lost i life's journey Y ou shall find in the City of Rest. —— SUNDAY GOSSIP, of his new building, in which he has placed over $100,000. It is one of the handsomest structures in the woest, and is an ornament to the city. The architecture is both beautiful and striking, and at once commands atten- tion. The Interior is elegantly tinished, and is supplied with every convenience. Thera are two passenger elevators, in the same shaft, for the use of the tenants and the publie. Every tloor and room is well tighted and ventilated owing to a spacious rotunda which extenas from the ground floor to the top story. The building is completely wired for electric lights and electric cails. The waterworks system in this structure is admi- rably arranged, while the plumbingz is the best and handsomest that could be obtained. ‘The circumstances under which Mr. Ramge erected this butlding are proof of his publicen- terpriseaswell as of his unbounded faith in the tuture of Omaha. It was largely dusto Mr. Ramge’s enterprise that Mr. Joseph Shecley concluded to put up a somewhat similar l»ulldln(f on his lot at the northeast corner of Howard and Fifteenth. The Omaha telephone exchange, now lo- cated in the top story of the Ramge building, is claimed by Manager Drake to be the finest And most perfect exchange in othe country, ‘The operating room with its new multiple switch-boards, is equinped for the service of 1,200 subscribers. The capacity can be readily increased to 5,000, Kighteen young ladies are employed as operators. The Hew improvements have done away with the con- tinual shouting of “hello,” consequently the onerating room no longer reminds one of a lunatic asylum. There is no noise or con- fusion, and the work of an operator has been made a very pleasant task to whatit was under the old “‘hello” arrangement. Under the old system subscribers always did their own calling. This was not convenient with a multiple board as or- dinarily operated. The new systom has a special clearing-out drop which only signals by the action of a straight or direct current, alternating currents not affecting it. A commutator placed in the subseriber’s bell enables him, by pressing a putton on the side of the bell whiie turning the erank, to drop the clearing-out annunciator. Without pressing the button, he cannot, of course, get asignal to the central office, 'This system enables the operators to work very rapidly, while at the same tima thay can attend to double «he number of subscribers. The switch-board is of mahogzany and the ofice is furnished throughout very tastily. At one end of the operating roomare a lunch room and other conveniences for the opoar- ators, At the opposite end Is a large bay window in the corner of the room affording a magnificent view up and down the streets and over the buildings opposite to the valley of the river and the hills beyond. Adjoining the operating room cowmes first the man- ager’s office, next the stenographer’s room, then the general manager’s room,and further on the book-keepinz department, The woodwork is of hard pine finished in oil, with ground glass partitions between the various departments, The whole arrange- ment I3 exceedingly convenient and com- pact. Boyond these rooms is a large and well lighted room for directors’ meetings. In the basement of the building are the store room, battery room and the linemen's room. There are twenty-nine linemen em- ployed. Inthe rear of the building is the repair shop, in which the instruments and machinery are repaired, some six or seven mechanics being constantly employed at th work. The telephone company emplo; over one hundred persons in Omaha. IN the south end of the third story of Ramge's bullding is a beautiful hall, about sixty-six feet square, well ventilated and lighted on throe sides, “Lhe publie library board are negotiating for the hall and two *other adjoining rooms for the new home of the library. ‘The location is central, access is convenient, and probably no better place could be secured tor the li- brary until the completion of the city hall, in which permanent library roomns are to be pro- vided, The prlmnbllltf‘ is that the board will rent the rooms in the Ramge buildiug. Frep NYE 1s very anxious to find the whereabouts of the sout of David Hoffman. 1f he will only advertise in the want columns of the Brk, he will no doubt receive an answer to his inquiry. STANLEY 8till lives. His obituaries, which have been read with a good deal of interest, especially by his old Omaha friends, have been filed away for future use, PaT O, HAWES has been heard from, is in Kentucky. That accounts for the black eye received by the democrats of that state, He Here is another pleasant piece of news for Omaha. The West Davenport Furniture company, which established a branch office bere some months ago, has found Omuha and its tributary territory to be a splendid field, and it has determined to move its en- tire plant to this city sometime during this month, Ihe company will purchase grounds and put up a large factory, It employs over a hundred mechanics, and proposes to in- crease its force. EATox, the ploneer photographer, who has been out of business for some little tiwe, finally. regained possession of Lis gallery While he was looking oyer his fifty thousand negatives, a representative of the Brx asked him whether he had any speeimens of the nude art, after the Boston style. Mr. Eaton replied in the negative; he had never taken any such photographs. He was then asked if he had ever had any applications from women to be photographed in the latest Boston style. 1le answered In the afirma- tive; he had had hundreds of such requests. CoLONEL FRANK E. MoORES has erected & liberty pole In front of his new residence, from which he daily flies the stars and stripes. Colonel Moores' patriotism is only equalled by his mania for playing with his garden hose and watering his premises. From 9 o'clock till midnight the chances are that he can be found any plensant eyening throwing water. One of his great enjoyments is to throw a stream over his liberty pole. The nelghbors say that the pole has begun to sprout in con- sequence of this constant sprinkling. Oxr of the most romantic and pictaresque 8pots in this part of the west is located just south of the southern city limits, a short dis- tance east of the extension of Ninth street. It fs within the limits of the property owned by the South Omaha land syndicate, On either side of the deep canyon are tall and majestic forest trees, The littlo stream run- ning down the canvon Is formed by numer- ous springs which gush forth from the hillsides. The stream has been dammed up and a lake or reservoir of clesr spring water has also been formed. It is from this lake that the South Omaha stoex yards are supplied with water, the pumping house being located at the Jake. Several pic- nics have been held in this delightful place, and all who have visited the spot have been charmed with its surroundings. ‘The South Omabha land syndicate, at the suggestion ot Mr. I E. Iler, proposes to make this canyon and the immediate vicinity into one of the most beautiful parks in the country, ‘Three lakes will be constructed, and the grounds laid out in the most artistic and picturesque manner by a Iandscape art- ist who has already been engagod for that purpose. Nothing will bo left undone to make this park a most attractive resort. Tiur Ber has received a letter from Hoosier crank, who styles himselt king of Eugland and proposes to reculate railway affairs. It is to be hoped that he will earry out his level-headed intentions as expressed in his lotter, which is as follow: A. D. 1887, Ezr 7-S-1.--] have declded to reduce the fare on the Union Pacific and Central Pacilic_railroads to one cent per mile between Omaha and Saeramento on all through and loca! rates. Also freizht shall be carried at the rate of 81 per hundred be- tween Omaha, Kansas City and Sacramento, Iam determined that the road built at my ex- pense shall.be used for the development of the country through which 1t runsand not the enrichinent of thedirectors, 1 am also de- termined that California shall have ovportu- nities to market her prodtce on an even foot- Ing with the other states east, which do not row one-half the fine fruit and vegetables hat she does. 1 shall make the runni time of passengor and freizht trains 35 miles an hour, United States Heaven, Ezm,{ King of K Upon the envelope Ezra, king ot England, writes tuis axiom: *“The theory that the ma- jority must rule would make hell right and heaven wrong, for you all know that the ma- jority go to the former place.” Hox. JonyN W. BookWALTER, of Ohio, 15 an extensive land owner in Nebraska. He had intended to go to Kurope this summer, but owlng to the fact that the railroads are pushing through his lands and the country in the vicinity of his large possessions is be- ing rapidly settled up, he remained here and cut up his land into farms of 160 acres each, He has leased 125 of these farms on long torm leases. The leaseholds vary in price according to location. The farms near the railroad are, of course, more valuable than those remote from the line of transportation, ‘The rentals averago about $200 ver year for each farm. **This is much better,” says Mr. Bookwalter, “‘than farming on a large scale, for several reasons. In tha first place, it de- velops the country and makes the property erty more valuable. In the next place it makes each farmer an eventual settler, who will want to buy the farm that he has been improving and making valuable. ‘Then it is more remunerative.” SR BY THE BATH-TUB ROUTE. Written for the Sunday Bze hy J. F. Riley, The recent escape of Mec(iarigle, in which he sustained the character of the lightning- change artist, as the theatrical people say, transferring himself from the American con- vict in Chieago to the American freeman in Canada. affords a theme for comment to the average every-day mind, and the theme be- comes more puzzling in Its solution by the recollection that the king-bee boodlers, from Tweed, of New York, to McGarigle, of Chl- cago, mado their escape while in construc- tive, not in actual imprisonment. Complicity on the part of the decamping boodlers’ cus- todian must be entortained only to be scouted, for in each individual case of bood- ler flight from constructive imprisonment, tull investigation has shown the characters of the Jailers as spotless as the record of Sherifi Matson. Imposition of misplaced confidence on the sheriff’s part must be accepted as the verdict exonerating him, uky And this verdict is full of grim humor in the reflection that confidence should be placed in the honor (?) ot a thief. That the man who could betray public trusts, corrupt the integrity of public officials, and plunder his taxpaying fellow-citizans with the au- dacity of a highway robber, should have herolsm enough to prefer the penance of his guilt in striped clothes in a prison cell to freedom in escape, is 80 ridiculousiy droll that a man in the throes of cholera morbus would forget his misery a moment to smile at the thought. Yet tho fact is that sheriil; and court oflicers have ever placed implicit confidenea in the honor of big boodlers, charmed, as 1t were, by the nerve, the dash and noblesse obiige swagzer of the mnen whocould s like kings and spend like princes. Thus poetty larceny] is abliorred, boodleism apostrophized. o Funnier than all 1s the method of Me- iarigle’s escape, repeating faithfully the hiss tory of boodle flights all over the country and its imposition upon a law oflicer at this late day, sug:ests the formation of a library filled with books called “chestnut” escapes, wherein young officials may read as they run. ‘The bath-tub, as a channel for escape, is like tha drop game, three-card monte, and thimble-rig rackets, threadbare,and should be s0 well known by jailors and constables that the mere suggestion of the adage, **Cleanli ness is next to godliness,” should be sufli- cient to cause them to “turn in' a general alarm. The only wonder is thata man of Mr. ) rigle’s Inventive mind should re- sort to such an antiquated method of obtain- ing freedom. e It will be remembered that Prince Henry Genet, of the Tweed ring, while enjoying the comforts of his own home oue day with a special officcr, suggested an ablution asa finale before returning to prison. The special was delighted to acquiesce in the pro- posal, and Genet, in his private bath, swam to Canada, so to speak. The elegant Cap- tain Howgate, who pocketed @ hundred thousaud with the air of & man rendering the general government under obligations to him for his peculations, Was also offered prison bounds under an ofticer’s esvort not onee; but a half dozen times and 50 ereat was the confidence in Howgate's honor that his request tor permission to . visit his own bome to inspect private papers, was but a legal formality and the presence of an offea on such ocensions was but a custom of lega precedent. The eaptain took a refreshing bath one day and when tho oflicer awol from his sleep, superinduced by the caplain’s drugged wine and in a dazed way inquired for her father from the captain’s daughter, who carefully tingered the keys ot a planoho recelved as an artless reply, “Oh, pa's just stepped around the block.” From that “walk around the block,”" after the refreshing feel- ing of the bath the captain has never returned. And now McGarigle by the self'same way has sought flight, thus proving himself a base lm- ftator. Really if America boodlers cannot seok a more original method of escapoe from sheriffs who confide in their honor (?) than the bathtub medium, they need never oxpect pardon for thelr stupidity, however much their peculations may be forgotten, CURRENT TOPLOS, Mr. Drexer, of New York, proposes to turn the Mount McGregor cottage in which General tirant died, Into a home for old soldiers of the latd war. It could not be turned to a more fitting use. *, ** Tur swindling fraternity never allow any rust to gather on their faculties. As soon as one method of fraud Is exposed they must device a new one. Their latest dodge in New York eity isto put well known names on cheap watches and sell them at high prices. ) e TiE sea serpent which gained such news- paper notoriety last year by his frequent ap- pearance on the Atlantic coast, is turning up in his old haunts agaln, If the wily old ser- pent would only give some newspaper man an interview at close quarters, we might be able to form sowe reasonable opinion regard- Ing him, but he evidently believes in the en- chantment of distance and indistinctness. * ¥ Tiry put their convicts to strange uses In the Sandwich islands. A murderer was given his cholce of a sentence of death or becoming a subject for leprosy, about two years ago. Ho chose the latter, and was in- oculated and subjected to the closest per- sonal contact wiih lepers. After sixteen months of such exposure he betrayed no symptoms of the disease. But his life could not bhave been a happy one. **x Tur London ‘T'elegraph is the richest newspaper in the world. It has a reserve fund of $3,,0,000 and its yearly income is about $1,500,000, 1Its circulation I8 about 215,000. ‘The London Times has fallen off in circulation, as it keeps up its high price of 6 cents per copy. Its circulation Is about 60,000 and its annual income about $750,000, Almost every kind of newspaper that can get a foothold in London is successful on ac- count of the great size of the city. e JouNy WANAMAKER, of Philadelphia, I crecting a building in that city which is to beused asa home for working girls, The cost to each dweller will be §3.25 por woek to begin with. 1f found to be practicable this price will be reduced later on. ‘T'he cast-iron rules which proved fatal to Stewart's woman’s hotel in New York will be omitted. e ‘T'ue youngest and wealthiest race horse owner in the world halls from California. e comes from San Francisco and his name is D. J. McCarthy. His father bought him a span of ponies two years ago. Last yvear the boy traded this team for the racer C, H. Todd which won the derby in Chicago last month. Youne McCarthy made $14,000, He took $10,000 of this sum and purchased Todd’s brother which glves promise of becoming fast al The boy is twelve years old. Verily young America is making rapid time in this day and generation, ¥y A MAN in Buffalo, N. Y., was last week brought to life again after having been dead for several hours, to all intents and purposes, from the eifects of an over dose of morphine. Artificial respiration was resorted tv by a professor who had been experimenting in vivisection, with the success above noted. 'Thus medical scienco ad vances. Llereafter people apparently dead from similar causes may be restored to hfe and usefulness. There is no question but that countless numbers have in the past been put beneath the sod who might have been saved had their friends or plysicians known more of the laws of life, ¥ Mns. JonrN A. LoGAN is another and a striking instance of the ficklenoss of for- tune. 1tis putashort time since she was & happy, ambitious and suceessful woman with a fair prospect ot one day occupying the white house and taking rank as the first lady of the land in social position as well as in ability. To-day she is broken in spirit and injured in body to an extent that may make her a cri All the color has been t: and betore the accident which injured her arm and shoulder she showed a listless apathy toward all the affairs of life that alarmed her frienfls, Mis- fortune when it begins to hound a person i3 slow to release its hold. **x Not ouly does our Buffalo Bill play poker with duclesses and such like, over in Old England, but bis cowboys are penetrating into the higher cf An English paper, wh has evidently been left, growls about their popularity in this way: *“T'he presenco of these men would not be tolerated in the salons of New York or Boston, yet in Eng- land these adventurers are welcomed with open arms, flattered as though they were Bayards or Crichtens, permitted to fiirt with the prettiest girls and married women, and readily exc if, perchance, they have to be sent home in a state of semi-intoxication, Some women, who ought to know better, have even begun to call upon them in their tents and sip afternoon tes with these rough fellows.” Whata jolly time these ‘‘rough fellows” must have to be sure, and how jeal- ous this newspaper inan seems to be. WiraT is claimed to be the oldest document in the state of New York is in the posses- sion of Stephen Wormuth, of Fultonville, It s the original Kennudy patent, a grant of land from King George L, comprising 775 acres in Albany county, on the south side ot the Mohawk, The document is dated April 19,157, ‘The Indians were to receive two shillings and six penca per acre as rent for thin tract. But thougl the rental wgs small the wax seal on the manuscript waa large, measuring over one foot in circumference. The agreement is written on parchment, aud the chirography 18 small, cramped and irreg- ular, The whole is said to have the appeat- ance of & Zulu war-map, and it wouid make a real estate ngent smile. *a A Frexcintax uamed Molinarl has s novel schieme for keeping the peace of na- tions. UWe wants the powers that have the most to lose by the wars of others to associate themselves into an ance for the purpose of offeri rnied assistanee to any eonntry that should be war from another. He the others being Holland, mark and Switzerland, could put a million men wantonly threatened with igland first, Den- ium, These nto the field have by far the preponderance of power in casc of war. Mr. Molinari claims that the k edee that such a tremendous foree was ready to be thrown into the seale agwinst any nation, wonld ultimately render war in Europe impossible and bring about a generat disarmament. But who would settle the war that might arise among the members of the alliance? Universal disarmament can- not be brought about by any sueh aid. It will have to be accomplished throukh the growth of uuiversal sentiment in thab direction, ‘Thatsuch & sentiment is growe ing up aud spreading (s uinnlstakeables