Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 28, 1887, Page 4

. : THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY. AUGUST 25, 1887.~TWELVE PAGES. THE DAILY BEE. Federation of Trades, these should be the teacher's task in ‘The effort of labor to find a plan of or- | schools or colleges. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. commissioner by Prdsident Grant. His collection of fish-took the first prize at the exhibition in Berlin in 1880. Professor Baird was both a teacher and a student, being always ready to im- part information and never too old or A Formidable Third Party. Chicago Tribune, Although confined to the cities the united Iabor combination is by all odds the most formidable third party in New York. Its field Is narrow and it cannot possibly become 3 n m all theso years | eye country, he pants for mew solls t ;.;“! Uld:o‘rlllu"bel.icln:::.:?\d his son ?;olm conquer, and has fixed the cold and fishy who have had a source of considerable wealth | eye of ambition upon the small but modest < N, n him. Not much of-this has benefitted Tom, | state of New York. Illinols didn’s pan out howaver, What he earns hereafter will be | very well, 80 eastward the star of Sherman put {nto the hands of h guardian for his | takes its way. ganization which shall have the fewest Probably nine-tenths of the younger possible conditions inviting discord, dis- | pupils and a large proportion of the elder affection, and consequent disintegration, | students study to pass the examinations, and under which there may be secured, | and have hardly any other object in TERMS OF AUBSORIPTION ¢ *nhmr Rdition) including Sunday » G . " $10 00 & national party, but it it retains its hold on | own benefit. He begins a concert season i BT Monti ¥8% | with permanence, the most effective | view. The marking system is largely to | wise to learn. In his personal relations | tho wage-working class of Now York City | next month at Chickering hall, Now York. SUMMEHR S8QUIBS, E m&!“fl":?fl y 2® | yower and influence attainable by such | blame for this. The pupils know they | he was one of the most genial of men, and | it may exert a controlling influence on the o Boston Transeript: The gardeners in ‘address, One Y . 30 | organization, will ultimately be success- | have to have so many marks to pass, to | a charming conversationalist. presidential election of 1358, since its recruits Rev. Myron W. Reed, of Denver, Col., has | India are all Buddhists, ful. What experimenting has thus far | be able to advance with their comrades, number at least two democrats to ome re- o a FARNAN STRERY S been prominently mentioned in relation to New Age: Hanging Is too gdod for & F“mx T Rk . ot ke B . | been done has not been useless. On the | and to that end they work. So the par- ‘Was It Improper ? publican, i e the vacant putpitof Henry Ward Beecher | painting that Is badly executed. .* ASKIweTON OFFiCS, NO. W3 FOURFSESTA | contrary it has all furnishod instructive | rot who can repeat without understand- | The paper which has been hired to pro- in Brooklyn. He Is an active man of about Boston Herald: The Indian scare looms 'l‘l‘:yfi’;‘:,:l:c"""‘; l‘:"l:l'l‘:"n:p;:""“'”:m':;';: nzwmmut any reservation worth epoaking 3 of ch He Is & progressive man ln religlos, political ‘:I‘l::;"‘le'::g“' e and soclal matters. Philadelphia Inquirer: Tan Is tho fashe Visitors to the mn:“,fi capital who expect fonable color now. Mrs, Cleveland has a to take a broad view of the city and its sur- | fine coat of it. roundings from the W ashington monument, Boston Transeript: The school vacation are grievously disappointed. The door of | is almost over and theschoolmaster will soou the monument has* been closed since the 9th | rattan to business. of May last. Thisis the fault of Chairman Pittsburg Chroniele: “The spell is Samuel J. Randall, of tha house committee | broken,”” remarked the foreman, as Slug Ten on appropriations in the last congress, who | dropped a haudful of typo on the tloor, used his influence to prevent congress from Sioux City Journal: Of course people in making the necessary appropriation for oper- | yowa can driuk. ‘I'hey can get drunk. But ating the elevator and the electric lights, they are not permitted to buton any style which had been put into the shaft under the | apou¢ it authority of conzressthe yoar before. The | “y o) (iizen: The man who left home monumient Is finishod; the elovator 18 10| 4, iung the summer with his family has just place,and so is the plant of the electric T'he summer is not yet spent, but light: but there Is no money to run the en- :l‘;:“l;'(‘)‘:lley “}‘ VTSR gines of the dynamos nor to pay the neces- & ol sary watchmen, Our congross always shows | Utics Observer: Tho birth of a son to great ability in the way of savingatthe | ieorge and Edith Kingdon Gould is proba- spigot whilo & wastefal stream flows from [ ADIV putdown In the diaty of its paternal the bunghole. grandfather a¢ a new issue of preferred stock, L Washington Critic: A Harvard savant Ymih was recently mistaken for a lunatic in Con- ,,,fi.ff:"’dc"',"w:,’,',,’,';'":fif ‘f,',',‘:"o,':" .( "','h,; necticut. This 18 & delightful reliet to the months’ scout on the plains the bottle-scarred """mlton'y of having lunatics mistaken for warrlors failed to find a single hostile Sioux | Savants. whose scalp they could take with propriety. San Francisco Alta: In the effort to Chris- ’ So they turned in to get thefr trophles from | tianize Africa tho United States leads Great & [ their own camp, and gallantly cut the ears Britian, We send to the African annually 921,412 ga llons of rum, while England sends off two or three Pawnee bucks who accom- | gy o{fi";fl.‘)’é;fimm_ L panied the militia as guides. These ears L i s were brought back to Omaha as proof of the [ A PULLMAN CAR EPISODE. daring and bravery of our volunteer protec- tors, and although the Pawnes ears were not | agye, Willia: Nye Recslls Senator large enough to cover them with glory, they Leland nford’s ¢ tn In. served their burpose, for atime at least, until | ° Now York World: Some years ago a it leaked out that they had never ornamented | big, fat and pompous man strolled into a the head of a Sioux brave. slecping car on board u Union Pacifig ‘The Colorado militia are evidently taking | train with the air of a man who owned their pattern from the renowned Omana | things. After he had looked at cvery- scouts ot '64, and we shall not be surprised if | body till he had gratified his curiosity, he their trophies prove to be nothinz more than | settied down in & seat and beganto watch the ears of some inoffensive Indians who | from the window the swiftly changing A Oross-| ed Policy Insufficient, Phitadelphia Herald, The question of reducing taxation has been forced upon the country bv tho dangor of treasury engorgement. Money. is piling up in the governmont strong-boxes that is needed in the ehannels of trade, Damocracy cannot meet this issue by a declaration whichone man will understand in one way and another man in another, plbstceic Withdraw the Ch Chicago News. Now that President Cleveland, Governor Hill and other prominent dsmocrats are of- fering prizes to be competed for at a rural baby show it is tims for the opposition or- Raus to stop charging them with being hos- tileto the infant industries of the couutry. CORRESPONDRNCE? All o//mmunieations relating to news and edk forial matter should be addressed to the Evi FOR OF THE Brr. mulgate the official proceedings of the National Conferenco. of Charities and Corrections goes ‘out of it3 way to ar- raign and denounce me for remarks made at the reception given to the conference board Thursday evening. Passing by the malicious and slanderous flings of that paper in this connection, I propose to discuss the vpropriety of my remarks which have been branded as discredit- able and disgusting. We are told that “for the purpose of satisfying & low and depraved appetite Rosewater so far for- got the proprieties of the occasion as to introduce politics and to attack some ex- state officials." Now wherein can any part of my speech at the reception of the conference be tortured into an attempt to gratify a morbid appetite for slandering political opponents® Those who were present will remember that my speech was chiefly devoted to s review of the marvelous growth of Omaha, counled with a cita- tion of facts and figures in suppess of her claims as a great industrial and com- mercial center. The only reference to state affairs made by me was to recall the fact that in Nebraska the press had been largely instrumental in arousing wublic senti- ment in behalf of the reformsin penal and charitable institutions for which the conference is now luboring. In support of my assertion I cited the fact that twelve years ago our convicts were subjected to a system of torture, which was only broken up by exposure through the press, compelling a legisla- tive investigation that was followed by the prohibition of the cruelties then prac- ticed at the penitentiary. Although this reform was brought about by my per- sonal efforts and those of the Bkr, no reference was made by myself to that experience, and is leading in theright | ing, the memorizer who can recite direction. Those who have concluded | thoughtlessly what stands in the books, from the unsatisfactory results thus far | proceed in triumph, while the actual that labor organization 18 doomed to fail- | student who has been trying to under- ure have fallen into a grave error. With | stand to make the subject under consid- all the mistakes of the past, tho working- | eration a part of his mental equipment, men of America have learned too well the | falis behind in his class. Every teacher value of organization to abandon it be- | of experience knows this to be a fact. cause there still exists differences | Thus the marking system 19 an injustice as to the best methods of | as well as injurious to mental develop- solf-protection. They have an intel- | ment. Anditis quite needless. An in- ligent faith in the possibility of | structor knows, if he understands his overcoming or wisely adjusting these | business at all, where each one of his differences, so that they shall be shorn of | pupils belong in the scale. He cannot whatever danger they now present to | help becoming familiar with the mental united and harmontous action. Notwith- | fiber of each of those under his care, and standing the fact that many precipitate | unconsciously he will grade them accord- and ill-advised strikes have failed, work- | ing to this knowledge of them. ingmen have continued to find in their Teachers are always embarrassed by organizations the only means of defense | examination papers. Here is a mnotori- agamst combinations of employers to | ously negligent pupil with a paper in ednesday, Aug B depress wages. The conditions which | which all the questions are correctly an- X jutify the organization of labor are as | swered. He is certain that unfair means . Friday, August 26. numerons and as urgent as they have | have been resorted to to attain thisresult, Average. ever been, and are more likely to increase | but he can not prove that such is the fact than diminish in the future. What lubor | perhaps. What is to be done? If he marks requires is to tind a basis of organization | him according to the paper an injustice that shall be permanent and substantial, | is done the honest workers, if he marks and there can be no question that this | him according to his real acquirements is attainable, he discredits his own system, and the ag- Lust year there was orgamzed at Co- | grieved pupil can come forward with a lumbus, 0., the “American Federation | protest which he can not very well ig- of Labor,” .which ‘has since had | nore. o remarkable growth, its mem- ‘The marking system should be abol- bership at this time being | ished in colleges and in the higher over half a million, The purpose was to | schools, and students should be made to unite in this federation tho trades unions | feel that they are working to equip them- and assemblies of skilled workmen who | selves for the actual struggle of life, for desire to exercise as much control ds | rounding out and completing their own possible over matters affecting their own | personalities, and not to pass the exami- occupations and interests. The mem- | nations merely. bers of these organizations naturally re- —_— sist a cast-iron will which would make Abuse of Convidts in Georgia. the interests of widely different occupa- | The untold scory of outrage and crime tions, as for example shoemakers and | that have been practiced under the con- 4 and remittances should be rossed to THE BEE PUBLIBHING COMPANY, AMA. Drafts, checks and postofice orders 0 be w0 ade payable 3 the order of the sompany, T EE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER, EptTor. THE DAILY BEE Bworn Statement of Uircalation. Btate of Na'n{;sk * . Jounty of Douzlas. % ‘I'zschuck, secretary of The Beo * Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual circuiation of “the Daily Bea for the week ending August26, 1857, wasas et bl A Shamefal Hqualization, Minneap dis Tribuns, In Rts editorial comments on the Chats- worth horror, the London Daily News says: “Itis sufficiently startling to learn that rail- way bridges are still made of wood.” Yes, they are on many American roads but the hearts of the managers are mada of (lint, so that things are equalized after all. August 20. unday, August 21. L 14,154 Gro. 8. TZSCHUOK. Sworn to and subscribed in my presence this 27th day of August, A. D. 1887, N. P. FEir, ISEAL. Notary Public. Btate of Nebraska, E" Douglas County. Geo. B. Tzschuck, being 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 gamonlho August, 1858, 12,464 coples: for ptem ber, 1850, 13,030 coples; for Octaber, 1886, 13,90 copies; for November, 1885, 13,348 les; 'for December, 1586, 13,237 copies; for o . #;l,ulr‘y 1887, 16,908 coples: for February, , 14,198 coples; for March, 1847, 14,400 i His Heart Not on His Sleeve, Chicago Herald, Senator Allison Is wiser in his generation than Senator Sherman. Ile will not wear his heart upon his sleeve for daws to peek at. He had friends in the lowa convention who would gladly promote his ambition to stand as a presidential candidate, but he declined to have their strength tested. - -— A Marvelous Transformation. Pittsbury Chronicle. “When you consider what Ives was six years ago, it is incomprehensible that he should have become so fast,” remarked the snake editor. ‘*What was he?”, asked the horse editor. ‘““A messenzer boy."” ———— T, 14, fes; for A pril, 1887, 14,316 copies: for May, , 14,227 coples: for June 1887, 14,147 oeoples; for July, 1887, 14.003 copies, Gro. B. Tzscruck. hserfbed and sworn to before me this 8ul 11th day ot Ay 1887, [SEAL.| Notary Public. A Republican Axiom. Providence Journal. It is an axiom of republican government that the people should be taxad no more nor Oontonts.of the Sunday Bee. A ¢ h i i f farther than is necessary for a proper and 3 i landscape. The sleeping car conductor Pagol. New York Herald Cables to the | CAF Fivers, in all circumstances idonti- | viet lease system in Googgia will proba- fact and the credit wasgiven to the press | ooonomical carrying on of the affairs of tho | lappen tobe on the ""J’ otthoimilitia: put his hand on the shoulder of the large, By and other Telegraphic N cal. [t doos not scem an unreasonable | bly be fully disclosed now that Governor | It general. nation, Al A - zlobular mon and asked him if he had a One Rov. Mr. Penticost, of New York, has | Py jinan ticket. The wide man sproad made himself somewhat notorious recently | hig logs a little wider, so as to take up a by a dream he related at an anti-poverty pic- | Jittle more room, breatned in about 2,700 nic in tho metropolls. A part of it was as | cubic foet of Nebraska ozone and said he follows: “l knew it was morning because | did not have to have a tic “You hava 3 all the people were going to work—nicely | to show a ticket here in this car or go dressed, happy looking people—and the | into the car where you belong,” said the stores were just opening at that hour. And “)""“"0 conductor who assists Sir Georga then I looked for Jacob Sharp's cars, and I | F ‘!!wfi‘:m‘:of;‘gflly inl:zlspc:t;)ll‘:!v?:h!:fg. EE S 1ol g by electricity, and & ¢ s :l“,;:‘;;::“};'::’“}:;:;Am?rhe poluicer‘:m; sald ll:mr just to ouluvru a friendly feeling | the road belonged to the peoplo and was free, || POLTECN MAD 4nC AR, 4] " said the 1 an as Elevated roads had gone, but there were un- | o ‘li:‘:e’;: ‘;,:(:‘f m‘, c?“:l 80 :.a{go !1;110' a derground roads, run by electrlclty, t00, | two.pound diamond, “‘that I can have and nobody paid any fares. Public build- ou out of a job in three minutes and ings were magnificent; private dwellings Knn‘l your pelt on the fence as soon a3 modest, but comtortable. There were no | we get to Omaha?"’ tenoments, Poverty, I was told, had_gone *No, I didn’t know that, of course; but out of the world years ago. New York, | I know thatif you don’t show me your Jersey City, Brooklyn, even Hoboken, were | authority for riding in this car 1 will call all one, with ono mayor and 10,000,000 of | the porter and we will uso you to t'“‘x’«“' people, who worked from 9 a. m. till 4 p. m., fia“f“‘" Y%‘““ L3 bfi"‘";"“fl:m:‘;‘; m.:‘ with an hour for lunch. ‘There wero groat | ST | 0N UGN O AT S0 O that theaters and concert gardens open, but any- | gou{4 baffle any conductor in the United body could walk in without vaying acent. | Gypeg 1 1 looked for saioons but couldn’t find any. | = “You will find out who I am when we But the saloons died out because when the | get to Omaha,” said the large, purple tax was taken off liquors it made them so | man, looking at his seven-pound watch dirt cheap that no one wanted them, There | and snapping 1t so thata nervous woman was no inducement to treat.” nearly jumped out of the car. ‘‘You Like many dreams this is a tair vision, but | will then know who 1 am, but it will be the element of reasonableness is wanting. | too late.” s Who is to maintain & people in such a L'rue, true," said the conductor, mus- o B4 holiday sort of existence? What about the {gg‘r‘l’l)bodly( :;}l‘&‘;‘:fiz"t;“‘s‘:fi;‘or&rhzfi \ farmers? Suppose drouth or floods, or Vo . ¥ storms or grasshoppers make their toil use- ;":L:y"gma':z ’g;;zh-t _.nnd O wnl{bo less, how are they to go about smiling, work & 2 “ an wh a fow hours & day, o to theaters and all ,,‘,,},’;’;‘;‘.‘;‘:{fi"k:,,.“.",g’;‘.‘l.,!‘.“’ nyjoge 1 that? The reverend gentleman should try “Yes, sir, I also hope .1 will know again and see if he can’t dream something | more. And I wish yon had been blessed less Utoplan, s iy by l’(’uowing nmm‘"i B botd 4 e *'Sir, my name is a _househol WOr POLITIOAL POINTS, from New York to San Francisco. If you Among republicans in Tepnessee, there Is | bad ever traveled much you would not n2 antagonism to Mr. Sherman whatever. huve to ask for my ticket. You ought to Judge Thurman is physically unable to take | D¢ ablo to recognizo a man who hus been in public life as long as I have.” :::?:;u;:n‘y for the democratio ticket in Obio | ' Jpe it IS, ORE AR (SN otor, take ing off his coat and calling the porter, The Touisville (Kv.) Commerclal (ren.) | “‘but somshow you do not remind mnol says that in that city many have noticed | any great man I ever saw. You look considerable changes from Blaine to Sher- | more to me like a man who has struck a man in the past tew weeks, pupulurl chord in leaf lard or quelled the % national cry for an earnest and tenacious m(':i.};‘lwfl'll:u:‘.a :;Ima sgl:)cw:liflh:;l }‘r.,r‘:‘;e‘ stylo of glue. As 1 smd before, the eliver his first speech In the Ohio cam- | 1jlog of “this company require that you paign. Hayes opened the campaign of 1873 4 shall produce the cur! , puss or ticket and Garfield that of 1570 there, or get oft and walk. Will you show us Buffalo business men have invited Erastus | your eredentials or earn the everlasting Wiman and Benjamin Butterworth to dis- [ enmity of the road by falling ofl' the plat- cuss the Canadian commercial union ques- | form and mussing up the right of way. tion In that city on September 1. ‘The large man’s breath eame quick and * Paco2. Telographic News.—City News.— Advertisements. age 3. Special Advertisements, 'age 4. Editorial.—Political Points.— Editorial Comments—Current Toplcs. Page 5, Lincoln Letter—Kearney's Bi Boom—Miscellany. : e . L’age6. Council Bluffs Ne “Pae 1 Soery N ! 'age 7. Societ, News—General Local Markets. > S SH -snln 8, General City News—Advertise- Paj . Baby Gould’s Wardrobe, b. Clara Belle—Some Little Bits of I"lln—Bnn{ Elown—kchms From the Ante-Room—"The d Agzent—Advertisements. Page 10, Pacitic Coast Fortunes, by * @eorze H. Fitch—Resuits of Floctriclty— Bome Made Mummies—The Sea of Galliles ~The Style in Visiting Cards—Advertise- ments. Page 11 Struggle of a Worthy Race. by 3 l?tin-sy. lsuficfl—lmx{laflmfi—lncldnflfic of — Peppermin — K toni—Musical and Dramaticr 0 0" Page 12, In the Feminine Domain—Honey 'flrtllon l:dma;sh#ulnrlll;s—»}}ull‘:l‘! ?lrfl- ford-on-Avon, ranz Sepel—Religious— Advertisemonts, i iy St At 1t Would Be a Vain Attempt. New Orleans Picayune, Sclence is trying to find out how auick a man can wink. The instantaneous photog- rapher should try to catch the eya of a Con- necticut deacon in front of a temperance soda fountain. —_—— A Strong Argument. Quiney (1) Herald., The ever-increasine surplus, the terror of the business men of the country, has made more tarift reformars than has all the argu- ment of the free-tradors. e Sentember. Frank Dempster Sherman, i St. Nicholas, Here's a lyric for September, Best of all months to remember, Month when suminer breezes tell What has happened wood und dell, Of the joy tho year has brought And tha changes she has wrought. She has turned the verdure red, In the blue sky over head She the harvest-moon has hung Like a silver boatamong Shoals of stars—bright jowels set In the earth’s blue coronet. She nas brought the orchard’s fruit I'o repay the robin’s flute Which has gladdened half the year ‘With a music hquid clear; And she makes the meadow grass Catch the sunbeams as they ‘Till the autumn’s floor I8 rolled Witk a fragrant cloth of gold, —_—— My assailant shows even maore ig- norance than maliceé when he attempts to arouse sympathy for the ex-state official who introduced the torture policy into the Nebraska penitentiary. For his bene- fit 1 will quote from the journal of the Nebraska house of ropresentatives, ses- sion of 1875 During that session charges were preferred by myself, through the Bee! that convicts were being brutatly qbrtured. hung by their wrists and, thymbs, tied down in bull-rings and mercilessly starved in dark cells. An investigation of the charges was ordéred By the legislature and the testimony taken, which is printed with the House Journal, not®only sus- tained the charges but;brought out facts more damaging than were published by the BEE. It wasshown that one convict had been hung up by the wrists for nine days, and his health cpmpletely broken. Others had been maimed for life by tor- ture in the stocks. Thd following extract from the reports of the committee, page 690, will suffice: “Your committee find from the evi- dence herewith submitted, that cruel and unusual punishments have been inflicted upon the convicts confined in the pen- itentiary of this state, since the present warden has had charge, and that bar- barous and inhuman practices have been resorted to 1n the management of the prisoners. We fucther find that Nobes, the deputy warden of the prison, and. Kalkow, Frecman and Cochran, guards, should be promptly discharged for cruel, barbarous and inhuman treat- ment of the convicts, and never again employed in or about the prison. There should be a thorough and complete re- formation 1n the treatment of convicts and the voice of Mumanity and reason heard and heeded in the prison disci- pline. The stocks and the bullring should be abolished. The prisoaers should not be confined on seats inone position during the Sabbath day; the prison inspectors should be more diligent and watchtul.” This report was signed by L. Enyant, chairman of the committee, John Bau- mer and Henry Fischer, members. A minority report recommended not only the removal of the subordinates, but the warden also. : The warden was promptly removed, but Nobes, the deputy, who was the father of the torture system, was pro- moted to his place and retained in charge of the penitentiary until Governor Thayer made the chunge last winter. Right here at Omaha the inmates of the deaf mute institute were subjected to cruel and brutal treatment, and an in- vestigation, conducted personally by me, was followed by the removal of the super- intendent and the appointment of the present eflicient head of that institution, Prof. Gillespie. Cruel exposure of the boys confined at the reform sehool by in- sufficient clothing and lack of shoes in midwinter, was brought to public notice tnrough my personal visit at the institu- tion four years ago, Humane treatment was demanded and promptly securea. Was there auy impropriety in my al- lusion to these historic facts and the abolition of abuses,in #tate institutions? 1f 8o, I mistake the object of the confer- ence of charities and corrections, ! E. ROSEWATER. question for the carpenter or other | Gordon has been compelled by'recent de- skilled workmen to ask why he should | velopments to interpose the executive put his hand in his pocket and pay | muthority for the protection of the con- weekly assessments, or throw up his em- | victs, Undoubtedly it will be a chapter ployment in sympathy, when coal | of brutality and barbarism almost with- hoavers or freight handlers are on a| outa parellelin any civilized country. strike. At all events the evidence is that | Casual evidence of the terrible abuses the skilled labor of the country has asked | practiced by the lessees or their agents itselt this question, and as a result | has been furnished from time to time for there has been manifosted a ten- | soveral years, but nodetailed and author- dency to revolt against & system [ itative account of the outrages perpe- of organization which puts skilled labor | trated has been made public. Four years and its interests in jeopardy as often as | ago the prison physician furnished the unskilled labor may choose to get into | governor with a report setting forth the trouble and call upon it for assistance. facts that had come under his observa- A noteworthy movement in the cause | tion, but it was kept from the of labor federation has just taken place | public, and has only just now in Massachusetts. A convention of dele- | been given to the press. It 18 re- gautes representing many of the trade and | ferred to as a shocking recital, and when labor unions of the state was held in Bos- | what has since occurred shall be added ton the past week, at which a plan of | to it, the terrible character of the con- federation was consummated that will | nected story may perhaps be imagined. unite these organizations for the promo- | The men who have controlled this lease tion and conservation of the interests | system were and are influential in politics and aims common to all. The spirit of | and society. It has been a source of large the movement 1s sot forth in a resolution | income to them, and most of them have adopted which declares that the “‘instinct | bocome wealthy from the labors of the of sclf-preservation demands the closer | unfortunate victims of crime. They have union of all bodies of organized | used their power to avert investigation labor in order that equality of | and silence criticism until the public ear rights and privileges may be obtained | could nolonger remain deaf to the appeals for wage workers.” ‘Ihe proceedings | of the hapless victims of inhumanity and were marked by ability, good temper, | brutal cruelty. and the popular demand and an earnest desire to accomplish the | now 18 that the lessees, more criminal end sought upon sound principles. Ex- | thun the poor wretches who they have cellent counsel was given by tho presi- | mercilessly outraged, shall be summarily dent of the National Federation of | deprived of thewr valuable franchises. Trades, who among other things said, | Governor Gordon seems to be in full ac- referring to strikes: “'Principle is a good | cord with this feeling, and since he thing, but you cannot win a strike on | can have nothing to fear and no principle alone. If you lead astrike you | favors to ask at the hands of the men must provide your men with bread. | who have so wantonly abused their privi- Bread will be found sometimes stronger | leges and disregarded every dictate of than principle.’” The history of labor | humanity it may be expected that the contlicts will prove that most of them | oxecutive authority will be fully exerted have failed because this simple, yet most | to put an end to the utterly disgraceful important, consideration was not re- | state of affairs that has existed. gurded. Labor organization is not a Heartily as Governor Gordon is to be failure, and is not going to fail. | commended for the action he has taken, It it appears in some directions | jt is, however, not complimentary to the to be breaking up it sim- | people of Georgia that they have per- ply shows that mistakes have been | mitted to continue so long a condition of discovered which it is necessary to | things of which the more intelligent: remedy, and not that the cause 18" being | among them must have had knowledge abandoned. More mistakes will be | for yoars, and which certainly has been found, and they will serve for instruction | known to most of their oflicial represen- and improvement, as have those hither- | tatives, It is fair to presume that Gov- to discovered. Nobody can fairly ques- | ernor (vordon himself has been long fa- tion that the orgamzation of labor is at | miliar in a general way at least this time on a higher plane than ever be- | with the outrages practiced under the fore, and this being granted the expecta- | lease system, as were his prede- tion is justitied that it will continue to | cessers in the executive office for a num- advance until 1t shall have attained a | ber of years past, one of whom sup- sound, safe and permanent basis, pressed a report detaiing the crimes committed upon the convicts and the hardships and privations to which they were subjected. The political power of the lessees doubtless explains the silence of these officials, who could have haa little faith in tha people, but shall we look to the same explanation to account for the silence of the press and the pul- pit? Has the voice of tho humanitarian and the philanthrovist been hushed until now by the same sordid and heart- less power? If so Georgia has little to boast of in the awakening to the neces- sity for reform it has so tardily experi enced, due perhaps quite as much to ex- ternsal influences now so generally at work—such, for example, as the confer- ence of charities and correction —as to an internal growth of better principles and sentiments, Still the awakening is to be welcomed, and it may be hoped the demand it has aroused will not be satis- —Miscellany OMAHA streets are badly torn up al- ready. Don't, if you please, make the nuisance any worse just.now when so many strangers are here and thousands more are expected. e——— Now for the Grand Army reunion and Omaha fair! Omaha is preparing to put on her gala dress, and the muititude that are coming to this city for the first time will be treated to a gennine surprise. Omaha never does things by halves. CURRENT TOPICS. Jay Gould’s grandson is said to be already crying for a railroad t play with, **x ‘t'he oyster which has been spending his vacation at the seaside is now about to re- turn, Our Charitable visitors are beginning to realize that the ropresentative of the board of trade at their reception did not exaggerate in the lenst about the magni- tude of Omaha's commeteial and indus- trial activity. Before they leave the city they may discover that the statements made concerning Omaha's growth will, if anything, fall short of the actual facts. e San Francisco is also tohavea statue of liberty. The Californians who are in the grip of the confederated monopolies think it would be better to have more liberty and less statues. * e A large shipment of arms and ammunition from San Francisco to Honolulu was made last week. Here Is another outtit for the toy &un market, “We do like enterprise.” An ever- enterprising local cotemporary serves no- sioe on its patrons, and the people of America generally, that 1t has secured . the exclusive right to an ‘‘American Pen- man,” and everybody is warned not to snfringe on its moropoly. We don't be- lleve anybody will be foolish enough to attompt such a profitless literary lar- veny. . "5 . Rev. Father Cronin, of Buffalo, who has just raturned from England, thinks that the house of commons has the brains and the house of lords the fat of the DBritish parlia- ment. * e The inhabitants of New Ulm, Minun., last® week celehrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the successful defense of the city against the attack of the Sioux in 1862, The story of the massacre already reads like a murky romance of centuries ago. *u 5 ‘The Prison Mirror is the name of a paper published by conviets in the Minnesota peni- tentiary. The most prominent editorial In the copy which reached us is headed “Go Slow.” This is good advice in various senses. For one thing that is the best way of main- taining the lock step intact. * Mr. Foster, ex-mimister of Madrid, coin- | his brow grew black, #s he ground his cides with otner well-informea observers that | teeth and went out of the iar. 1 sup Indiana witl go republican next year whom- | Posed he had gone out to plunge .n the soever the party nominate for president. Uinormas o apotie EnifyAdownctie | pu‘i:l’il::fix“s?::; ull;:::'l::;l::fihm'm;;l;:cx“"fi‘ 1 had never scon a man distribute him- MInine's TFlends do tiat ook wm', ohr! ux;un. self over & monotonous sweep of country that way; but, much to my surp the outcome of another defensivo campalgn. | went into s large, yellow special car that When Ohio goes for free trane Michigan | was attached to the n, and we after- will probably be ready to vote to return the | wards learned that he was Leland Stan- . rebel flags, with an apology for ever having | ford, who has since that filled to over- | taken a hand in the union war ngainst the | flowing a seat in the United States seu- ' rebellion, ate. 5 ‘Tne condudtor continued to hold his Speaking about the dlsgrace which Senator | position for years uafter, though several Riddleberger has brought on Virginia | times he made this sad error of not rec- naturzlly suggests the disgrace whieh | ognizin, e of our most eminent men Virginia brought on herself by making a | in politi 1 and letters. senator out of him, ‘Twice he missed it on me. But 1 did Nomination to oflice Is the grealest of all | not raport him, for he ought to maintain public functions. But that is just the depart- | discipline, I claim, and besides, 1 had ment of politics in which the people are | Shaved off my mustache since we last 7 sf o bee) o nmet. . # ductor. Our great men are constantly Governor Rusk, of Wisconsin, wants It | changing their appearance by putting on understood that the alleged interviews with | duferent. huts or getting theit hair cut, him saying that his state delezation will | and onductor is almost forced to de- support him for president or vice president | mand a ticket or some other guarantee in the next republican national convention’ | of good faith from every one who travels are false. with him. e I The San Fi is Governor Sanford is a very lurge man The San Francisco Bulletin (rep.), claim- ove | _ia & vory I d ing that it doos not know whetter dr. | PhySicaliy, nud this gives his brain a " wondertul amount of sea-room and & Blatno will bo acandidate noxt year, ex- | good chance to stretch itself. He enjoys presses the belief that “there will be a fairer | Buing in the senate very much, for it field for all republican candidates in 1385 | yives him an opportunity to meet other than there has been since 1572." ‘t‘wnllhy men and % " him to torget 1} Tne lop-sided list of the 100 so-called most influential dailies in America which D bas recently appeared in the New York B8un rocvives merited stricture at the 2 hands of the Kansas City Times. Our 4 Kansas City cotemporaty calls attention to the near-sighted selection which omits some of the most prominent and widely- known dnilies in the west, and includes ploayune sheets that are scarcely known ana read outside of the New England willages in which they are printed. In wview of the fact that our Kansas City cotemporary is ranked on the Sun's list among the most influential of America's dailios, its criticism can be cousidered as unbiased. As a matter of fact, tho mske-up of ot the Sun's list exhibits lamentable ignorance of the relative prominence of Jeading Amcrican newspapers. One- third of the number gquoted as great i dailics are ' sccond-rate and super- . sonuated sheets that were prominent twenty years ago, but have dropped way behind in the race for leadership. The Marking System in Schools. The marking system in our colleges and high schools should be abolished. Itis a puerile, incompetent and unjust devise. The fact1s, our nstitutions for imparting knowiedga cmploy more absurd methods than we arc aware of because they are of ancient origin and we have always been accustomed to see them, It is but recently that we have begun to have a correct idea of the object of instruction of the young, The marking system in colleges is especially absurd. It is treating young men or women on the kindergarten plan. There is no justice in it. An idler ma, by hurried ‘‘cramming" or by dishonest expedients gain as good a standing as the industrious student, and may even surpass him in gaining college honors, if bis status is determined by the number of e The Nero type of physiognomy, says an American naturalist, is becoming frequent - among the members of wealthy clubs In the large cities. This is quite reasonable, for these men are fotlowing pursuits similar to those in which the tyrantindulged—the grati- fication of their senses. * **x A statue to Cuanhotomoe, the last of the Aztec emperors, was unveiled in the City of Mexico last week. A significant factin con- nection with the ceremony w8 the small number of Mexicans of Spanish Nescent who ‘were present and the large number of Indian descendants. The event shows that the latter 8till cherish the memories of their patriotic ancestors, ** Thomas Davidson, who has been perusing the manuseript of Ignatius Donnelly's work on the Bacon-Shakspeare controversy, has come to the conclusion that in a few yoars THaE rush to Europe this season has been unparalelled, The trans-Atiantic steamers have been ungble to accommo- R Tar Kukas, a secret society in India, l s giving the English government in the east some anxiety.” It 1s feared that an marks that may stand opposite his name. fied until the needed reform is thoroughly | date ail who wished to cross the ocean ‘I'he Philadelphia Itecord (Ind.) calls the | about ‘the low, common people who i} uprisising at an carly date is meditated | It is notorious that most of the men who | aud permanently accomplished. and many have airéady engaged passage | Lo Of e oA o Ao o e | piatform of tho Penusylvania republicans *n elected lum. o is sorry now that he i and Lord Dutferein has telegraphed home | have distinguished themselves in latter —— for 1888, This oxodns has become a rage, | here m.’:‘!mm another convert. There is | Srange mixture of shrewdness and incapa- | ¢ id not go to the senato years ago. for roinforcements 1n order to suppress | life had no conspicuous rank in school or Profeasor Baird. i BT ranasa i Lo " | the best place to go to recover from ! city.’ [ts shrewudness,” the Record ex brain fag that he knows of, and he says ! that his fag hasn't looked so well for yeurs, one eonsolation in connection with this dis- pute that should not ba lost sight of—we still have the plays. s craze and is as jnofiscnsical as most crazes are. In the . first place a large part of those who apend their vacation ; them. The organization is composod of fanatical disciples of Ram-Singh, a Sikh reformer who began to preach his doe- college. Marks may be obtained by a species of mental jugglery or by actual sleight of hand, and the superfically In the death of Spencer F, Baird, sec- rotary of the Smithsonian Institute at Washington, the world of science has plains, “consists in the avoidance of real {ssues; its Incapacity, in foolish Inveracity and childishness of statement.” *, i g or leisure in thi ed * = weN Tts The Conrad fami 0 g trines about thirty years ago. Ram-Bingh | “smart” student is usually more adept | lost one of its chiet lights. An indefati- | with their n;v:: :;{u:t:‘; ufi:fiq‘fimm £volution is said to be at work upon the l.”:flm'l’l::; ‘-,»‘_:l;1'|'|‘u;l§:,|;::‘(.‘;::: 4.\(1'::::::‘;: l,'f‘,,‘v‘:.':r,."-l,:(:‘x.'rix ‘.’.’.;“(l)l 4 | and his followers belicved that the time | in obtaining thém than the real student. | gablc worker all his days, he had worked 3 tail of the modern dress coatand it may have - 0 3 ot second they are tasing an immense amount of money out of the circulation at home and addigg it to that of foreign countries. The sum spent abroad this season will probably not be far from $100,000,000. There is no adequate re- turn for this outlay. The manner n which American tourists spend their time and money abroad is almost as profitless asit can be. They rush trom one place to another, are always tired, and always in a burry, almost always discontented with the present situation and therefore anxious to go forward to some more satisfactory place.. From almost any point of view this oraze is 1o be depre- David R. ¥ seventy-seven, y-five, Jucob seventy- ity-one, Clarn sixty. aven, v M. sixty- I'he family areall in ‘was nesr at hand for restoration of the glories of their people in the Punjaub. by ‘The sacred writings of the Sikhs contain L passages that are regarded as prophetio . utterances of their future greatness. The i #all of the Mogul empire and the sacking & of Delhi are belicyed by the Kukas to be the fultillment of a part of the prophecy and the accomplishment of the remain- der is believed to be delayed only by the 16 sins and perversions of the present gen- . eration. When Ram-Singh was: at the [* Deight of his influence it was believed | $hat ho had over a hundred tliousund fol- . Jowers ready to oboy. his orders with un- © besitating wlacrity : 12,537 were for the constitution. The Gen- tiles refraine from voting, Yet the Salt Lake Herald (Mormon) says The people have the right to expect that their appeals for justice and full citizenship will be granted and statehood conterred upon the territory.” | s ] All the Philadelphia delegates Lo the Penn The recent rains have washed off moch sylvania republican convention received cir- | of the tar and sand that was used culars inelosing tickets to Harrisburg and ; up the cr.wLi\zu the new Fifth a Gk ¥ ’ ISR AP i avement 1 New York, and in gullies “Blind Tom.” the negro musical phemome- | return. ‘The eirculars wore signed with the | pavemen , and in g uonm\:ho has been the subject of much litle | nawe Willian Is. tart, but a3 that gentle- | ot |_lu- A:ulll-!« 'nnvm are now little pockots Betion of late has roturned to New York. in | man is s candidato for state troasurer, 1tis | of sandy tar ihat look ua 1€ usmiil s company with his mother Charity Wiggins | suggested that some encuny of his must have | T4CtOrY fiad passed that way, and Mrs. Bethune, his mewly appointed maluwm of his nawmo in the transaction, ‘frio Slamese prinos drank whilo in Now 5 guardian, He is now thirty -nine years old Savs the New York Sun: Hon. Joha | York s compound of beer and lemonade, and has been before the public about thirty- | Sherman is coming to New York when he | which the componnder behind the bae four years, He is fatbut has not lost any | comes back from. Alaska. Having kot a | declared to be the “rankest” in bis exe of his old time power of mimicry. The ebony | technical or putative possession of the Buek- | perience. to go. The startling information comes from the east that young soclety men have been seen in evening coats of brilliant color butabbreviated tails. From a scientili¢ point of view this seems satisfactory enough, but the innovation must strike the drawling wearer with a chill. What if evolution should attack and dispose of him mext? #*u The object of u school or college should be to train, guide and develope the mind of the young, not to cram as large a number of facts into it as possible, re- gardless of its power to assimilate them and then register the process by marks. But 1t is the latter instead of the former method which is practiced, and so this country 1s full of chuldren and youth who are mental dyspeptics and physical weaklings. To plant an idea in the youthful mind; to help it grow in the same ratio that the body grows; to train the mind into correct habits of action; tu check injurious 'tendencies: to help atrengthen the mind in its weakest parts; himself to the front ranks among the naturalists of the age, and he had no equal in his knowledge of ichthyology. He wrote an immense number of works on varied scientific subjects, and being a man of unusual executive ability, he made the Smithsonian Institute a model of its kind, Professor Baird was born in Reading in 1822, and was a graduate of Dickinson col lege, 1n which institution he became a professor in 1845, In 1850 he was ap- pointed assistant secretary of the Smith- sanian (nstitute, with which he has since been connected. 1l was chosen secre- tary in 1878 and in 1871 was made fish