Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 4, 1887, Page 4

Does McShane Approve? Does Congressman McShane approwe the policy of the Omaha Herald, which is his property, and for the coaduct of THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF KURSCRIPTION which the publie holds him responsible? ‘fl (Morniag Kdition) Including Sunday The owner of the powder magazine has One Yoar.. ... $10 00 r 8ix Months no right to place it in tho charge of boys fi: M who are liable to play with matches. The owner of a paper cannot always control reporters, and he may be unable at times to prevent serious blunders by his edi- torial writers. But no man who owns a controlling interest in a daily paper can Justify himself in sllowing his editor to commit the paper to a policy which incites boodling and lawlessness. Mr. McShane is president of the stock yards and holds other prominent positions in financial and commercial establishments. In com- mon with other heavy tax payers, he is interested in the public safety which can only be maintalned by an eflicient police. Is Mr. McShane awure that his paper has given aid, support and countenance to a conspiracy to paralyze the police com- mission and overthrow the police? Is he aware that the man whom he keeps at the helm of his paper has for months Iabored with habitual Iaw-breakers to break down the police authorities in the exercise of their rightful functions? 1s he aware of the fact that this man has had the audacity to make overtures to No.fle ANy 018 FARNAM STREEY RoOM &, TRIAUNE BOILDING, OB, NO. 513 FOURTERNTI STRERT. 3 CORRESPONDENCE! All communioations relating to nows and edi- .$orial matter should be addressed to the Evl SOR OF THE B BUSINESS LETTERS! | Al business lotters and romittancos should be | Sddressed to THR BEe PUBLISHING COMPANY, . gun. Drafts, checks and postoice orders be made payable t the order of the company, THE GEE PUBLISHING COMPAYY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER, Eniror. THE DAILY BEE 'orn Statemeat of Ulrculation. | of Nebraski t' s | ounty of Doucias. of L pStitining compans, dnon pojomnly swoar DR company, l‘"lll:lllll“ uistion of the l){lly Bee b‘:‘ week ending Sept. 32, 1857, was as 8 afl’ll’dl . August 27 inday, August 28 . Monday. August 29 esdav. Auiust 50, ednesday, A Uugus the mayor of Omaha on behalf of certain ‘hursaay, Sept. gamblers, and pledged the Herald to iday, Sept. 2. silence if the mayor would consent to let Average..... them keep open during the fair and G. A.R. reunfbn? In other words, a propo- sition was made to the mayor to join hands with the gamblers in violation of law and allow them to fleece and rob old soldiers and other strangers who may be Omaha's guests during the present week. Does Mr. McShane sanction such con- duct? Can a man who wants to inveigle public ofticers into criminal conspiracies with outlaws be trusted or respected as a Sworn to and subscribed in my presence this 5d day of September, A. D, 1857, . P. Frm, [SEAL.1 Notary Public. Btate of Nebraska, l Douglas County. { 5% Geo. B. Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual average daily circulation of the Dally Bee for themonth of August, 1886, 12,464 copies: for tem ber, 1896, 13,030 copies; for October, 12,980 coples; for November, 1886, 13,348 les; for December, 1 13,237 copies; for | murl 1897, 16,268 coples; for February, | leader of public opinion? i\l ) {';mf"’l'{"&%"'mf«fch'nlw b It seems to ns that Mr. McShane it "’133‘},' c,':,',.;,: Yor' Jfi‘,’.‘;",‘gs,'f'ld,{i can no longer afford to let such eoples; for July, 1887, 14,008 copies. a man have full sway in mould- Gro. B, Tzscnucx. Subseribed and sworn to before me this 4 11th day ot Amws 1887, i [SEAL.| f ®1L. Notarv Publie. ing the policy of his paper. We say this much from no selfish motives. I'he BEE has profitted and prospered by the blunders and mismanagement of its local cotemporaries, and 1t is not inter- ested in instructing them how to popu- larize a newspaper. But the BEE .is in- terested in good government, S—— Manual Training in the School Nothing could better illustrate the im- pression that has been wade by the dis- cussion of the question of manual train- ing in the public schools than the fact that two papers favorable to the intro- duction of such training in the schools were read at the late meeting of the American association for the advance- ment of acience. One of these papurs was submitted by Prof. James of the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, an educator who has ranged himseif on the side of pro- gress, and who especially as a student of economics, from which point of view he treated this question, discerns the grow- ing necessity for giving a practical char- acter to the system of public education. He regarded the general introduction mto the public schools of sys tematic training in the unaerlying prin- cipals of the handiorafts as the next great stepin the development of our educa- tional system--a sten for which we are now ready, and which should be taken immediately. He argued that the fur- nishing of facilities in connection with the public schools for training in the fun- damental operations of manual work will tend to give symetry to a system which at present is notoriously one- sided and defective. The schools are chiefly, if not altogether, devoted to trainingone side of the child to the detri- ment of the other side. The pupil who graduates from them is not fitted to enter any avocation except those which are al- ready overcrowded, and nearly all of which are simply an existence of genteel poverty. This lopsidedness can be reme- died only by introducing into the public schools a system of training which will open up to those who go through it the possihility of entering handicrafts as well as clerkships. The introduction of manual training would bring about a great improvement in attendance at the public schools. Thousands of children who are taken out of school when they have simply learned to read, write and cipher in a way, because their parents find it neces- sary that they shall acquire practical knowledge that will be useful, would be permitted to remain 1 school if such knowledge were imparted there. If a boy could get manual tramning the fact would appeal to the parent, and there would result a lengthening of the school Iife of the great mass of children, with great benefits to them and to the com- | . Contents of the Sundny Bee. i 'age 1. Loeal and Special Cablegrams, | Pace 2. General Telegravhic News. i Page 3, Speclal Advertisements and Tele- grapn. ‘gm 4. Editorlal.—Current Comments, Page 5. Lincoln Letter and Locals. Y'age6. Council Bluffs News. r".%u. Special Telegraphic Markets, Finance and Home Markets.— Advertise- nts, Page 8. Local Advertlslns Page 9. Soclety Eventsin Omaha—Adver- Msement: nts, P-{: 10. In the Electric Field—Advertise- men ® 11. Two Hearts, by Malcolm eray Ross—Impietles—Horrible Cani- FoTh A Sorof Haltway I age Sort of way Hou: 8. 7. H.—Reli, lou!—SlnEullrlM«-—l‘s:;')nebl’- |-~ '“,l‘:,'&_"_ oney for the Ladles—Adver- i 'age 13. Shall the Women Vote, by John ! %lngflls—unmflou Warning of Rob- —Advertisements. 14.—Kchoes from the Ante-Room— ch Notlces—Advertisements. - 15. Some Things About Women— “Advertisements, E Page 16, Kducational Unification, by Hon. rge W. Frost—Musical and Dramatic— ucational—Sight-Seeing in London, by inz Sepel.— Connublalities,.~Advertise- dments. i Now "lm;;oul }our- banners on the | outward wall ‘TrE BEE'S only caution to veterans and wisitors is, Beware of the unioaded gun and the loaded dice, Tne sham battles and naval engage- ments of the coming days will give the E younger generation a faint idea of the MERCHANTS of this city should not fail { torecognize the importance of liberal dis- 1 plays of their wares at the fair and ex- position. Such advertising brings hand- #some returns. PRAISE for the boys in blue will fall from many lips during the coming weak, but let tho welcome which Omaha gives i them be shown by deeds as well as words. | “Let banners flout the sky.” | 5 OmANA’S proud name is at stake. Po- ] itical machinations should not interfere with a hearty welcome to the surviving beroes of the ‘‘late unpleasantness.” $Send the sutlers to the rear. 1 SE———— p BIRDS of passage who come to Omaha In quest of plunder have often attempted H to prostitute the press and sell its sup- ;1 port to public thieves and political hacks. But this class of adventurers does not 4 generally take root in this community. — i EX-GOVERNOR PATTISON is announced '. a8 Cleveland’s choice to succeed Secre- i tary Lamar when that oflicial is elevated 8 th i to the supreme bench. One or two more '.:'c“u"z‘,w,‘,“::i’,s;:,fi “:;x g\:gl::t :’:.‘:ll-d $ I?n in the cabinet of the sturdy govern- ing would be the removal from | :;;'"f":"“w““u be a godsend tothe | nual callings of the stigma which i PRIERTIOD, in the minds of many attachos to thom. The tendency would be to teach peovle to associate inteiligence and culture with manual labor, a sort of instruction which the American people especially need. Let them once appreciate that in car- pentering or plumbing or moulding there 18 a wide field for 1ntellectual qualities, and a complete revolution will ba ef- focted in their attitude toward these mat. ters, : Manual training as a part of the school system has made considerable progress in the last throe years, but as yet its adoption has been simply experimental, In the cities where it is being tried it is merely as asapplemental course in which provision 1s made for only a few scholars, Baltimore was the first city to establish a8 school devoted to manual training #8 a part of its regular public school system. It opened in 1831 with sixty pupils and at the close of the term this year had one hundrod and eighty. T'he school doas not aim to teach trades, but to lay the foundation for any traae, and a comprehensive system of iastrue- tion for this purpose is pursued. The reports regarding chis school show that it has done a valuable amount of work and been successful from the beginning, The uniform testimony is that in no ease where manual training has been intro duced has it been abandoned or eur- tailed, the tendency being all the other way. Itisnotto be expected, however, that the innovation will continue to make progress without encountering some op- position. Already the objection has been made that there is no more reason why the state should undertake to fit a man for earnihg his living at & handicraft than hy it should undertake to fit him for earning his livingz at law, physic, or ] PoLiceE and militia to the number of 000 have gathered at Ennis, Ireland, with orders to prevent the nationalists meete g advertised for to-day st any cost. ‘The Irish leaders, however, will not be bulldozed by the simple presence of soldiers, and the meeting will go on until broken up by force. Fears are enter- Aained of serious trouble, b EEm—— i Artedus WARD once said: ‘A leopard i oannot change his spots, but you change them for him with a paint brush.’” When | #lascall was running for the council last spring we were assured by many promi- ment citizens that he had grown wise and ehanged his ways. But the sequel shows I that Hascall's name must still be spelled ¥ with an *R. E——— TrE St.Louis rcunion 18 threatened with & new complication. The employes of the gas works are dissatisfied on the ques- tion of wages, and it is stated that they will strike just when the city will be most in need of light—during the na- tional encampment. Omaha will have i mo such difficulty, and the old soldiers ¥ ©an view the sights at night by brilliant i floods of light. Poor old St. Louis! : EE———————— i ‘Pue members of the recent convention L '« 0f oharities and correction emphasized wery particularly the fact that charity does not consist in indiseriminate giving. They denounced it as an unmitigated evil, Coming from men and women who have made pauperism a life study, their . dwtum ought to be conclusive. They also emphasized the wvalue of personal . .gontact with those who are to be assisted. _ Wnisis one of the principal factors in sucoessfully inducing a spirit of self-help . mmong the poor, divinity, and undoubtedly other argu- ments will be found to show that it is neither proper nor practicable for the public schools to go in the direction of manual training. The impressive fact, however, which is an answer to all op- posing arguments, is that while all the professions are greatly overcrowded the ranks of intelligent and skilled American mechanics do not increase, and this coun- try has still to look to other lands for the highest skilled labor. Manual training as a part of the public school system, it is believed, would in time relieve the in- dustries of the United States of this de- pendence, and for this and other not less important considerations the experiment should recoive a thorough trial. — Art in Newspaper Illustrations, Public opinion should enact one of its unwritten but effective laws to abolish newspaper illustrations. They have coine to be so atrocious that they can no longer appeal even to the uncultured taste for which they are especially de- signed. The Sunday illustrations are particularly nauseating. Look at them. Can any human taste for art be so de- praved as to delight in such monstros- ties? To say nothing of the wishy-washy stuft’ with which the so-called literary syndicates flood the country, the illus- trations should be suppressed for the sake of decency. Few people will take the pains to wade through such rot and drivel. Thus the harm is not so great. It is otherwise with the * horrible ‘‘cuts.”” They can be taken 1in at & glance and become a potent factor in lowering the popular art ideal. Americans have always been accused of having an_uncultivated taste in art mat- ters. Until within a few years a picture was a picture to most of us, whether a painting or a chromo. We had begun to improve somewhat on this taste, though the immense sale of manufactured paint- ings, which are made by the acre in east- ern cities, shows that as a peovle we have not gone very far. The only way to rase the standard among the common people is to put betore them good and artistic productions. This is what syndicate illustrated papers are not do- ing. They are exerting whatever influ- ence they have in dragging the public taste back into the mire. To very many poor people they may be the only works of art—God save the mark—accessible. Abolish them by ceasing to buy them. Money thus spent is worse than wasted. You get no information, no descrip- tion, no entertsinment, nothing but wretched sketches and pictures of people which bear no resemblance to them. A good engraving is a thing of beauty and of joy. The illustrations of people of whom we read is not quite so senseless, Aside from the fact that in many cases it may be impossible to make the portraits ap- pear worse than the originals the latter can have recourse to the cane, the horse- whip, or even the courts, and thus induce the artists to use a little caution. But we are defenseless against the modern illus- trated ‘‘articles,” until newspaper read- ers make the publishers understand that their enterprise is not appreciated. WaiLk Omaha is waiung Micawber- like for something to turn up that will kive her betier railway facilities in the territory naturally tributary to her in the north and northwest, the greatest ar- tery that traverses Iowa and lllinois is seeking an entrance into Omaha by way of Decatur, in Burt county. This, of course, will not solve the problem of competition with the Northwestern sys- tem on this side of the Missouri, but it shows that Omaha's great packing houses and stock yards are attracting competing lines to the seaboard. 1f the Illinois Central gains an entrance into Omaha from the north, the existing lows lines cannot much longer defer an en- trance into this city without the costly double transfer that has for years been an embargo on onr railway traffic. Tue treasury redemption of the trade dollar expired yesterday. The e stimates of the number of the dishonored dollars in the country when redemption was or- dered were slightly exceeded by the amount presented, but 1t is supposed that some were sent over from Ch ina, though doubtless a very small sum. The issue ot this coin was to the amount of $25,000,- 000, so that most of it is still circulating in China. The entire course of the govern- ment regarding the trade dollar, up to the time when redemption was provided for, was far from creditable to the coun- try. Having issued tne coin, congress practically repndiated it by demonetiz- ing silver, and then for years refused to protect even the people of this country against the effects of the repudiation. Granting that it was & mistake to issue the trade dollar, the subsequent course of the government was wholly without jus- tification. —_— TaE business men and taxpayers of Omaha have at last given emphatic ex- pression to their disapproval of the course of the councilmen who, under the lead of Hascall, are trying to starve the volice and freeze out the commission. Neaver was public sentiment more unani- mous on any question or issue in the city of Omaha. Out of fully five hundred taxpayers, comprising representative men of allclasses, less than twenty voted against the resolution endorsing the po- lice commission and requesting the council to give the commission such sup- port as will enable it to maintain an ef- ficient police force, It.now remains to be seen whether the men who are chiefly responsible for good government in this city will respect the wishes of their con- stituents even when they know that pub- lic resentment has reached a climax. — COMMISSIONER GRIFFITTS has finally returned from his summer vacation and serves notice on the freight bureau ‘that he still survives. His letter calling atten- tion to the studied neglect exhibited by the state railway commission in ignoring the complaints made by the bureau is timely and to the point. It is to be hoped that Mr. Griflitts will not rest with this protest, but show his usefulness in the direction where it can be more effective. He can make a reputation for himself by axposing the exhorbitant local tariffs west of the Missouri and especially the sys- tematic diseri ations against this city in the upper Elkhorn valley, e—p——— EVIDENTLY somebody is trying to add to Chatsworth world-wide reputation, Another account has been sent forth of an attempt to wreck a passenger train at that little Illinois hamlet. Cau the cor- oner be working up n boom? POLILIOAL POINTS. The revolt of the Baltimore Réform league from the ranks of the democtacy,bas fallen like a dull thud upon the garty. The San Francisco ant (rep.), which used to be strongly for Blaine, thinks that he would be beaten It nominated bext year. Neal Dow, at the age of elghty-four, de- votes his time almost entirely to the study of politics. He still find, ething to learn in it Frank Hurd thinks the sexmcmocnile na- tional convention wilkteel tho necessity of adopting the platform of the Ohio Democ- racy. In the act of strgining at republiean &nats and guiping down democratic camels, the Hon. George William Curtis cuts s picturesque tigure. The “‘bout” between Governor Wilson and Governor Foraker at Wheeling, was a sheer waste of wind power on both sides, so says the New York Post. John F. Andrew seems reasonably certain of the democratic nomination for governor of Massachusetts, his most formidable com- petitor having withdrawn. Colonel Bradley, who has just made a very creditable race for governor of® Kentucky, 18 mentloned for vice-president on the republi- can ticket. It is mere mention, however. Governor Knott, of Kentucky, at the explr- ation of his term of office, will settle In Loulsville, and perhaps become a journalist. Helssaldto have an eye on the United States senate now. There is a erowing conviction among re- publieans that whoever may be nominated by the next republican national convention, Robert T. Lincoln will surely be giveu the second place on the ticket. Senator Beck’s vice-presidential boom, which was alleged to have been recently in- augurated at St. Paul, is irreparably damaged by the tact that the senator was born In Scot- land and Lence Is ineligible. 1t may be stated as a fact, says the Atlanta Constitution, that Governor Hill, of New York, has no sympathy with any movement that antagonizes the renomination and re- election of President Cleveiand. By the way, what has become of the Glenn race co-education bill pending in the Georgia legislature? When last seen it was running before a spanking breeze under full sail, but she Is now several weeks overdue. Colonel Fted D. Grant has written to a Grand Army man at Nyack that he is pleased with the suggestion of his name for the republican nominee for secretary of state of New York, and would accept it chosen. GeneralJ. B. Weaver, the Iowa green- backer, 15 said to have developed a ravenous appetite for the democratic nomination for the vice-presidency. This will generally be considered tho prize joke of the season, but Weaver is sald to be in sober earnest. For years the democratic party has been foarful of taking its stand against extrava- gance in the government; It has not dared to declare itself openly for those chan ges in the revenue laws which are demanded in the interests of the great mass ot consumers of the country. It pursues a half-hearted or an easier policy 1n both of these respects. President Clevelan s abandoned his fishing tour in West,, inia because the recent rains have ma waters too muddy. One would have supposed that his extensive dabbling in the airty pools of democratic polities would have qualified him to catch suckers in any kind of wagers, Pension CowmmissigaenBlack, So say the dispatolwes santy Thinks the place of vice president May come his way. Ponsion Commissioner, Black Assuredly shows ito Tack of hopefulness, but he’d better stick up light- ning rods all the way from Washington to Bloomington and zo about in an armor with voints projecting toward every cloud in the heavens, if he wants to make what he longs for at all sure.—-[Chicago Tribyne. — - He was There All the Time. Rochester Post-Erpress. And yet the war department has not re- ceived Colorow’s letter accepting the momi- nation to run for home, —_— . He is Not a Judge of San Francisco Alta, . Mr. Pullman’s brandy costs $50 a quart. We wish he would drink poorer liquor and and put better soap in his sleoping cars. —_——— t Article, Another Instance ot Hard Times. Detroit Free Press. ‘Times are awfully dull in Cincinnati. A prisoner at the police court told the judge that he had set for eizht-five daysin one sa- loon without being able to strike a job. et A My t no Doubt. New York World. A. Rider Haggard’s latest novel is entitled “A Tale of Three Lions.” Judging from his former works it seems probable that ‘*A Tale of Three Liars” would be a more appropri- ate name. ———— 8till it Was True. Boston Globe, No wonder they say the Yankees exagger- ate. We know one who complained to" his butcher that the last piece of steak sent him was so tough that his mother could not chew the gravey. — Ballooning in Real Ertate, New York Commereial Advertiser. Aspart of a real estate auction in a Wis- consin town, a deed to a lot was thrown out of a baloon. Real estate often goes bal- looning in other parts of the world, but rarely in this literal shape. —_—————— Just the Same. Buiter Inier-Muntuin, We tail to see whereln the New York Ives who failed a few days ago for $20,000,000 on a robbing stock deal is any better than the Montana Ives who was hanged by the vigil- antes twenty years ago for holding up stage coaches. Jumbled Ja Atlants Constitution. Sir Javatsingnjee Limbdiji ‘Thakore of India, 1s said to have arrived in this country in & good state of preservation. He wrs probably welcomed by Hjalmer Hjorth Be- joyson. Tha truth is no tjereigner cjan gjet ajhead of jus Americajps. ¢ Somethingof a Name. New York World, George Charles Spencer Churchill, duke of Mariborough, marquis of Blandtord, earl of Sunderland, Baron Spences, of Warmleigh- ton, Baron Churchill, of Sandridge, prince of the holy Rowan empire, prince of Men- delheim In Suabia, has'arrived in New York. He will remain in the cofintry six weeks, visiting all the leading watering places and pleasure resorts, e Base Ball, Liquor and Hoodoos. Chicago News. A telegraphic dispatch from Hastinz, Neb,, says that the Western Base Ball league is “golng under,” ‘I'here is probably more trath than importance in this, Last Tuesday the members of the Hastings club were fined large sums of money for drunkenness We aratold that an occasional jamboree is all that enables the far western towns to bear the expense of professional clubs. *“If our ball players did ges drunk,” it is urged, *‘we couldn’t pay salaries.” Better have no base ball if base ball is to be utilized as an encouragement to drun i~ enuess. Men can play ball without drink- g llquor; A. G. Spalding says so. They wany not win the champlonship, they may get hoodoed. and they may lose games to am- ateurs, but still they can play ball. By the way, Chicago has s Mrs. K. B. Hayes croquet club wandering over the east- ern states somewhere, Perhaps they will have the good taste to wmiss their way home. -~ Boldier, Maiden, and Flower. Eugene Fleld, “"Swoetheart, tako this, a soldier said, ‘*And bid me brave good-by ; It may befall we ne'er shall wed, But'love can never die. *'Be steadfast in thy troth to me, And then, whate'er iy lot, “‘My soul to God, my heart to thee'— weetheart, forget me notl” ‘The malden took the tiny flower And fed 1t with her tears; Lo, he who left her in that hour Came uot in after years. Upon the field a demon rode 'Mid showerof flameand shot, While in the maiden’s heart abode The flower forget-me-not. And when he came not with the resy From out those years of blood, Closely unto her widowed breast She pressed the withered bud. Oh, there Is love and there is rlln. And there ia pence, God wot; And these dear three do live again In sweet forget-me-not. *Tis to his unmarked grave to-day ‘That 1 stiould love to go; Whather he wore the blue or E“y What need that we should know? “*He loved a woman.” let us say, And on that hallowed spot, To woman's love that lives for aye We'll strew forget-me-not. Madame Patti-Nicolini at Home. Among the triumphs of Adelina Patti not the least honorable to her ure those which attest her goodness of heart. These are to be found on every page of her life's history. Evidence of an active and earn- est sympathy with the woe and want of human kind fitly accompany her pro- eminent gifts as an artist,-and richly adorn her character. In her Welch home she has found opportunities for good deeds which have won her the love aud homage of the people. A local writer says: ‘“‘Here she reigns supreme for miles around, the country folks simply adoring her. And we have not far to seck the reason for this cither. She goes out amongst the people almost daily, scat- tering her charities in all directions where needful, while she has a pleasant smilo for everyone.” The greatest victories of art are not more to be desired than such achievements. Since her return home Madame Patti- Nicolini has given a conacert at the town of Brecon for the henefit ot the poor. 1t was a gala occasion. Business was sus- peuded and the town was gaily decorated with flags banners, and mottoes welcom- ing Patti. The reception given the di tinguished guest was of the most e thusiastic character. The mayor and other officials_of Brecon, in their robes of oftice, met Patti at the depot and wel- comed her with every formality. The people cheered and all nlonIE the route of the procession to the concert hall there was the heartiest enthusiasm. It was a proud day for the great diva, and the accounts of it say that she was deeply affected by the display of popular affec- tion. The concert was artistically and finan- cislly a great success. Patti had three solo numbers on the programme and a duet with Nicolini, but the people were not satisfied with this, and she had to re- 4 to several recalls. The fund d by the procceds will be known as Patti-Nicolini Fund,” and is in- tended to form a permanent resource for the benefit of the poor of Brecon. Madame Patti has reccived a great many letters from the United States urg- ing her to visit this country. This is ab- solutely precluded by her engagements for the next two years. She will sing in Lisbon and Madrid during the coming winter, and will thereafter go to Buenos Ayres and Brazl. OURRENT TOPICS. Tue only original Tichborne claimant has becomea bartender in New York city. He 1s white-haired and weighs 300 pounds and still claiins everything. **e Tuk New York oyster dealers’ association isan immense concern. It emvraces 7,000 men and sells 400,000,000 oysters In New York alone. The oyster lands under water, about 600,000 acres, will be sold September 5, under act of the legislature. The price ranges from 25 cents to §100 per acre. ahy Rev. Dr. Joseph Parker, of the City Temple, London, arrived in New York last week. He is to make a lecture tour in this country and says there is no truth in the statement that he came in response to a call to fill the late Beecher’s pulpit. **x A rallroad 20! miles long is In course of construction in the Argentine Confedera- tion, S. A., which is to be propelied by horse- flesh. This is development backwards. The reason assigned Is that horses are very cheap and coal very dear. 'The native indolence of that region has also something to do with such a state of things, no doubt. **e A former missionary to China has pub- lished a pamphlet in Paris in which he demonstrates that the Great Wall of that country does not exist and never did. Is this supposed solid existence also to be rele- gated to the realm of myths? Itseems as though this question could easily bo settled by Caucassian tourists. w*e Jesse Pomeroy, the Boston child tor turer and murderer who was sentenced to impris- onment for life about fifteen years ago, has made another attempt to escape re- cently, It is suspected that his mother o furnished him with the fine steel saws with which to cut the gratings of his cell. Jesse is one of those human beings of whom there is no hope ot reformation. * **x Dr. Washburne, who is president of the American college at Constantinople, brought aphonograph with him tothat city. The Turks affected to think noshing of the in- strument’s ability to talk in English, but when they found it could speak to them in their own language they were amazed. They could not understand how it had learned to talk Turkish in a week’s time. * **s Aleyone, one of the stars around which It was once thought the sun and the solar sys- tem revolved, is 934,000,000,000,000 miles away from us, according to recant computations It would require more than ona hundrad and sixty years for light to travel this dis- tance. 1t will be observed that we are sur rounded by a goud deal of space. This in formation is especially designed for property owners who design the erection of twelve story buildings. * e Miss Rebecca Beath, of Detroit, is fif- teen years old and a heroine. She recently swam out into Lake Orchard, Michizan, and saved three persons from drowning. Mr, W. D. Hewells will no doubt say that such an action is unnatural, and refuse to refuse to put such a person as Miss Beath io his books, Still it might be well to remind him that several such Instances have oceurred this swmmer. A few years ago, also, he will remewmber, an Towa girl saved a raiiroad train by heroicall y erassing a broken bridge in a thunder storn. But such a scere in his books would look ont of place. S0 also would a story of the boot- THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY. SEPTEMBEK 4, 1887.~SIXTEEN PAGES. black who risked his own life to save that of others when the Potter building burned in New York. Actions like thase are not true to nature in Mr. Howell's philosophy, which embraces only the namby-pampy wish-wash of life. ) Wong Chin Foo who explained why he was & heathen in the North American Re- view, has described how the Chinamen serve Joss with roast pig in New York, He says: “The Cbinamen are vory particular in mak- ing thelr purchases, as they are afraid to palm off a bad hog on the great Joss. In or- der to have the porkers fresh and wholesome they prefer to buy live animals. The pigs are examined carefully from snout to tail. They must have regular features, be well proportioned and with- out s particle of blemish of any kind. ‘When properly cleansed the entire carcass 1s soaked in aromatic spices for at least an hour. Then the dresser, who is usually an expert caterer, proceeds to prepare it for roasting. The legs are 80 bent that they as- ume a kneeling posture when vlaced before Joss. The mouth is pried open and & ball ot dough colored red Is inserted betwveon the teeth to make It resemble a dragon tryinz to swallow & ball of fire. The eyes are care- fully closed and the lashes straightened out. The ears are spread out and the tail Is curied upwards towards the back. The ovon or bin Isso constructed with compartments that the space in which the pig I8 shut up only receives the heat from the fire below, while another compartment carries off the flame and the smoke. In this manner a i that welghs 150 pounds or more is roasted to a beautiful brown in less tnan an hour. Then it is taken out and painted light red and otherwise fantastically decorated to make Joss happy. A POLITIVCAL RE VOLUTION, The Lancaster Republicans Route the Railroand Ring Force. LixcorN, Neb., Sept. 3.—|Special Tele- gram to the Beg. | —The Lincoln county re- publican convention held to-day was the most remarkable one ever held in the county. The preparation has been ominous, The B. & M. railrond has had warning that something would drop, but they never dreamed that an avalanche was about to fall uoon them and that thelr political thermometer would be frozen at one fell sweep. The question of who struck Billy Patterson may be a mys- tery, but there is no mystery as to who struck the rallroad ring on the head and drove it into the earth. The people of Lincoln, through their delezates to the coun ty conven- tion, did the job so ueatly and expeditiously that there i8 no mistaking the sentiment on thequestion of railroad rates in the state, that exists In the city of Lincoln where the B. & M. has held the republican party by the throat in all the years since Its birth as a city. A quiet discussion commenced among the dele- gates immediately after the primaries, in ef- fect that Judge Mason and the board of trans- portation should be endorsed. The business men and delegates acreed to it but, there were none sanguine enough that it could be carried out successfully. The question of heading the state delezation with the name of Judge Mason was not thought to promise success early in the day and the railroad at torneys were fairly on the jump at the thought of it. The events in or:zanizing the convention showed the mettle of the conven- tion. Chairman Billingsly of the central com- mittee had not rapped twice with the gavel till Walt Scetey, whose smooth schemes for the rallroads have been numerously ventilated, jumped to his feet and moved that H. D. Hathaway be elected temporary chairman. The man fixed to second it was as prumpt as Seeley. At this point General J. A. Mc- Bride arose and moved to substitute the name of Hon. Isaac M. Raymond. The vote on the substitute motion elected Mr. Ray- mond chairman by a vote of 113 for Raymond to 1t for Hathaway. Mr. Raymond, in taking the chalir, spoke about the coming F»lllicnl contest the next year, when repub- icans would be called upon to stand for their me and its principles and organization. 1e said that while the Lancaster county re- publicans were awalting to work, that it was well for them to piant themselves square against the cor| tions that were exactin exhorbitant treight tariff from the people of Nebraska, and who were opposing the peo- ple swith extortionate rates. After credentials had been passed upon and the temporary organization had been wade permanent, Mr. L. Hall arose and of- fered the following resolutions which were adopted amid great enthusiasm : hereas, ‘Fhe struggle now going on must be continued untfi relief is obtained, an Whereas, The contest now going on ba- tween tho state railroad commission and the Lincoln board of trade on one side and the several railway companies in the stato on the other over the question whether the pro- ducers and shippers of the state shall have equitable freight rates, or whether the pres- ent oppressive and_unjust tarift shall pre- vail, Xs“a question affecting the prosperity of . an Whereas, In order that the efforts of the railway commission and the Lincoln board of tr may be strengthened before the state conventlon; therefore be it Resolved, That a comnttee of six, consist- ing of Hon. Isaac M. Raymond, Hon. C. C. Burry, W. A. Hackney, T. . Barnes, B. F. Reavan and Amos Greenameyer are hereby designated to report at the proper time to this convention a list of twenty-eight deleates to the state convention, to consist of four- teen from the city and fourteen from the country, as equally distributed as possible, and all to be men of pronounced ideas, cor- responding with tue subject embraced in this preamble, and of which state delegation Hon. O. P. Mason shall be chairman. ‘I'he following were the delegates elected to the republican state convention: O, P, Mason, L. M. Raymond, Henry Veith, H, Ii. Wiison, Fred Berryman, Jolin Trom pen, B.F. Smith, J. 1. MeClay, " A. H. Wilson, John Mallyman, B, F. Reagan, L. C. Burr, D. C. Kudlu. A. Hatter, 8. J. Alexander. H. M. Rice, Harvey Atkinson, C. S. Choenthall, Williamn Charton, Mat Muel, R. Blakeley, J. 1. Harly, P, Wescott, Georze J. Lam- vern, J. . Threw, John Albert, J. C. Mc- Bride, F. ¥. Barnes. The convention was warm and exciting throughout on the local candidates and the hall was packed through- out the contest. On county judge the contost was especially spirited, and Mr. Stewart s nomination was secured amid great enthusi- asm. The following are the nominations: For treasurer, Jacob Roche renominated; for clerk of the district court, A. R. Se nowinated ; for county elerk, O. C. Bell nominated for sherifl, S, M. Melick _renon- inated; for county judge, Willard Stewart: for register of deeds, John D. Kuigh county commissioner, L. J. Dickson county superinten&ent, F. 1. M county eoroner, Dr. Shoemaker; surveyor, J. P. Waiton, ‘I'he contest for the delezates to the judicial district convention was close and exciting, ‘The candidates were N. C. Abbott, A. W. Field, W. 8. Hamilton and Roo- ert Ryan, aithough the latter ecut no tigure. ‘The delegates who were duplicated on the Field and Hamilton tickets were elected on the first ballot and the remainder of the Field ticket being in the lead was de- clared the choice of the convention, ‘Those eleeted are: H. D. Hathaway. L. W. il lusky for county lingsl it. Jacoby, W. A. Johnson. Jaues Atwell, Amos Greenamyer, .. Caldwell, R. B. Graham, J, C. F. MeKesson, 1. Hels keil, J. F. Johnston, I, J. Liesvieldt, L. ¢ Burr, F. M. mann, K. C. Hi Albert Golse, J. P, Chip- rison, W.J. W F phnson, D. G, Courtuey, T. F. Barnes, Rieb, . Aitken I Foster, Cal Thompson Seeley, William Austin, Burnbam. The convention pound railroads again in the resolotions reported by the commitiee on resolutions. These. in brief, reaflirm the principles of the republican varty as aflirimed in the state and national platform; endorse the work of the state board of transportation in its efforts to reduce the exhorbitant tariff exacted by the roads in the state; insist on # reduction to corresponaing rules’ in other states and call upon the delegation to the state convention to introduce at that gathering a resolution ask- Ing the governor of the state to ecall an extra session of the legislature 1o enact railroad laws for the reduction of rates. ‘The resolu- tions were reported to the convention by 11. H. Wilson and adopted unanimously at 11 p. m. The convention was yet in session onl the final work of creatine a county central committee and minor details. OMARA'S CRAND EXHIBITION, Opening To-morrow of the Fair With Its Thousands of Attractions. THE CITY FULL OF PEOPLE; The Display of Manafacturec, Agricule tare and Indastrics With Bal- loons, Red Lemonade and no KEnd of Fon, The Fair Opens To-morrow. After aseason of restless and intelligontly directed activity, the preparations for the opening of the great fair are about completed. All of the exhibits are not yet pla but aftor the first day this defect will be almost completely remedied and the week's pro- gramime will move along smoothly. Men who have attended hundreds of the fairs in the t, state and others, say that the Omaha display surpasses all of them, TO-MOKROW AT 8 A, M, the doors will be thrown open to the publ'e, and from that hour until September 10, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the floors of the buildings, the walks of the crounds and the seats in the grand stand will be thronged with the men, women and children of this and adjoining states. From every part of the country surrounding Omaha, ignorin, state lines, correspondents send wor and advertising ugents brin in- telligence that the fall worl ot the ~ farmer will be sunva.?ded. tho merchants in adjacent cities and towns as well as the professional and other business men will give themsalves a_vacation to visit this the third annual falr and exposision in maha. ‘The idea is a good one. No time will be lost, but the added intelligence will enable the farmer, merchant or mechanic to 8o cou- duct his business, to regulate the breeding of hin stock. to make selections of seeds for his agricultural products and kitchen gal that will be of far more value to them th: the few days lost in rational recreation and wholesomw study of the WORKS OF NATURE AND ART in their simple perfection. Asido trom the superb stables of speed horses on the grounas, the display of cattie will be large, select and varled. ‘The smooth Devonshire, the black spotted Holstein,the shorthorn,the Hereford, the tawny, meek looking lttle Jormr. with its great butter wmaking propensities, the Devon, tne Galloway, the square hipped Durham with nis “ox eyes” and billowy sides, merely suggestive of the great ribs un- derneath the mass of meat onn-ylnf them and underneath the clean, glossy skin, and the other various breeds of cattle will be well represented. 'hen there will be the hog pens, the pal- aces of the present monarch of Omaksa, who has made Chicago grumblingly take off its cap and salute this city, its successful rival. Specimens of the Jersev Red, Poland China, (?gflu\er White, the little, fat Suffolk which looks as if it were trying to the Yorkshire and many other varieties. As for sheep, Cotswolds, Liecestershire, South- downs, American Merinos and the numerous or breeds will be exhibited. And - THE CHANTICLERR AND HIS LADY hens will waken the avenues in the vicinit; of the p(mltr{ department with crowing an cackling, bri nfimg many & crusted business man back to the days when he, barefooted. hunted for eags in the straw pile as a school boy. The Brahmas, Cochins, Asiatics, Lang- shaws, Dorkinzs, and the cute little Bantam family will have thelr properly accredited delegations on hand, Turkeys, ducks, zeese and pea fowls will also claim recognition, And the great Industrious mu{. 6 hee, will manufacture honey before thet that will be attracted to their hives, The pmfinnlvs farmer will closely soam the latest improvemonts made In the llster and the harvester, the plow and the rake, as well as the newest devices whereby steam i3 made to relleve men and forses of much of their labor. He wall also turn over the huge healthy cabbagzes, turnips, melons and such will see the tinest wheat, oats, barley and other cere- als to be found in the world, will admire the cattle and Prnbuhly purchase some, while his wives and daughters wili see the newest appliances in the culinary art and nmrla specimens of bread and other articles of the table, The merchant will aamire the fabrics and mereantile commodities while the me- chanie will admire the machinery, AROUND THE SPEKD RING some ot the tinest “fiyers” in the west will exnibit their mettle to the thousands who will throng the grand stand and enjoy the excitement of the turf with its cheers and music, scattered by the braying instruments and the drums in the band stand in the cen- ter of the course, whila hats fly in the air and open mouths send forth yells of exultation in a volume of noise which has never yet lé«;en described by a word or number of em. swallow its head, THE ART DEPARTMENT with its gnlnllnzs hung from the lower por- tion of the walls np to the red, whiteand blue cornice around the ceiling, with its silk products and needlework, its’ photographs and_brie-a-bra¢, will turnish delight and rofit to those whose tastes incline that way. n floral ball Paoma will hold a reception with her )’mll}kl‘r blosseming sister and car- nations, fuchias, roses, geraniums and other flowers will be In profusion. THE BAND CONTEST. On Frldl{ and Saturday there will band contest for civil bands, for $150. first prize will bo 875 the second $50 and the third § ‘There will also be a special prize of a silver cornet guld trimmed, given by W. G. Albright, the real estate man. HOW TIE GROUNDS LOOM Horses were pouring into the grounds yes- terday from every entrance: frains of bright black bugzies, Iamps encased in pink gauze and nickle adornments glistening were belng bauled out Sixteenth street and Sherman ayenue; wagon loads of watermelons, potted lants and canned goods were being taken nto floral hall through the south door, Men and women are putting scalloped paper and muslin_on the shelves for the fruit and flower display. Doors in all the buildings are wide open, the cob web lace that dark- ened the windows are swept away., Fresh air, brightness and cleanliness are asserting themselves in all directions. In the art de- artment Mrs. John S. Brigg, manacer of tho hall and of the Douglas county rhsylny. with her assistants, is turning the spacious room into a gallery that will challenge examination, both on account of the objeews displayed and the artistic manner ot hanging them. On the east end of the building a beautitul piece of ornamentation, the design of Mrs. Briggs, covers the end. In the center is & monstrous natural eagle, with wings spread standing on a shield, It is the loan of Thomas A. Kendall. On either side are rtraits of Generals Grant and logan, Ur n the center of the top is a portrait of Presi- dent Garlield, from v h flags depend on either side gracefully festoned and fastened on the corners with red and white ro- sottes, The backaround is dark garnet felt. ‘The words **Welcon 1.” I3 across the shield. The piece is 30 by 50 feet. A larze painting of “Shoshone Falls” belonging to J. J. Curtls I hung, and several lower picces and panel pictures belonging to Miss Luna Dundy. W, T, Clark will have an exhibiti of painting. Nora O'Connor has atine ¢ quilt in place, Mrs. F. J play of baby clothing, work. A beautiful display received from Phitadelphia, [ 18 being prepared for a photographic display. W.E. encer has fifteen Derkshire hogs In the pens, one weighing 700 peunds. Dr. Oliver C. Higgins, of Wyoming, has thirteen Holstein cattle. ‘I'hey are beautles. Many cattle, hogs and horse i are on the tracks and are being removed to their places this after- noon, and to-morrow promises to be a btisy day at the grounds. In machinery hall the bright-colored reapers, plows, wagons, corn- planters and other Implements and ma- chinery are taking their positions withaston- ishing rapidity to be examined hy the niulti- tude. ‘The Nebraska industriul” school sent in this morning numerous itiful speci- mens of the work of boys and girls in that institution, some done by ehildren under fif- teen years of age, guch as siik hand-made , specimens ot darning, clothing, boys’ Suits, 81068, ete, Washington county has sent a sple did display of cereals, vegeln bles, fruits, and preserves and fruits, Among the new arrivals in the stables in Joel Cory’s four year old mare, wh cording to rumor, a pro ing to C. C. Lyford, ars old, with Miller & six year old stallion ( and, of Troy, Kan sired Wise, Golden Girl, eleven mare, that made hy Xlg At To Tom, eight years old, a gelding with a 2:351{ record. Pyle, of Humboldt, Kansas, has the tols lowimg horses: MceFariand sived by ¢ Caffrey, Tip of Bashaw aam: he is a black stallion, six years old, with a record of 2:42%, Chas, Caffrey, a black stallion twelve years old, with a trial record ot who did 2:16 this yoar. Mis sire Is Gen. x. dam, Ro- salind, the latter with 2:21% record. Queen Lizele by Cailrey, is a threo year old.” Her lai Julle, is & full sister 10 Maxy Cola wio has & record of 2:13%, and wany otliers