Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 16, 1887, Page 4

,THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHFD EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. D“fly (Hnrnlnl Edition) including Hundly Kk, Ono Year for 8ix Months. Thi ress, One Y ear AHA OFFICE, NO. NEW YORK OFFIC 1 WASHINGTON OFFICE, TEENTH STHEET. CORRESPONDENCE. 1l communications relating to news and itorial m: ller should be addressed to the ITOR OF 'BUSINFSS LETTRRS: 11 bustness letters and remittances should be dressed to Tne Beg Pup NG COMPANY, AMA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders to iAo puyAbls 5o the Order of the company. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietors. E. ROSEWATER, Epitor. , ROOM 65, Tmuukn BuiLD- No. 513 Foune THE DAILY BEE. Bworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebraska, County of Douglas, f"‘ & Geo, B. Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Pub- shi mpany, does lnlrmulf swear that the sctual circulutiori of the Dully fieo for the week ending Oct, 7, 187, was as follow Baturday, Oct. 1 unday, Oct 1day, Average... 3. T2 010 and_subscribed b my presence this Blh dny of October, A. D. 1887, P. FEIL, (SEAL) Notary Public Btato of Nebraskn, T County of Douglas, Geo, B. Tzschuck, lmlnr first duly sworn, de- s and says that he is secretary of g‘nhlhhlnu company, mnl the actual iaily circulation of the Daily Bee for the month ; for November, ") lt.zr' d for. HE N, Tu8e: 14 400 119 cople’: for May, for Augist, 1 K7, 14,340 co) GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. Bworn to and subscribed in i once this Ol dny of Uctober, A. D, 185 N.P. FELL, Notary Public. _— CHICAGO is trying to account for the decrehse in her pork-packing industry in every way but the right one. The cause of the whole trouble can be ex- pressed in five letters, O-m-a-h-a. Tie formation o continues. The latest is a combination in lead. We have now trusts in oil, iron, timber, salt, milk, sugar, pork. lard, gas, and many other necessities. This seems to be along rope, and it must be about time for some of these monopolies to choke themselves. THE death of Mrs. Craig (Dinah, Maria Mulock), the novelist, is an- nounced. She was born in England in 1826 and was one of the b known authors of the time. Her most popu- lar work was ‘‘John Halifax, Gentle- man,” which many of her admirers re- gard as the greatest of novels. — By A recent order from the president the lands of several tribes of Indians living near Baxter Springs, Kan., were 1o be allotted in severalty. The Indians ean select 320 acres for each family and sell the rest to settlers. These have alrendy begun to make a descent upon the reservation, but Indian Commis- sioner Atkins says they are too gager. He thinks it will be three months yet ‘before white men will be allowed to make claims on the Indian lands. IT is probably not generally known that the postoffice department has pro- hibited the forwarding of letters ad- dressed to go round the world. Some years ago an individual in Ohio sent the first missive circling about the globe. It returned to the sender in about a year and the fact was widely !)ublhihed at the time. This was fol- lowed by such a craze for sending let- ters around the globe that it became a auisance and so was stopped. A letter thus addressed will not go farther than the postoffice in which it is dropped. THE many railroad horrors of the past year have had the effect of arous- ing the train conductors. The national Association of Railway Conductors have prepared a bill providing for licensing conductors and engineers, somewhat after the manner of steamship pilots and engineers. They will try to have this passed by the next congress. The act requires that interstate railroads employ only licensed engineers and conductors; provides for a chief exam- iner and ten supervising exgminers to see that the law is observed; the country to be divided into ten districts, in each of which districts there shall be two assistant examiners—one a conduc- tor and one an engineer. The local examiners are to have the power of licensing, and are ‘to pass on all the qualifications of candidates. The li- conse is to run one year and is revoka- ble for intemperate habits, unskillful- ness, and like causes. If the numbek of disasters can be lessened by enactments, this is a step in the right direction. The main thing, however, would seem to be to create more conscientiousness in the consciences of the railroad cor- porations. _ WHEN a man with a white choker starts out to exaggerate he very often beats the commnion town liar all to pieces. A striking illustration of this fact is furnished by the Rev. E. J. Schultz, formerly of Des Moines, but now of Cedar Rapids. This clerical Ananias has had himself interviewed in a Cedar Rapids paper about the contrast between Omaha and Des Moines, and is repre- sented to have used the following lan- guage: ‘*“Omaha is morally very weak. ‘When I was there in August last I was told that there were 700 inmates intheir jail at one time.” The Rev. Mr. Schultz has either heen imposed upon by some practical joker or he has no re- spect for the truth, Seven hundred in- mates in the Omaha jaill What a whopper. Why there is not room enough for seventy prisouers in the Omaha jail, and there never have been more than one-half that number impris- oned there at any one time. This man Schultz has evidently been trying to make capital for his prohibition hobby &t the expense of this city. The next time he comes to Omaha he had better . get his prison statistics from a more . sredible source. - - 3 Making a Bad Matter Worse. The editor of the Minneapolis 7'ribune has at one bound achieved national no- toriety. He had toiled along for years in the diligent and faithful discharge of his duty with no higher reward than the moderate success of his newspaper, and no broader recognition than that of the constituency which patronized his journal because they respected its opinions and had confidence in the judg- ment of the editor. It may be that he was well satisfied with this, as most of the modest race of editors are, and had no ambition to be known beyond the friendly circle that supported and con- fided in him. The fact that he had pursued the even tenor of his way, while others in his field of labor were con- tinually trumpeting themselves to the world, appears to justify the inference that this quiet and unpretentious editor was en- tirely contented with his situation in life. His faithful readers knew him and respected him, and that was quite enough. But no editor can absolutely control his fate. He is generally much better able to control the fate of some other fellow. And so it happened that the Minneapolis journalist was without any design or even knowledge brought sud- denly into the full glare of national at- tention, has been burned in effigy, and is being talked about in every news- paper in the land. The cause is already familiar to the public. In the course of & somewhat scathing attack on the president the Minneapolis editor re- ferred disrespectfully to Mrs. Cleve- land as ving sold herself ‘‘to 80 gross and repulsive & man as Grover Cleveland,” with a malodorous private record, ‘‘for the bauble of a brief social as- cendency.” There was more said per- sonal to the lady, but this is the most offensive part. And exceedingly offen- siye and indecent it certainly is, alto- gether without excuse or justification. It was entirely irrelevant to the dis- cussion of Mr. Cleveland as a public man, essentially ungentlemanly and boorish, and unquestionably unjust to the lady. It will be resented by every man of chivalrous instincts, and it un- questionably deserves to be unsparingly denounced. But the question is whether a proper consideration for Mrs. Cleveland does not require that the matter shall be allowed to pass out of dis- cussion and out of memory as quickly as possible. The prominence and im- portance given it by burning the editor in effigy was a mistake. But for that the knowledge of the unmanly and wanton reflection upon the wife of the president would have been confined to the readers of the paper in which it ap- peared, and the lady herself would never have heard of it. She will hardly fail to do so now, and there is a possibil- ity that it may cause her an unpleasant feeling. The very best that can be done with editors who thus abuse and per- ‘vert their privilege is to ignore them, and this was especially a case where such a policy would have been wise, since it would have guarded against Mrs. Cleveland obtaining any knowledge of the scandalous imputation. The re- sponsible editor of the paper is reported as saying that he knew nothing about the article until he saw it in print, but this does not relieve him inasmuch as he has not disclaimed sympathy with its sentiments. His position of notoriety is not an enviable one. Emma Abbott in a New Role. The popular artiste, Miss Emma Ab- bott, has without design secured a great deal of free advertising by refusing to sit quietly in a church at Nashville and hear the members of her profession ma- ligned. Being herself a lady and hav- ing a personal knowledge that there are many others identified with the stage, and being withalan American woman with spirit, she resented the sweeping attack of a minister in one of the churches at Nashville last Sunday on the stage and those connected with it, and is said to have acduitted herself, so far as the mhtter of her reply was con- cerned, most creditably. There has been some unfavorable criticism of the propriety of her action, but the weight of opinion is in approval of it, and we have no doubt that no- where will Miss Abbott find that her well-deserved popularity has been di- minished by her course. On her ap- pearance at Chattanooga after the incident she was presented with a solid silver yacht as a testimonial of “her courageous and well-expressed defense of her profession,” and she stated that she had received many telegrams com- mending her action. It was, in truth, a brave thing for the little woman to do, and those who admire pluck and nerve will not deny her the credit she deserves for a notable display of these qualities. The preacher was thrown into a condition of dismay and disorder from which he nade no attempt to re- cover himself. In a rather melancholy way, which could hardly have improved his standing with the congre- gation, he declined to say anything in reply to Miss Abbott because she was a lady. This incident, which has been widely commented on, merely suggests that the pulpit is rather too much given to an indiscriminate denunciation of the people of the stage, a course which is both unjust and unwise. It has been well said that it is just as senseless for the pulpit to indulge in wholesale de- nunciation of the stage as for an actor or anybody else to insist that all min- isters are hypocrites and humbugs be- cause some are. There are too many bad women on the stage, just as there are toomany bad men in the pulpit; hit there the discussion must nec- y end, for no general rule can be deduced from individual ex- amples. “Pulpit and stage,” says a judicious commentator on the episode, ‘‘each have their part to play in the cultivation and education of hu- manity. Sometimes the lessons are well taught, sometimes ill; but neither has the right to scorn or despise the other, nor to select individual instances of depravity from among their minis- trants, and from these to condemn all the rest. Both may be instruments of the highest edycation, moral aud intel- 1ectual; or both, in bad hands, may tend directly to the. degradation of the hu- man race and the dulling and blunting of the intellectual powers, Preachers, like actors, owe their first duty to them= selves, that no shadow of reproach can be cast across their pathway.” Each should bo just, if they cannot be chare itable, to the other. e——— The Quintessence of Snobbery. About two hundred silly women in St. Paul are not happy just now. They carried out a little scheme of addle- witted snobbishness during the visit of the presidential party in that city which is recoiling on their own heads in the shape of scathing criticism. The codfish story is briefly this: The com- mittee of arrangements attempted to prepare a little programme by which about two hundred of the ‘‘best” people of the city should have a private seance with the president and his wife before the vulgar herd came in. This was satisfactory to the alleged blue-blooded ladies except in one particular. Mrs, Senator Davis was one of this privileged number and astrong protest was entered against her admission because she had earned her own living by sewing before her marriage. The committee then pre- tended to drop the private reception but did not. On the contrary, cards were issued to the silly two hundred by which they were enabled to shake hands with the visitors in advance of all competi- tors. But Mra. Davis received no card. Then again the programme, as first made out, assigned Senator and Mrs, Davis to the carriage in which the president and his wife were to ride. The “‘best” two hundred ladies there- upon raised another row and the pro- gramme was changed, leaving the sena- tor and Mrs. Davis out. So the silly two hundred carried the day. It was very quietly done and the facts came out after the reception was over. A more contemptible piece of snob- bery has not been perpetrated in this or any other countr It is the very quintessence of exclusiveness and could not possibly be outdone. Here are two hundred women, more or less, whose husbands have accumulated some money as grocers, pork packers, whisky distil- lers, lumber dealers, railroad builders and what not, who refuse to associate with a townswoman because she earned an honest living. They let their fathers and husbands do that while they lolled and smirked and painted, variegated barnacles on the social body. The question is often asked nowadays are we becoming a nation of snobs? If the action of the silly two hundred of St. Paul can be regarded as an exponent of the tendency in that direction we cer- tainly are. But we cannot believe that it will meet with anything butcontempt from the great body of intelligent women in this country, and it would be unfair to judge all by the inane pro- ceedings of a few weak-brained society women on the banks of the upper Mis- sissippi. Mrs. Davis isdescribed as a clever, in- telligent, handsome woman, and her husband has a national reputation for ability as a lawyer and statesman. The Poor of London, The season is at hand when the poor of London make their annual demon- stration, in order to impress the author- ities with the extent of their numbers and make known their grievances and wants. There is a very large army of these unfortunate people in the great city, and on these occasions the sur- rounding country lends its contribu- tions to swell the ranks. This year, as our cable dispatches have reported, the demonstration is very similar in char- acter to those of previous years, but it has shown, what was to have been ex- pected, that the number of indigent and unemployed people there has in- creased during the year, and doubtless beyond the annual average of past years, In that vast municipality of four and a half million souls the host of people more or less dependent upon charity all the year round exceeds a hundred thousand, and may be quite double that during the winter months. And poverty in London means all that the term can imply. There is nowhere in the civilized world more squalid, wretched and helpless mortals than the paupers of London. Whatever of degradation is possible to humanity can be found among them. But many thousands of those who par- ticipate in these annual demonstrations are the honest and industrious poor who are unable to find sufficient employment to keep the wolf from the door, and who would prefer work toalms. Among them are not a few of advanced intelligence and a keen self-respect. Such people deserve the heartiest commiseration, for their lot is one of poignant mental suffering and almost utter hope- lessness which the confirmed and degraded pauper does not ex- perience. They are practically impris- oned in the great city,and, however moderate their aspirations may be for the improvement and elevation of their condition, they can see no way to gratify them, On every hand they meet an overwhelming competition which con- tinually outruns the demand. Vast as the consuming power of the population is, production is alwaysin advance of it. And the producersare continually being augmented, for from every part of the kingdom people go tothe great city with the hope of improving their state in life. Once in the meshes, they must struggle on hopelessly with the other thousands who have preceded them,and thus from year to year London finds its army of unemployed and destitute people steadily growing. It dispenses generously in charity,publicand private, but it is inadequate, and must always be Wwhite prevalling conaiuwu.s wwutinue, 0 meet all the wants of the indigent, and suffering, sharp and bitter, will still be the experience of thousands who have cast their lgt in the largest and wealthiest city of the world. The statistics show that there has been a decrease, both absolutely and relatively, within the past thirty years in the number of public poor in Eng- land and Wales. At the beginning of the present year the paupers numbered about one in every thirty-four persons, while thirty years ago they were one in every twelve of the population. It would appear, however, that London showing. thing under the #in but a Michigander. A young lady §h $fuskegon was the owner of a piano which she played in such a way that the wrath of the neigh- bors was aroused. These are not very unusual circumstancés, but their com- plaining to a policeman, who came to stop her, is somewhat out of the ordi- nary method of proceeding in such cases, The young lally was equal to the occasion, however. She met the min- ion of the law with flaming eyes, in- formed him that she had a right to amuse herself in her own home as she pleased, and told him to go. He went. The pianiste hurled great chunks of fashionable music after him that nearly knocked him off his feet. Then she entered upon the greatest musical feat of this or any age. For 108 hours, with but few short intermis- sions, she sent out volleys of music through the open doors and windows as solid shot are hurled from a fortress. At first the enemy seemed paralyzed, but finally they rallied when the bounds of human endurance had been fairly passed, and went in a body to the mayor, as the citizens of old went to the mayor of Hamlin when the rats had be- come too thick. But that official could not see his way clear to giving any relief. A shrewd citizen finally swore out a warrant against the young woman on the ground that she was committing a musical sui- cide. A second time a blue-coated rep- resentative of the authorities presented himself. The garrison was weak from her excessive warfare and fell fainting into the arms of the valorous officer. She is now in bed trying to recover and the condition of her neighbors is no doubt critical. So ended the greatest musical revenge on record. POLITICAL POINTS. Judge Gresham declares that it is no dis- grace to want to be president, and the judge is right. 1t is kind of rough on a purty when a can- didate is compelled to apolugize for being on the ticket. Politically speaking, St. John says: “I am on the nest.” Many an old hen has been fooled before with a porcelain egg. Cameron, Mo., is about to vote on local op- tion, and the druggists, graduates in hand, await the resdlt with bated breath. Rev. Thomas K. Beecher is the seventh nominee for secretary of state in New York. The national greenback’ labor party did it. Senator Colquitt ‘accepts the challenge of the protection démocrats in Georgia, and will make his c 88 for re-election on the revenue-reduction issue, It thc New York demacrats will only nom- inate S. J. Tilden, #i., add make an issue be- tween the son of hig father and the nephew of his uncle, the ‘¢pming campaign cannot fail to be interesting. Senator Sawyer!says-the time has come for a radical reduction of the tax on whisky and tobacco. He does not think it has come for a radical reduction gn lumber, coal and iron. They are luxuries—to fl*. lulnb(_r, coal and iron owners. The Columbus comflwnd«nt of the Cincin- nati Commercial Gazette, while holding that Ohio republicans are sure of electing their state ticket, says that the legislature is in doubt, owing to the number of local dissen- sions over nominations for that body. ‘The Atlanta Journal (dem.) thinks that the falling back of the people of Tennessee into the old party lines will not be easy since the prohibition campaign, and concludes that “there will be less solidity about the south in 1888 than there was in 1884.” calinte i The One Thing Needful. Rochester Post-Express. Sam Small proposes to convert a member of congress. Sam cannot do it—unless he uses money. — - Realizing on Realism. Philadelphia Call- . Zola's average income is about $60,000 a year. That is the kind of realism an author may well be proud of. e The Bank Cashier Can Do It. Arkansas Gazette, ‘This being a progressive age, in time some crime may be devised easier of accomplish- ment than robbing a railroad train, ———— A Companion Snub. Philadelphia Times. Governor Oglesby feels suubbed now. It is only a little snub, but he is not going to allow his brother of Ohioto get ahead of him. —— A Mystery Explained. Boston Courier. Physiologists say that the older aman grows the smaller his brain becomes. This explains why young men kuow everything and old men nothing. Chicago Times, Those down eastern folks can no longer tell the president that the west is ‘“‘wild,” “woolly” and ‘*‘rowdy.” He won't have it. He has been in the west and seen it for him- self. One Home Product Protected. Philadelphia Record. It appears that Senator Pugh, of Alabama, has three sons, a son-in-law, a nephew and a grand-nephew in the federal service. It isno wonder that the senator is accused of a pro- tectionist leaning. ‘He believes in a home market for the spoils. ' e Be ’l'rne to Yourself. ‘When comrades vaw i’au to break away From the duties to which you're bound, And to join with them in their idle play, To whirl in their giddy round, Refiect a moment before'you take A course you may sadly rue, And for your own and & dear one's sake, Be true to yourself—be true! There'll come a time—for it comes to all— ‘When Satan, with purpose strong, Will knock at the door of your heart, and call On you to defend the wrong; And though he endeavors to biind your eyes, Your doubts and fears to subdue, Stand up for the right, and without disguise, Be true to yourself—be true! Be true to yourself éach hour of the day, So honestly, fearlessly true, That neither a foe nor a friend may say That he was deceived in you; Let Honor be set in the highest place, Secure from the reach of pelf, And in every case, by an act of grace, Be true—Oh, be true to yourself! Oh, would thot a maxim as wise as this Would reach to the inmos Of those who a nobler By acting a foolish part! For whatever the post you may have to fill, Whatever the task you pursue, The prize is yours if Be true to yourself—be true! —_—— Difficult Because Untrue. Sheibyville Demoerat. The judges of the New York court of ap- peals may be all honest men, learned lawyers and impartial judges, but it will be difficult to convince the general public that if Jacob Bharp were a moneyless lawbreaker, instead of a millionaire, the judges of the court would adopt unusual methods to keep him out of the penitentiary. 1 The tariff on salt is an inexcusable tax, but it is one of the least of the burdens that have been unnecessarily imposed on the farmer. The Irish entomologist who picked up a wasp in mistake for a grasshopper, was not quicker to find out what ailed him than the farmers are to understand the thrust they will get from the salt trust. But it salt should be put on the free list, as it should be, there would be an end of the trouble. flainicit"eeiuiy SUNDAY GOSSIP, Tue Hanlon brothers during their recent theatrical engagement in this y bought 150 feet on Sixteenth street. They have large investments in several of the best western cities, * **s . FRESH-ROASTED popcorn is all the rage. Every other person you meet on the street has a bag of it. Inquiry reveals the fact that it is a very profitable trade. The street roasters sell from 400 to 600 bags por day each. At 5 cents a bag a roaster takes in be- tiveen §20 and §30 a day. 3 *"x Mg, LiNixaer, who three or four years ago made an extensive tour in Europe and Egypt, is making arrangements to visit Japan, China and India, and he will take his departure in a few days, accompanied by Mrs, Lininger, the intention being to be absent about a year. ‘When they return to Omaha they will have made the tour around the world. * e Cuanrnes H. DEWEY, the great American traveler, who has been all over North America and around the world twice, is off onanother extended tour, accompanied by his wife and daughter. They will be absent until next August. Mr. Dewey departed in his usual mysterious way, and did not give the slightest intimation where he was going. It is suspected, however, that he intends to bake in southern Europe. *"e Tne latest application of electricity is for the purpose of robbery. It was done suc- fully in Omaha last week. The victim was induced to experiment on an electric battery, and such a strong current was turned on that he could not release himself. While he was thus helpless he was robbed of a considerable amount of cash. The thieves no doubt got the idea from “The Rag Baby,” in which play the three tramps take hold of a railing in front of a drug store counter and are made to dance by an electric current which is turned on. I a recent issue of the Bek it was stated in a special dispatch that Edwin Booth and Lawrence Barrett have completed arrange- ments by which Mary Anderson will join their company at the end of the present sea- son, and they have leased for two years one of the leading theaters in New York, for the use of a company of which she will be a mem- ber. A prominent New York theatrical man who was in Omuha at the time, said that this statement was in all probability true, as Mary Anderson’s brother is engaged to be marricd to Barrett's daughter, thus uniting the two families. * Py It was intended by the presidential recep- tion committee that no newspaper reporter should enter the president's car and ride over the river from Council Bluffs to Omaha. Nevertheless the Bee representative, Mr. E. A. O'Brien, not only entered 'the car and rode across the bridge with the party, but he also secured an introduction to the president and to Mrs. Cleveland. A prominent mem- ber of the committee who introduced him, says that he occupied more of Mrs, Cleve- land’s time than any other gentleman in the car, and that Mrs. Cleveland was very talka- tive to him. Since the presidential party left Washington, Mr. O'Brien is the ouly news- paper man who has secured an entrance to the president’s private car and had an audi- ence with Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland. His success has brought down upon the reception committee the wrath of the representatives of the other newspapers, and they wonder how Mr. O'Brien got ahead of them. He simply walked in with the committee,as if he ‘were one of them, and carried off the honors. It was simply a case of self-assurance, which some people call “cheek,” an essential qual- ity in the mgke-up of a successful reporter. However, ‘‘cheek’ when clothed with polite- ness, as in O'Brien’s case, i8 not noticeable. ———— CURRENT TOPIOS. FALSE teeth for horses is the latest equine innovation in New York city. A toothless plug can be transformed into a coltin no time now. * " Mns. Moore, formerly famous as the “sweet singer of Michigan,” is running a postoffice in that state. Hereis another in- stance of the thoughtfulness of our govern- ment. She has no time to “‘sing” now. * " Jay GovrLp's head was recently examined by a new electrical instrument and pro- nounced sound. He has been troubled with neuralgia and sleeplessness during the past summer, but it was nota case of bad con- science as some might think. In Gould's financial lexicon there is no such word as conscience. e A Russiax engineer is reported to have dis- covered a new explosive move powerful than any hitherto known. The Russian war office will build a special factory for its manu- facture. War will become a very dangerous affair if this kind of thing is kept up. To test its power a charge of the new explosive might be exploded under Higgins, e Tue wife of Robert Louis Stevenson, the popular author now in this country, is an American, She was born in Indianapolis and is the daughter of Jacob Vandergrift, a prominent citizen of that city, They met in Paris shortly after she had obtained a di- vorce from her first husband and were mar- ried in California. * o The American scientists were unsuccessful in their attempts to study the last solar eclipse. In Japan the sky became overcast a few moments after the eclipse began, and the expedition at Moscow was similarty disap- pointed. No successful observing party has yet been heard from of any nationality. It would be strange if the whole path of the cclipse was obscured by clouds. s For prior six thousand years or longer, the human race has been struggling with the problem “What is Life?” It has just been solved by Grant Allen. He says: “Lifeis merely one particular set of correlated move- ments occurring under the influence of solar radiation in a certain peculiar group of ma- terial bodies on the surface of one small and unimportant planet in a minor solar system, hidden away on the skirts of a galaxy in some lost corner of @ boundless cosmos.” He has evidently been fooling with some cipher or other, s CapTAIN PLESSNER, of Stuttgart, a brother of Mrs. Louise Pollock, the promoter of the kindergarten system in this country, has in- vented an instrument called the “antiphone,” which is designed to protect the car against hurtful and unwelcome sounds. By deaden- ing undesirable noises it is said to afford o .-mruwmr ¢u-w~ wm Amw.e‘o oDl 40 8 OB great relief to invalids, mervous persons, workers in metals, and particularly thoso whose occupations require them to sleep in the daytime. The instrumeat will, no doubt, be very popular with debtors, in whose ecars the dun is about as disagreeable as any noise ever invented. we It will surprise many to learn that Patrick Henry, of oratorical and revolutionary fame, was the first governor of lllinois. Yet this is the case. An act was passed by the author- ities of Virginia in October, 1778, creating the county of Illinois, (in the state of Vir- ginia), which embraced the territory now forming the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wiscor the largest county ever organized, exceeding the whole of Great Britain and Ireland, and thus the great orator of the American revo- lution, Patrick Henry, then governor of Vir- ginia, became the first governor of Illinois. . e © Mn. HeNRY G. MARQUAND, of New York, has just imported a piano which cost 0,000, Its logs aro of porphyry, its panels of lapis lazuli, and it is inlaid with garnets,amethysts, sapphires and beryls and with all manner of precious metals worked in beautiful designs. Mr. L. Alma Tadema, the great London ar- tist, who paints decorations for society la- dies and designs costumes for mctors who wants to succeed in life, has $4,000 of his handiwork on the cover, Mr. Marquand is a railroad king and can ef- ford to do such things, but the people who have furnished him the money can not. They are glad to have enough to eat and to be able to buy a & suit once in a while. " e Tir cipher cranks are already quarreling over the priority of their discovery of a se- cret declaration that Bagon wrote Shakes- peare, said to be contained in the epitaph on the poet’s tombstone. A man named Brown, of Washington, has a small volume ready for the press entitled, “Is it Shakespeare's Con- fession? The Cryptogran in His ‘Epitaph.” In the mnext number of the North Awmerican Review will be a paper with the heading “Bacon's Claim and Shakespeare’'s Age,”” by one Hugh Black, of Ontario, Canada. The editor, Mr, Rice, mentioned this some time ago and the claim is that Brown went to work on the hint which he thus gave. Where will this thing end? * % Two articles were recently refused by the Century Publishing company under some- what peculiar circumstances. A well known literary woman called at the office on a rainy day. When she left, the sun was shining so she forgot her rubber shoes, which she had laid aside on entering. Shortly after her de- parture Frank Stockton came in, noticed the shoes, was informed to whom they belonged, and asked permission to retury them. Mrs, —— received her rubbers the same evening accompanied by some such note as this: OrriCe OF THE CENTURY MAGAZINE, Mrs.— DeAR MADAME: opinion in rega the enclosed articles, permit me to they seem unsuitable to the columus of this magazine. Respectfully you Tae CENTURY C Per. F. S, *x Proressor SAvCE, of England, recently published a treatise on the originof the Aryan race, in which he puts forth the the- ory that its primitive home was in’ or about Southern Scandinavia. Much discussion has ensued, and competent authoritics say there are strong arguments in favor of this theory. One of the strongest proofs is furnished by the distribution of the Aryan languages, If Southern Scandinavia is to be regarded as the original home of the Aryan languages, and the race which first spoke those languages, and which we may therefore call Aryan, is to be identi- fied with the Scandinavian type, it follows that the further south and east we advance from this primary starting point the less pure will the type become. It will be in the neigh- borhood of that starting point and in north- ern Europe that we shall expect to find the largest number of undiluted Aryan languages and the purest examples of the Aryan breed. In Greece and Armenia, in Persia and India, ‘we must look for mixture and decay. And such indeed is the fact. Mr. Wharton has found, by a careful analysis of the Greek lexicon, that out of 2,740 primary words only 1,580 can be referred with any probability to an Indo-European origin, while the prevail- ing racial type in ancient as in modern Greece was distinctly non-Aryan, —r—— STATE PRESS JOTTINGS. The Fremont Tribune is unable to discover any discordant flics in the republican party in Dodge county. The Norfolk News is confident that the people will ratify the renomination of Judge Maxwell at the polls. The South Sioux City Sun shines for Gen- eral Van Wyck in all kinds of weather, and is confident that the next Nebraska legisla- ture will be solid for him, to a man. “A Nebraska insurance company," says the South Sioux City Sun, “has gone up the flume. The Beatrice concern still lingers as a horrible example to all living men.” ‘Washington county has furnished a num- ber of political rustlers for the northwestern counties. Four of them are running for of- fice in Dawes, Cherry and Brown counties. The Hastings Gazette-Journal congratu- lates republicans on the *practical, sensi- ble view and position taken by the party upon a question of such vital interest as pro- hibition.” The Fremont Tribune favors ‘‘holding the next republican national convention at Omaha. In these days when railways order up instead of pass, nearness is an item of im portance to the editor who would travel.” The Lincoln Democrat has reached the conclusion that ‘“the inventor of porous plasters can sue either of the parties that have issued platforms in Ne- braska this year for infringement and re- cover dumages.” The reception of the president and his wife in Omaha is highly commended for its hearty warmth by the state press. The Lincoln Democrat truly says that it ‘“was as hearty as it was grgnd and Omaba is hereby thauked in behalf of this part of the state.” The Scribner News thinks Judge Post has shown sufficient hog qualitics to make him a valuable resident of the capi After se- curing the distriet nomination in Schuyler, he rushed to Lincoln in search of Maxwell's brogans, but Lis ambition was snuffed out suddenly. The endorsement of Judge Wakeley by the bar convention is considered by the Spring- ficld Monitor a *beautiful and appropriate compliment to his hoary locks and boundless learning.” The Papillion Times believes h will get every vote in Sarpy county, except the prohibition. The Fremont Tribune declares that the re- nomination of Judge Maxwell ‘18 a magnifi- cont endorsement of his twelve years of faithful, impartial and honest service upon the supreme bench. That he will be elected by an overwhelming majority scarcely needs be predicted.” The Fremont Tribune perpetrates this dole- ful culogy: ‘“‘Alas, poor Burton! His carcer as chairman of thg state republican central committee was very, very brief. It wasa short season of glory. The fruit was hardly worth the plucking. The convention seemed to be unanimously of the openion that he was @ dough-faced wooden-head who, when he captured the placo, was as much out of his element as a bull-head out of water.” The West Point Republican resurrects the putrid bones of a fellow named Valentine to perpetrate the ghastly joke that he was tho author of the railroad regulation plank in the republican platform. This confirms the be- lief that E. K. will take the lecture fleld next winter with an entertaining subjoct entitlod, “Autobiography of a chump.” Powerful magnifying mirrors will be used as a stage sotting to illustrate the subjoct in ll its bepe- ings. Tho Ulysses Dispatch sends greeting ta Senator Manderson in return for a governe ment treatise on hog cholera, and saysy “Liet the senator bear in mind that this papes is everlastingly and eternally wedded td General Van Wyck, and all the reports this side of h—1 couldn’t change us. The fight is on, and the farming and laboring classes of this commonwealth will never let up till the “grand old man" is sent back to the place he once filled with credit to himself and honor to the state. In that event Mr. Manderson's political head must come off." The clear-cut and caustic sketch of the ime becility of the Cleveland adminstration, made by Patsy Egan, has ruffied the sweet, ane gelic temper of Editor Calhoun, of the Lin« coln Demoerat. Pat declined the invitation of the Democrat to follow the example of Mr, Fitzgerald in maintaining a golden silence on political questions while an officer of the Irish National league, and passed the lie in cold black ink. The Democrat responded in kind, and honors are now about even. Tha significant part of the controversy is the fact that the correctness of Mr. Egan's sketch of the administration is not disputed. Scores of democrats hold similar opinions, but do not care to publicly express them, “The renomination of Judge Maxwell foe the responsible position which he has occu pied with great honor to himself and the credit'of the whole sate,” says the Hastings Gazette-Tournal, is a proper and fitting ac- knowledgement of the acceptable service he has rendered, and an emphatic expression in favor of a pure and upright judiciary. Not that there was any danger of lowering its high tone and character by sclecting any one of the other aspirants, cach of whom went before the convention under most flattering recommendations, but because to retain the present incumbent was the surer means of keeping the bench at its elevated standard, Judge Maxwell's learned decisions display not only his profound knowledge of the law, with a faculty to elucidate clearly and unravel intelligently its knotty and in- tricate problems, but innate good sense, sound practical judgment of an honest heart, He has proved himself worthy of the high and sacred trust, und the people of Nebraska proud of so eminent a citizen, will delight to show their appreciation of his solid worth and irreproachable character,” The Hastings Gazette Journal thus dise courses on Omaha hospitality: *The manner in which Omaha does things in connection with the presence there and entertainment Dby her citizens of ‘large’ personages, is not only somewhat phenomenal but is character istic of a grcat western town. Omaha gained much of her enviable notoriety and consee quent growth by the masterly manner ia ‘which she handled human bugs of mammoth proportions, never allowing an opportunity to receive and care for adistinguished guest, and to advertise herself and gain prestige, to slide silently by. Located as Omaha is, as the great transcontinental gateway, through which for many years, before northern and southern outlets to the mighty Pacific were open, everybody, great and small, large or indifferent, was captured by her people and carefully, expeditiously and gencrously han- dled. There was always, in the past,a stand- ing citizen's committee upon reception, the mombers of which were ever ready at an hour's, day's or week's notice, to go out on any of the great lines of railway leading to the gateway, to meet, grect and receive distinguished men, whose presenceand reception would bear tel- egraphic announcement throughout the country. In this legitimate and enterprising manner, Omaha did much to build herself up 10 a point that presents her to-day as a mos$ dangerous rival of Kansas City. Thus has the great town, once familiarly known asd “‘Saddle Creek,"” come to the front, and to- day, upon the occasion of the two hour's so- journ there of the president of the United States, the most claborate, extensive and grand proparations for the event were made, and the result was great and complete, And ‘we venture the assertion, the chief magis- trate of the nation will have reason to remem- ber the reception accorded him by Omaha and Nebraska with as much pleasure as any he has or will beaccorded.” MUST l—Y.USII THE WORK. City Hall Contractors Again Warned By Chairman Balcombe. Regan Bros. were the recipients of a letter from Chairman Balcombe, of the board of public works, yesterday, informing them that they had better take care of the cone struction of the basement of the new city hall personally, or that they would be respone sible for the consequen It further in forms them that on September 21 they prom- ised to have the work completed inside of tha following six weeks from that date, and thaf three weeks of that time have passed; and further, that "the progress shown in these three weeks indicates that the work will not be completed until next spring, providin that the work is not |>unlmz forward faster in the coming three wecks than it has been during the past three wecks, The contract for this work was let to lk';:nl} Bros., who gave the proper bond, which wil probably have to suffer if the agreements are not carried out. By them the contract was sub-let to Ed J. Brennan, but the latter is only recognized as a foreman by the board of public works. ANOTHER PUSH, Chairman Balcombe also sent another lettey to Regan Bros. & Co. yesterday instructin them to proceed with the paving of Fifteentl street, between Davenport and Webster streets. These contractors some tims ago made a contract to pave thie street, and have the work completed before November 1. In the meantime the udo for work at Council l.!u 5, AN an Balcombe says that they mne- glected their work here. The contractors claim that when they were ready to do the work the curbing was not finished, and ld consequence the paving could not be comd menced. A SENSATIONAL SUIT. Ad Action Filed Aznlnfll A. M. (Jllr& the Painter. The action commenced by Attorney Purla Godwin in behalf of John Reeves against Albert M. Clark yeste afternoon created a sensation. Clark is a well-known citizen of the Ninth ward and owns considerable props erty there. He was cousidered by some & pretty respectable man, was a member of the church, had a golden smile on his left cheek, and could give a very good Sunday school twist of the eye. It seems that thig relegious Clark had been wandering around in pastures where he should not have been, The allegations in court say that he inters fered with the domestic arrangements of one Reeves and in a word that the trouble 13 as as follows: Reeves was married March 19, 1557, and that the defendant, Clark, alions ated the affection, ete,, of the plaintifi’s wife, Flora Reeves, and has deprived him of R comfort and society. The petition furthel alleges that Clark enticed Reeves' wife uway on September 5, and has kept her concealed since that time, Reeves also says that thess facts compelled him to dispose of his restaue rant business, and have bronght to him dise honor and dmxrwo In consequénce he sued for $10,000 llnnnzec and costs of prosecution Mrs. ! Ll o, who Ann; Schma o ncoln, w] boen visiting Miss Maggio White, 9016 street, has returned home,