Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 21, 1887, Page 4

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L, Notary Public County Geo, pson anid v sworn, de- of The Bee actil_average the Dally Bee_ for uber, 1 13,8 186, 19,257 copie: % coples: for ¥ for Murch, 187, 14,400 for April, 18 14310 May, ples: 'for Jun 180, 14,0 cop o Septembe 1887, 14,5555, ublishing company, that circulation - of month of for daily the Nov 1 1,147 coples 3 for Anguist, 18, 1 1, 1857, 14,340 cople GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. Sworn to and subscribed in my presence this €th day of October, A, 1), 1847, {AL) o IT might be recorded that the first snow storm of the s the styeet cars. THE press u(”thA country seems to unite in demanding that congress shall regulate the telegraph. —_— Booys, bombs and boodle is the allit- erative combination that should be avoided by all politicians. CEE——— ANOTHER frightful disaster at sea is reported. This time a ship goes down, off Dover, losing almost two hundred lives. ason did not stop Siovx Crry is already making ar- rangements for the next corn palace. Sioux City should give St. Paula chance with her ice palace. e e st THERE is a movement on foot in Georgia to raise a memorial fund for Jefferson Davis. Mr. Davis should have been raised long ago. — THE country would be pleased now to enjoy a rest from Miss Van Zandt. If she cannot marry an anarchist let her marry Dennis Kearnoy. MR. LAMAR has shown no serious symptoms of resigning. In relinquish- ing his office Mr. Sparks beat the record of the democratic party. — AN aerolite weighing threo tons re- cently dropped in the streets of New York. The heavenly visitor had doubt- less been thrown at Herr Most. Mg. TRAIN has delivered his ‘‘last ad- dress on American soil before expatria- tion forever,” at Waterville, Maine. He read a poem just before leaving. Tue Iowa legislature, it is predicted by knowing ones, will be captured by the railroads. In fact, the railroads capture and control all legislatures. * A MILKMAN was recently fined heav- ily for selling watered milk to a railway His crime was evidently an patent official. infringement on a process. watering Tne New York Herald to enjoy a two million dollar libel suit—to be brought by the Anchor line. The Her- ald’s cireulation demanded a cordial of some kind. THE fanning apparatus of the winds, that occasionally sweeps our streets is not only cheaper but better in what it aims to do than the Fanning & Co. ap- paratus employed by our city council. Tur name of Edward L. Merritt now appears as editor of the Herald. Mr. Merritt isa new resident of Omaha, coming from Springfield, Illinois. His work on the IHerald shows that he is an experienced newspaper man. THE editor of the New York World spent two days in Washington without calling on the president. This is re- garded as ominous of the course of that paper in the presidential campaign. Whether Mr. Cleveland or the other side should be congratulated is the question. T slature at its last ses- sion enacted a law prohibiting the making or disposing of dynamite hombs. It is to be regretted that a similar stat- ute was not passed, treating as a felony punishable by imprisonment, the writ- ing or disposing of stories about bombs which were never found and which were not bombs. Tuose who inclined to think that Omaha could not accommodate the large number of people who will at- tend the Nutional Republiean conven- tion, should remember that Omaha's live citizens have never yet made a fail- ure of anything they undertook. Desig- nate Omaha as the place, and every visitor will be pleased with the city's hospitality. are THE age of Lamar has become an issue which for the moment has super- seded all others. If he is only two he is eligible to the supreme if he is sixty-eight he is not elig t There seems to be records to prove either, If Mr. Lamar knows his age he ought to speak up and settle the contro- versy. But we believe he hasalways been effeminately seusitive on this yoint ' THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 187 — The Administration Plan, Mr. Carlisle is reported to have said | that he thinks a reduction of revenue to the extent of 870,000,000 will bé sufficient | very likely on the ground that it might bo safe to go beyond this amount, al- though the surplus for the last fiscal year was $103,000,000, and will be greater | for the current year if the present rato of taxation is maintained. Of the $70,- 000,000 reduction Mr. Carlislo would take from forty-five to fifty millions out of the customs by enlarging the free list for raw materials and reducing the duties in certain prime necessaries used by the whole people, and the remainder out of the internal revenue, chiofly by cutting down the tobacco tax. It was said that unless the tarift men wouldnec- cept this form of compensation he would oppose any interference with the exciso taxes. 1f this correctly reprosonts the posi- tion of Mr, Carlisle it may fairly be as- sumed to foreshadow the attitude which the administration will take on this question of reduction. What chance will there be of the success of such a plan? It is to be apprehended there will not be any. It may be regarded as certainty that the tariff men will under no circumstances accept a cemprom: which would require any general su render of customs duties to the extent of more than one-half of whatever amount may be agreed upon as expedi- ent., The line on which this issue is to be fought was pretty plainly indicated in the late state cam- puigns by several prominent leaders, among themw Senator Sherman, of Ohio. and Senators Evarts and Hiscock, of New York. None of these gentlemen contemplate any general interferenco with tariff duties. All of them made it clear that if any concessions aro made they will be extremely moderate, s0 far as they are concerned, and not rally in the direction which it seems Mr. Carlisle and his following will ask. It will undoubtedly be found that the tariff men have modified their views to only a very limited extentsince the last congress, and it is not apparent that the revenue reformers have made any great change from what they were willing to do in the last congress. There may be a little better disposition now thun was exhibited then to arrive at some policy, but the obstacles appear to be us formidable as ever. There is no encouragement for the people in the situation. It is pretty evident that party and class interests will still dominate the national coun- cils, with every probability that they will be found stronger than the popular demand for relief and consideration for the public welfare as affected by an ex- cessive and dangerous accumulation of the people’s money in the national treasury. It is always to be hoped that the people’s representatives will at last place the interests of the people before all other considerations, and sucha hope may still be entertained respecting the present exigency, but certainly the out- look is not promising. If the plan said to have been outlined by Mr. Carlisle is that of the administration, and it has been dotermined to adhere to it, a dead- lock and the failure of all attempts at revenue legislation at the next session of congress may be regarded as inev- itable. E— The Corruption Fund. It is estimated that the costof the recent election in the city of New York was $044,200. These figures are based upon the assessment of each candidate and are declared by reasonably good authority to be correct. The amount expended by all the candidates for the supreme court is stated at 875,000, Candidates for ecity court judge paid £40.000, and an equal sum was paid by candidates for comptroller. The candi- dates for district attorney expended 000, those for civil justices $123, for aldermen the sum of $100,000. The injunction to keep the **judiciary pure’ is lost in the sight of these start- ling figures. That such a large sum of money should Dbe expended—even were it claimed to be a legitimate expenditure oniy shows a reckless extravagance that honesty could mnot endorse. But to know that so many thousands of dollars were poured out to the heeler and striker is ample cause for serious minds to wonder where such practices will end. The fact that the candidates for judicial positions opened a cor- ruption fund of such magnitude, suggests that the money was not their own—not the party campaign fund, but a purse raised by men who would defeat the law by placing their tools in power. Of this high-handed outrage a New York paper indignantly says: “Does anybody believe that near a million dollars were legitimately expended in New York? Anybody is welcome to believe that who chooses. We do not believe it, nor do we believe campaign funds are ever necessary to the amount demanded anywhere. They are dis- tributed among characterless men in great part, handed over to men who live by the custom, and who would be tramps and outlaws if not maintained by such vicious methods. It is all wrong, utterly and viciously wrong, and it is a wrong bound to be peremp- torily halted everywhere at no distant day.” It was not alone in New York that such open and flagrant violations of law were indulged in, but throughout the entire country. If such a custom is much longer continued, its evil results will work great mischief to our country and people. If abandoned wretches who are prostituted to venality and villainy propose to step in and bid with money for places of trust and honor, something must be done—and done quickly. Ina pureballot and an honest count is found the strength and safety of our nation. The ministerial crisfs in France is likely to prove very dangerous to the effort of M. de Lesseps to secure an- other loan for the Panama canal. After having proclaimed that no further loan would be needed by -the company, the optimistic old engineer only a few days ugo appealed to Prime Minister Rouvier for authority to raise a new loan by the issue of lottery bonds. In the existing circumstances Rouvier can of course tako no action in the matter, whilo it | may reasonably be supposed that the French people are in no state of mind to respond favorably to another demand for money to be buried irretrievably in the ditch that has already swallowed up nearly $200,000,000. Confronted by the possibility of political com- plications that may seriously ef- feet the financial and commer- ciul interests of the nation—compli- cations the outcome of which no man can forecast with certainty—it can readily be understood that the peoplo of Franco will prefer for the present to hold on to their hard-carned savings, oven were o scheme far less hopeless than the Panama canal asking their support. A recent estimato puts the costof com- pleting the canal at $500,000,000, and on the basis of what has already been ex- pended this is doubtless not an exag- gerated sum. Vast as have been the obstacles overcome, those yet to be en- cumbered are equally formidable. At the Culebra section, in Costa Rica, hills 830 feet above the sea level had to be pierced, and here the quantity of rocks and carth still to be removed assumes gigantic proportions. At least 15,000,- 000 cubic yards must be transported more than ten miles and thrown into the Panama bay, s the Valley of Pa- raiso will be filled when 8,000,000 cubic yawds shall have been thrown there, and the same will be true in two other places. The works on the Chagres river, scarcely begun, will be the most difficult and costly of all. The dam will be 1,300 yards in length, 470 yards wide and, 48 yards Ligh. Behind it there will be 3,000,000 cubic metres of water banked up. The hills on which the flanks of thisgigantic dam will rest will be tunnclled, and through these tunnels will flow to another watershed the waters which otherwise would follow the course of the canal, and they will find their way to the sea at points many miles distant from their former outlets, The company is now bankrupt, or nearly so, and unless it can obtain finan- cial relief at a very early day the work must be discontinued. Once abandoned it would very likely not be resumed, or at all events not for many years. The only hope of the company is in the peo- ple of France, and under present condi- tions it can expect very little from that source. The urgency will demand all of De Lessop’s courage and diplomacy, with which he has shown himself in tho past to be most generally endowed. —— THE autho s of the university of Pennsylvania have issued an order pro- hibiting smoking within the precincts of their temple of knowledge. While the faculty has done only its duty, it yet fails to supply a long necded demand. That young and growing boys should not smoke tobacco, has long ago been decided by medical science. Medical science has failed, however, to keep boys from smoking—when they feel so y hall project has at last as sumed definite shape, the council hav- ing accepted the bill of Wm. Nevin & Co., for the building of the superstruct- ure. The company of the firm is W. H. *B. Stout. In deference to Omaha’s workingmen the council passed a reso- lution to the effect that convict labor should not be used in furnishing mater ial for the building. Under the resolu- tion the bill of Nevin's & Co. was sub- mitted and accepted. THE bitter war between the pro- hibitionists and “whisky men” now on at Atlanta, Georgia, could all be avoided by adopting the high license system, such as Nebraska has. A little more temperance in their politics, at least, would look better. CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG'S last ad- vertising dodge has worked to perfec- tion. There have been many and doubt- less better women married without all the nowspaper talk this last announce- ment has caused. STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings. Crete has closed a contract for water- works. Blair is driving a profitable trade in baled hay with Omaha. The product of the Fremont creamery will reach 15,000 pounds this year. The grade of the Missouri Pacific from Crete to Talmage is completed. “Any good, strong and popular man but Blaine,” is the rallying cry of the Hastings Gazette-Journal., The annual meeting of the State grange will be held at Grand [sland the second Tuesday in December. Blaine county went democratic at the last election. It i3 now dn order to change the name to Cleveland. The inability -of the contractors to get the pipe will prevent the completion of the North Platte waterwerks this year. The people of Superior, Nuckolls county, are negotinting for an extension of the Elkhorn Valley road to that point. The North Bend Flail is pounding a narrow sectiou of Dodge county in favor of Blmme of Maine. The Flail is at home in a graveyard. Judge Humer’s majority in the Tenth district was over 4,000, His vernal op- ponent is still running for “Greene fields and pastures new.’ After a struggzle of twenty years the farmers now have a chance ‘tu drive well—their toe into the hideof the chap who seeks a royalty. A wearied und woeful dynamite bomb strayed into the Gordon Herald office recently and after sadly seeking some- thing to devour, fell upon a patent in- side and gasped without a kick. One of the antique relics of justice in Platte county, recently dug up, is a re- plevin suit in which a ‘‘tall, red-haired man, name unknown,” was defendant. Naturally the contest was possession of o white horse. The Nebraska City News is thirty- three years old. It displays all the vigor, shape and settled features of ma- turity, but it clings to its ragged suit with more energy than discretion, It needs recasting in'a modern mold. The Indian element is now an im- portant and pecuniary factor in Dakota county politics. Doliticians with a rbll can count on them every time. Over one hundred of them voted the demo- cratic ticketat 1 a head at the lust elec- tion. The Fremont militia company made a sortie for fodder a few evenings ago. They surrounded the residence of Henry Welner, fired a volley in the air and by scaring him half ‘to death secured he freedom of the pautry and took the cake, A “ronst pig one hundred years old served on o platter” was one of tho dainty toothsomes served ulnrhm:rh inble in Norfolk last week. ‘The oyster scems to have lost fes yme smile and lustrous charms fue relic hunters, The Fremont Herald believes that Sparks was two-thirds right in his con- X w. “The official whom ‘the republican machine and boodlers arve so anxious to get out, must have a good deal of meritas well as honesty and grit.” Nebraska City affects surprise at the finding of a fossil in the city a few feet from the surface. With large herds running loose on the surface, 1t was an inexcusable waste of lubor to dig for them. Tho find is a good pointer to the rising generation to plant them deep. The state officials made an examina- tion of the work already done on tho Soldiers’ home building in Grand Is- land last week, and expressed them- selves satisfied. The brick work has reached the second story and_the con- tractor octs to have the building en- closed by Junuary 1 The Nebraska City News figures out a directory population of 10.500 by the multiple 8%, and tells a whopping un- truth in saying that Omaha uses 44 for the same purpose. Omuha’s directory contains over 82,000 names,and the mul- tiple three will give the city's popula- tion without exaggeration. The Lincoln Democrat soberly de- clares that “‘the democratic party must censo to be the advocate and friend of whisky or it will forever bo in the minority in the northwest.” Thisisthe cruelest edict {ousa\u-d by the capital oracle and will produce a chorus of hisses from the hoopsnakes of the party. The family washtub oceasionally gots in a lick at the domestic circle. Though not as energetic as gasolino and the shotgun, it nevermisses fire when londed with hot water. Near Broken Bow last week the little daughter of John Sauer tumbled in_ with family washing and joinad the choir of 1nnocents sacrificed by carelessness. A distressing accident happened at South Sioux City o few days ago. The three-year-old boy of Mr. Steele rushed out to greet “papa” and attempted to climb over the wheel into tho wagon where his father sat. The team moved and the child was caught and crushed between the wheel and the standard. Deuth was instantancous. The Falls City Journal mournfully says: ‘“‘It is a pity that Church Howe is so dead politically that the people will never get achance at him again. It would be a beautiful spectacle to sce the tricked, traded and outraged public jumping on Church Howe with heavy nails in their boots.” Pepoon is some- thing of a grave digger himself, and his soul is now filled with maddening regrets that he helped to plant Howe too deep for resurrection. The O'Neill Free Press and its putrid plates and pibox have been gathered up and transported tosome Wyoming town, where the untainted air will for a time improve its circulation as a bunko steerer for n bank. With immeasurable mouth and an unlimited stock of lie abilities, Doc Matthows will cut a broad swathe for a bricf period among the bull-punchers of the territory, unless he chafes his chin on the small end of a revolving pepper box. O'Neill and Holt county have good cause for a hearty Thaiiksgiving. The overwhelming defeat of the burm barrister ticket in the Third district provoked this from the Schuyler Guilt: “When the political standing of the re- publican party in the Third district gets 80 low that the Omaha Republican out- fit and the Vanderbum-Hawes-Thurs- ton brigade runs it, it is time that the people kicked it out. That judicial dis- trict has o heavy republican majority, but there are independent votersenough in it to see that the party is not used to further the interests of unprincipled political rogues.” Edward F. Leprohon, the dashing young blood of Nebraska City, who is now cooling off and exercising himself on the stone {;ilo in the penitentiary, writes a confession that his sentence is just and “‘a good warning to young men too anxious to obtain riches by un- just means.” Edward rmitted his talents to run to autographs on checks and quiet raids on other men’s bank ac- counts. The past was loaded with warn- ings, but he heeded them not, and those who follow his style will flash in the dock and splutterin penitonti ripes. The young man of to-day who S bo- yond his carnings is cultivating a Mosher mattress with castiron uphols- tery. Such is the irony of fate. lowa Items, Sigourney has struck a slight vein of natural gas. The dads of Dubuque have declared war on the sparrows. There are thirteen railway in Burlington. The big bridge at Dubuque will be dedicated November 29, The order of Odd Fellows in the state comprises 471 lodges, with 22,500 mem- bers. The Burlington Hawkeye has de- clared war on scarlet women, the moral anarchists of the town, The Davenport base ball association has been incorporated, with a capital of 85,000, “for the purpose of elevating base ball playing and making it respect- able and honorable.” Master Evans Holbrook, of Sioux City, has received a courteous note of thanks from Mrs. Cleveland in return for a bouquet presented her on the morning of her visit to the corn palace, Over 100,000 farmers in the state and between one and two million farmers in the United States are affected by the decision of the United States supreme court that the drive-well patents are illegal on account of priority of use. A Creston lover who addressed a Loy ented letter to the object of his affections, asking the young lady to become his partner through life, in- scribed on oue corner of the envelope, Sealed proposal.” The result was he wwarded the contract. Dubuque has & man who announces himself as His Satanic Majesty, fresh from the regions of the imps and lost souls. He claims to have been deserted by the Almighty and to have become chiof of the tribes of the infernal re- gions. Hoe has secured a thirty-day en- gugement in the city jail. A woman with a family of fifteen children arrived in Cedar Rapids from St. Louis last Saturday night. The ages of the children range from six months to eighteen years, The father of the family is dead, and the mother with the colony of children was on her way to Sibley, where they expect to lo- cate. miles of street akota. A large deposit of roofing slate has n discovered near Deadwood, 'he fountain for the new flouring mill at Oaks is nearly completed, The strue- ture will cost $10,000 and have u capucity of 150 barrels per da) Two new railroads, the Catholic cathedral, a dozen brick blocks, 200 residences and many other improve- be ments ave looming up as the improve- ments booked for next year in Yank- ton. The Rapid City Journal says; ‘“The favorable report of Prof. Clark as to the application of tho leaching process in the treatment of the Ruby basin and Bald mountain ores is received with very general satisfaction throughout the Hills, It was asserted yo ago by a noted mineralogist that tho free mi ing ores of the ills were but as adrop in the bucket in comparison to the min- eral wealth of the country, The truth of this assertion is becoming every day wore plain.” Some Telegraph History. FElectrical Review, The history of some of the additions of water to Western Union Telegraph company stock veads like the wildest romance of speculation. In 1860, for xample, congress offered a bonus of $40,000 a year for ten years to any par- ties who would undertake the construc- tion of a telegraph line from the Mis- souririver to the Pacific const. Certain directors of the Western Union compuny accepted this offer, and 1,100 mil, of wire were strung between Brownsville, Neb., and Salt Lake City, whera con- nection was made with an existing line to San Francisco, The cost of this 1,100 miles of telegraph line was $147.000, or $184 a mile, and large profits were made by the contractors at this figure. Subsequently 81,000,000 in stock of the Pacific Telegraph company was issued on this expenditure, and when that company was absorbed by the Western Union $2,000,000 of stock of the latter company was issued in payment for the Pucific Telegraph stock. = Soon afterward the stock of the Western Union was trebled, and thus by a simple process of manipulation an original ex- penditure of $147,000—of itself an ex- orbitant outlay—was swolen until it camo to represent 6,000,000 of Western Union stock, to pay dividends u‘mn which the business of the country has been taxed for nearly a quarter of a century. More than this, the property thus represented had within ten years been nearly thrice paid for by the gov- ernment bonus of 840,000 a year. —_— J. Lawrence Sullivan's Reception. Chicago Tribune: It has often been remarked that when an Irishman gets a fair chanco of association with people, however much they may be opposed o him, he inevitably exercises a fascinat- ing influence upon them. This has been exemplified in Ingland lately. Since the discussion of home rule some of the Irish orators, notably Parnell, have had an opportunity to get through the crust of isolation with which Englishmen surround themselves,and in no instance have they failed to captivate their hear- ers or charm the socioty with which they have been brought in contact. Our eminent Irish fellow-citizen, Prof. J. L. Sullivan, is another instance of this trait. In fact, Parnell on the hustings, and Suallivan on the bustlings, are car- rying everything before them. Prof. Sullivan was not unknown to the Eng- lish muscle men before he went over, but he had not made that enthusiastic impression upon them which has since resulted from personal association with him. Noman,not even the Duke of Wellington returned from Waterloo, or Disracli from Berlin_bringing “‘peace with hounor,” ever had such a reception a8 that accorded to the eminent Boston knock-out when he arrived at the Brit- ish Capital. Even the police could not control the Britishers at_the depot, and the Irishman was obliged to avoid their multitudinous affection by a ruse. His reception at St. James’ Hall, Piccadilly, though it took two sovereigns ($10.50) and a swallow-tail to get in, was equally enthusiastic. This was the artistic re- ception, and it did not-fall behind the more democratic one in the streets and at the station. When the Irish-Ameri- can champion came forward and an- nounced to the ladies and gentlemen that he had come to England to show what sort of timber he was made of and remained *‘yours truly,” the greatand olegant audicnce was captivated and expressed its delight with round upon round of applause; but it was not until he came out in his fighting {rim and en- countered the big boxer who consents to be knocked about by the champion for the delectation of the crowd that the rapture of the British nobility be- came unbounded. And when it was all over he entored his carriage and was driven to a club house with the aris- tocracy following and shouting itself hoarse. No other show in London stood any chance—not even Buffalo Bill's Wild West. The lord mayor’s pageant foll dead and flat. Even Salisbury’s tory speech was made to empty benches, Much of thisenthusiasin may be credited to the English love of pugilism, but more to the rave facinations which an Irishman exercises over Englishmen; and when that Irishman happens to be, or is prepared to show that he is, the ““pest man” from the knock down point of view in the new or old world, it is not remarkable that he should captivate both the English aristocracy and dem- ocrae Should he succeed in carrying away the honors from the Briton,Jem Smith, no limit can be placed to tl tont of his conquests among the B, It will then be veni, vidi, vici. AL The Mayor Was Cross. Chicago Tribune: I was in the “Two Orphans’™ saloon at Eagle Pass City, Wyo., one day engaged in the fatiguing business of leaning against the wall and watching the barkeeper polish the glasses when a strikingly large man with a ferocious bl moustache and a hand the size of a St. Paul man’s snow- shoe came in and directly to where I stood, Itried to look as if I wasn’t doing anything and got one corner of my eye on the side door. The man re- d me scornfully for a moment, then suddenly jumped up and cracked his heels Lu;,'l'dhrr twic brought his fist down on the edge of a card table so that it tipped over and rolled away and with a whoop that jarred the chandelier yelled: tranger, I ¢ As I remembe no doubt of it, and that I fully believed hie was the only man in the country who did cat snakes. and that I presumed he rathor preferred rattl low-headed moccasing, when he mado a leap at me and again \\‘hw?m\l “Stranger, I'm a wolfl Hea howl!™ I was backing toward the door and trying to look as sociuble and agreeable as possible, when he added with aston- ishing emphasis: “I'm a wil it to drink!” 1 wag now moving on the door so idly as to resemble a dark colo streuk several yards long, when started for me, howling: ‘I'ma man eater! I'm from Bitter Creek! Gimme some raw snakes! Lemme at him!” All the time kicking the chairs through the air and making the building tremble. I managed to get threugh the door and fell across an alley and two vacant lot Fifteen minutes later when I ven- tured out on another street, I happencd to meet the barkeeper and said: “What was the matter with that who tried to kill me at your’ place “Mayor Everts, you "mean, I reckon, Oh, nothing muc only the council passed an ordinance, that he had ve- toed, over his head lust night and it has wade him cross all day.” g I want blood! I want nan AWFUL EVILS OF CAMBLING. Rov. 0. W. Savidgo Speaks on the Subject. A WARNING TO CHRISTIANS. The Church Game of Chance Con- demned and the Fish Pond Scheme an Prize Cake Not Sanctioned. A Sermon on Gambling. At the Soward streot M. E. church last ovening Rev. C. W. Savidge, tho pastor, vreactied to a largo audience on the subject, “Gambling,” taking his text from Matthow %: “They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots.” Gambling, said the speaker, is risk- ing something with the expectation of win- ning more than you . It is getting something without ever having rendered an cquivalent, Oftimes it comes very near being the getting of something for nothing. The instruments of the art aro well known— the cards, the cue and balls, tho dice and various other {mplements. Gambling is carried on in rooms kept and often built es- pecially for that purpose. T'hie house of the lost woman and the gambling house havo the most elegant furniture, though I am very glad to say that in this city the pulb~ lic gambling houses have been closed i con- sequenco of a probibitory law against gam- bling enacted last winter by the legislature of Nebraska. This luw makes gambling a crime to which & heavy penalty is aflixed. “This law went into effect the 4th of last July, and whatever gambling is done now in this city is done secretly. Iam glad to hear, too, that Mayor Roche, of Chicago, has walked into that office and has driven every gambler out of the city and has reformed the saloons just us far as the laws of lus state will pe mit todo it. A first rate mayor and s first rate judge can reform a city, oven if the city council is not sanctified. ButIam sorry to say that we, as o people, donotstop gambling when the rooms hitherto used for that pur- pose are shut up. 1f our people can't gamble one way, they will another. The men who go to sce the great leagues play ball bet on one side or the other, If the gambling eloment were taken out of the American game’ to-day, it would amount to nothing. Men go to_horse races for the same purpose. Iam told that Hiram Woodruff was an honest and humane man, but the horses he trained caused many o dollar to change hands, On the great trucks to-day fortunes are made and lost, and us the tolegraph has nearly eliminated time “and space, men in Omaha beton the base ball in Boston or the horse race at Leng Branch. Lotteries, too, are all the ruge at present. Wo are told that a few years agoa man in Chicago found an unprofitablé building on his hands and he resolved to make all this country help him out of the difticulty. Lot- tery offices were opened in all tho great cities, Philadelphia bought ~ over $30,000 worth of tickets, New York took $100,000 worth, As the time for the drawing ap- proached, the trains wero loaded to their fullest_capacity. The man who held the ticket 58,600 drew the opera house and this so-called fortunate man soon died of drunk- enn and the house which had been raffed away was soon back in the hauds of the original owner, This lottery business has becomo o curse, Last Mouday a prominent man living at Orleans, Neb,, in the Repub- lican Vall received word that the ticket he held in acertain lottery entitled him to $135,000. The result will be that hundreds of poor men who not afford it, will buy tickets and they will never get a cent for their trouble. en also gamble in the grain markets. They call it “‘buying options.”” Men gamble in churches, You pay b cents for the privilego of fishing with hook and line in the fish pond. You pay 25 cents for & chance for the cake with the five-dollar gold picce or the ring in it, and the Kr'mci[vlo is tho same as if you bought a ticket in the Louisana lott One evening one of the daughters of eral Sherman was trying to induce him to take shares in a chance scheme for a church fair, and the general replied, ‘‘Why, Rachel, we have gotten along all our lives thus far with- out gambling, do_you think we had botter begin now?"” " Let General Sherman’s words bo told to the christians who play progressive euchre. Boys as a rule are not allowed in gambling houses—that is to say, this is the rule—but 1 am sorry to say it is often broken. Men of all classes gamblo—both rich and poor. 1 have known preachers’ sons to be infatuated with the game. A few years ago one of my own church members drew a horse in a lot- tery and he worked that horse for many a day. We are often told that gamblers are very honest men, reliable, men of their word, and that they are liberal. It is to theii terest to be so considered. But they are lib- eral with other men’s money, and are honcst when they have that money, but when their “luck turns” they will rob you quick enough. If I am called to officiate at the funeral of a gambler 1 shall not call him a fine fellow. He is & robber, for he takes what he never earned, If you ask me why men gamble, T would say they do so for various rcasons. The church member in a social company plays “progressive euchre” for pleasure and to get the gift or stake that is offered. Some men gamble for the ple cination there is in it, ife," such & hum-drum_affair” that they have something interesting. BBut the great majority play because there is a possibility of making large sums of moncy quickly and with very little capital. What a force there i8 in that thought to the massof men, “‘Lurgo sums, quickly made, and with little capital.” Mecn ask, “Is gambling wrong, and why " Without question it is wrong. It is death to honest toil. Look at the gambler's hands! They are as white _and soft as & woman's. He was born tired. I ask you how many men in this town who were gamblers before July 4, 1887, are now engaged in honest le- gitimate work i Men lose their money by means of gaming. Atone time in Italy $14,000,000 were an- nually expended by the poorer population in lottery tickets, The most of this money, of course, was lost. Men not only lose their own money in this way, but that of their employers, and even trust funds. When a celebrated bank in this country failed, it was found that the officers had expended the om- bezzled funds in lotteries, and of course, lost. A Boston clerk took §18,000 of his employy money und spent it in this way. The money lost in gambling in our city would bui many a cozy and_ beautiful cottage and fur- nish it, t0o. o gambling is a destroyer of human life, v a lottery in England, there were fifty des of those who had held unluck bers. At the great gambling centers suicid are 8o mon that the game is not long d layed. The blood is washed up and ey thing moves on as before. In the cit Denver on the cvening of November 14 Charles E. Henry, g young gambler nine years of age, took the life of w young woman. 1 cannot explain the fact to you, but it is the case thut the gambler places u very low esti mate on human life. But by gaming, character is lost. Money ical lifo are the less valuable—but erisall. Theolork becomes a thicf nation and he steals from his cm ployer. He goes from bad to worse. I know thia o b a fact, that the men who gamble in droves to the' homoe of the lost womu leads to another, till all that wa food and pure is lost. And you sce my point Now. The soul itself is the priccless stake that is put up and lost. Do vou ses the price the gambler payst Tho disposition to do St work—hard-carned or " inherited physical lifo character—the immor- 10 tal soul. You ask for the cur Lot our present law be enforced and be continued to “Eternal vigilance is tho price Let us all content oursclves s 0f making a living aud choose enjoyments that have no sting. Let us make What we have, *Pluck is a hero, and Luck is @ fool”” Letus stick to straight honest lines of business. Lot us peay for our on this vic be enforced of liberty with safe w churches with the titles we owe to God —'tis not a gift but adebt due Him. And et it said of any of us who profess the 15, stroying vice duced 10 o g f chance in your parlor and from that I went on und “down till money, chiyaeter and soul.”’ “Shun the appearance of evil.” Ask God for w pure heart. The Boy at the Dime Musen: Arkansas Traveler; A womsn, on whoso face deep lines had traced the words “old wi!lmutlnz?‘." vmllked abont in a dimo musoum leading a boy. “Hoo, we!" the boy exclaimed, “lools there.” “That's the fat woman.” “What mado her so fat?"” “I don’t know.” “Eating so much?” “T don't know, I tell you.” YWill you ever be that fat?” ““I hope not.” SSWHYPY “Because T don't want to be so fat,” “Does it hurt?” ‘No, I think not.” ‘Thenwhy don’t you want to bo so “Pecause T eouldn’t got around.” “But you wouldn’t have to get around. Papa could get a big table an’ you could set on it an—" i) hero. “Do you have to pay to go out?"” “NoD pay “‘But you had to pay to come in,didn't your" “Yes " “Why don’t you lave to pay to go out?” “If you don't—" 40N, look there! doing?” “Spinning glass.” “How spinning it?" 41 don’t know.” “Then how do you know he's spinning iten SIf you don’t hush this very minute I'll spank you when I get home. You trifling little rascal, you annoy mo al- most to death,” After ashort silence, annoy?”? “Bother, “What's bother?” “Are you going to hush?” turning fiercely vpon him, “Oh) what's that?” “The Cire: “What's t with “Nothing, it's natural,” “How natural?” CIt was always that wa, “When sho was a littlo tiency baby?” HGracious alive, no.” “Then how could it bo that ways?? Sho took hold now!” “Don’t you ery here. If you whip you when we get home.” “Why mustn’t [ l'rf here?” “Everybody would laugh at y “Would the fat woman la “Yos.” What's that man “Ma, what's her hair way al- “Ouch, do 1I' of his car. “Why?" “Are you going to hush?” ket '\muum What are them men “They are cowboys showing—" “What's a cowboy?” “A man that drives cattle on tho Plaius.” “If Tie's a man, how can he he a boy?” “Didn’t T tell you that I'd whip you it you didn’t hush#” “Yessum. Are thero any culf boys?" “I think not.” “Little children would be calf boys, would'nt they?” “I suppose s0." “Am La calf boy?” “No.” CWhy?" “If you don't hush this vory minute I'll wear you out. You shall never go anywhere with me again, never, never s0 long as you live, ++I couldn’t go ufter I quit livin' could “No." ST be an angel then, won't I?" T suppose 50." “\\'il‘ I look like a bird?", “Idon’t know,” “Like a chicken?” “Merciful heavens, n. “What will I look 1 “I don't know. Now, hush.” “But I can fly, can’t 1" “Yos.? 4% '\\'n}' up high?” “Yes.” “Won't I fall 27 “No.? “I can ketch birds, can’t I¥” “I don’t know.” “But if I can fly fast I can, can’t I?" 1 guppose s0.”" ; "\Vil{ 1 go around and wrestle with people?” “What! You triffing vaseal, what do you meun, say ?’ ' “Why, you read in the bible that Jacob wrestled with an angel.’ “1'm going to tell your fathor to whip you just as soon us we get home. You'll see, sir—mind if you don’t. 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