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

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Nov. 50 rada P of The Tee Pub- "Gro. 1, Trscues., Bworn to and subscribed fi my presence this 80 day of December, A. D, 18 (SRAL.) Btate of Nebraska, | . FRIL, Notary Public o8 County of Douglas, (* Geo, B, Tzsehuek, being fiest duly worn, d nd swys thit he s secretary of The Be lishing compuny, that the ucti daily circulation ~ of the Duily I the ‘mouth of December, 1%, 1 for January, 1857, 16,26 ruary, 1585, 14108 coples; fo reh, Is8 goples, for April, I8 1010 con A 420 copless “for June, 18T, 14,147 copie: Tor vk i 1408 contons for Aist, 1857, 1. 161 copies; for Septen 1857, 14,08 coples October, 1857, 14, November, 187, bl L1 T7SCHUCK, fworn to and subscribed in i 34 day of December, A. D. l.\\‘..N (SEAT. fol It is predicted that th 1 bean open winter. Tt is sincerely hopea that it will not be open at both ends. —— Tar forthcoming message is said to be of unusual length. Will its author please come down on us gently by pub- Lishing it in the, form of a serial? It seems to be the general impression that the president was guilty of oensiv partisanship during the recent cam- paign. Now, like President Gy 1l he give himself the G. B.? :Now that the prohibition struggle in Atlanta is ended, the Constitution says, “Let us come togethe From all accounts of the exciting election there, they came together on election day. — It issaid that yay Gould will return to America within a few weeks. Unless they intend to indict him in the New York courts, it isa matter of total in- difference to the avernge citizen whether he ever returns. —_— PENNSYLVANIA, according to the ve- port of the first assistant postmaster general, has 871 more postoflices than any other state in the union. Also, more new oftices were established there last year than in any other state. THE estimated corn crop of the whole country for this year was 1,453.000,000, an average of a little less than 20 bush- els per acre for 75,000,000 acres. This is 186,000,000 bushels less than the yield of last year. Tt is thought there is ample corn in the country for its own use. Now Cincinnati will have a long struggle with Harper, of the Fidelity bank, whose trial is in progress. The president or cashier of a bank in China i8 promptly relieved of his head when eaught swindling the bank’s depositors. Buch a custom in vogue in the United States would probubly make failuves less numerous. OMAHA extends a hearty welcome to General J. W. Barriger, who was - tioned many years in Omaha’ as chief commissary of the department of the Platte, and now resumes his old posi- tion. Geueral Barriger has always manifested o deep interest in the growth and prosperity of this city, and his nu- merous friends in Omaha rejoi that.| he has come back once more tolive among us. — TUE squabble between Plymouth church and the Rev. Joseph P ker teaches that” human nature is pretty much the same inall grades of society. There is very little difference in degree, though there may be in words, between the quarrel of two fish- women and the quarrel of a fashionable chureh and a foreign clergyman. Below the thin veneer of culture orthe thicker layer of personal uncleanliness lies the same nature. Touch the mainspring of gelf-intevest, and the prince and the beggar will dance you the same jig. —— Tue pleasant words spoken of the United States by the English peace del- egytes on their return home is another example of the good that it does sensi- ble Englishmen to come to Ameviea, It has been said that there is no pro einlism like that which imagines that it is tho center of the universe, and this is the sort of provincialism common to most Englishmen. A visit to this conn- try is very sureto vemove it if the vis- itor is not s0 encased with prejudice as 1o be impenetrable to all facts and in- lllnomc These peace arbitrators ave "not of this sort, and be ding in a condition to be impressed with the greatuess of this country and to, form just fdeas of the sentiment and fecling of the A vican peopl Jtosay to their count found heve 1o jealousy or England and o people thoy fve men that they hatred of trong and self velinnt enough to dispense with all such sentiments, Impatience w thy inflated ideas of Englishmen there may be, but no jealousy, and while the American people can huve no sympathy with England’s political system and methods, they are not disposed to mani- fest their hostility otherwise thau in the peaceful yet potential way which is :Mudly denuding that system of ita objectiouable characteristics. /ln Experimental Statesman. r. James Laird, the middle-weight list of the Second distriet, has sud- ¢ blossomed out into a great states- | man. Our Jim's most dntimate friends have heen agrecably surprised at his unexpected advent in the realm of political economy. According to an Omaha reporter who was taken into Mr. Laird's confidence, he rd A so to Washington, crammed th bills that are to astound the natives, puu den! Mp. Laird has only condescended to outline the contents of two of his most important national and inter- national measurc It is an open secvet that Mr, Laird's instincts, symputhies and associations alw: have been with the men who toil on the faurm. His wholelife has n devoted o the problem of reli ing the Nebraska favmer of his woes as well as his surplus. It is but natural, therefore, that the farmer occeupies Our Jim'’s thoughts, morning, noonand night. Knowing the general discontent among the Nebraska Mr. Laird is equal to the emergency. Ho proposes to introduce a hill that will make every farmer rich, Mr. Laird’s scheme is the government to establish experimen- tal stationson the great American plains and demonstrate to the world that mill- fons can be made by our farmoers in rais- ing products that heretofore have been grown only in foreign climes and distant countries, g Our horny-fisted congrossman has f that wheat growing isa failure in Nebraska, To be sure some of our ignorant farmers in the Missouri valley raise large erops of whent nearly every season, yet an ex- perimental station where the growth and habits of the oleander and centary plant could be watehed and studied by gogale-eyed dudes and politi botan- ists, would fill a long felt want for which this praivie county has ever yearned. In his speech presenting his novel idea Mr. Laird will show that cinnamon trees will flourish in the Republican valley, inasmuch as the cinnamon bear has been overtaken by the frontier cow- boy. He will showin his usual knock- down style of argument, that clavet will flow ns freely in Nebraska as it will in Washington, and Nebraska can raise Russian pigtail bristies, Japan tea, Persian opium flowers, Avabian ¢ ayd Bgyptian cocoanutsif congress will only give her hall a ehaneo by liberal appropriation for experi- mental stations. Mr. Laird has notor- iously homesteaded o groat partof a malodorous ereck bed in western Ne- braska, which proves aly that with an experimental station properly conducted under the provisions of his bill, German carp, soft-shell clams and wall-eyed pike may he taught to graze upon Stinking Water ereck and fatten upon the juicy nutviment found in the i beds of Cheyenne county Another brilliant and oviginal idea of Mr. Laird is to prohibit foreign paupers and eriminals from landing -on our shores. At the time this bill is in- troduced Mr. Laird will experience a sensation, when he is informed by a chorus of voices that just such a law has been on our national statutes for many years., Yet this all shows that Mr. TLaivd is exerting his power- ful mind in behalf of his constituents. SpE——————— Protect American Literature, The movement of American authors in favor of an international copyright law, in which they have the concur- rence of nearly all the leading publish- ers, has become o thoroughly organized convineed hims te conclusi and carnest that the promise of secur- ing such legislation may be regarded as more favorable than ever hefore. Such authors as Lowell, Holmes, Howells, Stoddard, Eggleston, and others of less fame, are zealous in promoting the movement, and such men will hardly fail to command the attention of con- gress 1o a subject upon which they are uble to spenk with the highest and most trustworthy authority. It is understood they have enlisted the president in their cause, and that This forthcoming annual massage will recom- mend the ennctment of a copyright law which will insure some degrec of pro- teetion to the authors of America and of justice to those of England. Gladstone and Tennyson are among those in Eng- land who'join hands with the authors of America in advoeaey of a copyright pol between the two countries which shall be fair to ¢ ch. Hitherto the chiefs obstacle to securing such a policy has been the opposition of American pub- lishers, but only a very few of these are now unfavorable, the majority being quite as enrnes the authors in its be- half. What was therefore a fow years ago the exeuse or warrant of congres- sional indifference to thig subject no longer exists, and congress will be urged to action with a vigor and unanimity on the part of those im- mediately interested which St will find difficult to disregard. In o recent article on this subject Mre, Howells snid that “Every honest man who thinks about the subjeet must feel keenly the mwnuu now fairly shifted from the American publishers to the Ameriean public, of the wrong involved in the absence of an international copy- right law.” Tt wasamatter, he thought, which should appeal to the common conscience, and his dressed to pointing argument wis - out the injustice done by the system of piracy now in vogue. Me. Lowell, in an address A fow duys ago before the copyright league, while loss stress upon the rosulting from the nbsence of an inter- uationaleopyvight law presented more s of the ques: existing con- of American fully the | tion. Hen ditions. ave destruetive authorship, and that it is imprudent foe the nation to allow its literature, or a great puret of its literature, to be made for it by another nation, or, in other to allow the shaping of its ht, and therefore of its charvacter, t0 he done by that oth The views of thise two representative authors cover the most important considerations con- nected with this question, \\Im'h are those of doing justice to fo ) authors while protecting those of our own coun- try and =Liumxu\iug an Amervican litera- ture, That there is property in ideas has been admitted by cvery ¢ivillzed coun- try in the world except our gwn, but the really important point in this matter for the American people und congress to consider is whether our own authors «hall be given a fair chance for livel hood and be enabled to obtain such ward as their work entitles them to, They claim that under present condi- tions these are not to be had, and that if these conditions ave permitted to con- tinue the effect must in course of time be fatal to all Americun literature. There is undoubtedly something to be snid on the other side, but it will not be denied that the authors have astrong not simply their interests, but the interests of the people and of the national institutions that are involved. Patriotism demands a literature that shall be repre- of the sentiment and the Amcrican people an system. It has been well said that without a literature we are without a mational voice; without a literature wo are without, and must re- main without, that recognition of ourjin- tellectual endeavor upon which we are mainly dependent for the respect of mankind and for the spread of our ideas. 1t is an obvious duty to give every proper and logitimate encouragement to the development of a literature that shall speak for the political, social, moral and intellectual life and charac- ter of the nation, and if in order to do this it is necessary to he just to foreign authors there is simply a double incen- tive to perform such duty. Our prac- tice thus far has not been to our credit, and to continue in it will ver) surely be to our detriment, if it has not already been so. The practice has earned for us the opprobriumof heing the only country in the world that carvies ona systematic piracy of the brain work of forcign authors, while it has supplied to our people a vast amount of forcign thought of very questionable value. Tt is certainly not too soon to seriously consider whether a policy against which such objections can bo fairly urged should not be abandoned. Stay Away From California. The boomers have over-shot them- selves in Southern California. Reports from that section are most discouraging. Among laboring men the situation is veally almeming. Among mechanies the are two and three mon where there is employment for but one. Con- sidering the high prices charged for the n ries of life, wages are below the average. Building material isscarce, and in many instances because of unfin- ished work, contractors cannot pay those who are employed. Tourists and health-seckers have long ago filled the hotels and first class prices are eagerly paid for third-class accommodations, Tt is pre- dicted and feared that the winter will find scores of empty-handed men suffer- ing for food. And why the tide of men rushing to that overrun and overest mated country does not recede, when it isknown there is nothing to be gained by the loug and expensive journey, is an unsolved problem. Those who de- pend upon daily wages for sustenance find no pleasure in living upon a glori- ous climate. Some of the papers of the coust haye sounded the alurm, and are already advising persons of moderate meuns, and especially wage workers, to turn back. Even those with mone; cautiously, and business men who hav viewed the situation from a financially disinterested standpoint predict that the bottom must soon drop outof California’s high pressure boom. 200! hould move The Question of Genius, * Josef Hofmann, the latest musical wonder, has'made his debut before an American atdience. Now the question is, is he a genius? Thereis a difference of opinion on this point. In Europe the little prodigy has been extravagantly praised by the masters, compared with Mozart and other great musicians, The preponderance of evidence as regards the New York crities seems to be that Josef Hofmann has wonderful ability but not the **divine spark.” But the immense audience that his- tenced to his playing gave him some- thing more than a warm reception. Tt was a tribute seldom awarded except to genius, What isgenius? The question is almost as old as the world. Are New York musicians who write criticisms in the secret and competent to point out the line which divides talent trom the divine gif When the little fellow had finished his first picce there were t hysterical laughter and wild enthusiasm among his he: These were not produced by the music in itself. They were the effects of that strange power before which ordinary men and wo- men assume an adoring attitude. Europe stood. breathless before it when poleon passed from victory to v his Ttalian campaign. It has world in Michael Angelo, in peave, in Mozart, in sy people who have cut something of a figure, tell us that genius is mer persistent application. Tt would be just as corvect to say that a bird learns its Dante, Goethe. music, or how to build its nest, in that way. Itisa distinguishing character- ist of genius that its results do not come from premed- itated application. They are sparks struck from the unusual personalit often as inexplicable to him as to the rest of the world, George Eliot had a powerful intellect but was denied genius from lack of spontaneity. It has been awarded to persons with much less learning. It scems to be the highest form of instinet. To pronounce a dictum as to whether Josef Hofmann is a genius or not would evidently be premature. Of course his achievements have not been reached without much teaining. But is there another child in the world except a genius who could do what he is doing by any amount of training? Probably not. From the way in which the little wonder is managed there is great danger that he will be stunted into a merely clever performer as he grows older. Over-training and over-exertion can casily suuff out the spark of genius. He should be allowed to run wild within propet limits, like auy other child. It looks now as though he may be sacri- ficed to. the desire of money-getting in those who haye him in charge. in the city of xtyeara univer hition under the iment. The mo- rprise is o feel- in Belgium than intry, of the ne- from the widely THERE is to be Brussels, Belgiun sal international auspices of the g tive inspiving thi ing, more strongly in almost any othe cessity of a reactle prevailing indust Al depression, and one of the objects § show the great change which has éntered into the econ- omy of consumption and production during the past quarter of a century, Belgium is in an uEnl-nldvgx e an in- dustrial country, though for the past yeat or two her if@ustries have been materially impaired by the formidable competition of other nations. She is, however, in a position to contribute a most interesting portion of an international exhibition, and she in- vites the whole industrial world to join her in this laudable enterprise, to the end that all may find in such a competi- tion both profit and instruction, It is the intention that every branch of in- dustry and every department of science shall be represented. Genervous provi- sion has been made for cash rewards and prizes, and the proverbial liberality of the Belgian government in whatever it undertakes is assurance that exhibi- ftors will receive every consideration. merican industries should be largely represented in this exhibition. LaMAR'S SECRETARY age has been aseertained to be sixty-seven years. At seventy, justices of the supreme bench are retired on full salary., If the secre- tary is appointed he will have what may be vulgarly termed o *'soft snap,” but Cleveland would not be manufacturing any political capital for himself. Tie cipher of Ignatius Donnelly is having a wrestle with the English critics. The London Zélegraph scofls the idea that Bacon wrote Shakespeare's plays, and wants to know *who is Dun- nelly? He is a very shrewd American who is getting an advertising bencefit for Tiis book in England, without pay. POLITICAL PO John_ thinks it will be Clevelnd and Blaine again in 1885, with Fisk, of New der- L as the prohibition candids The St. Louis Globe-Democrat names Gen- eral Lew Wallace, of Indiuna, for the repub- lican candidate for vice president. Ex-Mayor Low of Brooklyn and ex-Senator Warner Miller are canddidates for the repub- lican nomination for governor of New York. Senator Farwell wants to get rid of the surplus by removing the tax from sugar and tobacco. If no one else offers a bill he will do it himself. If the Philadelphia _Record had to guess the name of the next republican candidate for the prosidency it Would pitch upon Judge Gresham of Indiana..| Tt is amusing to see the political nonde- seripts who supported, Ben Butler for pre: dent in 184 now preyfring to make a break for the head of the democratic procession in 1888, it The people's servants in congress, about to asscmble, should remembey that their mas- ters are at home, wide awake, and standing at the head of the back stairs with the door open. . \ A man who carefully’ studies himself, ike Mr. Lamar does, possibly understands what he is good for if the people don’t. Long ago thoy decided that Mr. Lamar was notthe proper man for the supreme bench, Senator Allison of Towa bows to the tarift reform sentiment of his section so far as to that he thinks some tarif¥ legislation is probable at the coming sesaion, und that a number of the republican senators favor iv. Rev. W. H. Wilburn, who used to slide in some pretty pointed remarks concerning de- linquent congressmen: while offering prayer at the sessions of the last congress, is ugain a candidate for the chaplainey. He will have several competitors. . Congressman Stewart, of Vermont, theory that if municipal ofticers were elected at separate elections from those at which state officers are chosen, the result would be less influenced by politics than at present and would be an improvement. The position of the democratic party, as re- ported through returning congressmen, is about this: They are in favor of Cleveland, because they would like to nominate some other man, but are afraid to say so until the vest of the oftices have been distributed. Some people think that General Hawley has ruined his presidential chances by m ing an English lady; but the wife is a cor tainty, and the presidency is a very remote possibility. General Hawley has doubtless acted wisely, even at the risk of antagonizing the Irish vote. The Brooklyn Eagle (dem.), which has always shown itself particularly well in- formed about Governer Hill's position and plans, says that the effort to use his name in the interest of some few persons or papers that would like to prevent the re nomination of President Clevelund s without his sanc- tion and contrary to his desire und judgment Mr. Carlisle’s position on the tariff question is well known. He does not intend that the tax on spirits shall be touched at all if he can prevent, and he will consent to a partial abo lition of the taxcs on tobaceo ouly by way of compromise with the Randall crowd of mo- nopoly tariff men. The New York Post’ says the republicans are trying to make a point against Mr, Cleve- land by the complaint that he hus no poli Senator Manderson, of Nebr: for in stance, s of the president: “No one denies that he has boen a good exceutive officer, When that is said, however, all is said, The administration is entively without a policy.” Ll st iy But Has it the Point. Cincinnati Enqu 1t is understood that the, president’s mes- suge will be four hours paséing a given point. te. has a Give Him a “Leatler Patch.” Campell (@a) News. Our “joans pants’ w nearly worn out and we hope some thoughtful subscriber will come to the rescue. ¢ e aan A Drawback., Chicago Herald, Increase of papulation is not an unmixed good. The larger the 'country the smaller themdividual chances of being elected presi- dent. — - Opening That Would be Popular. Philadetphia Times The most acceptable opeuning proceedings in which the United States senate could in- dulge on Monday would bethe opening of the doors during executd ions. - That Remains to Be Scen. Louis Republican. oing for the natioual republican conyention with an earnestuess of purpose which already arouses the jealousy of Chi- cugo, but both are wasting their efforts, ——— Vilas' Big Meal, Pitsburg Chronicle, 1t seems that the postmaster-generrl, if so desirous of reform in the service, might have found some more serious gabuses o wrestle Omaha is with than this of advertising on wrappers, He has put himself in the position of strain- ing at a gnat and swallowing a whole drove of came! sl i Missed His Opportunity. New ok World, os of England, has just finished a stron na entitled “Kismet." There would have been a greater smuck of popu- larity to the uame had he loft off the “t." Wilton | i o A Terrvible Rumor. Chicago Herald. Boston is in a state bordering on fren, over a report that some of her “best people™ on Commonyealth avenue are *“taking board- ers.”" Happily the report lacks authentic con- firmation. e — No Poetry in the Postofice. o York World, Postmaster English, of New Haven, Conn., recently received aletter addressed “to the most beautiful and intelligent lady in New Haven of from cighteen to twenty-four years of age.”” Not feeling competent to make the decision Mr, English consulted the postal authorities at Washington and has just been directed to send the epistle to the dead letter office. How little romance there is about a government bureau ! —_———— “So Runs the World Away. Written for the Sunday Bee by Frances Field. 1. A laughing child, sporting amid spring flowers, When morn smiles on the earth, and da, young, free und gay, resting in sunny bowers, While yet the sin low in the east is Lung! A smile, a tear; Life's season is but May. No gricf, no fear! runs the world away. is SPolibhybright with Hope and panting with ambition To climb Olympus while shines summer’'s sun Glowing with dreams that ne'er shall find fruition. Planning a race, lost ere 'tis yet begun. A mirage fair, Fame, mocking, waves the bay, He grasps but air, ““So runs the world av 1. Now manhood brave, by faith and love at- tended Right nobly fuces autumn’s howling biast. But litthe recks he years and toil expended s huven safe at last. aith bleeding dics, end ! Ah, dark the day! Love, shuddering, fi S0 runs the world wi w. Old age, alone, with feebie step and slow, Totters adown the fast declining slopr Bleak wintry winds rude toss his crown of snow, Cold on his heart lies pulscless, perished Hop lowering cloud ne guiding ry the shroud, 'So runs the world away." ard mold, and rank A quiet grave, beneath the chure Where the ' carthworm revels 2rsses grow A sunken tablet: a brief story told— Aud this is all the wanderer there may know, Kind Mother Earth Receives our senseless elay, To death, from birth S0 runs the world away." e o g December., Frank Dempster Sherman, in St. Nieholas, December’s come, and with her brought A world is whitest marble wrought; The trees and fence and all the posts and motionless and white as ghosts, And all the paths we used to know Are hidden in the drifts of snow. December brings the longest night And cheats the day of half its light, No bird-song breais the perfect hush ; No meadow-brook with liquid gush Runs telling tales in babbling rhyme Of liberty and summer-time, But frozen in its icy cell Awaits the sun to break the spell, Rreathe once upon the window-glass And see the mimic mists that pass,— Fant dapes that go and come Forever silvery und dumb. December Santa Claus shall bring— Of happy children happy king, Who with his sleigh and rein deer stops At all good people’s chimney-tops. Then let the holly red be hung, And all the sweetest carols sung, While we with joy remember them— The journeys to Bethlehem, Who followed trusting from afar The guidance of that happy star Which marked the spot where Christ was born Long years ago one Chrisrmas morn! i A GROWIN VICE. A writer in an eastern journal, over thenom de pluwe of Ivan, advocates “‘organized and systematic efforts to revise and purify the phraseology of the boys of our land."” “The time is loug since past,” remarks this writer, *when the shoeking phrases so often heard from the lips of the growing lad are regarded as cute. It is the duty of all who have the proper education and future of our boys at heart, to pay immediate attention to that which muy properly be termed a growing viee among the little wen into whose hands the future may place 80 many responsibili- ties." Of whatever gender this writer may be, he or she is not lacking in the grit required for a laborious task, The small boy is beyond doubt an Ameri- can production. Phere may be, and doubt lessare, badly executed facsimiles cof the American article in other lands, but the imi- tation and spuriousness is so apparent that little claim is made in that direction by the managers of boomlets ucross the wave. In all things infensely American, the small Doy guards with jealous eye the sacred precints of his rights, and he need mot be expected to stand \d see the achievements of himself ows robbed of their laurels, Among the many privileges accorded to the boy is that of adopting 4 lexicon peculiarly appro- fate to his condition. Since a time so re- mote that the memory of mun runneth not to the contrary the boy has been ‘an important and conspicuous feature in society and this prominence has been due ot the least, to the attractiveness of his vocabulary, While not meaning to cast an_obstruction in the labor of love undertaken by Ivan, it is but common justice to a worthy class to view both sides of what prommses to develop into an interesting combat. In the cast are many aesthetic ears to which the phraseology of the youth is far from being music to the soul. Frow this class Ivan will have little diffieulty in securing co-luborers in the proposed re- form. 13ut with some appreciative persons of the effete cast who array themselves against this plun will be found the many perfect types of Awcricans 0 promiscuous in the west, These, constituting foes worthy of their steel will prove valiant soldicrs on the side of the juvenile, Before the bar of public opinion will this cause be tried. The aftirmative will urge the meed of purer phrases and more classic language for the Young bone of contention; will refer to the shock with which all effete ears listen to the barbarous expressions of the future supports of the nation; will lusist that with the tramp of progress and the advaace of civilization the welfare of the boy of America should not be forgotten. Lo ull this the negative will stoutly main tain the justice of its cause, relying perhaps upon consitutional provisions and the precepts of the heroes of '76,that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness - should be accorded to the high und low’ that freedom ‘of speech s @8 justly due the juvenilo as the adilt; that the Liberty of the press is uo uiore lwportaut to the interests of society and the welfare of the nation than the froe and unconfined use of tongues which give to the world - expres. sions, at once original and useful, After all does it not occur to one that the world is indebted to the snfll boy for many phrases which aid in giving expression to thoughts where more classic ones wéuld fail? In the bright lexicon of youth there be many valuable words,the credit of their origin is due to this same small boy, and without which the most classic of reformers might fail in expressing their thoughts upon necessitios of oceasions, Ifi tearing down an estab- lished lexicon these veformers must provide at least a temporary one: for the most san- guine of these persons will not expect at this day to entirely subdue and silonce the object of their reform; with the attempts at perpet- ual motion efforts in that divection eceased long since with men of balanced minds. What substitute will these reformers offer Will they depend upon the labored expr sions of the nesthetic! 1f 8o, indeed is thel task a difficult one, Fancy the boy of to-day bursting out in a clussic “pshaw,” when byt yesterday it would have been “rats” or s it possible,” instead of “come off, Cully.” How the bald heads would start did they v from the recesses of the gods *“pardon, our vest seems a tritle high," or “kindly evacuate your elevated position,” or “oblige me by stepping from the block,” or “what materfal is this you are presenting us," would it not paralyzo the old fellows so ac- stomed to devouring chestnuts with a rel h from the dome as well as the stage? Would not the observant stranger color per- coptibly to hear a representative of this much abused class remark‘observe the lad.rather than *“‘get onto the kid?” What a painfully dignificd expression would be the substitute of “the gentleman' for “his nibs.” How awk- ward would scem ‘“ccase this annoyance™ when “‘cheese it," would briefly and emphati- cally suffice. What improvement in elegance would be “the large and boastiul fellow," over “that great big tough." But it would be an endless lubor to attempt to offer all the comparisons, in this es in other cases certainly odious, which might be happily made in an endeaver to out- line the magnitude of Ivan's task. There is no doubt of its being a dificult one, and the results will be awaited with Interest A serious thought, however, oceur: on contemplating this proposed 1eform. In the compilation of plirases, undoubtedly ap- propriate, but of questionable elegance, the child is indeed father to the man: and it is remarkable with what readiness the child Pro tem seizes and converts to his own use the rough nugzgets of rhietoric which fall from the lips of their youthful authors, “Rats,” an expression pecul juvenile, and to m tremely disgusting, has come to be an :ptod word with some of the most lit- erate of men. Eminating from the gre < icon of boydom, it carries with it the odor of its author's intent in its construction, and conveys in the smallest possible langu- age its meaning in the strongest possible manner. No more expr word hus yet been coined, but to obtain its strength and value it was ne ry that it pass through the mint of juvenile use, and from‘the ters of that refinery the grown-up boys b came appreciative of its merits. So it is with all the phrases so peculiar to the boys of our land. Their use is not confined to the littlo authors-of their being, but find read access to the mouths of {heir clders, who make use of them without thought of their infringement upon the rights, if not upon the movals of the lads. If Ivan and his or her colaborers desire to achicve substan- tial results, would it not display wisdom on their part to begin with the older boys of our land and there apply the curative process? Through their endeavorsin this direction the growing vice may be confined to the class for which it seems specially ordained, and on passing the line thus established the boys of America muy content themselves that they are of “those whose follics ceased with their youth and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of their experienci Burer Britow. e T WATERWORKS, to one TESTING TH The Fire Department Tiy the Direct Water Pressure. At 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon a test of the direct water pressure was made at the hydrants in the neighborhood of Harney and Sixteenth streets, these being thought to show a fair average of the pressure through- out the cit, 'he hose carts from engine houses 3 and 6 were on hand, and were manned by detachwments from the various fire companies, tho whole being in charge of Chief Galligan, assisted by Assistant Chief Salter and Captain Aves, of No. 6, and Captain Colter, of No. 5. The measurement of the streams thrown was given to Ci En- gineer Tillson, his assistant, A. J. over, and transit man Charles Coleman. The s through which the water was thrown graded in diameter from one mch to one and a quarter inches. The result indi- cated what might be expected in the cvent of a fire among the high busine: blocks, The test was @utched with interest by the mayor, the firé’ commissioners, a number of insurance men, a few municipal officers from the neighboring towns, and a large number of sight-seers, whose curiosity was only dampened when the hose was accidentally pointed in their direction. Shortl) pck the hose tached as follow: vo hundi hose Wi laid from the frant at the corner of Fifteenth and Howard streets, 150 feet from Fifteenth and Harney, 150 feet from the Sixteenth street hydrant, bety Harney and Farr feot on Sixte fe street” between Harney and - How- ard, and foet” from the corher # of Sixteenth and Har A moment luter the five streams were play ing simultancously, and the erowd en- deavored to their height by comparing them with the steeple of the Lutheran church. Good gnesses were made, but the fiual result was known only to the engineer, who gives the measurments as follo The highest str thrown came stroet, between Howard und Harney, ched the height of 1238 feet. The lows was from the cl s of commerce hydrant, nd was only S . "The hydrant at the rner of Harney and Sixteenth strect was credited with N feet, that at Haruey and Fifteenth with 11 et, and the one on Fifteenth, between Howard und Harney with 90 f The water works compuny were not supposed to be awar t the tost was to be made and the pressure in the main at the time recorded only 90 pounds to the squure inch. . The test, which was madesfor the benefit of some 1 i the information the public gene 1sidered as being satisfactory. The difference in the length of the hose, and in the diameters of the nozzles, left the true measurment of the streams thrown, in some degree of uncertainty, The spot seleted for the trial is 104 feet” above tho low water river level, and 203 feet below the veservoirlevel. In the borhood of Hanscom Parle the level fs set above the low wate nd only sot bolow the lovel of the reseryi Dut this Is not $o serious as might sc v In order toprovide for em ‘. in case a fire should breal out in that neighborhood, @ pumping engine lus becn plioed at the corner of Burt and Thirty- fifth streets, and on an alarm being sounded, \ extra pressure is brought to Lear on the drants o the v! ity, sufcient to mect all ovdin, ats. The official state went of the test will be brought before the council at the next weeting ‘The Police Court, In the police court yesterday the ivre. ase Malley was sent ap for five ukenness; Witllam Sutley, va- pressible days for d grant and suspleious character, twenty days, st and last cight on breai aud watcrs J. W. rles Linguist and Gust Hagor- man £ and-cost, drunk and disorde The case of Freit Brown, suspicious character, Was contivued, MR. TAYLOR'S LITTLE GAME, How Ho and “Honest" George Timme Stand in Together. COUNTY PRINTING CONTRACT. An Attempt to Capture the Commise sloners For the “Republican's” Benefit-Mr, O'Keefe's Knocks Down Arguments. That Mr. Cadet Taylor of the Repubtican “never opens s month without putting his foot in it™ is an opinion at once general and axiomatic, The *jobs” that Mr. Taylor would “put up on an isnocent public under the protection of his instrument’s brazen and stupid servility always prove boomerangs from the fact that the gentloman is o bunglor who is liable to ““go off at half cock.” That Mr. Taylor imagines himself the Cwser of municipal, county, and state government has been proven by his own braying, but when ho attempts to “ring in" his schomes on the county commissioners with the ussistance cf ““Honest George Timme" he should make sure that Mr. O'Keefe is out of the city. Mr. Taylor attempted to capture the come missioners bodily yesterday for the financiul benefit of the institution over which he pre- sides. Mr, Timme proved a valuable lieutene ant, but an cmphatic declination of Mr. O'Keefe to consent to the job did for a short time rather put & damper upon the ardent George and his whispering counsellor and friend, Taylor. Mr. Taylor desired to get aresoluticn passed by the commissioners which wou'd give tghis paper the county printing and fo the Republican company tho furnish- ing of all printed blanks. stationery and lank books. The first was written in Mr. T\ read as follows That the ¢ esolution offered hand and s own unty clerk be in- structed to advertise for bids for printing, stationery and blank books for 1858, Such blank books shall be bound with Pliladelphia patent back, in accordance with the resolu- tion of this board during tho past year.” The above document, was passed over Mr, O'Keefe's angry and_emphatic objection, but the fact that_ the Republican company was the sole agent »for the **Philadelphia patont kT west of the Mississippi river was Mount, and Mr. cind carried. Mr. finally demonstrated to ofe's motion to O'Keefe said some rather bitter things to Mosst nue, Mount and Tay Ho de- nounced it as a conspiracy o give tho county work into the hands of an_irresponsi- ¥ who did not desire to place them- 1l footing with other firms in Upon his sugeestion the when the fulm\\m" Yesolution will probably ho offerod solved, That the county clerk 1 ad- rtising for bids for books, blanks and sta- tionery for the r 1888, be instructed to ask for the Philadciphia patent back or back cqually as i on all such books as are nceded, inaccordance with a resolution of this board at time coutract was let for year last pa ‘The above has already been drafted by Mr. Wells, clerk of the board Not content with the above another offort was made by Mr. Taylor and his factotum Pimme to capture the contract for county ad- vertising. Mr. Timme offered the following “Resolved, That the Omaha daily papers be invited to furnish sealed propositions ono week from date for publishing the full pro- rdings of the county commissioners,” This called forth another emphatic romon- strance from Mr. O'Keefe. He demanded that only matters rolating to the flnances of the county should be published as an_adver- tiscinent, and that the cireulation of the vari- ous papers should be taken into consideras tion. Mr. Timme then pocketed the resolution and_loft the room occupied by Taylor. Mr. O'Keefe at that time was the ouly commis- sioner left and soon after MF. Timme's de- parture was called away for a short time, When be returned he found the following solution on_his _desk, signed by Mossrs. Timme and Mount, and consequently it must o upou record as the action of the county commissiones Resolved, That the Omaha daily papers be instructed to furnish sealed proposals ona week from date for publishing the financial proccedings of the county commissioners also including all other advertisements, and that all bills will be allowed after January only once u month, according to appropria- tion ordinance to be published. The board of commissioners reserve the right to rejectany or all bids ‘This Mr. O'Keefe denounces ns a trick. He claims that it is an injustice to Douglas county, and on Monday will, in open scssion, demand that an amendment’'bo inserted, call- ing upon ail proprietors of daily papers mak- ing a bid for the advertising, to submit a sworn statement showing the circulation of their journais Mr. Cadet Taylor scems to have an idea that he can do as he may see fit with the com- missioners, The other day he sent a pauper O'Keefe with a note requesting trans- n to Chicago. This the commissioney used to honor, a8 it was not signod by two citizens as’_required by tho statute, Mr. Taylor said to Mr. O'Keefe thathe could get' Mr. Timme to grant the request irrespece tive of his (O'Keefe') opinion. This whole controversy is due, according ta Mr. O ofe's statement, to the negligence of County Clerk Needham. He should have asked for bids to be submitted on or before December 1. This he failed to do, and thus gives Mr. Taylor and Mr. Timme an excellent chanee to get in thy It is an open Timme during the Taylor assisted cent campaign and that Timme's influence was traded in ndvance to the Republican for the printing patronage, This explalns the intimacy between Cadet Taylor and *Honest™ George Timm. - UNDER A HORSE'S HEAD, How the Smith Murder Was Commite ted at Scotia by Quinn, murder for which a party named Quinn s wanted by the oflicials of county, in this state, and for th commission of which a man is now held by the police uuthoritics of this city, like nearly all the others in Nebraska the perpe- tgtors of which have uever been brought to justice, was most premeditated and cowardly, It was committed on the 2tk of last Jul a camp of Mallory & Cus contractors, who were th The John Gre SUppose Iding the 13, & M branch of the Lincoln Black Hills roud. It was in the evening. The murde was John - Quinn, man, and the murdered ‘the forcman of the ing during the day, o ordered Qinn to pump some wate s was his duty, for usc next day, and Quinn replicd that 1 —— it he would, Smith offered to give him some ussist , but without inducing his firm position, en the I they ading his horse up to the trough to let the animal dviik. Whilo stand ing at his horse’s head, with the bridle in of his hands, Quinn stole up cautiously on the other side of the beast and going und to tie animal’s head, reached under & neck and plunged . livge knifo jut Swith's side, inflicting a large wound., Smith was o powerful man and instantly attacked Quinn, with whom he struggled he became from loss of bloo ) saw t fight from a dist hut only foud the night watcl was Charles Swith Quinn had been dr Smith was sober, separated, Suiith | oral m 2 ing made his cscape. Sumith was St il for surgical attendance, but died on the 2ith, the second day afte Building Pe Jiis stabbing s, The following permits were Issued yesteoe- day by Su ont Whitlock ition 1o store, 1516 . § 410 Woolworth ind C. W. Rainey ehr, barn, h A 150 Miiyne, four Uarns, 24th near att \ y 1,400 M. Rusuiusscn, cottage, 25th und In ik s i A 50 e shop,” Grand ave i 500 v Grimd avenue, Six perwuis agy