Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 18, 1887, Page 4

4 ' THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED TERMS OF &1 ity Morning Edition) fucluding Sunday, T Une Vet el or Six Months or Three Month: 6 Dinalia Sinday HEE, dress, One Year.. ) s Omana Orrice, No. i AND IS FAnN A Suger. NEW YOIK OFFICE, ROOM 6, TRINUNE BUILD: ING, WASHINGTON OFVICE, No. 013 FOUR TERNTH STUERT. CORRFESPONDENCE, ANl communications relatin editorial mumr‘uh..nlr\ be ad ¥ 0 50 200 alied {0'any a 20 news and dressed to the S LETTERS: and remittances should be PUBLISHING COMPANY, Al busines addressed (o OMAHA. Drafts, ch be made payuble to U The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietors. E. ROSEWATER, Eprton. r of the company. ‘—I;Hl-} DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. 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N.P.FEII, Notary Public. for the Sullivan-Mitchell fight are eelling in London for $300. Mr. Sullivan in London is a better card than Oscar Wilde in the United States. INAUGURATION DAY will doubtless be changed trom the 4th of March to the 30th of April, the dayon which ‘Washington first took the presidential chair, SiTTING BULL is going to Washing- ton to oppose the Dawes bill, opening the Sioux rese Ttis sad to see & great warrior degencrate into a com- mon lobbyist. s SPIERE" growsand grows. An enterprising eastern lady has been getting pledges from farmers not to kill *=*gong birds, and then converted the doc- B uments into promissory notes. I takes but three days and one hour to go from Omaha to San Francisco. This is certainly a refreshing thought to the pioneers who crossed the plains in 49, at the rate of from sixteen to twenty miles a day. NEGROES have started and maintain " in successful operation scveral co- operative institutions in the south. This is a good idea. Perhaps some of the vexed problems attaching to this class of citizens may find solution in this direction. —_— THE town site of Los Angeles em- braces about sixty thousand acres. That of San Diego ninety thousand. At a moderate computation these two towns alone would require about four million inhabitants in order to maintain city values on that extent of territory. The prospects are that many of the mush- room towns of California will resolve themselves into farming lands again in ‘tha near future, — THE Cherokees, after a squabble of several weeks, have been unable to de- termine whether Mayes or Bushyhead _weroe elected to the Cherokece congress at the recent election. The former claims a majority of one hundred and fitty votes, which Bushyhead contests. An Indian inspector has been ordered from Washington to look into the con- test and straighten matters out. The * eontroversy has been a hot one and the Indians deserve credit for having con- ducted it so far without bloodshed. THE population of New York city is 1,500,000. The World furnishes this interesting item of the city's growth: $‘Ninety-one years ago last summer the first steamboat with a serew propeller was tested in this city. The water on which it floated was the Collect, or Freshwater Pond, and that beautiful pond, with its banks rich in foliage, flowed over the site now occupied by the Tombs. The population of the city was then 60,000, In 1832, fifty-five years 8go, it had increased to 200,000.” This shows that within fifty-five years the population has increased 1,300,000, Here is ample evidence that -a solid growth beats.a boom, e The great international competition and universal international exhibition, will open in Brussels May 8, 1888, and continue six months. This exhibition will be under.the patronage of Leopold XL, king of Belgium. It is organized on an entirely diffevent plan from all previous exhibitions, and the manage- ment claims that it “*bids fair to become & universal success, and to develop a revolution among all branches of trades and industries, from the fact that in ad- * “dition to the exhibition a convention will be held for the purpose of investi- gating into and practically demonstrat- ing by each exhibit how it can manu- facture better, quicker and cheaper,” All exhibits will be transported at gpecial rates, and all applications must be made by January 15, 1888, to the suthorized agents for the United States, © Armstrong, Knauer & Co., 822 and 824 Broadway, New York., The exhibition offers rare inducements to American exhibitors, and it is urged that manu- gacturdrs take this opportunity of plac- “gng their wares before the world. Ger- gany, France, Russia, Italy, Spain, Austria and England will be well repre- sented, The exhibition grounds cover 200 nores, and all possible attractions " for the amusement of visitors have hcon ‘secured, including the Wild West show \ . of Buffalo Bill. * YHE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1887.—-SIXTEEN PAGEN. Nebraska's Prospects. There is not a reasonable doubt that the addition to the population of Ne- braska from immigration, for the pres- ent year, will amount to fully one hun- dred thousand. It was shown by the vote at the last election that this is an entirely safe estimate, and it is equally certain that this state now has a popula-. tion that may be roundly stated at nine hundred thousand. Thisis an increase of nearly one hundred per cent in seven years, If the same ratio of growth is maintained until the year of the next national census, 1890, Nebraska will then have a population of about 1,300,- 000. TIsthere the slightest reason to question that this rate of increase will be maintained? On the contrary, all the probabilities favor it, with the chances that the population three years hence will exceed the above figures. There are indications that the exodus from the eastto the west during the coming year, and very likely for several years, will be on a larger scale than for the past several years. The farmers of New England are as a class not prosper- ous, and there are many in the Middle States whose condition presses upon them the expediency, if not the neces- sity, of changing'their location. The thoughts of thousands of these men, who are now eking out & mere hand-to- mouth existence with no prospect of im- provement in their situation so long as they remain where they are, are turned to the west. The broad, rich and in- viting fields of this section, where fair reward is assured to industry and thrift, open to them a7 vista of cheering possi- bilities which they can find nowhere else and which they know do not exist in the localities where they are now plodding out a nearly fruitless life. TLooking as they are daily compelled to do upon the dark side of the pleture presented in their sterile ficlds, growing eve year less productive, they reflect with the pleasure that hope gives upon the al- most boundless region of yet virgin soil, becoming every ycar more bountiful in yield, in the west. They read of its abundance, of its prosperity, of its i sistible energy and its grand progress, and they grow eager to become partici- pants in and contributors to this grand march of empire. Many of them will do so in the year to come and the years to follow. In all this inviting territory there is no part that offers more favorable in- ducements than Nebraska. Of its more than forty-eight million ncres there are still many thousands that hold the promise of splendid reward to the skill- ful and industrious husbandman, Its record as an agricultural state is estab- lished on an equality with the highest, and its productive capacity ise yet far from being fully developed. This year it stands at the front as a corn-produc- ing state, and will in all probability maintain this position in the future. For all the products of the soil and the raising of stock no state possesses supe- rior conditions. Prosperousand growing cities and towns are accessible as mar- kets by an ample and well-equipped railroad system, and every provision and requirement of an advanced civil- ization is supplied. No equal popula- tion anywhere else in the country can show more general comfort, content- ment and prosperity than the people of Nebraska. The invitation is extended to all who are seeking to improve their condition in life to come to this bounti- fully favored state,share in the existing prosperity and assist to increase it. There is still ample room and almost boundless opportunity for industry, en- terprise and thrift. — Death of 8. P. Rounds. The announcement of the death of S. P. Rounds, editor of the Repullican, will be received with great surprise in this community. Mr. Rounds came to Omaha about a year ago in full health and vigor. He had chosen this western metropolis for his home, with flattering prospects for success and enjoyment. Mr. Rounds was a man known through- out the entire west. For many years he wasactively engaged in Chi- cago in the printers’ supply] trade, where his name became familiar in every printing office. In his dealings with the members of the eraft he was always honorable and obliging. He was appointed government printer under the Garfield administration, which position he resigned to come to Omaha. Since his residence in this city Mr. Rounds has made many friends, and the announcement of his death will cause universal regret. Preserve Santa Claus, It is not altogether surprising that in this practical and prosaic age, with its development of narrow purism, there should be some people who think that Santa Claus, the children’s saint, who has ministered to the happiness of the millions in all enlightened lands for generations, should be cast out and abandoned, Uncomplimentary as it may be to the progress of intelligence, there are persons who can see no poetry in this medizeval myth, no possibility of a truth being taught by this gentle and almost unive 1y honored fiction, These purblind purists can see nothing but harm in the kindly deception that fills the imagination of childhood with the cheeriest fancies and the happiest anticipations, and with cold-hearted iconoclasm would rob the juvenile world of this only saint of its fancy that once in the year brings to it a boundless store of happy expectancy. An castern child’s paper having invited opinions on Santa Claus, received a num- ber of responses in favor of abolishing the good old saint, among others one from Rev. Dr. John Hull. This good and learned gentleman deprecated the custom because it is telling lies to little children, and although he granted that it may give them temporary pleasure, he thought **enjoyment hought through lies is gold bought too dear, if indeed it can be called gold.” Undoubtedly Dr. Hall heard in his childhood of the good Santa Claus, ana had his imagination enlivened and checred as children still do Dby the same “lies” that have .been repeated untold times since German fancy evolved the old suint, yet that excellent gentloman’s carecr astests that he did not suffer thevefrom. Nor has any other among the countless millions who have found delight in the ancient fiction. Fortunately opinions did not run all one way in this timely symposium, and among those who bore testimony in favor of preserving Santa Claus was Rev. Dr. William M. Taylor. See how easily and completely this more gener- ous-minded man disposed of the propo- sition to abolish the old saint, and how strongly he establishes the claim of Santa Claus to continued honor. Dr. Taylor said: I cannot sce that any harm is done by the references to and representations of Santa Claus at Christmas. The purism which would rule that out of all Christnas celebra- tions would deprive the mursery of all such “classics” as ‘‘Jack and the Bean Stalk,” “Jack the Giant Killer,” “‘Gulliver’s Travels" and the like; would overlay entirely the youthful imagination; would putan end to all childish playing at this or that, and would, in a word, take the poetry out of childhood, and make it all only very dull prose. Iam no¥ sure but that, fairly carried out, it would also taboo all the literature of imagination, and destroy everything in the shape of a book that is not literal fact. The proper an- tithesis to fact is fiction, and fiction may teach a dcep truth. Santa Claus is a fiction: but the truth beneath that fiction, which sooner or later comes to the surface, is love— the love of parents for children, teachers for scholars, and christians for each other; and probably in the end that truth is more effect- ively taught because of the impression made Dby Santa Claus in the beginning. Nothing more need be said in defense of the children’s saint, and there can be no doubt as to what the nearly unan- imous verdict will be on this summing up. Let the iconoclasts strike down whatever else they please, but the voice of childhood in one mighty chorus, welling up from the little hearts throb- bing with joyful anticipation, will de- mand that Santa Claus be spared. And 80 he shall be. — ‘Whittier's Birthday. The venerable poet of liberty and humanmty, John Greenleaf Whittier, yesterday celebrated his eightieth an- niversary at his New England home, Danvers, Mass. Mr. Whittier possesses more than the mere art of writing rhymes and fancies and painting nature. His genius and his intelligence are ever employed for his country, which he loves. He has been a leader, in al and political reforms. Ho de- sed slavery, and his fierce invectives against men who advocated it and main- tained that it was a divine institution were withering in their effects. It has been said of the illustrious old poet that **his was cast in a time of war and change, and he sang the songs and fought the battles of his time.” Of Mr. Whittier’s personal appear- ance, the New York Herald’s corres- pondent, who very recently interviewed him, says: Tall, and as straight as one of the young pines in his favorite grove, it seems impos- sible that he is about at the end of four score years. The crown of his head is bald, and his hair is glossy silver, but his great black eyes are as clear, bright and piercing as if he were in the prime of life. He walks with the deliberation and dignity of age, but without a suggestion of physical feebleness, and while he remains standing his head is as fincly poised as a soldior’s; The straightness of his figure is the more noticeable on account of his Quaker dress, the coat of which fits him as neatly and closely as if it were the con- ventional “swallow-tail.” When seated and listening, his head drops slightly forward and aside—a pose which seems peculior to poetic natures the world over. He is a most appreciative reader of other men’s books and poems, and talks admirably of all good writ- ings, except his own, of which he can scarcely be persuaded to speak, even to his dearest intimates. Hundreds of eloquent and beautiful testimonials to Whittier were evoked in Bouor of his eighticth birthday. These touching lines of Mr. George W. Childs fully portray the pure and heautiful life work of the Bard of Danvers: Forone in full accord with the spirit of Whittier's verse it is bard to tell where to begin, how to continue and when to close; it is 80 full, so varied, so comprehensive; it so touches almost every chord of holy human sympathy and noble aspirations—the tender- st emotion ; the keenest love of nature and of his fellow men; consuming scorn for eant and alarm and hypocrisy as cloaks for tyranny; the broadest philanthropy, world wide peace, universal tolerance. Who can hope to make a reader of & casual letter com- prehend how fully Whittier's writings merit these earnest words, and stronger, unless he puts in evidence citations from the poems that call them forth? Yet you cannot give me the space for that, nor have I the time to choose from the rich storas in the volume which is always within reach when I am at work, For justification of the carnest words 1 have used I need only torecall the vivid po- etic pictures in Mogg Megone, or the Bridal of Pennacook, or the gentle and sweet spirit that flows through the Pennsylvania Pilgrim; the tender pathos of Maud Muller; the tran- quil domestic scenes within doors in Snow Bound, the ringing peals of the stanza which reproduce the “hurrying shout of Marion’s men;” the deep conviction of Phe brother- bhood of man shown in “‘Democracy” and the “Songs of Labor,” *The Quaker of the Olden Time” and ““The Reformer,” ivery lover of Whittier's verses—and none who has read them can fail to love them—will wish the veteran poet many years of life and happines: Psychical Research. A society for chical Research™ has been in existence in London for some tinie, and now a similar organiza- tion has been established in Boston. The society, by meuns of circulars, is collecting nccounts of cases where per- sons have had some remarkable experi- ence in the realm of phantasms, such as hallucinations, premonitions, dreams that have been the forerunners of actual occurrences, visits from ghosts, ete. All who have had such experiences are re- quested to inform the psychical inquir- ers of Boston, Their object is to determine whether sufficient data can be gathered to form a basis of fact for all the stories of so-called supernatural things thatare said to occur from time totime. The London society, after a long seavch after ghosts, came to the conclusion that there are none, This question of supernaturalism has always had a strong fascination for man- kind, But after a historical existence of six thousand years the race is still uncertain whether there is an oceult world from which we occasionully get passing glimpses or not. It mow re- maing to be scen whether the Boston so- ciety was predestined to settle the mat- ter. i Most minds in @ normal condition dispose of the problem in this way: People hava seen and heard strange things w)xig\ ordinarily do not happen. - Ghosts hive been seen. Pree monitions that proed fo be well founded have been experienced. Visits from the dead have beep secured. Dreams bave been fulfilled. )IThere is no doubt of the truth of this'as far as the indi- vidual who claims to have experienced these strange things is concerned. He has actually seensamd heard all he claims, but he was mistaken as to their outward reality. Thoy arose from his peculiar organizatfond Were subject- ive. If a person’ falls and his head strikes some hard substance he sees stars. Almost anyone can testify to the truth of this. The jar excites the nerve centers, that are rouséd into action, when actual sparks of fire are seen, und the result is the brain actually perceives sparks that have no real existence. It is the same in the hallucinations caused by fever. Visions are . photographed upon the brain because of the currents of blood that excite the mental organs to such perception. Thus some people perceive the materialized spirits of departed friends. To the individual all this is real enough, though it is all a delusion a8 far as outward existence is concerned. This is the argu- ment used against the existence of supernaturalism. The perfectly nor- mal person never sees or hears inexplica- ble things. With a good digestive ap- paratus and ahealthy mind in a healthy body he eats, sleeps and works and dies without having experienced anything that could not be solved after the logic of natural causes To such a person there is nothing mysterious in the world. As far as human knowledge goes he seems to be .right. Trained physicians who under- stand the functions of the human body better than any one else, with a few ex- ceptions, have no belief in the reality of mind or faith cures. They explain hallucinations, premonitions, dreams, hypnotism, ete., by unnatural bodily conditions. All this is very good. But we may pertinently ask the healthy, normal human machine, may there not be a world which we of five senses caunot perceive? Might we not be wonder- fully astonished by unsuspected revel tions had we a sixth sense? May there not be persons with at least a rudiment- ary sense in addition .to the five pos- sessed by the majority of people? Inan infinite universe no finite en- tity can say, *‘this must be thus.” —— Vibratory, Sympathy. Mr. Keely, of motor mme, is still san- guine of succe: The first annual meeting of the stockholders of the motor company named in honor of the invent- ive genius, since 1833, was held in Philadelphia a few days ago. There were seventy-five stockholders present, representing nearly 70,000 shares. The report of Mr. Keelgy, ‘in which he re- viewcd the progress of his invention, was read and accepted. This veritable Colonel Sellers, who has gulled the pliblic' for years with his imaginary “etheric” and “vaporic” forces admitted that he had long since abandoned the idea of utilizing them. He said that he had completed a generator for the purpose, but @wing to impossibility of securing graduation the whole scheme was impracticable. However, after a- succession of interest- ing but laborious experiments he pro- duced in March, 1885, what he termed a liberator, which could be operated in conjunction with the generator, which was a vast stride in advance of any- thing accomplished hitherto. Mean- while phenomena had been unfolded to him, opening a new fleld of experiment as the result of which he became pos- sessed of a new and important discov- ery. Hereafter he shall not, he says, require either the genecrator or lib- erator, and his operations will be con- ducted without either the vaporic or etheric forces which heretofore played such an important part in his exhibi- tions. What name to give his new form of force he does not know, but the base of it all, he says, is vibratory sym- pathy. It may be divided, too, into negative and sympathetic attraction, these two forms of force being the an- tithesis of each other. To know that Mr. Keely deceived the stockholders and failed toreport that he had abandoned his etheric and vaporic forces,—except to draw money — fur- nishes almost conclusive proof that both Mr. Keely and his mythical motor are vibratory and sympathetic frauds, Why he can continue to cash his cheek is a mystery. p GIVE the children presents. A dollar will never buy so much happiness for them when they are older. Everyone can afford to be generous once a year. POLITICAL POINTS. There will be no labor candidate in the next presidential campaign. The Des Moines Register calls the Prohibi- tionists the “assistant saloon p After the experience pf the past most peo- ple will think Higgins has a string tied to his resignation. Senator Don Camerot has introdued a bill toextend the benefits of.the eight hour law to letter carriers, bes151 The democrats of Phhladélphia have pro- nounced in favor of the feduction recom- mended by the president. Mr. Mills, of Texas, fl’nnh that congress will this winter pass & bill lowering duties and decreasing revenue. Chairman Jones, of the republican national committee, thinks Bldtne had no desire to be nominated for the pesidency. It is expected that a majority of the re- publican members of the Virginia legislature will support Mahone for senator, 1t is said to be a matter of history that the United States senateshas never yet rejected A revenue measure sent to it by the house. The republicans should make the effort to carry suficicnt sfates to elect their candi- date for president without the vote of New York. 4 All republicans will ask of the national convention will be that it shull name two men who will unite all republicans in their support, north, south, cast and west. Prohibition is not a new “ition” by any means. It was stronger thirty yearsugo than now, and was the law of more states than now, and fafled in-all of them. At the election ¥ Rhode Island next April a legislature will be chosen which will select Benator Chase's successor. The present logislature is democratic on joint ballot. Senator Teller, of Colorndo, will be per- fectly satisfied with the republican nomince for the presidency if he is a good man and able to win the fight against Cleveland. The New York Evening Post says: The most striking fact brought out by the com- ments of the republican press is the increas- g divergence between eastern and western members of the party on the tariff issue. Some republican papers are urging the na- tional committee to base representation in the next republican national convention on the vote cast by the party in the several states in 1834, instead of on the electoral vote. The flery ex-Senator Van Wyck, says the Springfield Republican, is a thorough hater of corporations, but he ought to be qualified to speak for the Nobraska farmers. He says they and the west generally favor tarift re- duction. Senator Hawley says: “It is not the fault of the republicans that the taxes are so high, and that all this surplus has accumulated. Revenue measures must start in the house, and tho democrats have had the house tenout of twelve years,” Ex Congressman Marston, of New Hamp- shire said toan interviewer last week. “Ido not hesitate to say that if Roscoe Conkling was again an active worker in the party, as he formerly was, he would be my choice as the republican candidate for the presidency. As matters now stand, however, I would name Sherman as a republican nomince. Next ‘would naturally come Allison or Sheridan.” The issue before the fisheries commission can now be stated definitely, Canada offers to throw open her fishing grounds and to give also the usual commercial privileges in her ports to our fisherman, provided we ad- mit, duty free, her fish, lumber and agri- cultural products. Secretary Bayard de- clines the offer upon the ground that we do not care to buy the Canadian in-shore fish- ing privilegos, while the commercial priv- ileges are due us in any event under the gen- eral rule of maritime reciprocity. Maligning the Surplus. Philadelphia Times. If it is true that money talks what a lively conversationalist the surplus ought to be. An Important Modification. New Orleans Picayune. The busy men of this' world are the best men, providing they are busy with theirown business. o Xl . An Individual Matter. aw $ork World. Every man can abolish the whisky tax for himself. Not so with the tax on sugar, salt, coal and clothing. s L3 Very Considerate. Fall River Advocate. It is from a sheer dislike of encouraging prevarications that we uever ask a woman how old she is. s ¥ Successors to ‘' Codfish Aristocrats Cliicago Inter-Ocean Coal is 80 searce along the Ohio and Missis- sippi rivers that deslers won't speal to men below the ranlk of colonel. e miaige al ‘What Rotation Means. Washington Capital. Small boy—Papa, what does rotation in ofice mean? Papa (who is waiting fora place)—It means turn the rascals out, my son, e Right Man in Right Place. Loulsville Courier-Journal. When the. prisoners in the Ohio peniten- tiary start a savings bank it will be handy to have there 8o experienged a banker as Mr. Harper. L e Mutual Admiration Socicty. St. Paul Pioneer Press. Alarge photograph is now in circulation which shows Arensdoff and his friends in the forcground, and behind them the jurymen that saved Arensdorf's neck. T g A Primitive Proceeding. Minneapolis Tribune. A Kansas City capitalist was actually ar- rested and fined for drunkenness the other duy. But then, Kansas City is @ frontier town and the people down therehave primi- tive notions. e Sharp Counter Thrust. San Francisco Alta. The Minneapolis papers say Florida is an old humbug and California is a new humbug, This coming from so cold a country that they pile corpses up like cordwood all winter, be- cause they cannot be buried until the ground thaws, is more impudent than original, = The Captive Soul Written for the Sunday Bee by Frances Ficld. L A soul, in life's grim fortress doomed to bide, Witk longing eys gazed from her duugoon Tow: where oblivion’s deep and sullen tide Forever ebbs and flows with soundless swell. In shackles locked, chained to the moulder- ing stone, Tormented sore by memory's ghastly throng, Trembling she lay, moan. “Have pity, heaven! how long" and made heart-rending How long, oh Lord, 1L Time was she wist not that her limbs were bound, Nor felt the fetters that upon her weighed; Where joy with hope had trod a merry round, And all about & cheery singing made. Love kissed her close and his sweet story told, As flcet'and gaily sped the laughing hours; His magic made her prison bars seem gold, And_garlanded her chains with fragrant flowers, piin But, soon grown weary in her circling arms, He sighed for liberty, then lightly fled; Vain was her anguish, vain Ler once prized charms; Aud_with 'love, hope and joy alike were sped. Weird shadows lengthened with the dying sun, Behind' the clouds e'en merey ccased to smile; The tortured soul, deserted and undone, PForgotten, waited, the'weary,weary while, Iv. At last, when darkness gloomed athwart the plain, # A horseman, crowned with wreath of as- phodels, Before the dreary prison house drew rein; In all the air was sound of tolling bells. ‘White shone his vale steed through uight's murky pall, cm:;:_ul his mien, his bearing proud and ig] The chill vaults echoed to his clarion call~ “Death, conqueror griu of life and time, am L V. Wide flew the dungeon doors at his command. From the poor captive swift the chains he tore. He raised the imprisoned wretch with icy -hand Aud bade her drain the Lethean draught he bore. “Fear ngt," e cried, “quaff deep, for 10! with n Dwell freedom, rest and sweet peace with- end.” the Soul: “With joy T drink to Welcome, thrice welcome, my one faithful friend.” Pt Silk Robbers. New Yonx, Dec. 17.—A $3,000 robbery of vifluable silks was uncarthed to-day in the United Stutes appralser's stores in this city, implicating several of the clerks in the de- partment of customs in 4 clever forgery, DEATH OF HON. §. P. ROUNDS. After a Briof Illness Ho Suddenly Passes Away. HEART DIFFICULTY THE CAUSE. A Complication of Discascs Hasten the Demise—Sketch of His Long Public Carcer—The Funeral Preparations, Sterling P. Rounds. Sterling P. Rounds, chief proprietor of the Omaha Kepublican, and ex-public printer, died at 5:05 o'clock last pight. The immediate cause of his death was abscess of the heart, but a complication of discases tende to destroy the vital tissues. The demise occurred at his resi- dence, 2413 Farnam strect. Whilo his pass- ing away was expected his sudden tuking off was a shock to his nearest relatives. He had been confined to the house bt a fow days, and although from the first it- was believed that the iliness might terminate fatally, this fear was not generally known until the day of his death. The funeral will be held next Wednesday from the family residence, probably under Masonic auspices and the body will be sent to Chicago for interment. Mr. Rounds was born in Berkshire, Vt., June 27, 1828, The founders of the family in this country were two brothers, who came over in the carly colonial times. They were all liberty loving men, members of the family having been officers and soldiers in the war of 1812, Mexican, and later in the war of the rebellion. ‘While he was yet a lad his family removed to Kenosha, Wis. His father was aunxious for him to adopt the legal profession, but the lad had already formed t love for the “Art Preservative” which h grown with his growth and raised him from the lowly position of “Printers Devil” to the honorable and important position of Government Printer the head of one of the most important de- partments in the government of the United States, and beyond all comparison the lurg- est printing and binding establishment in the world. His tutor, Governor Harvey of Wisconsin, \ght him his trade, wher r five years ho stly and diligently studied to master its acies. He was offered the foremanship of the state printing office, then owned by W. W. Wyman, at Madison, Wis, From here he attached himself to the first daily paper in - Wisconsin—"The Milwaukce Sentinel.” He held the position of foreman for two years. He had now learned all the art that could be taught in an ordinary priot- ing office, and being anxious to become an pert and a8 near the head of the profession as possible, he removed to Buffalo, New York, und connected himself with thé print- ing firm of Jewett, Thomas & Co., of the Commercial ~ Advertiser, then ¢ known as the finest and most printing house in that part of Am entered upon his second apprentic at the end of two years was presented with a diploma by the veteran “Thomas” as a first class and accomplished pressman. From here he returned to Wisconsin and started a weekly paper called the “O!d Oaken Bucket,” 4 literary and pecuniary succe Enjoying a brilliant reput n as ajob printer and being ambitious for a larger field; he removed to Milwaukee and consoli- dated with the Connnercial Advertiser, and here he added to his reputation as a first class printer. In 1851 he removed to Chicago, placing his skill as an _equal offset to the capital and business of James J. Langdon, then the largest printing house in Chicago, and in_less than one year they wmore than doubled thefr business. After a few years of marked prosperity the office was sold to Mr. Cook and other parties, who started what is to-day the Chicago Times. Then they purchased a new oftice and estab- lished a printers’ warchouse. From this date up to the great fire of 1871, Mr. Rounds’ business was a steady success until it was swallowed up by the flames and the labor of years went flying heavenward in the storm of fire which clothed the western metropolis in sackcloth and ashes. His business doubled and trebled until it he largest and most noted one in the In 1850 he added the first elec- trotype foundry in the west, and the same year estabiished the Rounds' Printers’ Cab- inet, now thirty-one years old and acknowl- edged by the craft to be one of the fin and most useful printers’ journals in the world, In 1868 he started the Pioneer printing press manufactory in the northwest. ~He successfully weathered the financial crash of 1857, The great fire of 1871 swept away his entire establishment, causing him a loss of $125,000. When the late James A. Garfield was elected president some of Mi Rounds’ friends announced him as a can date for public printer. Ho has occupicd many stations of trust and responsibility. Among them were president of the Illmois Pross association, presi- dent of the N hwestern Type Founder's associatjou, also of the Chicago Employ Printer’'s association, and for many ye: active member of the volunteer fire depurt- ment, and also of the Apollo commandery of the Knights Templar, and during ail the years has gained the solid respect and friend- ship of all with whom he came in contact, e AMUSE. Close of the National Opera Season at the Grand. The last performance of the National opera company took place at the Grand opera house last night, the opera being Gounod’s “Faust.” The cast comprised the wellknown and favorite principals of the company, Barton McGuckin as st; Willlam Ludwig as Mephistopheles; Alonzo Stoddard as tine and Emma Juch as Marguer A stronger cast, the National Opera company could not have made. It satisfled even the most exacting in the audience. Every aria and concerted piece was encored. Ludwig's magnificent voice with ease filled the vast auditorium. In acting, he played with the character, and yet gave us a Mephistopheles about as diabolical as the average auditor is disposed to tol te. The Marguerite of Miss Juch was a sweetly conceived chi tion. Vocally, it was wort 5 0 able singer, “She threw her whole soul i her work,and frresistably evoked the app ciation of the immense audicnce. It must be said, howevel I a few months Miss Juch's volee suffered an impair ment which was not pleasant to note by friends, but it interfered in no way with the popular appreciation of her work. Guckin's I'aust was an ag people who had formed an ability after having seen him in h work., While the fin feeling and the lighte libretto lacked the deli ment demanded, Mr. M was noted for its gallantry, grace and m bearing. His singing, especially in the more fervid and demonstrative passaccs, was ud- mirable and most warmly received. The choruses were excellent and the ballet most worthy of appreciation. Omaha bids good-bye with a gret to the Nationul opera company. It docs 80, however, with the hope th company may meet in other places with the success which it desorves, and to which the people of v vity, with their usual liberality, have contributed. While regretting the tr tions to which management has been sub- jeeted, the people of this city hope that ia the ©ond, the end of the mavagement of the com- pany may be attained and that it may be placed on a basis that shall iusure to this intry & non-experimental representation of the grandest operas, with the greatest of singers and the most realistic of settings Which, i the namo of numlc.‘lmpuldr appre- ciation, expericuce aud good management can secure, stimate ne of his ¢ shades of passages of the which the senti- ckin’s charac ing of re- MOKE MIXED PICKL " J. B. Polk again delighted the audience at Boyd's last evening i the sativical comedy of “Mixed Pickles.” The eut main- tained, i the fullest measur . established on the previsus evening, and. the audience was kept in analmost uninterrupted state of titillation from the opening lines to the close. A stronger counter attraction last night alone interfered - with an attendance commensurate with the wmerits of “Mixed Picklos.” Polk, nevertheless, was at his bost, as was John Woodward, Mary Dayi and ' Miss Kenyon Bishop, Noxt -Monday night the beautiful Lillian Olcott in Sardou's greatest work On next aturday, Owmaha's most favorite picces, a play which has not been seen here in- two years, "31:. Lights of London,” will be presented. . is one of the most successful and entortaining melo-dramas on the boards, It requires a couple of car londs of scenery to produce it. Nothing will be omitted to make its presentas tion at the Grand a grand success, STHEODORE™ AT BOYD'S, On Monday and Tuesday nights this weelk deott reat ability will ¢ at s opera house in Sardon's vy “Theodor Miss Ol duction of “Theodora’ was one of the great dramatic successes of last season, In New York it ran o th onth the vast auditorium of N incapable of accommodating the crowd thrunged to see the splendid performunce. TIE BOSTONTANS AT ROYD'S Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and day of this weck, with a matinee on the lattee d The Bostonians, whose members were so long and favorably known as the Boston Ideals, will appear at Boyd's o house in the varied repert Wednesd ay, “Tho Pouch \m‘\\') § Johemian Girly” Saturday matinee, “Fra Diavolo;" urday evening, “Fanchonette,” (new). The Bostonians have met with praiseworthy success since the opening of the season in October last and assurance is given by laudatory eritics in the most influential news- papers that their merit is commensurate with their patronage. The company numbers fifty-five people, carries an orcliestra of fif teen led by 8. L, Studley, has & large and expensive outfit of costumes and propertios and a car load of special scencry withal, the latter finding its pri 1ield in *“Fatinitza,’, the opening opera. The advance sale of re- served seats for th8 opening engagement will open next Tucsday morning, b one of Frids A Badly Beaten Thief. A German named W. C. Lew is charged with robbing John Hanley of §20 yesterday afternoon in Wallen loon on Davenport street. Hanloy was in a beastly state of in- toxication at_the time Lew went through his bockets, but the theft was observed by C. V. Brown, and the police were sent for., Lew thereupon commenced calling Brown all manner of opprobrious epithets, which re- sulted in a fight between them. Lew got the worst of it, and by the time the police had arrived on ‘the scene, his was badly dis- figured. He was taken to the police station, but was released on bail A Youthful Shoplifter, Warren Arnold, a boy cf thirtecn, was ar- rested last evening for shoplifting in Faleon- er's store. His mother begged hard to let him off, but there has beeu so much petty larceny perpetrated in the store of late it was decided to make an example of the boy, and he was locked up in the central station. W. M. Boon, of Utict lard. eh., is at the Mil et BILL NY OPERETTA. Something Quite Liu New York Worl w in the Musical The prima donna of the “Singed Cat™ has a pleasant voice full of timber and fine allegro movement, bordering on_the andante. Mr. Riley who has heard her, suys that when sho pulls out the last joint on her crescendo and opens her upper resister, her mouth looks unlike a stab in the k. She sings with the whole arm movement, and’_ her action is good as she goes by the judges’ stand. She has a selection in the second act called *‘Back to our Mountains,” in which she starts oft with a ritard in which she emits a chest note which tests the acoustics of the hall, that she is tickled to get back to her mountains, such us they aro, and is pleased with the attitude. Sike has assisted in ‘“The Damation of Taust,” but otherwise her connuct has been good. She is a widow, her hus- band Dbeing deceased. He was listens ing to the song of a buzz-saw near Still« water, Minn., in_'75, and got an idea that the saw had something confidens tial to communicate and desired to take him apart for that purpose. Anyway, he was in that condition when they found him. For that reason her music is frequently tearful and often solfeggio in spots. Ier repertoire is very large and has a lid on it. The only criticism that [ feel warranted in making, and I hate to do that, is that she has slightly ruptured her voice by trying several years ago to sing a duet with herself and thus draw two salaries. ‘When the applause has died away Felix comes in with a baritone voice and diminished triade. He thinksof the first verse while the piccollo makes a few desultory remarks and then he explains how he could not get there when he agreed to because the 1ur disagreed, or something of the kind, He swallows an imaginary clam with the shell on it, and begins in_a low, pusse roundelay which develops into a duodecimo run. He is accom- panied by a running mate, consisting Scene second represents a midnight fire, in a young thllcs‘ seminary, in which 282 young women are noticed ut- tering o number of shrill appeals for help by the light of the fire ficnd. The music here is an adaptation of “Sonnam- bula Satannica,” " or the “Devil’s Quick fiddling by the hoad all over the bridge of the instrument, and partially across the bridge of the second fidd1or’s nose, pre- cedes a general punic on the part of the bassoon drum and ophecleide, It is a beautiful sight. A defiant note from the B flat cornet, indorsed on the back by the bass tubrand a long, colicky an from the bass drum, ushers Vassar College Hook and Ladder Company No. 1, consisting of a flre organization numbering over one hun- dred and fifty members, banded to« goether for the purpose of rescuing beaus tiful but frightencd girls from burning seminarics at a moment’s notice. Iach firemnan wears a lawn-tewflis shirt with full-dres st leather pumps. fire ex- tinguisher bound in Russi taining of visiting curds. When u fire breaks out in 4 youny ludies’ seminury atnight he dvesses himsell and goes to it. Me finds the juni- tor ana sends up his card to ono of the frightened students asking if ho mauy have the pleasure of reseuing her from the fire fiend. If he comes well recommended she tells the janitor to show him up. _She then festoons her- self over Lis shoulder in her simple white gown, with Valenciennes lace around the throat, and lier warm tears of gratitude trickle down and tickle the buck of his neck as ho tenderly conveys her into the adjoining county, where her parents live on a farm. “This is a good part of the Operetta, making it spectacular and yet respecta- ble. He must, indeed, bé a creature dead toall finer instinets of our lost and underdone race who will not pay to see a chorus of beautiful girls rescued from a burning seminary at night. How mueh more lifelike it is than o militia company of beautiful women who come on the stage with as brief address as parlimentary rules will allow, and after making a few terse remarks with both Singed Gat” introduces a pri- | aseminary, an entre nous s company and a barrell of rain-water. In contains everything en- nobling, with the exception of a plot. Frank Mayo arvived at the Millard this morniug, from Californis, He appears with Nis company this evening in Dohuncy's, in Council Bluffs, Mrs. Judge Fitagerald, of Cincinnati, I8 in the city, visiting Mr. sud Mrs, Joba Temple tou,