Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 8, 1888, Page 4

_ THE DAILY BEE. 3 | PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBRCRIPTION Daily Morning Edition) including Sunday ik, One YOAE <. . Vuaeee 810 00 For %}x M . onne o 5 II: ree Mont b R | Bh O ha ,..,,xy ir e, matied toany ad- drevs, One Year ' ... v 200 OMANA OFPICE, NORSI AND 210 FARS AM STREET. NEW YOIK OpFice, ROOM 65, TRIRUNE BUILD- ING. WASHINGTON OFFICE, NO. 613 Foun- TEENTH STHERT, CORRESPONDE! All_communications relating editorial matter shotld be addy Eoitor o¥ Ti v * BUSINES AN business letters and remittances should be addressed to Tii BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, Dra hecks and postofice orders puyablé to the order of the compuny. e Beg Publshing Company, Proprictors. E. ROSEWATER, Eprron. T G LR THE DAILY BEE. nths, LETTERS, Sworn Statement of Ci Btate of Nebraska, County of Dauliss, Geo. . secretary ot Th Mshing com ses solemnly swear that the actnal ciren ending Dec Saturday, Bunday, De Monday, D Tuesday, Dec. Wednesday, I Thursday, D Friday, Dec. lation. Average, 3 Satan GEO. 13 TZ8CHUC Sworn to and subseribed in my prese; 24 day of January, A. D., 184, N. P. FEIL, Notary Pubiic. Btate of Nebraska, Vs.s County of Douglass, | 2 Geo. . Tzachuck, being first duly &worn, de- s and snys that he is_ secretary of The Bee mflllhhlu-v Company, that the actual avernge of the Daily Bee for the mouth 16,21 coples: for February, for March, 1887, 14,400 copi: 16 copies: for May, 1886, 187, 14,147 coples: for oAUt 8T, 14,151 ¢ 1M coples 3 mber, 1857, 1867, 15,041 cople: GEO, B, TZSCHUCK. Buorn and subscrild to in’ my this 2d day of January, At D. 18, N. P FEIL, Notary Public dally cirenlats OMAIA is among the cities selected by Princeton college at which entrance examinations will be held in June, sim- ultancously with sach examinations in the college. The alnant of Princeton are well represented in this e TEXAS and Miss > furi- ous over the veports that people froze to death in those states duving the re- cent cold wave. As a counter irvitant we would advise our southern ex- changes to start a report that the cause of death was sunstroke, FreQu and loud complaints veach us from thePacific cons ' the ineflici- ency of the railway postal sevvice. This city and nearly all the growing cities and towns of Nebraska have wretched postal facilities. The post- office department is evidently not well informed in regard to the rapid develop- ment of the region west of the Missouri. THE scheme for reclaiming the barren lands of southwestern Arizona is said to be working well. Irrigation cpmpanies have been formed and the method is to have settlers take up six hundred and forty ucres of land each nnder the desert land act and then deed half of the claim to the companies for water. The ar- rangement seems oquitable for the pres- ent at least, but- those water companies are destined to become enormously wealthy in the near future. A MEXICAN actress playing in Buffalo became so intensely earnest in her por- trayal that she very nearly amputated the hand of one of tho actors, and the unfortunate fellow may have to lose the member. Actresses with such extremely strong cmotions should not allow them- selves to use real daggers where other people aro concerned.. A harmless im- itation would answer every purpose so far as the audience is concerned. It may transpive in this case, however, that there was method in the alleged emotion. — IN discussing the condition of the poor in England recently Cavdinal Manning is reported to have said: “Every man has aright to life and a right to the food necessary to sustain life. Sostrict is thas right that it pre- vails over all positive laws of property. Necessity has no law. A starving inan has a natural right to his neighbor’s ‘bread.” Some enstern papers comments ing on this declaration call it anarchy. Itis not. It is the law of humanity. Starving men and women ve been im- prisoned and punished for stealing food. But their act was justifiable by the law that stands above all the laws made by men-~the law of self pr vation. § Waere is the governor of T Last week the president issued a proo- lamation claiming for the United States Jurdsdiction over the land lying castof the 100th meridian and between the north and south forks of the Red river, which land is also claimed by Texns, It was expecied that the governor, who is al- ways prompt to assert the rightsand su- thority of the state, would immediately issue a counter proclamation asserting the jurisdiction of Texas over the dis- puted tevritory, but thus far he has been silent, It is not yet too late for him to speak, but as it isa democratic presi- dent who has taken this somewhat arbi- trary actiou it would not be surprising *4f the Texas governor quietly submitted toit. SETwsmm———— CONNECTICUT i5 one of those state which enjoys whatover benefits are to be derived from the high tariff. Yet the average prosperity of its people is by nomeans high and is considerably ‘below that of the peple of several states ‘that do not get any of the advantages @scribed to the tariff. The commis- sioner of labor of Connecticut reports a oondition of affairs among the working people of the state that is anything but reassuring for the radical protection advocates. Last your was ouc of excep- tional business activity and prosperity. Yet many families in Counceticut, with most of their members working, *were unable to carn more than suf- ficient for the scantiest subsistonco, and some found their necoessary ex- penses to exceed their income. Theve ore other protected localities which will tell an cqually gloomy story, yet the high tariff advocates will go right on ginging tho changes on the advantages of their policy to labor and thousands of thoughtless people will continue to beliove them, Our Duty To the Poor. While Omaha is still congratulating herself over the magnificent record of material improvement which the year just closed has shown, it may not be amiss to look upon a side of the picture not so pleasant, perhaps, butstill hardly less important. Riches and poverty go hand in hand. It does not need the graphic pen of o Henry George to make the fact apparent and clear, that added population means its proportion of wealk und helpless and unfortunate, and that increased trade carries with itinercased numbers of seckers after employment and increased numbers of those who do not always succeed in finding it. The ger the city the harder the winters for those who, through no fault of their own, are forced to struggle against pen- ury, and want for food and clothing, fuel and shelter. The wider extended the city limits the wider ave scattered the poor. The denser the population, jnst as surely the denscr is the misery. Omaha has just reached the point when she is beginning to have forced upon herattention the unwelcome fact, promi- it iu all large eities, that poverty and prosperity go hand in hand. The great truth spoken eenturies ago by the great teacher, that “‘the poor you have with you alwnys,” is pressing itself upon us as it never hos before. Individual ef- fort, which in a small town or larger city has been ample for individual re- lief, is lost in a great city in the mass and sinks into comparative inefliciency when called upon to grapple with a yearly inereasing number of the sick and poverty stricken and unfortunate. “Dying trom destitution,” is a head- ing which ten years ago would have been impossible in Omaha. Friendly neighbors would have discovercd the need and been guick to apply the re- lief. To-day with a round hundred thousand bhustling, active citizens it falls with some sense of surprise upon the ear. but with no surpussing feeling of shoek. Communities like persons idly hecome eallouted, through no fault #t may be of theirown,but hecause repe- Aition dulls the edge of novelty The call to remember the poor comes to us at this m with more than usual urgeney. The prosperity of the city as a whole has never heen so great as it is ot pres The proportion of wealth to population is large among us even for a western city, Advanced values of realty, an enhanced volume of trade, and steady employment for wage earners during the year just elosed have en the rule The increased deposits in the banks show an increased fund of savings, and the large number of small dwellings, as well as the more preten- tious mercantile structures erected, evi- that thrift has been among us working its beneficient results. Omaha has never been in better condition to sce to it that honest poverty should not beg shamfaced for relief, and find a deaf v turned to its petitions. And so, in the midst of a severe win- ter, the BEE appeals, as it has so often done bhefore, to the benevolent men and women of Omaha to open their hearts and purses in behalf of the many worthy organized charities which are struggling to reliove want, and penury and miser in the heart of a great city. There noneed to speeify ov to particularize. Their names and objects are well known, and the unselfish hearts and hands behind them vouch for the proper distribution of the funds which they collect. Whether it be in the churches, or societies, or quite outside regularly counstituted re- ligious or benevolent associations, they deserve and should receive a hearty and a generous support from our people. It is as much the dutyof a community to take care of its deserving poor as it is to educate its growing gen- eration, for pauperism and crime are twin sisters. ——e Excesses in Public School Policy. There can be no question that the consensus of opinion among the most in- telligent educators of the time, as well as among thoughtful men not divectly engaged in educational work, is opposed to the policy that has grown up within the past dozen years, and is steadily ex- panding, of crowding the public schools with studies which can never be of any service to the grear majority of chil- dren who must be content with the acquirements to be securcd at these schools. There have been heard during the past year or two numerous protests from scholars and men of experience in teaching against the tendency to continually enlarge the curriculum of the public schools, regardless of the question of practical results to be de- vived and of the conditions surrounding the majority of those who attend these schools. It has been shown that as to the larger number of publie school pu- pils the value of the schools has really depreciated under the alleged pro sive policy. The children who can do- voto ouly o few years to school work, and who should have the fullest advan- tage of this time in acquiring o knowl- edge of the rudimenys of an English ed- ucation that would he of practical nse to them in afterlife, are forced to squander a considcrable share of this valuable period on studies that will never be of any service to them! but which aceprive them of an adequate knowledge of those branches that will be of use to them, The explanation of the uunecessary i mded the pub- chools and are ever threatening them may be found in several causes. The universal spiritof liberality with respect to public edueation is an in- centive to extravagant expenditure in this direction. It is a stigmn on any ecommunity to refuse any demands that may be made upon iv in behatf of the %mhlir school system, and the proudest ol in the record of a community is the generosity it has shown providing for its schools. one will wish o discourage this spivit, Itis whon vationally excrcised most proper and commenduble, and onght to crywhere maintuined. But it is manifostly wise in tho inte who ave to profit by the schools, and just to those who must pay for theiv support, to inquire whethor the expenditure is being made with such thoughtful di eration as to produce the best attain- able vesnlts, Another explauation is found in the incapacity of the majority of those having the administration of in No he ¢ school affaivs to understand ‘what is at ' tion, asts of thoso | T T P T g P SR OMAHA DAILY BE: . SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 188 ~TWELVE PAGES once mecessary and . proper for the schools, or else in theie disposition as politiclans to . use thelr power in furtherance of their personal ambi- tion. It is the expericnce of newrly every eity in the country thata majority of the men elected to boards of educa- tion are utterly unfit for the intelli- gent performance of the duties of such a position, while others who may not lack the intelligence are wanting in that disinterested devotion to the work which every man in such a position should possess. The former cluss wre mere creatures in the hands of un- scrupulous colleagues or self-sevking persons identified with the schools, while the latter ave ever on the alert to avail themselves of an opportun- ity to advance their personal iuterests, generally as politicians, by having some new scheme that will quarter the friend of some- body of influcnce upon the schools. Still another explanation is the fact that specialists in almost every line of in- struetion. who do not find their knowl- edge available as a means of livelihood in the ordinary way. seek to load them- selves on the public schools, and fre- quently succeed in doing so when they have the right sort of influence to reuch a suscaptible hoara of edueation. In the Junuary number of the Forum Rev. M. J. Suvage considers the ques- “What shall the public schools tdach?” and his simple answer is that they should im- part to all ehildren such instruction as will enable them to become self-sup- porting. which involves a measure of industrial training, o much general in- telligence as shall make it safe for thein to become ¢ 'ns, and such moral training as shall serve to keep them outof the ways of vice. “A public sehool,” he says, “supported by public money can justly aim oaly at publie ends. The managers of the public schools are using money not their own, and have therefore no moral right to do with it what they please. They are only the agents of the pub- lie, and it is their business to sce to it that the public moncy is not turned aside to merely individual . but is faithfully devoted to such as shull subserve the public we farve, Such judicious friends of the public schools do not desire that they shall be less generously provided for, but they do demand that the provision made shall be wisely used for producing the best practical results in the interest of the great majority of children who attend the public schools and can look for nething beyond them. e ends Conditions to Success. What gives succe That is—en- tirely apart from the kind of success sought—what most helps a man to get what he wants? The stock virtues are generally paraded by theovetical phil- osophers; the practical man has not the time nor inclination to analyze the force behind him. He is content to use it without speculating about its characteristics. Hence few people have an adequate ideaof the value of that peculiar quality which is not self-con- fidence, not determination, not perse- verance; but which is a combination of all three, and which is somewhat im- perfectly comprehended in the word sgrit.” Conscious power is the first requisite. The man who knows positively how a thing should be done can do it, barring unforseen mishaps. Accidents are often called the result of ill luck. A man’s own lack of something is the only real ill luck, He succeeds who without expecting aceid- ents is always prepared instantly to meet them. They are mere non-essen- tial atoms in his gencral plan. His determination is to reach agiven point. That determination once checked, obstacles will spring up at every turn. “The woman who hesitates,” we are told, is lost, but not more certainly than is the man. He who would succeed must never doubt. Finally to confidence and determina- tion must be allied untiving energy. There must be no ‘‘iet up.” Concen- teated on one closely defined purpose, all the powers that can help along must be brought into pla; So much for suceess in the abstract. ‘What is commonly known as ‘‘success in life” calls for good judgment in choosing the objects of one’s efforts as well as power to secure them. They vary fordifferent people. Often the people most gifted in the qualities needed to achieve their ends are specially unfor- tunate in deciding what their aims shall be. But, in general, the success- ful man is one who never doubts hisown power and never turns from his pur- pose. Change in the Gulf Stream. Navigators have made the statement that the stream is changing its conrse and renewed inter- est in the wonderful cur as heen created. The Uniced States coast sur- vey office hassenta steamer to the south to take earveful observations. It is not likely that the stream has changed much either in courss or temperature during the period that man has been on earth, but should it doso in the future it would be a serious matter to the European countries forming the At- lantic coast. Enygland would probably become as bleak as Labrador and the Scandinavian peninsuls as frigid as Si- boria, When DeLesseps first proposed to cut a canalacrqss the Isthmus of Panama some English papers raised a ery of hor- ror predicting that the Gulf stream would be destroyed or diverted from the egotistical little islacd, Such a calam- ity, however, does not at present loom up to any alarming extent and at the present rate of progress, future genera- tions of Ruglishmen for any extonded period of time need not worry The Gulf stream has always been an oblect of seientific intorest, but little is yet definitely known vegavrding it. Why it should piow through the oceian at the rate of ‘rom two to five miles an hour hasnever boen satisfactorily explained. In a goencral way we know thatthe trade winds, hot at the equator and cold in the north, ete., will generate ocean cu rents, but why this stream should ac- quire such an impetus in the vieinity of Florida, follow the coast for a distance and thon shoot across the Atlautic to the northern shgres is much of a mystey ny a€ when Ponce de Leon’s éxped fivet noticed it at the Flor was discovered. Doubtless the Gull of Mesico and the positions. of the “egrjous West Indian islands the jwincipnl factors in determining the divection and veloc- ity of the gulf streahin. 1t looks as if an ocean curvent flowing northw the coast of Central Amevi pust ages had enterd nway portions of land. leaving the firmer ones as islands or peninsuns, and hollowing ot the Mexican gtft! from which it now appears to issue us it starts on its trans- Atlantie course, If & canal of immense proportions were cut, across Cent America or Panama it is not unwarrantable to sup- pose that the Gulf Stream might be seriously affected. A CASE which intevests the medical fraternity in general was decided by an Ilinois judge last week. A few weeks ago the Illinois state board of health revoked the license of o physician - be- cause he advertised his business. The doctor continued his practice and the board prosceuted him. The court de- cided in his favor. This is a sad blow to medical ethics, POLITICAL POINTS. In Philadelphia, Don Cameron is regarded as a presidential candidate. Senator Colquitt is sanguine the democrats will agree on the tariff-reduction bill. There is a probubility that Juy Hubbell will not be returned to congress after all. Indiana democrats have at last discovered that their party needs reorganizing, root and branch, throughout every town and county in tho state, Sam Randall is a grandfather, and though the youngster is not yet a week old he is already crying for “protection’ of his “infunt industry.” Ex-Scnator Mitchell, of Pennsylvania is hustling around at a lively rate to secure the nomination for common pleas judge in his district. The frec-grass question is expected to re- appear in Texas politics, as the new land law interferes with some interests that have con- siderable political strength. John M. Langston (colored), ex-minister to Hayti, is already iu the ficld us candidate for the republican nomination to cougress in the Fourth Virginia district. Minneapolis Tribune: A Louisiana orator calls the mule “the mugwump of the animal kingdom.” When the mule hears that he'll kick—and just men won't blame him. New York Timss: *There is no clement in the politics of this country so corrupt and so corrupting as the influende of the favoritism in legislation called “protective tariff. There seems to be some anxiety about the actual date of Mr. ‘lll:(im“:s return from Europe. This is folly. IVhatever else may happen, Mr. Blaine will return in time, Noarly all the country parishes in Louisi- ana have clected ‘Gblegftes to the demo- cratic state conventidn, ad it looks asif the gubernatorial nomiggloggwill be secured by ex-Governor Francis®. Micholls, President Clevelan lsureported to be in favor of New York, us’ the meeting place of the democratic nationa§ econvention, He should not forget thag™pne David B. Hill claims to hold a mortgag&on that state. Congressman Townshend's project to form anew “department of industries and public works" would group under one cabinet officer some fourteen bureaus now scattered in the war, navy, interior and treasury depart- ments, The republican legislature of Towa having adopted a text book which categorically sets forth the evils of the tobacbo habit, the demo- cratic papers are printing extracts in parallel columns with Mr. tslaine’s deliverance on to- buceo as a necessity. Senator Voorhees is said to be entertaining in his bonnet a vice presidential bee of mam- moth proportions. Heretofore the senator has been classed as a protection democr but he is preparing aspecch in which he will strongly support the ground taken by the president in his message. The Washington correspondent of the Phil- adelphia Press says Lamar will be confirmed, because it is evident that all the réasons put forth for defeating him could be with equal force urged against any other Southern man whom the president would be likety to ap- point. Advocates of tariff reform promise no miracles or impossibilities. The judicious decrease of taxes will not extract sunbeams from cucumbers. The man who imagines that the country can enrich itself by taxation beyond the just needs of the goverament is almost too fatuous to reason with. The difference between the republicans and democrats is simply this: That while the republicans propose to advocate meas- ures to keep down the surplus, the democrats intend to usc the fact of the surplus as a hurrah ery to make a general assault on the principle of the protection policy. According to a Washington correspondent it is thought now that cnabling acts for North and South Dakota, for Montana, New Mex- ico and Washington territories will be sub- mitted, and that the house will, if the senate agrees to accept them, pass the bills in such a shape that all can be admitted at the next session of congress, but neither to have any vote in the presidential election, 'T'his, it is said, will be fair all around. —-—— Will Protect the Pyramids, Jay Gould is on his way to Igypt, and the Khedive has detailed a special force for the protection of the pyratids. A Chronic ©ase, Texax Siftings. There is & man in Néw York who has been angry for thirty years on a stretch, It is the worse of standing choler that we ever knew. { il i What Kecley Has Waited For. Piti ¢ Chroniele, Perpetual motion hag been discovered again this time by & man in Georgia. 1t is under- stood that Mr. Keely will buy the invention to run his motor with. —_—— Prosperous in Spite of Drawba St. Lowis Globe-Démarrat. ‘The country has too many trusts, dishonest bank offcials, and democrats. Despite these drawbacks, however, it appears to be the greatest and most progressive country in the world, - Unchanged by Time. Cinetnnati Commereial Gazette, If the secession war was not treasosn, then 1he war agaiust the secession was Lreason. Lamar says he was no traitor, but was fight- ing for the constitution as Le understood it. e constitution is as it was The Crucial Test, St. Lowis Pust-Dispateh, The burean of journalism in John Hopkins university is now in full blast, but the boys who graduate wn this school wili not be en- tirely familiar with the yays of journalism until they take up their post craduate comse on the country weeklics uud Legin to collect vogotables and cord- subscribers. vood from delinguent Appearances Rometimes Deceptive. New Yok World, Roller skates and bioycles the aid of the messeuger boy. Tu various parts of this city mounted messengers are froquently seci wheeling along at a rapid rate. The days when the messenger boy can appropriately be called o “standing' joke are nearly at an end have come to Simply Marvelous. Grand Island Didependent. Omaha does not acknowledge the bility of a vival inthe state of Nebraska, nor in any adjoining state, and_her growth and future aro such that she will never kuow a rival west of the Mississippi river and cast of the Sierra Nevada mountains, Her growth is something to be proud of and is siumly marvelous, possi plesai . Rapidly Growing. Plattsmoyth Journal. The Omaha papers outdid themselves in the magnificence of their showing of the city's progress during the year. They all bear splendid evidences of progress and de- velopment, and fully warrant the assump- tions of the press that Omaha is rapidly grow- ingtobeay ty, in-population, enter- prise and business push Jhrssie <% The Father of **“Trust” Monopolies. Detrvit Free Press. Even in those cases where domestic com- petition has brought the price down and apparently justified protection, the Ameri- can manufacturers are hard at work to put the price up again by limiting production and domestic competion. This is what the “trusts” ave forj and these modern inven- tions are gradually finding their way into every industry where there is any competi- tion. e -— Remove the Curse. Baltimore American. Men who have amassed colossal fortunes and built palaces costing millions of dollars, no matter whother the money was properly or improperly acquived, will not surrender without a struggle. Congressmen, it must be borne in mind, are but human after all, and thousynd-dollarbills are as big to them as to other people. The best way to avoid temptation is to remove it out of sight. Far better would it be for the government to lose the whole of its investment in the Pacitic roads than for congressimen to be cursed year after year with this soulless, conscinceless railroad lobby sapping the honor and princi- ple of our legislature. g L In Toil and Stre: Day In, Day Out. Carmen Sytva, Queen of Roumania. ‘We hammer, hammer, hammer, on and on, Day out, day in, throughout the year, 1In blazing heat and tempests drear; God's house we slowly heavenward rear— We'll never see it done! We hammer, hammer, hammer, might and main, The sun torments, the rain drops pricl, Our eyes grow blind with dust so thick; Our nawme to dust, too, fadeth quick— No glory and no gain! We hammer, hammer, hammer ever on. Oh, blessed God on Heaven's throne, Dost thou take cave of cvery stone, ‘And leave the toiling poor alone, ‘Whom no one looks upon{ e U COMPLIMENTS OF THE PRESS. A Work of Art. Beatrice Democrat: As a work of art the illustrated Bee is somethingtruly to be proud of, and does that concern great credit, The Bec's Enterprise. Gothenburg Independent: The Omaha Ber's illustrated trade review, issued Jan- uary 1, is a beauty. It not only shows Omahu’s prosperity but the Ber's enterprise. A Big Scoop. Fromont Tribune: The Ber got a big scoop on its Omaha contemporaries with _its annual edition. Its illustrations of Omaha's fine public and private buildings were ver fine. Another Monument to Its Fame. Dunlap (lowa) Enterprise: The Ber issued a handsome paper Sunday, thus erec ng another monument to its fame and enter- prise as the leading progressive newspaper of the west. A Great Advertisement For Omaha. Hardy Herald: As in former years the Omaha Brr issues the most handsome and valuable annual review that has como to this office. Tt is finely engraved and its illustra- tions alone will advertise that city more than any other one thing. A Fine Holiday Edition. Wahoo Wasp: The Omaha Bik has a fine holiday edition. Omaha places her internal improvements for the year at £10,000,000. Lincoln is modest in placing hers at 3,000,000, She should have waited until the Omahogs had made their estimate and “beaten her or bust.” No Equal in the West. Schuyler Quill: The Omaha Bee's illus- trated edition of Sunday last, its 1888 annual review, was the finest thing ever issued in the state. Tt contained a iew of the im- provements of the year with the large build- ings crected illustrated, The Ber has no equal in the west. With Its Characteristic Enterprise. Cheyenne Sun: The Omaha BEE with its characteristic enterprise, gets out a fine il- lustrated edition that is far superior to any- thing in that line by any of the newspape in the cast, and cven handsomer than its pro vious New Year publ ions, It enabl people at a distance to get un idea of Omaha's great growth in about fourteen seconds. Splendid and Successful. Dundy County Pioneer: The Omaha Ber, on Junuary 1, issued an immense boom edi tion of Omaha, illustrating her principal buildings and showirg the amount of busi- ness done in Nebraska's leading city. It was a splendid and successful cffort on the part of the B, Does the Bee Great Credit. Bertrand Journal: The Omaha BEE'S an nual review comes to us this week, contain- ing an extensive write-up of Omaha and thirty-three superh illustrations of its princi- pal business houses. It is immense, and does the Br great credit. The Bk don't do things by halves. It Is a Beauty. Pupillion Times: The Bee annual for 88 arrived last Monday and it is a beauty, surpassing by far any of its previous annuals. It contains a com plete history of the growth and improveuent of Omaha for the past year, is printed on ex- cellent paper and is illustrated with forty soven stecl engravings of the most promincat buildings in the city. The Bee Far In the Lead. Fairmont Signal: As a work of art and an index of enterprise the illustrated Omalia Bek which came to hand handsomest we rememb ng ever see In the race for excellence, in everything th contributes to make up a newspaper in har wony with the demands of society of to-day, the Bek is far in the lead of all western pap. ers, and equal to any on the continent, Th Seward Reporter s New Year's cdi tion of Omaba Ber was the finest paper ever published in Nebraska. It contained & handsomely illustrated sup- plement showing some of the finer build- ings that were erected in Omaha durmg 1857, a8 well asa thorough review of the business and growth of the city. The paper is gotten up inw v flug wauner, wod is the highly creditable both to the city and to the muanagement of the B The Bee Caps Them AllL Oaklind Démocrit: The Omaha papers all came . out with New Years editions on January 1. All show good taste and labor, but the ek caps them all. The fine paper, clear clegant engravings, and such o large number of them, the beautifut heading, the extended description —all were the very bost and worthy of the highest commendation Cret on last Globe: The Omaha Bre publishied Sunday a review of the ness for Omaha during the past which was most excollont in overy respect. It contained - handsome cuts of the principal buildings in Omaha besiges an exhaustive review of the improvements nade and the udvantages which our me lis offers. busi year, It Does Credit. Springfield Mivror: The Omaha Brr pro- sonts its New Year's compliments o its vead- ers with a beautifully illustrated supplement, giving a graphic account of the growth of the city in the last year. The numerous cuts of new buildings are excellent, the paper is of superior quality and in all it is the neatest supplement wo have seen. 1t does eredit to zors and is in exact keeping with their well known enterprisc, Was a Daisy. Nebrasla City News: The Omaha papers all issued extra large papers yesterday, filled with the doings of the past year, but none wero as neat and tasty as the Ber, The Bex issucd an elght page illustrated edition in ad- dition to their regulae paper, which was & daisy, made up of cuts of the prominent busi- ness places of that great and thriving city. The press work was mostexcellent, which makes the paper appear at its best. The Brx v does things up in grand style, or not atall. Long may the busy Ber exist, and may its stinger never grow shorter. gt MARSHAL RICE EXONERATED. South Omaha's Council Has Another Stormy Secret Session. It was nearly 8 o'clock when Councilman Glasgow made his appearance at the South Omaha council meeting last night, and in planation of the delay told a story of a train two and one-half miles long having prevented him crossing the rvailroad track. Everybody was there—the councilmen, the defendant and the witnesses—and everybody scemed willing to tell what he knew, or some one else knew, about the alleged impropricties of the marshal. This time the meeting was held ina little 10xi2 room that is in future to be the office of City Attorney Grice, and as it would not hold the crowd, the oftive of the city surveyor was also thrown open for their accomodation. The same old crowd was on hand, only more so, and the only noticeable chunge was that the cigars smoked by those present were not so good on former occasions, and the tobaceo chews swallowed the quids instead of spitting on the new floor. Councilman Glasgow's arrival made a quorum, and Councilman Locscher, lost no time 'in taking the ch and calling the meeting to order. The first thing done was to clear the room of the wit- s and all outsi , the reporter of the being includes Even this did not sat isfy Councilman Loescher, and he wanted both Marshal Rice and his attorney to go with _them. To this Attorncy Makepeace raised an objection, but he was interrupted by Loescher who could only say, “I object.” “Mayor e, do you wish that I shall g0?" asked the attorne; “Yes,” said Loesche: “You need not go,"” said the mayor, The uattorney accordingly rvemained, and some conversation ensued on the old topic of how the examination should proceed. “Gentlemen,” said Councibnan Loescher, “to make u long story short, we want to huve our witnesses sworn and fo hear what they have to 2 ““We want only the witnesses whose namos appear on the afidavit,” said Attorney Make- pod - "*weturned the councilman. “We ity of Somth Omaha, alled this meeting —not to bring in any outsiders--but to hear witnesses. Furthermore, we should not have any out- siders to say what we should do and what Once for all, those who are not mem- of this council shall retire at once.” This thing has gone far enough,” said Councilman Glasgow. ‘“‘The last time we permitted the attorney and Marshal Rice to remain and hear the charges. We can't in- vestigate them unless wedo. We don’t want this to be a one-sided affair, and the attorney has as much right s you orany one of us to remain.” “We are the represcntatives of South Omaha,” replied Loescher, *“and we don't want no outsiders. We want one side first. We can’t serve two master: U were not porn to serve two masters. You must hear the one side first.” “I can see by this that Marshal Rice has @ majority of the council on his side,” said Councilman Burk, speaking for the first time. ‘‘Some of these witnesses may be in Chicago, but bring them i one by one.” “We don't want Rice or any one in here,” said Councilman Loescher, returning to his old stand, therefore I won't allow any ane in while I ain chaivman, I won't, I never will.” souncilman Rafferty asked how Marshal ice could be defended unless his lawyer re present, but Locscher said it no trial—only an investigation. Attorney - peace attempted to explain that all his wit- nesses were within - eall, but Chairman Loescher drowned his voice in his efforts to stop him, and failing in this, excitedly left the chai ““This is my chair,” he said, while leaving, “and I won't have it. I'll loave the chair first"— And he did. The mecting did not come to a close, how- szow to fill the vacanc cher was first to his fc more s “We don't want Rice defend himse! This ain’t no tri want the charges brought down to the point, therefore every onc shall leave this room except the couneil. I make this a motion.” he chairman attempted to explain thut at the former meetings it was determined to by 11 witnesses together that night and to finally scttle the case, 1 don’t know what Councilman her 1o got at,” said Muyor Suyage. may be places whe san he vial without ha hance to 1f, but, thank God, it's not in America. Whenev I'm in a place here a wan can't def hin: rn it forev N » will either go on ry this case, or T for one, will walk out.” far as free countries go,” We've met here as the people’s representatives. 1've brought them here as witnesse: Why don’t you let them i Why don’t you support me(" At this tilme the councilman was called to ofler, but refused to obey and interrupted the chairman with any number of **] objects.” Finally City Attorney Grice made his voice heard, and stated as the afiants in the afidav- its were miaterial witnesses und were not prescut, it would be better to suspend the in- vestigation until they could be present. At- torney Makepeace asked that it should go on, conceding in the meantime the evidence contained in the afdavits, as with- out cross-examination. Couneilman Loescher could no longer keep his seat, but said: scen this and that; rd this and that, and 1 want the people e to swear to what they say. It's our to find out what Marshia did. I'm oue of the first men in Omaha, at made a dollar I invested it like a man, Onee more hie was called to order. ST won't sit down. I've not spoke five minutes, 1 was told if T don’t drop this I'l] get behind the bars. I've £1,000 to fight it to the bitter end. They told me something about the Motor line o ‘thing, but 1 ain't afraid. If Pve done auything wrong I'll face it.” ‘Attorney Makepeace once more attempted to speak, but Loosher, forgetting all rules of debate, used his feet instead of “his tongue, and tried o tramp down the effort. He was called order, and swore, and was once again called to order, when he at length sub- sided. All'this time the reiaining members of the council wi disgusted witnesses of the scene, but scemed unequal to the emergenc The chairman’s stand, how having the desired effect, the witnesses were admittcd, the first being William Glyun, who said he resont at the time named, heard Mar¢ shal Rice ask for $17, saw him get some, but couldu't - 8ay how much, William Kearns \was not within a block of the house when the money wus paid, but heard his mother and sister say - that it was $16. Dolla Kearns, on whose afidavit tho charges wero brought, was i Chicago, and her mother, another Wwitness, was cnablo to be prosont through illiness. John Mann was inge inthe house, and ut his dinner whea tho money was paid. He heard the marshal ask fo ¢ him get some, but conld not say ¢ it was silver or bills, or how much. “Don't get rattled, Jack," sald Loeschor encouragingly at a critical point in the cross- exumination. ‘Councilman Loescher, T will place you in the hamds of the marshal it you persist in said the chairman, All right,” said the councilman, and— “That's enougeh Jack,” he added, us the wit ness stepped down, Marshal Rice was called in his own behalf, but once more the irrepressible councilman claimed it was o trial and endeavored to have him put out. He was alone, however, and - tho marshal's testimany was heard, It was the same & given in the Ber, and was followed by the testimony of Judge Reuther, who corrobo- ated the city marshal. Then Councilman Locscher was called. ST would like to be sworn,” he said, and ha Was Sw “1 didn't see no mone; man Kearns go down with the marshal. Tho boys said, ‘Dere hie goes.’ 1 said, ‘What's he #ot," and the boys said ‘816 1 said, “They ought to have socked him more’." Mukepence objected to the bv dence as irrelevant, but scher informed him that, “Idon’t have to_bo objected to,” and went on to say that Marshal Rice,” on coming back, stopped iu his saloon and told Kearns had’ been fined 810, and that ho (Loescher) had said “he ought to have socked him for more." That finished the evidence, andoon a voto everyone except the councilman and the clork were asked to leave the room, “Where is the Bri reporter about this time " asked Chairman Glasgow. “Oh, he's all right; he's crushed,” said paid, but T saw old an expression of opinion from cach one present, Mayor Savage moved that the marshal be exonerated, but Councilman Loescher objected 1o * juw breakers” and asiked what “exonerated™ meant, On being informed the meeting procecded to business, Loescher was the first to express_an opinion, and suid “what makes memad_is peopld avound saying ‘it you don't drop this 1 down you.” I'm not afraid, Tnot only i my hands, but myself. If I've dono rong prosecite me. 1 don't want them to say you're afraid about that motor line, I wiis the one to vote against it." Each member then gave his opinion, and onavote bei Il were in_favor of completely exon Marshal Rice —ex- cept Councilinan Loeschier, who wished his vote recorded. The St. Cloud Suspends, At 2o'clock this morning tho key was turned in the door of the St. Cloud res- taurant, and another proprictor, poor in pocket but vich in- experience, stepped _out wto the cold. Mr. €S, Higgins told a T reporter that he had spent $25,000 in_ trying to make the St. Cloud a succcss, but in “this he had made adismul failure.” He intends oing back to Lis oid_stamping ground, cor- ner of Twelfth and Douglas streets, to which he will give his undivided attentlon, S Clarke's Centennial Express. The Januar; Wostern Philatelist publishes the following article from Victor Rosewater, of Omaha: In call- i attention to these stamps, tho or does not claim they are *‘one of weest, if not the ravest” of locals, but that they are the only emissic which were issued in Nebraska. In 1876 Mr. IT. T. Clarke, then of Sidney, Neb., but now of Omahu, concoived a plan by which mail could be carried to the Black Hills with dispatch and prompt- ness. He had just comploted his sixty- one-span truss bridge over the Platto river and had established o stage routo guarded by United States troops from Sidney to the mining towns, which were then infl A with great booms. The TUnion I ¢ carvicd mail part way, after which it had to be transported by stage. e altogether two issues of s Centennial express stamps. Of first, and most valuable, ahout 300 were struck off in the early part of tho year. These consisted of the regular governmental issue of stamped enve- Topes (that is, the Centennial greon 8 cent of common size), with the follow- ing inscription printed over the face in green ink of about the same color us tho & Clarke's Centennial Mail Express to Black] Hills, ) VIA % THE SIDNEY SHORT ROUTE. % Over the new 61 Span Truss Bridge across Platta River, 40 miles north of Bdney, | cavrivd Dafly by tho Sdney Black lls Stage Co. Send all mail care H. T Neb . . . Cave H. Clarke the T.CLARK] Neb, idney, nK, Bldney,| - Postago 10y nswer in care of H 8 vertisement in black ink of the Sidney Short route, with its passenger rates and the toll of Clarke’s new bridge. These envelopes were soon used up and it is doubtful whether moro than a haif dozen romain in existence. The second issue came out in the lat- ter part of 1876, and was printed like the first on green Centennial envelopes. ‘T'he inscription was changed, and as | consisted of more matter was printed in smaller type. It ran thus: SIDNEY SHORT ROUTE. 5 CENTRNNTAL EXPRESS T0 TIE BLACK HinLs, In consideration of 10 cents paid for this slope, and of which payment its posse: 's evidence, the undersigned agreo v it from the Unfon Pacific railroad, at Sidiey, Neb., to Custer City, and Dead- wood, Dakota (and such other places a8 his route may supply), or from above places to Union Pacific railtoad ot Sidney, without additional charge, (over) H. T. CLARKE, Care of H. T. CLARKE, Sidney, Neb. The reverse contained an advertise= ment similar to that of the first issue, of the Sidney Short route, and across the ft was a card of Cl 5 eral storo Sidney and his Centennial expi The printing on the sccond emission ves an idea as to how the line was nducted. The envelopes, which werd on sale at ticket offic mailed and went to Clarke at on the government linos, by rc the 1 ular stamp imp on the pape There they were turned over to the company and forwarded to their ions by the pri stago Roturn letters wer s ay. These letters also to advertise the stage line, whi quite a business'during the Black Hills ement. This soon wore off, how- wnd the mining towns collapsed. Therefore this letter express was dis- coutinued, and rned no more than its name indicates, Centennial express. These stamps ought to have a p the regular catalogues since thay ar especially interesting by reason of their history as here related. The sccond issue consisted of not more than five hundred specimens and is almost us desivable as the first. Few cellectors have specimens in their collections and it is doubtful whether they can be ob- tained. Those who are supplied have reason to considcr them umong thei rarties, CLAR] ) W Sidney son of e Aunt Jane, a colored woman, died ro= cently in Nushville at the age of one hundred and nineteen years, It was not George Washington, but General Juck- son that she served faithfully in her prime. X C. P. Huntington, the fifty-miliion= aire, used to peddlo out butter by the pound to the miners in California,