Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 15, 1888, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 1888 ~SIXTEEN PAGES THE DAILY BEE, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF AUBSCRIPTION. my (Morning Edition) including Sunday g, One Year . N . 10 Six Months ... Three Months. . . Omaha Sunday Bre, mailed to any ad- dress, One Year ATA OFFICR, NOS STAND M6 FARNAM STREET, ®W YORK OFFICE, ROOMS 14 AND 15 TRIBUNE JUILDING. WAsHINGTON OFFICE, NO. 613 URTEENTH BTREET. ® 50 20 L CORRESPONDENCE, ecommunications relating to news and edi- ial matter should be addressed to the Eviton THE DEE, USINESS LETTERS, All business lotters and remittance addressed to THE BER PUBLISHING COMPANY, ATA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders to ‘made payable to the order of the company. The Bee Publishing Company. Proprietors: E. ROSEWATER, Editor. e ——————— THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation, Ptate of Nobraska, st ) i B ok, Secrotary of The Bes Pub- Mahing conipany, does solemnly swear that the e reutatioh of tho Datly fiee for the. week ing April 13, 1865, was as follows. turday, April 7...... W dny, April & April 9 esday, April 1 rednesday, Aprii 11 ursday, April 12, day, April 13, veraj i 0. £worn to and subscribed in my_presence thiy Uth day of April, A, D., 1888, NP FEIL, Notary Public., Btate of Nebraska, Bonnty of Doniinss, |8 Geo. . Tasehnek, Deing Bret duly sworn, de- 5 and says that he fs_secretary of The Beo Dblishing company, that the actual average daily circulation of the Daily Beo for the month ?17"'?“ o e ) for April, B8 1% coples; for_ May, 7 4,287 coples; for June, 1887, 14,147 coplesi for_ July, 187, © 14008 coples} for August 1887, 14,151 coples; for September, 1867, 14340 fes: for October, 1887, 14,53: for November, o, 15,226 coples: * for. December, 14T, 16,041 co%lu. for January, 1688, 15,206 coples; for Februar; , 1688, 16,062 Cople: . GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. Sworn and subscribed to in my presence thiis #d day of March, A. D. 1888, 4,400 coples; N.P. FEIL, Notary Publie. MR. GILLIG'S American Ixchange in London has gone up. The reason was that American tourists mistrusted a man who could spell his name backwards, MR. CLARKSON assures the country that he is in dead earnest for Allison. Ma. Clarkson was in dead earnest for Omaha for the national convention and he deserted her after the first ballot. It is proper that Chauncey M. Depew of New York should have as his formid- able rival for the presidency Leland L. Stanford of Califorma. When million- aire meets millionaire then comes the flow of gold THE lord high chancellor of England gets 850,000 o year. The chief justice wwof the United States gets $10,000. But although the English justice gets five #imes as much salary as the chief jus- #ice, the American doesn’t grumble. He has only one-fifth of the former’s leis- use to spend the mone, GENERAL SHERMAN, in a recent ad- dress at the Ohio dinner, said that the Thonors he achieved comp: ¢ poorly with the hopes and aspirations he had when only twenty years of age. But with his wildest anticipations of glory it is safe to say the general never dreamt of the fame that would one day come to him as the hero of the march to the sea. THE San Francisco dailies print the pleaof the solicitor of the Central Pa- cific railroad before the special commit- tee of the United States senate on be- half of the great monopoly. The speech appears as a special dispatch from ‘Washington and fills thirteen columns of s0lid fine type. How much the C. P. railroad pays for this exhibition of reck- less newspaper enterprise is not stated. A STRONG pressure is being made in the senate in behalf of the bill for the issue of fractional silver certificates, which passod the house some time ago. This comes from all sections of the country and voices the want of that large class of people who remit small sums through the mails, as well as those who have business with this class. The promise for the measure is regarded as favorable. It is a question whether our govern- ment has been humiliated by submit- ting the controversy with Moroceo to ar- bitration. The truth is that we could do nothing different, with any hope of gaining our point. We were humili- ated when we made a pretense of re- sistance by sending to Tangiers a single war vessel, incapable of accomplishing anything if there had been a demand for it, and which simply made us ludi- erous in the eyés of the Moors and sheir Spanish supporters. The proba- Wility now is that the arbitration will 80 against us Tine Chicago Tvibune has republished & report of an old congressional investi- gation of the treasury department, from which it appears that some of the clerks had used government stationery in booming John Sherman for the presi- f@ency. The Zvibune makes Senator Allison, of Towa, responsible for the re- port as published. It is perfectly absurd to charge Senator Sherman with this petty larceny, or with any knowledge of it prior to the investigation, and some motive must be sought for its re- blication in the Zvibune in the form r:whioh it appears. What can the motive be? Is it to try to kill off with _one blow two prominent candidates? It looks as though this might be; that ‘Bherman is to be killed off by revivi the seandal at this time, and that Sh man’s friends would get even by destroying Allison. ‘How all this will help the Tribune’s favorite candidate is hard to see. So far as Senator Sherman is concerned, it 18 just to him to say that as soon as he learned the facts he paid into the treas- " ury the full cost of the stationery al- A= loged to have been used in his behalf, and was thereby acquitted of all respon- sibility, since no fault attached to him for the misapnlication by clerks of the treasury department of the govern- ment's property. The attempt of the @yinme to injure My, Sherman by drag- ging this matter to light and giving it ' am exaggerated importance is mot in keeping with the high character of _ that paper for candor and fairness. Centennial of the Constitution. The details of the general programme for the celebration at the national capi- tal of the centennial of the constitution, which it is proposed to hold in the spring of 1889, as far as they have been outlined, indicate that the occasion will be only second in national interest to that of the centennial of 1876, Fifteen Central and South American republics will be guests of the United States and in addition the empire of Brazil, Do- minion of Canada and San Domingo and Hayti will also be represented. The countries named have a population of over fifty millions of people, of which Brazil has 13,000,000, Mexico 10,000,000, Canada 4,000,000, the United States of Colombia 8,500,000, the Argentine Re- puplic 2,600,000 and Venezucla 2,000,- 000. Each and all of these owe to a great extent their present liberal institutions to the influence and exam- ple of the United States, which more than one hundred years ago founded the first republic on American soil. The occasion is to be taken advantage of to open new commercial relations with these sister countries and to devise ways and means to extend the trade of the United States with the other countries on the two American continents. At present by far the greater proportion of the export and import trade of South and Central America is transacted by English and German merchunts, Shut out from South American exports by the wall of a high tariff and prevented from landing our own goods upon their shores by the lack of swtable ship- ping facilities, it has also in a great degree been due to the tariff impositions that the United States has year by year been compelled to witness the best mar- ketd of the globe passing into the hands of her commercial rivals while her own mills and factories have been producing asurplus greater than is needed for her own wants. The constitutional centennial, to which Central and South America have been invited as special gu will, it is hoped, have a far-reaching inflionco, not only in showing to our people what they have lost and are losing by narrow commercial policy, but in stimulating a reform in the laws by which our manu facturers and merchants can place their goods where they will secure a ready market and exchange commodities to mutual advantage, unhampered by un- wise and suicidal commercial restr tions. An Englishman on America. The individual who cannot be told of his defects and shortcomings without getting angry isnot likely to improve as he grows older. The same is true of a body of individuals which we eall a nation. One cannot be expected to feel entirely pleased with having one’s traits and habits criticised and held up before the world as objectionable, even when one knows that the critic is honest, means well, and at heart is not un- friendly; but the man who really desires to improve, and who sympathizes with the aspiration of the poet that *“‘the gods the gift would gie us, to see oursels ithers sce us,” will accept such c sm in what kindly way he can, inve: tigate its merit, and give it such atten- tion as the character of its author and the spirit of its bestowal shall warrant. itics are not very congenial or lovable people, asarule, butitwill not be denied that they have their uses. At all events they abound, they will have their say, and we must tolerate and listen tothem whether we will or no. Most, well-informed Amer 5 know of Matthew Arnold as occupying a fore- most rank among the literary men of England of the present day. He is a scholar of most extensive acquirements a poet of high rank, a brilliant essa; ist,and a critic of men and of society. He has recorded his opinions of his own countrymen, and they were not alto- gether flattering, He ited the United States, and he has now given in the pages of an English magnzine his impressions of Americans and their civilization. That, also, is not alto- gether flattering. On the contrary much of it is decidedly the reverse, and Mr. Arnold has been sharply rebuked for what scems to those who have read his paper to be not only in alarge measure unwarranted and unjust, but worse than this, ungrateful; for he was the recipient here of much social consideration and his visit was very profitable in a financial way. These facts, it might have been supposed, wauld have inclined him entirvely in our favor, We are disposed to think it is better they did not, if any benefit is to be derived from candid criticism, No intelligent American will pretend that his country, in its socinl character and its civilization, is all that it should be or that he would have it be. The most serious fault of Mr. Arnold is in implying that all intelligent Americans do this. It is obviously absurd to sup- pose that a country whose settled form of government is but little more than o hundred years old, peopled by the rep- resentatives of all nations, and during most of these years really experiment- ing with their political system, could attain to the highest civilization and social condition. The people of the United States have been ereating a na- tion, through much foreign strife and domestie contention, and they have only within less than a generation reached the position when they could with- out interruption give thought and time to social advancement and to the attain- ment of higher accomplishments of eiv- ilization, The wonder is that 5o much has been achieved in these directions, and that with the vast material devel- opment, unparalleled iz the history of any other nation for an equal period, there has gone on s0 great a growth of all civilizing agencies and of all the in- strumentalities of social elevation. M. Arnold does not fail to give us credit for this, He admits that our institu- tions work well and happily; thatps to the social problem we are a singularly homogeneous people, free from the dis- tinetion of classes; that we are living prosperously in a natural modern con- dition, seeing clearly and thinking straight, He found that in these re- spects we enjoyed an advantage of the people of Eogland. Mr. Arnold also found that for the great bulk of the community the conditions in Amer- 1wa are more favorsble thas im as the old world. The humblest kind of work is Dbetter paid here, and all conveniences for the great majority are more abundant here, Luxuries cost more than abroad, *‘ but a workingman’s clothing 1s nearly as cheap as in England, and plain food is on the whole cheaper.” * Still Mr. Arnold is not prepared to concede that these conditions, giving the greatest good to the greatest number, are neces- sarily evidence of a higher eivilization. The great difficulty with American civilization, in the view of our English criti that it is not interesting, and he explains the great sources of the in- teresting to be ** distinction and boauty; that which is elevated and that which is beautiful.” Mr. Arnold found very little here to gratify hissense of beauty. Our architecture is nearly all common- place, there is nothing comparable with the rural homes of England, and in o general way we haye developed very little of the true art-taste. Even in the naming of our towns we exhibit a want of the sense of beauty and fitness. ‘‘As to distinction and the in- terest which human nature seeks from. enjoying the effect made upon it by what is elovated, the case is much the same. There is y little to create such an effect, very much to thwart it.’ Criticism of this sort is of very little value, because it is suggestive of being far-fetched in order to furnish a means of fault-finding. The.beauty and dis- tinction which Mr. Avnold found want- ing in America are a growth. We need not despair of having them when the time comes for their development, toward which progress is steadily making. Much more to the purpose for our present benefit are his frank strict- ures on our self-sufficiency and the all- pervading spirit of extravagant honst- fulness. Unquestionably Americans have a very great deal to be proud of, but it is a fault with them that they gen- erally carry self-glorification to an ab- surd extreme, with the offeet not only of offending intelligent foreigners, which may not be of great consequence, but of encouraging the belief among them- sclves, which is unfortunate, that they bave attained about everything that is desirable. But we can afford to cheerfully for- ive Mr. Arnold for all he says unfavor- able to our civilization, our social life, our newspapers, and our sense of self- importance, in view of the distinguished compliment he pays American women. In our women he found a charm which he declares to be u real note of civiliza- tion, to bo reckoned to the credit of American life and its equality. “Tt 1s the charm,” writes Mr. Arnold, “of a natural manner, a manner not self-con- scious, artificial and constrained. It may not be a beautiful manner al- ways, but it is almost always a natural manner, a free and happy manner; and this gives pleasure.” It is impossible to feel harshly toward a foreign critic who speaks thus of American women in the presence of those of his own coun- try, or to doubt that his criticism is after all that of a frank friend and sin- cere well-wisher.” The Industrial ocia- tion of New York city has been making inquiries into the methods of manual training as conducted in the public schools of various cities. A committee of experts was appointed to examne into and report the best system for the progress and extension of the work. The report of the committee has been made publie, and is valuable for its common-sense sugg i The committee echoes the prevailing sentiment, that our public schools have too much to do with words and the memorizing of symbols, and too little to do with things; that the education of our youth shouldinclude a training to ex- press thought by the labor of the hand as well as to express it by language. Manual training to be of practical benefit should be brought into the primary de- partments, where the child should be trained to observe and to express his ideas in clay and with pencil as well as abstractly in language. The next step in the child’s education is to drill him less in the technicalitics of grammar, geography and the puz- zling problems of arithmetie; and to bring bim more in contuet with ma- terial things and forces which will still further give him the ability of express- ing his thoughts by handiwork. Then would follow the manual train- ing school which would admit pupils at an age when they eould profitably take up the use of wood and machine tools. Here would be the opportunity for the pupil to advance in the use of edge tools rather than to enter a high school, And the course of training at this stage combined with the study of English, bhigher mathematics and kindred sub- jects should be made equivalent to a three or four years' course in the high chool. A graduate of such a training school would then be fully equipped to engage in trades requiring a trained hand. But how is manual ducted at present? In almost every city the department is attached to the high school. But the bigh school pupil has too many studies on hand already to give manual train- ing its proper attention. So that while he may take one or two lessons a week in the workshop, his untrained hand and bis slow progress is more apt to dis- courage than to encourage his efforts. Awd as now in operation the manual experiment has little opportunity for future development or increased use- fulness, training con- Tne Philadelphia Press has just won a libel suit of nearly five yeurs' duration in which an importaut principle was in- volved. A man by the name of Stewart opened in Philadelphia what professed to be a school for the instruction of clerks, salesmen and reporters, claiming to be a teache®of short-hand and type writing, The aity editor of the Press detailed a reporter to visit the school and ascertain its characte The next day an interview with Stewart was pub- lished, and on this he brought suit, olaiming it was libel because it ex- posed him to ridicule and was calcu- lated to injure him in his business as teacher, he defense was that the pub- lished watter was & just and true ac- count of the intervie ally reached the g state, where judgriie the defendant, T urt held that as the plaintiff had b imself out to the world as a teacher and guide of youth and was secking t0 atfract them to his place, this actiods g@ive -him a quasi public character,and it wasin the strict line of the duty of the I’ress to seek the information it obtained and give it to the public. If thaginformation tended to show that the plgin#iff was a charla- tan and his systém gn imposture, the more need that thefpubdlic, and especi= ally parents and guardians, should be informed of it. It was virtually declared by this decision that it is the right of a newspaper in Pennsylvania to expose any one who, assuming a quasi public character, it belicves to be intending to deceive and impose upon the public, the motive of such exposure being wholly to proteet the public. There can be no question as to the soundness of this po- sition, and if generally accepted would be beneficial in enlarging the scope of newspaper investigation. ——— THE nine-day dead-lock which the house has just experienced calls to mind the fillibustering scenes which have taken place in congress. Mr. Randall made his reputation at the he- ginning of his career in fillibustering against the “Force bill,” which was a measure proposed to place troops at the polls in the south. A most memorable dead-lock took place after the Hayes- Tilden election, when the democrats made every effort todefeat the counting in of President Hayes. This dead-lock lasted many days and was broken at 4 o'clock on the morning of Frida, March 2, 1877, forty-cight hours befor the time to inaugurate President Grant’s successor. It was a crisis in the history of the United Statos, and the dead-lock was broken only by the extraordinary tacties of Mr. Randall. That gentleman was in the chair, and when a fillibustering motion was about to be made he refused ahso- lutely to recognize the member for t purpose. The member eppealed from the decision of the chair. But Mr. Randall ruled the appeal out of order, and forthwith instructed the clerk to in- form the senate that the house was ready to proceed with the count. The backboue of the dead-lock was broken, and withih a few hours Mr. Hayes re- ceived the information that he had re- ceived a majority of the electorul vote cast. The Forty-sixth congress died in dead-lock. The five od final d of the sion wore consumed in fillibuster- ing, and the hour of 12 on the last d was reached while the clerk was calling the roll. Three weeks of the first ses- sion of the Forty-seventh congress were consumed in fillibustering on a tavifY bill. Mr. Warren Keifer wag speaker of the house at this session, add the beginning of the general dislike to him is dated from that time. The case fin- e court of the cas rendered for Minneapolis Tribune., For unscrupulous boliness the « vote buying reported from Provid almost compares with. the performan: of the Ohio democracy. The Rhode id republicans and democrats ap- rto have been equally guilty of fraud, while the latter gained nothing by thei sins. If there be a creature more con- temptible than the vote buyer it is he who runs short of money in attempting to do this kind of bu The demo- s of Providence started out with the best of intentions, but they were unable, it is said, to compete in the vote market and so “got left.” This flagrant case of election fraud is the more disgusting because it took place in one of the oldest, best educated and presumably most easily governed states—a_stato that has thrown special eguards around the high privilege of American tizenship. What can be expected in the communities of the south and far west when such practices can be carried on in the capital city of Rhode Island ? There shouid be no leniency shown in the prosecution of the vofe buyers and the bought. The ballot box i8 the people’s only remedy public and national evils. If that is upted—if voting is made a lucrative siness instead of the exercise of a vigrht and a duty, then our fate is seuled. The United States is strong enough to defy any power in the world; but its rength will soon be gone if it suffers uption of the baliot to prevail, The Roman empire once ruled the world, but it went down before corruption. Russia would be the ruling power of Kurope if the administration of her government wer ted with corruption. The F would to-day have in Europe if the administration of the third republic had been strictly honest. It cannot be said, perhaps, that any system of government is good, provided it is administered with patriotism and scrupulous honesty. But it may safely erted that not even the most _per system of government can either intain itself or secure happiness to the people if it permits corruption to creep into its administration, - — ness. George Francis Train on Omaha, Owmana, April 12,—To the Editor of the Phe public-spirited citizens of Omaha efforts have wet with such s in malking known to the cast ern public the superioradvantages of Omaha s a point for investment and business loca- tion, will be gratified to learn that their exer- tions durmng the coming season will be ably v that, old-time friend and father, George ¥'rancis Train, During years since Mr. Train's sagacity and foresight pointed out the future greatness of the Gate City, the Nebraska metropolis has, under his fostering eare and unfailing devotion to its interests, advanced from ob- scurity and insignificance to a position in the first rauk among the young municipal giants whose present prosperity and greatness are the proudest monuments of western enter- prise and energy. Omaha has now attained such a sturdy growth as to be no longer de- pendent upou outside @id; uevertheless, the renewed efforts of one who has ever been the steadfast friend and promoter of aher welfare, will V6 @ Tjust recog- nition from her ssive citi who ap- preciate fully the effect of such effcctive ad- vertising as Mr. Traiu will give her. From a prominent business man, lately re. turned from the east, it is learned that Mr. Train has cutered into a coutract to deliver during the coming summer, fall and winter, 100 lectures on various topics throughout thé country. Twenty minutes of the time of each lecture will be devoted toan exposition of th advantages which Omaba presents 1o eastern investors. The fact that Mr. Train has not for some years appearcd upon the lecture platform before the general public will cause his reapheansioe 10 e greeted with curioaity and interest even greator.tbap has attended his efforts in the past. Those iuterested in the rapid advancement of the city will readily comprehend the advantage of second- ing Mr. Prain's work by every ui¢ans in their power. X X A QUAINT OLD CITY. The Beauties and Prospects of a Dull Town. MonrLe, Ala., April 8.—[Correspond- ence of the Bee]-1 write you from the old quaint city of Mobil, A city of narrow streets, ([ don't mean to say there are no wide one) relicts of old Spanish and French settlers, by whom the town was laid out, of fine old anti bellum, roomy, galleried historical resi dences, whose glory has departed with their old time owne while they re- main, an ever attractive curiosity to rangers from the north. It has been called a “sloepy city” and even now when itis pulling itself togethoer, shak- ing off its lethargy and waking up to the fact that the world moves, that wild “hooms™ are in the air cireleing around and linble to drop on thom with a crash without warning, at any moment, no one scems to be in a hurey, In the dry goods stores the clerks wait upon one with a slow, ecasy, motion, moving softly, gently, from ‘ono department to wother as if the day contained thirty- six hours, and you had the whole thirty-six in which to make the purchase of a pieco of ribbon, and I find it impossible to buy a stamp at the postoffice after 4 in the after- noon. The chief wonder to me is how they get anything done, hut after all it is a charm to get out of the push and worry to which [ have always been ac- customed and among poople who con- sider life worth living for the sake of itself and who placidly live it out to its full measure—baring ~ hot blood and ac- cident, But Mobile is destined, . sooner per- )8, than her people expect—to feel king of thut ind bable for ing upthe “New Soutl Northern men, northern enorgy and northern capital are gathering h the gathering is slow, it is true, but it will be sure. There is everything to artract it. The elimate is perfect in winter, and tempered by the salt hreeze from the gulf, is delightful in the hilly suburbs, in summer, that will attract the people. Hundreds of thousands of acres of land in reach of the city by rivers avered by prime- val forests of long-leafed pine, where “The woodman's ringing strokes ver slashed the tender boll.'— countless millions of feet of the best yellow pine lumber is waiting 10 be called to all’ parts of the world lands that can be bought from £1.00 to £4.00—per acre, is ono of the many things that will bring the energy and capital. 1t is a charming place to me. Driven from home by the bitter words that were not tempercd to this shorn lamb, I came here followed by snow and ice two hundred miles from the Ohio river’s mouth. I entered my berth in the palace car at night and inan invo- cation for a blessing on *‘the man who invented sleep,” including the man who invented slecping cars, wont to sleep in March and worke up in June and—NMobile. **The flowers that bloom in the spring” were all in bloom in the open air. The woods were cov and the air laden with the fragre of the yellow jasmine, the ground dotted with the dear familiar **Johnnie- Jump-ups” or wild violets, pretty “*blue 3 nd “duck bills,” and tho trees, the live oak, pine and cedar, have shed their heavy en of winter 1 taken reen summer robes. most of my time at . asuburbof the city reached g . six miles from the post- office, Tt was, before the war, the sum- mer homes of wealthy Mobile people. The homes are still here, but the wealth has gone glimmering and the few old families that rems »living on in- comes counted by hundreds that were onee reckoned in thousands. One mid- dle-nged man I sce daily driving by ina shabby one-seated bug pony, who in his younir d thotisand-dollar horses with equipages ch. and the “‘country is full of rained by the war, Tl iid off with broad streets each lot is a block and five acres: think of it i ine the be of such spacious groun where the trces and grass are green and the flowers bloom in the open airall the year round. Bishop Wilmer, of tl Episcopal diocese of Alabama, has b handsome residence and grounds ad- joining the hotel property. General Bragae's old home is towards Mobile, stately mansion, and the general buried in Magnolin cemetery, six mi Near the Bragg homestead in a magnificent grove of pine and live oal, lives and writes, Augustus Evans Wil- son, authoress of Beulah, IElmo and other popular books. St a charm- ing woman socially and v domesti She disclaimed to me all rights to the title (if 1 may use the word in this con- neetion) of having “the largest collec- tion of gevaniums in this country and the world” as newspapers are giving her credit, but if one judges by an in- spection of her green house she mus have at least next tothe’largest. Many of these geraniums are exelusively her as she originated them, The pring Hill” charm to me of being more of home than hotel. The grounds comprise seventeen acres of live onk grove and pine woods and the house stands in the center of it. The odorous long leafed pines come up to the house on the south which stands 200 feet above the bay, and Mo- bile, which of course you know stands on a flat that reaches miles ay with- out hill or hollow, from the gulf. From my window I can look out ten miles away on the bay and wateh the shipsand schooners sail lazily along, upparently on o low strata of silver clouds, and ex- peet them to fade away like a mocking mirage—but th don’t. 1t is real ships and real wate The birds have possession of the trees and hold high carnival; one, a veteran mocking bird, a prima dona before whose music all others shrink and shrivel, wakes me up every morning. She is o wise bird, and has heard the adage, *The early bird catches the worm.” She Il ne miss & wor She is the earliest bird 1 have ever had any experience with, The noted Jesuit college for boys is located on Spring hill. It is a very large brick bumlding of some four or five stories; and is surrounded by woods of pine and oak. Separate from the main edifice, hut connected with it by a bridge, is the large chapel building. The school grounds are handsomely laid off, surrounded by broad hedges of the beautiful yupon evergreen, fantasti- trimmed and covered with the white blossoms and trailing vines of cherokee roses. Boys are at school here not only from the states but from Cuba, France and South Ameri The fathers have a summer place down on the coast where those of the boys who cannot go home are taken to spend their vacation, I have sometimes heard that the ing effects of the southern climate” spoken of. What do you think of & girl who came here for her hedlth threo weeks ago walking miles and miles in one day? I did it yesterday. The captain and 1 (he was & caplgin twenty-five years ago) wishing to seo the boauty of the famous old Shell road left Spring Aill at 10 a. m. and only stopped when we struck an _oyster schooner in Mobile river six and a half miles from our starting point. The ‘em is nue contains possesses the beauties of the road paid us for our walk throurh the long avenues of pines and live onks. The road is practically descrted. The wind sighm‘ through the trees and I sighed for some one or something to pick me up and carry me. Sighed and said nothing, but ‘“‘two dozen on the half shell,”” when we reached the oyster boat. We in the north think we eat oysters, but we don’t. We getthe fish, but the flavor, the real genuine oyster flavor, is gone. I took advantage of my visit to the whaef to learn something about ship: Through giving rein to my naturs i I learned that a vessel with two s h three masts with cross trees or yard arms on_two of them 1s a bark,one full rigged, with three masts and yards on all of thom is a ship,and an oyster boat may be known by its single mast and awful smell. Mobilo is rejoicing over a prospective new railrond and an_appropriation for the improvement of her harbor. The formor may or may not be for her good, Her last railroad, that from Nashville to New Orleans was a damage to her, but the harbor improvement must be beneficial and will in n measure return to her the prestige and business pros- perity she once enjoyed. ManRie P —— THE ETIQUETTE OF THE CIGAR. The Cuban Manner of Giving and Taking a Light. In the Cuban islands there are specinl and strict forms of otiquette relative to this umversal practico of smoking. Should a gentleman stop another on the strect to ask a light ho would constru arefusal to oblige him into a direet and intentional insult. But having once held befwoen his fingers the partly consumed cigar of whose fire he hasg been borrowing, the owner thercof would be as deeply hurt and offended were he to offer to return it. No, he must, instead, open his cigar case and proffer a fresh weed in veturn for the five "o connoisseurs in cigars the renson for tiris act is obvious. A cigar which has peen buised ngainst another in the act of lighting itloses a considerable portion of the deli of its favor, and should that one against 1ch it is thus rubbed be of an inferior flavor and aroma, these qualities in itsely a delicate taste. completely destr It must bo vather ireitating under these latter circumstances to have to lose an xquisite ed” for the sake of a strange etivuet which commands tho ptation of a cigar of much inferior avor and value. However, a br of this point is never made, and a w bred Cuban would die sooner than show any irritation. I'n most European countries, with the exception, perhaps, of cigarette smok- ing Spuin, the street etiquet of smoking ismuch less severe. The majorit smokers in England, for instance, matches in their pockets, and shoul passing smoker with unlit pipe or cig vequst o light, it is a match that is handed to him. Small boys throng the streets of all big Enelish towns selling boxes containing 250 w for 2 cents; there is consequently excuse for a smoker to be without a light. The rainy and windy condition of the climate is eaqually well provided against_for smokers by *‘fusces, uvians,” and **flamers” which are vari- eties of matches having large heads composed of gunpowder puste, which remain ignited until consumed in uny kind of weather. RIvERSs, = -t Bears Killed by the Cold. Ranchman J. C. Schiles will probably never forget an experience he had at his ranch near Piedra Parada during the cold spell in January, says a cor pondent of the Denveér New: Schiles only went in last summer has a comfortable little house und shelter of the foothill The w ceding the cold spell in Jan , he had . been beautiful, and he was out on the range every day. On Janu- ary 18 it began to get ¢old, and the ther- mometer dropped from 46 degrees above 5 degrees below. On the fol- day it went down with lightning rapidity, and his spirit thermomoter showed 38 degrees below at nightfall, Each day for a week was colder, and the point attained by the mercury was, if his thermometer is accurate, degrees, which was noted in the after- noon of January 17. Mr. Seniles for four d the house. On the opening of the third cold day he noticed that hear and dear, which had been unusually plentiful during the winter, began to come down to low ground, and on the morning of the fourth day he opened his door to get some wood, but was brought up at close range bya low growl. Upon look- ing up he saw four bears within twenty fect of his cabin. They wero great, big fellows, and Mr. Schi made up his mind to have gne, He got his riflg, but the bears seemed to divine his mo- tive and got out of v e intense cold prevented him fr ngr, and after laying in enough w 15t two or three days, and filling his water bar- rel, he went back into the house and r mained there until the cold weather had passed. During the day Mr, and ather s did not leave the bears returned in which his sl ght the weather w Schiles was afreaid to pt a rouring fire Il night. The night was n hideous, he siys, by the coyote fi Al pressed close a uld hear them tight- for | . particularly near the two windows, from which tlie light ema- nated, Once or twice one of the ani- mals, probably a b would dash agumst the house as if to break it in, and the deer w heard uttering plaintive evies during the night. At o'clock My, Schiles drew hisspivit the A A by way of the chimne hole and ~found the thermome still at dogrecs below, the same that it had been twelve hours before. He thinks it was u great deal colder, and that the chemicals had boen frozen. The night was a terribly long one, and at 8 o'clock in the morn- ing, when Mr. Schiles awoke from a ghort nap, the animals had moved away and the weather moderated considers- bly. the mereury showing ouly 18 points below zero. On opening the door of his house, Lt e, e S e bears, & deer, and & coyote lying on the ground. The deer and coyote had been killed during the night but tho two bears had no marks and had cvidently frozen to death, as their bodies were rigid. miniature stands. Tk cold that My sl and | e A Correction Des Morses, Ia., April 18.—To the Editor of the Ber: In your issue of April 9 you state that PLil Klumb was fouid in a dying condition in his room at the Gault house, through excessive drink. This is & mistake The unfortunate man is Charles Guthrie, employed as traveling salesman by me. Pu Kruwes, The gifted New Y powerful atiention to tariff ballads, in which rhyme with' ‘“Mount 0" and “lamb's wool” with *‘d--d fool When a Pegasus that has been used in Jowa oats and Bur. lington baled hay gots down east he makes more of & sensation thana troop of Arabiun barbs let loose in the Rowan Coreo, s has turned its cowposition of ig iron’ is made to CURRENT TOP10S, While the pastors of our churchos are upon the subject of public morals, let them pray for more light to be proyided for the high school grouuds these pleasant evenings, While the city council has voted to put four men at work on Hanscom park for the soason, it has wholly ignored Jofferson square, As a city park, there is no reason why this partio- ular spot of green in the center of the city should be neglectod. The city spent a small sum of money a few yoars ago in sodding, planting troes and erectinga music stand on the square. But indifference on the part of the council has allowed these im- provements to fall into dec The people in and about Sixteonth street want that breathing spot, where they they can escape from the dust and heat of tho Aapproaching warm weather. If the council would purchase a fow sottees and employ o man or two to take care of the grounds, Jof- ferson square would be of some value to tha people of the city. ‘A great deal has been said during the past week about rockless car drivers and abolish- ing bob-tail cars,” said a leading merchant last night, “but people never blame carcloss parents in allowing their children to run wild on the strects where thoy are con. stantly exposed to being crippled and erushied o0 death by runaway teams, The car driver has enough sins to answer for, to bo sure, but he isn’t to blame for every accident that happens. If he had six pairs of oyes instead of two he would still run into chilaren who persist in crossing the tracks right in front ot his horses or hang onto the car platform and Jump off and on, in spite of all his vigilance. As to bob-tail cars, they are used everywhera from New York and Brooklyn to- St. Lowus, and Chicago wherever the trafie will not, jus- tify the employment of conductors or the running of heavy cars. Mind, I don't mea to apologizo for the street car company whore they can afford to provide better se boys will bo boys, you know, and children must be watched closely, else we might hav to chop down atl our trees, do away with To0fs and chimneys on our houses and fill up the wells and cis terns, and wall in all pond and streams.” - A traveling man who has been many yoars on the road, runs into Omaha regularly every Saturda; ning “to Sunday.” He has seen a great deal of tho world, and is protty well informed upon the moral ethics of tho a st ovenmng he had happened to nee o the church notices in the Brg, and observed that most of the pastors of tho eity intend this morning to make a concerted movement upon the Sunday base ball game. Hesaid: “It has always been a perplexing question to me, why the ministers seek out the Sunday base ball players upon whom to make an attack, ycar after year, when right under their noses the more offensive breeders of vice and crime are running rampant. I do not mean to be understood as saying that one infraction of the moral code justifies an- other, but why are the lesser offenses agamst the peace of the Sabbath so violently op- posed while the greater ones are wholly lost ht of. Is it because ball playing is an amusement for patrons of the game, who go for an hour’s enjoyment, denied them during the busy week-days, while the beer-garden and dance-hall conduct a business for profit? Is it because the patrons of the game are reputable, self-respecting poersons, often found in church, while the depravity of th e devotees of the dance-hall s beyond reclamation, in the eyes of the world. . “There are many persons in this city,” said a city official yesterday, “who think that there has been little diminution in gambling since the anti-gambling law went into effect, They have an idea that mavy games are run- ning on the quict in out-of-t ¢ places, whore the men who permit themselves to b dazzled by the game are quictiy defying the law. I have made it a business to look into this matter of late, and find the conaition of affairs to be much better than is genc supposed. Before the law went into effect there were €ight faro banks running in full Dblast, and in my judgment as many as 250 sons visited the two leading houses every night, and probably a greater number upon Saturday nights, which were always the best. I have seen more than that number of people in Kcnnedy & Bibbins' place, and at Morrison & White's place, upon many occasions in the past. It is fair 10 say that at that time over 1,000 peovle vis- ited the gambling bhouscs overy night, Of courso it is questionable whether all of them gambled or not, but most of them did, and the greater number of them were mechanies and laborers, who received their money Saturdays, Most of the professional gamblers have left the city, some going to Council Bluffs, Minneapolis and St. Paul, and some have seattered all over the country, A few who own property here havo re- mained, and are cagaged in other pursuits at the present time. There is, as a matter of course, and always will be, som ibling done among certain circles of business men, but this is contined principally to the privato ciub rooms. There is absolute no faro being played in Omaba at this time,and the law may be said to have worked a material benefit to the city. The erime and wretchedness which is thereby obviated is a source of gratitication to the people.” an admirer of anid one of our worldly men, *but [ must siy that Booth and Barrett are lament- ably deficient in what is my idcal of some of the characters they have personated in Omuha. The truth is, they are both aging y rapidly. Booth, particularly, is breaking down. He still makes a peerless Richelieu, because it tukes an old man to play the part I, but in Hamlet, which is his masterpic he is no longer capable of disguising his crow-feet and makes a sorry uppearance as Ophelia's lover. Barrett made a very fair impression as Macduff. His voice is stili resonant, but unforturfately he was never cut out 0 stalwart Scottish chieftain, and at best could not satisfy the ideal of the fic com- bat at the close of the play. As Macheth, Booth fell way below the aye of trage- dian stars, Diminuti nd incapable of Lolding himself soldier-like and erect, he also disappoiuts the critical spectator by his failing voice. “The greatest Macbeth that [ have ever seen,” romarked our critic, “‘was James Murdock, who played the part in St, Louis thirty years ago to electrified audi- ences,” Fortunately for Booth and Barrett, they had in Miss Gertrude Kellogg a very powerful personation of Lady Machoth, Miss Kellogg gives promise of great histrionic success in that dificult role. With 8 prepossessing stage presence, o fine voloe, and an enunciation that leaves nothing to be desired, she is from the moment of her ap- pearance thoroughly acceptable te the audien while her in- tolligent interpretation of the text as the play proceeds, and her ready adaptation in attitudes and infiexions, 1o the sudden climaxes which Macbeth's vacillation pre- cipilates, evince her power as & tragedienne. Awong the women now upon the stage, there are few who should assume the robes and crown of the ambitious and unscrupulous Lady Ma-beth. Miss Kellogg, peruaps wore justly than auy other, may look up to the laurel wreath which Charlotwe Cushman once wore, with the reasonable hope that it may yet be bers, As @ young girl sh played before the American qu tragedy, whose commendation has - beeu s perpetual inspiration. Miss Keliogg was also @ pupil of Forrest, aud had he lived she would unguestivnably have taken raok long before this Among the atars of the dramm “p drama, am Shakespearean