Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 27, 1888, Page 4

JTHE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED l*.Vl"llY MORNING. TRRAMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Danty Morging Edition) including Sunday, KR, One Year . 8ix Months T Three Months e Omaha Sunduy iEE, maiied to any .d- dress, One Y il FOURTERNTH STRE! CORRESPONDENCE. Al communications relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed to the EDITOR oF THE IEE. 11 business et jdressed to TH® BER PUBLISING COMPANY, AHA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders to E’mma payable to the order of the company. The Bee Pablishing Company. Proprictors 3. ROSEWATER, Editor. THE DAILY BEE. Bworn Statement of Circulation. te of Nobraska, "8.,....« of Douglas, (%% 1. Toschtick, secrotary of The Bes Pub- \ing compuny, does rolemmaly swenr that the Pu ation of the Datly oo for the week 1885, Wi Ay, y ondy, May 51 fldn!ndl\y, *iay ursda; Mn ay, GEO. B, TZSCHUC Fworn to and subscribed in m mmnro Bits 20t day of May, A, D., 1888, Jfl' Nomy l’uhuc. State of Nobraska, ‘Gounty of Dougins, George B, Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, de Snd sayatuss Tie 18 secretary of The Heo ihin that the actual averuge I clmfimon " e Daily Dea for the mon of BT, was 14,227 coples; for June, 187, u.u. Yoplen: for Juiy, 16, 14,0 copless st, 1887, 14,151 coples; for Septembe u, {9 coples; or ()rmhe 1887, 14,5533 cople November, 1887, 15,220 copied; for Deceniber, 887, 16,041 coples; for January, 1888, 15,206 cop- for Februnry, 15, 15,002 coplest ‘for Marc 36e8, 10,680 coples for ApH, 1 T4 RC Bworn {31 I)finflm mfuMnud Auulbnl‘rnmd in my Ppresen: a, . D, i l{ W L. Notary Public. {88 =___— AVERAGE DAILY CIRCULATION 18,128 —_— Tie SUNDAY BEE occupies a front - seat to-day, and yet it will continue to go forward. IN order to quiet the growing fears of the Germans, the crown prince declares that if he succeedsor survives his father there need be no expectation of his rushing into war. Tre Hon. Chauncey Mitchell Depew, while conscious of the fact that a better and greater statesmen gave utterance to the same thought ' years ago, *‘would rather be right than be president.” In order that Mr. Depew’s unselfish ambi- tion may be gratified, the people will doubtless guard both his and their own fnterests by seeing that he is not presi- dent. COLONEL IGNATIUS DONNELLY has @iscovered a cipher which he claims proves beyond doubt that Pat O. Hawes smuggled the two democratic planks into the republican platform. Early in June Mr. Donnelly promises to publish a book giving the key to his cipher. If the book does not appear, the burden, oi proof will necessarily rest upon the distinguished Nebraska pie vender, THE Quakers of England sent an ad- dress to Gladstone signed by 1,200 names, declaring themselve in favor of bome rule in Ireland. An expression of this kind might have been expected from a people whose sentiments have always been for justice, peace and self- government. It was the Quakers who led the van in the march of progress and civilization. They were the first to practice religious tolerance. They were the first community to protest against slavery on American soil. They are the only people whose policy is to deal humanely with the Indians. It is therefore a cheerful omen when the Qunkers have taken sides with Ireland. ———— ARTIC explorationsare still carried on by foreign governments, although the terrible fate of the Greely expedition has chilled our government from fol- lowing up further polar discoveries. There is a fascination in exploring the realms about the north pole which seientists can not over come. Students therefore in all countries will watch with keen intorest the task about to be undertaken by the Norwegian govern- ment in exploring the east coast of Greenland. It was the Norwegians who in ages gone Dby reclaimed Iceland and made it habitable, The sturdy Moose- men of the present day have a more perilous business in hand skirting the lee-bound continent of Greenland under the shadow of the Aurora horealis than was ever drenmed of by their venture- some forefathers, I7 is lamontable that the noble Amer- lean buffalo is destined soon to be plassed among tho extinet species, A late as sure and irvesistible as that which overtook the Aztec is driving e monarch of the plains from off the fhee of the earth. With a view of pre- jerving the remnants of the once mighty herds, the editor of the Chicago DLimes has sent an expedition into the remote regions of Texas to capture as many of the bison family as possible for the purpose of perpotouting the specie from extinction The expedition has had great dificulty in locating what is left of the hords, and found the buffalos In small groups of but two or three, [t 1s thereby made evident thut the specie has dwindled to less thun a hundred, and that the expedition was seat oat ot a day too uoon to preserve the last "of tho buita ConNELL college has cstablished sourse of journalism which is intended o make professidnal newspaper wen in the sama w: schools turn out tull- fledged doctors and luwy The ex- periment will be wate arefully hy thoso colloges whigh hay i upon the idea as impracticable. Similar avtained by Harvurd and other American universi- tios, but have always been set Pherve is a gull between the theo and the practical newspaper man ulmh no schooling or set-rules will satisiy. The suceessful journalist is the man who follows a native instinet and who works his way in a newspaper from the bottom up. He adjusts his theory to practical affairs and emergeacies, a proviuce altogether subsoquent and (orclgn w the work of & :lewL looke THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SU'NDA MAY 27, 1888 ~-SIXTEEN PAGES. ‘Women in the School Board. The question of placing women on the school board is an important one, and should receive careful and candid consideration. Referring to this ques- tion a year ago Tne BEk said: “If any advantage is to be derived from plac- ing women on our school board, we cef tainly would not oppose the innovation. We are not, howev convinced that women are better qualified to ma our public schools, in_their present stage of rapid evolution, than men, although we admit that there are women better qualified for such duties than some men who aspire to be mem- bers of the board, Useful member- ship does not depend mere educational attainme: or familiarity with methods of teaching The board has to wrestle with financ and mechanical problems which requ executive ability and practical l)u-fl|\r‘~~4 experience rarely possessed by women.’ We oceupy no differont position on this question now, unless it be that we are more strongly inclined to doubt whether there would be any practical advantage in electing women to the school board, due to the fact that the oxperience of cities where they have been chosen to such boards has not demonstrated that their prosence and counsel in such bodies have been largely or materially helpful. The difficulty with most of thoso who discuss this question is that they regard it chiefly or wholly from the sentimental side, which is the last that ought to be con- sidered. We believe it to be unques- tionable that the great majority of in- telligent women do not favor placing members of their sex off the school board, and especially is this true of those who are familior with the work of the board in Omaha. It can also be said with confidence that only a very small minority of the female teachers in the public schools of this city are fa- vorable to the proposed innovation. There is another matter, also, that must not be lost sight of 1n the local discussion of this question, and that is whether women are eligible to mem- bership in the school board. There isa divergence of opinion on this point, and if practicable it should be authoritatively settled in advance of placing women in nomination for the board. But, after all, this is not the vital ques- tion with the citizens of Omaha in con- nection with the election of a school board. The all-important issue is whether the city shall have a non-parti- san board or one camposed of politicians who will make use of it for personal and partisan advantage. No side issue must be allowed to divert the public atten- tion from this prime question, in which is involved the future improvement, progress and welfare of our public school system. A minority of women in the school board would be an inconsequen- tial matter in comparison to surrender- ing that body to the politicians and making it a part of the political ma- chine, a danger which it was especially intended to avert by separating the election of the school board from the election of city officers: g0 The Nebraska Chautauqua. Those who in summer days would hie themselves to sylvan shades where ser- mons can be found in stones and books in the running brooks, will betake themselves to the Chautauqua assembly at Crete. Tt is a matter of congratula- tion to the people of Nebraska that the noble men and women of this state have for the past eight years conduc Lcd this summer school where recreation and study are so admirably blended. It is a most gratifying test of the popularity and of the sterling merit of these annual summer guatherings, that the attendance increases from year to year and embraces the best poople of the state. For the season of 1888, which includes the ten days botween June 28 and July 10. The association has been spurred on to excel all previous efforts in the attractions and comforts for all its visitors. A Chautauqua assombly is the embod- iment of o high ideal, [t endcavors to bring about a popular gathering wherc people shall be deawn together to enjoy the bounty of nature and to find relaxa- tion from business cares in physical and mental culture, Its aim is to imbue everyone with lofty ideals, to instill morality, education and thought in the mind, and to make life a more harmoni- ous entity. In these endeavors the Chautauqua society of Nebraska has succeeded. It has selected for its place of mecting an attractive summeor resort surrounded by beautiful woods and streams, where those secking rest and change can find relief. 1t has engaged a corps of prominent instructors ana lectarers in the departments of the arts and sciences. It has surrounded itself with that veligious atmosphere which breathes tho spirit of peace and good will to all men. It remains, there- fore, for the people of Nebraska to ac- cept the mvitation which the assembly 50 cerdially profiers. “Memorial Day. The twenty-first anniversary of Memo- rial duy occurs Thursday. The origin of the day is difficult to trace. Over twenty yeurs have passed into nothing- ness since General John A, Logan, then adark and stalwart man in his prime, stood up within the shadow of Arling- ton and placed llowers of speech as well as nature upon the graves of union heroes. This may have been the first recognition of the day by union sol- diers, It is probable that the first observance of it was at the south, and was restricted to the decoration of confederate graves and the more or less formal remembrauce of those who slept there, But 1t was followed 80 spontaneously throughout the ecountry that about all that is known of it is that for twenty years it has been a national holiday, It has bef deprived by the luspe of years of uny sectional or partisan aspect, and in this there is no regret, ey mel- lows as it takes its fight. Hate has worn itseif out. Years lend to the pan- orama of the war a richer and morve radignt tint, The wounds are comfort- ably healed. Back since that fair day when the civil war ended, have rolled the .waves of memory engulfing ip tkeir cbb '.hu b)uer passions boru of the conflictand the narrowing prejudices be« gotten of ignorance. In happy unison the American people, hand in hand, do honor to the gallant men and true, who, struggling for what both sides believed to be a sacred cause performed prodigies of valor. Year by year the living veterans muster and march. to crown the dead. Tt 1s especially the older men who commemorate on this day all that was grand and ennobling in our national life. Yet the sympathy of the rising generation goes out to the hallowed cause. As on this day we young, how rich in the work of civilization who died that the natiofi we may well feel like folding ecrape around our banners and 1n solemn pro- cession visit the last resting place of our dead heroes and commune with those who monde the greatest sacrifice for humanity, sorrowing that their lives were 8o brief. But when we recall how far reaching is tho work they wrought for freedom and happiness of mankind, we may rather sing a psalm of triumph that they were so e.ul* translated to immortality. “Itw only the forgotten who are dend.” The oxample and memory of the soldiers live even though they themselves have departed. The heroes fell for us. They gave up all for principle. In defense of what they believed to be right they went down to early but not unhonored graves. They sleep soundly in beds bedewed with a nation’s tears and over which perenial flowers shall emit their fra- grance. There should be nostint in our appreciation of those who fell in the hot blast of war. The country that rojoices in the sweet of peace through their self- sacrifice will never begrudge them the meod of praise or hour's devotion to the docoration of the sod that covers them. “Sweet and hccnmmg it is to die for ono’s country,” sang the old Romun poet, “like incense the memory of the brave lingers in tho air, even though the censor be withdrawn; like the mel- low tones of a silver g it through time into cternity. hands then twine garlands and i wreaths or mass hzml\s of tlowers to strow over the graves of the nation's heroes, and lot all pour out with un- stinted hand the treasuves of affection and patriotic love for the departed. “By the flow of the inland river, Whenee the fleets of iron have tled, Where the blades of the green grass quiver, Asleep are the ranks of the dead; Under the sod and the dew, Awaiting the judgment day— Under the one the Blue, Under the other the Gray.” how for renlizo promise, were those might live, vibrates Let f An Omaha Opera. We take peculiar pleasure in an- noucing the eompletion of an opera which is wholly the work of Omaha talent, the public production of which at an carly date promises a rare intel- Jectual and musical treat to our citizens, and a fame for the author and composer that will not be confined to local bound- ar The new opera, “Mr. Sampson of Omaha,” is from the pen of the well- lnown jour t, Mr. Fred Nye, and in plot, dramatie construction and literary mevit shows that Mr. Nye possesses a high order of ability outside the beaten paths m ,num.\lmn The music is b Mrs. B. B. Young. whose superior a mn.pmlnm».m ve familiar to ms of our citizens, and who in this instance shown that she has remarkable talent as a composer. Comedy is the prevailing vein of the opera, with a deft admixture of sutire and a few touches of the serious which serve to give color and variety of tone. To those who know the juthor it need not be said that the quality of the humor is high and the character of the satire keen and telling. ences and adventures of Mr. an Omaha merchant of strong specula- tive tendencies, supply the piot, about which are clustered numerous incidents most happily conceived and admirably developed. The situations are both original and strong, and the climaxes are worked out with great skill. The characters are well drawn, and the nction of the opera, which is in Bulgaria and Omaha, is smooth, rapid and of continuous interest. The most capuble judges have commended the music in the warmest terms, and very much of it is nly beauty and excellence. “My, Sampson of Omaha” will be pro- duced at Boyd’s opera house next Thurs- day ovening, and will be given four pe formances. The best local musical tal- ent will participate in its production, and there can be no doubt of its proving a notable popular success. We very cordially bespeak for this work of ()Illu.lm. talont the interest and generous cer of rare The old system of apprenticeship, under whick the Im\ who wished to learn a trade was ‘‘indentured” or *hound out” to an employer for a term of yoars, has been gradually falling into disuse from natural causes, until searcely a vestige of it remains. Tt will probably never be restored. Fifty, and perhaps even twenty-five years ago, the employers in most trades worked with their hands, and being constantly pres- ent could give proper instruction to the apprentice. He took the boy to board in his own house, and to a certain ex- tent had an oversight of his habits and could control his general conduct to the end that u good mechanic should be the result. The situation to-day is widely differ- ent, Employers seldom work at the trade, for the reason that there isa great increase in the volume of busi- ness, and because new and quicker methods of work have become 80 neces- savy that the time of the employer is fully oceup! in attending to business details and in general dirvection. He seldom or never takes tools’into his own hands or remains lopg enough upon actual work to inspruct in that practical way which was possible formerly. The apprenticesis left, therefore, largely to the charge of the workmen., The fore- man or other employes give such gen- eral instruction as may result from thaiv good nature or sense of duty to the boy or the employer, Itisa fact that there is at present no such thingas regular or systemati¢ * teach- lng ‘ithe m.p'o.luue in most in- dustries boing TFn to ‘*‘pick up” his trade instoad of having it taught to him, The result of thi is that the supply In(‘l jean skilled workmen is steadily” diminishing and the ranks of such WorKmen must be re- cruited from abroad. A remedy for this is sought in the ablishment of mochanical so hools whpre boys may en- tor and on the paymen§ of a moderate fee secure practical ingpruction in what- ever trade thoy may sefect. Some soven years ago schools of thily character were established in New Yoffk city by Colonel Richard T\ Auchmuty, and have proved entirely successful. The echools are housed in comfortable buildings erected for the purpose, and instruction isgiven in the evening to classes in plumb- ing, bricklaying, plastering. stone-cut ting, houso and sign painting, fresco painting, wood carving, carpentry and blacksmith’s work. During the day there are classes in plumbing, house and sign painting, stone-cutting and tailoring. Most of the pupils are young men between between eighteen and twenty-one years of age, and among the attendants at the cvening classes aro many clerks who, dissatisfied with the poor compensation of ordinary clerical work, devote their leisure time to learn~ ing a trade. The toachers are skilled mechanies, and the instruction is of the best and most practical kind. It 18 proposed by the Master Builder's exchango of l’hlh\(hlphm to estabiish in thut city mechanieal schools modeled upon those in New York, and there is 1o reason to doubt that they would be equally successful. If so, the example will doubtless be followed in other large ocities in the country. The matter of establishing such schools is one of very great importance in its bearing upon the question whether this « v is train its own skilled workmen or to be brought finally to rely wholly upon a supply from the old world, and also in the-effect it might have in stimulating the youth of America to learn trades, toward which generally they arc not favorably disposed. The average Amer- can boy ks what he regards as the hwm and genteel employment of a Lh k, although the average tion 15 smaller and the nf labor longer than in mechan- employments. The necessary ve- sult is that tho supply of clerks keeps ntly in advance of the demand, is a jostling and pushing for thess ns, which has the inevitable of- feet of reducing the compensation. and even now in most of*the’large cities the young man ise xtrémely fortun can get sufficient for thig sort ot s to enable him to live respectubly and keep out of debt. Mestwhile the sup- ply of thoroughlygskigicd mechanics does mot keep page with the demand, and overywhere e wages of such is generous and the dfiployment constant. Were the immigiatiod of this clas of workmen to ystop - for a sin- gle year the (ul\bcqu( nces serious to many industiic something requived thatwill ens country to recruit Mo rdnks of ~l\|llml labor from its owp ,Lu,»,uhw future welfare also Gebply rned, and it is not questionauble that the establish- ment of mechanical schools may do much to aceomplish this. d||lon of things who is it of national importance to s and educational circles took last week in Washington. Tt was ision of the ceremony of laying the corner stone of what is (. ned to be the great Catholic university of America. For many years the Catho- lic clergy have urged on the lavmen the necessity of founding a college in Ameriea which shall stand on an equal footing with the great Catholic univer- sities of Burope. ISuLn, was not until quite ntly that the project assumed tangible shape, By the gift of Miss Caldwell, an An 1 heivess. of #300,- 000 to the pmpm.».l.ull.-uu Cardinal Gibhon was encournged to raise a very large sum for the immediate constr ty. An interesting episode of the occasion in laying the corner stone was the presentation of the pope’s gifts to Miss Caldwell, who veceived a gold medal and was honored with the golden rose. The Catholics of America are to he congratulated in es- tablishing a college of such a high order as the proposed university will be. tion of the univer: PARENT That the smelter is in bad order. That Omaha has a base ball club. That Omaha needs a market house. That the sidewalks could e repaired. Thav Decoration day will be properly ob- served. That the Pinkerton escaping. That for sometime yet Omaha will need o new hotel, That the Salvation army makes more noise than progress. “That a brass band is an should not demand. That there will b no railr Omaha and Council Bluffs bridg B Our Piptform, Globe-Demoexat, Harmony, but no Hoodlumism—that's our platform. i e Mills Will Push Him Hard, Chicago ¥ritnine, n Randall's staud in favor of cheap whisky will make the job of crowding him out of the democratic party a work of much difticulty. scabs were lucky in evil that custom track on the - e to Pass, Springfeld Republican .1t has come tw pass lin American politics that the yells of convéntion delegates are cousidered the only éorrect measure of a man’s availability as a candidate, The Nation's Sheer Anchor, Philadelphia Record, Reforms are aceomplished in the United States by the movement of the masses of the people. The leaders and wirepullers care only for spoils: the people on the contrary, uch policles as make for the general advant The wirepullers are afraid to touch tarift reform for fear they may burn their flugers: but the voters and taxpayers demand it and will have it. They know the time is ripe for it. cere only for - ts “Protects" Kan- sas. . Louis Republican; Musb.n'huwl(a owns onc-half of Kausas, aud the.money it was bought with has been extorted from: Kansag' farmers to otect uauuhusuu amanufaciurers. It would be How )lnnur.hu. reasonable to estimate that Kansas has paid to Massachusetts and other favored manu- facturing states 7,000,000 o £10,000,000 & yoar in tariff taxesin the lnst twenty-six years—and it is this money which the loau agencies in the Kansas towns are now lend- ing out on Kansas real estate mortgages, itendehito- ot The Terror of the Small Boys, Chicagn Herald. John Lawrence Sullivan owns a third in- torest in the cirous with whion he is asso- ciated, and will travel with it. No one will « A\\l under the canvas of Mr. Sullivan’s —— e The Paris 1dea of Us. Erchange. A Paris journal asserts that an English ex-hangman has been hired by an American manager for a lecture tour in the United States, and is to receive #0,000 over his ox- penses. ———— Revelation. on for the Sunday Bee. I cannot now look forth as once I eould Along the opening of my coming years, And say unto my heart in joyful mood, “Thy best of life is yet to come”—thicl toars blinding heart and all About is dark with fears. I strive to look ahead, clouds gathor fi I look behind and see the waning light Where Happiness and 1 cach other passed, And knew it not, until to-night, to-night, The lighting of a word, a look, a tone, Revealed all in its llp(l\l' Are and oyes and path, We may not know why God should shut our eyes, And open them again some after day: Or why Ho lots Love pass us in disguise, Aud just allows the faint, sweet after-ray ©Of His inverted torch to touch our lives, And reach our darkened way. We may not know; tareads He lmhh secure, nor breaks the frailest but in His hand all Bofors Rim life o subtle pattorn spreads And into it He weaves "l all is done; Then wo shall trace to joyful ends some threads We lost when just begun! CrAA MARCELLE GREENE. VOICE OI' THE STATE PRESS. i1 OMany Beg announces that MeShane will not be a candidate for congress again. The reason given is that his business needs him, but it is more probable that a disinclin- ation to faea the 5,000 republican majority is at the bottom of it," suggests the Wayne Herald. In casting about for the standard bearer, the O'Neill Frontier con- cludes that it has overy reason to believe that Walter Q. Grosham will be the nomince. With such a man to lead them, and a sound platform to back them, the republican party may feel assured of success. sthe Linwood Journul before seeing this issue: Last Sunday's Ovania BEk was the finest p: cever read. It was brim- ful of new supply was not half exhausted. Tuk Ber's Sunday sales along this line are enormous, which goes to show how deoply its editorial sentiments are em- bedded in the hearts of the people. “Evidently,” suggests the Schuyler Her- ald, “the railroad corporations of Nebraska own the republican party of this state, and they always have, and instead of matters getting better they are daily growing worse, Under the present state of affairs a_member of that party has to be a tool in the hands of 4 few men or he cannot hope for any political advancement.” ““The way the B. & M. managers endeavor to make friends,” remarks the Plattsmouth Journal, *‘scems to be by the plan of the bull- to frighten people into the bmn'l that their power is supreme eve where in the land, and especially on the line. sul course of business peovle to win fri s vy fair and just treatment, but the 1 plan s different.” Suys the Seward reporter: “The election of Patrick 1, one of Nebraska'’s dele- gates to the national republican convention is not only an honor to him, but will have much influence on Irish Americans all over the country. Wherever exists the love of the Emerald Isle Mr, an is known, and his cleetion will show that the republican party is in earnest in its warm feeling toward the vietims of England’s oppression.” Speaking of sincerity, the Blue Springs Sentinel says: ‘“John M. Thurston was moved to declare himself .a candidate for delegate-at large to the national republican convention by the fact that Butler and other anti-monopoly counties had instructed for him. When such men as John M. Thurston and Charley Green pose as representatives of the anti-monopoly party we may well believe that the devil is turning saint.” “Jud ge Gresham,” says the Falls City Journal, *'is steadily growing in favor asa presidential candidate, Many papers that a montl did not look with much favor on his candidacy are now bold serting that no man whose ne has been mentioned in connection with the presidency combines more elemenfs of strength than does Walter Q. Gresham, If the Chicago convention will give us Gresham and Hawley, the seried phalanx of republicans will overwhelm the cohorts of Dictator C! 4 and relegate that llulnlull accident to private life and ob- lixion." “While there is no doubt,” says the Wayne rald, *‘that in point of ability, John M. Thurston is a fitting man to head the repub- lican delegation to Chicago, we believe his election to have been particularly unwise at the present time, as it will strengthen the belief of many that the party is controlled, body, boots and breeches, by the railroad gang. Thurston, Greene, Bates and Norval are all railroad attorneys, and the forces of their respective roads were the levers used to secure their election. 'he people were beaten, but the gang's victory will cost the party thousands of votes. It is time to call halt, and send railroaders to the vear, if the party would maintain its supremacy in this state.” The North Bend Flait thus talks: In the claug and clamor of the campaign, while willing victims arve forging to the front pager to sacrifice themselves on the altar of their country, the quiet though earncst and ag- gressive Loese, of the adjutant general's oftice, should not be overlooked. No man ever honored that important ofice as William Leese has honored it and the strokes he has struck for the people against monopolies have redounded to his honor o state in the union, The ground he has taken is the Flail's ground and in his position he makes his efforts tell. He must be re-elected and every voter in Nebraska who believes in the rights of the people against the encroach- ment of incorporate greed should sce that his vote is recorded for William Leese for attor- ney general of Nebraska. presidential “In this boasted land of freedom and pros perity, in this gilt edged state of Nebraska, there are thousands of wmen working for §1.25 & day. Other thousands are carning only §1.50 per day. ‘Whese men, if they aro er sick and never lose o day, make & 9 per week. They pay $4 per week board. They lose a sh c time. It isafe to say that none of Loem can save $100 a ysar even if thoy have no families to support. ‘Phey have no recreations or awusements, they aredulland stapid and desperate. Is it any wonder that they drowa their sense of slavery in iliguor ur that the; o ready for any mischieff And this evil is growing. The time will come when the trusts, couibin ations and other classes of yobbers must go. Thé question is whether they shall go pence- abie, lawfully and smoothly, or whether they shall go in smoke and blood. Will the strong and wealthy continue their course of accu« mulation and plunder, or will they submit to changoe in the economic conditions that will give the poor and weak a show for decent and healthful and comfortable and hopeful lives!" asks the Lun'aln Democrat. - ll()\ ALTY. There is a rumor that Cardinal Manning is to be made a life peer. Tho king of the Bulgarians manages to live on $600,000 a yoar. The earl of Dudley, who comes of age this year, has $1,000,000 a yoar. The octogenarian duke of Devonshire, writes all his own letters in a firm and legible hand. Elizabeth of Austria, has developed an un- fortunate skin disease and wears a veil con- tinually. Tho princess of Wales and her associatos aro setting the fashion of wearing as much jewelry as possible. The queen of Denmark is intensely deaf, but fond of music, and has & big and power- ful organ that she can hear. Olga of Greeco is the most beautiful queen of Europe, and is sister-in-law of the empress of Russia and the princess of Wales, Victoria of Germany, it is said, tastes por- tions of every article of food intended for the emperor, and superintends the preparation of most of 1t herself. Lord Salisbury, premier of England, was formerly a working journalist and fre- quently incloses news to men who were for- merly his co-luborers Lord Mandeville is so pleased with his ex- periences of trick riding and shooting at Manchester that he intends joming Buffalo Bill in his new adventure, Queen Marguritoof Italy, shows more and more fondness for American literature, and, it is said gets ull the leading magazines pub- lished in the United States. The young Viscount Belgrave, grandson of the duke of Westminster, if he lives to in- herit his patrimony, will, it is stated by a London contemporary, be the richest man in the world. The king of Portugal ordered in London thirty tons of fireworks and fifty tons of mortars and other pyrotechnic machinery for use at Lisbon in the royal reception to the king of Sweden. Marquis Torrigiani, the syndic of Flor- ence, to whom Queen Victol paid so hand- some a compliment upon the excellence of the arrangoments made for her convenience, is married to an American lady. The queen of Sweden, since she has learned and began cooking by the advice of her physiciau for her health, takes long walks, and often goes into the peasants’ houses and shows them how to make good dishes, The queen regent of Spain chooses the word daily for the countersign, without which no one is admitted to the palace by the many guards. This is communicated to the highest military official, .who happens to be Marshal Campo, who proclaimed Alfonso king. The prince of Wales, if he has won money on a race, tilts his hat over his eyebrows and talks rapidly to anyone who may be with him. If he has lost he takes his hat off, wipes his forehead with his )mndku&‘luuf und muintains a severe silence. A man who | says nothing when he loses a race possesses an eleruent of greatness. ————— The Cleveland Colossus. New York Sun. So many pounds of President We never had before: If_weight could count, his firm intent Would win the race once more. S0 many pounds of Pr Of flesh_a fearful lot; Upon a single purpo To keep what he has Upon the domocrats he This very hefty may, And thinks that he exa The democratic plan. Some smart old stagers sigh and say of slide, Vi e s'.ups the way And nono but ho! muy ride. They fancied him a stepping-stone To help them on the way To_ blessings long to them unknown, And to u brighter day. But now the truth they clearly gee, Although at first 'twas dim; That democrats were made to be The stepping-stones for bim. - 'S 8 l\\’l’l‘ SMEN. THE STAT Judge O. P. Muson, it is said, has his eye turned United States senateward, Andrew R. Graham is another of the even dozen strong to become state treasurel J. C. McBride is reported to havo an oye on a seat in the legislature from Lancaster., Captain Ashiby has left the romuntic vil- lage of Valley and will perhaps go to Ken- tucky. Somo of the big First poiiticians are sug- gosting Judge Sam Chapman's name for congress. C. F. Babcock, of McCoy, defeated as a Chicago aelegate, is now setting sails to run for state senator. John P, Clary, of Saline county, is canva ing the state, trymg to secure the nuulinntlun for state treasurer. Charloy Cascy, of Pawnce City, will rep- vesent Pawnee county in the logislature, if he has his way about it. Thomas Darnell, defeated by Dorsey for congress, will now try his hand as a cundi- date for attoracy general, North, as mayor of Colurbus and gito to St. Louls, is satistied und will not be the democratic cundidate for governor, Brigadier General Colby could be per- suuded o run for congress. As the political or of Mr. C. O. Bates, tho genoral Tho ice man spake to the milkman gay,and spake him for an hour: “What's the rcason you have, Ipray, for letting your {miil all sourt All you nced do is to form @ tru you tell your customors, Lrue, if thoy use my e on your diluted swill ‘twill aiways be aWoot—though biuo.” o1 have no idea where the lines came from, but the thought is suggesiive, if not poeti cal,” suggested an up-town gentleman Wed- nesday. 1t may seem u trivial matter, hut it is not, by a long way. tor of milk in this city is certainly failing lu do his duty, practically neglecting kis Lusiness, if the samples of alleged milk I am compelled to purchase are to be judged. inquiry among my neighbors reveals the fact that a great portion of the milk sold in Omaba is either watered or chalked or **doctored” in some mysterious manner known to the mitky way. It is blue, alfords 0o ¢ream, contains no nourishment, and is.as my wife exprossed it, orrid stuff.” sours in half the time that pure dairy milk will, .md t0my vain appeal to the milkman “Use ice for your refrigerator-- " This is a mattor of importauce, to ang, aud 1 wish Tue Bee would call atten ion 19 1L w1t s strange,? snid @ spaculator on Doug: las street, “but the expositwa buuding has never yot pald 8 per cent on fIts te 008t—$125,000, 1f the bullding could bd turned into & market house at somo futurd day, and rented, as it could casily be, atg rental price of §50 a day for such & purpose, it would bring to the owners a handsome re« turn on their investment—more than 8 pey cont, “And_tho mnrket house must eventuatty come, There must bo a place set aside and designated as a ‘market,’ whore people can go for their vegetables, fruits, meats, oggs and milk. If the council assigns a place on Capitol avenue, botween Thirteenth and Six- teonth streets, it will not be long until we see a store ronted on that street where green garden truck will bo kept exclusively, Then another for milk, meat, oggs,fruits, eto. And it would be a wondorful couvenionce all around.” ““We find plenty of work to do,” said Cap- tain Paine, a deputy oil inspector of the state, ‘‘but it's very little inforior kerosene that I have found. It all moots the require- ments of the test—150, Bofore the law passed imposing a fine for selling inforior grades of coal oil, Iv was astounding tha amount disposed of—espocially in small places. But men foar the majesty of the law when they would not step off the road to lek satan pass.” awell, it beats o world," romarked Judge Edwards, of Pawnee Cny “Twenty or twenty-five years ago I placed several hundred dollars in a pair of saddlo bags, and mounting a horse rode from Pawnee City to Omaha. The money in my possession had been collocted by the treasurer of Pawnea county on taxes, and I was deputy, and do- tailed to come to Omaha and make a settlo- ment with the stato treasurer. Among these many thousands of houses I can not remem- ber where the state treasuror's office was, nor just where the bank of Mr. Kountze was located, where I paid the money. I have lived in Pawnee all theso years,and hore this wonderful city has materialized. At that time I supposed Pawnee woula be tha largest city in Nebraska—but, well, its hard, to tell what the future holill " “It would astonish yon," remarked a oitis zon a week ago, “if you knew the number of quack doctors, jugglers, montebanks, fortune tellers, scamps and sooundrels masquerading as skilled and schoolod physicians in Omaha. The law prohibits them from even claiming to be doctors, but by purchasing bogus cor- tificates they are allowed to bunglingly ads minister their infernal drugs, and credulous aud ignorant people suffer. If they efrect a cure, mnine times out of ten it is by mere chance. They glibly talk of their wonderful experience and largely increasing practico. They~ pretend to talk Latin when they have only a smattering of English, lecture on ‘ane atomy when they could not dissect a saw- horse, attempt to curc a sick person when, indeed, they could notcure a ham. These rrnudulont professional murderers seem ta increase rather .than decrease.! At tho time Lux Ber routed and scouted that princa of humbugs, Dr. Fishblatt, thero were many: of the false disciples of Alsculapeus who had preyed upon Omaha, quietly left tha town. But they are coming again, some are already here, and while many reputable peo- ple should shun them, even as they should shrink from a ravaging pestilence, they res ceive them with open arms into their families where, if opportunity is offered, they will corrupt, debauch and poison the mind and body. It seems to me that Tix BEr can- not do a nobler work than to again ventilate these nostrum nuisances, so disgustingly plentiful in Omaha. “Judge Wakeley's declulun on Sunday ball playing gives general satisfaction,” said a pleasant, pious gentleman. Whilo not ox- pecting to be quoted, he continued: “Well, from the vast crowds in attendance thoru each Sabbath day, I supposo the poople de- mand it—and, after all the people are the law. If our. church-going and religious people desiro to_break up ball playing on Sunday, the only course to pursuo is to teach those who witnoss the game that it s sinful to play ball on Sunday. Yet no more so than to witness the gamo. If there were no spee- tators certain it is there would be no basa ball,” and the good man walked away. s BY THE WAY, 1t is better to give than to receive—a blow, ‘It never rains but it pours” is a quotas tion that some friend should hold an um-. brella over. The sweet girl graduate is now casting about to find some one who will write an essay for her, The most aggravating struggle now in pro- gress is that of finding some democrat to take McShane's place, Now that Prof. Sullivan has been engaged by acircus, it is fair to presumse that the clown will be banished from the ring, The state of Sonora, Mexico, levies a tax of & on every baby born within its limits, which eauses a great many to be borne with- out its limits. The adage, ‘‘While there is life there is hope,” was denied in writing by a man in Colorado, as he was falling down a shaft four hundred feet deep. The pewter-plate storics concerning the battle of Gettysburg going the rounds of many papers would causo the most devoted patriot to become a descrter, Those attending the state university are congratulating themselves becuuse it is an- nounced thut owing toa misundorstanding there will be no “anuual address,” Chaska, the Sfonx Indian who married Miss Fellows, is doing tho freak a Chicago museum. If he doesn't go in Chicago, his carecr will be brilllant, 1t is getting toward that scason of the year when tho little sister writes cssays on ‘How Beantifully the Innocent Birds Sing” while her little brother is out robbing their nests, The clam bake at Shoga Island promises to be o three-vinged success, G il Meldrido is prosident and invites the r'd Lo uttend, The udmission feois placed at the modesy sum of §5. i ls DENI That Adam was l)u' first man, That Walt Sacly was in the revolutivnary war, That South Omubu clawors for unnesa- tion. That the Omauha postoflice building is ever tidy. That one of our morning conte poraries is for saie. That Shakespear ited to kim That MeShane is sincere in devlar ‘That any wowan school board. That nature or ynder Om, That Blaine tas said he nination. That two prewty te: schools will soon be musried fobn M. Thurston will vote the Nebraska ation for Belva Lockwood. That the firetraps aud rookeries served by the city as works of art That C. O. Bates, who will represent the Fipet district ut Chicago, ke o candidute fox wrote the works accred- his political will be elactod to the al gus was ever found in Omaha s accept the wo! hers of our publie de are pre- ] vice prosideat.