Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 3, 1888, Page 4

_THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Paily Morning Edition) including Sunday kR, One Year ie !I{l‘ tor Three Months M » Omaha Sunday Bee, mailed to'any ad- dress, One Year.... ATA OFFIOE, NOSGTLAND 018 FARN O e Yk Crp1cE, ItOOMS 14 AND BUILDING. WASHINGTON OFFIC CORRESPONDENCE, | Al communications relating to news and edi- forial matter should be addressed to the EDITOR iEe. OF THE BER. |- 1NESS LETTERS. All business letters and remittances should be | dressed to THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, B rafia, hecks and postoice orders to made puyable to the order of the company. The Beg Publishing Company. Proprictos | E. B SEWATER, Editor. THE DAILY BEE. fworn Statement of Circulation, Btate of Nebraskn, il punty of Dotgla e oo B Tzhchuck, sectetary of The Ties Pub- Nshing company, does s(xlun\l!l{ swear that the setun] circuiation of the Daily e for the week ending Juno 1, 185, was as follows: Average. Fworn to and subscribed in 124 day of June, A. D, 148, Lo 18152 BTZSCHUCK, ‘my presence N FRIL, Notary Public, Btate of Nebraska, Vas County of Douglas, (% George B, Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, @eposes and says that lic i3 secretary of The Ies Publishing compuny, that the et averag daily circulation of the Daily Bee for the month of June, 187 was 14,147 coples; 187, 14,003¢ copies; for August, 1887, for September, 7, T340 1 333 coples; for November, 187, 15,22 copies; for December, 87, 165,041 copies; for January, 1888, 15,206 cop- fes:' for February, 158, 15,0822 copies: for March, 33 10,0 coplew for ADFl, 164 1874 coples, r v 1 51 coples. 4l P8R0, B TZSCHUCK. Bvorn to beforo me and’ subseribed in my resence this 2d day of June, A, D. 188, . ‘. P. FEIL, Notary Public. A Chan, the Better, Tt goes without saying that every citizen who has the welfare of Omaha at heart is’ deeply interested in the management of our public schools. The election to-morrow involves the que whether the schools, with their enormous patronage, are to be given up to political spoils-hunters and huck- sters, supply contractors and real estate It is a notorious fact that the hoard of education with- in the past two years has handled nearly one million dollars. The revenue of the board, indepen- dent of the bonds voted with which to build school houses, is fully three hun- dred thousand dollars a yeq With this princely revenue, the board been unable to make both ends meet Without laying the blame for reckless mismanagement and plotting, scheming and speculating upon an rticular member of the board, every intelligent ver must be convinced that a change of management and policy is de- manded in the interest of good goveru- ment. This does not imply a reduction of teachers’ salaries, but businesslike methods applied to the sale and purchase of school property and supplics which involve a great outlay. Tn other words, reform is necessary in the management of our public schools. Can this reform be brought about without a change of the membership in the school board? We do not believe it can, and nohody need expect such reforms so long as the members of the hoard are obligated. for their selection, to the political machine, with its packed ward caucuses and rot- ten spoils system. The board to be elected to-mor- row will control our school sys- tem for the next three years. Can any citizen and taxpayer who desires good school government remain indifferent and shirk his duty to himself, his family and the community at large? —— tion speculator has obse AVERAGE DAILY CIRCULATION 18, 162 TiE commencement season has be- gun—that is, the commencement of the picuic season. —_——— THE presidency of the United States will not be affected by the political creed of the members of the Omuha ‘school hoard MAYOR I'=RANCIS of St. Louis will be the most unpopular man in that city to- day unless he rescinds tho order closing the saloons on Sunda; Mr. CONOYER is not running this time, and there is no oceasion for fright- ening the 200 schoolma’ams of Omaha Anto peddling partisan tickets made up by hoodlums and ward bums. COMPARE the school board tickets, aman for man, and you will have no dif- ‘ficulty in deciding which ticket rep- wwesents the interests of the tax-payer and welfare of the school children. THe sultan of Turkey has refused to permit certain Armenians to emigrate %o America. Thuank you, sir: America has a shiplond or two of beggars who ean be sent to Turkey on proper upph- eation. For once Mr. Coburn has made a mistake. He should have sought his wvindication in another way than asking even his friends to vote him into the board of education for a second term while he is holding the office of sheriff. ng volitical pipes for months and hanging around the street corners for weeks to get a nom- ination on theschool board, on which he has to serve without pay, you can bet your bottom dollar he expects to make his expenses out of the oftice in an il- legitimate way. There are several just such men on the ticket nomiuated by the ward bums yester: WITEN a man is 1 THE organ of the political hacks who insist upon thrusting politics into the school board tries to represent the effort to raise the schools above ‘the plane of the pot-house and trading-post for jan- torships as a burlesque. When the Arons of the publie schools and the tax- payors ave heard from the performance of the prefessional politician will be treated as something worse than afare It is evident thata burglar's ‘trust’ bas been formed. Omaha is not alone he victim of this new extortion. The @ities of St. Paul. Minneapolis, Still- water, Sioux City and others are being discriminated as well by the light-ting- ®rod gentry. If the police of these eitics would form a “pool” to down this *combine,’™ the burglar monopolists might be given an opportunity to wear the stripes for awhile, Tie Hon, David H, Wells, who has devoted most of his life to statisties on our social economy, comes to n con- elusion that the material progress made by mankind during the last fifty years has been upward and not down- ward, better and not worse, While it cannot be denied that in point of matervial wealth Europe and America have made an unparalleled advance- ment, it is a question whether the moral welfare of the race has kept equal pace. EpwiN Boorn has again shown his munificence by a princely gift of a build- ing at Gramercy park, New York City, to “The Players’ Club.,” The object of this association of actors and their friends is the formation and preserva- tion of the finest picture galiery and li- brary relating to the theatrical profess- fon in the world. It is by deeds of this kind that the actors’ profession is ele- wated, and all the men and women, who are “‘merely players,” raised to a nobler appreciation of the art. ——— NEBRASKA has the distinction of fur- @ishing the subject of *“The Mirst Home- " a beautiful oil-painting from the h of Mrs. W, C, Strohim. The pie- Sure was sent to Mvs. John A. Logan who will place it in the Corcoran Avt Gallery at Washington, The oviginal of the paintiug is the farm of Mr. Daniel Precman of Beatrice, which was pre- empted Junuary 1, 1863, It is certainly & compliment to our state, that a picture of the fivst hamestead in the Unitod Statos has been hung ‘in the Corvoran Art Gallery. ; g American Players Abroad. Last year Mr. Augustin Daly, the New York manager, took his company to Europe for a summer season and won a notable success. 1In England his au- diences were the largest and finest of the season, and he was hardly less fa- vored on the continent. Theexcellence of the American company secmed to be something of a revelation 1o both the critics and the play-goers of Europe. They had not been wont to credit us with such development in this depart- ment of art. A few fine actors they knew we had. Edwin Forest the critics at least had heard of, and possibly also of E. L. Davenport and James K. Mur- dock and Charlotte Cushman. Booth had been among them and they had mes ured his greatness, giving him a place among the foremost of their own lands. Mary Anderson had won a secure place in the English heart. Joseph Jefferson they were acquuinted with. These had taught them that America was not with- out great artists, whom it knew how to appreciate. But still the company of Mr. Daly. unsurpassed if equaled in all Europe, showed us a long step in ad- vance of where the critics nnd play- goers of Furope supposed we were, and theretore it achieved great popularit and great success. The enterprising manager is again in London, renewing his last year's tri- umph, our cable dispatches have noted the cordinl welcome of his reception. The audiences that nightly greet his company are larger and finer than be- if pos and this not- hstanding the t that he offers the well-worn comedy, to London at 5 of *The Taming of the Shrew.” It is not easy for an English audience to warmly commend the production of any Shakespearian play by foreign actors, even though such actors be American, yet the praise given Mr. Daly's com- pany has been heavty and unreserved. Individually and collectively they have been praised, and those most admivable artists. Ada Rehen, James Lewis and Mus. Gilbert, are being lionized to their heart's content. It is on experience that ought to grat- ify Americans, and particularly those who have contended that our stage, albeit not favored by state subsidies or the special patronage of a titled aris- tocracy, is as capable of the highest standavd of attainment as any in the world, and that in faet our best native talent is nowhere surpassed. We von- ture o say that no other country could bring together such a galaxy of great exponents of the drama as were associ- ated in the'production of *Hamlet” two weelis ngo, on the oceasion of the tes moniul to Lester Wallack, and though several of them are not Amecricans by birth, all perfected their art on the American stage. 'What has been done in advanecing the standard of dramatic art in this country is assurance of still further progress. We shall more fully demonstrate that a free stage, subject to no other cen- sorship than that of an en- lightened publio, and dependent upon no other support than thatof the people, can attain the highest results and the largest mensure of usefulness, and set an example worthy of the world’s imita- tion, The Reason Why. The women who desire representa- tion on the board of education only have themselves to blame for failing to receive recognition on either of the re- spective tickets, They agreed to dis- agrec at the outset, and pursued a course that compelled their friends to ignore their demands. Onc set of woman suffragists publicly declared, and had it so advertised, that they belonged to the par- tisans with a republican brand, and would not sccepl 2 nomination from pt the straight republican made up for the most part hightoned” patriots, who trafie in votes and live oy politics, ‘and slake their thirstat the expense of eandidates. ‘The other set presented their claims at the non-pertisan meating. The dispo- sition of the non-pariisan committec to whom their petition wus refc was to give them recognitions but they were confrouted with the question whather such action would not defeut # pait if not their whole ticket, in case the republican convontion should nom- inate the' two purtisun female canydi- | dates. @1t was nunifest that the woman | suffragist intended to pool all their votes for the Women on both tickets ifi a conceited effort to elect them all. That would have compelled them to seratch two of the male candidates on the non- partisan ticket, and if this scratching mateh was not strictly confined to two particular candidates, it would have re- sulted in the defeat of the whole non- partisan ticket. This would have been suicidal. Had the woman suffragists centered their choice upon two women known to be fitted for the school hoard, and presented their names as the unani- mous choice of the female voters, there is very little doubt that they would have been successful, Shakespeare or Bacon. What is the Donnelly Cryptogram? This is @ question as often asked by people who have scen the hook as by people who have not. Mr. Donnelly himself tells us that a more brain rack- ing problem was never submitted to the intellect of man, and in this statement he will be enthusiastically upheld by most of the people who have attempted to find their way out of the tortuous labyrinth into which he has led them. His book is divided into two parts, an argument and a demonstration. Part T contains the old familinr arguments and evidences brought forward to prove that Bacon was the real author of the Shakespears plays. Mr. Don- nelly says: “While the cipher will he able to stand alone, these facts will throw many valuable side lights upon the story told in the cipher narcative. ‘When we say of Part 1. t! it presents a very strong case in favor of Mr. Don- nelly’s client we will leave it and turn our attention to the really new part of the work, the cipher. Thas its decipherer claims is “‘a long, continuous narrative, running through many pages, detailing historical events in a perfectly symmetrical, rhetorical and grammatical manner, and always growing out of the same numbers em- ployed in the same way and counting from the same or similar starting points.” This he asserts, ‘‘cannot be otherwise than a prearranged arith- metical cipher.” He quotes many p: sages from the acknowledged works of Bacon relative to ciphers and their con- struction and utility, proving be- yond question that Bacon not only used ciphers but made them. He claims that the Shakespeare pla are at-once the finest dramatic poetry ever written, and that they con- tain besides an infolded history of the troublous times of Elizabeth. This cipher is not one of letters but of words, It is a story in a story. For instance, he claims that the story of Mary Queen of Scots and thatof the Spanish Armada are hidden in Love’s Labor Lost, and that the external story of the downfall of Wolsey in Henry VIII hides the internal story of Bacon’s own disaster and disgrace. According to his theory the plays are arranged in pairs, and to successfully work out the cipher story both plays must be used at the same time. The cipher narrative given in illustration is evolved from the first and second parts of Henry IV, The second part of this play was not published for two years after the first part, the author wisely allowing that much time to pass be- tween the publication of paired plays, if any suspicion was excited by certain peculiarities of construction or significant phrases employed. In case there had been, the second part would be suppressed and no one could then work out the cipher, having only half the necessary words, It can only he evolved by using the folio of 1623, the first complete edition of the plays, pub- lished seven years after the death of Shakespeare and three years before the death of Bacon. In this smme year was published con’s De Augmentis, which contained the chapter on ciphers und a description of what Bacon calls the best of all ciphers, “where one writing is enfolded in another.” [t will be seen from this that the narratives and their key were both published in the same year. Mr. Donnelly calls attention to the paging of this edition, which is peculiur, He uses the number of the page, the number of words in cach column, and the number of words in each subdivision of each column, From these, numbers he produces an arithmetical formula, moving some- times from the bottom and sometimes from the top of the column, but always in strict accordance with his formula, By the Lelp of the facsimile pages from the 1623 folio published in this volume we are able to follow the formation of such sentenees as this: “*Many rumors are on the tongues of men that my cousin hinth prepared not only the con- tentions between York and Lancaster and King John, and this play, but other plays which are put forth first under the name of Moneclon, and now go abrond as prepared by Shakespeare. He is the son of n poor peas- ant, who yet followed the trade of glove making in the hole where he was born aud bred, once of the pleasant towns of the west, and there are oven rumors that both Will and his brothers did themselves follow that trade for some time before they came here.” From pages 74 to 79 inclusive, in the second part of Henry IV., he evolves avithmetically sucha continuous nar- rative as **I ventured to tell him my suspicion that Master Shakespeare is not himself eapable enough and huth not knowledge enough to have written the much-admired plays that we all rate so high, and which are supposed to be his, and which, ever since the death of Marlowe, huve hecn put forth in name, and that it is rumored that every one of them was prepared under his name by soioe gentleman, His lord- ship advised that the best thing we could do is to make him a prisoner, and as soon as he is apprehended bind him with iron and bring him before the council and it is more than likely the knave would speak the truth and tell who writ it. But in the event that he lied about the matter, your grace should have his limbs put to the ques- tion and force himto confess the truth.” Page aftér page of such matter is pro- Aueed in evidence by Mr, Donunelly and he declares that the world will cither have to admit that there - is ‘& or give him of as boundless cipher the plays, credit for being a ingenuity as he haq gttgibuted 1o Bacon. He admits that ¢ are still one or two phrases of the'cYpfer that he has not fully worked omt.hut he hopes to eluborate and verify it gabundantly and reduce his workmanship to mathemati- cal exactness, and g to the world this tale within a tale, & triumph of the human intellect, besides which the Tliad will be but a }iu(]u song and Paradise Lost a simpld and unstudied lay. He has certhinly piled proof upon proof that the ‘dramas can by skillful manipulation be make to pro- duce some startling and remarkable results, and that the hidden narrative may have been alluded to when the author of these dramas fore- swore his art and said, “And deeper than did ever plummet sound I'll drown my book Mr. Donnelly declares that he inveuted hundreds of ciphers trying to solve this, and certainly the page from Henry IV., produced with all the evidences of the time and labor spent upon it, would justify the man who read the talein supposing that he had hidden it “deeper than did ever plummet sound.” TIf Mr. Donnelly invented this cipher he is a greater prodigy than either Bacon or Shakespeare. If he discovered it he deserves the gratitude of men for all time.” FLSEWHERE 'THE BEE presents the results of a very careful investigation regarding the character of the milk supplied to consumers in Omaha. In every city of the country there is an al- most constant outery against impure and adulterated milk. It is a quite uni- versal conviction that ‘integrity is a virtue unknown to the milkman, but until within a recent time not much complaint has been heard from the con- sumers of milk in Omaha. We are be- coming metropolitan, however, in this as in other respeets, and with the growth of demand and compe- tition the milkmen of this city are demonstrating that they are not behind their brethren else- where in practicing the tricks of the trade. The evidence is that while there is good milk sold in Omaha, a great deal of it is poor, and some wholly unfit for use, though of the latter the amount is doubtless very small. Another fact established that the inspection of milk is practically worthless, for the reason that the inspectors are incompe- tent. They are without the scientific knowledge neces: y their duties. In order to effect ¥ manent remedy there must be l'c(orgx It is perhaps sufficidiit | the inspection. or the present to invite attentiol 0° the facts pre- sented and suggest §that remedial steps must be ke, without dis- cussing at lengt at these should be. The subject HBe worth recur- ring to, and this we shl find oceasion to do. Omaha can, havg pure milk, and if the authorities do theirduty will have it. Meanwhile ouracaders are advised to peruse the facts eligited by our in- vestigation. VOICE OF TH TE PRESS. The Blue Springs Matot hurrahs for Alger of Michigan, while the Tecumsel Republi- can wants Ben Harrison or death, Something encourages the Lincoln News to believe that *Oil room politics 1s about, over in Nebraska.” The action of the recent re- publican convention certainly did not justify any such conclusion, as the men selected by said convention, were Chicfs of the oil room inspectors, including the grand high chief of oil rooms, Thurston says the Grand Island In- dependent. “When the farmers aod laborers of the state of Nebraska are hooted and jeered, as was the case in the late republican conven- tion, when Van Wyck, who has always fear- lessly espoused their cause, was so unmerci- fully squelched by Thurston, Greene, Bates and their followers, 1t is high time for them to resent the insult,” indignantly exclaims the Knox County Capital. The Greely Leader say “Governor Thayer’s record beyond question designates him as the standard bearer of the republican party for this great commonwealth again this fall. He has been fearless, wise and honorable as an executive and can roll up a greater republican majority than was ever before known in the history of the state. The Centropolis World enters this objec tion “Speaking of the attempt of the Union Pacific railway to keep local travel off its overland flyers, so that those trains will be lighter in order to make time, the opinion is expressed that the inter-state law forbids any such discrimination. The law says we can ride for three cents a mile, and the com- pany must provide accommodation on all regular passenger trains at that price. The effort of the Union Pacitic to run fast trains should certainly be appreciated, but they'li have to carry the folks along.” < “It is evident from the work done,” says the Schuyler Quill, ‘“by Attor- ney General Leese against the railroad companies in the railroad commission acts of this state, he has their enmity won and they will try to defeat him for renomination this fall in the republican state convention, Al- ready it has beew intimated that the railroad tools are laying for him, and unless the peo ple come to his assistance he will suffe feat. What must be done 1s to instruct Col- fax county's delegation for him. Farmers, you must help your fritnds, and Leese is one of them," Speaking of the §,000 appropriation rushed through the logislature for the support of Bob Furnas, the Nenihs Grauger says: “The inquiry made by Mr, Wright in the Granger of the 11th d§ 1o What had become of the §,000 that were paid to ex-Governor Furnas out of the stato treasury in Febru- ary, 1887, has provoked considerable com- ment, and we learn that one of our houor- ables has taken the trdublé to enlighten one of the voters on the matter, and has declared that Mr. Furnas didw't get out of Lincoln with but a small portiop of the amount ap- propriated, ‘cause why ¢ {He was compelled to divide with the mensbers who secured the passage of the bill, atid when all had re- ceived their rewards there was but little left What a delightful comment upon our law- enacting delegates, and what a travesty is the handle attached to their names. Does the Nemaha county honorable proceed promptly to expose this rascality! Does he raise nis voice in denunciation of au act so unjust und illegalt If 80 it is not audible. The North Hend Flail thus reads the riot act to the machine "politiciars and political wire pullers of Dodge county: ‘“Seriously, now it is becoming time that the voters of Dodge county began to act as men; even as reasonable beings, rather than automatons and muchines. The self assumed dictator- ship of Dodge county’s politics, practiced for the past few years in the interest of ono man or more, is disgraceful. or bumilatiog to say the least. ‘F'be Plail will be plain. We mean de- that since’ Mr. Dorsey comreunced bis cong- ressional ¢areer the whole political mae! ery of the county has been thrust into his hands for his manipulation at pleasuro. He creates delegatos at will and then trades and barters and dispenses with the sang froid of a cattle king or a pork packer. He not only controls the delegates attending his district conventien but trades the influence of the state delegation with no more compunction than if he were buying ‘short’ on the mule market. Tt must ccase; it will coase. He claims that this is the last; that this nomina. tion is all that he asks from his county. But he claimed the same thing before." - - Gonoe Into Politics, Washington Critie. First Citizen: *‘I hear Bluemengers has gone into politics. TIs it so?” Second Ditto ‘“Yes, he's opened asaloon on the corner.” it i) An Aged Ohestnut, Proria Transeript, Tllinois democratic papers claim that the democracy will be able to carry the state this year. It will be observed that the whiskers on this ancient chestnut are a little grayer than they were four years ago. -~ As Bad as Politicians, London Athenosum. Experience of the sparrow, both in Eng- land and America, has convinced us that, taking the year round, it distinctly docs more harm than good as regards its own food; while it undoubtedly arives away many purely insectiverons birds, and thereby,oc- casions incaleulable damage, seldom taken into consideration by short sightea theorists, ———— Two Sides. Phitadelphia Ledger. To every question worthy consideration or discussion there are two sides, ‘I'oour think- ing it is the function of a newspaper to pre- sent both of them to the public with equal fullness and fairnes§; it is the privilege of the public upon their presentation to consider that which is said upon either side, and to decide which of them is right and which wrong, g Where is St. Louis? Chicago Herald, The national democratic convention begins Tuesday next at St. Louis. “Lippincott’s Gazetteer of the World” says: “St. Louis, a city, the county seat of St. Louis county,Mo., s situated on the w. bank of the Mississippi river, about twenty miles below the mouth of the Missouri, nearly 180 miles above that of the Ohio and 1,175 miles above New Orleans.” “Many Voters." Chicago Tribun “Dan,” observed the president, uneasily, “Idom't like the way some of those follov out west are beginning to talk about Thur- man. He's t0o old a man, anyhow. Wouldn't it be a good idea to have a lot of handbills to that effect printed and circulated all over St. Louis next Tuesday morning, signed “Many Voters!" i e June. The Ameriean Magazine. O what a magic touch is thine, fair June, That dost set Nature in such perfect tune; Match carth to sky in wedlock so complete, Tame Ocean’s savage roar to rhythm sweet ; Till murm’ring winds and waves make lulling symphony, And even discord’s self melts into harmony ! In those mysterious caverns where are wrought The tender germs of thought, Thou dost but breathe—vital powers are blent In sweet accord, like voice to instrument; Floating upward, till that celestial siren hears Who measures her glad song to mus spheres, Nature's inmost e of the The Year wears thee as brightest, proudest gom, That doth encrust his royal diadem; Flashing thine emerald light and opal hue Through roseate amethyst and turquoise blue; For Spring and Summer both endow thee with their best, And what is fair in them, in thee scems loveliest. Mt o2 There has been erable discussion al- ready this spring, bearing upon the subject of whether it is proper to drink ice water. The reason of this discussion is solely on the ground of health. Some scientist from Col- orado recently remarked in a paper read be- fore a lynching party, that health is life. Without entering into a discussion concorn- g the truth or falsity of the Colorado man’s proposition, in response to aloud clamor from inebriates who drink water on the side, we have employed a scientist, chemist, blaclk- smith, carpenter, naturalist and a jack-of-all- trades, to analyze the ice coming from the Missouri river, and drank in liquid form by those addicted to the use of water. While in detail and in many particulars, as is always the case among learned men, the conclusion in the abstract caused 1o more friction than is noticed in the running gears of the universe, The alysis will forever sct to rest a problem t has perplexed and annoyed many of the most influential ¢ s, It is as follow State of Tllinois, Cook county, s.s. is to certify that in drilling, excavating, mel ting, pulverizing and crushing a cake of ice taken and removed from the lower part of the Missouri river, a stream of allegea water flowing in a southernly direction, by the au- thority of an act of congress, we found con- tained in and composing said cake of ice, taken from the river aforesaid, the following materials, each of which are now on exhibi tion in our labratory in large bottles, filled with cleven-year-old whisky, which by the way, is a smooth article, J. A. Bokkow, R, M. Diizen, Sworn and subseribed to before me this 20th day of May, 1883, Junisu Jores, J. P, ANALYSIS, Cireaao, TiL, May 20, 1555, —[General Lab ratory) Bric-a-brac (everything like hash).. Rafts and cord wood (se Floaters (six nationalitics).. . Feculence (pure mud) . Fish (seven varietics) Iron (bolts aud nails) . Leather (boots and sl:oes) Insoluble residue A P o RS . 8.4 There may be a trace of pure water which could not be detected in the amount of ice handled, Joux Joxes, Professor of Chewmistry. Mr. Jones recommends a way in which the possibility of auy disease may be obviated. He says the multiplicity of the animaleule containing enormous quantitics of ¢fringl- laceous, possibly ot detected, which would inevitably produce gastrodynia followed by an unwarranted and cowardly attack of fever, aud possibly death could be obviated, dodged and avoided by filtering the ic water. The process he recommends is to allow it to run through a seive cr cullender before using. ‘The fruit venders in Omaha, those who sell from stauds and carts, do not have such a serious struggle for existence as would be supposed. There are some fifteen fruit stauds in Omaha. There are about twenty: five “cartmen,’ representing all nation going through the streets yolling in * they have bananas for salo— 10 cen The fruit stand on the corner of Farnaz & Tenth was the first one in Ouishi was placed ghere about ten ) owner of a large commission ho received his first experience thore as 3 mission merchant. For alinost: cight ke conducted it, selling [ruits iu taeir season a dozen His brother is now running the fruit stand. The sale of from 83 to & por day 1is considered a opaying business The proprietors of the “boxes’ make a profit of 50 per cent, live cheaply, are cconomical and soon branch out on a larger scale. They pay from #10 to 830 a month rent for the privilege of setting their box against some popular corner. The city charges $50 a yoar license to both the cartman and stationary vender. They are waiting for customers as late as midnight and can be found on deck atS a. m, Tn an interview with a dozen or more of the merchants it was learned that they make at least §1 a day more in selling goods than they could make as common labor: ors, Tiwenty years ago the ¢ garette smoker in the United States was Ho was forced to do his own rolling with Kilikenick tobacco and rice paper, or else buy the high- priced imported honradez. The prevalence of the habit to-day bo best estimated from the fact that one of the large cigarette manufacturing arms swears to a daily sale of 2,000,000 cigarette. Over twenty thousand of them are consumed in Omaha. The com- petition between the large factories is some- thing wonderful to contemplate. For- tunes suflicient to make half the poor of Omaha rich are expended by thom overy year in rivalry, in photographs of half-draped actresses, base ball tossers, coats of arms and flags of all nations, to be distributed gratuitously as inducements to consumers to use particular brands, The latest fad in advertising adorns the shop windows of the town in the shape of highly colored chromos in gilt frames. The in- scription upon them explaining their uses and purposes is somewhat mixed in English, but it is intended to give them to the twenty- five people in the city who present the great- est number of the empty wrappers of a par- ticular brand of cigarettes before a given day. Allowing twenty-five of th pictures to every hundred thousand people as a basis of calculation and with a pencil and paper and a knowledge of arithmetic, one may gather the fortune spent in them. Then add to the result five times a like number of fig- ures, representing tho other groat factories in the country, and yoa have an idea of cig- arette smoking in the United States. It may not be generally known but it is a fact nevertheless, that shingles and laths are ¥ in the Omaha lumber market to-day. The supply falls far short of the de- mands and as a consequence these useful ad- juncts to house-building have gone up in price, like rockets in the air. The late dis- appearance of the mountain snows and the continuous rainfalls in the Mississippi valley shutting down tho mills, have operated as causes for the dearth of the rooflet’s shingle and the lack of the coiling's laths. Many porsons who never contemplated building a house, accept the situation as if in sorrow and promise to visit the architect when the shingles come again. ' A steamboat, the “Belle Andrews”, plowed up the Missouri the other day, en route to Fort Benton. A talk with the pilot had but little to do towards strengthening the opinion that the old Missouri is navigable. There was sorry humor in the pilot's story to the effect that the channel changed so often that many times he found himself sev- cral miles from water, and would cut across the country rather than follow the river, when he was rushed for time, ‘The boat's cargo consisted of supplies for the upper Missouri country. " *“All you said about quack doctors being so numerous in Omaha was true,” said an up- town citizen. I hope Tue Ber will be assisted by persons having facts in thei possession, and by concert of action force the scoundrels out of the city. I looked up the state law, but find that by purchasing a snide diploma, most anyone can claim to practice medicine. Wholesome legislation upon such questions must not be overlooked by the next legislature.” arked & prominent and trav- eled ciitzen, as he pointed to a green plat of ra od with a few scrubby and gnarled troes, “that,” he again said, Jefferson Square. You may talk about parks, but I tell you that Jefterson Square ideal. I have loitered for hours in Madison square and Central park; whiled away hours at the Golden Gate near San Francisco, and killed time in both Hyde and Regent parks, London. All these have I scen, together with the Garden of the Tuilleries, the Bois de Boulogne, the Garden of the Palais Royal and the P’lace de la Con corde—the finest and largest square in the French capital—but these all pale into insig nificance compared with this lovely spot. It should be the pride of every man in Omab to—attempt to beautify the place. e BY THE WaY. Tk Bk keeps at the head of the proces- sion. * There is nothing so rare as a_day in June, unless 'tis a presidential boom, It would appear that Spy Russell, of Col fax received a very timely and encrgetic roasting ut Nebr: City. The state convention this year will be called upon to bury more political u than ever before in the history of N "The time is at hand for @ general canvass of the field to fully investigate the proprioty of properly rating the greatest day on carth—July 4. Some thirty only intervene, “After Blaine, who?" asks the New York World. Since his last manly letter has boen read and digosted, it uppears that no one is after him. Before that there was a horde of politicians, There aro sincerity. “Phat, who doubt Blaine’s the standpoint appeared final been accom- those ey argue from that his last lotter, to have and conclusive, should have panicd by an afidavit. R Decoration day is over. The Fourth of July comes rushing this way, and those who failed to r e an invitation to deliver the memorial address can get their work in on the great American cagl Had the opera “Mr. Sampson of Omaha,” been a failure it is understood that a party of people headed by nk Hanlon was pre- pared to assussinate the author of the lines, with the jaw bone of an ass, Omaha's base ball team in some mystefi- ous and unaccountable mauner Won two games last week, An explanation has been demanded, but up to this Lour ail is as silent and as sacred as the grave. “Children's day, although in a ncbulous condition, dates its origin in Europe back a contury or ! says some sore-cyed sci entist whko has gone through the musty records of the pust. From the time of cron tion Children's day has existed. 1t will al exist. From the cradle to the time shen 1t tukos up the burden of life to battle with the crueltics and realities of the worla, the child has its doy—*‘happy, despite its little woes, @ it but conscious of its joy.” “There is no want for Children’s day as long as huwan titure 18 doing business at the old stand. Into the ing, was borne one dy, youug ward of the whitawashed jail,where kand disordorly lay, cvrsin - iting for bail, somebody's darling YBomebody's darling so and s0 brove," wearing yet on his rurm-stained face, soon to be hud in the e Lria cuve, the lingeriug fact of his lust disgrace, “Mattea and dawp are the curls of . { to-morrow, except dr #old," kissing the brow of his swollen head, pale aro tho lips of delieate monld—somer body's darling painted it red. Back from his smeared blue-veined brow, brush all the dirt and dust and gore, cross his hands o his bosom now, somebody's darling's cou menced to suore n— THE STATE'S STATESMEN, A Lincoln paper referred to him as ‘Johnng Thurston,” And such is famo. The story that Van Wyck wants to bo gOVe ernor has been oficially denied, “‘Russell, the spy, and Russell, the teaitar, The titles are synonymous,” says the Ne+ braska City Times, George R. Fouke, of Liberty, has already announced himself a candidate for the legis. lature from Gage, and is shaking hauds with old people and kissing the babies, The Lincoln Democrat says this: It fs positively painful to learn that the Lancastor manipulators have about concluded to nom- inate C. H. Gere for the senate instead of O, P. Mason. R. 1. Moore, of Lancastor, 18 trimming sails and preparing for another soat in tha Nebraska scnate. While it is early to pro. pare legislativo slates, tho story of the carly bird and misfortune of the worm stimulates statesmen to a point of activity, Morris Cliggitt, a democrat from away back, is awaiting the action of the republican convention in Dundy and Hitchcock counties, He swears by the light of the sun that if Bill Brown is nominated for state senator, he (Cliggitt) will everlastingly mop the earth’s surface with the Laird striker, Charley Carter, Tom Benton, Captain Hill, and the deputy secretary of stute—all of of them brought into prominence becanse of their positions as deputies—are out for im- portant stateloffices, Some of them might pass muster, but older citizens are not pleasod with such demands. The Gage county papers announce that Captain Hill, private secretary of Governor Thayer, is a full-fledged candidate for state treasurer. Inasmuch as there are only a few dozen candidates for the office, Captain Hill stands a chance only of being struck by the lightning that makes men groat. 1t is generally understood that C, L. Lamb, of Stanton, will be a candidate for statq treasurer. He came within a few votes of bagging the oftico four years ago, Tho hopa 18 not cheerful. However, Wayne county proposes to be heard from, and if Lamb can. not make it, A. R. Graham, of Wisner, will receive its ‘‘tlooence," s ORIGIN OI' POPULAR PHRASES, Aw! Come OF '—A New York dude was spending the summer in Idaho. Up in a gulch one day he was embraced by a large cinnamon bear, which was hugging him to death. As friends approached the dude was heard saying, just above a whisper, “Aw! come of Y I Feel Rocky.—A man was drunk in San Francisco and resisting an officer, was dragged ten blocks over the cobblestone pavement. A friend called on him at tho sta- tion house and asked him how he felt. “I feel rocky,” was the reply. Since that it is @ common expression after a night's debauch, His Name is Pants.—When Jeft Davis was found in Georgia, rigged out in his wife's best petticoat, a soldier saw his boots —-and another discovered that he had not discarded his pants. Upon the discovery that the traitor was founa one of the party approached Mr. Davis and informed him that his name was pants, Whiskers On the Moon—In 1873, when Church Howe was running for the legislature and had captured the nomination, Tom Majors got up in a meeting in London precinct and announced that if he did not defeat Howe, there would be whiskers on the moon. Since that day a large number of Mr. Major's de- luded followers believe that such is the case, beeause Howe was elected. There Ave No Fles On Me—Tt is said that one morning Pat O.Hawes had been reading a Talmage sermon, in which the Brooklyn divine had laid stress upon the quotation re- lative to kecping oneself unspotted from the world. He made a comparison that wrong was an insect that buzzed around all lives, and if allowed to rest or perch upon the conscience of a man it became spotted, Mr. Hawes grasped the beautiful simile in all its grandeur,jumped up from his chair,looked in the mirror and exclaimed: *“There are no flies on me.” Let'Er Go Galligher—The origin - of this household expression is traced back several years. A beautiful woman was loved by two men, one of whom was named Gallagher. One of the men was walking out with the maiden in the gloaming with his arm around her waist, pouring the heated words of love nto her waxen ear—the while the winds toyed with her golden tresses, vulgarly called hair. The other fellow appeared on the road carrying an - army musket with fixed bayouet. Pointing the mstrument of death full and fair in the face of man No. 2 he exclaimed: “Let Er Go Gallagher,” It Gallagher did so, DI n That there is t0o much rain, That there is not rain enough, That the postofiice will be swept hefora fail. That the cyelone seuson will be unusually sovere. That the cholera will visit America this summer. That the Nebraska delegation will vote to a man for Gresham. That with Van Wyck in tho state tie will stir up the animals, ‘nate That the street-sweeper would make a bet- ter harrow than anything else, That the bummers and wire pullers will control the school-board election. That an analysis of the stuff sold in Omaha for milk would reveal a wonderful compound. That Jay Omaha for fea steal something Gould was afraid 1o stop in that lio would be tempted to Phat it was u sad mistake in not preparing for a railroad track over the new Council Blufts and Omaha bridge. That the prohibition cranks will fight hard for u submission plank in the pletform of the vepublican party this fali That the thie face and promises 10 pay W o That property spring. ‘That the low who lcoks you squarely orrow is sin- Il alwsys be higher in the ¢ should put off everything until ks, That it would e better W be president than be right. ‘I'hat there is candor in a honesty in & contractor. That a plumber shall inberit the kivgdow of Lieaven. That the next door peighber individual That the moos is not graes cheese. That the earth and the fullness theroof be- lougs exclusively to them. “ That Blaine will be nowinated. That the milk sold in Cinana is & pure ae ticle. politivien and is & goacipy