Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 10, 1888, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. ’ TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily Morning Edition) including Sunday, B, O YT ...ocvvoverssovsnensesvese 810 r 8ix Mounths Three Months e Omaha Snnday DEe, ma dress, One Y ear OMAHA OFFICE, New Yoik Oy Wa STtk CORR 11 communioations relath k#lnl ‘matter should be addressed to the BEE. e BUSINESS LETTERS. AN business letters and remittances )‘fhn“]d be addressed to THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, JMAHA. Drafts, checks and postofiice orders to Dot puyable to the order of the company, e Bee Publishing Company. Propritors ., R TER, Edito THE DAILY BE gworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebraska, | f Douglas, (%% T ek, socretary of The Ries Pub- shingz company, does solemily swear that the E.-«"J'.‘Fum. ati5h of the Daily Bee for the week ending June &, 1858, was as follows: rday, June 2. $is ke une 3. § S.T1LAND 010 FARNA ¥, ROOMS 14 AND 15 TRIBUNE B NGTON OFFICE, NO BI3 Fouw dny, June 4 esday, June 6. ednesday, June 6. ursday, June 7. day, June . Fworn to and subscribed in my presence this Oth day of June, A, D., 1888, N.P. FHIL, Notary Public. Btate of Nebraska, ta County of Douglas, ot George B, Tz f§ uck, being first duly sworn, gepones and says Cuat Tio is secretary of Tho lie ublishing company, Hhat the actual average dully cireiatibn of " the Duily e for the month of June, 187 was 14,47 coples; 17, 14,08 or August, copies; pomber, 1885, 14,333 coples; for % v December, 1887, 16,041 cople 1884, 15,206 cop- den for Febranry, 186K, 15002 copies: for March, mlfi.fl'{mp{n‘ for April, 188, 18744 coples, ny, 1688, 18,181 coples, Lol PGEQ. 1, TZSCHUCK. Bworn fo betore mo and” subscribed in my presence this 24 day of June, A, D, 148, 3 R 7D VETE, Notary Public. _ AVERAGE DAILY CIRCULATION 1 Total for the Week - - - 133,147 Tt Tatos are not altogether confined to Kentucky when Nebraska county treasurers skip with the people’s funds. —_— Tre Concord School of Philosophy holds but one session this year. It forms an agreeablo afier-picce to the vecent democratic tragedy at St. Louis. WHEN greedy railroad companies get 1o fighting each other, the long suffer- ing public learns to enjoy the luxury of cheap rates between Omaha and Cin- cinnati. THE recent reports of the increased earnings and general property of the Mexican Central railroad ought to put to shame those American railroads / mewhich are continually on the verge of bankruptey. No wonder ‘foreign in- wventors fight shy of Reading and Jay Gould’s railroads when Mexican rail- roads offer safer investments. —_— SENATOR BECEK, of Kentucky, has introduced a bill in the senato for the establishment of a national zoological garden near Washington. Its main purpose will be to preserve the wild animals indigenous to the United States. If Senator Beck can corral the herd of officeseekers at Washington, the **z00” will be a howling success. GEN. SHERMAN comes out strongly against what he calls *‘circus parades.” He has put his foot down on marching n processions on any oceasion. He con- siders these popular demonstrations more dangerous to life than battles, and would prefer to face a battery of grape angd cannister at Shiloh any day than ride under a broiling sun for the gaze » Of inhabitants from their cool windows and piazzas, At first blush one might demur at the unseemly conduct of ‘‘old fPecumseh” in refusing to make himself & conspicuous figure on a Roman holi- day. But then it must be. remembered that he is under the shadow of his three score and ten, when the blood runs thin even in the veins of a veteran cam- paigner. Ir Senator Stanford carriesinto ef- fect his idens of an ideal university, California will furnish the model of the coming institution of learning. The university will be broad and liberal in every particular. One sex will have equal advantages with the other. There will be an industrial school in which the machineg shop and a department to en- courage inventions will be a feature. The latter is decidedly an innovation in the educational world. It is evidently Senator Stanford’s purpose to make of the university a practical school whose graduates shall be something more than ornamental tosociety, If the university succeeds in this particular, it will stand st the head of every educatiodul colloge @f the country. —_— Tne bill passed by the late New York legisluture, substituting death by elec- Sricity for hanging, has receiyved the ap- groval of the governor, and that state @ill be the first in the union to do away with the rope as an instrument of cap- ital punishment. Undoubtedly the great majority of those who approve of the death penalty will agree that a less brutal method than that of breaking the man’s neck or strangling him to #enth is desirable, and as socievy will be equally protected and justice as cer- tainly done in putting acriminal to death by electricity, that method being more humane than hanging will doubt- less in time be generally adopted. It s a sound proposition that death does not lose its terrors in losing its tortures. —_— It seems a triflo odd thatan Enghsh- man, Mr. Stephen Coleridge, should have dramatized Hawthorne's *'Scarlet Letter,” just presented with marked favor at the Royal theater, London. This is probably the first instance on record when & purely American story by an American author is produced by an Englishman on a London stage. It | #* gertainly does not speak well for Ameri- ean dramatio art. Here our playwrights have been sighing fora theme on which to build the historical plays of the na- tion, Every one of them has over- looked the rich storehouse of dramatic ‘subjects suggested by our classio writers, Hawthorne and Longfellow. The © American Shakespeare has an oppor- 4 m’“‘u open 10 him for winning un- A fume, N §¥as L VIS ST TR, G T AR T SRR T P THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, JUNE 10, 1888 ~SIXTEEN PAGES. Teachers in Polities, When the legislature extended to wemen the privilege of voting at school elections, the new departure was hailed by friends of education as a step in the right divection. Tt was but natural to expect that women would take an active interest in placing the schools upon a high plane of public morals, and exert their best efforts to have competent and reputable persons elected to mant the hools. In villages and the small cities this qxpects tion has been fully re: But our experience in Omaha has shown a lamentable want of interest in the public schools on the part of the mass of women, and an excess of politi- cal zeal on the part of teachers. Last yeara large number of the teache entered the campaign as political par- tisans, under the pretext that the socretary of the board of education, who was a candidate for re-election, was offensive to them. The conduct of many of these tenchers at the polls last year was on a par with the po- litical hack and ward bummer. Men who went to the polls were button- holed and pulled about by school ma’ams whom they had never met, tick- ets were snatched out of the hands of voters and torn up by these zealots, and women were dragooned into the support of their candidates under all sorts of pretenses., The victory won last year by the com- bine of the teacher’s politicians placed the board of education practically under the domination of the school ma‘ams, The threat of their displeasure becamo a club over the head of every member. If he dared to resist the importunities of the leaders, or even expressed the opinion that expenses should be cur- tailed, he was put upon the list. This is why Mr. Augustus Pratt, one of our respected and best citizens, was defeated 1 Monday while those who have been lavish and extrava- gant with the school fund were boomed und re-clected. In justice to the great body of Omaha teachers we must however, that the offensive activity the polls was chiefly exhibited by high- salaried principals and special favor- ites who have been promoted above their merit. The primary school teachers that draw from $400 to $700 a year had no enemies to punish nor friends to reward. On behalf of the patrons of the public schools and the taxpayers of Omaha THe BEE calls a halt to partisanship in our schools, The right of teachers, male or female, to express their choice for members of the board of education through the ballot box is not called in question. But the active interference of teachers at the polls should not be tolerated. If the teachers, by organized combination, ticket peddling and bulldozing, are allowed to dictate who shall and who shall not manage our public schools, then all discipline is at an end. The inevitable result must be the promotion and retention of teachers who are most active in school politics. A few years of such school ma’am government would make the public schools a political hot-hous time that the board of education should set itself right before the people by adopting regulations that will mak political activity on the part of teachers and other employes of the schools for dism Such regulations impar= tially enforced,are absolutely demanded to preserve our schools from the pollut- ing effects of politicul chicanery and unjust diserimination against meri- torious teachers who are not disposed to dabble in politi National Conservatory of Musi The establishment of an American conservatory of musie, national in its scope and purpose, wasa project that demanded both courage and patriotismn. It was inevitable that for a time there would be expeditures largely in excess of receipts; that those who went into the enterprise would be called upon to draw heavily from their private means. It was impossible to fix the period when this demand would cease. Pride of country, confidence in the liberality of our people to sustain such an institvo- tion, and faith that the results would justify the endeavor, were the incen- tives to undertake the project. The honor of the conception belongs to Mrs. Jeannette M. Thur- ber of New York. This lady had lived much abroad, in France and in Italy. She had seen the schools of music in those countries numerously attended by pupils from America. She became impressed with the thought that the American people were a musical people, and should have .in their own land a national school estab- lished on a plan that would enable those having talent, but not the means to go abroad, to receive without cost a musical education as complete as Furope could give. This thought grew upon her, became a conviction, and she determined to carry it into effect. Having large means of her own she was in a position to sub- stantially demonstrate her faith and zeal, No small - amount of effort was required to enlist the proper persons in the project, but such were secured, and in September, 1885, the National Conservatory of Music of America was incorporated. Three months*later it was opened with a corps of experienced and competent teuchers, and a number of pupils which showed that the enterprise was appreciated. The third yearof theinstitution has just closed with most gratifying results. It has grown steadily in public regard and in usefulness. Its curriculum has been enlarged at each term, and now in- cludes features not to be found in most of the similar schoolsof Europe. During the last term the conservatory was at- tended by two hundred pupils, and since it wasopened it has contributed a num- ber of people to the lyric stage, some of whom have attained marked success. It has most amply demonstrated that there was a demand for such an institu- tion, and that it is worthy of the most liberal support from these whose wmeans enable them to be generous. The usefulness of the National Con- servatory of Music will be waterially enlarged in the eusuing term by the ad- dition of a number of branchies. A wise step has also been taken, by way of em- phasizing its national character, in es- tablishing a system of free scholarships, under which it is hoped in no great time one scholar- ship may bo founded for ench state, to be conferred upon the candidate from the same who shows the most talent. The success of this worthy institution depends upon the generosity of those who have the means 10 be gene; and to such it should not appeal in Tue lower courts of W ing have put themselves on record as favoring the cattle barons as against the govern- ment. In a decision just rendered, affecting more than 4,000,000 acres of government land, the rulings weve, that the ownors of railroad land may inclose their possessions even when they fence in government land by so doing. According to thisdecision cattlemen who were compelled by President Cleveland to remove their fences from the public domain within the railroad limit may now put them up again. The suit was brought by the United States against a syndicate of stockmen to compel them to remove the fences inclosing govern- ment and railroad land in pursuance of President Cleveland’s order. That the stand taken by the Wyoming court is an injustice to the people isapparent on the face of it. It is therefore a surprise that the rulings of the territorial judge did not sustain the executive. The case, however, does not rest with this decision. The government has ap- pealed to the supreme court of the United States, and its decision will have a most important bearing in the solu- t1on of this vexed questicn. AN attempt is being made to intro- duce cookery in the schools of Chicago, but it is meeting with very little en- couragement from the newspapers. One of them discusses the matter in this sen- sible way: *If cookery is introduced in the schocls there will properly be a de- mand for instruction in cutting, fitting, and in making articles of clothing and for doing laundry work. It is import- ant that girls know hoWw to wash, starch and iron clothes. Girls as well as boys should learn many things that are not now taught in the public schools. It does not follow, however, that the pub- lic schools should undertake to give in- struction in every department of learn- ing or in every art practiced in the shop, kitchen, lnundry and nursery. They have already attempted to do too much.” The indefensible folly of intro- dueing cookery in the high school of Omaha was committed several months ago by our school board, but it is to be hoped it will not be permitted to sur- vive the present school year. It is one of the matters which the new board should give early attention to, with ref- erence to dispensing with the silly fad. — SOME of the dents on Dodge street west of Sixteenth, where paving is to begin on Monday, are disposed to protest against the quality of the cedar blocks which it is proposed to lay down. One of them yesterday brought to Tne BEE office a sample which he claimed was no better than forty or fifty per cent of the block now on the ground and which was certainly most unfit for paving. It may be that the contractor does not intend to use block partially destroyed by dry vot and not fully sea- soned, as was the case with the sample brought to this office, but such defect- ive material has been used in Omaha and the citizens of Dodge street, who must pay for the paving, are justified in seeing that they are not imposed upon. In matters of this sort taxpayers cannot be too carcful of their own and the city’s interests, WiEN Mathew Arnold wrote his crit- icism about Americans he scored us un- mereifully in h noted Frenchman, M. Paul Blouet, bet- ter known as the author of **John Bull and his Island,” has just finished his visit to the United States. His long ex perience as a public man in England and the continent fits him admirably as a critic of our peculiarities. Itis with no faint hearted praise, that M. Blouet testifies that the educated American roy ts the highest type of civi tion, while the women of this country are beyond comparison. It may be that as o Frenchman M. Blouet istoo gallant to point out our shortcomings. But it will' be remembered that Mr. Arnold was no less enthusiastic in his admira- tion of American women, while he drew a sadder picture of everything else. VOICE OF THE STATE PRESS. A great number of the weekly papers favor Gresham for president. The democratic papers are attempting to start anew the factional fight between the Morton statesmen and the Boyd politicians. The Sutton Register asks: *“Why wouldn't Bob Ingersoll be a good candidate for presi- dent! The man who abolished hell ought to be very popular,” “Governor Thayer,” says the Hastings In- dependent, “*has been a faithful servant and his first term will be followed by a second. Nebraska is loyal to her public servants who prove their fidelity by action.” “The Falls City Journal thinks tF® means should be provided whereby the Pullman Palace Car company could be taxed for the property that is operated on the different railroads in this state. Kansasalready taxes the Pullman company, and we see no good reason why Nebraska should not do like- wise. The Wymore Union reads the warning to the railraad henchmen in Gage county: “Gage has a clear and safe republican ma- jonty, but for all that it is mot possible to Torce a monopoly capper down the throats of our people under the mere guise of republi- cans, Gage county will be represented by men Who will work for the interests of the people as agaiust dictation and domineering of corporations. RElections cannot be rail- roaded through even if conveutions are, and this is a fact that will be well to remember.” In commenting on the Gresham boom the Wayne Herald says: *The movement in favor of Judge Gresham continues to gather force every day and bids fair to be suffi- ciently strong by the time the convention meets to sweep everything before it. It has been especially marked since the meeting of the Illinois ¢onvention, when he was placed in the field with the entirc strength of the Ilinois delogation at lis hack. He has a strong following in nearly every state, though the lurge number of favorite capdi- dates preveuts their coming to him as first choice. Tt is mvbnhl!: at this time ho is the second choice of republicans and more delegates thagyafly other man, al- though he has never declafed himself a can- didate, and is apparently not making tho slightest effort to securo the nomination. The favor with which heis regarded is sim- ply & tribute to his honesty, his brains, and the fact that his record is such as to make him a candidate who could not be opposed on personal grounds.” The Nance County Sentipel thus speaks its mind: “It does not augur well for repub- lican success in Nebraska to sce such rail- road mugnat shn M. Thurston and Charley G a leading place on every important o Oue of the great ques- tions before the people of Nebraska 18 whether the people or railroads shall hold As far as the Sentinel is con- in favor of the former and will not hesitate to denounce any scheme to foist railroad attorneys to positions of power in the politics of this great commonweaith,” Under the caption, “Sound the Slogan— Triumphant Democracy Leads the Van, the Sarpy County Democrat, an intellectual giant among the democratic newspapers of Ne- braska, we find the following: The death-knell of the g, 0. p. is sounded. As fine an array of men bedecked in white hats, badges and canes, marched from_their headquarters at the Paxton hotel in Omaha to the depot to take the train for the conven- tion at St. Louis Tuesday, last Sunday even- ing, 08 ever was seen in. the state, It will from now on till November fourth bo a tri- umphant march, and the doctrize of democ- racy will prevail for another four years, Let the good work go on, the more men be- come to understand the doctrine of our fore- fathers, the more they cling to it, there will be a few parasites and Tocolies cling with a death grip, so it is with all great partics. They will be shaken off, people will come to kiow them and give them a wide berth, men that will sell their birth right is not wanted; men that will join a party for spoils is not wanted ; but men' that will cast their lot with the party for better or worse, that will stand by it in adversity is men that are wanted. Good true men that have the good of the country at heart as well as the part Let us put our shoulder to the wheel and push on and win this battle for the right, and put down republican bossism, that is against democracy and the people. Never in the history of literature or the language of men, was an idea in defense of the party that opposed free schools move forcibly expressed. The den- sity of ignorance enshrouding the writer of the above logical propositions would suffo- cate a barbarian. However, he claims to be a *‘representative democrat,” and up to the hour of going to press his claim is undis- puted. —————— ROYALT The prince of Wi is said to have made £50,000 by backing Ayrshire for the derby. Queen Victoria has sent to the Glasgow exhibition two table napkins manufactured from yarn spun by her majesty. Emperor Frederick, has appointed Sir Frederick. Leighton, “president of the Lon- dou Rogal acudemy, ‘a/ kafghv of the Order of Merit. The little king of ‘Spaith like many a big king, raises numerous, didturances. A few days ago, not liking {his_bread and milk, he seized the bowl apd ppured its contents over his nurse. &F ? Prince Alfred Bel,§sorf of King Bell of Cameroons, has learned the trades of lock- smith, joiner and_ship-carpenter, and is now studying and workingin ‘the machine shops of the North Germah Lfoyds st Bremer- haven. \ Prince Roland Bonaparte, Mr. Austin Cor- bin, Mr. and Mrs. R-M. Hooper, and M and Mrs. Campbell Clarke were guests at the dinmer party given to Blaine in Paris by tha Count and Countess Kessler. Queen Olga, of Greeee, a beautiful woman with a plump, well devcioped form, thick, handsome hair and expressive charming manners. She is a fear woman, is very domestic and often spins silk at home. The Greek people almost wor- ship her, Crown Prince William of Germany, an English hater, had a chance to show how he disliked the British the other day, and he took advantage of it. His nose began to bleed, and handkerchiefs, to stop the flow of blood were offered by members of his suite. He refused them, saying: ‘““The more of this English blood I lose the better.” The Marquis de Mores, who married Miss Hoffman, of New York city, and who has with his young wife been hunting tigers in India with the Duc de Orleans and a few other scions of European nobility, is now on his way back to this country. The party while in India killed twenty-one tigers, and four of the beasts, if the marquis is to be credited, were slain by his wife, Countess Henckel Von Donnersmarck, wife of a great German nobleman, hus given birth to a boy to the count’s ecstacy and de- light, for; although fifty-four ycars old and twice married, this is his debut as a father, thus sceuring at last the long hoped for heir to his vast property, which otherwise would revert to a distant branch of the family. As a token of joy, the count prescnted to the happy mother a diamond uecklace worth $100,000, Queen Sophieof Sweden, who is again in Bournemonth, England, is described as of middle height, wears her brown hair in plain bands, and her features, which bear the stamp of long physical pain, are clearly cut. She is a wiman of clear judgment and strong intellect. She reads enormously and re- members what she has read. Every morn- ing after her broakfast she receives and per- uses newspapers from every European coun-, try, understanding all the languages with the exception of Italian, which is translated for her. e . The Kangaroo Ticket, Globe-Democrat, The democrats, as a rule, speak of the ticket as Cleveland and THURMAN, On the Track. Boston Herald. Walter Q. Gresham seems to be rounding the quarter pole with his nése to the fore. el b i Higher 1han a Kite. Chicago, Mail. The .cd bandans might infuriate the re- publican bull into knocking the democratic ticket higher than Gilroy’s historie kite. —— How It Looked at 8t. Louis. Globe-Democrat. It took on an average of about ten drinks out of a black bottle taraisea shout for Cleveland in this most democratic of gather- ings. — Pathetic, New York Sun, The spectacle of Hon. Ignatious Donnelly weeping at the tomb of Shakespeare recalls the scene of that other Awerican humorist, Mark Twam, shedding tears over the grave of Adam, his asestor. o — Add 50 Per Cent, Pioneer Pre It is now that the enlerprising haber- dasher, with his bhand on the democratic pulse and his cold, keen eye on the logic ot events, turus to his confidential clerk and hoarsely whisper: Add 50 per cent 1o the selling price of red bandanas.” ————— ‘Where It Came From. Philadelphia Press. The hissing which greeted the vote on woman suffrage in the uational prolibition by malica, It is more charitable to assume that it came from a bottle of soda water in some delegate’s pocket. -~ Burns Like a Honse Afire. Globe Demoerat. Colonel Ingersoll says that ‘‘the mistakes of the past are the torches of the present.” If that be true, then the democratic party is the best illuminated organization that has cver marched down the ages. - Mother Hubbard Cummings. Chicago Tribune, fhe idiotic crusade against Mother Hub- bard gowns, started by a nastily nice-minded city marshal of Omaha named Tom Cum- mings some years ago, is still kept up. Two women wero recently arrested there for wearing these gowns on the street. Of course there is no law for such an arrest, and if some women so arrested would institute suit for false imprisonment she would put a stop 1o this dark-age trick of bigotry. oo L Unreliabitity of “*Booms," Chicago News. A “boom” is about as liable to flatten out a8 a toy balloon, and it requires as constant offort to keep it up. Governor Gray started out with the “boom" all in his favor for the vice presidential nomination at St. Louis. His state was a “pivotal” one, and nothing that it asked was too much to be granted. It had endorsed him and his “boom” mounted toward the zonith, Fitness for the position was nof thought of. He was simply “‘boomed”’ by his friends ot ‘fhe Tribune's Mistake, Boston Advertiser. Tt Is scarcely creditable to the New York Tribune, which is i a position to be the leading newspaper of the party, that it should 8o carefully exclude the name of Gen- eral Gresham from a comprenensive article on the republican situation. Unless the Tribune is willing to become the organ of a faction, it cannot afford to ignore one of the strongest and best canaidates that will come before the conventior postedd RS What Wall Street Thinks. Wall Street News. We have said all along there was no show for the Union Pucitic Funding bill this ses- sion. The democrats are willing to give it a hearing at night, but the republican leaders will consent to no special order which does not provide a hearing for the Arrears of Pension bill, and the democrats are equally determined that this bill shall not be per- mitted to come up. With tnis deadlock the further consideration of the bill during the current session is almost absolutely impos- sible. A s S Where the Beo is Appreciated. Chicago Tribwae. “Papa,” said the httle daughter of the newspaper man, as she looked over the edi- torial page, “'is this the part of the paper where you put what you write?" “Yes, my dear- “Well, this is the page 1 always read.” “1 am glad to hear it, pet,” said the pleased editor. “Of course 1 don't read the whole page, but I always read that column of ‘Borrowed Thunder.” I thinkit's ghe best thing in the paper. You write it, don’t you, papa?” “No, my child,” groaned the editor. il Dl That Night. James Whitcomh Riley. You and I, and that night, with its perfume and lory The scent of the locusts—the light of the moon; And the violius weaving the waltzers a story, Enmeshing their feet in the weft of tho tune, Til R While und June. round on the curtain, the trellis we drank in the Soaked through with the midnight the cedars g, y tresses outlined in the al, moon-smitten mists, where the foun- talin’s heart, leaping Forever Forever, forever burst, full with delight; And its lisp on my spirit Iell faint as that near it Whose love like a lly bloomed out in the night. 0, your glove was un odorous sachet of blisses! cath of your fan was athay ! ros a breeze of And th at your throat was a nest of And the music—in fancy, T hear it to-day, t here, confessing Our secret, and blessing My rival who found us, away. s CHAT A few Sundays ago R: Mr. Copeland pointed out in one of his sarmons that the churches were largely to blame for the lack of interest which the younger members show and suzzested that the churches should be made brighter and more agreeable, The sume feeling is shared by a great many good people who are trying to make the church a place which shall attract young parsons. “The trouble is,’, said an observing citizen, “there is a fesling that secular enjoyment should enter into the church as little as pos- sible. Is this a mistaken idea! Perhaps itis. At least in the City of Churches, the expariment is being tried of connecting to the church a club room fitted up with a library, shooting gallery, games and other methods of amusement. ‘The club numbers among its mem all the young people of the church. It meets once a woek for dis- cussion, shooting, playing and conversation. ‘Phe minister enters heartily into the sports, He plays checkers and chess, and can hit the bull'seye in the shooting gallery, He has made himself popular with the children and young men, and they prafer the company of his club to that of the saloon. If Brooklyn can take so radical a step, why cannot Omaha!” .. “Where can I geta good short-hand and type-writer!” asked a business man. **Where! ‘Why, everywher Just put an ‘ad’ in Tue Bee and your office will be overrun with ap- plicants.” *Yes, but they are not the kind I want. It is astonishing that out of the large number of young men and women who learn stenography and type-writing not one in ten makes a success of it. There 1s not a day that 1 am not pestered to death for positions. But when I engage an applicant, whether male or female, the chances are that I will dis- charge him withio a week. You see nine- tenths of these applican.s begiu the study of typewriting before they understand the rfdi- ments of spelling ov punctuation, not to say anything of grammatical construction. Why, bless me, I am obliged to teach every ome how to compose an ordinary business letter, and as my time is limited, and as I pay a fair salary, 1 don't propose to do the work of & school.” W “If you want to see a specimen of the greenhorn in all his rural simplicity, just take a walk down Tenth stret, and watch him get bled by the jewelry fakirs,” re- marked a policeman yesterday. *“There are two or three places down that street where they vretend to be baving an auction sale. A capper who works for his beer aund board, stauds on the sidewalk, and when a supposed sucker is sighted a sign to the alleged auctioneor is given, and that worthy imwediately hops up on the counter aud commences to cry, ‘'#3 [ am offered,” when, in truth, he is offered nothing, and there is not a bidder fm the house. If his seductive voice attracts the passer-by, who is fool enough to bid, the convention cau hardly huve Loen promipted l capper or plugger comes to the rescue and raisos it A half dollar, or some sum which gonerally has the effoct of causing the de- luded customer to go higher. Beforo he knows what he is doing he has boecome the owner of a brass watch and iron chain, pay- ing several times for it. I believe such placos skiould be closed out.” once more," romarkod a gontloman whoso hair s white, and who has scon hundreds of ‘“‘colossal aggregations” during the different “tenting “To you and mo, perhaps,” he continued, “the circus has lost its charm. But to the littlo ones cach show has all the froshness of creation. The clown's chest- nuts and his anties please them; the man who whirls tho plates, tho bare- back rider, interest, but greater than ail when the girl jamps through the paper-cov- ered hoops, the littlo one's joy is complete. Yes, the scasons come and go—hearts change, men and women die—but the charm of acircus to tho girl and boy will never be lost. "And it is well that it is 0. * e “The sale of unclaimed packages, which has been' running this week, was a study for naturalists,” said a constant looker- on. “I bought soveral packages, just for amuscment and an excuse to study human nature, One package was put up, a sort of a dingy looking parcel, and a man bid twenty- five conts, ‘Sold’ said Fretwell. The pur- chaser opened it and found that it contained twenty-four watches, worth perhaps twico as many dollars, It was a faiker's layou Then for about twenty minutes bidding wi lively. One fellow bid against himself twvico and paid $1.95 for a package of mag- nificent almanacs, setting forth the virtues of a patent medicine, while another gentle- man who weighed about 300 pounds, and was a bachelor, paid eighty cents for a thirty cent corset, One man bought a trunk and secured an entire wardrobe for $2.30, while another bid £ and got a trunk with nothing init. Patent medicines, advertisements and old clothes were the principal parts of the. collection—and it is safe to say the express company lost no money. e George M. Eichelberger, a prominent Ohio lawyer and politician, who speculates in real estate on the sile, was in Omalia this week looking after a business block or two. Hesaid the best thing the people of Ne- braska could do, would be to make liberal expenditures of money in boring for natural gas. “It has been found all around Ne- braska, in Dakota, Colorado, Wyoming and Kansas. Then why not here! It secmssim- probable that an imaginary state lino would separate the earth's. deposits, At Findlay, perhaps the greatest natural gas field in the United States, the daily output is 55,000,000 cubic feet. In addition to the wonderful amount of gas, in that district the daily flow of oil is 7,000 barrels—morc than at Lima. Although in tho territory comprising the en- tiro Lima district many wells are shut down ou account of the low vrice of oil—selling at less than 18 cents a gallon—the output is 25,000 barrels a day. The Standard Oil com- pany is building additional tanks with a capacity of 50,000 barrels in addition to the 3,600,000 barrels now in store. Since Junuary 1 there have been built in Findlay 2,300 houses, and this number will be doubled during the year. After thorough investiga- tion if it was determined that there was no gas underlying Nebraska, Nebraska capital could nov be better employed than in building 4 pipe line from the Wyoming oil fields, The pipe line from Lima to Chicago is now under way—a distance of 300 milos, costing, per- haps, over a half mullion doliars. But it will pay. It means cheap fucl to the great vity of Chicago. Iuel, I notice, is an im- portant item in Nebraska, The day will come when a pips line will be built—yet there would be money in it now to the com- pany owning it, to say nothing of the relief it would bring the consumer. a*« pecticle of Jim North on the com- “The mittee on resolutions, was most charmin remarked a prominent Nebraska politician in commenting on the St. Louis convention. “It reminds me,"” he continued, ‘“of an inci- dent happening at the republican convention at Cincinnati in 1576, Nebraska delegate named Pinney was placed in the same posi- tion with which North was honored. The committee was instructed to retire and re- port as soon as possible. Scnator Jones, of Nevada, was to entertain the committee and a few friends, myself among thom, after the report. In about half an hour after the committee had gone to its room—I was sur- prised to sce Pinney. 1Isaid fo him, ‘you are not through already.’ ‘No,’ said he, ‘I have been a’lookin’ 'round but I can’t find where the committy on revolutions is agoin’ to set.”’ —— Volces For Gresham. Philadelphia News, t you hear the slogan Oh don nen in carnest 't and ste aut leader the "Pis the voice of With their fa As upon their g agree. For in the month of roses They suy youw'll see our Moses, And the face of Walter Gresham it will be. He will lead us on to glory, Great in fame and great in'story, 3 As the Lincoln in whose likeness his we sco. In a high judicial chair Sits he firm and true and fair, And to no man's haughty word he bends his knee, For he is an upright judge; Through the mud for bhim we'll trudge, Shouting *“Glor) Hallelujah ! from the mountaius the sea. For the union he has bled, From the rebeis neyer fled, And the soldier boys all want him the next president to be, Hear the people with one voice Shout “'Gresham is our choice;” He's ltA stalwart and as sturdy as an old oak ree. THE STATE'S STATESME 0. A. Corbin and J. G. O'Connell aspire to logislative fame from Johnson county. The rumor that Paul Schminke willbe a candidate for state treasurer lacks confirma- tion. Attorney General Leese is being favor- bly mentioned by mauny papers as his own SuCcessor. C. D. Casper, the anti-monopolist of Butier county, will contest with Laird for congres- sional honors in the Second district. C. E. Yost, determined to be a candidate for some state office, has been running for lieutenant governor the past week. Captain J. M. Lee is itching to mis-repre- sent Furnas county at Lincoln this winter. If nominated the gallant pass flend will be amply seratched this fail. The coolest bit of information recently re- ceived is to the effect that Spy Russell will come before the state convention as a candi- date for lieutenant governor, Harry 1hillips of Gage county will at- tompt to get an endorsement from the people as @ legislative candidate. He will have strong opposition when the time comes. While Mr. Boyd was on top at St. Louis it was noticeable that when brains were wanted, J. Sterling Morton was called for by Heurl Watterson, aud the gratifying part of the plot was—Mr. Morton responded. It 1s now generally understood that Gen- eral Colby will be a candidate for the state senate from Gage county, while Dr. Craig of Wymore will contest the ground with him, ig will bo the anti-monopoly canaidate. The political kettle in Pawnoce county {8 sthmering, M. C. Wortham, who distin- guished himsell as a judge of election in tha Holmes-Butler contest; W. I3, Drapor, who was for years county clerk; J. P. Lore, who holds the responsible position of justice of the peace; Bugeno Bos a farmer living noar the town, will all try to go to the logis- Iature; while T. W. Peopoon of Table Rock, who 18 already covered with legislative hon« ors, will try to reprosont Pawnoe and Rich« ardson counties in the senate. e IT WOULD BE BETTER. If jealousy were driven from the worl® If professional divorce lawyers were not starving, If the scab engineers understood thoir business, If Lincoln could always have Missourl river rates, If politicians would use their cheel mora and money less. . If the man who promises to pay to-mors row would pay to-day. If people would attend as strictly to their own business as they do to tho affairs of others. In November, if the railways would keep their hands off tho election, and let the poeo- pledecide. If party spoils and gin mill gratuitios did not cement the wavering allegiance of pro- fessional voters, ot~y ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. J. E. B.—No; Mr, Morton was not on top, but he was the foundation of the Nebraska delegation. Reader—Mr, Sampson of Omaha actually lived. The plot is not fiction. Mr. Nye was private secretary to the kingof Bulgaria, and occupied the Bulgarian throne several times when his majesty was painting things red. Politician~It will probably be hard to find a candidate for congress in the First distriot, since Howes' ignominious defeat. No ono appears to want it. At least up to this date we have only learned of the candidacy of Casper E. Yost, J. L. Webster, J. N. Con- nell, S. B. Pound, Sam Chapman, John C. Cowan, Tom Majors, Tom Appelget, C. Ae Holmes, L. W. Colby, N. K. Griggs, M. L. Hayward, Orlando Tefft, G. M. Lambertson, E. E. Brown and N. K. Goudy. Poct — Thurman-Sherman, Depew-won't- do, Gresham-Rush’em, Allison-Rally, son, will rhyme in your campaign song. *‘That's what's the matter with Hannah” will also dove-tail with “The old red bandana"—but be cautious. Eb Bee—Do you thwk that when Mr, Conoyer returns from St. Lows he will seck to revenge himself on tho teachers by secur- ing a reduction of salaries? TEACHER, To the over-paid and under-worked school marms, we can only say that if Mr. Conoyer was an original Thurmaun man, he will doubt- less fail to seek revenge. If, on the other hand, Mr. Conoyer was a Gray man, in the gloom of defeat he may probably use his in- fluence to the end of a radical reduction in the salaries of all those teachers who were known to set up nights to defeat him. How- ever, the moral to the folly of women wading into politics is made plain. The beautiful adage: “To the victors belong tha spoils,” applies with equal force to men and women—and had you not monkeyed with the ballot you would have been enjoving the' peace of mind which is happiness, and which passes understanding, Uneasy lies the head in the political guillotine. Seel Democratic—Yes, Mr. Crawford occupied aseat at St. Louis in the department set aside for the daily press. He simply mado a mistake. It was not the daily vress he sought—but the wine press, Figures—The examples of which you speak, “If a hen and a half laid an egg and a half, how long would it take a turkey to walk to Papillion,” will be answered by Charles 0. Bates at the Chicago convention, —~— BY [THE WA In choosing red as the national color, the democrats scem to know that there is danger uhead. Mr. Edison thinks that nis new baby boy is the most successful phonograph he has ever seon, Lincoln has a new poetess, Anne N. H, Fader Field, who clamors to be made tho “equal half of man.” If there is anything in argument and hard cota will be divided and admitted, The petitioning patriots mean business, Miss Amelia Reves, the gifted southern writer, will arey a man worth many il lions, In her married bliss she can afford to continue smoking cigarettes, When the Old Roman’s strength was shown to be greater than the Hoosier candidate's, Mr. Gray remarked that it was better to have boomed and lost than never to have hoomed at all. Seven Chinese pirates were hanged in Haiphong two wecks ago. The laws of China are strict, and criminals are promptly executed. The bundreds of dry-land pirates in this country arc given letters of marc by an admiring people, Jefterson Davis celebrated his eightieth birthday 8 week ago to-day, aud the papers over the country said nice things of the old man, And thus do relics of the past become honored. Time, the tomb-builder, causes forgetfulness, It is feared that the democratic convention was of but little importance o 8t. Louis as an advertising medium, from the fact thav nine-tenths of those in attendance, upou re- covering from their excess of mouon, only bad an indistinet recollection of visiting the slecpy old town, The Nebraska delegation proposes to decos rate its Chicago headquarters on Clark stroet with the agricultural products of its state, A banner many yards in length, bearing the legend deftly wrought “Corn is King,” will be one of the attractions, While the enterprise exhibited by the committoe on decoration is commendable, it would cer- tainly be more in accordance with truth and precision if the banner bore the words “Railroad Power is Supremwe.” It is in bad taste for a crowd of kid-gloved lobbyists to masquerade as h ndad sons of toil, e IT I8 PREDICTED That Patrick Egan will vote as Thurston dictate That “Mr. Sampson of Omaha” will draw @ large house at Lincoin, That a never-ending boom will Omaha not later than next spring. That Dr. Gerth's report on discased cattlo will surprise Omaba milk consumers. That there is a fortune to the company that constructs a pipe line from the Wyoming oil flelds to Owaha. That the American bird after it gets Fourth of July celebration. That Tus Bee's ‘exhibit of the diluted milk sold in this city will cause venders of the lacteal fluid to be less reckless. That there will be more excitement ut the Chicago convention than there Las been b any political guthering for yecars, ‘That the lowlands of Council” BIGAE will be filled with the homes of laboring men who work in Omaba—upon the completion ot the bridge strike will be a tired with Owaba's eaglo through