Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 16, 1888, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 16, 1888 —SIX'TEEN PAGES. THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, T'oily (Morning Edition) imclading SUNDAY Yoar <es 110 00 0 . ihs £ OMATIA SUNDAY Bkp, muiled to any nddress, Ono Y enr, OMANAOFFICE NOC UTEANDALS FARNAM STIET, NEW YORK Oprick, HOOMs 1A D 15 TRiBUS WASIINGTON OFFICE, NO. b1} NTHSTIERT. CORRESPONDENCE, AN communications rejating to news and edi. torlal matter should be addressed to the EpiToR OF 11k BEY, BUSINESS LETTEL A1l business lotters and remittance addies-od to Tik BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, ONANA. Drat ks and postoftice orders to order of the company. Proprietors. should be e made payat The Bee Pulisiag Company, 0 th THE DAILY BEBE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. Rtats of Nebraska, ary of Tho Boe Pub- iiily swear that the DAL 1858, BeE for the a3 as follows: 18,250 e Sunday, Sept. o, Monday, Bept. 10, Wednesday, Sopt. 12 Thursdny, Sepr. 1 § 160 0 18111 AVEERGO i . 15,06 SCHUCK. £worn 1o before me and subscribed in my prosence this 1th day of September, A. D, 188, N.'P. FEIL, Notary Public. Ftate of Nebraska, 1 o County of Douglas, | & % George B Tzscnnick, being first duly sworn.de- 0tes and saysthat he is secretary ot The fes Publishing company, that the actual a o daily cireilation of GEO.T. § cople anuary L I8, 18151 opies: for Ju K, 18,183 CHUCK. in m; s o1y THE b; i and the wicked will for rest from thel unday about ov time at 1 hor ¥ Mr. Blaine goos to the Pacific slope he may ho induced to take in Omuha., e would drawu bigger crowd in one day than Sebastopol drew during the whole fair woek As the 1st of October approaches peo- ple in these parts are beginning to in- quire how much it will cost for man and beast to cross the new wagon bridge over the Missonr! ON THE 29th of Septembor, when the equinox sets in and the congressional convention 1s set in motion, we are liablo to witness a lively disturbance of the political atmospher OMAHA’S prospects for a prosperous fall trade were never better. The job- bing trade is already very active and the retail trade will keep on improving* from day to day as the nights grow longer. Weare threatened with a spontun- oous eruption of electric motor and a forest of telegraph poles and over- head lines along the route of the motor Nobody will object to street car compe- tition, but the overhead motor wires should not be toler: on the business streets, which ave alveady covered by a network of pole lines. THE death of Richard A. Proctor, the well known scientist, makes a void in the world of science. Prof. Proctor was an indefatigable worker in the field of science and more especially in the realms of astronomy. He was an emi- nent author and possessed the rare fac- ulty for popularizing the study of as- tronomy, which to most people is a sealed book. THE cran are not all dead yet. Some of them are clamoring to stamp out the social evil in Omahn, as if there was or could be a eity of one hundred thousand population without the sovial vice. These people monn well enough, but they do not refl that the only effect of their crusade is to scatter and spread the virusall over the ety in- stoad of contining it under police sur- veillance in the infected districts. Tt is easy enough to repress vice, but an- other thing to stamb it out, I1is pleasing to have tho authority of so acute an observer and truthful chronicler as Mp. Labouchere for the statement that the American givl has almost entirely cut out the English girl in the favor of the Buropean public. Tho reasons given for this are that “‘she has more to say for herself, dresses better and flirts better.” She is gen- erally looking for a hushand with a title, bat if sho fuils in this “she thor- oughly enjoys herself provided that she can manage to flict with royalty.” We are not quite sure that the sativical ed- Ator of Truth intendod to he entirely complhimentary to the Americ girl abroad, but at any rate it gratifying to know that she brooks no riv least on the part of hev English Not only socially, but politically nlso, the American girl appears to be stead- ily extending hor influence in Burope, and, we have no doubt everywhere, in the direction of improvement and progress. an Tne Honorable Patrick Ford, mem- ber of the council from the Third ward, has been urged by his many friends to consent to have himself nominated for state senator on the democratic tickot, Mr. Ford has not yet intimated whether he would be willing to serve the county as efficiently as he has served this oty as a municipal legislator. Mr. Ford very naturally feels that the position is beneath his aspirations and acknowl- edged ability as a great debater and statesman, Tir BEE would take the liberty of suggesting that the honora- ble gentleman from the Third be tendered' the nomination for congress. The demoocratic party in this distriet has been looking for some time fora robust candidato who could stand the wear and tear of the lower house in the national legislature. Mr. Ford is in excellent health, and he is a hard fighter. Such a man has been a long- felt want in congress since the days of the lamented John Morrisey. To offer Pat Ford anything less than the con- gressional nomination would be rank injustice. Whon THE BEE nominates & man in this district he generally gets there, The Nebraska Keunion, The annual encampment and reunion of the Grand Army of the Republic in Nebraska will begin to-morrow at Kearney. All the signs point to an ox- ceptionally successful gathering of our veterans, Large additions have been made to the rosters of the posts during the past i, The selection of a site 15 fortunate in being central and read- ily acc ble. In addition the summer np of the regular army is now in pro- ress at Kearney. A large attendance and an interesting mecting thus seems to be assured., Nebraska usual possesses more than the proportion of veterans of the late war. Still a territory, when the rebellion broke out, she contributed largely of her able-bodied sons to the ranks of the volunteer sol- diery. At the end of the war, her free lands and agricultural resources then undevelopd, attracted thousands of the boys in blue to her homesteads and farm lands, There is sc a state, and few regiments, which do not find repr itatives to-day in the rvoster of 's Grand Army, and cach one of urring events finds its most it foature in the old friend- ships there revived and the mem- ory of old scenes recalled by the reunton of comrades long separated. Tt is of more than ing interest to note that th mmande of the two camps at Kearney, both officers of the regular srmy, rose to their present po- sitions from the volunteers. General Henry As Morrow who will command the Kearney reunion by invitation of the Grand Army, entered the army from a Michigan law office, and won successive promotions by gallantry, which has envolled his name among the most able of division commanders of the war, There isno move popular officer among the volunteers to-day than the witty and genial colonel of the Twenty-first infantry. His presence assures a successstul administration and enjoyable camp fires. General Brooke also climbed the ladder of pro- motion through volunteer command and won the way to the st of a brigadic ship by his admirable voluntoer ser- Both officers are in a position toco-oper- ate with more than ordinavy intorest in making the coming encampment what will be perhaps the most memorable of any like event ever held in our state. Every old soldier who can do so should be on hand at Kearney during the coming week. The twin camps of the regular army and the veteran vol- unteers will be well worth attending. But for those who cannot follow out their wishes in this respect Tir Bee will bring full daily reports of the pro- ceedings, ka's ( —_—— Ineflicient Schooi soards. Omaha was not the only city in the country which at the opening of the present school year was not sunplied with adequate accommodations for the increased number of children who ap- plied for entrance to the public schools. In a number of cities, notably New York, Philadelphia and Chicago, thous- ands of children had to be excluded from attending school beeause sufficient provision had not been made for them. To a large number of these children, particularly those who have been compelled to forego the invalua- ble privilege of a free ecducation until far past the school ago, it is a serious misfortune to be deprived of a year of instruction, and to the great majority it must prove an ir- reparable loss. Their time for acquir- ing a rudimentary education is limited at hest, and to reduce it a year is a very material matter. The loss is also a public one. The common schools are maintained in the public interest for the training of citizens, and to the ex- tent that their failure to do this,wrongs individuals, the state also is wronged! In tne cities of New Yorkand Philadel- phia the want of adeguate school ac- commodations is nota new difficulty In the latter city the statistics of last yeur showed that twelve thousand chil- dren were excluded from the schools because they could not be provided fo and undoubtedly the number in New York was not less. Is it not a fair pro- sumption that hundreds of these chil- dren, having no instruction or restraint from either parents or teachers, have already fallen into ways of vice that will lead most of them to prisons? The vanks of crime are reeruited chiefly from the youth who get the least of the advantages of our publfc school system., and the statistics of the increase of erimo appear to show t! the number of these is steadily growing from year to year. The problem of enabling children of the land rudimentary education is not in itseli S0 very dificult, but the troublo is that the great 1 ty of those who ave rged with its solution are either in- competent for the task or do not con- scientiously apply themselves to it. A New York paper, in veforring to the condition of affairs in that city, says: *The trouble is not that there is not enough money spent, but that much of itis diverted from its legitimate use and misspent.” The application this may safely be made general. There are intelligent, judicious, careful men in all school boards, but quito generally the majority of these bodies is composed of men who have neither the ability mor the experience to wisely perform the very important task committed to them, even if in all cases they had the concern nud the conscience which men in such a po- sition should have. The politicians who push their way into the school boards usually control them, and it is hardly necessary to say that such con- trol always means money misspent and practices not in the interest of the pub- lic nor in harmony with the true pur- pose of the schools. The evident fact that the public school systom of the country is suffering from the general inefliciency of school boards, and that the trouble is growing worse yearly cannot be too strongly urged upon public attention, though unfortun- ately the labor of doing this is rarely rewarded with much attention from the public. The obvious necessity forreform may be readily acknovledged, but when the opportunity for cifecting all the to re- ceive a of “ture’s work, but a moral it comes, the people manifest their wonted indifference. There could hardly be anything more saddening to contem- plate than the fact that there ave in the country to-day perhaps not less than half a million children who are receiv ing no instruction in the public schools because those who should have made provision for them have failed in their duty. ——— Insanity in England. The subject of insanity has recently been receiving n good deal of discussion 1n the east, whore the evidence of the increase of lunncy is most aboundant, and the matter is really one of general interest, in view of the statistics show- ing that insanity is everywhere increas- ing. A report just issued by the Brit- ish commissioners in lunacy shows that, notwithstanding the vastly im- proved methods of troatment, lunacy on the increase in England, and t the disease attacks o disproportionate number of poor people, among whom, .it is believed, the lack of food is a predisposing causo. This development is interosting as an inei- dental proof of the wisdom of placing lunacy and ehavity under the oversight of the same board, as is done in som: of the states in this country. [t must be obvious faom the exporience in England that one of the most effective prevent- ives of insanity is an efficient system of public charity Not the least interesting feature of the English report refors to the great change that has taken pl within the present generation in the treatmoent of the insane. The barbavities formerly procticed in the® asylums are no longer possible. Another instructive fact presen iy that the lutest results of investigation go to establish the suporiority of the hospital over the asylum, at all events in the earlier es of insanity. Itis coming to be and more believed that in very many instances a speedy cure can be effected if the patient is treated prop- erly and promptly. Asylums are there- fore giving place to hospitals, as in the case of the conversion of the institution 1n old London known for ages as Bed- lam, a historical mad house that has been the scene of more horrors and barbavities than perhaps any other structure in the world. While very marked been made in England the study of insanity all its forms and phases, and a very great improvement made in the treat- ment of the insano in thiscountry, orat leastin several of the states, the advancs in both respects has been quite as great, and the subject is still receiving in both countries the most careful study. De- spite the enlarged wisdom and greator humanity, however, insanity is increas- ing.and it perhaps remains for the philosopher, rather than tho scientist and philanthropist, to point out the way to check its growth. has in in progress The Autumn Equinox. The leaden skies and chilly winds bring to mind the poet’s femiliar re- frain—"*The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year.,” We are at the threshold of the autumn equinox, when nature begins to vapidly shed her garment of green and the harvest moon looks down on ‘‘meadows brown and seer.” Already the loaves are begin- ning to change, and soon the woods will be gorgeous with the many tints which autumn dyes. Five days hence the day and the night will be of equal length, and theveafter this. “goodly planet, the earth,” will pursue its way more in the darkness than in the light. This is a period in the year which not only has its important function in na- influence on hamanity. This is a warning to prepar- ation, in the foretaste it gives of what is beyond. We shall have some days of storm— gloomy, disagreenble, tedions days—but they are never many here, and we can ¢ them in patience in anticipation of the glorious days that will imme- dintely succeed them. There is no other portion of the country, we be- lieve, where the season known as “In- dian Summer” is more prolonged or more delightful than heve. Beginning ordinarily about the closs of Septembor it continues from four to six weeks, with rarely an intervuption, of the most beautiful and enjoyable woather that can be imagined. Welcome, then, the sunless and stormy days that ave the cheerless prelude to a season whose bountiful beauties are not surpassed by those of any other period of the year, A NOVEL question rights to citizenship coms up recontly before the United States civeuit court for Oregon, The facts in the case were as follows: A boy born of Chinese parents in this country was sent toChina with his mother and upon his veturn to America aftersome yonrs was denied tho right to land as he had no certificate of or residence as required by luw. The o was finally appealed to the United ates cirenit court on the ground that he was a native of this country and that his residence in China for an indefinite period did not expatrinte him, nor amount to a renunciation of citizenship, since such a right can not be renouncel by the parents of n minor. The eourt held that the point was wall taken, and sustained the appeal by allowing the child toland. It would consequently follow that this Chinese boy is a citizen of America. On reaching his majority arding the he will havethe right to e xercise all the | functions of erican citizenship, VOICE OF THE STATE The Plattsmouth Herald echioes bourbon feeling all over the country when it sa, “‘democrats are glad there are no more terber states.” “The editor of this paper will vote for Russell for presidential elector,” says the Schuyler Quill, “but every time we think of it we feel mean, It is enough to mal: hate himself to death to contemplate such an act.” After reading the president's letter of ac- ceptance, the Grand Island Independent ox- claims: “The dangers of a second term seem to have no terror in them for Grover now, but then he perhaps realizes the fact that the danger is not imminent.” Cass county will have a couniy scat clec- tion this fall, and the Weening Water Eagle seream: “A free ballot, a fair count, Iowa voters at home, the B. & M. attending (o its PRESS, aman | own business, the doad remaining in their graves, will put the county seat of Cass county on whecls—on the Gth of November next." The Lyons Mirror observes: “If there is any one thing the Omaha Republican delights in more than all things beside, it is to copysome silly sling at Van Wyck from some country newspaper that has no reputation for wisdom at home or abroagd. Tho Iepublican has been tolling the public for a long time that Van Wyck was doad, but from the effort it puts forth to kill him 1t must rvegard him as o lively corpse." The Ulysses Dispateh prints the following as a warning: “Secretary of State Laws, by oue act at Lincolu last week, forfeited the confidence of the rank and file of tho repub- lican party by bis higgling and haggling method of refusing to stand by General Leese and Treasurer Willard in their labors to have the freight rates of the state roduced. Let him beware; the people are in no mood to be triflod with, and, though he is renomi- nated, he is nov yet re-elected, If 1t becomes apparent that he is about to yoke up with the railroads, a strong fight on the part of the anti-ruilroad republican press will him away in his little grave along side of Loren Clark. And right here and now is the proper time for the gentleman to explain his position, as the surroundings begin to look a *lectle’ dubious.” Seerctary Laws' action at the recent meot- ing of the state board of transportation auses the York Times to tallk as fol- lows: “Gilbort L. Laws has surprised and chagrinned many of his former friends and supporters by lis resolution to postpone action by the state board of transportation on the rate order made some time ago. He voted a couple of times on the right side, be- fore the convention, cnough to show that ho knows which the right side is and what tho people want, but as soon as he is nominated he flops buck to the railroad side without shame or conscience. That is the way it ap- pears, and we beliove he will find it exceed- ingly diffeult to make the people view it in any other wa The outcome of the recent senatorial con- vention of York and Fillmore counties calls forth the following from the York Times: “After the outrage which was attempted at Fairmont on the people and on Mr. Keokley every honest man in both York and Fillmore counties ought to give him his vote. The people should make his majority so over- whelming as to teach the scalawags and cor- porations who combined to defeat him, with money and trickery, a lesson which they will remember. The most desnerate and damn- able means ever employed were used to com- pass his defeat, and were only overcome by the utmost vigilance and persevercnce. The fact that the conspirators were thwarted and dofeated at last does not relieve them in any degrco from the odium which attaches to their villainous work., Mr. Keckley is bold, outspoken, and uncompromising, and the cor- porations do not hanker after unother wrestle with him in the 1ofislature, but the desperato fight which they have made upon him, and will continue to-make until the polls are closed, shows' hifs value to the people, and cmphasizes the necessity of rallying to his support.” The Hastings-Gazette Journal, has this to say of McShane and his partisans: “Having annouced that Nebraska is to be carried for democracy and free trade, this year, democratic organs seom to realize that the gubernatorial situation is one requiring des- perate methods. They have comnienced a campaign of virulent slander and abuse which for pure, wanton maliciousness bas mnever been equalled in Ne- braska. Governor Thayer is char- acterized as a dishonest, discrepit old man in his dotage. He is ridiculed, lauched at, scaffed at, lied about, abused and slandered by over zealous advocates of freo trade and democracy until a stranger might imagine that the republican candidate for governor i8 cither a knave or an imbec What is the weaning of allthis abuse. It is certainly uncalled for. The exigencies of a political campaign certainly do not require the demo- cratic editors to cram their columns with lies until the column rules bulge. Gov- crnor Thayer has proven himself an honest and a capableofiicial. His enemies cannot honestly bring a single accusation against him that is worthy of even a moment's con- sideration. The truth is, that the democratic abuso of Governor Thayer springs from a most natural desire to attract attention from the modiocrity of their own candidate. What 18 there in the record of the presont congressman from the First district to com- mand the approval of ghe citizen of Nebras- ku who has the interests of his state at heart, What bills has he introduced? What meas- ures has he championed? What is his opin- ion on the questions of the day in which the people of Nebraska are interested? Granted that he is honest. Nobody believes that he would steal or commit any of the other car- dinal sins tabooed by the decalogue, But there are thousands of perfectly honest men n Nebraska who are not qualifiad for the oftice of governor, and MeShane, with all his thousands of paltry dollars, is one of them.” e They Have Heacd Feom Maine, Black Hilis Times, What has become of the men who, a fow weeks ago, were offering to bet large sums of money on the election of Cleveland ! A Very Satis] Burlington Hawiiey Mr, Cleveland hold back his letter until tho very morning of the Maine election, Then he published it. And then the voters of Maine gave their opinion ahout it, ——~————— The Oard for Congressmen, Oil City Blizzard. Congressmen may secure an odd vote here and there by a judicions distribution of seeds among their constituents, but the right thing to plant for votes ave public buildings. e What Has Been and Will Be, Philadelphia North American. 1t took three months of *‘innocuons desue- tude” for the president to turn out three col- uwns of platitudinous platitude explaining his ambiguous attityde towards the laborious multitude. It wilt tuke less than that time for the multitude to reciprocate the attention, anud then the period of desuetude will begin again, e A First-Water Fraud, D:adwsod Plonecr, Consistenoy is & jewel, and President Cleveland is a jewel of inconsistency. A veviler of the press, he retains in his closest confidence an old-time journalist, Dan La- mont; u scoffer at the reporter’s humble pro- fession, he illustrates in his letter that he himself 1s the greatest **fake” writer on the American continent. e Would Also Find Free Whisky. Davenport Democrat-Gaz:te. General Clinton B. Fisk will devote the next three weeks to cold water campaign work in Michigap and other western states. ene general vught to visit Towa. He will find that Davenport has the best supply of pure water of any city of its size in the countr, and that more of 1t 18 used here daily than in many cities of double our population. oo Sk S A Slight Acceleration Kansas City Times. The papers announce that Miss Emma Abbott is on her western way with n end of new gowns and a slight acceleration of her trill. Presumably Miss Emma is as honest as evor, for she has brushed the cobwebs from her familiar repertoire und will be heard as of yore in the maddeningly intoxi- cating melodies of “Trovatore” and the “Bohemian Girl.” She will invade theso precincts at an early day Pt s L The People and the Pensfoners. St Lovis ~Dem: !, The people of this country do not look upon the applicants for pensions as 8o many por- sons who may be abused with fmpunity by a democratic president who sent a substitute to the war, and sympathized with sccossion, and was sorry when Leo, instead of Grant, surrendered at Appomattox. They cannot be made to believe, under any circumstanc that men who were equal to the highest of forts of patriotic courage and sacrifice when the life of tho government was in danger are now generally capable of wronging that government and degrading themselves by acts of eriminal deception Character of mpaign. Philadetphia Public Ledger, There is less rancor and clamor in this campaign than the last, but there is not loss focling, The last was a contest of Goths and Vandals; this is like a crusade in which the triumph of a great cause is being fought for. It is full of courace, dignity, as befits a con- tention in which ¢ yod only sovereign citizens of a fre . It is full, too, of inteiligence, edu At the end of such a campaign thoughtful minds will find this reason for satistaction—that, no matte which party win or lose, tho victory was achieved by the assertion at the polls of the instructed thought and informad act of the people themselves; that knowl edge and reason, not passion or prejudice, prevailed. A triumph 8o won should content even the defeated. o Republicans Have the Advani New York Sun. There is no foundation whatever for the boasted predictions heard at national head- quarters and elsewhere that Cleveland and Thurman enjoy a fighting chanes of carry ing states hitherto reckoned as safe in the republican schedule. Some fools in every :anvass think that talk of this sort is indis a certificate of party loyalty. Far ing the childish imaginings of these chipper prognosticators, the returns from those nothern states wheve there has already been voting, prove that the adv tage is slightly with the republicans, The story is the same in - Oregon, Vermont, and now in Maine. Where the republicans have been strong, they are, if anything, stronger [*in 1583 than at any former time for years past. age. —~— The Promise of Prosperity. PhitadetphiaRecord, Whatever the actual yield may have been, is evident from the acknowledged deticiency in the wheat and rye crops of Europe that a sufticient demand is assured to market it at higher average prices than have been real- ized for several years past. The country may be able to spare a few millions of bush- els more toward making good the shortage in English and French crops than the statis- ticians had previously calculated, but the in- crease is not likely to be sufficient to materi- ally affect the world’s markets. The facts that we shall have more wheat than was ex- pected, and that the corn crop, which prom- 1508 the largest yield on record, is now about out of danger from frost, should give fresh impetus to the wheels of trade and industry. The big crops will swell the receipts of the railroad companies, enlarge the volume of foreign exchanges, and increase the purchas- ing power of the earnings of the agricul- tural classes, to the advaun! of business all over the count . Ultimate lure. Lippincott's However much my arrows have fallen short, Or swerved vside, or overshot that mark Far-set, whose ¢ 28 center but in Truth, This is the desire—the one unfading dream— ‘The hope of my young manhood,—so to stand, 50 aimm, S0 looso tho tense expectant string, That, at the last, cach winged shaft may fly Unto the heart of Truth unerringly. Yet—though I soothe the sting of ill-success With thoughts of Irror, lurking in the grass, wouud some wide-flown dart has given— A fear dwells ever at my mmost soul. “That, haply, ere my growing skill_has won The prize--Perfection—I may fecl the bow Break at full bend, or hear its worn cord part, Or find the quiver empty at my belt, KINGS AND QUE King Milan, it is reported in Vienna, in- tends to divoreo himself from Queen Natalie by a royal edict, sanctioned by the Skupts- china, and the Servian legislature. in Iturbide, grandson of the Colonel who made himself a meteoric em- peror of Mexico over fifty years ago, has just been made colonel of the Seve giment, the finest in the Mexican arm, Emperor William will visit Vienna at the end of September. He will remain in the pital for a weel's round of reviews and banquets. He will be accompanied by the cmpress if her health permits, The prince of Wales has given £25) to a Roman Catholic churity in London,and Prin- coss Louise of Torno coutemplates going to Rome soon. This has caused a great deal of serious comment m the London papers, At the Isie of Wight A recently Queen Victoria took three prizes for farm horses, one for Jersey cattle, and four for Down sheep, winning the champion prize for the best ram and the reward for the best pair of ewes. he ex-Empress Frederick will make a quiet visit to her mother, Queen Victoria, this month. She will not seek public g nition in any way,and may go directly to Scot- land by sea, and jom her mother at Balmoral, She is in fairly good health, The king of Sweden is preparing a series of elk hunts to take place in his forests next month, and the prince of Wales, the crown prince of Denmark, Prince Fre Loo- pold of Prussia, Prince William of Nassau, and the crown prince of Austria are expected to take part in them. John Lester Murphy, Queen Victoria's pri- vate telegrapher, has been highly compli- mented by her majesty. When at Windsor ¢ she said he was “‘the only man of sense the prince of Wales and Henry of Bawtenburg boing at the time dwelling in the imperial mausion. The king of Spain not only has a hobby, but has just had his portrait painted showing him mounted upon 1t. His royal highness, who will be 8 years old should he lLive until next May, is represented as a manly little fellow, and he has the reputation of being a very good little king. The Empress Victoria is not a high church woman. In fact, her religlous views are so exceedingly liberal that, as Labouchere says, “it has been a matter of speculation as to whether she really held on religious subjects any special doctrines whatever,” The other members of the royal family arein very much the same condition, although the late Prives Alice, who was for several years a decided frecthinker, entirely altered her views, and became very devout in the few years just preceding her death. s Mr. Cleveland's Letter, The Boston Herald (ind.) cannot see that anything has been gained by the delay. The Boston Journal (rep.) thinks the line or two devoted to civil servie2 reform may appear a meagre wention to the genuine re formers, but it gets considerably more room inthe message than it will get in the demo cratic part of the campalgn. Springficld Republican (ind.): The presi- dont does not strengthen his position when he procoecs to the dissection of the republi can platform, That devartmont of the eatn paign might have been 1oft to the care of the party orators and newspapors, Philadeldhin Lodgor (ind.) is as aru's friendly towards Mr. Clevelanl, 1t say of his lettet ‘If Mr. Cleveland shall bo ro elected it will be upon his cloan and worthy administ ion of the chief exccutive oflies, not because of his letter, and in spite of his tariff messa Boston eAdvertiser (rep.) says Groeley wrote his lettor in ten days, Cleveland has been trained by experience to burn his first thoughts, As was to be ex- vected , s letter is chiofly devoted to labored explanation of his messa pained rebuko of those prejudicon parti who dare to hint that he has no respect the tariff. New York Commoreial Advertiser: The president’s peesentation of the matter is so ar, so simple and so conclusively right that it must commend itself to every fair and honest mind which is not carried away by a selfish desire for unfair advantage or blinded by unreasoning partisanship, The arguments he prosents are those which led Garfield, Arthur, o), McCulloch, Henry Wilson and Senator Sherman in years gone by to reach the same conclusions that Mr, Cleveland now reaches and to urge the policy he urges, Horace t M procisely Chicago Tnter-Occan (rep.): Mr. Cieve- land's last annual message was solely de- voted to an attempt to make the issue be tween froe trade and protection the line of battle, but this letter, on the eontrary, has for its main purpose the diversion of popular attention from the issue, and especially tho creation of the impression that ho is not so much of a free traderas that message would indicate. Herein e foliows the same gen- oral line of policy as Judge Thurman, Con gressman Mills and the democracy generally. The courage of nine month: wo has oozed away, and in place of a bold front which then presented is the tremendous anxiety to explain away the real issue of the and mystify it by descanting upon the ruising a surplus revenue, ——— Mr. Harrison's Let Globe-Democrat (rep.): The differenco between the republican and the democratic doctrine on the tariff question is funda mental. Itis not simply the difference be- tween a 47 per cente taciff and a 42 por cent tariff, but it is the difforence between ad- equate protection and no protection at all. Cleveland Leader (rep.): This letter is a comprehensive statement of grand republi- can principles, original in conception, forei- ble in presentation, irrefutable in logic, and convincing in a degree beyond that of any public paper of the campaign, It cxhibits a masterly grasp not only of the principles in- volved, but of the details as woll. Kansas City Journal (rep): Benjumin Harrison has move than met the expectations of his most enthusiastic triends by his con- duct since the nomination, and his letter simply clinches his title to the honor and con- fidence of the American people. He is in every essential a typical Americ He is in sympathy with labor, for few men have been harder workers, Chicago Tribune (rep): Genoral Har- rison first takes up the taniff question, and he goes to tho heart of it without being diverted by anything in his opponent’s mis. sive, He shows that the issue is not ‘‘one of schedules, but of principles.”” He points out that the whole drift, tendency, purpose and outcome of Cleveland’s sugeestions as inter- preted in the Mills bill are to bring about ultimately the free importation of foreign competing goods. The democrats are not aming at arevision of schedules; they are attacking the principle of protection, Pioucer Press (rep.): For clearness, can- dor and good temper, the letter of acceptance of General Harrison bears favorable com- parison with that of President Cleveland. He meets the tariff issue squarely and intelli- gently. His attitude toward the existing system of protective duties is asfar from tho blind and extravagant idolatry of the Chi- cago platform as it is from the concealed and halting, but unmistakable hostility of the president’s lotter. He stoutly maintains the protection idea, under which American in- dustry has thriven and the Awmerican work- man prospered. He combats the theoretical assumption of the president that the entive amount of a duty is added to the domestic price of the article, and points out that the logical conclusion from this 18 a purely reve- nue tariff, by which duties shall be levied only on articles not produced in this country. —~—— The Sea Breeze. Ella Wheeler Wilcor, Hung on the casement that lookod o'er the main Fluttered a searf of blu And u gay bold breeze paused to flutter and tease I'his tritle of delicate hue. ier far than the blue skies id with 0 voice that sighed; “You ure fairer to me than the' beautiful 800 Ob, why do you stay hero and hidet” *You are wi room And he fonaled her silken folds “Q'er the casement lean but a little, wy queen, . And see what the great world holds! How the wondorful blue of your matchless hue - Chieapens both sea and sky ! You u far tou bright to be hidden sight Couie, fly with me, darling, fi) ting your life in this dull, dark from Tonder his whisper ad sweet his caress, Flattered and pleased was she; The arms of her lover lifted her ovor The casement out to sea; Closo to his breast she was foudly pressed, Kissed onca by his laughing mouth Then dropped to her grave in the crucl wave, And tae wind went whistling south, Missourt People. ty Times: At LS5 'y count) [ beeame acquainted with Samuel Gilmore, a f forty years of ago, who is only two feot nine inches tall and weighs forty-six pounds, He is o justice of the peacefand has been for nine years, Ho owns a farm of 520 ncres and looks af its management himself. He has received offers from showmen, but has refused them ull.{.r.-. ferring to remain upon his farm. Ho is married, his wife being a medium-sized woman, and has five children. At Paris,the county seat of Monroe county, I met two young ladies who are actually belles of he pluce and yet are more children in size. The elderis now in her twenty-second year and is two feet oleven inches in height and weighs ilfty-four pounds, Her sister is in her cighteenth your and wei wunds. Sho has long, light hai is just the size of a six-year-old child, They are really the handsomest little women I ever saw. They dress stylishly, have classical educations, are uwccom- phshed musicians and have traveled extensively. They come of a prominent and well-known family and their father, who is now dead, was a man over six feot tall, Their mother is a woman of medium size lle, Fatal Fire at Cleveland. CLevELAND, O., Sept. 15.—An explosion occurred ut the mills of the National Milling company early this moraing. The mill took fire and was destroyed, entalling & loss of §150,000, on which there was au insurance of 7,000, There were eighteen men in the mill at the time of the explosion. One, Peter Geirman, peristed in the flames, Two others were scriously injured. Soven others are unaccounted for, and it is thovght at least three of them are dead in the rulus. SUNDAY GOSss1P, “‘Omaba is a large, a growing and an fa< city,” remarked w visitor from Boston as ho stood on the Wabash corner last evening, “But it ought to inaugurate o system of strect cleaning 1i “'We liave it," answored “Our stroets are rogul chinery at a large expenso, " “You don’t mean to say," roplied the stranger, “that Farnam street hgre has been swoept for a month?" 1 do,” was the answer, it was just cleaned last night." “Great | gotting hor cition," companion. ¥ Swept by mae his vens! tho contr Lout of tho job. It of poor dohin Sheridan's play of Bristol, whore the Widow. askod by hordaughter wh business hud boen, “Your father, Julie,' said Mrs. O'Brien, ‘was i the street cloaning department,! 0N, then, wother,' said Julie, ‘he made his money by sweeping the streets,' *He did not," replied Mrs. O'Brien, with aspority, ‘He mado it by not sweoping them.! or ninst bo reminds me ‘I'un on the O'Breong 18 ther dead father's “Tsaw John D. Howe on the streets yes. terday,” said a lawyer, “and am 1 to learn that he has returned to Omaha to stay. He was for years ono of our most promi- nent attornoys until he left the city to accept the generat attorneyship of the St. Paul & Omuha road. Howe's carcer in Omaha was the story of indomitable energy and hard study, winning the prize against the disad- vantages of cramped circumstances and no one to boost him into favor. He came hero poor and unknown. He left with a fine reputation for high legal ainmonts, with an extensive practice and no inconsiderable accumulation of means, For nearly two years past he hus boen trav- elin home and abroad for his health, and though somewhat grayer than when he left us, 1ooks in better condition than I have seen him for years.” ‘It makes me smile vight out loud,” re- marked a young lady, *to hear some of our people trying to twist theirmouths into shape to give a dign pronunciation to the word ‘Sebastopol.’ English spoaking nations gonerally prouounce it in only oue way, and that is with the accent on the second vowel. To accent the third is sheer affectation. Oue might as well speak of Paris a ‘Paree,” Vienna at ‘Wien," Roma as ‘Roma,’ Florence as *Ficrnze’ as to declind to anglicizo *Sevastopol.' In my judgment nothing savors more of cod fish aristocracy than such absurd attempts at ‘frills.’ Wor- cester, the best authority on orthoepy, gives as the preferable pronounciation, the platn English one of ‘Sobastopol,’ accented on the secona vowel." “Itis a cold day when Congressman Dor- sey gets left,” remarked a Fremonter as he noted Mr. Dorsey's presenco at Mayne's stock farm eale, and the additional fact that hie was secured two or three times over for his loan, “Dorsey is a good banker and hn looks closely after his security, 1 have un- derstood for some time that he has been holding the props under Mayne and am glad to see that he carried one of them off with him when the trouble came.” * wn Anxious enquiries for Congressman Mo Shaneare heard on all sides of the democratic camp. “Woare mustered for war,” said & battle-scarred democratic veteran yesterday, but we can’t inove forward without the quar- termaster and commissary department. We expect to make a red hot fight as soon as the ammunition and cracker boxes put in an ape pearance, but John holds the key to the situ- ation and the warehouses. You can counton an inspiriting campaign all over the stata when the democratic nominee for governor reaches home headquarters,” G T RELIGIOUS, The most popular preacher in i just now 18 a young woman namcd Huskins, from Tennesseo, who is conducting revival meet- ous parts of the state. She is venrs old, of modest and unas- suming munners, and s un excellent pulpit orator. It is proposed to hold a world's Sunday school convention in Loudon uext June, 1f this convention is held it will be made up of delogates from all parts of the world, and a ship will be chartered which will take three hundred delegates to London from this coun- try alone. AThe bishop of Florida was absent from his diocese when the news ched him of tha appearance of yellow fever in Jacksonville, He veached the ‘city by the carliest train, and will remain the hilo the danger lasts, All the clergy of the city are at their posts and will remain there. A London preacher placarded the city wi notices that he would preach in- Spurgeon’ tabernacle on tho sub; . 7 There was o large congre ced the text: Stand thou still hile,” and then said that his subject was “The Panses of Life.” Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix and wW. W Astor, the committee appo; to take charg of the preliniuary arrangements for the proposed Protestant Bpiscopal cathodral in New York eity, have asked twenty archi- s to send in competitive sketelies of the building by Decomber 15 of this year. A young man, a protestant, attended a Roman Catholic church for the first time on a recont Sunday at Bar Harbor. When hq was going out he thought he saw the congre. gation dropping offerinizs into a receptacle ay the side of the door, so when he reached it hu put forth his hand und deposited a quartee in the holy water fount Paris has been considered the wickedesy the world, rainal Maaning, in st remarkable discourse, shows a differ picture, which is gloomy enough, Hy s: “London isa nd that of any eity in the christian world. Four willions of human beings, of - whom 2,000,000 have never set thew foot inany place of christian worship, and among these 2,000,00 1 only knows how few have heen baptised how few have heen born ugain of water and the Holy Ghost. London is a wilderness. It is like Rome of old—a pool into whick all thd nations of the world streamed together and all the sins of all the ions of the world were continually flowing, Such is Londou at this day.” h on, to whom he Mr. In a publication recantly issued by the Ponnsylvania company’ occurs thi pavagraph: “The employes of tha Pennsylvania lines are compensated sufficiently to make them seli-respects ‘ ing and reliable, and are disciplined to tne highest standard. A powerful pre- ventive of discord is that men filling the highest offices are expected to con- sidor themsolves employes as woll s the humblest, Subordinates arc expect- od to follow their instructions to the letter, to pay due respect to their supe- viors, and at the same time superior officers are required to be con and just in intercourse with subordin- atos. All understand that they must worle together for the cominon good of the service, and a personal interest the economical and effective working the system is fostered on every hanj An evidence of this is the ‘coal pre ium’ plan. The allowance of conl neces- sary for fuel for an_engine is placed at cortain number of pounds per ear per mile. If an engine and firoman (ili the equirements of the running schedule with a less amount, thoy are paid half the value of the conl saved. I they e ceed the allowance they are not charged with the excess, but their conduct of an engine is examined with a view toward improvemont.” SR IR L An Austrian Prince Dead. Vienxa, Sept. 15.—Prince Jonnnn Advinhe aged olghty-aine, is doad. U | ¥ g\