Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 30, 1888, Page 4

PUBLISHED EVERY MOR! —_— TRRME OF SUBBCRIPTION, including SUNDAY, r OFTICR.NO rOFFICE. h"l"' Yonrk Orrice, ROoMS 14 AND 15 TRIBUNR B bine: WastixGToN OFFice, NO. 813 FOURTEENTH STREET. CORRBSPONDENCE. munications rela o news and o AL imttor shouid be addresssd (o the EDITOR AE DS, e BUSINESS LATTERS, All business letters and remittances should ba dressed to THE BER PUBLISHING COMPANY, AfIA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders to ‘made pa; fo the order of the company, ue Bee Pablishing Company, Proprietors E. ROSEWATER, Editor. —_— THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. ate of Nebraska, | ‘(. unty of nunu'lu. L George B, Tzachuck, secretary of the Bee Pub- Mshing company, does solemnly swear that the filulrrlrcu ation of Tik DAILY Bee for the week ending September 20, 1888, was as follows: inday, ay, GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. gworn to hofore me and subscribed in my Presenco tuls 2id day of Septomber. A, D, 1853, Seal. N’ P. FEIL, Notary Public. Btate of Nebraska, | o County of Douglas, { ® George B. Tzschuck, being first duly sworn,do- mulmlnynnn he 13 secretary of The Bee iblishiug company, that the actual average daily circulation of ' TRE DAiLy HEg for the onth of September, 1867, as 14,349 coples: fo tober, 18, ; for November, . 16,226 coples; Tor December, 1887, 15,041 cop- 'fof January, 1848, 15,208 copies: for February, lhmcm‘lr«.hrnl ch, 1£88,19,68) co) lrl;;f'n: 44 coples: for M{‘:I;‘A i THE BEE'S account of il farm, in another part of this issue, will %e read with interest. —_— A Bririsu war ship is anchored in Boston harbor. What is to prevent Joyal Bostonians boarding her and ¥hrowing into the sea the hated codfish? PERHAPDS it is necessary to whisper in she ears of the board of education that & little less attention to base ball and a $ittle more regard toward warming #chool rooms is the proper thing for $his season of the year. AS BETWEEN the humorous lecturer and the lecturer who desires to impart information, we are in favor of the lat- ter. A humorist should be born, not made, Artemus Ward was a born jes- %er, but his successors are born bores. READERS of Byron will be shocked to fearn that the Waterloo ball did not take place in any ‘“‘high hall,” but in $he deserted gtore-room of a carriage- maker. This one by one our brightest, dearest 1llusions are relentlessly torn ':Qm us by stern iconoclasts. WiiLE the Edmunds bill is trying to erush polygamy at home, Mormon mis- plonaries are gaining thousands of pros- elytes abrond and shipping them to Wtah. Just a few days ago a batch of these emigrants arvived at New York, of whom twenty-five were orphan girls. em——— THE opening of the new Wesleyan university at Lincoln adds a valuable mcquisition to the educational institu- tions of the state. It has been gener- ously endowed by its patrous, and the indications for the growth and prom- fnence of this Methodist college are most promising. — Mgs. PARAN-STEVENS, just robbed o her jewels in Paris, is not ali com- imentary to New York society. hich one of the select *‘four hundred” oould she have accused when she said, ] have seen thieves in my time, and if ¥ wished to I could drop a bombshell $nto New York society.” Tue unparalled spectacle of one man eontrolling the price of at least three million bushels of wheat is now pre- sented in Chicago. Without exception #his is one of the most stupendous deals successfully manipulated in the wheat snarket., f(t means to the brokers on %change the making and wrecking of fortunes in the twinkle of an eye. E— THERE is olearly something wrong about the Stanley relief expedition, and £t is probable that considerable light would ba thrown on the subject if the whole story of Barthelol’s expedition and tragic death were given to the pub- Jio by the English government. Stan- ley was one of the early inhabitants of ©Omaha and the peovle of this city feel a special interest in the matter. ———— I7 13 to be hoped that some enterpris- #ng American publisher will give us the full text of the Emperor Fredorick’s diary. By all accounts it gives a pic- ture of a most noble-minded man, who, $hough a prince and a prospective e¢m- peror, looked at thiugs through liberal eyos. What extracts have been pub- Mshed aro chlefly intoresting to Ger- man politicians, but enough has been shown to warrant the beliof that the @lary is something which all Americans would love to read. e——— Tae French minister of agriculture has roported a falling off in the wheat harvest for the current year of about124 r cont. But it must be noted that it f:- been found necessary to lower the average twice within the past twenty- five years, so that the decline in the producing power of France is becoming more and more marked. Some small percentage of the decline filteen yea ago was due to the encroachmont of vit- fculture upon agriculture, but this was only possible in the lauds in the center of Frapce, and does not affect the gen- eral fact of the decline to any apprecia- ble extent. France is suffering from the consequences of over-stimulated production, and there is no remedy save 10 enduve until the soil has recovered itself. But is this endurance possible with a huge floating debt and a huger eapitalized one? The outlook for France 4s lamentable. B R S5 T B S—n c+ ‘guilders,, And De Denver and Omaha. Omaha s greater than it seems, whereas Denver is much poorer than it looks, The former city resembles not a little those old Dutch burghers who wear plain clothes though their chests wore filled to overflowing with shining ver is very like, in- deed, those proud impoverished Span- ish grandes who have an amazing amount of gold and silver on the em- broidery of their garments and not a red cent in their pockets. Omaha has taken ior its motto, “To be, not to seem.” Denver believes in fooling the world by living for appearances. In one there are magnificent private residences and splendid churches, and no business; in the other there are hardly any fine pri- vate houses and the churches are few and not particularly attractive or costly, but the great arteries of business are well filled and the pulse of prosperous activity beats with firm steadiness. In the one there is a constant succession of real estate booms with all the paraphernalia, hum, bragging, excursions, balloon ascen- sions, sales at midnight by moonlight, between dances and advertising in all s branches of the most persistent and pestilent character. In the other there ave industries giving employ to thous- ands of families, industriesof a steady, permanent character, parts of the great producing element of America. And yet, a tourist flying over the country for recreation might easily make a grievous blunder in forming his estimate of the two cities. He would notice that in Omaha there is no quar- teg like the Capitol Hill of Denver, with its serried ranks of avenues lined with splendid and costly villas—Grant, Sherman, Lincoln, Logan. He could not fail to be struck with the advanced architectural ideas visible in the Uni- tarian church of Denver and the Den- ver club; and he would not find in Omaha either churches or club houses that could be compared to them. But it he were a man with observant oyes and with & memory, he would not fail to recollect that the streets and sidewalks in Denver are a disgrace to the Ameri- can name, while those of Omaha are actually more than abreast of anything in the most advanced cities of the east. In all the essentials of a great cit) lighting, paving, sewerage, sidewalks- Denver is nowhere, and Omaha ranks very high. Denver, by a merciful interposition of Providence, just eschped the infli tion of an emdemic of typhoid fever. At one time there were a thousand cases, but they were chiefly of a mild type, and an opoportune spell of cold weather at the end of August relieved the city of its perils. But that which caused the outbreak was the city ditch system, devised solely to give the city o fine appearance—a system which re- quired a continuous and lavish supply of water in a land where there was no water save the South Fork of the Platte viver, and as the city grew so did the water supply prove insufficient, until this year there was nothing but black mud in the gutters, and this caused the epidemic. Denver twenty years ago was far ahead of Omaha; even ten years ago this city, in spite of its won- derful progress, had not caught up with the western gate of the Rockies. But now Denver, builtonly for appearances, and without any substantial basis of prosperity, has come to the end of its rope. Omaha, on the contrary, has in- dustries that are broadening and deep- ening every year,and has before it a rational promise of long continued and steady growth. — English and American Justice. Comparisons of the Englishand Amer- ican systems of administering justice are not uncommon, and the subject cer- tainly possesses more than a passing interest, at any rate for those who are engaged in the administration of jus- tice. Itisnot a gratifying fact that these ocomparisons are generally in favor of the English system, though oc- casionally a thoroughly patriotic Amer- ican lawyer will insist that the system of his own country is to be preferred. Several months ago a prominent and experienced New York judge con- tributed to an eastern magazine a paper on the miscarriages of justice, in which he pointed outa number of ways in which our judicial system nceds to be reformed. In the course of his article he said: “It ought to be said at the outset that if justice miscarries more frequently in this country than in Eng- land, owing to the inferiorty of our judges, the people themselves are to blame. We have just as good judges as the people are willing to pay for. The whole judicial system, national and stato, is founded upon the policy of small salavies. The people want cheap judges and they get them. If the people want the best they must pay for it, As we sow the system, so we reap the crop.” One of the reforms he would have instituted is to increase both the pay and the tenure of judicial service. At the banquet given Chief Justice Fuller by the bar of Chicago this past week this subject was touched upon by two of the speakers. One of these, after saying that ‘‘we have too many lawyers, too many judges, too many cases in the courts,” and pointing out the great cost to the people of the ad- ministration of justice, said: ‘‘These facts are more startling when compared with the system of administering justice in England. There, with a population of about thirty million, and which is the financial and mercantile center of the world, forty judges disposc of all the business in courts of record, whilo in Iilinows, with a population of about fourmillion, the judges and courts corvesponding to the forty in England number one hundred and seventy.” The obvious inference is that there must be a vast amount of time wasted, and perhaps a greut lack of efficiency, on the part of the judges and courts of Illinois, but another explanation is found in the statement that a great deal of illegitimate and unnccessury litiga- tion is encouraged by lawyers, which doubtless would not be tolerated under the English system. The reference made 10 the subject by the other speaker was a defense of the American system, He insisted that there is no principle of the common law suited to our condition as a people that has not found as discriminating appli- cation and as learned and eloquent vin- dication from our American courts as was ever given it in Great Britain at any period of its history, and he doubted whether swift justice, as practiced in England, may be taken as evidence of advanced civilization. While there may be some advantage in the British system, his preference was for the more deliberate American method of admin- istering justice. We are not willing to think that the English system of administering justice has all the virtues and the American system all the faults, and obviously any fair consideration of this subject must take into account the difference in the institutions of the two countries. Very much, unquestionably, in the practice of the English courts would not be suit- able to this country, and perhaps would not be tolerated. But when all that can justly be granted to the American sys- tem is granted, it must still appear that it is very far from perfection and that certain reforms are most urgently needed, Those who make astudy of the progress of crime in this country as- cribe it in part to the loose and dilatory methods of administering justiee, and to the opportunities which such meth- ods necessurily offor for escaping ju tice. But the best testimony that re. form is needed is found in the confes- sions of those who have been engnged in the administration of justice, as the New York judge, from whom we have quoted, and in the suggestions of numer- ousand radical changes that proceed from bar associations, national and state. American Ideals in the Schools, No braver appeal in behalf of Amer- ican ideals in the public schools has ever been made than is contributed to the current number of The Forum by the Rev. A. S. Isaacs. What some oth- ers have touched lightly and with seem- ing trepidation, this friend of the public school system advocates explic- itly, vigorously and courageously. He regards the present discussion as to the reform of existing methods of public school instruction and the revision of the curriculum not as indicative of the system’s absolute failure as it is, but as illustrating, rather, the depth of interest in an essentially American institution, and the resolve to develop it to the highest possible point of perfection. There is no need to feel alarm that the common schools arve in danger, and that the education of millions of young Americans is im- perilled. The age being one of transition, pro- gress is a recognized truism. The American common school has devel- oped with the growth of the nation. It has become national—the nursery of American youth, not the foreign off- shoot with its atmosphere of English pu- ritanism. It is American, and must be maintaine American. Whatever tends to produce the perfect American citizen, helpful, sound, sober, honest, carnest, patriotic, intelligent, must find place in its curriculum. That is the aim forever to be held in view. That is the grand essential which must not he e ged for glittering acei- dental: Mur. Isaacs says that as the public school has become the type of the American school, the studies must have in view the American character, the American ideal—facts, not fossi It any manual be required to serve as daily readings in the schools, he would re- strict it entirely to American authors in prose and verse, so that the book might beakindof treasury of high and noble thoughts. Each selection should embody some characteristic American trait or duty, or illustrate some American ideal and aspiration. *‘Surely,” he says, “the sense of American patriotism and of American practicality can thus be de- veloped side by side. Old world enmi- ties and prejudices, so foreign and un- American, must fade away; let new world friendships and aspirations take blessed and enduring root. The grow- ing sentiment of American national- ism, sacred now after war and struggle, which is permeating all classes and creeds, demands that our schools be made the guardians of American ideals, to give them that strength and sanctity which the nation requires. There will be few Americans who will not see in this platform, albeit somewhat 1deal, both wisdom and patriotism ———— Tne formation of an international syndicate of steel rail manufacturers, comprising the leading firms of Eng- land, Belgium, France and Germany, is an accomplished fact. It has been in the air for some time, and has now crys- tallized into actual existence. Glasgow was the scene of settloment, and it is assertad that Andrew Carnegie of the great steel works at Pittsburgh pledged the co-operation of American rail makers, It is hardly to be doubted that these combinations have been forced upon manufacturers by their working people, whose wages absolutely depend upon the price of the steel rail per ton. [t has been the practice of An- drew Carnegie to settle wages for the entire year upon the Ist of January by a friendly conference with his men. He shows them his contracts and they com- prehend exactly what he can pay. The ruinous competition between manufac- turers at home and abroad fell with great severity upon labor, It is obvi- ous that this has now been succeeded by combination, and it remains to be seen whether working men will profit by it as much as they expect, if at all. In view of what is transpiring how absurd the conduct appears of those Demo- cratic demagogues who are turning out anti-trust bills by the baker's dozen. It is one of the gravest questions of the hour, many sided and complex, and not yet understood by the profoundest thinkers, but they can settle it with their little bills—of course. m—— THE number of cases of yellow fever at Jacksonville, Fla., has fallen off more than thirty per cent, which may be accepted as & sign that the plague is stayed. It may be assumed that this is not due to any temporary change in the weather, for the cold spell which pre- vails in the north from Dakota 0 New York City traveled up from the south, and for the past ten days has been succeeded in Flo i\h‘ by & warm, sunny temperature. Thb epidemic has runits course, and from thig time forward we may expect to receivé telegrams daily showing a constant dimunition of cases until the heaith el Klorida will be once more normal, Bil we must repeat that there will be for weeks to come great suffering becausa ‘there are twenty thousand destitute people in the city who must be fed,eud bocause all the wheels of industt! ¢ which they fed themselves have been violently stopped, and can only got fhto' movement again slowly and gradually, Therefore the charitable of Omaha are prayed not to relax any of those exertions which have been started for the benefit of our suf- fering brothers in Jacksonville. Tue millionaire Colonel Shepherd, who purchased about six months ago the Mail and Erpress of New York from Cyrus W. Field, is not distinguishing himself in the paths of journalism, He bought the paper ostensibly to create a public sentiment hostile to that par- ticular branch of Sabbath breaking which annoyed himself, namely, the running of public stages on Fifth ave- nue, where he resides. As he was not averse to the running of horse cars upon Fourth avenue on the Sabbath, and moreover held, as one of the Vanderbilt heirs in right of his wife, a large interd est in that line, the Methodists of New York, who are a very powerful organi- zation and strongly Subbatarian in sen- timent, voted him a humbug. They will not change their views now that his paper, which has been nicknamed the *Mule in Distress,” hasbeen insinu- ating that Sir Lionel Sackville West, the English minister at Washington, is not lawfully married to his wife. It is a fact that the marriage of a deceased wife's sister is not legal in England in one way, though it is in another, but to make the insinuation and refuse the ex- planation shows such an ignorance of the othics of journalism that Colonel Shepherd had better sell his paper. The world has no use for such journal- ists as he. NOTHING can be move conducive to interests of a great and growing city than the creation of an educated public opinion on artistic matters. In the de- velopment of parks and streets, and in the erection of public and private build- ings of importance, there is a need of some restraing influence which will pre- vent men from deing what they have the power and in«'liu*iuu to do. There should be a Mmull'\l their minds of the effect of their work upon the beauty of their city. This influence is shown in the way men dress. Why should it not be shown in sd -Tgsting o matter ns the erection of a great structure which will remain for centur either as an eye-sove or the g of every eye.” THERE is liable to be at this season of the year a lull in the pork packing in- dustry as shown by the returns of the pork packing centers. But aside from this September dullness, there is a no- table falling off as compared with the cotresponding month of last year in the packing operations of Chicago, Kansas St. Louis, Cincinnati and other It is very gratiiying, therefore, that in comparison with these pucking centers, Omaha alone shows a marked increase. From such facts as these, it is idle to deny the conelusion that our city at no distant day will be the great pork packing center of the country. OuRr own Buffalo Bill 1s showing his ‘Wild West to the senators and con- gressmen at Washington. In fact, the members of the house have done little else for a week past than to pay their respects in a body to Colonel Cody, his cowboys and ponies. What an opportune moment it would be to spring the Omaha postoffice bill on the delighted house just as the famous Deadwood coach was being held up ! VOICE OF THE STATE PRESS, The Ulysses Dispatch says that “Laws, by delaying the action of the board of transpor- tation, puts money Into the railroad’s pock- ets, and empties tae paople's pocket; and he asks the people to elect him again that he may repeat the operation.’ ‘The Columbus Journal says of Mr. Con- nell that he is “‘a man of ability, with consid- erable talent as & public speaker, and in other respects an unobjectionable candidate for the republicans. He will ably represent the First district in congress.” ““Rainbow chasing” is thus illustrated by the Sutton Register: “The democrats have given up Maino and Vermont and are now claiming Iowa and Nebraska, But republi- cans still have hope of electing the republican ticket in Nebraska, by about fifty thousand majority." The Garfield County Quaver has the fol- lowing short treatise on ‘“flops:” “G. L. Laws, the republican nominee for secretary of state, has taken a ‘flop’ on the board of transportation since his nomination. Mr. Laws should remember that the voters of the state will have a chance to ‘flop’ on the 6th of November. - Aud a great many of them will, too." a The Madison Reporter:preaches good doc- trine when it says: ‘‘The only way that people can control corporations by law is by laying aside party lines and give their tools the bounce at the poles. ‘“This will open the road for honest dealing! Now will be the time to commence, i November, in order to save the good worl:)‘thut has already been done by legislation.”; " The West Point Progress says that ‘‘there is one request that will be made to the next legislature by Cuming county, and that is to not meddle with the. prohibition or submis- sion question. We do.mot want prohibition here, and we hold that i Douglas or some other good moral county 'wants it they have a right to have it withou¥' coercing us into it. Cuming county is prosperous, and we do not want . the blight placed upon her as that which overspreads Towa and Kansas.” The Thayer County Herald has & kind word for a good candidate. It says: *The candidacy of F. M. Wetherald for state sen- ator meets with the approval of the entire people of this district. His standing as a public officer or as & private citizen is first- class, and that acoounts for his popularity as & candidate. The infiuence, ability and courage that he possess makes him & afe man 0 entrust with an important office." The Grand Island Independent reasons as follows; ‘‘The friend who betrays is worse than the enemy who openly fights you, be- cause hus close relation with you and the con- fidence you place in him enables bhim to strike yott more vitally than a known encry could. So in case of Laws, who had lod ‘the people to rely upon him as a friend, and place confidence in him as such., His going over to the railroad crowd does much more injury to the people than if he had ideutified himself with an oil room gang all the time."” The Hastings Gazette-Journal has said it before and now repeats tho assertion thav the “election of the legislature is the most important piece of political work to be done in Nebraska this year. The democrats would gladly sacrifice their candidates for congress and for every state office if they could thereby secure enough votes in the legisla- ture to elect a democratic United States son- ator. Consequently, it behooves all repub- licans to vote for the republican legislative candidates, espocially whon such candidates ropresent the best element of republican politics.” Commenting upon the republican con- gressional candidate in this district the Seward Reporter observes: “Mr. Connell is a man of fine ability, and his personal character is above reproach. Ho is popular in Omaha and will undoubtedly receive the full republican vote of Douglas county, and there seems no room for doubt of his election overany man who may be put up by the democrats, It really begins to look as if the republicans of the First district have begun to profit by past experience, and the Reporter heartily congratulates them and wishes them success.” In regard to the expulsion of E.Whitcomb, editor of the F'riend Telegraph, from the re- publican club at that place because he re- to support corrupt candidates for the slature in Saline county, the Seward ard Reporter says: *“The club may find that they are monkeying with the wrong man, 15d Whitcomb is in the habit of saying and doing about as he pleases, and no amount of resolutions, denunciations, or anything else will have any effect on him. Moreover, if our memory serves us correctly, he has at least as good & record of republicanism as the men who are at the head of the move- ment to read him out of the party. The York county republican central com- mittee has endorsed Mr. Keckley's candi- dacy, and the Times remarks that this action leaves “no room for doubt as to his standing with the republicans of this county. There can be no question raised as to who the nomi- nee is by any York county republican. The action of the central committee is final, so far as we are concerned. If any one hadany misgivings before, though we beiieve no one did really have any, he can dismiss them now. The way is clear to every republican who desires to stand by his party, and his duty can no longer be a matter of doubt. Now let all childish jealousy and potty spleen be put aside. Let personal ambition and sel- fishness be cast aside, and let us altogether, with a strong pull, and a long pull, elect Mr. Keckley and save this district to the party.” phsie e i) How to Electrify the Countrv. Philadelphia Press, The president has tried to electrify the country twice, and failed in both cases. Heshould try the Pan-Electric brand the next time. e Who Takes the Pot? New York World. Florida wants a pair of Jacks. Having drawn Yellow Jack she is now anxious to ob- tain Jack Frost. Meanwhile, let no one here in the north forget to ant e | Pickwickian Denunciations. RBrooklyn Union, One of the funniest features of politics this year is the solemnity with which the demo- crats denounce “trusts” while their pockets are bulging with the profits of sugar and Standard oil. e Reasons for Thanksgiving. Globe-Democrat, A big corn crop is assured. Jack Frost is reaching out for Yetlow Jack, and providence is about to down the democratic party. The country will have a particularly large col- lection of reasous for thanksgiving in 13338, e e U He Still Draws Pay. Chicago Tribune. If Mexico is not a little more careful she will rouse a sleeping lion. Secretary of War Endicott is not dead. He is still on the na- tional pay-rolls and is still able to draw his salary at stated intervals, Let Mexico be- ware! ———— Yet a Gardener. Washington Crite, A wonderful weather plant has been dis- covered in Corsica and other points in the Mediterranean which is saidto be a sure progaosticator of coming meteorological events. Itis called botanically the Abrus Pereginus. Why uot attach a plantation for theso shrubs to the signal service oftice? The whole business could then be run by the in- telligent gardener. prti SRR SR The Saddest Hour, Ella Wheeler Wilcor, The saddest hour of anguish and of 1 Is not that scason of supreme despai When we can find no least light ar To gild the dread black shadow of the cross. Not in that luxury of sorrow when We sup on salt of tears, and drink the gall Of memories of days boyond recall— Of lost delights that cannot come again. But when with eyes that are no longer wet, We look out on the great, wide worid of men, Aud, smiling, lean toward a bright to-mor- Tow, Then backward shrink, with sudden keen regret, To find that'we are learning to forget: Ah! then we face the saddest hour of sor- Tow. Civil Service Reform. H. E. Hart in Judge, Grover Ben Cleveland (may his tribe de- crease ') Awoke one night from a deep dream of fees, And saw within the light electric in his room, Making it rich and like a cercus in blosm, An angel writing 1n a book of gold. Exm-vfiiu&( fees had made Ben Cleveland bold, And to the presence in tho room he said, “What writest though?” The vision raisod its head, And with a look made all of sweet accord Auswered, “The names of those who keep their word."” “And is mine onet” said Grover, “Nay, not 80, Replied the angel. Cleveland spoke more low, But cheerily still, and said, “I pray thee, then, Write_me'as one more dearly loved than Ben." The angel wrote and vanished. The mext night Sl It came again, with & great glistening light, And nha‘\‘gfld the name the natiou’s love '{md essed, Andlo! Beun Harrison's name led all the rest. CARIARN . A Great Western Daily. Harpers' Magazine for October: ‘‘Ne- braska has one great newspaper, Tue Owmana BEE, started as a little four-column folio in the early days by the present owner and editor, Eaward Rosewater, He has seen his paper advance to the frout rank of north- western journalism, its daily circulation grow to about 15,000 and its weekly edition to 40,000, whblla it is umversally recognized as the ablest exponent of the principles of the republican party in @ city that, with it 50,000 inhabitants, has apparently such @ future that it may now be considered barely out of its swnddling clothes, and in b state whose re- sources have hardly begun to be developed,” Nore—The population of Omaha and the daily eirculation of Heg are considers bly underrated. This is due to the fact that the author, Z L. Whte, gathered his sta- tistics about western journalism on his tour to the Pacific coast wore than @ year ago. CURRENT TOPIC! The Archbishop of St. Paul. On Friday the rank of archbishop was formally conferred upon the Right Reverend Father Ireland, bishop of that great Catholic diocese, whose seat is in St. Paul, Minn This was done by induing him in the cathe- dral of St. Paul with the pallium, a symboli- cal long trailing oloak of purple velvet. The ceromony was of the most august and im- pressive oharacter, being one of those which are special to the priesthood of Rome, to which tho laity come only as invited guests. There are anthems on these occasions never sung at mass, there are intonations of prayer never heard before, and the whole service from first to last belongs to the hierarchy. This gave the ceremonial of Friday a peculiar character. It was attended by the most emi- nent of the priesthood, and by leading citi- zens of the Catholic faith, who felt honored in a high degree by the in- vitation to be presont. Much as John Ircland is beloved by the clergy and laity, of hisown denomination, and by all others, for his life is a constant benediction to all who come in contact with him, it can hardly be doubted that the pope in sending him the pallium meant something more than a mark of esteem for personal worth. 1t 18 undoubt- edly felt in the northwestern states among Catholics that this compliment is & recogni- tion of the power, the wealth, the numbers of this growing section of the United States. Rome has been quicker to appreciate the galaxy of states to which Minnesota and Ne- braska both belong than Washington, for such o dignity is not conferred at random, nor upon the worthiest head of a diocese, un- less the diocese itself is of suitable impor- tan Perhaps this occurrence may open some eyes in Washington to the hitherto un- noticed fact that the northwest is second to 10 other section in productive encrgy and in essential value, Architectural Art. Tt cannot have escaped the notice of many citizens of Omaha that all new buildings of a certain size and importance awaken consid- erable enthusiasm, but that this disappears with the novelty. This arises from the fact that there is a wantof comprehension in men's mind of the factors that make arch- itectural beauty. That which is new and unexpected charms at first bocause it sui- prises, but whon it _ceases to surprise it also ceases to charm. Not 8o that which is in ac- cordance with certain laws of construction, If we examine the buildings of antiquity we feel a certain indefinable beauty about thom, cven though we are not acquamted with those underlying principles of the beautiful which are grouped together and known as art. If wo have a kuowledge of technique wo find in many of them grievous faults of detail, but the charm is still there. Who that has looked upon a_great Roman aque- duct can deny this? The stone is often not a beautiful material, the carving is coarsely done, the motives of the decoration are meanimgless; and yet the structure creates certain sense of awe, and has a beauty of its own. Why! Simply because the archi tect was careful that nothing should mar the effect of his long horizontal lines. ‘There is all the secret of the charm of the Pont du Gard and the great acqueduct of Segovia—a dominating principle never for- gotten, never interfered with. It Is for the architectural engineer, not for the journalist to say whether he unsightly bridges over the Missouri .could have been made in con- formity with the law. They presented an opvortunity which has not been mado avail- able. It is true that atthe first glance It wouid appear as if the necessity of provid- ing for the passage underneath of steam- boats with uncommonly tall chimnies pre vented the carrying out of thislaw. But the power of harmonizing the engincering necessities of a case with the laws of art is the very thing which is needed in this utili- tarian age. The American engineer can conquer all material difiiculties. Nothing stops him, neither the whelming flood of a broad river, nor the opposing walls of mountains nor deserts without water. He surmounts all difficulties with ease. But he has never taught himself to consider that his work is only half done if it does not contain some element of the beautiful. The Lily's Dilemma, Even the most strait-laced of Puritans must feel some sympathy with the Jersey Lily, Mrs. Langtry. She has boen to Eng- land to see Mr. Langtry, and to obtain from bim a cousent to a divorce, and he has fused. According to the {English system ho must initiate proceodings, bocause in all di- vorce cases there is an oficer callod the queen’s proctor, who interfercs if therc is reason o bolieve the par- ties to the sult are using the law for an abuse of morality, and he would decidedly interfere if the Lily sued her hugband for a divorce upon some pretext, be- cause her object notoriously is to marry Mr. Gebhard and redeem her past. If Mr. Langtry brought suit to be relieved of the dishonor of an unfaithful wife the queen’s proctor would not interfere. 8o that the only hope that Mrs. Langtry has of becoming Mrs. Gebhard, and being tolerated in Amcrican society, rests with Mr. Langtry. He is obdurate for his own reasons, and the Lily is sick in France from disappointment and anxiety. The way of the trausgressor is always hard. She Pants Kor Notoriety. The world will not cease to move because Mrs. Paran-Stevens has been robbed of her jewelry, That laay may not court notoriety, but it is astonishing how often her name is in the columns of newspapers, cither as the hostess of dukes, or the victim of robbers or the aflanced of princes. If she werc a prima donna panting for gratuitous and sensational advertising, she could not be more notorious than sho is. Pernaps she is going to imitato Mrs. Potter and come out as & tragic muse. Who knows! ——— Protect Amerioan Shipping. Serthner's for October. The party of the future will be that party which, conprehending the inter- ests of the whole country, fosters all alike, or relieves the people altogether from the burdens which a partial policy now imposes. 1f protection is to be the continued policy of the government, ship-building should be encouraged and maritime interests protected as well as manufacturers. If restrictions are to be removed, and taxation for revenue only is to be the policy, the shipping intorests, relieved from the burdens now imposed upon it, with fair compen- sation to steam ships for carrying the mails, will take care of itself, It will be a proud day for the United States when American ships share with those of other nations in the business of the seas, and the American flag is seen again in the ports from which it has geon long banished. On one point there should be accord be- tween men of all parties; if by reason ol the tariff or any other cause Wa cannot profitably build ships, we should not be prohibited from buying and putting them under our own iag. All efforts to induce invostments of capital in ships will be unavailing un- less foreign markets are eecured for what we have to sell. Trade is essen- tially barter, and_thcre can bo no bur- ter as long as trade is fottered with un- equal duties on articles to be exchanged. podboduriad, Mauy a man has vuined his eye-sight by lik'.l ng in the bar-room looking for work. TALKS ON TRIFLES, — Do you see that meat!"” remarked a day laborer to & Ber pedestrian, exhibiting & package dono up in brown paper. “‘Well there ate five pounds of good soup moat th cost me 25 cents, T have beon keeping houss now since last Apriland I have lived og 00 cents a week. I used to board, paying $4 & week, and 1 didu't eat half as much meat as now, How about renti Why, I don't pay a cent. T've got $500 iu a littlo piece of ground and a shanty, and this winter, when there will be no work to do, T will live at oase aud. have money left in the spring, I'm glad I'm married." . e “Of course, the liquor question Is going to play abig part in the campaign,” said tha agent of & well-known browing flem, *“‘As to prohibition, why, I have a chance to know that it don't prohibit. Take It 1n Kansas, Last year my houso sent 150,000 cases of boor into Wichita alone. 1 believe in high license, But it isn't high enough in Omaha. I would make the tax £3,000 instead of $1,000. Tho best saloon keepers could stand it and make money right along. Many of the smaller places could bo cleaned out, but it woulda'p hurt the beer business at all." “Mayne's fizzle,” said a promient roal ose tato dealer to a street-car acqualntance, “'is simply the result of his wantiug tho wholo carth. He thought he had a ‘dead cinch’ on all creation—that is, in Omaha—but when the squeeze came he was the one to bo crushed. Ho might have been wealthy and in the swim if he had only known whon he had enough. His insatiate greed for gain is responsible for his present circumstances.' 1 was sitting in a street car when my neighe bor nudged me and said: Do “you sco tha bald-headed, sanctimontous-looking old man talking so coufidentially to the driver! Do you know what he is saying? Wny, he is telling the driver that the young fellow in tho other end of the car bas not paid his fare. How do I know? I have seen him do it be- fore. "Rather small business, you say. Oh, no; novatall. Tt diverts the driver's atten- tion from the fact that the old man has not paid his little nickel. The man at the trans. fer tells me that the aged sinner is ono of the ‘slickest! streot-car beats in the city. What did I tell you! Hearthe jehu ringing for fares!” 0 o ‘What lies a man will tell for a dollar and a half! I dropped into the ticket scalper's office the other day and the broker was sell- ing a customer a ticket to Chicago at $1.50 less than the regular fare. “Now, all you've got to remember,” said the scalper, *is that your name is J. B. Green, thut you bought your ticket in Indianapolis, and had it re- stamped at Lincoln, You understand!"’ Tho customer understood, pocketed the piece of pasteboard with a chuckle and made out his schedule of lies to tell the conductor. And yet the traveler was a prosperous merchant, abundantly ableto pay full fave, but not averse to turning an “honest” dollar and a half. I walked up Farnam strect last night with an export on sidewalks. He shutiled his feet over the smooth stones and remarked: ‘“This is not what it used to be two years ago, Then a fellow's feot were blistered walking on cobblestones, broken brick and uneven boards. Perhaps you remember Tis BEE ran a serlal sidewalk story about that time, and raised o great rumpus over their Qisreputable condition, I wish I had thoso papers now to make a comparison. I believo every poor sidewalk on Farnam street mon- tioned in Tuk Bee then has been removed, with one exception. Heory Dohle still has the same old wooden sidewalk in front of his store. —— KINGS AND QUEENS. Emperor William IL has presented Fiold Marshal Moltke with a bronzea plaster cast of himself. The empress of Brazil has gone on a pil- grimage to the shrine at Lourdes to offer thanks for the restoration of Dom Pedro's liealth, King Oscar has arranged for a grand hunt in the most northern portions of Swoden,and the courts of Europe will be invited to join him in tho chase. The principal gamo will be elk. The reported matrimonial alliance between the eight-year-old crown princess of the Netheriands and the duke of Nassau's oldest son, William, who is thirty-six years old, soems almost incredible, but the present Dutch king is himself aged over seventy-ona years, while his qucen is forty yo: The Empress Eugenie, in ro prossing invitations of Kin, come to the wedding of the Prin says that she made a vow at the death of the prince imperial never to appear at_any fote of any kind and never to tako off her decp mourning. The bridal couple will visit her at Chiselburst, The king of the Belgians hates tobagco, never wears gloves and gocs barchvaded as much s possible, He is fond of bathing, but does not swim. Geography and languages are his favorite studics, and_ he has traveled in almost every Asiatic country. He isa handsome man, slightly built, but muscular, with blue eyes and @ big brown beard, touched with gray. A work of practical sensible benovolenca has been undertaken by the Kipress Fred- erick. $he has founded an institution which takes charge of the children of laborers dur- ing the hours of tho day when they are at work and_have no time to devote to their families, The home, which is located at Bornstedt, near Potsdam, is ealled “The Em- peror Frederick’s Chilaron’s Home." Queen Natalie' private fortuno 18 va- riously estimated at from 1,500,000 to 3,000,000 rubles, not reckoning her estates in Bessa- rabia.' She is a caroful financial manager, The marital troubles of King Milan and Queen Natalie huve often been reprosented a8 due in & gront measure to Milan’s ondeay- ors to encroach upon his wife's private for- tune. It secms, however, that sho has man- aged to rotain it ail in her own hands, Emperor William Is said to have made bad work with Russian at his recent interview with the czar. He studiod up the lunguage for some time before the visit, and began by addressing the czar in the St Petersburg lingo. Whether he liad torgotten what he Jnew or whether he was too full of emotion to exoross himself clearly, ho uttered his first compliments with great difiiculty. Alex- ander,noticing his young cousin's embarrass ment, said to him: *'Let us talk in German. But William evidently wanted to paralyzo the czar's staff by his knowledge of their lan- guagoand continued to speale in what he thought was Russian. F'inally he was obliged touse hismothier tongue 80 as 1o be under= stood, e What Mackenzie's Book Will Say. Bhussuis, Sept. 20.—The Independenca Belge says Dr. Mackenzie's coming ook in reply to his German rivals will cite facts which the doctor says will prove that had he, instead of German physicians, sttended tha late Emperor Frodorick from the beginning of his sickness, the emperor's 11fe wyuld Xiayq been prolonged twenty months, DL, Mac- kenzie will also endeavor 0 8how that the treatment of Dr. Gerbardk produced cancer, ——r Telegrams Over the Andes, VALPARAISO, Sept. 20.—(Special Tologram 1o Tme Ber.)—The Transandine Telegraph company will open to the public its new di- rect telegraph line hetween Valparaiso and Buenos Ayres on October 1. This is an iron pole line in connection with forty miles of cable laid under the perpetual snows of tha Andes, and will insure communication be- tween Buenos Ayres and London, via UGal- veston, iuside of one hourand a half. - Western Postal Changes, WasniNGTON, Sept. 20, —[Special Telegram to Twe Bew.)—Daniel C. Dodd was to-day ap- pointed postmaster st Nevinvillo, Adams county, Ia., vice J. J. Crawford, doeceased. The postofice at Suwyer, Fillmore county, Neb., will be discontiuued from October 15,