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

o | - s NETTT RN 5 SO THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTTON, Rdition) including SUNDAY, me Year 10 00 Yor 8ix Months e sons 500 For Three Months 250 Tk OMANA SuSHAY HiE, mailed to any address, One Year » LANDO16 FATRN AN 8110 ROOMS 14 AND 15 it BUN No. 613 OMAHAOFFICE, NEW YORKOFFICE, BUILDING, WASHINGTON OFFICE, FOURTEENTH STREET. CORRESPONDENCE All communications relating tonewsand edi- g;m matter should be addressed to the Ebiton THEBEE. b All busines addressed 1o Th OMANA, Draft ecks and p ) bemade payable o the orider of th e Bee Publishing Company, Proprictors ors and romittances shonld be PUBLISHING COMPANY, orders o compuny. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. te of Nebrask ‘ounty of Douglas, orgge B, Tzschick, lishing company, do ll'lllurl'h'r ulation of Tue weok ending Septemb Sunday, Sept. 23 Monday, Sept. 2i Tuesday, Sept. 25 otary of tha Bee Pub- olemnly swear that the DAILY DBrk for the 1885, was as follows Friday, Sept. 8. Baturday, Sept. 20 Average......... « 1 Sworn to before me vibad in my presence this 20d day of September, A. D, 1483, Seal. N. P. FEIL, Notary Public. of Nebraska, County of Dougns, f & George 11 Tzscnuck, being first duly sworn,de- and saysthat he §s sccretary of ‘Fhe ublishiug company, that the actual ave daily circulation of TRE DALY DEE for tha month of ."(l)lunlvl T, 1887, was 14,349 copies; fox October, 1547, 1455 coples: fof W8T, 15,2 copies: Tor December, 18 fea:'for January, 156, 188,165,992 coples; for March,1* April, 1855, 15744 copies r ev&lu:rar.mna.lrnfl. 4 18,033 coptes; for Augu: Bworn to before me an Bresence thissth day “If M1 cop- for February, THE seats of the Nebraska delegation in the lower house of congress are vacant now. One or two of them have been as good as vacaat most of the time. Now the democratic organs are tell- fug Mr. Brice, of the national commit- tee, that for a political leader heis making a fool of himsell talking so much. Ture lamp of life is barely flickering in the breast of Samuel J. Randall. His loss just now would be a great blow to the cause of democracy in Peunsyl- vania. T wandering councilmen have re- turned With the impression upon their eouls that Omaha 18 behind other large eities in the defails of public buildings, parks and drives, There is some truth in this. No woNDER Wiggins claims the earth has got into an eccentric orbit. There is not a congressional district in Ken- tucky that does not blossom forth with & prohibition candidate. THE young German emperor has been telling an American how much he ad- mired the union generals in the war of the rebellion. After all William isn’t such a bad fellow as some people have made him out to be. —_— ONLY four weeks from next Tuesday the great quadrennial battle will be fought and John A. McShane will be elected to remain in Omaha as governor of the Union stock yards for another term by & rousing majority. Dr. MILLER and J. Sterling Morton met on the same platform at the Morton rally in Exposition hall, but neither spoke as he passed the other. Formerly they were like Jonathan and David and wept profusely on each other’s mecks every time they met. As A rosult of the fictitious value Riven to wheat by the Hutchinson deal in Chicago, flour has gone up with indi- eations that the price of bread will be advanced. But it is doubtful whether an advance in flour can be maintained unless there is a combination among the miller: SECRETARY ENDICOTT, the apple of the eve of Massachusetts mugwumps, has out-Horoded IHerod as a pernicious partisan. What can his admirers say of his order to remove the women and children employed in armories, who have nothing to do with politics,inorder to make places for democrats? This is military service reform, Sm—————— THE city treasurer, who is also treas- wurer of the board of education, reports one hundred and fifty-one thousand @ven hundred and thirty-nine dollars @n hand belonging to the school fund. At four per cent this little nest-cgg yields the treasurer over five hundred dollars a month, and the banks make a8 much more for their stockholders. THE exposure made by the city boiler fnspector is very suggestive. It gives @ rational explanation of beiler acci- dents which happen from time to timo in tho interior of the state. Some of these boilers bought from second hand dealers had doubtless either been con- demned by the inspector and traded off to unsuspecting parties or were in an unfit condition for hard usage, and mever should have been set up. The only remedy would be state boiler in- spection, with heavy penalties imposed for selling or using a boiler after it had once been condemned, unless it had ‘been reinspected and pronounced safo after being overhauled S————— Tue Omama Bem took occasion to pitch into Mr. Morton for referring, as Tne Bee quoted him, to Counell as a *‘railroad law- " The writer heard the speech made by » Morton, and no such language was used s that attributed to bim by Tae B But @s the republicans prefer to conduct this campalign upon falsehood and misrepresenta- tion, Tie Ber article is in accordance with pepublican ideas of decency and propricty.— Beatrice Democrat Mr. Morton’s indignant friendsshould went their spleen and wrath on the democratic daily, otherwise as the Omaha Herald. That paper published Mr. Morton’ speech of moceptance and credited him with the language concerning Mr. Connell, which was resented by THE BEE as an snwarranted ussault. Attacking New England. Tt is not ensy to see that the demo- tic party has anything to gain by permitting one of its leaders to attack New England. The present campaign ig not being fought on any distinctively sectional Reference may indeed be jonally made by republican speakers to the conduct of the southern democracy in denying colored citizens their political rights, and the conse- quent injustice that is done the balance of the country in the south having a larger roprosentation in congress than occ it is entitled to on the showing of its voting population. But this is a matter of only incidentat con- sideration in the campaign, and re- ceives very little attention from the masses of the people. In view of the fact that the vepublican party has put aside the sectional feature of previous campaigns, it seems an especial error on the part of a democrat ader to attempt to arouse in the west a senti- ment of hostility to New England. But this is what Postmaster General Dickinson has done and proposes doingr with greater elaboration when he shall return to Michigan for atwo weeks v The effort of Mr. Dickinson be to show that New ‘ngland has always been engaged in plundering all the rest of the coun- »st being the largest suffercr., Il be ransacked for evidences ¢y und continuous selfishness England, and as ve ans of the earl and cupidity of New well of the political and patriotic shovt- comings of that section. If the post- master general is permitted to keep his promise—if a higher and politically wiser power does notinterdict his threa ened exposure of the artful and un- scrupulous business methods and the un- patriotic political conduct of New En- gland—there is likely to bo ejected into the campaign a mnew feature of interest. It s quite possible, however, that Mr. Dickinson will he advised that the demo- cratic pa is in a situation where it cannot afford to raise any new antago- nisms, and particularly none of a sec- tional characte The imption that New England is not o valuable customer of the west cannot be sustained by the facts. It is estimated that her people annually con- sume five million s of western flour, and they buy largely of the meats of this section. Under the competition of the west agriculture in New England is no longer a protitable industry, con- sidercd as a whole. We believe there isno risk in assoerting that the people of New England are as good customers of the producers of the west as any other equal number of people in this country. Western producers de- sive this market, and it is simply ab- surd to say that it has no value for them. But the mistake of Mr. Dick- inson from the political point of view is that in assailing the capitalists and manufacturers of New England he is very likely to damage his party outside of that section. There is an intimacy between the capitalists and manufac- turers of New Yorlk and those of New England which render their interests in many respects of common concern, and those of the Empire state may well ask themselves how long it will be be- fore they, too, are assailed as the ene- wmies of western producers. The attack on New England is there- fore manifestly uncalied for and vant, and it is not good politics, Tt can malke no votes for the democracy in the west, but is pretty sure to make somo for the republicans in the east. There has been a great deal of blundering done by democratic leaders in this cam- paign., irrele- The Severalty Problem. One thing to be hoped for from the change in the head of the Indian bureau is better progress than has thus far been made toward the solution of the severalty problem. The Indian commissioner ought toexercise some in- fluence in this direction, but although Commissioner Atkins was a very earn- est advocate of the severalty policy he appears to have done very little tomake it a success. But that gentleman’s chiefl business for a year past has been in laying the wires for political ad- vancement. Having fixed his ambition ona United States senatorship he lost interest, and perhaps quito naturally, in the plain duties of the Indian com- missionership. The opposition encountered by the agents of the government having in charge the exceution of the severalty allotment act has very eclearly shown that chiefs resist the law more persist- ently than the other members of their tribes. The explanation of this is simple when it is understood that the law makes a very democratic sort of di- vision of lands, putting all members of the tribe on a level. Under this ar- rangement the chiefs would be deprived of the larger tracts they now occupy and cultivate, or use for the grazing of flocks and herds. Naturally they fail to see tho advantage of a di- vision which would diminish their own holdings, while they would also lose the authority and privileges they now en- joy. Hence the chiefs make a vigorous opposition to the law, and whatissingu- lar it is strongly opposed by the five ciy ilized tribes, although they are e empted from its operation. They are apprehensive, however, that il it sue- ceed with the other Indians it may ul- timately be applied to them, Theve is no doubt of the advantage of the severalty allotment plan as a buasis for Indian civilization, butthere is very great difficulty in bringing the Indians to sce these advantages, and the influences that are work ing in opposition to the policy are strong and will be hard toovercome. 1t is & question whether some further legislation will not be necessary before this plan can be made a success. Mean- while something in the way of a little more and better-directed effort in this matter may be hoped for from Commis- sioner Oberly when he shall have famil- iarized himself with the duties of the office. CE—————————— A Significant Straw, The town elections throughout Con- necticut on Monday presented some sig- nificant features. They showed not only that the republicans are maintain- ing their ground in the state by hold- of the towns, but that they have gained in' certain localities. One town hitherto democratic elected a republican mayor, and in another theve wus a democratic loss since last year of over four hundred votes. Both of these towns are thriving manufacturing plag¢ and the resultof the elections in them clearly shows the effeet of the house tariff bill on popular sentiment in Connecticut, When it is remembered that Mr. Cleveland’s plurality in Connecticut four years ago was less than thirteen hundred, it is obvious that the demo- cratic losses at South Norwalk and Meriden leave little ground for the democratic hope of carrying the state, the republicans having everywhere elso held their ground. These changes are not to be explained as the result of merely local issues. Very generally the minds of voters are settled as to their political action in November, and they have been determined by the great national issue. Connecticut is a manu- facturing state.and the democratic losses in the town elections show the drift of popularsentiment there tobe ugainst the policy of tariff revision as presented in the house hill. 1t is not at all probable that these losses can be recovered by November, but rather to bo expected that they will be increased. The signs from Connecticut are altogether favor- able to ropublican victory there next month. Evils of the Short Wheat Crop. One of the evils of the short wheat crop has already appeared in the wild speculation of the past week, and others will appear later on if tho shortage shall prove to be as great as the specu- lators claim. A contemporary well 's that higher prices for any partic product cannot be of general benefit. The few prosper at the oxpense of the Not all the farmers in the -growing regions will get much benefit from the advance in wheat, while the higher price which all the people of the country must pay for bread reduces to that extent the pur- chasing power of every man’s dollar. Another evil to be apprehended is the probable effect on the import and ex- port trades. Wheat will be held back for higher prices, and thus a check be put upon the exports of the country. If we sell less, wo shall probably also buy less, so that the import trade will de- cline. The consequences of such a check to our commerce could not be generally beneficial, though a few might find it largely profitable. And generally in times of seavcity it is the speculator that reaps the most generous rewards, A short crop may mean re- strictea employments, lower wages and reduced comforts for the great mass of the people. The bright feature of the sit- uation is the unprecedented corn erop. With this vast crop assured there need be no concern that the people will not have bread, and it will do no harm to cultivate the popular taste for corn bread, A short wheat crop and higher prices are certainly not nationally beneficial, and there are possible evils connected with it of the nature we have indicated. But the peo- ple of this country have no reason to trouble themselves regarding a bread supply, and the practice of a gencral economy in the use of fiour by substitut- ing corn meal might have the effect of lessening, if not averting, the evils to be apprehended from a short wheat crop. THERE about the Chinese ‘luding American kerosene in retalia- tion of the law excluding the Chinese from America. The Celestials will be simply biting off their own noscs by such a course, for kerosene has become indispensable even in China. Having acquired the kerosene habit the Chine: if prohibited by an imperial edict from purchasing American oil, will be driven by the necessities of the case to patron- ize the Russian o1l of the Caspian region, wh i3 much more dangerous, because it is refined less perfectly. STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings. Tho Blaine county ku-klux sull continue to terrorize the inhabitants of Hawley Flats. It takes 500 to heal the broken heart of a Falls City girl who bas been filted by ber lover. A double wedding was celebrated at Schuy- ler recently, the brides being mother and daughter. A Falls City man is warned to sign the pledge because he dodged a red-headed girl, mistaking her for a locomotive headlight. The United States military camp on the Bordeaux has ended and the soldiers are now making back to Forts Niobrara and Robin- son The Hay Springs News says that it is the B. & M. road which wants Sheridan county cut in two and the southern half turned over 1o the company for political purposes. road will build an_ice bridge across the river to Nio- brara this winter to carry material into Ne- braska for an early extension next spring. A cowardly attempt was made a few nights ago to_poison the family of W, V. Allen, of Madison, by some unknown party inserting rough on rata in an air hole in the pump from which the family get their water supply. The second annual fair of the Blaine county agricultural society will be held at Brewster, October 9 to 12. and the announce- ment is made that there will be & good ex- hibit of the products of central Nebraska, the garden spot of the union, as well as the heart of the “great American desert,” which is rapidly being made to ‘‘blossom as the rose.” A. McKenzie, a jeweler of Elkhorn, has re- ceived a prizo for the invention of the best automatic register for counting the numoer of teeth in perfect and imperfect flat watch wheels. There were three other competi- tors for the prize—J, Herman, London, ¥ng- land: B, R. Jolly, Ralcigh, N. C., and C. Retler, Geneva, Switzerland, respectively. The sward was made by a committee of three New York jewelers, who, after con- sidering the various claims of the inventions, came to the conciusion that Mr. McKenzie had mnnllsn\xlincwrlly fultilled the conditions proposed. fowa. Osceola is being busily besieged by the Salvation army. A prairic wolf startled the inhabitants of Ida Grove by appearing in the streets the other day. Ottumwa elaims to have a real live som- nambulist, who climbs around on his kitchen roof in the dead hours of night with the agility of a cat. Bart E. Linehan, of Dubuque, has offered to donate five acres of land to the capitalists who aro intending to locate a card-board fac tory in that city. The Millers are crowding the Smiths in Davenport and the Jones aiw going to the rear in numbers. In the new dircctory there arc oighty-six Smiths, sixty-two Millers and tweaty-three Jones. The Cedar ids I are discussing the ques blican and Gazette 0 @& Lo who is the editor of the Omaha Herald. b that ot 13 D it is Ed L. ay behind the haif a dozen editol gentlemen retired, Ona of the pp apids a day or v The former lilger and the latter be- Both papers are ed¢ The Herald has had m‘uo the above named ay teachiors of Cedar agb gave her pupils Tdgng o small piece of red silk up before $he &chool she asked each 1 to bring, the giex) morning, something s same color. The articles brought pre: sented quite o ‘vamety, One little @irl came with uu.n-\y’ yard of red calico: an. other, who thought:shg must bring a pieco of SH1k Tike the one shywel her, sougt for. (o days before she found ane. One girl brought a piece of cloth alwioss black and asserted it was red. e Lok, Dakota. Plenty of hay onn'[:nw be purchased in the Sioux Falls market for #2.50 a tin. Speculators are buying all the wheat they can in the Black Hills for shipment to C i cago. Mr. Goddard, of the Sioux Falls Argus, has been nominated by the democrats of his district for the council, The artesian well drillers at Aberdecn have stopped all work, owing to the failure to re- move the obstruction in the well, Evidence has been discovered which shows conclusively that the recent fire at Rapid City was the worlk of incendiarics. Lumber and sawwmill men at Deadwood, after a respite of four years, are again busy, It takes timber to build a street car line. Horse thioves are operating at Faulkton with good success, They secured two valu- able animals one night last week without leaving a clue. A Centrai City boy threw lime in the eyes of a little girl whom he met on the street. The gitl's sight may be saved, but the boy will answer in court for s erime. The Pioneer says: “Docs anybody know what has become of the Deadwood board of trade! It flourished tor a few months about two years ago and then suddenly dropped out of sight.” 'he superintendent of the public schools at Sioux Falls has mado his report for the month of September, showing an attendance of 804 scholars, 738 of whom were ueither absent nor tardy. Anton Kessler, a German Steele, has sworn out a warrant Helmer, of Logan county, charging him with abducting his fifteen-year-old daughter, Liz- zie. ‘he sheriff is pursuing the runaways. The Great Northwest. Isaac E. Davis, a well known merchant and pioneer, died in Saun Francisco ou the 25th ult. Several Reno (Nev.) merchants have ex- pressed a determination to discharge their clerks who gamble, Tharee families have been poisoned in San Diego, Cal., from cating canved goods saved from the recent fire, The conl miners at Sand Coulee, Mont., receive $3.50 per day. Outside hands are paid $2.50. Board costs them from $ to per weel. Parties of eastern capitalist sports, with a sprinkling of foreigners, come to Laramic and Rawlins, Wyo., almost daily, and depart on bunting trips into the hills north and south. Brad Moore, the celebrated honey king of Washoo county, Nevads, won the first pri at the state fair and received from the cast a certiticate for the best honey in the United Stat v Nathan Wheaton, a Leadville, Colo, miner, was blown to picces by the explosion of some sticks of giant he had in his left breast pocket while' working in the blacke smith shop tempering sqme drills, Crosthwait o killed his mining partner at Ouray, Colo., elndeds the ofticers for a weel, but, finally was*seen by two burro punclers to get i quart of whisky and go out in thé brush and fl;k\lpon it. One watched him and the other tdld the ofticers, who made an easy capture of the drunkard. George Wallace, & merchant of Oukland, Cal,, was killed by Henry Bird at a place about eight miles from Oakland, known as the Saints’ Retreat, kept by the murderer. The place known as Hird's hotel, or the Moraga Valley postoftico, is notorious as a resort for the rough classes of characters. Just over the border of Alameda county, the extreme edge of Contra Costo county has been the scene of many controversies. 1t was a dispute about land. \ermantown, fourteen miles south, being quarantined against McMinnville, Ore., James Bowley, an old citizen having busi- ness at Shermantown went through the tim- ber. A quarantine guard named William McKune found Bowley and ordered him_out of town. Bowley didn't go, and McKune shot him fatally. There had been an old feud between the Mciunes and Bowleys, and it is thought this had more to do with the act than the quarantine had. A Denver & Rio Grande engineer tells how ho was running out of Leadville, Colo., ona night when he struck a burro in the canon. living near for Joseph As the engine ran on all right the engincer thought the critter had been thrown into the ditch. Reaching Sa- lida some tige after daylight, he wondered why people were staring at his engine, and found out when on stopping at the depot he was asked how long since the company had changed burro_ transportation from stock cars to engine vilots. The animal was there sure enough, restiug serenely on the pilot bumper with his feet stuck fast. be- tween the bars. The burro was dislodged and off he trotted uninjured with a wild shrick of triumph. Sl Its Running Mate. California Alta, It is calculated that Prof. Barnard's new comet travels at the rate of three millions of miles daily. It is the only thing yet discov- ered- that approaches the speed of the cam- paign lie. —— Our Jabe. Glohe Democrat, Our minister to Spain, Jabez Curry, has resigned. The president may finda better man for the place, but he will never find in this country a man with a more beautiful or impressive name for diplomatic work than Jabez. Think of it when familiarly rendered as Jabe! —— Shotgun Quarantine. Montreal Witness. €A shotgun quarantine is the lowest kind of barbarism, and the meanest kind of selfish- ness and cowardice. If people will not allow free citizens to move freely wherever they deem best for their own health, the least they can do is to provide a healthy and com- fortable alternative. pcd b Good Bye American Party. Springfield Kepublican. The American party is reported to be upon the point of expiringy There is said to be a motion pending befdke the executtve com- mittee asking Candidfite Curtis to withdraw. Judge Greer enragedgthe California Ameri- cans by refusing togun as their candidate for vice president, bufjthere is not enougn of that party to make a gery big pile of debris 1f it does go to pieces, r the Farmer. Herald, jar for the farmers. on them and given te, and now congress t of agriculture into pt and gives its head a botween these two e fancy the farmers th their big crops. Joyful Days Bostoi This is & great Providence has smi them abundant hary elevates the departm an executive departi cabiuct portfolio. blessings, however, will be more tickled Commerelal Advertiser. In view of the recent progeediugs in the of the United States, and as it seoms possible to avoid much longer a series of personal combats in the senatorial chamber, we would urgently advise, for the sake of the dignity of the country, that these impending combats bo arranged with & de- cent regard for the relatiive size of the com- batants. Mr. Bassett, the venerable door- keeper of the senate, could arrange the pugilistic pairs baforehand, with an eye to the spectacular effect apa proper physical balance. He would assign Mr. Spooner, doubtless, to Mr. Mest, while reserving Mr, Coke for cao of the wind-up attractions, with, say, Mr. Bdnaunds as his opponent. Simi- 1acly, Brother Eoar would probaoly ba pitted against Brother Payne, of Ohio, whils tha two veterans, Morpill and Saulsbury, might be induced to stand up against cach other for acouple of rounds, and Sherman would be d to put on the gloved with Voorheoes or an, Ransom and Ingalls would make a fairish couple, and so would Frye and Gor man, and great interest would attach to a final set-to between doughty Senator Joe Brown, of Georgia, and our own pride and pet, the learned Kvarts, Such sporting events as these would creats a widespread and legitimate interest, whereas the meeting of antagonists so badly matched as Cokas and Spooner would be a real mortification to all true patriots. as ———e Send Them Arnd. Nebraska State Journal, There is no call for any Nobraska woman 1o go south to nurse yellow fever sufferers, She would merely add another to the num ber to be nursed in a few d after her ar rival. There are plenty of seasoned nurses to be had in the south, who hava no fears of taking the discase, and who can be secured for a fow dollars to pay thel and their wag transportation any Nebraska man is to help the he can do more by sending #25 to the proper authorities for the relief of the sick than by going to the mfected dis. tricts with a couple of hundred in his pocket. The same is true of any Nebraska woman. POLITICAL POINTS. Don M. Dickinson, postmaster general, in a speech in Detroit the other night calied President Cleveland *the noblest figure upon the horizon of the age.”” Mr. Dickinson is in the cabinet and his pay is $5,000 per ye Leopold Morse is still considering whether he will take a renomination against Mr, Bearn in the Third district of M liusetts, says the Boston Herald, “and it is altogether premature to say that he will not be again a candidate." Robert Taylor ,uow stumping the state of Tentnessee for goveruor, gets more flowe pears, peaches, and grapes than he know: what to do with, to say nothing of water- melons, mint julops, and the warmest wel- come from all womankind. Colonel Thomas W. Higginson is the dem- ocratic candidate for congress against Gen- cral Banks in the Fifth Massachusetts dis- trict. As the republicans have 3,000 major- ity in the district Colonel Higginson's lit- erary pursuits are not likely to be inter- rupted. Mrs. S, E. V. Emery, candidate for tho Union Labor party of Michigan for superin- tendent of public instruction, having with- drawn from the ticket on the alleged ground of corruption, the Lansing Journal says: “The real secret ot Mrs. Emery's with- drawal does not appear in her letter. Neither does she dare to disclose it. Jealousy is at the bottom of it all, and it is a fight between women. We now hope this will kill the ‘woman business in our conventions.” There is still another presidential candi- date in_the field. General A, Scrvins St Clare, of Boston, Mas: has publ long monifesto, in which he argues that he is eminently fitted to fill the exccutive chair. it Garibaldi captured an striun army of 46,000 men in the war for Italian independence. Heo further asserts that he 1s president of a society which hus 222,000,000 members; that he has invented a large number of devices important to the welfare of civilization, and that he has got forty-seven bills through congress, He seems to be a great man, this St. Clare, e ralie g Responsibilitics of Railroad Presi- dents. Octoher Scribner's, A German economist has said that the so-called survivalof the fittest in modern industry, isreally a double survival, side by side, of the most talented on the one hand and the most unscrupulous on the other. The truthof this isalready appar- ent in railroad business. A Vanderbilt on the Central meets a Fisk on the Erie. In spite of hissuperior power and rosour- ces he is virtually beaten in the contest —beuten suid at tho time, be- cause he could not afford to go so close to the door of state’s prison as his riv The manager of a large railroad s control n great deal of prope des his own—the prop- erty of railrond investors which has been placed in his charge. wo lines of action open to him. He may make money for the investor: and _thereby cure the respe of the community; or he money out of the invostors, and the get vich enough to defy public opinion, The former course has the advantage of honesty, the latter of rapidity. It isa disgrace to the community that the lat- ter way is made so easy, and so readily condoned. A man has only to give to charitable objects a little of tho money obtained by violations of trust,and a large pavt of the world will extol him asa public benefactor. Nay, more; it scems as if some of our financial opera- tors really mistook the vox populi for the vox Dei, and believed that a $100,000 given to a theological seminary meant absolution for the past and plenary in- dulgence for the future. It is charged that one financier, when he undertook any large transaction which was more than usually questionable, made a cov- enant that if the Lord prospered him in his undertaking. he would divide the proceeds on favorable terms. tem has under his v be: ————— Generous Givers. It is said that Jay Gould has in the course of his life given $2,000 to churches, he once having purchased a bell costing that amount for a little wooden church at Roxbury, N. Y., near which the millionaire was born. A Philadelphian in moderate circum- stances recently gave a poor Woman two 5-cent picces to hold down the lids of her dead husband’s eyes. Just before the funeral he sent his man around to secure the return of the coins. The duke of Edinburgh fhas recently been made a member of the Order of the Golden Fleoce. The dulke’s liber- ality is so well known that tradesmen think his new titte is particularly suita- ble. He is said to be about as generous as Midas of mythical fame. The daughter of a rich banker, stop- bing at Bar Harbor, ventured beyond pai depth the other day while bathing, and was only saved by the eflorts of a ;oung man who risked his lifo to save lers, The day afterward the happy father sent the' young man a note of thanks accompanied by a 81 bill, which was immediately and’ indignantly re- turned. Russell Sage entered a store not long ago to make some purchases, and while there dropped his pocket-book, which contained at the time several hundred dollars. Some time after he had left the building the missing pocket-boolk was found by a boy, who gave it to the proprietor of the store, h{ whom it was returned to My, Sage in the presence of the finder. **Mr. Sage,” said the pro- prietor, “*this is the lad who found your money.” The millionaire examined the pocket-book and returned it to his pocket, remarking significantly that “Honesty is it own reward.” i Married on a Stage. Atbany Express: Miss Josie West, of Boston, and Fddie Fvans were united in the honds of matrimony by Rev. G. W. Brown, of Troy, at the Troy thea- ter Wednesday evening,after the even- ing performance. Both the contrseting parties are members of the troupe now playing at the theater. A reception Jollowed.durflnywhicn jigs were jigged, songs were sung and everybody was hilarious with joy. 4'he newly married couple received many tokens of regard from the other members of the com- pany. astage. They will both comtinue on the FREE TEXT-BOOKS, Thoy Reocive Consideration From the Board of Education. Tho board of educafon was called to order by Me. MeConnell Monday night, and as vice president he fillod the chair, Superintendent James said he wished to address the board at length on the subject of superintendance if the members would listen to him. The chair rapped for order, but had to speak rathor sharply to enforeo quiot, He did not suceead in geiting the attention of more than half the mewmbors. The others busied themselves with resolutions, reports or Cigars Mr. James said that when there teac were forty s 0no person was competent for the of superintendence, There were sixty six when he took charg the schools, and the number is now 240. The in creass of pupils this year, of child ren in actual attendance, is nearly 1,600, Mr. James gexplained that under arule adopted a year ago the principal of each school supervised the work of the seven or eight teachiers in the building. This of course took the principals from the work of the classroom and meant additional expense, but the superintendent argued that it was A profitablo arrangement. His explanation was in the nature of a justification of his in terprotation of the rule in lightening the class work of the principals to give thew time for superyision. The treasurer's monthly report showed © balances on haud as follows: In general fund, 39,100; sinking fund, $17,323, site and buiiding fund, $95,305. Petitions were read for and against the opening of the Eckerman schoot and wers re- ferred. A communication was read from Messra, A. M. Clark, John A. Cuscaden and John G. Willls of the G. A. R,, urging the board to establish a weekly omi-weekly drill among the school boy! en yours of age, The matter was referred te a special commit teo consisting of Messrs. Copeland, Saville and Parmalee. An offer from the German church of South Omaba to give for thirty old desks, was referred The applications of Jennie K. Owens, Lucy J. Roys, Hortense Smith, Mary Alter and John Hull, for positions in the schools, were referred. Aletter was read from a working girl, who said she was a former pupil of the Higlt school, urging the board to establish a night school'in stenography in preference to the cooking school. She argued that it would be of vastly more practical good to g who are compelled to earn their living. The let- ter was referved, and a report was ordered to be returned at the next meeting. The committes on buildings reported that they had rented the following rooms for school purposes: One from Mr. Mc near Walnut Hill school, at $25 a for an indefinite term; one at Hicko Eighth streets at $30 per month for a year; one from C. J. Johuson at Central park at $20. The action was approved. ‘I'he committee on text-books recommended the adoption of the preparatory book of Ger- man proso for the High school. Approved. Lutheran cents each “The committee recommended the cloction of the following teachers as pal assistant princi Misses Alice E. Hitte, at Lake school; n o E. lveleth, at Webster: Matilda at Omala View; 1da K. Wilson, at L and Emma Fiteh at Pleasant school. he objection 1o the latter was that the prin- was held by a sistor of the lady I us the assistant, Tl 1 teachers, with the one exception, were then formally elected by ballot. Miss Fannje 13 Hurlbut was chosen principal of the West Omaha school. The committee on claims reported a num- ber of bills on account of school construc, tion, and recommended their payment. Mr- Welirer wanted to know what the superin- tendent of buildiugs was for if not to bo a check on_architects and to certify to such claims. Messrs. Copeland and Rees took similar ground. The recommendation was defeated. Messrs. « Morris and McConnell argued that to rofer the claims would work hardship to the contractors and be areflection on the architects, who are responsible men. Mr. Copeland cited a case in which the architects had certified to work and it had to ba done all over. Mr. Wehlrer wanted to know to what extent the architects were rasponsible in dollars and conts, and what romedy the board had for blunders either by the archi- tects or the contractors. After considerable discussion a motion to refer to the superintendent of building was defeated. Mr. Goodman sugeested that the claims be allowed this time, butthat hereatter the building superintendent be required to ify to all such claims before they be passed on. The original reportand recommendation were then adopted. The following are the bills: Phelps & Son, Walnut Hill school. 26,128 50 Gladden, Roclieford & Gould, Mason school D. Fitzpatrick, D. Fitzpatrick, Lake Rose & Balfe, Bancroft schoo! Arthur & Herd, Bancroft schoo John H. Lake school......... 8 John Rowe & Co., Walnut Hill school 1,139 00 John H. Harte's bill of $1,002.84 for oxtras in' tho Lake school building was also al- lowed. The committee reported September claims aggregating §25,6:5.70, and they were or- dered paid after a long wranglo over an item of horse hire. The teachers’ salavics wero $17,460, The free toxt-book question was brought up by the following report: “*Your committee on high school, to whom was referred the resolution of Mr. Rees— ‘that bereafter tho pupils in the high school be required to furnish their own text-books, pens, penholders and paper, except such pa: per as may be required by teachers for spe. lal examinations, that is compositions'—ro- spectfuily recommend that the book and sta= tionery supplies to the high school be limited to text-books, ink and stationary for the bus- iness department and for exaniiuations and compositions.” "After sowe discussion for aud against free text-books the report was adopted. The superintendent of instruction was authorized to open an evening schiool, be- ginning on the sccond Monday in Noveniber, on the sume coudition as were in force last year. The board decided to meet at hereafter and until March. The secrctary was directed to notify the vestry of St. Barnabas church that the board will no longer furnish steam for the church and the rectory greenhouse. It was explained that neat had been furnished in tho past in return for the use of church property for a play ground for the pupils, Murs. Hofmeister was elected janitor of the ased building at the corner of Hickory and Kighth stroets. Mr. Morrison ex- plainded that the lady owned the building. There is no place to keep the coal except in the collar, and she refused to allow any one but herself to go down among her potatocs and her winter supplics. C. C. Cary was voted out of the janitor- ship of the' Central Park school for disre- spectful tall to member Morrison, and Mrs Wisby was elected to the place. A rule was adopted that hereafter all bills for repairs or construction must be approved by the supcrintendent of buildings before being passed on by the board. A boiler was ordered put in fhe St. Barna- bas school for heating the building. The committee on_ buildings was author- {zed to carpet the offices of tee principals of the schools. Efforts to linit the price to $1.25, 1, and 90 cents per yard were ruled out by objections. A resolution ordering telephones in all brick buildings #s completed was defeated. Tho secrotury was directed to advertiso for bids for window blinds for the new school buildings. Richard H. Cooper was elected janitor of the Park school, and Louis Peterson of the Mason street school. ‘The board adjourned at midnight while in a deadlock trying to elect an assistant prin- cipal of the Castellar street school. i THE BUSTLE BURST. p.m., A Tragio Ocourrence in a San Fran- cinco Lecture Room. Boston Record: One evening about two months ago, while Charles Dickens, jr., was giving a reading in the First Congregational church of San Fran- cisco, & tall, finely formed lady, with patrician features and a dignified gait, ontared by the left door and walked up the aisle.” She was accompanied by her husbaud, whose military bearing added effect to the aristocratic appesrance of his better hatf. On reaching a seata few yards from the platform sha gave & swing to her dress as she attempted to sit down gracefully, But hoer foot caught in ¢ carpet, and sho stumbled and Klall hea ily on the As she did 80 & mufe fled report heard, and the lady waa ity observed to collapse with a lurch, faco turncd deathly pale, and thon & carmine hue, and she sprang to her foet in great confusion, No one dreamed that this story would be tho subject of a civil suit, but unhap« vily this has been the result, The \mly rought sutt against her dressmaker, who had manufactured the unfortunate bustle, and the case was brought iuto court last week, In the trinl the dressmaker stated that lier fair customer had ovdered hee to make a dress (with all the additions thereto appertaining) which should ba a perfect fitand_ontirely satisfactory to the wearer, Upon eross-cxamination the witness swore that to the best of her knowledgo and belief her customer had varied i size from day to day, aud several bustles 1 to be manufactured before one could be found that was of the prop . At last the dress was finished, and the purchaser agreed, on behalf of the socond part of the cons tract, not to sit down suddenly, and in all respects o observe the cautions sot forth by the unfortunate dressmaker. This, as it appeared from the cvidence, she had neglectod to do, and with the disastrous result above chronicled. The rubber bustls had collapsed, ta the injury and disgrace of the plaintiff, The judge, in giving his decision on morits of the case, spoke as follows: “Thisis a most peculiar case. 1 have heard of busties being made of horsa hair, muslin, newspapers, pillows, bird ges, and even quilts, 1 have h ocks striking the hour within the folds of a lady's dress. Smuggled cigars, jewelry ~and brandy have also been brought to light, but 1 never heard befora of an air-tight bustle exvloding in_church, and thon being made tho subject of a civil suit. Not being mars ried yet, the situation is somewhat peve plexing tome; but still, looking at the case from a legal standpoint, I think we can adjust matters satisfactorily, Wora a nou‘explosive bustle used this suit might never have bean brought, " His honor then deducted "$8.50 from the dressmaker’s bill, as the defendant set up a claim for damages for the ox- plosion trouble, He thenrendered judga ment in favor of the plaintif for $11.50, - Plucky College Girls, A recent writer on college girls tells an interesting story of the trials and difticulties of five plucky young women who had little mone but plenty of pluck and determination to get an edu- eation. A large-eyed brunette,” says the writer, “not sturdy, but fragilo looking, graduated from the oston university a few years ago by finding a situation as waitress in a restaurant wearing the apron duving the vush hours at morning and night, aud in vacation season the day through. One group of four girls, two from Boston university and two at the Harvard annex, engaged two adjoining rooms in a quaint houss in Boston and boarded themselves at an avernge expense of $3.70 per week. their rooms cost #5, or $1.25 each. They took breakfast at a small rostaurant where oatmeal and steak cost 20 cents. They ate an apple and a slice of bread for Tunch and at night they pooled re- sources, spreading napkins on the top of a trunk and feasting on bread and milk or bread and a taste of canned meat. Once a neighbor surreptitiously insert esof jelly in the bureait d drawe h served as commissar, partment, and then they dined royally for days. The food cost them thirty- five cents per day, and not one of thom suffered in health by the experimoent. Their expenses for clothing were no greater in proportion. One member of the quartetto possessed a gown, a well- worn cashmere. Being invited to a professor’s r £, sho remained away from a citations while she satin a cloak and petticoat, cleaning and pres vefreshing ng and with ribbons her only At night thovoughly - The poultice which draws out a man’s virtues 1s the sod that covers his grave, 1f you don’t want all your virtues known too soon, regulate your regulator with Wiurner's Log Ca makes pure blood ch glv health. TLargest bottle in market—120 doses 1. Druggists. Another Say So Marriage. Wilkesbarre News-Dealer: A riage, not only without bridesmaids, best man, orange flowers, banquet and attendants, but also without any officiat- ing minister or justice or any ceremony whatever, was an unusual episode in the office of register of wills yosterday. The contracting ps re S, W, weli-known m hant of i Jennie D, Thomas, a y and intelligent-looking maiden of twenty-one years,whaose homo is in Scranton. All" questions being answered satisf '(m‘fl}'.lflu'y were give o marriago license, and announced that they desired te avail themseives of the e on of the law of June 23, 1885, by which simply declaring their intention of becoming man and wife and signing the marringe certificate attached to the license they become in the eye of the law as logally married as though the ceremony was performed by a'clergy- man before a church full of people. They complied with the provisions of the law on the spot, sipned the certifi- cate, and left the office man and wifo. —— Watt's Sentence Will Stand. OrrAwa, Oct. 2.—Among the opinions filed in the supreme court to-day was one in tho caseof Watt vs. the people, or Nichols mur- der case, Watt was sentenced along with Harry Swarts, in 1557, to the penitentiary for life, for killing Express Messenger Nich- ols, March 12, 1584, Watt appealed to the supreme court of the state, stating that ho bad not had a fair trial. In the opinion the judges hold that his trial was f; ety Jeomer, a lorsville, 1t your complaint is wa try half wine g before meals. D Sons, sole manufactur t of appetite, ss Angosturn Bitters G ¥ lection Frooclamation. Under and by virtue of the authority vested n e by section eleven (11) of chapter twonty- six 26 the compiled statutes of Nebraska, entitled i john M. Thayer, gov- ernor of tl A, do hereby lasyo Ty proclamiation, that on Tuesday, tne wrth Any of November, A. D, 1585, th will be an 1 held at’ the Jlaces of voting in ¢, tor the purpose of electing the follow- ing offfcers, to-wit: Five elociors of president and vics president of the Uniied States. : One wmember of congress frow the Firat cons gressional distrl agress from the Second cone rict nember of ‘congrass trom the Third cons ual A ruor. utenant governor, retary of state Btate treasurer, Augitor public accounts. Attorney general Commis=toner of nubll: lands and bulldings, Superintendent of public instruction. State senator for ekch sonatorial district, and eprosentatives for ~each reprosoutative district, a8 providzd b In witness whereo aw. , "1 have hereunto set my hand end caussd 1o be allixed the great seal of the state Done at Linooln this 2d day of October, [n the year of our Lord one thonsund e:fi”‘h dred aud elghity-elght, tw ty-second year of the state, of the inde] States the one hundred and thir- toenth, By the Goyurnor, JOHN M. THAYER, Q. B, Laws, Secretary State. (Seal.] ud pdence of the Yuited