Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 2, 1888, Page 4

f 3 e g - - B e — THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: -THE DAILY BEE, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, SCRIPTION. tncluding SUNDAY, 210 M « ear Thre nthis OMANA SUNDAY BEE, mailed to any iress, One WEFKLY [1RE, 01 OM A KA OFFICENOR CHICAGO OFFICE AN D1 FATS AW STRERT HOOKFRY HUILDING. INE W Y ORK O CE, ROOMS 11 AND 16 Titl BU ¥ Buirning WASHINGTON OFFICE, No. 013 FOURTELNTH STIEET CORR ONDENCE All cor ations reinting (0 ews and edl torinl T uld be addressed Epiron OF THE BER. 41§ RS LITTRRS, . KT eiainiens Inroes AL tances should be mdirested to T, s 1IN COMPANY OMAI A, Drafts, checks aud postofice orders 1o of the company e made payabi The Bee Publishing Cnnnany, Proprietors. K. ROSEWATER. Editor. ALY B TH Sworn Statement ot Circulation Btataof Nebrask County of Do Grorge I3 Tz8ciuck, s Yshing Cc y, doe actuul weok ¢ Average ot GEORGE I8 TZSCHUCK. e and subseribed in my e A D, 1888, L, Notary Public. Sworn 1o hefore o presenco this 1et dn Seal N Btato of Nebrs County of Douging, | George B, Tzschiuck, Deing duly sworn, de- oses and uys that e s seeretary of tho lieo blishing average daily c ' 58, coples; pril, 134 1 coplos: for v, 184, s for ibed in 1 Presence this ith day of Novembor, 1585, NP, FEIL Notary Public. PADDY Forp will be **Mauled” next Tuesday until he throws up the sponge. Tite gods be pr With the au- nual scssion of the Nebraska Woman's Buffrage association at hand, and the prospects of a crack base ball nine in the spring, Omaha’s cup of joy is full to the brim. FRANK KASPAR S not an orator like Pat Ford nor a parlinmentarian like Vanscamp, but he ways in his place in the council voting honestly for what he believes to be for the best interest of the cit; good behavior ive encourage- rly statehood, her DAKOTA is on But if she does not, re ment pretty soon for Bhe will sond a blizzard castward that will make the teeth of the politicians chatter all the way from Maine to Key West. HoLLY JoB JOE promises to reform £f he is only re-elected. That was recisely what Hascall promised the fasc time he was elected to the council. But the leopard never docs chango his spots, unless you cover them with a paint brush. 1t claims to have the anside track on the United States mar- shalship of Nebraska, which is to be- come vacant in February. If this is a Manderson doal, several members of the incoming legislature will want to know the reason wity. DECREASING the capital stock of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa ¢’ system from forty to twenty millions is a phase entirely now to railroad financiering. By all means let the good work go on. ‘We have in our mind’s eye certain rail- road corporations in Nebraska which #adly need the water to be squeezed out of them. Mr. HOLBROOK has been asked to stand for the council by many eitizens of the Fifth ward who desire to have a croditable reprosentative in the coun- cil. TIf these citizens take the trouble 0 put in an appearance on clection day, and give an hour or two of their time to the cause of good government, Mr. Hol- brook will be elected beyond a doubt. Tuge chaptor from the letter-book of Dr. Cushing, which we reprint to-day should be read by every voter and payer of the Fifth ward. It shows how thoroughly corrupt Joe Redman was the last time he served in the council. If after reading those very interesting lot- ters they still want to send Redman back to the council to manage our city affairs, they must forever after hold thoir peuce. Tue friends of Cornell university will learn with regret that the New York court of appouls has decided the Mrs. MeGraw-Fiske legacy of a million and a half to the college to be void. The his- fory of the case is s peculiar and as in- tercsting us a romance. It is a story the beginnings of which go back to the foundation of the university,and one which is closely identified with the founders and benefactors of the school, ROTTEN PAVEME! M boasts that Pat Ford will be counted in whether he roceives o majority of the votes of the Third ward or not. We shall see about that. Such raseality has been practiced in the Pifth ward when Honest Jim had Fanning to fumble among the ballots, after the judges had locked everybody else out, But it will not pan this time. Nobody will becounted out who receives 2 majority of the voles cast at next Tuesday’s election, THE general comment on the Towa evictions is that of sympathy with the unfortunate people who have been thrust out of their homes, and of hearty oondemuation of the officiul careless ness or stupidity which made such a state of affairs possible, It isa deplor able circumstance to happen in this country, and while it all happens under the sanction of law as interpreted by the United States supreme court, there is yet an obligation on the part of the governiment to give these settlers ade- quate redress. As 40 wost of them the hurdship they are subjectad to is due to oficial ignorance or carclessness at Washington, and it will be the duty of congress to do justice 1o the victims of official blundering. REY", ik After nina y to his elarieal Swedish 1 A Fogelst nation to the This the STROM'S LIFE WORK ars of tireless devotion dutie wtor of the angelical church, R tendered his r of his church. n taken with a view Ul his energies upon noble task he had sot for as the founder of an that will perpetuate his memory among the self-sacrificing factors of mankin Mr. Fogel- om's labors for are al- thout a yarallel edamong a me up principally of and ! v, o has council p has be teating himself institution his church the results madoe ing men vided and lit- inized ership women, | 1y has or Swedish has ration of country. He hiandsomest and most sub- in Omaha, and a dollar of debt, to de- vote the ve rof his life to a of the most unselfish by In the midst of the calls, incident to pastorate, M Istrom matured the plan to o t hospital and dea in- This plan is now in ion. The hospital and Dea- fly up to the months Mr. expects to for the the larg Luthe builton stanti rans in this of th church e it withou ind Whor unremittic his lish stitute in Omaha, a gre ronne process of reali walls of Tmmanual conness institute ave n roof, and within twelve Fogelstrom contidently his the institution open admission of patients. The fo: ture of this hospital will be the siste hood nurses, who have received practi- cal training abroad and will come here to devote their lives to this serviee. The liberal subscriptions from leading citizens of Omaha,on which Mr. Pogel- strom depends as the basisof suceess, will, it is hoped, be supplementod by massive further contributions from all who desire to aid in the work of philanthrophy. That Omaha will have reason to feel proud of this institu- tion goes without s: With all the hospitals now ostablished or under wav, this ¢ s still very defici in hospi- tal facilities where the maimed can we careful nursing and ski. »d medical treatment. All who appreciate the magnitude of Mr. Fogel- strom’s undertaking can best show their ympathy by promptly tendering him muterial assistance, ag. or dis- eased DA ND BROWNING CLUBS. No greater truth was ever propounded than that man shall not live by bread alone. The soul must be fod as well as the body, and will not be denied its sustenance. We may throw our encr- gies into successful busin we may tame the wilderne the barren rock and bid it spout forth oil. and give up its silver, and its coal, and its iron; we mayanunih e distance and link our commerce to the islands of the flowery kingdom, and yot there will be asomething within us restless and un od, pleading for recognition and hungerving for its own special food. Man is compounded of three entitics, soul, intellect and body, and those who have studied the little world within them have com- prehanded that the intellect is the great misleader, and that through the intellect we lose the happiness wo might have, and gain the unrest that poisons existence. We make the fearful mistake of imagining the intellect to be synominous with the soul, whereas they are in no wise connceted. The soul is the spirit, an emanation of the Infinite spivit. The intellect is purely material, and is to the body what steam is to water, what gases are to solids. Possibly it is the nerve fluid of modern physiology, a potent force by which we move our muscles, and obtain physical sensation. But not through the nerve fluid do we love the beautiful, and the gool; do we hate the oppressor and his superserviceable parasite; do we thrill with awe at the grandeur of creation, and tromble with ecstacy at the star lighted heavens, That which feels emotions, that are not physical is the soul, not the heart, and the love of the heart is confined to thay passion which partakes of both our natures, and fills the soul and the senses at the seme time, In obedience to the conviction that material success and material pleasures are not suflicient for our triple nature, men in every age have built up for themselves forms of recreation that should satisfy the moer man. In Ame ien it must be confessed that the two most widely known associations have fallen very far short of the necessitics of the case, and do not offer an example for the guidance of Omaha whenever our own city wakes from its materialism and longs for higher things. The Brown- ing club of Boston and the Dante club of Chicago could only have boen founded by socicty eager to obtain culture at second hand; by society prompt to sham sensations which it could not possess, and with which it could not possibly sympathize; by society more desivous of newspaper notoriety than of the real enjoyment that springs from the expansion of the psychical nuature within us. If we analyze the Inferno of Dante, having a sufticient knowledge of the writer’s own life, we ave horrified. We are struck dumb with astonishment that a human being eould live who could use the most tremendous powers for such extraordinary purposes. Dante was a politician and an officeholder of Flor- ence, who split hus own party in two wings, and to gain predominance for his particular section, temporized with the gene enemy of the city. His maneuvers ended in the triumph of the other wing, and in his own eternal banishment from fuir Irienze, In his exila he wandered from place to place and from eity to city, with a soul filled with a hatred for his personal enemies that is inconceivable to us. Out of his collos- sal rage he couceived the idea of the Inferno, a picture of hell and all the va~ ried torments of its bolgias, peopled by his enemies suffering these nameless agonies. To this unappeasable, un- quenchable hunger and thirst for ven- goance upon his foes we owe the great- est poem in the world. This man brooded over his fall and his wrongs, He sat amid ruins, silent, immovable, absorbed and yet watchful. While his intellect invented details of hell, his eyestook tn details of uature, and » them together with a fire of tion beyond he wo thought and a beauty of d compare, When he saw lean dogs gnnwing upon bones, his mind. gav birth to the horrible episodeof Ugolino, It is wonderful and terrible! But how can ye Americans sympathize with this apostle of hatred, when we are incapable of being ser- iously enraged agninst one for anything. For years we prom- ised to hang Jeff Davison a sour applo tree, and yet all our anger evaporated in a burst of Tomeric laughter atthe ludicrous spectacle of the stiff- sour-faced, bilious old confedera gruised in a sun-bonnet and a hoop-skirt, Are we men to sympathize with Dante by sitting alowe with his hellish thoughts and gloating over the fearful torments to which in imagination he Was Day after da woeek after we month h, year after year, he broode over hisinferno, and thrilled with de- light over his vengeance, Thisisa man apart from the whole human race and the study of himean feed no hu soul, least of all the hunger of a Chi- wn soul. he Browning club of Boston must be judged as more unsatisfactory in its aims than the other. For Dante was diseased soul, but Br nyg isonly an intellect. Therefore the study of 1 ing is simply an intellectual effort, p: taking 1y of the nature of problem solving. Browning is a thinker who, from ineapacity to write clear, healthy prose, has been compelied to be to tuous in rhyme, periphr nd scure, whenever he leaves the ensy paths of description for the rocks of in- tellectunl effort. e isone of the great unhealthy family of writers who havi endeavored to achicve success by study- ing the world, and by practicing upon : dis- nsi nu his ¢ mic m own- stie its weaknesses vathier than by pouring out of his own heart all that w in it. Just as Josh Billings won fame and fortune by hiding good senso in bad spelling, s0 Browning af- fected obscurity of diction, because the world mistakes 1t for profundity of thought. Thovefore Browning, who is only wssable thinker, and has never weitten anything that will rise above the plane of Mans Christian Anderson’s stories, has become u household word for abysmal depths of reasoning, and the shallow wits of Boston gather to- gether to find out what the man means —as if it matter red cent. Such childish puzzles may oceupy the in- telleet and may please the vanity, but they cannot feed the soul, and there- fore Boston is given over to men with isms who labor to matervialize spivits, and believe in vampires, simply hecause the soul will insist upon recognition and eannot be fed by food offered to the modern idot, the intellect. MOST DECIDEDLY OFF. Tue Ovana B is enough to Towa not to blunder into the assertion that Com- missioner Dey of the [owa railroad commis- sion was re-clected by the railroad vote, It is not at all unlikely that many railroad em- ployes voted for Dey for personnl reasons but the votes that enabled him as u democrat 1o secure an clection while his ticket was de feated by 81,000 plurality eame from republi- can farmers, merchants and business men, who were willing to waive politics in order to Ikeep Mr. Dey on the railtoad commission us the democratic member. Doy held the ofice for ten years by successive reappointments Dy republican gov, and now that the commission been made elective the peo- ple evidently desire it still to be non-pa the democrats is observed i pointment of all state boards. Tl proplo ¢ determined evidently to msist on the same principle where a board is elective and the dominant party might control it entirely, The Des Moines Reyister, the leading paper of lowa, in explaining the remarks fact that a democrat has been clected to a stato oftice in Towa for the first time iu over thirty years, says that “‘several thousand repub- Jicans who thought the board ought to be kept non-partisan evidently voted for Mr, Dey, and that's all there is to it." ('} ieagn Tribune. The orthodoxy of Register on party cunnot be called in question. But when it comes to the railroad issue its vouchers do not pass current at parin thissection. The leading republican paper of Towa is no- toriously handicapped by unholy alli- ances which make its utterances unrve- liable and its conclustons unsound. The election of Mr. Dey by the railroad re- publican faction cannot be explained away on non-parctisna grounds and minority representation principles, The republicans of Jowa ave not squeamish about partisanship in a railrond com- mission. They know, as everybody kknows, that it is not possible to raise a political issue before that board any move than it would be to divide the commission on the question of religion. Minority represcntation never been attempted in fowa even in the selection of its supreme judges who certainly ave liable tb deal with political problems and divide on polit- ical questions. It is truo that Mr, Doy was appointed by three suceessive republican govern- ors, but all these governors were more or less under the baneful domination of the railroad influence which has held its grip upon Iowa ever since the gran- ger laws were repealed, and the com- misslon substituted at the beck of the railroad manager: In Towa as in Ne- braska the railroads were the creators of the commission system. It was much casier to control a majority of the comnission than it is to control the majority of the legisla- ture. It is only within the past two years since the accession of Governor Larrabee that the railroad power has received its check. The utter failure of the appointive commission to meet the demands of the people for railroad regulation com- pelled republicans to substitute by law a commission to be elected by the people. Failing to pack the republican state convention, the railroad managors interested themsolves in steering the democratic convention, Mr. Dey who had for ten years done their bidding so faithfully as a non-partisan railroad com- missioner was foisted on the democratic ticket and elected in the face of an ad- verse majority of more than thirty thousand. This political revolution was not spontaneous or accidental. It was the outcome of a well matured conspir- acy in which the brass collared repub- the Des Moines issues the republican competitor of Mr. D the behest of the raglegads. The le ing party organ of fowh and all the tie organs and organ-grinders that fol low in its wake winked at this detesta- y to their party and now at- mpt to hide behind fhe “non-partisan sereen, which is altogdther too gauzy to screen them from pubie view. ble treache THE COMING LICENSE BOARD. The liquors dealers of Omaha are laboring under the delusion that their future business depends entirely upon their ability to control the next council. Within ninety days the will council have no more to do with the liauor traffic than it has with the appointment of policemen. Among the first bills that will pass the next legisiature will be an amendment to the Slocumb law that will confer the power to nt licenses in metropolitan ¢ ics upon the board of polic commissioners, This will relieve the 1 connection with the license The chango will be made en- ndent of the city charte nd in hand with the new W president of the counc: Ik from board. tively indey and will go b vegistration With these forms onee made, coun- cilmen will be chosen on their merits and not merely because of their friendly or unfriendly relations to the saloon interc So far as the saloons ave concerned, the change will be for the better. It will ove them from contributions to the campaign fund of councilmen, and place them in position to resent such threats as Pat Ford has made time and again in the Third ward that they would lose their licenses unless they stood in with him in his political fights. HE THIRD WARD. Me. Charles Wehver has declined the republican nomination for councilman of the Third ward, and Mr. Michael Maul, who was chosen to fill his place, has consented to run against Ford. Mr. Maul is well known to everybody in the ward asa man in every respect botter fitted for the place than is Pat Ford. Mr. Maul should not only receive the support of every republican in the ward, but of every man that desires to be croditably reprosented in the council. I’at Ford has been in the council for four years. He went into that body worth less than five hundred dollars, and now boasts that he is' worth for thousand dollars. ; At the end of his first term the cont tors and fran- chised corporations ngde up a purse of nearly two thousand{ dollavs. With this money he boughthis re-election in the open market. Ie stood at the poll all day, buying’ votdrs within sight of the crowd. {He has done nothing for thd ward, but has used his position ‘for his personul relations. And crm, and expects ends and those of hig now he wants a third to get it by the 'samd corrupt method that he used two years ago. The ques- tion is, will the decent and the indecent people of the ward send this blather- skite and fraud back to the council for another term? We .do not believe that they will, when a manly man like Mike Maal is willing to serve them, Ford boasts openly that the colored men who live in the A are all for sale. We do not be- heve they are so degraded. We do not believe they will desert their colors for a paltey few dollars. Repeaters and non-residents ave re- rned to keep away from the Third ward. There will be a full force of policemen and detectives on hand to take care of them, and N Broatch is pledged to sead to jai mother’s son of them who is caught re- peating or voting where he does not belong. spectfully w CrLose upon the heelsof the Cham- berlain-Endicott wedding comoes th news of another international mateh in diplomatie circles. Secretary Herber of the British legation, who is acting as England’s minister to the United States since Lord Sackville's departur 5 taken to himself an American wife. This is certninly signiticant. Not all the political differences and uot all the Sackville episodes between England and America can keep John Bull's boys from falling in love with and marrying Brother Jonathan’s charming dauglhi- ters, A BRONZE bust of John McCullough, the famous tragedian, 1n the character of Virginius was unveiled at Mount Moriah cemetery, Philadelphia, a fe days ago. The occasion was unigue. No other actor in this country has been similarly honored. It was propor, how- ever, that homage should be paid to his ashes. His last resting piace should be marked by a monument from his friends as a tribute to the genius of the actor and as a testimony of the worth of the man. TiE age of philanthropy A merchant of Philadelphia, Mr, I V. Williamson, has given the prinealy gift of twelve milligns for establishing un industrial school for boys. It is to “known as the **Williamson free school of mechanic trades.” There is little doubt but that the mesw school will be- come as useful and as famous for mak- ing honest, industrious men as the ed- ucational institution founded yeurs ago by the great Stophen Girard. Em——— VOICE OF THE STATE PRESS. s Beatrice Democrat: Colencl Sabin can now answer that congundrum, “'is marriage a failure?” i Fremont Tribune: 1f the campaign was still in progress thé switchmen's strike at Indianapolis would be charged to General Harrison. 5 4 Nebraska City Press: Thev are talking of John M. Thurston far a place in Harri- son's cabinet. Mr. Harrison, however, will have the last word in the discussion. ‘Wymore Union; The militia appropria- tions should be cut off, the publishing laws should be amended. There is plenty of work to keep the logislature employed to the full limit of thelr allowanoce. Ulysses Dispatoh: The Dispatoh has no particular objection to urge agalnst Senator Charles F. Mauderson, but 1t is not ready to concede that he is the only man in the state of Nebraska eutitled w0 cousideration. Seward Reporter: The plaus for building that are belag formulated by the railroads indicate that they aro net s muoh atrald of is not past. the state laws and the board of transporta- tion as they professed to be a short time ago. Kearney Hub: If it is a fact that this cam- paign was fought out on the Manderson issue, is 1t also a fact that the United-States- Marshal 1-Slaughter issuo was also de- cided! Or did that follow as a matter of conrse, ens of Ne- r somo action of that wilt Madison Reportor: T braska will wait pat y the state board of transport me honost rc farmers, as well as th o cit of to shippors and it con- give s arge number sumers of this commo ealth O'Neill Tribuno: 1f the stater prove to be true that the two gr aro equally batanced in tho 1 resy 2 ind ¥ ing the wtives, with o Alance of powe know how to sympat a base ball game. Madison Repor paper has | said that the bustle is asarplus shiould #o. 1f this bo true it ought to g0 a cor- rect ¢ lusion should be a When s used to supply what naturo has failad to sht to ba tolorated, and art should d supply one deficient ne of onr Thurston as wrison’s eabinet. 1t sk for men who I'he or line of their a possib would b v not beholden to ganization of trusts in almost business leads honest mon to distrast attorneys. Norfolk Ne: in getting up an excursion from O s: Norfoll's bit of enterprise ta has resulted in advertising the town more than anything that has boen dona lately. The secret of it is that people have only to eome here to be convineed that Norfolk has this tes in improvement Tho legislative s 11s winter promises to be one of un terest. The eloction of a United senator will undoubtedly oceupy the greater part of the session; yet it is to be hoved that it will not be as heretofore, the means of ex cluding neded legislation, and of too much hasty action, which is worse than if it were excluded, York Times: We of th west can have littlo appro States, serene and placid iation of the wild the eastern such devastating fury. The ntly laid waste the Atlantic 1t behind the most distressing scenes on sea and on 1 we can and should pity their distress, though we canuot i their misfortur and awful storms that sweep states with hie Omaha business arsion to Norfolic will be a benefiv likewise prove beneficial uinterchange of civiltios be- bor, and our city cannot ations which must be ad 1l parties concerned. The vited to come again, in a 1, and they will be made wel to Omahi tween ov faul to vanta Omahans body or in d: come, ons Mirror: The Mirror rejoices in the fact that Owen Lovejoy, jr., of the Seventh Illinois district, who r ntly Hopped over to the democracy and thereby offered dissrace to the name which his ancestors bore, was beaten in the late election 5,000 votes for con ss. Hecan now retice from politics and reflect over what e has boen, and what he wmight have been had he not flopved in order 1o et on to what he thought wouid be the popular side. Indianola Courier: The fact is that while the Girand Army is not & volitical society in the ordimary sense of the word, its members are all politicians, not m th> sense of being political workers, but in the sense of taking alively interest in whatever concerns the welfare of the people and the All £00d citizens ought to bo politicians in this 1 those who aro not interested in > of rood government do not deserve the ion of the law or its ofticers, ‘West Point Republican: Nomau in Amer- ica 1s better eqaivped for ehief of the bureau of agriculture than Governor Furnas, of braska. His appointment to that position would be a proper recognition of the great and growing west, a_tribute to experience, worth and merit, and for the best interests of the leading industry of America. Mr. dent of theoretical a profound thinker flited Furnas is an advanced s and practical and a read for chiefof the agricultural bur Grand Island Independent: For the arro- gance of Thurston and the railrond mag nates, who try to shove this low oil room directorinto the cabinot of our president, those miserable wire-puliers and henchmen are respons who clected him chairman of the so-called republican clubs and sent him as adelegate to whe republican conyention at Chicago. They made of themselves the step- ping stones, on which e proposes to climb intoa seat in the cabmet or the United States senate. The people ought to spot them, de- spisc them and avoid them forever, where and whenever they raise their heads, Sutton Advertiser: *“As the heart panteth after the water brooks, 80 panteth my soul after the postoffice. My tonguo thirsteth to lick the stawmp, and my loins yearn for the salary of 51,200 o year. Whou shall it come, and how long shall that unwashed democrat coutinue to stand behind the boxes and hand out my mail with a sneor! Have I not prayed day and night for the success of the republican ticket, and at the great rally did I rry i toreh, and when some one asied, Us the matter with Harrison (' did 1 not “He's all right ' ot ¢ ‘Wh shout at the top of my voic When [ remember these things, my soul 18 feverish with impaticnee, and even in my sleen 1 out, ‘How loug, O Lord, how long?"" - T TOPIC CURRE! It has been decided by the Dwyer Brothers, whoare at tue head of the Brooklyn course association to employ the photograph for the decision of closely contested races. 1t is claimed, and with some show of reason, that the eye cannot be relicd upon to tell the wi when three horses come driving un der the wire not ouly neck and neck, but nose and noso. There were constaut dis- agreements last year st the groat eastern meetings between the judges and the public, notably in the great Suburban race at Sheeps- head Bay, which was really won by Terra Cotta, though the judges gave the race to another horse and placed Terra Cotta second. The judges themselves and those sporting papers that make a practice of siding with the authoritics have always claimed that the judges' stand was the only point of observa- tion where the result could be correctly scen, because at all other points of view there was an angle that increased according to the distance from the wire. Most true. But that angle favors one horse, if the point of view i3 in front of the wire, and favors another horse if it is behind the wire. Wnen observers oun both sides of the wire con- curred in declaring that Terra Cotta had wou, their verdict was more entitled to credit than that of a judge dependent entirely upon ‘the quickness and keenness of his sight and without any possible corrobration, The photographic apparatus ought to be in use in overy course, o A Bostounian, or at all events, a gentleman living on the Jamaica plains, ome of the spokes of the Hub, Las written to s os- teemed contemporary claiming that he has a geuuine Rubens, eighteen inches high by fiftoen inohes wide, and he values it at $100,- 000, The painting represents @ vielt of Rubons to the coll of a monk, and as tho monk holds a flask filled with the Fuby juic: of the grapo in one hand, and a glass in tho othor, {t is a roasonable conjocture that it records an important incident in the life of that groat paintor, There was probably at the tima when the fncid rrod, o spasmof prohibition raging wildly in Rubens' native place. Bagor to wet his throat, re pulsed from ono tavern aftor another, in- furiated by offers of Weiss beer and other alternatives permitted by the prohibitionists, the hapless artist at longth romembored that lio had a tricad in & comumu of friars who was a very jolly fellow, and might, nay, probably would, ba provided, Ho flow to tho monastery, sought the coll of his fric and told his sad tale with the happ; t 0. 1f there is anything ch will make a voter for recent clection pause topie will not have “rtain that we do not care suMciontly es, and Dr. Jeffries has written a timoly pamphlet upon the injury done tothem in various industrics, by absoluto carelessness, Many an operator works with lis faco to a window who ought to turn his sit. The strong light compels the to contract, so that the man S with effort than is at all necossary; rens, 1f he faced about, the light, would be on his w and his eyes would be acting under normal conditions. The best way for to have the light from the side in Ay-time, o d the eyes from tho s of the lamp at nigit-tic pad from the shade, S that tne pres s graving is very trying to th the wood-euttor has continually to compare his work with the original in frontof his b “This necessitates a constant chan of focus in the eye. But the egzravers will never be allowed to g0 back to the old order of things, and Dr. JeiMries must exercise his acutencss in devising something that will strongthen their eyes. The work they do is s0 admirable that it has pushed old-time en- araving into the limbo of obscurity. oyes, because Aprovos of the recertly reported robbe in musical circles of Miss Sizrid Arnoldson's jewels, a statistician, who evidently fears neither the wrath of managers nor the anger of a fair woman, has made a caleulation of surpassing interest. e has studiod the fi of the wmorning pupers and has found that jewelry to the amount of seventy-five mil- lions of good hard dollars has been stolen from swoeet singers during the last ten yes he callous wreteh turnsand twists the sub- ject with much enjoyment. He flnds that no reward has ever been offered for the discov- ery of the stolen gems, though they wera deseribed fully in the columns of the press, 1 the police were never notified, nor was their assistance accopted when it was volun- teered. On one occasion Christine Nillson was robbed of a hummin bird made of precious stones, which she usnally wore in her hair, and which was kept in vibration by asteel coll. The vexation of the lady was apparently 50 real that it called forth uni- v, and_nothing was talked of we Nillson's humming bird, “The police canght the contazion, and the in- spector of the detectivo foree voluntecred to find it, but his enthusiasm was dampened by avery cold reception, and he realized that Clinstine Nillson was only obtaining a vast amount of gratuitous advertising in the usual way. oy Some brave women, disciples of the school of Ella Weeler Wilcox, feeling deeply the many wrongs that women have to endure, ave como out boldly and asserted that the verage man does not know how to kiss. He smacks, instead of imprinting a gentle pres- sure that would not bro a cob-web, His kiss suggests the adhesiveness of plaster, whereas it should be a sort of mentary meeting of lips, and a touch ligh the shadow of a glancing bird These rc a porous mo- formers evidently base their remarks upon the hypothesis that all in America chew tobacco, and they, therefore, reason that a long, clinging kiss, would saturate a young wowan with nicotme, They should diserim inate as the railroad men do with their classi fications of freight. The longest kisses ongnt tobe for the men who neither chew nor smo%e, and who drink only California wines, The next in length should be for those who simoke and drink wir ‘T'he next for those who smoke and drink whisky. Those who chew or smoke cigarettes must just touch the lips they love without any lingering. It is extremely difficult to change the nels of trade, and this 15 a truth that the C iforniuns are fecling bitterly. Men who make wine must make brandy, because the is made from such wines as cannot from lack of alcholiol passto a second fermentation, and therefore the Californians produce be- tween four and five million gallons yearly of brandy, besides seventeen to twenty million gallons of wine. The sale of this branay as Californian is creeping slowly to the eastern cities, but an imumense amount is ted to Hamburg, sophisticated with aleohol made from potatoes, flavored with substances pro duced by the destructive distillation of wood in iron retorts, putinto I'rench octave bar- rels, given a headiness by the introduction of steam through a rubber siphon pipe, and then reexported to York, where it is sold to dudes as the e old brandy of the Cognac district ha Californian brandy is sold as such, and everyone who possesses a discriminating palate Knows it to be as good in flavor as French Coguac that is genuine, Don't Do 1t. Philadelphia Recod, The seceding soldicrs wio descrting the Grand Army of the Republic and start ing a new organization in the west d their organization to be non-politic charitable, But that kind of o society uot grow from the sced they are planting e Where Will the Mugwumps Go? New York World, To the inquiry as to where the mugwumps will go now, Mr. Curtis saysin Harpor's Weekly: “He is goingto stay.” Why, of course. He has no place to go. Like the blue hen which sat on one egg, bis time is not at all valuable, and he can fford to stay right where he is. —————— Domesticity in the White House, Journal Nearly all the ladies who have occupied the white house have been associated in the public mind with some distinctive taste of quality. With Mrs. Grant it was interest in national affairs; with Mrs. Hayes, temper ance: with Mrs. Cleveland, beauty, and with Mrs, Harrison it promises to be domesticity. e Reasons to Be Good. Phoneer Press That 18 the nawme of the naw pri- vate secretary. How well he will jog along with Beunjamin and Levi. We never fully realized until Thanksgiving day was waning what a real old-fashioned biblical adminis. tration we had jumped into. Now let us all try and be good for the next four years und become @ credit to our administrative pa- triarchs, Elijah! e The Elecioral College. St. Paul Press. The American colloge of electors, which meets the secoud Monday in January, 15 re markable for one thing, at least. It is the only convention, political or otherwise, whiah is devold of dehate, wrangles, or long-winded eloquence. Like Flanagan of Toxas cach member of the august bady kiyws exactly what ho is there f A withont discord, without question, thoy silently ratify by their formal, perfunctory votes t Lof amighty nation, The clectoral o stands as a concentration of the wighticst polit N on carth, — - The Public Plunderers, Record. The proposed railroad trust would b thy t thing of ite kind in the world, cov ing a mileage that would react wronad the earth if it could be luid on the lino of the cquator, This aggrogation is to be “held to- gether by tho coliesive power of public p der the old whigs used to say of the old democrats. It is possible that in scheming for the control of rates the railroad combinas tions may forco upon s such an amendment of the inter-state commerco law a8 shall tako the rato-making business out of the hands of railroad dircetors on all lines that ave uot within tue coutrol of state aus thority, | twice con U HLoo Many Lawyers." The Epoch Thore are too many lawycrs, and thors will bo 80 long as the presont state of socioty exists. No other business requires a sm: capital; none offers such glittering tompta- tions: in none aro there 8o many precodents 10 show that merit will vise to high distine- tion notwithstanding the humblest bogin- mings. Thousands of young men with v imperfect oducations, scorning the honest manual labor of their fathers, rush into pro- fessions for which they are unfitted by thoir qualities of mind and by thoic early training. A foolish notion that their “education” un- fits thom for manual work, and that such worlk would bring with it some sort of degra- dation, has ruined and will ruin thousands of them every y this will continue until the bulk of our peopie have learned that nothing ean be more honorable than honesk and intelligent manual labor. - PROM T PERSONS. Mrs. Juy Gould had $30,000 when she mar- ried the Wall street wizird. He invested it for ner, and now it has grown to 2,000,000, Mme. Bernhardt told a Viennese new: paper man recently that thers is one person with whom she has for years enjoyed terms of ntimacy, unbroken by a single quurrel, It is her dressmaker, Daniel Greenleaf Thompson, who su ceeded the late Courtland Palmer as presi- dent of the Century club, is a Vermont man, and was & page in'the senate of that stata during the early years of the civil war Congressman Robertson, of Lousiana, i€ sid to be the greatest bear hunter in the south. He is also an expert deer hunter, and has followed more than one panther mto tha jungle. He keeps a pack of hounds and boar- dogs, and his kennels are famous all through the south. Editor Dana, of the New York Sun, has had the distinction of a banquet thrust upon him in England. Among the guests present were William Black, the novelist, Alm Tadema, the artist, and *“‘our own" Bre Harte, who grew to distinction on American soil and is likely to go to seed on old land. Mr. W, Clark, a banker and editor of Butte City, 18 said to be the richest man in Montana.” He bas speculated more in Rocky mountam mining properties than any mun i the territory, and the new hou iug for a v cnce in Butte City 18 designed to surpass anything of the kind in the norths west in magnificens Miss Buell, a Cincinnatl artist, spent the summer at Egmont, on the North Sea, She found a potato patch well situated for ob- taining sunset effects, and pitched her oasel there. " The owner objected, but sho paid no avtention to him. Theu ho complained to the burgomaster, and ho refused to interfe ‘The farmcr, as a last resort, petitioned to the l(m{z, and the result was a letter of reproof to the farmer, in which he declared that Miss Buell might’ tresspuss on all the potaye patches in Holland. ———— The Eternal Brotherhood. Let us struggle up the mountain and view the outspread plain, With its forges, streams and fields of waving grain, Glorious in its wondrous beauty, every de- tail perfect seems, From this elevated standpoint, sparkling in the sun’s bright beams, There's another elevation should strive to reach, Where we stood in God’s clear sunlight to learn what He would teach, That the world he has created is controlled by wisdom’s law, Aud steadily moves ouward, without failure, without flaws That all the good aud evil he v trol, And blend them in the future in oue harmo- nious whole. The high, thoe low, the rich, the poor, that through this world have trod Belong to one great family whose father is our God, ‘Then may we idly fold our hands and float on with the stream ! Yes; and dush against some boulder that will watke us from our dream. There Iiu individual effort required in this plan, ‘T'he universal God depends upou the God in man. There is individual duty, aud 1t must control the will, For not one human being another's place can fill Izach single life is grand, 15 great and yet is v sina 1 t ono could be dropped from sight without disturbing all. ‘The life that is the grandest, the fullest, and the best, In nature's wise economy, depends upon the st And noue is 80 ignoble but some subtle link, and fine, Connects it with its brothers, and thus with the divine, For God's.in all, and all's in completes the one, Aud he wh planned this universe will seo his work well done Evriza A, Manmiy, Oxford, Mass., Oct. 15, 1555, S The County Commissioners. ‘Phe county commissioners met in sossion yesterday afternoon, There was a short but breezy tilt hetween the chairman, Clerk Moran and the remainder of the bourc touching that portion of the minutes roferr i to the authority delegated to the poor farm committo o 4ppoint u NUrse 0 assist superintendent Maboney. The minutes were approved by a vote of three to one, Mr. O'Keoife votiig no, and ut the sumo time intimating that in future ho would not vote upon any similar applications. “Why don't you call for aycs and nays if you wre in doubt as to the result of a certain meadows and that our souls 1y will con- iod, the wholo decision ! 1 Clork Moran My y is quite good record enough, replied Chairman O'Keefle, J. 7. Evans was empowered to hire an as- sistant in the compilation of county statisti- cal mattor, at a salary not o exceed &5 per month and the ongagement 1o ex- tend for a period of not more than two months. Dr. I%. S, Keogh usked that Dr, Horrigan be appointed as his assistant, on account of ncred ickness, Reforre d ing ofticial bonds were preseuted d: John Christonson, as assist- inth precinet, in the sum of and appro ANt a3K0s £00; Henry Ehernfort, asscssor, First pro- cinet, in the sum of #00; C. B. Havens & Co., in the sum of 1,000, as a guarantee for the’ proper fulfillment of their contract to supply the city and_county poor with coal, The bond of John H. Huelff, in the sum of 0, s justice of the peace, was road and ros forrbd 10 the judiciary committee, The bill of Louls Grebe, amountine to 5,50, was reforrod, as Was also that of Drs, Bryunt and Hughos for medical servicos, amounting to 45, County Attorney Simeral presented o bill of costs expended in the King murder case. fIt read as follows “Cash paid Ofcer Dempsey, §7.50; short- hand reporter, #.95; for keeping witness, §7; postage stamps, §1; oxpensos 1o Chicago snd roturn, §26.75; total, $4.20. Mr. Simeral's bill for office rent for the month of Novems ber was also submitted and roferred, with the King bill, o the judiciary committeo. I'he following appropriation sheots wera read and adopted: No. 24, general fund, #026.25; No. 23, general fund, $6,789.06; No. %, geueral fund, §057.60; No. 17, brilgo fund, §2,126.80; No. 9, hospitaFfund, $260. o o board adjourued until next Fridey ot b @ s s — e