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THE DAILY BEE, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Pally (Morning Bdition) inclnding SUNDAY BEr One Year nths Months 280 A SUNDAY HEE, madled 10 any 8, One Y ear ¥ o WeEKLY BEE, Oue Year 2 00 OMAHAOFFICENOS, 9TEANT ATNAM STRERT, CHICAGO OFFICE 567 ROOKERY DBUILDIN WK OFFICE, ROONMS 1L AND 15 TRINCNE U1 DING. WASHINGTON OFFICE, NO. ol URTEENTH STREET. #10 00 5 00 CORRESPON DENCE. Alleommunications relating to news and edi. #orinl matter should be addressed to the EDITOR OF Ty Lgr, RUSI LETTERS, 11 business letters and remittances should be adaressed to TAE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMATA, Drafis, checks and postoffics orders t6 bomads payable to the order of the company. The Bee Pablishing Company Proorietors E. ROSEWA'T ditor. THE DAILY Bu# Sworn Statement ol Circalation. Btate of Nebrask [ County of De 1as, | (George I3, Tzachuck, s Nishing Company, doss solemnly swear that the aetual circulation of Tik DAILY BE for the week ending January 19, 1850, was as follows: Bunday, Jan. 13, Monday, Jan. | Tuesdny, Jan. | . Wednesday, Jun. 15 Thursday, Jan. i7....., Frday. Jan. 1% Baturday, Jan. 19,000 Average. . stary of Thoe fes Pab- Vtutioey L 18,05 GRORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Eworn to hefore me and subscribed in my presence this 19th day of January, A. D, 188 seal N. P. FEIL, Nowary Public. Btate of Nebras a. 1 County of Dougias, [l George B3, Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de- PorGana nys that “he is secretary of the Nise Publishing company, that the actial averags aily circulation of 'TRE DAILY BEk for tho month of January, 188, 15,206 coples; for o 1888, for Mareh, 188, 10, copies: for April, 188, 1K 744 coples; for May, 18 JK7 copies : 10r June, 186, 19.243 copjes: for J TRK, 18,83 coplen: for Angust, 1558, 18,1%3 ¢ for Beptembor, 1888, 18, copies: for October, JFE8, was 18,08 copies: for November, 188, 18,080 coptes; for December, 1585, 18,22 coples. Bworn to betore me and subscribea ln my Presence this §rd day of .lanuary 1830, N. P. FEIL Notary Public, OWING to o failure to make close con nections with the steamship mails, for two weeks Mr. Carpenter’s Asiatic let~ ters have not been received. We are notified, however, that a letter will reach us for publication next Sunday and that no further delay is anticipated. JLOBULAR glass ballot boxes are not wholly unobjectionable, Democrats would be teying to drink something out of them. ELOPING with the driver of a beer wagon is Omaha's nearest approach yet to the conchman style of love and flight. But the city is young, It has comparatively few coachmen. CONGRESS is trying to restrict the {mmigration of vicious people. There should be no pains spared to accomplish this. Idiots, paupers and criminald are to be found here plentifully enough without being imported. e ——— THE purely ornamental character of the Tennessee lawsuit has been illus- trated again by the sudden death of one of the contestants in a case at Knox- ville. The winner of a suit who gots killed by the loser, really gains very little. Tug policeman engaged in ridding the postoffice corner of loafers, is zeal- ous, but his zeal is occasionally misdi- rected. It is often necessary for very respectable people to visit the postoflice. The policeman seems to have lost sight of this fact. MARSHAL MCCRACKEN, of South Omaha, has long needed admonition of stronger sort than mere advice. Mr, MecCracken should before now have sworn out a warrant against himself, mlleging extreme giddiness, and served the document unflinchingly. Tie Paris veporter of an American paper knew that & man was going to challenge him to a duel. He hunted the belligerent up and interviewed him, surprising the fight all out of him and getting the news besides. There’s diplomacy and enterprise combined. THERE is much nonsense being talked ahout Colorado’s newly elected senator, ‘Wolcott, He never had anything like yearly income of $30,000, nor is his law practice by any means the largestin the state. Patterson, Macon, Butler, Hughes, Markham and others receive greater fees and more of them. But ‘Wolcott is brainy and aggressive. He will let people know that he is in the senate, — Tue people of Missouri are finding fault with the agricultural college of their state. It is charged that the col- lege is of no service to the agricultural interests; that the attendance of #tudents is mythical, and that at best Bhe college is nothing more than un ex- pensive experiment station, and a poor @uo at that. The people of Nebraska ean feelingly sympathize with the peo- ple of Missouri, if that is any consola- tion to them. THE new agreement entered into by the general managers of western rail- roads may unquestionably prevent rate cutting and a demoralization in trans- portation rates. But the agreement entered into, that each road is entitled 4o 1880 to approximately the same pro- portion of the entire competitive pas- ngor revonue between terminals as it gecured in 1888, suggests 80 nasrly the existence of & pool as to call for an ex- planation from the ofiicials, — Tie project that has been brought . forward to advertise Nebraska at the Paris exposition by the erection of a fac-simile of the Arcde Triomphe in ©orn, has so many elemeunts of novelty that it should be carefully considered “ it it be thought advisable for our state 2o mako a display. The matter properly belongs in the province of the board of trade. If that body thinks best to en- tertain the propositiou, the co-operation of similar organizations through the state should be invited. By this means the whole state would become inter- ested in the project and the necessary arvangements ocould be made. Un- doubtedly Nebraska would get her share of praise for the original and ap- propriate idea. Such advertisoment would amply repay the cost of the en- Serprise. . AS TO CITY HALL RELOCATIC Within t#o weeks from naxt Tiesday our citizens are called upon whetlrer the city hall shall re it was located by an November, i) 10 ¢ nain whe ove m- ing popular vote in whether it shall be removed son Square. The form in which this vote has been submitted by the city council leaves yo alternativeexeepting a vote for streot or for Jefferson Square, To dis cuss any other locations or interpose any change in the proposition mitted is at this time entirely ont of the question. The champions of re-location a the most part, the samo | have persisteutly interposed all sorts of obatacles in the way of carrying out in good faith the ontemplated in the original city hatl ordinance and rat- ified by the people. These pr have resorted to means both desper and infamous. They purposely delayed the letting of the contracts for the building originally ordered by the council, and after the basement finally con- teacted for they manipulated the council and extended aid and comfort to the contractor who was charged with delaying the work and failed to live up to plans and specifications. It was principally through this pernicious in- fluence that the contractor was finall relensed and the work entirely aban- doned. The utter perfidy of these men was steikingly shown in the injunction tri last spring when they solemnly swor that they 1 no intention to change location or abandon the basement on which nearly forty thousand dollavs had Dbeen expended, but merely wanted to revise the pluns so as to remain within the limit of two hundred thousand dol- lars. In order to make the foundation as unsightly as possible, and forge an ex- cuse for abandoning the site altogether, the conspirators who have been plotting 1o thwart the popular will and get their clutehes upon the joboferecting the new building on .Jjefferson Square allowed the materials and foundation walls of the city hall to be left entirely unpro- tected from the elements. In this de- sign Chairman Balcombe and Major Furay, of the board of public works, have played into the hands of the job- bers. The council ordered the board to protect the foundations and proy are of the building mate which belong to the city. After wait- ing several weeks the board concocted and submitted an ingenious rig- marole declaring that it would cost several thousand dollars to protect the city hall foundations and since they had no such means at their disposal, nothing could be done. This, in the face of the fact that one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars of city hall bonds were in the treasury at the disposul of the council. And now Major Furay, who is at the head of the Jefferson Square literary bureau, has had the stone-pile and base- ment walls photographed and proposes to circulate the picture of the hole, as he calls it, among the tax-payers as a pleain favor of Jefferson square. We hope he will do so by all means. It will afford a proof to taxpayers of his own knavery and treachery in allowing the city’s property to go to wreck and ruin and giving aid and comfort to the gang of wreckers who have kept the council in turmoil and forced a bovdle cam- paign upon the city to its everlasting disgrace. Divested of all subterfuge and side issues the main question that presents itself to every taxpayer and every citizen who has the good name of Omaha at heart is simply this: Shall the city of Omaha countenance and encourage repudiation in its most offensive form, or shall this city keep faith with her own citizons and with in- vestors from abroad, who nave pur- chased and improved property adjacent to the court house on the strength of the city hall location? This loca- tion has been advertised far and wide. It has been placed upon the city’s maps, and millions have been loaned by eastern capitalists on the faith that the location was per- manent and the city’s credit was pledged tocomplete the building. This is really the vital point upon which the vote on the 5th of February will hinge, 1885, or Jefer- wrnam sub- 2, for that rsons was A GRAVE STATE OF AFFAIRS. The latest intelligence from Samoa will be likely to arouse the patriotic indignation of the country. A stenmer that arrived yesterday at San Franci brought the report that the German consul and naval officers at Samoa have been guilty of the gravest possible out- rago in seizing American citizens, de- stroying their houses, and tearing down and burning United States flags. The American citizens made prisoners were taken in the neutral water of Apia, a fact which greatly intensifies the offense. The Germans are shown to have been the aggressors, and the course of the consul, who is presumably acting under the instructions of his government, indieates very plainly that itis the policy of Germany to take forcible possession of Samoa, regardless of the treaty arrangement to co-operate with Great Britain and the United States in maintaining the autonomy and independence of the Samoan islands. Qur government will doubtless soon be in veceipt of ofticial advices from Samoa, and if the intelligence brought to San Fravcisco shall be confirmed the duty of the govern- ment will be to promptly demand of the German government an explanation of the conduct of its representatives in Samoa and an assurance of full indem- nity for the losses and outrages suffered by American citizens, The representa- tions made by our government to that of Germany regarding the Samoan situ- ation and the effect on American inter- ests there have, it appears, received no attention beyond a renewal of the pro- tessed desire to co-operate for a settle- ment of the conflict between the native leaders. It seems evident, however, that this profession is not incere, and it will be conclusively shown not to be if the news at hand receives official comfirmation. The government of the United States has boen in no respect aggressive re- gavding Samoa and has not sought to advantage therc over the st, Germany and simply taken the obtain any other powers in 1nter Great Britain, Tt b steps necessary to protect Americun cit- izens in Samoa, and asked that Germany should respect the rogard- ing the islands, There wasconsequently no provoecation for the outrage on Amer- , and4he insult to the national flag, ich the German naval forces reported to have committed by of the German consul. As sonted it is certainly a very rave and serious matter, which may casily lead to ugly complications. We © no idea that anybody desires a war with Germany. It would necessarily bo anaval conflict, and at the outset we snould be somewhat overmatched. But there will be o universal demand that our government shall firmly insist upon every right it has at stake, Having pursued & fair, moderate and honorable course, and neigher asked nor sought anything not warranted by international agreement, we should now surrender no just claim andyield noderand thatone nation may rightly make upon another under such circumstances, agreement are direction now pr A FEW MORE LIES NAILED. My amiable friend, Jim Creighton, who is known to be modest and retiv- ing, insisted upon being heard before the republican elub of the Seventh ward to discuss the merits of Far- nam - Str and Jefferson square as competitors for the eity hall tion. This privilege being granted, he launched out into a personal harangue in which 1 was painted in ors that would befit his satanic maujesty, and the most stupandous hoods were patmed off as indisputuble facts. Now a linr ought to hav ory, but Me. Creiehton is ve in that essentinl pavticu The only possible excuse thut cau be made for him by his friends is that the man is in his dotage and no longer vesponsi- ble for what he says. Some people in Omaha may not know his failing in regard to veracity: henco I am compelied to correct some of the most claring misstatements that he in- Qulged in at Hanscom park. In doingso I shali avail myself of Creighton’s paternal adviee not to be too delicate, and if his friends find me little too blunt they must charge it to their champion. According to the Creighton’s speech the fact that he man of the board when the eity hall was located on [Farnam street. and he (Creighton) begged Ed Rosewater to sell his adjoin- ing lot in order to have roow evough in which to build a city hall. *“No, si you couldn’t get Rosewater to sell. kuew it would Dbe to his advantage to have the city hall next to his lof What a whopper! What preposterous nonsense this mun tries to impose on credulous community! What money had the city at its disposal to buy these lots with? The people had voted ely enough bonds to construct the building. and including the twenty-tive thousand dollars contributed by the school board the sum total at its disposal was two hundred and twenty-tive thousand dol- lars and that exceeded the amount of debt permitted under our assessment. ‘The building was to cover a space 1. 126 feet What object would there have been to buy two more lots 132 feet square adjoining? The city hall is to be a business building. Did Creighton want the city to expend a hundred thousand dollars to plant a posey garden around it? And what had the chairman of the board of public works to do with the purchase of lots? The whole story is a fabrication. Again, Jim Creighton says “Ros water was responsible for the Meyers plan. Meyers was his special architect and was his tool.”” ‘Phis is utterly untrue. Meyers never has been employed by me in any eapnc ity. I have never asked him to draw any plans for me, and he hus never done a dollar’s worth of work for me. Meyers is an architect who makes fire- proof public buildings u specialty. He had planned some of the grandest and most costly publie buildings in Amer- ica, and was the architect of our court house. 'That building ana the United States postofiice were the only fir proof buildings in Omahaavthe time the city hall was located. No local architect could point at that time to any structure in Omaha that would have justified public confidence in his ability to construct a public building that would stand the test of time. Meyer's work was before our city in the shape of the court house, the best and by far the cheapest public building in this section. The confidence in him expressed by the county commissioners, including then practical men like Fred Drexel, Richard O'Keefe and Will- inm Knight, resulted in the choice of Myers. Another reason for employing Myers was that he had agreed to have his plans ready within ninety days and the city officers were occupying fire traps. Jim Creighton’s declaratior that the foundation and basement 6f the city hall building 15 usclogs, and that the cost of concreting the space between the city hall and Tug Bee building would be six thousand dollars is of piece with the imfamous slanders and downright lies which this old fraud has concocted in. connection with the eity hall controversy. Every- body remembers the false alarm raised hy Creighton and his mob about THE BeE building foundation and the pre- tended danger to the foundations of the city hall, because of a portion of the cast wall being higher than the base- ment walls of THE BEE building, This roorback was started at the time to help out the contractor for the city hall basement,who wanted to leave his work unfinished. Mr. Beeman,the architect of the Bee building, who is one of the ablest architects in America, Archi- tect Meyers and Mr. J. F. Coots, who knows more about building when asleep than Jim Creighton does when awake, after a careful inspection pronounced the city hall walls per- fectly safe und in no danger whatever. But in order to avoid any further delay aud eseape further annoyance from the loca- a good mem- ¥ deficient w. voports of Jim he pointed to the chair- public works was of ng me T offered to concreting the gang that was hour pay balf the cost spuce between the tibuildings. This was approved by Mk Mlyors, who recom- mended that the dddereting be done. Jim Creighton says it would cost six thousand dollars, *M#* Coots offered to do it for nine hundred dollars, and he also offered to take upihe east wali and lower it to an equal flepth with the walls of Tue Bk Building for one thousand, eight hundged dollars, B Brennan offered to the entire wallf or from twothohsand, two hun- dred to three thausand dollars, but Engineer Tillson and Chairman Balcombe thought that sum too high. Jim Creighton eapped the elimax of impudence by declaring that he would not consider a frame house safe on the foundation walls of the hall, and e boastfully adc something about buiiding.” Does Jim Creighton lence to oharge ing architects of Omaha and such builders Richard Withnell, John T. Coots and Daniel Shane have entered into a conspiracy to mis- lead the city whon th cortified after full examination of these basomont walls that they are in good condition and would,with about one thousand do s of repair sustain a five or six story building without risk. Yes, Jim something Omuha tax-) have arned 10 their sor Jim knows how to build lop-sided bridges, how to lay rotten pavements, and how to fileh hundreds of thousands of dollars out of the pockets of taxpayers for wrotched work that will have to be done over ain within less than five years. 1t was Honest dim onee, hefore people found you out, but it is Rotten Jim now, and will so win after the history of our public improvements comes to be written. [n conclusion let me admonish Jim Cre to keep closer to the issue and the merits of Jefforson squave. 17 he however, in making me the issue, 1 will not shrink from the encounter. The poople of Omaba are not all of Jim's pattern. They realize and feel that in bmlding a four hundred thousand dollar, fire- proofblock by the side of the city’s 1 I improved the city’s property fully as mach as my property will be improved by a three hundred thousand dollar city building. ahuil city y VL know have the inso- that the lead- kunow as does building. indeed, ahout oW, ghton persists, Art associati that association has made most gratifying progress instimu- lating a love for the fing.arts in our city. The ussociation has a ‘membership of nearly three hundeed jund is steadi growing in favor with our citizens. The prospects are certainly encouraging for the further developnent and influence of artin owr commbinitk. Omaha has at last reached thap-stage in her de- velopment when in common with the cities of Minueapolis, St Paul and Kan- as City. there isa longing to become an art center of7promineace. The Western Art association hasformed the nucleus, [t ha: hered together the artists and amateurs of Omaha, and is making the laudable effort to raise the standard of art in 0 v midst and to edu- cate the people to an appreciation of art for its own suke. But in order to make the influence of art permanent it is necessary that in the near future art schools be ablished and that a public art gallery be bailt. To fully ca these high aims the as tion must depend upon the support and muni- ficence of the public spiri citizens of Omaha, The appeal should not go un- heeded. Omaha has reached a high commercial importance and a place in the list of the leading business centers of the countr; It is now the time to seck for those arts and embellishments which reflect i ation in its highest forms. —— Cuier AVEY proposes the adoption of a plan which will tend to make the policeman’s lot a happy one. He would retire a policeman after twenty years' service on full pay. If disabled in per- formance of duty the officer would be entitled to half pa; The widow of an ofticer dying in the service, would re- ceive half pay, or in the event of her death, the sum would go to the youngest child until sixteen yeurs of age. Of course this mensure before going to the legistature for indorsement, may be ex- tensively altered., But the central iden will be at once recognized as practics bleand humane. The scheme would not, as might appear at first glance, load the municipality with pensioners. Few policemen serve continuously for twenty years, nor do many die in the e. If oneis injured, he is fairly entitled to be kept from want, nor should he be concerned for fear of his fam- ily having to suffer. A pension system would tend to get good men on the force and keep them thore, would pro- mote sobriety and faithfulness and thus pay foritself. The commission should at least give the matter careful atten- tion. s0¢ ——— Mg, SR was able to command the full support of his party in the house for his territonial omnibus bill, and that meunsure was passed by a strict party vota. As was sttifically said by Mr. Grosveuor, it should be entitled a bill to try to convinge ‘the people of Dakota that the dgmobratic pavty is willing the territory sheuld come into the union, but in' factto keep out all territories whose votg is republican for an indefinite period. This action of the house was quite gencrally ex- pected, though there ,was a hope that Cox and some other democrats who have professed a friendly intevest in Dakota would vote against placing this obstacle in the way of that te tory’s prompt admission, Of eourse thé bill will fail in the senate, and in the event a conference agreein: not probable, because it is not likely that democrats will recede from their posi- tion, obviously unfair though it i, Such an outeome will give added force to the demand for an extra session of the Fifty-first congress. —— A WESTERN farm mortgage scare has taken hold of certain parts of the New England states, where this form of in- vestnent has been upusually attractive. It is said that over seventy-five millions have been inyested in western lands, the payment of which certainly has given the holders no reasonable cause larm. The decline in railroad curities is undoubtedly the cause of the tation in Massachusetts and the other New England states to shake the confidence of small holders in western lands. But the value of western farms is not 1 guaged by nor does it fluctu- e with the value of western railvond urities. They are wholly independ- entof each other, and the eauses which depress railvoad stock have no fnfluenc on the value of western farm lands. fact that Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota, [litnois and other hav than doubled popul within the past or cight yoars is an indic tion that the value of agrecultural lands in these has permanently advanced. Moreover, the nse crops raised for the past two years are evidence that the western farmers ave solvent and able to meet the intor- est and principal on their mortgages. so- sole more tions statos imm INFORMATION has been received from sources that the Knights of r. a8 a body, have taken no action he city hall location. It is further stated that such assemblios as may desive to take action have an un- questionable ht to doso. Certainly laboring men interested in defeat ing the Jeflerson square plotters, and it would be anjust to' restriev expression of opinion from an organization of such men. it is also unjust for a few tools of Jim Creighton to be allowed to pose as ropresentatives of labor sentiment., No knight will be misl ed by a game of this kind. Noono el will, either, IN justice to the men of the [Unit States ship of war Omaha, Tie B is only too happy to eredit the gift of the picture of that vessel presented to our city, to the erew. The impression had gone abroad that the present came from the oftic Of the Omaha in recog- nition of the library of books given by some of our citizens to the war ship. It was o matter of right and duty that this or impression should be o rected, and Tk Beg can assure the men before the mast who contributed to the memento that their gift is all the more apprecinted by the city of Omaha. Thetime was when thousands drew their veligious inspiration from the teacher of Plymouth church nd crowded that place of worship to 1 to the mfted tongue of Henry Ward Beecher. But his death has changed all this. Now it is said that the mem- bership of the church has fallen away and the society is in debt. meons voice o TH T PRE! oor Men Will G ehrasia City Press, You may laugh at the ice men now, but you will not laugh at their bills noxt sumimer. they gather 1o ice this season this wi case of “ne laughs bes. who laughs last. pan. A Ver Attorney General Leese is very much as a public ofi sial if the attacks upon him ha no better foundation than that he has given employment in his ofice to an assistant and a stenographer. AIl Things to All Men. Fremont Flail. claims that Dorsey’s brother-in- Tom Benton, is in league It Dorsey’s brother-in- s brother-in- hing for popu- ot injured Tus Be law, the Hon. with the raitroads. law is anything like Dorse, brother-in-law he 1s any! A Slight Hint. Hastings Nebraskan, To the squatter governor and the officers under his government: The asylum for the chronic insane at Hastings is nearly ready for occupancy. Its accommodations are ample, and suitable rooms are provided for the cure of the most violent. Ephriam is Joined to His 1dols, York Times, Speaker Watson's reckless abandonment of his auti-monopoly professions in making up the committees of the house reminds one of the passage of scripture: *“The dog hath returned to his own vomit, and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mir The Great Liegislature Craze. prfoll News, The fellows who want normal schools al getting in their work in a_way that doesn’t leave the cockle bur crusaders even a show for third place. Up to date the legislature has been asked to provide for fifteen normal schools, while only three anti-sunflower bills have been presented. Save the School Lands, Kearney Hub, ests of the coming genera- t these lands should be bet- ter taken care of, The legislature could do uo greater public service than to take the school lands off the market, and thereby save 10 the people the best investment for & school fund that it 18 possible to devise. The best inte tions demand tha 118 Real Source. Wyman Reporter. ‘The attempt that has been made to jure Attoruey-General Lecso in popular regard by churging him with extravagance, violation of the law, and nepotism, does not spring from an bonest desire to corr existivg byils and abuses in the public service of the state. It 58, on the contrary, from the settled de- sive of real enemies of reform, to leave no opportunity unimproved to depreciate, if possible, in publie esteem, the ofiicial who for four years bas fought bravely and un- flinchingly in the interest of the people against corporate aggression and oppression. sl e The Political Situation in a Nutshell, St. Paul Ploncer Press, 1t seems to be Tippecanoe and Silence too, B Must Have Been a Western Man. The Salt Lake Tribune makes known to Harrison its belief “that the experi- ence of the last twenty years has shown, whenever tired, that an eastern man cannot intelligently or satisfactorily administer the interior depa; {3 - What the East Says of Us. Philadelphia Ledger, It cost & county in M raska $2,503.25 to run the poor farm last year. As there were only two paupers, the daily cost per capita was slightly more than #3—about the same us a first class botel would charge. — His Only Redeeming Trait. Howells Jowrnal, Wesee by oneof our exchanges that ex- Senator Van Demark, of Saunders county, is spoiken of as u suitable mau to be pluced on the Nebraska board of transportation. He 18 & democrat, at least he claims to be, but we think that that is llm_r_nn,) redeeming trait which he has. He wotld be of no more use to the people of this state in thut position than would Jay Gould. He Is simply putty in the hands of the railroads. Such men, be they democrats or republicans, should not be given any position where they would have the chance to serve the corporations at the expense of the people, —se To Protect Native Talent. San Francisco Alta, ‘The proposition to excludo foreign actors from this country 18 futile unless accom- panied by a law compelling all Americans to attend performances given by native talent. Perhaps it could be arranged penally by having police magistrates sentence offendors to attend a cortain number of performances at the theatre by approved barnstormers, —-— The All-Kind Mother. James Whitcomb Riley, tn the February Century. Lo, whatever is at hand Is full 1 for the demand: Nature ofttimes giveth best When shie soemeth chariest. Ste hath shapen shower and sun To the need of every one— Summes bland and winter droar, Dimpled pool and frozen mere, All thou lackesty she hath stili, Near thy finding and thy fill. Yield her fullest faith, and she Will endow thee royally. Loveless weed and lily fair She wdeth, here and there — Kindly to the weed as to The lorn lily teared with de Each to her hath use as de As the other; an thou cle Thy cloyed senses thou may'st see Haply all the mystery Thou shalt see the lily got Its divinest blossom: yet Shall the weed's tp vloom no less With the song-bird's gleefuluess, Thou art poor, or thou art rich— Noever lightest’ matter which the glad gold of the noon, Ail the silver of the moon, She doth lavish on thee, whils Thou withholdest any Of thy gratitude to her, Basor” used than us Shame be on thee Not her pardon, with hot cheol, Ana bowed head, and brimming ' eyes At her merciful “Ar e OLEN PL are NTRI like wine--they grow. Polish helps a man in but when it is on his coat. socicty, not The man of whom society makes a lion is i never inclined to growl. There is but little hoet the metre is out of order. There is not an honest champion in the whole country unless it be the champion liar. There may be a differcnce between homeo pathic and allopathic pills, but there is little pereeptible in the bills. Never give money for any purpose to a mun who looks like asncak thief. A man with such a countenance shouid not be sent out cauvassing. Mr. Berry Wall's intentions regarding the stage are not vet elearly defined. He cer’ tainly has genius —indeed, we hear that vhe latest returns @wve Mr. Wall forty-eight separate and distinet pairs of trouser 7 It is rumored that there i3 one violent situ- ation in Mr, Howell's forthcoming novel in which the villain throws the hero’s hat out of a window; but the author's friends are confident that he has not resorted to the ex- travagant methods of the scasational ro- mancers. “What do you think about the race ques- tion at the South#” 0, dear! don’t ask me. You know I never did take any interest in sporting matters.” “But this isa matter which concerns the human ruce.” “So much the worse. I detest your plaguey pe- destrian tournaments, as you ure pleased to all them. “Who is the distinguished gentleman across the strect?” “That is the Hon, Mr. Bilgeway, of Cooper’s Corners.” “Drinks pretty hard, docsn’t he!” *No, not a drop." “But his face 18 remarkably red.” “Lven so. He has been mentioned in connection with u cabinet position, and since then has been holding his bre: The City Hall Sit The following has been received at this offic Regarding the city hall location and in reply to a letter appearing in the Herald of the 15th, signed “Geo. Smith,” I desire to say that the stand taken by the gentleman is untenable. Does he suppose if the building is located elsewhere than on Farnam and Eighteenth, Douglas, Eighteenth and Nine- teenth streets will remain in the present al- most insurmountable condition? The loca- tion of the city hall has nothine whatever to do with the grading of the stroets in question, for, whether it is located at Eighteenth and Farnam or on Dundee place, the city will be obliged to grade Douglas street between Sev- enteenth and Twenty, and Eighteenth and in a gasbill when inetconth streets botween Karnam and Dodge, in less than one year and a half. Those parties having the greatcst roasons for claiming damages are now showing u willingness to let the work be done without making any trouble. Of course, the work must be paid for from the general fund, but what citizen would not rather see $100,000 spent in beautifying the streets in the heart of business property, than sinking double the amount in aclay bank four miles from a switchman's shanty ¢ e The Knights and the City Hall Omana, Jan. 19.—To the Editor of Tne Bre: Ataregular meeting of the United assembly, held Sun anuary 13, 1889, the secretury was authorized to say that the Kuights of Labor of Omaha have taken no part i the city hall question. Tt is true that one assembly in its indiwidual capacity has taken action, as they had a perfect right to do, on this question, but their action is not binding on the Knights of Labor as a body or individually. Jony HaLL Secretary Pro Tem, — The Omnha Mission, The report of the Omaha city wissionary for the week ending January 15, 155, is as follows: Tne total number f galls made and meetings atteaded were forty-one. Twenty seven garments were given away. Mrs, Jurdine gave a bundle of clothung and a pair of blankets to a family who had been burned out of everything. One-quarter of aton of coal was given by the county. In the snow and rain of this week people watked long dis- tances in the hope that they would get somo- thing to take home with them that would make them more comfortable, We did all we conld for them, but our supplies arc al most exhausted. and’ in many cases there is no longer anything we can give which would be of service to those who come to us, Warm clothing of every description 18 much needed, also shawls, wraps and coverings for beds. One bundle'of clothing has been received this week, and 75 cents in money wus given for a special purpose. ‘Ihe attendance at the sewing schooll was 190, The attendance at the Sunday school was 19, The attendanco at the gospel meetings about eighty. Tho meeting last Sunday evening was one of the best that we have yet had. We hope soon to nave a light at the'door, which will make it both pleasanter and safer for those who at- tend the evening meetings, Wa shall try to have at least one week night mecling here- after, The County Commissioners. The county commlissioners were in session yesterday afternoon. A communication from the Edison Electric Light company, making a proposition to supply the new county hos- pital with an electric light plant, ineluding an engine with a capreity of 800 lights, for £4,000, was received and referred to the cow- mitteo on coustruction. A communication from County Treasurer Bolln, asking for an imcrease in the salaries of his clerks ou ac count of an inc se in the *ninunn of the oftice, was referred to theé®commitice on finan ‘The report of Judge Shiclds was received and sboroved. The board ad- Journed to meet at 2 o'clovk p. m. Tuesday. CURRENT TOPICS, There seoma to bo a vory unnocossary cone fusion in the annual report of the production of the precious motals prepared by Wells, Fargo & Co,, for the states and territorios wost of the Missouri river. Two things con- tribute to this confusion; tho natural dosira of all the localitios concerned to make the bost showing possible, and In the second place a wish to please the bauking eloment of Now York, which has shown, since 1873, a determination to have its own way with regard to the laws respecting gold and silvor coinage. Aocording to the report the out- put is $114,84,502, but this is absolutely faise, for 1t includes tho copper and lead out- put of the reduction works that handlo the low grade ores of Montana and Colorado, The true product {a: Gold, $30,408, 052; sil- ver, £54,348,420. California leads the w ¥ wold with a trifle ovor £10,000,000, Nevada is sdcond with a trifle over $5,000,000 and Mon« tana third with a trifle under the samo amount. In silver Colorado leads with a yield of 817,000,000, and Montana comes sec ond with $11,000,000, poor Nevada being a bad third with not quite $7,000,000. 1f there is ten per cent of truth in the statoments made about the placer mines of Harqua Haia, in Arizon, and of San Miguel, in Lower California, the present year willsce a mata rial increase in the output of gold. But since the failure of the Comstock Lodo thora have been no discoveries warranting any hopes of marked gains in the world's stock of silve 1t will be remombered that at the time when the discovery was made that the morty gage clerk of an eminent law Hrm in Now orkaui eyl masy tinta qaaete ol a miltion by forging mortgages upon fictit- fous property, a sudden serutiny revealed tho fact that the Produce Exchange of that city had been robbed by a lawyer named Fostor of more than a hundred thousand dollars in thesame manner. The culprit escaped, and 10 0ne knows wiiat has become of him, But his old father recently sent the sum of $50, 000 to the exchange with & noto in which ho exprossed his sorrow for what had occurred and his desire to make amends for tho mis deeds of his erring son. Thorefore ho sent them the sum which would have beou his sou’s at his death, but could not send them more without robbing his other children of the share that was justly theirs. This act recalls the old days of this country when men had not become absorbed in the raco for wealtn, and were noted for their Cato- like sense of justice. In Mr. Foster's act there was not the theatrical fine sentiment which would bave given up everytling, for that would have been at the expense of thosa who had not gone astray. [t was pure equity, and so long as this country produces men with such even balanced intellects and such just souls there need be no fear for the fut- ure in spite of trusts and monopolies. Some ladies in Brooklyn ha established a coffee stand, where a man an get a steam- ing hot cup und a doughnut, or a slice of bread and buttor for 2cents. This is, of course, below cost, but they are certain they do good, and they give their time and money to the work. They are now appealing for funds wherewith to hire rooms well warmed, well lighted and provided with papers where the homeless can come in bitter weather, and read and fall asleep if they want. Some objection 1 being made to this part of the scheme, and it has been pointed out that in the Cooper Institute this used to be the case until steps were taken to prevent it. The chairs were monopolized by tramps who fell asleep in them, and snored witn their noses touching the most brilliant litera- ture. There is now a policeman with an | cagle eye, who immediately bounces ovory reader who falls asleep. But there aro some retormers who think modern sympathy is lopsided. Either it 1s all for the criminal oritis all for the ambitious struggler afuer wealth, There does not seem to be any sympathy with suffering pure and simple. This is why the tramp is so scorned, and why soup kitchens have been suppressed by public sentiment. But there is a visible change in men’s opinions, and the ladies of Brookiyn are simply leading the way ina movement that is destined to hecomo na- tionai. - " Cleveland has not given proof of muclt equanimity since his crushing defeat in Nov vember, and in many little things has shown the bitterness of his disappointment. Tne latest instance of this is the talk of tho whole country, and is the alleged snubbing of Senator Ingalls, who is the president of the senal It is the practice at the first presk dentiat dinner of each session to invite thd wwo congressional prosidents, that is, tne speaker of the house and the presidentof tha senate. Ingalls was not invited, and all the lady correspondents of the democratic party have been writing to their papers that In- galls 15 maddened to the heart because ho was snubbed. There is a little too much woman in this view of the case. A woman is heart-broken if she does not reccive an in- vitation to which she thinks hersclf entitled, buta man considers state dinners the most wearisome of duties. Most scnators wouid gladly subscribe 50 to any charity for per- mission to excuse themselves. A woman wants to show her finery, and has only these occasions for its display. A man has no finery, with the exception, perhaps, of Tabor of Denver, and n his American heart looks upon the whole business as a snobbish imi tion of forcign courts. American men be Lieve in stag parties, and the president who inaugurates them will be sure of re-clection, As o matter of fact, Ingalls went to the theater on the night of the state dinner, and enjoyed himself very much. He was as much hurt at the incident as he would have been if a six-year-old boy had put his vongue out at him, b 1t is to be wished that some one would de- fine with precision the exact ameaning of the words tornado, whirlwind, hurricane and cyclone, which are now being employed very loosely, Wheu the American coins a word, it exprosses what ho wishes to imuly with absolute precision, as, for example, blizzard. No one doubts, for a moment, that a blizzard Is the result of & combination of two factors, considerable mist in the atmosphere, and a north wind which congeals the vapor into snow of the fiuest character, whoso excos- sively small particles are driven forward with frigitful velocity. But when we come to the eyelone, such as passed of late over shuddering Pennsylvania, wo do not know exactly what it means. Th of storms, both of which are c but they are very different. One of them i3 the cireular storm, in which the wind moves in a clrcle, not at the same time, but progres- i Tustarts in at the east, for example, lily round to the north, thence to the west, thence to the south, and thence to the east again. Tho danger on the ocean of these storms is that there Is no wind at all in the center, but a frightful sea, so that tho ship is unmanageable, and at the merey of the waves. But there is another, which is truly @ whirlwind, and this is caused by the confiict of two currents of air, creating a spiral force which takes up trees by the roots, whirls roofs off houscs, lifts steady going old cows into the air, and plays a thou sand prauks. Now, torrado must be the Spauish for the good English word whirl- wind. Hurricaue is the Toltec word Hurra- Kan for the sawe thing, but as they belleved it to be the voice of & god, they worshipped the being who spoke in the whirlwind as the chiefof their ‘Lriad,