Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 17, 1889, Page 4

i i DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. - TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Daily (Morning Edition) including SUNDA Biig, ON6 Year. ... i fx Months. . Montl © JRddress, AT, WrrKLY BEp, One Year. ¥ - A OFFICE, Nos, 014 and 916 FARNAM STREET, ENeAno Or¥ics, b7 RoOKRRY BUILDING, W Y OIK O, ROOMS 14 AND 15 TRIBUN® Jotoma. Waskinaox Owrios, No. 518 URTEENTH STRE CORRBSPONDENCE, All communieations relating to news and cdi. torial matter should be addressed to the EDITOR OF THE BEE. BUSIN K88 LETTERS, 11 bustness letters and romittances should bo [Aressed to Tie IEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, LOMANA. Drafts, checks and postoflice oraers to ‘made payable to the order of the company. 7 Beg Pablishing Company, Proprielors. E. ROSEWATER, Editor. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. 1 . " Counts of Douglas, | ** G @ B3, Tzschuck, secretary of the Bee Pub- ~ Nshing company, does solemnfy swear that the actusl circulation of Tur ¥ ligr for the ‘week ending Ml:fi ! Bunday, Mur - Monday, M Al vi Wi i 10, 1800, uuum.llo Bl 18,843 . TZSCHUCK. Sworn to before me and subscribed to In my presence this 10th day of March. A. D. 1889, Seal. N. P. FEIL, Notary Public. Btate of Nebras ) Soumy of Douglas, (™ corgo B, Tzechuck, being duly sworn, de- And_says that hi 18 socretary ol the Beo Fbmmng company, that tho actual avorage ally circulation of THE D. for the of March, 1 os. July, ek, 1800 coples: 38,1 copies: for September, tober, 1 3 M?‘m‘z wfm mne for Docember, 1888, 18,22} : for hnnnry-g}l!:‘. 18,674 copies; for Fob- copies. 3 FEORGE B, TZ8CHUCK. Sworn to before mo and subscribed in my ‘prasence this 20 da, arch, A. D. 188, NP, FEIL: Notary Public. WATER, water o\'ory;hero. but not a $drop” to drink. i Se——— GOVERNOR THAYER has approved the Omaha charter, and it is now the law of the city. E——— NEBRASKA officeseeicers are not get- ting to the front with alarming speed. Many are named, but none are chosen. ———— MAYOR BROATCH promises to rival Greely us a weather prophet. The city hall signal guarantees thirty hours of dry weather. — YGENERAL” PAUL VANDERVOORT appears to have been lost in the postat shuffle. Even Clarkson could not white- wash his record, A CURE for the rabies has been dis- covered in Pittsburg. A prompt appli- cation of the remedy to the hydropho- bists running wild in the Lincoln lobby ‘would be a profitable investment for the RUMORS of war preparation in Europe are promptly followed by denials. Meanwhile every nation is armed from toe to crown and anxiously watching a chance to turn the country into a vast slaughter house. —— * FRANK MORRISSEY, of informer fame, “is said to be engineering the scheme to modify the gambling law by repealing the imprisonment clause. There is no ' Tikelihood of his succeeding, as happily “the governor will have something to say in the matter. THE accounts of the base ball inva- sion of England furnish food to cheer the patriotic heart. The outcurves and inshoots displayed at ducal dinner tables ‘give ample proof of the capacity of our ‘boys to sustain.the glory of the republic as the pargdfse of consumptives. The BEE is again threatened with a ‘fibel swit growing out of the poor farm exposures. Tho libel laws of Nebraska are broad and liberal and if the poor farm management believes it can vindi- cate itself by appealing to the law, it ———————— Tie BEE is in receipt of written and werbal threats of violence in case our poor farm investigation be nov aban- doned. THE BEE has received so many communications of this character in in- wostigations of a similar nature in the Jpast, that they.are looked upon as a - matter of course. A Tae Hampton legislative committee will not report and in consequence the _ forty super-serviceable employes will all ‘draw pay until the end of the session. . SPnis is just what was to have been ex- pected in view of the fact that nearly . every momber hasa relative clinging fo him with a grip that cannot be shuken off Tue organization of the Inter-state Railway . association for the avowed purpose of giving stability to western freight rates promises an early and ;mmp\am disfuption of tariffs., The sgreement was scarcely cold before the Chicago & Northwestern announced a eduction on rates from western points o Duluth. Combinations cannot turn ‘the keen edge of competition. SEt—— © Tue tide of emigration from tho | Btates to Canada is assuming the pro- 4 ns of a stampoede. Last year's pecord oxceeded that of the previous yesr by 4,762. The American idea of monexation will find little encourage- . ment in the dominion while wealthy " financiers, cashiers, bookkeepers and muvicipal statesmen seek homes and sheltor there MANY of the leading cities of the uniry are enlarging the old and ac- uiring ground for new parks. Several nd acres arc to be added to the k system of Now York. The Cali- ornin legislature has passed a bill au- rizing cities and towns to levy a tax pavk purposes, These movements are vesult of erystalized public opinion, o universal demand in crowded com- \wnities is for places of recreation and L re, managed for the public good. Phe new charter will enable Owaha to follow the example and surround itself fith a system of parks which will not Ainorense the attraotions of the city tribute largely to the general { vate propert, THE OMAHA DAILY BER: SUNDAY MARCH 17. 18%0~SIXTEEN PAGES THE OMAHA CHARTER. Governor Thayerapproved the Omaha charter yesterddy, and it is now in full force and effect. Some of the changes made in the provisions of the charter of two years ago are important. Chief among these, perhaps, is the one taking the construction of public buildings out of the control of the board of public works and placing 1t in charge of the mayor and council, VI'here was not only a present necessity for this change, but it is wise on general principles, the executive officer of the city and the Tegislative representatives of the peo- ple being manifestly the proper powers to control the construction of the public buildings. They are required to be governed by the same methods of pro- ceedure as now govern the board of public works, so that the amended charter simply makes a trsnsfer of authority without effecting any change in the manner of the exercise of the authority. Another important feature of the new chartor is the authority given the mayor and council to appropriate pri- for parks, boulevards and It is provided that appropriation shall necessary by ordi- nance, the mayor, with the approval of the council, shall appoint three disinterested fresholders of the city to assess the damages to the owners of the property respectively taken by such approvriation, the dam- age so assessed to be subject to confirm- ation or rejection by the council. Pro- vision is made for a board of park com- missioners to consist of five members and to be appointed by the judges of the district court, whose duty it shall be to lay out, improve and beautify all grounds now owned or hereafter ac- quired by the city for public parks. For the creation of a park fund a levy of not less than one and one-half mills and not exceeding three mills on the dollar val- uation of all taxable property is author- ized, Under these provisions Omaha may be expected to make an early start in establishing a much-needed park system. | The authority to grant liquor licenses is now lodged in the hands of the mayor and board of five police commis- sioners which will undoubtedly be feund o much more satisfactory arrangement than that which it supplants. There are other changes of minor importance, but all of them improvements euggested by experience in the operation of the charter of 1887. A faithful enforce- ment of the provisions of the new charter ought to insure Omaha one of the best city goveruments in the country. public squares. whenever such be declared ST. PATRICK'S DAY. Strictly speaking, St. Patrick’s day is a veligious festival. Yet because Ire- land has no great event in its history worthy of being called a natal day, the Irish race scattered over the earth have selected the 17th of March as the most appropriate one to give vent to their political hopes and aspirations, and re- count the joysand sorrows—mostly sor- rows—of the “fatheriand. The relig- ious life and conquests of St. Patrick are somewhat typical of the® present struggle of Ireland for political inde- pendence, The former found the island steeped in paganism. Bloody druidical sacrifices were of common occurrence. The petty kings wero constantly at war, and tribal strife had aimost ruined the country. Patrick came as a missionary of peace and good will, He first moved among the peasants, taught them the benefits of christianity, and by educa- tion gradually led them to a high plane of civilization. Kings and princes, un- able to controvert his arguinents, bowed submissively, and an era of peace and progress dawned upon the island. It was truly the golden era of Irish history. In thirty-three years St. Patrick practi- cally eradicated paganism and sowed the seeds which, in the following three centuries, flourished and deservedly gave to Ireland the title of ‘‘the island of saints and scholars.” Then it was that Ireland was ‘‘the quiet habitation of knowledge and religion;” that her sons, not content with their good works at home, traveled all over Europe, every- where carrying the light of christianity and civilization. The history of succeeding centurics is a continuous story of bloody strife against foreign invaders, of abortive attempts to cast off the yoke of tyranny, of broken pledges, of persecutions, famines and evictions. Not until the Land League sprung into life in the seventies, culminating in the struggle for home rule, did the people of Ireland unite effectively in demanding their vights, While St. Patrick’s path was beset by pagan- ignorance, the leaders of the new Ireland have been encom- pussed by bigotry, race prejudice, in- formers and forgers, These evils are gradunlly but surely vanishing, REdu- cation has wrought a mighty change. The Irish leaders, backed by Gladstone and the liberal party, have in the past few years, broken down the barriers of prejudice and appealed personally to the rugged justice of the artisans and peasantry of England. The appeal was not in vain, Ev town and hamlet, every district, give encouragement to the movement, and calnly awaiv the opportunity to register their decision for home rulo. As paganism vanished before the light of civilization in the fourth century, so do the evil influences of forgery and bigotry in the nineteenth disappear before the united demand of Ireland for justice and political inde- pendence, ARBOR DAY, ‘The recurrence of Avbor day in Ne- braska--the second Tucsday of April— is so noar asto render timely a vefer- ence to the custom of setticg apart one day in the year for genoral tree plant- ing, with a view to urging its imporf ance and stimulating public intevest in its obscrvance. The poople of Nebraska should feel an especinl pride in this cus- tom, now in vogue in many states, be- cause it originated heve, but proper at- tention to it is not simply a matter of ventiment, but is urged by the soundest practical roasons. The early settlors on the trecless prairies of Nebraska do not need to be told of the beuefits to be derived from tree planting. They can bear testimony to the vast amount of good that Las been done by whut has been accomplished in this way during the past twenty years, and they are hardly likely to be found lacking zeal in the observance of Arbor day. The later comers, however, may need to have their interest aroused, and to-be assured that they can devote their timé on that day to no task of greater im- portance than that of tree planting. Inacommunication printed elsewhere in this issue of Tue Brr, General Brisbin writes entertainingly and instructively on this subject, dwelling both upon its senti- mental and practical aspect. The cus- tom is both beautiful and useful. For those who can rightly appreciate it this annual tree planting may be made a delightful pastime rather than a toil- some task, and it is in this spirit that it should always be undertaken. The children of the public schools should be interested in the observance of Arbor day, and they may be induced to be- come among the most active and ser- viceable heipers in promoting the suc- cess of the custom. Overseers of roads should be required to plant along high- ways, railronds along their tracks, and provision should be made for planting in coweteries, public grounds and parks. In short, the whole population, urban and rural, should be made to feel a zealous interest in tree planting as a practical necessity and a contribution to future welfare and enjoyment. General Brishin makes two sugges- tions which are worthy of considera- tion. One is that Arbor day should come a month later, and the other that the stato might encourage the observ- ance of the day by offering liberal re- wards to families planting the largest number of trees. It is unnecessary to discuss these suggestions now, but they may properly be recommended to public attention with the single observation that every proper and practicable means should be used to get fromn Arbor day the largest possible results. OKGANIZED CHARITY. 1s organized charity a failure? Per- haps not wholly, but that itaccom- plishes us much as it might do, or as it is generaily supposed to do, in reliev- ing the destitute and suffering is un- questionably not the cuse, There has vecently been furnished in Chicago striking evidence of this, and doubtless it could be supplemented in every con- siderable city of the country. Some time ago the Herald of Chicago insti- tuted an investigation in the quarters of that eity where poverty most abounds and its discoveries were appalling. Hundreds of families were found in utter destitution. Fireless hovels were crowded with shoeless and hungry chil- dren, with the sick without medicine, or food, or care, with helpless invalids, and with those who, while able to work, could find no work to do. It wasa shotking, pitiful and pathetic condition of affuirs to be found in a greatand wealthy city, and it proved how Jlitile organized charity was doing there for the thousands of unfortunates who must be helped or perish. The efforts of the newspaper whose enterprise disclosed this unfortu- nate condition of* affairs proved another thing, namely, that the great heart of Chicago is ac- cessible to the cry of want and suffer- ing. When the story of poverty and wretchedness was told there was a magnanimous response to the appeal for help that did honor to the people of Chicago. It was not their fault that fellow creatures at their very doors were froezing and starving and dying. They had supposed that the regular machinery of charity was in full oper- ation and doing all that it was designed to do, and that this was sufficient. They will not be again misled by any such blind faith. Hereafter, we may be sure, Chicago will find means addi- tional to organized charity for taking care of the helpless poor. The lesson is that a great deal of suf- foring is inevitable in every large city if dependence for charitable relief is placed wholly on the organized meth- ods of giving it. These are necessary, indispensible, but they do only a limited work, They provide, not over-gener- ously as a rule, for only those who come to them, some of which are not the most deserving, Organized charity works under rules and regulations, and it is no part of these that it shall go forth in search of dis- tress. But there is a great deal of misery and suffering that can only be found by hunting for it, and it is the duty of every community to guard itself against the shame of allow- ing its helpless poor to suffer and starve when the meaus to relieve are at hand in abundance. Here in our own city the winter has passed with comparatively little suffer- ing, but it would perhaps have been far different had the winter been of the usual severity. As it is organized char- ity has been sufficient to provide the relief called for. But it can be de- pended upon to do thisonly under such favorable conditions’ as have pre- vailed during the past winter. It needs to be supplemented in every large community by independent effort that will not wait to be called on, but will seck out for itself opportunities of ben - eficence. How this may be most wisely and usefully sccomplished it is for the philunthropists to determine. A LOUISIANA court has set aside the verdict of & jury in a murder case be- cause tho membors relieved the tedium of confinement with & quart bottle of whigicy, sandwiched between a pack of cards and a supply of baked beans. These accessories of justige cannot be safely dispensed with without imposing on the average juryman a dangerous exercise of the mental fuculties. Courts should be considerats in attacking the nutional wenkness for poker, beans and budge. THE anno: ent thuy Hon. Walter Q. Gresham will soon be vromoted to the suprome bench will be received with general approval by the people. No man on the beuch has done more than he to curh the power of corpora- tions and uphold the rights of the masses against the aggressions of mounopoly. A jurist of superior ability and unguestioned integrity, his eleva- vation o the supreme Lench would be one of the mosf popular acts of the new administration THE capitol jobiwrs of New York are painfully wnmin:‘l that penetrating charm which finds 'a flourishing home in Nebraska. 'k Boss Stouts, of the Empire state w content to pull through a bill of egras for 102,000 on a twenty million_dollar job, while Ne- braska's only Wflliam scooped in 40,000 at ove sl of -the legislatare. New York's m: a trifle in com- parison. - PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Grover Cleveland will celobrate his fifty- second birthday anniversary t0-morrow. Patrick Egan will not sample Mexican pulque without a government commission. Secretary Tracoy and Chauncey M. Depew swapped yarus in the New York legislature of 1862, Prosident Harrison will back his hand for A reasonable amount, but declines to shake the multitude, Uncle Billy Bowers, of Bowersville, one of the two men i Georgla who voted for Abra- ham Lincoln, is still alive and vigorous. Major Watson is _bolieved to be willing to throw up his commission in the state mlitia for a federal office. Johnuy keep your gun, keep your gun, John B. Fry, of Sidnoy, N. Y., who was once private secretary of Henry Clay, is anxious to fry the fat outof a foreign consul- ship. John H, Musick, a lawyer of Kirksville, Mo., wants to be Minister to Siam. Musick would be a good man to maintain harmony in such a position. The undertaker’s convention will assemble in Lincoln next June. If the members could be induced to assomble next week, they would find several large sized jobs to decently inter. When Governor Church heard of the ap- pomtment of Mellette for goveruor of Da- iota, ho gathered his surviving braves about nim and led the service with the soul stirring hyma, beginning: *There's @ land that is fairer than Da.” Colorado is wrestling with the capitol building problem. Nebraska cheerfully tenders the services of her eminent citizen, Bill Stout, to solve the difficulty, coupled with o guaranty that his exhausting ability wili not be felt outside of the treas- ury. Sir Julian Pauncefote, the newly appointed British minister to the United States, is said tobe much bleased at the prospect before him. **The position in question has been the ambition of my life,” he said recently. His daughter is described as a most attractive woman and a great favorite in London so- ciety. - Candidates for postoMces will mot find much comfort in tha ‘remarks of President Harrison to the Wise men of the south who called to urge the “appo(tment of a repub- lican to the Richmond postofiice. “Is the office vacant " asked theé president. “No, I believe not. But," #aid!'one of the delega- tion, as soon as hé ‘récovered his breath, “it was expected that you would not wait for a vacancy.” ‘But I'ghail}’ returned the pres- ident. “The term of tid imcumbent doesn’t expire, T understand, within, eighteen months. Come arguad then and you shall have the place.” ————— Ignat us What are You Up To? Chicago Tribune. Ignatius Donnelly has been ominously quiet for several days.® He is uadoubtedly doing something, again r; sdistogh; Shakspearc’s Yories; a1 S A Loughing-Stock Company. New York World. The shareholders of the London Times are having the unpleasaat fact forced upon them that they-have become a laughing-stock com- company. Ward is Growing Weary. Atlanta Constitution. Itissaid that Ward McAllister's hair is turning gray because of the guying para- graphs the newspapers print about him. Ward is the dreariest old beau the country has ever seen. He should go into retire- ment, —_— A Marriage de Convenance. Chicago Times, The Cauadian parliament and the United States senate are simultaneously discussing the question of Canadian annexation to the United States. The tone of the debates in both legislative bodies serves to convince people'that if the' parties are ever joined in political wedlocl it will in all probability not be a love mateh, but simply a marriage de convenance, us the French say. D0 vie fLdeen g Dot Loaf of Bread. Carl Pretzel in New York Mercury, 1t vasin o half-starved garrot house dot a mudder und dauglter lay; Dhere dond vas a_wouthful of food to cat, nor some fire by the shtove dot day. Faiot und sick vas dot mudder poor,stretched out mid a ped of pain; Der wrinkled face and sblender cheeks be- spoke how long she'd lain. “Fadder, give us dis day somo damly bread,” vas vat-der child did said, Asshe knelt by der side of der tattered gwild und prayed for dot loaf of bread. Shuckful mit faith she shdarted out to find herself der place Vhere God vas keep Tlis baker shop for feedin’ der human race, “P've comed for dot,” said der leedle child, “I've come for dot daily bread - I vant me two of der freshest loafs,” to der baker man she said. Al right, all right,” sald der baker man; “idhierd's der bestest dot I've got; But shtop me here, you leedle tief, dot money I doud hafe got!"” Der leedlo gal, mit frightened look, did said sho could notting pay “I dond vas got a single cent to pay for der bread dot day.” “Vell, vat you ditks !—vou shteal dot broad; 1 take you wit der policos; I dond did inow how ish der reason you dook me dot two loaf pieces.” Mit tearses flowin’ down ner cheelts she vas ‘Der Fadder did said He yoost would gif to all dot ask dis day some daily bread. So I yoost come here to got der bread ot He did said He'd gif— To took 'em back to muddbr dear, so dot she could mit me lif."" ' Der burly baker was nofy feel bad of vat der child did said: ' ' S0 he yoost did fili derbag full of dis, “our daily bread.” So she vent mit spheed of lightuin’ gwick it dhom plessin’ an har head— Und told her mudder she'd founa der placo vhere der Lord vas, bake His bread. Mit ublifted eyes again dhdy prayed, und der language vhat dney said Tas “Tanks to Him for plessin’s sendt mit dis day our daily bread.” e Meet Me To-Morrow at Two, Love. New York World. “Oh! meet me to-morrow at two, love, By the fountain in Central Park, And we'll sail as the dainty crew, love, On the lake in & fairy bark. You may bring me of pound-cake a bite,love, Of billet-doux puper & ream, So 1 shall not forget me to write, love, But don’t forget change for ice-cream,’” Alas! when to-morrow at two came, Agustus De Smith was not there, He found cauh for the boat aud the carriage For roses o braid iu her hair, Foi caramels, cake, etcotera, For billet-doux paper a ream, But he knew e never could fetter her, ‘Aud he vouldu't find change for ice-cream. | a photograph. BUZZINGS. Josoph Millard, president of tho Omaha Natlonal bank, in exploring the recesses of his desk, discovered a small eylindrical pack- age rolled 1n brown paper. He was about to throw it away when it occurred to him it might be advisable to open it and examine the contents. He tore off the wrapper and found a plece of medium bristol on which wvas pasted a letter, which rend as follows: Execurive Maxsiox, Wasnixarox, Nov. 17, 1868.—In pursuance of the fourteenth sec. tion of the act of congress entitled “‘An act to aud in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri river to the Pacific ocean, and to secure to the govern- ment the use of the same for postal, military and other purposes,” approved July 1, 1802, 1, Abraham Lincoln, president of the United States, do hereby fix so much of the western boundary of the state of Towa as lies between the north and south boundaries of the United States township, within which the city of Omaha is situated, as the point faom which the line of railroad and telegraph in the sec- tion mentioned, shall be constructed. Anmamam LiNcony, The document had been missing for over ten years. It was still in an_ excellent state of preservation. Close Inspection was re- quired to convince the observer that the relic was not autographio. Tt was, however, but It displayed the legible chi- rography of the great exccutive, which at the time had not acquired the angularity which later distinguished it. Almost every letter was perfectly formed. There were but one or two erasures. These are not not- ed in the transcript above given, though in other respects the lotter is produced just as it appears to the reader in punctuation, cap- italization and style. Tt was one of the most important proclamations which President Lincoln ever issued, and yet it doesnot cover a sheet of paper of four square inches, Its importance and the bearing 1t had upon the great question of determining et what voint the Union Pacific road was to be inaugurated, prompted Mr. Millard to have it photographed. This little relic was used in the great case before the supreme court of the United States in the effort to determine which was the initial voint of the Union Pacific. It that suit, the decision, as 18 well known, was rendered in favor of Council Bluffs and against Omaha. In this connection, it will be interesting to note thata later proclamation on the same subject was issued by the president. This reached Omaha on December 2, 1863, and fixed the initial point of the road on the “western boundary of the state of Iowa op- posite Omaha—opposite section 10, in town- ship 15, north of range 13, east of the sixth principal meridian in the territory of Ne- braska.” ‘What led to a change in the phrasgology of the original message, the chroniclers up to date have failed tell. Mr. Millard's souvenir has been framed and will henceforth decor- ate a wall in his residence. s In the biographical sketches of President Harrison’s cabinet, recently published, men- tion is-omitted of an interesting stage in the career of Noble, secretary of the interior. After the battie of Prairie Grove, Mo., which was fought by Brigadier Generals Blount and Herron, of the United States volunteers, under the command of Major General S. R. Curtis, United States volun- teers, the latter was ordered to St. Louis, Mo, to relieve Brigadier General John M. Schofield, now in command of the army, who was then only a brigadier general of the Missouri state militia, and who, upon being relieved, took the field, replacing General Curtis, General Curtis brought with him his personal staff, which included Colonel N. P. Chipman, chief of staff; Major H. Z. Curtis, A: A, G.; Captain Stark, A. A. A. G., and Lieutenant John W. Noble, who was as- signed to duty as assistant judge ad- vocate. Lieutenant Noble, at that time, was a seedy-looking chap, in con- trast with the spruce-looking staff officers who had been so long on duty i Washiogton at department headauarters, and attracted but little attention. During his service on the staff of General Curtis, who was some months later relieved and virtually Noble made but few appearances in public, devoting himself to drawing charges and specifications against the various civil- ians who, about that time, were being ‘‘grid- jroned” before the military commissions which were popularly supposed to be con- vened to convict. And, indeed, as most of the indicted ones coming before them landed in the Alton, T, military prison, the old penitentiary, the belief gained ground that these commissions knew why they were convencd, and that Licuten- ant Noble knew how to draw charges and specifications that would stick. Later, the lieutenant was relieved and joined his regi- ment to fight his way to martial fame and, again, on reaching civil life, to demonstrate in the noted whisky trials at St. Louis, that he had not forgotten his army training as a prosecutor.. 1t may, perhaps, be yet his des- tiny to appoint another to the position which he has now accepted at President Harrison’s hands. The two men, Harrison and Noble, are alik more in character and method, than in personal appearance, and their simi- larity in the latter respect will be noted when they come together and their peculiari- ties are discovered. There is every indication that in the very near future the phonograph will become an ndispensable adjunct of every well-regu- lated newspapor office. And whava grand thing it will be—in fact, a boon, filling a “long-felt want.” Many uses will arise for the little instrument, and when once intro- duced a full corps of these sound receptacles will become a necessity. For instance, there would be neeaed many phonographs of as- sorted sizes for interviewing. Two column ones could be sent when some cuitured gen- tleman would consent to talk on a vital ques- tion of the day, and machines with a capac- ity of only two lines when o crank desired to descant on # useless hobby. What a sav- ing of valuable time for the overworied ed- itor to be able to pick out a phonograph hold- ing just the length of interview wanted, write note to the vietim asking him to talk the machine full on the desired subject, and then call a messenger boy and order the Siuterviewer” delivered at its destina- tion and await the answer. What a relief to reporters —no long-winded yarns to listen to, no poor cigars to smoke, 1o vile liquor to take on the side, no snubs and no ‘*‘roastings’ because the interview was not correctly reported. But this is only one feature of the revolution which wiil un- doubtedly result from the introduction of the phonograph. . There are others, 30 num- erous, that TrE BeE will wait until it has se- cured its corps of instruments before nam- ing them, The presence in this city during the last three days of the past week of Lydia Thompson, recalls the circumstance which,” more than any ability she possessed, gave her notoriety throughout the country, In 1500 she was at the head of a company of *“Hritish blondes,” which in those days were considered & novelty. She was play- ing “Siobad, the Sailor,” “Ixion” and several other burlesques of the same kind in Crosby's opera Chicago. The Times of taat place had for a long time cherished an intense feeling against the mauagement of the house, & feeling which colored almost every notice wiich was given of the performances which there took place. The blondes received some lively notices to whioh the falr Lydia objected. She passed judgment upon the paper and adjudgeda the editor, Mr. Storey gulity. ¢She determined to horsewhip him and on Friday evening, on such a night as last Friday, rainy and disagreeable, she ac- complished her purpose. Mr. Storey had just stepped from his carriage on his way to his rosidence on Wabash avenue, when a carriage drove np and out of if rushed Miss Thompson and Miss Markham, They intercepted Mr. Storey, and the farmer slashed him over the shoulders and face several times with a rawhide. The old gentieman staggered and ran, but was not followed beyond his gate. The assailants then drove away. Saturday afternoon they appeared for trial in the old armory. The place was thronged. Their case was sot for the following Monday. They gave bail for their appearance. Later it was sought to charge them witn another offense, and offi- cers were tent to the Michigan Central depot to arfest them. But thoy could not bo found. Their company was on the train vound for Detroit, and the train started. About fifteen miles out of town the two women were taken on board, having been driven thither through the mud at a rapid eait. Thoy thus oluded tho officers of the law and forfeited their bonds. The next night they appeared in Detroit to an overflowing house, and were received with storms of applause. Storey is dead, and the glory of Thompson has faded. As sho now appeurs on tho stage she shows the effect of time. She 18 no longer the admired of a certain class of theater-goers, but a curiosity which everybody likes to see for the sake of old times, Miss Thompson sces it,and an expression of sadness scems to overspread her features as she allows her mind to run upon the past, She is almost the last of her noted associates, but her nawe will live longer in the recollection of many thau that of any of them upon whom the curtain of life has been rung down for- ever. i gL CLEVER WOMEN. Harriet Beecher Stowe's biography, written by her son, will be pubtished prior to her death if it is finished before thut sad event occurs, Miss Sanger, Prosident Harrison's typo- writer, is said to be the first woman ever employed at the white house in a clerical ca- pacil & Frances Hodgson Burnett writes a scath- ing letter in the Critic denying that she wears Kate Greenaway dresses, and asking for fair treatment from the gossips. Mrs. James K. Polk, now eighty-five years old, wears black kid gloves all day and walks with a gold-hcaded cane. She never leaves Nashville nor goes anywhere in that town except to church Sunday. Miss Miriam Samucls, a bright Jewess of Bombay, is going to London to study medi- cine with the view of practicing as a physi- an in India, She has already earned the degree of Bachelor of Arts at the Bombay university. Mrs. Helen S. Conant will probably suc- ceed Miss Booth as editor of Harper's Bazar. Mrs. Conant is the widow of Stillman S. Conant, editor of Harver’s weekly, who so mysteriously disappeared about three years ago, and of whom no trace has ever been dis- covered. Mrs. Platt, who is a skillful amateur pho- tographer, has several pictures of her hus- band, the ex-senator, taken by the instanta- neous progress. One of them shows him throwing stones from his garden walk into a wheelbarrow. It is apprehended in some quarters that a picture to be taken about three years hence may show him throwing stones mto President Harrison's back yard. Mrs. Humphry Ward has evolved a new scheme for the disposal of her literary wares. Having completed the manuscript of another novel she has completely turned the tables on her publishers by announcing that up to a certain day at 12 o’clock m., after the man- ner of the most stately government adver tisements for proposals, she will rece propositions from publishers for the produc- tion of her book and .will then decide be- tween them. e GREAT MEN. The Rev. Dr. Silence is a Chicago socialist who believes in ‘‘agitation. " Historian Froude is writing a novel describing country life in Ireland a century ago. Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen says that Rjobert Bjrowning has “a certain pagan delight in nudity.” Ob, noj quite the contrary. Browning clothes even his meaning in ob- seurity. ‘Wwanga, the deposed king of Uganda, has become a broken-hearted mun since his downfall, He claims that the glory of Uganda has departed because Kiwewa, his euthroned brother, has no appreciation of the delicate features which pertain to the artistic cooking of missionary-meat. A lively rivalry bas been going on in the house of representatives at Washington bo- tween Messrs, La Follette, Yost and Wash- ington for the palm of youthfulness in looks. The latter, known to his Tennesseo constituents as *‘Joe Washington," has come off victorious by shaving his face clean, He now looks almost painfully young, A fow duys ago he clapped his hands fora page The boys laughed at him.* They thought one of their number was playing a joke on them, ‘Washington had to walk over to them and assure them that he was not a pago. Count von Moltke 1s now very old and suf- fers considerably from deafuess and the mal- adies attendant upon o bad liver, He does not show his ill bealth, however, and to all outward appearances is well preserved. He is tall, lean, and slightly bent. He wears blonde wig. His features are very strong, and the gray-blue oyes, thin lips, mur cheeks, and long, straight nose, are calcu- lated to leave & lastinyg impFession on all who sce him, Mempes, has s about art. the painter, i 1 paint any- which I think is beautiful. Anybody who ealls himself an artist should be above n ting any subject or any me- dium for expressing his ideas till he reaches the limit of his capacity of reproduction, I am sorry to say that I don’t care particularly for the company of artists. There are a great many humbugs wwnong them. I don't believe in a man putting on a velvet jacke and long hair and faneying himself cloth in the whole arwor of art. a Ll Discounting the Fut New York Mereury. My boy sat looking straig 2 coal ¥*rom Lis stool at my fo And the trelight burnish: viy head Ana painted the checks with a dash of red Aud brightened his very eyes as he said, In & most confidential way: “Mamma, T think, whon I'ma grown-up man, 1 shall have just two little boys.” L smiled. He was six, but ho did not And 1 said, * But if one we: 1t would &dd to your household joys. 5, how nice that will be sWell, ves," re And I'1i T'll name o Then the glow, “And there's just the two of us now, and so 1l nawe the girl Annie, for you."” ectively, “that woull be nice, o Just vihat 'l da; tabbio, for me. yon Know," right eyes shono with a doeper 3t hoae would thelr mosher lio thatt” | asked, Do you thiuk that sho would agree For us both to have names vhil: she had noue Witk the mystified, puzzled luok of one Wiolly befagged sat my logical son, “Thelr mothor! Why, who is shet” FOR THINKING MEN. Recent statistics show, says the London Times, that while crime 18 satisfactorily di- minishig in England, it is rapidly increasing in the United States. During the past few years American crime has increased not less than one-third, and the growth of the prison population has, unfortunately, been steadily progrossive since the year 1850. At the close of the first half of this century the bropor- tion of prisoners to the million in the United States was 200, being one to every 2,448 per- #ons; but by 1880 the proportion had risen to 1,160 to the million, or 1 to 855 of the popula- tion. This did not include juvenile delin- quents, who would bave raised the propor- tion to 1 in 715, In 1857, when the population of England and Wales was about 19,350,000, the average number of penal-sofvitude sen- tences in this country was 9,58 ut by the ond of 1887, when the population had risen to over 27,750,000,, the average number of such sentences had fallen to 062, On the last day of 1869 there were 11,600 persons undor- going sentences of ponal servitude in Eng- land and Wales, the population then being 91,081,000, But In July, 1888, when the popu- lation had advanced to nearly 28,000,000, the penal-servitude subjects had fallen to 6,991, ‘The conviction of svldiers and sailors has gone down greatly; while with regard to women, although 180 wero sentonced to terms of poual servitude in 1883, in 1887 only 83 were thus convicted. It is not a porfect machine, the British constitution, and the cynics say that it has not been improved in tho last sixty years, obs erves the St. James' Gazette. But at least wo have no need to copy American in- stitutions, although the home rulers are aften appealing to the constitution of the Unitod States as a precedent. Booause eaoh of the different states which are called United has a legislature and an executive of its own, it does not follow that every dis- trict which would like to set up politics on its own account is therefore allowed the priv- ileges which it claims. Iut as it is w0 the custom of the United States that home rulers make their appeal, by the example of tho United States let them be condemned. There is a colony of thriving and industrious and peaceable folks cailed Mormons; but, be- cause they entertain views of matrimony ‘which are properly repugnant to the views of the majority of the citizens of the United States, the colony of saints is mercilessly co- erced under the denomination of an alien legislature, It is idle for them to say that they have a naturat right to home rule. That may be, says the government, but what will you do with it? If you intend to use it for a purpose which we consider to be immoral, why, you shan’t have it, and that's the end of it. We form bad habits so easily, says the Christian Union, that it is a mistake not to watch ourselves at least as closely as we watch others. This is especially true in re- gard to language, not only grammatioally, but to avoid forming the habit of using ex- clamatory words that have not a particle of sense in the way we use them—‘'splendid,” ‘“horrid,” ‘“awful,” ‘magnificent,” and a host of others. If you tell an incident that 18 pathetic, or should induce sober, serious thought, to have it met with a word that @oes not express any relation to pathos shows your listener a most superficial thinker, and you must lose respect for his mental power, while it isby no means certain you do not of- fend n the same way and start the sama thought in auother. The other day two young girls wereina car, one telling the other something that fn- terested them both greatly. When she finished she leaned buck saying: ‘‘Wasn't that awful?"” “Yes, it was,” said the other emphatically, and they both giggled. Now, of two things: they were perfectly heart- less, or the thing told was not awful, Most probably the latter, for they continued their journey in the utmost good humor. It is not wise to form the habit of using extravagant languuge, it is like paying too dear for your goods, and no one does this who knows their value. A fow years ago tho Amorican congress labored under the impression that the classi- fication of the press as the fourth estate was an error, says the New York World, and that the position belonged to the congress of tha United States. At all ovents our distin- guished representatives regarded themselves 08 being on a much higher plane than “news- paper men’’ and were disposed to snub the latter on all occasions. Correspondents and roporters were relegated to the reporterss gallery, excluded from committee rooms anf taken to task on nearly every occasion if thed managed to obtain information through their own resources. When Greeley and Ray- mona were in congress, the one in 1848 and the latrer in 1864, they were constantly callod to account for articles in uheir respectivo journals, Poor Grocley, as non-combative a child, was personally assaulted by aruf- fianly congressman, Albert Rust of Arl sas, in consequence of some comments in the Trivune. IBven Brooks of the Express did not escupe, All this is changed. Journalists who are now in congress are honored by their asso- ciates, and thoy write their contributions to the newspapers to which they are attached at their desks while attending to public du- ties. They sign their namos to lettors act- unlly criticising their colleagues, A fow years ago as correspondents they would have found 1t difiicult to obtain the privileges of the floor. A recent Ltussian rveport on the agricultu- ral situation in leading grain oxporting coun- liolds that “the position of the Indian market eannot, of course, be compared cast with that of the United States of America, ative rural population are in a state of poverty, debt and complete igno- rance, while the ordinary productiveness of the soil is not equal to thut of America. In fact, the prosent exports of wh Indin to Burope must be considered artifi- cial and only temporary, owing to ri the staple food of the natives, Should the consuiption of wheaten bread become mora comuion, India, with her comparatively low power of production, will be obliged to be- come no importing cozutry. Indian exports may be called artificial for another reason; the cultivation of whoat is proportionately too dear to withstand steady competition in Lurope.” E R Tt often happens that men of the whoso morals are notoriously loose are most severo in taciy denunciations of intellectual unbe- lict, suys the New York Tribune. And the surange pavt of it is that they are really sin- cere in their repudiation of such unbelief. Down in the bottom of their hearts there (s a prefound belief in the code of Chiristian mor- ality which in their daily lives they fail to follow, but which they vaguely expect some o follow when they have exhaused all tie pleasures of life. And the factis to be regarded not as an argument against chris tiasity, but as an unintended tribute pmd 10 it. But He Do Chicagn N vious peoplo of other cities who are foud of calling Chicago wicked are respect- fully informed that Charles Wesley is run- ning a saloon on the west side. o ‘The Lungtry-Gebhard Nuptisls. Kansas City Times, Thoy say that Mrs. Laogtry and Mr. Geb- bard are marcied at lust. Lot us trust that the proceedings were regular and that Mr. Langtey was properly consulted in the prer lminary srrangements,