Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 21, 1889, Page 4

THE DAILY BE(?;. PUBLISHED EVERY MORN| ———— TERMS OF S8UBSCRIPTION. Dflly (unmm. Rdition) inc nmmx SUNDAY kR, One T Bix Momh N08,014 and 910 FARNAM STRRET, e, 407 ROOKERY BUILDING. RooMs 14 AND 15 TRIBUNR DING, WASHINGTON OFFICE, No. 618 URTEENTH STREET, CORRBSPONDENCE. All communications relating to news and edi- Sorial matter should be addressed to the EpiTOR OF THE kR, DBUSINKSS LETTERS, 11 business letters and remittances shonld be dressed to THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, Quana. Dratte, checks and postoflice orders to ‘made payablé to the order of the COMpPANY. “%ké Beo Pablishing Company, Proprietors. E. ROSEWATER, Editor. Notice to Agents and Subscribers We wiil consider it a favor if agents and sup- poribers wili notify us at once when Tie Ber fails to rench them promptly. In order to suc cossfuily remody any fanlt in the delivery of papers, it 1s absolutely necessary that we know the date on which papers were late or missing. 1f Inte, give the time and train on which Tue BrE reached your town. Also state from what Qirection 8o that we can locate the trouble and apply the proper remedy. Papers aro fre- quently carried by a town through the care- .Jessness of the route agents, and when this oc- ofirs, we-can, with full information, place the ne where it belongs. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Ciroulation. Btate of Nrbru!ln, *u County of ) George I3, T ucx snrretl\rynffl\n Nee Pub- Ushing company, does_solemnly swear tllut the sctual cires ulation of The DAILY BEE for the ‘Week ending April 20, 1859, was as foll : Bunday, April 14 Monday, April 15 esday, April 16 Wednesday, Thurada A Friday. Baturday, Apfll 20 AVEruage.....oveninnnns PETTRRTTTS GEONGE B. TZSCHUOK. Bworn to befors me and subacribed to in my wresence this 20ch day of April, A, 1D, 1889, al. . FEIL, Notary Public. Btato of hnbrukm County of Douglis. George B. Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de- pose M Bays LAt 16 18 seretity of tho' oo blishing company, that the actial average dllly circulation of' Tk DAty ligk for the 1L, 744 copies; for May, 1888, Lan DEieE: for Juno, 1884, 10,243 coy )Aol(uh, for 18,033 caples; for Augist, 1 Ior "apu-mlmr 1858, 15,154 ' coples; 084 cop l'ur swm-n to] betore, gie ana #ub crtbed fn my presence this 10th fln{ of April, A. 80, FEIL, Nntnr) Pbite. ASIDE from what the sharpers win 1n Oklahoma the biggest net incomes will probably be those of the soldiers, who earn $13 per month. SoME of the Keya Paha vigilantes are under bonds charged with kidnaping. They may thank their lucky stars that they are not under ground charged with lead. Now that the Eleventh and Sixteenth street vinducts have been absorbed by the motor, a viaduct over Tenth stroet ‘becomes a nocessity and can not be much Jdonger delayed. BOULANGER has been told to leave Belgium. Oklahoma seems to be about ithe only refuge available for the ad- swenturer. He would be tolerated there. “General Weaver, of [owa, has gone to Oklahoma. 8San Francisco is looking forward with Antense interest to the approaching itrial trip of the cruiser Charleston now wweceiving its finishing touches at Mare Island. If the new war vessel is built 40 tho satisfiction of the naval bureau San Franci: is destined, in the near future, to become a great ship building point. ONE of the most encouraging signs of &he building season in Omaha is the élot that bids for erection of costly uildings are in many instances much ess than the estimates. It indicates a asonable reduction of building ma- rials and the total disappearance of fho strike fever which paralyzed build- Ang operations this time last year. THE street car company of Minne apo- As, in its struggle to reduce skilled 1abor to starvation wages can hardly ex- pect any public sympathy. A man who possessess sufficient experience and in- * telligence to run a grip car should have decent pay. If a compuny can not op- werate profitably without grinding its .employes, it has made a mistake and got into the wrong field. Nor New York city alone, but Chi- rgo, Minneapolis, Boston and many thor cities will celebrate the centen- mial suniversary of the inauguration of #George Washington in a manner befit- fing the ocoasion. But Omaha will sit on her seven hills on April 30, and give mo more than a passing thought to the most illustrious American, who was first 4u peace, first in war and first in the hearts of his countrymen. E— THE city council of South Omaha dis- played commendable foresightin grant- iug a franchise to the Cable Tramway company. While the terms of the franchise ure rathor sweeping, the city will derive permanent benefits from the building and operation of cable street railways. The grades of the streets are such that horse cars and electric motors could not be successfully operated in all seasons and insure rapid trausit, AND now it transpires that New York's aristocracy is not entirely in- cluded in Ward McAllistor’s exclusive #ct of four hundred, The row over the inauguration centennial ball has ‘brought to light that there are two and . possibly three select Four Hundreds in the Metropolis. The question is one of almost national importance. It would mever 1o to huve these Four Hundreds #0 badly mixed up as to confuse thom with sober, respectable people of the pouRiry. —— I 18 proposed by the German govern- ament to establish *‘sea postofizes” for Randling of German and American madl in transit across the Atlantie. If 18 project 1s carried out postal agents 11 ba placed on mail steamers to assort «anails and forward them immediately on wweaching terminal points. This obvi- would expedite the mail service swith but little extra cost. There would e s saving of from twelve to twenty b :\ll‘l in sending letters from one coun- ! to the intorior points of the other. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY APRIL 21, 1839.—SIXTEEN PAGES, EASTER MORNING. The festival which is observed to-day throughout most of Christendom, in commemoration of the resurrection of Christ, is of somewhat uncertain origin. There is no trace of the celebration of FEaster as o christian festival in the new testament or in the of the apostolic fathers, At 0 very early pers fod it became the 1ule in the christian church to celebrate the Paschal festival, but a difference sprang up between christians of Jewish and Gentile descent as to the time of its observance, which led to a long-continued and bitter con- troversy. The diversity of usage was gradually brought to an end by the ver- dict of the church of Rome, which within certain limits placed the observ- ance of the crucifixion on a Friday and that of the resurrection on the following Sunday. The council of Nice, early in the fourth century, decreed that Easter should be kept on one and the same day throughout the world, but snid nothing as to the determination of the day. The diversity of usage in the observance of this festival and the contentions and controversies regarding g it, constitute one of the most interesting chapters in the hstory of the christian church, and even now the churches of Russia and Greece, and the Oriental churches generally, having declined to accept the reformed calen- dar, have their observance of aster nearly a fortnight later than that of the rest of the e hristian world. This chief festival of the christian church is in its character and spirit the most beautiful and inspiring. The cer- emonies and exercisos connected with its celebration ave such as to elevate the thought and feeling of the sincere be- liever, strengthening his faith, refresh- ing his hope and filling him with a sense of gladness and peace. In the event commemorated he finds that com- forting assurance which is the desire of all humanity, and which is so potent in sustaining millions who' without it would ‘‘take arms against a sea of troubles, ana by opposing end them.” All that will be uttered to-day from the tens of thousands of pulpits of the christian world will be words of cheer to those firm in the faith, while tho music of anthem and mass and hymn will be an invitation to rejoice and bo glad. The sentiment and spirit that will to-day prevail among nearly two hundred millions of people can not but be fruitful o1 good, and in a distinctly and purely religious way, it its inyigor- ating influence upon the faith and hope of christians, doubtless this BEaster fes- tival has accomplished more than any or all others for the cause of christian- ity. In the churchesof Omaha its ob- servance will be marked by more than the usual interesting and appropriate LASTING MONUME The charge that the American people are peculiarly given to materialism, that money-getting is their chief aim, and that society is organized largely on that basis, is not wholly unwarranted. It would be easier to give proofs in de- fense of this charge than in denial of it. But there occasionally happens, ana the occasions are becoming more fre- quent from year to year, instances of generous philanthrophy on the part of wealthy men which show that not all of those who have abundant means are thinking of nothing else than swelling their accumulations. The examples of munificent publio benefactions that ave of comparatively reeent occurrence are evidence that men of wealth do feel concern for the intellectual and moral welfare of society, and for the elavation and improvement of the masses of the people. The man who makes generous be- quests in the interestof society tobe used after his death has a claim to be honorably remembered. But he is wiser who gives while he is living, for he may learn with what gratitude his good deed is received, and witness the benefit it accomplishes. Lick, who endowed the observatory which bears his name, had the privilege of seeing the fruits of his generosity. Springer, who gave Cincinnati its grand music hall, was permitted to en- joy its beneflts, Leland Stanford, whose magnificent endowment of a university surpasses any other gift made by an American, will perhaps live to see his great work fully accomplished. Amasa Stone, who gave nearly a million dol- lars to found Adelbert college at Cleve- land, O., lived to see that institution in full operation. Leonara Case, another wealthy man of that city, made vro- vision during his life for a school of applied sciences which has taken high rank among such institutions, Within a few weeks another wealthy resident of that city has given two hundred thousand dollars to various charitable institutions, The muniticent gift of several million dollars by the late Mr. Williamson, of Philadelphia, to estab- lish an industrial or trado school, is a recent examplo that all wealthy men are not unconcerned for the welfare of society., The latest instance is the gift of one hundred and fifty thousand dol- lars to the university of Minnesota by ex-Governor Pillshury. Omaha millionaires, it is to be said regretfully, do not appear to have yet been touched by this spirit of generosity. ‘With the exception of the late Edward Creighton this ecity can contribute no name to the list of great public benefac- tors, Omaha ought ot toauch longer continue in this condition of unenviable isolation, There are men here who can spare a share of their millions for the public benefit, and they ought to do 80. Perhaps some of them have planned to leave sometning after them, hut why not ao something while living and en- joy witnessing the good that comes of it. There are ways in which some of our wealthy men could employ a part of their means that would give them a lasting monument and be of immeasur- able value to thé community. Will they reflect upon the examples we have voted and emulate them? Ee—e———— ARBOR DAY, To-morrow will be observed in Ne- braska as Arbor day,and it isto be hoped that it will receive such general attention that the amount of tree plant- wmg will exceed that of any previous year. It should be entirely unueces- sary to urge upon the people of this state the importance of a zealous ob- gorvance of this holiday. What has been accomplished through it for Ne- braska is a matter familiar to all, and there remains to be done vastly more' than has been accomplished, from which still greater benefits are certain to flow. From a practical standpvint there is no duty in which the whole people of the state could unite on one day of {he year that would result more largely to the permanent welfare of the population than that of tree planting. The exam- ple sot by Nebraska has been followed in most of the states, where Arbor day has become, as here, a recognized holi- day. Besides the practical value of this holiday, it makes an appeal also to the finer sentiments, It has a di tinct and peculiar character,-the ten- dency of which is elevating and re- fining. It has been well said that holi- days that take root in the family and appeal to the tenderest associations of fraternity promise the best fruits. Such holidays as Decoration day and Arbor day mark the growth of general refinement among the masses, and the sontiment and fraternal associations which such days inspire should be cul- tivated. Ivery tree planted to-morrow in this spirit will not ouly bring pi tical good with its growth, but may have a refining and ennobling influence no less to be prized. Tiue death of ex-Postmaster Pearson, of New York, from hemorrage caused by cancer in the stomach, while not wholly unegpected, will cause surprise and regrot throughout the country. It is but a few days ago that he was suc- cooded as postmaster of New York City by Mr. Van Cott. For a number of years Mr. Pearson was closely idonti- fied with the New York postofice, and when Mr. Thomas L. James entered President Garfield’s cabinet in 1881, Mr. Pearson, then his assistant, suc- ceeded him, When Mr. Cleveland be- came president he retained Mre. Pear- son at the head of the New York post- office at the earnest solicitation of the business men of that city. Mr. Pear- son, during his long service, maintained that admirable system introduced into the New York postoffice by Postmaster James, and retired from the arduous position with the respoct of the wholo community. One reason of his not being reappointed to the office of post- master by President Har! n was un- doubtedly due to his chronic illness, Mr. Pearson literally wore himself out in harness. His malady was aggra- vated by overwork and over-anxiety caused by the lack of attention paid by the department at Washington to his frequent and urgent appeals for more clerks and carriers. 800 WE print elsowhere the letter ad- dressed by the Omaha packers’ associa- tion to the traflic managers of the Towa roads made defendant in the complaint of the Chicago packers of discrimina- tion before the inter-state commerce commission. The letter speaks for itself. Tt gives clearly and tersely the reasons why no change should be made in the existing tariff fur the benefit of Chicago alone. Tt is well pointed out that Chicago possesses advantages over Omaha and other Missouri river points in paying less for coal, salt and other commodities necessary for the packing industry. Consequently whatever ad- vantages our industries may have in live hogs over Chicago, there must bo subtracted the disadvantages arising from other sources. It, therefore, be- hooves the railronds to make a strong defense in the interest of the Iowa, Ne- braska and Missouri packers. The rates that have been adopted and maintained have been to the mutual satisfaction of the pork packers and railroads west of Chicago, and any change to discrimi- nate in favor of Chicago would as seri- ously affect the business of the railroads as it would the packing industry from St. Louis to St. Paul. THE question has been asked why Tk BEE has taken no part in the con- troversy that has been provoked in the local press by Doan Gardner’s criticism on the Sunday newspaper. THE BEE declines to take part in this discussion because it is ill-timed, and has degen ated from an analysis of journalis ethics connected with Sabbath obser ance into coarse personalitios. It has been an established rule with this paper never to discuss religion and sectarian dogmas. These subjects confessedly be- long to the domain of the religious press, and not of the daily press, which, being secular, must necessarily treat all creeds and professors of creeds with a broad-minded liberalit, Individually, ministers of the gospel may become subjects of praise or censure in the daily press, when they invade the arena of politics from the pulpit, or start a crusade agninst some real or imaginary evil in worldly affairs. In such in- stances the press treats the minister as being on the same plane with agitators who seek prominence or notoriety. Be- yond this it would manifestly be out of place for the secular press to, interfere. OMAHA does not stand alone in its re- quest that the vacancy in the inter-state commerce commission be filled «by the selection of a representative man west of the Mississippi river. The Kansas City board of trade has takeun action in recommending the appointment of such aman, and St. Louis. business men heartily indorse the resolution. There can be little question but that the selec- tion of Judge Grofl, of Omaha, to suc- ceed ex-Commissioner Walker would meet the approval of the commereial in- terests of the vast territory west of the Mississippi, and his name should be most favorably entertained by Presi- dent Harrison, m—— T declination of ex-Governor Rob- inson, of Mussachusetts, to serve as one of the commissioners to treat witk the Cherokee Indians for the sale of their lands in the Indian Torritory is to be regretted. The peculiar situation of affairs in the tervitory, due to the open- ing of Oklahoma, demands immediato action 1 sewtling the question of the disposal of Cherokee Strip. Governor Robinson is emineutly qualified to serve on the commission, and his ve- fusal is likely tevtedny proceedings on the part of the commission until Presi- dent Harrison selects a successor com« petent to fill the vacancy. It 18 reported on creditable authority that the government will make many needed improversgnds this year in the National Yellowdbné park. New roads are to be built arl the convenience of the visitors to tHls wonderful region is to be consulted §at overy turn. The ponularity of Yolbwstone park is bound to increase everg®ear. It will one day becomo America’s great recreation and pleasure grounds. With improved rail- road and hotel facilities, thousands who are now debarred from seeing na- ture’s wonderland will spend weeks within its enchanted borders. —_——— THE announcement, is made that Mr. Brink, a member of the present legis- lature from Boone county, is to be ap- pointed one of the banlk examiners croated under the new banking law. There is evidently some mistake about this. JUnder our constitution, article 111, section 80, no person elected to the legislature is allowed to fill any eivil appointment within this stato from the governor during the term for which he has been elected, and the constitution further provides that if any such person be appointed his commission for any civil oftice shall be void. WE do not like to be prodded too much by our amiable amateur con- temporary, but it 1s going a little too far when it dares to print the names of people who are getting that sheet, al- though they have never subscribed for that sheat, and do ot want it as a gift. The woods are full of them, and they always have been. Two-thirds of that marvelous shower of subscriptions are thrown by the boys into the back and front yards of people who do not ap- preciate the long-felt want. DOWN in St. Louis there is certain real estate valued at seventeen million dollars. A numberof individuals think they have discovered that it once be- longed to some great-great uncle, and they have formed a syndicate for the purpose of gobbling it. These exhibi- tions of nerve are not uncommon, but hapoily they seldom amount toany- thing more than to give some lawyer a wasted fee. Noah Webster Discounted. Buffalo Express. Prohibition is despotism tempered by failure. B Rocky Mountagp Herald, John Bright, the iuventor of Bright's dis- ease, died the other da John Brigh :é()mnmry. Another Hostile Power. Bostén Hevald. John Sherman is repocted real mad. The administration wiighave to negotiate a treaty with Shermai Intemperate Orators. Troy Times. Paradoxical as itimay sound it is still a fact that sober argument is not always ad- hered to by temperance speakers, g i\ Tog Clarkson as a Pitcher. Chicago Herald, Clarkson is undoubtedly the greatest pitcher in the country. He is pitching demo- cratic postmasters out of office at the rate of 1,200 a week. To Oklahoma Journalists. Globe-Democrat. To nearly, every able-bodied citizen in the the west, and to many in the east: We are abundantly supplied with Oklahoma corre- spondents, and shall not need any more until about 50 per cent of thosc already at the front are killed off. B A Maiden's Love. Boston Courier, Of the size of her hand you may judge by her glove; For that there is needed no art. But you never can judge of the depth of the love Of a maid by the sighs of her heart. SIS e So Hal Served Poor Falstaff. Philadelphia Press, Crown Prince Franz of Austria is study- ing hard at the now duties which have now become his through the death of his cousin, Archduke Rudolph, His demeanou is one of courtesy and dignity and he has dismissed from his circle all the young men of light habits who wera formerly his associates. ——— Clarkson's Great Record. Chicago Herald, Clarkson is undoubtedly one of the greatest assistant postmaster generals the country has ever scen. He makes from 107 to 200 re- movals a day, and the task of turning out democratic postmasters could hardly have beenintrusted to a more capable and indus- trious man. — COnicago is Envious, Chicago Times, The Pennsylvania woman has taken -the premium cup from the grasp of her Chicago sister. Heretoforo the Chicago woman toyed with her pistol in a reckless way that was charming on account of the abundon of the handler. The Pennsylvania woman, how- ever, is queen. Mrs. Field, of Butler,§Pa., is a wife and mother. She is of literary bent and when her husband crawls into bed she sits up and reads novels, Night before last she was enjoying her negliges and “The Quick or the Dead,” apd chewing gum, Her husband asked her to come to bed. She wouldo’t do it. He ‘arose and slapped her face. She told him if he did that again sho would shoot him. He,_did, it again aud sho shot him. Then she turned to her child and said: “Ihave shot yourfather, shall I kall myself?” The husbund, tot yet dead, said: “No, you served mo right; you fired in self- dofonse,” and died. Wa thero ever any- thing like that in Chicagol. =gy HITS AND MISSES, The Motor company capured the viaducts and Sherman avenue, fnd the Cable com- pany South Omaha, This plices the Motor several laps aheaa in the race. The Methodist ministers are divided on the question whether the Sunday or the Monday paper is the greater evil. Mean- while the expounders of the gospel will con- tinue patronizing both editions, and enjoy with the rest of humanity the garncred wis- dom, toleration and charity in the overflow- ing columns. A soldier of twenty-two years' experience writes to Tue Bee to protest against the pro - motion of illiterate privates 0 non-commis- sioned oficers 1 the army. He suggests shat men eligible for promotion be examined 88 L0 their general fltness, and that igunor- snce of the rules and tactics should uot be made the stepplug stone to advancement. If the soldier will send his grievances to head- quarters it is quite certain that ho will be promoted—to the guard house, The point he makes, however, is worthy of offlolal constd- eration. Men and women ambitious for criminal notoriety should carefully weigh the chances of securing an acquittal before beginning the slaughter. If you can not work the hysteric racket successfully, an appeal 10 the supreme court means & new trial and freedom. Red handed erime nowadays is applauded as ho roic, while petty depredators are hustled to the penitenti at railroad speed. The announcement by the Oklahoma cor respondent of an evening paper that the Ko- publican is one of the parties to & foul con- spiracy to provent other papers from secur- ing news from that lively soction by burden- ing the wires with false news, is evidently a bit of sarcasm. The Republican hasn't had a single special disputch from Oklahoma since the excitoment commenced. The Blue laws of Connecticut are being rapidly transplanted inw Towa. The soil is peculiurly rich for a flourishing growth of fanatic intolerance, and the ‘holier-than- thou' regulators are diligently cultivating the grafts. In Creston ull business will be susponded on Sundays, the stores locked and barred, and tho sale of Sunday papers pro- libited, A fow more turns of the scrows will make the town a painful example of suspended animation. Outof six murder trials in Nebraska ro- cently, five of the alloged murderers have been acquitted and ome convicted. The chances ave that the latter may be granted anew trial, which is always in favor of tho prisoner. The time-worn idea that a man slayer should be punished scems to ha caste 1 this glorious state of ours. Two market house schemes aro hatching. There is money for the corporation first to build a mariket house in Omaha. T e BUZZINGS. A prominent citizon of Omaha recently ad- dressed a letter to United States Senator William M. Stewart, on the subject of coin as a circulating medium. The following re- ply, under date of April 15, was recewved and will prove of special interest to the readers of Tur Brg : The use of coin as money involves many difoulties, the great complaint against sil- ver being the inconvenience of handling it. A successful combination against the use of silver was formed until the passage of the law allowing certificates, 1n small denomina- tions, to be used therefor, since which time silver, or certificates representing silver, has gone into circulation so that there are only twelve or sixteen millions of silver dol- lars in the treasury atatime, This has done much to popularize the use of silver. The argument in favor of using paper is that it is lighter and more convenient, and, by its use, the wear and loss of metal 18 saved, which is u very important consideration, My main object is to secure a sufMcient supply of money to prevent contraction, which, you know very well, is so distressing to all the people doing business or engaged in pro- ductive pursuits of any kind. If we could secure the free use of silver so that the vol- ume of currency would not be less than the aggregate amount of the two metals com- bined it would be a great step in the right direction. It is 1mpossible to accomplish everything we wish and it seomsto me that ‘wa had better confine our efforts to what is vossible. I agree with you that 154 to 1 is the proper ratio between the two metais and in my opinion it is the only ratio upon which there is any prospect of getting a universal con- currence. But then again we have estab- lished the ratio of 16 to 1 and all the bonds now outstandiug are payable in gold or sil- ver dollars, the gold dollar containing 25 8-10 grains of stundard gold and the silver dol- lars 41214 grains of standard silver, which is the ratio of 16 to 1. The diMculty in attempt- ing the change is that our enemies will at once say that we are violating the obligation of contract, an obligation which they are willing to violate, but would object very strenuously if the debtor class were as im- moral and unjust as they are, The rejection of silver as money after the civilized world had contracted to pay a hun- dred thousand millions of indebtedness in cither gold or silver was such a palpable fraud as should bring a blush to the cheek of a Shylock, but nothing can make a moncy grabber blush. His cheelk is harder than adamant and more brazen than brass. It is gratifying to know that so many people are beginning to discuss the question and under- stand something of the wrong that has been perpetrated by the manipulators of money. The city treasurer has recently canceled the old Union Pacific depot bonds for $200,000, which were ordered refunded in the February city ball election. Grave doubts have existed as to the validity of these bounds, a good many people of this city hold- ing that the Union Puacific procured them under false pretenses, It was thought that there was v little doubt that they could be repudiated, but there has always been in this city a fecling agaiust repudiation. Many of the old citizens thought it would not do to question the validity of these bonds for fear of crippling Owaha's credit abroad and placing Ler on a par with other cities that repudiated and scaled their debts, The city has stood so high that it was thought that we would save $200,000 by reason of our improved credit by the re- funding of these bonds, and that the city would soon be able to float its bonds at 4 per cent without dificulty. The time is not far distant when the city will have to purchase the gas and waterworks, and when that is done the city will be able to profit by its cre- dit. Th bonds are signed by Mr. George Roberts, one of the earliest mayors of Omaha, He was elected as a republican and was the first of a number of republican mayors elected in Omana, Before that time the city had been presided over by democratic may- ors. Mr. Roberts is now a successful law- yer of Lawrenceburg, Ind, having left Omaha some fifteen years ago. Three weeks ago Mr. Rosewater, editor of Tur Brr, met him at the Ebbitt house in Washington. Mr, Roberts was anxious and highly pleased to learn all that could be learned of Omuha and of the giant strides made by this city during the years that have elapsed since he wi mayor. He was more than gratified to hear of the present prosperity of this city, e EASTER JOY, By Joynie Grey. Wake, wake, ye happy bird! Wake! i'rom your tiny throat Pour forth your song of praise. Love in each note. Rise, rise ye golden sun! Let not such long delay Cloud us with sorrow’ Shorten our day. night. Flowers from your dewy heads Shake off the glistening bead. Teach us that Easter-tide 1s joy indeed. Children your voices raise! Jesu, to hear your song Bends from his heavenly throne. Loud your praise prolong. Glory to God we sing, Lou to the blessed Son., se to the Holy Guost, Blest three, in one. 1t would be di a dismond rose, in its conter resting a ruby of pigoon blood hue, avd & maenificout om- orald hangng pendant frow it. -~ ult to surpass fu_boauty FOR PEOPLE WHO THINK, History, says the New York World, re- cords that when the British man-of-war Glorice was about to sink off the Cape of Good Hope the ship's band stood on deck and played “God Suvo the King.” It may be that Admiral Kimberly remembered this when he ordered the band of the Trenton to play the “‘Star Spangled Banner” as tho gal- lant flag ship was fighting vainly against wind and waves in the harbor of Apia. But whatever may have been his incentive Ad- miral Kimberly showed himself a hero and a vatriot by this romantic deed. So long as the glory of the flag is intrusted to such mem as Kimberly and his sailors Ameriea need not worry about her fame on the salt seas. Do not such men deserve war ships worthy of their manhood ! Henry Labouchere asks somewhat eyni- cally what good purpose is sorved by Stan- ley's present expedition, and says he would like to hear from one of the victims—a slaughtered dwarf or a sick and abandoned guide—on the subject. It may be answered, says the San Francisco Examiner, that sac- rifices of life are, unhappily, wmong the costs of the progress of human knowledge, and that, leaving other considerations out of the question, the explorations of Stanley have contributed cnormously to the sum of modern geographical science. In Mexico, at the recent opening of con- gress, President Diaz made a remarkabfy good address, says tho Boston Advertiser. After referring to the peaceful relations of Mexico with other nations and the many commercial, diplomatic, postal and extradi- tion treaties made during the last year, he refers to the internal revenue advance in matters of finance and education. Among these are especially to be noted the increase in fruit and vine culture; the rapid strides taken in mining development; the influx of German, English and American capital, and the condition of educational facilities, which have nover before in the history of the Mex- ican republic been so complete. There aro to-day in Mexico 5,000 miles of railrovd and 14,000 miles of telegraph lines. The stand- ing army has been largely reduced; the credit and finances are in o fairly good state; the laws are well enforced in a large portion of the country. Altogether President Diaz, to whom this state of affairs is largely due, has much reason to be proud of the record of his admistration. The reason why so small a number of mo- nopolists have so long succeeded in prevent- 1ng the masses from making any head against their designs or accomplishing any great re- form is that they work harmoniously, with a fixed and definite design, and are persistent and tenacious in their undertakings, says the National Economist. They understand defi- nitely and clearly just what they want, and have their plans for accomplishing their de- sives perfected and thoroughly understood before beginning their undertakings. The masses, whose interests compel them to con- tend against this thoroughly understood and systematized aggression, Are unorgan- ized; or, when organized, are vague in their understanding of what they desire to accom- plish, spasmodic and uncertain in their ac- tion, and the force of their movementis bro- ken by dissenston among themselves. No hope of great results can be entertained un- til the objects to be accomplished are thor- oughly and clearly understood, the manner and plan of action thoroughly formed and digested, and the masses determined and versistent, acting in perfect harmony and with clear understanding of what they de- sire. Undor such an attack monopoly must fall, resistance will be futile, the masses must and will triumph. Not longago a gentleman, while making an evening call, was asked point blank if he proposed to vote for the prohibition amend- ment, says a lady editormal writer in the Boston Globe. On his quietly replying in the negative, his hostess flashed out, **Then I count you no better than a rumsetler!” Surcly the hostess who could in her own house uddress such a remark to her guest is obviously disqualificd for membership in any society calling itself a “‘temperance’ organl: zation. ch speeches on the part of prohibi- tionists arc very boomerangs. They make the entire cause 80 objectionable as to dis- suade temperance minded folk from even an investigation into the werits of vrohibition as a temporary expedient for checking that atally reckless abuse of liquor which all temperance-minded folik deplore. A clever Boston physician lately remarked: **Most of us take, in some form or other, our stim- ulation and excitement; some of us physi- cally in the wine-shop, and some of us mentally in a prohibition rally!” He might have added that there is risk of intemper- ance in both places; and those who indulge in the maddest intemperance of speech while condemning intemperance in drink, fairly lay thomsclves open tg the old satirist’s charge of Compounding for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to, Tho work of the church is daily and hourly growing more practical, says the Philadel- phia Public Ledger. Tt1s contending against ignorance, vice, sloth and drunkenness by such wise, shrewd means as it once wholly neglected. Generally, to make men wiser is to make them better; but the church is doing more than this. Itis providing them with pleasant, attractive “resorts; with wholo- some, entertaining amusements or recrea- tions, It is placing itself in closer sympathy, in warmer followship with them, and the church edifice has hecome but a part of the chureb, In which but a part of its work is done. It was not so long ago that the whole duty of the church's representative was dis- charged by the periodical declarations of creeds and betiofs; then they stood apart from each other, separated broadly by their different articles of faith, but such is not the case now to anything liko the degree it was. They ave coming together upon the common ground of faith in God and the work thero is to be done for maukind. They are going out mto the highways and by-ways, and gather ing into the sanctuarics and working rooms, libraries and schools counccted with them great hosts of people, who in earlior tiuos were passed by upon the other sidc as hope lessly irrcolaimable. The helping hand of the more vigorous church, of the more poteat religion, 18 seen In every now church organ- ization, in chureh homes, Lospitals, asylunib and schools. The church is not growing colder, but warmer, and it proves that it is doing 80 not so much by what it says in the pulpit as by what it does outside the pulpit. ‘The Gothamites are still quarreling over the coming centennial celebration, remarks the St. Paul Globe., The New York legisla. ture has bad its way, and the route of march has been changed 80 as o circumvent the Washington monument in Union square, Ward MeAllister has been fired out of tie management of the ceotenvial ball. And yet the Gothamites sre unot happy. The Fishes and the Gerrys are still in the grunts because Ward McAllister left them out of the quadrile d'honncur. The Four Hundred are kicking because a plain man like Mayor Grant, unknown to society fame, has been selected to preside at the banquet. A big vart of the celebration fund was used up by Ward McAllister In buying # certain choice vintage and a peculiar brand of ecigars thut had originally been put up by a Cuban man ufacturer for Mr. Vanderbilt's use. Others are disgruntled because the meuu is printed in French instead of plain United States language, and cverybody is mad bec: Washington was a0t born in New York. there was over fuss Gotham is the place. ‘‘What Cato did and Adalson approved'’-—= a8 0no of the poots said of suicide—sooms to be steadily on tho increase in this country, observes the St. Louls Globe-Democrat, There wero four cases In Chicago and an equal number in New York on Tuesday. In France and Gormany, too, there seems to ho a growing tondanoy to self-dostruction, The incroaso of the speculative babit has much to answer for in the matter, but, after duo allowance for this, threre is still enough left to show that, Independent of special causcs, the *‘bare bodkin' has less terror for peopla than it formerly had ————— VOICE OF THE STATE PRESS. For the Bench. An Honor to the Board, Fremont Herald, Judge Groft has been indorsed by tho Omaha boara of trade to flll the vacanoy on the inter-state commerce commission, Tho suggestion is an honor to the board. Lewis A Groff would honor any position, and for the one named he would be peculiarly quali- fled. Heo is one of the fittest mon who ever occupied the judicial boneh in the state. Crete Globe, Nebraska has quietly stood back for lo, these many years, when positions of honor and trust were to bo filled. Has she not shown sufficient modesty? There is at pros- ent a vacancy upon the bench of the supreme court of the United States. The great weat, with 1its vast interests, so different from those of the cast, necds representation vhere. To a foreigner unacquainted with the -tradi- tions of our country, nothing scoms 8o inox- plicable as the practically univorsal manner in which all positions of responsi bility are filled with eastern men, There is absolutely no reason why this should be so. Western men are fully ag able as any to be found within the states, In all reforms they are invariably m ad- vance of their eastern brethren, less con- sorvative, less given to following precedent simply for the sake of following something. Of all the distinctively western statos nona is more deserving of recognition from the present administration than 1s Nebraska. But have we a man capable of filling tha position of the late Mr. Matthews with honor to himself and his statet We cor- tainly have such a one in the person of John L. Webster, of Omaha. Mr. Webster has long been recognized as the leading lawyer of the state, a man who is in every sense of the word a jurist and not a politician. Ha was a member of the legislature from 'i3 to '75, and was president of the constivutional committee which framed our present constie tution. Since then he has devoted his timg entirely to his law practico. The bar of Omaha is unanimous for his appointment and a man who can command the unqualified endorsement of his own community s ine deed a strong man, Hon. J. L. Webster, Crete Vidette, There is quitc a strong probability that Hon. J. L. Webster, of Omaha, will be ap: vointed by President Harrison to the place on the supreme bench, made vacant by the death of Judgo Stanley Matthews. No ap- pomtment would be hailed with greater re- joicing by the poovle of Nebraska than that of Mr. Webster. Ho Is a man forty-two years of age, possessed of a thoroughly cul- tivated mind and a legal knowledge second to none In the northwest. Mr. Webster located in Omaha in 1869, and at once step- ped into the foremost rank of the logal pro- fesrion. In 1578 he was a member of tha legislature, and in 1875 was unanimously elected president of the constitutional con- vention. He was register under tho banking law, and in every position which he has boen called upon to fill, he has more than met the expectancy of his most sanguine friends, It would give the Vidette great pleasure to au- nounce that Nebraska had been honored by the selection of one of its most promineni citizens to a place on the supreme bench., P s The Kicker Has a Rival. Chicago News. Extracts’ from tho first number of nu Kingfisher (Oklahoma) Boomer of April 2 188 “Rafe Thimblerigger paid us a pleasant visit yosterday and told us that he had just won a fine qurter-section at a shooting match with a tonderfoot. He paid the funeral ex« penses himselt, Rafe is a gentloman,” “We learn that the scven new towns started west of this place overlap each othor very seriously. One man from Illinois lives in three of the towns at once and is running for mayor of all of them " “Coroner Goosefolter Is 80 far bohind in his work that he requests us to inform his patrons that he is doing the best he cau, His friends will oblige him by not making cfforts to Increase his business at this time." +Jim Triggers called on us yesterday and qraded us a nickel-plated derringer for d year's subscription to the Boomer. He got the derringer from a man who died suddenly after calling Jim a horsethief. Come again, Jim, “There will be a faro game and a Sunday school running in this town to-morrow. Al are invited.” “The new cometery south of town s meet- ing with general favor.” “If any reader of the Boomer sces any- thing that he doesen’t like in this paper wa will gladly take it back in our next issue,"” — - nd foathors towny Literary Remuneration, Washington Post, We see s great deal in the papers thesq days about the poverty of literary men in this age. Nonsense! There never was another ago that offered to the literary man 8o many opportunitics to acquire wealth as this one does. Where else, for instance, is tho age in which aliterary man could make $10,000 a year writing poems to advertise soap or bak- ini powdert GO, COMFORT YE! Joseph Whilton in Table Talk, ‘The day was worn, ‘The Sabbath eve And vanished in the night—the second since That decd on Calvary, O, dire the deod That made the earth to tremble and tho snn Grow black, while nature turned and hid her face In agony and shame! And now the morrow's dawn strotched up And hung its tiinid light above the hills, Through the gray shadows, silently, two forms, The tearful Marys, bent their steps toward The place, the hollowed rock wherein their Master lay. One look they craved on that pale, thorn- pierced brow— A last fond look on Him they loved —on Him Wiiose love for them, yea more, for all the world, Outweiglied His life on Calvary's top. They reached the spot. No hindering stone fouud they To blook the tomb; but near it, lo, they saw A siglt that shook their bhearts with fear and joy. Claa in the white of Hoaven sat its mos sengor, Whose face was like the lightning's flash, and yet Whose words dul drop like baln upon ihel wounded souls. “lde not afraid. Why come yo bere? Why Go, cows P look ye For the living 'woug the dead! fori ye, For Christ, the crucified, whom yo do saalk, Tn risen with the morn