Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 28, 1889, Page 4

"THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. —— ‘ TRRMS OF 8UBSCRIPTION. wly (Homlnl Fdition) including aunnn r ( 10 00 ge Y 0 % rou Mo 250 l ()mm sullmv Bu, maiied ny Year 200 200 e, M 871 KRR DU DING U, ROOMS 14 AND 15 ThY WASHINGTON Orricw, No. 518 5 OURTRENTH BEAEET. CORRBSPONDENCR. Al communications relating to news and edi. © Jorial matter should be addremsed tothe KpiToR or THE e, BUSINKSS LETTRRS, oA\ ustnesy letters and remnittances should be ssod to TiE IIEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, glA!IA. Drafts, nA postoflice orders ¥ ‘o DAYALIS 10 the Order OF the cOMPANY. ko Beg Pablishing Company, Proprietors E. ROSEWATER, Editor. ( Bubscribers. In order to successfully rectify any fault in the delivery of papers, it 15 absolutely neces- | gary that wo know the date on which papers [ wero late or missing. 1f late, give the time and train on which Twe ke should have reached your town. Also state from what direction, 5o that we can locate the trouble and apply the proper remedy. Papers are frequently carried town through the carelessness of the route . -gunu, And when this occurs, we can, with full 3 nformation, place the blame where it belongs. Wo will consider it & favor if agents and suo- scribers will notify us at once when Tz Bex fails to reach them promptly. i THE DAILY BEE. ] Sworn Beatemont o Circulation. ate of Nebraska, m(’nunty ot l)on;ln.("‘ Georgo secrotary of The Bee Pub- AshingComba ny, does solemnly swear that the “actual circulation of Tie DALY Bkk for the Week ending April 77, 1560, was as follows: Eunda v 7 "r’y.éwud. Avril nerdny, Fadny, Apil 25 ; . April 20 4 Baturday, April GR B. TZ8CHUCK. Sworn to before o and su bieribod to ln iy ‘presence this 27th day of April. A, D. 1889, Seul., . P, FEIL, Notary Public. Btate of Nebraska, | County of Douglas, {5 George B, Taschuck, being duly sworn, de- s and_says that he 18 secretary of the Beo hllamnx company, that the actual averas dally circulation of Tne DALY LEE for t month of April, 1%, 18744 copies; for May. I 18,183 mmu. x..r Iuno 1854, 10,2 July, 1884, 18,003 ceplos; for August, 1 2oplen: for ‘Septem ok, 1. b coplos: Qctober, 188, 18,04 copies: for November, ,«3 F 18,080 copres: for December, 1888, 18,223 coples | | | ] § § 8,183 for for January, 1880, 18,674 coples: for Februar: 1889, 18,99 coples; for March, 1881, 1% GEORGE B. TZ8CHUCK. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my Presonce this 10th day of 1880, 834 cop! ril, A. D., [, Notary Publi i THE prospects for considerable rail- . road building in Nebraska this season g are brightening. NEW YORK will spend the half of the present week celebrating and the other half in suhering up again, ‘WHAT a rich, promising sound there {8 about the name of the Omaha & Yankton. The trouble is, however, it 18 nothing buta name as yet. Ir the board of education is desirous of having 1ts bouds carry, it should re- spect public sentiment, trim its sched- E ule of new buildings and cut its cloth 4 according to the means, . THE street sweeping firm has evi- © © dently become blinded by its own dust, ' ifit intends to “‘get even” with the b city by instigating suits because it has A ‘been held down to the letter of its con- . tract. Both the military and naval demon- 9 stration in New York on the 30th will ‘be the most impressive that the country has seen for many a day. At the small- " est caleulation there will be fifty thou- sand troops in the parade, and a naval display thirteen miles in length, NEBRASKA adds one.of her sons to the roll of the heroes at Samoa. Oscar Brinkman, seaman on board the Van- dalia, deserves recognition and promo- tion at the hands of the navy depart- mment for his fearlessness in aiding the | rescua of those imprisoned on the Trenton. Mg. ROBERT P. PORTER, the newly appointed superintendent of the census, §s already making extensive prepara- gions for taking the eleventh census. It will be a big feather in his cap if he can rush his work forward before the Jast volumes of the tenth census make . their appearanc A BREWERY trust is one of the possi- bilities of the near future. The pur- chase of a number of breweries, in the leading brewing centers, by an English syndicate, and the consolidation of eighteen out of twenty breweries at St. Louis, would indicate a general move- * ment of such a nature, — THE Union Pacific directors have 8 ®vidently reconsidered their intention ‘of abandoning new construction by giv- ing orders to resume work on the Chey- eune and Northern. The proposed line will tap the heart of the oil regions of ‘Wyoming and is destined to become an A important feeder to the Union Pacific , Bystem. 3 STRANGE as it may seem New Hamp- shire is credited with having the largest divorce rate of any state, not excepting Xllinois. During the year 1887 there ‘was one divorce to every ten marriages. The number of marriages for that per- fod was three thousand four hundred @nd ninety, With such a record the Granite State ocoupies a position in the eountry unique as 1t is undesirable. — PHILADELPHIA has adopted manual training vot alone in the grammar, but in the primary deparvments of the pub- licschools. Clay modeling and the study of forms have been made a prominent feature of instruction, and the results are most promising. Other cities are ~ sure to profit through the example set by uccepting the best features of this ~advanced method of education. Tue peculiar phenomenon of the Washington celebration is the number wof descendents who claim to be able to ' grace their family tree back to the father ‘of his country, Their names are legion d their demands for specidl favors m the committees in charge of the New York celebration are most 1mpu- dent. If the test of a true Washington ©ould be applied by the simple rule that Bo Washington can be a subjec#for par- ficular privileges who ever told a lie, the committees would be troubled by very few applicants, A WORD OF CAUTION. Before the board of education takes final action on the submission to the electors of a proposition to vote the bonds deemed necessary for the erec- tion of school buildings, it should revise its schedule of new school houses and estimate for proposed sites and improve= ments, The citizens of Omaha will not sanc- tion the present enlargement of the high school building under any pre- tense. That structure is and will be ample for high school purposes for the next ten years. Any change in its in- terior construction should be made with a view to 1ts being solely adapted for high school and normal classes. Instead of expending seventy- five thousand dollars for an extension of the high school building, the board should set apart the amount necessary for the purchase of an eligible school site, within two to five blocks of the high school square, and erect thereon a modern sixteen-room school house. Such a building need mnot cost o forty thousand dollars; and for that matter no school house should cost more than that sum, The policy of the school board should be to give schooling facilities to the largest number within our city limits, Two twenty-five thousand dollar school houses are more desirable by far than one fifty thousand dollar school house, while two such school houses will require more fuel and double the janitor service, they will be neaver the homes of a larger number of childven. That should be one of the primary con- siderations in the location of projected school houses. Tt strikes us thattwenty-five thousand dollars for retaining walls and side- walks around the high school is an ex- travagant estimate. Half that sum ought to suffice. The board has taken the right course in sounding public opinion and it is to be hoped it will act prudently in reach- ing its final conclusion. A NEBRASKA IDEA. The very general observance of Arbor Day throughout the state was a notable ovent of the past week. There were few cities, towns or villages in which this anniversary did not receive proper recognition. The sentimentof the idea, pechaps even more than its future prac- tical value, seems to have taken strong hold of our people and tree planting and the observance of tree planting day have become assured for all time to come. That this is so ought to be doubly gratifying to Nebraskans. The ma- terial benefits to be derived by a for- merly treeless state are large. Not many generations hence will see our prairvies dotted with generous grove: and the growth of timber transferred from the streams to hillside and plain. Grateful shade from summer’s heat and shelter from winter’s storms will, of themselves, amply repay the time and labor spent upon the care of trees, with- out consideration of the fuel and lumber supply which in years to come may rea- sonably be expected from the sprigs which school children and farmers are setting out on the annual holiday. But Arbor Day, wherever celebrated. will for all time to come be inevitably traced back to the Nebraska home where the iden had its origin, and the feeling of just pride in its birth malkes its ccle- bration in our own state a pleasing and patriotic duty. Our Nebraska City correspondence tells of the impressive ceremonies which attended the ob- servance of Arbor Day at the home of its founder where a general suspension of business, an im- posing procession and the speeches of old-time friends and neighbors paid fit- ting and feeling tribute to the philan- throphic idea of Mr. Morton, which has borne such luxuriant and beneficent fruitage. It is not often that those who sow great or novel thoughts of general ap- plication live to see the harvest unlessy indeed, immediate personal or wide- spread pecuniary gain is promised. Re- formers must too often be content to leave to others to gather the fully ripe grain, while they remain satistied with the pleasures and pains of the labors of seedtime. Mr. J. Sterling Morton has been peculiarly fortunate, as was well said by Dr. George L. Miller, in his ad- dress at Nebraska City, in not only be- ing the acknowledged originator of Arbor Day in the United States, but in living to see his beneficent iden adopted throughout the entire country as an economic suggestion of great and growing value. He was fortunate in the warm tributes of admiration paid him under the shadow of the beautiful bome where Arbor Day was born, but he is still more fortunate in the silent tributes, which by hundreds of thou- sands are yearly being planted in more than a score of states, and which for generations to come will bear fruitful witness to the value ol a Nebraskan's idea. THE NATION'S ( Within the past fourteen years thore have been centennial celebrations of some of the most memorable events in the opening history of the country. The first of these was in memory of the encounter at Lexington, April 19, 1775, and in the interval, Philadelphia has had two great celebrations in honor of the signing of the Declaration of Inde- pendence and of the framing of the federal constitution 1787. The last of the momentous events of a huandred years ago to be commemorated with na- tional rejoicin and thanksgiving, the inauguration of George Washington as the first president of the United States, and the beginning of coustitutional government in this country, will be celebrated in New York City, aud very generally throughout the nation, on next Tuesday, with a patriotic interest and enthusiasm that has never been surpassed in our history, The preparations that have been making for this event,und the ex- tended consideration that has been given in the press to the history con- nected with it, have familiarized the people with its character, its meaning and its importance. The inuug- uration of Washington was the tri- umphant consummation of the wost rvemwarkable struggle for popular lib- erty in the history of mankind, We shall seek in vain for anything compar- able with it in-lofty wisdom, devoted patriotism, and unselfish sacrifice, while the result has magnificently jus- tified the work, Under the constitution whose operation really begun with the inauguration of Washington, and which the first of living English statesmen has declared to be the greatest work ever accomplished at one time by the hand of man, a nation of less than four million people, occupying an area less in extent than the largest state at pres- ent, has in a contury—brief time in the life of nations—grown into a mighty commonweaith of more than sixty mil- lion free and enlightened people, lead- ing the world in enterprise and all that contributes to human progress, and with a development of material Tesources, wealth and power beyond any possible conception of the men who founded it. No American citizen can contrast the conditions when Washington first took the oath of office with those of the present without feeling a profound sense of pride in his country, and patriotically resolving that no effort of his shall be wanting to preserve intact and perpetu- ate the institutions that have been so grandly fruitful of the noblest achieve- ments in human history and the high- est benefits to mankind. And every citizen who can comprehend and ap- preciate what has been achieved will render to the memory of the wise and patriotic men who established the re- public & homage and reverence, only less than that to be paid to the Great Ruler in whom they reposed their faith. The spirit in which the centennial of the inauguration of Washington should be celebrated, and in which it will be largely observed, is that of patriotic re- joicing and reverent thanksgiving. Its influence should be a broader and deeper popular education in devotion to American institutions and in the love of country. There is need that the people shall be impressed not only with the magunitude of the work ac- complished by the Fathers, and the un- paralelled results that have proceoded from it, but also with the cost in labor and sacrifice of what vhey did. There is no grander record in human history, perhaps none so grand, of incon- querable devotion and fidelity .to the cause of free government, and a knowledge of it is necessary to a right and adequate apprehension of the duties and obligations of American cit- izenship to-day. There is stimulus to patriotism in every inecident of the un- rivalled heroism of the revolution—a sm of deedsand of suffering, of un- ble hardship and of glorious 0 the almost more than human wisdom which framed that instrument of government that has stood unimpaired the test of a hundred years, and in the great character and history of the Father of his Country, who by the unan- imous voice of ‘the people was chosen to put in operation the machinery of constitutional government he was so largely instrumental in creating. But we need also to remember the faith with which Washington and his great compatriots relied for assistance upon a higher power, and how they failed not to acknowledge such assistance in the hour of their triumph. It is, therefore, most appropriate that the churches throughout the nation will participate in this anniversary, observing as far as practicable the services held at the church in New York to which Washington and congress repaired after the inauguration. The re- ligious side of Washington’s character was not the least conspicuous and admirable, and the example he and the distinguished men with him set of a sincere religious faith and devotion can not be valueless to the peovle of to- day. April 30 will be a memorable day in the United States, and the influence it will exert must be beneficent not only upon our own people, but upon people the world over, who are in sympathy with freo institutions and a “govern- ment of the people, by the people, and for the people.” A RISING ARCHITECT'S WORK. r. Thomas R. Kimball, one of the editors, sends us the closing namber of the first volume of the Technology Avrchitectural Review, issued from the de- partment of architecture of the Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology. The success which has attended the Keview hus encouraged Mr. Kimball to widen the scope of its usefulness, next year, by including in its text subjects important both to architectural students and the general public interested in art and architecture. Primarily established to point out and emphasize the resources of clussic art as a basis of design, the Review has awakened a degree of inter- est in architectural circles which is highly gratifying to the editors and the celebrated school at Boston which they represent. Of the plates enclosed in the Review, two of them, an Ttalian villa and a design for the Boston Art club building, both the work of Mr. Kimball, commend themselves as most admirable projets. The citizens of Omaha will watch with gratification Mr, Kimball’s rise and success in the profession he has chosen. 2 IN OMAHA. Omaha has long enjoyed the reputa- tion of being one of the best amusement cilies in the country. With possibly an exception or two, there is no other city of equal population that patronizes dramatic and musical entertainments, particularly of the better class, more generously than Omaha. Abundant evidence of this might be drawn from past seasons and from the present, and the fact 1s fully appreciated by the strongest and fluest combivations in the country, which now invariably in- clude this city in their routes as among the most desirable poiuts to be visited. The season now drawing to a close, in what it has presented ana has yet in store, will certainly equal, if it does not surpass, any previous season in the number of superior entertainments pre- sented, and we think it safe to say, also, that it will prove to be exceptional in the extent of putronage given to public entertainments, A list of the attrac- tions that have visited this city will include some of the most distinguished THE OMAHA DAILY BEE | and meritorious in the world. The foremost of all these, of course, is the Booth and Barrett combination, which concluded & most successful engagement at the Boyd opera house last night, itsadmirable perforr ances having beefl witnessed by aud ences whose intelMgénce and apprecia« tion could have nowhere been sur- passed. Other ndtdtle attractions, re- gardless of the order of their appear- ance, were the New York Madison Square compnny.'lwbmn and Crane, Nat Goodwin, theFlorences, Mrs, Lang- try, Fannie Davenport, Efiie Ellsler, James O’Neill, Lotta, Minnie Mad- dern, The Bostonians, the Carle- ton Opera company, and Albani, with a number of other combinations of greater or less merit. Before the season closes we are to have Joseph Jefferson, the greatest comedian of his time, who will appear at the Grand overa house this week; the Conreid Opera company, which will occupy the stage of the Boyd this week; Fredevick Warde, a very superior actor; the Musin and Bloomfield concert compa- nies, the handsome and accomplished Rhea, Sothern, a second season of Nat Goodwin, and a unumber of others of merit. The annual visits of these at- tractions, most of which already booked for nmnext season, with a number of others of su- perior merit, are evidence that Omaha is appreciated as an amusement center, ana thisfeeling is growing year by yvear. The best dramatic and musical combina- tions have found it profitable to come to this city, and there is every assurance that in future none of these will fail to include Omaha in their routes. The fact is one in which our people may find a large measure of gratification. ] FoR the past week the local money market has been easy in supply with an active demand for jobbers. Prime mercantile paper is steady at 8(@10 per cent. Exchange, $1.00 per thousand. City trade has been rather quiet. Country trade and collections have been good. Crop prospects are ollent. The clearings for the five working days of last week were $3,452,002.73, an in- creaso of 1.3 per cent. Country pro- duce and garden truck is pleatiful and in good demand at somewhat lower prices. Lggs, cheese and butter are steady at quotations. Hides are off and a trifie lower. Poultry is in good de- mand and firm. Tie BEE calls s 1 attention to its tabor news in Lhiuiés . In it the me- chanic and artisan®yill find information of vital interest to him, and the builder and those intending improve their property in any wayd are afforded an opportunity to feel theulse of the labor market. HITS AND MISSES. The hatchet-face is mc patriotic style of benuty just now. = Omaha is to be, mfllr?d with another ex- hibition of wheclwbfiug ‘panting for no- toriety und stray dgllars] The board of edodakion will soon issne a thrilling serial -storysdescriptive of “The Sites of a Growing City,” and tne specula- tive tendency of its members. “Lives of great mer: oft remind us That we can make lito sublime And in going leave behind us” Our wives with the household grime. The Nebraska legislature manual is out. Fortunately the logisiature adjourned before the job was completed. The book, however, will be treasured as a rewminiscence of a job lot. The consolidated cable and horse lines of Omaha failed to connect with Council Bluffs, The motor and the Boston end of the Union Pacific are to closely allied to permit a rival to fatten in an exclusive clover patch, Two weeks more will end the park com- mission agony. The anxious 100, who have job, ncod not worry about the responsibilitics of the position. A discrim- inating court will see to it that the ofiice secks the man, Commissioner Anderson confidentially in- forms the public *['m not the man to say one thing and mean another, even it I do chew gum.” People acquainted with slippery L. M. will recognize in this asservion his nat- ural attachment to truth. surrounding cities are taking undue liber- ties with the name of Omaha. A score of paper railroads organized within a year or two have been floated temporarily by bor- ing the magic title, which 15 synonymous with integrity and success. The projectors are mercly adventurers who browse on the outslirts of prosperity and endeavor to raise the wind with high-sounding promises and empty purses. The generalship 0f the-motor in outflank- ing the local officials of the Union Pacific who tried to barricade thd viaducts, was shrewd, skillful and successful. While Holcomb, Kimball & Co. were chuckling over the prospect of & Liboral cash bonus, the motor commander slipped & bomb under their chairs, and lit the fuse in Boston. The explosibn demolished the obstructions and silenced the obstructors. The ex-pugilist, Ben Hogan, is doing tho country towns of New York as “A Model of Hercuies.” Hogan was & great favorito in Omaha in the seventies, aud endeared him- self to all acquaintances by gentlomanly con- duct and unassuming manners, 8o unus in the profession. His bout with the bragzart Allen, u few miles below fhe city, attracted as many church pillars as a Sunday school convention. Hen is now sparring for points with the hosts of old Hatry, and lecturing, between times, on physiedl culture, LA i de STATE PRESS COMMENTS. The Norfolk Newseheorfully usserts that Boston “sticks like a brother to its baked beuns, brown bread and bock besr," by some 50,000 mujority. ““Congressman Hastings Democrat, **has 1b tho highest tree, for the present. He's all Ho is getting “strong and healthy, v much like Ris qld self again.” The Adams County Democrat has discov- ered that the eyes of the hungry “are turned 10 the best plums in western Nebraska, viz: the McCook land offices. Amony the most bungry we notice Hoa. Bill Brown, of Cul- bertson.” Says the Beatrice Demoerat: *Paul Van- dervoort, the bottle-scarred veteran, who has marshalled the forces in the railroad lobby for years, hus at last procured an appoint- ment. He is now a mail cavrier in Omaha, or something to that effect.” “If Omaha gets nothing under this admin- istration,” suggests the Framont Tribune, with 000l candor, ‘1t will be becauso that city is a part of 4 state with a sure republi- can majority and ot because it is not am- bitious, While the effort is still being wade to got Johu L. Webster the position of u justice of the United States supreme court, Laira’s harp,” says the u hung upon efforts are also being directed toward gotting Judge Groft avpointed a member of the Inter-State Commerce Commission, It is not possible to get both men appointed, but in the presentation of their names Omaha is going on record in Behalf of two excellent men.” Congressman Dorsey has incurred [the mortal enmity of the Fremont Flail. Hedid not consult the editor's wishes in regard to the postoffice, and assumed the whole re- sponsibility of selecting the postmaster. Truly, a congressman's lot is not a happy one. The Dakota City Eagle is ready to engage in mortal combat with any liar of equal weight «who disputes the claim that “Dakota county has tho largest corn, the finest cattle, the biggest hogs, the richest lands, the best schools, the fairest women and the bravest men of any county in the state of Nebraska.” The Fremont Tribune pathetically sug- gests that ‘“the Nebraska land offices are still manned with democrats, notwithstand- ing the fact that the republican administra- tion is nearly two monthe old. The Tri- bune couples its mourntul plaint with a hint that ngressman Dorsey should keep his promises. Referring to the overwhelming defeat of prohibition and outlawry in Massachusetts, the Grand Island Independent say: “AlL sensible thinking men who are conversant with the working of prohibition have become fully satisfied that the license plan is the Dbest that has yot been devised for the regu- lation of the liquor traMc,” “‘Prohibition," says the Blair Pilot, ‘‘zot a black eye on Tuesday—a very black eye. id, sober, industrious and moral Massa- chusetts voted on a prohibitory amendrent, and the returns indicate forty or fifty thou- sand majority against it. What may be ex- pecteds for prohibition in this ‘wild and wooly' state, when the rock bound, morality loving puritans of the ‘effete’ east sit down upon it with such a ‘thud ' Sir Julian is Shrewd. Kansas City Jowrnal, Sir Julian Pauncefote, the now British minister, has arrived in Washington, ana shows a prudent disposition to mind his own business. —— Hard on the Missourians. Chicago Tribune. 1f water sells for 10 cents a drink in Guth- rie, I. T., what fabulous prices Missourians must have t pay for something they can drink! - Senator Hoar's Chagrin, Chicago News. Senator Hoar is understood to be sadly dis- gusted with his own Massachusetts because that silly state didn’t know enough to take his advice and come in out of the wet. - Aavefising Pays. Somereitle Jornal, Advertising puys. A man in Dakota ad- vertised for a house and the very next day onc came and blew a whol@ brick block over on him. It 1s an Honor. Omaha Mereury. The hearty endorsement received by Judge L. A. Groff for a position on the inter-state railway commission is very creditable to thay gentleman. It is likewise creditable to those who endorsed him. —~— What Wonder Is 1t? Attributed to Amelia Rives by Washington Cri “The naked hilis lic wanton to the breeze; The fields are nude, the groyes unfrocked, are are the shivering limbs of shamelcss trees; What wonder is it that the corn is shocked ! Sl o His Greatr Mistake. New ¥ Herald. He had gone to Oklahoma, And he didn't take a gun; So he missed his quarter section And his bones bleach in the sun. SI. Louis Globe-Democrat. If the fathiers of the republic had shown the silliness and petulaut spirit displayed by m New York who claim to be their descendants there would be no centennial Apr D or any other day which would be worth celebrating. —_—————— Both Futile and Obnoxious. Providence Journal, Massachusetts is to be congratulated on the vote which it has given against the pro- hibitory constitutional amendment. It ought to be the end of that form of legislation which has been compelled to abandon the purpose of forcing people to religious obsery- ance of penal statute. ——— AS OTHERS SEE US. Omaha’s Advantage. Minneavolis Tribune. “This Carter divorce case is going to hurt Chicago like the very mischicf.” “Why s0#” “Because 1t is taking her so long to got it. If Chicago keeps on this way Omaha will get a corner in the aivorce market." A Hopele:s Suir. Minneayitis Tribune. “No, William, I gannot marry you now, but I will give you my hand when lh\l one bright dream of young life is reali i1 “And what is that, my darhing;’ *“To sce the Minneapolis nine win a game from Omaba.” “I'hen, Gwendoline, we must part, aud part forever. In the after years, when you ave the mother of another man's children do not forget him who loved you fondly, and whom you banished by a single senteuce. ewell,” and he was gone. Mr. Guthrie COusrer. Chicagn Times, Personal in an Oklahoma newspaper: “W. B. Guthrie from Custer county, Neb., has arrived. He rode a slim bay mare, and cov ered twenty-five miles in one hour aud three- quarters.” Omaba's Biz Clearings, Denver Repubilican, Omaha reported a larger amount in clear- ings than Denver last weelk. It may be that, of Lllu three cities, Denver, Omaha and Kan- sas v, Denver will, by the end of the ¢ tury, be in the lead. e COUNTRY BREEZES, The Nose for News, Clear Water Message. There 1 something dead under the Mes- sage building, judging by the peculiar odor noticable in the barber shop. For some time it was thought the blame might be laid on the barber's fect, but he swears himself clear, owing to his frequent ducking expedi tions, Building up the Country. Brewster News, The News only points with pleasure to the many new marriage licenses recently issued t0 the rising generation—or rather the gen- eration that has recently risen, There has been & coutinual output of these useful docu- ments since January 1. It will be remem- bered that one of i3laine county’s judges was forcad to abscond on account of the duliness in the matrimonial market. This is the way to boom and build up the great thrifty country as it should be. Not Afraid of Mr. Guppy. West Point Republican, The conducior of the ltepublican is threat- ened with what in vulger parlsuce is tormed a vlicking.” It sy be remotely possible SUNDAY APRIL 28, 1889.—~SIXTEEN PAGES. hat he doserves chastisement but not at all probable that he will get it. If a party by the name of Guppy should be foolish enough to undertake the job he would be led to be- lieve further on that he had been monkey- ing with double-geared chain lightning and that a mountain had fallen upon him. There would be a spectacular exhibition In com- parison with which northern lights, brilliant comets and shooting stars would pale into insignificance; the earth would appear to quake and the rush and force of a cyclone would seem to be heard and felt. Mr. Guppy is ndvised, therefore, to nurse his wrath in quietude and allow the white-winged mes- senger of peace to hover around a while. It wilt be far better thus. —— BUZZINGS, Self-destruction is to be pitied. When a great railroad company decreases its rovenuo $1,851,081 in one vear, and §206,000 in three months, something is the matter. It invites investigation especially when tho interests of a flourishing city and the surrounding coun- try are injured or retarded. Such is the case with the Union Pacific, Omaha and cortain sections of Nebraska. It looks as though the man immediately in charge of the operation of its trains is not versed in the important bearing they have on the commercial interests of the country and the revenues of his company. When J. H, H. Clark was general mana- ger that oficial succeeded in “‘knocking the bottom out of things” through his failure to supply the business public with necessary train facilities to build up local travel and trade, and develop the resources of the country along the line. Stage lines and liy- ery stables were then powerful and success- ful competitors for local business that ought 0 have gone to the compuny. When he left, ana Callaway came, the night trains o the South Park road, between Denver and Leadville, were withdrawn, This gave Denver the mumps, and that road showed a decreused revenue of nearly £363,000 in 1884, In 1885 the consequences were even worse. At the same time livery “rigs” were powerful and in demana on the Omaha & Republican Valiey railroad. In 1586 the Leadville trains were restored. Denver recovered, and the South Park road increased its froight and passenger earnings $100,000 in that year. In the month of June Mr. Kimball aud others succeeded in inaugu- rating a system of local passsenger trains from Grand Island, Beatrice, Stromsburg and Norfolk, reaching Omaha in the fore- noon as one train, and returning at night. This resulted in an increase of $141,912 in the freight and passenger earnings of the Ne- braska brauch lines in 1836, against a de- crease of $15,920 in 1855, The system (since broken up) was success- ful from the start, an average of 15,000 pas- sengersamonth was handled, and on the main line, these local passenger trains earned about 90c per mile. The cost was less than 50c per mile. These trains were not only profitable to the country but they threw open the daily trade of the surrounding country to business men of Omaha. The freieht and stock trains wore also run at convenient hours for the Omaha and South Omaha markets. The effect on the two cities were magical. The years 1836 and 1557 were the quietest in our history in their developments, not only to Omaha and South Omaha, but to the entire district covered by the operation of these trains. Omaha at once became a trade ond travel center. I3usiness, wholesale and retail, was on the rapid increase, money was plenty, among the retail dealers especially, and Omaha then began to assume metropolitan provor- tions—all because the policy of the company was to make Omaha accessible to the people of the surrounding country, enabling them to visit the city in the forenvon and-return to their homes at night, This splendid system has been emascu- lated and Omaha is no longer accessible to the people on the branch lines as a trade and travel center, and the country west of Omaha is shut off from the city and its trade. So far as Nor- folk, Lincoln, Stromsburg, Beatrice, Wahoo, David City and other places on the branch lines are coucerned, the present inadequate train service makes it impossible for the business men of Omaha to reach out and se- cure their trade. No service at all is better than the present. It is injuring the company ; it is injuring Omaha, and it is decreasing the packing operations of Souta Omaha, as shown by the latest reports from that exten- sive market. The Kansas City express ac- commodates neither Omaha nor Kansas City. It should arrive in the forenoon and leave at night. The tram from Norfolk (150 miles from Omaha), requires thirty-six hours and upwaras for the round trip over the Union Pacific. Over the Elkhorn Valley road it is an all-day wait at Omaha and about eight hours on the train. The towns and cities in the Elichorn Valley, between Omaha and Norfolk, are thriving and prosperous. Ou the Union Pacitic, business is dull, If General-Manager Kimball will instruct his subordinates to arrange a permanent and convenient schedule, so all local trains can reach Omaha in the forenoon, and return at night, the stimulating effect on the revenues of his company, on Omaha, South Omaha and the surrounaing country, will be imme- diate in its result. He is familiar with the growth of the suburbs around Cincinnati and Chicago, ard the interior citics of Ohio and Illinois, and their superior train facilities, both freights and passenger. Permanency and convenience in train scheaules are essential, as in everything else, and with such as the one indicated the road, thie people and the city will prosper, and for all time. Omaha will be the principal *wrade center” of the west, on account of its acces- sibility to the people of the surrounding country, ————— WITH THE VIOLETS, Oliver Wondell Holmes, Her hands are cold; her face is white; No more her pulses come and go; Her eyes ave shut t) life und light; Fold the light vesture, snow on snow, Aud lay her where the violets blow, But not beneath a graven stone, T'o plead for tears with alien eyes; A slender cross of wood alone Shall say that there a maiden lies In peace beneath tho peaceful skics, And gray old trees of hughest limb Shall wheel their circling shadows round To make the scorching sunlight dim That drinks the greenncss from the ground, And drop their dead leaves on the mound. When o'cr their boughs the squirrels run, Aud through their leaves the robins call, Aud, ripening in the autumn sua, “The acorns and the chestouts fall, Doubt not that she will need them all, For her the morning choir shall sing Its matins from the branches high, And every minstrel voice of epring Phat thrills beneath the April sky Shall greet her with its earliest cry. When, turning round their dial track, Eastward the lengthening shadows pass, Her little mourners, clad in black, The criekets, siiding through the grass, Shall pipe for her an evening muss, At last the rootiets of the troes Shall find the prisou where she lles, And bear the buried dust they seizo In leaves and blossoms to the skies— B0 may the soul that warms it rise. 1f any, born of kindlier blood, Should ask, *V¥hat maiden lies below?" Say only this: “A tender bud, That tried to blossos in the enow, Lies withered where the violcts blow.” FOR PEOPLE WHO THINK, ‘The worst enemles of the human race ard the doctors who try to prolong our misorab's oxistonco In aworld that is full of death- traps, says the Londom Telegraph. One medico tells you not to eat or drink what you relish because you will eat or drink too much, Another says that you must only eat what you fancy, because otherwise you will bolt your food without giving to each morsel the thirty-six mastications whioh are neces- sary for digestion, You must wear a rospir- ator over your mouth, & pad on your chest and a swathe of flannel round your lions. 1t you live in town you will die of fog; if you g0 to the country you will be poisoned by bad drainage; if yeu drink water you are tempt. mg the typhoid flend; milk spells soarlatina, and tea-cake is sudaen death, Do you shun these tempestuous ploasures of the senses and take rofuge in the rocreations of tho mind? Do you borrow a novel from the cir- culating hbrary? That is to Import the germs of disease into a healthy household. The volume in your hands may have boen perused by a person recovering from an iu- fectious illness! et As a matter of equity there can be no ques- tion that woman has not only a right to hife, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but also of a husband if she feols so Inclined, writes Mary Norton Bradford in the Boston Globe, If a woman wants to propose thore's no “law agin’ it.” But let those sisters who favor the new disponsation scriously con- sider whether they are ready to assume tho responsibilities that devolve upon those who “‘propose.” Are they prepared to pay for or forego theater stickots, carringes, car fares, 1co cream, angel cake, caramels, bonbons, ban- quets, and all that courtship now implies} Are they prepared for the post-marital tor- tures of January bills? In short, are thoy prepared to assume the responsibility of maintaining a family? Of course they are not. And until they ara it is not only a breach of good tasts, but a very cheap farce for any of the feminine halt of creation to talk of actual out-and-out viva Voce proposing. Meantime tho good old fashion of courtship will undoubtedly go on, and women will have —as thoy generally have had—just about as much to do with it as anybody. ‘We bave read nothing on the question of prohibition which has scemed to us more thoughtful or more beautifully considerate or charitable than the remarks made by Rev. Phillips Brooks, D. D., of Boston, mn his Fast Day discourse, says the Philadelphia Roc- ord. Dr. Brooks says that he has “no re- proach to bring against the most extravagant, of temperance reformers,” for he can woll understand the feeling which leads some to account “‘no measure too sweeping, t00 rad- ical, too venturesome, for the suppression of that which lies at the basis and root of so much sin and misery thatv beset our land.” But he gently intimates; “To many of us it seems as if restrictive logislation, which is not prohibitory legislation, but which is con- tinually educating the restricting process upon the restraining cousciences of men— upon those inclined to self-indulgence m in- toxicating drink, and those restraining them- sclves for the benefit of others—as if such legislation without prohibition 1s the trua policy."” The present is an epoch of curious relig- ious development. Faith flies the banner of tolerance, and doubt rallies its forces with an appeal for righteousness. Religion is tol- erant to a shred of faith; skepticism olamor- ous 1n its demands for a better life, The ex- tremes of christianity are drawn together more closely than ever pefore. Differences of creed are forgotten in the fact of unity of origin. Variance in form is accounted of even less importance than difference in dog- ma. Common ground is being found where for generations there has ounly been room for strife. Episcopacy shakes hands with the presbytery and only Romanism stands with- out the pale of recognized unity, Even to Rome overtures aro constantly being made by the religious uniformists, which only tha rigorism of Rome prevents breaking down the line between them. What is broadly termeds protestantism—including Anglican episcopacy—is mors thoroughly harmonized and solidified than ever before, John G. Whittier deplores the enforced idleness of the convicts of New York prisons, due to the repeal of contract labor laws that operated against the interests, or were as- sumed to, of free labor. Says the revered poet: “I desire to protest in the name of christianity and humanity against the en- forced idleness in prisons, perilous alike to the body and mind, which can only result in filling your prisons with maniacs. My sympathies are with the laboring class in ail their just demands, and 1 would favor every logitimate measure which promises to benefit them. But the suppression of labor in the prisons is too small a gain for them to bo purchased by the transformation of prisons into madhouses. I trust further reflection and the knowledge of the dreaaful conse- quences of tho slow torture of brooding idle- ness will cre long induce them to forego what must be a very trifling benefit at the least.” More men have been losers than have ever been gainers by trading in western unim- proved real estate, says the St. Louis Globe- Democrat. The men who maie money are those who till the soil and gain the increased valuo thus imparted to their holdings; and the men who hasten to the regions whera new lands are opened to settlement belong for the most part to that class, s the record of their achievements clearly demonstrates. They are honest and industrious citizens, 80 faras the large majority of them are con- cerned. Itis mnotless to the advantage of the nation than of themsolves that they undergo tae hardships and privations of frontier life. They carry with them into the wasto places all the influences of civilization and 50 long as any land remains for them 1o ccupy and develop they are entitled to tho ivilege of going forward in their work of conquest. There may bo states, at least it is conceiv- able that there are state, throughout which the sentiment against drinking is so strong that u statutory prohibition can be enforced, snys the New York Times, Tn most states that is not the case, and in these the practi- cal method of dealing with the liquor trafic is by local option and high license. When a civil division like a city or 8 township vetes prohibition for itself the chances are that it will bo at least reasonably well enforced while the vote of probibition by @ tate, and much more the embodiment of probibition in the constitution of a state, is a “*barren fdeal- iy, The good sense of ' the people of Mas- sachusotts is shown by the rejection of this empty and mischevious declaration even in the cities that have prohibited the sale of liguor within their own limits, A billious Britisher writes in the London Sunday Times: “If I were asked for au epitome of American life I should point to a Hroadway tramear. It dashes along, aJug- gernaut of illewality, The road was built through brivery and corruption. It is owned, not by New Yorkers, but by Phila- delphia shareholders. The éar is overcrowd- ed, Lo the juconvenience and wnuoyance of evory passcuger. On the front platform, in opeu violation of the regulations of the cou- pany. Is @ mob of smokers. On the back platform, alko in violation of the regulations, % umob of pickpockets. The driver is dis- rogurding u eity ordinuance by the speed at which he drives, aud there is no trip without ite aceidents. Corrupt, uncomfortable, but Tast—that is the Broadway tramcar, uud it 18, 1 regrot to suy, in these respects, eharao- toristic of Lhe great counts, Wik terlatiog Y ch poflnlu i %