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THE DAILY BEB. PUBLISBED EVERY MORNING. bl TRRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. {ly (Morning Kdition) Sucluding SUNDAY, o Aty - o et m ;gr:n'x !lra!lla'.n.. o " g t Throo Mon i aidae Tar Ouans SUNDAY Buk, matied (o any aadress, One Y ear, . v 8 WerkLY Bee, One Year. R 2 AHA Ovr1CB, Nos, 014 and 016 FARNAM BrnEEn ww Yonx rIeR, ) BUILDING, W ASWINGTON OFFIOR, NO. 618 FOURTRENTH BTHERT. CORRESPONDENCR. jeations relating to news and el Yorinl mamier Ahouid be addressed o the EDITOR or Tus BrE. NKSS LETTERS, Al hnflnrg'l’-’r’hrn and rem|ttances should be addressed to THE '::{:. l'm?l.l!lllllll q-,.fl::: 1 ‘snecks and postomon QAR ayabis to the order of the compARY. %t Bee Palishing Company, Propristors E. ROSEWATER, Editor. THE DAILY BEK. Sworn Statement of Circalation. Btate of Nebraska, County of Douglas, fos. Goorge I3, Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Pub-. hingComipa ny, doss solemnly swear that the Tl cireiation of Tnwe DAILY BEe for the week euding May 11, 1680, was as follows: £unday. 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Tt is rather amusing 10 note in what high esteem the Myer’s city hall plans are now held by architects who a fow menths since pronounced them unfit for any place but a village. T last act in the now famous Blec- tric Sugar Refining company took place in New York city when Judge Barrott appointed a receiver to wind up the affairs of that clever swindle. THi senate committes imvestigating the operations of the inter-state com- merce law has finished its deliberations and has adjourned to meet again in July. The interval, in all probability, will be spent in trying to untangle the wily testimony given by railroad prosi- dents. Tne Herald says Fort Omaha must be preserved to the city. Sosay we. The way to preserve it to_the city is to hold the fort where 1t is, buy additional grounds, if it needs enlargement, and spend the three or four hundred thou- sand, which the government would have topay out for improving the Sarpy county farm, upon new buildings at the present fort. THE literary people of Glasgow have petitioned the state department to have Francis H. Underwood, of Boston, re- tained as consul in that city on account of his “singular acceptability.” And now we may anticipate that our con- suls abroad will catch Mr. Underwood’s idea and flood Secretary Blaine with petitions for their retention signed by the “leading and best” people of foreign lands. THE Order of Railway Conductors meets, this weelr, at Denver in annual session. It is understood that the order coutvmplates the erection of alarge headquarter and office building in some one of the cities in the Missouri Valley. Omaha stands a fair chance to sccure the location, and we hope the delegates - from this city will exert their influence tosecure the location of permanent railway conductor headquarters at Omaha. THE news comes from Hawaii of the death of Rev. lather Damein, the Roman Catholic priest who had taken up s abode at Molokai, the island of lepers. This heroic man voluntarily exiled himself, many years ago, to ad- minister to the physical and spiritual wants of the outcast lepers of the island in the Pacific. In this service he con- tracted theloathesome disease, to which he has finally succumbed. Rarely has martyrdom been equalled by the ex- ample of this heroic priest, immolating ‘himself in the cause of humanity. THE business men of Omaha who signed that petition for removing the fort are beginning to dicover that they have been taken in by real estate sharp- ers, They have now found out that General Schofield is not prepossessed with the removal scheme. Much less does he entertain the peculiar, unmilitary notion that troops must be quartered ten miles away from the city for the protection of which they are - intended. Least of all have either General Scho- fiold or Secrets Proctor even inti- mated that the present fort would either have to be relocated within ten miles out or abandoned altogether, LATE statistics rogurding illiteracy in Massachutts are not aliogether encour- aging. Itisshown that within the past ten years the proportion of iliiterates to population has slightly docreased, shough the aggregate number of per- sons over ten yeurs of age in the state who can neither read nor wriio is some- what larger than ton years nge. 'This is explained by the large inflow of foroigners, but in some sections of Massachusetts illiteracy among those of native birth has not materially decreased. The manufacturing dis- tricts generally do not make a very sat- fs'actory showing, the fact evidently being that public education is greatly "moglectod in these localities, for rea- €:ns that it would not be dificult to tind. Massachusatts needs reform in this particular, or she will lose har po- sition as an example to the rast of the country, A SUGGESTION. The value to the businesa interests of acity of attractions which will draw large numbers of visitors, was foreibly iflusteated by the finanelal rosults of the centennial celebration in New York. Tt is sald that event was the means of saving more than one firm from failure, and nota fow of the hotel men, whose bank accounts were over- drawn, have been placed in a position of comparative independence and ren= dered able to silence the clamors of creditors. Tt is estimated that the vast army of visitors to the metropolis left not less than twelve million dollars ns the price of their sight-seeing. And this estiinate is rather below than above the amount expended. Evere retail in- torost was benefltted. Everybody who bad anything to sell which a visiting orowd would naturally want, found an active demand at a good round profit. For days the great city contained double its normal population, and tens of thousands of the visitors went there to unite business with pleasure. Never before in an equal period did the mer- cantile, hotel and other business inter- ests of New York do so great and pro- fitable a trade as during the week of the centennial celebration. Chi- cago also profited largely by its celebration, and every city that com- memorated the centennial on an at- tractive seale was a gainer by it. Of course, that was an exceptional event, making a special appeal to tne patriotic interest of the people. Yet of the hundreds of thousands who went to the various cities that celebrated, the majority were actuated more by the de- sire for pleasure than by any other motive. The masses of the American people do not have sufficient resreation, although the people of no other ¢ ountry better know how to enjoy them- selves when the occasion offers, nor are any other people more gen- erous in _ paying for their enjoy- ment. In every populous portion of the country the larger cities could find hardly any better investment than to provide at least twice a year genuine and adeguate attractions which would draw the people of the snrrounding country to them and be mutually adyantageous, A few cities do this, greatly to the benefit of their prosperity. Cincinnati and St. Louis have profitted largely by their liberal policy in this respect, and we do not know of any city where the plan has been judiciously tried without result- ing beneficially. The failures have been due either to unwise management or to unfavorable conditions which could not be provided against." ‘We need hardly say that these sug- gestions are intended to have a local application. Omaha is the metropolis of a tervitory having perhaps two mil- lions of people, and it would seem to be by no means an impossible thing to an- nually draw to this city say five per cent of this population by special at- tractions worthy of their atten- tion. Nor can it be otherwise than obvious that if this were done the results would be greatly to the city’s advantage. Omaha is steadily advancing. In any event, the city will continue to grow, because the condi- tions are such as to assure its progress, and they will not be changed. But it may advance slowly or rapidly, accord- ing to the degree of enterprise and en- ergy which its people exert; it may simply await the natural operation of the conditions that have made it what it is, and move forward leisurely and surely, or it may stimulate the opera- tion of these conditions and obtain a more vigorous and equally safe pro- gress. The latter would seem to be manifestly the true policy, and it should not be postponed to some future year, but put into effect this year. Some- thing is wanting to give impetus and vigor to Omaha’s advance. The- intel- ligent men who control its financial and business affairs ought to be able to de- termine what it is that’s wanted and proceed without delay to provide it. A NOBLE CHARITY. Only a few months ago the pros- pectus was issued by Rev. E. A. Fogel- strom for the establishment of a great hospital in this city, conducted on a non-sectarian basis, and modeled after the Philadeiphia Mothers’ House of Dea- conesses. To-day we publish interesting report of the suc- cessful completion of the hos- pital building. coupled with an earn- est appeal for additional axd to assure the opening of the institution at an early day. The unselfish and untiring devotion ‘which Mr. Foglestrom has manifested since the inception of this noble charity entitles him to the sympathetic encouragement And substantial support from men of means who desire to contribute towards the relief of their fellow men. Many of our wealthiest citizens restrain their humanitarian impulses and defer all their good intentions for posterity. They want 0 be remembered by the future generations for the wealth they have left to their relutives rvather than by deeds of benevolence and charity. To this class all appeals for aid are made in vain, There are others, however, who prefer to use the means they have accumu- lated for the alleviation of distress and disease, and from such we have reason 10 expect a generous response for the Immanuel hospital and Deaconess in- stitute. ——— THE AMERICAN CONGRESS. The congress of American nations which will meet in Washington next October promises to be a success 8o far as the ropresentation is concerned. All the principal countries of South Amer- ica, except Brazil, have accepted the invitation to be represented in the con- gress, as have also Mexico and the re- publics of Central Amerea. Brazil will probably not be represented, owing to the uncertainties surrounding the political situation in that empire. The emperor, Dom Pedro, caunot live a great while, and it is appre- hended that his death may be followed by a resolution to overthrew the imperial government and establish a rapublic. He would be succeeded by hisdaughter, who is now practically at the head of affairs, and while sha is a woman of strong character and wunnl THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: excellent qualitiea, she is not well liked by the magses of the people. The re- publicas party has a quite vigorous or- ganization, and {s beliaved to be pre- paring for a pevelutionary demonstras tration. Under such circumstances the Brazilian government can hardly be expected to take any part in the congress. There had boen some doubt about Mexico patticipating, owing in pagt to the failure of the com- | mercial treaty between that country and the United states, but the Mexican government has signified its intention to be represented. As to whether the congress will result in advancing the purpose for which it is called, that of promoting closer com- mercial relations between American countries, appears, however, to be pro- an | blematical. So far as the press of South America voices public sentiment there the evidence is that there is not a very great or general intorest felt in the congress. The newspapers do not discuss it as a matter which they consider to be of vital importance, and there has been some outspoken op- position to it. The ct appears to be that the people of South America, while feeling very friendly to the United States, are quite capable of ap- preciating their commercial advan- tages, are not disposed to make any al- liance that would not secure them at lenst equal benefits and opportunities with those they now enjoy. They have very little, if any, cause to complain of their trade relations with England, Germany and France, and they will doubtless decline to abandon these to any great extent unless they can plainly sce that they are to be the gainers by doing so. It isnot clear that the representatives of the United Siates can give them any assurances likely to commit them to a policy wholly favorable to this country. Nev- ertheless the calling of a congress to consider and discuss the commercial and political relations of the countries on the American continents was proper and commendable. Its deliberations can hardly fail to be instructive to the people of the two continents, and it ought to at least prove a step toward the solution of a very important prob- lem: BEGINNING WELL. The superintendent of the next cen- sus, Mr. Robert P. Porter, of whose ap- pointment there has been a great deal of gratuitous criticism by the newspa- pers opposed to the administration, has entered upon the work of organizing the service under him in a way to com- mand coutidence. The census will give employment to a very large force, and as appointments are not subject to the provisions of the civil service law, there was thought to be a great oppor- tunity for the politicians to pay some of their debts for political services. The superintendent has been ovorwhelmed with applications, but in the limited number of appointments he has thus far made his selections have been de- termined by capacity and fitn ess rather than by the influence applicants were able to command. Most of the appoint- ments wili not be made until next year, and Mr. Potter announces that they will be made with primary regard to quali- fications. Those who had experience in the last census will have the prefer- ence, and after these such as have passed the civil service examination. For others he proposes to have an ex- amination and make appointments based upon its results. Mr. Porter has thus far shown that he fully appreciates the nature and im- portance of the work to be performed, and so far as yet appears, there is not a reason to doubt that he will justify his selection. The altogether absurd idea advanced by those who have criticised his appointment, that he might shape statistics to vindicate his views regard- ing the tariff, he has sufficiently dis- posed of, and doubtless its authors never seriously entortained it. There is hardly a possibility of his falsifying the statistics, if he should desire to do s0, and not the least probability that he could have such a desire. The next census will be less voluminous than the last, congress having greatly reduced the fisld to be covered, but undoubtedly it will be equally trustworthy. AN IMPORTANT MATIER. Plumbing iospection is one of the most important departments of the city government. It involves the health and comfort of the people. The exten- sion of sanitary sewers in all parts of the city has increased the work of this department to such an extent that the force employed is inadequate to meet the demands. The laws and regula- uions are conflicting and insufficient to protect home-builders from the greed and incompetency of plumbers. People who contract for a first-class job of san- itary plumbing are entitled to prompt inspection by competent officials. Under the present regime this is impossible and the result is that hundreds of houses do not receive that supervision which the law contemplates. The city council should remedy these defects at once. Plans and specifica- tions of plumbing should be submitted. together with the plans of the building, and should be approved by the plumb- ing inspector, and that official should be given authority to enforce not only the rules and regulations which the council may adopt from time to time, but also to compel compliance with the approved plans. The fees for such work should be reasonable and sufficient to pay for competent inspection, No builder will object to the payment of a small sum for a thorough examination of sewer and water connections, the quality of pipe used, the joints, traps and ventilators. It involves no cost to the city, therefore the city should em- ploy a sufficient force of competent men to respond promptly to all demands and complaints, e————— THE gruespme account of the bungling manner in which the Bald Kmobber wmurderers were hanged in Missouri calls attention to the fact that New York is now ready to execute its criminals by a more humane method, The dynamos have been purchased for the various penitentiaries, and the next man to suffer the death penalty will be i despatched within fiftecn seconds with- out a struggle by sending through his body an alternating ourrent of eleo- tricity with a,pggssure of one thousand volts. The New York method will eventually replace the gallows in every state of the union, and the hangmam’s noose will'bo relegated to the chamber of tortures. THE citizend of Beateice have reason to congratulate: themselves upon the completion and opening of ‘“The Pad- dock.” They may now truthfully boast of possessing i superb hotel and mag- nificent opera house. No city in the state is better equipped for entertaining and housing commereial travelers and guests. For these unrivalled facilities they are indebted to Senator Paddock, who has given them substantial proof of his public spirit, enterprise and un- bounded confldence in the future growth and prosperity of Boatrico George Set a Good Example. Washington to His Nephew. You cannot doubt my wishes to see you appointed to uny office of honor or emolu- ment in the new government, to tho duties of which you are comvetent; but, however de serving you may bo of the one you have sug- rested, your standing at the bar would not justify my nomination of you as attorney to the federal district court in preference to some of the oldest and most estcemed gen- eral court lawyers in your own state. who are desirous of this appointment. My volitical conduct in nominations, even if I were uninfluenced by principle, must be ex- ceedingly circumspect and proof against just criticism: for the eyes of Argus are upon me, and no slip will pass unnoticed that can be improved intoa supposed partiality for friends or relations. Y TN A Few People Do. Louisville Courier-Journal. The New York Journal of Commerce is usually a very accurate paper, but when it says, speaking of the silver dollar, “Nobody wishes to carry one about with him,” it goes further than the real state of the case justi- fles. There are soveral men in Louisville who are not rendered unhappy by having even as many as two or three silver dollars about them. —idgs Tolstoi the Despot. Chicago Times. Demetrius Tolstoi, Russian minister of the interior, is dead. He was the man to whom the czar looked when there was any clubbing to bo done, and it was always a summer day in Russia when there was nothing of this sort. This Tolstoi converted school houses into barracks and made prison houscs of universities. He was the boss despot of all the Russias. e Sunset Will Joke. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Hon. S, S. Cox has been telling Henry W. Grady, of Georgin, that the democrats are going to carry three out of the four new states. This shows that “Sunset's” pro- pensity to perretrate jokes, even at the ex- pense of his party, still cliugs to him. ———— Poor Lo Must Move On. Kanxds City Times. The Cherokee Strip and the rest of the Creek and Seminole cession will have to come along thisi year or next mn their due order. L The Season of Bloom and Boom. Philadelphia Times. Base ball is booming, the icebergs are majestically moving south, the peach crop is a failure, the sea serpent is taking off his spring overcoat, and the pigs are in clover. ——— Ben Butler's Hallucination. Chicago Herald. Admiral Porter’s allegation that Ben Butler is drunk has an air of plausibility. Ben is the hilarious individual who thought he could be elected president in 1584, D Always First War. Globe-Democrat. Let it be remembered to Washington’s credit that he not only whipped the British, but introdvced that useful and picturesque quadruped, the mule, into this country. e e e ‘Who Theodore Is. Chicaio Times. Mr. Roosevelt 1s not exactly an editor, but he i ‘‘one of them damned literary fellers” ‘who occasionally write for a magazine, —— Butler and Porter. Chicago Herald. Ben Butler says that Porter ran away at the battle of New Orleans. Did Porter get away with any spoons? e HITS AND MISSES. The authorities paid a neat and edifying compliment to our esteemed contemporaries by locating & fountamn on tue coruer of E——th and F——m. Candidates for the park commission have only forty-cight hours in which to pull the judicial buttons. The fortunate five will bs named Tuesday. About one hundred will be named Dennis. Plattsmouth is making larze drafts on the vitality of Omaha. O. H. Ballov is girding he city with electric wires for light and motive power. Now the press of the city 18 conting J. E. Riley with sacchariae and con- gratulating the community on *the lucky duy when he became interestedat its wel- fare.”” Mr. Riloy will build a hotel. Judge Berka gave the Anderson family a few noatly rounded lessons on the uses and abuses of the pedals by kicking $33 worth of dust out of their pockets. Anderson should now return to the ‘‘punch.” Council Bluffs is talking up & city hall. This is & wise preliminary. Three or four years of spasmodic agitation and lung exer- Cise are essential to . proper foundation for a public building in these parts. The verdant who ambled into the metrop- olis burdened with the name of Cheatem, did not sccoed. He fell an eusy prey to the members of his tribe campod at the transfor. The bob-tailed car will soon be a melan- choly reminiscence in Omaha, while tho mules will be transférrod to groen pastures in the suburbs. The Columbus Telegram urges Omaha to “Jump at the offer for a union depot while it is at white heat.” Omaha is t0o old to burn its fingers, Wait till it cools off, Ben Hogan is hammering sin and siuners without gloves in Céntral New York. In a receut blue-penciled account of o slugging match, he is credited with a knock-out argu- ment that “'some men are 8o small it will not Be necessary to open the gates of hades to let them in. Thoy can slip through the_key- hole. How many suckers come to this meet- ing and never drop on themselves! When you ask them todrop on thoir kuees they play you for & chump. Now I wantto ask, gentlemen, which is the biggest gulie, a man who leads a sober, industrious life, or the man who plays the devil for a winner?” In the si leace which followed the meeting dissolved. That benevolent and public-spirited pio- neer, Henry T. Clarke, hung on to the coat- tails of the secretary of war, from Gilmore to Bellevue and Bellevue to Fort Omaha; then he followed him t0 the top of Pur Bex building, and when Secretary Proctor finaily t00k & climb to the roof of Tus Bk building for a biras-eye view of Omaha, Mr. Clarke was still tugging et the cabinet coat tail. SUNDAY MAY 12 1880, —SIXTEEN PAGES. AS OTHERS SEE US. Our Schoolma'ams. Blair Republiean. The last Sunday Bee contained & racy r- ticle on Omaha schoolma'ms. Porsonal charms are not 8o conspicuous as inteilectual culture and snap, but the brigade boasts its attractions, and to Miss Rena Hamilton,born @ nd brod in Washington county, is aceorded the palm of real beauty and high ambition to maie her mark onthe stage. Whew! That does us proud. Go to & Prohibition State, Chicago Times. Saloon licenses in Omaha are 80 high that the Omahayan has to go over to Council Blufts, [a.. to get drunk. Council Blufts is @ prohibition town. Our Bellicose Commissioner. Grand Island Independent. Omaha and Douelas county are happy. They have a splendid commissioner and an excellent county clork, who have a trouble about some county books, and fight it out by a fisticuff, in consequonce of which the county commissioner and some other partici- pants in the row were arrested. That is cheaper for the county than a long lawsuit between county and clerk, and such short- hand business ought to be made the duty of all county commissioners, A Paper for Thinkers. Kearney Enterprise, The Rosewater Brg runs a department en- titled, “For People Who Think,” for the benefit of its readers outside of Omaha. High Time to Awake. Oakdgle Pen and Ploi The Omaha Doard of trade have just finished a big junketing trip to the Black Hills and back. If long, long ago, Omaha boards of trade had come up here to see, and seciug what was best to do, and done the same to the best uf thoir ability, the products and the life blood of north Ne- braska would not now be diverted so largely to Chicago. It is better late than never. The Milk We Drink. Grand Istand Independent, The Omaliogs complain that they are fed on poor milk, milkmen manufacturing arti- ficial milk eut of soda, glycerine, saltpetre, fine salt, brown sugar, some milk and pleaty of water, and that the milk inspectors do not protect them against the imposition. Mayor Broatch promises them reform, but will find it hard work to stop the lucrative business, which transforms the nulkmen into millionaires. Two Pet jects, Alhion Wews. Omaha is just now indulging in its rogular periodical agitation for a railroad northwest from that city, and its union depot project. They are both “‘stock™ subjects for agitation duriog a dull season, A Novel Experience. Falls City Journal Omaha’s board of trade attended church in Deadwood, Dak., to keep warm. They immediately sent a column of dispatches to the Omaha papers describing the manner of conducting services in a place of wor Sl STATE PRESS COMMENT. “Prospects for railrcad building in Ne- braska, says the Beatrice Democrat, “are brightening. Capital can no more atford to be idle than can labor. The great surplus of money in the castern markets can find no other investment than iu western securities. With confidence restored,with a feeling that tise people of Nebraska do not want to legis- late railroads out of a fair margin of profiy, railrond building will be pushed, and the will be developed as rapidly as busi- 1 justify." The Hastings Nebraskan reaches the con- clusion that “Nebraska has drawn more largely than usual this year from the great manufacturing districts of the east of people who came to cast their fortunes with us. This may result in establishivg many lines of manufacturing, which, with the develop ment of our natural agricuitural resources, will give the state just wbat is needed to make its prosperity of a permanent and last- ng character.” Speaking of the coming ‘‘non-partisan’’ prohibition convention in Lincoln, the Fre- mont Tribune declares that it will be com- posed for the most part of republicans, and insinuates that the activity of John A. Demp- ster for prohibition is inspired by an smbi- tion to succeed Governor Thayer. The tour of inspection undertaken by the state board of equalization is the subject of consigerable comment, The Fremont Flail sees in it a scheme to reduce the assessed valuation of railroads, and asserts that *‘the roads have been taxed, on the average, too lightly, and the board should be cautious how they make a lower assessment.” The Fairmount Signal says: ‘“I'he peoplo will watch tie action of the board very suspi- ciously, aud should the board grant further concessions, it1s doubtful if they will accept the dictum without protest.’ To the Schuyler Sun it looks as if the anti saloon party will be a disturbing if not a dis- astrous factor in the republican party. The Hastings Democrat laughs heartily at ‘what it considers the predicament of the re- publican party, and ridicules the appeal for a non-partisan convention. It warns demo- crats to stand aloof and says: *‘You're in the swim and they're in the soup, that's the differen ce.” Speaking of farm mortgages, the Frem ont Flail asserts that the opinions of Congress- men Connell and Dorsey, ‘recently published in Tue Beg, are overdrawn, and declares that instead of being money loaners the ma- jority of farmers “are still under tne hatches.” The Kearney Hub briefly reviows Paul Vandervoort's career, his discharge by Post- master-General Gresham, and declares that in the sinecure created for him nis profound abulity tor doing nothing will have full sway, There is no kind of work in this world that he knows anything about, and unless the public supports him e will often go to bed hungry. He must be proyided for, and the appomntment is a good one. It is a cheap enongh shelf to lay him on.” - onting Baker, Fairbury Gazette, The Nebraska delegation in congress have umted on Hon. B. S. Baker, of this place, for the appointment of United States district attorney for the district of Nebraska, and we ‘ Complin are glad to learn there remains no doubt of his appointiuent. He is well titted for the place and will reflect credit on those who put him there. . Mr. Baker is comparatively a young man, having been born in 1850. At the age of fourteen he comwmenced the battle of life for himself, and siuce theo has depended for suc- cess upon his own exertions, He worked his way through college by teaching and working during vacations and graduated Iowa state university in 1871, receiving the degree B. D. Ho then took sharga of the school at Mason City in that state, where Le remained a year, and after another year's like service at Webster City, he rosizued his position as priocipal and entered the law de- partment of the state university, graduated with thea degree of LL. B, in 1874. He immediately eatered upon the practice of his profession at Webster City and built up & good practice. In 1575 be lo- cated in February, where he bas swce re- sided and where Le has by bard work built up 8 large and lucrative tice. Whenever there s at the where he prace . 2o e fight on hamd tm court he usually takes part and commands attention and respoct of edurt, bar and jury, While he seldom nské for favors, ho alwags de- mands the rights of his clienta He will make an able and encrgotic disteict attorney. Attho Chicago convention last Jume Mr. Baker was tho first of the delegation from this state to voto for Mr. Harrison. Hewas sont to the legislature from this district last fall by & big majority —running far ahead of his ticket, and soon came to be recognized as one of the leaders of that body. He was the author of several important bills which became laws, e llAzth.-llAiZh NG THE FRENCH. Le Figaro's Impression of the Wild o8t Show. Le Figaro, probably the best known of Paris nowspapers outsido of F'rance, in its issue of April 16, just roceived by Trs Ber, devoted, something like & column and a half of solid type to a motica of Buffalo Bill and his Far West show, which is to be a foa- turo of the groat Paris oxposition. It was from the pen of Paul Bernier, one of tha most briliiant of Parisian feuillotonists, As an extraordinary departure from Figaro's rule of rigid contraction of space, and paucity of complimentary expression, the article de- serves some notice, on this side of the water, despite the familiarity of Amoricans with its subject. Aftor an introductory reference and a porsonal description of Colonel Will- i am Cody of which follow, hercafter, the writer ¥ dents the life of this man will h idea of his character. s he traversed, for the first broad prairies. On the journey the wagon train was attacked by the Indians. Thechild fougnt like a lion, killing one of the red-skins and wounding several others. On that day tho young ‘Billic’ ry d-thie name of ‘Tho Indian Sla; pads The other incident of which Figaro makes mention happened on the return trip wherei “le futur heros du Far West! 18 deseribed a being one of a party besieged by Indians, and protected by a rampat, formed of the living bodies of their mules, arranged in a triangle. The hardy pioneers drove off the almost overwhelming force of their bioodthirsty encmies ; and burely escaping being destroyed by the prairie fire kindled by the Indians, FOR PEOPLE WHO THINK. — A romarkeblostep has at last boan made in the right direction in Inaia, says the Pall Mall Gazette. What the English govern« ment dare not interfere to do, is to be done (writes a correspondent), in one part of India, at loast, by an Indian prince, The Maharajah of Jodhpore, who, by the an- tiquity of his race and his semi-independent position, commands a large amount of re- spect in India, has convoked his nobility by their reprosentatives, and has appealed to them to abolish polygamy, or, at least, to allow it only when the first wife s ohildloss, This step ho has taken, it is said, solely on account of his appreciation of tho misery which the native women endure by reason of thisancient custom. It will be interesting to see what the reprosontatives of the no- bility have to say to the proposal. One of the happiest devicos for the publio 8chools to secure good habits was made a few gears ago, we believe, by a Now Jersey teachor, and termed the school banking sys- tem, says an exchange. It consists in open- avings bank on true business princi- , In which the pupils are encouraged to invest their pennies, It is well known by teachers that a great share of the danger to the young comes from their being furnished with spending money which goos indirectly for cigarettes or for stomach-spoiling can- dies, or for the worst sort of readaing wmattor, or for useless trinkets and ornaments. Tha bani creates habits of saving aud economy which will wonderfully affect tue whole life. At Long Island City, in New York, recently, the deposits of a single weok amounted to $230.41, The total In bank in this school amounts to over $10,000, the crodit of about throe years' growth, Hypuotic power, if half that is claimod bo true, is a serious menuce to socicty and tho state, says the Baltimore American. It was well enough 80 long us it was substituted for chloroform by physicians to keep their patients quiet while operating upon thom, but when it is mado the medium of murder, divorce, and the overthrow of lawfully-es tablished government, and may yet be the match to kindle the war fires over a conti- nent, tho most serious inyestigation can not joined the rest of their party, Continumgithe biography, Figaro say 3t was in 1567 that Colonel Cody received the other name of Buffalo Bill. In the course of that year he killed no less than 4,800 buf- falo—as has been ofticially publhished—and since then ho has kept up his record ! “During the war of secession, Colonel Cody accepted from General Hazen the por- ilous mission of currymng dispatches; and in this duty, it ALY ‘of" lilbal{bhnt 1S per- formed the characteristio feat of hunself making 355 miles in Afty-eight hours," Prescuting him as a ‘‘sort of Robin son Crusoo of the new world, having the grandeur of one of the legondary heroes, With the inestimable advantage of being yet in flesh aud blood, adventurous to excess, and brave almost to recklessness,” it gives that as a description of “this man who h; the strength and the beauty of the Farnese Horcules; and who, coming of one of tho most_aristocratic famities, is seen illustrat- ing on the prairvies of tho far west, the ro- munce of Penimore Cooper.” And so on for half a column of glow- ing description and warmest eulomy, when the writer arrives at Buffalo Bill's ok ject in visiting Paris at this time, and giv A fair outline of the camp and performance of the troupe of . more than three hundred Indians, Sioux, Comanches, trappers and Canadian voyageurs, on the 55,000 metres {about fourteen acres) of ground, ‘‘grac- iously conceded by General Sausier, military ruor of Paris." thing strikes the Parisian forcibly, is thut not in ull this exhidition 1s to be found a single clown or acrobat, nor yet a single traditional feature of the ordi- nary circus or hippodrome, “but that the spectators will ussist at a presentation, real as well as dramatic, of the shock be- tween civilization and the rude forces and the savages of the far west.” The horse- manship of the savago chiefs Red Shirt (la Chemise rouge) and Rocky Bear (' Ours des Roches) ,ard their followers, is extolled in the highest degree, and their intractable animals come in for extended notice. “‘If the success of Buffalo Bill in Paris,” predicts M. Paul Bernier, ‘“‘does not equal that which he achieved in London, it will not be because of his not having with him, a troupe more numerous and magnificent. The queen of England, who is not in the habit of visiting such shows, went many times to applaud the colonel, and the Prince and Princess of Wales were frequent spectators of the per- formance. It is said of the Graund-duke Michael, of Russia, who is now actually with us, that he was so filled with enthusiasm that he went one day into the ring and took part in the performance in the disguise of a cow-boy. " *Go ahead—comme disent les Americains,” concludes M. Bernier, “‘and good success to Buffulo Bill, who, while he may become in some sort a Parisiun, 18 a thoroughly repre- entative American.” L A Late French Joke, Literally Tranlated From Figaro, April 16, The wife of an employee of the telegraph began of him to make a sceno prolonged of reproaches and of wrongs--this one has not breathed a word: “£h, well! What is this you have jto re- spond{” of him demanded she, furious of his silence, ‘The husbad, after an instant of reflection: “I have to respond, that if you had tele- graphed all those to Bourdeaux, the dispatch would have cost you 425 francs, 60 centi mes.” - May Night, Boston Conrter, When sinks to rest the golden day, And up the star-gemmed sky The queen of night pursues her way In silent majesty. When oirds have ceased to sing thoir loves And flowers hava closed their eycs, And through the archies of tho groves The perfumod zephyrs sighs. When brightly glows tho evening star, And all around is still, Save that the note is heard afar Of grieving whippoorwill. When stars are mirrored in the stream And aewdrops gom the grass, And 'moug the treos with suddon gleam, ‘lhe fitful fireflies pass. “Then lovers fond together weet Beside the orchard wall, Orat the rustic garden seat Where shadows darkly fall, The one might hear, if one wore near, A gentle maiden ay : “Don’t syeeze me quite so hard—oh# dear, fou take 1y breath away.!’ e The Western Art Exhibition. ‘The spring exhibition of the Western Art association will open next Wednesday 1n the J. 9. Brown building, at the corner of Six- teeath und Douglas. The exhibit wafl, without doubt, be the lurgest ev: made by Omaha artists, There will be at least 200 pictures on exhibition, the most of them the work of Omaha artists, Among the artists who have made special work for the axhibit are Mrs, Mmu:mfn, Mr. Albert lothery, Muss Shulze, Mrs, M. A. Collins, Mr. Fred Knight, Miss . Pettis, Miss Mary Murray, Miss Hutter- field and Mr. H. B. Shant Sold Foot G 3 Sheriff Coburn sold a stock of dry goods, boots and shoes, at public auction yesterday, which was once the property of Cornbleth & Pelzer, who failed six months ago, at Madi- in this state. Tho order of sale was favor of W, V th & Co. son, made in E. Si Morse & ( ‘I'he sale took of a omploted arrange ments for a tour of this country next scason s conductor of a company and orchestra that will praduce his own principal operatio works and oratories. Gounod 1s Faust in thie bearts of bis countryiaeu, amoug Liviug coinposers. P “The late Carl Itosa was & “boy prodigy,” and was billed at concerts as the “‘Juvenile Pagauini” Me married Mmo. Parcpa, his prima doona, during his fiest tour of tho | United Statés. He fs sald o bave never Lard | takon & benefit or testimonial in auy fuii, 1 tunity to be intempe be long postponed. If there really bo such a power it should be exprossly defined and controlled, as it can be made far more insid ious and dangerovs than dynawmite or any other modern explosive. At the close of the operations on Cricket Hill, near Blackwater, our represontative, says the Pail Mall Gazette, had the advan- tuge of having an interesting conversation with one of our most distinguished cavalry ofticers who had been present at most of the skirmisnes between the cavalry (the Berk- shire yeomanry) and the cvelists during the morning, Our correspondent is not at lib- erty to mention his name, but his opinion certainly appears to him most valuable, backed as it is by his high military position. The ofticer in question was most enthusiastio about the oyclists and the manner in which they had carried out their part of the day's manceuvers. In his opinion they were up- doubtedly the cavalry of the future, at any rate 0 far as the actunl home defense of England was concerned: and *‘as a matter of fact,”" he added, ‘‘from what [ have seen to-duy I am not so certain but what cyclists might have been used in some of our African campaigns with as much advantage as mounted men.” In his opinion, it was simply impossible to over-rato their utility for reconnaissavce or outpost work. Given cven only fairly good roads they could do more than any cavalry could accomplish. Distance was absolutely no obstacle to them, and what was more, they could keop up an even vace the whole way, which in g case where it might bo necessary to mako rapid stragetical move- ments was of immense importance. Then as to the question of expense: provide tho soldier with a bicyclo and no further outlay was uecessary beyond such as was entailad by occasional slight repairs, which comparod with what was incurred where horses wore concerned was positively nil. “In- fact," coucluded the gallant officer, “it appoars to me that it is only a mutter of common scnse, and one whicn must eventuaily force itsolf on to the minds even of thoss who o hate tho mere idea of an innovation that they will Dot at present so much asliston tothe sugges- tion. Mounted infantry, in my opinion, is totally inadequate, and is only a fad of those who prefer to ride whenover it is possible to avoid walking.” If the flrst steps of President Harrison's southern policy predicate the future his ad- mimstration in this particular will merit the highest commendation of overy man in tho county who has soul enough to value patriot- ism above party, says the Denver News (dem.).@The civil war estaibished the in- divisible nationality of the United Statos It has been over nearly’ a generation. Is it not time to substitute practical for theoreti- cal unity among the people of the respective sections? Who can estimato the service to the nation of the man who may bo the agency in _ eradication of the lnst impediment toa cordial fellow-feoling among Americans that will bs rooted in tho pride of & common nationality, and who would embarrass stops that look to such a culmination by the possible effects of such a far-seeing policy upon the fate of any political organization?t There is, and has been for years, a white man’'s party in this country, or in certain portions of it, and no one has realized more keenly than the colored people how utterly proseriptive and un-American that party has bocome, says the Pittspurg Commercial Ga- zette (Rep.) Another party based on race or color would be not only equally undemo- cratio, but subjoct to like abuses and fraught with like mischief. It might suit the pur- poses of a few demagogues w wheedle the colored peovle into the belief that they can gain political power and place by concentra- tion under their shrewdest leaders, but if they are wise, as they have hitherto shown thewselves to be, they will not be thus misled, Men are not made good by statutes; but, on the othor hand, it is possible that a statute which restrains an ovil may give opportunity for individual reformation, says the Denver Republican. Such a statute may bo like a breakwater which protects the harbor from the full sweep of the wavos, ovon thqugh the spray may dash over it. Apart from any consideration of sumptuary legislation, one of the greatest objections to & prohibitory liguor law is that in many cases it tends to weaken rather than to strengthen individnal character. It may, by its sheiter, give some mau opportunity to reform; but it may also be the occasion whereby the moral sensibitl- ties of other mon may be blunted god the growtn of moral courage ohccked, The sa- 1oon which is closgd bocause the men whe once supportod it uo longer care to drink, is much more tightly closed then tha one which ls shut hocausa- of & prohibitory law, while sustomers aud proprietor are all scek- ing ways and mouns of ovading the law. ‘Femnerance is one of the fruits of a reformed individual hife. ‘Ihat tempersuce is better whish is the result of a man's refusal to go estray whon Lo has the opportunity than tuat which is duo solely 10 u lack of oppor- Mugwumps. Chteag rine, ‘The mugwumps haven't Yoen as happy for yoars as since the publication of Hishiop Pot- tor's sermon, und when we see how 1ittle it takes somstiuies o wake s mugwump happy 1tin aimost winful 0 grudgo thes tioir joy 1101 this souive 1t Pleased