Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 26, 1889, Page 4

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Average..... o GEORGE B, TZSCHUCK. - Bworn to before me and subscribod o in my resence this2th day of ay. . o PRent, NCBLVRIT Notary Pubtia, bou George N, Tzachuck, being duly sworn, de- Btate of Nebraska, County of Douglis. d says that Le 18 secrtary of the Beo blishing company, daily circulation of ne DAILY BEE for tho monith of April, 1888, 18,744 copies: for May, 1888, 18,183 copies: for June, 158% 10,243 coples; for July, 1888 K1) ceplos; “for Augiist, 1858 iR 18} coplés: for September, 158, W51 coples; for ber, 1888, 18,084 copios; for November, 1883, 960 copien: fof, December, I, 1822 caplos for January, 184, 4 coples; for February, 1980, 18,916 coples; for March, 184, 18,634 coples. R GRORGE . AZCH DO, S RN oy oo i A ril, A. D., 3 N B FRIL, Notary Public. A8 a convention city, Omaha again displayed her hospitality by entertain- ing the visiting Masons. | Kegp away from the Sioux reserva- tion. The settler who attempts to se- . cure a quarter section in advance of the opening will .have his labor for his pains. IowA is said to be overrun with gophers, and a reward is offered for every one killed. It is suggested that Iowa simply pass a prohibitory amend- ment against gophers. —ee Mr. Ricuarp F, TREVELLICK told the workingmen of Omaha at his lec- ture to leave the excessive use of strong drink alone. There is a world of wisdom in these remarks, peculiarly appropriate when men are out on & strike. THms is a season of record breaking by the monster steamships across the Atlantic. The credit of making the « fastest passage either east or west be- longs to the City of Paris, but it is probable that rivals will try to excel that vessel’s achievements. — “HARMONIOUS relations” are re- ported to have been established be- ' ‘tween the Englishand American repre- sentatives of the salt syndicates. If that means an international salt trust, the people of this country will finda means to disturb the nicely adjusted understanding. —_— Irisanill wind that blows nobody good. The failure of the De Lesseps , Panama canal has infused life into the , Nicaraugua inter-oceanic canal project. The pioneer expedition for the work of constructing this enterprise has just set sail from New York and it remains to be seen what success will attend the American capitalists despite the De Lesseps disaster still fresh in mind. E——————— THE opening of the Texas spring lace on May 29 to continue until June , at Fort Worth, promises to be %n oc- casion memorable in the history of the Lone Star state. Preparations for the great cvent have been going on for months. Animposing exposition build- fng has been erccted to accommodatoe the many varied products of the state. "Envitations huve been sent broadcast, #and the attendance of prominent men fgrom all parts of the country is assured. Mhe exposition, moreover, is likely to -mssume an international aspect with the ‘presence of President Diaz, of Mexico, ‘who has signified his intention of com- Ang. Texas will undoubtedly surpass ‘hersell in extending hospitalities to her ‘visitors, and the holiday about to be ‘welebrated will have an importaut bear- #og upon tho great southwest. i am—— I7 is reported that the interior de- * ypartment, profiting from the Oklahoma Masco, has been quictly arranging to throw open to settlement, early in June, a tract of some five hundrea shousand acres in Dakota. ‘The land is -known as the Fort Sisseton reserva- ‘tion, adjoining to the Sisseton Indian reservation. It lies in Marshall county, An the east central part of the terri- sory, and is fertile, well-watered and in every way desirable for farming pur- . The land is traversed by the jeago, St. Paul & Minneapolis and is easily accessible from all directions, As it will be subject to homestead entry only and comprises much valu- ‘able timber country, the man hunger- fng for a farm can find a home here in pomparison with which Oklahoma is a desert. E—— ! THE reportof the Connecticut board ©f odacation for 1888, that illiteracy is @ecreasing in that stute, seems hardly eredible, In one county, which was Makon as fairly ropresentative, it was “found that two-fifths of all the children weceiving pudlic instruction were un- #ble to write, although some of them Hhad beon from six to elght years in sohool. Such a condition of affairs would indicate that the public schools in that state had fallen to & low ebb. Ao doubt the investigations of the board ‘will have the offcct to awaken the peo- ple of Connecticut to the danger. That . “one ofthe Now England states should #0 low in providing education worthy of the name, and that state. ve all, should be Coanectiout, for hor great colloges, 1y u burn- Isgrace to ull New England. the actual average . AND INTEMPER- D AIIIY BEE. TEMPRERANCE by Excessive indulgence in liquor is by no means the only form of intemper- ance against which the battering rams of moral reformers should be directed. Intemperance in eating claims thou- sands of victims every year., Nobody has yet proposed a law to abolish the viands that impede digestion and cause rheumatism, dyspepsia and hypochon- dria. Nobody has even suggested that we shall punish the butcher, the baker, and the confectioner. Licentiousness is a distemper that has afflicted humanity for fitty centuries. The misery, brutality and crime that have resulted from too much drink pale into insignificance in comparison with the unutterable wretchedness, shocking depravity and heinous crimes that have as their prime factor illicit intercourse between the sexes. Embezzlements, defaleations, deadly diseases, suicides, infanticides, seductions and eruel mur- ders are for the most part traceable to the intemperate love and lust. From Simson’s Delilab down to Miss Beechler-King beautiful bad women have exercised the most baneful influ- ence and filled our calendars with rec- ords of pollution, degradation and crime that make humanity stand nghast. But no social-evil reformer has been bold enough to suggest that we abolish woman. Nobody has yet declaimmed from pulpit or the forum against this species of intemperance and advocated an amendment to the constitution that would stop women from selling them- solves either with or without a mar- ringe license. No radical social re- former has yet devised any scheme or framed any law by which the constitu- tion of man and woman would be so amended as to make them proof against the social vice. There is intemperance even in re- ligion. Our insane asylums count hun- dreds of persons bereft of reason by re- ligious excitement. Some of the worst maniacs have gone crazy over highly- colored descriptions of the terrors of nades. And yet nobody, not even Bob Ingersoll, proposes to abolish religion and religious worship. Noone has yet suggested a law that would prohibit re- ligious zealots, whether they be priests, rdbbis or dervishes, from trying to make converts to their belief by the most in- temperate exhibitions of rehigious fer- vor. Intemperance in talk, is almost as dangerous as intemperate eating and drinking. And we know of no form of intemperate talic more hurtful to public morals than thai indulged in by the professional agitators of sobriety made compulsory by cast iron laws. These intemperate temperance reformers im- pose upon the credulous by reckless misstatements and fulminate accusations that have scarcely a shadow of warrant in truth, They want to fire the popu- lar heart and make reputations for thewmselves as the Johu A. Sullivans of the prohibition arena. Aboveall things they want to make their lectures pay. A fair specimen of this class, the Rev. Sam Small has just favored Omaha with a series of intemperate exhortations. He was not content with pointing out degradation, woe and vice that spring from drunkenness. He did not take the trouble to cite facts and figures to exhibit the enor- mous waste entailed upon the industrial classes by the liquor drinking habit. But he imposed on popular credulity by glaring misstatements and stirred up emotional facts. . No one will deny that the liguol traffic is responsible for a large share of human misery. It is an admitted evil, and the great question with right-thinking men is how to regulate and restrict the evil. If these intemperate agitators of com- pulsory sobriety could be induced to tell the truth they would be forced to admit that intemperance in drink can no more be abolished by ,law than can the social evil. It has cursed mankind since the days of Noah and will survive with the infirmities of the human race. Temperance in all things is a virtue for which the highest tpye of man has ever striven. But that is not the ideal of Rev. Sam Small or any other professional agita- tor of compulsory temperance. This class of moral swashbucklers must sub- sist on intemperance. They are pul- verizing the rum power for dollars and do not scruple about palming off fiction for fact to keep the pot boiling. THE ELECTRICAL AGE. Wae are living in an age of marvelous developments. Every department of human activity is strained to invent new applications of latent power or im- prove on present roethods, There is a nervous tension to discover new fields of energy, to subdue the elements over and under ground, and make them obe- dient to the will of man. Every year adds something to the sum of human comfort and bappiness, placing at our disposal new and startling applications of mechanical arts and sciences, which would be considered a quarter of a cen- tury ago as trenching on the miracu- lous. But this age is optimistic, and strange things create but u momentary surprise. No field of activity and ingenuity af- fords such a wide range of possibilities as electricity. Its scope is seemingly boundless. from the time Franklin demonstrated with his kite that atmos- pherio electricity could be chained and made subservient to man, till Morse sont the telegraph message, ‘‘What God hath wrought,” there was little progress in eleadrical science. The peo- ple of that age weore not prepured for the wonderful changes that man has since wrought. The perfoction of the telegraph on lnnd and sea, the tele- phone, the phonograph, electrie light- ing in its various forms, electric rail- ways and the application of electricity 88 & motive power, are nll the gift of genius to the prosent age. Aund yet we sreonly on the thresbold of boundless es. In its application to the industries it is practically in its infuncy. No wan ean weasure its rosources or prophesy its future. Que thing is oer- tain, it is the mental aud material light as well as the molive power of the | amounts fanaticism by distorting’ from Boston. - If on further test it shall prove successful, it will revelutionize | which appears railronding and practieally annihilate spaco. It is described as “‘a process in which the momentum of a car passing magnetic coils is utilized for the attain= ment of a speed greater than thut of a swallow and equal to that of a swift, which goes through the air at the rate of two hundred miles an hour.” This certainly is the essence of rapid transit. It almost passes belief, but when one considers the progress made and the di- verse applications of this unseen power in the last twenty-five years there is no room for doubt. There is no such word as fail in the vocabulary of electricity. Experts say that the invention will do even more than is claimed for it. It is simple and cheap, a mere bagatelle compared with the present cost of rail- road transportation. But who wants to be shot like a canon ball through space at the rate of two hundred miles an hour? When Robert Stephenson’s first locomotive won the prize sixty years ago for attain- ing a speed of fourteen miles an hour,the people were astounded, and looked upon the builder as ono possessed, but speed has increased with the growth and advancement of the world, and to- day sixty miles an hour is common on all the main railroads in the country. The Jarrett and Palmer train sped aeross the continent, 3301 miles, on an average speed of thirty-nine miles an hour, including all stops. Short dis- tance runs have been frequently made at the rate of seventy miles an hour, a speed frequently attained by the ice boats on the Hudson river. Storms on Mount Washington have registered a speed of eighty miles an hour. In 1884 Count Carolyi’s carvier pigeons flew from Pesth to Paris at a rate of one hundred and fourteen miles per hour, and swallows attain a speed of one hundred and fifty miles an hour. All these records are comparatively trifling with what electricity promises. ‘When Chicago is brought within two and a half hours of Omaha, and the dis- tance to New York traversed between sunrise and sunset, surely the demand for rapid transiv will be fully satisfied. Truly this is the electric age. ey PROCEED IN THRE USUAL WAY. “‘Are there any non-partisan democrats, any non partisan republicans? Are there any men ir Omaha fit to be members of the school board, who have no politics at all? This non-partisan business is all rot. e R v il 7 B Sy Proceed in the usual way and get the very best men possible, and a good school board will result.”—Republican. What is the usual way? A dozen ward bummers hold a caucus around a beer table. They agree upon a delegate ticket and ‘“‘proceed in the usual way” to elect it, by drumming up the scum of the town to carry the primary. Then the convention meets and the delegates picked at the caucus ‘‘proceed in the usual way” to name the man that will do them the most good when he gets into the school board. Then a combine is entered into by which the delegation is to throw its solid vote to the man picked “in the usual way” by the delegates from other wards who are willing to join and nomi- nate their man. Then the convention “‘proceeds in the usual way” to ballot for the best men possible—that is, the men who can command a majority of the ward strikers and heelers. And the output of this political pot is a set of pothouse politicians, who are bound in advance by political obligation to convert the patronage of the public schools into party plunder. “‘Proceeding in the usual way” the ticket as a whole is commended by par- tisan organs and the undivided support for each and every candidate on the yellow-dog ticket is made a matter of honor and principle. The party lash is swung and voters are whipped intoline, in the name of their respective parties, regardless of the fitness of the candi- dates. The proof of the pudding is in the eating. If proceeding in the usual way will give us the best men, then why not re-elect every member of the board whose time is up? They were all the produét of the *‘usual way.” But even the Republican contends that there must be a change. Now, THE BEE does not pretend that a non-partisan school board must be made up of men who have-no political convictions. Judge Wakely is us much a democrat as Dr. Miller; but he was voted for and elected by republicans on o non-partisan ticket. Judge Groff is as good & republican now as he ever was, but as he owes his election to the distriot bench to no party caucus or convention he remains entirely free from party bondage and can exercise his judicial functions without restraint This is precisely the position which members of the school bodard should occupy, They should be free to exer- cise their honest convictions and ignore politics and political bosses in the man- agement of the public schools. This does not mean-that they must forswear their party allegiance or discard their political principles. Ivisall very well to talk about pro- cecding in the “usual way,” but so long as our party machinery is contaminated by barnacles and professional caucus packers we must abandon the usual way and seek to elevate the standard of our school management by non-partisan selections. SE——— ABOUT yYUBLIC PARKS. The extension of our park system has become a matter of imperative neces- sity. The only problem with which our park comraission is wresthing is how to devise the ways and means for the pur- chase of lands, and on what scale these parks shall be laid out. Before any steps are taken toward the acquisition of lands Lhaf are to be con- verted into parks and boulevards, the commission very properly desires to ascertain how tax-paying citizens feel with regurd to park extension and park improvemcnts, In order that public opinion may be intolligently exorcised in regard to the area of parks of our leading cities, | their original cost, the mode of raising { the ~ purchase money, and the expended for their im- ement and maintonance, THE BEk world, Prov - 'The latost developmant of eleetricity { will pubiisk: a series of interesting sud os. T O . Ba Y ns a means of rapid transit is reported 1 instructive lotters on parks and boule- -vards. The first number of this sories, ip this issne relates to | the parks and &‘lnvnrds of St. Louis. That city, as wilL be seen by the statistics compiled Bk our correspondent has an aggregate of over two thousand one hundred acrag Iaid out in public parks, for whic‘ghq has paid over two million dollars., ** This will bo a revelation to many, if not most of our citizens, and St. Louis does not occupy the lead- ing position among American cities that have invepted upwarda of two millions in parks and boulevards. A careful perusal of the interesting and instructive facts and figures pre- sonted by our St. Louis correspondent can not fail to enlarge the views of our citizens on tha auestion of parks and will prove suggestive to our park com- mission. Tie name of Prof. Dolbear is well- known in scientific circles especially in connection with his improvements of the telephone and other electrical de- vices. His latest invention, recently exhibited in Boston, gives promise of revolutionizing the business of post and parcel transportation - between cities and has consequently excited great in- terest. The device consists of a single elevated rail upon which a long narrow box or car capable of holding a thousand letters or parcels can run. At intervals along the track are placed hollow coils of insulated wire charged with powerful currents of electricity. The car is itsell a magnet and the principle upon which it operates is the tremendous force which a coil of wire through which a current of electricity is passed is known to exert in drawing amagnet to its cen- ter. At froquent points along the track these colls of wire are repeated and counected §o that a current is passed through them. The power in the first coil is about one-half of one horse power and the" coils are 8o arranged that as soon as the car or . magnet is drawn into the center of each, the power is automatically cut off and the car-rushes along to the next coil, the whole being 8o arranged that the motion is not only continuous but extremely rapid. The claim is made that the distance between New York and Boston can be covered by this portelectric system in two hours, and that the problem of rapid transit for the transmission of the mails issolved. The experiments so far have been eminently successful. If the de- vice can work inJung distance as well as it does over a shott one, there can be. no question but that $he necessary capi- tal to build and perfect this system all over the countryyWill be forthcoming. THE death of the fumous Laura Bridgman, justaanounced from Boston, calls to mind thehistory of that re- markable persony, When two years of age she lost sighf and hearing, due to severe illness. Her 8ense of smell and taste were destrgyed, her speech was 1mpaired, and of her five senses only that of touch gemsined. The edu- cation of Laura Bridgman, begun at her eighti” year by the late Dr. S. G. How8, 8 that she could express her thoughts intelligently and receive external impressions and com- munications, was the work of saving a soul from everlasting night. The suc- cess of this task demonstrated the pro- gress science had made in the education of unfortunates deprived of one or more of the five senses. The Laura Bridgman case has excited the admiration and wonder of the scientific world. She has been made the study of psychological and medical research, and considerable light has been shed upon the mysteries of lhfe through the sixty years’ existence of this unfortunate woman,. THE master mechanic of one of the shop divisions of the Wabash road re- cently issued an order to the effect that all shop apprentices taken into the ser- vice of that road in future must have passed the eighth grade examination in the public schools: The reasons for this are apparent. It has been ob- served, not only by this particular mas- ter mechanic, but by employers in other industries, that boys who have received a thorough elementary education are better prepared to learn a mechanical vocation than those whose education has been more limited. They learn more rapidly the details of their trade. They are more observant, more indus- trious, and withal, gentlemanly in their intercourse with their superiors and their fellows. Such an indorsement, coming from the ‘‘shops,” is encour- aging. E— THE emigration of a number of Mor+ mons, reported to be passing through Montana into Canada, would indicate that settlements are to be established within the British provinces. The movement moreover of several bodies of Mormons into Mexico would likewise show that the Saints are looking for a haven of rest acrossthe Rio Grande. ‘With colonies so far spart it is quite evident that the Mormons contemplate no general exodus, either from Utah or from the United Séates. Their purpose is plainly to establish.communities and cities of retuge’both in Canada and Mexico, where refuga’e- from either of three countries could: find an asylum in case of political ¢f reljgious persecution. ITis not surprising that insanity is added to the trafnbf ovilsencompassing the Des Moines ri¥ériand settlers. The wonder is that majiy of them have not been driyen to thé goal of despair—sui- eide, Hounded }n:‘)’nrnued by corpor- ate grood legalized:by the courts, de- nied the protectiott/which the govern- ment guaranteed to holders of its con- tracts, and threatened with forcible ejection from their homes, it is not as- stonishing that reason should full shat- tered at the close of 2 long, exhausting and fruitless struggle. m———— Tug grit and energy of Gladstone 15 phenomenal. * All human attempts to suppress the grand old man are futile. | Providence seems to huve sclected him as the leador of a great reform, nnd the rush of cabs can not provail ugaiost . him. ———————— Prah s Poetry. Allgnta Constitution, In the daydawa of youth, when the kindling viston swoeeps the plains of futurity ond sces only the blazonry of hopeful promise, the young man weds some damsel on whose tender cheek the dews of morn are still a-tremble. Then come the years of toil and labor, the cares and the worries, the Joys and tho disappointments, . Man 1s preno to selfishness, and is too near-sighted to observe the hand that boars the codling chalice to the fevered lips. But to the woman he is all in all. She has not a thought nigher than his dear head, for that is, to Ler, as high as heaven, But every day he learns a truer and more unconscious appreciation of her devotiou. On the threshhold of his home, be it palace or cottage, he expects to see hor waiting to welcome him when the toils of the day are over. There is something in her very presence— something soothing and refreshing. And her voice 18 dearer to lim than all the welodies of earth and sea and sky combined. —- A President Who Thinks For Hime LLEH Chicago News. The Indiana republicans in Washington are said to be as mad as hornets because the president persists in doing things without asking their advice. It is pretty rough that the chief executive now and then presumes to think for himself when there are 8o many ablo thinkers willing and even anxious to project a few thoughts into space for his benefit, o . Not the Democratic Style. Arkansas Democrat, Governor Eagle never uttered words fraught with more truth than when he told the people of Forrest City that they would do well to invite back by public resolutions any persons that had been asked to leave, that this is a free country, and if any man has violated the law the proper course was to bring him before the courts and vunish him according to law. Fivo Dollars Per Kiss. Philadelphia Times, One of the most fashionable of Philadel- phin physicians always kisses his hand when waving farewell to his wealthiest lady pa- tients: but some of them were comparing notes the other day, and found that for visits when he kissed his hand he charged $10, while for othors he charged only $5. I e Dana and the Democracy. Chicago Inter-Ocean. The leading peculiarity of Mr. Dana’s sun- shine 13 that he blacks the eyes oftener than the boots of his party.—Puck. Brother Dana disdains to crook the knee, and fights from the level of the head; an un- usual thing in democracy. AT ey Boston's Saloons, - Chicago Herald. How doesa town the size of Boston get along with only 780 saloons? [t must fre- quently make a good many people late at the Boston lectures, ——— STATE PRESS COMMENTS. The little paragraph which has been going the rounds of the state papers that the recent rains were worth millions to the farmers, causes the Kenesaw Cyclone to remark: “Corporations water their stock and make millions, but it will take something else thun ‘water to get the crops in the crih,” Nebraska is coming to the front as a state of Iawlessuess, according to the Kearnoy Hub, and during the past year murder has been alarmingly on the increase. “In these quiet days of the reign of law and order,” says that paper, ‘‘one is reminded of the old frontier days, with the exception that then the murderer.ran at- large instead of as now being arraigned and turned loose or having a mild punishment visited upon his devoted head. If the state would encourage the hemp industry it might have a salutary ef- fect upon felons as well as add to the agri- cultural resources of the commonwealth.’" The Norden Borealis, published within the confines of Keya Paha county, thinks the advertising that section has been receiving recently is not very beneficial. “There are,” it says, ‘‘many good honest pegple who do not approve of the vigilantes, neither do they approve of stealing stock for a livelinood, yet there can be no neutral ground between the factions. To forever settle tho matter, wesuggest that a deputy United States mar- shal be appointed in Keya Paha county, with jurisdiction in the state of Nebraska and Dakota. The Kearney Enterprise has discovered the secret of Ret Clarkson's presence in the office of first mssistant postmaster general, and springs it on an unsuspecting public. It issimply a plot to make Senator Allison president 1 1882, 80 the Enterprise says, and “the fact that Benjamin Harrison is presi- dent and that he gave Clarkson -his oppor- tunity for public service does not enter at all into these calculations. Men who are hun- gry for the presidency, and others who long to be the power behind the presidency, are not particular what becomes of the ladder by which they climb to place and influence. Allison is bound for the white house via Clarkson and the postofiice.’” Madison county’s bill for criminal trials this term of court figure well up into the thousands, and the Norfolk News announces that *‘about the only result wiil be to land one poor devil, who had very few frienas, in the pen, It will not be any wonder if tax- payers in the future have a very poor opin- ion of the efcacy of courts and juries to pun- ish crime.” —_—— IN AN OLD CHURCHYARD. Chambers' Journal, In one of England's sweetest spots, A little old gray church I found; Around it lies—dear restful ground— God's garden with its sacred plots. With myriad arms the ivy holds Tts time-worn walls in close embrace, 80 Memory sometimes koops n face Half-veiled in tender misty folds. ‘With sleepy twitter and with ‘The tower, bird-haunted, is alive; In leafy sous thoy dl{) and dive, hose tiny warblers all day long. Liko sentinels grown hoar with age, D The crumbling headstones fuurd the graves That softly swell—green voiceless waves, ‘That will uot break thougn tempests rage. “Concerning them that are asloop" 1n this sweet hamlet of the dead, In broken sentences I read ‘The record those old tablots keep; Each told its tale, for hath not Grief A voice whose echoes never diet Adown the ages, Rachel’s cry, Still rings o'er some God-garncred sheaf, Mine eyes, ne'er prodigal of tears, Did il with such as seemed to rise And drown the glory of the skies, O'er those who'd slept two hundred years. e A8 OTHERS SEE US, Not an Ordinary Clerk. Chicago Times, An Omaha botel clerk has just committed suicide on account of a love afair, This Is the only instance of the kind on record. The American hotel clork as a rule falis in love with himself at an carly age and therc is no ewidence to show that ho has ever proved false or fickle in after life. The Ouisha hotol clerk must bave been acting as a sub or else the hotel was not conducted in etrop:ittun style. An Ovation to Our kil Kansas City Journal, Colonel Buffalo Bill Cody is having great success with his wila west show in Pavis. When the igitial performunce was given tho other. day all the noted Parisians who had roceived complimentary tickets were prosent. Colonel Cody 1s sald to have recoived his guests with easy urbanity, and the French- men treated him with the respoot due so re- nowned a fighter, who had his revolvers and bowieknife with him. Slothful Oitizens. ot s Kearney Enterprise, ‘The fact that Omaba turned out only about 1.800 voters on the ocoasion of an important special election concerning the expenditure of a large amount of public money is not at all creditable to the people of that great city. 1t would not be difficult for a small contin- tingent of bums and heelers to control eleo- tions in the interest of rank ocorruption if this is a fair sample of the spirit of Omaha poople. The bad men can always be depend- ed to look after their interests whether the good citizens turn out or stay at home, A “Prohibi " Sunday. Siouz City Journal. Council Blufis has a boom every Sunday. Once a week it saps the vitals of Omaha. Bill Stands Alone, Ohicago Tribune. Fanny Davenport has married again, Mrs. Langtry talks of leaving the stage, Robson and Crane have disso!ved partnership, Edwin Booth has just recovered from a serious ill- ness. and other actors and actresses of note have met with unusual vicissitudes of fortune recently, Almost the only eminent genius of the histrionio stage, in fact, who koeps the even tenor of his way is the Hon. Bill Cody. pr¥iidn/” sl COUNTRY BREEZES. A Fragmentary Romance. Seward Democrat, Wo noticed & young man pass through town the other day at a rate that meant dan- Ker to the many foot passengers on our thor- oughfares, and one of Ruby's bellos seated by his side. We noticed the old man and woman after them in & wagon, but whether they overtook them or not we did not learn Corill and Mary. Genoa Republican. As we stood on Court street, yesterday, chewing a toothpick, a couple of handsome young Bohemians, named Corill Bernasck and Mary Andel, respectively, lavishly deco- rated with roses and pink ribbon, swept past, closely followed by a more elderly pair on their way to Judge Conart's ofiice. We fol- lowed the example of other gentlewnen and our natuaal inclinations and followed the fair young couple. The judgo is getting the busi- ness down pat and the old mill ground out a ceremony that made two souls unite as one to begin the voyage of life full partners in tho sirife, to share equally the weal and woe that is inevitable and unavoidable on this mun dane sphere. ; Kisses ala Onion. Kearney County Democrat, Onion parties are fashionable in Ne- braska. Six girls stand in a row, while one bites a small chunk out of an onion and a young man pays 10 cents for a guess as to which one it was. If he guesses right he rets to kiss the other five, but if he doesn’t he is only allowed to kiss the one with the onion-scented bfeath. This amnsement is said to be highly popular with Nebraska young folks. A Nebraska Zephyr. Chimney Rock Tyanseript. Last Friday afternoon in company with Charley Bartow we set out to interview some of the Gering folks, and after we crossed the river we noticed something was the matter with the school house, and riding up to it found that the wind had torn about two- thirds of the roof completely off, and even broken the rafters 8o some of the pleces were only about a foot long, and tore down the south gable end; tlirowing the brick in the house upon the floor, leaving the north end of the roof and chimney stauding, and it also blew some of the shingles off of the county clerks office. Ean said he thought the whole roof was going. Wounded a Mother's Pride. Inman Review. How is it? She came bouncing through the the sanctum door like caunon ball, and without pausing to say ‘‘How d’ye doi" she brought her umbrella down on the table with a migaty crash, and shouted: “ want you to stop my paper.” 0 “All right, madam.” *‘Stop it right now, too,” she persisted, wadking the tablo again, and making the cold chills run up our back, ‘“for I waited long enough for you to do the square thing.” Sbe quieted down for a few minutes, as we ran our finger down the list of names, and. when we had reached her's and scratched it out, shesaid: “There; now mebby you'll do as you'd ought to after this, and not slight a woman jes’ 'cause she's poor. 5 If some rich folks happen to have a little red-headed, bandy-legged, squint-eyed, wheezy squealer born to them, you puft it to the skies and make it out an angel; but when poor people have a baby born you don’t say a word about it, even if it's the squarest-toed, blackest-haired, Dbiggest-headed, nobbiest little kid that ever kept a woman awake nights. That's what's the matter with me, ond that's why I stopped my paper,” and she dashed out as rapidly as she came, leav- ing us under the conviction that we would rather have the whole Erontior office, com- prising the editor and devil, down here on us than to have her return, A Colonel’s Herolsm, Sutton Advertiser. Pont Soderberg stood in front of his art gallery and saw a runaway tcam dashing wildly down Saunders avenue. A hundred men stood in awe, held heir breath, but did not stir. The steeds dashed madly on and the old dray at their heels rattled like a hail storm, Colonel Soderherg gave one last look at his gallery of beautiful pictures, waived a loving adiou toward his home on the hill, and with one swift leap he landed in thut dray, seized the slackened roins, yanked the truant bronchos into a comma, then a semicolon, then a full stop, amia the plaudits of an ad- miring crowd of spectators, A _Tenderfoot's Lden of Herolsm. Fremont Tribune, The editor of the Kearney Enterprise is but a tenderfoot in this section, but Lo does aamiro Nebraska pluck and sand. A news- boy whio sells the enterprise in Hastings was rudely ordored out of u business house the other day, but in going he kept his back to the door while he covered the proprietor with agun. This 50 charmed the Enterprise that it has dubbed the boy a hero and will send him o suit of clothes. This 1s liable to re- sult in a carnival of crime. Other news- boys who sell that paper will probabiy go about shooting people who refuse to buy it with the hope of drawlag a gold swath for every nolt. Greeley News, We received o complimentary from Presi- dent Foss, of the Crote Chautauqua assem: Lly, in Jane and July, for editor ard wife. If the inducenient of going 1o the Lhautau- qua, will move any fair damsel to adopt the wbove title, our thanks will be forover dug, Mur, Foss, earncy Huh. An editorial paragraph in yesterduy's fub with reference to corruption in the Lincoln oity council created something of & local sen- | satis all because the wicked compositor | dropped the word Jincoln before “eity conu ¢l The Koarney city eauncil is all right. | Fortifications have bees tbrown up aronnd | the editoriui saactuwm, and Wie ofice is in & ' state of sicge. l THE PEOPLE WHO THINK, Tncidentally in an analysis of the conduot of insurance companies, in the June Forum, Mr. Adelbert Hamilton contrasts the eoon- omy and officioncy of the public service with the economy and efficieney of private busi- riess, and draws the conclusion that there is less wasto in public business. He maintains that in private, not in public enterprises are found the greater amount and degree of ‘waste, {inefficiency and corruption; and of this truth insurance furnishes signal proof, The frauds and failures of private business must be considered as well as the corruption and jobbery of governmonts. Thero were ay the closo of 1887, in the hands of roceivers, 168 insurance companies in the United Statesy and 686 companies failed or retired in about fifty years, Of the 852 life insurance com- panies organized in the United States only torty-seven are yet alive, About four thou snd abortive or insolvent insurance concerns can be counted since the beginning of the busmess in this country, Eight hundred assessment organizations have coliected ducs from ‘their members and left them in the lurch. This is the record of ‘'private enterprises” in insurance in the United States. Who, hé asks, canwestimate the frauds and losses bo- hind 1t} And he adds: “Our government history will be searched in vain to find in the management of public schools, water- works, fl re apparatus, postal service, or any other branch of government work similar to insurance In quantity and conditions, an amount of failure and fraud equal to that disclosed by the history of insurance alone." The fact that such a basoless speculation a8 “Christian science” can flnd beliovers shows that what is referred to as the fancy of the wmultitude for theories which save them trouble and minister to their love of the marvelous has not yot disappeared from the world, says a writer in the Popular Science Monthly for June. The fascination for holding odd notions seems to be a wealk- ness of the human mind that is hard to eradicate. Such beliefs have been pretty well driven out of chem- istry, physics, roology, and other fields of science which can be thoroughly investigated, and they romain only in psychology and medicine, deal. ing ‘with the living human or- ganism, which cannot bo freely experi- mented upon. Human credulity has been greatly lessened by the march of scientifio enlightenment, and what remains has taken on a new form. In eaylier times it delighted in the supernatural, now it revels in its own false ideas of the natural. Then it trustod the revelations of self-appointed prophots, now it pins its faith to the slip-shod reason. ing of sham investigators. Science has done such wonderful things of late that a certain class of people, including many of excellent judgment in other fields, has come to believe any marvels put forth under its name. Heonco we have a modern class of mystery-mongers which will flourish until the spread of scien- tific culture has diffused the power of dis. criminating against scicnce and base imita- tions of science. There is nothing in history mare touching says the New York Herald than the martyr- dom of the Rev. J. Damien de Veuster, whose death has been aunounced by tele- graph. Sixteen years ago this herolo young Belgian prest landed on the rocky island of Molokal, in the' Hawaiian group. His heart was filled with a profound pity for the abandoned lepers. Stories of the horrible immoralities practiced in a pestilential com~ munity, where there was no law and no religion, had reached his ears. He yearned to raise the cross there and preach the ten- der message of christianity to the ransomless captives of leprosy, Father Damien knew that certain death awaited him. He knew that his comely body would be polluted by the most dreadful disease known to man, But he went to his post with a smile on his face and sweet words on his lips, He found a damned company .wailing in the utter- most depths of physical and moral degradation. Distinctions of age and sex were oblitcrated. Gaunt misery stalked among tMb dying wretches. There homes were fit only for wild beasts. With the advent of the priest order was brought out of chaos. Soon the hush of plety suc- coeded the savage revels of the hopeless and fricndly lepers. Little whitewashed cottages arose. Pretty gardens began to bloom, Christian hymns trembled up from the lost men and women. The peaco of consolation brooded over the island. Who shall say what the kind ministrations of Damien were to the hundreds of osvracized human beings m far away Molokai or with what holy devo- tion he soothed the dying hours of strangers? At last the good man was marked by the (nevitable brand of nature. He was a leper too—to bo shunned by all on earth save those around him. Slowly he porisked, doing what ha could to ease and comfort his flock whilo yet he was yet alive, Such an example ought te silence the man who cries out against the nineteenth century. No age and no race has produced a more supreme type of unselfist heroism, Canonization can add nothing to the glory of Eather Damien, The agitation for & shorter workday has assumed greater proportions during the past six months than ever before, says T. V. Powderly's paver, the Journal of United Labor, and the question is being daily dis- cussed from pulpit and rostrum by professe ors, students, and the workers themselyes, The newspapers are devoting columns to its consideration, and a knowlodge of matters industrial is beisg thus diffused among the people much more rapidly thun at any pri vious period in the history of vhe labor movement in America, One result of this agitation is seen in the recent passage of an eight-hour luw by the legislature of Indiana, But statute laws will never bring about a shorter workday, The courts of nearly all States have repeatedly declared any law un- constitutional which interfered with the right of individual contract, and Indiana’s enactment cau only be mgde applicable to employos of the commonwealth, Labor will never secure shorter hours until she has her- self devised & practical plan for putting the scheme into operation without mjury to the employer or the vast multitudes of workers. How this s to be accomplished with the least amount of friction is the probiem of the hour, Publio sentiment is to-day with the workers in their demand for more time to rest, recreation, and intellectugl devolopment and less hours of unceasing toil; but, to retain that sympathy aud accompanying influence, organized labor must be careful to take ao step not war- riuted by justice, and especially must care be taken to avoid the comwission of any wrongful acts. Maoy of those who are just now discussing this question from the stand- point of the employer of labor either will- fully or ignorantly mis-state the position of organized labor by assuming that a demand is #rbitrarily made for eight hours' work and ten howrs’ pay. This Is not true. The wage question is one of secondary considerstion entirely. What is being sought now is the universal acknowledgment of elght hours us u day's work 1 all departments of pro- ductive industry. With the surplus labor in owploywent wages will take care of them- selves, When labor s scarce the tendency of wages is always upward, but with ten men loking for every vacant position it s easy to see thal only perfect organization end almost superbnman effort cau maivtain even the present rate. ol e G Bl i Siylish spring suite are made up in Indie eashwere combined wl:h"vdvnu'm -