Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 16, 1889, Page 4

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FEIL, Notary Public., UNDER the new mmrpn station of v.he revenue law, the assessor is a bigger man than tho county hoard. eEme———— Now LET us see what costly blocks those enterprising capitalists will rear an the vicinity of the new postoffice site. It must not be forgotten that they are men of much promise. ——— THE burden of Mr. W. S. Cleveland’s plea for parks in.Omaha is plenty of breathing places in the center of the sity and a park of some four or five Aundred acres on the outskirts. Nobody will dispute with this eminent landscape @erdner that his views are correct. — Tre dedieation of the national monu- ment in honor of the Pilgrim Fathers takes place at Plymouth, August 1. The orator of the day will be a Ken- tuckian and the poct of the occasion will be an Irishman, while the descend- ants of the Puritans who came over in the May Flower will take in the cere- monies. Truly this is a cosmopolitan nation. THE interstate commerce act and the eourtsare doing more than the shot- gun to obliterate the color line in the south. Recent decisions have abolished soparate cars for colored passengers and aflirmed their right to the best ac- commodations on the train. The su- preme court of Mississippi is the latest notable conversion to that view, and went so far as to sustain a verdict for damages against a voad for unlawful discrimination. This is a surprising and cheerful evidence of recovering justice in the south. ‘““The world do move.” Sre— THE movement in favor of opening the art museums and public art galleries of New York City on Sundays, agninst the opposition of the directors of those institutions, is being accelerated from an unexpected quarter. Mayor Grant, of that city, refuses to allow an issue of some rour hundred thousand dollavs in bonds, to build a new wing to the mu- seum of natural history, unless that in- stitution is permanently opened on Sun- day. Arbitrary as this action may ap- pear, it is likely to force the directors to acceed to the popular demand. An institution which looks to the city for , aid should be for the masses as well as for the few, and for that reason Mayor Grant demands that the museums he opened on Sunday, to give thousands of wagoworkers the only chance they have to visit them. PHILADELPHIA'S generosity toward the Johnstown sufferers fortifies its right to the title of the **City of Broth- orly Love.” Nearly three quarters of & million dollars were subscribed to re- lieve the distress and house the home- less, But its liberality did not stop there. The banks of the city have uaited in tendering a loan of one mil- Lion dollars to the governor, without security or interest, the amount to be repaid by the legislature. This money will be used in clearing away the de- bris, opening streams and highways, and restoring the ruined valley to a habitable condition. Such generosity 18 worthy of a large hearted people, and isa credit to the second city of the union. OEEeT—— A poor and shoe factory in Omaha is an assuved fact. Within a few weeks tho Morse shoe factory will be opuned and will mark an epoch in our indus- trial entorprises, Next to the whole- sale grogery business, the boot and shoe trude of Umahafollows second in volume and in importunce, Omaha to-day sup- plies & large wastern tervitory and the fleld is rapidly extending. Our mer- chants are able to meot the competition of the largest houses of Boston and Chi- eago, and the indicativns strongly point 10 the time when they will practieally control the boot snd shoe industry of the conntry west of the Mississippi. T'his is wo wild dream, The vory fact of the establishment of a boot and shoe fac- tory in thisecity demonstrates that foot- - wear ean be made as choaply here as at any of the munufuctaring ocenters, Whet can be done when the raw hides of our ubattoirs will be eenvertod on the spot into leather remuins to be seen, The new industry is, consequently, nierely a bogiuning nnd spoaks well for the business tact and enterprise of the mex back of it. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: A TRIBUTE FROM THE JUKR. Now that the Folsom lotis to become the corner stone of a government struc- ture, it may be well torecall the story of how it wagacquired. Tradition tells us and old settlers still recollect that a thrifty and penurious pioneer by the name of Folsom was a mem- ber of the Nebraska territorial legislature that located the cap- itol on the hillsidé at Omaha. For some time before the passage of the bill Mr. Folsom was not quite sottled in his mind whether he should vote for Omaha or for Bellevue, where Senator Mander- son is now laboring earnestly to relocate Fort Omaha in the interests of a coterio of jobbers and land speculators. But the Honorable Folsom suddenly became m and cast his vote for Omaha, varrying with him several other members from the northern counties who were looking to him as a leader. For this noble and disinterested act on behall of the embryo city, forty lots in the heart of Omaha were donated to Mr. Folsom, half of them, at Mr. Fol- som’s request, boing corners. Upon one of these corners the new postoffice will stand by the grace of Secretary Win- dom, while the Folsom corners on the adjacent brock will,of course, be doubled in value by this location of the now fod- eral building. With this historic plece of property tho name of Manderson will be indeli- bly connected. It is in accord with the eternal fitness of things that the Duke of Omaha, the only republican senator who dined with Mrs. Cleveland at her last presidential banquet, should at the government expense, pay tribute to the memory of the honest pioneer who laid the foundations for the fortunes of the Tolsoms. ———— THE TRIUMPH OF MEDIOCRITY. The bat-blind bourbons who have made such a clatter about Rosewater’s selfishness will discover, after a while, Bow much the city has gained by their fight for the Folsom posfoftice site. Perhaps they realize by vhis time that they have kept several hundred dollars from circulating among workingmen for grading down the lots and streets west of Seventeenth street and kept out eastern capital ready to invest other hundreds of thousands in brick and stone where whole blocks can yet be purchased within a stone’s throw of the court house, But this is the same old story of spite work and jealous me- diocrity. Three years ago nearly the same set of wreckers and mossbacks fought down the charter provisions for parks and boulevards and helped to cre- ate the separate town of South Omaha, which they now want to have annexed. They then bad their spite out against THE Ber and its editor through the judiciury boodle committee of the legislature, and they succceded in paralyzing the real estate market and setting the c¢ity back ten years. The same gang that retarded the city hall, compromised with rotten coatractors and foisted miles of rotten pavemeuts on the community are stili rejoicing because they imagine they have overthrown the influence of TiE BEE. But the victory they have won in the present as in the past is bought at the expense of Omaha’s prosperity and growth. It requires no brains nor local enterprise to be a wrecker, but it takes pluck, enterprise, foresight aud broad- gauge ideas to buiid up great cities, and more especially when they are struggling against rainbow railroads, robbers’ toll gates and the drawback of wealth hoprded by misers who have money to lend but noune to spend, THE AGREEMENT SIGNED. The Berlin conference on Samoan af- fairs has completed its labors, and tho agreement reached has been signed by the representatives of the several pow- ers, It appears that the American com- missioners made a condition that the terms of the agreement, for such it is technically called, rather than a treaty, shall be kept secret until itis submit- ted to the United States senate, so that few of the details of the seventeen arti- cles have been learned, and it is some- what uncertain whether all of those given are authoritative. There is prob- ably no doubt, however, that the most important American demands, such as the rvestoration of the deposed Malie- toa, the maintenance of the automony of the islands, and equality of rights of the several interested powers in Samoa, were fully conceded. Be- yond these the terms of the agreement must necessarily be of minor signifi- cance so far as they affect the interests of the United States. To have restored the situation as it existed before the inception of Germany’s usuipation of authority in Samoa, to have defeated with so little difficulty the plain pur- pose of that power to completely domi- nate the islands, and to have estub- lished permanently American rights there, isto have accomplished quite enough for the gratification of Ameri- can citizens, who for several years had been accustomed to something very differen t as the result of our diplomatie efforts. Americans will certainly read with a degree of pride the complimentary comments of the English press upon the outecome of the Samoan conference. The leading London newspapers were very chary of opinions during the progress of the conference, but now that it is concluded, they express themselves freely in commendation of the result. The London Zimes remarks that *‘the Americans have emerged from this con- ference with flying colors,” and that journal admits, what probubly under no eircumstances it could have been induced a month ago to admit, that “'it can not be denied that the action of Germany in Samoa has on many oceasions been high-handed, impolivie and inconsistent, ahke with treaty obligations and the in- terests of other powers.” It is also a great deal for that paper to say that the result appears to be due mugh more to the firm and inexorable attitude of Mr. Blaine than to any political leanings of England towards the power which it is her highest aim to coneiliate. The Tlimes of course does not forget that two years ngo in the discussion of this same question the lavor of Eunglund was on She side of Gormany, aud that at that time Mr. Bayard was secretary of state. In the prompt, peaceful and just settlemont of the Samoan controversy, the government of the United States has unquestionably made a distinet ad- vance in the respedt of the world, BENGINEERS IN ENGLAND. The American engineers who are visiting in Great Britain, are having a royal time in the country of royalty. They have been wined and dined at Sheffield and Birmingham, have beep eiven the practical freedom of the cor- poration of London, have listened to a sermon at Westminster Abbey and ended up the aay with a bunquet at Guildhall," where America and Ameri- cans were the themes of toast and story. Tho generous reception of the Amer- ican olvil engineors was an honest tri- bute to the appreciation in which American inventiveness and American skill in the development .of engineek- ing problems is held abroad. The country which has taken the ideas of Stophenson, and worked out the most ponderous and the most delicate appli- cations of the expansive power of steam as a motive power; which hay enlarged upon electrical idens in connection with the transmission of sound and light, and which has made the most daring and successful experiments in spanning streams, tunnelling mountains and car- rying railroads across chasm, precipice and snow-crested peak, can accept gracefully and a§ its due, the plaudits and compliments of all the old world. At the moment when the glint of glass and the shimmer of wine gave light and cqlor to the Guildhall ban- quet, a ship bearing a party of Ameri- can civil engincers was steaming from New York toward the Central Ameri- can isthmus, bound for Nicagraua with the aim of correcting the monumental mistake of the I'rench engineer De Les- seps. It is probable that the first ves- sel which sails from thé Atlantie to the Pacific across the narrow neck of land connecting the two Americas, will float on a canal devised and carried to com- pletion by an American engineer Men- ocal. A HINT TO OMAHA. The directors of the Merchants’ Week association of Boston have decided that the institution should be perpetuated. In view of the fact that the experience of the last week held was not altogether encouraging, and the further drawback in the recent ruling of the inter-state commerce commission that the Tailroads cannot lawfully grant discriminations in rates in favor of the retail merchauts, the action of the directors of the asso- ciation is the strongest possible evi- dence of their faith in the value of this method for securing trade. Itis con- fessed that the experiment has not thus far been so successful as was hoped for, but it is very far from having heen a failure, and the enterprising merchants of Boston, with whom the idea origin- ated, propose to give it a further trial, under such changed conditions as ex- perience has suggested and circum- stances render necessary. They will endeavor to secure in some way the co-operation of the railroads, which is of course most essential, and which will doubt- less be found practicable without vio- lating the ruling of the inter-state com- merce commission. ‘What has become of the suggestion that the business men of Omaha should emulate the example of the merchants of Boston in establishing ‘‘Merchants’ Week?” It may be that there are stronger reasons for such an institution in the eastern city than here, but if it can be made beneficial there it doubt- less would be an advantage here. The deliberate judgment of the Boston merchants is that the institution is worthy of being perpetuated, and this ought to count for something with those who are familiar with the careful and conservative character of Boston’s busi- ness men. Omaha ought to make an earnest effort to attract business and to { bring about closer relations between her merchunts and those of the interior. At most it would not be very costly to try one experiment with a “Merchants’ Week,” and it is quite possible that the trial would be found profitable, S THE NICARAGUA CANAL, The collapse of the Panama canal company and the abandonment of the work revives interest in the movement to connect the two oceans by way of Lake Nicaragua. This route is regarded a3 the most feasible on the isthmus. It is far more desirable than the Lesseps route hecause it penetrates a country far richer in tropical products. The climatic conditions are far more favora- ble for the prosecution of work. The deadly fevers of Panama are unknown there, and the construction of the canal will not entail the appalling mortality which made the Lesseps ditch an in- ternational graveyard. The United States government has wade several detailed surveys of this roufe. During the presidency of Gen- eral Grant the naval department made a thorough examination of the country, and reported stronglyin favor of na- tional aid toward tho construction of the canal. General Grant forcibly en- dorsed this recommendation, pointing out the immense advantages of a water- way connecting the two oceans, not only to this country but to the commerce of the world. Its construction and con- trol by Americans would bring the cen- tral republics into closer commercial relations, and cement the friendship of young and struggling govurnmeulfl for the parent republic. EThe recommendations of General Grant were made at a time when publie sentiment was strongly opposed to gov- ernment aid, and pothing came of them, The failure of congress to act did not, however, kill the enterprise, It gradually grew in strength and gathered supporters from among the leading capitalists of the country, The Nicaraguan government granted valua- ble concessions to the American com- pany a few years ago, placing iton a strong financial foundation, and giving itabeolute control of the route for a term of years. ‘rhat the company intends to earn the concassion and build the ecanal within the stipulated time is evidencel by the | preparvations for active work. For nearly four yonrs the company has had énginaers in tho field. Careful borings have beon made along the entire route and the nature of the matorial to be ex- cavated made known, in kind as well as quality. The maps and plans are now completed, the canal definitely located, and men gugdy machinery are on their way, to hx-gi.fiprclimh;mg\- work. The cost of this great undertaking is estimated at fifty million dollars, and fifteen millions for contingencies, mak- ing a total of sixty-five millions. This sum is a trifd compared with the enor- mous amounts squandered in the Panama ditch. Over four hundred mil- lion dollars, the fortunes of thousands of credulous people, have been wasted by De Lesseps, and there 18 not a shadow of a hope of a penny of itever being recovered. The construction of the Nicaragua eanal will havo a wonderfully stimulat- ing effect on trade with South and Cen- tral Amorieca, opening new flelds for commerce along tha west coast, and af- fording the merchants of the Atlantio senbord cities unimpeded access to countries now practically beyond their reach. There is no doubt that the canal will prove a profitable investment. Aside from the valuable grants of land given the company by the Nicaraguan government, the present com- mercial conditions promise a fair profit on the money expended. From sjx to seven million tons of shipping annually will patronize the canal, and it is certain to increase with the growth and development of the surrounding country which will follow its construction. Viewed from a national standpoint, the construction of the canal will prove the greatest artery of commerce under- taken by Americans since the comple- tion of the Pacific railroad twenty years ago. ———————— LAST year Mr. Chauncey M. Depew visited the west, and his conglusions re- gavding the business outlook of the country at that time were somewhat gloomy. He could find in the situation very little that was not discouraging. Had the despondent prophesies of Mr. Depew at that tine been since verified his reported present optimistic view of the business situation of the country would be more reassuring. In a recent interview the president of the New York Central said he could see nothing in the situation to cause the least alarm. “‘The country is prosperous,” said Mr. Depew, ‘‘and most of the railroads are doing well. I attach very little impettance . to the al- leged troublas in the northwest. The granger vroads, as is well known. have their periodical quibbles and quarrels, but the differences are never very great and can very readily be adjusted when the mutter is taken seriously inthand, as I understand is now being ddne. I feel sanguine, be- cause conditipns are such as to enable people whosel pbesrvations are keen to see very bright prospects in store.” We believe that in a general way the view taken by Mr. Depew is correct. There is depression in some of the in- dustries of the country, but on the whole the nation is fairly prosperous, and the indications for the future are all favorable. There are excellent rea- sons for confidence in a general revival of commercial and induostrial activity throughout the country. THE first execution by electricity will take place in New York on the 27th inst. The substitution of electricity for the gallows, and the probable result of the first expariment,is attracting at- tention and discussion in all cireles. There are not a few who declare that the execution will be a failure, and fortify their opinions with the case of H. H. Stevens, of Boston, who acci- dentally received a shock equivalent to 1,500 volts, the greatest on record, and survived. On the other hand, scores of men have been instantly killed by coming in contact with electric light wires in various parts of the country in the last few years. The cry against electricity as an agent of destruction is due to sentiment rather than -common sense. Every movement tending to abolish relics of the dark ages has met with similar opposition. Even manu- facturers of electrical appliances re- fused to rent dynamos to the state, giving the lofty and ridiculous reason that it prostituted genius to ‘‘ignoble ends.” All this twaddle, however, does not interfere with preparations for the execution. THE season of commencements is upon us. From all quarters of the land the young graduate is prepared with his oration and his essay to solve, off-hand, the great queations of the day 1n polities, economies and philosophy with a self- assurance that at once robs criticism of its barbs. The truth is, however, no- “body takes these literary productions seriously. They are expected at gradua- tion exercises, and give that distinet charm to commancements which malkes the graduationd’ of to-day just about what they wetg fifty years ago. It may well be askced if much of the old forms of education, whiell are nowhere so promi- nently portrayed asoun commencements, be not wholly obsolete. The old tradi- tions of education still surviye,and are difficult to eradicate. The great fault with the eduouflon of to-day is that it does not cleal the skirts thoroughly of its false notiqes. 1The world wants such an educationat ‘training as shall fit young men uq”'ymmg women, after a four years' course, to take up the busi- ness of practionl life without first being obliged, after epming out of school, to begin all over again THE lesson taught by the vark his- tories of every promiunent city, says Mr, W. 8. Cleveland in his report to the park commissioners, is thut true econo- my is best subsarved by a liberal appro- priation of land while it can be had at low rates. THr Bree long ago urged upon the people of this city to make lib- eral provisions for an extensive park system, If the advice had been fol- lowed, Omaha would now bhave in the neighborhood of a thousand ecres for park Durposes, purchased at a time when the price of realty was ata low ebb. The wisdom of this action would now make itsell felt. Not alone would the city be able to lay out an elaborate | — systom of parks and boulevards at a moderato cost, but the value of all su- burban property would have bhoen doubled. It is, howevor, useless to cry over spilled milk. The duty of our peo- ple is now to provide themselves with the necessary acres and to go about the work of improving thom as fast as prac- ticable. —_— THE business men of Omaha inter- ested in the success of the exposition to be inaugurated this fall, may well keep their eyes open to the offorts made by other cities in that direction. Minnes apolis has just made the announcement of its purpose to hold its fourth annual exposition, beginning August 21 and terminating the end of September. Elahorate -proparations are already being made, and an exceptionally fine display of industrial arts, scierces and fine arts is promised. There is little question that the flour city will at- tract many thousands of visitors to her exposition, and that the latter will fully represent the progress and wealth of the northwest. it behooves our citi- zens to put their shoulders early to the wheel if they intend to inaugurate a trades’ display which shall creditably reflect our varied industries and re- sources. THE union veterans of Nebraska will hold their eleventh annual reunion at Kearney, from the 12th to the 17th of August next. We are advised that this meeting of the veterans promises to equal, if not surpass, all previous occa- sions in the number who will attend and tho interest that will be mani- fested, There certainly has been no time when the soldiers and sailors of the country were more earnest and en- thusiastic in fostering organization among themselves, and keeping alive the memories that ure sacred to them, than they are at present, and those of Nebraska vie with their brethren of other states in this respact. The most ample prepurations have been made to render the reunion at Kearney attract- ive, interestiug and enjoyable, and it is to be hoped the highest oxpectations of the veterans will be fully realized. I7 should not escape the attention of the people of this vicinity that the Council Bluffs and Omaha Chautauqua association inaugurates its two weeks session Tuesday of this week on its beautiful grounds at Counecil Bluffs. The association has spared no expense in making this venture a success and it appeals to the people of this city and neighborhood for encouragement, To those seeking health and recreation, healthful mental and bodily stimuius, the Chautauquaisan institution worthy of patronage. ——— Cheap Sympathy, New York Press. Queen Victovia’$ sympathy for John$town £o far a$ i§ known, was not $pelt $ympathy, e Ny Overshadows the Tower. Chicago Herald. The only thing higher than the celebrated Eiffel tower at the Paris exposition is the price charged Americans for the necessaries of life, and even then they are obliged to accept what the F'rench leave. e v The Fact of the Matter, Minneapolis Journal, The saloon is never a blessing. It is al- ways a curse; but it is less of a curse at $250 than at $125, and still less at $1,000. That is the theory of high license, and the theory 18 sustained by the facts. By But They Dwell in the Oave of Gloom. Peoria Transcript. It seems that the cliff-dwellers are not extinct race. Lieutenant Schwatka has dis- covered that there are about twelve thous- and of them still alive. This should cheor up thedrooping spirits of the democracy, e A Plutocratic Chairman. New York World, What kind of a fight will the democratin party be able to make in 1892 under the leadership of a millionaire railroad manipu- lator? Are the plutocrats to dominate the old-fashioned party of Thomas Jefferson toot e Cleveland Denounced as a Wrecker. New York Sun (dem.) Mr. Cleveland, in order to support and glorify himself, tricked, insulted, slashed, and finally wrecked tne democracy. And now more wrecks are sought for to eaable him to climb into place again, Cheerful Thonght. St. Louts Globe-Democrat, One of the first things for Colonel Brice to consider in his capacity as chairman of the Democratic Nationai committeo is the mel- ancholy fact that his party has lost over fourteen thousand votes in Kentucky since 1880, e Two Grounds for Gratvitude. Washington Press. The South Carolina democracy, upended and vociferous, insists on G. C. for '92. Whether this is an exhibition of gratitude for the earthquake subscription of $20 or the campaign subscription of $10,000, we are not at this writing fully advised, Perhaps it is a livle of both. e ‘What Rev. Jasper Favors. Chicago Trihune, The Rey. John Jasper shakes his head dolefully and says this 1s a wicked, wicked country, doomed to destruction. If his opinion were asked concerning the national flower, he would unhesitatingly pronounce in favor of the flour of sulphur, L The Sultan’s Troublesome Harem, New York Pres In Turkey the sultan’s discovery of a plot in his harem to depose him,and possibly bow- string him into the bargain, has made him utter & fervent wish that he could adopy the western editor’s motto of “One God, One Country and One Wife." A Peculiarly 8ad Oase. Chicago Times, A young man named ward W, Odell, described as being bandsome, well educated, and wealthy, blew out his brains in Now York Tuesday morning. This is peculiarly sad n view of the fact vhat but few of New York's handsome, well educated, and wealthy young men bave brains to blow out. -~ A Week of Horrors. New York Herald. We supped on horrors during the past week, It seemed as though chuos bad troken loose and was on the rawpage. Conflagru- tions and floods were the only story we lis- tened to, and the air was fillea with the groans of breaking hearts. Relief was gladly and plentifully given, but wounds like these are not healed by either dollars or sywmpathy. May it be long before we have auother seven days like those jun passed. A Typical (xrlumsr. ludeul. New York World. Mr. Calvin S, Brice at the head of fhw SUNDAY JUNE 16, 1880, —SIXTEEN PAGES. democratio national committes will be a ter- rible menace to the money power! The democratic grangers of the west will shout with joy when they learn that the democratio hosts aro to be marshaled by a Wall streot railway manipulator, il SO, The Fort Dodge Cow War, Chwago Tribune. It now looks asif nothing short of acy- clone or a swoeping revival of religion could end the cow war at Fort Dodge, la. ——— Between Wind and Water, Boston Herald. The New York Sun is curious to know whether Grover Cloveland will lead a third party in 1802. Tt is probably safe to say that . ho won't, That would be poaching on tho Sun's reserve. ———eee Light Breaking in the South. Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The southern editor and politician should know that political and religious toleration is the evideace of an enlightened civilization, Men in the south have much right to be republicans as democrats if thoy so prefer, This is & free country, and overy man has a pecfect right to select his politics as ho doos his church. This is particularly truo asto the membership of political parties. [ekadetisidiotg Enormous Profits of the Sugar Trust, New Yorl World, The stories of the enormous gains of the trust, extravagant as thoy seem, are prob ably not wuch oxaggeratod, although some accounts put them as hizh as from £30,000,000 to $10,000,000 a yoaron a capital of £50.000,- 000. And these unteasonable and unjust profits are made of tho necessities of the peo- ple. The millions to whom an advance of two or three cents & pouud on sugar means serious inconvenience, if not actunl depriva- tion and suffering, are the victims from whom the gains of the millionaire monopoliste are | extorted. i HERE AND THERE, ‘While the Chicago dragnet is being pulled over the country in search of suspicious Irish- men, Omaha has beon entirely overlooked. This is not surprising, because the slouths of the city of mysteries, with the assistance of Scotlund Yard, are determined to show how littlo they know. Tue Breis in possession of a number of exclusive mystorious facts and ocircumstances which it cheerfully un- loads on the pubhic. It will be remembered that a delegation of Omaha councilmen weont to Chicago last March. Were thera any Irishmen in the delogation? The ostansible object of the trip was to examine subways, But wasn’t the body of Cronin found in a subway somo weeks later? Here are two simple facts possessing vast possivilities, The men wore in Chicago and two of them are generally crodited with Hibernian traits and feelings. What more is wanted! “True the doctor did not aisappear for weeks later, but what was to prevent them from return- ing and doing him up and down? And what is still more conclusive, these gentlemen have not attempted to explain their where- abouts on the evening of May 4 Chicago is welcome to add these significant circum- stances to its stock of clues. It is reported on the streots that Mr. Hitcheock will use the money derived from his Capitol avenue property to purchase the Herald, consolidate it with the World, and run a morning and evening edition on the plan of Pug Ber. Another report is to the effect thut the Horald is abouy to issue an evening odision, but the lattor is probably an offshoot of tho former, Advertising solicit- ors are feeling the pulse of the merchaats on the question of another afternoon paper. Evidently “something has to be done.” Coal dealers complan that the orainance regulating their business is burdensome and oppressive. Uy Coorse. 1t will materially block their weigh to the purses of consumers. Omaha industries are pegging along. The coming shoe factory will improve the avenues of salvation by giving solos an upper tend- ency. The Omaha man who “took his marriage license in one hand and his lady love in the other” naturally attracted attention. Few men are endowed with such remarkable nerve and muscular development. He is truly ‘‘the Sampson of Omaha,” A city cnemist will materially assist the Pooh Bah of the pest house in pushing Omaba's claims as a summer resort. Be- tween two such noted sanitary enginoers the health of the city 1s secure, The county commissioners have about de- termined to grace one of the niches in the county building with 3 statue of a distin- gushed citizen. The d. c. actuslly com- plained that his asscssmert was too low wnd invited a raise. Such remarkable unselfish. ness deserves the immortality of marble, The resubmission of prohibition in Rhode Island demonstrates that Providence is on the side of license aud regulation by a large majority. Adirreverent uss from Kausas, preaching prohibition in Peunsylvania, pleasantly an- nounced at a recent meeting that the yictims of the Johnstown flood had gone to h—IL The dash, however, followed the word, for the i. a, paused, grabbed his hal and flew through a convenient window with- out stopping to remove the sush, With ro- markable skill and agility he managed to es- cape a torront of wrath and sovoral sections of sucenlent rope with which the vigilantes were armed. Ho saved his nock out lost his oceupation. They have a happy kunck of celebrating marriges up in Detroit. Just as the couple were Jeaving the altar there recently a young woman rushed up to the bridegroom, pro- sented him with a blooming baby ana deli- cately insinvated that it deserved his fath- erly care. The prosentation lent a peculiar though premuture halo to the scone, and strew the cburch aisles with very pertinent interrogatories. The bridegroom biuffed the crowd and kept the baby. A huge harrowing cow war raged in ¥ort Dodge, Ia., iastweek. Theuttempt to rob bossy of the free lowm of the city roused the wrath of tue rosidents, who armed them- selves with cow-bells and like wusical imn- plements and screnaded the aldermen nightly untii they begged for mercy. The town is again an unobstructed pasture, and wilk aud water reigns. Prescrve that old kettle, So weary and worn, It was rushed by my futher Before I wus born, It glistens ke amber, It cheers youth and were, VIl protect that old growler And rush it for beer. —=From Gov. Hill's *Ode to the Grow'er." B Two P.ctures. H. D, L, n New York World. Some fleecy clouds; a summer sky; A silvery pool wheve lilies lie; A breeze that sings as it goos by; “Ab, soon!” A girlish laugh: a forwm of grace; A lover's vow heard throuxh the placei ‘The bright, quick biush of a sweal fuce, "T1s June. LRy et SV Y Home skurrying clonds; & wintry sky ; A durksome pond whare shadows lie; A wind that siugs as it goes by; (lewomber ! A woman's moan; prayer for grace; A sudden stiliness in tho place; Tue white, wet gleam of a dead fase, Decewmber. FOR PEOPLE WHO THINK. — The members of the conferonco of Gormi Baptists, somotimes calted Dunkards, now in session al Harrisonburg, Va., have road the | “‘Merchant of Venice" -mi they say with i Bassanio, “Thon gaundy gold, I will. have | none of thoe,” at least in the form of watchies. A rule has been adopted forbid ding the wearing of gold watohes because their use broeds pride and vainglory. Any member canght woearing one of them will bs expelled. It is to bo regrotted that the cons feronce did not explain why gold showid be 80 dangorous when taken in the form of a watch and yet harmloss when it comos in other shapes. Why should not gold brace- | lots be injurious to the soul's repose? in= quires the Chicago Tribune. Why should not gold rings bring pridge! Why should not tho posession of a few §20 gold pioces puff up the ownert Nor do the members seem to be aware of the fact that ‘‘All's not gold that || glitters.” It may be that the vainglory | which they have doubtloss noticed in somoe of tho brethren was inspired by tho posses- sion of watohos which ave gold in looks alone. They may neverhave heard of oroide or rolled gold, and may not know that a pers 80n can get the semblance of a gold watch for a doliar, The qrdinary more pride in a silver costs him §0 than a gold one ) which costs him 20, but the Dunk- ards do not seem to think that prics has any- thing to do with it—the mischief comos from the magical offects of gold. Thoy would have acted more considorately had thay, like Bassanio, included silver also in thoir anath- | omas, and allowed church members to woar, nickel watchos only. Those wers never known to foel the vride of any one. watch which The Woman's Christain Tomperance union, Do you know what they are doingl Doubt- loss ‘you have glanced at the accounts of thoir meotings, Peorhaps you have read a little of the story of. their work and—won- dered. Quict, unostentatious, claiming no glory for themselves; assorting nothing ina 1) bravado spirit for the holy cause that they | advocate, But theirs is, a sacred schome, suys the Atlanta Constitution. In the high~ ways and byways they are forever going about, doing good. Nothing of chat fanati- cism which wakes men rebellious; none of | that pugnacity which gives their adversarics cause to complain, Thoy but advocato that | which overy intelligent mim and woman | must sanction; the strengthening of the bul= | warks that are raised by their patient hands for the defense of mankind in its weakness; the advocacy of all of the nobler principle: that elevate tho human race. They ure not eatering the urona of public discussion for the sole object of sccuring frivolous ana empty trinmhps; they seck not, neither do thoy covet, tho vain-glorious applause of a giddy multitude. They come not ar- rayed in the caudy paraphor nalia of somn soltish band of loud- mbuthed theorists, supported by waving banners and the crash of the drum and the blast of tho bugle to herald forth their doc- trines ia such a way as to give the igler and | vagabond an opportunity to while away an lour of listless observation, Humbly, prayerfully, unassumingly, they carry on i the work to which their pure, true lives are devoted. Trusting in the divine assurance of the meek and lowly Nazarene, they take neither scrip nor staff for the journey, but do with all their might what their hands find to do. Their names ave stainless; their lives are spotless, There is no evi! found in them, even by the most exacting critic. Nou by de- nunciation, but by persunsion; not by brag- gadocio, but py earnest entreaty: not by de- rision and upbraiding but by holy procept and godly example, are they striving to ace complish that zreat gooa to the children of men for which the very angels in heaven do them honor. ) The Illinois boaed of agriculture has added a flock of ostriches to the pouitry exhibit of the coming state fair at Peoria. These use- ful birds will interest the farmers of this commouwealth, They are soveral sizes largor thun the ordinary barn-yard fowl now RKrown on the fertite prairies of Iilinois, and they are nat very particular about their diet. It may be that the ostrich will be accepted as o pleasing addition to the live stock of Hlinois. Much can be suid in fuvor of the ostrich, says the Chicago News Hawks will not carry it off and cats and weasels will not kill it. The ostricn can fight its own battles. A muscular ostrich turned loose in a farm-yard would baflle ilghtning-rod ped- dlers, book agents, and other uninvited vis- itors. An ostrich or two in a househoid would provide a home market for obsolete baking powder caus and other indestructible and uscless antiquos. Ostrichos are not ox- actly fitted for tablo uscs, but they are un- rivaled for speed. As sougsters they have never won fame, but as kickers they can put a government raule to the biush, They are too ponderous, perhaps, to serve as pets, but they are rather clover at committing homi- cide when occasion sevves, ‘I'he state board of agricuiture has done well to give Illinois farmers a chance to examine the fins points of the ostrich, A citizen of the Republic of Colombia, in writlng about the Panama canal, suggosts that the representatives of Colombia to the a8 of Amorican interests, to bo hield in Washington noxt October, requast that as- sembly to express itself upon the policy which should prevail in regard to the canal. He thinks the canal should be built 1n acbord- ance withi the views of the American govern- ment, aud undoubtedly hs would like tho United States to take the enterprise up and complete it. It is not in tho jeast probable that the United States will ever spand any money upon this cunal, but 1t is possiblo that American capitalists will, together with Ku- ropean capitalists, advance tho money neoded for its complotion, says tho Denver Hepub- Lican. The future of tho Panama canal probably depends somewhat upon the prog: ross to be made in the next two years upon tho Nicaragua canal. The concession of the Colombiuu government to the Panama Canal company will oxpire in 1801, and the writor referied to claims that it cannot bo legal renewed. 1f at the expiration of this con ceswion it appears that the Nicavagus Cunal company witl likely succeed, it will ba difl. cult to raise money for 8 new Panama coni- 1 would work uader a new conges- Tywo canals would hardly pay at oost, Phe Panama company may be revived be- fore the ¢xpiration of the old coucossion, but this is quunnuuuuu AS OTHER‘! bEE us. As a Procautionary Measure. Nemaha County Granger, Omaha papers are advocating the annexa- tion of South Omeha, and sey that uvited they can sit down on any other city in the west. The two should become one, when there will possibly be found enough praying sonis to chaflenge the work of the angel of death when he shall compas the destruc- tion of that city, An Arctie Ciroln Libol, Minneapolis Irilune. All the Omaha moratny papers publish cir culation afidavits at daylight, und the editors %o around the city in the aflerncorn ealling cach otbier Hars. Why Bill Toleratos It Chileago ‘Iimes, The Hon. William Cudy, better known as Buffalo i3ill, is cailed “Guillaume e Bufle'’— translated ltovelly ‘Willisw of the Hufalo™ ~—iu Poris, but as be 8 makiog wouey over there he cau atand I \ \ ) men has | ]