Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 30, 1889, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SNDAY, JUNE THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. AERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, D ity Morning Bdition) Ineluding Sunday, Pvrl:'x Momhn orThires Months. . Omah nnau Add) Weekly [ “ Omana Ofce, Bee hufiding, Bevonteent and Parnam Straats, b Office, 167 Hookel nunm-‘x ork Offies, Mfln‘i h“llfll Washington O jo. 813 Four- treot, CORRESPONDENCE. communications relating to news and edi- mfi'.h TmAtter should be addressed to the Editor lee. orthe IOt o RINRSS LETTERS, All business letters and_remittances should e addressed to The Bea Publishing Company. Omaha Drafts, ebeeks and postofiice ordors DA hale payADIE 10 the ordor of the compANY. The Bee Pubtishing Company, Proprietors. E. ROSEWATER, Editor. THE DAILY BEE. Bworn Statement of OCirculation. te of Nebraska, e unty of ‘Dougins, fos George B. Tzschuck, secretary of The Riee Pub- MehIngCompany, dovs solomnly swear tHAL the actual ciroulation of Tk DAILY ke for the week ending June 2th, 185, was as follows: Funday, June 23, . Monday. June 24 . esdny, June ‘ednerday, Jun Thrsday, Iug; = teentn day, Baturday, Jun Averuge.... Eworn to before m and su mrmml to tn my mnlma this 20th’ d B89, Seul. of June, A. D. J! . FEIL, Notary Public, tate of Nebraska, B ounty of Houglas, {95 George 1. Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de- o8 and says that he Is_secretary of The liee Dlishing company, that thie actusl average datly circulation of 'The Daily e for the month of June 9,242 coples: for July, JA08 coptes; for Anizust, 0 S, 14165 coples: tor optember, 1884, 16 13| coples: tor, Octobor, 1888, I8(84_coples: 'for Novel 08 coples; for December, 1883, 1 lflml Jamuary, 1480, IR coplesi for February, 1850, Inne coples 18, 14804 coptes; fo April, 1850, 14,559 cople: copln. o PG RO, B "/s( CHUCK. worn to before me and subscribed inmy (Senl.] presonco this i day of June, A. D, N. P. FEIL, Notary Public. Tne Chautauqua bloom is in the Ne- braska air. Tux Red Cloud of the Sioux hungers for a silver lining. IT looks a3 if the citizens of Omaha will celebrate Independence day each under the shade of his own vine and fig treo. ENGLISH yachtsmen have wisely de- ‘cided not to contest for the American cup. A long list of succossive defeats made them weary of the struggle. AMERICA has truly become a country of sports and outdoor recreations. The array of sporting events chronicled daily in the newspapers and the un- bounded enthusiasm of spectators and participants prove that outdoor exercise is growing rapidly in favor, and bespeak a healthful influence over our people. THE Pacific short line paople are not in the raitroad business for their health. Thoy have secured a bonus of half a million dollars at terminal points, and the residents along the proposed route must come down handsomely or be side- tracked. As a manipulator of bonuses the construction ring is a success. THE Penasylvania militia ave obliged to hold their annual encampment this year with regulars in order that they may be subject 1o the same regulations and strict discipline which are enforced in the United States army. The vari- ous states are just beginning to realize that the annual militia encampments have been a farce. It is hoped that the new departuve will correct the growing abuse, — WILL electric wondors never cease? Every day brings some new and start- ling application of the subtle force of electricity. The Electro-Automatic Transit company, recently organized in Baltimore, has demonstrated that its system of packet express can virtually annihilate distance. Mail matter and light packages can be shot through space at the rate of three miles a min- ute. The number of uses to which this system can be put are innumerable, and its successfully operation throughout the country will effect & revolution as important as the invoution and opera- tion of the telegraph. New York mails can be carried to Omaha in a night, and perishable goods and like hight freight moved with equal dispatch. The possi- bilities of clectricity are boundless. It is the coming power of the world. A crisis in the northwestern rail- way situation seems imminsnt, and whether it is to occur, or any arrange- ment is to be effected which will averta violent rate war, will doubtless be de- termined within the next two or three days. At present the indications point strongly to a conflict of a very serious nature. It is plainly evident that cer- tain roads will not be satisfied with any of the conditions which other roads are willing to make, and 1t is also olear that there is a growing desire among the roads in the inter-state railway associa- tion to return to independent action. It is said that the Atchison is about to withdraWw from the association, and there noed be no surprise if others take that course. The situation wears a decidedly threatening aspect, and un- less the wisest counsels prevail a long and damaging contest is almost certain, THE members of the Trade’s assem- bly of St. Louis have a commeundable project in view, whieh, if carried out, will retlect great eredit upon the work- ingmen of that city. They centemplate the erection of a workingmen’s school building, where a free night school for laboring men shall be conducted the year around, and where a free library and reading room, conducted by the organization, will be open to warking- ‘men during their leisure hours. The successful operativn of similar institu- tions in Boston, New York and other ‘eities of the east has undoubtedly in- spired the people of St. Louis ta follow their example. Itisto be hoped that the enterprise will not be allowed to drop, as its realization would undoubt- edly influence the workingmen of Omaha, Kansas City, Denver and other eities to ewulate their brethren of St. EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS. The sohool year just closed has been in & goneral way a prosperous and progressive one for American collegos and universities. The records of prom- inent institutions in all sections of the country show an increased attendance and a larger numbor completing a reg- ular course of study. The indications are that the per cent of increase in college attendance has more than kept pace with the growth of population. That this should be so will be readily understood whon one reflucts upon the increase in wealth, the growing op- preciation by the peopleat large of the value of higher education, aud the enlarged facilities for instruction. In the decude from 1870 to 1880, it is authoritatively stated, the number of students 1n attendance at the collegos, universities and seieutilic schools of the counwry increaged over forty-ono per cent, whilo the gain in population was only about thirty-six per cent. From 1880 to 1885 it is estimated that the in- crease In population did not ex- ceed fiftoen per cont, while the 1ncrense in the attendance at these institutions for advanced instruc- tion was about sixteen por cent. A noteworthy featurs of the statistics is that the scientitic schools obtained most of tho increase. This preference for scientific and technical instruction ovor the old college education isevident- ly growing from year to year, and the fact is one to be encouraged. At Cor- nell this year the largest class gradu- ated in any one department was that in electrical engineering and tho general growth and propensity of techuical and scientific schools ovidence the populavity of this department of education. Practical knowledge is what the ago calls for, and this de- mand the young men of the country are fitting thomselvos to supply. An incident in the experience of the higher educational institutions for the year is the substantinl additions to their resources which many of them have re- ceived. Corneil, Hamilton, Y Princeton, Syracuso univorsity and the umversity of Penn: nia are the in- stitutions in tho east which have been thus favored, while in the west Luke Forest university, near Chieago, re- ceived an incrense to its endowment of half 1 million doilars, and the Baptist university at Chicago was generously endowed. Two great institutions have annonnced themselves roady tor work— Clark university, at Worcester, Mnssa- d Standford univer- San Paola, Cali‘ornia. The year has witnessed an advance in the courses of study, and there is a steady reaching out to- ward higher achievement by all the leading institutions. Indeed, American colleges and universities are steadily pressing forward to the attain- ment of a thoroughness and excellence which will in time place them in the very front rank of the world’s educa- tional institutions. WHAT A CITY CAN DO. Minneapolis has not yot recovered from congratulating herself over the success achieved by the great suenger- fost which took place under the auspices of her German citizens in that metropo- lis lust weck. With such attractions as Campanini, Blanche Stone-Barton, Myron W. Whituey, Del Puente, Clem- entina De Vere, Gilmore’s great band and other celebrities, assisted by n local chorus of more than three hundred trained voices, the festival was truly one of song and music never befo equaled in the northwest. What added to the interest of the occasion was the fact that the city was filled with musical societies and visitors not alone from all parts of Minnesota, but from Wisconsin, Illinois and Iowa as well. The occasion, therefore, was an important one from a musical aswell as from a fluancial point of view. Other cities not thousands of miles distant from Minneapolis with resources equally us great have attempted musi- cal celebrations on a scale as grand as that undertaken by the metropolis of the north. Whatever success they may have achieved musicaily was said to have been purchased by a financ loss to the projectorsand for that reason the undertaking of future festivities of a like character were discouraged. The good fortune of Minneapolis, how- ever, was not due to a magician’s wand. On the contrary, the prosperous issue of the festival was measured by a dif- ferent rule. The citizens of Min- neapolis came forward and raised a guarantee fund of twonty-five thousand \dollars to secure the recent saengerfest. It wns under- stood that twenty per cent of that amount would be called for to cover the deficit, which was calculated to be not less than eight thousand dollars. It was found, however, that for the three evening and twe matinee concerts the total attendance amounted to thirty thousand people, and the net proceeds were within three thousand dollars of covering the entire expense of the great musical treat. For that reason Minneapolis has voted her saengerfesta success, knowing that the loss of a few thousand dollars directly had been amply repaid to her business men and citizens through other channels, 1t s just three years since Omaba inaugurated a musical fos- tival in the new coxposition building. With such artists as Fursch-Mahdi, Agnes Huntingdon and Tom Karl, and u magnificent ovchestra, it was a pro- nounced musical success. As a financial oxperiment, however, it was far from satistactory, due to aglack of executive management. Nevertheless, our busi- ness men profited by the visitors who were attracted to the city. But be that as it may, the fact can not be dis- guised that the Omaha of 1889 18 not one-hall as enthusinstic as the Omaha of 1886 and is far behind her sistor cities in entorprise, as illustrated by the Miuneapolis jubilee, which is but one of a number of annual attractions of that city, It may be too late in the season to advocate a musical festival for Omaha, but there is wisdom in putting forth efforts to draw thousands of visitors and to make Omaha a center of entor- taanment. Those who have charge ef the fall exhibition to be inaugurated should pluck up heart and make it an 30, 1880~SIXTEEN PAGES. unqualified suoccess. Tt espocially oall for business tact and management of the highest order and demands the hearty co-operation of our business men. They should encourage the enterprise with the same ardor and vim with which the people of Miuneapolis support their public celebrations and the reward will come back to them tenfold like bread cast upon the waters. 1THE EFFECT ABROAD. The result of the elections in Penn- sylvania and Rhode Island on the ques- tion of constitutional prohibition is said to have had a depressing influence upon tha temperance sentiment in England. Strange as it may appear, the advocates of prohibition in that country had counted upon the success of the prohi- bition movement in both these states, and its complete failure was not only a very groat disappointment to them, but it has had a most decided effect damag- ing to the movement thore, One of the principal argu- ments of the Baglish party was the success which temperance movements had attained in the United States, and the late olections havenotonly deprived them of this avgument, but -they have put the party in England entirely on the defensive. There is this, howevery to be said of the temporance movement in Bngland. Tt has been conducted on lines quite dif- forent from those pursued in the United States. There it has been a strictly moral, rather than a political issue. The English temperance party, wiser and more practical than the prohibition- ists of this country, do not advocate and have nover advocated making prohibi- tion a constitutional matter. They buve fought the cause of temperance strictiy and solely as & moral question, and as such it is o mistake to suppose that it has lost ground in this countr The votes in Pennsylvania and Rhode Island do not show that the poople of those states are opposed to temperance. They simply show that they are opposed to the policy of incorporating prohi- bition in the constitution, for the very exceilent reason that wherever this has been done the result has come far short of meating the promises of the advocates of constitutional probibition. Many of the staunchest friends of so- briety in Pennsylvania, says the Phila- delphia Ledger, opposed the amendment solely because th believed it to be radicully defective in itself, hurtful in what it would destroy, uncertain re- garding what it would effoct, and an unwarranted means used to accomplish a reform which could be more certainly accomplished otherwise. There is ground for the be- lief, says vhat journal, that great num- bevs of the sincevest friends of temper- ance voted against the amendment, in- fluenced by the firm conviction that a judicious license system, strictly admin- istered by the authorities, would prove more eflicient to check the abuses of the liquor trafic than a pro- hibitory law. Apart from 1ts doubtful effectivenoss there were multitudes of voters who were not satisfied to make prohibition a part of the state constitution, it being their be- liel that that instrnment should not be made a political vehicle. It is a mistake on the part of British prohibitionists to assume that tempor- ance sentiment is on the decline in this country, or that our peopls hold sobri- ety in less'regard because those of n states have rejected constitutional pro- hibition. The great majority of the Ameriean people believe in temperanca, but they have very conclusively demon- strated that the way o secure 1t is not through prohibition, which uniformly fails of its purpose, and besides invites duplicity and creates contempt for law. IRRIGATION AND RAINFALL. The report prepared by Dr. Junius L. Powell, of the United States army, for the special sonate committee on irri- gation and the reclamation of arid lands in the west, preseiits many facts of y ticular interest to our people. Dr. Powell’s experience of fifteen vears in the country between the Rocky moun- tains and the great central rivers enti- tle his opinions to great woight, having oly studied the climatology, topogr: nd soil of that region. He speaks with special reference to Texas, Indian Territory, nsas, Nebraska, Colo- rado, Wyoming, Dakota and Mon- tana, and shows the remarku- ble physical changes offected by the courage and enterprise of tho ploneers. The strength, energy and unfuiling contidence of the early settlers demonstrated that in di- versified tupuflmnhv and climate, in richness of soil and abundance of water courses, the country was capable of sustaining millions of people, and fully one-tenth of the population of the United States now sottled there verifios the prediction. With such wonderful progress as the west shows in a quarter of a century, without adequate facilities for markets, and the difficulties and hardships incident to pioneer settle- ment, what may not be accomplished with improved farming appliances, a thorough knowledge of the country and its needs, the capacity of the soil for the different crops, and convenient markets for all products? Dr, Powell briefly refers to the insuf- ficieney of the rawnfalli declaring that there is nov sufficient data tosustain the claim that there has beon an increase. Taking the whole area included in the report, the assertion is probably correct. The belief is strongly grounded in Ne- braska, based on observation, that there has been a substantial increase in the rainfall, especially in central and west- ern Nebraska and eastern Wyoming. Certain it is that sections of the state which were considered incapable of producing a crop have beeu shown to runk among the richest in corn and vegetable products. The cultivation of the soil has undoubtedly produced a marked change in climatic conditions, but whether such a change will be ef- fected under the shadows of the mount- ains remains to be determined. The chances are against it, for the reason that the cold air currents of the mount- ains are wot precipitated until they strike the warm currents to the east. This leaves a vast area of fairly rich agricultural country dependent on arti- ficisl moisture 0 be wade productive. Experionce —in Montana, Wyoming, Utah and Colorado demonstrates that irrigation is far more profitable to farmers than natural moisture. There is comparatively little danger of drought, crops are uniformly excellent, and while the cost of cultivation is greater, the harvest is correspondingly better and oertain. Millions of dollars have already been invested in irrigating ditches in the wost, and hundreds of thousands of acros of arid land reclaimed. But the cortainty of a steady increase in the area seoking irrigation threaten soon to exhaust the capacity of the streams, espocially in summer, and cause great damage and hardship on the residents of adjoining states. To avort tl dan- ger Dr. Powoell urges *“the advisability of inquiry into the feasibility of devis- ing a system of stornge, by which a por- tion at least of the water that now vearly runs to waste could be held at different points along its pathway to the son, to ho distributed for such purposes as it may be roquired as the summer senson progroesses.” The suggestion is an important and timely one, and should receive careful consideration from tho senate commit- tee. Ifireigation increases throughout the mountain valloys, it is sure to ro- sult in a wholesala dopletion of the hendwaters of miny streams, and com- pol the general government to take hold and regulate the supply or pre- vent a total diversion of the streams. The controversy whioch sprung up be- tween the authorities of Nebraska and Colorado, regarding the diversion of the waters of the Republican and South Platte rivers in the latter state, last year, causing much damage to the peovle living along these streams, showed the necessity of general con- trol and regulation. Powell’s plan of husbanding the: floods of spring by a series of reservoirs, built and controlled by the governmont, would vastly in- crense the agricultural wealth of the west and remove the dangerof depleted streams in midsummer. THE BAGGING TRUST CHECKED. The jute bagging trust has come to grief. Fostered by government draw- backs it attompted to push its grasping paws farther into the surplus than‘the law permitted, and received a stunning blow from vigilant treasury officials. During the past three yeurs the prac- tice of the treasury department has boen to allow*Hrawbacks on jute bag- ging on the presentation of the ship agent’s manifogss,without requiring any further evidogde of ownership. Under this interprefi@tion of the law, a gigan- tic combinatifh was formed among the exporters of New York and other cities, for the purnose of cultivating the draw- buck to the fullest extent. The jute was usod principally on cotton bales. The southern cotton*shippers wore kept in ignorance of the scheme, while the commission man in New York and other ports realized the benefit. The com- bination graw to such proportions that it practically controlled the business and had stationed agents at all foreign ports to which cotton was shipped to se- cure manifests and powars of attorney to collect the draw backs. The success of the scnemo infiated the members, and a plan Was parfectad to force rough the treasury departmenta im for drawbacks on all jute used in cotton wrapping in the last twenty-four years. They were scouring the world for lists of shipments from ship agents and” exporters’ agents, and had employed @ prominent Maryland attorney to push the claim. The arrogance of the combine caused its downfall. The enormous increase in the claims for drawbacks aroused the suspicions of the treasury officials, and an investigation devetoped the true state'of affairs. In many instances drawbacks had been paid to persons not entitlad to them, and the owners of the cotton robbed of legitimate profits. The amount wrongfully paid is not yet known, but is likely to reach into the hundreds of thousands, and it is certain that the government will be called upon to refund the money. The vigilance of the treasury officiais puts an end to a grasping combination. Hercafter drawbacks will be paid only to the actual exporters, upon presontation of satisfactory evidence that the bagging was made of imported material. The change in the regula- tions will save the government thou- ands of dollars, and put a quietus on a claim whicn, if successful, would have taken from twenty-tive to torty million dollars from the treasury* THE present yoar has witnessed rather more than the usual number of honor- ary degress conferred by colleges, thus showing that the condemuation of this practice for the most part meaningless, has produced no effect. The Boston . Advertiser observes of this practice, that *‘the whole pitiful business has been ocurried to such a length that these de- grees are acredit neither to the de- serving nor the undeserving recip- ients,” and it thinks with the abroga- tion of the system the standard of our scholarship woulll be raised and some other meed of appreciation for actual or expectant benefactors might be es- tablished whidli svould fully satisly the objeqt now 8o frequently sought to be gained on commencement duy, This indiscriminawd peddling of honorary degrees is o el@ulply not creditable to American colleges, and persistence in it must inevitably destroy all the value that should atppch to the titles thus con- ferred. —r— NEW YORK ‘i8" preparing to make a brave fight for the permanent exposi- tion of the three Americasin 1892, to commemorate the four hundredth ann:- versary of the discovery of America by Columbus, The popular sentiment of the rest of the country, however, is un- doubtedly i favor of Washington. There are good reasons to be urged in favor of either city, but if the weight of argument were overwhelmingly in favor of New York as the commercial metropolis of the nation, and as pos- sessing peculiar advantages for such an exposition, the greed, selfishness and meannees of that community would in- cline a majority of the people against it. New York is ever ready to reap the harvest, but others wmust do the planting. As the seat of the national government, Washington' is the proper place at which to hold the exposition of the three Americas. —p——— MR, FREDERICK DOUGLASS oan have no reason to complain that as a repre- sentative of his race he has not received generous treatment from the republi- oan party. With the exception of three years during the last administration Mr. Douglass has been in office since 1871 and some of the positions he has held, as those of marshal and recorder of the District of Columbin, were very lucrative. It is to be said that ho dis- charged all the duties devolved upon him faithfully and creditably. His ap- pointment as minister to Nayti {isun- doubtedly judicrous. He ought to exer- cise o groat deal of influence in the black republic favorable to tho inter- ests of the United States and porhaps no better man could have been selected to guard against foreign machinations in Hayti. Tue appropriation of forty thousand dollars for a statue of General Sheridan is now available, and it is probable that designs will at once be called for. The statue is to be erected in Washington and it is suggested that the library committee of congress may choose as a model the statuctte by Thomas Kelly representing Sheridan on his famous ride, this design having greatly pleased the little hero. The statuotte shows the hovse in full gallop with ‘‘all his irons in the air,” the support for the figure of man and horse being a troe stump rising up under the right stirup. The idea is said to be ingenious and apparently capable. of execution in bronze. The statue of Sheridan ought to ba,a vigorous and dmpressive work of art, which would convey to posterity a just idea of the hero of the Shenandoah. AN interesting incident of the im- proving thrift of the southern people is found in the growtn of savings bauks 1n that section. Until three years ago Maryland was the only southern state which had a bank that was exclusivaly a suvings institution, but since then such banks have been established in North and South Carolina, Geor, and Alabama, and thess states report over twenty-three thousand depositors with savings amounting to nearly six million dollurs. The development of thrift which thisattests 1s one of the hopeful signs in the south. Tk revised school law of Illinois provides that no person who cannot rend and write the English language shall be eligitie for the office of school divector. A sumilar qualifleation would work to the advantage of schools in Nebraska. There are dozens of alleged -school directors in the state whose only qualitication is an ability to manipulate their respective districts for personal gain, or the advancement of cousins, gistars and aunts. ForTyY-FIVE nmillion dollars worth of bonds must be purchased by the gov- ernment for the sinking fund during coming fiscal year. This will enable the bondholders to make their own terms, and give the surplus ‘‘a lean and hungry look.” Quay and Brice. York World. To pit & Brico against a Quay is to rejoct the aid of a moral idea and to matcha greenhorn in politics against a veteran. ARFaS e SR The Early Rainuow. Philadelphia Press, Chairman Brice is quotea as confident of cartying Kansas for the democratic ticket in 1892, Tc will be noted that the rainbows have begun to loom up rather early. —————— The Supreme Test. Chicago News. Now that Uncle Jerry Rusk’s garden seods are beginning to bear fruit the present na- tional administration 18 undergoing what may be appropriately termed the crucial tests. E R e Well Fitted For the Place. Boston Advertiser, Calvin 8. Brice, who was buried beneath the wreckage caused by the upbeaval last November, has reappeared, slightly contused but still alive. Mr. Brice is as well qualified us any one we know of to lead the demo- cratic party on to defeat. Louisiana Can Stand It. Chicago Tribune, The governors of the other states to the governor of Louisiana: Better let them fight. Encourage them to kill each other. 1f there is any state whose reputation will not be made any worse by this sort of thing, yours is the state. S Vain Prohibition Dreams. Chicagn Inter-Ocean. Party names may change and new organiz- ations may be formed, but fundamentally the issues between the parties have been and will be the same and permanentiy prevent the displacement of which the prohibitionists dream and on which as a hope they build their political castles in Spain. i The Sinfulness of Watches. Minneapolix Journal, The German Baptists have decided that no man can carry a gold watch and be a chr tian. It was demonstrated long ago that a ‘Waterbury and a consistent profession of re- ligion could not go together. There doesn't seem to be anything left for the truty pious 10 go by but the roosters in the morning and the dinner horn at noon, ————— An lowa Episode, Cliicago Limes. “Ah!” exclaimed Tommy's papa, as he raised his eyes from the newspuper, “I see that William has graduated with honor: Now, Tommy, can you tell me what a gradu- ate ist Come, now, let me hear your defini- tion of & graduate—a g-r-a-d-u-a-te’ A graduate,” said the eight-year-old, brighten- ing up, “is the glass you get your whisky in at the drug store.”” This occurred in Iowa, of course. e Enough of Stage Freaks. Kansas City Times. The foolish young Chicago woman who made s fool of herself over the anarchist, Spies, is now talking of going on the The yonng woman is not supposed to have any dramatic talent, She merely panders to the morbid curiosity of the public. It would perhaps strike the critically minded that there are already too many freaks and eccen- tricities on the American stage. e sk The Blignt of the Coal Barous. Chicago News. Coal has been discovered at Farmer City, L, but perhaps the icss the Farmer City people say about it the better. The discov- ery of coal in & neighborhood has heretofore brought with it only poverty and orimo. The very presenoe of the ft and derrick soom to blast the prospeots of the country for miles around, No community that hopes to oscape the blighting curse of slave labor will be in & hurryto shine as a coal mining center, ———— The Ploture Stage. Siour Uity Jowrnal, Omaha has renched the stage again of printing pictures of & proposed union depot. —— HITS AND MISSES. The announcement is mude that the Omaha Banking company will wind up its affairs, It has a surplus of wind on hand. Councilmen Ford and Snyder evidently wont into the banking business for their health, Net result, §7,000 in the holo. Ex- perience costs money. As aresort of summer Omaha is a hum- mer. Tne claim of Mr. Hitoheock that block 86 was the core of tho business conter of Omaha was an assertion for revenus only. His investmont in Farnam stroot proporty vroves that opinions publicly expressed do not Jibo with private convictions. It is roported that the Museo managors are negotiating for the purchase of the Union dopot sketch. It's stock of freaks is ran- ning low. Ex-Collector Cathoua’s opinion of the efi- cacy of Iding's glua as @ seal for the larynx has undorgone a radical change. The most astonishing feature of the Cronin mystery i3 the suspicion provaillag in Chi- cago that the Omaha Republican knows something. Bauks may come and banks may go, but the faro banks thrive as of yore. Housekeopers moving to other summer resorts should notify the police. It is im- portant that the cops should know where to reandezvous in safoty when the merry burg- lar is abroad, ‘There was a flavor of charming innocence and youthful enthusinsm in the cloquent periods of one of the lady essayists at the high school commencement. She puinted n protty picturo of the achievemonts of man fromn Adaw’s picnie in paradise to the pres- entday. With characteristic unselfishness the fair orator wholly noglocted the achieve- ments of her sox in the world’s affairs, and guve man the crodit for ull the progress ana perfection of our civilization, This was very soothing to the conceited pates of the masculines in the audience, and a significant outburst of applause, emanating from tho benedicts, followed the sentiment which placed man on lofty eminences and loft womankind 1n the foothilis and valleys struggling to catch on. Fortunately this condition of affairs does not exist outside of the immature imagination of the school girl. A fow yoars oxporience with the opposite sex will convince her that man is of very common clay, no better, no worse than woman. To place him on a pedestal and burn incense around the basc is only love's labor lost, The consolidation of the Omaha and the motor companies is morely a question of time, perhaps sixty days. The doctor only wants a large slice of consolidated cuticle, and is bound to have it. The bloated condition of the sity treasury excites uncommon interest in bank circles. ‘They are all anxious to vut their claims on the surplus, and are not at all backward in consulting Mr. Rush’s interest in the matter. And that is all-important. A frightful epidemic is raging at Leaven- worth, Kan. During the past month 22,000 victims dragged themselves to tho drug stores aud registered as sick. The disease baffles the skill of regular practitioners, but the druggists manage to spread the oconta- glon by keeping down the fever with pints and quarts handsomely labelled. ST T TRIBUTES TO ENTERPRISE. A Monument to Grit, Indianola Couwrier, The new Bee building is a handsome and commodious structure, especially adapted to the newspaper business, and speaks volumes for the enterprise and grit of Mr. Edward Roscwater. Genius and Energy. Le Mars (la.) Sentinel, Last Wednesday night marked another epoch in the growth of Tak OMaAlA BEg. The paper was eighteen years old and its magnificent new building had just been com- ploted. It was a fit tima to eat, drink and be merry, so the friends of Tiur Bxr were mvited to an anniversary banquot at Tug Bex building. Edward Rosewater, editor of Tue Bee, presided. There was plenty of reason for the joy he felt on the occasion, for ‘Tne Ber is every line a newspaper and leads in the country between St. Paul and St. Louis. And the genius and energy of Ed- ward Rosewater has done it, keeping pace with the rushing growth of bis city. The Leading Newspaper. Fairmont Signal, The opening of Tux Bex building at Omaha last week was an event of marked intorest 10 the stute as well as an occasion of enjoy- ment for the representatives of tho press. It marks the ercction of tho larg} est and most complete newspaper edi- fice in the United States, if not indeed in the world. Italso brings vividly before the people the trials and final success of Mr. Rosewater, and shows what may be accomplished by an indomitable wil 3 and a determination to reach tho top. What ever may bo the opinion of the press as to Mr. Rosewater's general policy in politics no ono will question his standing as the fore- most newspaper editor in the state, or that of Ty Bek as the lending newspaper. Muy they both live loug and prosper. No Klies on Us. Stoux Valls (Dal:.) Argus-Leader, Tue Bee has made honey while the flow- ers bloomed, Tur Ber is a bird. It has naught to do with the musca domesticas. May its hive ever bo full of houey. Enjoyed by but Few, Ozford Standard, Rosewater's natural journalistic ability and indomitable energay have achieved a measure of success enjoyed by but few papers in the whole west It'sa A per, Norfolk News. The Omaha Ber's new building is the handsomest and best pewspaper edifice in the west and is_splendidly equipped for sup- plying the public with the news. The careor of Tk BEx bias been a remarkably successful one, and its progross has been rapid from & mere hand bill in 1871 to the best newspaper in the wost to-day, Tug Brk is a bummer. Farewell to June, Boston Courler, Farewell, thou darling of the year, Sweet month of love and tune; ‘Phy race is run, thy end is near, Sweet June! Tou lighted up the morning’e eye, Gave glory to the noon; With tears we suy to theo: “Good-bys, Dear Juue!” We bade farewoll to 2old and cough ‘When rose thy silvery moon, Aud gladly ook our fannels off, Oh! Juns! Thou goest and we return to meet A flerce, o brassy sky, In short, with palu-lesf faos we greet July. CURRENT THOUGHT, Tt is the bad habit of senility to Inmont the days gono by and look with possimistio eyes toward the future, observes the New York ‘World, The trouble is that as men grow old their capacity for enjoyment 18 impaired. But the worid is not in fact growing worse nor weaker, and though wo mag not approoke ate their qualivy, there shall still be oakes and ale, “ay, and ginger shall be hot i’ the mouth, t00.”” 1t is a sad mistake to woar one’s eyes in the back of one's head. The human raco is nos decaying, and there will yot bo *'palmy days” as good as tho old ones, Tho babblers wko babblo about the physi- cal degeneracy of the young women and young men of America ought to have taken a look last wook at the classes of graduatos from Vussar colloge or Rutgers college or Wells coliogo or Barnard college or Smith collogo or at tho classes of masculine gradu- ates from tho New York univorsity or Columbia colloge or Princeton university or West Point academy or the Now York College of Physicians and Sure’ geons or any of tho hundred other institutions of learning that have just held their commencements. It would be hard to toll whore one couid behold any array. of young women with better physical dovel- ovment, or any host of young tnon with more stalwart frames than were hown by the graduates of these institutions, says the New. Yoik Sun. By the way, the babblers about degenoracy can obtain information on the subject by strolling along Broadway or Wall stroet or any of our othor highways, or by taking a trip to Coney Island or Long Branch or by visiting the public bath-housos. Inthe July number of Harper's Magazine there is is an essay entitled, “Is American Stamina Dociining?” and tho answer can be quickly Riven. It isnot. In tho Twilight club a fow evenings ago the members held a debate upon thoir inferiority to tholr grandfathers must be ovident to overybody who watchas tho spectacle at our outdoor sports and in our athletic clubs that our ancestors were not superior to their posterity in ull respects. Fair play for Young America ! Some person with a tasto for statistics has been examining the salary list of the Domin- 10, and finds that the small poputation of Canaaa pays enormously to support a cum- bersome ofticial machine, of which its mora liberal peoplo are gradually becoming very weary, says the Boston Journal. It is often laughingly remarked in England that Canada must have a vast deal of legislation to at- tend to, since she linds it necessary to have fifty-six legislators more than the mother country, and S0 many departmental heads that -no Canadian outside of politics can tell their number. The Canadian commons consists of 215 membors, who draw $1,000 each por session, and the senate, which has little to do except to look wiso, has eighty members, who receive $10,- 000 cach annuaily. The speakers of each house of this immensely overpmd national legislature receive 83,000 annually; the On- tario members and spoaker, -§50,000; the Quebec logislative council, legislature and the two speakers, $75,000. Then the country is sadaled with a governor general who ro- ceives nearly $35,000 annually and spends us little as possible in the couatry, sending to England for even the smallest articles of daily wear and consumption. His chief bus- ness seems to be mnot to comply with the wishes of tho people whenover ho has a chance to show his authority. There are also lieutenant governors of Quabec and On- turio and Manitoba, Nova Scotia, New Bruns- wick, the Nortnwest Territory and Prince Edward Island, each of whom receives a larger salary than is given to the chief jus- tico of the supreme court of the United States. Andas a fringe around this circlo of costly officrals, many of whom are utterly useless, there is a small army of paid aids- de-camp, secretarios, etc., who have abun~ dant perquisites, The idea of a country like the Dominion, having forty-seven’ political “‘ministers” is certainly somewhat absurd, If a man is of value to the world he lives by divine right; if he is worthless he lives by the impertinent claim of a right which does not exist. His value is not determined by station, wealth or fame. The poorest may m some instances bo hardly spared the rich- est in other instances may be spared oasily. Tt all depends. The nod-carrier who shoul= ders his hod of bricks may be worth more to civilization than the man who owns the brick yard and makes poor bricks for a large profit. Itis not necessary to live on Firth avenue in order to weigh heavily in the scales of justice, suys the New York Herald. Woalthy fraud goes up as a feather weight, while simple honesty pulls down the beam like gold. Whal the world neéds is real men and women, vot puppets in petticoats or trousers. Ia this country there 1s no problem of pov. erty, in the scnse in which the term is com- monly employed, says the New York Com- mercial Advertiser. There is no poverty of the hopeless, helpless sort, that can be” sot down to the account of false and unfair so- cial or industrial conditions, It is the pov- erty that actually suffers, the poverty of those who lack food for their bellies and raiment for their backs, That kind of pov- erty exists among us, without doubt or aues- tion, but it exists not because of anything amiss in the constitution of society, but by reason of causes within the control of the suiferers themsclves. In nearly all cases it is the direct consequencoe of drunkenness, in. curable indolenco and unthrift. In a small provortion of cascs it results from accident, from . prolonged illness or other such cause beyond the control of the sufferers, and in those cases relief is rightly demwanded from soclety. But society’s provisioa for relief is ample, and more than awple, to moet overy demand of that character, if we might in any way guard that provision agamst the raids of the undeserving who suffer by reason of their vices or thelr unwillingness to work for themselves. ‘The only real problem of poverty in this country is how to mako those keep sober and work diligently who now get drunk and do no worls at all. There ip.a similarity in the development of great cities that is worthy of note, All of them—Loudon, Parls, New York-—exhibit like phenomean in their extension, They start at & central point and increase at first from within, and later from without, It bappens in the cases of the centors that, in time, they spread rapidiy untl thoy be- come crowdod to inconvenience. The Hlling of streets, the supply of water and sewcrs age, tho lighting, the paving and other pub- 1ic improvements caanot keep pace with the enlargement of the population. At this time taxation is burdensome, and then it is that portions of the humun contents of tho city begin to swarm aud seek roomier spaces for their homes, It is in this way that sub- urban towns are created, They are the out- growth of the cities and owe alleglance to the ceutors from which they come, says the Chicago Herald. A suburban town can never sever its rolations with the parent or- gonization. It owes its birth to the eity; without the eity in its vicinity it wowid have Do source of supplics; and, hence, it can never with justice assume a perpetual inde- dependence, The contral ereation has licns onit. The population of the suburbs left the city av its time of need, and thuswmeurred an indobtedness which it is bouna in fairness t0 liquidate. It can do this, and benefit it- self, in addition to paying its own debts, by uniting its fortunes once wore with the city