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

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Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, does solemnly swear thit the actual circulation of BER for the week ending July 27th, 184 Bunday, July 21 Monday, July 22 Tuesday, J Wednesday, | Thursday, GRORGE B. TZSCHUCK. 8worn to before me and savscribed to in my presence this 27t day of [Seal.] N.P. State of Nebraska, | County of Douglas. (% George B, "I'zschuck, being duly sworn, de- Joten and shya that hi 1 secrotury, of ‘(hd floe ublishing company, that the actual average daily circulation of Tk DAtuy Ber for the month of Juns, 1888, 19,242 coples: tor July, 188K, 15,031 coples: for Angust, 1848, 18, 183 cople: for Reptember, 1488, 15,134 copies: for October, 188, 18,094 coples: for November, 1565, 15,05 copies; for Decornber, 1884, 18,223 coples; for Junuary, 180, 18574 cobles: 'for February, 1880, 18,900 copies; for March, 1881, 18,854 coples: for April, 1850, 1860 copless for Mny, 188, 18,690 cop! GEORGE B, TZSCHUC 8worn to before me and_subscribed In my [Seal.] " presenco this drd day of June, A. N. P. FEIL, Notary Public. A THE savage breast of the Indian does not yet beat in unison with the desire of the pale fuce. THE steamed-over,worm-eaten pruncs will have to keep company with swill milk hereafter. SURELY the metropolis of the groat- ost corn producing state in the union can subscribe $15,000 for a carnivai week. JACK THE RIPPER is still in White- chapel. He probably was one of tho enormous crowd that witnessed the im- prossive bu! of his last victim. Modern det re a great luxury. THE frippery and finery lavished on princes when they marry is well illustrated in the magnificent wedding gifts worth millions showered upon Victoria’s grand-daughter and the Earl of Fife. OVERNOR FosTER, of Ohio, is now at Standing Rock with a vigorous ap- peal to the Indians tosign the Sioux bill, but somehow the eloquence of man- proud-of-his-narrative has lost is per- suasiveness, Trr Wabash and ‘ts feeders both east and west of the Missouri riv are again combining forces. After having the water squeezed out of its stocks the Wabask will now resume stock water- ing at the ola stand. GLADSTONE'S speech on the royal grants was a magnificent outpouring of patriotism and loyalty to his sovereign. The grand flashes of his mighty intel- lect completely swamped the puny ef- forts of his radical desert. I¥ Fred Nye and Frank Johnson will mind their own business aad leave THE BEE tg conduct its affairs as in the judgment of its editor is deemed hest, they will be severely let alone, even if they keep up their audacious confidence game on the credulous. If they hankor aftor notoriety, however, thoy will pres- ently be accommodated in a way that will not redound to their reputation as finunciers or citizens. Some people never know when they are decently treated. THE reasons assigned by the faculty of the Omaha medical college for ex- cluding women do not seem to us to rest on a sound basis. In view of the fact that women bave been placed on an equal footing with men by the leading med- foal scbools in this country and abroad, the fear that the admission of women will frightén away the male medical students does not appear well grounded. As loug as women are willing fo partic- 1pate with men in the dissecting room and in the hospital wards, no serious ap- prehonsion may be folt that the college would suffer by co-education of the BOXOS. THE fact that the contracts for grad- ing and track-laying from Sioux City to Huron, Dakota, are now being let is of significance to Omaha inasmuch as the completion of this road will give direct communication to this city with South Dakots. There is no need of speculating what roads are behind the venture. It issufficient to know that 8 connection with Dakota is a good thing, and it may be depended upon that Omaha will not fail to cultivate the acquaintance of the cities to the north and west. But Omaha should by all means have a direct road to Yankton and the Jim river valley. It would be a matter of surprise if some of the British gold looking for in- vestment in America did not seek out some of the great paying industries of Omaha. The planting of a million or two of foreign capital should be en- ocouraged in our city, It was Scotch snd Epglish money which gave the stock and packing industries of Omaha their impetus, and the field is by no means exhaustea whereby a handsome return can be assured for every doliar now invested. Dur business men should be alert and call the attention of these capitalists to the advantages offered by Omaha in both mercantile and manu- facturing enterprises which appear to be chaunels into which their utteation is now directed. ANNEXING SOUTH OMAHA. The man who always ories “I told you 0, is generally pronounced a bore. But there are occasions when a look backward may be instructive. When the Omaha charter was bafore the legistature three years ago, Thm Bee vigorously opposed the effort of th ntractors and syndicate combino to cut out the section that would have enabled Omaha to extend her limits over the territory now covered by South Omaha. But the oil yoom lobby and boodle judiciary of the legislature succeaded in mutilat- ing the charter presented by Mr. Lin- inger, and substituted for it a bill that has set Omaha back five years, and was the prime cause of the set-back in suburban real estate. By cutting the park provision out of the charier we are deprived of the op- portunity to convert from one to two thousand acres of suburban lands into parks and boulevards and thus taking out of the market surplus unimproved lands and enhancing the value not only of the adjacent lots and lands, but of all property in the city. And yet, such men as Tom Brunner and other real estate agonts were mostactive in giwing this black eye to Omaha, either because they were in accord with Vanderbum and his oil room gang or anxious to snub Rosewater, who in their opinion wielded too much influence. In cutting down the area of Omaha from thirty to twenty-five miles the boodlers of the legislature acted out the dictates of the South Omaha and stock yards syndicutes, These short- sighted and selfish people forcod the incorporation of a new town which even in name has become a thorn in the side of Omy On the map, and in fact, South Omaha is part of Omaha, but in all the directories and in the next census South Omaha would figure as one of thesmaller cities in Nebraska, as much disconnected in the minds of the uninformed as Council Bluffs 1s always has been. he pretense under which South Omaha was made a separate city with a municipal machine of its own was that it would relieve property owners, and espocially the stock yards and packing houses, from the heavy burdens of taxation that are imposed o property within Omaha. They went even so far as to declare that no capitalist would locate a packing house within the corporate limits of a city. And yet in the face of this, look at Kansas City and Chicago. South Omaha had no sooner become a corporate town than the very people who objected to Omaha's heavy load of debt and extravagant city govornment, entered upon a system of financiering that came very near bankrupting the town. Anenormous floating debt wascre- ated, and on top of thata bonded debt was piled up for improvements which should have been made by the syndicate and the railroads. Against this suicidal pol- icy THE BEE vainly enteced protest. The people were literally bulldozed into voting that enormous mortgage on South Omaha and the most active advo- cates of funding the fraudulent debts and bonding for grading roads through the syndicate tracts and building the viaduets, which the railroads should have built, were the men who foisted te town government upon the people. notably both the Herald and World. Now that the mevitable cousequences have presented them- themseives the parties and papors have fallen into line with Tine BEe in favor of amalgamating South Omaha with Omaha. Having done all the damage they could to both the cities they are now trying to undo the mischief. In this as well as in other matters Tne BEE has had the best ingerests of Omaha at heart. It has always dopre- cated the establishment of separate town governments in the suburbs of Omaha. The experience of all great cities has been adverse to divided municipal control. Nearly every parliament has been called upon to deal with the troublesome problem of annexation of suburbau towns to London. In this country the same pro- cess is going on around every groat city. New Yorkand Philadelphia have found it to their advantage to amalga- mate with suburban cities and villages, and Chicago has just completed the annexation of a dozen sub- urban towns that will add over three hundred thousand to her ag- gregate population in the next,_cen- sus. The contest in the suburban towns of Chicago against annexation was waged by syndicates and factory barons like George M. Pullman, who loved to lord itover communities mude up chiefly of their workmen. THE SPIRIT OF MANUAL TRAINING. One of the principal subjects die- cussed by the National educational as- sociation, recently in session at Nash- ville, was that of manual training. The matter was presented to the association in the form of a report from its commit- tee on pedagogics, gentlemeu recog- nized as of the highest authority in all matters pertaining to education. This report consistad, fivst, in an inquiry as to the educational functions of the branches taught in the manual training school, wherein they are supplomentary of the work al- ready done and wherein they cover the same ground; aud secondly, a dis- cussion of the economic questions in- volved. The committee admited the reasonabloness of substituting a system of manual tr ng in special schools for the old system of apprenticeship, but expressed the opinion that such training ought not to be begun before the completion of the twelfth year of the pupil,or still better, the fifteenth year, or before he has had proper school instruction in reading, writing, arithmetic, geography, grammar and history—in other words that manual training should not be considered asan equivalent for school education or & substitute for it. Tho ground upon which they advocate this position is that children should be protected from the premature assumption of the cares of life. In reply to the argument that the great majority of children are des- tined to earn their tiving by manual labor, the committee say that just for the reason that the majority have before them a life of drudgery child- hood should be carefully devoted to spiritual growth, to training the intel- lect and will, and to buildthg the basis fora larger humanity. The trade or vocation in life is but a small part | of the total functions of any one life, The trade must be associated with something else, and that is a system of universal education, not in industry but the idens and thoughts that make up the conventional view of the world such ideas and opinions as one learns in studying geography and history, and ospecially literature. While the re- port did not show much sympathy with the manual training school as un educa-~ tional factor, the care and elaboration with which the subject was considered showed that the committee fully appre= ciated its importance. In the current number of The Popular ence Monthly thero is n comprehen= ve discussion of the spirit of manual training by C. Hanford Henderson, professor of physics and chemistry in the Philadelphia manual training school. Regarding the school, in a general sense, as simply a tool, and a very plastic one at that, not too sacred to be sharpened and altered, whenever by so doing it can be made to accom- plish better work, Professor Henderson observes that the great question con- cerning the schools is the very simple one: What effect has the institution upon 1ts pupils? What, sort of men and women does it make out of them? The whole force of the school should be devoted to the one supreme issuo—the boy himself. “If, while vou are making a man, you can also make a scholar, it will be wall, but look to the man first.” The cnd of education being discipline, the subjects chosen for study are less important than ‘the spirit in which the .study is pursued. On some unaceountable theory of cul- ture,” says Professor Henderson, **yoars are devoted to languages that one will never use, and pre- cious moments squandered on the geography of places one will never seo or hear of. And so one might fol- low the entire list of studieswundertaken ority of schools. They seem hopelessly inadequate.” The spirit of manval taining, as Professor Henderson detinos it, is the attainment of results that will influence the conduct of life. The manual train- ing school has a purpose much more profound than that ot merely training the hand. It hascome in recognition of the growing demand for a com- plete -~ man. The specific purpose of such schools is to offer an education that includes as far as possible all of the faculties. Its favorite maxim is, ‘‘Put the whole boy to school.” Its mode of carrying out this purpose is the very practical one of occupying the time in any way, formal or informal, that will best lead to the end proposed. Professor Henderson observes that the time is a critical one for the manual training school, now in its formative period, Two rival theories contend for the mastery of its future. The one regards manual training as an ond in itsell, and subordinates educa~ tion to technical -skill. The other theory is that the aim of the school is to prepare for complateness of life. that the school is a purely edu- cational institution, and is industrmal only in making use of the tools of in- dustry toaccomplish its chosen purpose. The manual work, like the.work in science and literature, is simply a means of development. Those who hold to the latter theory, among them evi- dently Professor Henderson, believe that the object of manual training is the production of thoughtful, self-re- liant honest men, Professor Henderson deplores the fact that at the several manual train- ing schools established in America the artisan spirit is more preva- lent than the educational. This means, he says, that unless the advocates of he higher position are alert and vigil- ant the fine opportunity for broader culture offered by manual training will be lost in new teachings. The man- element will go under and the world of things will again rule. The discussion of this very interesting and important subject by Professor Henderson is clear and candid, fairly representing both the beauty of the system and its danger. In conclusion he says: ‘“The spirit of manual training represents rather an ideal, which in moments of extrame hopefulness we are tempted to believe that we have partially realized, and in moments of discouragement we still hold to be worthy of our effort.” A LOST OPPORTUNITY. Americans returning from Europe all agree in saying that the Uunited States has not done itself honor at the Paris exposition. All the reports are mnot equally severe upon the American ex- hibit, but they are alike to the effect that it is most inadequately representa- tive of our natural resources and pro- ductions. Some go so far as to say that in its entirety it is inferior to that of the least of the several South American countries. This may be giving the ex- hibt greater discredit than it deserve but it leaves no doubt that a serious mis- take hus been made by our people i not taking advantage of the great opportunity offersd by the French ox- position to familiarize the people of other nations with the extent and im- portance of this country’s productions. Here, certainly, was the best possible chance for the producers and manufac- turers of the United States to thorough- ly advertise to the world our resources and our claims to the consideration of foreign buyers, and we have neglected to take advantage of it. A few of the features of the American exhibit are, it is true, unsurpassed. In the electric department every other nation 1s far behind us, and in two or three other lines we ave in the front rank, but this only serves to suggest what the exhibit might be if an adequate inter- est had been taken in it, and does not excuse us for failing in that interest, One effect is to humiliate Amaericans who visit the exposition, but this isan inconsiderable matter compared with the unfortunate sacrifice of tho best opportunity ever afforded us to show the world what we have, because no previous international exhibition at- tracted the attention of foreign people 80 largely as this has dong. Shall we Robert H. Harrison, of Maryland. TRIATISN 28, 1889~-TWELVE PAGE be able to retrieve what we have thus lo t the proposed Ame ri- can oxpsMion in 18927 Iv is not probabl Under no circumstances is it likofly that there can be attracted to this e@infey more than a very small percentife of the millions of Europe- ans who Fill have attended the French expositich. Doubtless we may safely count upon a larger number of visitors from abrgaggnt tho next exposition than came to that of 1876, and espocially will there be larger representation of the people of S#hth and Central America, but we can not rensonably hope to.make up for the 10ss of opportunity which the French exposition gave us. That mis- take is irreparable. A JUDICIAL CENTENNIAL, The legal fraternity of the country will be interested in the proposal of the New York state bar. association to cele- brate the one hundredth anniversary of the institution of the judiciary de- partment of the United States govern- ment. The federal supreme court was organized in the city of New York on the first Tuesday of February, 1700, so that the vroposed celebration will take place insthat month next year. A com- mittee of arrangements is to be ap- pointed to formulate & plan, and it s to bhe presumed that in- vitations will be extended to the judiciary and to leading lawyers of all the states to participate in the com- memorative exercises. The supreme court at its first session consisted of a chief justice and five ns- sociate justices. The first chiel justice was John Jay, of New York, and the five associates were John Rutledge, of South Carolina, William Cushing, of Massachusetts, James Wilson, of Penn- sylvania, John Blair, of Virginia, The names of some of these jurists, and par- ticularly that of the first chief justice, are eminent in the judicial history of the country. With perhaps the sin- gle exception of John Marshall the name of no jurist this conntry has produced ranks higher than that of Johu Jav. The importance of the federal judi- ciary in our system of government ren- pers appropriate the commemoration of the organization of the Supreme couct as the oue hundredth anniversary of that event. Furthermore, such a re- view of the work of that great tribuaal as would be a proper and essential part of such a“dommemoration would be a source of interest and pride to the Amer- ican peovle. The Supreme court of the United States is undeniably the foremost judicial tribunal of the world, and none other ean present a coutury’s record of greater wisdom, purity and patriotism. It may not be an easy mat- tor to arrange a celebration that wouid bo especially attractive, except 1n its intellectual features, since there could appropriaféi§ be nothing about it of public pageabtry or display, but it is possible to rehder it highly interesting, and undoubtddly the New York State Bar associatfon ean be relied upon to do this. The "idea of commemorating the anniversary is a good ono and ought to be succossfully carried out. GLADSTONE'S GOLDEN WEDDING. The celebration of the golden wed- ding of Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone is an event memorable in the history of Eng- land’s great statesman. It recalls the marriage of William Ewart Gladstone on July 25, 1839, to Miss Catherine Glynn, daughter of Sir Richard Glynn, of Hawarden castle, and that for half a century these two worthy people have passed hand in hand through a most happy and fruitful union. Eight sons and daughters were born to them and some of these have achieved renown and bid fair to pass their father’s name in honor to future generations. On the verge of eighty, Gladstone retains his mental vigor and still remains & great leader of his party and the best loved man in all Great Britain. No less en- dowed with noble qualities is the woman who has been the helper and the counsalor of her husband and who has shared with him the triumphs and the disappointments of his long and honorable political career. Mrs. Glad- stone is essentinlly domesticin her char- acter, cherishing her husband, her family and her nome. Withal she has Jarge mental powers as well as spir- itual grace. She is strongly intellect- ual and has proven herself & most worthy helpmate to her noble husband. To few men is it given to celebrate their golden wedding. To a still fewer number is 1t granted to pass. lifty years of wedlock in cordial sympathy and domestic felicity. Such lives flowing as a tranquil river, faithful to noblo purposes and high endeavors, sanctify marriage to the high plane which it should hold. While Gladstone will be remembered in history as a pow- erful factor in statescraft, his immortal- ity will be sweetened with the thought that his married life was as pure and serene as his public career has been A pAniX'of fifty American work- men froms: adl parts of the coun- try and ‘representing our leading industries, has just set sail to visit the Parig f8xposition at the ex- pense of Beripps’ league of western newspapers. ' The trip will include a tour through the French manufacturing centers, as Wwell as a visit to the leading English industrial centers. This is a most worthy ‘enterprise and deserves encourageniont. These men can not fail 10 be imprdggpd with the manufacturing arts of Kuropey They will return with ideas to enrich our industries and will bring back with them some of the se- crets of foreign handiwork and meth- ods for which Europe is famous. Their experience abroad will be watched with keen interest, and there is little doubt but that they will be favorably received and entertained by their fel- low workmen. ‘I'his movement, set on foot by private enterprise, is likely to lead to many more such similar excur- sions, where the workmen of the old and new world can meet and compare notes as to their relative advantages. m— They Are Hard to Teach. Chicago Herald. Neither their overwhelming defeats in the eastern states nor the potency of Jersey lightning s suMcient to discourage the pro- hibitionists, They have just nominated George La Mont, of the aquatio town of Bound Brook, for governor of New Jersey. ‘The vrohibitionist is as full of hope as an Towa drug stord is of whisky e What Alls Sitting Ball. Minneapolis Journal, Sitting Bull has fully rocovered from his sioge of pneumonia and now has an attack of more moneyia, e -— A Diffarencs of Opinlon. New York World, Dubuque, Ia, is complaning of the Mor- mon fly., The country at large grambles be- cause the Mormon doesn't fly. — - A Military Marringe. Minneapolis Tribune, The latest fad in Virginia is to be married on horseback. A cavalry charge, to be fol- lowed by infantry, so to speak. ol S vauicemiiey A Fontherad Star. Chieago Newws. An educated roostor is to star with Kato Claxton during the coming dramatic season, Of course its ambition is to clevate the stage. il e Ungallant and Unbrotherly. St. Lowis Globe-Democrat. The New Jorsey woman who has been con- victed on the charge of being a common scold may be properly described as the New York Evening Post of her locality. The Two B'a in Paris, Cineinnati Enquirer. Botween her exposition and hor coming election Paris is enjoying great deal of ox- citement, while the two B's, Boulanger and Buffalo Biil, are working the people for all there is in them, - A Practieal Politician, Kansas City Jowrnal. Political afiiations which may accom- modated to circumstances come handy. A young man who obtained a clorkship in tho office of the first comptroller of the treasury under the Cleveland administration, becauso of his strong democratic endorsement, has just been appointed chief clerk, because of an even stronger republican endorsement. He is a practical politician. —— A Blooded Bilk, Chicago Times. Ex-King Milan of Servia is in Paris the rest of mankind at present, and is nego- tiating for the purchase of the Duc do Morny’s home on the Champs Elyseos. For a king who is out of employment ho lives very high, his annual expenses amounting to somethiug like €190,000. 1t is explained, however, that he doesn’t pay his annual ex- penses, und that he ranks among the first of aristocratic dead-beats. ool oo POINTERS ON STATE POLITICS. The latest accessions to the ranks of candi- dal for governor, according to the k're- mont Tribuue, are Captain G. M. Humphrey, of Pawnee, and General A. H. Connor, of Kearncy. It is anticipated thatin a year from now the ranks will be full. “The contest for the republican nomina- tion next yeur for governor of Nebraska will possess no more interesting features than the strife that will be waged for the attorney generalship,” says the Hastings Nebraskan. “Governor Thayer 18 out of the field for another term and General Leese will not be a candidate for re-election. 'Che way is therefore open for a host of aspirants. Four gentlemen have been named who are ex- pected to enter the race for attorney general M. Stewart, former deputy; George Hastings, Lou [rvine, of Kearney, and D. F. Osgood, of Tecumseh.” The Sutton Advertiserseconds the nomina- tion of General Conner for governor, and says he ‘‘would make a better governor than several of the men who have been more often menticned for that position. Bring him out and let him run.” The democratic David City Press is evi- dently disgusted with its party in Nebraska, and exclaims: ‘‘As the ouly thing which the democratic party has, so far, ever accom- plished in this state was to furnish an excuse for the worst element in the republican party to perpetuate themselves in power, by keep- ing alive the hates of the past, we are not certain but the party itself could go into in- ocuous duetitude for about seven years, By tbat time the mortgage-ridden farmers of the west will have their prejudices pretty well blistered out of them, and might be wil- ling to listen to a little democratic common sense.” Says the Fairbury Gazette; *“Two or three State papers which are run in the in- terest of politicians who are figuring on being the next governor, are fearfully wor- ried lest Governor Thayer should be in the way, and they proceed to announce him a candidate and then attack him with all the energy with which their diminutive souls are capable. Governor Thayer probably never thought of being a candidate again, but if the people ask iim to serve a thira term he doubtless wiil. He is making a good record as an exccutive and the people, who likke fair play, will resent this mud-slinging. Our advice to these fellows is that unless thoy wish to sce the governor again nom- inated by acclamation they had best chango their course.” No efforts are bewg spared by political tricksters and those who have some political axes to grind or debts to pay, to euduce the Farmer's Alliance to enter the political arena in some form or another, says the Cus- ter Leader. Every allurement is being held out to the organization, and prejudice is ap- pealed to, to furtber the ends of the schem- ers, to entrap the alliance into some political movement which these very orafty conspira- tors know full well will endanger the parpe - tuity of- the alliance and render it of no benefit to any one. As wo said weeks ago, the allisnce has a grand mission to per- form; but 1t 18 not in the political Held as an organization, and if it fails in its mis- sion, we predict that it will go to picces upon pohitical breakers. Let every member vote and act as he pleases as a political factor, and let all who have the accomplishment of the true ends of the alliance at heart work to keep down any tendency to be inveigied by scheming politicians or *disgruntled nows. papers into any concerted political iove- ment, Politics never mixed well with any- thing else, and any attempt to minglo the conflicting political interests of the various parties and their innumer- able factions with tho principles ex- pounded by the farmer's alliance, must prove disastrous to the Alliance. We have every confidence in the good judgment and intelligence of the Alliance, as a whole, and fecl sure thai if reason and good common souse are in the majority, and we believe they are, that no scheme, no matter how art- fully plaoned, will succeed with tampering with the Alliafice as an orgauization, The Broken Bow Republican says the use of Senator Jewett's name in connection with the candidacy for state regent is without that gentleman’s authority, and that he would not accept & nomination as regent if it were tendered him. with PO Questions and Answers, ONAwa, I8, July 22.—To the Editor of the Bes: To decide a bet please state in your Sunday issu if Dakota has been admittod into the union as & state, and oblige & sub- scriber, Ans. —Yes, L0 the Editor of the BEE: Will you please state in Sunday’s BEk what is meant in re porting coffee market 40(@id “points” down, What consuitutes a point ! Ans.—A “paint” in coffee is 1-100 of 1 cent ver pound, or 1 cent per bundred pounds. la your example the decline represents 1-20 of a ceut. BUZZINGS. “There it a local soramble for the collector- ship of the port of Omahn, Which is now held down by Mr. Jordon whose incumbency has in every way been satisfactory, and I understand that there are many prominent republicans who would be glad to see him retain the office; at any rate, for a couple of years longer. 1am told that J. N, Phillips, who, by the way, is said to bo Senator Man- derson’s proferred candidate for the collect orship, does not agroe with the views of the aforosaid republicans, and denounces their position as one of political sentimentality, and. not in nccordance With republican principles. “The fatherdinlaw of a prominent No- braska politician who is also being strongly urged for the position foels that Mr. Jordan should retire upon his laurels and permit the ofce 1o be developed to a paying basis by some one who is less a democrat, and who may have something in common with the ad- ministration. “Ican not find, however, that the Ne: braska delegation have as yet agrood upon any candidate for the ofiice, and, as Senator Manderson and Congressman Dorsey are off on junketing trips, which will consume the romainder of the sum mer, Mr. Jordan secms 10 be sepure until the opening of congress.” Dead men's shoos. What becomes of them? “This is what becomes of somie of them. “T'wo ragged, saucy bootblacks came out of the coroner's office the other day, each the proud possessor of n respectable pair of shoes which were a world too wide and long for them. ay, Swipes,” said one, “I'll trade shines wid y “Ill go yo,” was the reply. So Swines shined Reddy’s new shoes, ana Reddy returned the compliment to Swines. “'Whera did you get your shoe thoy wero asked, “Oh, ae cor'ner he gives 'em to us,” said Reddy. “Yes, dey comos off de stiffs in de morgue,” piped Swipes. “Well aro you not afraid to wear dead mon’s shoes, they might carry some disease; and then they might haunt you.” *Oh rats,” said Swipes, “dat don’t cut no figeor wid me an’ Reddy. Say, I'd wear a dead woman's bustle if I had to, but I don’t have to. Dey ain’t no spook shoes can bluff me, I'm tough. Say, ain’t dey dandies?” and he gazed admirugly at his shining pedal ex- tremitios. ““Yes," said the coroner, ‘‘we give away the shoos that come here with corpses. Some times we get four or five pairs among the effects of strangers who die in the city, and some very good shoes too. They are never claimed and we give them to the boys who need them.” “Don't the boys sometimes sell the shoes you give them, and go back to their old loves?" ho was asked. “No, hardly ever; we know the boys, and they are pretty square, and when they ask for shocs they geuerally use them. “But it would astonish you,” continued the coroner, “to se somo of the people who ask us for shoes. Regular dudes, you know. They come in and say they have a poor fel- low out of a job up at their house who needs a pairof shoes hadly. Then they pick out the best looking pair in sight, thank us pro- fusely in the name of their friend out of a job, and go. ““When I meet them on the street the next day they don’t seem to notice me, because they have the very shoes on themselves, I have scveral customers of that kind. Oh, tnere’s lots of great people in this town."” , boys?" Alittle knot of bright looking men were standing under the Paxton house porch chat- ting idly as they smoked. One of them was a traveling man, and spoke of a certain Omuha merchant, who invarialy endeav- ored to gain some advantage that was not strictly upright in his business deals. “I have to keep awake when sclling to him,” he said, “and its not the pleasantest thing Inthe world to feel that your customer is not on the square exactly.” ““That surprises me,” said another, “for I have ulways understood that Mr. Blank was apillar of the church and a very devout man.” “He is,” replied the drummer, with a chuckle, “he's a daisy in the church, but bless you, that's part of his regular business. Irespecta truly religious man, one who is thoroughly sincere in his convictions. But the man who goes to church merely for cor- tain mercenary advantages, and sings and prays loud and long—and this kind of church goer 18 always loud and long—is meaner than a yellow dog.” *1 ‘mow & merchant in this town,” re- marked a quiet young man, “who worked one church of a certain denomination in this town, and went at it 1n a business way. Al- ways had a benevolent smile for everyone in church, patted the little boys on the head, kissed the little girls; had a vender, linger- irg, fatherly hand shake for the good looking young Iadies, and all that sort of thing, you know, and ot to bea deacon and a digni- tary in the church.” “Rushed the collection vlate, I'll bet,” ventured a sporty young fellow. “Yes, and was superintendent in the Sun- day school. Afte: he had worked the church pretty taoroughly and made lots of friends who always traded with ‘Brother Saintly,’ ho switched off to & church 1n anotaer part of the city. I tall you that man had a ‘sys- tem' and knew how to work it. What do you think of a man who would do that, any- way?" 1think he's & dead sport, said the sporty young man, with a laugh, *and has his health with him. There's lots of old roosters in this town who soll their goods in church.” S “‘But merchants are not the only ones who work the congregational racket,” said a good looxing traveling man. - “I've lived a good many years in Omaha, and could name fifty professional men who have, for years, worked the churches, clubs and secrot socie- ties in order to increase their circle of ac- quaintances and fatten their pocketbook.” ““Yes, and some of them are pretty shady, too,” remarkea the sport, ‘regular old rounders on the quiet.” ““They apvly for admission to the club, and are generally elected because of the absence of some member who is onto them. This gives them tho reputation of well-to.do re- spectability, and that's what they need.” “Politicians are not averse to using these mediums to s They join two or three scerct organizations and use the iuflu- ence thus acquired to bolster up their reputa- tions, elect them, and protect them when they commit irregularitics in office. Of course the societies huve their own way of punishing theiwr delinguent members, but they, by some means or other, are able to dissuade the officers of the law from bringing e culprit before the courts, Vs a great thing to have infiooence, 1 could make & trip around town almost any evening and visit the saloons and dis- reputablo places, aud show you & good many men, professional and otherwise, who are church members, and belong to as many socret societies as they can get into. The congregation ouly know them in church, and respect them as good christians, and the respectable element of the socioties thoy be long to don't get on to them.” “4t just makes my bair stand on end to Lear one of those fellows say ‘smen,'” said tho sport, “louder than any one else in church, you know, and the depth of pathos iu their voicas when they ofiiciate at & prayer meot | ing is simply heartrending. Oh,it makes me tired.” “Dm afrald of those fellows who pray and exhort in that loud, complacent, semi- professional way,’ continued the philosophia sport. “and endeavor to hava s little to do with them as possible. 1 never was much ‘stuck’ on & hypocrite anyway. But, he concluded with a sigh, there's an awful lot of them in Omaha.” e “Whisky Jack” brought his rocontly ro« formod son into Drexel & Maul's storo y torday morning aud introduced him to Mr. Muaul, “Mr. Maul," said Jack, “'me byo sea to me, soz he, ‘don’t drink any moro whisk dad. 1 hate whisky like snakes, and if yes drink any more I'll run away again,’ and I got down on me kaces an’ shwore be the howly St Patrick I wadn't drink anotler drap.” I'm glad to hear it," roplied Mr. Maul, and I hovs you'll stick to it." “Imlade that an’ T will,nha-ha,” said Jaols, “an' dear Mr. Manl, wud ye be kind enough to write me out & siip of & ricommindation for the bye to git a job." Mr. Maul was particularly busy at the timo and did not like the intérruption, but Jack was 8o persistent that ho finally sat down aud wrote the following on a slip of paper: “L. M. Rhoem, B “This will introduce a roformed drunkard and his roformed son, Do what you can for them.” Jack bestowed many banisons on the hoad of Mr. Maul with all the richness and thick- ness of his native tongue, and left in a huppy frame of mind for Mr. Rheem's oftice. Jack cannot read, neithor can s son, but confident that a rocommendazion, co from Mr. Maul, would be omnipotent presented it with a flourish. Mr. Reem read the note, and bubbled over with laughtor. 'What's the trouble,” asked Jack, “what aro yez lafiin’ at ye divil? Mr. Rheem vead the note to Jack,and Jack boiled over with fury, “Well, the spalpeen an' I t'ought he w. doin’ us justice. Begorry an’ Il hey the law on hm for libel,” said Jack, a8 ho bounced out of the ofice throwing terrified messenger boys to the right ana left.” Accompanied by “one of the finest,” Jack repaired to Mr. Maul's oftico and demanded his immediate arrest. When he was informed that Mr, Manl had not. committed un offense which would war- rant his incarceration in a dank dungeon, ho was much disgusted. “Bedad,” said he, “an’ I was towld that it was a ponitentiary offense to libel a gintio- man. But & poor man cau't geY, justice in this town.” he - - COUNTRY BREEZES. A Newspaper Motto, Oak Leaf, . “Semper unum dollri et halfeo per annum in advancebus.” They're a Nice Match, From a Corresponient, Uncle bill Burgess, A Boy of seventy years is sparking my aut hwo is about the samo age we all think they would make A nice mateh. Bound 1o ¢ Valparaiso Tribune, B. W. Riddle, of Ceresco, is & man that has played tho stinker with the Tribune and “left us in the hole for several yoar's subscrip} tion by removing his residence. Never mind Ben we'll catch you A Seven-Up Judge. Geneva Record, Attorneys Domsthrope and Carson had a legal sctto before Judge Conant, In which the former drew a full haud, but the atter drew a jack. Donisthrope kicked because it camo from the bottom of the deck. Tho judge sided with John, however, but ordered ancw deal. Sothe case will have to ho begun all over again. Canse For Rejoicing. Arlington Democrat, Miss Sophie Hashoff is enjoyiug a vacation from her duties at the casos of this shop, and is visiting friends at Scri.ier. Miss Sophie is greatly missing from the offico, it being particularly noticcuble by the com- plete absence cf o certain young druggist's visits here, The Meancst May Yet. Davenport Lancet, A friend of one of our subscribers re- cently asked him to remail his Lancet to him, as he did not care to subscribe himself. Such stinginess is alarming, We wonder 1f the poor little-souled thing would bave been willing to pay the postage. A Public Benefactor. Humphrey Democrat, Herman Tieskoetter, our portly hotel man of the Commercial, 1 making improvements to the hotol that ure worthy of mention. This week he repapered the waiting-room, and is now putting in a new marble-top washstand. The Summer IdyL Scotia Republican, Lay mo down gently, lay me to rost, In abarn loft or hay mow with care, “I'm as full as & goat,” and you know the rest, Because I drank too much lager beer. No Straddio About This, . Newport Advocate, The Advocate has boen accused of strad- dling the fence on overy question before tho people. Tha poor sufforing specimon of mental deflection who maude the charge knows hetter, if ho has discernment onough to discriminate at all. But the power of penetration of this much-lsughed-at and egotistic dunce has gone glimmering with his manhood—down with the blighting flurry of _premature decay into the awfuluoss of its effects—so0 if he can’t, how can het WAITING, Walter S, Peaslee in Boston Globe, Iam so tirea and worn, With weary waiting sore, - For my bright barks that once were borne The trackless waters o'er; I saw thom vecr and turn about And one by oue depart, And gladly watched them' sail without The harbor of wy heart. For were thoy not to bring me back The things of richest worth, The peace and Joy which now I lack, o rarest geins of earth ¢ 1 did not think that I should wait Through long and weary years, Aund wonder why they wors so lite, In grief that mocks at tears, Of a)l those barks that sailed away, A few have anchored lnte, But more 1n wreckage lio Lo-day Upon the rocks of fate Yet some—I know not where they are, Or what their chance may be, I drifting near or drifting far In fair or treach'rous sea. But thoy, perhaps, will secl at Jast The harbor that they left, And I shall hold their treastves fast, No more of joy bereft, For these bright barks that once were boras Tho trackloss wate 1 am so tired aud 80 worn With weary waiting sore, Postage on Ba To the Editor of Tux Bee: Please say In your query column next Sunday what the ment postage is on sample pack- of grain per ounco, aud oblige' W. B, Auns.—Sumples of grain will be cakried as fourth-class watter, ono cent per ounce, if unsealed, or put {u transparent oavelopes, thatcouteuts may be determiued without opening.