Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 4, 1889, Page 4

THE_DATLY [ - PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TRRMA OF SUBSORTPTTON. D ally (Morning Edition) including Sunday Bee, Une Year forsix Months,. 'orThr ee Months ... .. e Omnaha Sunday Des, Aaddress, One Year Weckly fiee, One Year it igavsueve Omana OMes, Bee bullding, N. W, Co Beventeenth and Parnam Streets. Chlcago OMce, 367 Rookery Building. New York Office, Rooms 14 and 15 Tribune Building. Washington Office, No. 513 Fourteentn Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Al communications relating to news and edi. forial mateor shonld be addressed to the Editor orihe Bos. i sINESS LETTERS, All business letters and remittances should b addressed to Tho Res Publishing Company, Ahn Drafts, checks and postoftice orders to ‘made payabls to the order of the cOMPANY. ;mz Bec Publishing Company, Proprielors. Buildiog m and Seventeenth Sta. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. State of Nebraska, 1k County of Douglas, | orge B. Tzschuck, secretary of The Tes smpany, does solemnly swear thit tual clrculation of THE | TEe_for thie Week ending August 3, 184, waa as forlows: . . . 18,850 da: Thursday, Friday, August ... Saturiiy, August 8. Average... Bworn to befors me and subscribed to in my presence thisdd llnil)f August, A. D, 1880, [Soal.] . P, FEIL, Notary Publis, Btate of Nebraska, 1 County of Douglas, { %% George 1. Tzschuck, being duly sworn, do- oz aud says that he in secretary of The' lice Publishing company, that the actual average daily circulation of T DaiLy Big for the month of August, 1884 18,183 coples: for Sep- tember, 18, 18154 copies; for Octoher 1884, 18,084 plesi for November, 1888, IKUR6 copes: uber, 1965, | fo) Janunry, ,_coples: for February, 1680, 1846 r'Mareh, {39, 18554 copied; for April, ) coplesi for May, 1859, 18,600 coples: 1839, 18858, copies; for July, 1859, coples. GrO. B, T7Z3CHUCK. Eworn to before me and subscribed in my presonce this dd day of August, 1845, [SEATn] N. P Frir, Notary Py Mr. Berry, of Minneapolis, is altogether too expensive fruit for the commission. THE rival street car companies have locked horns as usual over rigbts of way. But that is to be expected. They are in South Omaha, THEopening of the Alliance exten- sion of the Burlington for business is a gentle reminder that railroad building is not yet quite dead in the state. I may be true that the south half of the American continent does not pro- duce many Websters or Claysnowadays, but Canada is too small to throw the fact in Uncle Sam’s face. A DENVER paper sends up a howl be- cause oune of her merchants failed to make a fortune during three months in business here. When will folks learn that country methods will not win in s city. WATERTOWN, Dakota, wants Omaha’s prominent business men to visit the beautiful city of the north, The invi- tation should be accepted, as the ac- quaintance would not fail to ripen rap- idly into friendship. ToLsTOI at the plow may be a better man than Tolstoi in the forum,and he may scatter his dollars if he please. He dida’t earn them, anyway, and doesn’t know their value. But as for the bal- ance of us, it should be borne in mind that coal is just as high to-day as it was last January, and there’s a winter ahead. Poverty is not what it is cracked up to be. THE BEE'S great reputation asa news- paper is being fully sustained. No paper in this section of the country can cope with this paper in the extent and general excellence of its news reports. THE BEE is headquarters for the best and latest news of the day, from all news centers of the globe. Careful readers have noticed this fact, and ap- preciate it. THE BEE has no rival in wostern journalism, Tie fastest shipment ever made from Yokohoma, Japan, to New York City, a distance of four thousand three hun- dred miles, has just been accomplished in nineteen days. Thi§ maks a now era in the trans-oceanic and trans-con- tinental traffic of teas and silks. Un- questionably the time will be lessened and the orient will be brought within as easy distance of America as Europe was ten years ago, It would appear from the records of the county’s “‘drug store” that the favorite tipple of the county’s ‘‘pa- tients” is port wine, followed next by good whisky, brandy and sherry in the order named. It will take a good deal of explanation, however, to convince the people of Douglas county that the eighty-five gallons of wines, liquors and spirits furnished the county druggist since January 1 have been used for le- gitimate purposes. Even if they were, the fact reveals a reckless waste and ex- travagance of the county’s drug sup- plies. CHAIRMAN WALKER, of* the Inter- state Railway association, is of the opinion that the relations of the Cana- dian railways to the inter-state com- merce of the United States can by no means be eradicated. He thiuks that by treaty or otherwise Canadian roads operating in this country should be made to conform to the inter-state com- merce law. In both these views Mr. ‘Walker is in accord with a sentiment 80 geueral in the east and west that it is hardly possible congress can be induced to enact any legisla- tion 1n conflict with i, New England and the northwest will be found firmly arrayed against any measure that may be proposed look- ing to a serious restriction of the rela- tions of the Canadian railroads to the commerce of this country. But as to the treaty arrangement suggested, is there a probability that the Canadian government could be induced to make one? Hardly, if the Canadian roads should oppose it, as they very likely would. The problem holds possible difficulties and complicationsof a troub- lesome vature, with the advantages of the situation rather on the side of the Canadian roads. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, ALTOGETHER TOO ONE-SIDED. The conditions which Mr. Victor G. Caldwell attachos to his proposition to | donate a thirty-acre tract of land, near the southwestern suburbs, for park pur- | poses, are altogether %00 one-sided. The donor asks the city to connect his | land with a system of boulevards and | bind itsolf to expend not less than two | thousand doliars & year, perpetually, in | improving and besutifying the park and, furthermore, to exompt from mu- nicipal taxation n large tract of land surrounding the proposed park. As a business proposition these con= ditions are tantamount to saying to the ity, ‘I am willing to set apart a thirty- acre tract of unimproved land if you will agree to put improvements upon it and around it that will increase the value of the remaining land ten times as much as the thirty acres aro now | worth, with the incidental chance of the whole thirty acres reverting back tome in case you fail to expend two thousand dollars in any one year, even fifty years hence.” Leaving out of view the request to oxempt Mr. Caldwell’s adjoining land from taxation for ten years, which can not bo done logally, the park commis- sioners can not with propriety accept Mr. Caldwell’s donation. The city can better afford to wait uncil the next logis- lature grants Omaha the right to issue a half million or a million dollars in bonds for the purchase of grounds suit- able for park purposes, than inake a compact that will tie up the present and future generation of taxpayers to ex- pend a fixed sum of money on lands ac- quired on Mr, Caldwell’s plans. If the owners of dry land desive to to improve it by parking a portion thereof, let them donate their land out- right to the city on the condition thut it shall be dedicated and koptup as a park. Nobody will, of course, object to allowing the donor to name the park. But there should be no strings attach ed to the donation that would give the owner privileges of greater value than the land itself. RIFLE . The infantry rifle competition of the Department of the Platte closed on Fri- day at the Bellevue range. By univer= sal consent it was in every respect the most successful of its class which has been held since the inauguration of such contests. The arrangements, both of camp and range, were far in ad- | vance of all predecessors. Colonel Henry’s unremitting work of tho past four months, gave range affairs and competitors alike pleasant surround- ings, and a field for competion which left little 1f anything to be desired. The commissary and quartermaster depart- ments did their full duty. The weather alone was at times troublesome. The result is shown in the scores made, which mark another advance in the steady improvement in rifle prac- tice since the ‘‘target scason’ became an annual feature of army routine. The team selected for the division competi- tion isone which may be depended upon to do credit to the department. At both fixed distances and skirmishing the work done by the highest marks- men evidenced the value of the careful preliminary post practice and the merit of the government rifle. Ten years ago the average veteran soldier in the regular army would have been puzzled in an emergency to make a score which is often made to-day by a six months’ recruit. The capacity of the Springfield vifle, its merits and de- merits, wore known to few. Its usein time of peace was practically restricted to the manual and occasional driils. Accuracy in firing was not expected, and it was rarely found. To Colonel Blunt, as much as to any other one man, 15 due the change n affairs which to-duy makes every soldier in the army familiar with the use of the rifle or carbine, and which by the annual competitions in departments and divisions culminat- ing in tne great army match gives hon- orable ir various military garrisons and to skill in frontof the butts. The Department of the Platte was one of the first to enter warmly upon the work of rifle practice, and although laboring under many disadvantages by reason of small garrisons, shifting com- mands and incessant fatigue duty at new posts, has more than held its own from the start. It has been fortunate in its inspectors of small arms practice, and in none more so than in Colonel Guy V. Henry, who for the past four years has devoted all his energies to the improve- ment of the work of the various regi- ments under his charge. The Bellevue range, admittedly the best equipped of any 1n the country, is very largely the result of his offorts, and the steady ad- vance in efficiency in rifle firing of offi- cers and men throughout the depart- ment is due in no small degree to his untiring energy and soldierly en- thusiasm. — ILL-ADVISED CRITICISM. There were two fentures of the dedi- cation of the national monument to the pilgrim fathers last ‘Thursday whicn have elicited criticism. These were the selection of C ressman Breckinridge, of Kentucky, as orator of the occasion, and John Boyle O'Reilly as the poet. The objection made to these gentlemen is that oue is a southerner and the other an Irishman., The criticism on this score is narrow, ill-advised and un- worthy of the spirit of the age. Un- questionably a northorn man equally as able and eloguent as Mr. Breckinridge could have been selected as the ora- tor of this celebration, but why should sectional consideration have had anything to do with the ded- ication of a monument to the memory of the pilgrims who landed at Plymouth iwo hundred and sixty-nine years ago? The event was of national character, and had not the remotest relation toany political conditions of the present. The men who sowed the first seeds of civil liberty on this continent bequeathed an inheritance common to all who have succeeded them, Their posterity is widely scattered throughout the land. The fundamental prineiples upon which they lived ave perpetuated in the con- stitutions and the laws of the nation and the states. The privilege of honor- ing their courage, their faith, their sacrifices, and their steadfust devotion | the loyal subjects of King James, and to tho trath as they saw the truth, | belongs equally to all Americans. They labored and wrought in the in- terest ueither of party, nor state, nor section. The pilgrim fathers were so remained to the end of their lives, instilling a like loyal spirit into their immediate posterity. We of to-day are to think of them only as the pioneers of civil liberty on this continent, in the triumph of whose work all share alike, and in commemorating that work it made no difference from what state or section the orator came so long as he showod n just and adequate apprecia- tion of the true chavacter of the pil- grims and what they accomplished. In this regard the selection of Mr. Breck- envidgo proved to have been eminently judicious. His address was intelligent, thoughtful and eloquent. He said noth- ing to which any friend of civil liberty the world over could not heartily sub- scribe. Equally unworthy is the objection to Mr. O'Reilly on the ground that he is an Irishman. He is now an American citizen, in full sympathy with the prin- ciptes and the institutions erected upon the foundatfons laid by the Pilgrim Iathers. He is a scholar, a poet of merit and good repute, and no man in this country or elsewhere can be justly presumed to ap- preciate civil liberty more highly than he. What matter whence the singer comes if he but sing in harmony with the best thought and impulse and as- piration of his time? Of what concern is the nationality of the poet if his verse speak truth and be imbued with the spirit of mght and justice? We ven- ture the opinion that the poem of Mr. O'Rielly was in every way worthy of the occasion. The action of the pilgrim society in the selection of its orator and poet is to be commended rather than criticized. It was an example of a broad and liberal spirit in consonance with the event cel- ebrated, and the emulation of which is to be desired. Andas to both orator and poet, they fully justified the wis- dom of their selection. THE LEATHER INDUSTRY. The establishment of extensive tan- neries at or near this city is only a matter of a very short time. Auy en- terprising capitalist who may take this branch of judustry in hand is sure of making his investment very profitable. The market for vast quantivies of leather is at our very door, and the raw material can be supplied cheaper here than it could in any of the eastern leather factory centers. An average of one thousand beeves’ hides are shipped daily from Omaha all the year round to eastern factories, where they are con- verted into leather to be resold to the trade berween the Missouri river and the Pacific coast. If only one-haif of the freight charges for conveying the raw material to eastern factories can be saved there will be a very broad mar- gin in favor of Omaha as against the eastern factories. The fact thatan extensive boot and shoe factory is about to be established here by a Mas- sachusetts syndicate affords a guaranty of a home market for leather, and it is safe to predict that one boat and shoo factory, no matter how extensive its plant may be, will not supply one-tenth of the demand for leather product of the region tributary to Omaha, HOPE FOR 'THE AGED. When Dr. Brown-Sequard announced sowme time ago that he had discovered an elixir which would prolong human life indefinitely, one of the first to con- demn the claim of the eminent phy- sician as utterly adsurd was Dr. William A. Hammond, of Washington. This equally eminent medical authority was of the opinion that the claim was an evidence of dotage, and he gave what appeared to be very cogent reasous for the beliof that there could be nothing whateverin it. A large number of other doctors more or iess eminent coin- cided with the views of Dr. Hammond. It appears, however, that subse- quently Dr. Hammond became im- pressed with a different idea, and was led to himself experimenton the lines laid down by Dr. Brown-Sequard. The result is the announcement that the former 18 a convert to the elixir of life discovery, having, as is alleged, pro- duced effects on aged and decrepit per- sons that have convinced him of the eficacy of the so-called elixir in re- lieving decrepitude and prolong- ing life. Dr. Hammond states that the preparation of the medicine and the treatment of the patient are very simple. Ho takes the se- lected portion of alamb freshly killed— the other doctor uses a rabbit or guinea pig—and pounds it into a pulp in a mortar. With this he mixes a tea- spoonful or two of water, and the result is filtered through five Swiss filtering papers, The fluid, slightly thicker than water, comes through perfectly pure and limpid, and this fluid is in- jected into the patient’s leg or other portion of his body. Dr. Hammond claims to have had most remarkable re- sults from this treatment, and to have raceived advices from Paris of results no less astonishing, several promi- nent French physicians having become converts to the practice. The great majority of physicians, however, continue skeptical, but shall the aged or decrepit give up hope on this account? When have doctors agreed, and when has the world re- ceived a new discovery without casting doubt and suspicion upon it? The ex- tract from a single lamb will be sufficient for a dozen injections, says Dr. Hammond, and an injection once a month will sufilce to keep & man twenty or thirty years younger than he really is, says Dr. Brown-Sequard. What & boom is here for the bent and lhmping veteran who would like to secure a young wife, or the old boy whose wasted vitality no longer permits him to enjoy the carousals which for years have been only memo- ries. There will be no more descond- ing tothe *lean and slippered panta- loon” when it is established that the extract of asingle lamb is equal to twenty years of life, And the old ladies, will they not also return to the yigor and vanity of their prime and enter upon & new era of conquest? There are immeasurable possibilities in AUGUST 4, 1889~TWELVE PAGES. covery, if it prove to bo indeed adiscovery, and far be it from us to cast a doubt wpon it. Rather would we bid the old 4hd the decrepit to take heart of hopa, for the day may not be far off when their rejuvenation will bo assured. Megdighile the further exper- iments of the doctors will be watched by a curious wotld with increasing in- terest. 4 JONN L. SULLIVAN is finally in the clutchies of the law as embodied in the person of a dépity sheriff from Missis- sippl. He is, fubthermore, on the way back to the scenesof his triumphs, & martyr to the causeof pugilism and John L. Sullivanism. What the great governor of Mississippi, whose author- ity wus 8o openly defied and whose dig- nity was so wantonly wounded, will do with the champion of America is a mat- ter of groat doubt and uncertainty, He might, of course, see to it that the full penalties of the law were measured out to the big bruiser, and that would mean a heavy fine or imprisonment for not less than a year, or both. Of course with good behavior the modern gladi- ator might cut down his term of incarceration a few days or weecks, but at best a risoner’slot in Mississippi is not cast in plensant places. THe would for instance, be obliged to associ- ato with a motley crowd of ‘“‘crackors” and blacks, and would have to subsist on Johnny cake and bacon or starve. But this is a dreadful picture enough to break a spirvit less proud thanJohn L. Sullivan’s. The truth of the matter is that once within his power Governor Lowry of Mississippi will be tempted to deal gently with the big fellow. His authority as the chief magistrate of the state will be vindicated. The groat pugilist will crook his kunee and bare his head before the majesty of the law, With paternal admonition he will be dismissed from the presence of the gov- ernor and Johu L. Sullivan will in all probability celebrate his deliverance with a bigger spree than ever. Tne New York World frankly tells the people of that city that they will not secure the world’s fair with talk, and that is about all they have done thus far. They have been agitating the matter more or less for three years, and yet, says the World. the only sub- stantial pledges volunteered are sub- scriptions of ten thousand dollars each from a newspaper and clothing firm. This is quite characteristic of New York. That greedy motropolis is al- ways ready with wide open arms to em- brace whatever. it can get, but it will not pay for any- thing it can induce others to pay for. In the present case it hopes by an aggiessive pushing of its claims, and by professions of liberality, to in - duce congress to. select that city for the exposition and ‘make a sufficient appro- priation to assure its success, when, as usual, it will givd no more than shall be absolutely necessary to meet possible contingencies and will complacently gobble the profits. But Chicago prom- ises to lead the eastern metropolis a very lively race, and if the contest shoula be narrowed to these two New Yorlk will have to put up generously to secure the prize. The westorn city was never more in earnest than in this mat- ter, and that, with the support of the west, means a very vigorous and de- termined fight. THE seizure of the Black Diamond has stirred up considerable excitement in Canadian shipping and political cir- cles. However, it is nothing but turn about and fair play, and a retaliation on Canada for detaining and confisoating a number of New Iingland fishing smacks for violating the three mile limit clause, Canada has had a taste of her own med- icine and ovidently does not relish it. The truth is, the seizure of the Black Diamond for tresspassing on the seal- ing grounds off Alaska has many a pre- cedent. In 1887, seven English schoon- ers were boarded and their seal cargoes confiscated by American revenue of- ficers and the year previous three Can- adian sealers wore similarly treated. Tho seni fisheries grievance 18 by no means a new question so that Canuda has no valid reason for flaring up at the fancied wrong. Prohibition in Kansas, Senator Ingalls, The boys have their beer, the cranks have their law, and everybody 18 satistled, SogATES The Ballet Girls' Trust, St. Louis GLbe-Democrat, The formation of a ballet girls' trust by English capitalists may properly be defined as a speculation in back numbers. e Omaha Has Thess Philanthropists. e Kansas Cty Times. The dispatches antounce that ‘'a Fort Scott councilman has been arrested for vot- ing money to himsel.” When a Kansas councilman bezins t¢ give away money, he never forgets that ohirity begins at home. ool The Place for Sullivan, St, Louls fepublic. Sullivan of Boston and the law of Mississippi will soon be in the ring together. 1f Mr. Sullivan ismot presently on a convict farm, the country ‘Wil have a right to in- quire what Missispippi has been making the noise about. Timo to Profluce the Checks. Clevetané Leader, Itis contrary to tus spirit of free institu- tions that ivjuripus, trade combinations should be permitted to carry out their de- signs, and there neyl be nodoubt that in due time their rapacity will be effectually re- buked and checked. Robert H. Lambeyn, of New York, has of- fored o series of pries to persons who will send him the best plan for the extirpution of mosquitoes. 1f he wiil come out hero and lay in @ supply of the lake broeze he will find it offective. It works to @ charm in Chicago. o an ke Hopeful Signs in the South, Philadelphia Inguirer, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee and Louisiana would be republican now on a free ballot and a fair count. So would West Vir- ginia snd Delaware. Kentucky may not for- sake her idols this year, but sue will before long, Mr. Cleveland and His Olients. Chicago News. How soon will Mr. Cleveland's vast num ber of 1mpatient clients drag that eminent legal light back from the trout brooks and swimming Loles where he Lias been dallylug for woeks and wecks? 1t must be confessed that those clients are very lenlont with Mr. Cloveland. R— ght Kor Mr, Cleveland. Roston Herald, The St. Louis Republic remarks that the 40,320 men who cast their suffrages for Grover Cleveland in the late presidential on are the largest number of men who voted for one man since the world This is a solemn thought for Mr. Cleveland, but it is a more solomn one still for him to remembor that there wece not enough of them to eloct him, - The National Flower. Cincinnati Enquirer. There is a strong public seutiment in favor of the sunflower as the national flower. 'The sunflower is reported to be an absorbont of malaria, and therefore can be useful us well as ornamental. Hesides, the sunflower has ample proportions, and as the United States is A big country she has the best right to a big flower. Tho violet is t00 modest by half. Some other country has a prior claim ou the rose, and the golden rod has an evil reputa tion. 1Itis said to be the headquartors of hay fover. By all moans, then, let us have the sunflower. — AS OTHERS SEE US. Solemn Tho Needs Sarting Himoelf. Nebraska City News, The editor of the Omana Republican is trying to discuss the salt trust, but has only succeeded in showing that he is entirely too fresh. He should demand the immediate abolition of the trust, He Hasn't Cheeped Since. Hastings N kan, Fred Nye is given fair warning by Rose- water in Tus Bee 1o mind his own business, or his desire for notorioty will be a*'accom- modated in & way that will not_redound to his reputation,” It is evident that we have only heard the preliminary skirmishing of the newspaver war that will be waged in Omaha. Entirely Too Much of It. Kearney Enterprise, Omaha 18 howling now for cheap gas. Omaha has had & good deal of that col modity of late. The Reason Why. Siouz City Journal. S.P. Morse is quoted as saying the other day to a newspaper reporter: “The only reason why Omaha is not a better and larger town than Kansas City is because the latter hus forty-two way-trains every twenty-four hours running in and out from a distance of 100 miles 1n every direction, while we have two. Omaha‘s Paving Thieves. Denver News. Paving steals have not helped Omaha in tho least. They have, on the contrary, sad- dled that city with heavy taxation. Denver can grow very well without them. Uit S COUNTRY BREEZES. Bill Thompson's Ambition. Nemaha Times. Bill Thompson has gathered ahout him since he came iere, two horses, two buggies, two turkeys, seven ducks, a dozen chickens and s pig, and still he is not happy. He would liko to trade his right leg for a goat. A Hungry Oandidate. Beatrice Democrat. Nothing more strikingly illustrates the in- efficiency of the present administration than the tardiness, and lack of earnestness with which they handle applications for office. The writer has had an application on file down there for over four years, and the prosent crowd seem to treat the matter with the same carelessness that characterized the administration of Colonel Cleveland. The people voted to have a change, and we are getting about tired of waiting for the nuts to be passed this way. Wooley Krom Waoleyville. Plattsmouth Journal., The big mouthed blatherskite named Ed. Wooley was in the city Thursday. The ob- ject and purpose of his visit is said to have been the same as former visits—viz.: Guz- 2ling beer, playing high five and looking after election contests. His enormous mouth gives notice of his preseuce us effectuully as the odor of the skunk notifies and warns of the presence of that offensive animal. His mouth and cheek are both unnaturally devel- oped. He manifested his peculiar vad tom- per w the extent of causiug every person to laugh at him and he was most unmercifully guyed by the boys—who appeared to take a cruel delight in keeping him mad to hear him swear. e BELLS OF THE ANGELUS. Bret Harte. Bells of the past whose unforgotten music Still fills the wide expanse, iugeing the sober twilight of the present With color of romance. 1 hear you call and see the sun descending On rocks, and waves, and send, As down the coast the mission voices blend- ing Girdle the heathen land. Within the circle of your incantation No blight nor mildew falls; Nor fierce unrest, nor lust, nor lost ambition Pasees those airy walls, Borne on the swell of tho long waves, recod- ing, I touch the farthest past— I see the dying glow of Spanish glory, “Tho sunset dream aud last| Before me rise tho dome-shaped mission towers, Tho white presidio, The swart commander in W jerkin, The priests in tone of snow. leathern Once more I see Portala's cross uplifting Above the setting sun, And past the headland, northward, slowly drifting, The frightened galleon, 0, solemn bells! whose conscorated masses Recall the faith of ola— O, tinkling bell s! that lulled with twilight music The spiritual 10ld, « Your voices broaks, they falter in the dark- ness— Break, falter, and are still, And, veiled and mystic, like the host de- scending, The sun sinks from the hill, e That Irish-American Republic. St. Paul Pioneer Press: The great mass of Irish-Americans are not dis- posed to run the risk of such a venture as is proposed. The American republic known as the United States of America is as good a republic as they want. They are perfectly satisfied with it. An advantageous thing for the Irish cause of home rule, however, it would be if the whole horde of dynamiters ana mis- cellaneous ussassios and thugs who dare to call themselves “‘[rish Yumnl: would go to the far-away islands of the sea and found a community of their own under any name they may choose to call it. The Irish question would be settled much sooner in that The pro- posed “Irish republic’ probably repose for an indefinite length of time on paper, BUZZINGS. Goorge P.Remis does not appreciate the oc- casional mean fiings at his distingnished uncle, George Francis Train, and says that those who make thewn display & very low quality of intellect. The comment made by a morning sheet one day Iast week on Train's latest movement “that he furnished a bettor excuse for starting an asylum than a chuieh,” disturbed Mr. Bemis' feelings very much, In speaking about it he said “Knowing, as T do, what Traio has done in his life time, it comes with very poor grace frow any oue to cast such reflections npon him. He holped this town by advertising it when advertising was needod, and plenty of men in the United States have beon mude wealthy by him." Mr, Bemis talks quite freely and with much feeling of his uncle's remarkable lifo and declared that no living man possessed such power of mind, determination of pur. pose and force of character. In his tour around the world he created more stir among the ofMcials and people of all nations, and attracted more attention than any American ever did before or since. He wrote a 700~ page book of that trip, which was never printed that, says Beemis, containg more in- formation relative to scenos and incidents than has ever been written, Publisners re- fused to publish the MSS because Mr. Train would not allow them to modify certain passages attacking the president. Postmastor Gallaglior says he would not accopt the nomination for mayor of Omaha just av this time, if both partios should com- Dine and offer it to him. *1 want contracts,” ho continued in explanation of his assortion, “which fo itself is reason enough, but there are others equally potent. Then thoro 1s no possible foundation on which to baso even a falut ghmmer of hope that either party de- sires me as its candidawo.” To his first doclaration Mr. Gallagher added that a purso of $,000 as salary, In addition to what tho office already pays, would not tempt him. He wants oftice, but doesn’t want tho kind of oftice forbidding him the privilege of taking good fat contracts in 1'.il_\' improvements, “Say, did you ever hear that story of how Charley Goodrich was enviegled into'a crowd of thirsty bums and then basely deserted by his friends?’ said a prominent local poli- ticlan the other day to the Buzzor. The Buz. zer hadn’t heard it but wanted to, so the p. L. p. continued: “You sce 1t was last fall, just before elec- tion, and Charley was out hustling for votes “‘He met a friend of his on the street and asked if he know whoro there were any goed second-hand votes lying around. id he: ‘I'd like to get a nice round lot of not too expensive votes and would be will- ing to ‘say something’ for them, of course.' “iDye got the very thing you want,' re- plied his friend; ‘foliow me.” “So they walked down to Fourtecuth street and entered a well known saloon, A horde of thirsty tooking fellows were stand- ing about, with expactant eyes, for it was election time, you know. There didn’t secm to beso many of thewm about, though, but what the bar could accommodate them all in line. “‘Gentlemen, let me introduce you to Charley Goodrich.” The transformation was instantaneous; the crowd slid off barrels, boxes and railings, and started across the floor to Charley. They shook him by the hand, patted his broad back, called him *‘Charley" and *‘pard,” and hustled him up to the bar. They still continued to come, however, through the door; in at the windows and up through the trap-door until they almost ro- sembled the rats in “The Pied Piper of Hamlin.” In despair Mr. Goodrich called to the bar- tender, *'For the love of heaven close that trap door.” lo the meantime the friend |or fiend] who had introduced him to the crowd had de- camped. The mob sung in chorus, *Oh, yes, we'll vote for you, Charley. Yes, don't mind if I do take a little more beer.” When his money was gone Mr. Goodrich made his escape to the street, and wasthe center of an admiring and thirsty constt- uency until he got & chance to slip into & hack and get away. And he won't know that it was a “put up job" until he reads this. xS As a field, turf and farm sport, Joo Clark- son takes the lead, by several laps, of any lawyer in Omaha. That man wouid rather Lunt, fish and riddle turgets witn rifie balls than scoop in the biggest fee afloat, In his house he has a closot filled with guns, blun- derbusses and horse pistols, curiosities and relics in the firearm line which he has col- lected from time to time solely on account of his mania for such things. No Omaha citizen uas such a stock of shooting-wrons, fishing tackle, hunting jackets and fine dogs, or takes as great pride in them as he does. At the bar, in his office, wherever you meet im, no subject clicits his attention quicker than this one. Last week Mr. Clarkson re- turned from a tour among the northern lakes, looking very brown, and reports hav- g had an elegaut time, Such fish stories as he tells aro boyoud reasonabla compre- hension, but every one is thoroughly vouched for. Of course “the biggest one" got away. W The case of the stonc-cutter who fell through the trap of a buiidiug on Howard street early last week, brings to mind the characteristic callous marks of the various trades. He was promptly identified by n fellow tradesman as a stone-cutter, from the calloused spots on his hands occasioned by handling the various tools of his craft. On the plasterer’s left band is a calloused ridge along the lower part of the palm, caused by carrying a houvy “hook” of plas- ter, and his rignt hand is also marked, Mombers of other crafts bear distinctive marks. The butchor carries his mark along the upper portion of his right hand between the thumb and fore finger, caused by bandling the meat saw and cleaver. ‘The farmer's horny hands are a mass of calloused skin, The various tools of his trado are productive of many callouse “The carpenter, the blacksmith, the painter and the plumber all carry marks on their right hanas indicitive of the handling of bammer and brush. Kven the vrofessions carry their murks to a certain degrec. ‘The great Americus tramp has his mark, & calloused spot on the lowes in coming from the constant use of the LOmALo can * punyyler," “Pne lawyor has o callousea juw, and ue ward politician a badly calloused epiglottis, caused by the constant flow over it of corroding election whisky. If the “'gall” of a reasonably hard-work- ing reporter could be examined it would be found to be not only calloused from constant work 1 his duties, but to be actually 0ssi- fied 'he pohcoman, hewever, DEATS Off wiv palm for distinctive trade callous marks. Heis calloused cbiefly on the seat of his uniform. Even the dainty typo-writing girl's fingers are calloused at the tips from striking the Koys. Thus all bear their mark, tinctive than others, it is true, but ney Less they are marked. some less dis- the~ By the way, & new wrinkle at hotels is the lady stenographer aud type-writer, who sits in the hotel rotundas ready to write the correspondence of busy traveling and busi- ness wen for & modest remuneration. Her cabioet lype-writer aud first-class office appurtonances show that the business must be fairly remunerative, as is also ovi- denced by her own trim and tidy person, She desorves to be prosperous, too, for.she is one of the most faithful of workwomen. Always at her post, the reciplent of many se- crots embodied in the correspondence she handles, and then she never has to go out to '§c0 a man.” This business is a comparatively new one to Omaha, although in the leading hotels in the oast & stenographer's ofiice has been, for a long timo, a8 necessary a8 & tolograph office. Thoreis a firm composed of two young Indios In Omaha who have an office in the Mil. lard and ons ir the Murray, and expect shortly to have another in the Paxton, “Yes, wo moct all sorts of customers in this hotel business,” said one of the part- ners, 1 suppose they are mostly traveling men,” was suggestod, 0, not altogether. At the Millard wo have a number of customers who are electrio exports, business mon and capitalists from evorywhore, who are in the habit of dictat- ing to & stenographer in their oftices at home, and regard our business hero as a groat con venienco,” ‘At the Murray,” she continued, “our cus- tomers are mostly traveling meu, who ‘Sun- day' in town, and who dictate their cor- respondence to their houses in the east. Sunday is vory often our best day, as the hotels are full of traveling men, who wish to get their work off their hands before thoy start on the road agam.’ Do they ever dictate lotters to thoir wi and sweethearts!” was asked, “Oh, yes. They are what wo call ‘do- mestio letters.! Lots of traveling men dic- tate letters to their wives, but they aro purely of a domestic nature, or remitting household funds. Occasionally a good-looking young drummer will dictate a letter to his girl, Idon't subpose, however, it 18 to bis ‘bost girl! There s nothing very vivid about them; generally relating his expe- riences on the road, and tryiug to bo humorous. ““They are all very generous with us,” she concluded. *Many of them pay us extea it the work pleases thom and is promptly dono and free of errors.” A dry individual walked into a certain beer dispensatory the other duy and stood ex- pectantly at the bar. *‘Beer" laconically asked the bar keaper, A nod of the head was the veply. A ‘“'geiser’” was brought forth, and the dry man asked: “‘Whose beer is this!" “Das ist Metz's beer,” replied the bar-boy. The glass was promptly emptied, and the man, no longer dry, turned and walked to- wards the door without paying for s beer. *‘Here,” shouted the bur-tender, ‘‘verears you going?" “Gowng down to pay Metz for his beer,” softly answered the man as he vanished through the door." - EDUCATIONAL, r's graduating class at Prince- ton, 82 will, it is said, become lawyers, 21 winisters, 14 doctors, 12 business men and 2 newspaper men. Princeton has eutrance examinations this year in forty of the principul vities from Boston to San Fraucisco and from Minneap- olis to San Autonio. Twenty-five ladies graduated from the Chicago training school on Juna 4, and at the same tume three ladies received licanses and wero consecrated as deacenesses. Four hundred and forty-two men have gone in for nonors at Oxford, against 416 last_year. Now colloge sends forty-seven candidates and Balliol thirty-four. At Smith college the decree of B. A. was conferred upon forty young women, thut of B. L. upon five, that 1. S. two, that B. Maus, on two. 'The oration was delivered by the Rev. Dr. Brooke Herford. Miss Kate Drexel, who lately entered a Piutsburg convent, will furnish the money for a Roman Catholic church und collége to be devoted to nearoes, and Rev. Mr, Mc- Dermott, of Pittsburg, will go to Philadel phia next week to set the enterpriso on foot. Bet it be observed that the Roman chuich also separates the negro from the white, Sixteen Indian boys and zirls, represont- ing nine difierent tribes, have just been grad- uated from the Manual Labor institute, near Wabash, Ind., und sent back to their re- spective tribes. When brought to the school they were thoroughly untamed little sav- ages. Now they are fairly educated in book knowledge, and have received pretty zood munual training. Visitors at Wellesley college this summer have a mew pleasure added to their tour about the grounds. The new art gallery has been completed and it is a unanimous opinion that the $100,000 of the Farnsworth fund has produced a most elegant building, Tt is almost classic in its simplicity, yet isof grand proportions and complotely expressivo of its use, 'The interior, with its large lec- ture hall, its galleries scen through a row of arches and its studios, is tinted in delicate colors that increase the effect of beauty and elegance. s IMPIETIES. Los Angelos has a modest girl who loarns the church songs from her sister and not from the hook, becauso it is a hymn book. When the cashier girdeth up his loins and fleoth in the silenco and darkness of tho niwht, then doth the ex-checker depart with the exchequer. “What shall 1call my play?” asiced the man who had stolen one from the French; and his friena advised him to call it Ehjay, be- cause it was translated, * Boston _apothecary stores now display sigus an Sundays reading thus: “No_cigars #old excopt for medicinal use.”” Astonishing as it may scom, cigars aro found to have val: uable medical provertics—on Sunduy; President Harrison has accomplished tho notable fent of going to church and staying awake throughout tiie sermon. At least, tho gentleman who has telegraphed an unt of the mutter makes a grest point of this. Littlo Girl—If I should die and goto heaven would I have wings! Mamma—Yes, my pet; and a crown and a harp, Little Girl=And candy! Mamma—No. Little Girl (after meditation)—Well, I'm glad we've got b good doctor. Two nundred and fifty Sunday school chil: dren in Burlington, N. J, were provided with u nickel apicce and told to increase that sum s much as possible. A fow weeks lator an accounting was called for, when it was discovered thut the nickels bad grown Lo $537, There must be some unusually attractive sl0ts to drop nivkels u at Buriington ursuits more romun ious ministry. Francis M. Vord, a clorgyman, gave uplis pulpit a fow yoars ago, wont to Kansas City wnd em barked in tho real ostate business, He died, loaving $1,000,000 and two wives, betweon witom the 'court has Just, i ared tho prop- J divide RS i in the uin- but not h--ney: T Before the Yoy, Boston Transeris Here in God's peace she li.. Death-mistod hozel eyes Closed in fust sl Seo how the sunbeams fair Swmile o'er her brow and halr, Crossed her cold havds In praye. Well may ye weep! She is 80 yOUung to lay In'the dark grave away. O, Denth is king to-day! Hush, and be still! Close the lid over her, Let the grass cover horg This is God's wil v lowers, of flowers which grow in I Iy<l‘.£ll. or 10 per cont, are odori . The commonest fNow- ers are the white ones, of which there 1 ifth of theso Kuropean of the 4 low flowe 824 red kinds, 84; of the 504 blue kinds, 315 of the 808 violet-blue kinds, 81, Of the 240 kinds with combined colors 28 are fragrant,