Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 1, 1889, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 188).-~-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. “DAILY BEE B, ROSOWATER, Biitor, __ PUBLISHED DVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Daily (Morning Edition) including Sunday, oe, Ono ¥ our 0 For 8lx Months or Three Montha. .. 00010 L Ll e Omubin Sunday Tee, matied to any THE wddrcss, One Year ... Weekly Hee, One Year OFFICES, Omana Ofes, Boo Building, N. W. Corner Beventeenthand Farnam Strects, y Bulldis g, W 14 and 15 Teibuno Bulling. ‘Washington Office, No, 513 Fourteenth Strect. Council Blufs Office, No. 12 Pear] Street. Lincoln Office, 1020 P Street, CORRESPON DENCE. All communieations relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed to the Editor of the lve. BUSINESS LETTERS. All Vusiness letters and remittances should be nddressod to The Boe Pabiishing Company, Omaha. Dratts, checks and postoilice praers to be madoe payablo to the order of the company, The Bee Publishing Company, Proprictors, #zr Bullding Farnam and Seventeenth Streets, — THE Sworn Statement of Circulation. State of Nebraskn, bos. County of Douglas, George 13, Tzschuck, secretary of The Tee Publishing Company, does solomuly swear that the actual circulation of "I'ue DALy Bee for the week ending August 31, 185, was as foliows: Bunday, August 2 5 L8820 Monday, August 2 ¥, usr y. August v Baturday, August 1. Average, GEOR! Eworn to before me and subscribed to in my presence this it day of August, A. D, 1880, (Seal.] N. P. FEIL, Notary Publiz. State of Nebraska, | Gounty of Douglas. { ! George I3, zschuck, being duly sworn, oses and says that he 18 secrstary of The bublizhing company, that_ the actual ave dally cirenlation of Tup D. Y BE month of tober 1885, 1K, 980 copiest for De January, 1840, 1 18906 copre: April, 180, 3 4, coples: for T for' March, 189, 18854 copies: fo 0 copless for May, 1580, 18,60 coples: for' June, 15, 18,88, copies: for July, 1880, 1672 coples; for Auguat, 184 N 0. Bworn to before moe and sub: Ppresence this jist day of August [sEAL.] N.P. k THE SUNDAY BEE. Bome of the Special Features Pre- sented in This Issue, The Ruler of the Greeks—Another of Frank Carpenter's inimitabie letters. Bob Ingersoll’s Ideal Man—His Eulogy at the bier of lorace Seaver. Early Ball in Nelraska—Gossip about diamond chanplons1 1 ‘68, Omaha Men Grown Great—A study of great men who once made Omaha their home, Home Life of the Terrys—The story of their marriea felicity told for the first time. The Joys of a Gypsy Life—Not the bold marauders told about in yellow-covered novels. Gas Made by Eleclricity—A lot of inter- esting miscellany for electricians, What Can Yankee Loodle Do?—An in- teresting lotter from Washington. ‘he Cestof Living in Gotham—A bright letter from our New York correspondent, Gossip For Fair Women—A study of women’s feet. Woman's eyes. A Budget of Bright Miscellany—A Span- !“I}xlhc‘lk:r;u‘:l Al ! l‘llul’Alu the Sul‘lf. The cotland, ete. J holce miscellany. P ACH Loeal and Foreign News Serviee—The 1atest local and domestic n News by cable- gmm from all corners of tl rid, Jupiter Will Hide His Face—Au astro- nomical phenomenon to be witnessed 1in Omaha, Given Cover to Pleasure—Omaha devotes a ‘Week to the entertainment of her neighbo Omaha's Class Room Queens—Their re- turn for duty after bwo month's vasation. They Know Their Shepherd--Religious nfis\c who faititully follow in the ways of the Soelal Events of the Week—Beauties and gallants who enjoy seaside pleasures in Omaha, “he Local. Ficld of Sport—The sporting world covered by an expert. Notes of oiling Masses—Eyents of the week among those who toll for their bread. Eichoes From the Ante Room—Key-hole gllmpses of the goat and the grip. ‘the Week in Commerce—A resume of trade. A dizest of real estato transactions, etc. Tne week's business in local marts, A speclal feature of the Sunday Bee. MINNEAPOLIS will stick close to nature’s topography in 1mproving her public park system, The board of park commissioners of Omaha would do well to follow Minneapolis’ example. THE Montana democrats have nomi- nated Mr. Maginnis, the former dele- gate, as their candidate for congress. Maginnis is a man of shirt frills, kid gloves and swallow-tail dvess coats. In the language of the eloguent Italian organ grinder, ‘“‘He maka de monk sick.” THE high rates charged for money in New York for the past two weeks has attracted Eoglish money from London. To counteract this movement the Bank of England has sdvanced its discount rates from three to four percent. From this move it would appear that British financiers are very unxious to prevent the flow of gold to America, ——— FREDERICK City, Md., has just put in a claim for $200,000 against the na- tional government on account of u War tax levied on the place by General Early in 1864. If the president will not settle the claim the city might commun- icate with General Early and muke ar- rangements to draw the capital prize in the lottery which the old war horse is now running in Louisiana. A CONVENTION of wheat growers of the Mississippi valley has been called at St. Louis, October 28. Its purpose s outlined in the prospectus is **to remedy the present expensive mode of market- ing farm products and to secure better prices for the same by a systematic reg- ulation of supply and demand.” In other words, some ambitious and specu- lative “farmers” are bent on forming a trust. But the contract is bigger than sy set of men can engineer, E——— B0sTON will inaugurate a novel exhi- bition in November, which is to be a great object lesson of the maritime in- dustrios of the world. It is designed to present for contrast Amorican and foreign machivery, appliances, models of war and merchant vessels. There will be exbibits of the skill and mate- rials at the command of the Atlantic and Pucific shipyards, as weil as a museum of relics illustrating the pro- gress made in ship-building from the earliest times. There is little question but that this nasutical display will attract universal attention, The revival in naval ship-building, as well as the fnterest taken in the restoration of a merchant marine, has aroused public enthusiasm, and the exhibition can not fail to encourage and stimulate this feeling. FAVORITISM IN THE SCHOOLS. The mombaers of the board of eduen- tion have themseives largely to blame for mepotism and favoritism in the public schools, Merit alone does not always recommend the selection or the retention of a teacher. Time and again unfitness has been proven against instructors, but apparently this has been no bar to their re-election. Like barnacies that have fastened themselves 10 the bottom of a ship, theso persons hang on to their places year after year with grim tenacity. It 18 a matter of common gossip among the teachers of this city that any one of their number, no matter how unfit after repeated trials for imparting instruction, can hold her position, provided she can bring sufficient pressurs and influ- ence to bear on individual mem- bers of the board. No little tact is displayed and the methods pursued are not alway ditable. Members of the board are button-holed on the streets. They are pursued in their nomes and invited out to dine by friends and interested relatives. Such appeals are almost irresistible, especially when fair plenders champion the cause of their friends. The result is that the averagé member of the board ecapitu- lates at the first assault. Now all this is wrong and the mem- bers of the board are well aware of it. The usefulness of the schools is too often crificed in order not to incur the displeasure of well known ladies, or to offend fricnds, or to excite political and business ill- will in opposing an incompetent teach- er. The voard of education isin duty bound to shake off this influence, which is pernicious and demoralizing. Grave abuses have already grown out of this favoritism, and it is 1mperative for the welfere of the schools that the evil be *nipped in the bud before it viliates the whole public school instruction of the city. OBLIGATIONS OF LAWYERS. In his address to the annual conven- tion of the American Bar association, held in Chicago the past week, Mr. Da- vid Dudley Field touched upon the du- ties of law to the state. He said that lawyers are far behind in the p formance of these daties, and in ill tration of this declared that there this land a spectre of halting jusv such as is to be seen in no other part of christendom. He was not aware of any other country calling itself civil- ized where it tak so long to punish a criminal and so many years to get a final decision be- tween man and man. Truly may we say, remarked Mr. Field, that justice passes through the land on leaden sandals. Yet there is computed to be seventy thousand lawyers in the coun- try, or one to about nine hundred of the population, a ratio seven times largér than that in Germany and more than five times that in France. Turning from the performers to the performance, Mr. Field quoted from a report to show that the average length of a lawsuit varies very much in the different states, the greatest being about . six years and the least one year and a half, but very few states finish a litigation in the shorter period. The difliculty is 10 the vast amount of talking and writing that is required to be done. What is required and what must, at some time or other, be undertaken, said Mr. Field, is a treble process—the process of elimi- pation, the process of condensation and the process of classiiication. Such a work he believed is the inevitable out- come of American institutions. Many lawyers are frightened by the idea of a code, They imagine it to be revolutionary, something that would take away the substance of what they are accustomed to and force them to learn a new system. These persous, said Mr, Field, greatly err. It surely is not revolutionary to set in writing what has already been decided, and of course has been spoken or written by somebody somewhere, It is not revolu- tionary to condense the utterances that have been made from the bench in hun- dreds of years. Itis not vevolutionary to arrange the several proposi- tions thus evolved. In conclu- sion Mr, Field said: ‘‘You must, of course, be true o your clients and to the courts, but you must also give speedy justice to your fellow citizens, more speedy than you have yet given, and you must give thema chauce to know their laws.” This plain and candid statement of grave defects in the legal practice of the country, made by an eminent law- yer of long experience and supported by irrefutable facts, may well challenge not only the very serious atlention of the legal profession, but of the general public. The fact that the courts of the country, from the supreme national tribunal down through every grade, are constantly behind the demands upon them is ample evidence of the slow- paced methods of administering justice in the Untted States, and whatever may be thought of the remedies proposed by Mr, Field, there can be no question that reform is most urgently required. 1t is obvious that under present condi- tions the already unfortunate situation must steadily become worse, until ulti- mately there will be largely an utter failare of justice, compelling measures of remedy and relief far more revo- lutionary than those which the legal profession is said to now regard with so great appre- hension, It has already many times happened that justice has been defeated by delay in the supreme court of the United States and in similar tribunals of the states. Death has silenced ap- pellants before their long-pending cases were reached, giving wrong and in- justice a clear field. If this sort of thing isnot to go on with increasing frequency and on a broader stale than in the past, 1t i8 gvidently necessary that some such course a8 that suggested by Mr, Field be adopted, and particularly that the legul profession shall endeavor to give more speedy justice to their fellow cit- zons, There is undoubtedly much to be said commendatory of the legal prac- tice snd judicial methods in this coun- try, but the delay of justice is so serious & fault as to outweigh all that is good in our system of legal procedure. The Awmerican Bar association can devote | itself to no more 1mportant work than that of removing this great and growing evil. HOME AND FOREI!GN TRAVEL. The number of Americans who have visited Rurope this year is unprece- dented. The exodus commenced ear- lier than vsual, and during the months of May, June and July the travel abroad was enormous, while thatof the first half of August was heavy. Eighty thousand sailed from New York, and un-~ doubtedly the grand total of Americans visiting Europe this season is not less than one hundred thousand. Looking at the practical side of this vast foreign travel and it will be found to represent quite fifty millions of dollars, and prob- ably considerably more than that amount taken out of the country and transferred to the pockets of Europeans. The pres- ent year has of course presented an ex- traordinary attraction in the Paris ex- position, but travel to Europe from the United States is annually inéreasing, the disposition of most of those who can afford an extended summer vacation being to go abroad rather than to seek recreation and recuperation in visiting some of the many attractive and health- ful localities of their own country. Although there are to be found to-day in almost every considerable com- munity scores of people who have been to Kurope where ten years ago there were few or none, yet there is still a distinction associated with a foreign tour, however limited, that eannot be derived from home travel, and as to very muny who go abroad this fact, it is not to be questioned, has quite as much influence as any other. It is perhaps not an exaggeration to say that for every American who goes to Europe for the intellectual advan- tages to be obtained ten do so wholly with reference to the social prestige incident to foreign travel, and it is un- happily true that this is the only bene- fit, if such it can be called, that the large majority derive from it. It is undoubtedly true that the vatri- otism that would confine one’s experi- ence to his own country is narrow, but it is equally true that one should have a pretty thorough knowledge of his country before extending his investiga- tions to other lands. Europeauns are far wiser in this respect than Americans. The more intelligent of them who come to the United States are thoroughly familiar with the character and resources of their own country, and are able to give full information regarding it. A very small proportion of Ameri- cans who go abroad are capable of doing this. The information of the large ma- jority is merely local or sectional, and the result is that Europeans with whom such Americans come into contact ob- tain a very narrow and inadequate im- vression of thiscountry. The provincial- ism of the Englishman who has never been out of his native shire is not very much -greater than that of the average New Yorker or New Englander who knows nothing of any other portion of the country than that in which he has always been con- tent to abide. He may have read and heard of the beanty and grandeur of other sections of his country, of their vast expanse and opulence in resources, but lacking the personal observation and knowledge, his ideas and informa- tion must still be contracted and pro- vincial, and such is the case with the very large majority of Americans who go to Europe. Butto the American familiar with his own country European travel may be immeasurably gratifying and in- structive. It must enlarge his under- standing and aid his education to be- come acquinted with the works and ways of a more accomplished civiliza- tion. To the enlightened American there are thousands of enlightening things to' be seen in Europe. Every country there has a history and every people its own peculiar habits and methods which are rich in instruction for those who intelligently seek it. One of the most intelligent of Ameri- can travelers in Kurope has said: “The traveler does not read in France, Germany, Evogland and Italy the crude pages of modern his- tory. There isoutspread in the cities and landscapes history that has been mellowed by centuries, and there are refreshment and improvement in it, particularly for those who have lived close upon the heels of the pioncers. One better appreciates the vigorous life that has not yet reached the fullness of strength, when he analyzes on the spot the evidence not ounly of the rise, but of the fall of nations, and takes the tes- timony, not of rank and luxuriant re- cent growth merely, but that which is written in the lines that mark decay and disclose the reasons for decadence.” Yet how very few Americans who go to Kurope are quali- fied to make this analysis or are im- pressed as this writer was. Were it not better for such as arve not qualified to spend their vacation money where it would benefit their own countrymen and at the same time give them a bet- ter knowledge of their country rather than to squander their substance in for- eign travel from which they return no wiser than when they departed? THE CITY HALLCONI'RACT. At last the new city hall building is in sight. Contrary to all expectations and precedent, the council has awarded the contract for the superstructure to the lowest bidder without a moment’s delay. For this prompt and business like action the citizens of Omaha will foel grateful. i The city is very fortunate in that Mr. John I, Coots was the lowest bidder. it affords a guaranty that we are to have a well-constructed public building, erected 1n accordance with the plans of the architect. As a builder of fire proof structures Mr, Coots issecond to none in this section of the country. He is withal personally responsible and re- liable, which is better than any bond, Unless some unforeseen accident should prevent, we feel assured that the building will be under roof within twelve months, and it the interior finish is contracted for in ample time the city hall will be ready for occu- paucy within a year from next spring. Emr— FARNAM below Thirteenth has prac- tically ceased to be a retail street. We are told by certain wiseacres that this change was y brought about by the granite ment. As a mutter of fact the rotai) $#ade hias been gradually moving up towl yith the receding pop- ulation. Ten $onrs ago our population contre was pelow Thirteenth street. There were ‘scarcoly aay dwellings west of the high school. To-day the population conbre is west of Sixteenth street. Douglag and Harney streets are paved with aspalt, but there is scarcely any rotail trade,K on either of these streots below Thirteonth street. The asphalt pavoment has had no apprecia- ble effect. At Chicago the centre of the retail trade:is on State street, between Randolph and Monroe. State stroet is paved with granite blocks, and 8o is Madison, the next best retail street Chicago boasts of. The property, owners on State street have held the retail trade because they had enterprise enough to pull down old rookeries and build palatial stores. If the old moss- biacks who are charging up the decline of rents on lower Farnam to the granite block pavement had been public-spir- ited enough to build great rotail stores in place of their Cheap John stores they might have checked the up-town movement. It is too late now. MAKING the Missouri river navigable from St. Louis to Fort Benton is looked upon by the Missouri river commission as one of the first duties of the govern- ment in the task of river improvement. It is proposed toask congress for an additional appropriation in order to hasten a work which at present bids fair never to be accomplished. The truth of the matter is, the Missouri river can never be made a navigable stream as proposed, except at an outlay of hundreds of millions. It is sheer folly to expeot congress to undertake this task. It would be far more eco- nomical and much more of a benefit to the people within the Missouri valley if the government should build a railroad along the riveras a highway of com- merce that could be operated the whole year round. The truth need not be minced. All the hue and cry for mak- ing the Missouri river navigable comes from government contractors and officials who have axes to grind. The true work of the Missouri river im- provement commission is to protect the banks of the stream from erosion in front of towns and cities. COMMERCIAL rivalry between the great business centers of the country must have reached a high degree when leading houses are willing to pay all traveling and incidental expenses of western merchants. It is the boast of a Fhiladelphia firm that it captured orders worth 1half a million from Chicago by this means, and is deter< mined to cut into New York tcavel as well. A movement, moreover, has been set on foot in the Quaker city to erect a large commercial club house, with show rooms, to be devoted ex- clusively to merchants of other cities intent on the purcaase of goods. This is a novel ide which, if carried into effect, would facilitate business between buyer and seller and would be dupli- cated in every leading jobbing center of the country. AGAINST the six men arraigned in Chicago for the murder of Dr. Cronin there has been collected a vast amount of circumstantial evidence, and if, as now seems probable, the prisoners shall be tried together, there may be developed a chain of circumstances strong enough to commit them all. But the apparent lack of confidence dis- played by the state’s attorney indicates a lack of 1mportant links in the chain of evidence thus far gathered. The proceedings in this case will excite public interest in a scarcely less degree than did the anarchists’ trials of two years ago. THE opening of Harvard university to thgehigher education of women has borne fruit by inducing other leading colleges of the country to follow its ex- ample. Columbia was the second col- lege to lay aside its old-time conservy atism by admitting women to share its advantages equally with men. Yale, despite its exclusiveness, will not stand back in throwing open its doors in all departments to women, now that their capacity for higher education has been 80 successfully demonstrated. No sooNER did the leading glass makers of the country form a trust than the order went forth for a reduction of fifteen per cent in the wage schedule of all their operatives. When the trust plan reaches the wage question 1t takes on a more serious phase than it has heretofore, when only a general and uniform rise in the price of the articie manufactured seemed to he the object sought. The workingmen get paid little enough, and no combine to lower their wages should be tolerated in the states where the attempts are made. THE alleged exposure by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch of the cruel treatment of common soldiers practiced by army officers seems to have more of a sensi- tional character than was at first sup- posed. The Post=Dispatch isof the lurid stamp of newspapers and its news takes on a tinge of red whenever the circum- stances will permit and sometimes when they do not warrant it. No one can deny that there are abuses in the army, but they are no greater than in any other branch of the national govern- ment, NEARLY all of the Kunsas papers are at present discussing the recent de- crease in the state’s population and it is almost universally agreed that prohibi- tion has been the greatest factor in inging about this unfortunate cou- dition of things. The opinion seems to prevail among the more iutelligent of the publications that the only wey to bring about an agreeable change is to repeal the present liquor law and sub- stitute high license and local option, ———— The Tedious Skirmishin Haytl. 8t, Paul Globe. The report that sixteen persons were killed in oue of the recent sabguinary battles in Hayti is discredited. The wars there would so0on terminate if there were such terrible slaughter, 1t is discouraging to nee 80 much fighting and such victories and defeats with s0 small progress in exterminating the com- batants. —_—— Tecnmsrh the Kisser, Minneapnlis Tribune, Many a buxom Milwaukee girl kneps hor prettiest pucker constantly on tap these days in hopes of encountering the willing lips of that great American kissor and soldier, Gen - eral W, T. Sherman, An Intornational Joke Tower. New York Commercial Advertiser. London 18 to havo a tower twico as high as the Eiffel tower in Paris, and built of stoel, Tt is thought that Mr. Chauncey M. Depew will make a speech from the top of 1t, which will be heard by all the world at onco, and perhaps find an echo even in the moon. st A Revival of Ship Bmilding. Augusta Journal. 1t s said that never in the history of Bath, from early colonial times to the prosent day, a period of 281 years, have boon on the stocks at one time 80 many vessels as are now seen, These vessols range all the way from a 800~ ton schooner to 8,000-ton ship, and in all there some twenty. i SR W And Thou, Too, Boston ? Boston Courder, If ever a man deserved to pass a year in prison at hard labor it is John L. Sullivan, and it is to be hoped that no manipulation of the legal machinery will enable him to es- cape & punishment which, if endured, is apt tohave such a salutary effect both upon himself and the community. ALk An Improvement on the Orator. New York World, In an aftor-dinner speech in Parls Chaun- coy M. Depew declared that the phonograph was a peril to peace and comfort in its ability 1o pervetuate orations. This is a very pes- simistic view of tho question. It must be borne in mind that a phonograph talks only when directed to, and can be shut off at any moment. These characteristics make it the best kind of orator. All of which has noth- ing to do with the fact that Mr. Depew never talks at the wrong time nor says too much. ASv gy The Chinese Preliminary to Execution Pall Mall Gazette, The Chinese have a sort of a rational theory of torture, By Chinese law no priso- ner can be punished until he has confessed his guilt. Thereforo they first prove him and then torture him until he confesses the accuracy of their verdict. The more you reflect on this logic the more surprising it becomes. To assist in its comprehension T procured, by the aid of the consul and a courle of dollars, a complete set of instru- ments of torture—light bamboo, heavy bam- boo, ankle-smashers, mouth-slapper, thumb- squeezer, and surdry others, AS OTHERS SEE US. Qmaha Don't Want 1t New York Sun. Tho St. Louis papers are arguing that Chicago is not the proper place for the In- ternational exposition, and the Chicago papers are arguing that St. Louis is not the proper place for it. In both casos the argu- ments are sound and irrefutavle. As for such towns as Omaha and St. Joseph, they knock each other out with the utmost ease. Omaha Has Neither. Kansas Oity Times. An Omaha paper brags because there are no mosquitos in Omaha. It is Kansas City's proud boast that thero are no flies on Kansas City, The Almighty Dollar, Kansas Oity Journal. Money must be scarce up in Omaha, A New York man who produced a large roll of bilis in an Omaha shoo store tho other da was arrested and confined in jail until a com- mittee of experts examined the bills and de- cided that they were not couuterfeit. His Explenation Superfluous. Chicago Times. The Nebraska sheriff who announced that he had caught Tascott now says he was only lying. It was not necessary for him 1o ex- plain, Thar Tascott Fake, Chicago Times, Tascott has been captured in Nebraska. What a fool that man must be to be taken in 80 often. How Omaha Resembles Paree. Kansas City Times. Omaha is fast ganiug the reputation of being the most salacious town i the United States, If sho keeps up her gaiton scan- dals there will be no necessity for the nevss- papers sending special correspondents to Parjs. 5hown Through the Building."” Gresham Review. Tur Oxana B last Wednesday gave a prominent candidate for congress from this district the following personal: **Hon G. L. Laws, secrotary of state, called at Tue Bex oftice yesterday and was shown through the building.” The stinging editorials aganst Mr. Laws' fitness for congress that appeared in Tuz Beg for several days previous had led people 1o believe that Mr. Rosewater would have thrown the congressional aspirant through the building. A Nebraska Fashion Fad. Chicago Herald, A popular attire in Nebraska is tar and feathers. The tar, which readily conforms to the shape of the body, is & perfoct fit, and the effect of whito feathers thrown with an unstudied art upon this dark background is very striking. ‘Worthy of Their Lives. Denver News, ‘When 1t comes to marching look out for Nebraska and Kunsas, Those common- wealths are largely peopled by men whose fathers walked with the flag when the na- tion's life was at issue, and some of the war veterans are among the firemen vet, as fit for along tramp anda hot duy's work as the stoutest of the western raised lads, Kansas and Nebraska are always welcome to the state which was born in the year of the repablic's centennial - COUNTRY BREEZES. Compliments tor Mr, Persimmmons. Beaver Crossing Journal, When Frail Persiamons and his gun be- glus that demoniacal wail, which reminds the Jourral of @ braying ass, through a Little insignificant, improvised 2x4 sheet, commonly kuown as a gutter suipe, and printed on & cheese press with shoe pegs for types and molasses for ik, you would be led to suspect that Utica had & base ball team of all home players, The simple reason of this particu- lar howl upon the part of F. P. is that the idea has become promulgated through those locks of sihuggy hair, that he mistakes for brains, that he is an umpire of some note, and wished 1o umpirethe game at this special time, Qap Has the Tarnip Tops. Glenrock Graphie. Captain Dubling, of HBox Elder park, au- thorizes us to announce that he has *‘suffi- cient turnip tops to fatten the editor of the Live Stock Journal and flve or six other calves,” Hot Weather yers. Benkleman Ploneer, Ministers, why burden your audience with o long prayer this warm weather! oil ‘el down; kuow whst you want, go for that, make your prayors terso, crisp, pithy. Chist set you an example of prayer. The Lord's prayer is a very short one. No mortal can improve it It covers the whole ground of Chiristianprayor. Christ condemned long prayers among other sins, and yot the second prayer seems to us of sufficient length to de- sorve a frown. Can't the clorgy reform? ©One on Warren. Lindsay Times. If Warren Acker's road cart could only talk it would toll a horrible tale of how a young man of this wicinity, wilfully, maliciously, and with malice aforethought, felonionsly and outrageously kissed a young lady who also lives in the immediate vicinity of our respectable littlo village, on the road somewhere between Lindsay and Cornlea, last Sunday evening. Fer fear tho reader might misconstrue this article, we will fur- ther state, that ho kissed tho aforesaid young lady rignt smack in the smacker. Uncle Dick Was Right. Rulo Times, Uncle Dick Hoffman complimented the printer with some big apples this week. They were of the *pound pippin” variety, and very fine oating indeed. Uncle Dick ex- plained that the only trouble with that va- riety was its poor keeping qualities; and wo found they didu't keep worth a cent. Paxton Personals. Pazxton Pilot, Joo Noo left two first-class watermelons on our table the fore partof the weok, for which he has the thanks of the editor as well as tho devil. Rev. Lewis came up from Gandy last turday to preach on Sunday, but as the painton the school house was not dry, the meeting had to be postponed. —_— The Island Ship. Written for The Bee, On the mountain’s crest, where pinos droop darkhing, Shutting away the amber light, There lies a lake its blue waves sparkling Back to the sun's warm glowing light. A giant ship over its bosom glideth, Its masts and sails are strange, I ween, *For the masts are tho troes on its deck that rideth, And its wind whipped sails are thew leaves of green. Of twisted rootlets, gnarled and olden, The hull is framed and the willow weeps. O'er the floor of emerald, where bright and golden, Tho sweet wind flowers ride the mountain deeps. Like sentries tho snow capped hills are guarding That silvered lake and its island ship, Sull back and forth o'er its bosom gliding, While tho crystal waves from its broad keel slip. How oft have the seasons told their story, The budding aspens leaved and shed Their ample store. When the summer’s glory Had wove green crowns for each graceful bead, Or winters' tempests, whose cares lie hidden Where the blue waves break on the pebbled shore, Whoso chariots drive o'er its breast unbid- den, And the mad waves answer witi sulicn roar. Since that island ship with its bud and blos- som Sailed hither and thither, to and fro, A bower of green on 1ts crystal bosom, Or a low white deck of the fleecy suow. SN O e AR SV e e, We may not tell but quaint and lovely Thou sittest a quecn of the mountains born On tho lakes blue waves while the sky above thee Is gem'd with stars of the midnight born. Or with amorous kisses the sun stoops to thee, ‘When fleezy clouds sail the upper deep, And summer’s zephyrs with soft wings woo thee, As thy dark green sails on the tall masts sleep. Oh! island ship let thy fair sails lighten Anew when the southwest winds awake, And the glorious suns of the spring time brighten The floating gems of the mountain lake, Naomr McDoNALD Purnrs, The Willows, Idado. SRR et BUZZINGS. Dr. Chun Gee Wo, & Chinese physician of note wn his own country, and who has prac- ticed hus craft in tho United States, was a visitor to Tie Ber building a few days ago, and entertained the Buzzer with a descrip- tion of the practice of his profession among his countrymen. Dr. Gee Wo is a young man, devoid of the facial characteristics of his race, and wenrs the clothing of the well-to-do young Amer- ican, from zold glasses to russet shoes. . His history is somewhat remarkable. Born in the city of Foo Chow, which was devastated by the memorable Yollow river inundations, he is tho son of Man Wo, ono of the sixty court physicians to the young Mongel emperor of China. His elder brother is a gener~i in the Chineso navy, and his other brother is a physician practicing in the Chinese court with his father. Gee Wo belongs to one of tho cldest fam- ilies of the Chinese nobility, and is_entitled to wear the red button on his cap. In order that Gee Wo should ably fill the lofty posi- tion of physician to the Celestial princes he was sent to America to learn the intricacies of modern American materia medica. Being but @ boy and in il health he was recalled and sent to a Chineso college, where ho studied undor the ablest prac titioners and astrologers of his couniry. He then went into his father's oftice and studied the mysteries of the physic art, which are only divulged to the student after the admin- 1stration of oaths as stringent and awful as those imposed upon the priesthood of ancient Egypt. Tore ho learned the virtues of the fire cure, the efiicacy of tho deer horn and the mystery of the awful incantation. He stud- ied these rites for tive years, und his father becoming 0ld and feeblo gradually gave him control of his oftice, o Hearing of the New Oricans exposition, he turned bis practice over to his brother and came to America, which he traveled exten- sively, visited the exposition and was a Har- vard member of the Chinese legation. After this he went to San Franolsco and began the practice of his profession among his country men. He was also & partner in a store for the sale of Chinese fancy goods, but owing to his partner being detected in smuggling goods from China, their business was confls~ cated, and after a long and expensive trial they went into baokruptey. The doctor then went to Denver to onter into practice. While in Denver his young wifo aud cbild, whom he had left in Foo Chow, perished in_ the Yellow river flood, in which a hundrod thousand people perished. Of this, however, Gee Wo was unacquainted ot the time. His wife and ohild were rescued by taithful servants, but perished from the exhaustion occasioned by being exvosed to the pitiless storm all night. He revisited his home expecting to meot his family and bring Ahem to America, bur found a lake where had once been his bappy howe. Saddened and embittered he resolved never to return 10 China, aud became an American citizen, sacrificing his opting American clothing. The doctor spealks with vory littlo« nooent, i8 & bright, keon conversationalist, and thore oughly believes th the tounots of ‘his pro- fession, as taught him by his fathors, “The Chinese doctor,” he said, ‘s not paid as yours aro, The wellto-do Chnaman pays a doctor a stipulatod sum every yoar to keep him well; mothing to eure him aftor ho has y contracted tho diseass. A youth in a takes a dose of correctional medicine ovory Saturday night of the yoar.” “The moedicinos used ia China are con- cocted from gums, horbs, roots, and such condiments as mustard, pepper, gingor, ote. We also use doer horus, the gall of boars and other animals, dried snakes and portions of other animals, the efficiency of which Amer- ican physicians canuot understand. “Wo cannot charge a poor man a cOPPOR, but the rich men pay a physician vory liber ally, according to the amount of bonofit de- rived from the medicine. “By feeling the pulse a Chinese physician can toll tho sourco of the trouble, Kor in- stance, I place three fingers on the pulse of the right wrist, and from the pulsations toll if the seat of the complaint is the heart, stomach or lungs. I place threo fingors on the pulse of tho 1oft wrist and can tell if the trouble is in tho liver, kidneys or spleen, American doctors don't undoratand that. “Suppose a man is troubled with dyspopsia, or stomach disorder, then I give him some deer horn. Deer horn is a vory expensive medicine. The deer is shot only in Thibet, and is vory hard to get. Ho must be killea 80 that the Dblood rushes to the horns, which are cut off immodiately, They are then dried, and afterwards powdored. Gqod horns are worth $150 cach. Boar's gall is also good for stomuch troubles, “Now, when & man gots delirious, he must be treatod by the fire cure. This fire cure is only known to a few of the most famous physicians in China, and is handed down to their sons, who impart it to their sons, under oath. It is the most effective mode of curing certain discases, but must be used immedi- ately to have any effect. Ialways carry the outfit with me. If a mandrops in tho street from fits, or anything of that sort, he might die before medicine could be given to him, but 1 immediately administer the fire oure and he will get well. If anan 1s delirious and the doctor fails to cure him the disease will always go to the doctor, hence we must be very careful. »*u “The fire cure caunot be understood by Americans. Supposing a man is blecding at the nose and it cannot be stopped. If the blood comes from the right nostril I place a small pill of medicine on his left thumb nail and set fire to it, when it buras into the flesh he will be cured. If the blood comes from the left nostril, vice versa. If from both nostrils, I burn the medicine on both thumb nails. This medicine is a secretand I pro- pare it myself. 1f a pellet is burned on the top of the head, you can never have any more children. 1 busn on the knees, on the stomach and on the palm of the hand, which are sure cures for other diseases. “If a man cuts an artery and i bleeding to death, an application of doer horn powder on the cut will stop the flow of blood imme- diately. When a man gets a fish or chicken bone in his throat I write certain things on & paper, pass my hand over it and say certain mysterious words. The paper is then placed in a cup of water, which the patient drinks, and the obstruction is at once removed. When a man has any kind ofa swelling, for instance, on his leg, I put some medicine on the swelling, then make four marks in the air at each corner o the swell- ing and one more above it, then bind it up and next morning the swelling is goue. “Of course I could tell you iots more about our metnods of curing diseases, but I think vou already have a fair idea of how we do it. It is nothing like the American way, but I think we are more successful than you are, s *‘Have you ever noticed that you never see acrippled Chinaman? You never sce one with but one arm; you never seeone on crutches. DIl tell you why that is. Suppos- ing a Chinaman has his leg crushed between the knee and ankle. We do not cut off the leg at the knee, we lay open the flesh and cut off the crushed bone. Then we get a bone, from a dog's leg, for nstance, measure it ex- actly and insert the new bone and sew up the wound. It neariy always heals and the man saves his leg. Supposing ho has his fore. head crushed in, we saw out the crushed portion, take a skull from some dead man and trepan it with a portion of old skull, sew up the skin and ho is all right. Ho may bea little crazy afterwards, but he is all right, e The american people kuow very little about China and people. The population of China is almost beyond estimate. There are 18 states and 4 torritories in the country, not moro then one sixth of which have ever been seen by Caucasians. The whole of Canton alone has 72 countiss, containing, a popalation of 150,000,000 of people, no counting the women and children under 16 years of age. Krom Cavton comes the Chinese emigrants to this country, There are ouly five mon from the province of ¥oo Chow 1 the United States. There are csti- mated to be 200,000 Chinamen in this country, all from the poorer classes of Canton, ox- cepting a comparatively small number of the better class of Chinise merchants who have come over here and invested sinall capital to see it grow into fortunes. I canuot speak their language, boing ouly able to sposk the language of Koo Chow. . “Another thing that is not known in this country is the fact that the queue Is & com- paratively new thing among my countrys- men, When the Mougols conquered China, 242 years ago, thoy compelled the shaving of honds and the wearing quenes, The prov- ince of Canton neld out about twen years longer. I ama thoroughbred Ci 1aan, not & Mougol, ns my family were of the d kept their line unsullied by io- so with the Mongolians. “n “You can determine the moral tone of & man after a few conversations with him,” suid a gentleman to the Buzzer, “and you as readily dotermine the moral tons of & newspaper by reading a few copies of it. “The paver on lower Douglas street seoms 10 be emulating the vink-paper weeklies, 80 popular in bar-rooms and kindred places, SAnything that savors of sousationalism is greedily grasped by them and put into print. A case of marital infidelity, or seduc- tion, is @ morsel they delight in, und the more salacious tho details, the sweeter they find the morsol, “A day or two ago they saw fit in an al- leged interyiew with certain doctors, to at- tack the working girls of this city, stating that they were not virtuous and that they had constant recourse to doctors for medi- eimes for certain purposes, I consider that a cowardly attack upon @ hardworking class of women who should be protected instead of aefamed, 1 have & number of girls working in my establishment, and 1 can truthfully say, aftor years of experience, that they are s modest and doserving class of women. Of course, as with women all over the world, some will drop by the wayside, but 1 think it is the experionce of all employers of womesn that they are much more morsl in thought and action than men employes. “1 think,” he concluded, that the paper in uestion made ‘bad break’ when they un~ Hertook 1o attack & dofanselons Lov of Worke ingwomen."