Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 8, 1889, Page 4

tas THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY P JPTEMBER 8, 1889~SIXTEEN PAGES. THE DAILY BEE. B. ROSEWATER, Blitor. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TRRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Daly (Morning Edition) including Sunday, Boe, Ono Yeur " eeere 810 or Blx_Montha 'or Three Months . LTy he Omuha Bunday fice, mailed o any address, One Year ... . . Weekly Hee, One Yenr Omana Office, Beo Bullding. N. W. Corner Beventeenthand Farnam Streets, Chicago Office, 7 Rookery Buildin New York Office, Rooms 14 and ufling. Washington Office, No. 513 Fourteenth Strect. Council Binffs Oftice, 12 Pearl Strec coln Office, 1020 P CORRESPON DENCE, All commumieations relating to news and edi- torinl matter should be addresscd to the Editor of the foe. DBUSINESS LETTERS. A1l bmsiness letters and remiittances shonld Do addressod to 1he Hea Pabilshing Com Omaha, Drafis, checks and postofiice oruers io Tribune B be made pryablo tc the order of the company, "l"lm BeE T}grlauy,'Prqgriemr} nth Stroets, THE DALY Bl Sworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebraska, bas. * County of Douglas, George B3, Tzsciuck, secretary of The Ree Publishing Company, do omiily swear thit the actual circulation of 't the week ending September 7, 185, was as fol G Eworn to before me and su presence this Tth day of September, A. D. 1859, (Seal.) . P. FEIL, Notary Publiz, Btate of Nebraska, 1 County of Douglas, { %% George B, "Izschuck, being duly sworn, de- poses and says that ho 18 secretary of The' Bes ublishing company, that the actual average daily circulation of Tiie DATLY BE: month of September, 188, 18,154 : coplos; for Nov to in my for tho 80 18,906 copres; To April, 189, 18,55 Ju ]!l&' or August, 1886, 15,651 cople y. GFo. B, TZSORUCK. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my Presence this 3ist day of August, A. D, 184, [8EAL] N.P. Frir, Notary Publio. i 18,898, cop! THE people of South Sixteenth street will put no more faith in promises until they see the electric motors actually mote. — Tie Tllinols corn crop is seventy million bushels short this yenr. N braska will be glad to supply the defi- ciency from her surplus, As ST. LOUIS is over twenty-two million dollars 1n debt the late Henry Shaw’s bequest of five million dollars probably saved the poor old town from total bankruptey. AN A T 18 to be regretted that a more ex- tensive and brilliant display of elec- trical goods and contrivances had not been arranged at the exposition. This could have been made a great feature. VANDERBILT'S famous ten thousand dollar cook has thrown up his job and will rub the dough of the United States from oft his fingers. THis is another proof that America has not yet reached the state of culture that can appreciate high art. — THERE is no use denying it, South Omaha was most shabbily treated by some committeeof the Merchants’ week entertainment which should have seen to it that the programme of taking vis- itors through the Magic City was car- ried out. THE Douglas county republican com- mittee has very properly declined to arrogate to itself the power to ap- point delegates to the state convention. It would have beon a very bad precedent to establish, . MR. HENRY VILLARD’S scheme to increase the bonded indebtedness of the Northern Pacificseventeen millions in order to save two millions in charges is not finding favor. The way this Napoleon of finance is juggling with millions makes even the stockholders catch their breath, THE female suffrage question scems o require more brain tissue than the Wyoming constitutional convention has at its command. The long haired mem- bers are anxious to graft woman suf- {rage upon their fundamental law, but inasmueh as it has failed to produce any perceptible beneficent effect on the pol- iticsand laws of the territory after eight years’ trial, there is a prevailing senti- ment that it would be best to leave it out of the state dbnstitution. THE appeal of the ten thousand rail- road brakemen sent to the inter state commerce commission asking thatv con- gress by national legislation bring about the adoption of automatic brakes and couplers on freight cars should re- celve favorable consideration. When it is borne in mind that nearly five hundred men are killed and over four thousand injured annually by reason of the present link and pin coupler the necessity of automatic couplers on freight trains bocomes manifest. If railroad managers can not be induced 10 inaugurate this much needed change voluntarily they should be compelled to do s0 by the national legislature. THERE was a prolonged meeting of the cabinev yesterday, at which the chiof mattor discussed was the question ot an extra session of congress. It is understood that anegative decision was reached, as was to have been expected in view of what the presidentis re- ported to have said on the subj; toa member of congress, If it isafactthat the representatives from the new states could not reach Washington before No- vember 10, the prosident 1s right in thinking it ~unnecessary to call con- gress together two weeks in advance of the rogular time of meeting, but there is no good reason why those rep- resentatives could not be in Washing- ton by the first of Noyember if it should be necessary for them to do so. The “elections take place early in October, and three weeks ought to be ample time in which to make an official canvass of the votes und issue the certificates of election. However, there would, per- haps, be nothing gained by an extra session, and the country will have quite enough of the next congress il it shall not meet until the regular date in De- cember, HEALTHY RIVALRY. The rivalry of the motor and con- solidated horse railway and cable com- panics promises to give Omaha superior suburban street car facilities. If the various extensions projected and under way are built this senson the residents of the northwestern and southwestern portions of the city will all be within ensy reach of the business center, and Omaha will be able to boast better street car facilities than any ci twice bor population. It is maniféstly to the interest of our citizens that the rivalry between the street car lines be stimulated wherever and whenever it is possible to do s0. Much will depend upon the action of the board of public works. Its policy in dealing with rival claimants to given thoroughfares should be toas much ns possible afford the peo- ple of any locality the benefit of comy tion. The position which Mr. Kier- stead has taken with regard to the Lowe avenue. and Cuming street right of way tends in that direction. The residents of Wal- nut Hill should by all means be given the choice of two routes to the heart of the city. With the choice of competing roads, they will be sure of more rapid transit and bettor accommodations. It would be detrimental to the public in- terests to grant the monopoly of travel to and from Walnut Hill to any one line, when there is ample room for com- petition by granting the right of way 1o rival lines over parallel thorough- fares. THE COUN1Y CAMPAIGN. As will be seen by the report of the proceedings of the republican county central committee, the coming county convention is to be composed of over one hundred and sixty delegates. This will give everybody who intends to take an active part in the fall campaign a chance to became a delegate and have a voice in making up the ticket. In view of the fact that large bodies always move very slowly the commiltee very properly fixed the time of meeting for the convention in theforenoon. That will enable the con- vention to get through with its work before sundown. We would not, how- over, be surprised if the coming conven- tion would expedite its business more rapidly than conventions have done heretofore in this county. The very large number of delegates will compel the convention to abandon the old method of nominating by paper ballot and substitute a viva voce vote by waras and precinets. That will be a step in the right direction. It will checkmate double-dealers and sell-outs who conceal there broken pledges, trickery and troachery by the paper ballot. ‘While there is a diversity of opinion as to the wisdom of nominating a county ticket more than a month ahead of the election, we can safely predict that the candidstes and the central committee will find their time fully occupied from the 6th of October until after election. TO PEOPLE THE NEW STATES. An organized movement for coloniz- dng the new states with negroes from the south is the very latest project for solving the race problem down south. The movement has received the ap- proval of the conference of colored Methodist ministers in session at Mil- waukee the past week, and its promoter explains that all the prehiminaries of a great negro exodus from thoe south to the new states have been arranged, so that results will be apparent within a short time. He says the movement has nothing whatever to do -with politics, its only purpose being to enable those who desire to avail themselves of it to improve their conditions. The new states can furnish homes for half the negro population of the south, and, while it is not to be expected that that proportion of them will leave the south, it is very probable that many thousands will avail themselves of so excellent an opportunity to better their condition in all respects. If the move- ment has been organized on a practical basis, provision will be made for enab- ling those who desire toleave the south to locate permanently on lands which they may ultimately own, and to enter at once into developing the agricultural resources of the new states. Under such an arrangement the accession to the population of these states of an army of trained. and industrious farm hands inspired by an ambition to attain the best results pos- sible from the new conditions, would be a very great gain. A colonization scheme simply de- signed to draw negroes away from the south, without making any provision for enabling them to become helpers in the work of development, would be a wrong to them and to the communities of the new states, and a further explana- tion of the plan of the proposed exodus will be awaited by those communities with anxious concern, The exodus can hardly fail to create -some anxiety in the south also. If it shall assume large proportions 1t will diminish the supply of a cluss of labor very essentinl to that section, and which could not be readily replaced. The agricultural labor performed by the negroes of the south they are peculiarly adapted to and white people cannot do it so well, nor can they be found in large numbers willing to do it. The southern advocates of negro colon- ization admit the gravity of the labor question juvolved, but they profess willingness to suffer whatever loss may result if they can have the race contro- versy removeds A serious reduction of the supply of negro labor in the south, compelling the employment of white labor to take its place, would increase very materially the cost of produc- ing and gathering the cotton and other crops, and un- doubtedly the white lubor would be found less tractable. The negro agri- cultural laborer of the south is easily discouraged. The experience of Kansas with negro colonization, which proved so disas- trous to thousands of poor negroes, should. however, be & warning against such wildeat schemes. The climate of Kansas is much more suitable for the southern negro than the frigid zone of the Dakotas, and Kansas was in every other respect more suitable for coloniz- iug the negro. But Kunsas became a graveyard for thousands of these deluded people, and otner thousands, after en- during much privation, were competled to make their way back to the south as best they could. No well wisher of the negro will encourage this reckiess ven- ture. ITALIAN IMMIGRAION. There has been a great deal ot misin- formation regarding the character of the lialinns who come to the United States. The effect has been to create an unwarranted prejudice against theso people, which in portions of the country pursues them relentlessly. In the cur- rent number of the Political Science Quarterly Mr. Eugene Schuyler prosonts a number of very interesting facts re- garding the genoral character of Italian immigrants, a knowledge of which would remove the prejudice against them. Ttalian emigration is of two kinds— temporary and permanent. The former are workers, skilled and unskilled, who leave Ttaly every spring to seek work in other countries, returning in the au- tumn. Not many of this class come to the United States. Of those classed as permanent emigrants the num- ber annually leaving Ttaly Qas in- crensed steadily during the past ten years. According to the most trustworthy statistics available the number in 1878 was only twenty thousand, while last year it was over one hundred and seventy-five thousand, less than one-fourth of which came to the United States. The principal cen- ters of emigration are Venetia. Pied- mont, Lombardy, Campania, Calabria, the Basilicate, Abruzzi and Tuscany. The emigration from the large cities is notidably small, being generally less than one per cent of the population. While the general causes of emigration from Ttaly are the same as influ- ence it from other countries, Mr. Schuy- ler says that with respect to that from South Italy that the main cause can only be expressed by the word ‘‘misery.” The agricultural laborers are paid most niggardly wages, and suffering among them is widespread. Those who can get out of the country do so, and tens of thousands of this class have within the past two years aceepted the liboral in- ducements offered by the Argen- tine Republic and gone to that country, in districts of .which Italians are now a majorily of the population. It is chiefly this class who come to the United States. These people have learned the value of thrift, and Mr. Schuyler describes them as a frugal, temperate and indus- trious race. ‘‘As’the Italians are no- toriously hard-working and indus- trious,” he says, “‘they would prove ex- tremoly desirable sottlers, and in the second generation, good citizens, for the habit of thrift is one to be encouraged rather than discour- aged in America,” As to the fear that these people might intro- duce a lower style of living, to the det- riment of the country, Mr. Schuyler regards it as unfounded. With regard to the general morality of the Italians the reports of American consuls give a favorable account. The percentage of illogitimacy is small, and the personal observation of Mr. Schuyler in every part of Italy, during a residence of several years in the country, enables him to say that the criminal statis- ties of Italy will compare favorably with those of any other country. He says: “I have lived now for over three yearson the outskirts of Alassio, a town of six thousand inhabitants, about half-way between Nice and Genoa. Theft here is rare, burglary unknown, so that we have slept for weeks with doors un- locked and even open, and never think of lockiug them during the day, though the house may be quite deserted. A murder has not been known here for fity years, until vecently in a quarrel between workmen from distant provinces. Illegitimate children are very rare; crimes produced by lust are almost unknown.” The conclusion reached by Mr. Schuyler is that if the Ttalians' will re- main in the United States they are a very desirable element to fuse with our motloy population. ““They bring to us the logical qualities of the Latin race, and they show in a long run the effect of an experience which no other people .in Turope has had—of over two thou- sand years of civilization.” At any rate, there is no good reason for appre- hending any danger, socialiy, mor- ally or politically, from the small addi- tion annually made to our population from Italy. OUR FOREST AREA. The forest area of Nebraska is about the smallest of any in the United States. Our naturally wooded district only comprises about three per cent of the states topography, and it lies mostly along rivers where it is of but little value. Of course there isbut very lit- tle consumption of natural timber in this state, for we have not got it to consume. Compared with other states it amounts to nothing. What we use as lumber and wood we buy from other markets. In the entire country over thirty bil- lion feet of 1umber, including one hundred million railroad ties are consumed every year, It is estimated that fully one-fifth of the present forest area has been stripped to make ties, and figuring from a certain basis the extent of this drain will in- crease largely with the addition of new roads. At this rate it is only a question of time when the United States, will be without timbers I'he farmer who buys or settles u quarter-section of land and imagines thut he bas a home has only taken the first steps towards the accom- plishment of his purpose. More thun land is required to make a farm, Water is as necessary as land, and to secure and keep water it is necessary to have trees. Accordingly three requisites ave necessary for a good farm, land, water, and trees, The forestry laws in this country amount to but little in their present form, KEach state enacts what it deems proper and much hasty and crude tegis- lation has been adopted where the question has veen raised at all, which isin but a very few of the states up to the present time. In France and Ger- many the authorities compel persons curting trees to replant others in their stead and Kindrea wiso provisions place the mattdr in something like a safe condition for the present and future generations, In 1876 J. Sterling Morton, of Nebraska City, originated the idea '6f ' setting apart one duy in the year for the purpose of plant- ing trees on ous broad prairies. The legislature aftorwards took the matter up and created Arbor day, and recom- mended that it should be spent in plant- ing troes, It has been so popular in Nebraska, and so produdtive of good re- sults, that othepr states have adopted ourlaw. Tha enactment, however, has nothing compulsory about it, and after a while the novelty will wear off and the custom will sink into disuse. In Nebraska the lack of timber is not now very severely felt but, as stated, fine groves are an invaluable adjunct to agricultural states for even many pur- poses bosides those namod. Some intel- ligent legisiation should be enacted whereby our timbered arew may be made to assume more vespectable pro- portions in the future. JonN L. SULLIVAN announces that he will endeavor to secure the nomina- tion for congress in one of the Boston districts, and says that in pursuit of this worthy ambition he hopes to be able to put aside less meritorious aspirations. One of the most celebrated pugilists of England was elected to parliament and became a comparatively respectable man. In this country the election of John Morrissey to congress had an im- proving effect upon his conduct. It is possible thata term in congress would make Sullivan a better behaved man than he has been, but if he cannot be reformed without sending him to con- gress it were better to permit him to serve out a term in the Mississippi pen. Congress already has quite enough to answer for. THE Iowa supreme court has just de- cided that liquors in original packages cannot be confiscated. This decision has stimulated the contraband liquor trade to a considerable extent. With a few more modifications of this sort pro- hibition will be a dead letter, not merely in the larger cities, like Burlington, Davenport, Dubuque and Council Bluffs, where it never has been enforced, but in all the smaller towns and v gOs. Tne Antwerp disaster is one of the most terrible of the many which will make this year memorable for great calamities. The loss of life is not so great as was at first feared, but there are many severely wounded, some of whom, it is apprehended, will not sur- vive. It is by far the most serious European calamity of the present year. Living in the Past. Chicago News. There is no need of growing wildly bilar- ious because the Chicago base ball ciub has roached third place. Jt has led tho league in days that are no more. bl o PR Then We O ie in Peace. New York Herald. A Massacnusetts seer has kindly post- poncd the smastung of this not wholly disa- greeable planet until October ™ 7. This will g1ve ample time to settle the base ball cham- pronship, o it 18 really not so bad. Why Grover is Cautious. St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Mr. Cleveland hesitates about crossing the Atlantic, it is said, because of a fear of sea- sickn He has not,yet forgotten the aw- ful nausea which came upon him when he read the returns of the last presidential elec- tion, —_— We Shall See. St, Louis Republic. il The Chicago Beef Barons refuse to be in- vestigated by the United States Senate un- less they can bo investigated in their own way and by “friendly men.” It is hard to convince & ghicago Baron that the Chicago stock yards are not bigger than the United States, but it can be done. Armour and the Beer Investigators. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Mr. Armour is confident that the senate will prove true to Plutocracy and will not think the less of him for treating with con- tempt any committee of senators from gran- ger states visiting Chicago on an anti-Pluto- cratic mission. Mr. Armour seems to know that there are a good many men of his own kind in thesenate who regard trusts and other monopoly combines as *“private affairs" which should not be inquired into very closely. —_——— On the Brink of a Volcano. Providence Journal, A tew sparks like this dock laborers' strike applied to the smoldering fires and there might be an outbreak that would startle the world. Now and then, as 1n the last few days, we get a glimpse at the tre- mendous volcano of discontent and socialis- tic feeling below the fair surface of the Eng- lish industrial system; and its chief value is to remind us that te socialistic movements, or i3 soon to be, ono of the most pressing problems confronting the English people. B The Cronin Jurymen. Chicago Tribune. Extract from daily paper for the year 1027 : “Another half day wasspent in a fruitiess en- deavor to secure jurors in the Cronin case, Court adjourned shortly after the noon hour on account of the unexpected death of jury- man Klamm, who quietly expired of old age, without leaving the box. It will be remem- bered by many of our oid residents that whenr this juror was accepted, some twenty- five or thirty yoars ago, we expressed grave doubts as to his 'bodily vigor and power of endurance,” ete., eto. il i Better Than Cremation, New York Sun, There is a mau 1n Denver who has andea that the country ought to give up the present method of disposing of dead bodies and adopy one which he suggests. He does not advocate crémation, nor anything else which, 8o far as s known, appears to have been suggested by any other person, f scheme is to freezo the dead body in water, take the block of 1¢e in which the body b been frozen und earry it to the north and d posit it on'the shores of one of the Arctic seas, Hesays that he has already made some favorable progress, and that un English syundicate is considering the establishment of an international cemetery on the shores of Bafin’s Bay, where ho says that fyture generations may go to find the faces of thewr ancestors of the nineteenth century as natural as hife. s S LR The Katydiu as a Wiggins. Beatrice Express, The Express was to-day shown a clippig from Tre Owmana Bes of July 25, In the item reference is made to certain frost prog- nostications as au cutgrowth of a conversa- tion at Des Moines, Ia,, in which Railroad Commissioner Dey remarked: “Tam not at all superstitious, but Monday evening, July 22, while I was at my home in Iowa Ciw, I | hoard thefiest katydid sing, and the old tbe- liof that tho first frost would follow in six wooks oceurred to mo. ‘That would bring the first frost on September 3, most 100 early for tho corn.” Other persons report having heard tho katydid sing that same ovening, and thero will bo a great deal of Interest takon In scolng how near the old saying comes true. While tho corn 18 looking very fine, a stinging frost as oarly as Septembor 8 would have a very sorious effect on it. Tho prognostication of tho katydid has been realizod barring a day. Last night, September 4, & brisk frost did occur, but for- tunately of not sufficient severity to do any damaye. Prof. Katydid is horeby nominated chin- atologist of the Towa state university. bl Real Republican plicity. St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Tt cost Boston $6.000 to entertain Cleve land and only $1,600 to entertain Harrison. This shows that under the present adminis- tration a first-class article is to be had at a much smaller prico than an inferior one cost when the democrats were in power. Bre'r Geady Should Have Come. Chicago Inter-Occan. The Atlanta Constitution did a good thing for the country when it succoeded in having f pross car attached to tho excursion train for Georgia farmers to visit the northwest. But it would have been better had Mr. Grady joined the party, so as to know some- thing about the northwest himself. - Chicago Tribune. Bailift (in a casual way)—Speaking about shows, what is your opinion as to the proper location of the world’s fair? Party Addressed—What fur kind of a durn thing is a world's fairt Bailft (triumphantly)—Come along, friend. I want you for a juryman! ——— THIS AND THAT. my Billings, the Towa lawyer who killed young Kingsley, plunzes still deeper into the vor- tex of crime. He is now writing pootry. A citizen of Omaha writes to Tne B to announce that he has vented perpetual motion; that the machine is about finished, and that he isready to spring it upon the people as soon as he learus whether there is a prize offered for such a success. Heo is respectfully referred to Mr. Keely's backers. The snub which the merchant’s week peo- ple are said to have given the South Omaha packers has opened an almighty big chusm which the Brooklyn bridge could not span. 1t will result in bringing to pubiic attention petty jealousies and local political prejudices which are shameful if not childish. 1t was Sherift Coburn's chance to get back at his particular friends, the county commis- sioners, and he made the most of it. now wants to go to congress. And yet his friends insist that John is trying to reform. Even the impassable Chinaman sucumbs to the prevailing mania in Chicago. Blanche Loy lived happily with Ching until they reached the city of the lake breeze when he began to beat nund otherwise abuse her and now she wants a divorce. Denver Republican., Denver lays over Omaha 10 business, thrift and enterprise of all’ kinds, but the moun- tain city must take a back seat in base ball matters. For this state of affairs the Denver people have Manager Rowe largely to cuss. An Artist in Red. Cincinnati Enquirer. Buffalo Bill's latest freak is excessive en- thusiasm for bric-a-brac and paintings. He is buying a whole gallery, and, singular to relate, eschews all pictures of a ruady hue. “You see,” he apologetically explains, “I can paint it red myself.” Everybody Chases to Omaha. St. Joseph News, Omaha is no longer cuterprising. There has been no crdss-country chase to Council Bluffs lately. Omana society is evidently fagged, Bill is Capturing France. Cliteago Inter-Oce Parisians call Buffalo Bill “Guillaume de Bison.” The governor of Nebraska would do well to call Bill home. ‘The first thing United States people know Bill will be Bou- langering France. He Was Out of Joint, Chicago Times. A Lincoln (Neb.) girl forced a man who had lied about her to get on his knees and apologize. He must have thought that the times were out of joint. our Airis the Elixir. St. Paul Globe. It is claimed that the financial embarrass- ment of u funeral casket comany in Omaha is a sign of exceptional sulubrity, or that the elixir is getting in its work, It may mdicate that cheap pine is in use, or that mortuary people are unable to pay their way. That Bogns Syndicate Sermon. Chicago Mail, Talmage preacned in Omaha yesterdny, discoursing from the tent “Thou art weighed in the balances and found wanting,” and now the residents of the young but self-con- scious suburb are perplexed as to whether the great divine's visit can be construed as o compliment or otherwise. An Exceptional Wesk in Denver. Denver News, Denver leads Omaha 1n total cloarings last week and also in the percentage of gain, the latter being 54.8 per cent. No large lumps of English money came in, but the large number of visitors to the firemen’s tourna- ment had an effect on trade. Hurrah For Mis Rickey. Chicago Herald. The Herald's congratulations to Miss Katie Hickey, of Lincoln, Neb,, and moro power to the pretty hand with which she brought her shamoless detractor to her kuees. Baa cess, likewise, to the lying slanderer, whose name is Reddish, and w0 all other scoundrols who make light of & ‘womun's good name, They Need a Connell New Orleans (La,) News, Cougressman-elect Connell, of the First Nebraska Congressional district, has lately “locked horns” with the gas monopolists of Owmaha, aud has come out ahead! The Oma- hogs are no worse off thau are the people of New Orleans, in fact they of the wood and waoly are nou socked by the iiluminating tyrants as heavily as are our citizens—yet where 1s the local David who will dare to face this Goliath of plunder} The Streets and the People, St. Paul Pioneer-Press, Omaha has just discovered that she is not the owner of her own streets, Is St. Paul in the same condition! If 80 w ould at least like to be guaranteed the use of the alleys and sidewalks. e COUNTRY BREEZES. A Brotherly Rebuke. Union Ledger. If he was 0ot in the habit of drinking more bhan was really good for him he might bring Buit agalnst his countenance for libel, and procure heavy damages. 1t is getting 8o that respectablo people cannot visit Plattsmouth without having thoeir names heralded broad- cast over the country in n disrespectful way by this old skunk of the Maiu stroet sower, Ben Didn't M Muach. Chimney Rock Transeript, Ben Wall is rebwlding the proacher's buggy and is making a good job of it. Ho had the ariver's whinand an old axletree for a starter, but that wus enough for Ben. Dad Will Have to Geneva Reeord, “Dad” Hunter, of Chelsea, will gum it a while, having left all his teeth with Dr, Clark. It goes a little tough, but he regards Crark as a Jim Dandy of a dentist and will it himself with o brand new set as soon as his jaws will bear it An Apoiogy to Helen, . Louisville Observer, In a local that appeared in last week's Ob- sorver the word Miss was unintentionally omitted. Miss Helen Stander will please ac- cept our apology. um 1t Uncle Jimmy's Ohefd'Oouvre. Crawford Clipper, Uncle Jimmy Hill, tho voteran pionoer, the most artistic designer and painter of his age, is doing some fine work in the now town of Marsland, at W, K., Alexander's bank. When through with that he will finish up another handsome sign for the Clipper, in flock and gold. Scotia Herald, Some time ago we pail the high compli- ment to Scotia ladies of saying that they were tho smartest on earth, some of them getting their washing on the line before 8 o'clock on Monday morning. Investigation and résearch, assisted by un interested party, since that time, has proven to us that we were wrong in part and that the lords und masters of the ladies deserveat least a part of the praise. It 18 a fact that in the early hours of Monday mornings the said husbands are hustled out of bed by their ambitious spouses and mado toturn the festive washing machine and twist the vermicular wringer uatil the last piece of linen gives up its real estato. But hubby never hangs the clothes on the line. Oh, no. That would give the snap away. Let honor be given to whom honor is due, Lots of Seotia Herald, During the session of the legislature last winter o ordered by Secretary of State Laws to send the Herald to Repre ative Hanna and “charge the same to him. We did 0. In fact wo would sent the paper to handsome Hanna anyhow, for we knew he would rather lose his bangs any time than be without it. After the brilliant session was over we sent our bill to the sec- rotary of state for 50 cents (cheap enough, 1). ourse of a month or two he O. K.’d it, und passed it on to Cruzan, chairman of the house committee on public accounts. This gentleman, after deliberation worthy so weighty a matter, affixed his Gaulic signa- wure to the document, Then the bill moved on to Tom M: Cook, clerk of the house. Tom signed it, and sent it on its travels to John C. Watson, speaker of the house. This gen- tleman, after due consideration, also put his John Hancock to the paper and sent it over o the auditor of public accounts, The audi- tor mailed it back to the Harald for our sig- nature, and it has gone back again. If it is approved by the auditor we believe and vrust that he will issue a warrant for the 50 cents With the big name of Benton at the bottom, and forward the same to Scotia. Then we will pack our grip, grasp our pass tightly, go to Lincoln, visit the state treasurer, and, on being properly identified, perhaps get our money. Ver itis hard fora poor news- paper man to get his own. now sn’t it Herald $1.50 a y Brown County Bugle. ‘We rush the publication of this issue in order to attend the reunion of old soldiers at O'Neill. We are going on a little further to the “folks” to get something to eat. A mother-in-law’’ is a mighty good *‘article” to have around, BUZZINGS. *‘What! prohibition in Iowa, ha, ha, ha!!!,” said a well known liquor drummer who trav- els through fowa, “Why, my boy, 1 giory in my Jowa trade, It is the easiest snap in the world to seil whisay in lowa or IKansas; both of which states I cover, “There are many methods of getting whisky into those states unknown to the local authorities. Whatdo1 think of pro- hibiting? I'll tell you right now that there 18 o such thing as prohivition. I have been in the business for years, and although I sell whisky I don't drink it. Ihave sold liguor in lowa and Kansas, and get more money out of it than 1 ever get out of Ne- braska and Colorado. 2 ““Why, go to Atchison, Kan,, for instance. If you are posted you can go to any of the ciubs there, where you will meet the city and county ofiicers indulging in- their regalar toddy. They are not drunkards by any means, but they want their regular drink and get it It is the same in all towns throughout these states. “Ihe meaus of getting liguor into prohibi- tion states are manifold. Some of the most ingenious schemes for evading the spotters are practiced, much cleverer than any that are practiced in smuggling, “I was in an lowa town lately and after supper sat on the hotel verandab. A boy of about fifteen years came to me and asked me if I was Mr, So-and-So. Isaid I was. Said he, ‘can you send me a gallon of whisky for §1.507 I said Icould not, that he was a minor, and that I did not carry that class of goods. *Well,” said he, ‘ten of us boys chip- ped in 15 cents aviece and want to got a gal- lon of whisky, and I thought you could sell it to us,’ *J questioned him, and he said that boys of his age were in the habit of buying whisky and after getting it would go into the woods aud get beastly drunk, This is a sad offset tothe drinking of minors in nou-prohibition stutes, where boys who are inclined to be ‘tough' may some- times go to low down saloons, play pool and drink beer, but the systematic way that boys in Towa towns go to work to buy the ‘barrel house' quality of whisky by subscription and get beastly drunk is so much worse that the contrast cannot but be fearfully alarming, ' . I have just returned from a visit to Vie- toria, B. C.,” said a gentlemau to the Buz- zer, “and found it one of the most beautiful, as well as aristocratic cities on the conti- nent, he people are mostly English, but there are quite a number of Americans there in business. Everything is run on the Euglish plan, Business, with the exception of the retail trade, is generally suspended after p. m., und everyone dines iu the evening, he theatres are very pretty, and full evening dress is de rigeur for anyone who wishes to be entirely in good form. The city is surrounded by beautiful drives and pleasure resorts, and the latter part of the afteruoon is devoted to pleasure. There are many handsome turnouts on the drives every afternoon, and swell young Koplish- men tool their handsome dog-carts behind bang-tailed tandems. “L met, at @ hotel, the original “Chumley,” from whom the character, 80 cleverly played by Sothern, was drawn, I was talking to the clerk wnd heard the inum- itable stutter known to those who have seen the play.’ “S-say, doah boy, can you t-tell me tho way to the bawths?” I turned around and boheld a handsome, though effeminate, young Englishman i dazzling whito flannels with a broad blue sash, a monocle and & bang. “Chumloy,” ashe is genorally called, is ono of tho sights of Victoria. Ho 18 very wealthy, and is loitering around tho globe with his bride, a beautiful und aristocratio Enelish girl, He ontdoos even the famous Berry Wall in the number and extravagance of bis clothes, Ho has a suit for every hour of'ths day, and is an inveterate ‘‘tubber,” that 18, ho bathes twico aday. Ho hasa valet, who also dresses extravagantly of his porauisites is “Chumloy’s" o clothes, of which there aro a large number, He is typical of a largo numbor of the young men of Victoria, but none of them ocan com- pete with him in luxurious dressing.' “I have got on to tho way a good many clerks in Omaha ‘knock down’ on their em= ployers,” said a young professional mav, *I went into a store the other day to purchaso sovon feot of a cortain matorial, which camo to 70 cents. I handed tho clerk $1 and he wrapped up thoe oods, filled out a slijf in his book and took the dollar to the cashior. Ho returned with the change and handed me 50 cents and tho slip, saying, “I'ioy did better by you at the office than 1 did.! 1 didn’t look at the slip until | got home and then noticed that ho had only charged three feet, which amounted to 30 conts, He had to lie to me about the 50 cents becauso he had not got tho right change from tho office to get more ont of it for himself. I underatand this is dono in all lines of trade, by clerks who think their employors do not vay them well enough. “A merchant to whom I tafked told mo that he was aware that 1t was going on, but it was very difficult to dotoct. Customers on whom it is played, when they notice the difference botween tho amount of their pur- chase, think 1t was merely an error.” Our country cousius “aflorded the towns- people & good deal of amusement during the weck. The motor and eablo lines attracted much attention from the visitors, and there were many narrow escapes from death by curious ruralists. A strapping big farmer with cowhide boots, and a strip of buffalo robs under his chin couldn’t understand what made “the gol-durned cable kears move, he coufn’t see o cable” When told that it was be- neath the track he got down on his hands and knees and gazed through the slot. While gazing a train swurg around the corner and struck the gentleman full u the & trousers. The air was torn with he was picked up somewhat a suddenness of the thing, but was unhurt. A party of suburban maidens stood at the corner of Farnam and Fourtecnth streets and looked with awe at tihe motor cars. One of them called out, “Look, Mag, seo them funny little wheels. Don'ttney jost fly?” and they stooped down and gazed at the bat- tory under the car. “That's whero they keep the steam,” said one. “No ’tain't, neither,” said another; ‘‘tho steam’s in that round brass box in front. Guoss I know." A delegation from the interior of Town, who had been for a long time denied the luxury of taking a drink openly in u sure enough saloon, availed themselves of the opportunity, and spent most of their timo in visiting the fancy saloons. The first ove thoy entered, the spokesman leaned confidently over the bar and whispered to the bartender, “Say, bartender, give us somo ‘boebe.’”’ The bar- tender thought he was runuing in & new drink on him, so he said, “Wo don’t keep it hore, sir.”” The party filed out, and finally found @ place where an ex-Towa bartender was on duty. He, of course, understood “beebe!” to mean' beer, and gained their cus- tom, whichi was lavish, during their visit. g s e LINCOLN’S RELIGION, Two Remarkable Documents From n of the Martyr President. Jentury Life of Lincoln 1n August says. Ve subjoin two papers from the hana of the president, one of- ficigl and the other private, which bear within themselves the imprint of a sincere devotion and a steadfust reli- ance upon the power and benignity of an overruling Providence. The first is an order which he issaed on the 10th of November, 1864, on the observance of Sunda 'ho president, commander-in-chief of the army and navy, desires and enjoius the or- derly observance of the Sabbath by the of- ficers and men in the military and naval ser- vice. The importance for man aud beast of the nrescribed weekly rest, the sacred rights of christian soldiers and suilors, a becoming deference to the bost sentiment’ of christian people, and a due regara for the divine will, demand that Sunday labor in the army and navy be reduced to the measure of strict ne- cessity. civiline and character of the national should not suffer, nor the cause they defend be imperiled, by the pro- fanation of the day or th ne the Most High. ‘At this time of public distress (adopt- ing the words of Wasnington in 1770) men may find enough to do in the service of their God and their country without abandoning. themselyes to vice wud immorality. T'he first general order is issued by the father of his country after the declaration of indepen- denco indicated the spirit in which our insti- tution were founded and shoula ever be de- fended. ‘I'he general hopes and trusts that ever officer and man will endeavor to live and act #8 becomes a christiun soldier, de- fending the dearest rights and liberties of his country.’ "’ “The date of this remarkable order leaves no possibility for the insinuation that it sprung from political purpose or intention. Mr, Lincoln had just been re-olected by an overwheiming major- ity; his_party was everywhere triume phant; his own personal popularity was unbounded; there was no temptation to hypocrisy ov deceit. There isno explu- nation of the order ex the offspring of sincore ¢ 1f it may be said that this i an exoteric utterance, springing from slations of religion and good rnment which the wisest rulers vo nlways recognized in their intor- course with the poople, we will give one other document, of which nothing of * the sort ean be said. - It is a paper which Mr, Lincoln wrote in September, 1862, while his mind was burdened with the ghtiest question of his life, the ptiost with which this century w grapple. Weariod the considerations of law and of expediency with which he had been strugghug fortwo years, he retired witkin himself and tried to bring some order into his thoughts by rising above the wrangling of men and of parties, and pondering the relations of human government to the divine. In this frame of mind, absolutely detached from wny cartbhly considerations, he wrote this meditation. It bas never been published. It was not written to be seen of men. It was penned in the awlul sincerity of a perfectly honestsoul trying to bring itsell into closer coms mupion with its Maker. “Tho wili of God prevalls. In grest cons tests each party cluims 10 act in accordance with the will of God. Both muy be and one must be wrong. God caunot be for and against the same thivg at the sume time. In the preaent civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party; and yet the hu= man instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to offoct his purpose. I am almost ready to say that this is probably true; that God wills this contest aud wills that it shall not end yet. By his mere great power on tho minds of the now contestants, he could have either saved or destroyed the upion without & humun con- test. Yetthe contest began. Aund having begun be uaunl’tu final victory to either side any day. Yet the contest proceeds.”