Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 15, 1889, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. B MSE ATER, E*lltor. PUBLIBBED BVERY MOBNIN Prooied ~asivbel TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Dllly (Morning Edition) incl Imilnu sunday Jiog One Your... L For 8lx Months Jror Three Months e Omuha Sinday addriss, Oue Year Weekly Beo, Ono Year OFFIC Omana Office, Beo Bulldl Beventeenth and Farnam Streets. Chicago OMce, 57 Hookery Bufiding, New York Office, Rooms 14 wnd 15 ilin, B mrton Office, No, 513 Fourteenth Street. Couneil Biufls Ofiice, No. 19 Pear] Stroet, Lincoln Office, 1020 ¥ Sueot, CORRESPONDENCE. All communieations relating to news and odi- torial matter should be addressed to tiie Editor of the Hoe, RUSINESS LETTERS. All Unsincss lettors and romittances should ‘e addressed to The Bee Publishing Compan Omuha, Drafts, chocks and postoflice orders bo made payablo to the order of the company, Tribune The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietors ek Bullding Farnam and Seventeenth Stroets. The Bee on the frains. There 18 no excuse for a falure to get T Brg on the trains. Al newsdealers have bern noti- Try @ full supoly. Travelers who want 4 A can't got if on trainy where other om rs are carried are requested to no- ity Tik BEk. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. State of Nebraskn, b, ‘County of . Dolglas, George 13, Taschuck, secretary of The Teo Publishing Company, does solemnly swear th the metual elrenlation of T DAILY 18k for the week ending September 14, 180, was as fol- lows: 18,880 Average........ G . Eworn to befors mo and subscrived to In_my prseance this lith day of September, A. D, 1830, (Feal.] N. P. FEIL, Notary Publiz. Etato of Nebraska, nty of Douglas, {""‘ George schuck, being duly sworn, do- oses and hat he 18 secretary of The' Bes blishing compuny, that tho sctun! average dally cirenlation of ‘g DAILY BEp for the nionth of September, 188, 18154 coples; for Oc- fober 1685, 18,084 copless 10 mber, 1885, 18- 86 coplost for Decem be 18,223 coplos;' fou January, 160, 18,774, coples: for 'February, 1880, 18916 co 1es: for Mareh, 1859, 18,854 copies: for A]’)rll 0, l!‘nml cnplex. for May, 1580, 18 6 Edpien: Tor Jue. Govt. Th ok, coplen: 0 coples; for August, 1580, I Sworn to befors me and subscribed m my presence this Jist day of Angust, 4. D [SEAL] . Notwiew Pabiio Tn B Tanuner. surplus still lives. Requiescat FirsT the small-pox and now the Omaha contractors. Poor old Denver! THE national greenback convention now in session in Cincinnati 1s not over- taxing the hotel accommodations of that city. Bills for hotel accommodations for greenback conventions are growing beautifully less {rom year to year. Now Corporal Tanner is out in a let- ter churging Secretary Noble with the responsibility for his dismissal. The man who had charge of Mr. Tanner’s mouth is primarily and solely respon- sible for all the corporal’s troubles. M. CARPENTER will say in THE BEE next Sunduy, among a number of inter- ‘esting things ubout the sultan of Tur- key, that his face is the twin of Jay Gould’s. We can believe almost any- thing against Abdul-Hamid now. THE Cincinnati Commercial-Gazetle is running a serial entitled a ‘‘History of the Payne Purchase of a Seatin the Senate of the United States.” This is very interesting reading for everybody but the hero who, of course, knows how the story comes out. NEW YORK journalism is in a quies- cent condition just now. Mr. Dana is engaged in preparing a reply to the World’s lust compliment to the Sun, which reads that the distinguished ed- itor of the luminous sheet ‘‘does not possess the nervous sensibility of a wart hog.” e Swedes of Omaha, as well as those of other large cities in this couu- try, will to-day celebrate the two hun- dred aud fiftieth anniversary of the ad- vent of their countrymen into the United States. The first settlement was wade at Dover, Delaware, and formed the nucleus of a valuable and intelligent portion of our population. i Rev. . Henderson, of Chi- cago, who in 1872 endeavored without success to create an exodus of southern negroes into Kansas, is now engaged in an effort to colonize Montana and Wash- ington with blacks. Mr. Henderson's methods tack practicality, but the pres- ent scheme may meet with some re- sults, AT Baltimore the “British” and Americans are fighting over again the battles of the war of 1812, Fort Me- Henry, however, withstunds the assault of the enemy three-quarters of a cen- tury after the second war with Greav Britain as suocessfully as it did on the day when the “Star Spangled Banner” was written under the inspiration of the attack. THE humane inventors of the present age are doing allin their power to rob capital punishment of its unpleasant Yeature. The use of carbonic acid gas has been suggested us a substitute for hang- ing. This, it is claimed, would do the work quickly and painlessly, Should the law prescribe this newly suggested mode of death for one of its csiminals, it will then be in order for the defense to show that it is ‘cruel and unusual” and produce expert medical testimony to show that some men thrive on car- bonic acid gus, ete., ote, In the mean- time the hangman will continue to get the drop on the law’s victims. ——e THE international monetary confer- ence which is soon to be held at Paris is of interest to western people for the reason that the valueof silver as com- pared with gold as a circulating medium will be brought up and discussed. Steps towards forming a basis for an interna- tioual coin, the character and functions of subsidiary and minor coins and many other topics are among those to be passed upon. The question of silver as a oirculating medium is of the greatest Amportance o mining districts and the results of the conference will have no small effect on the value and future of the white metal, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER: 15, 1889~SIXTEEN PAGES. MANNERS IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Ts it a facy that American children are the worst mannered in the civilized world? The New York Evening Post nssorts that thoy are, and it thinks | there is urgent necesSity for seeking | reform in this direction through the medivm of the public schools. That | journal remarks that while there isa | loud demand for other kinds of training | than mere litorary training, there is a branch of ethies which might ve taught in every school and which onght to be taught in every school, but is neglected to the great national detri- | ment, and that is what is called “‘man- ners,” By this is not meant simply po- litenees. though of course this is an es- sential element, but that sortof instruc- tion which teaches that suavity of man- ners is not a confession of socinl or other inferiority, and that in order to pre serve solf-respect and maintain the idea of republican equality it is not neces- sary to be surly and indifferent, “after the manner of hotel clerks or express- men, and too often salesmen and sales- ladies in stores.” In the opinion of our con- temporary one of the great uses of schools is to fortify the children of the state against whatever is evil and de- toriorating in the political or econom- ical condition of their lives. American schools should fortify American boys and girls against the bad influence, exther on mind or manners, of the pas- sion for equality pushed to extremes, and the still moro corrupting passion for notorioty fostered by the newspa- pers. They should caltivate in the chil- dren a repugnance for all those prac- tices which are the evidences of a low ciyilization and a vulgar social tone. They should teach that not only are the grosser vulgarities which are comprehended in ill man- ners to be avoided, but all those minor practices that are offensive to culti- vated people and intolerable iu a well- ordered social state. What theso are every qualified teacher ought to know, and whilo the duty of instilling this sort of instruction need oceupy ve little time, nor is it necessary that it should become a regular and formal feature of each day k. it is one in which every teacher should find both pleasure and profit, de- rived from the satisfactionin witnessing the growth among pupils of that genu- ine solf-vespect which always has regard for what is due to others. This view does not involve the idea that it is the business of the schools to cultivate ladies and gentlemen, though there could hdvdly be objection to their doing this, but simply that they shall impress upon the youthful winds the importance and value of maintaining at all times a line of conduct and a de- portment which will at once increase their self-respect and com- mend them to the respect of othera. It is a severe thing to say of American children that thcy are the worst-man- nered in the civilized world, but it may not be without warrant. Unguestionably they can be improved in respect of their manners, and whatever aid the teach- ers in che public schools of the land can give toward bringing about the desired improvement they should feel it to be a grateful duty to extend. Doubtless very many of them are actively improving their opportunity in this direction. THE LATE MR. The death of A. . Touzalin removes aman who possessed many admirable traits of character. From his first com- ing to Nebraska as commissioner of the B. & M. land office at Lincoln, he took such an interest in the building up of Nebraska, particularly along the lines of the Burlington system, that the attention of the chief officers of the road was soon drawn to him asan im- portant factor in the company’s sub- stantial progress in the siate. He was promoted rapidly, and filled each posi- tion with credit to himself and em- ployers. Along with the late Thomas J. Potter, he contributed more tha one man to the growth and pr of the road west of the Missouri Mr. Touzalin had a kind heart and was ever ready to assist the struggling and deserving young man to bettsr oc- cupation. Many individuals who now hold important offices of trust owe their positions directly to his personal favor and influence. He was an admirable judge of character and he hardly ever made a mistake in his se- lection of men upon whom to bestow his favors. Thackery says that men are prone to kick a man still further down once he bas entered upon a downward course. Mr. Touzalin was an exception for he labored to build men up even though they had made a misstep. When Mr. Touzalin removed from Lincoln to Omaha to take charge of the management of the road with which he had been so long connected, one of the first things he did was in the interest of B. & M. employes. He bought TOUZALIN. and platted into lots what is known as Terrace addition, located in thesouthwestern portion of Omaha, The lots were sold to his men, and he ex- tended aid that they might build svb- stantial and comfortable homes. Many of these men, who have since be- come well off financially, owe their rise in forwune directly to Mr, Touzalin, All employes and ofti- cers of the B, & M., together with the general public of Omaha, will mourn Mr, Touzalin’s death and at the same time regret that his life could not have attained that old age to which his many excellent traits of character entitled him, AMERICAN SCHOOL OF OPERA. The indefatigable laborer for the pro- motion of musical culture in America, Mrs. Jeannette K. Thurber, president of the national conservatory of music iu New York, isin Europe in the in- terest of the project with which her pname has become internationally iden- tified, Already the lnstitution of which she is the head has accomplished a great deal for the ddvancement of mu- sic in this country, and having been placed on a firm foundation, with its possibilities of great usefulness no longer in ques- tion, the National Conservatory of music may in time rival those of Europe in the work of promoting the highest order of musical culture, The question of creating a school for American opera s an interesting one, which has grown into serious discussion within two or three years. There are some who believe that the country is yet too young forsuch an undertaking to achieve great success, Europeans are wont to deprecate the iden of a national school for opera in the United States as the dream of a people wont to overestimate themselves. While conceding our progress and su- periority in most other respects, the people of the old world will not ac- knowledge that we have achieved any- thing in the art of music, or that we are yet capable of doing so. Neverthe- less, groat musicians who come nmong us are astonished at the culture and the appreciation of good music displayed, and some of the most distinguished of these have said that there is a great musical future for America. in a recent interview with An- ton Seidl, one of the foremost husicians of the duy, he said that what is needed 1n this country is a school for American opera; that is, an opera school in En- glish, specially instituted for the pur- pose of preparing Americans for grand opern. It should be, he said, for sing- ing in English alone, and for the pur- pose of edueating only young Americans who show that they possess the talent for the lyvic stage. He thought this country had attuined a position of wealth and material prosperity, and had be- come so greut in all the arts of peace, that it is entitled to opera in its own language. He thought the time had come for this, and although America is young in music he saw no reason why it should not make as great progress in that line as Russia has done when the opportunities are presented. There is certainly in the s0 excellent an authority as this dis- tinguished musician great encourage- meut to the hope that in time there will be established in the United States ool for grand opera in ) that will produce artists equal to every requirement of such opera, and at the same time cultivate an elevated public taste for such music that will in- sure to American artists a permanent and profitable market for their talents. America has produced a number of brilliany singers, one or two of whom are now abroad, and noneof whom have found in their native country such a demand g onld justify them in re- maining her It would seem that the time has coms in this country when we should proyide institutions equal to those of the old world for the cultiva- tion of home talent,and for the creation of a public taste that would keep such talent among us. opinion of A FINANCIAL SUCCESS. Merchants’ week hus been fruitful of good results. It has-greatly enhanced the business of Omaha jobbersand dem- onstrated the possibilities of the scheme when it shall be fully developed. The leading jobbers of this city are enthusi- astic over their recent display, and re- port their sales during the week as fully fifty per cent greater than during fair week last year. The business men -have never contributed to a greater finan- cial success in the history of Omeha. Acquaintances were made and seeds sown that are even now be- coming fruitful, and the jobbers see that it is only a question of how great inducements can be made to attract country merchants in territory tributa to Omaba. In this direction, the fore, will the efforts be made for next ye Merchant week. To engage the atfention of outside merchants it is necessary for Omaha to fix upon some plan by which sufficient wariety of entertainment may be afforded to intere them and make a visit av least once a year to Omaha one of plessure and profit. St. Louis has met with great uccessin the matter of exhibitions. At thatcity the merchants make a regular business of it, and it has proved a valuable trade adjunct, more so, perhaps, thun any half dozen other attributes of the wholesale element of St. Loui The Veiled Prophet’s procession brings an- nually to St. Louis anywhere from two hundred and fifty thousand to half a million people all of whom spend more or less money and do more or less business with its merchants, There is a building at the corner of Twelfth and Marketstreets in that town where three or more competent artists spend the year in designing and carry: ing out new ideas for the spectacular features of the annual procession, so that when the time comes everything moves off iike clockwork, and presents novelties to vhe eye worth going far to see. There is no reason why Omaha should -not follow ghe example set by St. Louis, New Orleans, Baltimore and Cincinnati in the matter of parades, and have something with which td entertain vis- itors, and at the same time make it a profitable and interesting affair. A proper and concerted action of Omaha jobbers and business men will give us a merchants’ week in 1890 which will compare with anything in the country. FASCINATION OF THE HORRIBLE. A series of crimes of a most re- volting character, which for a long time had puzzled the French police, were recently traced to the hand of a nobleman. On being charged with the crimes for which he was afterward guillotined he made a full confession, in the course of which he said that the idea of com- mitting them had first occarred to him while reading a copy of the life of Nero which he had found in the library of a relative of whose estate he had been ap- pointed administrator. ‘What the history of Nero did for the Frenchman the sensational press of to-day is doing for the general public. The telegraph wires had scarcely ceased to pulsate with the report of the guadruple hangiog of wife mupderers recently in New York, when five other brutes in that city attempted to kill their wives, Investigation showed that they had read the accounts of the affair in the newspapers and had after- ward lingered for a long time af the coftins of the murderers. The ac- count’ of every motable prize fight sows o crop of pugilists. I one of the contestants has a ! jaw broken or & rib smashed in, the l If in addition the mob at the ring side takes a hand in the exhibition, and fidveral jaws ara broken and a number of | anatomies fractured, the news ranks A 1, and the efficient corresponden “‘hnucono is instructed to ‘“‘rush wijout limit.” Jack the Ripper and{ thy sensational nows- papers are | primaraly responsible for Jack the Peeper, Jack the Kissor, and allthe other Jacks and knaves who have followed in the footsieps of the London protdtype. So every crimg of sufficient magni- tude to attract Rrg‘m“ attention is suc- ceeded by alddrles of similar crimes which are more or less successful imita- tions of the first. There is in gome people an element which de- lights in the horrible. This is true of even the most amiable natures. The French nobleman, it is said, before he conceived the ambition to emulate the cruelties of the Roman monster, was a very dacent man as nobleman go. Tho sonsational paper feeds this apetito. Butthe worst of it is the people demand it. The trial of Prado attracted more attention at the time than Boulanger and all the other pyrotechnics of French politic It was &ccordingly given space and prominence in the press. A newspaper to be successful must pub- lish the news. An ideal newspaper is only possible among an ideal people. An ideal people would never commit any crimes and wouid never need to be hanged. 1In short, the chromicle of crimes and horrors can ouly ceaselwhen crimes and horrors no longer exist. But after all this is to be said: That the story of every crime has its moral and its lesson, and while the re- cital of such story may have a baneful 1nfluence upon some, upon others, and perhaps a far greater number, it may have the effect to deter from crime. Tt is this consideration that justifies the logitimate newspaper, as distinguished from the sensational, in giving what it does of the daily record of public trans- gressions. news ranks high, CLOSE OF THE EXPOSITION. The exposition at the Coliseum will close to-night. The concluding pro- gramme will bo an interesting one, as h been most of them during the two weeks of this exceptionally attractive exhibition. There will be a cert this evening and appropriate dresses, and the ending of the expos tion will be, if possible, even m liant and interesting than its opening. As this will conclude the events which have marked the past two week as a perjiod of unusuul interest and entertainiment for the ., people of Omaha and the thousands of visitors to the city, it isoroper to say that in all respects the exposition has been a most qratifying success.) In the extent, va- vioty and excellence of the display it was oy far the finest exhibition ever made in Omaha, and the appreciation of this fact has been fully attested by the largo numiberfof people who have attended it, probably not less than #aventy-five thousand. This exposition has cloarly demonstrated what Omaha can do in an enterprise of this character, ,and the result haying been so entirely satis- factory to all coneerned, there is every reason to expect that next year’s expo- sition will be the finest and most com- plete ever seen west of Chicago. It is simply justice tosay that the management of the exposition has been from beginning to end most creditable, and vhat the interests of both exhibitors and the public have been carefully and sedulously regarded. Aitogether, the first comprehensive exposition of the business of Omaha has been a success of which all concerned have a right to feel proud. THE fire 1oss of the United States and Canada for the month of August, 1889, amounted to eleven million, one hun- dred and fifty-three thousand, eight hundred and iifty dollars. Iunsurance companies claim that a large per cent- age of the fires are set by persons desir- ing to close out their business at as little loss as possible. They load up with as much 1nsurance as they can get and then set fire to their own stores. The losses by fire are increas- ing year by year. Conservative insurance compunies use care,and judg- ment in their seclection of risks, but insurers can always find a line of companies ooly too glad to obtain all the risks they can. The mat- ter presents such alarming features that some concerted action may be taken to prevent that class of fires known as in- cendiary. If the companies would use gredt care in the selection of their agents a good move would be made to- wards a lessening of the vast amount of property now consumed with fraudulent intentions. THE telephone men of the country met at Minneapolis, and it is stated that thoy have given encouragement to the underground wire idea,and that they will be willing, as'a rule, to abide by proper ordinances ordering that the underground system be adopted. Chi- cago, where the system is successfully used, is pointed to as an example of the benefits of the proposed measure. Now that the questipn, ;hus been raised it should not be nllawed to again sink into abeyance, ——————— A Cause'Far Thanksgiving. St. Paul Pioneer-Press, It 18 announced “In New York that Mrs. James Brown-Potter has canceled all dates, and will not appear on the stage this season, We will not forget Mrs, Potter on Thanks- giving day for this. - —— No Place For Weather Prophets, Minweapolis Tribune, A court astrologer has been beheaded by order of the emperor of China for making & false prediction. "It is highly probable that Lis wajesty won't be bothered with a rush of applicants for the vacancy. 3 —— Ihe Court For Boulanger. Thiladeluhia Press. Boulanger is clamoring for & court-martial and France ought to accommodate him. That is about the only sort of a court that Boulanger will ever figure in with any de- greo of promnence. e bty The Bweets of Office, Indlanapolis Journal. When Claus Spreckels builds au addition to the white house out of blocks of sugar, us bhe proposes, that building will be more, en- ticing than ever to the small boy of the country who looks forward to being prosi dent sometime, ——— Have Hetter Girls at Home. New York World, The question, “Why do not moro Amor- foans marry English girls?” is up again for international discussion, There is one rea- son 80 sufficiont that the others do not need tobo mentioned, And that reason is the American girls, —_—————— John Could Handle the Brigadiers, Boston Globe, John L. Sullivan for congross,oh? Ho is just the man to tame the southern briga- diers. Not one of them would dare to say, ‘“The honorable gentleman from Massachu- sotts statos what is not true, and he knows it.! W Send Them All There. Pittstury Dispateh. New Yorlk's pugilistic experts assert that La Blancho's victory over Jack Dempsoy in tho prize ring was largely due to the former's confinement in the Buffalo fail for several months, They claim that the regular hours and uniform diet of the Jail made a new man of La Blanche. After this Snllivan and Kil- rain will doubtloss cease to object to taking their dose of imprisonment. —_— A Bloody Shame, New York Commerclal Advertiser. A morning paper puts over its account of the American Bar association the Loadlhine, “Brainy Men of the Bar,” Thore is just about as much reason and good taste n call- ing persons of good brain “brainy’’ as in call- ing persons of good blooa *bloody.” We may expect one of these days to read of a charming reception given to the “brainy men of the bar” by the *‘bloody women of society." —_—— Trusting to a Fellow-Foeling. St. Louds Post-Dispateh, Mr. Armour is confident that the sonato will prove true to plutocracy and will not think the less of him for treating with con- tempt any committee of senators from granger states visiting Chicago on an anti- plutocratic mission. Mr. Armour seems to know that there are a good many men ot his own kind in the senate who regard trusts and other monopoly combinations as *‘private affairs” which should not be inquired into very closely. S U THIS AND THAT. The extras on the Donglas county hospital will foot up 75,000, In connection with public works, it may be remarked, ‘‘extras’ is generally a cuphemism for steals. 1t is said a strong effory will be made to show that Cronin was not murdered at all, These Chicago experts may bprove that Cronin himself was a ffyth before they are done with it. It must reaily be that tho czar, Has a great deal his pleasure to mzar, When nihilists try To blow him sky high, It's carrying a joke much too fzar. Snow fell gt Hope, Dakota, yesterda, There's still hope for that country as a sum- mer resort. The New York World building will be thirteen stories high, and above this will rise a dome five stories more, the whole to be surmounted with a lantern 300 fcet above the sidewalk. As the editors and reporters will have quarters in the domeit will be soen that the World is to be conducted on a very high plane of thought. The numbsr of uramps in this country is placed at 50,000. This would indicate tha waiking 18 pretty good. Can’t Edward Arnold’s “Light of Asia” b turned on Stanley’s “Dark Continent" PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Victoria Woodhull says she will return to this country und run for president in 1802, How would it do for Vic to come out here and try for the senate from the new state of Wyoming. The people there will doubt- lessly want one female representative at Washington. ‘There are still occurronces in the south which indicate that the policy pursued is to nifle the ballot box and shot gun the negroes. Georgo Francis Train should engage Boulanger us the French correspordent of his new publication, The Reign of Terror. Chicago has jist added twenty new alder- men to the city council, There's some ox- tra work for the boodler lobbyist. Chauncey M. Depew 1s home from Europe. Contrary to the general supposition the big breeze along the Atlantic coast occurred be- fore his arrival. Vanderbilt's highest-priced cook in the world is about to return to his home in Paris. The 85,000 per year he is civing cannot compensate him for the lack of con- een’al society below stairs, Vanderbilt and his family will now have to peel their own potatoes or live at a lunch counter until an- other cook can bo found. During the last six gubernatorial cam- paiens tho democratic candidates have been renegade republicaus, In 1879, Ewing; Bookwater in 1881, Hoadly in 1883 and 1835, Powell in 1887, and now Campbell in 1889, It has been twelve years since democrats have been able to vote for a genuine party man for governor, The republicans do not com- plain, but it would seem the democrats have a genuine grievance, and maybe this ac- counts, in & measure, for their poor success. Mr. Carlisle is home again from Mexico. His ability to provide a tax upon the Ameri- can hog of $2.65 per head did not afford him 0 much pleasure as the exhibition of bull- fighting made for his diversion, He obtained the tax by his free trade specches, and the bull fights were volunteercd as an offering to his social qualities, We will wager that Mr. Carlisle fecls vrouder of his social conquest of Mexico than of his ability to persuade Mexico into free trade notions. John C. Watson declines the attornoyship of Alaska. He i3 quoted a8 saying that he objected to being shelved on an icoberg. This, however, has nothing to do with his rumored candidacy for governor in the pro- hibition ticket, L R COUNTRY BREEZES, Why Kev. Gilmore Was Gay. By the way Rev. Gilmore was jumping over picket fences, kicking the hen-hiouse in and tearing avound in general, we were led to believe he was a victim of the Brown- Sequard elixir, but all was explained when we were informed that Mrs, Gilmore and children had returned from their extended Towa visit. Worse fhan a Drunkard. South Siour City Sun. A drunken man is most contemptible, to be sure, but how infinitely higher he is than the sober *'beat'--the “business” man who is al- ways on the lookout to swindle! The flim- flammer, the man who will steal from you in making change, the grocery dealer who will +do" you a quarter pound on this and o half pound on that article—what a d—-— scoun- drel he is! An Editor's Gratitude, Sehuyler Quil, Our undivided thanks are due to Charles L. Towle for & magnificent watermelon just from the ice chest, Charles isa man after pur own heart, aud all the luxuries to which buman beings are liable are daily wished bim. . May he prosper and live upon the fat of the land while his ono- mies sit in sackcloth and ashes and the dogs defile the graves of thoir: ancestry. May his shadow never grow loss and his tribe incroase like tho sands of the ocoan. May tho bones of his ancestry rest in poeace, and may his posterity bo comely and valiant. (Mr. Towle will kindly remembor that a second attompt at a profuse strain of thanks is far better than the first; we await the second chance,) A Rensonable Fxouse. Letah World. Our readers will excuse us if our paper is not as newsy as usual this week. Sho who has taken us for better or for worso has gone off on a visit, leaving us in a state of blessed singleness and perfoot misery. Besides writing editorials, rustie local, set type sweep the floor, do job work, clean rollors, correct the “dovil's” galleys, get meat for dinner, and all the laborious duties con- nected with the publishing of a great motro- politan paper, we have to cook our meals, make up our bed, wash dishes, dust the furni- ture, feed the cat, and do all such domestic duties as tond to make the homo happy and beautiful and make a mortal rejoice in his existence. L] 1 Step Our. Union Ledjer. I have leased The Ledger plant to Mr. Charles L. Graves, under whoso managoe- ment it will continue to be as newsy as ever. I have always tried to give you tho latest news by froight, and when a man died, I in- variably spoke of him as an augel. I make this change for business reusons alone—be- cause it pays me. Gentlemen, one and all, and the ladies, too, God bless them, accept my thanks for past favors, and T assure you that you will be remembered every night 1 kneelat my white-curtained bed to pray. Give the same support to my successor as you aid to me, and you will never have cause 1o regret it. il LUME AS OTHERS SEE US. Will Our Bishop Please Explain? New York Commercial Advertiser. Bishop J. P. Newman of Owmaha, has been talking in Chicago about the race question, concerning the final outcome of which in the south he holds sanguine opinions. How- ever, he thinks he sees trouble ahead for the gorth. *I would rather, a thousand times,” he says, ‘‘be a southerner and have the race problem to grapple with than to be here in Chicago and the north and be confronted by these vast hordes of ignorant, uneducated foreigners, who are swarming over here to take possession. I look fomvard to the time, and I hope it is not far distant, when we can stand up firmly and say, *No foreign-born citizen shall henceforward have a place in tho legislative conduct of the country.’ " All this matter is now attended to in the constitution, Has the good bishop another constitutional amendment in view? Not In Omaha. St. Paul Globe. At Milwaukee, Omaha and other cities there are departments for iustruction in cul- dinary arts and scienco in connection with the high school, and tho proficiency of soma of the girls m cooking1s such that those who wst their handiwork often escape physical disaster. The plan scems to be popular and conducive to matrimony. Thinks the Bananas Were Bad. Chicago Times. Bishop Newman, of Omaha, says that ho would rather have a race war than foreign immigation. The bishop must have bought some bad bananas. From a Ohicago Standpoint. Chicago Herald. There is something almosy pathetic in tho hungry aspect of the Omaha, St. Paul and Kansas City press, picking such crumbs of comfort as they can find from the meagre testimony elicited by Senator Vest's commit- tee in Chicago. If the packing interests of this city were really moribund. as those cities would have us believe, there would be 10 luck of vultures to_pray upon tho corpse directly life was exti Omahn's £ Blowout. Kearney Hub, Omaha, Nebraska's giddy metropolis, did herself proud with hor great fair and exposi- tion and Marchant's week ual, 1t is needless to say that the gates of hospitality were thrown wide open, Omaha is one of those large bodies that moves slowly, but when she starts she geis there with both feet. A City Trust Needed. Kansas City Times, What is going to become of these western cities anyhow? Mr, Probasco, of this city, sets up a claim to about all of Omaha, the heirs of one Prudhomme are after 240 acres of the heart of Kansas City and now a Mrs. Verturn comes over from Germany with a claim to all the land on which Minueapolis 18 built. A city trust to resist claimants is in order, Man For the Place. Fremont Herald, Itis pow definitely settled that Judge Lewis A. Groff, of Omaha, will be appointed commissioner of the general land office, He is at present occupying the position of dis- trict judge, and is & mun highly regarded by everybody who know him, affable, able and incorruptible, and will make a most credita- ble record at the head of the land department ot the government. The Good Frospect for Bot Minneapolis Tribune. Bishop Newman, of Omaha, would prefer a race war to continued unrestricted immi- gration. He is likely to enjoy a little taste of both now and then during the remainder of his natural 1ifs, and ho won't have to put a nickle in the slot either. SRAENT IN THE SPIRIT. Sophia Thornburg. It is the hour of worship—a quict Sabbath morning; Suushine and shadow rost upon a protty gar- den Of greenland blue and gold that lag beside The white wall of the house of God. There wus a sound of the organ as it mingled its sweet tones with the voice of many wingers, Now soft and low or rising into louder an- thems Of praise that fell upon the ear of one who, Standing without amid his garden’s beauty listened With thoughtful interest to the joyful sound, Like the unseen wind that moves tho leaves Upon the trees, 50 came the mystery of wor- ship Into his soul. quiet, As when peace comes o tho restless waves and Their roaring v hushed into a murmur far away, Then came & longing for some coming good —a yeurning As of an exile for his native Jaud—a rever- ence S0 full of humble faith aud hope and love, He stood as one not worthy of such sacred Joy. There was o voic 10 break tho silonce f the hodr, Yet went there up with the buuul) of Wie morniog There was a silence—a doep BUZZINGS. ““They oughtto bave thoir empty hoads blown off with a pop-gun full of blue mud,” wnid & young married man to the Buzser. ‘“T'o whom do you refer!” was askoed, “‘Why, the mashers who make it their bus- iness to hang around the street ‘corners, not- ably the Wabash corner and the opera houso corner, and ogle and insult overy good look ing woman who passes.” ‘'My wife came home the other evening in agreat stato of indignation and excitoment. In answer to my inquiries sho stated that & well dressed man had spokon to her insult- ingly on the street, and followed her until she came within sight of a policoman. Then ne lit out. *T walked down the streot with her to seo if we couid run across the follow again, but could not find him. It would have given me groat pleasure to knock a fow lines of com- mon sense into him. £ “Omaha is not alone in this pestilenco, The ‘Kearney streot statues,’ as the mashors are known in San Francisco, got to bea terrivle nuisance until some nice girl's big brother, or some young married lady's hus- band pounded a few of them into pulp. Chicago's mashers on State street and in strect cars used to have a ‘real nico time, don't cher know,’insulting women on the strects. The attention of the police was finally called to the matter and dotectives spotted the more industrious of the mashing. fraternity, and gave them notice to keep off the street altogether, This had the effect of And the incense of the flowers silont offer- ing Of praise to Him who seeketh always those Who worship Hiw—iuMepicit and iu truth, abating the nuisance somewhat. I sugy that the decent men, who have wives uud sisters being insulted daily with the disgusting attentions of theso brutes, take the first one he catenes at it, tie him up m hard knots and drop him down a manhole. It might put a stop to it.” "y “Did vou ever experience the sensation of running against a corpse in the dark when you least expect 1one of a party of young fellows chatting in front of the Murr “Well if you have not, you don’t want to." ‘‘Tell us your experience, for you evi- dently have had one,” said another. overal years ago,” said tho first speaker, “I was working in a warehouse in @ town on the Columbia river, Oregon. We wero the agents for the Northern Pacific ex- Pbress, ana it was my duty to recoive the ex- press matter from the evening steamers down the river. As soon as I heard her whistle away up the river 1 would dispatch my delivery man to bring back the express box to the oftice, and would then make ouv my expense bills, ‘“The warehouse was built over the water, and as I satin my little ofice in the middle of the long black warehouse that night wait- ing for my man to return, I could hear the waves swishing among the piles beneath the house and the wind moaning and sighing as it swept off the river, It made me feel & little nervous. Finally the man returned, and when I got everything checked up I prepared to close up for the night. At the ond of the warehouse « we had a slip to facilitate the loading of ves- sels at difforent stages of the tide, this had been let down during the day and I wanted to make sure it was closed. The ware- house was very draughty and the light which Icarried blew out. I returned the lamp to the oftice and started down the gaugway towards the slip; it was dark as the side of apocket, but I knew the way. Near the big doors was a pile of Liverpool salt in sacks and as I came to the pile my foot struck something soft. Thinking it was a sack which had fallen down, I reached dowa to pull itout of the way. My hand was laid squarely across a dead, wet face. I grew suddenly cold with horror and every hair on my head rose up. My first thought was, ‘Could it have been murdert That was surely blood on my hand. I tremblingly feit for a match, struck it and by the brief flickering light beheld the most hideous face I ever saw. I nerved my- self to step over the body and try the doors. and slip, and then made my way back to the oftice. “When I entered my wman exclaimed: ‘What's the matter} You look us though you had scen a ghost.” I told him about find- ing the body and he laughed. ‘Why,’ said he, ‘that’s Ole Peterson; he fell overboard this evening and was drowned before we could save him. I thought you knew about it “Peterson was a stevedore, and although he was a good workman, possessed the most repulsive face I ever saw. Coarse, unkempt hair and beard intensified rather than con- cealed a brutal face. This was the sight I saw by the match light, the mouth wide open and the expressionless eyes staring right up into mwine, It was no lnul:lnlx" matter, and Il never forget it.” “Well, great scott! Is this the morguet and a lot of sleepers awoke from luxurious naps to gaze at a young fellow, a little the worse for looking too frequently at the wine cup. It was in the general sleeping room of the Turkish baths, and about 2 a. m. Ranged in arow along the room were cots containing men of many minds, but all more or less en deshabille. They had come one by one from the baths, and were dozing and chatting, and one or two enjoying a cigar before drop- ping off to sleep. The ‘“‘rounders” had dropped in late to “soak out,” as the attendant said. Some of them were regular lodgers, who were in the habit of taking the baths twice or thrice a week, aud who preferred to pay the fee of a dollar each night and lodge there. One or two were men of considerable avoirdupois® who take the baths rogularly to keep them- selves down to a comfortable weight. Later on u party of noisy, boister~ ous young fellows, hardly more than boys camo in. They had been makiog merry, were boxing hats und chaflng one another, Several men who had dropped into s com- fortable doze uwoke and requested them to tor getout. Tuey floally went to away their enthusiasm, and quiet reigned once more. Presently a gurgle came from a fav wan in the corner and swelled to a sonorous snore, “Hit him with & pillow,” said one man who had been trying to get rid of a bad cold by “sweating it out,” and who had a headache, “‘Hit him with a brick,” said another, Some one finally awoke the fat man and asked him to turn over and try it agan. Quiet reigned once more and one by one the occupants dropped off 10 sloe At balf past seven in the morning an at toudant awoke the sl s, and wrapping thoir togas about thom they went to the large plunge bath for a freshener, then to breakfast und work. This is a sample of u night iu the baths, Sometimes several congevinl friends make up @ party aud go to tho baths for & good comfortable swoat, and the luxury of the sleep it produces. o ilaS Tt An Unqualificd Success. Rapid City Jaurnal, The Omaba fuir was & unqualified sug- cess. ‘Thousands of people have visited that city during its continuance, and eve in- ducement had been held forth for them 4 do s0. Reduced rates on the railroads, hotel accommodations and everything calculuted to make the visitors' stay in the ity pleas- ant, had been arranged for, and the manages ment, as 4 reward for their efforts, had the pleasure of seolng one of the largest crowds ever assembled ab such an affulr proscut ia Owaba duriug its continuance. ...