Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 14, 1890, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDA SEPTEMBER 14. 1890, THE DAILY BEE 5 I. RSEVATER Edtor. YUBLISHEED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBS(RIPTION, | Sundiy, One ¥or L1000 s vl ot s y N, Ono'y flee, Ono ¥ ear. OFFICES The Bee Bulll troct. arof Com i oto Y orhite 315, Trihune but i ding wator CORRESIONDEN O, All conmunication reliting o niws nd edior! or should b addressed to the Depirtm ent. EINES LITTE] slettesand et Publishing €' 5 nd Rt b 1o e prsb1e o the order pany. TheBeePublishing Company, Proprietors, Tie e Mld ! d Sevententh St EWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCUIATION Btale of Nebraka th County of Do Go. . Tzshuck ntary of The Ree Publi<) a1 s, rinly syenr that T DATEY BE® for . Was s follons: . Sopt v, Sopn 1. Frilay. Apt. 1, Batirday, & Averagy.. Svorn 10 before mo and st 15 13th A4y 0F Sonte AD.. 10, NP, Fil, D 'y Publio Tuschuk belg Ay svorn. de aysthathe is weretiry of The fe pthatthe wtanl aver i for 10, 1955 copios: 1 £0r M rh, 150, 20,8 54 oG I, 1 1110 before e, und suberit e ts Eh Gy of Sy AN Ewentso wont Wyoming By wiy, hve yoa hean from Wyoming? T et that the republican campaign isto opn the 201 of September shaild bewaring cough for the demoerats to take tothe woods CEE———— LrG e THOUSAND of Boston’ yongsiors vore fogged dn tho publi schoolsduring theyear, Beantown cult isnot linited to the mentalapparatus, smporary chairman of the Ken- : wnstitutionl conveition was no s a persomge than George Washing- ton. Bt ashe oly swung the titl of caonel to his mme he filedto rise popular enthusiasm. Wy oMING is the first state in the union inwhich women cxerdsed the right to vote onoqual terms with men. There- tums, howe fail to show amarked increns in the vote cast. The privilege wis only springly exercised, owing to anoffensivecaus in the hw requiting: women to “tell the truth, the wlole truth and nothing but the teuth’ con- coning their age, TrEdemoeraey of Wyoming mig ht as well confessdefeat and retive from busi- ness. To asribethe resultto an error inthe law, which affected democrats oily, ischillish. Tho truth i that a mijorily of the people dterminel to cat their fotunes with the progresive paty of the mition. Republicanism mude Wyoming what it is,and the peo- plof Wyoning merely exprossed their gntitule attheballol box, THE Llatest official bulletin shows a mavke falling off inthe estimated pop- ulitionof Denwer, The recount of the cliy, awording to published statements, phcedthe populition at one hundred anl tyentysix thousnd, whereas the oficial igures plice the nimber atome Thundred andsix thowand six hundred and seventy, Anincrase of sevntyone thousand inten yearsis, howe ver, splen- dll prof of the enterpriss and public spirit of tho people of Denver. THEmmnuncement made a fov weels ago that Mr. Rockefiller, the Standard oll king, had decided to founda grand Baptist univer ad donate twenty millions toplacing it at the hed of d Aminitional schools, turms out tobe a Mel anand, Mr. Rockeeller is not fuilt on the philanthropic eplan. Al- though he lus a few millons hid avay for @ rainy day, he is (0 much occu- plod inthe holy work of freczingout Standard ol competitors to seriosly think of immortalizing himself through theol ogical me moriz Tk Boston Advertiser makes avery sensiblo remark when it says that the style of finling fanlt with the tenth cen- sus isall moonshine. It siys thatthe ninth census was only comparative, and the tenth censuas, which givesthe coun- try G4500,000 in rownd numbers, is all that could be expectel. With perhaps ahalllozenexceptions the emnsuswas weuntely taken, Ofcourse there yere poplonbsent, ad some mturns may be fraudilont, But compard vith 1880 our figures wero all-suficient, and, as the Advertiser says, it is foollshnes to misen grat huand eryabout inceu Hey . EFRTS are belng mule in congress to estiblish a groat national park in the famous Yosemite region of California, This voaderful region was granted to the state of California yars ago for u mrk, but the bulchery of natire’s grandour by the state commission has given an impetus to the movement to revoke thegran and place it under na- tlonal swporvison., In uttenpting to Improve onthe natural heaulies of the rogion the stato conmission destroyed woresof tinber, ploved acres of delight- Ll valleys and despoiled the wild granleur of mountin sdes with im passable rads, The ruln wrought is sufficient justifiation for repealing tho grant and plicing the park under stringent federal laws., Next to the Yellowstone park, the Yosenite region affords the greatest variety of scenio beauly om the continent, and the govern: mentshould preserve it for the edifica: tlon 0! the people for all time AN ENCOURAGING OUTLOOK, Less than tenyears ago there was not s yardof pivingon the streetsof Omaha, Therowas not & fot of severage con sructed. Very litlle gnding had beo done and but afew thousand dollars had been expended in publi . Omahu was withont water works and in lieleod allthe pssentials of a metropoli- tan city. Her population was barely thirty thosand Then came the e of publie improve- ment, People imide tho eity who dungto the old fogy ides and persons outside the eity shook their heads in gravedoubt, A rewction was predicted and itwastallcel in 81 and '82thatOmaha wouldsurely bunkrupt hersell, Butevents haveshown the fallicy of the erokers’ prophesies, Up to Seplember 1, 18K, thero have been expended in public in- provements in the city of Omal six milkion, four hundred und forty-seven thousand, nine hundred and one dollars. Thisof course doesnot inelude hundrels of thousands of dollars vhich have been oxpendedby property-orners in grad ing mnd draimge. It sinply represents the money that has actiallybeenpaidby the cdty by tax levees and from the proceeds of bonds. Thegreater part of this wvast totalis represoted by piving sewerage, grading. vinducts, ete. Indopendent of this municipaloutly fully five willions have been expended in Omala by franchised corporations lor water works, gas plantsandstrect railways, Omaha's marvelous strides toward metropolitn proportions are chiefly dwe to the unstinted support of pub- lic improvements by tax-pay ing property owners, om thi thowandshe s vithin ten yeus panded o o city of one lundred and forty thowsand population. The burden of tixation has been very heavy and somelimes almost. unbeavaldle, bat we maysoonlook for a material decrease of taxes The bilk of our grading, paving and sewer builling is alvealy done and is rapidly boing paid for, Within a fov year Omaha will beableto compare favarbly withanyeity in the coun| in the matterof taxation. Unlilenearly all othercities Omaha is not sublivided by viversand deeyp trequire heayy outlay for brilges, tunnels md viaduets, witha continwus deainon the taxpiyers for maintemnce, The greal dties bordering on the sen or lLake are taxed cnomously for maintaining vater fronts, while St. Paul and Minnea polis have ex pended millions on bridges; Cleveland has issuel three millios of bonds for her great viaduet, Milvaukeo has a half dozen deaw bridges, Chicago has her bridges and tunnels, and Bufalo, Roch- ester, Pittsburg and Cincinnati have been similavly taxed. While Omual has spent one hundvel aad thicty-sis thowandon viaducts, the wailrouds 1 be ecompelled to build all visducts that areto bebuiltin the future, and vory projerly since thechiefobjet must be to provent rallroad aceidents, The North and South Omaha crecks which formerly trwversed the ety wmd had to be bidged at great expense haye bheen tramsformed into xmin sewers and nov aswer thedouble serv- ice of arrying of the suface water thatformerly went into creeks, and also carty off thebody of ull sewage that flows into them through thelateral pipe system. The only drawback isthe wooden block pavement which even tunlly must be re- placed by less perishable paving ma- terils. We havespent almost amillion dollars in grading, 1n that potion of thecity which was comprisel in theold boundaris only three or four streets re- main to be grndedand filled, Ton yers hence every streetand alley within the present boundavies will be graded, and all the Tots and lind adjacent will be brough tio theestablished level. Thence- forvard the siormous grading expenses which draw so0 heavily onour genoral fund will ceass and consoq umntly the cost. of running the city government will be very materially reduced. By that time Onaha willbe one of the most altractive cties in Ameca. It hasbeenan otlay of millins, but afte all the vory fict that an army of labor- ingmenhavebeen employed for many years onthe public works his been one of the prinapal fictors inthe growth andprosperily of Omiha. Thoe mony hasbeenmostly spentat homaand cir- culited smong ow people, ind has con- tribited largly toward muking Omiha what she is today, Had Omuha been laidouton adead level she could not possibly have hadsuch growth, While Omha has ken infested with boodlers anddishonest contractors. therehas been a smalle preentago of jobbery and swindling onour public works than in anycityon the continent. While tixes have been high we have more to show for our momy than any western city. ‘We have over one hundred miles of grided strects, a system of sewernge that extndsoverseventy-five milesand over fifty milos of street pavement, most of which is with pernanent material. These fiets aford convineing proof that Omuha real estate has o substantial basis with the assurancs that while property valies vill alvance asthe city grows tuxation isbound todecrease, OVERTAX K] PUILS, Our public schools opaed the past week and pupils fortunate enough to have pssed their examinations have been asigned to higher casses for the prosenttern Avery large proportion of the totalnurmber have been advanced a peg ligher, and there isno disposition onthe part of THE Bre toseek toundo what has beem dome, But there is a feding among many elucators and parents of pupils that the clisses last yewr were pushed too wapidly in their stuliesand that many pupils wore taxed far beyond thelr cancities anl powers of endurance inthe mad rush for afinal and sucessful examination atthe close of the term, Indeed, it has boen held that many of the pupilswero literally Amggel through commencenent day that the teachems of the diferent grades might make the best posibleshoving of results, It hus also been sald that a large proportionof pupils who manged topass exanination coull not posibly have undergone sucossfully the same onleal thirly days afier school closed. This is not a startling stateof things viowed by the history of publiec schools in most large citis of the country, Many readors of THE BEE remember the agitation in Now York, Chicago, Cinein- nati and othercastern cities o few years g0 wpon this subject. A wall went up from the people that their ehildren were beimg overtaxed; that gile young minds were being crammed beyond the limitof power to retain, and that the | anwl examintions hd degenerated into araccof teachers for preferment— aroaring farce. Reform was demanded and in padt acomplished, THE I3EE has not been slow to com- mend the work wcomplished by the toacliers of our public schools. Their efficiney fs known to be ona par with that of the lest teachers of eastern cit But the honest desire for a still better showing leads this paperte peal for more thorough and pationt teaching. In the end it will be best for the pupil to learn less during a given termif bythat mens he may be per- mitted to learn well THE TRAINING OF T'E ACHERS. Juiged by the bestold world stand- ards, the training of teachers in the United States is capable of being very greatly improved, Our inferioity in this rospect isin a large measure due, a8 stated by President Hall of Clark uni- sity inan article on this subject in the Iorwn, to the fact that wearein America too solf-satistied and too indif- ferent to what is done elsewhere. Every rmspettable man of science learns prompt of every impor- tant new discovery or treatise in his lne throughowt the world, but our profes- sionalschool for teache ys Peol. Hall, our city and state sup: ors, and even our highest edicational institutions ave conducted without utilizing, or even studying, the experiences of other lands. Inthe normal school the Prussion minister of education s quoted by Fro- fessor Hall as aserting, is found the s and demerits of any system. Upn the quan- and quality of the pi fessional training of “hers depends the value of any system of instruction. Notonly is this trve, Professor Halt be- lieves, but it is also indisputable that thereis 10 part of the eductional s term so prone o dsteriorte and “because not ouly sterile butinjurious” The first need of teachers, even in the lower grades, isa beterknowledge of the sub- jectstaught. Professor Hall urges that teachers sholld be far beyond their pupils, even of the brightest ones, and should be able to command the choicest resoireesof theirsubjeet. Breadthoof mind and the ability to im- part instruction inany branch ave hest obtained by careful labor insome chosen mental field, Tothis end he believes thatthe broad cumiculim of the normal schools should be reconstructed with a view to greuter attention to special topies. Teaching, says this eminent educitor,is it no good swse profess- fonal tillteachersare far beyond the need of koys and translations, Even reading, school mathematies, history, geography, languages and writingare far more ef- fectually taught by teachers who have beentempered for their vork, by the glow that comes from growing insight intosome chosen mental field, and who know what devotion totruth foritsown sake means; who have developid some interest in thelr subject and enthusiism forit. b Prof. Hall would have one school lay slightly more stress upon Letters, history andliterature others, perhups, upon lines of scientific research, General training onlydoes notfit aperson to enter into theworll asa tewher in thes duy: when all its inkllectual spheres are ruled by experts. Nextaftor proficiency in the subjects, Professor Hull placesthe history of education and the institutions, methodsand laws of todayin this and other countries. Every Europen gov- ernment, he suys, k expensive agen- ciesto laarn promptly the latest cha and improvements in all pol: and wilitary maters in other countries, and strives to be the first to ad just itself to new condition and to avail itselfof it, Manufacturers, busi- ness men and scientists follow the course of modern thonght and diswovery in the branches which engage their altention. Thesame thing should be done in the intorest of cluention, New departures have been made in educational methods in o number of Buopem countries, but in the United Stites leaders are too much absorbed o serv- ing tho interctts of singlo insti- tutions to study and profit by these for- eignexporiences, Prof. Hall suggests (hree things which he believes willadvance the cause of education by securing bettertraining for the teachors, These ar First, more thorough knowledge of the subject taught. Secwond,a knowlelge of thehi tory of educition, educational institu- “tions, and the methods and laws of our own comtry anl of other countries, Third, move careful attention to psy- chology. RATLROA D EMPLOYES 1N POLITICS. The numberof men employed on the rail- rouls ofthe cunty by 1,7 companies is noy reported by the intastate comuissin at 704758, 1t is a pretly bigarmy of transporta- tion, Itis anaverige of 45% men wevery 100 miles of raiload In Nebuska thers are 6 miles of railvoad and this ratio would give, asthe tolal numberof men employed in operating the railmids in this state, 24 These represent & ppulition of over a hun- dred thosand thit depend om rail trans- portation for subsistence. Next to the farners of Nebriska the Largest class of men engged m the_sume general work are the rairoad ma. The poposition, therefore, that ‘rail- roud men bave nobusiness in politics™ is not a very tenabloone. Thoy haye allthe rights of American citizens and ther interests aro probablyas dear W them as those of other working people. —Lineoli Journal. The Wik wout American eitizens and their Interests, in this instance, is all moonshine. Of the twenly-thiee thou: d, one hundeed and seventy-one men employed, from section hand and striker up, how many of them make politics their business? Twenty thousand of them vote the ticket of their choice un- less they are bulldowd by their supe rios orarerun in ougravel trains and voted at a half dozen different polling plices in one day, The propsition Is that ‘“railroads have 1 buwsines in poliies,”and had | thoy kept Useir hands off in former vers the popular uprsing agsinst railroad domination in this state would not now b folt. It is notthe sectinhand or trainman to whom people object. It is the perni- rupting lobbiesat legislatures; who send pusses to thetestrikers and use all undue means to ey things gener rond toilers ha o conventions The vast army of 1 » nothing to do with this venme. 18 thelegislation | secured by the monopoly minagers is generally against rather than for them. There isno doubt that the m the rtilroads have ri American citizens, and their interests trouble is thattheir interest in politics ame a8 the interestof the t purchase their lab allowed to e 5 rights as American citizens without let without promi corporations motion or th monopolist would object to their taking an active intorest in politics. LABOR PROBLEMS The congres of trades cently held in Liverpool was the most impaortant of all gutherings which this body hus ever held, wrger than ever never before givento the proceelings by the pres. Thisattests not only the growth of terest in organized labor immedintely coneerned, greater concem which the general pub- than ever before to press their demands, and also that there vastly groater popular interest rog ing them than at s previous time. important incident of the congress at Liverpool wis the considera- tion of the question of astatutory eight- hourlabor day, and the eight-hour ad- vocates gained a resolution was passed by the congress in favorof reducing the labor day to eight hours, but it is not expected that will follow for a there was a when the vol rge number of absentees on the resolution talcen, most of whom were opposel more or less directly to parlinmentar ference with hoursof labor, while of the remainder many were disinclined to com- by voting one wuy or the s that the champions careful tose- possible representation mit the msel v curethe fullest in the congress, and that t¥ posed tothe compulsory curt ng hours in all tra napping, expecting much effort the great preponderance they axhibited a year ago at Dundee. In that congress the proposi- tionthat the hours trade should b3 r agreement on the part of empl the employed copmanded pulated by mutul arge major- the eight-hour 1 plution carvied in the s cannot he regavded bred thatat the Duneee congressa year ago out of vitel 10 say whelher the eight-hour day onl sufliciently interes malke any returns at all, and & major members of these unions we against the proposal. It is to bo ob- 150, that the dive sadin the Liverpool congress on this question v tionmte to On the whole, is undoubtelly hour movement has long time is likely to elipse such 1 general aca i cence init by the trades unions as will enable them to fora statutory 1 in the question to ity of opin- the ballot. before there is 00 a demand eight-hour itbor day. tuation of labor on the contient of Burope is commanding more of thoat- tention of stitesmen than even political affairs. There isvidespread discontont, wages resulting from the overcrowled This s espocially the case in Bel- gium, in Awstro-Hungiry andin Italy, but there ave also portions of where, notwithst the emperoy to ameliorte the condition of lubor, there is still a gre satisfaction. Among European countries rs to be less troubled disturbances than at deal of dis- France appe present with any other, though in that countr vauks of labor. short, overywhere tion, and wheve thereis not tation or actual conflict the conditions of discord and warlare ar present and liable selves at any time. labor in continental Europe has not been sovero than it Is now at any pre- time in the last fifty years, and appears to be no promise of an improvernent. reason (o apprelend thatthe situation will become move serious before there is a change for the bettor. nevertheless anifest them- The oppression of the American which was aratoga,. devoted a day to the department of ,health, sell of Massachuasetts read what w ided tobe by the assemibled multitude, paper entitle Health and the N The learned doctor went a good ways around a bar £60°give the puper a gent rent menting of Ho siid the expan- sion ofthe newspapers from the little sheet of our fif¥hers to the huge Sunday newspapers of today, wher the varied intefests of the whole w has been accompanied by oth He maintained that the average reader thousand facts seried columms, sisted that to win his attention he must be aroused, excited, terrified; that it wis impossible to give any subject thoughtful comsideration because tie mind staggered under the load of mere facts and ceased to grow and strengthen, ‘What should be given speciul emphasis, the doctor claimed, was that department of the paper which deals with the darker side oflife. Many read this with cager avidity, and their thoughts in time turn “yulgar and uncanny clous hubit of oficials who sustain cor- | finally making sympathy for criminals n isdepicted skims lightly ~-TWENTY PAGES and soon criminals of the readers them- selves, The doctor’s audlence, which of course ras spectacled and thoughtful, coln- cided with him, and at the close of his reading the applause issaid o have been deafening. That his views haveno ra- tional foundation goes without saying. It is a generally accepted fact that the great newspapors of today are one of the best and cheapest methods of education which are offeredto the public. All subjects are discussed from & secular standpoint, and the opinions of the edit- ors may be accepted or el Ifat school the teacher tells the child that something is true the child believes it. If at chureh the parson saysso and so is true, for the most part the believers of the creed insist that it must be true. But the editor’s opinion is an unbiased one, given from a knowledge of all sidos of the question under discussion, and if it is not believed it can at least do no harm whether it is read hastil whether it is accorded ca A newspaper, if enterprising, in these days caters to all tastes. It may bo likened, in that regard, to a bill of fare ot a fist-cluss lotel, Yot because it gives all the news thero is no more rea- son to read so much of it as to cause headache than there would be in order- ing so much dinner beeauss the viands were enumerated on the bill of fave asto cause stomach-ache, If aman wants to read the foreign news or the domestic news in a Sunday newspaper he glances over the hend- s, which indicate the naturveof the and veads thoso tlings in which 3 an interest. So when he sits down to dinner in his hotel, hocause the bill of fare happens to start off with soup of a half dozen varleties, it is neither compulsory nor expected that the guest will order them all, though it would appear that this isthe way the eminent doctor would go about his din- ner. One may beinterested in the con- gresional proceadings found ina nows- paper, while another would read the sporting column and another something else, butno one would read the details of asensation unless he had an interest in them. The heading would convey to him an idea of what the article con- tained, and with the many columns of other matters in which he would bein- terested, he would only bea glutton if he felt that he must vead the entire paper whether he wanted to or not, in order to get his mone worth. Statistics everywhere prove the truth of the proposition thatif it were not for illiteracy, thers would be a lirge do- erease in the numberof criminals, and it has remained for Mr. Russell to read what w. lod alearned paper bofore the Social Sciencs Assoriation of Amer. iea to prove that any kind of general knowledge boegets crime. Ewen if his idess were correct his hypothesis i wrong, for the reason that newspapers do mot print gar an uncanny news.”’ may recite the history of some de episode or sendal in high orlow life, yetsuch oceurrences always point a mov- al as well as ndorn a tale. The doctor’ scientific view would lead us to beliove that if one were 1o read anaccount in a wicked Sunday newspaper of anattempt- ed robbery, it would follow that he would immediately bacoms a highwayman, The Sunday newspaper of today, with its well-filled and many columns of in- formation gathered from all sources and contributed by the brightest minds, apart from its nows , which in itself is a marvel, has proven a boon not only to the well-to-do, but more espe- cially tothe poor, who could not aford to purchase such information in any other w d who only findtime for general reading on Sunday, It unques- tionably stands as one of the greatest educators of the nineteenth century, It would appear in order for Dr. Russell the next annual meeting of the Ame can Social Science association o give advanced id on the proposition that themoon ismade of green cheesoand what hns been generally supposed to be aman in it is nothing but a wiggly maggot. Tre Boynton bicycle rvailroad in operation on Coney island is another evidence of the possibilit ol electrical development, As its name implies the curs are v on a sin- gle wail, with overhead sideguards tosteady the train and carry the clee- tric current. Tests of speed recently made surpass anything on whee mile of road was traversed in thivty- three seconds, orat the rate of one hun- dred and nine miles an hour. The inven- tor claims that on long distances a speed of three hundred miles an howr can be salely made, This may be considered a veckless gait, but we ave living in a fust age, and the means of transportation must keep pace with the public desives, ‘When Horatio Allen pulled the throttle of the Stourbridge Lion in 1820 and at- tained the speed of six miles an hour, the incredulons spectators cheered what wis considered a “‘marvelous achieve- ment.” The progress made in the sue- ceeding half contury, particulaly in the last quarter, has been so great that peo- ple cease towonder at new developments, accepting them as a matter of course, Sixty milesun hour for short distances is common nowadays, and a speed of ninety milesan hour is not uncommon, but a speed of three hundved miles an hour takes one’s breath away. To be whirled from New York toSanFrancisco inthirteen hours must beexperienced to beappreciated. Such velocity has its advantages, however, Incuse of a ¢ lision, broken rail or misplaced switeh, there would not be enough of the frag- ments found to give a wrecking crew a job. TuE stronghold of eneral Ezeta upon the contidence of the people of Sal- or was strikingly shown in hisele tion to the presidency by the congress with but one dissenting vote. That he isa man of more than ordinary force and a soldier of ability, his conduct of allairs after the death of his predecessor in the presidency fully attested, and it is not to be doubted that his aims are en- tirely patriotic. He has now a great opportunity to place Salvador far in the leud among the states of Central America and to make for himself immor tal fame asa statesman, Thore appears to be no good resson why Salvador should not at once be recognized by the gover: { mentof the United States, the election | of ¥zeta having been, so faras appears, entitely regular, and the lawful admine | Istration of affuirs in Salvador having boen fully resumed, —_— CONSTSTENCY is o jewel unknown to o jority of the so-called reform asso- tions, Onme of this ¢l sheds croco- dile teavs over the “woes™ of the work- ing men, and n the next breath pro- poses & national protestagainst the open- ing of the world’s fuivon Sunday. How can the vast army of workers visit the show if not on Sunday? Must they take one or more holidays and sacrifice sov- eraldays’ wages merely to satisfy anab- i sentiment? The enjoy- ment to he derived from an inspection of the exhibit of works of art and products of skilled industry cannot in the remot- est degree be tortured into desecration of the Sabbuth, and the attempt todeprive hundreds of thousands of poor people of the privilege of smacks of puritanic hlue laws, —_— ToyM EprsoN is credited with a con- suming desire to establish telephone connection with the moon. Surely this is carrying modern progress too far. The country calmly viewed the destruction of the Washington apple tree story, the marksmanship of William Tell and the collapse of Mother Shipton's phophecy, but whenan inventive IPaul Pry pro- poses to ring up pule Luna to ascertain whethershe is an animated case of lim- berger it is time to calla halt, The cheese factories of the country must be protected, POLITICAT, CHOW - CITOW. Alocaipoot wants to “smite the conse- erated lyre,” but he will doubtless be obliged to wait until the campaign is farther under wa A Pontiae, TiL, paper skins Me. McKeighan. In fact allthe papers ave skiuning Me. Mc- Keighan these days Major John C. Watson refuses to decline for float reprosentative, but the fellows are ying news thathe will be the comine man. A few more days and Mr. Watson will pel all the view Now that General Van Wyck has with- drawn from therace in the First congression district, Mr. Bryau continues to think that I is the coming man. But Mr. Bryan must firstdofine, ina manly wa nbition prociivitios and wristocs The republicans propose to open up the campaign about September 2. There will notbe many totchiights, but there will be a great deal of solid, common sense talked from the speakers’ stand. Mr. McKeighan s yet ranning for office. Hehas not yet found a friend good enough to pull him off. “The rumor set afloat by Ole Oleson to the effect that Faul Vandervoort was to be ap- pointed postmaster, has been given serious consideration in some qu The painful news com n Schuylert Coloel Russcll was dono up by the vepubli cans of that city, and the sportive gentleman will not be nominated for the legislature. It waould appear that after all, Jorphets are not appreciated in their own conntrs Because some of the democratic papers were printing Cushing's name W. 1., in- stead of W. H., there was great consternation in the democratic central committes’s room. They thought if he was tobe clected his name must be spelled properly. The only trouble is, the initials of the next state treas- urerare . 1., and the last name is Hill, our members of congress, and both of a Nebraska boodle legislature; a United States senator from Dakota, the delegate from Arizona; Ben Hur, the state auditor of Vermont; the late Senator Mulone and Flanagan of Texas, endorsed Paul Van Der Voort after much importuning and bulldozing for the gencral superin- tendency of the raily mail s . Several Grand Army commanders, gov- eruors and other functionaries wrote special letters recommending Van Der Voort as one of the wards of the nation to whom the country owes a living, .But Wanamaker pigeonho.ed theprecious documents, Hoe knew all about Van DerVoort's record. He knew that he had never seen a battle and had never smelled unpowder. The nearest that he cver got to a fight was when ho went out foraging and threw up his hands to a squad of Johnny rebs, who marched him off without a scrateh to Richuond, and flually in due time sent the burly warrior to his mother in very vobust health. Wannamaker had scen Van Dor Voort's name mentioned in the Puacfic raiload reports as a person employed by the Union Pacific in the legisla tiveoil rooms. It was an opa seeret at the department, too, that the doughty veteran who didall his fighting with his* alligator jaw hal been dis 4 by Postmaster General Gresham for ot of duty and genoral worthlessiess, So inspite of the forty-six congressmen, the three sonators, Ben Hur and the Dodlin Granite wuditor from Vermont, Honest Join Wannsmaker positively declined to locate Van Der Voort on a eushioned claiv in the general postofiice. He appointed Bell, whose principal recommendation was that he didn't dabble in politics and did not own forty-six congressmen to his name, Then there was wailing and gnashing of teeth and the whangdoodle mourned for his first-horn A tearful appeal was made by the supreme court to let Van Der Voort down sasy by giving him a mail superintendency Worth, Tex., but that little scheme llod to comneet. Finally a sinecuro was created in the Omaha prstofice for the bombastic Hoodoo, He was made supervisor of mail sacks and boss of Jim Stephenson’ spread-engle artillery chests which are ing service as Unele Sam's mail wagons Such o doscent from big things to small oues has seliom been seen in these parts Aud now the musty autographs of tho dim LOBSTER SAT.AD. A univorsity prin in Englind his it been awardod toa plamber, Ho perbips got more feet into it than any of his competitor, thinking that ho was writing a bill. Kooley, the motor man hos just completel his fifty-third yoar. This is about all that 1y has com pleted, howover Ttls claimed that a fungus parasite Is kil ing off the coffeo plant in all partsof iy world, and that tea must bo tho drink of future, This should give Purchasing Agon Hartiey new hove, and & fow more chests Allianee tea should bo ordered, and the o mission divided with Me, Burtows. Two Trishmen wero walking down Faruin streot yesterday, and one of them said to (s othe “im, Tsce that the d—a McKinley places an embargo on our count but few of them will be apt to com lereis a thirt Mika,' said Pat ashe walked away Ttisquitcovident from the odorof canyliorin the opera houso these evenings, that the ol season has arrived. A few society gont i have taken their coats outof camphor, whily the remainder of them are yet. in soak Jamaica is not satisfied with the o America levies on her sugarand throat retaliation, If what purports to be Jamica rum is the pure article, the retaliation is . ready complete, A Toronto umbrelia company las assi Persons who have borrowed their should return them in this, their hour ¢ fortune. It is announced that George Palliin started in lifewithout apenny. But by iy first time the train reached its destination o division with one of his porters made him rich man, The twenty or thirty thousund whites i Mississinpl who have been disfranchised cause of the adoptionof theeducational clu o in the new econstitution should forezo pleasuro of night riding and attend school. Biison has made another startling dis - ery, He has carried ot successiul <ois ¢ of experiments by which lithium saits i o carried into the system by external appli tion and through theuse of eloricity settles a long folt desive. The discoyery not stop at one drug. The man who h tofore has stood alone at, 12 o'clock 1 a cold room adininistering paregoric darling can sieep on wndisturbed, tery can be adjusted and a 1 the soothing syrup be administerad du the night, Aman can attach himsli ¢ distillery by a single wire and thus wholesale rates on a town-painting gramme. Walleyed science is mowi, thesuperstitions of the dark ages, Now that William Tell has been aboli from history as amosty myth, some Lo haired student should attempt to prove thit freedom didn't carry on when Kosciusko f For idioey in the superlative, the vo man whohas chargeof the *‘growing g1 tion” takes the bakery. The man who has been w ng at the sola fountain all sunmer will now have o vaci- tion, Thie report that one of the city comcilmin who was exerdsing one of the giasticutuses on the city hall wasoverpowered by € Pulaski and the giasticatus run in, lacks cone firmation The highly gratifying information comes, and diceet from headquarters, 00, that tho bustle is not to be resumed. As paradoxical as it may seom, it is relegated to the e, and will be frowned out of existence, Mr Whitney, wifeof the ex-secretary, says thit shehas information from Worth that e bustle is never moreto adorn fair wonun's form. This will be asad blow tonewspiers which expected to increase their eirealation, butthe fact that the few additional yards of cloth which would be consumed in const inga dress aresaved, horid men will il this statement with delight. George Lemon, the big pension man wis placed on the standto testify in the Ruum investigation, The comumittee however failod to squeeze him, Congress having pussed the river and harlor appropristion. bill and left out all 1 ence to the scow line, it is notout of place to ask: Where is the Scow Man! He dropped down onus a few months ago like a wad of dew from heaven, He claimed to be from New York and his schemo was very simple, Allhe wanted was the trifliag sum ¢ wmillion dollars and he would put inaline of mud scows, each oue of which woulld ve more bewilaering than the burnished and distint past have been served up with o dish of council combine dead duck on the Tammany Twenty-cight platter as Vin Der Voort's credentials for the Omaha postofiice, But Winnamaker has very peculisr notions about men and thi Ho doesn't care o straw about the forty-six congressmen and the Dodlin granite maa from Vermont or the delegate from Arizona, but insists that the nest postmaster shall have the backing of the respousible patrons of the oMce. Tho petition of Chaffeo und Davis will be conrte- ously acknowledged in due time, by the p. m &, and placed on file with other impertinent istter, Blla Wheeler Wileor in the Century, My life's long vadiant summor halts at last; And lo! beside my pathway I behold Pursuing autumn glide; nor frost nor cold Has heralded hor presence, but a vist Sweet catm that comes not till the year has past Its foeble soistice, and tinge of gold Subdues the vivid colorings of the bol And passion-hued emotious. 1 will cast My August days behind me with my May, Nor strive to drag them into autumn's place, Nor swear | hope, wheu Ido butvemember, Now violet and rose have had their day LI pluck the soberer asters with good grace, And call September nothing but September, scow in which Cleopatrasteamed down tho Nilea fow years ago. But the Scow Man didnot tarry long. He perhaps would hivo compromised on five dollars instend of fvo millions, His card and his circular simly ated that he hailed from New Yo dia notindicate tothe carions whether he liv: 1 onthe Boweryor on Brovdway, Hol affaivs of navigation in the nands of (1) double-cnder,and the doable-onder hus I visions of countloss thousands of pantingand sereaming, heavily 1 froight htween here and Pitisburg, | way of Now York and the Dual S, B ittho Scow Man remains in theshadows. s pawn? The able to of the visiou schome should wire the presideat not to siz theappropriation bill unlll the seows incluc Itshould denounce the con zress and bring the Scow Man from bis hidin place and let him explain, There isa disoml and yawning vacaum in the history of i3 affaiv and it should be speedily und promptly filled with information, T Frohibition's Battlc Axe. The deceptive New York Voice cont its misrepresentation of everything r can, * * * * The people of lo plainly sce that the Voice is published tirely in the interest of the democratic > Itadvocates temperance as a shicld which it may cavry daggers tostab tru perance wherever it appears. [t s the dishonorable paper published in the ! States and it is doing more to aid and ¢ courage the saloons than all other pupers published in the nation, Worse than the Gavel. Chicag Tater-Ocean Reed's majority hurts the democrats worse than his gavel. 4 OMAHA LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY. Subsoribed and Gun, Pald in Capitnl Buys and sclls stooks and bonds: negot commerdial paper; receives and exect Lrusts; aote as transfer agent and trus corporations, takes charge of property, col= le:is taxes. Omaha Lo;n&TrustCo SAVINGS BANK, S E Corner 16th and Douglas Sts Pald in Oapital # 1,000 Bubscoribed wnd Guaranteed Capital 10,000 Liubility of Stockholders 1L 0 5 Por Oent Intorest Paid on Deposits, FRANK J. 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