Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 30, 1891, Page 4

:E HE ])A]T;Yi BE,E, B ROSEWAT B EVERY MORNING. R Eorron TERME OF SUBEORTPTTON ay)One Yoar. undny Weekly Bee, One Y OFVICE nlin, The Bee Butldin Fouth Oyibia. Corner N and %t Streets, Connotl Bufrs, 1 ( 1and 16,Tr rieenth street. CORRESPON DENCE 1l communieations relating to news snd edliorial Taiter should be addresied tothe Editor!al Departmen BUEIN All business letters and _romittances shonld e nddressed to The Bee Pubilshing Company, Omiha. Drafis, checks and postofice orders 10 he made payable to the order of the com- piny. The Bee Publishing Comnany. Prooriciors THE BEE BUTLDING. Eyony ] tate o - County of Donglas. Vo b, Trachuk, tecrotary of Tre B Goes n Geor, Fublishing company, that the actiral cireulution of T for the week ending March 23, 10 betare prosence (his %th day uly sworn, de- ¥ of Ty Bee tual average .Y BEE for the June, 18 062 coples; for August, prombor, 1860, 20,570 e i p o Wi cop Eworn (o hefore me. and subserl presence, this #th day of Febriary, A, D., 1891, N, P, e, Notary Publie. SNk e e To the loglslature—“May your last dlays be your best.” FASTER woather was not really agree- mble, but it was appropriste. The searching wind was easterly AF more incl of moisture will Increase the danger that Nebraska wheat fields will produce 50 bushels to the nere. THE death of Bismarck would be a great calamity. It would deprive the foreign correspondents of their principal stock-in-trade THE president has the good sense to give the land commissionership again to the west. The plan has worked well nnd it is wise to follow it. As ALMOsT everybody has the grip nowadays, it is notat all strange that the appropriation combine should have the grip on the lagislature. —— THE Gougar woman has slandered some United States senators, but they pecdn’tlie awake nightson that account. The Gougaris n common scold and habit- ual slanderer. Now that the Omaha bar has named the judges that are to preside over the court it would soem to be in order that the Omaha schiool ma’ams should decide nmong themselves who ave to be mem- bers of the school board, THE Bar association has relieved the governor of the responsibility of naming the four judges. It now remainsto be soon whethor or not the governor will waive his privileges and accept the dic- tum of the assembled lawyers. THE Utah commissioners think Salt Lake has been a trifle overboomed, The difficulty is that whenever the gentiles elect a1 ward officer the price of real estate is advanced, and {there have ‘boen several gentile victories in the last year or two. THE democratic newspapers are thor- oughly disgusted over the successful efforts of Socretary Rusk o induce Ger- many to remove the embargo on Ameri- can cattle and roundly abuse Uncle Jerry for threatening to retalinte if the ompiro continues to speak Adisrespect- fully of American swine, emmms—e——— SIir JOHN MACDONALD threatens to lave six regimonts of British red coats quartered in the Dominion to watch the conspirators whd feol friendly to the United States. Sir John could do nothing which would more speedily in- creaso an annexation sentiment and force unlimited reciprocity. The Canadian premier was born in the time of George IIT., but his memory is defective. Tug Illinois democrat tee has decided that straight party candidate und sont for General Palmer to go to Chicago and whoop it upon that line. This leaves Curter Harrison in an embarrassing position. In the meantime, the people can find an easy way to settle the difli- culty without giving either of the rival democrats an advantage over the other. They can quietly elect young Hemp- stead Washburne. —_—e THE Newfoundlanders have secured the able services of Sir C'harles Dilke in advocacy of their cause, and the fact ap- poars to have caused somo sensation in England. There is a strong offort on the part of the supporters of the govern- wment to disparage the importance of this controversy, but despite the fact that they profess to regard it as merely o ‘lobster row” it has in it the possibility of serious trouble. If the peopl of Newfoundlund were en- tirely isolated it might bo an easy mat- ter to coorce them into submission, but they ave ia a position not only to com- mand sympathy but ussistance, and the British government cannot very well afford to encourage serious colonial dis- turbance {n this continent. The indica- tions are that the ministry does not take the same view of the matter that the London newspapors profess to take, and it is probable that in the final adjust ment of the matter the Newfoundlanders will not be left wholly at the merey of France, us they are at present. THE OMAHA DAILY B ALTEN OR CITIZEN? A bitter partisan controversy has beon in progress in this state for more than threo months over the eligibility of James E. Boyd to fill the office of gov- ormor. At the urgent request of a num- bor of prominent citizens, ropublicans and democrats, 1 have decided to present the conclusions 1 have reached after thorough research and mature delibera- tion. ‘Whae James B Boyd a citizen of the United States for two years previous to the 4th of November, 1890, or was he an alien at that date? If ho wasan alien at that date, in othor words, a citizen of Great Britain on the day of eloction, no act'of his own since the day of election could mike him etigible. Tam fully convinced that James E. Boyd hadbeen a full ecitizen of tho United States for 23 years when he became a eandidate for the oftice of governor. This citizenship, I hold, was acquired by the netsof con- gross under which Nebraska was carved out as a territory and admitted into the sisterhood of stales. The Kansas-Nebraska bili of 1854, which became the organic law under which the ter of Nebraska was governed for 13 , confe right of suffe upon every act white male resident of twenty-one who was a citizen of the United States and thoso (foreigners) who shall have de- clared on oath their intention to becowe such and shall have taken an oath to support the constitution of the United States and the laws of Nenhraska. These persons wero not only qu d to vote, but also to hold every oloctive office in the territory. By an act of the tercitorial legisiature passed in pur- suance of the organic act, the right of suffrace and snship was conferred upon all persons of foreign birth of 21 years. and over who had declared their intention to become citizens of tho United States, and had been actual vesi- dents of the territory for a period of six months. James B. Boyd eame to Nebraska in 1856, He was of foreign birth, but his father had taken out declaration papers before the son had reached-the age of 16. When the father formally renounced his allegiance to Great Britain and took the oath of allegiance to the United States, he severed all political relations with Great Britain, not only for him- self, but for every member of his family. When James E. Boyd found himself a resident of Nebraska six months he was in position to acquire territorial zenship without any individual dec- laration renouncing allegiance to Quoen Victoria. That act had been performed for him by his father and would have been so regarded by any court, had he soen fit toapplyfor his final naturalization papers. It is manifest, therefore, and is a matter of record, that James E. Boyd was a legal votor in the territory atleast 10 years before Nebraska was admitted into the union. In due time Boyd was elected to the territorial legislature, and when he took the oath to support the national consti- tution and the laws enacted under it, he fulfilled every requirement prescribed by the organic .act for citizens of Nebraska. If he was an alien ‘when he landed on Nebraska soil, which I believe cannot be main- tained it his father’s undisputed abso- lute renunciation of fealty to Queen Vie- toria was valid, he certainly ceased to be an alien after he became a citizen of Ne- braska and one of her territorial law makers. Nobody will contend that even at that stage he could have been claimed as o British subject or entitled to any protectiou from British authorities. When Nebraska was invited to enter the union James E. Boyd was not merely an inhabitant of the territory, but a citi- zeon entitled to every privilege enjoyed by all other citizens of Nebraska. But he was not yet a citizen of the United States. On March 1, 1867, the president of the United States issued his proclamation in conformity with the enabling act declar- ing Nebraska admitted into the union on an equal footing with the original states without any further action whatever on the purt of congress. By this solemn and irrevocable act Nebraska was en- aowed with the full sovereignty of state- hood and her citizens, regardless of race, nativity or previous condition, bo- came sovereigns and peers of the citi- zons of every other state in the union. Every citizen of Nebraska was made a full citizen of the United States without further formality. Thus James E. Boyd, then a citizen of Nobraska, became a fullfledged citizen of the United States, and in my judg- ment has been a citizen of the United States ever since. I want to be distinct- ly understood, however, that I do not contend that every foreigner on Nebras- ka soil at the time of admission was made a citizon of the United States re- gardless of his previous relations as a resident of the territory, In answer to those who insist that nobody could become a citizen of the United States without complying with overy technicality of the naturalization laws, I will point out some established precedents and suggestive possibilities. Sam Houston, a native of Virginia, removed to Mexico and after some y vesidence helped to establish the Te. republic. As president of that republic, Houston had forsworn his allegiance to the United States and was an alien to all intents and purposes, as if he had never heen born in the United States. When Texas was admitted into the union she came in like Nebraska, on a verfect equality with the original states. Houston was elected United States sen- ator and took his seat without renewing his allegiance and notwithstanding the provision of the constitution that re- quires every sonator tahave been a civi- zen of the United States for nine years previous to his election. Does it stand to reason that the inhabitants of terri- tories aequired by conquest or purchase ave to enjoy greater priviloges and im- munities than the citizens of organized territories of the United States? L.et us assume that Canadn has been annexed and an enabling act were passed, under which Canada was admit- ted into the union, By that act Canada would be entitled at least to one wmem- ber of congress and two United States senators. Now, nobody is eligible to a sont in the lower house unless he has ‘nlrucuon of & rniln been a citizen of the United States soven yeirs, and nobody is eligible to tho son- ato unloss ho has been a full citizen of tho United States nine years. I should like to know how the Canadlans could get representation in the national legislature. Al Canadians would becomo full citizens by the troaty of annexation, but if statehood was to follow ns part of the treaty, no Canadian would be eligible toa seat in cithor house on technical grounds. How, then, would the state of Canada be admitted on an equal footing with the other states in the union? To my mind the conviction is over- powering that the wet by which Nebraska wus made o stato made every territorinl citizen of Nebraska the peer of any other citizen of the United States. E. ROSEWATER. TAXATION IN EASTERN STATES. It is & noteworthy fact that theold states of the east are manifesting quive as much interest in the question of taxa- tion s the younger states of the west, and are finding no less perplexity in the effort tosolve it, For the most part the drift in the east is for the more effective ation of personal proporty, The New Yorlk legislature gave prolonged discus- sion to a bill requiring sworn statements from taxpayers of their personal hold- ings in the way of stocks, bonds and notes, and the upper branch of that body has just passed a bill for the taxation of diroct heirs of personal property, exempting estates of $10,000 or loss. In New Jersoy a very strong measure vroviding for the tax- ation of personal property has been under consideration by the legislature. In Pennsylvania a strong sentiment has been shown 1n favor of taxing incomes, and the Ohio legislature considered the expediency of taxing the raw materials and unfinished products of manufacturers at the mills, which are now exemnpt. These effol equitable distribution of the burdens of taxation, serve to illustrate at once the general discontent with present condi- tions and the great difficulties that lie in the way of reform which everybudy ad- mits to be desirable. Especially sug- gostive is the renewal of the personal property tax movement, which has a very strong support, notwithstanding the fact that experience has shown that it is next to impossible to equitably levy and -collect it, besides the objection made to it that the scheme involves an inquisitorial prying into private af- fairs, It is well known that however stringent laws are which require refurns to assessors of personal property they uniformly fail to produce satisfactory results, and for the obvious reason that nearly all persons, although required to cortify to their property under oath, greatly undervalue it. There is no form of tax which ex- citesso universal a protest as this, and whatever may be said in justification of it, it can never become popular. One result of this tax agitation that may ultimately be realized 1s that of uniform laws among the eastern states regarding taxation. It has been suggested to creato a commission on behalf of the various states with a view to formulate a uniform system of taxation of all property, the methods ro- garding which now widly differ. While certain states, as New Jersey and West Virginia,forinstance, have systems which particularly favor corporations, it would be to little purpose for neighboring states to adopt mothods to compel theso organizations to pay their just share of taxation. They would simply organize under the laws of the states that favor them, as many have dono under the statutes of New Jorsey, It might not bo an ensy matter to nssimilate modes of taxation in all of the states, but it is plain that the only solution of the prob- lem that now troubles them isin anearer approach to uniformity than is attained ungder existing laws. MEXICAN TRADE, The west is quite as much, and per- haps even more, interested in the ques- tion of enlarged trade intercourse with Mexico as in that'of reciprocity with the countries of South America. Mex- ico offers a bettor market, present and prospective, for a number of our manu- factures and some of the products of agriculture than any southern country, with perhaps the exception of Braazil, and being contiguous territory there are poculiar advantages in dealing with her people. But the fact that she is our near neighbor, with an unques- tionable desire to be neighborly in a cornmeroial 'vay, seems hitherto to have produced a sentiment unfavorable to closer trade relations, Instead of invit- ing commercial fellowship we have mani- festod a disposition to repulse it, and most naturally we have encountered a retaliatory spirit. This course has been highly effective in improving the op- portunities of English, French and Ger- man merchants and manufacturers for taking and holding the greater part of the Moexican trade. An intelligent correspondent writing from Mexico says it is the deliberate judgment of nearly all Americans whom he met there that the United States can afford to deal on the broadest and most gouerous terms with Mexico in the mat- ter of reciproc That country is be- coming rapidly Americanized, Tho loading railways, with one exception, are American in manasgement, the min- ing districts are largely controlled by American capital and even when the Investors are Buropeans the superin- tendonts, mining engineers and prac- tical experts are Awmoricans. There- fove reciprocity with Moxieo will in- volve freer trado with a foreign country 1a which Americans have large financial interests and arve displaying increasing industrial activity. With' thousands of Americans over the border and nctively developing the resources of Mexico, says this correspondent, overy commoreinl convession that is made by treaty will yield largo returns in trade. All Americans engaged in businoss in Mexico favor unrestrictel trade on the part of the United St s, and whils this may not bs lmmediately practicable unquestionably a long step may bs taken voward its final attainment. It 15 dem- onstrated that our recent logislation has helped Mexico to our own injury. The oxclusion of low grade ores sent Amer- ican capital into Mexico for the con- s, ot new, to reach a more | iting works on alarge scale in 1 centors adjncent to mining districts, and nas & direct consequence “of the tariff war on live stock, Mexigo has created a new sourco of rovonma. We want the Moxi- can market for hundeads of manuf tured articlos upon which almost pro- hibitive dutios ate now imposed, and we want to sell the Moxican psople more corn, wheat and flour, which can be done if the duties oh 'these products are low- ered. We shall Muve tomake concessions to obtain this, Bt all theevidence shows that it will be prdfitable to do so. GUARDING THE SAVINGS BANKS. Senate bill 187 proposes important changes inthe law regulating savings banks. It is meoting with some opposi- tion from interested parties, but it aims to provide additional safoguavds for the patrons of these institutions, and ought for this reason to become a law. The bill raises the resorve required of savings banks from 5to 10 por cent of their deposits and immediats liabilities. This change is dictated by experience and is in the line of conservative bank- ing. It also limits the securities in which savings banks may invest, and shuts out chattel loans entirely. In- vestments may be made in first mort- gages or real estate, in state, county and school district bonds, and in eity and county warrants, Another most important provision of the proposed law forbids savings banks to doa commercial business, This will make it necessary for a large number of savings banks to rearrange their busi- ness, but the idea is sound in theory and directly in the interest of depositors. It is eminently propor that every institu- tion which carvies commercial deposits should be operated under the regula- tions laid down by national and stato laws. It is oqually desirable that insti- tutions. which solicit savings deposits should be surrounded by every safe guard which the law can provide. The line batween the two classes of business should be sharply drawn. The deposits in savings banks are largely the savings of the poor. They frequently represent the total earthly possessions of widowsund orphans, The intention of the proposed law is to strictly control tho use of such funds and keep them within the most conservative limits. - Commercial banking comes under other alations, which have been established with due regard to the interests involved. The bill also remedies some of the minor errors of previous legislation, The principal featuresof the meas founded on a correct theory and will in- crouse the seeurity of doposits in every savings bank in the state. OLEA R 4 The death rate of Denveris shown by official tables to be greater than in any other city in the union saving only New Orleans, The Denver News com- menting upon this ugly fact places the responsibility with the municipal gov- ernment. Denver ought to be one of the healthiest cities in America. It has climatic advantages' not podsessed by any other city of its population. In spite of these an_gpidemic of typhoid fever and dlphth‘(n has been raging for a yoar. This epidemic has made Denver next to the unhealthiest city in the union. 'The prevalence of disease is due largely, perhaps entirely tothe filthy condition of the streots and alleys and bad sewerage. Yet Denver has expended about 320,000 in bettering these conditions within a year. The News charges that the funds have been wasted by a corrupt city guvernment, and demands a chango. Omaha city oficials whd'are lolsurely holding down chairs in the basement of the county court house should and probably do know that Omaha’s streets and alloys are positively reeking with accumulated filth. A personal warfare between the chairman of the board of public works and the contractor for street cleaning resulted in the neglect of this important business last fall. This city went into the winter with its streets in the worst condition ever known. The several months that have since elapsed have witnessed daily ac- cumulations of filth and no effort to ro- move it. The oxcuse is made thatthe expenso of cleaning the streets now would be greatly in excess of what it will be when the spring opens. This is not altogether untrue, but the shady sides of all business streets are today canals of soft mud. Every business street could and should be cleaned now. 7Tho sanitary de- partment und all other officials on whom any responsibility for the conditions of backyards and alleys restsshould be per- forming their duty. The city will suffer in reputation and the citizons in health, if something 1s not done forthwith. If the neglect or corruption, or both, of Denver’s munieipal authorities can so increase her death vate in a single year that she talkes rani next to New Orleans as the most unhealthy city in the union, what will be thie result in Omaha where the natural conditions are admittedly less fuvorable.*’ Omaha’s reputation for health is worfh prescrving at any cost. It will bo an outrageil the malico of two onemies directly connected with the work of maintaining it, is allowed to blacken her good name, injure her pros- perity and scajfar the germs of disenso broadcast amoyg her citizens. Clean the city, Save it from disease. Dismiss the public official who fails to perform his duty in connection with its sanitation, Ir 18 stated that the s: ary of the interior has approvel the claim of General John B, Saaford for $300,000, as his fees for lobbying tho Sissoton and Wahpeton Indian appropriation through the late congress, This is one-tenth of the amount appropriated in pursuance of treaty stipulations, and to the unin- formed smacks vory strongly of imposi- tion if nothing more, —e MOREARTY wants a poor man for mayor. The gentleman from the Sov- enth knows no poor man can maken living working_for the city outsido of the council. —_————— UNLESS some vigor Is injected into the board of public works, the stroot commissionor and the health department of Omaha, the opening of spring will 3: MONDAY, MARCR 30, 1801. bring an epidemic of typhold fever and other fiith disenses. Our dirty streots and alleys are disoase brecdors. I7is to be hoped the new folder of the real estate exchange will be printed upon good paper with fivst-class ink, and be both attractive and interesting, Wite Birkhsuser to wateh Squires and his asphalt, and Squires to watch Birkhauser, it 13 quite likely both will be kept perpendicular. RAIDS upon gambling houses in Omaha appear to be a periodical pyro- technic farce. S0 LONG ns lawyers oan make judges, judges will be under obligations to make lawyors. What Wealth 8hould Count. B ston Globe. When our senators are electod by the peo- ple, lot us hope they will be elocted for their waalth of Intelloct and not for thefr wealth of riches, R TR Why They Kick. St Louls Glabe-Democrat, Senator-olect Folton of California is & good man whoso vote will always bo cast in such a way a8 to keop the democrats in mourning for the iate Senator Hof ——— Democratic Rain Over. New York Sun. Where aro those Tilinols ralnbows! They cught to bo spanning a reconciled and united Chicago demoaracy instead of fluttoring faintly on the northeast side of nowhere, gt i same Heve, Muneapolis Tribune, A new street cloaning cart in Boston has been christened *“The Eureka.” It would not have to go farin Minneapolis before it would demonstrate the appropriateness of its name, “Pope Bob" Hedging? Calonsl Ingérsoll's New York Pross Club Lecture. One by one the players leave the stage and others take their places, There is no pause; 10 0ne knows what the noxt scone is to be. Will this drama have an end? Will tho cur- tain fall at last, and will it viso again on some other stage! Reason says perhaps; hope still whispers yes; sadly I bid-my friend farewell. What Will They Celebrato? Philadelphia Record, The onchuadredth anniversary of the adoption of the “new constitution” of Poland, which guaranteed tho civil and potitical rights of that people, is to bo celebrated in New York by all the Polish societies in the United States on May 4. There are, how- ever, many lovers of liberty who feel that Poland has as little real independonce now as she had on that memorable day when “froedom shrieked as Kosciusko fell.” 0 for Zign, Salt Lake Times. Tae Oxana Bee knows a good thing when it sees it. That paper offers seven prizes consisting each of & round trip ticket to some noted poiut of interest to parties soliciting the largest number of subscriptions. Among those vuoted points of interest, including Hurope and America, is Salt Lake, and Tur Bre calls it Justly a famous city and a boom- ing city, and Garfield boach a delightful sum- mer resort. Zion is all of this and a great deal more besides. pak el A Afrald of Newspapers. Philadelphia Feord. The New York courtof appeals, in revers- inga judgment of asupreme court of that state, has declired explicity against sny rightof counsel to go outside of the evidenco in summing up a case before a jury. In the case in question General Tracy, now secro- tary of the mavy, vead a newspaper article which the appellate court now holds was wholly irrelevant to the case, and could only have been read in ovder to lead the jury to give liboral damuges. But an ingemious lawyer is not likely to be estopped in his wild flichts of oratorical denunciation by this ruling. He will find other ways of reach- ing the hearts of jurymer — Retribution, Norfolk News. The farmers who elcoted Renegade Taylor to the state senate must be masticating large chunks of wisdom at the present time. The repubticans of that district nominated an hon- est old farmer named McCall, an old union soldier who haamanaged a farm successfully, but who refused to give up his party princi- ples for the sake of gaining alliance votes. “Taylor had been a loud-mouthed democrat, was a native of Virginia and had served in thorebelarmy. He secured the independent nomination and madea campaign that was based principally on the rebel yell and loud rantings against corporate monopoly, inter- spersed with denunciation of the republican party. ot LTSRN A New Commonwealth, New York Sun. William H. Von+ Swartout, founder and tirst. president of a new commonwealth, gave an exposition of its principles in New York. Olombia, it seems, is the destruction of all that is evil and the restoration of all that is #0043 and, as money is the oot of all ovil, the Olombian sage proposes to abolish money, & task reolly much less arduous than that of abolishing poverty. The abolition of money will be followed by the avolition of all forms of poverty, and, necessarily, by tho abolition of theft. Thers can be no meum where there isno tuum, and M. Proudhon’s ~definition of property will be a paradox whose point has boen lost. ‘Thero will be no voting in Olombia, for thero will be no government. Everybody will bhave his undivided ana iudivisible share in the ownership of the world, and will do ashe dorn pieases, The mugwumps are forever prating about independence. Tn Olombia there will be real independence, Every Olombian will revolve on his own axis sub- ject to his own constitution and by-laws,with nobody to fear or make him afraid. The farmers' athanco fiay learn a lesson in anti- monopoly from the founder of Olombia, He says that if every man “will abstain from voting and procleim himself independent, there can be no government monopoly, op- pression, or toil” It is a cheap recipe, Moreover, **as mammon and money o out of aman hois transtormed from a dovil to @ god,” n easy meaus of apotheosis, In Olombia, in fact, you can be transformed from a money devil to a god, You won't have to workin Olombia. We don’t under- stand the process, but bread, and presumably cako are to be earned without sweat of brow. This is pleasant, but should be kept from the tramps, PR FOR RENT— A HEART. Lire. There's a sign in the window, As she flits demurely You cannot contradict it, Tho window is— Her ey, A very charming window, ‘With a very subile art ¢ artl It also aads, all modestly, “Kind sir, pray, look abous The tenant was well suited Who recently— Moved ow FROM THE STATE CAPITAL, Easter Servicos Held in the Various Churches of Lincoln. Livcots, Neb, March .—(Special to Tug Ber.—Eastor was rainy, muddy, dis- mal day In Lincoln, but nevertheloss a large number of religious dovotees gathered in tho various churehos to colobrate the day popu- larly sotapart 0s the one on which Christ aroso from the desd. The decoratious in many of the churches wera boautiful, Those at Holy Trinity wero particalarly notablo. On each side of the altar there was & porfeot garden of tall, snow white lilies, At the chancel steps wre lilies and u mass of othor flowering plants, Smilax appoared in beau- tiful profusion everywhere. Tho music for tho oceasion was under the direction of Mr. o J. W, Seamark and was excoptionally fine. There wore forty volces in the choir. At St.Theross's pro-cathadral the altars were decorated with the ehoicest flowers, On oither sido of the oross at tho altar were lilles and the other portions of the pulpit wero appropriatoly decorated, The floral decorations at (raco Lutheran chureh were very elaborate and beautiful. On either sido of the altar was a profusion of Easter lilies and palms, The pulpit of the First Congregational chureh was a porfoct bower of Howrs, roses and vines, Tho music was excollont, But fow of the devotees of fashion had an opportunity of alring their bran now Faster bonnets and the unfortunate ladies who had not felt able to invest in such finery thanked heaven for the rain. Services wero held both fn the city and county jails. A TOST GINL Fred Garland of Como, Colo,, writes to the chief of polico, asking information concer; ing Miss Rosa Miller, n young lady of six- teen and o sister-in-daw of his, who loft Goodland, Kan,, last August to come to Lin- coln and sinco then has never been heard from. Fears are entertained as to her fate. Miss Miller is tall and slin, has small blue eyes and a largo mouth. Shois a somewhat attractive appearing girl and although she is very intelligent it is feared that sho has fallen under evil influences. A YOUNG BURGIAR. A young crook mamed Eugene Vaughan, who seems bent on leading the life of o thiof, has been avrosted again, this timo on the chareo of burglary, It is believed that ho is the fellow who broko into Burr & Beeson's office in the opera house block on Tuesday aud stole $42 from tho safe. Detective Ma- lone suspicioned Vaughan and when the young thief bought & new of clothes on Wednesday aud on Friday “flush- ing”? a roll of bills amountiug to 815, Malone arrosted him as a susp Tn the lad’s pos- session was found a key thatwas found to fit KOBIED DURING TIER ITUSHA) A telogram from Mrs, Bellwood to her husha lower house of the legis burglary in her home. The thief 5 is I McEntite. Ho is about tiventy-twc years old. He js about five feet five inches ; nas ight haw, blue eyes, flushed face and is neatly dressed, Ho stole a gold watch chain, some money, siiver spoons, gloves and other articles, ABSENCR, Jennie Carpenter of A member of the ture, announces a ODDS AND ENDS, The church, college snd school property in Lincolu is valued at $2,600,000. The property of the state justitulions here is valued at $1,750,000, The oratorical coutest at the high school 1s tobe held Saturday evening, April 11. The first prize, & #10 setof books, is offered by Prof. Austin. Tho sccond is’ given by the literary socicties. Some thief broke into a room at_ 1238 N street last night and stole a gold filled watch, # and asatchel. Thieves broke into room 97, Menlove block, last night and stolo a light colorod overcoat. LITERARY NOTES, The foatures of the Century for April will be papers on *Twvo Expeditions to Mount St. Elias.”” Although neither expedition suc- ceeded in reaching the summit of Mount St. Elias, both resulted in important contribu- tions to geological and geographical knowledge. The perusal of Dr. John A. Wyeth's articlo on tho experienco of confed- erate prisoners at Camp Morton, Indianapolis, will somewhat surprise northeen readers. Mys. Mason's papers on tho **Sulons of the Revolution and the Impire,” throws side lights ou the Talleyrand memons, and the curious relations between Wordsworth and De Quincey, written by the biographer of the latter, are articles that will be read with keen interest. Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi has abrief resumo of the recent discoveries of Pasteur, Koch and other oxperimonters in the same field. ‘A Cheap Money Lesson from History:” Mr. Conway's articlo on the relations between Washingion and Frederick the Great; Mr. L. Clarke Dayis' contribu- tion on Willand, the new English actor, to- gether with the California papers comprise some of the good things o be found in the forthcoming number of the Century. Among tho many attractive articles in Lippincott’s magazine for April will'be found asvory of New York society life by Ellen Fuarope,” are all excellently written nnd will doubtless be wldoly read. ‘The brightost and best of all spoolal num- burs recently published by the ¥outh's Come panion is the ono for Eastor just received, Tho illustrations by Taylor, Gibson, Vogt, Myrick and Miss Johnsan, have unusual merit, Africa," by #on. J. 7T eadloy and Willis Flotoher Johnson, fs 0 vory readible work giving & graphio account of soveral e tions of the groat African exploror profusely illustratod. Published by wood publishing compas Soclalist_of Christ, by Austin Bior bower, prosents the attitude of _early Chris- tianity toward soctalism 1n a_vory forcoful manner, It is written in a popular sty lo and abounds {n constant surprises. Published by Charlos H. Sergol & Co., Chieago. “Yankoo Doodle Dixio} of Love the Light of Lifo, by J. V. Ryals, will bo fouud de- lightful wading by those who tiality for tho porusalof romances founded on our civil war. Publishod by Evorott Wad doy company, Ricimond, V “Nobraska Law Journal)' & weokly lnw magazine, oditod and published by W. Heary Smith, Lincoln, Neb, H “Curront Comment and Logal Misce mublished by 1. B. Canfield comp: dolphia, Pa. by milo 7 Kendall Warron, Pablished hicago. av Pailed” by Rudyard . Lovell company, translatod by by Nile pub- - INK GOSSTP, Mrs. Hungorford, who is bost known to famo as the “Duchoss,” is & 1ittlo woman with wavy dark brown hair and browa oyes. Two little women hayo nttainod almost equal fame in scalpture— Vinnio Ream Hosic aud Harriet Hosmer, are tiny bru- nottes. Miss Loe Robbins, @ you ist, has several piefuros hung in the oxhibition Pemmes Pic transopt of the Pala in Paris. Mrs, ( of the Union dos ulptours in the o mps Alysces over Cleveland was somewhat sur. P recently to fiud o chock for §00 in o lotter from au enterprisic In roturn for the monoy lier jons of the white house. . Cleveland promptly returned the check, At the opening of the services church, Brooklyn, a fow Sunday’s boys and girl processional hymn, t Bec Stowe, and passed the picture of Mr. hor each laid a full-bloom rose alongsido of it, he wife of the is an_Awmeri- n girl, She was formerly Margarot. Ham- illon of Napa, Cal. Sho is & woman of slight and almost gl h figure, with a pale, deli- te face, and is very popular in London so- sister, Mr: Custer says: “I am mnot writing cither, as I read in lotters and papor not even contempiated ouo. The Work last_summer in Idaho on ‘We ors' T cannot fluish until 1 go by again, o task [dread. It is terribly rougn work following up ploneers into fastnesscs and traiing plamsmen or searching out miners for the vorification of facts, Withmy prosent fatigue I cannot undertake a seconcl summer of this sort of hardship, at least this ar.” So profound a sensation was ereated in tho literary world by the publication of **Ortho—~r= dox”" in 1888, and by that of “IRéch” a fow months since, that curiosity has natu been excited 1o learn more about their au- thor. The novelist, Dorothen Gerard, makes er home near Vienna, she having marriod an austrisn cavalry oficer, Major Longard. Her attention was drawn to the Polish Jews purtly by tho incidents’ which, cama under her notice when Living formerly in Polands, and partly by the stories which have smco boen told her. Major Longard himsolf spont. more than twenty years in Poland, and bas always folt much interest 1 studying the Jows, Tho jatest historical personage to emergo from the erucible of scholastic rescarch with a_rehabilitated character is the famous— hitherto the infamous—Lucretia Borgi the Boston Budget. The lenvued Charles Yriarte, hns undertaken to prove that the scandal which has gathered about the namo of this beautiful woman in the past owed its_origin to family jealousies snd political rivalry, and is altogether injust, It soems cloar, at any rate, that Lucretin, after marrying her third hushand in 1500, was “the pear] of spouses.” Hence all the wick- edness that has been attributed to her must have been committed between the ages of thivteen and twenty—a supposition whioh Charles Yriarte holds not to be easily credible even of the precocious epoch of tha Bor gins. Countess Mario Von Uppen, a reigning belle in Viennese society, is sald to bear a striking_resemblanco to Mrs. Horman Ool richs of New York, who was formerly Miss Lessie Fair, danghter of the ex-senator. Hor mother was an Irishwoman, who married an ofMicer in the Austrian service, who belongad to one of the old Trish familics that sottled in after the flight of Sarsfleld. In a fow years sho was loft a wilow and to s port hersetf and her little daughtor becams a governess to the daughter of Count Von a booke Olney Kick, (Henry Hayes) entitled “Maiden’s Choosing:" & second instalment of “Some Famillar Lotters hy Horace Greoloy ;" “Yarns about Dismonds) prepaved by David Graham Adeo and an interesting article, *“New Africa,’- by Charles Morris. No more completoly 111ustrated copy of The Cosmopolitun has ever been publisied than that for April. Miss Elizabeth Bisland has an entertaining article on dancing, excollent- ly illustrated, Mr. George Grantham Bain contributes an able article on the *‘White House," which is also beautifully illustrated. Brander Matthews' artiodle on *Women Writers of America,” will prove specially in- teresting to literary people, and the descrip- tion of the Nicaragua canal, by Harvey snd that of the Japanese theatre, by Miss Scid- more are very attractive features. The frontispioce consists of a portraitof General Sherman, drawn by Gribayedoft, Harpor's Magazino for April maintains its high standard of oxcellence, General Jean Louis Lewal contributes a woll written and, importaut article on “The French Army.’’ Thomas Hardy's “Wossex Folk” Charles Egbert Craddock’s “In_the Stranger Peo* ple’s Country,” and short stocles by Mur- gavet Crosby and AngelinoTeal comprise the fiction in this number. “The Behring Sea Controversy,” by Hom. E. J. Phelps, late United States minister 1o the court of St. James; & istorical and - descriptive sketch of Wisconsin, by Theodore Child 3 “Glimpses of the Bacteria," by Dr. T. Mitehell Prudden ; “The Court Theater of Meininger, by Dr. Charles Waldstein, are some of tho interest- g and _entertaining articles that will be found in tho pages of this magazine. Tn the April numver of the Forum Repre- sentative 1. Q. Mills of Texas will make a critical analysis of the census. In the same number Senator Hoar of Massachusetts has { an artie to prove that, the republican party was untrue in its precedents and its princi because the late congi cuacting the election bill, Other arlicles to be found in this 1ssue, @ro ‘A Study of the Problem _of Poverty iu_Great Cities,) by Rev. Dr. Ramnsford of New York; an auto- biographical essay, by Prof. Simon New:- 1b; an_explanation of the feats of so-called mind readers, by Prof. Charles Gatehell and an article on o comparison of rallway rates in the United States and in other countries to unscertain whether our rates are really high, A yery plasing literary menu will bo served up in the Overlind Monthly for April. The articles on “Dairying in Cali- fornia, erman in San Franclsco,” W reck of the Tennessee,” and “America av ples, without adjourned don’t bother me. of bonuets for Kaster, tom of things it doesn’t do to work the bottorm of the ladder of success, In six months the little countess died, The mother proposed to the governess to adopt her pretty little daughter and (ho poor widow was only too glad to have such provision made for Marie. Two years luter Countess Von Oppen diod, Hor husoand mourned her for full twelve months and then led the Irish governess to tho altar. Count Von Oppen is dead, but his widow still lives, and sho and her daughter entertain largely, Expross-Gazetto: Au oxprossman at tacked by train robbers explained to tho superintendent in this maumer: “To o injuring them, aud prevent them injuring me, 1 got out of the car.”” WOMAN'S BONG. Wake and call me early, mamma, Jall me very early, dear, For 1 have got & bran new gown, And Easter's slmost here, Expross Gazotto: Agent—Wondor what's the matter with me. I guess it's the oy s Teat. I really wonder if oystersara b Messongor—I° never heard an oyster com- plain of being unhealthy. Chicago Tribune: Youngest Daughtor Mamma, are we going to see tho now play this evening at ——1 Mrs, Upchurch—Not_another word about going to amusements, Ethel! Huve you for- gotten this is Lent! Run away, now, and I'm looking over the styles A TOUGH'S SPRING. Washington Post. Do inerry spring 18 comin’, seo? Yer hear it in de air; Yer finds it on de buddin’ tree, Yer smell it everywhere An’ pretty soon it will be warin ough to take yer barks AN safl de river OF go arm In arm aroun’ de parks. Though it is usually well to get to the bot toward Piusburg Dispatch: According to tho New York Court Cupid must ever be au un dressed leld. The young man who can write *'a good hand” hasn't half a chance in life witn tho youth who can hold oue. Rl HigWst of all in Leavening Power.~U. S, Gov't Report, Aug. 17, 1859, Baking - Powder - ABSOLUTELY PURE “Stauley’s Adventures in tho \WVilds af have apars - edi« and is Edge