Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 14, 1891, Page 8

A CHAT WITH MICHAEL DAVITT The Noted Irish Patriot Recuperating at Oakland, Oal, LOINS GIRDING HIS FOR BATTLE. Home Rule a Matter of' a Few Years— Balfour as Interests arnell’'s Successor an Opportunist ing Reminiscences, Michael Davitt has boen living in Oakland Cal., with his wife's peoplo for a few months nnd i3 now going to roturn to b 1ifo work 110 @oes to no dinners, nor does ho accopt the Invitations which have been showered upon him to speak in public. He went their for rest and he wants all tho rest he can get, be- cause next year is zoing to be a year of poli- tical battles in Bngland. Like David of old hiding in the cave of Aduliman, he is gird- ling his loins for the combatand the enforced confinement chafes him, arsing with a reporter of the San ancisco Ixaminer, he sid : “I must abide by the doctor's orders and Sir Andrew Clarke bade me live the rest of my lifo by rule. You ask why! Its an old tale, and it goes baclk to the time when I was a young man and tnought that a spark of fire would start a conflagration.’ “When did you begin to work for Ircland (" was the question. “Asa lud in Lancashire. It was during the Fenian rebellion of 15 I thought with all the others that Ircland was to b won by force of nrms. Tho lrish are among the bravest men in the world, but they do’ not estimate their foe. Only tho later years have taught them to consider the odds. “Why, | was arcanging to send arms to Ircland after many ariny that, [ had sont ol- roady, when suddeniy I was seized in Lon- don, ih 1870, and hustled off to prison on & chatge of treason and felony, THE OBLIVION OF JAIL. “Porhaps you don’t realizo that that meant oblivion for years, but certainly it did. I was thrust into Clerkenwell, and_ afterward into Dartmoor. vears and two months I was never allowed to receive any visit from my friends. 1 knew my sentence must last fificen_years, and that there was no help for me without. You ask me to de- scribe my feclings in such a situation. How can 11 They were as manifold as the shad- ows of u dark day. To realize it all you must feel that you are fighting against com- pleto despair. Prisoncrs in England aro troated as if th had lost their manhood when they enterod the gates. 1t means leaving hopo behind forever there, But in the Unitad States the prisoner is troated as if he might bo . man after tho term of his punishment. With us tho food was wretched, and indeed in the four im- prisonments that I have endured I have not found that it improved. Its better in the Trish prisons than in the English, strangs to say, althoueh Ircland is so much' the poorer and although there is so much less merey thero, “Well, one day a keepor camo to my cell and told'me I was froe. “You can’t understand what tho word means vntil you have lived the life! T had kept count of tho days of my voudage and 1 knew it was seven years and fifty-six days, Tho government of Great Britain had issued an amnesty to tho Irish prisoners, it seems, Fancy tho turmoil and rebellion that had erown within me during the soven years! Think of the joy to pass from prison into the free air and into the light of the sun, I didu’t caro where I was or what I aid for hours. The intoxication of day and sky and air was supreme. In three or four hours my eyes wero used to the blink of the sun- shine, and I found my way to London. Thore 1 communicated with my old friends and waited to hear from tho living and tho dead. I had learned to endure anything in my prison nife, and 1 listened to the ney good or bad, with indiferenco, My only thought was' for the cause in which I had first engaged. Henceforth, I said, I would devote my lifo to_the plans which I had con- ceived in my cell in Dartmoor, NEARLY TEN YEARS IN JATL. “DI'ye been imprisoned threo times since then, and altogethor I'vo spont nearly ten years in jail, but the last three terms were lighter thau the first, and I had with me tho hope and courage which had grown with the cause of Ireland’s freedom.” ““What of Ircland, Mr. Davitt?? sho stand “Sho is on the brink of her freedom,” said M. Davitt, his face lighting with a 'smile. ““Ilomo rulo is only » matter of a few years, Parliament may run by Lnglish law till 1803, but thero is so much dissension and dif- feronce in tho political factions that Sal bury must call the general elections for April next, or at the worst for the following autuinn, “T'hie people who surronnd him know that, and thoy kuow, too, that it is tho knell of the tory party for many a year.” DALFOUR. “What do you think of Balfour's policy Ireland during tho past five yeurs “Balfour is one of the greatost opportu- nists of the tory party. Ho has caught all the plans of his oppouents and used them to suit the convenience of his snares. His idea of county government is just such an adap as Disracli would have' mado from one of Gladstone's programmes. “Buv clever as balfour mo plain. Beliove mo, tho tory party never will pass the county government bill. Balfour made his greatest play when ho manage i the passage of tho bill for purchasing estates for the benefit of Irish tenants, It was an idea stolen from his enomios, and he succeeded for a timo in tho subterfuge. But wo can never belieyo he is in_earnest in thoe county government bill—becauso he knows that its passage simply will precipitate home rule. “No! I frankly believe that Salisoury will theadopta programme this year by which conservatives will potter over sthe county government bill, adding avd subtr clauses until the end of the sossion, but with- out ever passing it. Then Salisbury will appeal to the country, leaviog his enemios, oven, undor the impréssion that ho is eager to sottlo tho Irish question onco and forever by an_excellent_county government system. But ho forgets that the Irish party hive be- como wise through much tribuiation.” THE NEXT IRISH LEADER. *“Who will be the noxt leader of the Lrish party (" >robably John Dillon. Justin McCarthy 1s one of tho most charming men in the world, but ho does not care to be a leador. For my part I would prefer Sexton, who has been one of tho great mainstays of the Irish party in all of its vicissitudes. Parnell’s day is over, and he can never hopo to lead again. A general election_ would deprive him of his last udherent. He stands alono today through his own fault. Ho was spoiled by the Irish party as a mother spoils a child The Irish members from 1850 on fearod to quarrel. They were eighty-six strong and they had resolved to band together under one name. Parnell deserves all tho credit 1 can give him for the werk that he did then, but as years went by his hoad was turned. He decerved his friends as adroitly as ho tad de- ceived his enemies, Certainly he sought to deceive Gladstone, and as for myself, I will say that 1 wrote lotters to the United States and to Australia in which I asserted that Parnell would come from the O'Shea trial pure and unspotted. Iwrote theso things be- cause I had Parnell's assurance and solemn word that he was innocent." GLADSTONE, “Who will lead the liberal party if it comes into power (" *Glaastone, of course, and his courage and wisdom are undimmed by his years, Gilad- stono is a man who moves with the timos, His foresight is his great mainstay. He re- alizes the drift of publio opinion and he molds his words and actions accordiug THE HOME RULE PLA “What will bothe homerule plan of the liberal government " 0, a simple government, such us is in vogue in some of the British colouies, I hope. 1 think itis generally agreed that thore shall be ouly one chamber in the Irish parliament, sod T think aiso that there will be no prop: erty qualifioatious needed for the members. Thore was & plan 1u 1556, you know, by which there should bo two classés of members, with and without real property; but that was ab- surd, and has been forgotten." “13 Gladstone in harmony with this idoa of a singlo house of parliament in Ireland *Yes, I think, without doubt, that his pro- grammo includes that schome,” SIR CHARLES WUSSELL, Here Mr, Davitt spoke of Sir Charles Rus- How does sell, whom he rozards as the greatest of tho London lawyers. “He'll bo here soon. Ho 1s ‘coming this month to yisit his sistor, who is the mother superior of a convent in San Francisco. ““Russoll was the attorney general in Glad- stono's last cabinet and he will bo lord chan- cellor when Gladstone comes to power again. He is a Roman Catholic, and he was the first of our religion to be_attornoy general since the days of Henry VIIL DEPARTING FOR TRRLAND. I am loaving for Ireland in a fortnight, and [ am glad to go tack. The climate and tho people of California are delightful, I enjoy every moment of my stay—and yet I wish I were in Ireland. [ regrot the exodus of my countrymea from tho place of their birth, Thoy would stay there if they were allowed to liv The =oil is rich, the oppor- tunities are great, under a home goverzment, and 1 hope we shall have that uext year.” NORTHWEST, NEWS OF Stanton's schools have opened with an at- tendance of 170 pupils. Thero are almost 700 pupils in attendance upon the Ashland public schools. Harry White, mayorof Seattle, V been visiting at his old home in county. Miss Lou Armel of Aurora and A. A. Ray of Forn, Ia., met at a notel in Holdrege the other day and we ied. The Grand Army reunion of northwest Nebraska will be held at Hay Springs Sep- tember 30 and October 1 and 2, The Chadron water works system will be changed from the pumping to the gravity tom. Undor the latter system the city will derive a net annual revenue of £2,600. A F'remont engineer will make the change in system, A special from Bassctt reports that marshal of Ainsworth was badly beaten by County suror Likens, whom ho had insulted. The combat came off during a_ball gamo at Long Pine and the umpiro acted as refereo. William Ford, living near Callaway, had wheat this season that averaged forty-six bushels to the acre, and for which he has been offerod 73 conts per bushel says the Broken Bow Ropublican. S. R. Lewis of Holdrege had a team, wagon and harness siolen last week. Lewis and his hired man had heen breaking prairio land near Atlanta. Lewis camo to Holdroge, leaving his man at work. When he returned his man had skipped with the outfi. Harry Bower of McFadden township, York county, was injured by a rovolving hay rake. Ho got caught in the rake and beforo he could extricate himself was picked up and flung high in the air. He lit on his head and shoulder and was badly bruised, though not fatully. Eiusel Bros. of Holdrege have the extent of their liabilities is not yet known. k. D. Einsel was president of the United States National bank and the South Plaute Loan and Trust company, and J. H. Binsel was treasurer of the latter institution, 1t 15 said thav the bank and trust company are fully secured against loss. A l4-year-old boy living near Anselmo saved the life of the little child of Ira Foster, deputy sheriff of Custer county. Whilo the child’s parents were away from home the little oue was bitten on the leg by a snake. ‘The boy discovered the child’s condition, and aftor tyving a rope tightly around the limb abovo the wound and applying turpentine, he hurried for help. The neighbors arrived in time to administer antidotes and counteract tho effects of the poison. t'rom his eighty acre field of spring wheat within the corvorate limits of Madrid, Per- kins county, David McBee has just threshea 2,460 bushels, for which he received in cash at the clevator the sum of $1,520.40. For 875 bushels of winter wheat ho received $251. Besides this he has fifty acres of good corn worth £625. This makes a total, exclusive o amount of gavden truck, of $2,720.65. When it is farther stated that, with the ex- ception of haryesting and threshing, Mr. McBee with the aid of his 15-year-old boy performod all tho work upon this quarter section, it speaks well for him and for the wonderful productiveness of the soil of Ne- braska. Says the Cobleskill, N. Y., Herald: Letts, Hess and Clark of Cobleskill own a fine farm of 500 acres adjoining tho booming city of Kearney, Neb., upon which there are two full sets ‘of complete farm buildings. The Uuion Pacific passed through, with o depot on the furm. This year 400 acres have been cultivated to wheat, corn and oats. Mr. Hess isnow superintending the harvest, which consists of 190 acres of wheat, 100 acres in oats and 200 of corn. The yield is, of wheat. 4,000 bushels; of oats, 9,000 bushols, and of shelled corn, 'at least, 11,000. At present prices, wheat at S0 cents, oats at 22 cents and corn at 0 cents, the crops will mora than poy half the cost of the eutire property. h., has Hamilton the ailed, but Towa. Three hundred and twenty-three arrests wera made in Dos Moines during August. The sixth biennial reunion of the Thirty. second Iowa infantry will be held at Mar shalltown on Wednesday and Thursday, Oc- tober 7 and 8. Rev. J. O. Kaso of Emmot county was nom- inated by acclamation asthe republican can- didate for representative from tho Eighty- third district. Harvey W. Schotz, aged 74, toona, was thrown from a buizey some four weeks ago and received serious injurics, from the effects of which he died Tuesday morning. A young Des Moines law student named Dun, whilo out driving with a_young lady, was held up by & highwayman and at the point of a gun compelled to deliver over his loose change. A Waverly shoo dealer offered a $2.50 pair of shoes as a premium for the tailest stalk of corn brought to his store. Thomas Aurner won tho prize. His cornstalk was fourteen fect eight inches hign, Cresco is not a_nealthy place for sharpers to ply their vocations. A few woeks ago n lightuing rod shark was brought to grief there, aud now a picture sharper, who pre- tends to represent a St. Paul firm, and with his assistants canvassed from house to house collecting pictures and 50 cent picces, agreo- ing to return to his dupes fino enlarged pic- tures, was found, upon Investigation, to be a fraud, and he now languishes in tho jail of Howard county. Tho damnge suit begun by F. B. Do Witt, of Marshalltown, azainst Colson & Ousley, propriotors of the Rip Vau_ Winkle troupe, has been dismissed. Do Witt's horse dropped dead while passing the Odeon when the band wes playing, and it was alleged that the animal was scired to_death, henco the suit, The band had a permit from the muyor to parado the street and DoWitt living at Al- was guilty of contributory negligence by driving past thom while playing. ‘The fifth biennial reunion of tho fourth regiment, lowa volunteers, will be held at Marion Septomber 17 and 18, Roturn railroad tickets to all points in Iowa for one- third fave on cortificato showing payment of full fare going and endorsed by the secretary, Take such recelpt or “certificate” for aach ticket purchased in going. Thursday, Sep- tember 17, will ba dovoted to enrollment and general sociability, response and camp fire in the evening. Friday forenoon a business sossion of the association, with very inter- esting programmos 1n the afternoon and ovenlug. Numerous oflicers and membors of the regimont will attend this reunton for the first timo, and the attendanco of several very welcome guests is_expected, including ex- Governor Kirkwood, General Gieorge I, Me Ginuis, Chaplain Sawyer of the Forty seventh Indisna and Simmons of the Twenty- eighth lowa. Ivery former momter of the regiment is especially and urgontly invited to attend, Twanty- N Children Cry for It. The pleasant flavor, gentle action and soothing effects of Syrup of Figs, when in in need of a laxative and if the 'father or mother bo costive or biilious the most erati- fyiug results follow its use, so that it is the best family remedy known and evory family should have a bottle. e Visitors' Excursion Over insylvania Lines to Indiana aund Ohio Via Chicago. On Tuesday, September 22, 1891, the Pennsylvania company will sell tickets from Chicago to all points on the Penn- sylvania lines in Indlana (except to In- dianapolis), and toall points in Ohio (ex- cept Cincinnati), ut one fare for the rluum] teip, good to return for thirvy days. Apply at Pennsylvania station, or at new ticket office’ of the Pennsylvania | lines, 245 Clark street, Chicago. Hon I the . H. Luce, Assistant General Passenger Agent. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE,, MONDAY, 1891. TALKED IN PLAIN ENGLISH, | Judge Davis Gives the Foard of Publio Works a fcoring. ITS ACTION WAS WHOLLY UNWARRANTED. Another Act in the Curbing Muddle in Which the Board of Public Works Comes Out ccond Best, For along time the members of the Board of Public Works have had an idea that they were the lords of creation. A few days ago, in open court, Judge Davis told Chairman Birkhauser a few things that caused that gentleman to have somo doubts about the matter, But now things hava come to pass calculated to convince the three gen- tiemen that they ave the smallest potatoes in the baskot. Early last spring the members of the board, well knowing that theve was no mouey in the paving and carbing funa, started in and ad- vertised for bids for laying mites of pavement and curbing. Bidders responded and offered to do the work, but when the day for opening the bids rolled around the board, under one pretense or another, would reject all bids and adver- tise for more, This thing continued right along, and July 2 the board advertised for bids for curbing ten districts, Bids were invited on Colorado, Berea aud Hyland stone. July 17 the bids wero opened. P. H. Mahoney and J. W. Furnas & Sons were the lowest bidders onall of the districts, they having bia on Berea sandstone, They wero awarded the coutract, but the next day another meeting was held at which the action taken on the preceding day was reconsidered, their bid rejected. July 21 tho board sent a letter to the coun- cil informing that body of the action taken and again advertising for bids on the same districts, In the meantimo Mahoney & Furnas had been before Judge Wakeley and secured an injunction restraining the board from award- iny the contracts to the otuer bidders. Tho injunction was argued and sustained. Later on Mahoney & Furnas applied to Judge Davis for a writ of mandamus, com- pelling the board to transmit their contract and bond to the city council for approval or rejection. Tho mandamus was argued, and it was at that time that Judge Davis denom- inated the board as a body that held back alloy sessions and talked upon the streets instead of holding regular board meetings, Saturday Judge Davis handed down a de- ciston in the mandamus case. 1t is a lenghty one, but it teaches the members of the board several lessons. After citing the ordinances and sestions of the city charter under which the Board of Public Works acts, the judge said: “It is further provided that the board shall after duly advertising for bids for any public work that may be ordered by the mayor and city council,” and after opening the bids causea contract together withan abstract of the bids to bo made and submitted to tho mayor and council with its recommendations touching the same. ‘“This is the duty which relators seck to bavo enforced. IUis objected to on tho part of tho defendants, that the writ seeks to con- trol the illuut!mmx'y rowers of the board. I do not, think the objoction applies to the case as made by the proofs. Take the statutes and city ordinances togother, it is apparent that when a district is ordered improved, it becomes the duty of the Board of Public Works to act and its duties are sufiiciently prescribed by the statute and ordinances, although, perhaps, not as specifically as might be'desired. The board has acted in this case, It has caused an advertisement to be published and it has received and opened bids. It was its duty to determine who was the lowest bidder. Under the specifications which it prepared it has de- termined who was the lowest responsible bidder, and it has formerly executed a con- tract with the relators. It'is true that the answer filed by the relators says that this contract was awarded conditionally. That is, that other contracts wero also to be exe- cuted and o'l of them sent to thé city coun- cil for its approval of the one that it might select. By the ordinanco cited, it was tho duty of the board to have kop! detail of its procoedings and acts, and it will not be permitted to proveits acts inany other way thau by its record. Morcover, tho method of procedure wkich the board, by its answer, says it adonted, is unheard of and unwarranted and secks to throw upon the city council the perform- ance of the duty which the law enjoins upon the Board of Public Works. “1t was the duty of tho Board of Public Works 1o determine who was the lowest bid- der and to prepave and sign a contract and to transmit it to the council with the recom- mendation of the Board of Public Works at- tached to the same. The ordinances contem- plate that the council shall act after the Board of Public Works has performed its duty. It does not intend that the city council shull be an advisory body to the Board of Public Worlks in matters left to the bozrd, or in any other manner that is prescribed by ordinance, I'he communication,therefore, of the board was not a pecformance of its duties, It did not place befove the city council all of the preceedings taken by the board. It did not inform tho council that the board had ex- ecuted a contract or that the rolators had performed on their part all that was re- quired, and-it did not contain any recomman- dation 'of the board touching the matter, All of these things it was tho duty of tho board todo, and the city council, before it was called upon to act, hud the right to kuow not only what had been done by the board, but what its recommendation was, When tho contract was awavded, all discretionary power of the board ceased and it had nothing to do but a mimsterial duty of forwarding the contract and bond to the city council with its recommeudation, as provided by ordinance. “The relators had a right to the performance of this duty. The action of the city council in rejecting all bids is thereforo not conclu sive of its right to act upon the contract when it shall be regularly transmitted, “Tam in o measure controlled by tho in- junction proceedings in the consideration of this application, as the effect of the order made in that proceoding must enter into the consideration of this application. Counsel have differed as to what were the views of Judge Wakeloy expressed on tho heaving, and 1 con only consiaer the effect of tho restraining order, and as it appears to me that the granting of the restraining ovder must be based upon tha grounds that all dis cretionary power of the board, so far as awarding tho contract to Mr. Woodworth and others than the relators had cea that the action of the board in reconside the awards was o recision to all Dbidders except and that the award to ended the discretionary powers of the board s0 faras concerned the members. If this wore not so the relators would have no inter- est suflicient to enable them to maintain tho action upon the hearing for a temporary in- junction, I conclude, therefore, that my views of the right of thé relators are in harmony with the views which must have been entertained by Judge Wakeloy on tho hearing of the in- junetion suit. A writ will be issued commanding the de- fendauts to transmit to tho eity council the contract and bond entered into by the defen- dants with the relators, togethier with tho abstract of the bids and the recommendation ug of the awards the wtors the relators of the defendasts attached to tho same, in order that the eity council may act upon the contracts, Of eourse, it is not to be under- stood that the metion 1n any way is to con- trol or Infiuenceithe action of tho city coun- cil, which will bajat liberty to approve ot re- ject the contraet. Its freedom of action is not iu any manner to be controllea.”” The writ and | the order of the court were served upon the members yestorday after- noon, P THE KINDERGART An Admirer,of Froebel Weplies to Proft Fitzpatrick, Ovam, Aug, 28, -To tho Editor of Tne ¢ Ture Bre of the 10th inst. contained an articlo headed “Hardly Favors Them,” an interview with Mr. Fitzpatrick, the nowly appointed superintendent of schools in Omaha, Speaking about the kindergartens ho tells us that the sluggish mind of German children needs such a_ preparation, while the American children don't need it because thoy aro more wideawako and ready to take hold of mental tasks, even before their physical development is prepared to sustain severe mental effort: therefore the kindergarten had been founded in Germany and had met there with its great 8t success. Such talk makes mo beiiove that Mr. Fitz- patrick don’t at all know the bistory of the kindergarten and a good deal less can Justify his expression about tho sluggishnes of the intellectual powers in German children, Let us look iuto it. Mr. Fitzpatrick main. tuns that the kindergarten is a German iu- stitution adapted only to the education of Germun childron, In how far is it¢ It is in so far only as its founder, Frederick Froebel, was o German, who organized the frst kin dergarten in ' Blankenburg, Thucingia, i 1837, I'rocbel, firmly convinced that this in- stitution would bo of great importance for the whole human race, doscribed his system is a weckly paper. Ho also loc- tured in the laree towns and gave a regular course of instructions to young teachers at Blankenburg, How miich even in thesc early days was thought of his work, can pest be seen in the work of that_illustrious wo- man, Buroness Marcnholtz-Birlow;" *Rec- ollectious of Friederich Froebel. But prophets ure not recognized 1 th8ir own country. This was shown 1n 1851, when 1o less a person than the Prussian minister for education and religion prohibited the kindergartens on tho plea, that they were catculated to_spread atheism, but the true fact was, that the king of Prussia fearcd thata too liberally educated people might s00m repeat the events of 45, and send him and the other more or less God-crowned- princes of Germany in a life-long retiremont without pension. ‘For this reason even up to this date, the kindergartens have not made such progress in the Fatherland as they should have doue, not to speak at all of have ing met in Germany with their greatest succ i What was Froeble's 1dea of a kinder garten! Frovbel maintained that the ctild belonged both to bis family ana to society, and he would therefore have childven spend some hours of the day 1 a common lifo and in well organized comimon employment. Thesc assemblies of children he would not call schools, for the children in them ought not 1o be old enough for schooling. (Mr. I\, this don’t sound as if the kindergarten had becu founded on account of the sluggishuess of the German iotellect). So he in- vented the name kindergarten, and called the superintendents childrens'- gardners. *Ho laid great stress on every child cultivating its own plotof ground, but this was not the reason for the ehoice of the name. It was rather that he thought of institutions as enclosures in which young plants are nurtured. In the kindergarteu thic children’s employment should be play, But any occupation in which children delight is play to them, and Froebel invented a series of employments, which,while they are n this senso play to thé children, have neverthele: as scon from the adult point of view, a dis tinet cducational object. This object, as Froobel himself describes it, is “to give the children employment iu agreément with thei whole nature, to strengthen their bodies, to exerciso their senses, to engage their awak- ening mind, and through their senses to make them aquainted with nature end their fellow creatures; it is espocially to guido aright the heart and the affections; and to lead them to tho or- iginal ground of all life, to unity with them- solves.” From the above it can be casily seen that while the kindergarten was born in Ger- many; it was founded and planned for the benelit of tne children of the whols human race. Suppressed and frowned upon in its own fatherland tho work of the poor dead schoolmaster has today found its howe with all the civilized world. Henry Baruavd calls by far the most original, attractive and philosophical form of infant development (report to the governor-of Connecticut, 1854), and Michelet, the v nchman, declaved in that Froebel had *solved the problem of an education.” It is_found today in Taly, Austria, Belgium, Lrance, and, move than in any other country, in tho United States. Tho improvement in infant schools in Belgium is attribuied to 1t. Verily this dou’t look as if this great work bad originated only to Lielp along the sluggish- ness of the mind of German children. Search where I may, I caunot find where the Gierman child is slower 1 its inteliectual development than the American. Leaving the kindergarten entirely out of the play, let us look to the public school and some facts coucerning its attendance. In tho United States o child shall bo six years old befovo it can attend public school, but in many states of the union children don’t need to visit school when they don’t wish to do so. The Gorman child, everywhere within the bound- aries of the fatherland, is compelled by to attend school s s0on as it is six_years old and to visit1t regularly untilits fourteenth year. ro aro no provisions made that I am aware of, for the caso that tho German child migut not be fit for proper schooling at the same nge as the American, Do the results of the training of children in Germany show any slower developinent compaved with other ua- tions ! I have only statistics of 18 make the following showing: “The armics of Europe being the fair ropre- seutatives of the difforent nations, we takoe from them our information. In 1872 tho number of illiterates in tha German army were 4.6 per cent, in the navy 2.6 per cent, the corresponding members in Frauce being 23 aud 14 per cent, in Englana 23 per cent of the mavines could neither read nor write 1n 1505, 4 per cent only could read and #7 per it could write but imperfectly. These uro most advanced nations of Iurope and s o protty favorablo showing for the slow German intellect. It mav be slow, Mr. I, but it gets there sure, Yours truly, Max Kuuze. 2 at hand which —— Constipation geisons the blood; DeWitt's Little Larly Itisers curo constipation. The cause removed, tho disease is gone, e Grand Batry Into Omaha, On snd after July 80, 1801, the Chi- cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railw. compuny will run all of its trains in and out of the union depot, Omaha No more annoyanee caused by transferring and switching at Council Bluffs, & olid vestibuled trains, consisting of new \lace slocping cars, frea parlor chair rs, elegzant eoaches, and the finest dining cars in‘tho world, all’heated b, steam and lighted throughout by ele teic lights. The new evening express with “‘electric: lights in every berth” now leaves Ommaha daily at 6,20 p m, arriving at Chieago at 9:30 a. m, in tine for all eastern connections. 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BUYS A MELTON OVERCOAT., Silk faced or plain, as you like, three shades to sclect from, that you don't have to leave Omaha to find selling for eight or ten dollars, $7.2 $9.0 of very fine $11, $12 and Want to know more n dollars, $1 Drs.BETTS & BETTS PHYSICIANS, SURGEONS and SPECIALISTS, 1409 DOUGLAS ST., OMAHA, NEBRASKA. Office hours from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. from 10 a. m. to 1 p. m, ists in Chronic, Nervous, Skin and Blood Sunday ¥ Consultation at offico or by mail freo. ic by mail or express, securely packed, freo from observation. Guarantces to curo quickly, safely and permanently. The most widely and favorably known special- ista in tho United States, Their long expericnce, remarkabloskill and universal success in_ the treatment and cure of Norvous, Chronic and Sur- gical Diseases, entitlo theso eminent physicians to the fall confidence of the afllicted everywhere. They guarantee : A CERTAIN AND POSITIVE CURE for tho awful eflects of carly vice and the numerous evils that follow in its train, PRIVATE, BLOOD AND S8KIN DISEASES speedily, complotoly and permanently cured, NERVOUS DEBILITY ARD SEXUAL DIS- ORDERS yield readily to their skillful treat- ment. PILES, FISTULA AND RECTAL ULCERS guaranteed cured without pain or detention from business. HYDROCELE AND VARICOCELE perma- nently and successfully cured in every case, SYPHILIS, GONORRHMA, GLEE torrhaa, Seminal Weakness, Night Emissions, Decayed Faculties, Weaknoss and all delicato disorders peculi eithor sox positively cured, ns well as all f; tional disorders that result'from youthful follies or the excess of mature yeurs. 1 Guaranteed permanently cured, Stricture o i ting, caustic or dilatation. Cure cffected at homo by patient without a moments puin or annoyance, TO YOUNG AND MIDDLE-AGED MEN A Sure Cure T'e ayful cffects of carly wvice which brings organic weaknoss, destroving both mind and body, with Wil its droaded i11s, permaently cured. . Address thoro who have impar- DS, Betts A e T e tae dulgonco and rolitary hubits, which ruin both mind and body, unfitting them for business, Btudy or marriaie. MARRIED MEN, or thoso entering on_that happy life, aware of physical debiiity, quickly assisted, 57 80nd 6 conts postago for celebrated works on Chronic, Norvous tud Delicato Disedaos, Thousands cured, A friendly letter or call iy save you futare suifering and shumo, and add gold ¢ o No lotter nnswored DRS. 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Dopots Now bu v furnituro, evory thing first class, 0o Jeatlon in Omah, viow of entire aurround intry, kns, bath sladtelo oall bells eto Raes, 16160, Kvory ilue of eablo an | motor car-, pass within ono block, 6re \urman Avenus and 1asscom Park line. 4 blocks awa — and you cam RYRIURE RETAIN A RUPTURE R 10 Aignetic Al as cured thou DENT, nond At 1t sambs. (O § Mugneile Elatic Truss Co.. hen Fra T0 WEAK MEN:: & the @ garly docar, waating weakncus lost 1 1wl sond'a valuatic full partioulars fur hon A splondid mealoal work i shou man who {s nervous and del Prof ¥, C. FOWLER, Moodus, Conn NO OURPA! about’em? I|IL') Drop in. on y “weahin Lunnun,” b 1444 er think of that in its make-up, brings with it the cool evenings, and some If you're a good, solid If you're a professional man and« If your clothes are scedy and you want If you want a garment it's right here you'll take our elevator the “ave,’ BUYSANELEGANTALL WOOLCASSIMEREGARMENT with fine twilled lining that you'd willingly pay eleven dollars for it we'd ask it, GIVES YOU THE CHOICE Kersey garments that for style, shape, colorings and fit you'll have hard work to equal under fiftee Gives you the pick of a dozen lines of as fine gar- ments as any tailor gets up when he tries his best, NO PAY. NINS 1818 Douglds Street, Omaha Neb. Many years' experfonce. grentest siccoss a| Spermatorrha aisenses of the to cure. Consult Il Norvo Tost Man Hlood, Skin and atlon fr A rogu hronte o, o Urin r graduate In medicine as diplo to Disons. Night T tnal We ry Organs, ‘. Book (Mysteries of Life) sent free. Wam tol2m. Send stamp for reply. 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