Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 28, 1892, Page 5

lding CORREEPONDENCE, All_communications relating to news and editorial matter should be addressed tc the Editorial Department. All business latters and remittances should te nddressed to The Beo Publishing Company. Owahn. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders 10 Le made payable to the order of the com- pany. The Beg Publishing Company, Proprictor SWORN STATEMENT Fate of Nobraskn Ton County of Douglas. | Geo. B, Tezschuck, secretary of Tho BEE does _solomnly swear intion of THE DAILY Bre for the weok ending February 7, 1802, was as foilowa Sunday. i ond Tueaday, Wednesday. Thuraday, Friday, I'ob, 2 Buturday. Feb, 1 OF OIRCULATION, Average. in my Eworn to bef d _subscribed orn to before me an orived Jo iy presence this 27th day of February. BEAL. P. FEIL, Notary Publie. _— Average Circulation for January 2 o e ——— S0 LONG as France and Germany pay houvy bounties to their beet sugar man- ufacturers America cannot expect home sugar makers to meet European compe- tition without governmental assistance. — MARRIAGEABLE maidens who are in- clined toslight the opportunities afforded Dby 1892 must not forget that after this year rolls by there will be but one more leap year until 1904, The year 1900 will have THE BeE does not understand why the Board of Park Commissioners should deem it advisable to grant the right to conduct the refreshment booth in Hanscom park free when responsible parties stand ready to pay $1,000 or more for the privilege. WHAT R may be true of the coun- try at large, Nebraska is not ready to approve a law revealing the sugar bounty or making binder twine free. But sugar and binder twine manufactur- ing are “infant industries” in this state which we desire to see encouraged. UNTIL the 5-cont bridge arbitrary is removed, a falr rate on Texas cattle is secured, milling-in-transit rates are oonceded and tho local switching charges are reduced, there is no time for the transportation committeee of our various business organizations to take “Pleasure trips or enjoy leisure. THE opportunity is presented our Jjobbers to secure a first class wholesale dry goods firm with ample capital. If Omaha people will take a little stock in tho institution there i scarcely a shadow of doubt but this branch of our jobbing trade can be strengthened within a few months to the advantage of business genorally. THE African who concealed himself in the woodpile long enough to tugn a water pipe loose upon the federal build- ing sito the pight before Supervising Avrchitect Edbrooke’s visit has not yet le>n discovered. The fact is, no effort hus been made to locate him. **A re- markable coincidence” is scarcely dense enough to hide him from public view. Ho should bs smoked out some way. Ir MR, THOMAS MURRAY would ex- und his heart and tender the city a rrmzt of the dimensions of Hanscom park the citizens of Omaha, regardless of creed, party or sox will petition the park commission to accept the gift and keep the memory of Murray perpetually fragrant by giving the park his name. And most of our citizens would favor tho enlargement of Murray park by the purchase of the fifuy or sixty acres of additional land adjoining the park, pro- viding always that it can be bought at a reasonable price. — THE coming general conference of the Mothodist Episcopal church will pass upon the question of the eligibility of women to preach the gospel and to rep- resontation in that body. The question has been voted upon at the annual con- ferences and a majority of 486 out of a total vote of 10,756 is reported. No question of church polity to come before 4ho general conference will be quite so Interesting.as this, or will so thoroughly Lest the executive ability of the presid- Ing bishop, for no other will arouse so much acrimonious discussion MiLTON E. FREE has deposited $100 with TiE BEE as the nucleus of a fund to be used in providing treatment of mon addicted to the alcohol habit who are unable to pay the expenses for them- selves. He has set an example worthy of emulation and THE BEE hopos other persons who belleve in extending a hand to the victims of dipsomania will send in contributions. This is a prac- ticul charity and the instances in which * habitual drunkards have been cured are 80 numerous in our midst as to relieve the charitably disposed from all doubt as to the efficacy of the treatment pro- posed. — Mi. CHARLES F. WELLER of the Omaha Commercial club states that tho prospects for the abolition of the bridge arbitrary of 5 cents per 100, which now ptands in the way of Omaha’s jobbing trade east of the river, are very encour- wuging. The justice of the claim of O.uaha for this concession in rates can- not be gainsaid. Council Bluffs is ad- mitted to Nebraska and western points Without the bridge charge, and there can be no reason why Owmaha should suffer a discrimination on its Iown business. The jobbing trade of this city has grown to sufficient import- #nce to warrant our demands for fair atment, de- ... Un- Modato the great M military gatherings vy cannot hopo to compete ities for similar favors in the future. Had the exposition building been al- lowed to remaiu as originally designed we would have been in condition to sat- isfy all ordinary demands for large popu- lar demonstrations, but since the buiid- iig has been subdivided it has become useless for the purposes intended to be subserved by its projectors. The Coli- soum is at best only o great barn, Its location at one end of the town is a groat drawback, and at besy it can only be utilized as a sporting hippodrome. Omaha is not in position at this time to build a permdnent exposition build- ing of the magnitude and magnificence of similar structures at Minneapolis, Milwaukee and Denver. But there ought to be no trouble in raising the necessary funds for an armory capacious enough for drilling o full regiment of infantry., Such a building will be in constant use by our national guards and can be converted. at little expense, into an industrial exposition hall for thirty or sixty days during each year. Nearly every city of any protensions in the eastern states boasts of one or more ar- mories. The Canadian cities, including Quebec, Montreai und Toronto, have each erected magnificent armories for their volunteers, Why cannot Omaha emulate their example? Why cannot some of our wealthiest citizens be induced to either donate a plot of ground centrally located und suitable for an armory, or lease such a plot of ground for a long term of years at a nominal price? If the ground can be secured under favorable con- ditions the necessury funds for the build- ing could, it seems to us, be raised by contributions and subscriptions to stock on which a reasonabloe rete of interest is guaranteed, If this armory - were erected this spring the Manufacturers and Consumers association could well afford to join in the enterprise and hold their first exposition immediately after the national drill. THE INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION. The Industrial exposition to be held in Omaha in June willmark an epoch in the history of Omaha and the state. Nebraska has never made a creditable exhibit of her manufactures. The dis- vlays at state and county fairs and the Omahaexposition have been interesting, but the articles of home manufacture have been over-shadowed by the exhibits of farm products, live stock and mer- chandise. Fow people appreciate the number and magnitude of our industrial concerns. The exposition in June will contain sam- ples of the products of nearly every fac- tory in the state and wheve practicable, the process of manufacture will be ex- hibited to the public. The enthusinsm manifested by the members of the Manufacturers and Con- sumers associatfon in the proposed expo- sition males its success a certainty. In- asmuch as it is the first display of the kind ever held in the state it will attract unusual attention and it deserves the en- couragement of the local state press. It is in no sense to be circumsecribed by the city limits of Omaha, Every mill and factory in the state will be allotted abundant space and everything will be done to give each industrial establish- ment the opportunity of displaying its products to the visiting public in the most attractive manner. E—— A CORN EXHIBIT AT THE WORLD'S FAIR. The suggestion that congress make an appropriation for a corn exhibit at the World’s fair is worthy of consideration. The contemplated plan is not merelv to gather from the principal corn-pro- ducing states an attractive display of that cereal, but to make provision for demonstrating tho many nutritious aualities of corn as human food. What has already been done to familiarize Furopeans with the value of this great American staple for table use has had good results. Perhups all that was hoped for from the efforts to introduce corn into Burope as food for the people has not heen realized, but progress has been made and there is reasonabie ground for belief thut the future will 6eo a steady increase in the KEuropean demand for cora as human food. Itsuse has been considerably increased in Great Britain, and while the people of the continent have not taken so kindly to it as they were oxpected to under ex- isting conditions, it is a certainty of the not romote future that they will be com- pellad to use it largely as a substicute for other bread grains, of which the sup- vly relative to population is very likely to decline from vear to year from the avorage of the past. It is bolieved that a comprehensive exhibit at the Columbian exposition would do more to educate Europeauns to accept corn as food for man than all the effort in this direction that has been made abroad. The visitors from Fu- rope, seeing it eaten commonly by Americans of all classes, would the more certainly be induced to cultivate a taste for it than they can be at home, or at any rate they would learn to regard it with greater fuvor from seeing its ex- tensive use here. It is not generally understood, at least by the common peo- ple of Europe, that corn enters so largely us it does into the domestic economy of the American people, and it is not to b doubted that if they could be made aware of its extensive popular use here they would think better of that grain, At any rate, as one of the groat staple products of the country corn ought to have a distinet and ample exhibit at the World’s fair, and if con- gress will not make an appropriation for this purpose the principal corn growing states ought to unite in making the exhibit, It has been suggested that il the six states of Indiana, Illinois, Towa, Mis- souri, Kansas and Nebraska were to two a4 provide w00 for a corn ex- T theso states were to Proct n corn palace at the fair wnerein the various forms of corn as food could be shown, and where the many nutritious dishes could be cooked in the presence of the people and fed to them at a nominal price, great rosults would follow. The matter is of sufficient importance to merit the serious atten- tion of all who are interested in increas- ing the exports of one of our chief pro- ducts, PHYSICAL TRAINING AND MORALS. People generally do not associate morals and physical training. To the average mind they seem incompatible, if not antagonistic. But there is no necessury hostility between them. On the contravy, they may not only exist to- gethor, but physical training may be- come a positive help to the growth of morals, One of the most earnest advo- cates of such teaining is De. John S. White, hoad master of the Berkeley school, who in a recent address declared that of all that tenas to improve the character and morals of men there is no one eloment of greater value than ju- dicious physical training. The best ac- complishment of the mind and heart cannot be expected if that most mar- velously intricate of all machines, the human body, be not kept in perfect order and at the point of highest ef- ficiency. Tle fact that for years athletics and athletes have not been of the highest repute does not militato against the value of physical training when pursued in a proper spirit and with a proper aim. Many kinds of sports and many forms of exercise have heen brought under the ban of the critic and the church bacause of the evil associations which have been made to surround them, but this does not prove that thoy are essentially ovil. Much harm has bheen done by injudicious opposition to the ordinary forms of harmless sport and exercise by people who ought to have known better. Forty years ago students of divinity were practically excluded by public opinion from partici pation in any form of athletic sports. They were foroed to conform their lives, their dress and their diet almost to the ascetic standard of the middle ages. This idea is still rife, but is not so gen- eral as it was a generation ago and is steadily losing ground. The fundamental maxim of the new physical training is not to produce afew great athletes, but rather to raise every individual to the highest symmetrical development, and the maximum of health and physical beauty of which nature has made him personally capable. Not quantity, but quality, efficiency of form and muscle, are the desideratum. Dr. White declared his confident belief that if to every schoolhouse in every land there wero added an extension, or a stery, giviag a single large, sunny room, into which a judicious variety of the appliances of a well equipped gym- nasium could be put, and if every child, from the youngest to the oldest, could receive forty minutes of drill by a com- petent instructor each day, and have that training supplemented by instruc- tion in the important laws of health, the total of crime and the numbers of the criminal classes would, in the follow- ing generation, be diminished fully one-half. To develop strong arms and chest and legs is the surest way also to produce a clear and powerful brain. In other words, the best form of physical train- ing must needs bring a powerful con- tribution to the moral and intellectual well-being of the subject. The testi- mony of professors and physicians in the universities all over the world establishes the fact that hand in hand with the diffusion of the athletic spirit goes an improvement in the morals of the students, and that in a large majority of insiances the men who are most successful in athletic sports excel also in mental attainments. IN BEHALF OF CONVICTS. The prime object of penal servitude is the reformation of the criminal. The very name of penitentiary implies pen- ance for crimes committed and the ex- piation of the crime is intended to be counled with the reclamation of the criminal. One of the problems that con- fronts society under our form of govern- ment is, how can the ex-convict be placed in position to gain a livelihood and become a useful and law-abiding citizen? How shall society deal with the men and women who have undergone the ordenl of penal servitude and desire to resume their places in the social fabric? The ex-convict is despised by his fel- low-men, shunned by old associates, and often forced by the cruelty of the world to commit crime to secure sustenance. Almost every day in the year some Jean Valjean steps forth into the world from oneofour so-called reformatories to seek a livelihood and renew the combat against the prejudices which prevail among all classes against the ex-convict. In reform schools the boys are managed with some degree of success and many a bright lad is cured entirely of evil habits which if they had not been corrected would have forced him into the garb of a convict sooner or later, ‘The severest test of manhood comes to the poor fellow who perhaps more from the force of circumstances than any innate wickedness hus takena wrong step and fallen into a prison cell, and after a term long or short endeavors to live down his disgrace. He has acquired regular habits. Perhaps he has learned a trade, His life in prison has forced him to be abstemious and he is really better fitted to make his way in the world than if he had not suffered the experience of imprisonment. But the mark of Cain is upon him. If he dis- agrees with a fellow workman or his employer the fact is flaunted in his face, He must be a man of iron will, excep- tional ability in his line of employment and he needs the virtue of a saint o overcome the obstacles which the cruelty of society places in the way of his complete reformation, 1t is gratifying to observs a growing interest in these poor fellows. There are now organizations iv correspondence BRUARY 23, 1892—SIXTEEN officers of penitentiaries who and there is reagon to beliove they aro able to accomplish'n vast amount good to mankind. ;; They certainly re- duce the number of criminals very materially and do the kindest nets which can be porformed. to fellow men. Minnesota an agéntds employed by the prison and reformgtoty boards to look after the cases of jien who return to the communities of ithat state from tho gloomy cells of thd pnitentiary. Other western states would find it both profit- able and choritable to do likewise. Wo are doing a great deal to reform the dissipated all over' this country and to lift young porsons, out of temptations through one sort of missionary work and another, It will be well to take this furthor step and save to good ordor and decent livelihood the men not incorrigi- ble who roturn to socioty from the penitentiaries year by year. FX-MAYOR LORING of Minneapolis at- tributes the growth of that city largely to its system of parks and boulevards. Thaere was & prolonged fight before any thing was accomplished, but finally, ten years ago, a board of park commis- sioners was created by the legislature with absolute control of all the parks and boulevards, and also with the right to condemn property which they might need and to define the limits of the dis- trict to be benefitted by such improve- ments, with the further power of de- termining bonefits and damages. Since that time there hasbeen stoady progress in creating a systom of parks and boule- vards, so that now Minnoupolis is ex- celled by few cities in the world in the extent and beauty of these attzactions. Still sho has not halted in this work, but is acquiring land for further im- provement in this direction which wilt add greatly to the attractiveness of the city. A policy that has proved so ad- vantageous to Minneapolis could not fail to benefit Omaha, and the example is ons worthy the consideration of this community, Therois nota city in the country with a good park system that has not found it a profitable investment, and the testimony of all European citios is to the same effect. A judicious ex- ponditure of money for parks has never been a causo of regret to uny com- munity. ONE of the reforms instituted by the postmaster general is tho merit system for promotions in the postal service, and it is giving entire satisfaction. Its visi- ble effect has been to materially improve the efficiency of the service, because every employe whp has an ambition to rise, and theve are very fow who do not, are inspired to their best efforts, It is an incentive, both to faithfulness and to interest in the work, for these count more than any ihllne‘pco. political or other, that a clerk ,aan bring to bear. The object of the sysfem is to impress upon every man 'ln the service that he must depend upon himsell alone and upon his own oxart’mh’, and that if heis not qualified to establish a claim to ad- vancement by superior work and a strict devotion to duty he cn?mut expect any- thing from outside help, whatever it may be. This acts'as'a spur to zeul and diligence, and the’gain to the efficioncy. of the service has:consequently been very marked. Tha merit system is founded on sound business principles and ought to be adopted in all depart- ments of the public service, Its suc- cess in the Postoffice department doubt - less insures its permanent maintenance there. JUDGE LyTL logic as to the valid- ity of the present park commission is decidedly strained. It may have baen of doubttul propriety toconfer executive power upon our district judges, but Mr. Lytle will scarcely contend that the provision of the constitution which con- fors upon the governor, subject to confir- mation by the senate, the power to make all appointments of officers created by law under the constitution refers to any municipal officer unless it is specifically provided in the act itself. If this con- struction were upheld by the courts, not only all the secretaries on the State Board of Transportation and the bank examiners and other subordinate of- ficials that draw pay from the state treasury would have to bo appointed by the governor, but all city officials who hold places by appointment would also have to be commissioned by the gov- ernor. All of these persons hold their positions in pursuance of laws enacted under the state constitution THE report of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture for 1891 is a most instruc- tive document. Within ninety pages the pamphlet treats of crop and live stock statistics, with a summary for the state covering the acreage, product and value of all the agricultural and live stock product; of the sorghum in- dustry; irrigation; the ‘*‘loco weed”; the water conditions and the meteorol- ogy of the atate. KEach of the topics presented is discussed tersely and intel- ligently. The pamphletis & compend- ium of the agricultural resources and live stock industries of the state. It affords exhaustive and invaluable in- formation concerning: the wealth of Kansas and as a painstaking analysis of the conditions whigh make for the pros- perity of an agricultural commonwealth it leaves little to bé deeired. GoLp HiLL, Wyo., may not enjoy the rush of miners and! ap?culuturu experi- enced by Creede, Uolp., and perhaps there will be no reak estate boom there, but the reports dPnfilgua encouraging for the development of a steady bullion producing cump. :The prospect for a general rovival of intérbst 1n the miping industry throughaut; the country 18 bright. Unless the indications are de- ceptive this will b bhenomenal season in the camps of the Roekies, — CouNcIL BLUFFS will be greatly bene- fited by the people’s parly convention and her citizens should be invited to places on the general committee on ar- rangenients for the entertainment of the delegates and visitors. Both eities will be taxed to their utmost to provide ac- commodations for the erowds. — Keeps on Fighting, Chappell Reglster, The Rogister 1s not in the squabble, so can take an unviased view of the wacter. ‘Tug 1 Owama Bre is the best abused papor pub- rortake to assigt \ynr(h_\' ox-convicts | lished in Nebraska. It has heen for along of | In | | combined. PAGES timo now, and is still being scored by almost every paper 1n the state of any prominence, regardloss of party politics, but it keeps right on fighting the boodlers and ring man- ipulators and railroads, paying but little attontion to snarling and barking atits heels, T Ber has dono mora to bring tho oity govornment of Omaha up to its present standard of purity than all other influences It cannot help being patont to a distntorestod spoctator that the influence of that paper in molding public sentiment. is so much greater thau any one or even all of tho othors, is the cause of a potty jealousy with them that cannot be over Proa Creeds Amethyst. Through the courtesy of Watrous & Ban- nigan of the Denver Exchange, the games in the club room were stopped last mght to allow a minister of the gospel to address a crowd which had gatheroed to hear him. The sight was most curious —a erowd of such men as are found only in a Colorado mining camp listening with close attontion to prayers to the throno of grace, meanwhilo clinking to gother in their palms the red and white chips left over in their interrupted gamo. When the minister had finished, the kono table, which had done duty tor a pulpit, was again surrounded by the players, and “Keno!™ “O!" and the rest of the players’ exclamations contrasted with the monotonous voice of the roulette man, crying, “Twenty- ono black, high, nobody thoro!” and then the chips rattlo into his box. Prayors Poker. Boyd's Private S tary. Grand Island Democrat We see that Governor Boyd has appointea Frank R. Morrissey as his privato secrotary. Lt us see, who is this Frank R. Morrissey! Isn'tho the man who black-listod a lot of domocratic members of tho legislature bocause they voted for Van Wyck for United States senator! Isn’t he the man that was the heavy man on tho Omaha Herald just before Dr. Miller deomed 1t necossary to sell that paver on account of this black list roast of democrats who were carrying out their pledgos to the peoplo? Wo beliove ne is. A Parallel, Philadelphia Times. Igoatius Donrelly, presiding over the or- Ranization of the third party at St. Louis in 1802, 18 a figure so striking as to ve singu- larly suggestive of Mirabeau welding to- gether the third estao at Versailles in 1780, Except that the farmers alliance isn't 1n the least like tho third estate, that St. Louis isn'tin the least like Versailles, and that Ignatius Donnelly isn't in the least like Mirabeau, the parallel is exact. Brill y of Brice New York Adver r. The coroner’s jury in Illinois, which brought in a verdict that “deceased camo to his death by being found doad in bed,” had aoubtless been reading the deap philosophy of Senator Brice, to ‘the offect that Mr. Cleveland, if ho received the necessary two- thirds majority in the Chicago convention, would be nominated for the presidency. —— = ‘What Did St. Paul Get—Wind Pudding? St. Paul Pioncer Press. POOR OLD OMAHA, NEBRASKA’S METROPOLIS MUST TAKE THE PEO- PLE'S PARTY CONVENTION, ONLY SEVENTEEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SIX DELEGATES WILL BE THERZ, An Element of Popularity. Kansas Democrat, Ono thing that makes T UMAnA BEE 80 valuable to Nebraskans and so popular, 1s its columns of state telegrams, frosh and relia- ble. Kansas has no such paper—Kansas dailies, too, are reported as not. paylug. New York Advertiser The fact that Jay Gould has subscribed $10,000 for church work is a fair notice to the spirits of evil that they have an antagonist t been whipped. e New York Terror, New York Commercial. Turn Perry loose. Iditor Garza wants him, Garza and Perry as a chapparal ticket would not give Diaz a walkover in the next presidential campaign in Mexico. e Don't You Go Tommy, Don't Go, Minneapolis Tribune. Waste no tears on Edison. A great many of us would be glad to be ‘‘frozen out” just as ho has beon. One-tenth of $100,000,000 is not half bag, even for Edison. e Or the Theft of a State, New York Tribune, Tho negro who stolea red hot stove is rivailed, if not overmatched, by the French- men who have purloined government dyna- mite. ATCHISON GLOBUL, An ange! is always amiablo because it has no stomach. Children would do as they are told a great deal better if grown folks did as they tell. No children, 1n the eyes of their mother, are ever old enough to take care of them- selves. In the good old-fashioned times kings did not have the luxuries that a poor man now calls his necessities. The more worthless the man a woman marries the more affectionate she begins to feel toward her fatber. Too many women forget when a man flat- ters them that tho deeper the coating of sugar the more bitter the pill. Almost any man can reconcile his wife to being lefv at home when he goes to conven- tions and excursions by carrying her photo- graph with him, There are times in every man’s life when he covers his ignorance by saying that the wisest man in the world couldn’t answer all the questions of a fool. Did you ever notice that a man who does not “'talk” abouv oihers 1s generally admired { You can be admired 1n the same way and feol botter 1n that tendor spot away down deep in you. e — BLASTS FROM RAM'S HORN, Sin is most fascinating when you cannot see its fuce. Find a man who doubts and you find one who is weak, Nobody ever gets to be any better than they wat to be. It doesn’t make a lie any whiter to put it on & tombstove, When truth goes into battle it always fights in the front rank, The man who proves that there is no hell is the devil's best friend. A roligion that consists only in ideas does not make anybody better. ‘The gold handle on an umbrella is not ad- mired when 1t is raining hard, Peopie who try to hide bebind one another in chureh, will try to do the same thing in the judgment. The devil never throws any stones at the preacher who is tryiug to prove that salva- tion begins and ends with the head, The wan who hides behind & hypocrite is about as safe as tho soldier who bides be- hind & rotten stump on the battlefield, TICKLING TOPICS. Sowerville Journal: It always looks fuuny to wee another mun fall down, but it seldom seoms funny to 4 wan when he hus fallen down himself. te Field's Washington: “They've got a cheme for makin' rain vow, HMaris,' sald Bllas. “Laws, turned thunile raln me! What'll they dew next?" ro- rla. “I've hurn tell o' boys rafsin’ ut I never thought they'd muke Neighbor—I wuz s'prisod to howr lately, Brudder Wampus. dat you's drinkin® hard Nr. Wanpus—Y ussir, dey's » man oul west 8435 de WOrl' wm gwine to cume to au end iu "bout two wooks, aa' I's bound 1 wont lot die yero bar'l o' cldor go to wasto! Chicago Tribune: Drugglst—I can recoms mend the asafetida piils. Thoy are covered with n coating of golatine, and you won't taste the stuft Apathetic de rip) —Just o 1y stom 'vo swallowed n tho first sta rshave tho row anything THE CULTURED MAID, Boston Jester studied all the lansuagoes ixcept, perhnps, hor own) And on u lofty pinnaclo Of learning stood ulone, Sh And yot whene'er 1 hoard her speak t mnde p sad bocanse 1n spite of her accomplishments She aiways sald “you was!™ Washinzton Star his acts of benovolence of sympathy In his nature. he man who fs proud of notable for the vain Somoryille Journal rtors aro always ting into trouble. One of them tried to 1 iss Flyrto looked lovely at the ball last evening," but the types made him say: “Miss Flyrto y at the ball last evening," und sho never sniiles upon him now. THE ALMANAC J0KE, Detroit ¥y According to th Old winter now And Very soun wo Is broke 1ut, friends, don't lot your caution slack, Keep flanneis to your front nnd back, You know In every almanue Mhoro Indlanapolis Journal: We never roalizo tho valuo of & jewel until we try to pawn it. Come to think of'it, we don't then. Elmira ( coguette is | other fellow: an's contempt for a od with pity for the Now Orloans farmers alllance erop. 0 worst crop a cin raiso is the agl-tater “Ret Vs fathe Washingto er, Willlam," rolling stone answered William, “1 don't a mossback What do you suppose Is the cause of o amount of Insunity that exists at tho present time?" “The lawyers for the de- fense, as a rule,” o Tribune: English Tourist—I say. kes you Amoricans talk with your American. v, what sl nukes you British- ors tulk with your don't. v DU-KNOWSes? Boston Herald: A canvass of the Paragraph- ers assoctation on the prosidential 1ssue shows a preponderance foe Boles. It Is a grout name to trifle with. Unlon County Standurd: The average epl- tuph is apt to be too epitaily. it SEES A PAVING SCHEME. “Taxpayers' " Opposition td Works' 2 Oxana, Feb, the Editor of Tne John B, Furay of the Board of Public Works of this city 1s gouerally credited with having formulated the plans and specitica tions for the paving contracts of this year. Without scrutinizing Mr. Furay's brainy production it would be inferred that heis a speclal guardian angel for each and every taxpayer in the city, but closer examination reveals a different state of affairs. The specifications propose that the con - tractor shall eive a guaranty for ten yoars and that 15 per cent of the amount shall be retained till the expiratioa of that time at 5 per cent. Will the Board of Public Works stop and consider tho injury and loss they propose to entail on the city? Lot us examine. A con- tract for $100,000 is not very extensive and the retention of tnis amount at 15 per cent wonld be 815,000, which surely would be more than a handsome profit on the contract. Without compound interest the interest the city should pay for $15,000 for ten years at 5 per cent is $7,500, making the contract at the expiration of ten years $107,500 inde- pendent of the interest on the bonds for in- tersections, paving and curbing. As no fixed rato of interest can be given for the latter bonds, it is passed over, but the taxpayer at the end of ten years will have a thorough knowledgo of it. But this is not all. All bidding competi- tion is completely shut out, therefore the contractor wbo bids must and will biud enough to pay all expenses and have a good margin of profit, but will be equally careful to tagon, over theso two important items, expenses and profits, §15,000, or 15 per cent, which amount the taxpayer loses without any remuneration, 'Lhe ten years’ guaranty is equally unjusy and foolish. Just look at it. The city pays a city engineer and a Board of Public Works to look aiter its business according to approved plans and specifications. The specifications aro right or wrong. If right get the work aone according 1o them; if wrong correct them. Besides this the work is done vader an inspector, and if the engineer, Board of Public Works and inspector do not under- stand where a contract is done, the whole lot ought to resign at once and not entail thou- sands of expense on the city to benefit one or two individuals, During the ten years the contractor and work are_in the hands of the Boara of Public Works and a gate is opened wido to a flood of corruption. The guaranty and retained 15 per cent leave the ball at the feet of the Board of Public Works to knock it high or low as they please, Without any real necessity they can compel contractors to repave the street. For the same cause a load of sand and three or four men can do the work, but the tax- payers at the end of the year must pay 3oard of Public PN and desirable, special prices. Other evenings till A few Stubborn Facts-- Our spring invoice of nice novelties in somely appointed children'’s parlors on the second floor and inspect the new things. We will not show out of date clothing for your boy because we haven't carried over a single dollar’s worth, Gentlemen will find it ad- vantageous to purchase their furnishing goods of us this week as we are making Browning,King & Co Opon Butarduys i p.w | S VW, Cor, 15th and Douglas St. on a conteact of $100,000 for 85 worth of worlk. What will bo the rosult! The contractor must stand in, a flood of corruption is poured on the city. Hoe will not ropavo the street and don't lot you forget it, neither will he ot the #23,500. Vorily, the city of Omaha owes a debt of gratitude to the mon who se- cured the re-eloction of J. B. Puray Tho proper course s that no work should be accepted of tho contractor which is not done woll, and that s the true and only way 1o protoct the property owner and to shut oft all fraud Let tho plans and spacifications be such as to admit all bidaers, and many will be bene- fittea and fow will not be enriched. Labor will havoabotter chance than 1f a fow contractors control all the work, As tho matter is before the council it is hoped thoy will give it the rnest consid- cration and consult the interests of the peo ple, Lot the council demand that the work is dune well; that the contractor is paid with- out Imposing unnecessary conditions; that the laborer is paid; that no man gets con tracts who doos not pay wages without a lawsuit. Let the councilmen demand theso requirements and thoy will be doing their duty faithfully. TANPAVER, TELEGRAPH TOLLS. Reduction of Rates by the Telegraph ¢ Cuicaco, 1, Fob, Tho Western Union T aph company is continuing its policy of reductions in telograph rates, and on March 1 will put into effect new schedules reducing rates to and from many points in Wiscousin, Illinols, Towa, Nebraska and Minnesota, from 20 per cent to 40 per cent. This also reduces their present interstato rates whore they are now 50 cents to 40 cents at about 900 oftices in 11 in Miune- sota, 850 in Wisconsin, Missouri, in towa and 300 in Kansas, At 100 offices in each of the above states, the rate to other offices within the samo state nas been res duced from 40 to 25 cents, and they announce that still other reductions are now being arranged. Western Unlon pany., it Aransas publes, SAN ANTONIO, Tox. At a confer- once between F. P. Sargont, grand chief of tho Locomotive Fireman’s brotierhood, and Superintendent Sands of the Aransas rond, tho griovances of tho unomplpyed firemen of tho road were again discussed, The oficials of the road held out against ail the demands of the men, and no rosalt_was reached. Mr. Sargent left for Tyler. Ho stated boforo his doparture that he was unablo to say what would develop in the coursoof & fow wooks if the mon were still kept out of their old po- sitions. Tho oficials of tho road claim tho firemen wore strikers, and wero a party to the written agreement which the arbitrators signed at the ond of the striko and they must abide by its provisior L SAx AxToNIO, Tox., A dispatch was received hore stating thata party of Garza revolutionists have boon located at La Cala basin, in Zapata county, Texas, Sor- geant ['rank ' Williamson, with fivo privates of the Third cavalry and two privates of company E, Eightecuth intantry, mounted and well armed, were detailed to procoed to tho rendezvous of tho rovolutionist to act as a posse to assist deputy United States mar shals in arrosting the ~offcnders. It is ex- pected that a fight will ensue. Killed Powder, Giass VaLLey, _ -In the Omaha mine, at a depth of 1,000 feot, this morning a box of giant powder exploded. Phillip Cadden was killed ana Thomas Pon- berthy fatally injured. Several others wera hurt. Maniaxa, Ark., Two little negre girls were burned to death in a shanty. The children were locked up in the Louso along while their mother was absent. Basani thee St MEMORY. Written for the Sunday Ber. Well, the dream of the summn.er is over, waking at lust from the sleep held me so long in its fetters I'vo only the memory t Of a vision of beautiful s A fancy so dear to my heart, I fain would returu to the dr And nover aguin would deps I'd wander forever and ever Down the mystic eyeles of yoars: Nor usk not nor wish not for waking Lest waking brought memory and tears. I'd dream on forever and ever: I'd shrink from remembrance or pain; But I know thut the swect dream vunished— Wil never to me come again. I know that the years stretehing outward Towark Iife’s sunset bring only to me Long, wearisome hours of watching Or waiting for something to be. I know that reality’s morning Will bring to me nev 0 Qf the form that's haunted my dream world Or the sight of a dear vanishod face, I know that our pathwuys are separate, That you will s 05 that are new: And the d will bring nevor Your fuco or your form to my view. I know just how sadly you'll niiss me, A3 Tsiiall miss you Uil 1ito onds, Oh!'sadder toan death is tho silonco That falls between thoso who were friends. But_farowell. shiped still tenderly gunrd you and bless: Thougl never again will T meet sou ord or kindly carcs f the summer Is over, ef ns a vision of sleen, And waking 1 find I have only A sorrowful memory to keep. may the God we havo wore Se W. Corner 15th and Douglas Sts. children’s wearis now arriving. " The jerseys and kilts are special- ly choice, and mothers are ur- Cverything is new