Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 1, 1892, Page 4

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Drafts, checks and postoffice ordors 10 Ve made pryable to the order of the com- pany. te Bee Poblishing Compans mfll’ CIRCULATION Bt pamans BWORN STATEMENT OF Btate of Nebraska, ) County of Douglas, | Geo achuck, seeretary Pablishing ympany. doe soluminly swear that tho setual eiredlation of Tuk DALY Bee ok ending April 30, 120 was as fol- ss. of The Ree Tuesduy, Waednesd GEOR Sworn to deforo and sibscribed in y of April, A. D., 1802 N P IE Notary Public. e - Average Circulat for March, 24,320 _——— ST M. r nee Ne Methodists throughout the country may be assured that the reports of tne proceedings of tho general conference of the Mothodist Episcopal church to be published in Tik Bre will bo accurato, fair and interesting. We shall dovote all the space necessary to muking completo daily reports of the ses- sions of this groat meeting of ono of the groatest of protesiant churches, Our atafl assigned especially to the duty of reporting the conferenco is thoroughly informed pon Methodism and selected with particular ror erence to proparing accounts of the delibera- tions for Mothodist readers. Persous in other parts of the union intorested in the general conferonce will find it to theiwr ad- vantage to subscribe for Ti: Bre during the month of May. A LONDON newspapor attacks Ameri- can society morals. This is too ridicu- lous to inspire resentment. peral Conf, SNEGROPHOBIST” s 0 barbarism that should nover be allowed to creep into print. Our Afro-American friends should banish it forever from their vo- cabulary. “No Go perty;” is to Yo the cry of London anarchists today. Tt is certainly consistent with itself and forms a proper conclusionif the premises are admitted Tue plucky French duellist who will put an end to Harry Vane Milbank’s useless earcer will bo entitled to & mon- ument. The fellow has become a posi- tive nuizance. RO all appe sos the Barher as- phait monopoly is about to meet compe- tition. It hus enjoyed exceptional profits 80 long, however, that it should aceept the situation gracefully. Trr World’s fair must bo made an unqualified success. If to accomplish this another $5,000,000 is necessary con- gress should not hesitate a moment to ma'ce the appropriation. IN ViEw of all the circumstances it seems very strange that the whiskv trust should be willing to spend $250,000 in the enlargement of the distillery at Des Moines, in prohibition Iowa, even to use as a malt house. Wyon had a comparatively smail represontation at the cattlemon’s con- ference in Ogden. Many of ner leading stock owners would gladly have par- ticipated in the Ogden meeting except for a previous pressing engagoment at Tort D. A, Russell. THERE is forco in the suggestion that the railw are not doing the fair thing to Omaha in conlining the sale of round trip tickets from distant points to the general conforence to three days, which are already passed. This meoting is important enough to warrant reduced rates from the east one or two days of every week until the ond of May. EDUCATION and methods of im, ing it are tobe mado very prominent features of the Coulumbian exposition, ‘This iden will be approved by Americans, for in nothing do our people tako moro patriotic pride than in the system of public instruction which bas been do- vised in and is supportea by this coun- try. Universal education is tho grand contral iden of the republic. Tue theosophists, having divided the ashes of their priestess, Mme. Bla vatsky. among the throe branches of their society, have established threo centers of occultism. America becomos one and New York is the holy of holies. London, England, and Madras, India, share this honor with New York. Moanwhile the new doctrines of this strange mixture of all faiths, no faith and superstition are gaining some note- worthy adherents. B — BRIEFLY and asa conciso statoment of the importance of the general conference it is well to charge the memory with the facts that this quadrennial meoting vepresents 2,400,- 000 Methodist communieants, 15,877 itinerant Methodist ministers and 14, 202 local Methodist preachers. There are 305 ministerial delegates, 183 lay delegates and a large number of fraternal delegates from other branches of Wes- loyanism, besides editors of Methodist newspapers, secretarics of wmissionary and other societies and eminent clergy- men who are merely visitors. Probably the conference will be attended by from 800 to 1,000 representative Methodists, aside from those whou livy in this and neighboring stutes, CONGRATULATIONS KLCOME, One hundred yoars ago the first gon- 1 conference of the Methodist Episc | pal chureh convened in the eity of Balti more. There were thon 266 traveling ministers. Twonty-five years preceding Philip Embury and Captain Webb we the only Mothodist preachers in Amor- ica and they were holding services twice a woek in a rigging loft on Williams | street, Noew York, whither resorted a very poor and small, but earnost congre- gation. One hundred years ago on the 24 of last March John Wesley, the founder of Wesleyanisin, died in Eng- land. Ho had preached for sixty-four years with remarkable power and suc- cess and the *‘New Connection,” for Wesley always adhered to the estab- lished church and contemplatsd found- ing no distinct sect, numbered in its membership in Great Britain and Ire- land 78,900 and there were 326 traveling ministers or itinorants, The American adherents of the new doctrine were among the lower and middle cla Puritans in New land, Quakers in Ponnsylvania and Episcopaliuns in the south wero the more powerful church organizations and the Methodists were despised not only because of their small number, but because thoy were noisy, undigniticd and outspoken in their preaching. Today the twent session of the gene AND W o8, rst quadrennial al conference of tho Mothodist Episcopal church opens in Omaha, Oune hundrad years ago tho circuit ridor had scarcely surmounted the Allogheny mountains, America was virgin soil west of that range. The Methodist proacher was always on the frontier, but the frontier had gone less than 150 miles from the Atlantic ocean at most points. The country has grown from 5,000,000 to 62,000,000 in these hun- dred yoars. Tho rigging loft and the erude log church have given way to elegant houses of worship. The i preacher no longer travels on hovs 100 miles betweon appointments. Amer- ica has grown, and with it Method has advanced until now there are in the immediate American branch 2,400,000 members, 15,877 itinerant ministors and 14,202 1¢ pr The publishing intercst, alw wture of Wesloyan- ism, has develop from almost nothing ‘hers. f 31 including all its branches, is now the accepted creed of 7,000,000 human beings and con- trols the religiovs thought of not less that 85,000,000 people. The Methodist Episcopal church south, the Dbranch which separated from the parent organization on account of slavery, has 1,200,000 communicaats. The Methodists nomination. ro un Their chur agy hes und their preachers are found in almost evel hamlet of this continent. Their mis- sions huve spread to evory land. So ex- tensive has been the work in Afrin and India, espociaily, that the conferences of both those fields have their own bishops. The American church raised $1,200,000 for missions last y¢ It is a distinguished privile permitted to entertain this highly edi cated and influential assembly of Meth- odist clergymen and lzymen. ituated Omaha is in *lie center of the Ameri- n union, upon a spot where Moethod- c ism and civinzaton were alike unknown forty years ago, it is n conspicuous honor e to be o progressive young city to partici- pate in the centennial anniver the date of the first gener of a church 80 noted for its energy and so successiul in propagating its doc- trinos. Omaha weicomos her guests with o warmth which is quickened by the circumstances under which she be- comos their hostess. recognition of ihe power and popula- tion of this interior region. The con- gratulations to which our Methodist friends will be entitled by reason of the progress made in the past 100 years will naturally awaken in the hearts of our citizens feelings of gratitude that this young city should thus become one of the landmarks of the march of Method- ism. Gentiemen, permit THE BEg on behalf of the city of Omaha and the ereat west to extend to you a most cor- dial welcome. wry of | conference It is a fitting FACTORY WORK AND IMMORALITY. Mr, Carroll D. Wright, chief of the burenu of lubor statistics, does not agree with the populur impression that factory labor conduces to immorality among the women so employed. Ho belioves tho iden that the entrance of womun into the industrial field has lowered her moral standard to be absolutely false, and that the working women of this or any other eivilized country are upon as high a plane of purity as any class of the community. This view is the result of positive iuvestigations, and Mr, Wright says that in whatever direction ho has turned his studies of the moral charactor of women engaged in indus- try the result has been tha same, whether in this conntry, 1 Great Britain, or upon the continent of Euvope. In 1881 hie made an extended personal inquiry into the conditions surrounding factory life in this country and in Fu- rope, und he found in that investiga- tion that the charge that the factory promoted immorality and swelled the criminal lists was unfounded, Examin- ation of the criminal records of u large number of British fuctory towns dis- closed the fact that neither the ranks of the immoral nor the criminal lists were increased to 8o great an extent from the fuctory population us from other classes. A subsequent inquiry into the condition of tho working women of Boston brought a result as emphatic as that reached in the previous investigation involving mapy cities and towns in this country and Burope. A still later investigation, in 1888, was made as to the character, surroundings and conditions of working women in twenty-two of the large cities of the United States, which also showed that the common impression that fac- tory labor conduces to immorality is er- roneous. Mr. Wright very justly says: ho fact that here and therea girl forsakes the path of virtue and leads a sinful life should not be used to the det- riment of the class to which she belongs, especially when her life is peculiarly exposed to templation, us is the case of girls struggling on #5 a week. It is ex- ceedingly easy to be good on a sure and [ wantever THE OMAHA DAI strongest character to enable one to be good on an unstable income of #5 per week. " A few years ago it was the gencral idea, which Mr. Wright entertained in common with the large majority of peo- plo, that industrin! pursuits engaged in by woman might cause her some dogra- dation, or at least bring to her a loss of respect, but ho has become convinced, as must be the ease with all inteiligent observora, that a loss of respect does not occur from the comployment of the sexes. On the contrary he thinks that the mingling of the sexes, either in industry or education, does not work harm to society, but brings groat good and secures that very respoct which 1s essontial to honorable social and family lifo. Mr. Wright, whose intelligent in- vestigations give weight and authority to his opinions, is not troubled about the integrity of the famiiy and the pur- ity of .social life, nor the security and perpotuity of religious institutions, on account of the entrance of woman into a wide industrial and educational fiold, believing that the i nevitable result will be incrensad respect for woman in cvery direction, because independence and capacity always bring respoct. It is o good servico that Me. Wright has done in behalf of a classof workingwomen whoso hardships are quite enoughjto en- dure without having added thereto tho calumny which his investigations have shown to be ground less. —_— ADVANTAGE OF TECHNICALL- T Threo years ago the commissioners ot Douglas county decived to build a county hospital. As there were no funds in the treasurvy it was deemed best to raise the money from the saleof a part of acre tract known as the county poor farm. This tract was platted and subdivided into lots and disposed of at public and private sale to land specula- tors and parties desiving choice resi- denee prope Thoe purchasers were given the privilege of cash or deforred puyments, and most of them took advan- tago of the easy torms by only paying smull amount down in expectancy that they would double their money be- fore the time for the next payment ex- pired. Like hundreds of other land speculators thoy were disappointed owing to the stagnation in reai estate which overtook all western cities with the advent of 1880, And now a number of our wealthiest and well-to-do business people ask the commissioners to refund the money they have paid or pay them an oxorbitant bonus as an inducement to live up to the bargains they have made. This is an extraordinary demand for business men to make. The only ground upon which they place themselves is tochni- irregularity in the sale. How would it have been had this propertyadvanced in value as they exrected? Would any one of thesa purchasers have g his.ot to the county without a ficht? Would not each one of them have in- sisted upon his right to hold or re-sol: Would they not ™ ve been content with *tion was found ne ary to malke their title good? Would they nov have joined in a prayer to the courts ov the legislature to rectify any irregu- larity in the transfer? It is 2 bad rule that does not wor hoth s, The attempt to unload th property upon the county or extort money from the county, ®which means from the other taxpayers, is wrong i principle, unjustifiable and unbusiness- like. The men who demand these re- bates bought this property with their eyes open. They considered the pur- chase not only a bargain, but in many instances they were especially favored by a private sale when a public sule might have compelled them to bid higher. There will be no serious diti- culty to overcome to make their titles perfect and the commissioners will not be justified in paying rebates and bonuses to partics who have invested in county farm lots. TAKING RECLAIMED LANDS. Adverting again to the subjeet of ir- rigation itis well enough to consider what it means to open up our arid lands to cultivation. Special Agent Hinton in his report to the department predicts that 17,000,000 acres will be unde gation by the time the World’s fair opens. This is hardly a garden patch in comparison with the total area of land now barren which u comprehensive system of irvigation will make pro- ductive. Yot the total aren of culti- vated land in Canada is but 16,000,000 acres and that of the entire continent of Australia is but 12,000,000 acres. The following tablo taken from Mulhail’s Dictionary of Statistics gives the extent of cultivated land in millions of acres in the principal countries of the world: United Kinzdoni... 48/Norway . 3 ~.t ) Denmark . il iolland 5 Belgiun irooce, Austriu Tialy sweden... 000 12Unfed stat A perusal of tho above table the reader that it is worth while to re claim 17,000,000 neres, because populous nations are now dependent upon a less area. Portugal and Sweden together have no more. The cultivated area of Denmark, Holland and Belgium com- bined is barely equal to that reclaimed by irvigation in America. By adding 17.- 000,000 acres to our cultivable area wo inerense our capacity to support a farm- ing population as much aus though wo annexed all of Canada, one-third of th cultivated land of the United Kingdom, one-fifth of that of I'rance, one-fourth that of Germany, or all the titled farms of Sweden, Norway and Greece put to- gother, If we divide this new area into 160- acre tracts and give one to each head of a family actually settling upon the same, we shall provide for nearly or quite half a million peonle. But the average farm in Europe is only forty-eight acres. Upon this basis, our 17,000,000 acres would provide over 350,000 heads of fam- ilies with little homes and sustain a pop- ulation of 1,750,000, Our present culti- vated area is 208,000,000 acres. It claimed upon good authority thut thearvid land susceptible of cultivation by artiti- cinl means more than equals in extant the total present cultivated area of America. But this theme is limitless and would re- | geuerous income; but it requires the | quire volumes for its discussion. Con- . hotween the anarchists, whose gres and tho country should wake up to its importance and devise methods for transforming these deserts into agricul- tural regions teeming with prosperous people \I!I;II IN Bl . The apprehension folt throughout Europe regarding the possiblo events of today may be founded largely upoa imaginary dangors, but it is unques- tionable that there throatening and mischiovous eloments in the social fabrie of all Karopead countries against the a of which it is necessary for every government to take the most car precautions. That there are griovances which justify popular protest and furnish an almost valid reason for the spirit of revolution which is mani- fostly growing from year to year is not to be denied. ‘The oppression of the massos is severe and increasing. Tho maintenance of vast armies, quartering upon the people an immense body of nonoroducers, makes, together with the other extravagant demands for tho sup- port of governmont, a drain upon the resources of labor which deprives it of fair reward in the present and of all hope for the future. Alveady ground down to the point whero they are able to obtain no more than is necessary to existence, and soo- ing in the policy of the governments no prospects of bottering their condition, itis not surprising that the common people of Buropo are ready to adopt treme measures in the hope of remed ing the evils andabuses from which they cuffer. Recent intorviews with leading German gocialists furnish most intorest- ing disclosures of the hardships and privations suffored by tho 1 of Gor- man workingmen. Tho widespread dis- content among these poople is fully ex- plained by the statements, the authen- ticity of which theve is no reason to doubt, regarding the rates of wages and the cost of living. These socialist lead- ors say that the average woekly wages of the Gormain workingman are less than $3.50, and in some trades the earn- ings are much less, weavers, for exam- ble, being glad to get $2.50. Seventy per cent of the working people of Sux- ony, where a large proportion of the inhabitants are engaged in manufactur- gns ful 18! ing, earn loss than $150 a year. The cost of living, on the other hand, is con- siderably higher than it was five yoars ago, particularly in Berlin and other largo cities, and it is stated that, in- stead of this change being neutralized by a simultaneons rise in wages, the re- verse is the caso. With men ablp to ear in the average only $3.50 a woek and woman less than half that amount, and no outlook for an improvement of their condition, there is certainly axcuse for discontent and un- rest. The situation in Feancs, Bolgium and Spain 12 no better, and whilein Bag- land the distross among the working classes is notiso kavere a3 in the con- tinental countries it is sufficiently so to incite popular protest and efforts for redre s This state of affuirs furnishes oppor- ity for the .destructive .element in uropean society tooperate and develop. The danger whi the governments of 1wope have taken precaations against d09s not com> from man socialists, neh possibilists, tha labor o ganizations, but the anarchist with whose violenc and destruction the other ~organizations secking a rodross of grievances have no sympathy. Suchsocialist leaders as Lieb- knecit, Bebel and Singer utterly repudi- ate anarchism asan instrument of social reform. They do not believe in employ- ing revolutionary methods, hotding that the resort to riots and oxplosions would have the effect to provoke the capitalist class to trict the rights of working- non, repress their activities and des- troy their liberties. These men regard the anarchi and revolutioaists who oxcite disturbance and perpetrato dy- namito outrages as being the worst enomies the workinen have. Tt isim- portant to undorstand the distinction purpose is to destroy the state, and the socialists whose aim is to reconstruct and exalt the stato, The preparations that have been made at all the centers of Furope to prevent anarchistic demonstrations today and to promptly quell any incendiary outbursts of popular passion will dou btless prove to bo sutticient for the purpose, and while a repetition of the experiences of past years is to bo expeeted, it is not probable that May day will witness any of tho serious disturbances that have been approhendad. or trom policy of THE M 10D1> CHURCH. When John Wesley bogan proaching to the common peoplo of Great Britain in 1764 he had no idea of the immortal fame ho was destined to acjuire, The persecutions and contumely to which he was subject gave no promise of the glorious achicvements which shonld carry his namo and fame to tho utter- most ends of tho sarth. Having no pur- pose to creats ‘4 soct, the elogquont clorgyman nevol disconnocted himsolf with tho establishol churcn of Bagland. It 15 probable,’ however, in his latter days he saw, pephaps, with regret, tha inevitablo consequences of his preach- ing. Vital religion as he nad his con- tomporary roformers preached it could not remain on téfms of intimacy with the formalism, Which provailed. But the primitive pgthodists vetained the creed, parts of ghe ritual and much of the form of goverament prevailing in the establishedichiurch and the two are not teday o fadc#part in ossential doc- wines as in différgneos of thoiv applica- tion. ] Thne secret ofcthe power of this de- ncnination is perbans difficult to ex plain from a secu!ar point of view. The believer who is a Mothoaist ists that Methodism is strong, sggressive and officient as a morai force bacause Metho- dism is essentinlly a religion of the heart. Tho conversion of a sinner means something more than a more turning away from evil to good. It is a change of the whole spiritual being; an indi- vidual reinearnation of the Christ filling of the soul with an enthusiasin born of a confidence that sins are blotted out; a heaven-given energy for work for the Maste The revival, the camp meeting, the class meeting, the foast and the other special wethods of advancing the cause of religion peculiar love | Y PAGES to the Mothodist connection are all | based upon this central idea—na porsonal, definite and absolute knowledge or be- | liel that God in some mystorious but | strictly scriptural way has made Him- self present in the human soul to inspire it o a godly life and awaken inita forvid for the salvation of all men. The Methodist telioves that tho church to which he adhores owes its wonderful growth and efficiency to this doctrine and its corollaries. To the secular student this idea may not be so clear. Ho rather turns to the human mothods of carrying forward the groat work. 'To him there is more in the compact, complete and frictionloss organization. The itinerancy whereby ovory church has a pastor and every pastor a church; tho episcopacy, also itinorant, whereby the most gifted preachers of the d enomination are ele- vated to high positions of almost abso- lute executive authority for life; the cluss leader; the presiding elder and the limited monarchical government are largely instrumental in giving this great dosiro church its standing in the world’s re- ligious denominations. Tho organ- ization is most admirvable for work. The council of bishops is the highost exceutivo withority in the chucch, though cach of the bishops is an indoe- pendent autocrat and has no vote in either annual or goneral conforonces, Tho presiding clders of an annual con- forenco form tho cabinot of the bishop and they advise with him as to the assignments of the ministers. The ministor accepts his appointment from the bisbop who presides at his confor- ence, and in turn becomes tho hoad of the circuit or station to which he is as- signed, subjoct to the authority of the presiding elder. The class lender is the spiritual adviser of the twelve or more communicants who meet hinm from time to time for encouragoment or consol- ation. Tha local preachors are the un- paid but farthful of the regular pastors. The general conforence is the parlia- ment of Methodism. Tho bishops are the cabinet, the ministers the house of lords, and tho laymen tho house of com- mons. The analogy is not close, for min- isters and laymen sit together and vote together, but nothing in civil govern- ment affords a bettor illustration. This great quadrennial meeting is tho legis- lative body of the church. Changes in discipline, in doctrine and rules for the management of all the vast and compli- ed machinery of the church are ro- ferred to this assembly of the repre- assistants [ sentative men of the denomination. The annual conferences may recommend, but they cannot complete legislation. On the other hand no change in the consti- tution of the church can be made with- out the consent of the anuual confer- ences. The ministers who compose the annual conferences ave its members by virtuo of their oftices. The lay mem- bers are elected by their respective churches or circuits. The poople voto ircetly only once in four years, for s to the annual confo; which their ministers belong. The ministers elect the ministerial delegates to the general conference, and the lay dele in the annual conferences immediately preceding tho general con- ference elect the lay delezates to the general conference. The general eon- ferenco elects the bishop other o ates nd ecutive officers of the church, the edi- tors of the chuech papers, ete S0 from the membership of individual churches to the bishops the system of government is comploto and at the same time flexible enough for unexampled aggressiveness. As an organization thero is nothing in christendom save tho autoeracy of the Roman Catholic church 50 cpablo of securing willing and abso- luto allegiance. This chureh would be an aggressivo force in the world wore it loss fervid in its religious boliefs and less tenacious of its distinctive religious tevets, because of the remarkable strength of its form of government. DEATH OF AUGUSTUS KOUNTZE The announcement of the death of Augustus Kountze will be deplored by many of our oldest citizens as u personal bereavement. Augustus Kountze was pre-eminently one of the foundors of Omaha, He was the impersonation of torprise, grit, persevorance and busi ness tact. Clear-headed, far-sighted and full of resource in every emergency, Augustus IKountze exerted an influence while he lived in this city that will extend fur beyond his own generation, No mun contributed more toward making Omaha the commercial metropolis and railway center of this section in territorial times and in the carly days of Ne- braska’s statehood. As a financier he had few peers in the countl and as a citizon ho always exhibited an intenze patriotism and devotion to ropublican institutions, While he had for many years made New York his home, he al- ways manifestod a friendly erest in the growth Omaha, S1x days and one hour the latest fast trip from New York to Soutbamp: ton. If the enginemakers keep on they | wiil shorten up the time for a trip to [Furope until it can no longer be digni- fied as an excursion; it will hardly bo a jaunt. Oh, Famo, 15 This Thy Sting? Philadelphic Record. Itas now alleged that Columbus was a hold, bad pirate, N . Biehotorido of Advice. Chiladelphia Times. The bichloride or any other cuve for | drankenness can hardly be effcctive unless | the patient first skakes the bottle. - Tr Roehester Hepald, Here 18 a remark that is credited to Super. intendent Byrnos of New York: “There is o trouble, as o rule, in findiug out who com mitted a crime. The difficulty is to prove it 1o twelve o wnd judge " In toatscutence is conceutrated a world of truth, and it is a severe indictment of the method of selectivg Jurios, H wi Lies. | | | | - Shau 0 Action, | Chicyn News Other citios, incluaing Chicago, bave raised monuwments to (eneral Grant. but bis® actual resting place has been noglected. The nation now has reason Lo hope that this new t s 10 ceaso and that appropriato sepul + be given to tho grest commandor This formal acceptance by ew sacrod trust may well ipspiro such Yoik of u publie | | ANOTHER PIONEER GONE. spirit as will insuro the speedy complotion of tho monumont. Grant sleops in Iiverside park bacause Now York was his chosen homo and his family desired his burial there, Tho great city that gladly aceepted the trust of erecting & mansolenm worthy of his fame stould not pormit further tardiness to Death of Augustus Kountze at Home New York City, A privato tolegram was received by the editor of Tur Ber last night from Mr, Hor- man Kountze, announcing the death of his exolts nationsl b brother, Augustus Kountze, in New York et e ond o city, at 4 o'clock yostorday aftornoon. The Falled to Discriminate, nows was not entirely unexpected, as Mr, several Deadwood Times, Kountze bad been seriously 1l for Northorn Wyoming has become compara- | woeks. tively thickly populated, and moro or loss of | Augustus Kountzo was born In Stark the lands put into crops, ana of course this is detrimental to the cattlomen’s interests Undoubtedly there are ‘“‘rustlors’” or men who have followed a business of stealing cattlo, but only & small portion of those in volved in the difficulty are of that charactor. The cattiemen havo not discriminated in their persecutions, and 1t1s this fact that has foroed the farmers to take up arms and Join issue with the rustlers against their enemies, county, Ohio, and was 64 years of age. He came to Omaha in 1853 on a tour of inspec tion, belug then engaged in tho real estato busiuess at Muscatine, In. Ho realized this city's advantages of location, and decided to cast his fortunes with the new town. He moved to Omaba early in the spring of 185 Tn tho fali of 1856 Mr. Kountze was followad by his brother, Herman, and the younger brothers, Luther, Charles B. and William Kountzo, William Kountze, who came to Nebraska in 1838, died the same year at Dakota City Tn the fall of 1357 the Kountzo brothers began a banking business under the firm namo of Kountzo Brothers, and continued undor that firm namo until 1563, when they organ- ized the Iirst National bank of Omaha, tho first bank organizod in Novraska undor tho nationwl banking law. In 1572 Augustus ISountze left Omana and from that dato until his death shared with bis brother Luther tho managoment of the New York banking house of Kountzs Brothers, loaving Herman »- | Kountze at the head of the Omaha bank and Charles B. Kountze in charge of the Colo- rado National bank at Donver in which the Kountzo brothers had a mutual interoest, Augustus Kountzo was very active in pro- moting tho futerests of Omaha in torritorinl P—— Penance Taken After Shakin', St. Paul Pionecr Press., There 1s a big lot of poople out in Call fornia who never knew how mightily thoy could wrestlo in prayer until the earthquake informally called at their respective places of businoss the other day. It remains to be soen whothor they fultill their ante-election pledges, however. bl — BLASTS FROM RAM'S HORN. To have faith moans to have a bank count in heaven. It is a dangerous day for a proacher whon he preaches the groatest sormon of his life. The woman who paiuts hor faco forgets that tho world is full of people who have £ood evesight. times. The selection of Omaha as the onst- Tho devil don't want any stronger hold on | ern terminus of the Union Pacific railroad @ man thau to got him to put off doing what | waslargely Gue to his oxertions, He was == K1ows to be right. named in the chartor of that company as ono he devil is moro afraid_of the testimony | of Its incorporators and appointod by Abra- of u voung convert than he 1s of the tallest | ham Lincoln on the first board of govern- Jand of a church stoeple, ment divectors of that road. He becamo ‘The world 13 full of trouble bacauso there | one of the promoters of the Omaha & North- aroso many folks who would rather haye | western railroad, now a part ot the Chicago, ten conts now than ten dollars after awhile. | St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha railway, and Tho beginning of faith is always like a | in fact took an interest in overy project that &rain of mustard seed. Ouly a littlo at the | contributed to the growth of Omaha during start, but as it tries God and finds him true, | his residence in this city. He was an ardent it grows until it becowmoes n groat tree, republican from the inception of tho party No preacher who tries to make bis own ap- [ to the end of his life. pointments evor has his meals served with | territorial treasurer, and occupied that posi- auy more regularity than Klijah got his sup- | tion when Nebrasks entered the union, per and breakfast whilo tho ravens wero | Ho built tho wagnificient residonce “*Forost doing his marketing, Hill,” and occupiod it until his romoval to _“Forty accessions, mostly adults,” some- | New York, whon ho sold it to bis brothor, times attracts no attention at all in heaven, | Herman Kountze. while at other times the streets of glory are | Mr. Kountze was the bonofactor made to ring beeauso somo sinuer who has [ Worthy eharities and oducational been in the church for twenty years ha at | tions. He of many institu- the first patron of Brownell last repented. hall and was the 0st genorous contributor e tothe fund for tho establishment of tho SABBATH SMILES, {ountzo Memorial Lutheran cburch which aw Canah vas numed in bonor of his fathe At tho N?;:‘ w”\‘jl"r‘-‘:'-lgn!:[;_ S ow 20 e coneral Lutheran synod last spring Mr. bribes when trying to ot theie bils throusl, | Kountze donated twenty acres of valuablo ground in the southern part of the city as a site for the proposed Lutheran college, Mr. Kountze leaves a wife. The remuin- ing survivors are his brother, Horman ot Omaha, Charles of Denver, and Luther of New York and lus sister, ars. Samuel It Brown of Omaha. E - CTS FOR A BIG sared pe of night. Boston Transeript: It 1s somewhat vature of a paradox that when poi unable to swallow what is done a they bolt it in the s aro wucus PROSI. STRIKE. Machinists on the Panhy ing to Go Out. Creaco, TL, April 30.—Before the conven- tion of the International Association of Ma chinists adjourns noxt wook action may Philadelphia Record: “Pop, wl PADEr mean when It says -the nothin 0 be desired? " “It evidently my son, that the audience had enough of i och tho dle Road Prepar- 1 left Atchison Giobe: The wifo of a volitician must often wish that her husband was 18 en- thuslastic over his family us ho s over his country. bo taken that will result in a strike of machin. ists on the Punhandlo railroad. is ordered between 1,500 and If a striko 2,000 4nachin- Clothier and Furnisher: New York Mother =Bobbie, vour clothes look a3 thoueh you | sts along the lino will go out. The Intarna- L ;;{)::II';I'H L ;(lfl:ll" S tell the teath. | sional association 18 endeavoring to induce NbhTeEro MmO AR Ot v‘l':“_"“r:“l‘.“:“:'mlo he boilermakers and other iron workoers = ks 82 vhose trade 1s kindred to that of TAFPY PULLA, achinisis to organizo lodges and New York Herald. | oin - tho assoviation, and il success 'y want ter know the placo where a good | d their efforts, the boiler makers and LU 15 goli, “cpnirers on the Panhandlo will bo included Although the equinoctials 're a-blowin an' |, in tho strike, As tho Pauhandle is controlled . a-blowin'? | by the Peansylvania voad it is possiblo thav It down i the kentry where the maple sap | the strike will extend to thut line niso, as 1he AW RNOILA s allagod grievences of the anhandle men aro ares of tho workers on the Pennsyl- 1. The wholo situation was dis- ina preliminary way at th: session 1o makin' syrun by the big bush ournal: sprigzs merville It 100ks to mo | IAL Wy 012 to rain before night | of the executive board at the Grand Pacibe I(er 5 rlr tl Il S0 !nlllfl start it ot today. The sentument of the members of tho o hate tnd borrow an umbrella before the | hoard was almost unanimous in favor of a - ; strike wnd recommendations in accordance Washinton “Tsooms to me” said | With the views of the boara will, it is said, .\Irs.‘ : \|.u'.='u yi m"n s.-u,:n}m 1l “papors | be mado to the convention. nust b gettin’ short of news. Every once in | S i while you see lone pleces ubout delegatos Simply n ¢ New Yok, April at Big ¢ 30.—Tho n'tnever be tos should be at Thero showed why dely circu- roport b eat g noct aglow, | 1ated last night to tho effect that the United thesuni «d hours: | States subtroasury in this city had boen at robs us of heautifulsnow | robbed of §125,000 turns out to have been & Restores us the beautiful flowoers. canard, Philadelpl viled to Observing men have 1t the p vostrong stic idens everywhero i3 I the buck beer scason. This is the timo of yoar n o into the back yurd w th and a match and drive tho y from SEASONABLE RHYMLS, not Boston Courder, ors out of town arden patel bot's hen con KOrousty seratehos, Columbus Pos when a wonin ¢ a r neighbors ali aw Tho spade resumes Its vernal feats nd nover lots o day <o, But it tnparts to certain spines Ay 1o Tumbago, Boston Transeript; It to sneak disy ingly of th coneh, but the odd whecl of far above the other: Unito the currant bush now man New York Herald: Bond—Do you behove d Titom, in'freo wool, Unelo Ton At squirteth helleboroe the Unele Tomi—"Course | doos: don't s'pose 1'd ad Intinivin, g0 back on Abum Lincoln, does yo? And searcely does the mua recodo At s vitiperations Than he is heaping on the dust iHis swerid exverations. There nover wa saf unt to wateh him mighty sharp, Somervilie Journal yeuso good that it wi mald G| == 83ROWNING, K| & CO. Lota anl Doagles s *o We Corns It was A Corkey--- We soldthe biggest part of those $18 | suits Saturday for $7.50, and have a few left which we'll give out Monday at $7.50 as long as they last. Better come in the morning if you want |/ one, or you may have to pay |y $15 for a suit not a bit better. They are dark colored, in- > . visible plaid sack suits, made up in the |5 highest style of the tailor’s art. We can't ?} fill any mail orders on this suit, as the j uantity is so limited that they’ll all be ‘};; gone before noon. We have the finest assortment of spring styles in the west, and we can certainly please you. Browning, King &Co | n Saturduys Ul D Cninzs U165 i8] /m' 1,'?1)'."1:' - u S, W, Cor. 15th and Douglas Sts e o g ¥ O ¢ = Ho was twico olected 3