Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 15, 1892, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. | THE OMAHA DAILY A WILD STEERER FROM TEXAS It is a trito but true adage that you E. ROSEWATER, Enron. may fool a few people somoetimes, but = | you cannot fool all the people all the PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. | time. When any man sets himself up - as a leader of social reforms and advo- OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY, cates radical economis changes ho is T 1:\1(1'\ SUBSC IVLI\‘V 10N expected 1o be well informed regarding DatlgRee (withont Sunday) One Year..,.8 & 0 | the social conditions he seeks to improve i AUl A s % | and the problems with which he neces- B e Ry, s N 290 | sarily has to grapple. In other words | i AR 2% | he is expocted to know what he is talk- w Tree, One Year, PP 1% | ing about and to try to come somewhere OFFICES near the truth in discussing the live Omaha. The Bee Building. issues of the day. The masses may be Rauth Omaha, corper N and Seh Streets crodulous, but to presume upon their Conncli Blufr Ch Ne w 12 Penrl Stroot 1.7 ( ham et of Commerce. 817, 14and 15, Tribune Build irteenth Stree ok, 1 ushington, CORRESPONDENCE 1 All communications reluting o news an ditorial watter should be addressed to the diterial Depurtment BUSINESS LETTERS Al Tusiness letters and reniittances shonld tenddressed (o The Bee Publishing Comnpany, Oninhn. Drafte checks and postoflice orde 10 Us made payable to the order of the com= vany. The Bee Publiski*g Company, Proprictors. CIRCULATION SWORN STATEMENT Etateof ,\v-hy{y‘kkn‘ ) 1 Connty of Dourlns. | i George B, Taschuck, secretary of Vl )‘l‘“" re Publishing compuny, does emnly that tho sctual t‘\r'Hyl stion of Tne DALy Bee for the week ending May 14, 1802, was as fol- Tows: Sunduy. May & Monday, Ma OF s Thur Average ... Sworn to beforo mo_and subscribed fnmy presence this 14l day of May, A, D, 1802 SEAL. N. I IRin, Notary Publi —————————————— WiiAT the domocratic party could do if it had a clean candidate and an honest platform is vain speculation, Tir indepondent party seldom has independence enough to ox- press an honest difference of opinion. newspaper JONN JAMES INGALLS wishes to serve notice on the country at lacge thut ho wnd o politieal corpse have nothing in common. AFTER caroful rending we are confi- dont that there ave just 160 e pa- pers each of which “‘started the crusade for better country roads.” st Tier the fact that n be no longer any doubt of Omahn e mako herself hat she will. Sho is the gatoeway the greater All she effort, systematic and porsistent, I¥ General Dr: of Texas exper bombs a faw months ago, are responsi- ble for this undue deposit of dow it is time thoy left the country before the people discover tho fact. JonN Prinie Sovsa of the Marine band 1s considering an offer to go to Chicago. Now if Gilmore would make a similar move whit would the effeto east do? New York is still acting like a spoiled child over the flight of Theodore Tho- mas, Lo is wost, noeds and his crowd who exploded enfurth monters, WILLIAM ASTOR will disposes of from $30,000,000 to $50,000,000 and not a cent is bequeathed to charitable, eduea- tional or religious enterprises. It will to forget that this the Astor family over ex- bo an eusy thing member of isted. Tue ezar of Russia has just made two export orders. One referred to oats and corn,. and the other referred to 10,000 Jews in Odessn. One was a per- mission, the other a command. Both are in different ways indices of Russian absolutism Y T¥ ANY seer should rise up and tell these people the true future of this stato and the whole Mississippi valloy ho would be mocked and jeered as a lunatic ora fool. And yet his brightest pic- tures will seem dull when the realiza- tion comes, as it must come. I LOOKS as if the National Editorial association meeting in Catifornia is to be more an than a business meoting. Thero is great danger in this. all editorial tions aro by threoe they are amendments to excursion assoe apoiled junketing, oratory 1308; id the constitution, AMONG the principal clearing house cities Omaha ranks fivst in the rate of increase in clearings during the past week. Minncapolis, which comes in as second best, shows an incrense of 44 por cont while Omaha increasod 49 por cont as compared with her bank clearings auring the corresponding woek of 1891, THE great clement of rospectabilit the ropublican party cannot be ignore It is not n question of obedience to bosses or the fear of their displeasur 1t is the broader guestion of honesty and the reward for honest and loyal sexrvice. ‘I'his is true at all times and never move true than in this year of our Lovd, 1892, —— BROWNE L ITALL has just completed sixteon yoars of useful existenco in Omaha, The trustees and friends of tho oxcellent young ladies’ school ave justified in tho pride which they feel for their institution, It has handsome buildings, beautiful surroundings, ox- cellent instructors and 136 lovely stu- dents, a model female seminary, a credit to tho city and the great Episcopal church undor whose auspices the school is conducted, Tie dressed meat products of South Omaha are placed upon the Euro pean wurkets within ten and one-half days uftor their shipment from this point. The importance and maguitude of this transuetion can scarcoly bo overesti- mated. At ono ginntsteide this market is placed upon a peactical aquality with | that of Chicago and this means every- thing to Omaha and tho west. While it seoms as incredulous asa fairy story it has the solid merit of fact which will prove of enormous value. Omaba busi- ness and push secured the arrangement wid it is just by that sort of enterprise that she has won her way and will waintain and advance her prestige. It wiil be interesting to watch tho effect of % new plan upon the regions most orested. | | copt for the gulleries of the very w ignorance is an insult tothe intelligence of the American people. Most if not all the leaders of the people’s party move- ment have as their chief stock in trade impassioned appoals to popular preju dices and build their entire fabric upon the assumption of popular ignorance. A striking example of the wild and reckless assertions in which some of the leading lights of the new political creed conatantly indulge was furnished in the speach of Colonel J. H. Davis of Texas, delivered in this city a few days ago. According to Colonel Davis: “The world was shocked in 1850 to hear that America had a millionaire; in 1860 the country had five millionaires; while to- day there are 30,000 of Vhose creatures in the United States.” Like most of his associates Colonel Davis is not very pr ticular about coming within a thousand miles of the truth when he talks about finance, wealth production and wealth accumulation Tt is astousding that a man who has taken the contract to re- distribute the wealth of America should exhibit such a lamentable lack of infor- mation concerning the number, where- abouts and holaings of the money kings of his own country. The facts as regards the number of millionaires were within easy rcach. Like the Irenchman, who, when tola that the statement he had made did not n with tho facts, replied, *‘so much the worse for the facts,”” Colonel Davis is doubtloss porfectly indifferent about facts and figures so long as the credulous muititude groots his startling revela- tions with rounds of With the kindest of feclings THE to tho hlnuse, v correct ntures Toxas gard to those 30,000 millionaires, 1f Colonel Davis would tako the trouble to procure copies of the New York Sunday Zvibine of May 1, 8 and 15, 1892, he will find in thoso piapers acompleto list of America’s millionaires, including a brief explana- tion to the source of their wealth, Twenty-four states running alphabet- ic from Alabama to Nebraska in- clusive, and including the District of Columbia, are credited with an ag- gregate of 1,466 millionaires. Thoso states have a population, according to the census of 1800, of 32,552,781 out of a total of 62,622,250 for the whole United tates. These figures prove beyond a reason- ablo doubt that the number of million- aires in the United States will fall below 3,000, Out of this number Ne- beaska is credited with 15, Colorado 17, Kansas 11, Towa 28, Missouri 85, Minne- alifornia wo had 30,000 groat steere of tho indepondents with r sotn 85, Montana 24, Idaho 3, ¢ It 162 and Illinois 840, millionaires Nebraska’s proportion would be over 500 and that of Te. about 1,200, The assertion that Amervica did not have w single millionaive in 1830 and only five millionaires in 1850 is equally untrue. Stephen Girard of Philadel- phin w worth over $),000,000 at the time of his death, 158315 John Jacob Astor of New York left over $20,000,000 when he died in 1818; Alexander Stew- art, tho dry goods king, was worth more than $1,000,000 in 1850 and had an in- come of over 1,000,000 a year during the war. There were ascore of planters in ths south in the fifties whose estates in slaves and lands were worth more than $1,000,000 each. Commodore Van- derbilt was worth more than 1,000,000 before 1860, and there were half a dozen millionaires in New England, including cotton mill owners and other manufac- turers. The facts and figures cited by Colonel Davis regarding the burdens of taviff wion and national and public deby are no nearcr than are his assertions about the inerease of millionaives, THE QUESTION OF FREE ART, i1 The National Society of American Avtists will hold ameeting in Washing- ton city the present weok, and leading members of the society wiil discuss be- fore the house committeo on ways and menns tho auestion of rewoving the duty from foreign works of urt. It will be remembered that this committee of the last congress voted unanimously to put works of art on the free list and car- ried the measure in the house, but the senate restored the duty at the old rate of 30 per cent, a conferenco committes of the two houses finally agreeing upon 15 por cent. This was a concession to the cause of free art which its advoceates welcomed, but they did not relax their efforts to educate public sentiment in favor of the complote removal of the duty and they arc hopeful of success with the present congress, ‘The intelligent sentiment of the coun- try, without regard ta political diffor- ences, is undoubtedly in favor of the free admission of works of art, Men of all parties, who appreciate the educa- tional value of art, admit that there is 1o valid reason for imposing a duty on it. American artists do not ask such protection, but on the contrary are nearly unanimous in asking that the duty be taken off. Thoy frankly suy that they get no benelit from the duty, while Toct in keeping out the higher cluss of foreign paintings, ex- Ithy, Is to retard the growth of a popu tusto for art, to put a rostraint upon the education and eculture necessary 1o create o demand for works of art which would be helpful to American artists. Tho duty can not be justitied from an economie point of view, hecause it yields 1o appreciable rovenue, The smail sum which the government obtains from this source would not be missed, and when the uneaviable position the country is placed in among enlightoned nations by reuson of lovying this duty is considered, to say nothing of the other disadvan- tages, the government can well afford to lose the compuratively insignificant its ¢ reveria. We bellave no other enlight | ened country puts a duty on works of art in any form, and it is manifestly a | stigma upon this great and progressive nation, boasting a degree of enlighten- ment and an interost in popular educa- | tion to any other country and suporior to most of them, that it should stand alone in making arta source of governmontal revenue. Wo have invited all the civilized peo- ples of the world to visit the United States next year and to witness the material ovidencos of the progress of We shall presout to their gazo magnificent proofs of our develop- ment in all practical directions, and wo shall be able to show them, also, evi- dences of splendid attainment in educa- tional work. But we shall not be able to show an equally praiseworthy prog- ress in mwsthetic cultaro—in the cultiva- tion of the r taste and desire for art—and if our visitors inquire closely into the cavses of this they will hardly fail to conclude that one of thom is the restraint which the government for a third of a century has imposed upon the admission of foroign art, We cannot now escape the reproach which such a discovery would bring upon us, but we can give assurance of doing better in tho future by making art free. A duty may have been defensible when the demands of a great war called for revenuo from every possible source, and even for some vears later while an enormous debt was to bo paid off, but it is not defensiblo under present conditions and its removal will be approved by the intelligent judgment of the country. THE NATION'S Pa The passage by the senate of tho bill enlarging the Yellowstone National park and changing its northern houn- dary with a view to forestalling any further efforts on the part of railroad corporations to break into or through, this public reservation, will have tho ap- the ropublic. popu K. proval of everybody who desives that this magnificent natural park shali be protected from mutilation in the inte est of speculators und preserved intact for the enjoyment ot present and future generations of Amervicans, F'or several yoars the northern por- tion of this park has been threatened by the efforts of what is characterized as a purely speculative railvond enterprise to from congress an exclusive right of way from the Montana border southeast, up the valley of the Yellow- procure stone river, and thence northeast up tho Lamar viver to the mining camps about Cook City, Ment. A corporation cailing itself the Montana Mineral Rail- road company kus been striving td get from congress a franchise to enter tho reservation, which, it is charged, it has been prepared to sell thereafter to tho company willing to become the highest bidder. It has been foared that once securely in the park the corporation which should construct the proposed line would be in a position to obtain addi- tional privileges and concessions from congrass, which in course of time would be led to sanction the invasion by road of all parts of the reservation. bill passed by the senate prov abandoning the strip of territory cov- eted for railvoad purposes, thus remov- ing the only possible valid excuse which could be offered for pushing railroad a into any part of the Yeliowstone region. It is thought that the action of the sen- ate wili put an end to the schemo of the Mineral railway speculators. Speaking of the Yellowstone park as avesort, Senator Vest said that if it wero amongst the, Italian or Swiss Alps every American who went there would visit it, and he would go there ospo- cially for the purpose, but as it is an American production our peoplo run away from it. The persons who go there to a large oxtent are of moderate means, who canuot afford to go to Fu- rope. He urged that every considera- tion should induce congress to protect this reservation, and noone who has taken the trouble to acquaint himsell with its character will doubt the wisdom of doing this. The region is not capable of agricultural development, so that thore can never arise any demand for opening it to sottlement, but it is a rich storehouse of natural objects—of forest ana river and animal life—that are unique and that have no count et in any other portion of the known world, and the park is certain in time to be- come one of tha great attractions of this country. The cost of taking care of the park is small, and objection on this score to legislation for its protection is hardly worthy of consideration. ELECTROCUTION PAINLESS, According to Dr. C. F. MacDonald, who has observed the seven executions that have taken place in New York under the law substituting electricity for tha rope, the new mode of inflicting the death penalty is attended with abso- luto fresdom from conscious sufforing. Denth literally takes place before the convict knows that anything has been done to him, so mueh more vapidly does the electrical current travel than the nerve communication. Dr. MacDonald saw nothing unduly repulsive in the executions themselves, and the time actually consumed varied from eight to three and one-half minutes, wherens oxceution by hanging usually tales from a quarter to u half an hour. The newspaper reports of these executions made grucsome sensations of tha con- vulsive movements observed after the current had coeased, but Dr, MacDonald says theso were duo simply to the muscular contractility which is fre- quently observable aftor sudden dissolu- tion. It is hardly to be expected that the conclusions of Dr. MacDonald, although the rosult of most careful observation, will be aliowed to stand unquestioned, but the testimony agaiast them wiil have to be very strong, we should think to have weight with scientific men, for 1t is to these, rather than to the general public, that his report is aadressed. | Whether so intended or not, it will be | very likely to induce a change of popu- lar bolief in New York regarding the infliction of death by electricity, the effect of newspaper reports of execus tions having been to create a widespread impression that the new mode is to the last degree cruel and barbarous. It may also have a wider influence upon popu- lar sentiment as to the advautages of BEE SUNDAY, MAY 15 this innovation, though as yot there has beon no marked tendoncy anywhere to follow tha examplaiof Now York in in- flicting the death penalty. In no other state has it been proposed, so far as we have observea, Wy substitute electricity for the rope, ahd ft is doubtless quite safe to predict that 4 will ba a very long time boefore duch a change becomes general, notwithstapding tho expert and presumably disintorested testimony that oelectricity performs its work quickly and paintessty AS TO THE cOUNTY NOSPITAL. There is no remedy now within reach of the county authorities to recover for the losses incurred by the wretched con- struction of the county hospital. But the responsibility for the collapse of the north wing of that structure is not due to the incompetency of the architect or to faulty plans, The blame must lie with the contractors, the superintendent and the commissioners who accepted the work. It is mean and contemptible to berate Architect Myers and denounce him as an fmbecile. The fact is that Mr. Myers was the architect of our court house, which is the best and cheapest public building in the United States for the money expended. The court house was built by a responsible and competent contractor, while the contrary is true with regard to the hospital building. The Myers plans for the city hall build- ing were as good as those submitted by any other architect. Myers was limited to $200,000, while the building will co: over $400,000 when finished. Myers v not responsibie for the failure of Bren- nan to carry out his plans for the ei hall basement, and he should not be held responsible for the failure of the contractors for the hospital building to live up to the specifications furnished by him. The only blame that attaches to Myors in connection with the hospital building is nis neglect and failure to mako personal inspoction of the build- ing as it progressed. It is no use to lock the barn after the horse is stolen. Attention was called by Tue Bes to the defective work in the hospital building during the early stage of 1ts construction, but no heed was takon of the warning. On the contrdry, the inspector who found fault with the materizls and wretched bricklaying was summarily dismissed. Had the commissionors insisted upon rigid inspection and compelled the con- tractors to pull down the walls that were defective the building would have been as sufe as the court house. Tie friendly greeting interchanged Friday between the Presbyterian dele- gutes enroute to Portland and the Meth- odist conference in session here is but another illustration ,of the progressive and liveralizing spivit of the age. There has been a great chango in this matter of religion. Filty years ago creeds cramped men like an armor. There was very little latitude in opinion and no union of spirit petween chuches TPoday the austority of the mostaustere is windiy and the brotherhood of man is becoming something more than a protty phrase. ed by the Rushi Phaditphie Times, Canadian newspaners are much alarmed at the tucreasing emigration thence to the United States. Unfortunately for that coun- try the difliculty is not so easily got over as the border is. e All Hands Round, Doston. Globe. Methodists may yot danca and still be in good standing. Tho Troy conference and Bistiop Foster have come to think that the brethren and sisters may walk through a quadrille without imperiling their souls. —~— An Election Incident in Maine. Houston. Post. Maine is a probibition state and Las been for many years, but when an election was held in Bangor the other day it was deemed necessary to issue an order closing all sa- loons, the same s in states in which prohibi- tion of the liquor trafiic is not in force. i S Will Paint and Heresy Mix? Chicago Times, It appears that both Dr. Briggs and Dr. >arkhurst are to be made the subjects of prayerful inquiry at the Presvyterian gen- eral assembly soon to convene at Portland, Ore. Thisadmixture of heresy and red paint cannot fail to impart much of interost and novelty to the proceedings. Groat Coun s, Philadelphia Record. Business1s a lttlo slow in States. Monay goes a-begging; perhaps, that thousands of our and countrywomen ave flocking to Kurope and turniog a golden stream of clinking eagles to the eastward. It keops the passen- ger stoamships busy bringing hom *-scokers hither, and carrying ploasure-seokors to tho other side of tho world, . 01d Glory on the Sea Minneapolls Tribune. Senator Frye's bill for the encouragement of American shipping should meet with un- qualified endorsement. * * * This meas- ure promises to effect two very important results at a single stroke. It will place under the American flag, both in war and peace, some of tho swiftest and most mag- nificent vossels now afloat, It will compol the coustruction i Americen yards of other vessels cqual in power and spoed to Lho ves- sels transferred from the British to the Amorican re S| the Unitea and s0 it is, countrymen Sense Versus Sabbatar! Chicago Herald. Torence V. Powderly; head of tho groatest organization ever offevted of workingmen, asks that the gates of ule exposition be kept open Sanday so that fts art aud othor edu- cative departments . may be enjoyed by tho peoplo who work six days in the week and bave only Sunday for’ education, rooreation and rest. He dooy not ask that auy labor, mechanical or other, be done Sunday in the exposition, nor does any rational man want that. The good brethren in conforonce at Omaha who rest ‘six days in the week snd work Sundays want the exposition closed Sundays. fam, - en Who Borrow, Chicago Graphic. The indebtednoss of the farmers is not pe- culiar to them from tho fact that a largo por- tlon of the busiuess of this immense country is done on crodit. The manufacturers, the merchants, the teaders, the real estate deal- ors, inuividuats and business men generally are all heavy borrowers, not only in the west but in the east, in the north aud in the south, 10 the cities and iv the towns as well as in the country. Farmers, like other active business men, borrow money to buy land, to build houses and barus, W purchase swock aud to invest in business. Mon who live in towns aud in cities borrow money to buy homes, to build houses, to trausact business. Mauufacturers and merchauts borrow large 1) 1892--SIXTEEN PAG amounts and mortgage their homes, their factories, their stores and their stocks, ana in large majority of casos their securitios bo they mortgages on roal estate or personal proneriy, are evidences of business transac tions which are expocted to aud do roalize £aius to tho borrower as well as interost to the lendor. Undoubtedly farmers as well as mon of other avocutiors sometimes borrow injudiciously and mortgages on tho farm, home, factory or stock become & burden. A failure of crops, a fall in prices or close com petition in trade sometimes brings disastor to the farmer, the merchant and the manu facturer. But not so frequently to the farmor, as statistics will show, as to the manufacturer and the merchant. P o Lessons of Arhor Day, Harper's Weekly, Theinfluence of Arbor day in promoting intorest in treos and flowors is a happy influ euco which will not be lost upon multitudes of pupils, Many of them hereafter will trace their ploasure in troes, and 1t is ono of the puvest of pleasures, to this early traming of their tasto and observation. The day affords the teachor a golden opportunity of pointing out the relation between the landscape and literature, and thoy may wisely discourse upon the reason that in the ancient and most objective litorature thero s the least allusion to what we call nature. Not the least valuavle of the lessons of the day is the tenderness of feeling towara treo which it encourages. If the children of today could once more peoplo tho woods and hills with dryads and oreads they wouldJess ruth- lessly mutilate the struvs and saplings, and look upon n shaved hillside as on a ravaged village. It is a beautiful holiday in the love- liest season, and we trust its observance will becowme more and more goneral. e Home from a Legal St Boston Globe. Poets and other people have from tima to timo ondeavored to defino ‘‘home,” with more or less success—generally loss, It is now the turn of justice to declare as to the precise legal meaning of the word. The su. premo court of Massachusetts has just issued a dictum that home is more than a mere stielter—in other words, that the exprossion all the comforts of home™ means a little somothing even from tho exceedingly matter of fact standpoint of the loarned juage. Tho particular caso at issue hingod upon tho con- struction of the terms of a will by which man provided that his sister should al s have a “home” at his house. Did that “home” imply anything more than a shelter? The court decidss that it included more than roof and rules that the executor of the will must provide neeessary food and fuel, T Des Moines Rogister: The Methodist breth ren at Omaha seem a little too husty in con- demuing the action of congress in excluding tho Chinese from this eountry. * * * I trying to lift the Chinese up by bringin them in contact with the people of this coun- try overzealous vhilanthropists may dr American manhood down. KKansas City Star: There is considerable strife and competition at Omaha as to who shali cait tho great Methodist church week- lies. These, while not commonly spokep of as part of the nowspaper body of the coun- try, are really great papers, well supported by ho clergy and laity, recognized as part of the ecelesiastical machinery and usually very ably eaited. Chicago Advance: The Methodist general conferenco at Omaha av its very beginning revealed the decided tendency toward stronger lay influence that is dovelopiug in the church. At the time of organizing and seating the delogates the lay members asked to vo seated apart from the clerical dele gates, and after a warm discussion their re- quest was grauted. N. Y. Independent: The uency of the church are not, well advised in trying thus to extend the color line into the episcopacy. Whatever disndvantage may full to their lot bocauso of the fact that thero i3 no colored bishop taey nould enduro patiently and wait untii tho time shall come when they shall have men whose fituess for the ofiico sball be so gener- ally recognized that 1t will uot vequire a special act of the general conference to select one. N. Y. Worla: The great reformer who de- fended the use of lively music in chureh on tho ground that he *‘did not think it right 10 let the devil have all the best tunes’ has furaished inspiration to certain Mothodists who bave petitioned their goneral conference at Omaba in favor of wider liberty in the matter of innocent amusements. it is not difficult to understand the ovjections of re- ligious asceticism to dancing, and the protest of puritanism against certain forms of plea- sure was perhaps a necessary moral move- ment. But dancing as it is carried on by respectablo young people today is not a sin- ful indulgence nor an excess to call down the wrath of a reformer. ey POINTED AND PLEASANT. Whats the uso of piping puro. water to Chi- cago? Why, to navigate in New York Herald: Dick Hicks—Why won't 16 0 to chiureh, papa? Don't tease nie: | will take you to 15 sonie duys Dr. Tenderloin's ser- ¢ not for children’s ours, Wi Ipoint, COMMENT 0O, CONFERENCE, colored constit- it seems to us, Roston Courier: slumber iv's ger aman is rapped in ADU 10 Wako him up. The duke of West- minstor offers o roward of £0,0 0 for the arrest Aind convietion of the 2man who poisoncd Dorby eolt Ormie. The wolles of London only propose to pay 00 for the miscreant who poisoned n whole family. Philadelphia Times : “Hoe married amusician, (dsho gives morn atten than she does to his con- o her mu “1n ot rion fore.” New Yorl Herald, o wus the prido of the S v sehool, Could speli out backwiurd the golaen rule, He memorized verses and toxts by the yard An though never so hard; His promise was brilliunt, but. sad to relate. Quite diftcrently spun wis the threud of his futo, And to show how perverse things sublunary swered all questions nsaloon, tending bar. It takes a g ), for lnstance, and still Jongk ow in a downto od deal to vas un- wasn't Somerville Journa satify o wan, Jonab questionably *in it happy. N veroly tion of the United Naturalized Citi Election Inspector v York Woekiy: Eloetfon Tnspector (se- Sir have you ever rowd tho constitu untort 2 0. Mave you? N WISE FOIU IS YEARS : Judge. Sho gave the boy un apple— A sho wis one of three— And said: “Glve tiis to hor of us Most beautiful to thee,” The boy gazed wt ench lovely olf— Then ate the apple up himsoir, . Johnny, you may re- the Boston Gazotte: peat an aphorism for the ‘school 'conm|tte “Yos, ma‘am, Hope springs oternal in humin bu Elnilra Gazotto: The most rellable gle's in | the world are those at the fair: thero i never the slizhtast vit of change about then: - or BIr ONLY A CHILDHOOD, | Maud Moore. | What did the baby go for? | Sofily the suniner night Foll 1ike a benediction On tho buby, shrouded whites Oniy two golden summers “Twas not a life, wo say “Only u bit of ehildhoo 1 i Tho grent God threw nway. What did the baby go for? O thou stadow of death! O thou angel! thou demont fey of touch and breath Wa ery to the sunlit hoavens And no voice answereth Will there eyer come & morning When. with our toars all dried, Kesting 1n falr. groen pasturcs We shall k The river of [ifo besiue Just why the baby di ow beyond ull doubting i 01, thank God for the children’ Aye, give thanks though we lay | Under the *sod of the valley" | The fairest of sl away. Thank Him for those that lewve us Thank Him for those that stay! IN' RHINEWASHED ~ COLOGNE What May bo Seen in the Finest Gothic Oathedral in the World, AIX-LA-CHAPELLE AND our priest-cicorone “Swol tark Where Charlemagne Baitt His Burial Place | cach.” «ftolfos W0l YhKt Pou § In Taly vou ar mover asked o givo anvihing, but it 18 left to your own genor <VHAt It Costs to Critk osity. In Gorpany they hardly wait for peror—A Modsrn 1ns you to finish looking beforo thoy ask you for “ein mark, or swei mark e AsT write | can hear. tha deop, mellow, Tho river Rhine, it Is well known, sonorous sounds of the “Emperor's B Doth wash youreity of Colo <o of the cathodral, made from the guns But tell mo, nymphs, what nower divine captured from tho Frensh in Yt Shall honectorth wush thoe elver Riine? 10 woigh 520 ewt, AX-ra-Crarenss, Aoril What Cole It was night whon wae arrived in Cologne, ridgo said, in his inimitablo way, of Cologno | and & more maenificent sight 1 uover may have beon true in his time, but it wou ld | 83\ than tho approach to tho city across the bo o slander now to the boautitul croscont | Lhonlar brldge, 1380 foet long, Myriads of = - SRUGHY cloctrie lights on the various bridges wore city, with its seven miles of fortitiod walls,its [ rofiactad in the Ithine, which at Cologno 1s flno squaros and brond streets. Tho unre- | wide and grand tonting hand of improvement has obliterated all the ancient and meodieval tals or walls, 5o thero is something still of tho picturesque, Agrippina, the mothor of Noro, was born at Cologne, and sho induced hor husban ostablish a camp thero, which was Colonia Agrinpinensis, and from this the ITS CHURCHES not quito called France. Such an infamous woman not to have been buried at al Relies and the Cost of Secing Them Wondorful relics did the old priost sh in the sacristy of St Utsula-thorns from our Saviour's head, onojof the elay wino jugs used at the marriago of Cana, pioces of the dross worn by the Holy Virgin in tho stabls at Bothlehem, the chnins with which St e was bound (this 1s the fourth time I have seon them). = After toliing each articlo over llw o sing said, ught Aix-la-Chapolio the Aachen of the G bor. | MANS—is ono of the mosy interesting ci I havo =eon in rope--and the most ox o left pensive to ive in, It is an extensive mann facturine place, nd the valley in which the city 18 situated is full of coal ana 1ron mines and not suitably for agriculturo. Wao stoppod here for rest and for tho hot sulphor baths, that aro very efMceacious for gou! nd rhoumatism, I'hose d to city took it namo. It is said the citizens of Co- | baths were known to the komans, and tho logno are immonsely proud of their Ioman | town scems to have been of a great deal of descont. Tho first” bridge built across the | importance, even boforo Charlomagne, who Rhino was built by Caosar. It was after- [ was born here, raised it to tho second eity in wards replaced by s magnificent stone | tho cmpire. ~ The successors of Charle oridge, built by Constantine, which was,_de- | wagne “were crowned hore from the stroved by somo archbishop to buiid n | time of his son, Louis tho Pious, to cturch. No wonder tho peoplo arose in | Ferdivand in 1531, In tho Rathaus wo' ar thoir might to but down tho archbishops, | shown the stairs tho emperors ascended and wh sumed temporal as well as spiri power, and could destroy or build up as they pleased. ‘I'io Ratbaus is an ornate structure, fu old froscoes, statutes, ete. In one of coronation hail where they were Thero aro four very boautitul fres hall by Rapheal: the rost, drawn by are poor. tion of the tual crowuoed s in this his pupils, T'ne one representing tho destruc Saxon idol by Charlomagno is 1 of tho rooms the first meeting of tho Havseatie | very fine. Thorois a staiued glass portrait League was bkeld. In tho niches are stone | of Emperor Willlam I that is beautiful in statucs of Alexander the Great, Hector, | dosign and flnish und a wonderful likeness, Cwsar, Chariemagno. — In the Rathaus piatz ' is a heroic figuro of tho ihaidh et Burgomaster Gryr, of whom the follow- | Tho cathedral was oroctod by Charlemagna ing story is told in the relievos and inscrip- | for his burial place. 1t was consecrated in tions : the vrgsence of tho blind Pope Leo ana Gryso was hated and feared Ly the clorgy | nosrly 400 avchbishops. It was intended to because he liad taken tho sido of the citizens | resomblo the Chureh of tho toly Sepulenor in the disputes between thom and the a reh- | at Jerusalem, and to have beon the finost re- bistop. Ho was invited to a banquet by | ligious odifice in the world, but after tho somo of the clergy, and at its closo taken to | death of Charlemagno the building stopped see the lion in a cage. With a smilo and a | for tiva conturios. Inone of the chapels 1s bow, the burgomaster was ashed to take the | shown tho tomb ot Charlomagne, opened precadence, aud as ho reached the front | by Otho IiL, in 1000, A. D. The vody of of tho cago tho door was quickly [ the emveror was found soated on a thrown open and the good burgo- | throne, with erown on nhead, sceptro in master thrust in. As the lion | band and tho bible on his kuoe, his finecr sprang at him ho wrapped his | pontine to the passage: “What will it 1eft hand in bis mantle, thrustitin themouth | profit w man if he gain_ the whole world and of tho lion, drew his sword with his right | iso his own soul.” Whon Charlemagno was and plungod 1t into the heart of tho enrazed | canoni in 1163 b brute. The citizens soon came to the rescue | again by Fredorick of their leader, seized the priests and haugoed | peror. Tho windows choir aro tho them at the gate, which has since been called | largest 1 Germany, > foet high “The Priests’ Gat I'hoy are of modcr 1ass an Greatest Gothie Cathedeal, WAL el L WU A . | zen ot Aix. The pulpit is of silve Cologne cathedral is said to bo the finest ) ynd wold, milaid with = brocions stonos gothicstructure in the world. Itis lurgerthan | ayg oxquisite ivory ecarving, The threo the Milan cathadral, but not so beautiful, The | how I have been most im gray stone of which it is built is not so | . Quen's at Rouen, St. Mark's lovely as the puro white marblo of the |t \-onicoand this cathedral al Aix, Tho Milan, nor are its spires so enchantingly ! sy is of no aceided architectural dosign, it gracoful, so fawylike. The stained glass | may slmost bo called rococo. 1t is pur windows are marvels of ancient, modieval nd and modern worlk. and attentive study. tainiug the bones of the Mai, is au ela are worthy of | ate gold box encrusted with over 4, precions stones and is worth loast_ 6,000,000, Think how starving people could bo fed with 1 The gold shrine, con- many poor, basilica, partly Roman, uniquo and entir sacred edifico, ther cont than St. Peter’s, St. J St. Maria_Maggiore in Ron and apart {o thomselves. interostin hie, butit i m any othel without suying that on g 1v goes aro no churehes grander or mord magnifi- bor- 000 at i Lateran and . but the cthers Tuere are many charches at A1y, as there were at hat much money. The joily old priest who | Cologne showed us tho treasures said, **Ab, yes, you | ~ At Borlin and Droesdon the population ladies always want toseo tho jowels and | seomea mostly Protestants, at Cologno and think they aro wasted here.” And Itold Ajx they are Catholic and a very intelligent him yes, they ought to be soid and giveu to physician I have met here tells me such & the poor, and Tam sure he thought I was a | thing asa socialist1s never known in Alx, heathen, “The people seem remarkably prosper d Thess ' rolles woro stolen by Frodorick | il oecunied. 1 hever saw S0 many. ciiidren Barbarossa from Milan." Tho logend 15 | inuny place unless it was in Southi Omata. a ona, mothor oustantine, brought tho bonos of the three wiso Emperor and £ress, men who saw tho stw in the oW A e W B0 copala o oast from Palestiue 1o Constantinoplo, Thoy | g, -b 1oV 4nys axo o man who koeps a ucws 5 1 stand and sold some American paper that wero afterwards taken (o a convert in Milun, | Sitd 40 S Whon Milan was bosioged by Ivedericis | Lut'uothing wis done 1o bim bocauso, unless Barbarossu (who was accompanied by the | iy gmporor himself choses to proseciite, no arehbishop of Cologue) ho became 5o infur | ; ) iated at the obstinate resistance ot the Mil- one elso can. Ho still the an keeps journal. Probably the cmperor not ancso that he swore he would haug the S 5 A £ burgomaster as soon as he captured the city. | (ke MIOFIEO At What tho American pross (}rbu -;I"’:‘"'f\;;‘lgl"\'\j’miflfll“':_‘i""‘ 3 pore “K:::" E’:”}‘j: Bismarck has justhad his bivthday and of the burgomuster, and sho sent word | [ Germans as il diavoliEhowcrod oD to the archbishop she would eive lim | a Ellsh COREXALACions AuC SEESCEAR the relics of the threo kings 1o take back to | svnd 1 18 aEess L0 L ey his Tas e g o throo kings to Lite biack 1o | wont 10 00 im on his auniversary ‘his last A Cologne,itEhotoul Lic] words were, “1 desire peace, peace.” spare her brother's lifo, ‘Tho archbishon | "a"lyiy in Drosdon told us of an acquaint- persuaded the emperor to allow the abbess | <0 W0 (LT SPGB 000 marks for to o whatever shio could carey off on hor STl IEalot herorE Slia uail Wheniiasod back. She carried her brother, 1f she had : been one of these German woms ha wood niloon thelr backs. And so Arehbis ixeinhold brought tho relics to Colotne. Iu the church of St. Peter is the font wnero Rubens was baptised, and also his picture of tho crucifixion, witich is so horribly real- iatic that I regreited tho mouey I paid seo it. The church of St. Ursula is filled with bones of the 11,000 virzins who accompan this patron saint ot Christianity to Ro Wherever the eye turns these horrivle relies meot 1t—slulls, arms and legs, built in walls and in the ceiling. Hood calls 1t chastest sort of al itecture, We also suw here the house bons was vorn ana Maria de Medici d Hor hend is buried in the Colo, cathedral and tor body somewh ‘5= EBROW where en it would @ been a mere bagatelle; they can carry a an impertinent servant, who thre inform uvon her unless the lady bera certain amount of monoy. retused to bo bluckmailed; Liie sorvant in formed and the lady was fined; refused to pay the fine and went to prison for twen tenod to would pay Tho tndy hop four hours. Baroness F— whom I met in Berlin,conifrmod the story. The lady brought 0 | forwurd charzes against the sorvant for blacknmail and hiad or vovenge in seeing tho & tho | Sorvunt moro soverely pumished than she niod { 14d hoen herself. Ono can imagino that lit mo. tie revenge was sweet. M. D. Crook. the | = e the What Profiteth? Saratoge (151 Sun. Ru- | Wyoming bias had considorablo froo adver- iod. | tising during the past throo or four wenk 206 | but of a doubtful nature as to any benelits being derived from it. NEEEE w I NING, K| & Co. 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