Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 12, 1892, Page 4

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Tre Nebraska de tes at Minneapo- his represented Nebraska, PERSIA hns a new religion and a new messinh, Messinhs are thick nowadays, BEN BurLer was called to order in a Boston court room for talking too loud. Unfortunately the judge could not fine him for looking too loud. A CIGARE trust has been formed. 1f this trust puts the price ol cigarettes beyond the small boy’s reach, we shall actually have a popular trust, Sioux C1 ht to be huppy. The mayor says there are no saloous and is hanpy in his knowledge of the fact, while tho drinking men get what they want to drink. SMILKEMAID ), are all late no that the who never conveptions’ the rage in Towa now. We vy confidence when we observe maids are usually those milked a cow. THE English paper which feel so sorrowful over Mr. Harrison’s renom- ination will pl opt the nssurances . of our most distinguished consideration and regret at their miser; 150 THERE is great enjoyment just now in like fore of the Minneapolis convention’s resuli by tho Now York papers. They ought to heed the old warning, “Never predict unless ye know.” N studont has dis covered that Humlet was the most talka- tive of all the Avon bard’s charactors, his specehes amounting to 1,569 words. This is evidence that Hamlet knew his subject well when he cried **Words, words.” TuE punishment provided by law for the erimo of brutal assault upon women should accord with popular sentiment, which is tho basis of all law. It looks now as if nothing short of a death penalty would meet thy requirements of the people, SPINSTERS need not despair. Cleo- patea wus 87 wnen Mare Anthony fell into her power, Josophino was 33 whon she was married to Napoleon, and when Holen of Troy stirred up her great in- ternational row she was past 30, Tt is never 100 late to ensnarg —— Tue author of “Comrades™ McGlennon, a Scotchman residing in Tondon. Tt isa good thing for Mr, M Glennon thut this was not known six or cight months ago. But at any rate his song is suflicient cause for strained’ re- lations between this country and Great Britain, is Felix —— OMAI1A s rapidly becoming the rival of Boston as a literary center, Only yesterady ina stroet cara young man sat rending a volume of Sir William Humilton's philosophy. Wo expect very s00n to seo children trudgring along the street buried in Newton’s Principia and Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, Mucit nonsense is written of the de- cadence of public taste in view of the tuct that comedies and farces are taking the place of melodrumu on tho Ameri- can stage. It is charged that we are becoming a superficial poople by this evident preference. Such a view is superfichility itself. Ono vowon for the shunninz of tie tragic and dramatic is thatonly the very groutest artists can sutisfactorily present strong charactors, But vhe greater reason lies deepest, Many versons cannot endure the pie- tures of sudoess and misery portrayed by the stag There is enongh, there i5 too much of the t , the heart- brenking and soul stirring in one’s y-day lifoe and peoplo go to the «r 1o be enter 1 und diverted, ARTICLE on the condition of trade published in another column presents fucts which speak for the prospoots of trade in this ecity and throughout the stato of Nobruska. The prosperity of the farmer is so closely related to of the tradesman, the manufa the mun of business generally, whatover may be his calling, that none can look with iudifference upon the present bright crop prospects, The farmers of the stute not only sold & great quantity of corn lust year at good prices, but they heid back and still retain a large sur- plus, which, added to the expected bountiful harvest this year, will enable them Lo pluce an immense Gauntity of this cerenl upon u strong and profitable market, Iu financial, jobbing and retail es the outlook is ewcouraging and the general business outlook atfords evory reason for conlidence and satisfac- l tion. OPENING OF THE EXPOSITIO! The Nebraska Manufacturers exposi- tion last night under most favorable auspices. There was a large crowd of visitors, who manifested a hearty interestin the really fine dis- play, the exercises were- appropriate and not too prolonged to be appr ated, the machinery worked well, and the only drawback was the high temperature, the discomforts from which were no greater at the exposition than clsewhere. There has been a wonderful trans- formation in the appearance of the interior of the Coliseum within n week. Wherens it seemed only a few days ago thut it would be almost impossible to get anywhere near completoness iu the preparations at the appointed time of opening, when that time arrived comparatively little romained to be done to perfect the exhibition. The practical brains of the men who make the display had been working 1o some purpose, and when they were ready to move their machinery and goods to the Coliseum the task of putting every- thing in place was neither aifficult nor prolonged. Consequently, the exposi- tion was so nearly complete last night that what was lacking did not appre- ciably detract from the highly interest- ing and instructive character of the display. As the first distinctively manufac- turers’ exposition ever held in Nebraska —the beginning, letit be hoped, of reg- ular annual displays of the products of the wanufacturing industries of fthis state und the methods of manufacture— it is most gratifying to be ablo to un- qualifiedly pronounce it a success. A detailed deseription elsewhere of what is 1o po snen will give the reader a cor- rect understanding of the extent and varioty of the exhibition, but only by careful inspection can a proper ap- preciation be had of the at merits of the display. We venture to say that it will be an instructive vevelation to eve:ybody of the industries of Nebraska. Hearty commendation is due to every manufucturer who has contributed to make the display a suceess, but special praise should be given manufacturers from other cities whose enterprise and liberality ave illusteated in their ex- hibits. There ought to be no question regarding the popular success of the ex- position. It is worthy the attention of everyhody who is interested in learning something of the extent of the manufac- turing industries of Nei opened tha on July 4 will be composed of 5 delegates—a number that scems perfectly suited to Independence day and to the patriotic city in which the party has chosen to hold it ons. But the number of dele gates suggests something more than patriotic thoughts; it suggests that the city will have a large number of guests to entertain and that it should make suitable preparations to entertain them in such a manner as to prove again what has already been proven, that this is a good city in which to hold conventions. In addition to the delegates there w be aswarm of visitors who are inter- od in the work of this young and vigorous party, and the throngs that always come to town when there is something in particular goingon will he present on this occasion as - usual. There will bo a crowd of people to tako care of, and they should be showa that Omaha knows how to meet such an emorgency. How long the convention will last cannot be predicted, but as it will be the first national nominating convention of the people’s party and there will be a great deal of work to do and many questions to discuss, it will probably continue several days, The various committees having the work of preparation for this convention in hand should be eful to avoid the mistake of underestimating its import- ance, and the extent of the provision for entertainment that will be required. If they will keep this in mind and also re- member that the reputation of this city is at stake in the matter, the visitors will leave us with afavorable impression of Omaha hospitality. THE COMMENCEME N IN. Omaha’s institutions of learning, like others throughout the land, are now in the throes of commencement, and will soon contribute their gnota to the army of young men and women who will go forth this year from the environments of school life to enter the various spheres of activity tor which they are destined. It is very sorious business to these young people, this severing of school associn— tions and companionships, this depart- ure from a littlo world of many limiia- tions into a great world where thure is an open fiold for achievement and for- tune, They will find thomselves dwarfed at the outset by the great men and women who sturted ahead of them, and us the race is not u handicap thoy cannot hope to ovortuke these leaders; but that is the way of the world, and nutare provides the compensation when she at length withdraws the spent run awrs from the contest and leaves a clear wrack for the younger ones. The figuro is u vory old ono, but it is us applicable as over to the conditions of the com mencement season, Perhaps the young graduate who familiar with Dr, Holme “Autoerat of the Breakfast Table™ will vemomber his vivid picture of the race of life and bear it in mind as he pockets his coveted shoepsisin and summons his energles for the start. The luates will recasive all the ad- vice they ean digest and a great deal more than they will relish when they say furowell to their halls of learning. Hoary mottoes and maxios in foreign languages will ba tired at them in vol- lovs and they will be loaded £0od counsel until thei they will have to ente of practicul e the sam preliminar can by lande deliber: up with heads swim, but * the hard school porieaco as froshmen just 0 13 no known system of wing by which they in the junior or eyen in the sophonore cluss of that school at the outset. Its lessons are hnotty, but they are Lot Gordian knots to ba solved and forevor uisposed of by a stroke of the sword of genius, Don't think so. Genius hns 10 learn the lessons by paticut grubbing. Genius has beon well defined ue a capacity for hard work, and as tho world grows wore practical the i anition and dec THE OMAHA DAILY justice of this definition is more gon- erally rec gnized, This age has no use for chattertons. It sonds them to the lunatic asylum and does not even take the trouble to spell their names wrong in the gazottes. Perhaps thatis harsh treatment; perhaps genius that has a | wild look about the eyes ought to be | more gently dealt with; but we are not speaking of what ought to be. The world demands hard, honest work and is not chary of its rewards when that de- mand is complied with., Capacity and industry will win evory time, OUR MILITARY VISI10K Omaha will entertain this week be- tween 2,500 and 8,000 citizen soldiers, who will be accompanied by a consider- able number of their friends. They come from all parts of the country, and are men of intelligenca and character, oceupying at their homes good business and socinl positions, As gentlemen and as representatives of the martial spirit of the American people they ure worthy of all the respect and consideration that will be shown them by our citizens. The young men who constitute this body of citizen soldiers, and who come here to engags in the annual competi- tive contest for prizes whose greatest value 1s in the stimulus they give to the spirit of wholesome rivalry and emula- tion, are a most important part of that large body of citizens upon whom the republic depends fpr the preservation of peace at horae and for defense ngainst foreign foo. They are representative of that grand army of loyal and patriotic young Americans who av the eall of the government for soldiers would put aside everything in response to the demand upon their services, as their fathers did A third of a century ago, and willingly and cheerfully take up arms to maintain the rights of the nation and the honor of the flag. Tt is not the policy of the United States to maintain o large stand- ing army, nor is one nec vy. The security of the vepublic is in the loyalty, the courage and the patriotism of its young men, and dependence upon this has not failed in the past and will not 1in the future. The mihtacy organie zations which will be in Omaha this re doing n most important work eping alive and stimulating themilitary spirit throughout the coun- try and building up what will be the nucleus of an army whenever the ex- igency shall arise for organizing a great arm, But apart from this consideration these military organizations have their value. They supply useful instruction in muny ways to the young men who be- long to them, and when rightly con- ducted all their influence is for good. The companies that will be in Omaha this week are among the very best in the country, and the promise is that this competitive drill will be the greatest ever held. The camp at the county fair grounds will be a center of attraction during the ensuing week. OMAHA NEEDS A TONIC. We cannot improve the business situa- tion in Omaha by talk, by Board of Trade resolutions or hoom advertise- ments, The time has come when thi: city must either make an opportunity for commereial activity or sink into in- 3 do from the in- dustries at South Omaha, this com- munity has no growing, prosperous, helpful industries. The smelting works, | theshops and the lead works are not en- larging their plants materially and there is no early probability of such an incffeased de: d for their products as will induce their owners toinvest further sums in these enterprises. There are over 100 small factories all deserving of encouragement and many of them ure growing sutisfactorily, but the fact re- mains that Omaha is today undertaking nothing great in the line of commercial o outside of the stock yards and packing houses, and even thesesuffor for want of ndditional railway facilities and the keen competition which is en- joyed by other packing centers und which enables the'latter to obtain better rates upon stock and products. The Union depot project lunguishes. The work upon the federal building will hardly malke itself folt as a business forco, and the city’s public work drags with a prospect for further delays, Something must be done and -done immediately to quicken the pulse of trade in this city or every property owner,wago earner and man of business will feel the evil erfects of u long period of future business inactivity. Our people cannot afford to pormit this state of things to continue. Our competitors north, south and west ave pushing vigorously for- ward, Kansas City has within a fow weeks put up a subsidy to sscure the establishment of a packing house there A yenr or 80 ago she voted 2,500,000 in bonds for the construction of a system of water works and a little lator raised u large gratuity for a cotton mill. Denver has been likewise ener- getic and St. Paul and Minneapolis have paid out cash bonuses for harvester fac- tories. Sioux City citizens and the eity have recently entered upon the construc- tion of terminal depots, tracks, ete., whizh invoive the investment of $12,000,000, but which will securs easy entranco to the heart of vhe pushing northwestorn Towa metropolis for every railroad which may desire to compete for Sioux City business. Salt Lake City has made a strike of natural gas and Denver has enjoyed the benefits of a recent mining boom. All these facts point unerringly to Omaha’s duty to her- self. Shio must do something or be out- stripped in the race for commer supremacy by enterprising rivals, The opportunity to quicken the vital circulation of the city and restore the business health of Omaha is offered in tho Nebraska Central enterprise, The bonds asked for, upon which we are to vote Juno 16, promise to purchaso for this city an era of prosperity which will be lasting. In cousideration of the sub- sidy the Nebraska Ceotral Railroad company, which is composed of some of our best citizons, whose repututions for honorable dealing are a guarantee of good faith, proposos to undertake rail road, bridge and depot improvements in this city, which cannot cost less than 85,000,000, and wiil probubly involve an penditure three times as large. This company proposcs not only to expend large sums in cash for right-of-way, waterial, labor, depots, wacks, tunnels, ial BEE JUNE 12, ' bridge and other facilities for transact- | ing an extensigg, railroaa business, hut to place all the wilities at the ser ice of any and-wbother lines of railway entrance o Omaha. The sub- | sidy is subjectaddo restrictions which make it sure that not one dollar of bonds shull be paid until the Nebraska Central companghas expended enough monoy in the eriterprise to assure its material completion along the lines out- lined in its préfidsition. The eity and county would be amply repaid for the proposed bomfs“were the Nebraska Central the only line of railway to be constructed, because just now it is worth an immoense sum of money to have a corporation show its faith in Omaha by exponding $5,000,000 or $10,~ 000,000 in her niidst. But the chief advantage comes from the terminal facilities, trackago and bridge, which are to be at the service of any and all companies scoking to enter Omuha. The Great Northern, the Iilinois Central, the Maple Leaf, the Winona & Southwestern, tho Wabash, ana other roads will not be slow to take advantage 9f theso opportunities, and their entrance to Omaha and South Omaha, together wiin the cash invest- ment of the Nebraska Central in labor, lands and materful, will bs worth moro miltions to Omehi thaa we can conceive. We have itin our power on the 16th of June to say whether Omaha shall lie still and suffer from business depression for another indefinite period, or awake, put on her strength and enter with renewed vigor upon a prolonged era of progress and prosperity. The duty of every loyal citizen is en- tirely p THE TRUE CIVILIZIN Al ) 4 Some curious results have followed the efforts that have lately been made to sow the seeds of Christianity in East Africa. A ship has been engaged in the business of carrying colored people trom this country to Liberin, where it was proposed to ostublish an Amer colony, and a number of missionaries have been sent to thie field for the pur- pose of uprooting the savagery and heathenism with which the emigrants secking homes there have come in con- tact. Among the miss s was a colored man from St. Paul, Minn Sanday Washington, who has rec returned 1o this country, thoroughly convinced that the kind of heathenism existing in Bast Africa is too much for him. e soon found that the natives did not appreciate his eloguent appenls to their intelicet and consciences,which, by the way, domot appear to have been vory greatly developed, and accordingly he resorted to a species of bribery. DBy presenting certain articles of apparel to some of the leading heathen he made them see the orror of their respective ways temporarily, but this, of course, could not last. If he had possessed an unlimited quantuty of plug hats, he might have convinced the people by thousands, but he' was too poor to carry on that kind of a campaign against heathenism for any great length of time. Another colored missionary, Rev. Abrahum Bostwick,was sent to the same field from Atlanta, Ga., by the Liber- inn wmissionary saciety, but he succeoded no better than the gentleman from St. Paul, and has also returned. A white missionary from St. Paul hasalsotried his hand at introducing Christianity in the same portion of the dark continent, but after fifteer months of fruitiess labor he has returned. He says that the coiored nts who have gone to Africa set themselves above the natives, and will have nothing to do with them, and he also alleges that the highest ambition of the emigrant is to drink rum and own slay, The owning of slaves in Africa by American colored people in Africa is a curious outcomo of the colonization scheme, and exhibits a propensity that is hard to account for. The failure of the efforis of these well- meaning missionaries is not at all sur- prising. No attempt to introduce civilization and Christianity among such people as they are called upon to deal with can bo expected to succeed upon such a plan of work. What the Africans need first of all is a practical systematic course of industrial teachi They need to be taught the uses and benefits of ation, and to this end they must be patiently and slowly shown, by the ensiest and most simple methods, what their own hands and brains are capable of accomplishing. Civilization in their case is not a question of a fow wee! but rather a problem of years. The e hortation of the missionary is wasted on such people in their present state of barbarism. The experience of such men as Rev. Sunday Washington is ly patheti is good colored brother had to give up the struggle with heathenism assoon as his supply of plug hats guve out. Others may try different forms of bribary, but they will only wasto their time if they do not teach the barbarians of Africa to work, Labor isthe true civilizing agency. It ennobles ana uplifts men and women everywhere, and without it and the useful fruitit yields neithor ivilization nor Chris- tianity can flourish. . POVER AND T A A Students of the socinl problems of the time in this countty will bo interested in the results of a thorough and systemstic invastigation into ' the causes of poverty in London which Has recently been com- pleted by Charles Booth, The turbulent currents of society in Burope, and also in this country tp some extent, have thrown to the surface in recent years all sorts of reformérs and drenmers of dreams who havh fancied themselves specially commistioned by the Almighty to solve the problem of the relation be- tween poverty and riches, between labor and capital, between all of those clusses of society which natural conditions and the unequal distribution of Fortune's favors have widely separated in the social scale. In Europe more than in this country the relations of poverty and wealth and the amelioration of the havdships of the poor have been prob- loms of prime importance and iuterest to which many able men have given the study of years. The investigations of Mr. Booth were confined to the eastern district of Lon- don, embracing a population of about 900,000, He has divided these people into eight classes, represcnted in his 1892 -SIXTEEN P classification by tho first eight letters of { the alphabet. Class A, wade up of the | lowest kind of laborers, loafors and semi- criminals, numbers about 11,000 class representing those who have casual arnings, about 100,000; class C, having intermittent earnings, 75,000; class b, with small regular earnings, 120,000 class having regular standard earn- ings, 877,000; classes ¥, G and H, con- sisting of the, batter paid artisans and higher middle class, respectively, 121,- 000, 34,000 and 45,000, The first four classos are below the poverty line and number in the aggregate 315,000, or 85} ver cent. The last four classes are above the poverty line and number 577,000, or 643 per cont of the whole. Mr. Booth deducts the first class, 11,000, ns not requiring any other caro than ordinary police or workhouse discipline. This leaves 304,000 persons, or about 34 ver cent of the 900,000, as constituting the problem of poverty, esclusive of the large number already undor poor law administration. Investigation of the enuses of poverty in this great body of people resulted in the discovery that about 60 par cent of those who were classed as poor were 50 by reason of u want of employment suffi- clent for support. This is the familinr ground upon which the sociulist prodi- cntes his argument aguinst the existing sociul system, and if it could be shown that so large a percentage of the indi- gent are really unablo to obtain employ- ment his case would seem to be a good one, The figures given by Mr. Booth concerning London may be taken, with some modifications, as represonting tho condition of the poor in some districts of New York and other. large cities of this country. The Charity Organization society of New York City has raported as high as 45 per cent of its applicants for aid in need of work rather than re- lief. The same ratio will hold good in the large cities everywhere, Is it true that so large a p the poor are unable to obtain The experience of every om- of labor contradicts it. In- or disinelination to work will ccount for the poverty of a great num- ber who, when usked why they are poor, reply that thoy cannot find em- ployment. In making up the statistics which we have quoted this question was asked, and the asker had no means of knowing whether the answer was truth- ful or otherwise. He had to accept it or abandon his undertaking. The figures are usaful bocauss thoy indicate a state of things that should receive the attention of the charitable, but they need to he taken with a great deal of al- lowance. Statistics may prove that thereis need of & more cquitable adjustment of the relztions of capital and labor, but there will always bo an army of unemployed poor whose destitution and misery will be the penalty of their own indolent and vicious habits and their tendency to swarm in the great centers of popu- lation, entago of employ- AL MAIL DELIVERY. The idea of a free delivery of mail matter in rural communitios originated with the presentadministration. It has the approval of the republican part and it will be realized in practice when- ever that party returns to the full con- trol of the goverment. The demand for the free delivery of-mails in rural com- munities comes from a very large num- ber of people who are now being denied the facilitics which they believe the Postoffice department should give them. There are 4,750,000 farms in this coun- try, said Representative O’Donuell in the house recently, and the owners and tenants appeal to congress for what they feel is their due—that they shall be placed on the saume footing as the people of the cities and towns, that the postal department shall extend to them the samo privileges that are accorded to the urban vesidents of the nation. They hold that if the government delivers the ters and mails to the denizens of the same treatment should be ex- tended to the farming communi Thousands have petitioned for this ac- tion on the part of congre The Na- tional Grange,the Patrons of Hushandry, ery state grange, the National Farmers’ congress and the National and State farmers’ allinnces have united in asking the national legislature to ex- tena free delivery facilities to the rural communities, The demand of these representative organizations of agricul- “tural producers has been supplemented by petitions from thousands of farmers, not members of organizations, and the common feeling among them is that justice requires that they be given the facilities they ask. It is a fact that, while one-third of the population is engaged in farming pur- suits, and the farmers pay the same rate of postage as others, rural communities have about the same facilities, compara- tively, as they did in early days, Itis stated that, for less expenditures, the people of other countries have a postal service for the farmers infinitely super- ior to ou Itis argued, and the posi- tion is rinly plausible, that as the people of the whole country sustain the Postoflice department there is no renson why all should not be served alike, with- out regard to locality or conditions The farmer, knowiog that he contrib- utes to the sustaining of the postal sor- e, naturally holds that the facilities of that branch of tho people’s govern- ment should be as good<in the raral dis- tricts as in the large towns. He has made a demund for his rights in this direction, and undoubtedly he will con- tinuo to urge it until something is done. It is doubtless true that free delive in rural communit Cost s0me thing for a time in excess of the postal revenue from such communities, but the postmaster geveral and others who have investigated the matter believe thut in the end the plan would be self-sustain- ing. But it has never been the policy to make the question of nceded postal improvements dependent upon tho chances of revenue, aud there is no rea- son why such a policy should be adopted in the matter of rural free delivery, The prime thing to be attained is to give better mail servl clues of the people t':an they now have; and which they reasonably belicve they are entitled to; the question of revenue can be discussed afterwards or may be left to take cure of itsell. The history of the 25 would 0 10 larg | PostofMce department s that the oxten: | sions and improvemonts have at first re- | sulted in loss to eventuate inlarge gain, ; and it is by no moeans improbable that | such would be the outcoms of free mail | delivery among the farmors The monetary roturn, at any rato, is not the only componsation to be consid- cred. Tt has been weli said in relation | to this plan of rural free delivery that simply from the standpoint of popular education {he experiment would pay more than all it could possioly ¢ It is nocessary to tako a broad and goner- ous view of this question, keeping in mind that the mail service belongs to the people and w.s established for their convenience and advantage. AMERICAN citizens generally, and os- pecially the American admirers of James Russell Lowell, will regret that some of his injudicious friends are persovering in their efforts to secure a memorial of some kind 1n Westminster abbey to porpotuate his memory in England. o refusal of the dean of Westminstor ought to have settled the matter without re- gard to the question of justice. Itis humi ing to think that certain pro= fessod friends of the great American poot should be willing to accept the pultry concession that two windows in a passage that forms no part of the abboy itself should be decorated at their oxpense. Mr. Lowell's fame does not need 10 bo perpetuated by n memor- al in Westministe Abbey. Longfellow ishonorad thero, it s true, but Scott, Burns, Hawthorne and other groat lights of Lnglish literature are not. It does not signify much. Lowell will bo remembered and honored long after Westminister Abbey has erumbled into JouN D. Rock ¢ has given $40,000 to V: The oil can ds on the T Philatelphiv Times. Would the commingling of the church ana «aloon admit of the sorving of two masters, that is, “schooners " Depe —_— . A Toul Stander, Ctica Observer The style in polite ocioty in Chicago and tho wost is to put at the bottom of somo fn- vitations “R. 8. V. P. D, Q. Ble beg el Distinction Without a Dilferon New Wenrk Heralo The destruction of the mining city of Creedo on Sunday was due, not to the kick- ing of a cow, as in Chicago's case, but to the attempt of a jackass to make a kitchen fira burn better with coal oil thun with wood. In a Shining Light. Kansas City Jowrnal. The *wild west” shines as a law-abiding country in comparison with tho east. It is reported that the single county of Allogheny in Ponnsylvanin had fifty-cight murders in the last five years, with only one execu- tion, i iy In the Regular G Beatrics Democrat, Tug Ber of yesterday contained a good write-up of ge county, together with statistical information that is valuable not only as an advertisement, but as a sheet to proserve for futuro refercnce as well. Thi came in the recular course of business, without pay, and has no connection with the fake album, or “lending cities” dodge. PR A Startling Innovation, New York Commercial, The presence of Sioux Indians, cowboys, Mexicans and other wild westerners at morn- ing servico was an exbibition unexpected by the Londoners who attended moruing service recently at Paut’s cathedral. The inno- cont curiosity of the noble red man to learn where the sound came from when the big organ was played upon was too much for the gravity of even the stolid London news- papers, asiness. el P e ] The Mission of Drudgery. Childs. What, then, is the mission of drudgery! To make men manly and womnen womanly; to develop within them thoe substantial vir- tues of industry, patience, preservation, fru- gality, independenco, self-control; to train them 1n habits of attention, concentration, method; to accustom them to endure with fortitude, and to achieve with success. It is just the hiard, monotonous work in every oc- cupation, teaching theso lessons of self-con- trol, that enablos the worker to triumph over obstacles, and to rise from tho lower and more mechanical parts to higher and more respousible positions, Wero it not for George W drudgery no ono would earn his way to pro- motion of become worthy of largor trusts. - MR. CURRAN'S POLICY. Guesses Within Six Minates of the Exnot Time of omination, Some days beforo the republican national convention at Minneapolis Tnr Brg offored o paid up policy for 1,000 in the Natonal Life Insurance company of Vermont to the por son who should name the nomince of the convention and tho timo of his nomination, There were 434 guosses sent in. The range of candidates incladed Harrison, Blaino, McKinloy, Sherman, Allison, Alger, Lincoln aud Gresham, ana hours wore fixed from tho afternoon of June 7 to Monday afters noon, June 13 Tho chairman of the Minneapolis convene tion announced Mr. Harrison's nomination At 4:364 o'clock p. m. on Friday, June 10, Tho man who guossed nearest this dato was Mr. James Curran, general delivory, Oaha, Ho fixed the time at 4:30 o'clock, six and one-balf minutes of tho correct time. Mr. Curran can got his insurance policy by calle ing for it. DISHON They Steal from xpress Co Are Arrested, Citeaao, 1L, June 11.—For some timo the Adams Express company has beon missing packages of jewelry, money or valuables in transit between the branch offico and the main ofices and tho depots and the main offices. Detectives employed arrosted two of the company’s empl Johu O'Connell and Jorry Laughlin. The latter confessod that O'Connell had endeavored to porsuade him to assist at tho roboery. It is saia that the stolen property will aggrogate §10,000, Sonsational dovelopments are oxpected in o fow days. pany and Kate Fiold's Washington: “1 thought T was erringon the safe side.” safd the burglae sadiy. whon ho was convicted of sufe blowing, Washington i mended." snid th afractured jawbonc, Lonst sald soonest tor to the putiont with Siftings: The ¢ flirtation is the est. A wrinkl, tall bearinz tho marks means “Ihuve spoken to her futher,' Clerk—1I son Smith, Gray &Co.'s Monthly: More hus ab- by the paper that Mr. Puy ndod—s od. Ho avens and Daotroit oSt t rennarked Mrs dnildre ree Pres it over so Lad, That's nothin hushand is s hini to beat the andor 8 Chicago Iter Oc “This preelons little hand, And he pressed it w blush, 1ot he sa Tha ust u glanse as 4 dlamond flush, TALKED T0 DEATIL Chicago News. s the boom of He lost 1ts needful 1 1o eve UL was talked to de At n'ght fts chostlot hau And neither howl But simply kee For lonz post-mort ry Blair, Siftings: s wise mun does not ho. spend In ndvertisinz whata lawyor would e for superintonding his assiznment. Philadelphia Ledger: A firm of Chicngo coopers will exhibit at the fair “the | barrel ever put togethe Until thy prouching campnizn Is concluded it woul safor to stavo off that exhibit. Washington Star: Tho writer who spe a seareity of desiens for small colny ably overlooked a great many of th in-the-slot 1 prob- penny- s that, observation, ho h for the coun- city is the city s tho Republican: without 1 they lose 1 The dog that d, and 80 Courier: 1t isn’t the man who often= ks his word who is the best authority of speceh. obsoure western ity now finds itself right in the swim THE GHAD Somervitle Journal. Iam agrad And so with heart clate, Beforo you here 1 stind Upon the plutform hign, Admired by all, with m Diplomi in my hund, nte, n this b . much.— unch in Greek, My eloquence is such. t T ura through, avo to do, ployment I must seok, nee that will be so, 1'd renlly liko to know How much I'll get a weele, 1.do not wi And yeu Al le What's t You say @<= SBROWNING, KINGE: & CO. Largest Manufs turers and Rotallors of Clothing in the Wost, Shoulder Amrs--- RIELLR, R sale on men'’s suits. - also be made on il underwear, ctc. reasonable prices. 4 our store Baty From now till July eviry duy Uiy pm Browning, will be duys UL 10 p. w Ladies who wear our $1.00 and $1.50 : ; blouse waists will appre- ciate our half price sale of ladies’ blouse waists tomorrow: They’ll be 50c and 75c. In order to give visitors and children’s 4 |a chance to try our cloth- ing we continue the 33% per cent off Special prices will hot weather neckties, The best sclections of 3 summer coats and vests, straw hats etc 2| will always be shown by us at the most King&Co |5., Cor. 15th & Douglas Sts open B L) -5