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TPTTfi OAT ATT A TJATT/V HIT. ! ? TFlmAV MAV 1 IftOI THE D AIL Y _ _ K. KOSnWATEREwToti. _ _ " " " PUBLTSIIKI ) KVKUY MOHNING. TruM/oKsinisoiin'TioN. Dully Ilco ( without HuiKltiylOno Your. . .JR fo Iintly and Sunday , Ono Year . in 00 Hlxmnntlii . r > > Thrretnonlli . 2 55 glllidnv Hrr , Unn Vcnr . 200 Hatnrdnv lice. One Vosir . 1 W Weekly lice , Ono Year . . 100 orffcTIsi Omnlin , Tlio Urn llilllflliiR. Houlh Ulniihn. Corner N nnd Mill Street * Council IlliirtV. 12 I'mirl Htrcct. OhloiiKo Olllrc.IllT I'lianihiTOf Commerce. New York , l ( < H > m uiUindlVl : ! ilbuiiHUuIldlnR Wliihlngton , 613 Fourteenth ( iticct. COllllKSI'ONtlKNOP. All communications rolntlne to now * and rdltorlnl matler should bo addressed tollio Kdltorlnl Department. AllbnslnoHslrltor * and rcnillliinrp.iahould tiu nddrcwd to The lice Publishing Company , Oniiilut. Drafts , HireUs nnd postollltc ordc-M to ho mule payable to the order of tlio com pany. 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IKf ; > , MVW topless for May , 1M-0. W.1HO copies : fur June , IMf ) , SO.JOI coplos ; for July. IHfl.LUCfti i-oplusi for Aiiuust , WHJ , 10.TC9 copies ; for fc'i'pU'inl.rr , H'JO. 'X.fiO copies ; for Orlolirr , IflW. W.'Kl copies ; for Novem ber. IMfl , K.ii ! : < ) copies : for December , 1MK ) , KI.47I ' coplrss for Jnmiiiry , 1HII. i'f.440 copies ; for I'elinuiry , 1SU ! , ffi. iU copies ; for Mnrcli. ltd ) , 24,11.1 copies. Onoiu.K II. Tzt < c MUCK. Sworn In I i-foro me. niiU subscribed In my e. this IMduy of April , A. I ) . . 1NI. ) N. r , I'm. . I'ubllo. liUKULAUs will horoiiftnr fljrhl shy of the Dunily iniuision , o.xcont when the ladles are absent from the uitv. THK olcction of Rov. Phillips Brooks to the hij.'h olllcoof bishop will not muko Hint gifted prcaolior Icsa popular. IK the sanitary commissioner IB to run the board of health , it will bo a peed idea to abolish the board of health. THK Ilutehinsons have suddenly bo- coitio scarco. Ono has ( Iroipod ) out of sijjht at Chicago and the other at Lin coln. Puiiuc sentiment will sustain the board of county commissioners in mak ing an appropriation of $1,000 for the reception to the president. VKNEZUKLA stops into line with an executive order removing the duty from American coroulH. Reciprocity and re publicanism shako hands across the gulf of Mexico now. lJN millionaire railway presidents Bco nionov in Omaha investments in tncso comparatively dull days for real estate , citl/.cns need not bo discouraged over prospects. COUNTY JUDOIS STKWAUT of Lincoln goes on record in favor of Sunday base ball. IIo decides that the statute pro hibiting sporting and ordinary labor does not include the national game. NKIIIEASKA fanners will bo encour aged by the intelligence that tlio report of blitrliL in central Kansas wheat fields is without foundation. This i& to bo a good crop year unless all signs fail. GitovEU CLKVKLAND is in moro dan ger from tlio two-thirds rule than from his silver letter. If this invention of the days of Van Huron Is sprung upon the convention it will bo goodbye to Grovor. SlNUK doctors of divinity disagree as to the propriety of opening the gates of the world's fair exposition on Sunday , it will bo well enough to leave the matter where it bolongb in the hands of the managers ; . _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SurHUNUMUiiAUiKS nt high salaries and rotten limbs are to bo cut oil by President Dillon of the Union Pacific. The political agents are both super numerary and rotten but the chances are that their salaries will bo continued. A Gould railroad was never known to go voluntarily out of politics. A QKNEIIAI. , round-up of suspicious characters would rid the city of most of the thieves , highway robbers and midnight marauders. A special force of policemen should bo secretly employed for the purpose anil go quietly to work. There are too many toughs in Omaha for the good of the city just now. PAN-AiiKltlCAN is a irood name for a university OH the Gulf of Mexico , which nhall be devoted to the languages , laws and customs of the American republic * . It Is proposed to organize and establish Btich an institution. Kducntion , follow ing hard upon reciprocity and a Pan- American railroad , will complete the commercial union which should obtain among the people of all Americas. EVEUY week brings Omaha nearer to second place as a hog-packing center. Last week's report for tlio season shows a fiilling oil'at Kansas City of 11,000 and a gain in Omaha of ! 3),00t ) ) hogs in the number packed over the corresponding period last year. Last year at this time Omaha was 00,000 behind her rival. She is now but 5-1,000 in the roar. Sioux City's pack for the season shows a drop from 80,000 , -ID.OOO. . AN editor who figures what are tech nically termed "not " in earnings" a rail road statement as dividends to the flock- holders displays a density of ignorance of the subject which should lead him to conflnu his editorial comment in the future to "corsets as a tost. " Thomas C. Dunmt would fairly writhe In his grave if ho could * co what stupidity and ar rant duimigoglsm the proceeds of the old Ilerndon house makes possible inOinuha Journalism , The census bureau hns issued an extra bulletin containing statistics of farms , homos and mortgages in Alabama and Iowa , two typical states having nearly the same population , ono representing the conditions In tlio south and the other those in the west. The bulletin is the beginning of a series which shall make public the investigations of the bureau throughout the union. Superintendent Porter explains that the work of obtaining Information in re gard to Individual indebtedness has been besot with great dtfllcully , Many coun ties are simrsoly settled and the special agonls of the bureau have been obliged to make long and laborious journeys to roach county scats. There is a wide di versity of system also In the methods of recording these instruments. In many Instances Investigators wore obliged to turn over the pages of every vol- umu of the county records in order to locale the mortgages and in all cases to read the entire Instru ments and make abstracts of them. . he carolnMiiuss and ignorance of county of- Hours and the indilTcrutico of individu als as to the correctness of papers and the releases of mortgages wore also a source of aunoyaiico and delay. Homo idea of the extent of the investigations is formed from the fact that UoOO em ployes wore engaged in the compilations in the Held for from Tour to live months , and they forwarded to the bureau in Washington abstracts of moro than nine million mortgages. As an incident of the dilllculties , it is stated that ono special agent examined , " , " 00 pages in obtaining abstracts of G" mortgages. The records were searched for the years 1SSO to 1889 inclusive , and show actual land indebtedness of record Janu ary 1 , IS'JO. In making the investiga tions , only those instruments which are technically denominated real estate se curities were taken. Crop liens , me chanics lions , judgment lions and chnt- tlo mortgages were excluded for the reason that the expense of searching those out would have been greater than the appropriations for the purpose would wurarant and chattel mortgages are frequently - quontly duplicated by being recorded in several counties. Tlio real estate mortgages cover by far the greater portion tion of priv'ato recorded indebtedness , and the order of congress upon a resolu tion of Senator Cockroll did not compre hend a more extended investigation. The results are admittedly and neces sarily Inaccurate. Kxcopt by n toilsome inquiry into the private business mat ters of the individuals interested it would bo impossible to deter mine exactly what proportion of the recorded securities uro still actually in force and represent actual indebtedness. The painstaking ollicial has , howe'vor , followed the course of these instruments with a sulllcient care in something like 102 counties in the United States to war rant the conclusion that the percentage of error in the result will not exceed 5 to 10 per cent. The figures collated will bo of vast importance in discussing economic questions in the future and will furnish an excellent basis for future investigations. In Iowa the mortgage Indebtedness iilaccd upon record during the 10 years aggregated $ ] ,1288,512 , covering JiO- , 027,028 acres and 21)2,0)7 ) ! ) city lots. The ' ox'isting mortgage indebtedness is $1- ! ) ! , 0l,5G. : ! ! ) The average life of the Iowa nortgago is-nonrly live yoars. The in terest rates are 8 per cent on18.00 per cent of the debt recorded in 10 years , 7 per cent on 21.91 per cent , 10 per cent on 28 per cent , 0 per cent on 12.88 per cent. The interest above 10 per cent is 2-100 of 1 per cont. The legal rate in Iowa is 10 per cent , and has boon for 10 yoars. In Alabama the mortgage indebted ness placed upon record during the 10 years aggregated $91,01)9,023 ) , covering 78il2 , : acres and 20,510 city lots. The Misting- indebtedness of the state 027,9811. The average llfo of ti mortgage Is two and seven-tenths years. The in terest rates nro 8 per cent on 03.00 per cent of the total , 0 per cent on 17.15 pot- eont , 7 per cent on1.57 per cent nnd 12 nnd 12J per cent on 0.2o per cent of the total. The legal rate is 8 per cent nnd 1ms boon for 10 yoars. The investigations show tlmt in Iowa the debt in force in 1880 was $28,903,447 and In 1889 it was $ oO,002,370. In Ala bama the indebtedness in 1880 was but 82,010,50.5 and in 1880 was $1U.419,149. In 1887 the amount recorded was $22- 400171. ! The industrial development of Alabama was coincident with the great and suddun growth of mortgage indebt edness. It would nppoar that the mortgage In debtedness of tv coinmunitv Increases nnd decreases as its commercial growth is rnpld or slow. In Iowa , which has boon steadily growing , the increase has been steady. In Alabama the amount of indebtedness was trilling until ISSli when it almost doubled , and in 18S7 when it moro than doubled that of the preceding year , sotlling back to $13,8ol.8l in 1888 The probabilities nro that the now stales of the west will all show a com paratively largo indebtedness as com pared with the old states and those of the south. It will be interesting to make the comparisons and the census tables will bo In great demand by the political parties in the next presidential campaign. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ KIQUT UAH SKltVlCM , There is a great deal of rot in the clamor for an all night street car service. The demand la made ostensibly for the accommodation of the printers , report ers , pressmen nnd telegraph operators who are doing night work. This class of operatives la represented ns number ing COO. If each of them patronized the street cars the company would realize $25 n night. That would scarcely pay the cxpenso of fuel in the motor 'houses , let nlono the wages of n separate night force of conductors , motormen nnd other employes. Hut as u matter of fact , the number of persons cm duty in the newspaper and telegraph olllcos after midnight will not exceed two hundred. Of these , n Inajorlty nro slnglo men located in boarding houses within four or llvo blocks of their places of business. So that the actual after- midnight truflic could not exceed on nr average from flvo to tun dollars a night. This would scarcely Warrant 0110 mule car for the entire length of the street car system. What the patrons of the street car cofnpuny really would appreciate i.s amore moro olliclcnt pcrvlco on some lines where cars only run at long iutcrvaln. Very few cities have tin nil-night car service. But most largo cities require . outgoing cars to bo run frequently up to | j midnight. Thin is what , the citizens of I Omaha demand at this time. On some , of the lines the last car loaves the center of the city at 11:30. : This Is tlio greatest source of dissatisfaction based on reason able grounds. The street car company can alTord to meet this general demand. s'rnwr roin\'Aiti \ ) . For more than llfteon years TllK BEE has occupied the front rank among metro politan papers botwc-on Chicago and San Francisco. It has over boon on the nlort as a disseminator of the current news of the world , and its expenditure for tolo- graphic news has boon so lavish that no paper outside of the four or five leading American cities has attempted to rival it. For moro than ton years the telegraph tolls for special dispatches paid by THE BEE have boon larger than the tolls paid for specials by all the papers in Nebraska , Iowa and Kansas together. In order to keep abreast of the great dailies of the country , THE BEE pro poses still further to enlarge its news facilities. To this end a contract has just been concluded with the Western Associated press for an exclusive loabed-wlro service that will glvo THE BEE the unabridged Asso ciated press dispatches as they are now served to the Chicago , St. Louis , Cincinnati and other dailies of the first magnitude. The North western .Associated press _ dispatches which have up to this time been served in this city only embodied about 7,000 words dally. The full Western Asso ciated press dispatches exceed 23,000 words dally. They include cable letters from Berlin , London , I'arls and other capitals of Europe and cover very fully all general news and the financial and commercial quotations from tlio business centers. Beginning with next Sunday our tolo- grawhic columns will contain these dis patches , as well ns the Now York Jfeml'l special cable service and the extensive special dispatches with which this paper has been supplied for years. In the very nature of things this marked improvement in our telegraphic ervico will bo chiefly noted inourinorn- ng edition , which will bo equal In nl- nest every respect to the great morning lailies of Chicago and St. Louis. ASSUMIXU KKNUWED IXTKltKST. Tlio Bohring sea question is taking on onowcd interest us the limo for begin ning seal fishing draws near. According o the latest advices from Washington 10 conclusion has boon reached in the negotiations botwoan the government of the United States and the British gov ernment looking to an arrangement for ho protection of the seals during the coming season , and there does not appear to bo a favorable prospect that any inderslatiding for this purpose will jo reached , It is stated that the British exports strenuously deny that the fur seal is diminish ing , thus taking issue with Prof. Klliott and others , nor will they admit that there Is any near danger from the practice of marino sealing. It has been understood , however , that as a measure of precaution and of comity toward the United States , the British government was willing to bring about a suspension of marino sealing by British vessels in Bohring sea for ono or oven two seasons , provided our government will engage that there shall bo no marine seal ing by American vessels , nor any killing ' at , the seal islands by the lessees or natives during the agreed period ] of suspension. Secretary Foster intimated ' a few days ago that ho re garded it not.improbable that some sort of an arrangement between the two gov ernments would bo reached , and staled at the same time that if none should bo made the law would bo enforced. The revenue cutters for service in Bohring sea are under orders to sail .tho middle of the present month , it is presumed with the usual instructions regarding the enforcement of the law. though it is said their commanders will bo confiden tially instructed not to molesl any vessel engaged in sealing beyond tno jurisdictiotml limit of three miles from shore. The government will also send out an expert to report on the con dition of the sealing industry , and the government agent is to bo given largo discretion in his supervision of the con tractors. It is believed that unless some extraordinary precautions are taken the slaughter of seal the coming season will bo unprecedented , because it is known that there will bo a greater number ol Canadian vessels engaged in scaling than over before. In the event of the failure of pending negotiations , the interesting question is , how far will the United States ven ture to go in enforcing existing law re lating to the seal HshoricsV If it shall bo decided not to molest any vessel en gaged in sealing outsldo the three milo limit there will bo no reason for appro- bonding any now complication in the controversy , but very little protection would bo given to the seal. On the other hand , if the full intent and purpose of f the law is carried out it is possible the British government will interpose some thing moro forcible than a protest. There Is nothing in the treatment of the Boh- rlntr sea issue thus far by that gov ernment to indicate that it has any such intention , but it is hardly to be supposed that it would disregard nn appeal from the Dominion government to protect Canadian seniors In what it claims to bo the open sea. The situation is not such as to necessarily cause apprehension , but it would bo moro satisfactory If there was some fair and oqultablo ar rangement between the two govern ments for the protection of the seal in dustry pending a permanent settlement of the controversy regarding jurisdic tion. aA1 OUJKl'T fKSliOX.V llllllUATIOff The & on irrigation in New Mexico fjnrnishos an Interest Ing ob ject lesson of frlmt may bo accomplished by supph Ing iand with moisture In this way. Of course oven bettor Illustrations could bo obtained olflowhoro , but this ono is none the less serviceable for that reason. Of'n Httlo over four thousand farms In the territory , about three thou- Hand are irrigated , and according to the bulletin the average cost to the farmer , including the price of the land , cost of preparing it for cultivation , and first cost of water right , was $18.61 IKJI * aero. The estimated per cent value of the Ir rigated farms , including improvements , averages $30.98 per acre , an apparent prollt , less cost of buildings , of $32.41 per aero. The average annual value of the productions of these farms'ls stated to bo $12.80 per acre , deducting from which the annual expense per aero for water , Sl.fi I , makes the nnnual return $ ll.o-l per aero. This is a very generous return upon the original Investment , to nay nothing of the largo increase in the value of the lands , and the return can bo depended upon with absolute certainty from year to year if the same carols reg ularly given to cultivation. It is to bo considered , also , that the farmers of Now Mexico , most of whom tire Mexi cans , are far from being the best exam ples of intelligent or scientific agricul turists , and unquestionably a much higher average return than is now secured could bo obtained with the appli cation of better methods of farming than are employed. But making no account of the want of hotter knowledge of their business among the farmers generally of Now Mexico , and doubtless some other drawbacks , farming on the irrigated lands of that territory is evidently profitable. It is estimated that there are at least 10,000 square miles of irrigable land In New Mexico , which , if reclaimed , could sup port a population of between three and four million. That irrigation is a well paying in vestment needs no moro testimony than is furnished by the results in our west ern stales and territories , and when ono considers- the vast empire that awaits reclama tion by this means a region that could bo made capable of sustaining a popula tion almost if .not quite ns largo as that of the entire country at present the im portance of the subject can bo under stood and appreciated. It is the judg ment of some jfintelligent statisticians that the time isjiiol very remote when the existing agricultural lands of the United States will not produce enough to supply t.hn homo demand , and the facts which load to this con clusion are pf a very convincing character. It. .ijt demonstrable that for some years tl rpercentage of increase of the products of Agriculture hns not kept pace with the percentage of increase of population , nndjthis disparity is likely to bo moro maviyjd Jn tlio. future. A parliaL romcdy.r wilL bo found in im proved methods of agriculture and un questionably American farmers have snmntblnir to innrn In this direction and perhaps In increased production from reducing farm areas and thus in creasing the number of agriculturists , but sooner or later the vast arid region must provide now lands to meet the wants of the coining millions who are to people this republic , and this can bo done only by irrigation. It is interest ing to note that a sense of the import ance of this subject is no longer confined to the west. IT appears tlmt Colorado is already experiencing good olTocts from the repeal - peal by the lust general assembly of the alien land law of that state. This act prohibited the .acquirement of largo bodies of agricultural , grazing or arable lands by non-iesidcnt aliens. It also , while permitting aliens to loan their money on largo tracts of land , prevented - vented ownership under foreclosure of mortgages by penalty of forfeiture to the state after three years. Tlio result was to exclude foreign capital from the state , to the advantage of adjoining states or ter ritories which had no such unfriendly legislation. It is stated by tlio Denver IteptMicun that already since tlio re peal of the law a largo amount of alien capital has been gained to the state and moro is in prospect. The policy of re stricting the ownorship.of land by non resident aliens is very generally popular , and unquestionably is founded upon a sound principle , but the application of the policy may not bo equally expedient in all communities , as the experience of Colorado appears to clearly demonstrate. SPEAKER EUIKU is quite frank in hia interview with a BEE reporter. Ho ad mits that the independents p.issed the Nowborry bill with the expectation that it would bo vetoed by Governor Boyd , and that the veto was the host thing tlmt could have , Jia/ppened / to the alliance movement. Mr.vKldor's candor is admirable - mirablo , but thtfin'finito ' assurance of the alliance lenders j'ill react upon them. They were unwilling to pass a railroad measure which 'Would have been un proved by the f8yxsrnor | and hnvo given relief to the fim'ifpy from railroad oxtor- tlons.beciiuso thnfXvouldhavo ruined the business of the 'firufcssioiml agitators. Without a rnllrong griovnnco they felt sure the allinnuo party would go to pieces. They prbvontod legislation in order to keep uplh'o ' discontent of their constituents aiHij } perpetuate their own political power. ' " i"1 d m A n.\MK of rqozo out has just been played upon the counties and precincts along the line of the Chicago , Kansas & Nebraska railroad in the foreclosure of that road in the interest of the Hock Island. The subsidies in the shape of stock purchased by the counties aggre gated $2,000,000. The Kock Island takes the railway and the local stockholders take the thin consolation that comes with the knowledge that they hnvobooti robbed by duo form of law. C.U'TAl.v J. M. LEE , who lias been stationed at Rosebud agency Hlnco the cessation of hostilities , is in Washington and pronounces all danger of an upris ing passed. This will bo a crushing blow to porno of the alarmists who have steadily predicted a renewal of trouble unless the war department is given solo control of Indian ntTalrs. CapUln Lee is on otllcor in the regular army and an old Indian tighter and agent. AimCMM of incorporation of the Omaha grain and produce exchange have boon filed ns the first stop toward establishing a grain and produce market in this city. Tlio Incorporntors of this exchange are all well known grain men and they propose to bo ready for busi ness by July 1. THE BEE welcomes this evidence of tholr faith In the future of this city ns a grain market and on behalf - half of tlio citizens of Omaha extends the right hand of business fellowship. Too Sacred Id Fool With. lltifton ( Unix. Patent intirrlnco contracts like tlmt of the spiritualists , Mrs. Lake and Mr. Poclf , never scorn to hiivo been n success. If the terms of a marriage contract do not make it a do facto rnnrrlaga criminal relationship * are 1 tt lr\1 tr (1 ntiil If tlmt * .In i.ot.r. I * _ . ! . / , . _ marriage people save themselves n deal of annoyance nnd trouble by doing the regular thing. I'atnrnul f.ovo of tlio Poor. AVic York Coinmfi-eltil Ailrertlncr. Sensationalism nnd hysterics have been so pronounced In the atrltutlon for tbo suspen sion of child life Insurance that wo are glad to find In the April Nineteenth Century n moderate defense of the system , written by Kdwarci Uordoc , a physician In the East end of London. The defense does not convince us that the system is free from abuses , but It must convince every ono that paternal love Is too strong among the poor for child life Insurance - suranco to even suggest child death Insur ance , except In the rarest of cases. m And Thou , Too , \VntiorNOii. Loutfvlltc Courier-Journal ( Icm. ) There Is running through all the short speeches made by the president n fervor , n tolerance , o patriotic sincerity'for which the people were not prepared. < Wo pre fer to listen to sticb. remarks as the president made at ICnoxvllle , nt Chattanooga nnd nt Atlanta , and to remember that they ciiino from the president of the United States , the ruler over n great nnd n united people , anil to join with him In rejoicing that the conlltct which a quarter of n century ngo raged over those fair liclds and thundered fro'ii those mountain tops resultednot ( undivided coun try , but in n closer and moro glorious union. 10veil tlio .IIiiKivunips Applaud. KflDCll , 1'rosldcnt Harrison's tour through the southern states has been characteruod by re spectful and apparently earnest attention on the part of the people , If not by any very con spicuous demonstrations of enthusiasm. The president's brief addresses to the people at various points have been , on the whole , un pretentious and in good taste , with such Inci dental references to the policy of his adminis tration and its effect upon southern Interests ns were naturally to bo expected. The most gratifying thing has boon the general recog nition of the community of Interests between the south and the west of the country , and a moderate acknowledgment of the progressive and patriotic spirit that prevails. There has been no tone of sectionalism In the president's words nnd ho has doubtless gained some breadth of view by his casual contact with the southern people. I'ASfflXG .JESTS. (51obo : An Atchlson woman has taken so much sulphur Unit people say she would make a good mutch. New York Commercial Advertiser : Gov ernor Hogg of Texas Is very angry with his own people , but his conduct In the prevail ing trouble belles his name. Life : La Fiancee I am sorry to hear papa is speculating so heavily. Lo Fiance By Jove ! It Is almost criminal for a man to speculate with money that ought to bo saved for his son-in-law. TIIC OI.l ) , OM ) STOUY. A'ew York Journal At 2 p. ra. now the clerk feels sick , At U ho loaves the store , At 4 o'cloelc on the baseball grounds Ho yells till his throat is .sore. Puck : Airs. Dusoo O , dear ! This paper tins published a horrid scandal about me. Aliss Alinn Ann Pussier flow terrible ! How did they get hold of It I Denver Sun : The poetess who wrote "Backward , Turn Backward. Oh Time , In Your Flight , " wns like n peed many actresses. She wanted n return date. I'oxt. 'Tis ' now the youth feels agony Of most distressing sort. Ills last spring's trousers prove to bo Aloro than an Inch too short. Park Policeman Say , what ycr glvln' away Uom bows and arrows fur ? . Philanthropist 'Sh ! I'm a dealer Inarti ficial eyes. Now York Commercial Advertiser : A scientific follow who Is compiling a now geography makes it appear that the mount ains are just us old as the hills. Birmingham Republican : The thrifty po tate but emerges to join the farmers' alliance in u movement to prevent cheap potatoes. Washington Post : Spring evidently means to stay , having brought Its grip with It. Now Orleans Picayune : It takes n long time for a young man to become n good car penter : but ho can learn enough In six weeks to join a strike. TUB I'OKT AND T1JH KDITO ! ! . I'lJSt. Actr , Vcrsolet. Act II. Curselot. Act HI. IIoarsi > lot. Homorvlllo Journal : Some men think that endorsing the good deeds of other people Is about the same thing us performing them themselves. I Hnzloton Sentinel : In nno respect the la dles have n parallel. The spring chicken never tells its uge. Elmlrn CJnzotto : Don't llnttor yourself that it can't get away just because you have bolt ed your food ut sea. Boston Transcript : The most polite man wo know of is ono who never permits himself to look over his own shoulder. Sotuervillo Journal : There Is something radically wrong about the innn who cun have oxnctly the same opinion about his own baby that ether pcoole have. Now YoricHerald : Goodun I wonder why did Talmaga shavu off his whhkor.il Badun Probably becausn tlio wind was whistling secular tune * through them. A. soxti offji.tr. at. Xteliiilit * . Merry , rollicking , frolllcklng Alay Into the woods came skipping one day ; She teased the brook till he laughed outright , And gurgled and scolded with ull his might ; She chirped to the birds and budo them sing A chorus of welcome to Lady Spring ; And the bees and butterflies she sot To waking the ( lowers ttiut wore sleeping yet. She shook the trees till the buds looked out To see what the trouble wns ull about ; And nothing In nature escaped that da > ' The touch of the live-giving , bright youtiff Alny. FROM THE STATE CAPITAL , OonsiJoMbla Speculation as to a Curtain Young Man's ' Whereabouts , HE WAS IN SEARCH OF HIS SISTER , SOIMP Oltlotsw of Hie Mitcnlu 1'ollco Force nt the Knlluro to Cap ture lliitoliliison Dis trict Court LINCOLN , Neb. , April no. [ Special to TUB Uni : . ) Considerable speculation lias bcin orousoil ns to the prosout whereabouts of Louis S. Walker , tlio young 111:111 : whonchlovcd some nuwspnpor notoriety a few mouths n o by reason of Itts pursuit after an crrliif ; sis- tor. Wal'tor arrived In the city about live months n o to llmt lib sister. Ho had been engaged In hU occupation of nillronJ ilromtm 111 WnslllllL'tnn ntiitn ninl linm-im' thll girl was hero catno to see tier. Ilo llnally lo- catuil her In n well known family , where she was u domestic , hut on inquiring for hoc found she hail become 111 and was sent to a private hospital in South Lincoln. There lie discovered she liiul liron spirited away , and It was asserted that u well known physician of tins city had accompanied her to Nebraska City and thcnco to Kansas City , but ho re turned nome a few days Inter ana after the brother hiui started to Kansas City. The young fellow spent several weeks In the search of his sister , but failed to llnd her , and afterwards returned here. Ilo had , It is said , a stormy niectlng with the doctor , but the latter denied any knowledge of the girl or her whereabouts. The brother went to work for a few weeks , anil nftur earning some money again went on the /.enroll. On April 1 ho registered at the Depot hotel , but on the same evening took a , wall : uptown , as ho said , and since then ho has not been .seen. During his frequent stops nt the hotel ho had bucomo intimately acquainted with Landlord Charles Kmmons , and to him ho told a preat part of his story. The sonreh tor his sister , tie sulil , had cost him about fr > Ul ) , but ho was not despondent. U'hen ho loft the hotel ho was owing but .10 cents , mid It Is not thought probable ho would jump so small a Dili , ns ho led behind him a valise in good condition and containing n lot of cloth ing and personal effects worth ten times the amount of tlio hill. Mr , Kmmons believes that something has happened to the young man , as ho Is eonlldont from his previous eon- duct that ho would not go away without leav ing sotnu word behind him , as ho had beeomo a favorite with the attaches of the hotel , to whom ho had told his story , and who all sym pathized with him in his troubles. There Is no clue to his whereabouts , but those inter ested In the young man uro anxious to "Know what became of him. THK There is considerable surprise expressed that Kdward Hutchlnson , who so cruelly shot down Airs. Greene on Tuesday night , is still at largo. A number of prominent citi zens denounce the apparent lethargy of the police , and it Is not known that there has been any effort \vhatovor inado to capture the murderer. Detective Mulatto of the po- Hco force has been discharged because ho noundod EditorLittlolield. and His rumored that no other ofllccr Is looking after the mat ter. Just after the murder Hutchinsun ran down O street past n "dandy conper , " and just after passing the policeman Hutchlnson made u bluff at blowing out his brains with the revolver , which was then empty , but the onicor , It is alleged , made no attempt to ar rest the man. The police trlvo as nn excuse for their Inthargy in this matter that the fellow has drowned or shot himself in some obscure snot , whllo the majority believe that ho Is hidden away by some of his relatives until tlio excitement blows over. It I.s known that some ono of his relative : ) secured the services caucht , and that Insanity will bo the plua. The oftlccrs do not bollovo that the man who got the drink nt the saloon yesterday morning was Hutehlnson , and the only real tangible clue Is that obtained from some Indies living near Twentieth and K streets , who say that a man answorinir the descrip tion of tlio murderer seated himself on some boards in tlio alley , and sat there absentmindedly - mindedly drumming on the lumber with something ho held In his hand. Tno ladles supposed ho was diunk ; , and were much re lieved when he got up and walked .oil down the alloy to the east. Their description fits Hutchlnson exactly , even to his walk. Sill : IS liOUNI ) TO UK 1IAD. Mr. A. D. Mills declares that ho had good reasons for beating his seventeen-year-old daughter as cruelly us ho did. Ilo declares that she has become very wayward ; she hits persisted In going out nigrts , and when her mother attempted to keoj > her Indoors she at tacked her with n case knife , cutting her over the hand. A pitched light ensued , in which the girl received a black eye from her mother , and when the father returned homo ho punished the girl for assaulting her mother and because she disobeyed his In junction not to visit with the Watsons. Ho thinks she was not badly beaten , ns she was able to attend the ghost dnucu ou O street that night and have a good time. 1U5ATII Off lIUnKNi : IIKATOV. . EugeneHoaton , the promising son of Mr. and Mrs. James Ilcaton , dlrd last nleht , at the family residence , lll'.MC street. Kugono was born In Crawfordsvlllo , Ind. , December 21. , 18TO , and was therefore not yet twenty- one years of age. Eight years ago ho ciima to Lincoln with his parents , and since then , with the exception of a four months' stay In the cast , ho hns lived In Lincoln. Last sum mer ho wont to Uulfalo , N. Y. , where ho took a course In embalming , and was1 for a time nt the head of one of tin ) leading em balming houses in the country. Ho returned to the city much improved in health , and his robust appearance rendered the belief uni versal that his days would bo long in the land. A few weeks ugo 1m was attacked with the grip , which gradually developed Into n complication of diseases and ending In typhoid foyov , from which ho died. The funeral occurs nt - p. m. Sunday. TO WKI.COMI ! TUB I'KKSIDENT. A meeting of the various committees ap pointed from the state , city and county oltl- cials , the Ixiard of trade , Karragut post. Traveling Men's association , etc. , was held In the council chamber yesterday afternoon ut 4 o'clock. AInyor Weir presided , and after discussing the matter it was divided to ap point , the fallowing reception committee : Major McArthur , John C. Allen , W. 1C , Churchill , M. Howe , C. AI. Parker , Alva Kcnnnrd and A. H. Weir. J. H. AlcClay was appointed marshal. The programme as decided upon was to meet the presidential party at the depot with carriages and extend n formal welcome. The party will then ho escorted to the capltol building , where welcome addresses will bo made. After tlmt n ilrlvo around the city , and the Inspection of public buildings will occupy tlio remainder of the allotted hour. The presidential party will arrive hero about 11 o'clock In the morning. OPUS AND KNOS. Judge Webster Illed nn unleaded complaint this morning in county court against the baseball boys , merely for the purpose of having the question clearly defined when passed upon by the upper court. Ttio lire department was unllcn to Seven teenth and Kim .streets nt 1'J o'clock lust night to subiluo tlio llamos which threatened I to engulf A. H. Fester's grocery store. The i rear part of the stora room was damaged i about t00 , on which there l nil Insurnnco of JTiKJ In the Farmer * ' & MorehnnU' company Thorn IM Noaimn was given n license to sml liquor nt the old Hotel Alack stand this morning , the rumor.itranoo and npucal llii'd b.v Frank K , Lahr having been withdrawn. Louis Wagner , who wus on trlnl yesterday charged with burglarl/liitf Tata's house1 , was nciiultted by the jury. Tlio high wind of last evening blew down the walls of the now shoe factory In Man chester , west of this city. The loss is fully fT.,000. Judge Hall and n Jury tire nt prciont en gaged In hearing the ease ngnln t Chnrlas AIolso ! ] , the young fellow who Is chareed with burglarizing HUM ft Hceson's sufo of $1 * . .TM v r. Then eiunn fnlr May , the fnyrost innyd ou K round , HecUt nil with dnlnlies of her souson'i Anil throwing flowers out of her lap around. Upon twi ) brethren's slmuldoM KIH | did rldi' , Tui ) twIniiONof l.udn , which on either side Supported her , like to their . Lord ! how all crciMuics laughed when hut tln-y spldi- . And leaped and danno't ns tluly hud r.ivlshl Imi'ti ! And Cupid sulfo about her II uttered all In Kri'iMie. Hi'r.NNKii. nv ! thn nlnlil rtf ntiiMitin , , nf Mi , nlt ngo of win tor. The old English roots delighted in do. scribing Aluy ns u beautiful maiden , clothed InsutiHhlno and scattering flowers on tin cnrtti , while she dtmcid to the inuMeof birds nnd brooks. Hlio has given a rich gri'nnrss to the grass which is now lull enough for tlui tluvveis to Pluv at bide nnii seek among , as they nro clnisi'd bt th wind. Thpgr.isi also glvi s r. softness to tlio rtn - zllnu white of the daisies and the fill' o Ing gold c f tin * b ittereutH , wnleh , but fir fie soft bjnior ng of green , would nltnuit bo too lustrous to Icok upon. In the rieh green pastures thuro nro soirt of pk-.isnnt lite. The great farm house In o center of the rleh mlllc-yleldlng meadow COIIKM back to tender recollection , nnd tlui thought of the cooling curds nnd whey , luscious cheese cukes nnd custards , ere.im that you could almost cut nnd strawberries growing in rows before the beehive * in thu garden , makes your mouth water to bo bacic again "on the farm. " Hut how those pleasant dainties lose a i their fine country flavor when brought Into our smoky cities , whllo there they seem M il ( 'ool'd u Ions ago In the deep delved earth , Tasting of Horn and the country green , IHATS. . By the end of this month the trees will have donned their now nttiro nor will tiny ever appear moro beautiful than now , lor tint foliage of summer Is darker ; the dollcan spring green Is gone by the end of Juno and tlio leaves then no longer look tresli nnd now. Very suirgostivo of graceful m.iidon.s iir- rayed in their dainty spring finery. But beyond nil other objects { lint plonso the eye with their beauty and detlirht thn sense with their fragrance , stand the Alav buds only seen In their perfection nt the end of this pleasant month or n few days beyond. All tliii old poot.s Imvo done reverence tu the milk-white scented blossoms of the hawthorne - thorno the AIny of poetry which throw nn In the "tight little Island" this boauUful flower i.s seen In profusion nnd this morning all rural England it nllold , the vlIlagiTi vying with ono another In the number of Aluy branches which will decorate their homos. Later In the day It will bo seen In the cottage windows , the tireless grates of clean country parlors will bo ornamented with It and rarely does nnyono return homo without bringing with him a bunch of May , for there Is nn old household nroma In Its bloom which has boon familiar to them from childhood nnd which they love to Inhale bet ter than any other that lloats around theii breezy homestead' . In the middle states it i.s to bo found , but of course not to the extent us In Kuglnnd. Yet there Is enough to give ono somd Inlut idea of the beauty of nn English landscape on n llrst of Muy morning , when naturd seems Infatuated with Itself. The outbreak Into beauty which tmturo makes at the end of April and beginning of Alay excites so universal and admiring n feelIng - Ing in the human breast that then ) Is no wonder the event should have been at all times celebrated In some way. I earth that nature long dead and cold lives and smiles nguln. Doubtless there is mingled with this , too in bosoms , of any reflection , n grateful sense of the divine goodness which makes the promise ot"seusotis so stable nnd so sure. Among the Kotnans the feeling of the time ' found vent In their Floraliu or floral games , which begun on April 3 and lusted n few days , Nntions taking more or less origin from Koine have settled upon Aluy 1 as the special time for fetes of the same kind. kind.With With the ancients nnd moderns lilto It . , was ono Instinctive rush to the llelds to level s' in the bloom which was newly presented on/ the meadows nnd the trees ; the morn cjirt * pent the population the more raver appar ently the desire to got among the flowers auJV brinir uwuy samples of them. In England ono has to go buck several gen erations to find the observances of Aluy dity In their fullest development. In the sixteenth century It was still custo mary for the middle and humbler classes to go forth nt an early hour of thu morning in order to gnthor Hovers nnd hawthorn- branches which they brought home about sunrise with accompaniments of horn unit tabor and all possible signs of joy nnd merri ment. By a natural transition of Ideas they gave to the hawthorn bloom the name of Alay , they called this ceremony "tho bringing homo the Alay ; " they spoke of the expedition to the woods as "going a Maying. " The fairest maid of the vlllagn wns crowned with flower * ns the "Queen of the Alay ; " the lads and lasses mot nnd danced nnd sang together with delightful freedom , hardly the proper thing In tboso tin do solcloanys. Washington Irving , who visited England oirlv In this century records In his "Sketch Book" that hu had soon a Alay polo. ' ! shall never , " ho says , "forgot the delight I felt on llrst seeing u Alay polo. It was on the banks of the Dee close by the picturesque old bridge that stretches across the river from the quaint old city of Chester. I hud uln'udy been curried back Into former days by thu antiquities of that venerable plnco , the examination of which Is oijunl to turning over thu pages of u black letter volume or gazing on the pictures in l-'rois- snrt. The Aluy polo on the margin o/ / the stream completed the Illusion. Aly fiincy adorned It with wreaths of flowers nnd peopled pled the green bank with all the dancing rev elry of Aluy day. The moro sight of this Alay polo gave n glow to my feelings anil spread n charm over the country for tbo mst of thu day , and as 1 traversed n part of the fair plains of Uhoihlro nnd the beautiful bor ders of Wales and looked from among .swell ing hills down a long green valley through which 'the ' Dovu wound its wi/urd stream , * my Imagination turned all Into n perfect Ar cadia. "I value every custom that tends to Infuse pretlcal feeling into Ilio common people nnd to sweeten nnd soften the rudeness of rustic manners without destroying their simplicity Indeed , It isto the decline of this happy simplicity that the decline ot this cuiumi nny bo traced , und ttio nirnl dance on the green nnd the homely All y day pucant lm\o trr.idmd y dls pp'iirodin proper.Ion UN the p'asantrv huvu become exp.nslio nnd iirtlllciul in t'leir ( ileasur s and ton knowing for simp c enjoyment , HJII o itttumpts , In deed , have bojn n ad of l.iUj yenrs by men of botli tas'e and lean lug to r lly hack to por.tilur fueling to thrss standards cf prin 1 tlv'e sunplie U , bu. the titiu hns pone by the feeling "mis become chilled by habits ot gain nnd trufllo- the coui ry upes thu limn tiers nn I nmus'inicnts of tlio town , Mid little1 U hoard of .May day at pns-nt cm-ept frun the lamentations of i u lions wlio nigh after it from among th br u i walls of the city. 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