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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (May 26, 1889)
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Tzttcmiclc , belnft duly sworn , de- TIOICS and savs that ho Is secretary of inn Bee I'ubllslilnR company , that the actual avoraea dally circulation ot THE lAirv HER for the month of April. 18iW. 18,741 copies ; for May. 188-9. 18,183 copies ; for Juno , 181 * 1B.UU copies ; for July , 1888 , Itvttlceplos ; forAURUit , 1888. 1R.1SJ copies ; for September. 1KSS. W.I5I copies ; for October. IfflS. lS.U 4 coplca ; for November. 1B8J , IP.tfHcopies ; for Drccmber , isas. lR.'JUi ; copies ; for January , 1889,18,67 * copies ; for February. Sworn to before mo and subscribed In my presence this lothTlar of April. A. D. . IDS' . N. P. mi * Notary Public. A8 a convention city , Omaha ngaln displayed lior hospitality by entertain ing the visiting Masons. I KEEP away from the Sioux reserva tion. The settler who attempts to se cure a quarter section In advance of the opening will .have his labor for his t . pains. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ i IOWA Is said to bo overrun with t gophers , nnd a reward is'offorod for ovcry ono killed. It is suggested that Iowa simply pass a prohibitory amend ment against gophers. Mn. RiciiAiiD P. TIIKVJSI.LIOK told the working-men of Omaha at his lec ture to leave the excessive use ofi strong drink alone. There is a world of wisdom in these remarks , peculiarly appropriate when men are out on h atrlko. Tins is a season of record breaking by the monster steamships across the Atlantic. The credit of making the fastest passage either east or west belongs - longs to the City of Paris , but it is Lt probable that rivals will try to excel : * ' that vessel's achievements. - "HAIWONIOUS relations" are re ported to have boon established bo- "tween the English and American ropro- eentativcs of the salt syndicates. If 'that moans nn international salt trust , the people of this country will flnd a means to disturb the nicely adjusted 'understanding. ' IT is an ill wind that blows nobody good. The failure of the Do Lo&seps f Panama canal has infused life into the t Nicaraugua inter-ocnanlo canal project. The pioneer expedition for the work of constructing this enterprise has just But all from New York and it remains to bo soon what success will attend the American capitalists despite the Do ; jLessops disaster still fresh in mind. THE opening of the Texas spring nalaco on May 29 to continue until Juno ' ' gO , at Port Worth , promises lobolin oc casion memorable in the history of the \ Lone Star suite. Preparations for the great ovout have been going on for months. An imposing exposition build- Jng has boon erected to accommodate the many varied products of the state. ' Invitations 1mvo been sent broadcast , nnd the attendance of prominent men /from all parts of the country is assured. _ 'ho exposition , moreover , is likely to .RBsumo an international aspect with the 'Jprosonco of President Diaz , of Mexico , 'who has signified his intention of com- Ing. Texas will undoubtedly surpass .torsolf in extending hospitalities to her 'Visitors , nnd the holiday about to bo celebrated will have nn important bear ing upon the great southwest. IT is reported that the interior de- ipartmont , profiting from the Oklahoma fiasco , has boon quietly arranging to throw open to settlement , early in tTuno , a tract of some 11 vo hundred .thousand acres in Dakota. The land is known as the Port Sissoton reserva tion , adjoining to the Sissoton Indian preservation. It lies in Marshall county , ( in the east central part of the terri tory , and is fertile , well-watered and in every way desirable for farming pur- ' § ) oses. The land is traversed by the Chicago , St. Paul & Minneapolis and is paslly accofslblo from all directions. As it will bo subject to homestead entry only and comprises much valu- * ble timber country , the man hunger ing fora farm can flnd a homo hero In pompnrison with which Oklahoma is a desert. ' THE report of tlio Connecticut board ef education for 1888 , that illiteracy is decreasing in that state , seems hardly credible , In ono county , which was ttakon as fairly representative , it was 'found that two-fifths of nil the children receiving punllo instruction woreun - blo to'writo , although some of them had boon from nix to eight years in eohool. Such a condition of affairs would indicate that the public schools In that fatato had fallen to a low ebb. Uo doubt the investigations of the board " will have the effect to awaken the people ple of Connecticut to the danger. That no of.tbe Now England Bkitos should Jail BO low in providing education vorthyof the name , and that state. bove all , should be Connecticut , 'famous ( or her great oollogM , la a burn * iag disgrace to all Now England. AND .1NTEMPER- ANCK. Excessive indulgence in liquor is by no moans the. only form of Intompor- nnco against which the battering rams of moral reformer's should bo directed. Intemperance in eating claims thou sands of victims every year. Nobody has yet proposed a law to abolish the viands that impede digestion nnd cause rheumatism , dyspepsia nnd hypochon dria. Nobody has oven suggested that wo shall punish the butcher , the baker , and the confcctlonor. Licentiousness is n distemper that has aflhcted humanity for fllty centuries. The misery , brutality and crime that have resulted from too much drink pnlo into inslgnfllcanco in comparison with the unutterable wretchedness , shocking depravity and heinous crimes that have as tholr prime factor illicit Intercourse between the sexes. Embezzlements , defalcations , deadly diseases , suicides , infanticides , seductions nnd cruel mur ders are for the most part traceable to the intemperate love and lust. Prom Samson's Delilah down to Miss Bocchlor-King beautiful bad women have exorcised the most baneful influ ence and flllod our calendars with rec ords of pollution , degradation and crime that make humanity stand aghast. But no social-evil reformer has boon bold enough to suggest that wo abolish woman. Nobody has yet declaimed from pulpit or the forum against this species of intemperance nnd advocated an amendment to the constitution that would stop women from Belling them selves either with or without a mar riage license. No radical social re former has yet devised any scheme or framed any law by which the constitu tion of man and woman would bo so amended as to make them proof against the social vice. There is intemperance oven in re ligion. Our insane asylums count hun dreds of persons bereft ol reason by re ligious excitement. Some of the worst maniacs have gone crazy over highly- colored descriptions of the terrors of hades. And yet nobody , not oven Bob Ingorsoll , proposes to abolish religion and religious worship. No ono has yet suggested a la.v that would prohibit ro- Hgious zealots , whether they bo priests , rabbis or dervishes , from trying to make converts to their belief by the most in temperate exhibitions of religious fer vor. Intemperance in talk , is almost as dangerous as intemperate eating and drinking. And wo know of no form of intemperate talk more hurtful to public morals than that indulged in by the professional agitators of sobriety made compulsory by cast iron laws. Those intemperate temperance reformers Im pose upon the credulous by reckless misstatements nndfulmlnato | accusations that have scarcely a shadow of warrant in truth. They want to lire the popu lar heart and make reputations for themselves as the John A. Sullivans of the prohibition arena. Above all things they want to nuuco their lectures pay. A fair specimen of this class , the Rov. Sam Small has just favored Omaha with a series of intemperate exhortations. Ho was not content with pointing out degradation , woo and vice .that spring from drunkenness. Ho did not take the trouble to cite facts and figures to exhibit the enor mous waste entailed uponlho industrial classes by the liquor drinking habit. But ho imposed on popular credulity by glaring misstatements and stirred up emotional fanaticism by distorting * facts. No ono will deny that the liquor traffic is responsible for a largo share of human misery. It is nn admitted evil , and the great question with right-thinicing men Is how to regulate and restrict the evil. If those intemperate agitators of com pulsory sobriety could bo induced to toll the truth they would bo forced to admit that intemperance in drink can no more bo abolished by .law than can the social evil. It has cursed mankind since the days of Noah and will survive with the infirmities of the human race. Temperance in all things is a virtue for which the highest tpyo of man has ever striven. But that is not the ideal of Rov. Sam Small or any other professional agita tor of compulsory temperance. This class of moral swashbucklers must sub sist on intemperance. They are pul verizing the rum power for dollars and do not scruple about palming off fiction for fact to keep the pot boiling. THE ELECTRICAL AQE. We are living in an ago of marvelous developments. Every department of human activity is strained to invent new applications of latent power or im prove on probont methods. There Is a nervous tension to discover now fields of energy , to subdue the elements ever nnd under ground , nnd make ttiotn obe dient to the will of man. Every year adds something to the sum of human comfort and happiness , placing at our disposal now and startling applications of mechanical arts and sciences , which would be considered n quarter of a cen tury ago as trenching on the miracu lous. But this ago is optimistic , und strange things create but u momentary surprise. No field of activity and ingenuity af fords such a wide range of possibilities as electricity. Its scope is seemingly boundless. From the time Franklin demonstrated with his kite that atmos pheric electricity could bo chained and made subservient to man , till Morse sent the telegraph message , "What God hath wrought , " there was little progress in qleoirlcal science. The people ple of that ago wore not prepared for the wonderful changes that man has blnco wrought. The perfection of the telegraph on land and sea , the tele phone , the phonograph , electric light ing in its various forms , electric rail ways and the application of electricity as a motive power , nro nil the gift of genius to the present ago. And yet wo ore only on the threshold of boundless poaiibllltioa. In its application to the industries it is practically in itsinfanoy. No man can measure its resources or prophesy its future. Quo thing Is cor- talu , it U the rauntat aud material' ' light as well as the motive power of thi i world , j . The Utoit development of electricity j j na n means of rapid transit is reported from Boston. If On furthermost it shall prove successful , it will revolutionize railroading nnd practically annihilate spnco. It Is described as "a process in which the momentum of a cac passing magnetic coils is utilized for the attain ment of a speed greater than that of n swallow and equal to that of a swift , which goes through the air at the rate of two hundred miles an hour. " This certainly Is ttio essence ot rapid transit. It almost passes bollof , but when ono considers the progress made nnd the di verse applications ot this un'scon power in the last twonty-llvo yours there is no room for doubt. There Is no suoh word as ( nil in the vocabulary ot electricity. Exports say that the invention will do even moro than Is claimed ( or It. It is slmplo nnd cheap , a moro bngatollo compared with the present cost of rail road transportation. But who wants to ho shot llko n canon ball through space at the rate of two hundred miles nn hour ? When Robert Stophonson's first locomotive won the prize sixty years ago ( or nttatn- Inga speed of fourteen miles an hour.tho people were astounded , nnd looked uuon the builder as ono possessed , but speed has increased with the growth ant ! advancement of the world , nnd to day sixty miles an hour is common on all the main railroads In the country. The Jarrott and Palmer train sped across the continent , 3301 miles , on an average speed of thirty-nine miles an hour. Including all stops. Short dis tance runs have boon ( roqucntly made at the rate of seventy miles nn hour , n speed frequently attained by the ice boats on the Hudson river. Storms on Mount Washington have registered a speed of eighty miles nn hour. . In 1884 Count Carolyi's carrier pigeons flow from Fosth to Paris at a rate of ono hundred and fourteen miles per hour , nnd swallows attain a speed of ono hundred and fifty miles nn hour. .AH those records are comparatively .trilling with what electricity promises. When Chicago is brought within two and a half hours of Omatm , and the dis tance to Now York traversed between sunrise and sunset , surely the demand for rapid transit will bo fully satisfied. Truly this is the electric ago. PROCEED IN THR USUAL WAY. "Are there any non-partisan democrats , any non partisan republicans ? Are there any men In-Omaha fit to bo members of the school board , who have no politics at alii This non-partisan business la all rot. * * Proceed In the usual way and got the very best men possible , and a good school board will result. " Republican. What is the usual way ? A dozen ward bummers hold a caucus around a boor table. They agree upon a delegate ticket and "proceed in the usual way" to elect it , by drumming up the scum of the town to carry the primary. Then the convention moots and the delegates picked at the caucus "proceed in the usual way" to nnmotho man that will do thorn the most good when ho gets into the school board. Then a combine is entered into by which the delegation is to throw its solid vote to the man picked "in the usual way" by the delegates from other wards who are willing to join and nomi nate their man. Then the convention "proceeds in the usual way" to ballot for the best men possible that is , the men who can command a majority of the ward strikers and heelers. And the output of this political pot is a set of pothouse politicians , who are bound in advance by political obligation to convert the patronage of the publio schools into party plunder. "Proceeding in the usual way" the ticket as a whole is commended by par tisan organs and the undivided supporter ( or aach and every candidate on the yellow-dog ticket Is made a matter of honor and principle. The party lash is swung and voters are whipped into line , in the name of their respective parties , regardless of the fitness of the candi dates. The proof of tho. pudding is in the eating. U proceeding in the usual way will give us tbo best men , then why not re-elect every member of the board whose time is up ? They were all the product of the "usual way. " But oven the Jlepulliean contends that there must bo a change. Now , TUB BEE does not pretend that anon-partisan school board must bo made up of men who have-no political convictions. Judge Wakoly is us much a democrat as Dr. Miller ; but ho was voted for and elected by republicans on n non-partisan ticket. Judge GrolT is as good a republican now as ho ever was , but as ho owes his election to the district bench to no party caucus or convention bo remains entirely free from party bondage and can exercise his judicial ( unctions without restraint This is prcclboly the' position which members of the school board should occupy. They should bo ( ree to exercise - ciso their honest convictions and ignore politics and political bosses in the man agement of the publio schools. This does not mean-that they must forswear their party allegiance or discard tholr political principles. It IB all very well to talk about pro ceeding in the "usual way , " but so long as our party machinery is contaminated by barnacles and professional caucus packers wo must abandon tbo usual way and seek to elevate the standard of our school management by non-partisan selections. ABOUT I'UIILIU PARKS , The extension of our park system has become a matter of imperative neces sity. The only problem with which our park comtalHjfon is wrestling is how to devise the ways and moans ( or the pur chase of lands , nnd on what sculo these parks shall bo laid out. Before any stops are taken toward the acquisition of lands that are to bo con verted into jmrka and boulevards , the commission very properly doslros to ascertain how tax-paying citizens feel with rogurd to park extension and park improvements. In order that public opinion may bo intolligr-ntly uxorclsod in regard to the area of parks of our loading cUton , tholr original cost , the mode of raiding the piifjhaue money , nnd the amount ? expended ( or their im- prbvomaiit nn'd maintenanceTins BKK will publish a series ot interesting und Instructive loiters on parks nnd boule vards. The first number ot thin series , which appears in this issno relates to the parks nnd boulevards of St. Louis. That city , as will bo seen by the Btatlstlcs compiled b"y our correspondent has nn nggregato oi over two thousand ono hundred acrj laid out in publio parks , ( or whlcb jSho ; has paid over two million * * * dollars. This will bo a revelation to many , if not most of our citizens , nnd St. Louis docs not occupy the load ing position njrjqng American cities that have invested upward of two millions in parka And boulevards. A careful perusal of the interesting nnd instructive ( acts nnd figures pre sented by our St , Louts correspondent can not ( all to enlarge the views o ( our citizens on the auostlon ot parks nnd will provo suggestive to our park com mission. THK name ot Prof. Dolbcar is well- known in scientific circles especially in connection with his improvements of the telephone nnd other electrical de vices. His latest indention , recently exhibited in Boston , gives promise of revolutionizing the business of posl nnd parcel transportation between cities nnd has consequently oxcltod great in terest. The device consists of n single olovntod rail upon which a long narrow box or car capable of holding n thousand letters or parcels can run. At intervals along the track are placed hollow cells ol insulated wire charged with powerful currents of electricity. Tlio car is itself a magnet nnd the principle upon which it operates is the tremendous ( orco which a cell of wire through which a current of electricity is passed is known to exert in drawing nmngnot to its con- tor. At ( roquent points along the track those cells of wire are repeated and connected go that a currant is passed through thorn. The power in the first cell is about one-half of one horse power nnd then coils nro so arranged that as soon as the car or magnet is drawn into the center of each , the power is automatically cut off and the car-rushes alonir to the next coil , the whole being BO arranged that the motion is not only continuous but extremely rapid. The claim IE > made that the distance between Now York and Boston can bo covered by this portoloctric system in two hours , and that the problem of rapid transit ( or the transmission of the mails is solved. The experiments so far have boon eminently successful. If the de vice can work in jopg distance as well ' ns it does ever ash'oft'ono , there can bo. no question butthat the necessary capi tal to build and-perfact this system all over the countryf wfll bo ( orthcoming. THE death pjpthjo ( amous Laura Brldgman , just announced from Boston , calls to mind tlrpxhistory of that remarKable - marKablo porsonJ 'Whon two years o ( ago she lost sigHf'and hearing , due to severe illness. Her Bonso of smell and taste were destroyed , her speech was impaired , and of her five senses only that of touch i ranlnod. The edu cation of Laura -gBridgman , begun- at her oightli1 year t by the late Dr. S. G. How'oyso' that she could express her thoughts intelligently and receive external impressions und com munications , was the work of saving a soul from everlasting night. The suc cess of this task demonstrated , the progress - gross science had made in the education of unfortunates deprived of ono or moro of the five senses. The Laura Brldgman case has excited the admiration nnd wonder of the scientific world. She hns Deon made the study of psychological and medical research , and considerable light has been shed upon the mysteries of life through the sixty years' existence of this unfortunate woman , . THE master mechanic of ono of the shop divisions of the Wabash road re cently issued an order to the effect that , all shop apprentices taken into the ser vice of that road in future must have passed the eighth grade examination in the publio schools. The reasons for this are apparent. It has boon ob served , not only by this particular mas ter mechanic , but by employers in other industries , that boys who have received a thorough elementary education are hotter prepared to learn a mechanical vocation than thobo whoso education has boon moro limited. They learn moro rapidly the details of their trade. They are moro observant , moro indus trious , and withal , gentlemanly in their intercourse with tholr superiors and their fellows. Suoh nn indorsement , coming from the "shops , " is oncour- THE emigration of a number of Mor * mons , reported to bo passing through Montana Into Canada , would indicate that settlements are to bo established within tbo British provinces. The movement moreover of several bodies of Mormons into Mexico would likewise show that the Saints are looking for a haven of rest across the Rio Grando. With colonies so far s.part it is quite evident that tho.Mormons contemplate no general exodusapithor from Utah or from the UnitedStates. Their purpose is plainly to cstablbmicommunitics and cities of refuge'both in Canada and Mexico , wbero refugees from either of throe countries conldi flnd an asylum in case of political6 rojjgjous persecution. IT is not surprising that insanity is added to tbo truIuW ovilsencompassthg the DCS Molnos rlVerUahd settlors. The wonder is that maHy'of ' them have not boon driven to tl g'bal of , dpsoair sui cide. Hounded ttiujQjarasaod by corpor ate greed logalizciljby the courts , de nied the protocti&ftjwliloh the govern ment guaranteed to holders of its con tracts , and threatened with forcible ejection from their homos , it is not as- stonishing that reason should full nhat- to rod at the close of a long , exhausting and fruitlcbs struggle. ' Tim grit and energy of Gladstone is phenomenal. All human attempts to suppress the grand old inan are futile. Providence seems to liuvo selected him as the loader of a grunt reform , nnd the rush of cabs can not prevail against him. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Trinli B 1'uelrjr , Atlanta ( .V < " ( u/uii. ( / In the duyduwn of youth , when the kindling vlilon swoops the plains of futurity end sees only the blazonry of hopeful promise , the younff man weds some damsel on whose tender cUtok tbo dews o ( morn are still n-trouiblo. Then coroo the years ot toll nnd b\bor , the cares nnd tbo worries , the Jo.Va and tbo disappointments. . Man Is prcno to selfishness , nnd Is too near-sighted to observe the hand that boars the co61lng chalice to the fevered lips.- Hut to the woman ho is all In all , She has not n thought nlgbor than bis dear bead , for that Is , to l.or , ns high ns heaven , Uut every day ho learns a truer nnd moro unconscious appreciation of her devotion. On the throsbhold of bis homo , bo It pnlnco or cottage , ho expects to BOO her watting to welcome him when tbo tolls of the day nro ovor. There Is something In her very presence something soothing and refilling. And her voice is dearer to him than all the melodies of earth nnd sea and sky combined. A. President Who Thinks For Him * ROT. * C/ifcfl0o Keuf. The , Indiana republicans in Washington nro said to bo as mad as hornets because the president persists In doing things without asking tholr ndvlco. It Is pretty rough that the chief executive now nnd then presumes to think for himself when there nro so many able thinkers willing nnd oven anxious to project a low thoughts into spnco for his benefit. Not tlin Democratic Stylo. ir/fiii8a / ( Democrat. Governor .Eagle never uttered words fraught with moro truth than when ho told the people of Forrest Oily that they would do well to invite baclt by publio resolutions nny persons that bad been asked to leave , that this is n free country' and if any man hns violated the law the proper course waste to bring him before the courts and tmnish him according to law. Flvo Dollars 1'or Kiss. MtilatlcliMa Times. Ono of the most fashionable of Philadel phia physicians nlway ? Iclsscs his hand when waving farewell to his wealthiest lady pa tients : but some of thorn were comparing notes tbo other day , and found that for visits when ho kissed his hnnd ho charged $10 , while for others ho charged only $3. Dnnn nnd the Democracy. CMcaan Inter-Ocean. The leading peculiarity of Mr. Dana's sun- shlno is that ho blacks the eyes oftcuor than the boots of his party. Puck. Brother Dann disdains to crook tbo knee , and fights from the level of the head ; an un usual thing in democracy. Boston's Saloons. CMcaan Herald. How does a town the size of Boston got along with only 780 saloons ! It must fre quently mnko a good many people late nt the Boston lectures. STATE PRESS COMMENTS. The little paraginpu which has boon going the rounds of tbo state papcri that the recent rains were worth millions to the farmers , causes the Kenosaw C.vclono to remark : "Corporations water their stock nnd make millions , but it will take something else than water to get the crops in the crib. " Nebraska is coining to the front as a state of lawlessness , according to the Kearney Hub , and during the past year murder has bcon alarmingly on tbo Increase. "In these quiet days of the reign of law and.order , " nays that paper , "ono is reminded of the old frontier days , with the exception that then the murderer ran nt largo instead of ns how being arraigned and turned loose or Having a mild punishment visited upon his devoted bead. If the state would encourage the hemp industry it might have a salutary ef fect upon felons as well as add to the agri cultural resources of the commonwealth. " Tbo Nordcn IBoroalls , published within the confines of Koya Paha county , thinks tbo advertising that section has boon receiving recently Is not very bencnclal. "There nro , " it says , "many good honest people who do not approve of the vigilantes , neither do they approve of stealing stock for a livelihood , yet there can bo no neutral ground between tbo factions. To forever settle the matter , wo suggest that a deputy United States mar shal bo appointed in Koya Paha county , with jurisdiction in tbo state of Nebraska and Dakota. The Kearney Enterprise has discovered the secret of Rot Clnrkoon's presence In the office of first assistant postmaster-general , nnd springs it on an unsuspecting public. It is simply a plot to maito Senator Allison president in 18S3 , BO tbo Enterprise says , and "tho fact that Honjamln Harrison Is presi dent and that ho gave Clarksonhis oppor tunity for public service does not enter at all Into these calculations. Men who are hun gry for the presidency , nnd others who long to bo the poWer behind the presidency , are not particular what becomes of the ladder by which they climb to place and influence. Allison is bound for the white house via Clarkson and the postofllce. " Madison county's bill for criminal trials this term of court figure well up Into the thousands , and the Norfolk News announces that "about the only result will bo to land ono poor devil , who had very few frlonas , In the pen. It will not bo any wonder if tax payers in tbo future have a very poor opin ion of tbo efficacy of courts and juries to pun ish crime. " . IN ANOLD'CHURCHYARD. Chamber * ' Journal. In one of England's sweetest spots , A little old cray church I found ; Around It lies dear restful ground God's garden with its sacred plots. With myriad arms the Ivy holds Its tlmo-wom walls In close amuruco , So Memory nometlmcs keeps a face Half-veiled in tender misty folds. With sleepy twitter nnd with song Tbo tower , bird-haunted , is alive ; In leafy nous they din and dive , hose tiny warblers all day long. Like sentinels grown hoar with n n , DThucrumbllngbcadstonos ( Aianl the ( jravca That softly owoll green voiceless waves , That will not break though tempests rage. "Concerning them that are aslpop" In this sweet , hamlet of the dead , In broken ( ontcncos I read The record those old tablets Hoop ; Each told Us tale , for hatb not Urlof A voice whoso echoes never diet ' Adowu the ages , Kachel'a cry , Still rings o'er some God-gurncredsuoaf , MIne eyes , ne'er prodigal of tears , Did 1111 with such ns noemud to rlso And drown the glory of the nkics. O'er tbosu who'd alopt two hundred yo.ira. AS OTHERS SEE US. . Not an Ordinary Cleric. t'liteaiio Time * . An Omaha botql clerk has just committed suicide ou account of a love nITuIr. This U tbo only instance of the kind on rccoul. The American hotel cleric as a rule falls in love with himself lit an early ago and there Is no evidence to show that ho ban ever proved false or flclclo in utter Ufa , Tlio Omaha hotel clerk must liuvn been acting as n nib or elao the hotel was not conducted In metropolitan stylo. i\n Ovation to Our filll. Kanta Cllu Jmtrnal. Colonel IJuffulo Hill Cody Is having great success with his wild west show in I'urJx. When the initial performance was given tbo othotiday all the noted Parisians who had received complimentary tickets were present. Colonel Cody Is said to have received his guests with easy urbanity , and the Frenchmen - men treated him with the respect ( hie so renowned - nowned n fighter , who had his revolvers and bowloknlfo with him. Slothful Citizens. Kearney Enterprtte. The fact that Omaha turnodout only about 1,800 voters on tbo occasion of an important special election concerning the expenditure of a largo amount of publio money Is not at nil creditable to the people of that great city , It would not bo dlfllcult for a nmall contln tlngcnt of bums nnd b'oclors to control elec tions in the Interest of rank corruption If this is a fair sample of tbo spirit of Omaha pooplo. The bad men can always bo depend ed to look after tholr Interests whether the good citizens turn out or stay at homo. A "Prohibition" Sunday. Sioux City Jbtinml. Council Blufis has a boom every Sunday. Once u week it saps the vitals ot Omaha. Bill Simula Alono. CTiicflffo Tribune. Fanny Davenport has married again , Mrs. Lnngtry talks of leaving the stage , Hobson nnd Crane hnvo dissolved partnership , Edwin Booth lias Just recovered from a serious ill ness , and other nctors and actresses of note have mot with unusual vicissitudes of fortune recently. Almost the only eminent genius of the histrionic stngo , In fact , who keeps the oven tenor ol his way is the Hon. Bill Cody. * COUNTRY BREEZES. A Fragmentary Romance. Setrcmt Democrat * Wo noticed a young innn uass through town the other day at a rate that meant dan- Kcr to the many foot nassongors on our thor oughfares , nnd ono of Kuby's ' hellos seated by his side. Wo noticed the old man and woman after them in a wagon , but whether they overtook them or not wo did not learn Cnrlll nnd Mary. Genoa IlcinMtcan. As wo stood on Court street , yesterday , chewing n toothpick , a couple of handsome young Bohemians , named Corlll Bornasck nnd Mary Andol , respectively , lavishly deco rated with roses and pink ribbon , swept past , closely followed by a more elderly pair on their way to Judge Connnt's ofllco. We fol lowed the example of other gentlemen nnd our natujal Inclinations and folio wed the fair young couplo. llio Judea Is getting the bus ! ness down pat and the old mill ground out a ceremony that made two souls unite as ono to begin the voyage of lifo full partners in the btrlfc , to shard equally the weal and woo that Is inevitable and unavoidable on this mun dane sphere. Kisses a la Onion. Kcarneu County Democrat. Onion parties are fashionable in Ne braska , Six girls stand In a row , while ono bites a small chunk out of an onion and a young man pays 10 cents for a guess as to which ono it was. If bo guesses right ho cots to kiss the other fl ve , but if ho doesn't bo Is only allowed to kiss the ono with the onion-scented bfcath. This nmnsomcnt is said to. bo highly popular with Nebraska young folks. folks.A A Nebraska Zephyr. CMmncv Hock Transcript. Last Friday afternoon In company with Charley Bartow wo sot out to Interview some of the Conner folks , und after wo crossed the river wo noticed something was the matter with the school house , and riding up to it found that the wind had torn about two- thirds of tlio roof completely oft , and even broken the rafters-so some of the pieces were only about a foot long , and _ toro down the south gable cnfd , " tifrowing the ' 'brick in the house upon the floor , leaving tbo north end of the roof and chimney standing , and It also blow some of the shingles off of the couuty clerks ofllco. Eau said ho thought the whole roof was going. YVouiidrd a Mother's Pride. Inmciti Review. How Is It ? She came bouncing through the the sanctum door llko cannon ball , and without pausing to say "How.d'yo do } " she brought her umbrella down on the table with a mighty crash , and shouted : "I want to . " you atop my paper. / "All right , madam. " "Stop it right now , too , " she persisted , wncklng tbo table again , and making the cold chills run up our back , "for I waited long enough for you to do the square thing. " Slio quieted down for a few minutes , as wo ran our finger down the list of names , nnd. when wo had reached liar's and scratched it out , she said : "Thoro r now mobby you'll do as you'd ought to after this , and not slight a woman Jos' 'causa she's poor. If some rich , folks happen to have a little red-headed , bandy-legged , squint-eyca , wheezy squealer born to thorn , you puT ( It to the skies nnd make It out an angel ; but when poor people have n baby born you don't say a word about It , oven if it's the squareit-toed , blackust-balred , blggest-hoaded , nobbiest little kid that ever kept n woman awuko nights. That's what's the matter with mo , nnd that's why I stopped my paper , " and she dashed out as rapidly ns she came , leav ing us under the conviction that wo wouUl rather have the whole Frontier ofllue , com prising the editor and devil , down hero on us than to have her return. A Colonrl'H Heroism. Stilton jlilof i User. Pont Sodorbcrg stood in front of his art gallery and saw a runaway team dashing wildly down Sounders avenue. A hundred men stood In awe , held their breath , "but did not stir. The Bloods dashed madly on und the old dray at their heels rattlcuMIko a hall storm. Colonel Soderherg gave ono last look at his gallery of beautiful pictures , waived a loving adieu toward his home on tlio hill , an J with ono swift leap ho lamlbd In thut dray , seized the slackened rolns , yanked the truant bronchos Into n comma , then n semicolon , then a full atop , nnun the ulnudlts of an ad miring crowd of spuctolors , A/jrondorfoot's lilou of Heroism. Viannnt Tribune , The editor of the Koirnuy Enterprise Is but a tenderfeet in this section , but ho does aumlro Nebraska pluck and sand. A news boy who sells the enterprise In Hustings was rudely ordered out of u business house the other day , but In going ho kept tils back to the door while ho covered the proprietor with a gun. This so charmed the Enterprise that It lias dubbed the boy a hero and will send him a suit of clothes. This Is liable to re sult In u carnival of crime. Other news boys who soil that paper will probably go about shooting people who rofmu to buy It with the hope of drou-lnK u' ( told } Vitoh fur every pelt. Hint. l Wo received a complimentary from PreiU dcmv FOBS , of the Crotn Cliautuuqua ussom- ' by ! , In Jnnu and July , for editor nrd wife. If the inducement of going to the 'Jhatituu. qua , will move any fair danmol to ndopt the ubovti title , our tlmnlis will bo ten-over duo , Mr. IToss , _ A Hrimnllininl Krror. Jfeanuy Hull. An editorial paragraph In yesterday's Hub with rufuroncn to corruption In the Lincoln city council created oomothlng of a local on- saUon , all bcnaure the wicked comixiiltur . dropped tlto wordj lncoln before "city couiij j ell. " The Kearney city MJiioll Is all right Fortifications havn been tbrawn uji around the editorial sanctum , and tlio ofUM i * ta ft state of THE PEOPLE WHO THINK. Incidentally in nn nnnl.vsl * of tlio conduct of Insurance companies In the Juno Forilm , Mr. Adolbort Ilnmllton contrast ! ) the econ omy niul ofllcloney of the public scrvlco with the economy and cftlclotiry of prlvnto bust * ricss , nnd draws the conclusion thiit there li less waste In public business. Ho maintain ! that In private , not in public enterprises nro found the greater amount and degree of wasteIlnoftlclcncy and corruption ) and of this truth Insurance furnishes signal proof. The frauds and failures of private buslnox * must bo considered as well as the corruption and Jobbery of tjovcrnmouis. There wore at tbo close of 1SS7 , In the hands of receivers , 103 insurance companies In the Uriltod State * | and CSO companies fatiod or retired In about fifty year * . Of tho8S3llfo Insurance coin- panics organized In the Unltod States only forty-seven are yet alive. About four thous and abortive or Insolvent Insurance concern * can bo counted slnco the beginning of the business In this country. Eight hundred assessment organizations have collected dues from'their members and loft them In the lurch. This Is the record of "private enterprises" in Insurance In the United States. Who , ho' asks , canrcstlmato the frauds and losses be hind itt And ho addst "Our government history will bo searched In vain to flnd In the management of public schools , water works , fl ro apparatus , postal service , or any other branch of government work similar to insurance In quantity and conditions , an amount of failure and fraud equal to that disclosed by the history of iusuranco alone. " The fact that such n baseless speculation as "Christian sclonco" con flnd believers shows that what Is referred to as the fancy of the multitude for theories which eave thorn trouble and minister to tholr love of the marvelous has not yet dtsappoarod from the world , says n > writer In the Popular Science Monthly for Juuo. The fascination for holding odd notions seems to bo n weak ness of the Jiunmn mind that Is hard to eradicate. Such beliefs have been pretty well driven out of chem istry , physics , zoology , nnd other fields of sclonco whloh can bo thoroughly investigated , and they romatn only In psychology and modlclno , dealing - ing with the living human or ganism , which cannot bo freely experi mented upon. Human credulity has been greatly lessened by the march of sclontlflo enlightenment , and what remains has taken on a now form. In earlier times It delighted in the supernatural , now It revels In its own false ideas of the natural. Then It trusted the revelations of self-appointed prophets , now it pins Its faith to the slip-shod reason ing of sham Investigators. Solcnco has done such wonderful things of late that a cortaln class of people , including many of excellent Judgment in other fields , has coma to bollovo any marvels put forth under its name. Hence wo have a modern class of mystery-mongers which will flourish until the spread of scien tific culture has diffused the power of ills- criminating against science and base Imita tions of science. There Is nothing in history mnro touching says the Now York Herald than the martyr dom of the Rov. J. Dnralon do Vcustcr , whoso death has been announced by tele graph. Sixteen years ago this horolo young Belgian prost landed on the rocky Island of Molokat , in tho' Hawaiian group. His honrt was filled with a profound pity for the abandoned lepers. Stories of the horrible immoralities practiced in a pestilential com * rannity , where there was no low and no religion , had reached his oars. Ho yearned to raise the cross there and preach the tender - dor message of Christianity to tlio ransomloss captives of leprosy. " Father Damlon know that certain death n waited him. Ho knew that his comely body would bo polluted by the most dreadful disease known to man. But ho went to his post with a sinllo on his face and sweet words on his lips. Ho found a damned company t wailing In the utter most depths of physical and moral degradation. Distinctions of ago and sex were obliterated. Gaunt misery stalked among thl > dying wretches. There homes were fit only for wild beasts. With the advent of the priest order was brought out of chaos. Soon the hush of piety suc ceeded the savage ravels of the hopeless and friendly lepers. Llttlo whitewashed cottages arose. Pretty gardens began to bloom. Christian hymns trembled up from the lost men and women. The peace of consolation brooded over the island. Who shall say what the kind ministrations of Damien were to the hundreds of ostracized human beings in far away Molokai or with what holy devo tion ho soothed the dying hours of strangers ? At last the good man wns marked by the inevitable brand of nature. Ho was a leper too to bo shunuod by all on earth save those around him. Slowly ho perished , doing what hi ] could to case and comfort his flock wbilo yet , ho was yet alivo. Su ch an example ought to silence the man who cries out against the nineteenth century. No ago and no race hat produced a more supreme typo of unsolllst heroism. Canonization can add nothing to the glory of Eathor Damlon. The agitation for a Rhortor workday has assumed greater proportions during the .past six months. than over before , says T. V. Powdorly's panor , the Journal of United Labor , nnd the question is being dally dis cussed from pulpit and rostrum by profess * ors , students , and tbo workers thomsolvos. The newspapers are aovottng columns to its consideration , and a knowledge of matters industrial Is boiug thus diffused among tbo people much more rapidly than at any pre vious period in the history of the labor movement in America. One result of this agitation Is seeu In the recent passage of an eight-hour law by the legislature of Indiana. Hut statute laws will never bring about a shortor'workday. The courts of nearly all States have repeatedly declared any law unconstitutional - constitutional which interfered with the right of Individual contract , nnd Indiana's enactment can only bo miylo applicable to employes of the commonwealth. Labor will never secure shorter hours until she bos her- sol'devised a practical plan for putting the scliomo Into operation without injury to the employer or the vast multitudes * of workers. How this ls to bo accomplished with the least amount of friction is the problem of tbo hour. Publlo sentiment in to-day with the workers In their demand for more time to rest , recreation , and intellectual development and less hours of unceasing toll ; but , to retain that sympathy and accompanying Influence , organized labor must bo careful to take no stop not war * runted by justice , ana especially must euro bo taken to avoid the commission of any wrongful nets. Many of those who are just now discussing this question from the stand- > olnt of the employer of labor cither willfully - fully or iKiiorantly mil-state the position of organized labor by assuming that a demand l urblttarlly madu for eight hours' work and ton houri * ' pay , This Is not true. The wage question is one of secondary consideration entirely. What la bolug sought now is the universal acknowledgment of eight hours us u day's work in all departments of pro ductive Industry. "With the nut-plus labor In employment wages wjll taku care of them- oolvo- * . When labor is scarce the tendency of wage * U always upward , but with ten men Inaktag for every vacant position it la ea y to ici ) it at only perfect organization und almost superhuman effort con maintain even ttio pronent rate. Styllih spring suits uro made up in India bined with velvet sr molr * .