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view of the approaching county con- railway. Mr. Slaughter became receiver
vention. The News says: "The per- for the street railway company at a
nicioug activity of the Harrison admin- particularly critical time; the company's
istration will not be in it after Septem- business was seriously cmbarassed, and
ber 4th, the day of the straight dem- the general business condition was such
ocratic count convention in this city, as to make it exceedingly difficult to
The postoffices all over the county, ex- conduct the railway system on anything
cept the one in Lincoln, will bo repre- like a payiug basis. Mr. Slaughter has
sented. All of the gentlemen who hold hud somo experience in tackling tough
down jobs in the federal building with jobs be has been chief clerk of the
the exception of the postmaster will be house of representatives and he assum-
there. The United States district at- ed the position of receiver with a deter-
torney, the receivers of national banks, ruination to do the best he could. He
find it far from easy to overcome. The
treatment accorded Prof. Saylor in this
city is in marked and favorable contrast
to that given Prof. Peareo in O.naha.
Superintendent Pearse has a champion
in the Woman's Weekly. That patrcr
Bays: "It is a pity that Mr. Pearse will
bo handicapped by such unjust, baseless
criticism, not to call it downright
ruffianism, to greet a newcomer to
our city the way this gentleman has
been. The facts are that he applied
for a position of honor, satisfied those
elected to determine these things, and
was employed. A man should be judg
ed by his work, and not by the size of
the town in which he happens to be
employed. Young Americans are look
ing for an opportunity to show dis
respect, and should be discouraged in all
such foolishness and taught that a man
in authority is entitled to have respect
shown him until he has been discharged
or found to be incompetent. It is said,
moreover, thct the man who is responsi
ble for all these attacks, came from a
town of about two hundred near Prague
in Bohemia."
If Mr. Pearse is the man he ought to
be he will not be disturbed by the con
temptiblo assaults of the Rosewater.
To be abused by the Bee is to be placed
in honorable company, along with a
large number of the best people in the
state.
The new superintendent of schools in
this city. Prof. Saylor, is a quiet, non
assertive gentleman; and his conserva
tive qualitiss augur well for the success
of his superintendeiicy. Under existing
conditions I don't believe any man, how
ever efficient or diplomatic, could hold
this position any considerable length of
time; but Prof. Saylor has as favorable
a prospect as any man could have, and if
he is as cautious as he appears to be he
may continue to draw pay from the
school district for several years. Prof.
Saylor is hardly the man to follow a cer
tain precedent and begin his career by
a policy of open antagonism to mem
bers of the board of education; and if
he io specially desirous of avoiding trou
ble he will not make radical and sudden
changes in the system of instruction.
Mr. Rosewater, the afflicted editor of
the Omaha Bee, stopped in his career
of vituperation and vice the other day
long enough to make an incidental at
tack on S. P. Morse and send into bank
ruptcy the largest retail dry goods store
in Nebrasku. How long will this mani
acal incarnation of brutality be allowed
to continue on his way of destruction?
Ib it not possible for the Rosewater
ridden people of Nebraska to destroy
the remaining vestiges of this vandal's
power, and place Mr. Rosewater and the
Bee where they rightly belong in the
mausoleum of the wicked? The work
has already commenced. May it be
pushed to a speedy completion.
There is nothing of the humorous,
but much that is earnest and pathetic
in Samuel L. Clemens' (Mark Twain's)
personal statement of the 6nancial
difficulties in which, at a somewhat ad
vanced age, be finds himself, and of his a decided leaning toward the shimmer
manly aims. Mr. Clemens says: "It ing cause of Bryanism exploited at the
has been reported that I sacrificed, for free silver state convention held in
the benefit of the creditors, the property Omaha this week, does not take this
of the publishing firm whose financial
backer I was, and that I am now lectur
ing for my own benefit. This is an
error. J intend the lectures, as well as
the property, for the ci editors. The
law recognizes no mortgage on a man's
brain, and a merchant who has given up
all he has may take advantage of the
rules of insolvency and start free again
for himself; but I am not a business
man, and honor is a harder master than
tho law. It cannot compromise for less
than 100 cents on the dollar and its
debts never outlaw. I had a two-thirds
interest in the publishing firm whose
capital I furnished. If the firm had
prospered I should have expected to
collect two-thirds of tho profits. As it
is, I expect to pay all the debts. My
partner has no resources, and I do not
look for assistance from him. By far
the largest single creditor of this firm is
my wife, whose contributions
in cash from her private means
have nearly equalled the claims
of all the others combined. In
satisfaction of this great and just
claim she has taken nothing, except to
avail herself of the opportunity of re
taining control of tho copyrights of my
books, which for many easily understood
reasonr, of which financial ones are the
least, we do not desire to see in the
hands of strangers. The presect situa
tion is that the wreckage of the firm,
together with what money I can scrape
together with my wife's aid, will enable
me to pay the other creditors about 50
per cent of their claims. It is ray in
tention to ask them to accept that as a
legal discharge and trust to my honor
to fay the other 50 per cent as fast as I
can earn it. From my reception thus
far on my lecturing tour, I am confident
that if I live I can pay oft the last debt
within four years, after which, at the
age of sixty-four, I can make a fresh
and unencumbered start in life. I do
not enjoy the hard travel and broken
rest, inseparable from lecturing and if it
had not been for the imperious moral
necessity of paying these debts, which I
never contracted, but which were ac
cumulated on the faith of my name by
those who had a presumptive right to
U6e it, I should never have taken to the
road at my time of life. I could have
supported myself comfortably by writ
ing; but writing is too slow for the de
mands I have to meet, therefore I have
begun to lecture my way around the
world. I am going to Australia, India
and south Africa, and next year I hope
to make a tour of the great cities of the
United States. In my preliminary run
through the smaller Cities on the north
ern route I have found a reception
the cordiality of which has touched my
heart and made me feel how small a
thing money is in comparison with
friendship,'
The administration democratic county
convention, to be held in this city
September 4, is called, according to Mr.
Harwood and Mr. Hildebrand and the
rest of the clan, from a high sense of
political duty; it is called, these gentle
men say, for the purpose of asserting a
principle and condemning demo-pop
fads and fallacies. The Neics which
has occasional demo-pop symptoms and
the deputy United States marshal, the
bailiff of the federal court, the custodian
of the government building an'1 pos
sibly a few others. The postoffice at
some rural suburb will move a reso
lution endorsing the wise and beneficent
has bad the same success that has
always attended his efforts. It used to
be a pleasure to find fat'lt with the
street car service. It is now equally
gratifying to commend it. The public
and the newspapers have given Mr.
financial policy of the administration Slaughter's management unstinted
and re-affirming the meaningless finan- praise; and it has been deserved. In
cial plank of the democratic platform the hands of the receiver the company
of 1892, and every federal salary grabber is making the best showing it has yet
present will rise up on his hind feet and
roar with exultation in exaltation and
adulation. This convention can hardly
be expected to nominate a county
ticket, because most of the men in it
will already be federal office holders and
disqualified for county office holding."
Now Mr. Harwood and Hr. Hilde
brand and a dozen others I might name
are not salary grabbers. There isn't
any salary for them to grab. They are
plain, inoffensive citizens, and they
maintain that they have a right to get
together and have some fun independent
of all the pop parties on earth, and in
the interest of public amusement their
enterprise should be encouraged.
Brad Slaughter, in the various more
or less public positions he has held in
this state in recent years, has managed
to so conduct himself as to win public
approval. Before coming to Lincoln he
had given evidence of unusual business
sagacity and versatility; but having
been actively identified with politics he
was regarded as a politician, and there
was some doubt whether a politician
could successfully manage as large and
important an enterprise as the street
made; the business is being done more
economically and effectively than ever
before, and many welcome improve
ments have been made. It would be a
good thing for the company and its
creditors, and a good thing for the
public if Mr. Slaughter could be con
tinued in charge indefinitely.
The Civic Federation, to go back into
ancient history, was bo soon done for
that many marvel what it was begun
for.
DAY DREAMS.
Thro' realms of fairest fancy,
"Neath Hope's eternal ray.
To the golden sand of day dreamland
From this world I oft times stray:
And the longings rife of this tossing life
My being cease to sway.
For I move whero the skies are clearer
And lovo is the ruling str ;
While sweet Content to my heart is sent,
And the gates of Peace unbar.
As on spjrklingseas to that land of ease
I tlrift in my dreams afar.
O dreams of my idle moments !
O dreams of my idle hours!
In the gan'en of life, 'mid toil and strife.
You gladden my heart like the fragrant
flowers ;
And your promise bright is a beacon light
When the storm of Fate dark lowers.
Thomas A. Fardon.
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