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the pasture. They go there to express themselves In need of a stimulant and
their sovereignity. Nay, nay, they
are driven by a small part of a party
which knows how to drive the multi
tude to attain their own particular
and private ends. "
their final state is seven times worse
than their aboriginal condition
The theory of heredity receives some
severe shocks every now and then.
Last week a little boy died in New
The mayor's action in dismissing York city. His name was Alexander
Chief of Tolice Melick is commended C. Howard, his father is a, Kliceman
of bovine temperament, his mother, a
good woman with no more intellectual
characteristics than the father. Yet
the boy had the head of a Huni-
hy all the decent icople of the city.
Added to the reputation which Mr.
Melick acquired during and before
the Sheedy trial, and which should
have made him ineligible to office boldt and an intellect that corres
forever after, are the current rumours ponded in quality to the size and
touching Mr. Melick's very friendly shape of the cranium. What other
relations with the gamblers of the children labor to acquire the young
city. Such rumours are prejudicial Alexander conquered by a single effort
to thecity administration as a whole of the mind. He was witty and sen
and it is very wise to cut off sitive. His imagination was lightly
the offending member csjecially poised and took wing at the sugges
on the approach of an election tion of poetry, music, or nature,
in. which various charges against the Without any trace of intellectual an
administration will be made, and if cestry, this !oy with a Daniel Web
possible proved. ster head would, if he had lived, have
It has been observed by students of conquered a new world in music or
human nature that in times of de- mathematics. The theosophists have
pression games of chance are more the only theory capable of explaining
popular than in times of plenty, such phenomena. Annie Bessant
Desperation drives men to risk all of would say that the minds of geniuses
the little that remains to them. After are in the air and sometimes go into
the hard times really set in, banks IkkMcs that are not made for them,
and dry goods stores, grocerys and fur- So far back as the policeman and his
niture emporiums went to pieces as wife have any record there are honest
soon as their largest debts became artisans and hard-working house
due. Butthevariousformsof gambling wives. There is no account of any
prospered and as times got worse more creative intellect.
were established. To discourage this j
tendency of human nature by sup- The resignation of Mr. Ilarwocd
pressing the gambling rooms and thus from the Frst National tank of this
make it difficult to gratify the tastes city, although it means to the bank
strengthened by misfortune, requires the loss of a president who has di
an alert moral industry which Mr rected its policy in times when a false
Melick's biography does not indicate move would mean ruin to a weaker
that he possesses. For which reasons institution, is good news to Mr. Har
the mayor's decision as to Mr. Melick's wood's personal friends. The strain
unfitness for the place he occupies, is of the jiast three years has turned
surely sound. young bankers into old men and vigor
J into fatigue. If Mr. Harwood were
Sam Jones' financial success has writing his biography, after relating
created a school. His ritald bar- with pleasure his cxtwrfences in the
angues are copied by men like Sunday law he might say: ''After that I was
and Beals who lack Sam Jones' origin- in the banking business for about
ality in pulpit profanity. As a law- fifty years. Then I went to Europe
yer nobody ever heard of Jones. There and again I enjoyed my book, my
came a time when, tired of obscurity, friends and the face of nature. The
he reflected upon the profession fruit of the vine was a pleasant thing
in which his fluent command and the sun shone to bless and not to
of Billingsgate would be of curse."
use. The preacher's calling has Mr. John M. Carson, the new presi
tlie advantage of- a reverence le- dent of the bank, is an old banker,
stowed on all who choose (few are Though prevented by lamene:s from
chosen) to preach. Sam Jones craved an active life, his judgment is sound
an influence and fame which his legal and his experience tits him for the
practicehadnotand never wouldsecuie office he will assume the first ofSep
him. Lawyers make their own careers, tember. Mr. D. D. Muir, who returns
The profession itself has no tradi- to Lincoln from Denver, to assume
tional and partly superficial reverence the real management of the bank in
to bestow on those who practice it. which he was emploved for 10 vears-
There are those who have left it for
the ministry and proved by their un
selfish lives the genuineness of their
conversion and their ability to help
is a born tanker. Added to a long ex,
perience, in which he has gained the
respect and confidence of all who have
done business, with him, Mr. Muir
mankind. Sam Jones' sky-rockets, has an intuitive knowledge of finance,
which are sent off for a large per cent which, except, to the man whose brain
tf the gate receipts, amuse and some- cells are created for this speci tic pur
times disgust. There are few recorded pose, is an intricate maze. With an
instances of his addresses awakening integrity unblemished lie will return
a desire for repentance and restitu- from Denver to the friends here whose
tion. He makes an audience laugh at quality of steadfastness has been
other people, nis words do not search proved by the passage of twenty-five
the heart. When he has gone, con- years. Under his strong intelligent
gregations still want to be amused, guidance the First National bank
still want to have a humorous light will retain the prestige it has always
thrown on types which, for a hundred had.
years, has served the funny men on cTrvmcc im dappivo
the daily newspapers. The ordained OlUKlcS) ll rAbbllNCj.
preacher who needs 52 new sermons to It was one day several years ago
carry him through the year, which is when the elevator in the Burr block
.just twice as many as Sam Jones' had "died" with the cables motion
whole repertoire, seems a common- less and the car suspended midway bo
place, good little man, but tiresome tween the fourth and fifth floors: and
withal, to the congregation which has until the engineer of . the building
been listening with amused abandon could be found the elevator-boy was
to am Jones' goat, old maid, mother- entertaining the passengers,
in-law, bathing suit, stove pipe and "This thing hasn't happened since
bald head Jokes. In the end the home last May," he said, leaning against
.preacher's influence is interrupted the crank-handle and giving a little
.vnd lessened, Sam Jones' converts find tug to his red checked tie, "but there
was thunder to pay that time. Had a
couple of cops in the car chasing a
diamond thief, the elevator stuck,and
it was two hours before we budged.
It was like this. I was coming down
and had just reached floor 2 when I
heard a yell. I looked down the hall
way and there was a chap in a slouch
hat and black suitrunning toward me.
He had come up from the west en
trance (it opens on Twelfth, you
know). Well, he had run up there
and seeing me going down gave that
call. I gave the machine a jerk and
backed her up a little and the man
tumbled in, pulling and blowing but
pale as a damp rag.
"'Quick, man, quick down!' lie
cried hoarsely. I thought lie was sick
and opened the crank wide and let the
car drop like a ball of lead.
"Just as he hurried out at the
ground floor a woman came up tlie
steps. She was tall and iiad on a
black skirt and a shirt waist with
blue strijes and was cool and calm.
The eyes of the two met a moment
and she bowed while he let her imss
into the elevator. Just then there
came two sharp, short rings, from the
second floor, and I started up again.
That bell was jerking away in quick
little rings, like the barks of an angry
dog, and there at the door of the land
ing was a cop, breathless and red in
the face and punching the bell with j
his thumb.
"'Seen anything of a little man in
a black suit?' cried the policeman, as
soon as my head was level with the
landing.
'Just took him down.' 1 said.
" 'Then take me down!
"The cop rushed in. brushing by
the lady in the shirt waist who passed
out and stood in the hall uncertainly.
And, as I thought afterwards, she was
a trifle pale about the lips.
"1 took the cop down and there he
was met by another who had come
from across the street. The second
lointed up the little stairway that
runs along the east side of the eleva
tor shaft to the second floor (you
know it. the one that opens through
the little door on the right). Then
the two cops started singly up that
little stairway just as a ring came
from floor 2. I ran up there and found
the calm lady in the blue shirt waist.
She entered the car hastily and then
looked tack just as I closed the door.
My eyes followed and I saw the tails
of a black coat disappearing down the
west entrance to Twelfth street. Then
I turned to the lady again and there
in her hands she held a little package
like a jewelry case tied in tissue paiwr
badly crumbled and torn from hasty
wrapping.
"At the ground floor she left the
elevator and walked rapidly down O
street. 1 stcpied to the sidewalk a
moment and saw her gaze eagerly up
Twelfth street. Then the . bell on
floor 2 rang again and I found the two
cops there, red and excited and angry.
" 'Taken down that chap in black.'
" 'Nope.'
" 'The devil you haven't.5
"Then I took them down and the
car stuck for two hours and when we
got down the newsboys were crying
the evening papers with big accounts
of the great , but the
cable's moving. Old Bill's got her
going pretty quick this time. Floor
five!''
They were both about eight years of
age one with dark hair and large
brown eyes, the other fair with golden
hair and eyes of blue and they were
racing down the pavement on their
wheels while a group of boys of the
same age were watching at the
corner.
"Go it, Marian."
"Harder, Helen, harder."
The cries came excitedly from the
little admirers as" the girls' wheels
sped on abreast. Then as they, neared
the corner, the higher gear of the one
wheel began to tell and the blonde
crossed the line a length ahead, her
cheeks flushed and her hair waving
out in the breeze.
"Three cheers for Marian," cried
the boys admiringly at the corner.
The dark one heard and her eyes be.
pan to fill with tears and her breast to
heave tumultuously, and she wheeled
to the opposite side of the street with
her head turned away. Then from
the group of boys a small voice cried
out:
"Three kisses for Helen."
The girl heard. A blush crept over
her face and she sped faster up the
pavement, but her tears were dried
and there was a smile upon her lips.
Continued on third page.
ill PUT YOU OFF IT BUFFALO.-
When you arrive there on your
trip over the
Great
Rock Island
Route.
To attend the 31st national encampment
y OF TIE
Aug. 23,1867.
Remember the Rock Island runs a
through train leaving Omaha, August
There will ba no change of cars nor
transfer between depots in Chicago. The
train goe3 through on fast time and you
will have a
Quick Tw'P to Buffalo.
Tha rate is low and you should post
yourself. The cool atmosphere around
Niagara Falls will invigorate you. Don't
miss the trip. Get details from any
Rock Island agent, or address as below:
C. A. Rutherford, G. A. P. D., Omaha,
Neb; or Phil. Rupp, T. P. A., Chicago;
John Sebastian. G.P. A., Chicago.
Fast 1ime,
Tlirough. Cars
To Omaha, Chicago, and points in
Iowa and Illinois, the UNION PACIFIC
in connection with the C. fc N. W. Ry.
offers the best service and the fastest
time. Call or write to me for time cards
rates etc. E. B. Slosson,
Gen. .Agent.
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