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Some of the Chinese laundries in the
city are worse places than the saloons
or gambling rooms. The Coukiek is
informed that the practice of opium
. smok-ing is growing among the youth,
it is the custom of the proprietor of
ah opium dive to give the tyro opium
enough for the first attempts until
the habit is formed. Then it costs
sixty-five cents for a dose, or smoke,
enough to put the average victim
asleep. Youths from good familes
frequent these places and form a habit
more destructive to the morals and
health than liquor can induce. The
fascinations of opium smoking to
overcome the repugnance which most
Americans feci to the dirt and smell
of a Chinese laund y are powerful.
Police surveillance hould make such
dens impossible. On the contrary
their number and the numberof their
customers is increasing daily.
The passingof William Ewart Glad
stone is watched by the six continents
of the globe wiih a greater interest
than the death of any other individual
would cause. He 'has been English
history far more than Queen Victoria,
and English history is of greater
meaning to the world than that of
any other nation. His character is of
childlike purity and directness. Like
Emerson, he changes his opinions with
the expansion of his vision and the
growth of his mind. He has never been
controlled by the expression of what
he thought yesterday unless it corre
sponds with the revelation of today.
Such a man would of course make ene
mies of all party' men who acknowl
edge no creed but party expediency,
From his entry into public life to the
present time he has kept his con
science and mind open to inspiration.
He has kept the faith and fought a
good fight and the world is better for
him. The telegrams say that he is
tired and wants to lay down a burden
that no one in this generation has
carried sobuovantly.
The current number of Harper's
Magazine contains an illustrated ar
ticle on hunting the African buffalo.
The frontispiece is a picture of the
dignified fierce beast at bay in the tall
grasses where he was born. The de
scription of the hunt is given the
first pages of the magazine, thus
conveying the publisher's estimate
of its relative value. A series
of six photographs, taken by the
valiant hunter, with a revolver whose
calibre he describes as 30-30, in one
hand, and a camera in the other, rep
resent the much nobler animal in his
death agony. In the first, he has
sunken to his knees, the second, third,
fourth and fifth show his brave de
fiance of an armed enemy, and his
pitiable agony and in the sixth and
last, the fine head rests upon the
ground. The author relates that if he
hacLbeen somewhat quicker with his
camera he could have shown us a pic
ture of tlfe beast spouting blood
through his nostrils and mouth several
feet into the air. Are we Spaniards
that we must le amused by pic
tures of the death agonies of an her
bivorous wild beast? The Harpers
heretofore have stood for what was
best in magazine literature. This de
parture is just as bad as the worst that
the yellow journals have ever done.
The latter's pictures of tortured men
and animals, freaks of nature and un
natural monsters of .ill kinds arc
printed on cheap paper in lurid tints
and have all the marks of degeneracy
and vulgarity. Jn the case under dis
cussion the publishers have given the
author unmistakable signs of ap
proval and distinction. The stories and
essays which follow are of the unex
ceptionable character established by
the publishers in more than half a cen
tury's editions.
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Deadwood has arrested its chief of
police under a charge of not enforcing
the liquor law. A number of saloon
keepers are also under arrest charged
with willfully keeping the windows
and doors of their places of business
obstructed by screens, blinds and
paint, and allowing games of cards
and dice and other games of skill and
chance, whereon money and other
things are usually wagered to bo
played in the room and for allowing
tables, chairs and seats in the apart
ments in which liquors are sold. For
some time the war against gambling
has been going on and it is alleged
that the chief of police made no com
plaint against those who were violat
ing the law. A few years ago Dead
wood was no better than Lincoln, but
public sentiment is certainly enlight
ened when it refuses to allow the chief
of police to enjoy his customary per
quisites from the gamblers.
Once in about ten years a period of
reform arrives, as quietly, but as in
disputably as the new year, arid every
body begins to take such an interest in
politics that it is very difficult for the
politician in office to collect what he
considers his legitimate fees. Such an
era put Boss Tweed in the peniten
tiary. Such an era is making life
difficult for Mayor Graham in Lincoln
now and it is hoped that before the
interest in the movement is ex
hausted, officers will be elected who
are capable of administering the affairs
of the city of Lincoln with intelli
gence and integrity. With the excep
tion of a few ward nominees the city
republican ticket contains types of
the most capable and trustworthy
manhood in the city. A year ago
Frank Graham was elected mayor.
Today so far has public sentiment
progressed, that such a man's candi
dacy would not be considered at
all. Finley of the first ward is a rem
nant of the saloon rule, but there is
great hope that the popularity of his
opponent, Bob Malone. together with
his own unfitness for a representative
position, may defeat him. In the
present incomplete and undecided
condition of the water works system
here, it is especially important to
elect good councilmen from all the
wards and as good aswecan get from
the first. In any event the republican
ticket if elected even with the one or
two not irreproachable ward candi
dates will insure good administration
of the police and fire departments, the
city's legal business, the city's schools
and a majority of good men in the
council.
One or the most satisfactory results
of the discussion and study of any
subject is its ultimate reduction to
simplest scientific principles. The
study of agriculture will change the
farm drudges into sciet tific students
of soil, stock and farm products. In
stead of laboring with his hands alone
from dawn to early bed time, the
farmer will workon his farm as a chem
ist in his laboratory, experimenting
and recording and comparing results.
The same process of substitution of
thought for drudgery is going on in
housework. Housewives are learning
how to secure the best results with
an economic outlay of money and
labor. The intellectual stimulus of
solving the problems of housekeeping
and rearing chidren according to the
inductive method is making of the
female drudge a student bent upon
learning natural laws and taking the
utmost advantage of them for herself
and her household. To be sure there
were notable housewives long before
housekeeping was studied as a science,
but for the woman without inspiration
there was no help. Her men folks
came home to poorly cooked meals on
an untidy table and left her with not
always silent reproaches. To such
women the study of household eco
nomics has been an encouragment and
an education. And there: are many
who were ready to believe'that they
could not cook or keep house well be
cause, things had always "gone con -trairy"with
them and they lacked in
stinctive knowledge of how to provide
a comfortable home and an appetizing
menu on a small income: Mrs. Kod
gers in the San Francisco Examiner
relates an experience of several
months. She says:
"Most women that do their own
cooking, with knowledge of kitchen