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Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-18

That said lots and pieces of ground so bound.
ing and ahutting upon said Cass street so grad.
cd being thus specially taxed and assessed in pro.
portion to the feet front of said lots and pieces
OF ground upon said Cass street so graded, and
the said aggregate sum Of 81, 405. 81, being an
half OF the expense and cost OF bringing said rass
street In the city OF Omaha from 18th street TO
2Ith street Omaha street in Sweesey's addition)
In the city OF Omaha, TO the now established
grade.
SIC. ?. The said special taxes and assessments
herein levied are hereby made payable to the
city treasurer OF Omaha, thirty 800 days from
the date and p ssage of this ordinance.
SEC 3. This ordnance shall take effect and be
in force from anu after its passage.
Attest: IHoS. II. DALEY,
Prcst City Council.
J. J. /. c. JEwETT,
City Clerk,
Passed Aug. 9th, 1881.
Approved Aug. 18th, 1851.
j. T.. BOYD,
Mayor.
The above tax becomes delinquent on the 18th
day OF September, 1881, after which date ten per
cent, penalty and interest at the rate of one per
cent. per month, payable in advance, viii be
added. S. q. MALLETrE,
aul7d5t CITY Treasurer.
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-21
A China Boy.


An old lady came from the East to Aisit me.
and my health not being good, volunteered to
take all home cares off my hands. Then came
the tug of war. First, grandma" as we called
her, came to complain that the China boy
would not obey her. When sent for All
Choon and asked what he meant by such con-
duct, he said, "You buy this house?" eyes,"
said. "Old lady no buy him?" NO" "Then
old lady no bossee. You bossee woman Old
too muchee sass" 1 explained the situation as
we'll as could in Pigeon-English, and, remem-
bering the respect paid to their parents and
elders by the Chinese, 1 reminded him of that,
and asked him how he would like to have .
"Melican" boy treat his mother as he treated
grandma. He listened to all had to say, SEEM
ing impressed by 1t, repeating many times, "El-
ka klukla me. Me no sass old lady" Shortly
after he ran over to his cousin to borrow q
phrase book, in which I found that "elka klu-
kla me" means excuse me-"
In little while grandma came back again,
crying, II do believe that China boy is swear
ing at me in Chinese now."
Again All Choon stood before me, his shin
ing, eyes dimmed with tears. "Ah Choon,"
said l, reproachfully, "you said yol would be
good to the old lady, and now she says you talk
badly in Chinese to her,
All Choon's dark face flushed, and the tears
poured down his checks. "No can dol no can
DOR he cried. no sass old lady Mclean
talkee. Old lady talkee talkee, too muchee
sass-allee time too muchee sass Lilly China
boy no cen talkee; lilly China boy no can sass
Bymby-by, lilly China boy diei"
am bound to say that my sympathies leaned
toward the lilly China boy" To grandma
counselled moderation, advising her to allow
All Cboon little latitude, and take no notice
so long as he confined himself to his mother
tongue, which from that time he did religious
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-21
Good Reading.
Frederick Harrison. i

To stuff our minds with what is simply trivial,
simply curious, or that which at best has bat a
low nutrtive power, this is to close our minds
to what is solid and enlarging and spiritually
sustaining. think the habit of read
ing wisely is one of the most difficult habits to
acquire, needing strong resolution and infinite
pains; and hold the habit OF reading for
mere readings sake, instead Of for the sake Of
the stuff we gain from reading, to be one of
the worst and commonest and most unwhole-
some habits we have. Why do we still suffer
the traditional hypocrisy about the dignity of
literature, literature 1 mean in the gross,
which includes about equal parts of what is
useful and what is useless? Why are books as
books, writers as writers, readers as readers,
mertorious and honorable, apart from any
good in them, or anything that we can get
from them? Why do we pride ourselves on
our powers Of absorbing print, as our grand
fathers did on their gifts in imbibing port
when we know that there is q mode of absorb
ing print which makes it impossible we can
ever learn anything good out of books? Our
stately Milton said in passage which is one of
the watchwords of the English race, "as good
almost kill man as kill good book" But
has he not also said that he would ''have
vigilant eye how boobes demeane themselves
as well as men, and do sharpes. justice on them
as malefactors"? Yes; they do kill the good
book who deliver up their few and precious
hours of reading to the trivial book; they
make it dead for them; they do what lies in
them to destroy "the precious life-blood Of
master spirit, embalnied and treasured up on
purpose to life beyond life;" they "spill that
seasonal life of man preserv'd and stor'd up in
bookes." For in the wilderness of books most
men, certainly all busy men, must strictly
choose. If they saturate their minds with the
idler books, the "good book" which Milton
calls "an immortality rather than a life,'' is
dead to them; it is a book sealed up and
buried
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-21

to do this, but self-preservation is the first law
of editors as we'll as of Nature. Many editors
preserve themselves so we'll that the reporters
never buy them out But editors are kind
hearted. Mr.. Dana, of the New York Sun,
once heard that horse which had been
very fast but which everybody thought
played out, was going to be sold at auction by
his master. So he sent around and bought the
poor horse for $4,000. The next summer he
put him in big race, ''just for fun," every
body said. There were great many noted
horses in this race, and men bet large
sums of money on them. Mr.. Dana's
horse only bringing 81 in $50 pools But
he won the race and all the money that
was bet. This is called "paralyzing the pool
box" So you see that the fairies are kind to
those who do good. Some good stories are told
about reporters. Once young man who had
graduated at Harvard College, and was splen-
did scholar in base ball and rowing, came to a
large Western city and hired out to be a re-
porter The next day the editor sent him to
an inquest. He came back to the office at
night with enough manuscript to make a book
The editor gave this TO an experienced repor-
ter and said: Cut that stuff down to a stick
1ul." After while he went over to where
the experienced reporter was sitting, and said
"How did the new duck manage with the in
quest?' ION" said the experienced reporter,
"he got everything-except the verdict"
And then the other reporters that were sitting
around laughed heartily, but the editor only
let drop few words of tropical warmth, and
discharged the new reporter, who was very
much surprised to see that the paper continued
to come out regularly after he had left it to its
fate. New reporters always tell everybody
that they are Journalists" but the old ones
call them deck-hands. New reporters always
think they know everything, and in some
offices it is customary to put dish of salt on
new reporters desk This is delicate way of
telling him that he is too fresh Reporters nev-
er like to hurt anybody feelings. Once an edi-
tor in Cincinnati hired reporter in Chicago TO
do some work for his paper. After while
the reporter forgot to send anything about an
important matter, which made the editor very
angry. So he sent dispatch to the reporter
saying: "You are discharged. Why did you
get left on that murder? Answer" When
the reporter read this he laughed to himself
and said: 81 wonder if that old plum thinks
he can get the best of me?' So he
wrote the longest kind of an answer,
explaining all about the matter, and closed by
saying he was glad he had been disc arged,
because he disliked to be connected W II pa
per that allowed itself to get scooped. 1t took
1.750 words to say this, and, as it was sent by
telegraph, the Cincinnati editor had pretty
big bill to pay. But it taught him never to ask
for explanations by telegraph again, and that
Chicago reporters were pretty liable to keep up
with the procession.-"Tales for the Little
Folks, by Murat Hastead."
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-21
Curious Facts.

The Frenchmanlkills himself to very large
extent No less than 149 Frenchmen commit
suicide every year. This is what we might
expect OF people struggling to remember day
by day whether they are living under king
or an emperor or one Of twr or three i-i,,,s OF
republics. The reading OF French newspapers
must also be prolific cause of suicide. The
reader is liable at almost any time to be
shocked by finding a news paragraph setting
forth some occurrence Of not more than three
days old. OF course, a Frenchman of a ner-
vous temperament would be seriously disturbed
by succession of such shocks happening with
in space of six months, and would very like
ly in his excitement seek the sure serenity OF
death. Life is hardly worth living in coun-
try where you may be dragged out of bad at
any hour in the night by excited patriots and
required to lend hand in upsetting the Coy
ernment The wonder is, not that so many
Frenchmen commit suicide, but that suicide
is not the universal practice.
One would imagine that the Danes would
very seldom kill themselves. They have
small country, the geography of which they
can master in half an hour, and they are be-
heved to be a prosperous and happy people.
exempt from revolutions and elections, and to
very great degree from daily newspapers
and malaria. Nevertheless, out of the small
population of Denmark 25S persons kill them
selves every year. The fact admits of but two
explanations neither of which will be felt TO
be fully satisfactory. We may assume that as
nation the Danes are still trying to under
stand what was the famous Schleswig- -Hol-
stein question which led 20 the war with
Prussia and Austria, and that many Of them
are thereby reduced to such state OF dis
grace that they seek refuge in death; OF, we
may suppose that the Muhlbach novels which
q few years ago devastated this country, have
been translated into Danish and are universal
ly read. These two causes would undoubtedly
be sufficient to account for any quantity Of
suicides, butit is not certain that either the
Schleswig- -Holstein question or the Muhlba III
novels engage to any marked extent the
attention of the Danes Of the present time.
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-21
No Letter for Burch.
Detroit Free Press !


A man from Branch County, this State, be-
ing in Chester City soon after Post Office was
established there, went up to the shanty one
day with intent to inquire for mail matter. A
man from Missouri was Just ahead of him, and
inquired if there was any letter there for
Zachariah Burch.
''Be you the feller?" queried the Postmas-
ter.
81 am"
Named Zachariah, are YEP"
"Yes, SIR"
TOO internal long for this country. You'd
better chop it in two"
II axed if there was a letter her here for
Zacharlah Burch,' said the Missourian with a
bad gleam in his eyes.
And heerd ye, and there amt nothing Of
the sort here"
Kinder seems to me there is"
Then l IN a liar"
The pair looked at each other for minute,
and then Burch remarked:
"Mebbe you are!''
Uncle Sans official hoped out of his den
and went for Zachariah Burch 1t was a
pretty even match for ten minutes, and then
the Postmaster got his favorite hold. Soon
after that event Burch observed:
stranger, reckon it amt no use prolong-
in this sorrowful affair.""
81 reckon not; but ye inquired for a letter
for Burch.,'
"Yes"
"'And you give it to me purity strong that
sich letter had arriv.''
''Yes, did" replied Burch, as he felt of his
lett ear to see what portion was left for future
tights, but I've bin thinkin' powerful hard in
the last ten minits, and guess the ole woman
back in Missouri has put off writin' till next
SUNDAY! Let's 60 out and take suthin' to bring
tears to our eyes"
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-21

New YORK Nation: The inaugural ad-
dress of Governor Plaisted of Maine discuss
es old subjects, but the manner in which he
treats some of them is both original and hu-
morous. He anticipates trouble from the
proposed gathering of militia of the States
at the National Capitol on the 4th of March
next" and asks whether it is possible that
the American people can contemplate it
with Indifference. He calls attention to the
fact that when Caesar crossed the Rubicon
the Roman Republic fell, and calls upon
Mr.. Garfield to "place his veto upon this
proposed courtesy" He deplores the loss
of population in Maine through emigration
to the West, says that s'one of the most eff
cient causes tending to drive citizens from
the State is the law of Imprisonment for
debt" and demands its repeal. The pro-
cess of driving citizens out he describes as
follows: Demands are cut up into small
amounts, ten or fifteen dollar notes given,
execution taken upon each, and the debtor
is pursued, harassed and oppressed until he
is forced to leave the State to preserve his
personal liberty'-certainly shortsighted
policy for the creditor to adopt The Gov
ernor regrets the absence of usury law,
and points out that the creditors right to
take what interest a debtor is willing to pay
tends to ''transfer the property of the many
to the pockets of the few" to 'sparalyze and
blight all productive ind ,tries.'' and,
worst of all, to bring savings banks "to the
verge of ruin" The managers of these in
stitutions, he admits, are among the best
men in the State, Sand yet, in the manage
ment of funds not their own, and under the
restraints of legislative supervision, such
was their passion for high rates of interest,
these men neglected their first duty to the
depositors and loaded the banks with in
vestments of such doubtful character that
banks holding six millions of deposits sus-
pended payment" He insists that the
United States bonds which mature ought not
to be refunded, but paid 1--WE presume in le-
gal tender) and protests against the PROPOSE
tion to retire and "burn'' the legal-tender
currency, $50 that out of their ashes may
arise like amount of interest-bearing bonds
to further tax the labor and industry of the
country He asks what bondholders are
"but class of gilded paupers supported by
the labor of the country" and in a striking
passage, reminds the Maine Legislature that
''if one millionaire had come over in the
Mayfower he would have blasted the pros
poets of continent"
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-21

THE Democratic Atlanta (Ga) Constitu-
tion thus arraigns the Democratic party of
the north: 'We are not particularly i'm
pressed with either the patriotism or the
craftsmanship of those who assume to lead
and control the Democratic party OF the
North. The most of them are mere
office-seekers who depend upon the South to
make the way easy to the swill tub. They
are narrow minded timeservers. They de-
serted Mr.. Tilden at critical moment in
1876 when the public sentiment of the coun-
try was overwhelmingly in his favor; they
surrendered to John Kelly in 1880 in spite
OF the popular protest; and completed that
work by managing the Hancock campaign
to all appearances in the interest of the Re-
publicans."
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-21

The most unaccommodating man in Ohio
keeps small hotel near Cleveland. One
night the house caught fire, and while terri
fed man was climbing through burning win
dow the proprietor rushed up and exclaimed,
"Have you any baggage?" "No, SIR" "Guests
without baggage are requested to pay up be-
fore they leave this hotel. You owe sixty-fve
cents on last weeks bill, and three dollars
on this weeks side from ordering beef sand
wich extra. Get back. / won't be cheated in
this way"-Cleveland Leader.
You look so happy that suppose you have
been to the dentist and had that aching tooth
pulled" said Galveston man to friend with
aswollen jaw. at amt that that makes me
look happy. The tooth aches worse than ever,
but don't feel it," "How is that?" "Well. /
feel SO jolly because / have Just been to the
dentist and he was out" and lne happy man
cut pigeon-wlng on the sidewalk.
News.
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-21

New YORK World, with best regards to
Governor Plaisted and Senator Hoar: We
are not clear what republican simplicity"
requires, but to judge from some of our ex-
changes, we should say that their notion of
truly republican Inauguration was that the
President-elect should be turned loose at the
"other end of the avenue' and kicked up to
the capitol by the unanimous boots of his
fellow-citizens.
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-21
Fable Told by Chicago Tribune.

A few days ago promised to tell you some
thing more about reporters. You have learned
already what easy times they have; but often
do not seem to appreciate the fact, and some
times reporter gets this way and thinks his
salary ought to be raised. So he speahs to the
editor about it. Editors are very liberal men,
Many OF them do not think any more OF dol
lar than some men do of their lives, but they
know that if reporters were paid too much they
would save their money and buy the paper,
and then the editors would be like the Chinese,
they would have to go. So in self-protection
they are obliged to keep the salaries of the re-
porters at 5000 or $1,000 year. They hate
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-21

In the March number of the international
Review, Mr.. Edward Atkinson says that he
is convinced by actual observation since
the Presidential election that there is no
longer Solid South in the sense in which
the term has hitherto been used. He finds
that the young men and the small farmers
who have followed the directions of the old
leaders. which involved hardships under the
convictions that their policy was necessary
to prevent negro domination, are now ready
to u lite with the negroes for better local
government.
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-21

IT has been practically decided to sell the
present church property now owned and oc-
cupied by the Christian Church in Wash
ington, of which President-elect Garfield is
member. 1t is valued at $4,000, and will
probably be purchased for that sum by a
church of another denomination. The SUBJ
scription list for the new building is grow
ing apace, and large fund is assured.
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-21

GEN. Chester A. Arthur has written let
ter to Vermont journalist thanking him
for the special effort he has made to prove
that he was born in Fairfield, that State.
but saying that the Democratic scheme to
prove him of foreign birth has been mat
ter OF very little interest to him, and he has
paid no attention to it.
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-21

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases indispensable, not necessarily for pubca-
tion but as guaranty of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve com
munications that are not used
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-21

ALBANY Journal: An item is going the
rounds of the press stating that "a Virginia
family spells its name Enraghty, and pro-
nounces it Darby" A similar phenomenon
was noticed and commented upon in this
State few years ago. Mr.. Tilden spelled
his name Democracy and pronounced it Re-
form,
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-21

L. w. NICHOLS, secretary of the ''Honest
Money League" and personal friend of
General Garfield, has been appointed chief
clerk of the Indian Bureau. It is supposed
that he is appointed at General Garield's
instance, and that he will after the fourth
of March be made commissioner of Indian
affairs
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-21
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we guarantee SIX boxes to cure any case. With
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written guarantee to return the money if the treat
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The Portland daily press., 1881-02-21

IT is expected that there will be greater
emigration from Nova Scotia to the United
STATE ,dr dd!rf2Agn ing than ever before,
as bus .idw .yai1mo1ttiou of the Dominion
continut! depressed condition.
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-21

MONDAY MORNING. FEB. 21.

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate signed by Stanley Pullen,
Editor, Ali railway, steamboat and hotel managers
will confer favor upon us by demanding credentials
of every person claiming to represent our journal.
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-21

We were climbing steep rock on both sides of
which were yawning precipices studded with
black, jagged rocks. 1 was in front-she be-
hind. Suddenly heard cry-I turned-she
had dissppearedl rushed to the edge Of the
precipice and gszed into its depths-horrorsl"
Dashed to pieces2" "No, sir, caught by her
dress and safe-not scratchIn
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-21
Annual Meeting.

FFNHE annual meeting of the Deering Acton S. NJ.
Company will be holden on the twenty first
of February, 1881, at their office, No. 80 Exchange
street, az ten of the clock A. M.
feb9 dtd* NJ E. MOORE, Secretary.
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-21
COPARTNERSHIP.
PartnerShiO Notice

IN B. HILL is admitted as partner in the firm
LIZ of W. & c. R. MlLLIKEN, to date from
February 4th febI4 diff
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-21

fHNHE co.partnership of ROLLINS & WRITTEN
u is this day dissolved by mutual consent. All
demands against them will be settled by ROLLINS
RU merry, who are alone authorized to collect
the claims and demands of the old frm
F. G. ROLLINS
w. NJ. WRITTEN.
Portland, Feb. II, 1881. feb1Sdtf