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Omaha daily bee., 1883-07-24

THERE is something more than n mere
question of paving materials involved
in the present contest between our citi-
zens and the council. The issue is sim
ply n of honest government, and the
suppression of jobbery and Tweedism in
Omaha. We have entered upon a sys'
tenn of public improvements whose ex-
tension and completion means the expen-
diture of many hundreds of thousands
of dollars. The contracts already ord
cred and now pending aggregate nearly
$500, 900 and the next five years, if the
plans mapped out are carried
into execution, will witness
great strides on the part
of this city towards a metropolitan APP
pearance. But future improvements de-
pend entirely upon a favorable public
sentiment. Our charter has wisely
placed in the hands of our citizens the
voting of the money necessary to extend
public works. The powers of the council
and board of public works in this respect
are merely supervisory, and no funds
apart from those raised from
ordinary taxation can be collected
for paving and sewering purposes.
1t is safe to say that if the decision OF
the courts upholds the bold defiance OF
public sentiment which has been hurled
in the faces of our citizens by the presen.
city council, no more bonds of any ma
ture will be voted by our tax payers unit
every rogue who has disgraced his con
stituents in publicc Office, has been retire'
to private life. The council which is su
perior to the demands of the people vii
not again be permitted to disburs
the moneys raised by taxatio
for public improvements or to disgrac
the name of this city by corrupt collu
sion with jobbers and plunderers. ]
Omaha is met at the very outset of il
new career with a combination who's
only aim is TO enrich itself at the expens
of the city, our tax payers will take goo
care that the opportunities for sue
swindling schemes shall be as few as POI
sible. The success Of the ringsters i
this case viii mean a stop for sewers
years to come Of public improvements i
this city.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-07-24

AFTER a long dispute the pool agents
at Chicago have definitely decided upon
the status of the tomato. A dispute as to
its freight classification having arisen, a
majority has finally settled that the
tomato is not a vegetable, out a fruit,
and it must hereafter pay thehigher tariff
for freight under that class. If the rate
had been higher for vegetables, the rail.
roads would have readily fallen into line
with the botanies.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-07-24

To talk of Immediately paying off the
national debt is buncombe. The debt
cannot be wiped out until 1907, when the
last of the bonds mature. A portion is
payable now, and another portion in 1891.
If the entire debt could be cancelled in
the next ten years, it would be the height
of folly to borrow money at from 6 to
10 per cent to pay off bonds which carry
interest averaging less than 80 per cent.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-07-24

LESS than three weeks remain before
the petitions designating paving materials
to be used in our alleys must be handed
in. Property owners in the districts or
dered paved should lose no time in indi-
eating their preference in terms that will
leave no loop hole for another Colorado
stone job in the city council.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-07-24

Mr.. GOULD laughs heartily over the
t~elegraphers' strike; but he may change
his tune if customers of the Western
Union hold it legally liable for damages
on ccoun of delays and mistakes occur
ring, in consequence of its failure to
transmit dispatches promptly and cor
rectly.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-07-24

the mischiefs of i'll -considered law-mak-
ing. Charles f. Wingate writesof THE
Unsanitary Homes of the Rich,' and
there is a joint discussionof Science and
Prayer" by President Galusha Ander-
sol and Thaddeus b. Wakeman. Pub
lished at 80 Lafayette Place, New York,
and for sale by booksellers generally.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-07-24
The Polk Trial.

NASHVILLE, July 23.-Argument on
the Polk trial was concluded this after
noon. The judge will deliver his charge
to the jury tomorrow.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-07-24
Depend Upon it.

Mother Symptoms ~prophesies and Louisiana
elections are very uncertain things, but Thorn.
as Electric OIL can be depended upon always.
II cures aches and pains Of every descrintion.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-07-24

PoLIT1CAL enthusiasm drops as the
thermometer rises, and even editorial in.
terviews fall fiat on the listening ear.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-07-24

AFTER all the cyclones and hail, Neb'
raska will harvest the largest crop in hei
history.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-07-24

THE rush to the mountain and seaside
continues, but an editor on a vacation
still remains as great a curiosity as the
bearded woman.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-07-24

OMAHA wants more light, but it does
not want to pay double the rates charged
other cities of its size and population.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-09-07

and Juice was running down inside his
shirt, and he SAID he wouldn't play II
he was going to be stabbed with slice
of melon, so while his wife was getting
the melon seeds out of his neck and
drying the juice on his shirt, sharpen
ed cucumber for Lady Macbeth to
use for dagger, but Hamlet kicked on
cucumbers. too. so had more trouble
than a stage manager ever had. Then
pa wanted to rehearse the drunken
scene in Rip Van Wrinkle, whee her
hugs Gretchen and drinks out of flask
behind her back, and he got one of the
choir singers to act as Gretchen, and |
guess he would have been hugging her
till this time and have swallowed the
flask If ma had not took him by the ear,
and said a little of that would go good
ways in an entertainment for the church.
Pa said he didn't know it was any
worse than her prancing up to the
grave digger and hugging him till the
nlling came out of his teeth, and then
the minister decided that We couldn't
have any hugging at all in the play, and
the choir girls said they wouldn't play,
and the old maids struck, and the play
came TO a stand still"
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-09-07
The Snow of Age.

mo snow falls lighter than the snow
OF age; but none is heavier for it never
melts,"
The figure is by no means novel, but
the closing part of the sentence is new
as well as emphatic. The scriptures
represent age by the almond tree. which
bears blossoms of the purest white.
"The almond tree shall tlourish"-the
head shall be hoary. Dickens says one
of his characters whose hair was turn
ing gray, that 1T looked as if time had
lightly splashed his SHOWS upon its
passage"
at never melts"-no, never! Age is
inexorable. Its wheels must move on
ward-they know not retrogade move
ment. The old man may sit and sing,
II would were a boy again"-but he
grows older as he sings. He may read
of the elixir of youth, but he cannot
find 1t; he may sigh for the secrets of
that alchemy which is able to make
him young, signing brings it not. He
may gaze backward with an eye of
longing upon the rosy scenes of early
years, as one who gazes on his home
from the decks of departing ship,
which every moment carries him farth-
er and farther away. Poor old man .!
He has little to do than die.
The snow of winter comes and sheds
its white blessing upon the valley and
the mountains, but soon the sweet
spring comes and smiles it all away.
Not so with that upon the brow of the
tottering veteran. There is no spring
whose warmth can penenetrate its eter-
nal frost. 1t came to stay. Its single
fakes fell unnotlced-and now it Is
drilled there. We shall see 1t increase
until we lay the old man in his grave.
There it shall be absorbed by the eter-
nal darkness-for there is no age in
heaven.
Yet why speak Of age in so mournful
strain? 1t is beautiful, honorable. elo'
quent. Should we sigh at the proxi-
nifty of death. when life and the world
are full of emptinessp Let the old ex'
ult because they are old. If any must
weep let it be the young, at the long
succession of cares that are before them.
Welcome the snow, for 1t is an emblem
of peace and rest. 1t is but tenn Or
al crown which should fall at the gates
of paradise to he replaced by brighter
and hetter one.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-09-07

tations to be present. There's no harm
done however. The folks here will
probably not have time to attend any
how.
rhe Santa Fe Review remarks that
"there is mineral enough in Santa Fe
county to supply smelter that can run
hundred tons day for the next hun
dred years and then take new start"
That kind of talk falls fruitless though
without adding "to get" Santa Fe's
largest mineral deposits like those of
all other counties of undevelOped New
Mexico, are in the faith Of her pros
pectors and the truth may as well be
admitted. 1t is of no use to throw
bombastic talk into the face of statis-
tics.
Will the friends of honest toilers and
the foes of leeches consider it persecu-
tion for the RANGE to clip this item
from the New York Financial and
Mining News of the 9th ult.p If So
so be it: "Giles o. Pearce, the manipu-
lator-in.chief of half a dozen mining
and banking swindles in Indiana, Colo.
RADIO and other western states, turns up
as correspondent of our esteemed
contemporary the Southwest-Sentinel
in New Mexico. |. Satan rebuking SIN
was not a patch on Pearce preaching
honest business methods to New Mex.
ican miners. Pearce is probably with
out exception the most lmpudent
sharper in the business"
Socorro Sun: The BLACK RANGE
speaking of the Billing smelter, seems tC
think that lis section of the country
will not furnish much ore until cop.
per furnace is added. Let the miners
there prove to Mr.. Billing that they art
ready to furnish fifty tons of ore pei
day and he will supply their needs.
Ii the erection of copper smeltel
at Socorro depends upon this or any
section of New Mexico, furnishing fifty
tons per day of ore that will bear al
expense for transportation of thirty-fvt
or forty dollars per ton, it will not bt
put up soon. The Black range has
eight prospects which have ore that ha:
been shipped to Denver with profit. ant
there are others that can do as well, but
this ore was carefully sorted and wa!
not to be had in such quantities as 6fty
tons per day. 1t is nonsense to talk Of
cunh q thip0
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-09-07
Home.

:. | talk abou. home because am rare
ly there-and men like TO talk most
about what they know least about.
"There IS no place like home" Even
those who live in boarding houses
touchingly warble that song. Home is
more to woman than to a man. A
man who has no home is a social
tramp. With a woman 1T is different:
she wants home. but dofs not always
have chance to get it. Woman feeds
upon affection. She is never happy
until she gets her ideal man, and then
she is cast down to find another wo-
mans photograph and love letter in his
overcoat pocket.
But man gets his home, lot, house,
mortgage, mechanics lien and all. He
has all but the mortgage. and the
mortgage has him. All of mans life
except what he speAds at the store.
club, caucus, lodge or prayer meeting,
is spent in his home. Man is great in
his own house; If he is not king. he
is at least prince consort. Many
are like the.man who, on being nomi,
mated for lieutenant-governor said:
"You have nominated the right man
for the right place. 1 have been
lieutenant.governor ever since l was
married"
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-09-07
Mixed Theatricals.

"Oh, we have struck it now," said the
bad boy. We are going to have anna.
ture theatricals Ito raise money to have
the church carpeted, and l am gong to
boss the job.
"Pa, and ma, and me, and the minis
ter, and three choir singers, and my
chum. and the minister's wife and two
deacons, and an old man are rehearsing,
bnt we have not.decided what TO play
yet. They all want to play a different
play, and am fixing it so they can
all be satisfied. The minister wants to
play Hamlet, pa wants to play Hamlet,
ma wants to play Mary Anderson, the
old man wants to play a clearinghouse
playr and the choir singers want to
play an opera, and the minister's wife
wants to play Lady Macbeth, and my
chum and l wants to play adouble song
and dance, and am going to give them
all show. We had a rehersal last
night, and am the only one able to be
around to-day. You see they have all
been studying different plays, and they
all wanted to talk at once. We let the
minister sail in first. He had on pair
of his wife's black stockings and a man.
tie made of linen buggy lap.blanket,
and he wore a masons cheese knife,
such as these fellows with poke bon
nets and white feathers wear when
they get an invirtation to a funeral or
an excursion. Well, you never saw
Hamlet murdered the way he did it.
His Interpretation of Hamlet was a
dude that talked through his nose,
and while he was repeating Hamlet's So
lioquy pa, who had come in with an old
hunting suit on. as Rip Van Winkle,
went to sleep. and he didn't wake up
till Lady Macbeth came in. in the Sleep
ing walking scene. She couldn't find a
knife, so took a slice of watermelon
and sharpened it for her. and she made
mistake i'll the one she was to stab,
and she sabbed Hamlet IN the neck
with slice of watermelon. and the
melon fell on pas face as he lay asleep
as Rip, and when Lady Macbeth said,
"Out damed spot" Pa woke up and
found the COB of watermelon on his
face he thought he had been murdered,
and ma came in on hop, skip and
jump as Parthenia. and threw her arms
around a deacon who was going to play
the grave digger and began to call him
pet names, and pa was mad, and the
choir singers they began to sing, "In
the North Sea there Lived Whale
and then they quit acting. You'd died
to see Hamlet. The piece of water.
melon went down his neck, and Lady
Macbeth went off and left it in the
wound under bis collar and ma had to
pull it out. and Hamlet said the seeds
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-09-07
NO. %.

in plantations of from 10000 to 100000
each, and Mr.. Droege has to maintain
them for two years after planting. He
is not compelled to plant trees along
the highways, however. Three gradu-
ates of the school of agriculture are to
be received into the nurseries each
year. there to study the science of for
estry. He is also to raise fruit and
other useful plants for free distribu-
ton. There is to be translated from
the German every year a work on ar
Horticulture of recognized merit. An
inspector is to superintend, and Mr..
Droege is to receive annually till the
sum reaches total of 100000.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-09-07
Tree Planting in Mexico.

The Mexican government has con-
tracted with Mr.. Oscar A. Droege to
plant 100000 trees in the valley OF
Mexico within four years, commencing
March. 10Th, 1884. Half million trees
year are to be planted in such places
as the government shall decide. The
contractor pledges himself to establish
a number of nurseries and to have in
them each year at least $4,000 ash, 49,
600 willows, 10000 populars, 10000
eucalyptus trees, 6O,OOOOOo tr9nns-js-
pones, 10000 mountain cypress cedars
10000, 900 acacias, and 10000 of miscel'
lsneous varieties, The trees must be
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-09-07
How They are Spoiled.

sole man." said a negro woman to
her husband, "Yer's a drinkin' yerself
ter death. Yer's goin' down ebery
day."
$50 is de ribber goin down ebery
day, but it amt got dar yet. Go on an
chop some wood an let de ole man
study bout flosofy."
"Dar's plenty of wood cut, sah."
go an tote some water, den."
use dun fotch plenty OBJ water.
"Well go and fotch some noah. Oars
nuthin' like a 'owan keepin' her han in
Let her slack up for a while an she's
spilled"
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-09-07
Frality, Thy Name is Ma

A middle aged couple from the coun-
try drove up IN front of one of our
places of business on Main street to-
day. and before alighting the head of
the family, with an emphatic shake of
the head. exclaimed vehemently: "By
gum, old woman, amt half as drunk
as you think / am" Without any
more words he descended from the
wagon, entered the store, made his pur.
chases and returned, and after deposit
ing them safely in the rear end Of the
wagon was in the act of again remount-
ing to his seat when his feet slipped
from under him and his head came in
sharp contact with the wheel. Gather
ing himself up from his predicament,
with the aid of his better half he man.
aged to become safely seated, and
when about to start off was heard to
calculate, "B-b-by g-g-um, old woman.
I'm drunker that l thought / was"
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-09-07

An eastern scientist has discovered
that Intoxicating liquor can be made
out Of saw dust. After awhile science
will have this thing down so fine that q
man can get his regular cocktail by
simply turning over in bed and chew.
ing the leg of chair.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-09-07

Artemus Ward once Indignantly re-
marked to a president who refused
him favor: "You won't pass me, be-
cause your road Is so darned slow it
won't pass anybody"
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-09-07
The Boy.
BY II. C. DODGE.
AS the green apple
with bites all round

AS the green apple
with bites all round
b is the ball that Is lost on the ground
G is o the o cigar
e''e max @ ing him
pale. is the dog
with a can
on its tail. lis
the errand
that
makes
him look wiy. f is the fish.
ing and fourth of July. G is the
games that make happy his days.
II is the hooky from school that he
plays. lis the Indian he's going
to slaY ] is the jack knife he's trad.
away. X is the kite in the sky scarce
discern ed. Lis the lickings for lessons
unlearn ed.M is for marbles and melons
sublime Mis- the novel that cost him
dime. o 'shis 'old man with strap
by the gate. P's his toy pistol which
settles his fate. Q Is the quarrel which
bloodies his nose. r is the
ruin he makes to his clothes.
is the swimming skates, ,snowballs
and sled 7 is his tops and his toys
painted red. . is the
uproar he makes when
h'estanned VS. his vim
when he's leading the
band WIS his
whis tie so
happ and
shrill X is
penses whe n never he'sili
7 is the yells he emits all day
Z.is his zeal that he shows at his play
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-05-16
THE MATCH aIONOPOLY
Firmly Intrenched-The Maaufsetur.
ers Defy All Opposition.

CLEVELAND, o, May 13-The Diamond
Match monopoly absorbed two small match
manufacturers during April, and now own
and control all the leading match factories
in this country. The company has secured
patents in all improved N atch making ma.
chinery used in its works, and have made
binding contracts with their best employes
for many years service. The company has
purchased all the timber lands OF MichIga an
IN the market, and own many hundred acres.
They are in fine condition to carry on the
match business without opposition, notwith-
standing the fact that new factories would
naturslly be started after the abolition OF
the tax on matches. special from Wash
lngton, received last night, said: The match
manufacturers intimate, it is said, that there
Will be no reduction in the cost of matches
to consumers, even though the stamp
tax has been abolished. That they
will be able to maintain the prices of
the past is not believed here, for, under
the commissions allowed by the government
on large sales of stamps, those 10 atch manu-
facturers who held monopoly of the trade
were enabled 10 sell their 10 atches at the cost
of manufacture, er ever below that figure,
and still make money from the commissions
allowed them on stamps. Now that the
stamp tax has been abolished, competition
cannot be prevented, and the monopoly will
not be able to control the trade. 1t is sig
nifcsnt, as showing the desire of the heavy
manufacturers for continuation of the tax,
that they persistently opposed all efforts to
repeal 1t. However, as will be seen by the
facts given in the frat part of this dispatch,
the statements made in the Washington tele-
gram as regards competition in the match
business are all wrong. The Diamond Match
Company has worked its cards well, and will
continue for many years TO be one of the
greatest monopolies of the age, as new man.
utactories cannot be started in opposition to
them and be successfully maintained.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-05-16
a CHILD'S FALL.
The Perilous Adventure OF n Little
somnambuIist I'm New Hampshire.

The Manchester Union says Mary, a seven
year-old daughter of Deliore Gerore, who
resides in the second story OF the tenement
block corner Manchester and Pine streets,
underwent perilous experience about $3.50
o'clock yesterday afternoon. 1t seems that
Mrs Gerore, the mother OF the child, put
her in bed in the attic about l o'clock Tor an
afternoon nap. The next known of her
whereabouts she was found on the sidewalk
in front of the house in partially inseusible
condition, sustaining a cut upon the fore
head and bruise on her eide, beside being
otherwise badly shaken up. The only
information as 10 how the affair happened
was derived through Irving, son of Jason
Copp, who, at the same time, was sitting at
an open window in the house. on the opposite
side of the street, and who said that the first
he saw Of her she had climbed out of the
Lutheran window in ths roof and was sliding
down toward the gutter. A second later
and she had gone over the gutter, and was
holding on the same with her hands. A few
seconds and she fell to the sidewalk, striking
first upon the steps of the entrance to the
house and then rolled off on to the sidewalk.
All this time young Copp was vainly trying
to summon assistance.
large crowd soon gathered and the little
one was taken up and medical aid cum
moned. In falling she fortunately Fret
struck upon the feet, the distance being
about twenty III ad abe come down head
first, as when first seen, without doubt she
would have been killed outright AZ evil
dence tended to show that she had been
asleep all the while, the FIRST words spoken
by her after returning 10 consciousness
were: mamma, was / asleep?" A couple
of physicians were in attendance last even
ing who considered her case as yet decidedly
critical.