Omaha daily bee., 1888-11-04

IennQX. Ii you want 10 CONF the
editions of John Buuyan's Pilgrims
Progress, or Millions Paradise Lost, go
to the Lennox. If you want to post
yourself upon printing, and to study
the different processes used, before the
real principle of movable types was
firmly established, go to the Lennox.
The public does not wan this. The
public wants a library that will have all
sorts of books loaned gratuitously to
parties proving their responsibility.
That is the true idea of a public library,
but it has not materialized yet, and may
never. -.
FoRGER BEDELL SPEAKS. Il
So tremendous was the outburst of
public opinion when Bedell refused to
testify as a witness in the suit brought
by his injured employers, Shipman,
Barlow, Larocque & Choate against the
State Bank of New York for SIG 200, or
Whereabouts, that the bank quailcd. 1t
had proposed through this most infa-
nous device TO shield itself from its re-
sponsibilfty to the law firm plundered
by Bedell. That firm, with unfinching
determination to be just, ~remunerated
every client who had been robbed by
Bedell with his bogus mortgages, and
stood resolved to evade no RESPONSE
bility that could be put upon them
l. NC Duuh Will "hlIh Vic IN uSltIt
and which was responsible for h%onoring
forged signatures, proposed to sneak
out Of its share OF responsibility by in
duciug Bedell to refuse to testify. There
was a perfect howl of Indignation from
all classes of business men, and the
bank co~mprehended that it would be
cheaper to face the music, so the gag
was taken from Bedell's lips and he tes-
titled. He had nothing to say save to
relate the manner in which he had
operated, which he did in a quiet, sub
dued manner He has pleaded guilty to
the Indictment for forgery, and will un-
questionably get twenty years, so that
he stands within an awful shadow whose
sombreness has already told upon him.
His testimony has to be given from day
to day before Judge Barrett in cham
bers, because he must testify with re-
gard to each separate operation. Prob
ably he will not receive his own sem
tence until after his evidence has been
given, and he has been crOss-eXamined.
In the meanwhile short work has
been made with Emerson, the policy
dealer, who got $l60, 900 OF the money
which he ruined his life to obtain. He
has been tried and convicted and will
be sentenced the day after tomorrow.
He can be sentenced to two years inn
prisonment and "A fine of $1,000, or to
either. 1t is probable that he will be
sentenced to imprisonment, for
policy dealers have no longer any politi-
cal pull.
OUR METROPOLITAN ART MUSEUM.
Next week the doors of the Metro
politan art museum will be opened for
the fall exhibition, which lasts for six
months, after which the place is closed
for a month, during which the spring
/ ayh;hitinn 10 arronrn1 Tho cnapinrv
are great social events and everybody
who is u parsonage, however small,
gets an invitation unless he is
on the black books of the Director
General Di Cesnola. or Of the exc
| cutive committee. This is a gala occa
| sion because the building has been very
| greatly enlarged, so that its capacity is
now trebled. Tho principal feature
used to be the loan collection Of pict-
| ures, but since the bequest of Miss
| Catharine Wolf Of her gallery, the mu-
| scum borrows no more pictures. Art
| objects that are offered are, however,
accepted with the understanding that
they must remain until the close Of the
exhibition. 1t is VIGOROUSLY the weak
feature of the museum that the manage
ment will only accept loans from those
people who are with them, so to speak.
The proffered loans of gentlemen who
are believed to feel adversely towards
any member of the managing board are
i%nSxorably declined. To my knowledge
Mr.. E. c. Moore, OF Tiffany, has on
ness to lend his Japanese basket work
his collection of glassware and his
Saracenic inlaid brass objects, and the
museum has declined them on the
ground that they had no space to spare.
Another instance of still more deplora-
BILE weakness is in the refusal to exhibit
one of their wi Objects-a Ph9nician
silver bowl-because a New York Jour-
nalist, who had made himself obnoxious
to to Robert Hoe, was the fortunate dis
cOverer that it was a fac smile of the
famous bowl of Palestrina, in the Kir-
chereano museum, one OF the annexes
of the Vatican museum at Rome. The
d~iscOverer, finding that no official no.
tice was taken of the fact by the mu-
scum, wrote to the Boston Transcript
and placed it on record, since which
time the bowl has been carefully hid
der away. When it is remembered
that the building belongs to the city
and was paid for out Of the tax levy, it
would seem as if a little shaking up in
the management in James Gordon Ben
nett's best style would be healthy fol
all concerned, and particularly for the
public.
YELLOW FEVER IN BROOKLYN.
We have been rather stirred up in
our Brooklyn homes by the arrival
among us of Yellow Jack who certainly
was not invited. Captain John Jellard
was the victim land he died at ST. John.
hospital two days after he had beer re-
moved from the steamer COureuse OF
the Red Cross line to Brazil. Two o.
the men of the steamer were taken to
quarantine. Nobody has said a wore
about yellow fever in Rio Janeiro anG
Santos, the two ports visited by the
Courense, and yet it must be prevalent
there to a considerable extent. The
cargo OF the steamer was bags Of coffee
and barrels of syrup, and bags OF coarse
brute sugar, all of which has been stored
away in the Pierrepont stores withou
any protest, and indeed without an,
necessity of protest. Coffee is notori
ously an anti-septic, and if there wer,
any microbes, the strong odor Of tn,
green coffee would lay them out. TIL,
view nov entertained Is that there ar
no yellow fever germs, but that it is thu
consequence of a vitiated condition o
the air A scientist of French orlgil
claims that the gulf stream is in a larg,
degree responsible for this demoraliza
tion Of the air we breathe, and that vel
lom fever must always exist on thos
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