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Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-14
Their Usefulness at an End.


The spectacle is presented of the absence
upon elcctioneering tours of we do not know
how many prominent senators and represent
atives from their post Of duty, at time
when, were they animated by desire to
promote in the spirit of their oath Of office,
the "welfare of the people," their presence
there might tend to make the session less
abortive than it is likely to be as regards the
most important business of the session. Thus
giving to party what is due to the country,
we repeat their capacity for usefulness in
the great work of reducing the public bur
denS is at an end.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-14
A Prince After Bruin.

The Romanlan method of hunting bears, as
depicted by the Bennett dispatches to TIE
BEE will strike Americans who have "loaded
for bar" with astonishmcnt. An army of
beaters went into the forest suspected OF har
boring bears, and began driving all animals
indiscriminately towards the spot whore the
Prince of Wales and the Grown Prince of
Austria were waiting to pepper the bears.
But none appeared, for these knowing
creatures perfectly comprehended the de-
signs of the beaters and remained calmly in
their dens, or perhaps continued browsing
philosophically on acorns and beech nuts in
spite of the din of horns and the shouting
around them The bear has no business
with hunters, and will not go to them; if
they have business with him they must find
him, whether they are kings or clowns.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-14

nine hundred and thirty-six night
students, three hundred and thirty
nine were past the age of twenty-one.
In other words nearly thirty-three and
third per cent Of the total number of
pupils enrolled in the night schools was
beyond the age for which the laws OF
the state provide instruction at the
public expense. 1t would therefore APP
pear that OF the four hundred and
thirty-fve pupils who actually attended
the schools, about three hundred were
entitled to receive the benefits of instruc-
tion during the winter of 1SSS-S9.
From this statement it is clear that
the board OF education in spending thir-
ty-eight hundred dollars for night
schools paid out altogether too much
money, and exceeded the authority
granted by law providing free instruc-
tion to persons over twenty-one. The
present board OF education will soon
be called upon TO make provisions
for night schools this winter.
1t behooves that body to avoid the mis-
takes made last year. Free instruction
should be provided only to persons be-
tween the ages OF five and twenty-one, -,
as provided by law. For the instruction
of adults nominal charge should be
made. Instead of opening eight or
more evening schools in various parts
of the city, the rooms of four buildings
centrally located would answer
the requirements. Such a change
would bring about n saving in
fuel, light and janitors' hire. 1t
would insure better attendance and
stimulate both teachers and pupils to
better work. Superintendent James,
moreover. would be able by concentrate
ing the night schools in three or four
buildings, to increase Or diminish the
force of teachers rs the attendance
would warrant. Last year the thirty
three teachers employed in these
| schools had an average attendance OF
thirteen pupils each. Clearly, tho staff
was too large. But in spite of the large
corps of teachers used and the large
amount of money expended, the night
schools were not as effective as they
| ought to have been. Nearly all of these
teachers were employed in the day
schools, and consequently their efiici
ency for evening work was impaired
At the rate of pay which the teachers ii
the night schools received, not only com
petent, but fresh instructors could have
been secured. The conclusion can no
but force itself upon our citizens in view
Of these facts that reform is necessary
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-14

Mr.. LEVY, proprietor Of the London
Telegraph, who died last Friday, was one
of the most remarkable and most sue
cessful OF English journalists. He was
the first man in England to break out OF
the old ruts in which the papers OF that
country had always moved, and to see
that in order to win wide popularity for
a newspaper it must give the news.
He fashioned the Telegraph on the most
approved American plan at that time,
and his reward was rapid
and extraordinary success, the
Telegraph speedily passing all
competitors in circulation and mount
tng up to unprecedented figures. 1t kept
on in this course, and though it has had
tmitators among the London new
papers il has maintained the foremost
place in popularity. Edward Sterling
won for the London Times the tit.e OF
s'The Thunderer" and .here are other
celebrated names in The history Of Eng
lish journalism, but none Of thcm did
30 much to popularixe tie newspaper in
England as Mr.. Levy. -. -. -
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-14

THE revelations of Nell Nelson Of
the atrocious character OF Chicago
''slop shops has led to the formation of
a Woman's League in that city, and
Miss Frances E. Willard, so well known
In temperance organizations, is the
president. The association held q meet
ing recently, and what passed on that
occasion showed that no one present had
the remOtest notion OF any practicable
scheme for ending the state of things
whose intolerable wrongs had led to the
formation of the league, They talked
and talked and talked, and some one
suggested the necessity of providing
fresh air excursions during the heated
summer for the babies Of women work
ing in these dens. Well, we'll! And
get women want to vote, and claim they
are fitted for public life.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-14
A Denial of Justice.

There could be no more striking OK
ample Of the tardy course of justice in
this country than is furnished in the
fact that the docket of the supreme
court of the United States contains now
the very large majority of these cannot
get a hearing in less than from three to
four years. 1t is to no unusual cause
that this excess of business is due. The
cases unheard have been increasing in
number from year to year, and under
the prevailing conditions they must in
evitably continue to grow. AS congress
has been repeatedly informed, and as
it ought to clearly see from the facts,
the court is not equal to the
demands imposed upon it, The conse-
quence is there is an absolute denial of
justice at the very fountain head of our
judicial system, for only those who can
afford to wait need to go there. For all
others there might as well not be such
a tribunal, and it has been we'll said
that nobody knows this better, or is
reader to take advantage OF it than
wealthy and powerful defendants who
have been defeated in the courts below
The remedy can be found only in leg
islation, but although the matter has
been many times presented to con-
gress, and plans submitted which
would give the required relief, the
national legislators have done nothing,
and from year to year the supreme court
has been held practically closed against
the needy. Nor is relief needed for the
highest tribunal alone. Many of the
lower federal courts in the more popu-
lous portions of the country are several
years behind with their business, and
| at the rate OF accumulation, if permit
ted to continue, it is only question of
time when hundreds of cases will be in
| almost hopeless allegiance. The dockets
| OF the federal courts OF New York are
crowded with customs cases, very
large number of which cannot under
present conditions be heard for years
and these are being steadily added to.
When one reflects upon the great waste
| OF time by the present congress, and the
small amount Of practical legislation
| that has been accomplished, the failure
to take any notice Of the urgent demand
for giving relief to the federal courts
| and thereby aiding the cause of justice,
| appears wholly objectionable. But this
matter is becoming too pressing, the
| wrongs incident to it are boing toe
widely felt, to allow Of much longer
delay in supplying the required relief.
The denial of justice involved cannot be
allowed to grow to much larger proper
tions. The fact that the supreme tri.
bunal of tie nation is every year becom-
ing a safer refuge for wealthy
and powerful defendants, who
| have lost in the courts be-
low, is becoming too conspicuous
to be much longer tolerated. 1t is
| possible that the chief justice, being
fresh from the people, may be able to
exert an influence that will cause con.
gress to give serious consideration tC
this matter and provide the relief legis.
lation necessary, and nothing he nigh,
do could be of greater service to the
cause OF justice. The supreme court OF
the nation should not be the bulwark
behind which money and power may
find security to oppress and wrong the
| poor and the powcrless.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-14

THE warden OF the Michigan state
penitentiary has introduced novel
plan likely to prove effective in encour-
aging good behavior among the con-
victs. He has adopted rules by which
the prisoners may earn the right to wear
plain grey clothes in place of prison
stripes by obcying the prison rules for
six months. Convicts, as a class, posi-
lively loathe their badge OF disgrace.
BY taking advantage of their dislike,
the authorities have found u way much
more effective TO induce obedience to
prison rules than the harsh rules OF
other prisons. The plan commends it,
self to other institutions OF tho kind.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-14

THE medical fraternity will read with
Intense interest THE BEES special
cablegram presenting a carefully pre-
pared compilation of Sir Morell Mack
enzle's diary covering the period of the
illness of the late German emperor,
Frederick ILL.,. with the diagnosis and
treatment OF the court physicians. In
this, as in all events, political, scientific,
artistic and social that transpire in the
Old World, THE BEE is fully abreast
with the greatest of metropolitan
dailieS
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-14

In another part of The BEE appears
carefully compiled statement OF the
cost and progress OF the night schools
OF this city. For the four months during
which the night schools were conducted
last winter in obedience to Mr.: Cope
lands resolution, eight schools were
opened, employing thirty-threc teach
ers at cost of nearly four
Thousand dollars. There we're en-
rolled during these months nine
hundred and thirty-six pupils.
The average attendance was four hun
dred and thirty-hve, less than one-halt
the total number enrolled. OF these
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-14
The Great Firenzi.

The greatest equine performer of the year
is undoubtedly the Californian four year old
mare Firenzi, belonging to j. B. Haggin, of
San Francisco. She has defeated all the
greatest horses of the east, has lowered the
time record on several occasions, and has
heightened the faces of Kentuckians until
they were in just proportion with their legs.
California will now be a point to which all
breeders of thoroughbreds will turn anxious
ewes.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-14

empire, which they had destroyed.
And they did this so thoroughly that t
the end of the fifteenth century, when
those reforms were in process OF incuba-
tion, which were about to end existing
systems and to forge new ones, they had
possessed themselves of knowledge OF
Greek and Roman times which makes
the best educated man of to-day feel
himself q pigmy in comparison. They
had found in hooks and corners ali the
great authors OF antiquity. had com
pared duplicates, had revised editions,
and had created out OF chaos a wonder
ful library wholly Greek and Latin. 1t
was stupendous achievement.
The underlying weakness OF the
medieval university was precisely that
feature which had once constituted its
strength-its alliance with religion.
Every man who felt drawn to science,
or to severe Ii terature passed his whole
life in the university of his choice under
monastic restraints even though under
no vow. The great work of winning
back classicism was done by these men,
and could not have been done except by
such continuous efforts as devoted men
will give from their enthusiasms. No
great work can be done by boys and
boyish professors, selected for their
sympathy with the outdoor pursuits in
which boys delight. Therefore when
the reformation divorced religion ana
universities, the latter lost the men who
were vowed to learning, and for whom
the cloister was retreat where prob
lens could be brooded over in peace,
far from the madding worlds ignoble
strife. Henceforward the universities
became places where boys came to learn
and where professors came to teach, and
they ceased TO be the homes where
studious men passed tranquil years in
patient study, and in the slow elabora-
tion of great thoughts. Gradually the
great heritage of classic lore faded from
the grasp of the moderns, until to-day a
library Of classic authors is drug upon
the market. Gradually the plane OF
teacher and taught descended, until, as
| Professor Bernard has remarked, it has
at last sunk to the standard of a gram
mar school. 1t is obvious that what is
wanted is the endowment Of fellowships
| for the creation Of class of life stu
dents. who shall be released from those
absurd monastic restrictions which are
still maintained in the universities of
Protestant England. Not otherwise can
the moderns accomplish their tre-
mendous task, the winning back Of the
history Of that race from whom the
Greeks and Romans derived their civil
| ization.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-14

1t is only by the exclusion Of Dakota from
the union and the trampling down Of free
suffrage in the south that Cleveland can hope
to secure a second term. The systematic
frauds perpetrated in the cotton states are
not sufficient. In addition to all this the peo-
Pile of Dakota must be disfranchised. Not
only must the south usurp power, and in 80
doing weaken and degrade the just vote Of
all the northern states, but q great COM
munity Of 100000 northern people is dlsfran-
chsed absolutely.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-14
Art Exhibit.

At the last meeting Of the Western Art as
socation held on Monday evening it was de-
cided to hold an exhibit of the efforts OF the
local and other artists upon the completion
of Mr. Linnger's gallery early in the month
of November. Three days will be given to
local artists and three days TO MIR, Linnger's
collection, thus Offering week TO be enjoyed
by those appreciating art. The following
ladies and gentlemen will compose the conn
mittee in charge of this final exhibition: Mr..
Clement Chase, Mrs. Thomas NJ. Orr, Mrs.
+, b. Mumaugh, Mrs: Edwin Davis, Miss
Molona Butteriield, MIR l. iiodgson' irs Mr.,
intending to exhibit will send "a list Of pic
lures by name with outside dimensions Of
frames. From the interest manifested it ls
thought the enterprise will be highly success
full.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-14
The Shotgun Safe.
vrib,I,e

"What want to know" said the patriotic
Mississipian, as he bit off q hunk Of tobacco
and crunched it savagely, sis whether this yer
bill of Congressman Mills reduces the tariff
on shotguns or not. If it doesn't, I'm agin
it. Why, dang it all, it costs too blamed
much to carry on honest election in this
country,u
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-14

THE democratic primaries have been
held and Councilman Van Scamp is
looming up as one of the coming men
on the slate for state senator. Shades
OF Daniel Webster and Henry Clay
What an Impressive and eloquent ora
tor Van Scamp would make
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-14
With One Execution.
Chicd0o Tribune.

tHUuVO ITDWW.
The nut crop of 1883 is an exceptionally
large one Everything, in fact, is shclling
out well this year except contributions to
Chairman Brice's democratic campaign fund
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-14

1T Is said that when the Prince of
Wales was in Vienna he broke rou-
lette bank. AS a sportsman England g
heir is evidently much more of a sue
cess bucking the tiger than shooting
bears in the mountains.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-14
Local DEVELOPMENT i'm Art.

No less than three art galleries have been
opened this fall in three great cities Of the
west. This is most encouraging sign OF the
times, showing a disposition towards local
development and o reaction against the old
idea of aggregating all things noble, all
things curious and all things interesting in
the national capital The Smithsonian Insti
tutc and the Corcoran gallery at Washington
are of no apprcciable benefit to Nebraska
and if any young men of Omaha show un-
mistakabe tendencies towards science or art
it is TO be hoped that some way will be found
for the development Of their talents here so
that the ultimate benefit may be rcaped here
The traveller in Southern France aud Italy
will find that each great city developed
schools of art and architecture which were
strongly local, and yet at the same time thor
oughly artistic. So it should be here, and 80
apparently 1t will be.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-14
Nothing to BE Proud of.


The present congress will thunder down
the ages as the one that consumed more time
in proving its own incapacity and doing moth
ing than any other on record. That is the
record, but there is mighty little in it to be
nrnui of
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-14
CURRENT TOPICS.


It will be remembered that the Herreshoffs
built a little steam yacht called the Stlletto,
which beat Jay Goulds Atlanta by half an
hour in a forty-mle race, but the great rail
road wrecker presented cloud of aflidavits
that the Stiletto had wandered from the
course, and the Atlanta was therefore placed
first by the obedient judges Now the Her
reshoffs have built for Baltimore merchant
n steam yacht about the same size as the
Atlanta, which they predict will walk away
from anything that floats. She has been
christened the Ballymona, after tho district
in Ireland from which her owner emigrated
TO find wealth in this country. The Bally-
mena is one hundred and forty-eight feet
long, eightecn-foot beam, draws seven feet
and carries engines of eight hundred horse
power of the quadruple expansion type. The
Ballymena is fitted with fOur-bladed Her
reshotf screw made of American aluminium
bronze, singular fact, because IN the fitting
out of the United States steol cruisers the
secretary of the navy declined TO use alum
inum bronze when 1t was patriotically offered
by MIR. Cowle. He alleged as his reason that
bronze could not be used on steel vessels,
because the two metals when wetted devel.
oped galvanc current which ate up the
negative metal. The Herreshoff brothers
seem to have had no such scientific scruples,
for their wheel screw was made OF alumi-
mum bronze after an exhaustive series Of ex-
periments But the Herreshofs have con-
stautly sought to develop American products
and the Cleveland administration has stead
lily ignored them.
Drank From the Wrong jug.
There are cities where the organs OF taste
are so little developed, especially on Sundays,
that many persons cannot tell the difference
between lager and weissbier Especially
mas this been the case with policemen. But
recently party of friends at wake drank
can of enibalming fllid with much cheer
fulness, and without any suspicious, until
internal movements warned them that some
thing was wrong with that beer This goes
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-14
A Sad State of Politics.
Rochester POst-Erpress.

Rochester Post-Erpress.
Go to, all things have changed. A new era
is upon us. The artiodactyle, ungulate NAM
NAL of the genus Sus has succeeded the scholar
in politics. The Hog is on deck!
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-14
Coral and Amber

There will shortly DO an immense rise in
the iprces of pink and red coral, and no
doubt many persons will attribute this to the
formation of a syndicate among the Neapoli-
tan and Partisan jewellers. But this would
be doing these men palpable injustice, for
the fault lies with the zoophytes who have at
last become tired OF making houses for them.
selves for the benefit of the bipcds above
the waves. The coral fisheries OF the Le-
want are practically exhausted, and the mar
kct now depends upon such coral as may be
picked up at Alden at the mouth Of the Red
Sea, aud in the archipelago of Polynesia
There will come u time when the Baltic sup.
plies of amber will fail also, and then there
will be another howl, especially from the
Turks and Persiaus, for whom mere tobacco
has no charms unless the smoke reaches the
lips through an amber mouthpiecc.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-14

a great way toward exoncrating those po-
licemen who have testified that they could
not tell whether the liquor sold was beer or
weissber, and shows ccnsorious world
how prone it is to suspect without a cause.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-14
The New Dog,

The new dog has not yet appeared in
Omaha. He is to be a lady's dog, and is a
Tartar fox terrier with many amable quail
ties. He is the color of turltcy-red floss silk,
and his fur requires considerable washing
and combing, but as he repays such little at
tentons by extreme fondness for his owner +,
he will no doubt be considered worthy Of the
time and trouble
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-14
Cutting or Contractors, Extras.

Ryan s. Walsh, the contractors on the new
count hospital last week put In bill for
about $500 for extra work, which they said
they had done because they deemed II neccs'
for the stability OF the building, The COM
missioners have rejected the claim, and have
notified the contractors that not dollar will
be allowed for extras unless ordered by the
board. Furthermore, such order must be OF
fetal and in writing. An order from iadi-
v!dual members of the board will not be ao-
cepted by that body as binding upon 1t.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-14
THE DAILY BEE.

UFOKtiE Is. TZSCH JUN.
Sworn 70 before me and subscribed in my
presence this 18th day OF October A. ID 1884,
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State Of Nebraska, m
County of Douglas, 90
George B. Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de-
poses and says that he is secretary of The lIee
Publishing company. that the actual average
month of October. 1887. 4a}3 copies; for No
vsmber. 1887, II. .2226 copies for December. 1887.
for February. 1883. l5.92 copies: for March, 1885,
1859 copies: for April, 1855. lS,TA copies; for
May, 1888. s.lSl copies; for June 1888. 1928
1883. ls3 copies for September. 1883 was Is. l4
copies. GEORG Il. TZSCHUCK.
Sworn to before and subscribed in my pres
ence this 9th day of October. A. II. 1883.
N. r. FELL. Notary Pu blic.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-14

Owing to the great hit made last Sunday
night by this celebrated souDrette with tho
German company, Manager Koch has Sc
cured hcr services for thus evening again at
Boyd's, when she will appear in the laugha-
bic comedy, "Pcchschulze" Mr.. Axtman,
the comedian, will play the title roll and all
the members of the company will appear in
the cast