davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-21
1t Worked Both WAYS.

New York Sun: A plump little col
ored girl sat on stoop in South Fifth
avenue gloating over bib and lucious
slice of watermelon. Two other little
girls sat beside her and watched the
melon vanish between two glistening
rows of ivory. The other girls wanted
piece of the melon just about as much
as anybody can want anything. When
the slice was half gone one of them
looked pleadingly at the melon-eater and
murmured:
'Tildy, gimme some O. dat ar water
milin!"
"Chile," said the middle girl, looking
reprovingly at the pleader, ''whar did 4,
yeh learn yeh manners. Don't yeh
know dat it am unpolite to axe fo' any
thing. / won't give you any O. dis
watermilin kase you axes fo' it,"
The little girl who asked for the
melon got up and went away. Then the
other one ventured to remark, looking
up in Matilda's face:
"'Tildy, l didn't ask fo' any water
melon!"
Il know yeh didn't, Hannah, and dc
reason yeh didn't ak fo' any watermilin
is kase yeh didn't wan any"
Hannah got up and followed her i'm.
polite little friend, and Matilda stored
away the rest OF the melon without in-
terruDtiOn.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-21

trusts have surrendered the control
OF men unknown TO the authority grant
ing the franchises. The trusts are not
largely private affairs but are combina-
tions of corporate iGdies existing under
the authority of the state, With certain
defined rights, privileges and responsi=
bilities. These corporations have n
quasi public character, and in their
proper relation may be interfered with
10y any private citizen who has fair
reason to believe that they are failing
to comply with the obligations entered
into with the state. The fact that n
number of these corporations unite does
not destroy the right of the citizen to
interfere if he can find any law under
which to proceed. The suit that has
been brought against a corporation in
the sugar trust was instigated, as we
understand it, by private citizens.
Mr.. Blaine has made mistake, and
one which it is not questionable the
very fullest advantage will be taken by
the democracy. In fact the organs of
oIl'tI DallJ are dlTeduy hlleu Will SOHi-
ment upon it, and leading democratic
senator has found opportunity to refer
to it. 1t is mistake, however, which
with fair-minded men will work no in
jury to the republican party, what
ever effect it may have upon
the influence of Mr.. Blaine. The
republican party is broadly and eXplic-
itly committed by its platform, by the
record OF a number of its representative
men, and by the voice of its press in
opposition to trusts and all similar com.
| binations, and in favor of national and
state legislation for their suppression
and prevention.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-21
Boucicau,t on Character.

Dion Boucicault has been telling the
readers OF the New York Herald what
he thinks about the portrayal OF charac-
ter. The pith of his ideas on the sub
iect is contained in this paragraph:
"The portrait OF character by the
dramatst in his imagination and its
formation by the performer on the
stage is a collusion INTO which enters
as profound a philosophy as the human
mind can receive and contain. II is the
creation of an ideal man and his endow-
ment with vital and moral principle.
Character hold to be the distinction
existing between man and man, who
suffer differently under similar calami-
ties or good fortune. Othello suspects
his wife as Sir Peter Teazle suspects
his. The manner In which each hus-
band is affected by his jealousy betrays
his character, or, what is less correctly
called, the nature OF the man. The poet
shapes him in the abstract. The actor
makes him concrete, giving him sub
stantial being.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-21
A SpecImen Brick.

The city hall question will yet have to go
to the people-if not sooner when it comes
to the selection of Successors to the present
aldermen. And the Farnam street advocates
needn't flatter themselves that they can
shake Mr.. Patrick Ford then, either.-Re-
publican.
This is nice talk from a republican
paper. 1t is just like all its boasted
party loyalty. The Third ward
is republican excepting when the
colored vote is bought up, or
when, as is threatened above. u dem
ocrat receives aid and comfort from
boodlers who are in the republican
camp for revenue only. 1t is notorious
that Pat Ford holds his seat in the
council to-day by fraud and barefaced
bribery. If he were to serve out one
month for each vote he bought
outright to re-elect himself, he
would spend the balance of his days in
the penitentiary, and then leave half
his term unserved. There is no doubt
that Pat Ford is playing his card on the
city hall question for votes on the north
end of his ward, but that won't save his
bacon-next fall unless he buys his way
In again or has the ballot box stuffed
by some of his tools.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-21
Reform at the Beginning.

Bob Ingersoll: "People think that il
the thieves are sent to the penitentiary
that is the last of the thieves; that il
those who kill others are hanged society
is on u safe and enduring basis. But
the trouble here: A man comes to your
front and you drive him away. You
have an idea that mans case is settled.
You are mistaken. He goes to the back
door. He is driven away. But the
case is not yet settled. The next thing
you know he enters at night. He is a bur-
glar. He is caught; he is convicted; he
is sent to the penitentiary, and you i'm
agine that the case is settled.
But it is not. Your must remember
that you have to keep all the agencies
in life for the purpose Of taking care Of
these people. You have to build and
maintain your penitentiaries, your
courts of Justice; you have to pay your
judges, your district attorneys, your
juries, your witnesses, your detectives,
your police-all these people must be
paid. So that, after all, it is a very
expensive way of settling this question.
You could have done it far more cheaply
had you found this burglar when he
he was child, had you taken
his father and mother from the tene-
ment house, or had you compelled the
owners to keep the tenement clean; or if
you had widened the streets, if you had
planted few trees, if you had plenty
of baths, if you had had school in the
neighborhood. Ii you had taken some
interest in this family---some interest
in this child---instead of breaking into
houses he might have been a builder OF
bDuSaS
Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-21
STATE AND TERRITORY.
Nebraska Jottings.

A Burwell sportsm an brought down two
monster pelicans with one shot from his rifle
one day last week.
The Blue River Baptist association meets
at Fairbury Friday next and will remain in
session over Sunday
Seven telephone poles were struck by
lightning and split into thousand pieces by
the recent storm at Niobrara.
The teaching of new branch of industry
has just been commenced at the Genoa In
dian school, that of harness making.
Charitable people of Scrbner were duped
out of $40 by Olaf Nelson, who collected that
amount ostensibly for the relief of a Fremont
widow, and then skipped to Wyoming on the
proceeds.
The notorious "hog ranch" near Valentine,
which has been the scene OF many disturb
ances and one or two murders, Is now a
thing of the past, the outfit having been
closed out on chattel mortgage.
Emmons IL OpDenheimer have concluded
that there is II field at Lincoln for Jeffer-
sonian democratic paper, and last Saturday
launched the Nebraska State Democrat,
which will be printed as weekly.
Vene Pearson, seventeen year-old farm
hand working near Plattsmouth, has been
arrested for burglarizing the house of John
Frederick, carrying off large amount of
valuables. Some of the plunder was found
in Pearson's trunk.
John Liska, a Bohemian, living near Hem
ingford, attempted TO take the life of his
neighbOr, Adam Naidl, under very peculiar
circumstances. He went TO Naidl's house
late in the evening and found him in bed.
Naidl was going to get up and dress, but
Llska said he had just come over to make
neighborly call and could talk to him as
well in bed as II he was up. Naidl then con-
cluded that he would remain in bed ana the
two men We're soon engaged in discussing
the crops weather and other local matters,
which lasted tor about an hour, when Lisia
rose up to go home, and, by request of Naidl,
blew out the light. NO sooner was the room
darkened than the report of revolver, fol-
lowed by four other shots, proved that the
visitor had not come for the purpose of only
making "a neighborly call. None OF the shots
took effect and the would-be assassin es-
| capped At last reports the sheriff was una.
BILE 10 find the villain, who has left the coun-
try.
Iowa.
Fayette county will produce big crop Of
apples.
TweIty live coayicts were transferred
Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-21
Old Camn Sheridan

The bill for the relief of settlers upon
old Camp Sheridan military reserva-
ton, which recently passed both houses
of congress, is us follows
Be it enacted by the senate and house
of representatives of the United States
OF America in congress assembled,
That all entries or filings under the
homestead and pre-emptiou laws, al
lowed by the United States district
land Office at Valentine, Neb., Of lands
within the limits of the former Camp
Sheridan military reservation, situated
in township thirty-three north of
ranges forty-five and forty-six west, in
said state, prior to receipt by them of
instructions from the commissioner of
the general land office, dated July 2,
1856, be, and the same are hereby
confirmed. Provided, that the persons
making such filings or entries pos
sessed the necessary qualification and
have, since filing or entry las the case
may bel, fully complied with the law
governing entries of like character
upon public lands.
That in cases of filings under the pre-
emption law, made upon lands in said
abandoned reservation, the limitation
of thirty months, prescribed by section
2267, United States revised statutes,
shall not be enforced, but proof and pay
ment must be made within six months
from passage of this act.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-21

MR.. GRIFFITTS, the late commissioner
of the freight bureau, is making him
self very numerous all over the state
with u stereotyped remonstrance
against reduction of local freight rates.
Mr.. Griflitts gives himself great airs as
the so-called representative OF the
Omaha board of trade, when IN fact he
has no connection whatever with it, and
no right to speak for it. AS the paid
agent of the railroads, Mr. Griffitts un-
doubtedly is earning his salary, but he
should not masquerade as board of
trade commissioner.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-21

from Anamosa TO Fort Madison last week.
Audubon has scandal among its upper
ten that is shaking the foundations of So
ciety.
Herndon, Che town that was blown up so
big with natsralga a while ago, has col!
lapsed T. a
The attorney general has ruled that the in
mates of the soldiers' home are legal voters
of Marshall county.
Duvesnort has but a single Office holder in
foreign landss ;. II Ia M,llar, consul ut Leip-
sic, on Il salary Of az, 900 year.
The deputy postmaster at Sioux Rapids is
likely TO lose his Job He is quoted as hop
ing to the Lord old Cleveland would be beat
tins fall.n E
The annual reunion of the Iowa state asso-
citation of Mexican veterans will be held at
Des Moines, Tuesday and Wednesday, Sep
tember 4 and B.
The records of the Dubuque Early Settlers
association show that the first school house
in Iowa was multi at Dubuque in the fall of
1888, and that George Cubbage, who occu-
pied 1t the following year, was the first
teacher; also that Mary Ann McCraney,
whose birth occurred at Dubuque January
10, 1888, was the first white child born in the
state.
The four Methodist conferences of Iowa
meet this year as follows: The Iowa confer
enCe at Oskaloosa, September 5; the Des
Moines conference mt Creston, September II {;
the Northwest conference at Ida Grove, Sep
tember 26-at all of these Bishop Goodsell
will preside: the Upper Iowa conference at
Vinton, October 3, and will be presided over
by Bishop E'oss.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-21

and J. Lemke, were appointed members
of the Finance Committee, protein -;
The following bills were presented
and referred to finance committee.
John Wiggins, cash expended ......S13.5O
John Virgins, q months salary as Sec. $500
Total. ......................... s3s. so
M. X. Turner II Co., Stationery ..... Si.00
The finance committee reported favor
ably and on motion the bills were al
lowed and warrants ordered drawn on
the treasurer for the amounts, all vot-
ing 6ye,
The application of L. II. Wilcox, OF
Alma, Nob., was receiYed and on motion
elected member of our association,
A telegram was read from a. w.
Beahm, of Cortland, Neb., as follows:
TO John Virgins, secretary of L. S. S.
A. Family sick, sorry can't be with
you. Count me in for good of the
cause"
Different members reported rs to the
manner in which their stock was hand
led and forwarded by the railroads. AS
a rule, the stock was being satisfactorily
handled. The transportation committee
reported no complaints.
The following receipts were reported
by the secretary and the amounts paid
to the treasurer. Mccoy Bros, "ad''
$500; e. II. Wilcox, Fees, 800: w.
Weyant, Jr. Dues, Sl.00; ]. A. McShane
Dues, Sl.O0; b. King, Dues, $l.00; j.
Lempke, Dues, 81 90; j. w. Lynch Dues
$l.OO; Geo. Boetel, Dues, $l.00; j. w.
Stoclier, Dues, $l.0O; total Sl4.00.. A
vote OF thanks was extended TO Mr..
Briggs, of the Exchange Hotel Tor favors
received at this meeting.
Adjourned to meet on the second
Wednesday in October, 1883.
JOHN WIGGINS, Secretary.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-21
An unfortunate Utterance.

The good Judgment and political
shrewduess which usually characterize
the speeches of Mr.. Blaine seem to
have deserted him when he made the
reference to trusts in his Portland adj
dress. The effort to pervert what he
said into an apology for these combina-
tions must be regarded rs unfair, but
he could hardly have made "A moro un-
fortunate utterance than this: "They
arc largely private affairs, with which
neither President Cleveland nor any
private citizen has any particular right
to interfere" Mr.. Blaine could
not have had IN mind, when
he made this declaration, the
plank in the republican plat
form which declares opposition to
all combinations of capital organized in
trusts or otherwise to control arbitrarily
the condition of trade, and which coun-
sells legislation by congress and the
state legislatures to prevent the eXecu-
tion of the schemes Of such combina-
tons. He must also have been forget
full of the fact that in both branches of
congress republicans have introduced
bills for the suppression of trusts, and
that the republican press Of the country
has vigorously demanded legislation
hostile to these combinations. Mr..
Blaine is not fully in line with his
party on this matter, the great ma
jority OF republicans everywhere
believing that trusts as they are now
organized and managed are immensely
disadvantageous to the commercial in
terests of the country and to the welfare
OF the people.
There is probably no one not inter
ested in these combinations who will
agree with Mr.. Blaine that they are
private affairs with which private cit
izen has no particular right to inter
fere. Possibly Mr.. Blame does not
fully understand the plan upon which
trusts are formed. He may not know
that they largely consist Of corporations
which derived their franchises from the
| people, and which in order to enter the
Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-21
CHURCH HOWE and Tom Majors held

CHURCH HOWE and Tom Majors held
a convention unto themselves the other
day, at which they solemnly declared
against Lancaster cOunty's candidate
for congress, because he did not support
Church Howe two years ago. We
would like to see the candidate for con-
gress in this district who did support
Church Howe, with the exception, per-
haps, of General" Colby. If Church
Howe proposes to bar out every
man who did not support him,
and the rank and file of the
party bars out all those who did, we
shall be confronted with the dilemma
of nominating somebody who can't be
elected in November.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-21

THE bin for the reduction Of postage
On trees and seeds is likely to pass with
out opposition, having been agreed upon
in committee. This is q matter of i'm
pOrtance to farmers and those interested
in tree planting. 1t will to a certain
measure encourage the transmission OF
small tree seedlings into different parts
of the country which otherwise would
not be planted. 1t is proposed to re-
duce the postage rate on seeds and
trees from sixteen cents to eight cents,
and possible the rate may be made only
four cents. In this way Uncle sam will
encourage treo planting so that his
prairles may soon be covered with dense
fOreste
Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-21

THE supreme court Of Washington
Territory does not propose to give
women the right of suffrage, although
The legislature OF that territory enlarged
The franchise for their especial benefit.
1t is therefore sad disappointment for
The women Of Washington Territory to
be told that the legislature had exceeded
Its powers and that the law was uncon-
stitutional. The court rules that the
word Citizen in the constitution
means ''male citizcn," and for that rea-
Son women have no right to the ballot.
This is the most serious setback the
woman suffrage movement has expert
enced for some time, and If not counter
acted would deal the death-blow to the
party. An effort will be made to lay the
question before the supreme court Of the
United States. In case the highest tri-
bunal sustains the territorial court.
nothing short Of a constitutional amend
ment recurring the vote of two-thirds OF
the states can save woman auttrage from
total collapse.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-21

IN SPITE OF the remarkably fast time
made recently by the West Coast flyer
between Edinburg and London, q dis
lance of 400 miles, at the average rate of
iifty-three and six-tenths miles an hour,
American railroads have beaten that
record. A West Shore special between
Buffalo and Weehawken, also 400 miles
distance, averaged fifty-four miles an
hour, and during part OF the trip the
lrain attained the remarkable speed of
eighty-three miles an hour. In this
connection it may be we'll to include the
last long distance time made just few
days ago by Union Pacific special be-
Tween Cheyenne and Omaha, which av-
eraged, including stops, forty-nine miles
I'm hour. With such records, English
railroads can no longer claim to boat
The world in making fast time.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-21

THERE are still a few defective side
walks on Farnam between Ninth and
Sixteenth. They should by all means
be repaved with stone or concrete be-
fore the 1st of September. We must
have at least one of the principal
thoroughfares in perfect condition be-
fore the exposition opens.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-21
Dakota.

Liquor licenses in Jamestown now cost
$500.
Two premiums will be offered for the
fastest walking farm team at the Aurora
county fair this FALL
1t is reported that one of Alpenas fair
damscls ate twcnty-one ears of sweet corn
for dinner one day this week.
Elder Dobson, at Deadwood has kept cases
on the young fellows who attended camp
meeting for "the sole purpose of creating n
Disturbance He threatened to read the list
if there was any more monlSeyng.
The officers are on the lookout for a young
man named William Emmet. who was in the
till Tuesday of last week. On that day En-.
met left uncermoniously for other regions,
and 1t has since been discovered that he took
with him u valuable watch, sic IN cash and
u coat and vest belonging TO MIR. Stearns.
Emmett is young man of quiet disposition,
and does not appear to be as bad as this cx-
plOit proves him.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-21

For THE second week in August
Omahas bank clearlngs keap up the
rapid pace set at the beginning OF the
month. With a strong lead over her
rivals, st. Paul and Minneapolis, Omaha
takes her place sixteenth on the list of
the clearings record.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-21

COUNCILMAN ALEXANDER has started
out to stop leaks in the city's printing,
authorized by the council, for which the
city pays exorbitant prices. II Council
man Alexander will push his investiga-
tions farther, he will be sure to discover
more defects in Omaha's financial
plumbing, through which the taxpayers
money flows out in never ending streams.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-21

OF COURSE, Mr.. Adams does not know
anything about the Union Pacific depot
or the proposed change in the transfer
methods. He is also profoundly igno-
rant of the laying off of men in the
Union Pacific shops. "Where igno-
rance is bliss, 'twere folly to be wise. "
Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-21

ALL the railroads are making great
preparations for the movement of crops.
The indications are that the heaviest
tonnage known for years will be ready
for shipment in a few weeks. The only
difficulty appears to be that the rail-
roads have not enough rolling stock to
parry western products to market.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-21
lr.y.

THE Honorable Mr. Peters is on the
railroad slate for state auditor, but
states have been broken several times
In Nebraska.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-21

CONGRESS is looking for quorum.
Sixty-fve members Of the house are abb
sent, and somebody has evidently car
ried the quorum off in his vest pocket.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-21
Children Cry for Pitchers Castorla.

When Baby was sjcb, We gave her Castor5a.
When she WAS Child, she cried for Csstoris.
When she became Hiss. she clung TO Castoris.
When abe had Children. she gave them CaStoris.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-21

TIE democrats are laying in a big
surplus Of discord. 1t will be harder to
handle than the surplus in the treas
Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-21

The evidence that this is a clean
campaign is the large quantity Of 'soap"
distributed by the democrats in the
doubtful districts.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-21
------z---7 -7--sll7lllI-l -a.-
yhII DAILY BEE.
Sworn Statement of Circulation
GEO. b. TzsCHUCK.

Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence this 18th day OF August A. ID 1883:
N. p. FELL, Notary Public.
State OF Nebraska,
George Il. Tzschuck, being first duly sworn: de-
poses and says that he Is secretary OF The Bee
Publishing company that the actual average
daily circulation OF THE DAILY BEE for the
month of August. 1881, was i,bl copies;
for September 1857. H.39 copies; for
October. 1887, l4,333 copies for November,
1857. 1925 copies; for December. 1881 l5o4l cop
les; for January, 1855 b.2Oy copies; for February,
April. 1898, 1874 copies: for May, 1883, 1s,lsl
copies; foi June lSsS 1928 copies for July. 1888,
1St33 copies. GEO. u. TISCHUCK.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence this lst day of August, A. d.. 1885
N. =. FELL Notary Public.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-21
Iowa.

Fayette county will produce big crop Of
apples.
TweIty live coayicts were transferred
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-06-07
"IdeaI Gardens" Are Suggested.

An agricultural paper suggests the posi-
bility Of ideal gardens" in different sections
Of the United States. 1t says: "Our country
offers 10 the landscape gardener wonderful
advantages in its endless variety Of scenery,
the unrivaied richness of its flora, and such
diversity of soil and climate, that somewhere
within its borders every extra tropical plant
will grow II declares the Imagination can
conceive nothing more beautiful and ere
frcshing than a spring garden in New ErS-
land. when vegetation bursts suddenly forth
from the restraints of long winter And
what field for the landscape artist Is offered
in the warm, rich valleys of the southern
Aleghanics the home of the most beautiful
deciduous forests in the world Here he can
collect all plants belonging to the temperate
zone"
Another ideal garden could De made on
our northwest coast, where plants that luSu-
riate in moist regions would De at home;
while in Southern California could be gath
cred tine trees of the Mexican plateau, of the
Mediterranean basin, of Australia, and Of all
the dry countries in the world; and here
gardens might be made surprising in rich
ness and variety of interest even those of the
Riviera" 1t is not clear whether the sug
gestion is that public gardens representative
of the flora of vast sections be established
The idea would not be a bad one, if that he
intended Globe Democrat.