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Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-21
Gas AND ELECTRTCI1,Y.

The council is still wrestling with the
gas and electric lighting problem.
The attempt to substitute electric
lamps for gas lamps In lighting our
streets is premature, and ill-advised.
The problem of street lighting reduces
itself to question Of dollars and cents.
What the the citizens and taxpayers of
Omaha demand is the largest amount
Of light for the least money. Electric
lights caunot possibly be furnished as
cheaply as gas. The amount at the dis
posal of the council for street lighting
is limited. II electric lights are substi-
tuted for gas, the area Of illumination
would have to be narrowed down. Many
streets now lighted with gas
would have to be remanded
to absolute darkness or con-
tent themselves with gasoline lamps.
The local Edison companiesiu the large
eastern cities supply incandescent light
at one dollar and fifty cents per thou
sand feet, that is, they charge one dol
lar and fifty cents for light equivalent
to one thousand cubic feet of gas. TAX
ing into consideration the difference be-
tween the cost Of fuel and labor in
Omaha and New York, Philadelphia or
Chicago, it is safe to assert that cleo
tricty equal to one thousand feet of gas
cannot be supplied in Omaha for less
than two dollars per thousand, or fully
twenty-five per cent above what gas of
good quality could be supplied for.
New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and
other large cities have not discarded
gas for street lighting because they do
not prefer electric lights, but because
they cannot afford the increased tax.
Omaha cannot afford to increase her
taxes as readily as Chicago, Philadel-
phia and New York. All that can be
done here economically is to introduce
electric lights on the principal business
streets, and contract for gas light at the
lowest possible rate that can be had.
The proper thing for the council to do
if it desires to introduce electric light
ing on large scale is to invite compe-
tition and to award the contract for
electric lighting to the lowest bidder.
AS regards illumination for private use
VhO IuO Tlshb W uldIe
both the gas and the electric light
companies. The city has the right to
establish standards of quality, and to
fix the rate to be charged to consumers.
This rate should, however, be based
upon the cost OF production and guam
tity con sumed. 1t should be with the
gas rate as it is with the water rate.
There should be sliding scale for the
patrons of the gas company, guaged by
the quantity of gas they use. 1t stands
to reason that the company can afford
to give material discounts to hotels,
opera houses and industrial institutions
which they could not reasonably be re.
quired to make to parties who consume
two or three dollars worth of gas per
month. 1t costs just as much to inspect
the meter ana collect the rental for
four-room dwelling as it does in the
Millard hotel and Union Pacific head
Quarters.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-21

IT is estimated that the total value of
the Kansas crops this year will be fully
hundred million dollars. OF this
there is about 0O.000,000 bushels of
corn. Nebraska is only short way be-
hind Kansas in the area of acreage and
fully up in the yield per acre. Esti-
mating the difference in favor of Kan
sas at 25 per cent, Nebraska's grain
crop will yield at least 75,O0O.0O0 bush
els this wear.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-21
Elegy on the Elixir.

Minneapolis Tribune.
Lay aside the little squirt gun;
Let the lamblet frisk in glee,
Do not raise knife to hurt one
That elixir is n. &.
What they told us of its virtues
Was naught but a facile lie.
Twill not heal-'twill sorely hurt yez;
Shun the bowl OF bacilli.
' N. B.-The gentleman who contributed
the above touching lines requests all readers
to bear down hard on the final syllable of the
last work.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-21

THE street car company has decided
to practically abandon horse motive
power except for auxiliary lines and
substitute the cable and electricity.
Cheap and quick transportation is what
Is demanded and the quicker the proper
facilities for rapid transit are afforded, i,
the better the company will be regarded
by this community.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-21
Fink's Su,cide Denied

NEW YoRK, August 2O.-The reported sui
eide of Frederick Fink by jumping from
steamer while on the way from Boston to
Philadelphia is absolutely denied here to-day
by his family. They say he must have fallen
over accidentally. Dispatches were re-
ceived saying all was well when he left Bos-
ton, where he had gone on business for conn.,
mission merchants Of Kansas City, whose
agent he was. Fink was q member of the
produce exchange,
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-21
THE Chinese are Slipping into this

THE Chinese are slipping into this
country through lower California and
other points along the Mexican and
Canadian frontiers. While it may be
the duty OF the government to prevent
this violation of the Chinese exclusion
act, the United States will have to build
veritable Chinese wall around Our
boundary line before the willy Mon
golian can be effectually barred from
smuggling himself into free America.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-21

THE secret OF the magnificent condi-
tion OF the paved streets of the great
cities of Europe lies in the fact that re-
pairs are made on the asphalt streets
as soon as the defects are detected.
This should be the fixed rule in Omaha
governing the streets under the charge
of the Barber Asphalt company.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-21
SQUARE PEGS IN ROUND HOLES

SQUARE PEGS IN ROUND HOLES.
Among the proceedings of the board
of education as reported through the
World Herald, we note the following:
A long petition that looked like web Of
wall decoration declared that two hundred
or three hundred or more citizens and tax
payers wanted a person by the name of
Borndruck to get job teaching German in
the high school, 1t was clamorously rushed
into the ante-room and filed away by a hired
boy.
This is very striking comment tary
upon the methods that prevail in our
board of education. Mr.. Borndruck
was endorsed by some two hundred of
our most prominent public school
patrons. He is a scholar and man OF
character. He is a graduate of a Ger
man university and thoroughly quail
fed not only to teach German, but the
classics. He has forgotten more of Latin
and Greek than most of the teachers
OF ancient languages in the high school
ever knew. He is not only highly cul-
tured, but a man of unexceptional
habits and strict integrity. But it
seems to be the policy of Superintend-
ent James and the committee on teach
ers and text books in the selection and
assignment of teachers to put square
pegs into round holes. Teachers who
might do good work in history or math-
ematics are assigned as instructors Of
Latin, Of which they know little or
nothing, and Americans with smatter-
inc of German ara mazda ipstructOrs Nf
that language. The high school is not
only full of these square pegs in round
holes, but also has become an asylum for
imbeciles, invalids and pensioners. 1t
is not to be expected that patrons of the
school can by petition dictate who
shall or shall not be a teacher in our
schools, but the faculty Of high school
should be above mediocre, especially in
view OF the high salaries paid.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-21
THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY,, AUGUST 2l 1885,

the Louisville Courier-Journal "Let them
therefore be punished in both statesn This
shows commendable change of sentiment
in the south. Not so very long ago the fact
that the duel occurred on the state line
would have been seized upon as an argument
that the duelists could be punished in neither
state.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-21

THE necessity for proper place to
care for injured persons who have no
home becomes more imperative as the
city grows. Means should be adopted
by the proper authorities for city hos
pital to be run by nurses and doctors
under the city pay, and answerable to
. the board of health.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-21

AN Omaha man has expressed de-
termination to expend 5000 if neces-
fary in tho recovery of his dog, which
he alleges is wrongfully kept from him
by Fremont sportsman. When an
Omaha man decides upon having any
thing expense is no object 10 him.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-21

TIE excitement over the killing Of
ex-Judge Terry in California is likely
to increase rather than diminish. At
Terry's old home, Stockton, the people
are divided into Fieldites and Terry
ties, and personal encounters among
the factions are not at all uncommon.
Much of the rough spirit of mining
days still fingers under Califo rnia's
veneering of civilizati on.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-21

A PHILADELPHIA newsboy recently
recovered $4,000 from street car COM
pany for damages, and his lawyer took
$4,000 for his fee. 1t was extremely
lucky for the boy that he did not have
two lawyers, for they would have alb
sorbed the whole twenty thousand.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-21

Frank Tucker, painter, fell from the ln-
side scaffolding at the new Christian church
building this morning and sustained injuries
that may result fatally. He was engaged in
putting the finishing touches on some fresco
work, and fell IA distance Of twenty-four feet,
lighting on his head and shoulders. He was
unconscious when picked up, and examina-
tion revealed the fact that he suffered from
concusson of the brain. Tucker is single
man and boards at the corner of Fifteenth
and II streets.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-21

THE.park commission has just viewed
fifty acre tract OF land three and a
half miles west of the business center
on Leavonworth street. The owners
are willing to donate the land unre-
servedly for park purposes, and the
commissioners seem willing to accept it,
The land is long way of, but the city
may grow up to it in the course of the
next ten or fifteen years.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-21
A Threatened Invasion of Arabs.

New YoRK, August 20.-Twenty Arabs of
both sexes who came over on the steamer
La Normandie, are detained at Castle Gar
den until the Turkish consul can be con-
suited. 1t is said there are 10000 Arabs
waiting TO come TO this country provided the
twenty ar passed through.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-21
Cornell and Whitehead r. ,sien.

9. H. Cornell, state senator from the Four
teenth senatorial district, and james White
head, representative from the Fifty-sixth
district, have rendered their designations to
the governor, to take effect at once, and they
have been accepted. Cornell resigned to &C.
cept the position of receiver at the Valentine
land office. and Whitehead to become deputy
collector of internal revenue. The governor
will issue his proclamation to provide for the
election of candidates TO supply the vacan-
cles at the next general election.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-21

OMAHA's school population on the first
day OF January of the current year was
twenty thousand five hundred, as much
as Omaha's total population numbered
fifteen years ago.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-21
Fatal Boiler txpIOsioD.

PITTsBuRG, August 2O.-The mud-drum of
boiler at Gangwich's brewery, in ALE.
gheny City, exploded with terrific force this
af ternoon, completely wrecking large
three story building. Henry Snyder, an
employ, was killed outright, and two others
seriously, but not fatally, INJURED. The dam
age will reach $4,000.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-21

BY the way the western roads lead
Ing out of Chicago are adopting the
Burlington & Northern's cut in freight
rates, it is evident that they are swal-
lowing the medicine without grimace :,
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-21

WATERFOWL, Dakota, has sent one
OF her citizens among US for the pur-
pose of enlisting the attention of
Omaha business men in her resources.
Watertown is destined to become
large city. and Omaha would do we'll to
cultivate her acquaintance.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-21
The Supreme Court.

The following cases were filed for trial in
the supreme court to-day;
The Mccormick Harvester company VS.
Jensen & Anderson; error from Kearney
county.
Mary S. Sloke VS. b. II. Begole ct al; error
from Gage county.
Prentiss ID. Cheney ct al VS. Andrew j.
Dunlap ct all: appeal from Johnson county.
Jonn w. Cutoer VS. Omaha 81 Republican
Valley railroad company; error from Gage
county.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-21

MONTANA is suffering an irreparable
loss by the destruction OF its forests by
fire. The conftagration has assumed
such alarming proportions that the
gravest fears are entertained not alone
for the forests and stock farms, but for
the cities and towns themselves.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-21

THERE are several lightning rods in
the Second district which will not be
struck, no matter how high in the air
candidates for congressional honors
may hoist them.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-21

MRS. HELEN M. COUGAR, of Indiana,
says that she expects to live to occupy q
seat in congress with st. John as
president. In such bang up ad-
ministration our own Mrs. Colby, of the
state of Beatrice, would doubtless
occupy cabinet position.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-21

THE esteem in whicn the late Jesse
James of Missouri was held by his fell
low citizens is shown by the erection of
handsome granite monument over his
remains. Missouri always loves to hon
or her distinguished men.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-21
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Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-21

NEW YORK papers claim that it will
take at least fifteen million dollars to
make the exhibition OF 1892 what it
should be, and that Chicago could not
raise such a large sum. Up to date
Chicago has made much better show
ing than New York for raising such an
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-21

THE grain movement from the ives
to the seaboard is approaching high
water mark. For the past few weeks
the receipts Of grain at Chicago have
averaged nearly five million bushels
week
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-21

THE recent decisions of the New York
courts are evidence that the strong arm
OF the law has been effective in keeping
down the price of sugar by checking the
manipulations of the sugar trust.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-21
Coupter,eiters in Dakota.

GRAND FORKS, S. D., August 20.-Coun-
terfeit silver dollars made their appearance
here to-day. A number have been found
dated 1878. They are almost perfect imita-
tions, but lighter than the genuine. There
Is supposed to be gang of counterfeiters
working the northwest.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-21

THE talked OF new Atlantic cable from
Labrador to Ireland would be 100 miles
long, or 200 miles shorter than any of
the existing cables. There are already
nine cables doing business, and some
doubt exists whether another one would
INV
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-21
Are the 400 Patriotic.

ChicdVD ITDunG-
II there Is particle Of puolic spirit in
New Yorks 400 they will subscribe at least
81 to assist their struggling fellow citizens to
capture the worlds fair in 1892; and the sum
is urgently needed.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-21
a Very Rad Showing.

BUFFALO, August 2O--Gerhard Long, who
was appointed receiver IN the matter of the
dissolution Of Sherman Brothers Il Co., has
filed a report which shows that the amount
of bills payable was about 1855, 900 and that
the actual assets were between $4,000 and
81 OOO
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-21
From a Southern standpoint

tHicuVo fHeT-OctdH
Prize fighting appears to be more effective
as disturber of the dignity of the law in the
south than duelling.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-21
That Trouble at the ASYLUM.

That trouble at the Asylum.
An Omaha paper to-day sought to create
the impression that bloody war was immi-
nent at the Lincoln asylum for the insane
The statement was made that the state was
treating insane patients from other states at
the expense of the home insane aud that the
matter would probably be officially investi-
gated. The correspondent of the paper in
question also stated that the complaint was
due to the fact that the state asylums for
the insane were overcrowded and that there
were great many insane in many of the
county poor houses that could not obtain the
care they needed. While at tho state house
to-day The BEE representative called the
attention OF Secretary Laws and Attorney
General Leese to the statement and sought
its verification or denial. These gentlemen
both of whom are members of the board of
public lands and buildings, expressed their
surprise and said that there was nothing in
1T. 1t appears, however, that the son of
Catharine Van Cott, of Howard county,
resident of Nebraska for tho past twenty
years, and constant aud heavy taxpayer,
secured the commitment of his mother to the
asylum, and 1t seems that she was former
resident of New York, where she also spent
a season in an asylum. Recovering, and
being widow. she came to Nebraska to re-
side with her son, and again lost hel mind
She was taken before the county com
mssioners, examined, pronounced in
sane and regularly committed TO the
asylum. Mr.. Van Cott, however, defrays
all of her expenses. secures her special care
and ut the same time pays his proportNnate
share of the expenses for the support of the
institution and its unfortunate inmates. The
other case comes from Saline county. 1t
seems that the unmarried son of an old clti-
zen OF that county was committed to the asy-
lum for temporary treatment. 1t is true,
though, that he owns property and pays
taxes in the state of Colorado and lived
there for a time, and this is all there is in the
story that trouble aud investigation brews
at the Lincoln asylum for the insane. Sec
retary Laws says that he investigated the
objections of DR.. Knapp to the reception of
one of these patients, on the grounds Of non
residence, and that he became convinced
that they were not tenabie. The attorney
general says that the commitments would
have made their reception obligatory. The
proper authorities of the counties from
which they were sent said they were resi-.
idents thereof, and il would certainly seem
that there is no going behind 'the returning
board.n
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-21

assured, and as this will moan pro-
longed contest. it is obviously desirable
that 1t shall Aie settled, il possible, be-
fore the date a the regular session.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-21
Not According to the Marqu, $.

chicago Herald.
Mr.. Sullivan appears TO be at disadvan-
tage in a court of law not under the mar
quis of Queensborry's rules
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-21

A Wealthy Indiana Man Dead.
LAFAYETTE, IND, August 20.-Moses Fow-
Ter, president of the Fowler National bank,
and one of the wealthest men in Indiana
died this morning, aged seventy-six years.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-21
The soutn's Moral Awakening.
Kansas CITY Journal.

"The Georgia duelists fought directly on
the Alabama and Georgia state line" says
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-21
COMMERCIAL SAVINGS BANKS
Must Keep a Separate and Distinct
Set of Books.
BANK RESERVE FUND DEFINED.
Fell From a scaffold and Seriously y
Hurt-The Alleged Muddic at
the Asylum-Another Bond
Case General News.
LINCOLN BUREAU OF The OMAHA Bss, !
1929 Z STREET,

LINCOLN BUREAU OF The OMAHA Bsg
1929 = STREET,
LINCOLN. August 20. !
The banking board was called in session
to-day by the board OF bank examiners.
Present, Hill, Leese and Benton, and Ex-
amners McNaughton, Sanders and Brink
II proved to be very important sitting. II
appears that there are class of savings
banks in the state that arc doing n regular
commercial business; that is, they make
loans as other banks and accept personal Sc
curity in the face of the law that provides
that this class of banks shall make their
loans on real estate and collateral securities.
One of the inspectors cited this fact and the
further fact that such banks gave out their
rules and regulations to depositors, citing
the law governing savings banks, and that
they were deceived into the belief that their
savings only went upon securities that tho
world esteems iron-clad. 1t appears further
that the savings banks commercially in
clined have been in the habit of ANAL gamat-
ing debts and credits, moneys loaned on any
class of securities, into one set of books,
dedicated to the use of savings
banks. On the surface this made
their business methods show up
in the most approved fashion. They sere
my !" '''oioio, noWosoi, Wheu ehc ihspeCooI
commenced nosing about and when he called
the attention of the commercial savings
banker to the sbortcoming he was politely
informed that he was getting beyond his
province and that he needn't think that he
was the state banking department. This bit
OF sharpness ranked, ana, bent on the duty
he was appointed TO perform, the meeting of
to-day was called and it was ordered without
mincing that savings banks that transacted
a commercial business must keep separate
and distinct set of books.
Apropos to this the reserve fund question
was sprung. 1t seems that the law requires
that banks In cities or towns under popu-
laton of 25,000 shall keep reserve fund of
Is per cent of the capital deposited, and %
per cent in cities of $4,000 or over. 1t is SAID
that some bankers seek to interpret the law
as meaning that reserve fund Of Is per cent
shall be kept in hand, or in cities of 25, 900 or
over, but the emphatic edict went forth that
the law means just what 1t says.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-21

Attend the
Omaha Fair
September to 8.
Railroad rates:
One fare for round trip and SOC added
from all Nebraska points.
One and One-third fare 250 miles
east of Omaha.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-21

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them. i yisitsi Hot SPRINGS To no avail. and
tried several doctors without success. ana at
last our principal druggist, Mr. John i. Finlay
ito whom ! shall ever feel gratefull, spoke 10
me about CuTiCuRA, and j consented to give
them trial. with the result that ] am per-
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-21

Are sold everywhere Price. CUTIcuRA, roo:
SOAP, 2jc; REsOLyRsT, 3l. POTTER DRUG Asp
CHEMICAL COHPORATION, Boston
sJ- Send for How to Cure skin Diseases" X" "a
pages. 30 iIluSt ratlOns and 10 tehtimOninls.
The Irish standard., 1889-04-13
A Cure For Diphtherla.

The following extract from a South
Aft lean paper is republished by reueust:
We can vouch for the efficiency of the
following remedy for d;phtheria: A
few years ago, when this dreaded dis.
ease was raging in England, VERY
simple and rapid remedy for it was dis,
covered by the celebrated Dr. Field.
lie put teaspoonful of flour of sulphur
into wine glass Of water, and stirred
it with his finger instead of a spoon. as
the sulphur does not readily ANAL.
gamate with water. When the SULPHUR
was we'll mixed he gave it as gargle,
and in ten minutes the patient was out
OF danger. Birthstone kills every species
OF fungus in man, beast and plant in a
few minutes. Instead of splitting the.
gargle out, he recommended the swal-
lowing of it. In extreme cases. to
which he had been called lust in the.
nick Of time, when the fungus was too
near closing to allow gargling, he blew
the dry sulphur through quill into the
throat, and, after the fungus had
shrunk to allow Of it, then he resumed
the gargling, and he never lost a patient,
from diphtheria.' . OIL l7.57 \. q