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Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-20
JUST A MINUTE.
News of the Saturday Evening Bee
Condensed.

News of h Saturday Evening Bee
Condensed.
William kindle, brakeman, Creston, Ia,
was killed in u collision yesterday.
The Free Masons of Paris nave issued a
pronunciamcnto against General Boulunger.
Charles w. Seeficld, a prominent grain
dealer of st. Charles, Mimi, failed yester.
day.
Ont of the ten engineers that were ex-
amined at Plattsmouth Friday but one was
qualified.
The case Of the Mccormick Harvester
company VS. William Brown, of Schuyler, has
been settled.
Knapp and Reading have signed articles o
agreement for a race for 81 900, TO take place
carly in February.
The Omaha guards are considering the ad-
visibility of a trip to New York to attend
the Washington inauguration centennial.
James A. Draper, ir., OF st. Louis, son of
James A. Draper of PaWtucket, is missing,
and his father fears he has met with
foul play.
The weekly bank statement shows that the
reserve has Increased So $50, 900. The banks
now hold SIS, 03O, 900 in excess of legal re-
quiremcnts.
1t is stated that owing to a recent change
in The system OF Operating. main line freights
have met with considerable delays of late on
the Union Pacific.
Captain II, L. Paine, for nearly twenty
1919 - hlfNNA'' tN Wv - ifph y "a
ciiic depot, died yesterday at his former resi-
dence, No. 62l Pierce street.
Archbishop Corrigan has issued a circular
letter to the Catholic clergymen of New
York City and diocese denouncing DIR. Nc
Glynn's anti-poverty society.
The friends OF Henry p. Marshal Ode
%ceased), Tor twenty years cashier of the
eaman's bank, are astounded to find his
accounts short thousands of dollars.
Hart and Hynes defeated MCNAMARA and
r. In, 4, - 1890. la-l l-tI "A. A. -
court Friday afternoon. The match was for
$50, John Dempsey, of Chicago, was referee.
Near Cumberland Gap, KY, Thursday,
Judge Clay Turner shot and killed Calvin
Watson, "a well known citizen OF Bell county,
that state, The fight originated in a law
suit.
William Phores. stakeholder for two uli-
nois men who made heavy bets on the late
election, Is now between two fires, as ono
says he must and the other says he mustn't
turn over the money.
The McCloud.Loye Live Stock association,
of South Omaha, filed articles OF incorpora-
tion yesterday morning. The capital stock
is $50, 900, divided into shares OF 800 each.
The business will be that of a live stock COM
mis- sion company.
The ticket brokers in Omaha, Denver and
other western points that are members OF
the Guarantee Ticket brokers association,
Will, at AN early date, make a crusade on the
railroads, the principal ones being the Union
Pacific and the Is. * M.
Friday five of the striking brotherhood
men applied TO Master Mechanic Hawks.
worth, at Plattsmouth, for positions as en-
gineors, and IL Is said that he Informed them
that he had received no Instructions TO
take any OF the brotherhood strikers
back, and consequently had no
work for them. The impression prevails
among the engineers generally to the eff
feet that the Burlington does not intend to
take back a single brotherhood man where it
can avoid doing 70.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-20

ladder. Then the young gentlemen each
took an end of the ladder. and the trio
marched two miles through the mud
to the house of the other loved one, and,
while placing the ladder against the side Of
the house, discovered that another ladder
was placed against the shed, and they had
carried a seventy-five pound ladder two
miles for nothing. Then the ladder was
raised to the window and maiden No. 9 de-
scended into the arms of her adorer. The
two young couples then repaired to Edger-
ton, and, procuring buggies, drove through
the deep mud to Leavenworth, a distance of
over twenty miles. On their arrival there
they repaired to the court house and were
married by Judge Hawn, after which they
nine couples who have eloped from Edgerton
and vicinity and have been married in Leav-
enworth during the past six years.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-20
NEW YORK IS STILL UNEASY
Cars are Not Tied UP, but Then They
May Be.
THE HIPPOPOTAMUS IN DANGER.
Central Parks Pet Has a Cold and In
digestion - Heroic Treatment
Saved Its Life and the Peo-
pie RejOiced.
Waiting For a Tie.Up.

NEW YORK, Jan. 49, Special Cor
r%espondence Of THE BEE. ~l--Brooklyn,
like New York, is suffering all the hor-
r0rs Of suspense with regard to the
horse-cars, but the situation there is by
nc means SO painful us in New York,
because there is nowhere the same con-
c%entration of travel, and the elevated
railroads would be able to accommodate
nearly one-half the passengers hal now
use the horse cars. In New York each
of these lines of travel is strained to it's
utmost capacity, AMI therefore a tie-up
would be a real calamity. The situa-
ton is precisely the same as when /
wrote you last. The companies will not
recognize the officials of District Assem-
bly, No. l of the Knights of Labor, and
the latter say that they propose to see
that the laws OF the state with regard to
the hours Of labor are observed. On
all the companies n man must be on duty
fourteen hours every day, and on some he
must be on duty sixteen hours. During
that time he will be on his car either
ten or twelve hours unless something
happens which necessitates his being
pn trips during the whole fourteen or
sixteen hours. Did any slave owner in
the days Of slavery exact such service
from the man who was his thrall and
his property, body and bones? Many
OF these car men are husbands and
fathers, and they are ut home for such
short spells that they never see their
wives and children by the light of the
n There Is IA society tor the sup
preston OF cruelty to animals, and if
any horse in any OF these car lines is
Overworked there will be arrests. |
think there should be a society for the
protection of ~worKingmen from the
cruelty OF their employers. But per-
haps 1t would not be of any service, for
the state law regulating the hours of
labor Is a mock that no one observes.
ABRAHAM HEwITT's KNOwNOTHINGIsM.
A very curious story is floating
paper offices. Mr.. Berry, as all the
world knows, was Mr.. Hewitt's private
secretary during his astounding may
orally, and in reward for his faith
full service Mr.. Hewitt promised
him the position of tax commits
sioner. Mr.. Berry Is a Catholic, and
his cranky employer was ignorant Of
the fact, though everyone supposed that
he knew it. Two or three days before
the New Year, some busybody wrote to
the mayor asking him if he thought it
was right to place another Catholic in
the tax department, when there were
two in 1t already. This fearful news
moved Uncle Hewitt to the very mid
rif. He questioned his private secre-
tary and found that il was. alas, too true.
''Then | annot appoint you as tax COM
missioner, he said with much decision,
''for l do not believe in turning over
any important department TO the con-
troll Of the Catholics, and l am informed
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-20
Madison VOICES MATER Bonds.

MADISON, Neb., Jan. 19.-[Special to THE
BEE. The special election held here yester-
day on the question Of issuing water bonds
to the amount of $751; 500 resulted in favor of
the bonds by a vote of 1865 to "A.
The article in the Republican of the 18th
inst. TO the effect that charges have been pre-
ferred against Sheriff Flynn charging him
with bribery is wholly false and without a
shadow OF foundation, and creates great in
dignatlon on the part of MIR. Flynn and his
many friends. Mr.. Flynn has given general
satisfaction as sheriff, has many and infu-
entail friends, and a libel suit is likely TO be
the outgrowth OF the publication mentioned.
Edward Walters, arrested at South Omaha
Thursday upon suspicion OF beng a horse
thief, was held at the county Jail until Friday
night, when he was taken 70 Atchison by
Sheriff Berry, of that place. upon a requisi-
ton from the governor OF Kansas.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-20

the line must be drawn, for one mpn will
consider a motive blamable which another
will consider pardonable. Many men, many
minds, says the proverb, and the annals OF
Anthony Comstock's law experience are
sufficient to show that judges differ very
materially upon this very material point:
Where does permissible freedom end, and
where does obvious Obscenity begin! III
cannot be denied that from the standpoint or
public morals, the American and English
artists are wiser in their generation than
their brothers of the continent. TIL gist of
judicial decision shows this, for 1t has repeat
eddy been adjudged that a picture
was not obscene. while the photograph Of
that same picture was obscene. From the
continental point of view this would be an
absurditY, butli S on the assumption that great
technical merit lifts an otherwise bjectiona-
BILE painting INTO an exceptional category.
The wise men of Norwich have been
girded at by pungent paragraphers, and SOL
EMMY rebuked by stately editorial writers,
and yet they did nothing more than many
sculptors do of their own volitlOn. The
hint given TO art by the fig leaf of Paradise
has been adopted very generally. 1t will be
said that we do not find tn is in the famous
Elgin marbles. 1t is true. But If an appeal
is made to ancient art it must be made with
a full statement of the circumstances.
In pre-Phidian sculpture, all female forms
are swathed in drapery, as those art STU
dents know who have drawn the t'ates. The
human form is also clothed in all process
sional has. reliefs, such as the Panathenaic
procession. There remain some nude
statues of males, such as the
Theseus and nyssus, but there is a peculiar
ity about them which merits consideration.
The reclining attitudes of these show that
they represent the immortals upon the
mountain of beatitude, ana that they are
ghosts and not mortal men. There are
PhenIcian silver bowls which represent alb
solutely the forms and the attitudes of these
superb illustrations of the human form, un-
der such conditions that the meaning is not
to be contested. There are also pre- Phidian
marbles representing the winged Hermes
and these are nude. We are here, therefore,
on the trace of an art law in which Greek
sculptors in the best period of Hellenic art
represented feminine spirits as completely
clothed, men and women in their conventional
attire and the immortals and gods alone as
naked. 1t was only through the degeneracy
and corruption of later times that goddesses
and feminine spirits were sculptured in i'm
mortal nudity.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-20
Couldn't stand Her scornfuI Laugh.

RAPID CITY, Oak, Jan, 19.-GSpecial Tele-
gram to rHE BEE.I7This afternoon Dick
Stevens, a farmer, met his wife on Main
street, and after a short conversation,
knocked her down The trouble grows out
of an intimacy which has existed for some
time between Mrs. Stevens and Bob Hull
burt. Stevens has twice tried to kill HUI
burt, but failed. The woman came to town
a short time since to wait on her mother,
who is sick, and Hulburt followed her here,
where the intimacy was renewed. To-day
Stevens came in TO kill HuIburt, but the lat
ter escaped. The husband and wife met on
the street and she taunted him with being
jealous and laughed at his remonstrances.
He knocked her down, but was prevented
from doing any further Violence. The end IS
teen years.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-05-25

The wild rumor 10 borne across the seas that
Queen Victoria Is excessively fond of tapioca
pudding Now let come one cable to London that
Baby Mckee likes Pats6ug Ckroaicls-.
Telegraph.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-05-25

Each passing hour sheds tribute from her WINGS
And still beauties meet his lonely walk
And loves unfelt attract him Not breeze
Flies DER the meadow. cloud imbibes
The settng suns enug cncc a
From all the tenants of warbling shade
Ascends. but whence his bosom partake
Fresh pleasure, unreproved. Nor thence partakes
Fresh pleasure, only for the attentive mind.
By this harmonious action N powers,
Becomes herself harmonious wont so oft
In outward things to mediate the charm
OF sacred order, she seeks at home
To find kindred order, to exert
Within herself this elegance of love,
This fair inspired delight: her tempered powers
Refine at length. and every passion
cbAster. milder, more attractive mien."
Here is a lesson in using the imagination in
way to produce only contentment and delight a
use of it that enriches the mind and makes us both
happier and wiser mortals. But, coming down to
more material things mean things more material
in the sense of being subject matter for the imagi-
nation to work upon, want to tell you about my
imaginary library, a most valuable collection of
books of which am the sole owner and manager
in my mind, of course.
But, first, must tell you how came into pos
session of such a treasure. 1t was in this way
am great lover of books, but unfortunately have
not the means to enable me to crafty my desire
for library. So l began to amuse myself by
afford them; and then the next thing knew was
imagining that actually had just such library
as l go much wanted and, honestly, now, you
would not believe the amount of pleasure obtained
from that sort of mental occupation. Some time
ago l began collecting the works of American
authors, in this way, and a magnificent collection
it is, too. can't begin to tell you the enjoy ment
| have had, not only in purchasing my books,
ransackipg the books torres for special editions,
hunting for certain works out Of print, etc., but
also in the catalogueing and arrangement of them
after had them safely delivered from the book
seller to my library. Some nights l work until
nearly midnight classifying and arranging them to
suit me. OF course great many of my books were
not bought for the pleasure of reading them, for
the simple reason that to read them would be any
thing but pleasure; but they help to complete
my collection. In making the collection leave
no field of literature untouched l have included
history, politics, science, poetry, fiction, biography,
works on religion and art, in short, my library
embraces books on every conceivable subject upon
which any American author has written. have
covered erythiDg in the literature of this
try, from the days of Cotton Mather down to Bill
Nye's letters So you can readily see what valua-
BILE and interesting collection l have succeeded in
getting together.
This is q pleasant and inexpensive way of getting
nice library, and, besides you risk of being
known as q book crank, or as one of them blamed
bibliomaniacs In other words, If you want
library and have not the money to buy it, just
imagine that you have one, and see how much
pleasure 1T will,give you'd. Il, Prttchard.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-05-25

ment or reason. That there In much truth In what
they say cannot be denied; and people who are
always building air. castles never amount to much
The exercise of the imagination is a very pleas
urable pastime, and gets into the habit It
Is not easy to quit It, But let me quote you few
lines from Mark Akenside. In the third book of
his poem, 1.-THE Pleasures of Imagination" l find
the following:
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-07-17
The Hon. MIR. Cody-And Buffalo
Bill"
From the United Service Magazine.

From the United Service Magazine.
Fort Davenport was a twelve-company
post, and was garrisoned by ten troops
of the 33d Cavalry and two companies
of the list Infantry. The quarters were
well-built and spacious. The enterpris-
ing trader had fitted up two apartments
with billiard and card tables, which he
called respectively the officers club
room and the mems room. 1t was in
that Bill Cody made his now somewhat
famous reply to captain of the 18th.
1t was soon after the engagement at
Thin Knobs. where Cody had availed
himself of the opportunity to scalp an
Indian. Several officers were convers-
ing in the room together, when one ex-
pressed it as his opinion that Cody
ought not to scalp. He said: at is all
right enough for the Indians to scalp;
they know no better. But Cody ought
to be above such things"
Tie scout who was being criticised
was standing in the doorway, and
though he could not be seen by the in
mates of the room, yet he heard every
word that was said. AS the speaker
concluded, Cody walked into the room.
He certainly was a picture. His tall /,
1.-THE, muscular figure was set off by a
gorgeous suit Vi UldCk V0lNOb lTIUuDu0U
with gold braid. His long golden hair
hung below his shoulders. In a belt at
his waist two Colts revolvers and a
hunting knife reposed. Fringed buck
skin leggings, which were almost one
solid mass of beadwork, covered the
lower part of his shapely legs. A broad
brimmed hat of light telt a la the Earl
of Dunraven was perched launtily on his
Well-sbaped head. His complexion was
as it ever has been since [ first met
him on the plains-as pink and as white
and as f1eckless as a blooming maiden
of eighteen summers. [ think the
manufacturers of many different kinds
or soaps, washes and lotions, SO highly
recommended by the clergy and star
actresses, could do neat stroke of bust
ness by getting Cody to indorse them.
Well, he STROBE into the room and said !,
Gentlemen, | want you to understand
one thing; the Hon. William F. Cody
does not scalp Indians. But when l am
on the plains am Buffalo Bill, and Buf.
falo Bill scalps them every time"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-07-17
His Fatal Blemish.
From the Chicago Tribune.


He had taken vacant seat in the car
by the side Of lovely young girl with
whom he had some acquaintance al
ready, and whom he was ardently de-
sirous of impressing favorably. Under
the spell OF his brilliant conversational
powers and the glance of his dark hazel
eye the tell-tale blush had risen to his
cheek and bore mute yet eloquent testi-
mony to the progress the persumptuous
youth was making in her good graces.
Carelessly handing the trainboy quar-
ter of dollar and requesting the worth
of it in caramels, he was about to resume
the conversation that had been inter
rupted for the moment, when he saw
the flush die out Of the young lady 8
face and a cold, Indifferent, wearied look
take its place, and be knew blight had
fallen forever on his budding hopes.
On what trides hang the destinies OF
two human lives AS the boxes of car
amels were thrown by the trainboy on
the young mans lap they fell to the
floor, and his fair companion had seen
them TALL and noted the reason.
Il can never marry man." she had
SAID to herself, "as bow-Iegged as he
is -
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-07-17

From the Philadelphia Press.

In1777, during the Revolutionary war,
an officer in Virginia having uninten-
tionally offended another, received a
challenge to fight duel. He returned
for answer that he would not fight tor
three reasons: First, not having COM
mitted any fault, he would not expose
his lie TO crafty the caprice of an inn
petdOus man; second, that he had a
wife and children who were dear to him,
and he would not do them such an in
Justice as to run the chance of plunging
them into misery; and, third, as his life
was devoted to the service OF king and
country, it would be violation both of
moral and civil duty to risk 1t in prl-
vate quarrel.
In consequence of his refusal his an
tagonist posted MIN as coward and he
had the modification of seeing himself
Stunned by all his brother officers.
Knowing he had not merited such dis
grace, he resolved to put an end to 1t,
and having furnished himself with a
large grenade, he went TO the mess
room where the officers were assembled.
On his entrance they looked on him
with disdain, and one of them said !:
"We don't associate with towards"
Gentlemen" replied he, II am no
more coward than any one OF you,
though [ am not such fool as to forget
my duty to my country and to my fam
lily. AS to real danger, we shall soon
see who fears it the least" So saying he
lighted the fuse of the grenade and
threw it among them; then, crossing his
arms, calmly awaited the explosion.
The affrighted officers rose and ran to-
ward the door in the greatest confusion.
The moment the room was cleared the
hero threw himself fiat on the floor and
the grenade exploded, shaltering the
walls and the ceiling, but doing him no
harm. Alter the explosion the tugitives
ventu-ed into the room. expecting to
see the officer torn to pieces, but were
welcomed instead with hearty laugh.
From that moment they ceased to shun
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-07-17
Jim's Maiden Effort.

1t is seldom that practical Joke can
be INDUCED in without bringing I'M
pleasant consequences upon someone.
Occasionally, however, one may be
found which is both innocent and anus
ing, like the following, narrated to the
author of the Falcon on the Baltic"
The hero of the tale was certain terri
BILE greenhorn" by the name of Jim, on
whom someone or other was always
playing trick.
One evening the barge was sailing by
Sheerness, and skipper, happening to
look at the clock, saw it wanted a
minute or so to nine. He remembered
that at nine o'clock a gun was always
fired at Sheerness; so, being mischiev-
Gus sort of chap, he sings out to the
green hand.
Eli here, Jim, come on deck at
once. and bring the fog-horn with you .''
Jim tumbled up.
Now, blow that there fog-horn fo1
your life ~ cries the skipper.
e'What for?" asked Jim, looking
round.
Don't ask what for, but blow, you
lubber If vessel doesn't salute Sheer
ness with her fog-horn as she passes by,
they fire at her."
Jim, believing it all, takes the horn,
and blows like mad.
Harder, harder' cries the skipper.
''They can't hear that. They'll shoot us
all, if you aims louder"
SO Jim was blowing away with all the
wind he had, when suddenly off went
the nine o'clock gun. and i'm gave yell,
threw the fog-horn on deck, and rushed
below to hide from the cannon balls.
Oh, he was green chap, then! He's
a bit smarter now, but the story of that
fog-horn will always follow him.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-07-17
Why Mr.. Stebbins Did Not Respond.


There are crack military companies
enough through the country. They
have their manuals down fine and look
as pretty as a basket of peaches; but
ask your grandfather, who remem bers
the militia companies of half century
ago, what he thinks of them, and listen
to the old genteman's snort of dis
DIN. The modern ones are the better,
but you will never make him think.so.
Away back in the forties, when war
had been declared against Mexico, ev-
cry Southern town of any size had it's
militia company and sent it's quota to
serve under Scott and Taylor.
The town of Hillsborough, N. c., was
no exception. The alarms of war had
reached it's laggard ears, and its small
company was mustered tor volunteers.
The rollcali was read by the recruiting
sergeant, who got along all right until
he came to the name of Bill Ste bbins.
William Stebbins," he called.
No answer.
William Stebbins," he repeated,
with rising infection.
No answer.
II am sure William Stebbins is here.
l saw him galivanting around with the
girls not half an hour ago."
William Stebbins," he shouted at
the top o. his voice. eff William Steb-
bins is in the ranks let him answer at
once to his name. William Stebbins. "
''Yes I am" came sullenly from the
rear rank, "but L hain't goin' to no
Mexico"