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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-09-04
GOVERNMENT PLACES FILLED.
Several Appointments i'm the Revenue Ser
vice Made.
The following appointment
announced:

vice Made.
The following appointments have been
announced
Storekeepers-VincentC Carroll First District
of Illinois; John II. sadler, Fifth District OF
Illinois Peter Schatsman, Thomas +. Fay and
Percy II. Nen, First District OF Ohio; W. II.
Hatfield, Thomas j. Daniel, John II. Murphy
aud Irwin Martin, Fifth District OF Kentucky I;
G.. NJ. himbley, John W. Lane, Aaron $. Hicks
and J. G. Chatham, Second District OF Ken
lucky; William Ii. Bradley, Sixth District OF
Kentucky. Gaugers-James +. Campbell, Sec
ond District of Tennessee; j. W. O Conner aud
ID. Williams, Eleventh District OF kentucky T..
I. Franks, Alfred Thurston, Y. l.. Ford. James
W. Welch and Eugene Edison, Second District
of kentucky; Joseph Il. Lewis, Seventh District
OF Kentucky Charles Langenberg, Fifth District
OF Illinois Storekeeper and gauger-John j.
Rruner Of Na1ra
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-09-04
BASEBALL EATERS.
Standing of the Clubs That Arc Contend
ing for First Place.

The relative position of the various clubs
that are contending for the pennant is
shown by the annexed table:
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-09-04
DROWNED by THOUSANDS.

Terrible Loss of Life by Floods I'm Japan
and China.
Advices from Japan state that 5000 per-
sons have been drowned by typhoons in
that country. The loss Of life In China
from the same cause has been enormous.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-09-04
JUSTICE FIELD GOES FREE.

made several confessions, was accorded a
Al
Omaha daily bee., 1889-02-24

up in Mexican county has Just been named
James Jordan Quay Mcclure Harrison. The
day may conc when he will rise up to re-
proach his parents for pretixing to his
natural name such "A directory as that.
Puck pardon me-" said the detective,
dcfcrcntially, but | have noticed, madame,
that while YOU have ooeu making YOU pur.
chascs in the store YOU have appropriated
several small articles" ALLOW me to con-
graduate you on your polite bearing re.
turned the lady, producing a card, you will
see from this that the firm has employed me
to see that its detectives act with good man
uers toward anybody they may suspcctv'
Omaha daily bee., 1889-02-24
CLEVER WOMEN.

"
Kate Claxton has had a stroke of paralysis.
She does not expect to be able to go back on
the stage.
Mrs. S. V. White, wife Of the congressman
from Brooklyn, has conscientious scrupleS on
the subsection of prohibition, and she is said
to be the only hostess in Washington who
has refused to serve wine to her guests.
Miss Jeanette I~Ialford, daughter Of the
president-clcct's private secretary, is enjoy
ing her rural life in Florida immensely. She
is frequently seen seated on top of a load of
hay and driving a team Of frisky mules.
Mrs. Mona Card, the famous author of
as Marriage II Failure" discussion, is de-
scribed as a handsome brunette, tall and
graceful, with fine eyes aud a very sprightly
expression, the very opposite OF the conVch-
tionnl ideas of the clever woman.
The Empress Frederick, 1t is said, is about
TO Join the noble army of authors-or the
army Of noble authorship writing the me-
moirs of her late husband. The book will
have to be published in England to avoid the
terrible blue pencil of Editor Bismarck.
Miss Susanna Warfcld, who resides near
Sykesvil!c, Carroll county, Md, composed
the march played at the inaugural bali Of
ilplGbullpS Lou looi' 'hN nv 'N'
want it played at the Inauguration OF his
grandson, March 4. Miss Warticld, who is
wealthy, is aged over ninety years.
Miss Julia Fletcher, the author of "kis-
met" has Il new novel in press i'll Boston. 1t
is entitled "The Truth About Clement Kerr
and promises TO be a story that will sell.
Miss Fletcher is described as a singularly
fascinating young woman-slight, graceful,
with a delicate, pale face, big blue eyes and
plenty of yellow hair. She is very witty in
her conversation.
Three years ago Dr.. Maria NJ, Dean raised
her first sign as "A homeopathic physician at
Helena, Mont. To-day she is one Of the most
popular and prominent residents of the city,
and her income last year is reported to have
been 81, 900. DIR. Dean was graduated from
the Wisconsin university and from the Bos-
ton Medical school, and has also studied in
Berlin. She is about thirty years old, and is
said to be a woman of remarkable ability,
and. although full of pluck, is not a bit mas
Cullne.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-02-24

THE sudden death of DR.. Willard d.
Bliss from Il paralytic stroke last week
remove the second Of General Gar
fields physicians who attended him dur
ing his fatal illness. OF the three men.
Agnew, Hamilton and Bliss, whose
names are still familiar to the country
during that memorable period, the
former alone remains. Dr.. Hamilton.
like DR.. Bliss, was suddenly stricken
down. There can be little doubt thai
the health of these physicians was Sc
verely impaired, due to the strain on
their constitutions from anxiety and
work in attending General Garfield on
his death bed.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-02-24
A NATIONAL BANKRUPT Law.

The associated wholesale grocers
of st. Louis have issued an in
vitation to the commercial bodies
to send representatives to q con
@vention to be held in that city
pose of formulating for presentation to
the mex congress an equitable bank
| ruIt law. A good deal Of interest in
this matter Of securing a national bank
rupt law has been shown by the COM
mercial bodies from time to time since
the last law was repealed several years
ago, and we think the national board of
ings expressed itself in favor of such a
a law. At any rate most of the COM
mercial bodies Of the country have,
within the last year or two, gone on
record in favor of a national bankrupt
act, and it was expected that
legislation would be obtained from
the present congress III con-
p%llance with this very general senti-
ment of the mercantile interests of the
country. 1t is now proposed to make a
concerted effort through the medium of
a national convention, to influence the
| next congress to give the country the
| desired law.
There is something to be said on both
sides of the question as to the cXpedi-
ency of a national bankrupt law, but
great weight must be given to tho fact
that such a law is almost universally
favored by commercial men. who GER
tainly must be regarded as the best
qualified to judge of its necessity and
eXpediency. The circular of the St.
Louis grocers says the demands of ON
merce are equally as urgent as hereto
fore for the enactment of a uniform col
lection law in the form Of an equitable
bankrupt act, which shall preserve
the respective rights of credit
ors and debtors, irrespective of
their residences or personal re-
%lationship, and adds: The essential
element necessary to extensive COM
mercial intercourse is confidence.
There is a want of absolute confidence
so long as it is possible for fraudulent
preferences to be made aud goods to be
spirited away and swallowed up. There
might be an adequate law for the cor
rection of commercial wrongs, and an
adjustment Of the rights between credi-
tors and debtors
Past experience with national bank
rupt laws in this country has not been
altogether satisfactory, but this may
have been due to remediable defects in
the laws, and does not necessarily prove
that tho principle is wrong. Most
other commercial nations have found II
bankrupt law necessary and its opera
ton beneficial. The Omaha and Platts-
mouth boards of trade are among the
commercial bodies invited to be repre-
scented in the st. Louis convention, and
it is to be presumed that both will send
delegates. The merchants of the west
are quite as much interested in this
question as those of any other part of
the country.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-02-24
SMILES.

Chicago Times: Window has been called,
but this may be a mere bluff.
Philadelphia Record: Society Editor
Learned anything new about Mary Ander-
son?
falling into disrcpute. 1t mas almost ceased
finding TascOtts.
Chicago Times: The state of Iowa will not
be represented in the cabinet, but it will
furnish the bustles for the white house.
Chicago News: A man committed suicide
at Mount Healthy, o., by freezing himself to
death. The name of the town must have
discouraged him. ,,1
New York Sun: Gentleman lin YorkvIlle
restaurant Give me a glass of milk, waiter.
Waiter-Yes, sir (going to the back door.
Jimmie, ketch de goat.
Reporter-I saw her nod yesterday to
young Mr.. Blank, of Blank & Co.
swell, don't nnOunce it as a positive en-
gagcment; Just put it In as a rumor."
Philadelphia North American; MAJ O'Rell
says that America Is composed of 80, 0OO, 600
pcople, mostly colonels." He must have spent
a long time in the drinking places of Ken
lucky.
st. Paul GLOBE: Word IS sent from
Indianapolis that Mr., Harrison has bought "A
pair of stout No. 6& shoes TO inaugurate.
with. Is that a hint to democratic Office.
holders
Minneapolis Journal; A Kansas City
Judge recently granted four divorces in six
minutes. Kansas City's claims as a rival of
Chicago are at last based upon something
besides wind.
Chicago Herald Oscar Wild has just pub
lished a magazine article entitled 1.-The
Decay of Lying" This in London, too,
where lie CarOn has been on the witness
stand for over three weeks.
Oil City Blizzard; The baby being a help
less creature, is subjected to much mistreat-
ment IN the matter of naming and kissing,
1t Is reported, for instance, that a little one
Omaha daily bee., 1889-02-24
TRADE SCHOOLS.

The establishment of trade schools in
the larger cities Of the country for the
instruction of young men in the various
mechanical pursuits, is doubtless only a
question of time. such schools have
been in operation in New York City for
a number of years, and it is expected
that during the present year similar
schools will be opened in Philadelphia
and Boston. The incentive to the es-
adjustment OF such schools is the decay
of the apprenticeship system in this
country, with the result that COMPARE
lively few Americans are now employed
in the skilled branches of mechanical
industries. The restrictions that have
been imposed upon the apprentice sys'
tenn allow but very limited opportuni-
ties to the youth of this country to learn
trades, and rs consequence the value OF
mechanical labor must be constantly re-
cruited from abroad, at least to supply
the highest requirements OF such labor.
1t is a fact that American boys gener-
ally are lot partial TO mechan-
ical pursuits. The average youth
of native birth, under IN influence
of a mistaken pride, or by reason
of the fallacious notions OF parents, pre-
fers employment that will not require
him to wear overalls or soil his hands,
even though such employment exacts
longer hours OF work and is less emu
Omaha daily bee., 1889-02-24

susie VI. Best ia Ptblic Briycr.
Herein is lovo-to take this strange, sweet
thing
That we call life, and for loves sake to fling
II TO that outer darkness men doom death,
That love may have a longer, swcetcr
breath
To face with unafrightcd hearts the gloom
The terror and tho agony OF doom,
Herein is lovc-to lift another's cross.
To give away the gold and keep the dross,
To tramplc into dust the worm Of self,
To crowd its clam'rings on the souls back
shelf;
Nor let it ever dare upraise its head
Deny its every call till it lies dead.
Herein is lovc-to strip the shoulders bare,
If need be, that "a Trailer one may wear
a mantle to protect it from the storm.
To bear the frost kings breath, so one DO
warm,
To crush the tears it would be sweet to shed,
And smile 50 others may have Joy instead.
Herein is lovc-to daily sacrifice
The hope that to the bosom closest lies,
To mutely bear rcproach and suffer wrong,
Nor lift the voice to show where both be.
long;
Nay now, nor tell it cen to God above,
Herein is love, indced-herciu is love.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-02-24
GREAT MEN.

DR.. Cuttings latest invention is a police
gun or street piece for use in riots.
The most inveterate "first-nighter" in
Chicago is b. p. Hutchinson, known as "Old
Hutch.n
Chicago has a deaf and dumb law yer,
Joseph G.. Parkinson. He is a specialist in
patent laws.
Mr.. Sergeant, the American painter who
has won such fame in London, has a fine,
powerful figure.
Vice President-Elec Morton pays 500 for
the use of a furnished house in Washington
during inauguration week.
Miles Standish's monument, on Captains
Hill, Duxbury, will be finished this year.
1t was begun seventeen years ago.
The late DR.. Hneffer, musical critic of the
London Times. hated the idea of a coffin and
believed in cremation. His body was not
burned, however, but buried in the ordinary
way.
The coffin of Colonel Goshen, the dead Cir
Gus giant, measured / feet 6 inches by 2 feet
5 inches. No hearse could be found big
enough to hold it, and it was carried to the
grave in an open wagon.
Edward Willett, newspaper man, poet and
novelist, died in New York on Wednesday.
He was fifty years old. His work on the St.
Louis Post Dispatch, Chicago Tribune and
New York Sun was of the best order. His
successful novel was ''The Search for the
Star"
James Russell Lowell is in poor health.
He writes to the Harvard society of Balti-
more: 81 have been compelled TO avoid so
far as | could all excitement and fatigue. ]
have therefore steadily declined all invita-
tions that would in any way expose me to the
risk of either.n
Key. Clark Wright, pastor of the Metho.
dist Church of the Saviour in Harlem, New
York, is almost an exact reproduction in
face, form and manner Of the late John A.
Logan. The reverend gentleman was a sol
der in the Ninth New York regiment, and
takes much interest in Grand Army matters.
Colonel Blanton Duncan, the distinguished
Kentucklan, has taken up his abode IN Los
Angeles, Cal, the adopted home of several
other Blue Grass eXiles. Although actively
engaged there in business pursuits his old
time newspaper instincts continue to crop
out, as is evidenced by a recent article from
his pen in the Los Angeles Times. in which
he deals some hard blows at railroad mOnop-
oily in true prize-ring style. He will make
himself felt on the Pacific coast.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-02-24
TIE oTERHEAD WIFE QUESTION.

THE OVERHEAD WIRE QUESTION.
No graver mistake could be made
than TO permit a further extension OF
overhead electric wires along the streets
OF Omaha. as it is proposed to do by an
ordinance pending in the council. The
business. portion OF the city is thickly
covered with u web OF wires, and every
body who is in a position to form a can
did opinion knows there is danger in
them. Why then increase the difficult
ties and the danger by additional wires
strung along the city's streets? When
most other cities having experience with
the overhead wire nuisance are making
an effort TO rid themselves of il. it is
most extraordinary that any member OF
Omaha's city government should be
found willing to give a new privilege
to further occupy our streets with poles
and wires. 1t must Dc apparent to ev-
crybody OF ordinary intelligence that if
this is done it cannot but be detri-
mental TO the thoroughfares. Wires
stretched at an elevation OF sixteen
feet, as would be the case If any rail-
way electric motor company should be
allowed 10 place wires along the streets,
would certainly be more or less of an OBJ
struction, and though the circumstances
might be few in which they would
be in the way, it is manifestly desir-
able that the streets shall be kept abso-
lutcly free from all such distractions.
The proposed ordinance is further OBJ
ie%ctionable, and very seriously So in the
fact that II would give q monopoly of
the streets to the first electric motor
company that got possession Of them.
The franchise contemplated by the pro-
posed ordinance would consequently be
of the very highest value. 1t need
hardly be said that the people will not
approve such n concession TO any COM
pany, whatever assurances it may give
for increased facilities of travel, or for
otherwise subscribing the public lnte-
rests. The plain duty of the council is
to defeat any and every attempt to
further occupy the streets Of the city
with poles and overhead wires, from
whatever source the request to do so
NAV come.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-02-24

By a provision OF congress some
twenty-five years ago each state Of the
union was invited TO send statues Of its
most distinguished sons to be placed in
Washington as n memorial of Americas
great statesmen. Michigan has just
filled II Of the inches reserved for her
In Statuary hall OF the national capitol
with "A bust of Lewis Cass. That state
may we'll feel proud of her adopted son,
who for half II century served his coun-
try in high office. While it may be true
that Cass has not left the impress OF his
individuality upon the history Of the
United States such us was stamped by
Webster, Clay or Calhoun, nevertheless
he was looked up toas one Of the leaders
of the democratic party during his long
period of public service. The career of
Cass was IA most notable one. In the
war OF lSl2 he vas a brigadier general.
Two years later he was appointed the
first governor of Michigan territory
And served in that capacity for sixteen
years. Under Jackson he become sec
retary of war. Van Buren, honored him
with the French mission. On his re-
turn 10 the United Statos in 1912, he
was elected senator of Michigan and
hfter serving his state in congress for
many years Cass closed his long public
life rs secretary of state under Buchan-
I'M. The lustre of his name has been
1immed on account of his attitude on
tine slave question, but his place as a
Statesman of the nation cannot. be dis
puted, and Michigan has fttingiy hon
pred has me-
Omaha daily bee., 1889-02-24

MILWAUKEE is likewise to have a
e p%ostoflice, a sister building, as it
We're, to the one to be erected in Omaha.
The dimensions of the lot called for in
the Cream City is 2l0X260 feet. while
the one in Omaha is to be not less than
200X250 feet. All bids must be in by
March 6 IN Milwaukee, when a govern
ment agent will inspect the sites Of
fered. Undoubtedly the same inspect
ing architect will first come to Omaha,
where he will, on March |, examine the
sites offered for sale in this city, and
then proceed to Milwaukee,. AS the
Omaha and Milwaukee postoftice bill
WIS practically one measure appropri-
ating the same amount to each city and
passing congress ut the same time, it is
more than likely that the two buildings
will resemble each other in design, and
their erection and completion will take
place Mt the same time.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-02-24

EVENTUALLY the oight-hourd day, for
which the trade and labor ~Organiza-
tions of the country are bending their
energies, will become an accomplished
fact. 1t depends, however, upon two
factors, skilled labor and labor saving
machinery. In certain high grades of
manual employment the e~ight-hour
system is in force to-day. 1t extension
TO wider circles must be left to the laws
of progress and invention, by which
nine hours work can be accomplished
in eight. That appears to be the only
true solution, as proved in the light Of
experience. Just as the hours of labor
dropped from fourteen to twelve, and
from twelve to ten, due to the employ
ment Of improved methods, so it is
likely that the present hours Of labor
will be lesseued in the future.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-02-24
COMMISSIONER Wripht. OI

COMMISSIONER Wright, of the ma
tional bureau of labor, presents inter-
e5ting statistics in his recent report On
marriage and divorce in the United
States. 1t appears that while the popu-
lation OF the country has hardly doubled
within the past twenty years, the num-
Der of divorces has tripled within that
period. A decrease in the number
of divorce cases has taken place in
the older states, while an increase has
been noted in the west, especially in
Illinois and Dakota. S%iXty-five per
we're granted to wives. The most pray
alent cause for seeking divorce was that
Of desertiou, while intemperance fol-
lowed next as a eason Commissioner
Wright's statistics afford sufficient food
for reflection. Undoubtedly the loose
and easy marriage and divorce laws of
many Of our states are largely response
Bile for the growth Of infelicity. The fact
that Illinois and Dakota enjoy the dis
t~inction of granting more divorces than
any other states would prove that hus-
bands and wives all over the country
have taken advantage of their liberal
laws in severing the bonds of matri-
mony. The divorce question has grown
to be Il serious one, and the wise heads
of the nation are endeavoring to pro-
vide a means OF checking the very dam
aging social disorder.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-02-24

nerative than that of the skilled me-
chauic. But there are large numbers
OF boys and young men who would will
ingly lcarn trades If they could get the
opportunity. and it is for the benefit of
such that the trade school opens its
doors.
The trade school is not peculiar to
this country. France owes much Of her
wealth to her industrial schools. Ger
many has wrested n considerable pOr-
tion of the American trade from Eng
land by her trades schools, and the
London guilds are now expanding their
accumulated wealth in the establish
ment OF similar schools throughout
England. The foreign trade schools
are of two kinds, those where a trade Is
learned during the four or five years re-
CURED TO obtain n good education, and
schools whore young men employed in
shops can learn what the workshop does
not teach. From u recent address by
Colonel Il. 7. Auchmuty, OF New York,
the founder OF the trade schools in that
city the information is obtained that the
results have been in the highest de-
gree. 1OuIB lutu utItllu JllC S'ilOOlo
from all parts of the county, and sew
cral thousand mechanics, having a
knowledge Of all parts of their trades,
who have gone out OF these schools in
the past seven years, attest their useful
ness. The purpose Of the trade school
is not to graduate jo~urncymen. This,
said Colonel Auchnuty, would be both
a.-,n,g;y, nod ,u,,npnsunp, Rrt thn
trade school can teach far better han
the workshop a trade in all its parts.
More than that, it can teach what no
workshop pretends to teach, the science
on whicha trade is based, and which is
in danger OF being forgotten. Speed of
execution and the experience necessary
to meet the varied problems ever pre-
sentcd TO the mechanic can only, on the
other hand, be acquired at real work.
1t is therefore the combination OF the
trade school and the workshop that Of
fers the best rcsults-the trade school
first to learn how TO work, then the
workshop to gain speed Of execution
and experience"
The object sought to be accomplished
ny LitSoD oNh pOlo tOii"bo vi W 't'b hiiAS
lean mechanics, while at the same time
raising mechanical pursuits in popular
regard is certainly important. This
country should not be compelled to de-
pend wholly for its skilled labor upon the
product Of foreign schools and work.
shops, nor should American youth de-
string to learn trades be forced into
other pursuits less remunerative and
less certain of giving them the means
of a comfortable livelihood. The me-
chanical talent of Americans is at
least equal to that of any other nation
atty, and it should be given a fair OPP
p%ortunity for development. This the
trade school will in a measure afford,
and it seems quite probable that it will
in time become a widespread insti-
tuition.