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Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-20
Notice to Quit.
elU York Tribune.

Another victim of the cigarette habit has
found life not worth living and has blown his
brains out. Such incidents as this doubtless
have greater deterrent effect upon smokers
of cigarettes than any legislation which has
been enacted by any of the states The latest
ATTEMPT to cure the habit by law is being
made in Indiana, where it is proposed to
exact a heavy state license fee from sellers OF
this form of tobacco
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-20

PRESIDENT ELIOT of the ancient uni
versity of Harvard, has enjoyed fiat
tering reception in the west. 1t is an
honor we'll deserved both by the man
and the institution.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-20
Rodgers Brother Coming.

Chief Seavey received letter yesterday
from brother of IL. NJ Rodgers, now in
Jail, and the gentleman says he will arrive in
Omaha in day or two for the purpo o of
seeing what he can do with and for the
young man who attempted to shuttle off his
mortal coil II fortnight since. Parties at
North Platte have also written Clief Seavey
stating that they know Rodgers TO be Penn
sylyauia boy,
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-20

THERE will be no frills or flowers
about this years appropriations for state
institutions. Plain, homespun common
Sense appropriations will be the style
during the next biennial period.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-20

MEMBERS of the legislature may eat
their Texas oysters with the satisfaction
which accompanies the fact that they
have paid roundly for them in advertis-
ing the smart city of Galveston.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-20

Munsoys Weekly: Patrick-Tho famine
In Ireland is about over; what shall we do
with the supplies on handt O'Donovan-
Exchange them for something practical;
say arnica and court plaster.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-20
Illinois is Crowding.
Boston Advertiser.


If the Connecticut legislature cannot man
age soon to get over its quarrel and get down
to business people will cease to talk about
''the Nutmeg staten and begin to call it the
chestnut state.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-20
Easily Suited.
Ytnhee Blade

He (ardently)-I love you truly, Miss
Prettigyrl, more than words can tell. May l
hope that my love is returnedl
She-I can't
He-O, WELL perhaps you don't like me as
well as like you. You see am more easily
suited than you are.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-20

. Now that tho board of public works is
in working order, preparations should
DC made, in connection with the council
committees, for the inauguration of pub
lie improvements at the earliest pos
Sible day,
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-20

DESPITE his exhausting labors in
strengthening the party spine, the sani-
tary commissioner finds time to levy on
the county for a liberal donation of the
elixir of life. '..f
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-20
SWORN STA rEMENT. OF CIRCULATION.
Etntc of Nebraska.

County of Douglas, 30
George Il. Tzschuck, being 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 February, 1900 1851 copies; for
March, 1900. 2O,Sl5 copies; for April. 1890, 2O564
1880 20.0l copies; for July. 1890, 20,662 copies;
for August, 1890 20,750 copies; for September,
1890 2o,S10 copies; for October, 1890 2O762 cop
les for November, 1850, 90, ,l30 copies; for De-
cember ls90, 2,471 copies; for January, 1891,
2S,446 copies. GEORGE u. TZsCHUCK.
Sworn to before me. and subscribed in my
presence, this DIST day OF January, a. D.. 1891.
n. y. FELL,
Notary Public.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-20
He Don't Attend.
Boston COllricI

boston courier
The man who when June had its fever begot
Meier ventured to church cause twas thun-
dering hot,
Now holds him aloof from the sanctified fold,
Because, as he says, ITS too laundering
coldr
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-20

THE bill to increase the penalties for
profanity is cruel blow at the only So
lace left the contest conspirators. Why
pursue q corpse beyond the grave2
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-20
Shaking in Their Boots.

IItITVUTU
Cleveland lin writing that letter about sill
ver), has done what the plantation preacher
did when he diverged from "'ligion" into
morals. He has "thrown coldness over the
meetin,v
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-20

STREETER of Illinois does not stand
upon such trifies as principles or con-
science when senatorial seat hangs on
the balance.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-20

THE result of the senatorial contests
goes to show that the one-term principle
Is firmly grounded in the land of the
Dakotas
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-20
Enthusiasm in Chicago.
MunseB's Weekly.

4hobstBS HtefW.
"Whoop! Hooray!' yelled the Chicago
man.
Whats upF' queried his companion.
Niagara falls are on the move in our di-
rection. In the course of time Chicago'll
have 'em, Hooray! Whoop-ooooopeew
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-20

PosToFFICE receipts in New Orleans
have fallen so low as to seriously impair
the emoluments Of the Office. But what
is the postmaster's loss is the peoples
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-20

The jolly soubrette, she would ever coquette
For to marriage she wasn't inclined.
She would make up her face with astonishing
grace,
But she never could make up her mind.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-20

The kittens grope and tumble around;
Ere they get their eyes asundor;
And where the dickens they are, TO them
Must be nine-days' wonder
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-20
Mating Time.

Piilddel phid Record.
It's bird mating time and Blaine has one
eve on the eagle and the other on the Cuban
parrot.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-20

NEBRASKA is not the only state in
which an effort is being made to abolish
the abuse of free railroad passes to pub
lie officials. Massachusetts has also
found this practice to be source of evil,
and measure is before the legislature
of that state intended to do away with
it, but it does not appear that the law
makers are very anxious to give up this
perquisite. They are plainly told that
in the opinion OF the public the free
pass has the effect to give railroad COR
porations an advantage over the indi-
vidual, but this sort ofreproach, equally
applicable wherever legislators and
public officials generally accept free
railroad passes, docs not seem to
weigh more heavily upon the minds
of the Massachusetts lawmakers than
with those elsewhere who in this cheap
way dispose of their Independence to the
corporations. The possession of free
pass appears to be there as everywhere
else complete emollient for the wounds
of public condemnation. It's surprising
how men ordinarily quick to resent any
imputation upon their honor and man
hood will stand without murmur the
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-20

ANOTHER rate war is on. The more
the corporations combine the greater
becomes the thirst for blood.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-20

Chicago Post Secretary Rusk reports
that there are 80, 900, 900 Of hogs in the United
States, This would seem TO indicate that
the majority of the inhabitants ride on tho
Street cars.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-20
i,Ough Places.

Shakespeare is right, the world indeed's a
stage.
'Tis safe to bet box of fine cigars
That man is very far from being sage
Who thinks TO find the world all palace cars
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-20

Puck: "Do the nihilists want to treat
with the Carp "Yes. Aud it's their treat.
They want to blow him on"
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-20
Those Picture saue Reds.

Bishop Talbot, the genial and popular mis-
sionary, (Epscopal) bishop Of Wyoming, re-
Gently preached in ST. Peters, Philadelphia,
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-20

Washington POST Tho cause of the recent
stringency in Wall street is at last disclosed.
two western poker-players with flowing
sleeves have been spending the winter in
Gotham
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-20

ST Joseph News. This present generation
is not nearly as good at looking out for it's I's
and Q,s Us for its VS. and KS.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-20

Puck: 81 believe you Presbyteriaus don't
keep Lcnt, Miss LawrcncoF' II just guess
we do. l always have new suit for
Eastern
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-20

Martha's Vineyard Herald: Love is away
ahead of sunshine 1t gilds real uncom-
Portable time with more glory than Old Sol
can evolve in trying to illuminate desert of
rocks and desolation.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-20

Boston Transcript: A man can fairly be
charged as being "A bigottcd temperance man
when he will have nothing to do with hope,
because hope Is so often dissipatcd.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-20

Fllcgendc Blattor; In the Restaurant
as this roast vonison perfectly fresh Z"
"Yes, perfectly fresh" "But 10 Is always so
cheapf' mo tho first five days wo charge
80 cents portion more.n
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-20

Globe: Atchison has curiosity. II is
pretty girl whom all the other girls like
better than they do her homely sister.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-20

Atchison Globe: The skeleton in mans
closet is usual some other man, aud the skele-
ton in woman's closet is usually another
woman.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-20

American Grocer Making play for him
Jack Pott Ito coy musician -Er-Miss
(agcd n)-Aw, that's what she's been
doin for a month
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-20

Harper's Bazaar; "Please don't talk to me.
I'm saving my voice for the opera" "Why,
are you to singl" mo. I'm to be in one OF
the boXcs.n
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-20

New Orleans Picayune: A gas trust can
be disposed of in short meter.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-20

Binghampton Republican: The man who
was nearly choked with rage fonnd it was
caused by an effect to swallow his wrath.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-20

SENATOR GoRMAN's hasty declination
of the presidency is a tritle premature.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-20
CORRESPONDENTS.
BUSINESS LETTERS.

All communications relating to news and
editorial matter should be addressed TO the
Editorial Dcpartmcnt.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-20

Drake's aze--Lecturer-"The sugges-
tive campaigns of the Romans into Gaul
form, perhaps, the only record of a series of
successful failures in his"
Auditor Gnterrupting) What's the mat
ter with the Delaware peach crop!n
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-20
TrRMsOF SUBSCRIPTION.
OEEICEsi

OftlttS'
Qma aha, The bee Building
South Omaha. Corner and 26th Streets.
Council Bluffs, H. Pearl Street.
Chicago Office, jlT Chamber of Commerce.
Now York, Rooms l3ll and l5,Tribune Building
Washington, 5l3 Fourteenth street.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-20
THE PACKERS SETTLE 1T.

If the interview with representative
Of the packers interestsat South Omaha,
published elsewhere in The BEE, COR
rectly states their future course, it may
be said that the controversy between the
live stock exchange and the American
live stock commission company is at an
end. 1t appears that the packers will
withdraw from the live stock exchange
and reserve for themselves the right to
buy cattle wnere they choose, regardless
OF the rules that have previously bound
them.
This decision is creditableto the pack.
ers and in accordance both with Justice
and sound policy. The contention of the
commission men has been that nobody
should sell cattle in the market unless
member of the exchange aud obedient
to its rules. Under this arrangement
every shipper obliged to pay the
commissions fixed by the exchange,
whether they required the services
OF the commission men or not
So long as the packing interests
continued to be bound by the rules OF the
exchange outside shippers were helpless
to Interfere with this arrangement.
The man who operated on his own capi-
tai and brought his cattle to market was
obliged to pay the same tribute to the
exchange as the man who used the SER
vices of commission men as bankers and
agents.
The American live stock commission
company, composed Of stock rails
ers and feeders, was organ
lied to give its members equal
rights in the market with commission
men. 1t could not hope to accomplish
its object if the packers refused to buy
of parties not authorized to do business
by the exchange. Now that the packers
declare their independence of the ex-
change, commission men and outside
shippers stand on an equal footing.
The result of the packers decision
will be beneficial to the business. 1t
will introduce new element of compe-
tition, and permit stock raisers to mar
ket their cattle with the least possible
expense. 1t will very likely have the
further effect of eliminating the possi-
bility of hostile legislation that would
work injury to all concerned.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-20

TO THE VENUS OF MILO.
Puck.
You need no arms, o Venus sweet
/ swear by yonder skies
You'd knock man right off his feet
BY one glance Of your eyes.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-20

All usnpss letter and rcmittances should
lie addressed to The Bee Publishing Company,
Omaha. Drafts, checks and pOstoffico orders
to he made payable to tho order of the COM
pany.
The Bee Publishing Company. PrOUriGtOrS,
The bee Bldg, Farnam and Seventeenth Sts
Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-20
THE DAILY BEE.
PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING.

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Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-20
PASSING yESTs.

%SSfNG JESIS.
Flogendc Blattcr; In the Restaurant
"Is this roast .vonison perfectly :"
"Yes, perfectly fresh" "lBut IL Is always 50
cheapI' "No, the first five days wo charge
80 cents portion more"
Chicago Post, Secretary Rusk reports
that there are 80, 900 Of hogs in the United
States This would seem 10 indicate that
the majority of tho inhabitants ride on tho
Street cars.
St Joseph News. This present generation
Is not nearly as good at looking out for it's I's
and Q,s rs FOR its VS. and KS.
Puck: "Do the .nihilists want to treat
with the Carp "Yes. Aud it's their treat.
They want to blow him on"
Munsoy's Weekly: patrck--Thc famine
In Ireland is about over; what shall we do
with the supplies on handt O'Donovan-
Exchange them for something practical;
say arnica and court plaster.
The kittens grope and tumble around;
Ere they get their eyes asundor;
And whore the dickens they are, TO them
Must be n nine-days' wonder.
Washington Post: Tho cause of the recent
stringency in Wall street is at last disclosed
two western poker players with flowing
sleeves have been spending the winter in
Gotham.
Globe: Atchison has u curiosity II Is q
pretty girl whom all the other girls like
better than they do her homcly sister
Puck; 81 believe you Prcsbyterians don't
keep Lcnt, Miss Lawroncor ~ just guess
we do. l always have new suit for
Easter"
IJnrnpr's oil -
I'm saving my voice for the opera" "Why,
are you to singW mo. I'm to be in one OF
the boxes"
American Grocer: Making play for him
Jack Pott Ito coy musician) )-Er-Miss
Gladys. won't you play for mei Willie
(agcd ten)-Aw, that's what she's been
doin' for month
TO THE VENUS OF MILO.
Puck
You need no arms, o Venus sweet
| swear by yonder skies
You'd knock man right off his feet
BY one glance of your eyes,
New Orleans Picayune A gas trust can
be disposed of in short meter.
Binghampton Republican: The man who
was nearly choied with rage fonnd it was
caused by an effect to swallow his wrath.
Atchison Globe: The skeleton in a mans
closet is usual some other man, aud the skele-
ton in woman's closet is usually another
woman.
Boston Transcript: A man can fairly be
charged as being bigottcd temperance man
when he will have nothing to do with hope,
because hope Is so often disspated.
Martha's Vineyard Herald. Love is away
ahead of sunshine. 1t gilds real uncom-
Portable time with more glory than old Sol
can evolve in trying to illuminate a desert of
rocks and desoation.
Drake's Magaze-Lecturer-' sugges-
tive campaigns of the Romans into Gaul
form, perhaps, the only record of series of
successful failures in his---n
Auditor Gnterrupting) )-"What's the mat
ter with the Delaware peach crop"
Cause ofJay's Death.
An inquest was held yesterday to deter
mine the cause of death of George Jay, the
empoye of the Kimball ice company who
was run over by Missouri Pacific engine
February IL. and both legs crushed in such
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-11-04
COUNT ARCO-vALLEY's REVENGE.
He Turns the Tables and Hand Organ
on the French Minister.

He Turns the Tables and q Hand Organ
on the French Minister.
One day. when things were somewhat
strained between France and Germany, the
Count was engaged in his private office at
the Legation when an itinerant Italian ven
der of music stopped in front of the build
ing, numbered his machine, aud began
grinding. 1t was the "Marsellaise." The
Connt frOwned. but went on with his work.
SO did the Italian. The tones of the MAR
selalse" continued to smite the air. The
Count sent q servant out to stop it,
The Italian shook his head and continued
his grind. Again the servant was sent out.
with peremptory instructions to have the
music stopped. Another failure. Then an
attache of the Legation was dispatched to
put an end to the music. The attache failed
in his mission. 'Ach Colt in Himmel, go
myself" said the Count, who was fast grow
ing desperate. He strobe hastily forth. He
demanded in imperlous tones that the
Italian stop playing and leave the neighbor-
hood.
Yer sorra." replied the Italian, but "a no
Cant co." exclaimed the irate envoy of
the German Kaiser. why vos can you not
go?"
81 can no go-a," said the Italian, "be-
cause de French-a Minister gave me-a a
dolP to mak-a de 'Marsellaise' in front of
you hous' for whol-a hour
49," said the Count redectively. Then
the true diplomatic shone out. lie put his
hand in his pocket and drew out two bright
new silver dollars. Holding them up, lie
said: Take you dose two dollar and 60
you and blay der 'Wacht am Rheim' bevore
der Wrench Minister'S house two whole
hour"
The descendant of the Romans took the
81, limbered up his machine and disappeared
in the direction of the French Legation.-St.
Louis Star Savings
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-11-04
NINETY YEARS OLD.
Mrs. Sally Stearns Has Just Cut
Her Third Set Of Teeth.

Sally Nane) Searns Of Billerica attained
the ripe old age of four score and ten years
October 18th. A Boston Globe reporter was
among those to call upon the venerable lady.
II was born in the year one," was her
reply to the question of age, "and 1 have
lived long enough"
Her physical and mental strength are
doubtless an inheritance, and her own man
ner OF living has not weakened her natural
powers.
She is descendant In the sixth genera
ton on her maternal side from Ralph Hill,
the pioneer OF Billerica, and on her paternal
side, in the same generation, from job Lane,
who came TO Billerca in 1864, and settled
in that part of the ancient tow Il that became
Bedford in 1929.
Her father was Benjamin Lane, and her
mother. his second wife. Isabella Hill. Her
father was born in 1854, and was II years
old when dorchester Canada" was incor-
p0rated as the town Of AShburnham, Wor-
ceSter County.
When the town was in its teens, Benja-
min Lane. like other adventurous ones, de-
termined to start out into that wilderness
where land was plentiful and cheap. The
young man and his bride went to The new
settlement 10 do pioneer work.
1t was in that town that Sally, the young
est OF their thirteen children, was born, on
OcloDer Is, 1901.
The Indians had hardly quilted the for
ests, and the struggles of her parents were
such as to call into service every faculty.
The children were early obliged to aid in
"kcepng the wolf from the door"
Mrs. Stearns derives much pleasure from
rehearsing stories told her by her mother OF
her own experience with Indians. The old
home at Blilerlca was often visited by scat
lerlng members OF the Pawtucket tribe, who
made Visits TO the springs near by.
The Keen students OF nature had detected
the remedial properties of the waters, and
brought their sick to battle in them and
took away water in their skin bottles. This
water, they used to tell Mrs. Lane, was
medicine They expressed great indigna-
ton that the white people had broken up
their camping grounds.
Mrs. Stearns. who is the last survivor OF
the thirteen children of benjamin Lane.
married In 1873 Franklin Stearns OF Biller-
lea. and returned to her parents native
town and nelghborhood, and soon to the
Stearns homestead, where she has since
lived.
:, She has had SIX children, four OF whom are
living, including Mrs. John Davis and Mrs.
Asa Duren OF Carlisle. These children, with
their thirteen grandchildren. nephews, nleces
ana many 1rlendS made up the company
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-11-04
Only Silly Runners.

A. S. Cleghorn. the Collector-General of
Customs of the Hawaiian Islands. who has
been for some time at the Occii dental
Hotel, and who left for Honolulu yesterday,
talked quite freely before his departure of
the recent rumors which have sprung up
concerning the future of the islands.
There is absolutely" he said, "no
foundation for the reported growth of En-
glish influence in Hawaii and the ultimate
annexation of the islands by Great Britain.
While in Washington recently it was my
pleasure to give to the President and the
State Department complete denial of
those silly rumors, and an absolute assur-
ance that no power on earth Is so close to us
as the United States. So far as our people
are concerned they give no thought to Brit
ish supremacy. This, of course, does not
convey the idea of annexation to the United
States. for there is no possibility of such an
event. A few people favor it, but the great
OF the kingdom, and always viii do SO in in
my opinion"
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-11-04
THE PEARL-DIVER'S FOE,
A Giant Bivalve With Yawning Shell
Lies In Walt for Him

A Giant Bivalve With Yawning Shells
Lies In Walt for Him.
Your wealthy ladies of Chicago who
assemble at evening parties and soirees in
magnificent costumes covered with fine
pearls know little or absolutely nothing.
perhaps, about the many dangers encoun-
tered in gathering those pearls from the
sea-" remarked j. &. Danvers of Lon
don, England, at the fremont House.
Il was on a trip along the coast of Zan-
zibar, Africa. year ago. when learned
that sea pearl fishing is not trade
for men of weak hearts to follow. The
pearls are gathered at the bottom of the sea
by divers. The reason man with a weak
heart Is not mt Tor the work is because The
stopped breath and the pressure oil ninety
feet OF sea water. with its weight of sixty
two pounds to the cubic foot. will bring on
palpitation Of the heart ami burst the weaker
vessels, causing distressing and often dan
gerous hemorrhages But the divers are all
stalwart savages, IN such rugged health that
the physical danger never occurs to them
Two dangers constantly menace the diver
Wherever the oyster grows there also
thrlves the giant trdachDa, a mOnstrous
bivalve, whose shell is from four to six feet
In length. hrmly anchored to the bottom. 1t
lies with its scalloped shells yawning a foot
or more apart Immediately anything
touches 1t the shells snap together. and
once these large shells are closed not a
dozen men out of water could get them
apart. tar less the single diver fifteen faith
oms deep, who may have dropped into the
capacioEs mouth or have careleasly put hi s
hand within its shells while cropping in the
gloom.
" II such fate befall diver there is only
one thing for him to do. and that is TO anpu.
tate himself from the enormous mollusk and
rise to the surface, fainting, bloody and
mangled. Those savsges will fight anything
from lion to python on land, but they
haven't the courage to run against q biyalye