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Omaha daily bee., 1897-08-02
YOUTHFUL SUICIDES.
Does the Public school system Impose
Too Great a. Tax.


What shall be said of the suicide OF a
14-year-old boy in New York because of
his disappointment over his failure to pass
a 6[Iool examination? There are several
features OF the case which are unusual, par
ticularly the age of the self-destroyer, and
his ambition to become a labor agitator, At
IA most boys are given to dreaming of fame
as trappers on the plains, circus riders and
star base ball players. Where they are
studiously inclined we find them ambitious
to become almost anything but labor ag
itRtor. These are usually the product of
experience and environment. Rarely do We
find a man deliberately shaping his course
by labor and study to such a position But
to return to the boy 1t Is unusual forone
OF his years to wish TO shuttle off the NOR
tai coil" 1t is probable that this unfnr
tunate boys brain had been effected by ex-
eessiYe study, but the fact that several sui
cides of children have OF late been reported
is a circumstance full OF sinister Significance.
Is ii possible that the public school system
imposes a greater tax upon the mentality OF
the young men than they are able TO bear,
or do these most recent cases suggest some
defect of parental discipline which urgently
needs remedy? Modern children are too
impatient of disappointment. are too prone
to think that IL they don't have things all
their own way they are tho victims Of in
justice. Observers of human nature in chill
dren must have noticed this defect, which
We believe Is more responsible for these acts
of waywardness than excessive study. There
is cause for the tendency. and there must
also be cure.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-08-02

After circulating the slanderous stories
that all the holdups, burglarieS and other
crimes perpetrated in Omaha within the
past few months We're put up by Martin
White in order TO create demand for
his services as private detective and
chief of police, it is not in the least sur
prising to find the same crowd of crooks
and their newspaper fence denouncing
White as an imbecile without any police
experience and the laughing stock of the
Omaha police force while he was in
charge of it. The next thing we may
expect is the charge that White is an
escaped convict from the Joliet peniten-
tiary who was implicated with the an
archists in the Chicago Haymarket riots.
For the purposes for which they are con
cocted, it doesn't matter to the gang
whether their fabricationS about White
contradict one another or not.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-08-02
WHEAT AS A CONVINCING ARGUMENT
Grent Yield for Wnvering Economic
Principles of Ola Kentucky.

New YORK tommercial AuNertisef'
The farmers OF Woodford county, Ken
lucky, that state of wayering economic prin-
ciples, have harvested 100000 bushels of
wheat, the yield ranging from eighteen to
forty bushels an acre; and there is such a
good prospect OF an increasing foreign de-
mand for 1t, even with wheat at its present
good-times price. that the happy Kentuck-
ians have stuffed their storehouses with the
golden grain TO wait for dollar wheat"
What promise OF the bringing back into the
right road economic erraucy is here! With
grain steadily rising, silver has fallen below
it's former lowest point. but who cares for
silver. really. il no can get gold? And now
the Kentucky farmer has such a good pros
pect OF IL that he can hug the anticipation Of
transmitting his golden grain into golden
metal. What power for conversion Is here!
Free silver, half OF its dupes felt In their
hearts, was only desperate hope; but what
need TO grasp at straws with the substantial
assurance OF a foreign market for our grain
and revived home market for our other ag-
ricultural and our Industrial products? What
can harm a man for whom the stars In their
courses fight? And how good is gOld-when
you can get 1t! Who can doubt that pros
perity Will confirm economic soundness?
Omaha daily bee., 1897-08-02

The proposed change of public school
text books which is being pressed by
book agents may be long felt want,
but it is want whose fulfillment can
funds at the disposal of the school board
for that purpose For the present the
board will have all it can do tomeet cur
rent expenses. If there is any surplus
revenue it should go toward the reduc-
ton of the overlap.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-08-02
CHAPTER ONE OF M'KINLEY.
Review of Five Months Work of the
Administration.


Administ ration.
New York Sun (dem)
The period between the Inauguration OF
President Mckinley and his departure from
Washington for a vacation after the first
five months of hard work constitutes chap
ter / OF the administrations history. This
is a distinct period for trial and achieve
ment and it is worth while to see what the
record is.
Between the time when Major Mckinley
took hold and the time when he lets so tenn
porarily for rest, these things, among
others, have happened:
|. The tariff question has been removed
from politics. The pledge of the party
which nominated Mckinley that it would
give the country a squarely protective tariff
as a settlement of the question, and thus
give the country rest, has been honestly re-
deemed.
g The administration during these five
months has organized for four years. The
president hao met and sustained the tre-
mendous strain consequent upon the legiti-
mate competition for Office. He has made
most of the principal appointments in
manner generally satisfactory to citizens of
all parties; and, what is to be noted
especially about this he has preserved har-
monious relations with the members Of his
party in both houses OF congress, and has
made, perhaps, as few enemies outside as
any president ever made during the CORE
spending period.
g. The administration has definitely
committed itself TO the American policy OF
Hawaiian annexation and is proceeding
vigorously and in good faith to remove that
question also from politics.
4. Mr.. Mckinley has succeeded in win
ming for his administration and for himself
the respect and good will of a vast majority
OF his fellow citizens. His personality at
tracts instead of repelling; and it is his
good fortune to have created, at the very
etart, friendly and fayoring conditions of
public sentiment hard to define precisely
but likely TO be of immense value to him
all through his term.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-08-02
Acting Chief of Detectives Hcmmine

Acting Chief of Detectives Hcmming
warns us in horrible doggerel against
the pawnbroker who has been insulting
him by asking him to return the field
glass loaned by him to Hemming nearly
year ago. The great sleuth also tries
to startle the wOrkingmen by predicting
that Martin White would play into the
hands of the Pinkerton mercenaries if he
were made chief. What Il terrible pros
pectuS!
Omaha daily bee., 1897-08-02
The Trust and Prices.

The solemn truth is that no trust on the
American continent ever reduced except,
perhaps, for stock jObbing or other selfish
and temporary purposes. the price of its
product. This is not what trusts are organ
ICED for There is an opinion quite prev
alent all over this country that certain
trusts have lessened the cost OF production
and therefore the prices OF many commodi-
ties. This opinion is the result OF trust mis-
representation and manipulation. 1t Is true
that products have been cheapened. but nat
ural laws have brought this condition about.
Many products would be very much cheaper
than they are II there were no trusts.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-08-02

In these hot days, when everybody is
compelled to contribute to the local ice
trust, it might be pertinent to ask the
question why its operations are per-
mitted by the law officers who are
charged with enforcing the new anti
tIISt lnW
Omaha daily bee., 1897-08-02
For Postal Savings Banks.

Now is the time to Join In this move
ment which Is about to sweep the country.
Every one can help and share in the tri-
umph OF accomplishing a genuine reform.
Give to thrift and economy that absolute
assurance OF safety for money reserved for
future needs which other nations extend to
their citizers Postal savings banks must
be established TO protect the small savings
OF the masses OF the people of the United
GtatA
Omaha daily bee., 1897-08-02

We are still anXiously waiting for the
names of the Omaha taxpayers with
first class executive ability whom the
WOrld-Herald considers qualified to act
as chief of police. Don't be backward.
Name the men.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-08-02

Judge Gregory is level-headed enough
to know hawk from il handsaw. If
the gang ina gines it can stampede him
to dark horse by an offer of green
goods they will find themselves wofully
mist a ken
Omaha daily bee., 1897-08-02
The GutI,,it of Gold.

The average ANNUAL output of gold during
the California era, was $lS3, 600, 600. Last
year it reached $21O,0pO.OoO, compared with
slss, ,S4S, 600 in 1890. 1t is now predicted by
conservative judges that an annual output
of $500 900 900 may abe reached within an
other year l.M
Omaha daily bee., 1897-08-02

What has made the World herald flop
on the question of Martin Whites candi-
dacy for chief of police? Is it because
Charley Tanning has celebrated his gold
strike by advancing a loan to the con
Germ? Or has the gang on Douglas
street raised the wind?
Omaha daily bee., 1897-08-02

1t is in accord with the eternal fitness
of things for the newspaper that un-
loaded Reporter Hemming upon the
police pay roll to cast slurs Mt the pawn-
broker who loaned the great chief a
field glass to view the Indian country
and which up to date he has forgotten
TO return
Omaha daily bee., 1897-08-02

For the information of the general
public ii may be stated that the request
for more troops to guard the Yellow
stone park is not called out by any rush
of spectators to watch William J. Bryan
during his sojourn there.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-08-02
THE BEE ON TRAINS.

All railroad ncvsboys 1re
supplied with enough Bees
to accommodate every pas
scngcr who wants to rcnd
newspaper. Insist upon hav-
ing The Dee. If you cannot
get u Dee on n train from the
news agent, please report
the fnct. stating the train and
railroad. to the Circulation
Department of The Zee. The
bee is for snlc on MI trains.
INSIST on HAVING THE BEE.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-08-02

If any one wants TO assist Tax Com
missioner Sackett in making the new
assessment he should apply without de-
lay. There will be only twenty assessors
plAes to be filed, and at least 1000 per-
sons believe themselves competent to
fill Them
Omaha daily bee., 1897-08-02

Every calamity bowling organ tries to
make out that the prosperity enjoyed
by the community in which It is located
is local only and extends to no other
place. But as they are all offering the
same explanation the signs of prosperity
must be pretty general.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-08-02

The English girls who are complaining
that American heiresses are buying
both the English men and the English
land might get even by organizing for
retaliation upon the American elgibles
Omaha daily bee., 1897-08-02
Tota,s ....... ....s2,5l2 100000 s2,17s,OOO, 900

Here is a net increase in one year of S343,-
900 900 in the farm value OF six items Of
farm property.
1t is the destructive effect OF these bet
terments on the knayery and reputation of
Bryanism that is causing the Nebraska
popocrats to telegraph the prince Of hum
bugs to quit going about lecturing in favor
of 16 to / money and to come home and go
into dry dock for repairs
Omaha daily bee., 1897-08-02

Chairman Dablman has secured half
rates for the delegates to the democratic
populistic and silveristc state conven-
tions. But there is nothing 10 prevent
the retinue of state house pie-eaters
from travelling TO and from the conven-
tions on their annual passes.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-08-02

From the standpoint of public morals
1t is not bad sign when reputable and
responsible citizens fight shy OF going on
bail bonds for rascals who have be-
trayed the public confidence by EN-
bezzliDg funds placed in their custody
as public officials.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-08-02
PARTIES LEAVING FOR THE SUMMER

Parties leaving the city for
the summer can have The
Zee sent to them regularly
by notifying The Bee busi-
ness Office in person or by
mail. The address will be
changed ms often as desired.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-08-02

Heard over the wire: 'Hello! This Is
Yeiser. Give me the fusion State Board
OF Transportation. They're talking, are
they2 Well, II they would do less talk
Ing with the railroad bosses and listen
more to the people, they would not have
the party accused OF repudiating its
pledgea"
Omaha daily bee., 1897-08-02

Texas is just about to grapple with
the problem of irrigation. Nebraska
has been in the irrigation business for
several years past.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-08-02

The new tariff is here to stay at least
four years and that time ought to be
enough to prove it's worth by eXper-
ience
Omaha daily bee., 1897-08-02

Mr. Yciser has taken the initiative to
force the reduction of telephone tolls,
and the State Board of Transportation is
to be the referendum.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-08-02


Japan's protest against the annexation of
Hawaii is, at all events, calculated to i'm
press the people lOf that country with their
governments importance as factor in mod
ern international affairs.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-08-02

A balloon line to the Alaska gold fields
might prove a more paying undertake
ing than n balloon voyage to the north
pole.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-08-02

Nebraska was never in better condi-
ton to exhibit its marvellous productive
ness than this year. The coming state
fair will be a revelation.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-08-02

Wheat Is higher than Il has been at The
beginning of the movement of new crop
since 1892.
Taking the three leading cereals and the
three classes of live stock, the farm value
OF this years crop, or this years supply, at
prices now current, in comparison with the
situation year ago, may be roughly stated
as follows.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-08-02

The lesson of history is that the re-
publican era is invariably constructive
and the democratic era uniformly de-
Structive
Omaha daily bee., 1897-08-02

No true civil service reformer is find
ing fault with President McKinley's
new orders with respect to dsmissals
within the classified lists.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-08-02

1t was fusion last year. 1t will be
confusion this year.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-08-02

| Facts and FiEures that COncIusivcIy
Contradict POpOrrntic FaI1acies.
CMica Tribune

The following statement of cash prices of
leading farm products gives current values
in comparison with quotations at the same
time year ago. in the Chicago market at
this time:
Omaha daily bee., 1897-08-02
I here
is always
something

Left over in August
here and there a suit
OF a size or a pattern
of which we have no
complete line. Such
odd garments are an
inevitable remainder
when one comes to
take an account of
stock, and there is only
one thing to do with
them-and that is what
we have done.
Here they are, as it
were, in a bunch, bar
gains for the man or
the boy who will fit
one of them. No mat
ter what the former
prices were, they are
going now for a good
deal less.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-08-02

Omaha: The Bee Building.
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Council BUNS: 10 Peu1 Street
Chicago Office: 81 Chamber Of Commerce.
New York: Rooms 49, u and Is, Tribune Bldg.
Washington: sol Fourteenth Street.
CORRESPONDENCE
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RAJ matter should be addressed: To the Editor
BUSINESS LETTERS.
All business letters and remittances should be
addressed to The Bee Publishing Company,
Omaha. Drafts. checks, express and postonice
money orders to be made payable to the order
OF the company. .-
TIiE BEE Publishing COMPANY.
Willmar tribune., 1897-06-15
PUNDITA RAMABAI,

versity of Calcutta, she being the first
woman in the empire to be thus hon
orcd
Pundita Ramabai married Bengal
csc gentleman, lawyer, whom she
freely chose-th;s being an instance
almost without precedent. He died
within two years, leaving her at "a
with an eight-months-old baby. She
went to England, was made professor
of Sanscrit in Cheltenham college, and
in 1886 came to America to see hel
cousin graduate from the Woman.
medical college of Philadelphia and to
study our educational methods.
Ra1nabai lectured in our principal
cities and wrote a book, "The High
Caste Hindoo Woman" during her stay
in this country, raising sufficient money
tc open a school for child widows in In
dia, which is rapidly increasing in
power for good. She is thorough
going white ribboner, and is lecturer
for the Worlds Woman's Christian
Temperance union in India. Miss Will
lard says OF her: E'Her gentleness ex-
ceeds any other manifestation of that
exquisite quality that have yet seen;
this tenderness, all-embracing as to the
human race, extends with her to every
scntient reature.".
Willmar tribune., 1897-06-15
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BRIC-A-BRAC CABINET
How to Make a Neat Piece of sFurni-
50 ture at Home. 81 -

no" 10 Make Nents Piece OF Furni-
ture at Home. "A
Anyone who is at all handy with tools
can make the framework for quite a
pretty piece of furniture in very short
time with a few strips of wood and
some iron or wooden brackets. This
would be a good occupation for the
boys some Saturday or afternoons after
school if there is time after the chores
are done. Girls can do this sort Of work
quite as well as boys if they have proper
tools. In the industrial schools now
adays girls are taught the use of tools,
etc, and it is useful knowledge. I"
The framework should be made after
the general plan of the cabinet in the
accompanying illustration. The up
right and cross bars need not be more
than seven-eighths of an inch square
and the shelves may be made of half
inch stuff. All may be made of pine
and stained to initiate any wood de-
sired. Cherry is very pretty in effect.
It should be sandpapered very smooth
Willmar tribune., 1897-06-15
THE LOSS OF SLEEP.
1t Causes Lassitude and Depress.
ing Interest in Life.

1t Causes Lassitude and q Depress-
ing Interest in Life.
In paper by Prof. H. C. Warren, of
Princeton university, there are accu1
rately described some experiments on
the effects produced by loss Of sleep,
conducted by Prof. Patrick and DIR. Gil
bert, of the University of Iowa. These
gentlemen tested three normal subjects.
composed of instructors, men not
easily susceptible to influences. They
were kept awake 80 hours without stim-
ulants. During this time they were en-
gagged, as far as possible, in their usual
occupations. After the second night the
first subject complained that the floor
was covered with looking molec-
ular layer of rapidly moving particles.
They rendered him nearly desperate.
Sometimes the layer seemed u foot
above the floor, and parallel with it. As
he tried to step upon it he staggered
and tumbled, could not obtain a sure
footing. Later the air became full of
,swarming particles, which developed
into red, purple and black gnats. He fre-
quently climbed into chair to brush
them away from the gas jet. The ap-
pearance of all these men was the same
as if an overdose of liquor had been ad-
ministered. Those who have lost their
normal rest for several nights feel a
1assitude and depressing interest in life.
They seem to lose an equitable iudg-
ment of things. Events: seem out. of
. q
Willmar tribune., 1897-06-15
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PtTH AND, POINT.

-Brown-"Nfy son has very extrava-
CANT IDEAS" Stone-'He doesn't look
as if he had many of them m.''-Yonkers
Statesman.
ibid you hear Senator Simpson yes~
terday? He made fine speech against
it, against what?'' ':Time." e."-Cleve-
land Leader.
A man on tandem, with his wife
or sweetheart on the front seat, always
has something pleasant to look forward
to.-Bicycle Rider.
-She-"A woman marries a man to
keep him indoors" He-'And man
marries a woman to keep her in hats"
-Yonkers Statesman.
Gentle .Hint.-Elderly Maiden
May ask what your name is?" "Hu-
ber." "a beautiful name! wish mine
was like it. .''-Fiegende Blaetter.
-Prisoner-"Forty shillings for steal
ing pair of shoes?" Magistrate
''That's what I said" Prisoner-sWhy.
your worship, they didn't tit''-Tit-
Bits
A Widened Horizon.-'When was
AAA'o AAAAA ASe' OAouoA LII ulJ WIIc was INC
only woman on earth.'' ''How do YOU
feel about it now?'' ''Wen, there's our
cook. ''-Chicago Record.
-Discipline.-"My wife is rearing
Bobby very carefully; when he is dis
obedient he goes to bed without his
dinner" isn't that rather severe 2"
mo; she always carries his dinner up
to him.'-Chicago Record
--"Brother Jim has the bicycle face,
Joe has the bicycle back, and sister
Sue has the bicycle leg" "Any other
bicycle ailments in your family?"
"Well, papa says he has the bicycle
pocketbook, and it's badly punctured.' -
Truth.
Fair customer-''Is this western
beef?' Eastern Butcher (proudly)-
mo, madam; we don't deal in steers
from the rowdy west. This beef,
madam, is from highly cultivated and
refined cow, formerly of Boston."-N. Y.
Weekly.
Willmar tribune., 1897-06-15
DAlNTlNESS COUNTS.
How to Make a Plain Meal Delightful
and Acceptable.

How to Make a Plain Meal Delightful
and Acceptable.
a simple and dainty breakfast is one
Of the most delightful things in the
world, and the woman who can serve
it in an acceptable manner ought to be
considered better housewife than she
who serves rich feasts unattractively.
A chop set forth on glittering china
on cloth of shining damask is better
than the rarest bird in the market
brought on in slovenly style. Toast
and tea may make feast with white
linen and glistening silver when all the
delicacies of the season would be poor
meal if carelessly served. Always have
the tablecloth' spotless and fresh, even
if you have to convert every day into
wash day to compass it. Always have
silence CLOTH though there is no des-
sert for week in order that it may be
paid for. Always have bit of green
in the center of the table. Let the sill
yer, even if it is plated, BE- shining,
and the glass, though it be pressed
and not cut, be glistening.
Have the accessories of a banquet,
though the main part of it be lacking.
Serve olives, radishes, salted almonds
and the like with the plainest of family
dinners. You may make the last-named
yourself at trifiing expense. Heat one
teaspoonful of best butter, or one scant
teaspoonful of olive oil, smoking hot.
Add one-half pound of Jordan almonds,
blanched. When the almonds begin to
brown, sprinkle over them one scant
tablespoonful of salt, and stir and
shake until all are a golden brown. Oil
gives richer glaze than butter. To
b]anch the almonds pour over them
boiling water, in which let them stand
Is minutes. Rub the skin off with a
coarse cloth.
When the family wearies of the regu-
lation desserts, give it cake with sliced
oranges. A delicious dessert cake is
white layer. To make it beat to "a
cream, 1A cupfuls of sugar and three
quarters of cupful of butter Add
three-quarters of a cupful of milk. two
cupfuls of flour, one teaspoonful of
baking powder, one teaspoonful of van
lila and white of four eggs. Bake in
layers: Maple sugar frosting gives
delicious flavor to plain cake. To make
it boil one-half cupful of white sugar,
one cupful of maple sugar and a little
cold water. Boil it till it forms fine
hairs when dropped from the spoon.
Add one-half cupful each of butter and
sweet cream; boil ten minutes and stir
till cOol.-Chicago Chronicle. -
Willmar tribune., 1897-06-15

and finished with two or three coats of
hard oil finish, well rubbed in, when it
will take on beautiful polish. Either
wooden or iron brackets may be used
for the shelves to rest on.
The panel at the right may be made
Of canvas or any material desired, en-
broidered or painted; or, as in the illus
tration, it may be made of silk or plush
and have bands of ribbon stretched di-
agonally across it. These make a con-
venient case for cards, photographs or
small pictures of any kind.
Altogether it is quite a pretty piece
of furniture and is convenient for vases,
ETC., especially where one has no man
tel.-Farm, Field and Fireside.