Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 19, 1881, Page 4

R o Ry, The Omaha-Bée. Published every morning, except Sunday only Monday moming daily. TERMS BY MATL:— One year.,.... £10.00 | Three Months £3.00 Six Months... 500|{One * .. 1.0 3 THE WEEKLY BEE, published ev- ery Wednesday, TERMS POST PAID: One Year.... 00 | Three Months., 50 8ix Months.... 1.00 | One A CORRESPONDENCE~All Communi eations relating to News and Editorial mat- tors should be addressed to the Ei Tar Ber. BUSINESS LETTERS—AIl Business Totters and Remittances should be ad- dressed to THE OMAHA PUBLISHING Com- PANT, Omana, Drafts, Checks and Post office Orders to be made payable to the order of the Company. OMAHA PUBLISHING 00., Prop'rs E.ROSEWATER, Editor, TOR OF John H. Pierce is in Charce of the Circu- ation of THE DAILY BEE., Bricks, with or without straw, is the cry of Omaha's builders. — S1. Lous is waiting for Jay Gould to organize a center of low depression for that city. Gurteav's confession is of little walue except as it establishes his entire sanity. Tur “Duke of Albany” has been very effectually detitled. Mitier Telped do it. NEBRASKA is preparing to acknowl- edge the corn, and a good large crop in the bargain. Tue president's doctors have stop- ped quarrcling. The patient contin- ues to improve, WaoLesALE merchants in the city are growing exceedingly cheerful over the prospect of a heavy corn crop and increased fall sales, Iris suggested that the time for or- ganizing Arctic search expeditions is at just this time of the year. Volun- teers would be plenty. — THE editorial contest was one of the most interesting eventsof the New York archery tourrament. Newy York editors are noted for ‘‘drawing the long bow.” Evan the heat cannot wilt the met- ropolitan airs which Omaha is putting on. The sound of the trowel and hammer 18 heard on nearly every strect in our city. Tuar hitch in the street sprinkling contract may be amusing to the parties immediately concerned, but it is working great injury to the best interests of the city. New York papers are calling atten- tion to the remarkable increase in the use of morphine, It is said that the persons addicted to this habit are numbered by the hundreds of thou- sands, TaE railroad organs are warning the farmers against participating in poli- tics. So longas the alliance talks stock and crops, and fails to act for their own interest, the corporations have little to fear. Mg. BookWALTER, the democratic nominee for governor of Ohio consid- ers the nomination worth just §25,- 000, According to the New York Times that is the amount which he ex- pended for the empty honor, —e Tue ddnger of carrying deadly weapons has been vividly brought before the country by the attack upon the president. Tn Philadelphia Mayor King is enforcing strictly the law against carrying concealed weapons, and tha press is upholding him in his action, Frw realize the drain on our pub- lie revenue occasioned in years past by the payment of interest on the na- tional debt. Bince 1865 §1,764,435,- 000 have been expended in interest alone, while $758,657,395 of principal has been wiped out. The pres- ent interest-bearing debt of the country is $1,622,872,000. We have paid at the rate of over $168,000,000 per annum, The debt per capita in 18G5 was $78.25, and the amount of . interest to bo paid per capita per an- num is $4.20, Now the debt per cap- ita is 897.74 and the annual interost 10 be paid per capita is 81,50, Maxy of the leading journals of the country are earnestly protesti against the presidential fund. the Boston Journal: This whole business of presidential fi(u, whether as regards the Grant und or the Garfield subscription, we do not like, It invests the railroad kings and other woneyed mugnates with a kind of influence which we can- not regard with favor. If it ever comes to the time that the American nation is content to leave the pay- BODY GUARDS AND STAND- ING ARMIES. Rev. Mr. Sherrill shoots wide of the his instructive sermon on mark in “Garfield” when he uryges as a neces- sary reform a president’s body guard and a large standing army. There may be a divinity to hedge in kings but no body guard has ever been able to protect them against the assassin’s bullet or conspirator’s bomb, The emperor of Germany is always surrounded by a body guard and the public thoroughfares and promenades which he frequents are always guarded by vigilant po licemen, but that did not prevent Hoedel from firing a volley of buck- broad daylight at Kaiser The late emperor of Rus- shot in Wilhelm. sin was never without a body guard and a whole army of picked policemen patrolled St. Petersburg night and day, but that did not save him from the exploding bomb, thrown by the nihilists, Tt would be utterly im- possible for a president to guard his porson against assassins. 1f they did not shoot him down in_a theatre, or in a railway depot they would murder him in church or in the White House. There is no way of forestall- ing an assassin if he is determined, cunning and reckless of his own life, An upright, brave president like Garfield, will move about in his path of duty without fear, unattended and unarmed, with just as much safety and a good deal more comfort than if he were surrounded by a regiment of cavalry, supported by a park of artil- lery and a monitor on wheels, During the Pittsburg riot of 1877, Jay Gould wanted a standing army of a million ot men, with General Grant at their head, but we doubt very much whether even Jay Gould would now favor a large standing army. In a country where every able-bodied man is liable to military duty in defense of law and order, a regular armyis entirely unnecessary, except for police duty among Indians and on the border. Rev. Mr. Sherrill labors under the impression that our whole standing army of 25,000 men could not put down a great riot in New York city. Mr. Sherrill forgets that this country does not depend en- tirely on a standing army for the main- tenance of order. At the inaugura- tion of President Garfield more than 20,000 volunteer soldiers marched in the procession, Pennsylvania alone furnished 12,000 of them, fully armed and cquipped for active duty. As an oye-witness the editor of Tue Ber can assert, without fear of con- tradiction, that these troops would have compared favorably with the crack regiments that followed Grant, Sherman and Sheridan during the war. In a country where the ballot box and cartridge box go hand in hand large standing armies are un- necessary. To maintain an army of drones at the expense of the workers of this country would end in monar- chy. The only standing army the American people should enlarge is the army of schoolmasters. Tue danger of anarchy through ni- hilism, communism and socialism, which Mr, Sherrill so much dreads, is purely imaginary. As long as America supplies every man, woman and child with bread and meat earned by well paid labor, there is no danger of bloody revolution by nihilists or com- munists, PENSION FRAUDS. There is no doubt that the govern- ment is systematically swindled out of hundreds of thousands of dollars annually by the frauds of pension agents and bogus claimants, Under the present method of making up evidence to sustain applications for pensions, thegates are thrown open for the most flagrant violations of the law, The government has no opportunity to examine the ovidence pre- sented. The attorney for the claimant finds out just what testimony is needed to push through the claim and proceeds to getit. Any THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, JULY 19, 1881, month to the list. Tt is sincerely to be hoped that the change in the pen- sion office will not result in the aban- donment of the measure urged upon congress by ex-Commissioner Bentley. This bill for the appointment of district agonts to examine claimants near their own homes, and to take the testimony of neighbors familiar with their history. The measure was bitterly assailed the Washington claim agents, because its passage would have seriously cur- tailed their business. Some hostility was stirred up by these claim sharks among the soldier element, by means of lying circulars, intended to awaken prejudice against the bill, and the commissioner, but a document pre- pared in the pension office, giving the facts as to the effects of the bill and explaining the need of its pas- sage, entirely changed the current of feeling. Al honest and all honest that something Tmust be one to protect the pension rolls from being flooded with bogus invalids and to preserve the pension system from becoming unpopular by reason of the enormous and unjust burdens such fraudulent claims place upon the tax-payers, 1f the new commissioner knows his duty he will use every effort to push toits passage the wise measure of his prederessor, a measure which will at once protect the interests of the gov- ernment and those of the nation’s de- fenders, 4 pensioners claimants saw Tue growth of the feeiing in favor of the legislative regulation of corpor- ations must be no less surprising to the monopolies, than it is gratitying to the people. The sentiment is spreading among the mercantile and financial classes, as much as among the laboring and agricultural com- munities, Eight years ago, when Tur B first raised its protest against the exorbitant exactions of western railroads, it stood alone among the great dailies of the west. The monopoly question was discussed only by the farmers, and that small circle of merchants who had suffered from railroad exactions. Now the issue is in every city, town and village in the country. The press, the pulpit, the platform, all are commenting upon the subject so vital to the interests of the nation. Boards of trade and transportation are urging the importance of the question upon the mercantile interests and the farm- ers have banded together in their al- liances to present a united front to monopoly aggression. The issue be- tween the corporations and the peo- ple is clearly defined. Producers are determined that corporations, like in- dividuals, must be kept within proper bounds or made to feel the force of laws enacted for the protection of so- ciety. discussed Tue stranger who, eighteen months ago, sauntered up and down Harney street, would find it hard work to-day to realize that he was traversing the same section of Omaha. A new life is infusing itself into the street, which is rapidly making it the whole- sale center of the city. Beginning with Stephenson's superb stables, a structure of which every citizen is scarcely less proud thun its owner, and extending to Fourteenth street, are a mass of build- ings, either erected or in course of conatruction that would be a credit to any city, The Millard block, Tler's new building, both in course of construction of completion, Broatch’s building and the establishment of Steelo & Johnson are models of solid- ity and ornaments to the street. The wholesalers of Omaha seem to be turn- ing their attention especially to Har- ney street, which by its nearness to both the centers of transportation and to the retail business portion of the city, makes it peuliarly fitted for the handling of heavy goods. Five years hence Harney street is likely to rival Farnam street in the number and injury from a cross eye to an attack of rheumatism is sufficient for the basis of a claim, and if the party asserts that such disability was contracted in the service and can get a doctor and two other individuals to back up his statement he gets upon the pension rolls for life. There may be any number of people who are perfectly that he left the aware army sound man, but the gov- ernment has no means of learning this fact, or of summoning them as witnesses, Under a grossly defective law, unscrupulous eclaim agents are growing fat, and equally dishonsst claimants are drawing drafts from the treasury to which they are not entitled, while thousands of soldiers who are really deserving of aid, but arc too honest to make use of disreputable means, find their claims thrown out at Washington to make way for men who never smelled powder in the army. Under this unhealthy stimulus the pension list is growing to alarming di- mensions, Two thousand new appli- cations are filed monthly and no fewer than 200,000 new cases have been filed at the pension office during the past two years under the arrearage of the pension act. Enough men within character of builings. Ra1LroAp building in Towa is pro- gressing with wonderful rapidity. How M. C. Woodruff, one ef the rail- road commissioners of the state; says that more miles of railroad are being constructed than in any , revious year, Immigration is keeping pace with the railroad development, especially in northwestern Towa. Says Mr. Wood- ruff: “Never, since 1856, has lowa witnessed such an influx of emigrants. Fully thirty per cent. of the emigrants on the Milwaukee and St. Paul lands, amounting to probably 150,000 people are actual settlers, and the lands owned by them are largely under cul- tivation. This is due to the excellent policy pursued by the Milwaukee and St. Paul officials in granting to the purchaser a rebate for breaking land during the first year, of from $2 to #2560, making the first cost of the land to the settlers nominal. The settlers going to Towa are, largely, na- tive Americans, while the majority of foreigners seeking lands settle upon the homestead or pre-emption lands of Dakota.” Elbridge G. Lapham. Elbridge G. Lapham, the nominee of the Re'mblieun caucus for the seat in the United Btates senate made vacant by the resignation Roscoe Conkling, is the son of the late Judge ment of its dobts of gratitude to bo|that period have marched up made out of the ostentatious largess of a few wealthy men, it will be a to the troasury to ‘make two . melancholy day for the national pros- | bundred full regunents aud an- perity uu{ the national pride, other regiment is added each John Lapham, and was born in Farmington, N. the public schools. where he was a classmate of Stephen A. Douglas, and also studied civil en- gineering, After spending some time in work upon the line of the Michigan Southern Railroad, Mr. Lapham studied law, and in 1844 he was admitted to the bar. He settled at Canandaigua, where he has since practised law. Soon after his admis- sion to the bar Mr. Lapham formed a partnership with Judge James C. Smith, which continued until the lat- ter was raised to the bench. Mr. Lapham was a member of the Consti- tutional Convention of 1867, an dvot- ed for the adoption of the conetitution. In 1874 he was clected as a republi- can to the XLIVth congress, and he has since been clected from the same district (the XX VIIth) by large ma- jorities to the XLVth, XLVIth and XLVIIth Congresses. Mr, Lapham acted with the democracy until 1847, but he supported the Wilmot Provisio and the Van Buren ticket in that year, and was a delegate to the Buffa- fo convention. As a republican his zeal and abilitios have long been re- cognized, ‘Warner Miller. Warner Miller, who has been nomi- nated by the republican caucus to suc- ceed ex-Senator Thomas C. Platt, was born in Oswego county, N. Y., August 12, 1838, and was graduated at Union College in 1860. After leaving col- lege he began tonchin% in the Fort Edward Collegeiate Institute, but when the war broke out he enlisted as a private in the 5th New York cavalry, He served in the Shenandoah Valley with distinction, and was promoted to be sergeant-major and licutenant. At the battle of Winchester he was taken prisoner, and remained in captivity till the close of the war, Mr. Miller then made a trip to Europe, but soon roturned and established himself in the paper manufacturing business in Herkimer county, and a few years ago he erected a mill at Lynsdale, Lewis county, for the manufacture of pulp and paper. Mr. Miller made his first appearance in public life in 1873, when he was elected to the assembly as arepublican from Herkimer county. He was elected in 1874. During his two years in the assembly he was an influential member. In 1878 he was elacted to the XLVIth congress from the XXTId district, and in 1880 he was elected to the XLVIIth congress. In addition to his large manufactur- ing interests, Mr. Miller owns a fine farm in Harkimer county, which he manages himself, and all eflorts for the promotion of the interests of agri- culture and agricultural laborers find in him a warm and generous supporter. MRS LINCOLN'S HALLUCINA- TI1ON. The True Condition of the Wife of the Martyred President—Her Illness Has Been Magnified. A Springfield dispatch to the Chi- cago News says: Of late the newspa- pers of the country have contained an almost countless numbér of paragraphs relative to the serious illness of Mrs, Lincoln, the widow of the martyred president. These have not originated with the newspaper correspondents of Springfield, who have been familiar with the true condition of affairs, but have originated from outside and irre- sponsible sources, Inasmuch, how- ever, as they have done no harm, and have gratified no one more than Mrs, Lincoln herself, they have been al- lowed to pass uncontradicted, and have been repeated in an endless va- riety of forms by all the newspavers of the country, except those of Spring- field. Ever since the tragic death of the lamented president Mrs. Lincoln has been the object of an affectionate interest and concern of the entire na- tion. 'This has been abundantly at- tested by the eagerness with which the slightest bit of information con- cerning her has been received, and in many other ways unnecessary to men- tion, The paragraphs recently dis- tributed so wildly, representing her to boat the point of death, have great- ly increased the popular anxiety for further particulars, and it is perhaps proper that the Morning News should now state her exaet condition some- thing that has not yet been done by any newspaper, Irs, Lincoln came to Springfield on November 3, 1880, and has since made her home at the residence of the Hon. Ninian Edwards, whose wife is her sister, where she has been ten- derly cared’ for. The most notable feature of her arrival was the extra- ordinary amount of baggage which she brought with her, This consisted of over sixty trunks which, according to the railway officials, weighed over 8,000 pounds. In contained a remarkable collection of ordinary possessions of the most mis- cellaneous kind, comprising' nearly everything in the shape of clothing, trinkets ote., that she has accumulated since childhood, all of which she treasures with zealous care. Mrs. Lincoln has NEVER RECOVERED FROM THE SHOCK caused by the assassination, It has been well known to the public that Mrs. Lincoln has never fully recovered from the terrible shock, shared with her by the country, occasioned by the fatal bullet of Wilkes Booth, Under such trying cireumstances as those she then encountered, it would not have been surprising if her mind had been slnntterml and reason had lost its sway. Fortunately, however, this result was avoided; but the effects of that terrible ordeal have since been manifested in the development of certain poculiari- ties and cccentricities, which, while they have been mainly of a pertectly harmless character, have been the source of great anxiety and constant trouble to her immediate friends. Since coming to Springfield it has been Mrs. Lincoln'’s pleasure to con- sider herself ill—a confirmed invalid, wonth after her arrival herself up in her room, professing to be unable even to go 4lnwn stars. And there she rvemained persistently from last Christ- mas until Wednesday of this week. The burden of her conversation was about her sufferings. No one could | live a week and suffer the pains which she described as afflicting her. She constantly complained of severe pains in her back and limbs. Her most About a she shut frequent expressions were that she widh the slightest chance of recovery. | ., October 18, 1814, | was “on fire He was brought up ona farm, and|though she was being “‘cut to pieces during the winter months attended | by knives.” He spent some |she reiterate the statement that ¢ time at the Canandaigua Academy, | did not expect to live another day. these trunks is| [ and that she felt as Many times a day would o Her greatest gratification was to read the newspaper statements that she was lying at the point of death. These were carefully collected for her edifica- tion, and she seemed to desire that the news should be circulated as wide- ly as possible. This desire has cer- tainly been gratified to the fullest ex- tent by the press of the country, and it was on Mrs, Lincoln’s account that the statements were not sooner cor- rected, AN IMMENSE AMOUNT OF BAGGAGE. While undergoing the self-imposed imprisonment already described, Mrs, Lincoln often spent the mornings in looking through her immense collec- tion of trunks, occasionally fishing out some dilapidated garment and mending it carefully. She received but few visitors and seemed to care but little for reading anything except the newspaper paragraphs already mentioned. She is constantly in ceipt of a large correspondence, largely from autograph hunters, though a number of friends write to her regu- larly. These letters she seldom answers, as she does mnot like to write, but occasionally she requests some of the family to answer them for her. All her business affairs are transacted by Mr. Jacob Bunn. 1In the afternoon it has been Mrs. Lincoln’s habit to darken her room as much as possible. She has declined to use gas, except when visitors called, and has preferred to obtain what light she needed from ordinary candles, or from tapers floating in water, During the winter, at her desire, sisters from the hospital remained with her through the night. During all these imaginary troubles Mrs.. Lincoln’s appetite has been good, but she has insisted that she has alwas been a good eater; that her condition cannot be judged by her appetite, and that her disease is of a nature that requires her to consume a great deal of fuod. EATS AND SLEEPS WELL. Through all these months she had always slept well, and a great deal, though she has strenuously insisted that she has not. Recently she sent for her physician, and said that she wanted to sleep; that she had hardly slept all winter. She wanted some- thing to mzke her sleep, but did not want anything that had an opiate in it. The doctor complied with her re- quest, and she slept nearly all the time tor three days, being very drowsy during the short intervals when she was awake. Since then she has com- plained of feeling better. For some time the doctor has advised her to take a drive as soon as she was able to get out After setting several days for making the attempt, she felt enough better after her long sleep to go, and not only took a drive on Wed- nesday of this week, but wants to soon take another. Mrs. Lincoln is not really sick She does suffer from a slight trouble, causing this hysterical condition, and of course her general health has not been improved by her six months’ confinement to her room and ker general mode of life. But her sufferings are almost wholly imaginary, and she may at any time conclude that she has recovered. Ai! of her fancies and whims are indulged to the fullest extent by her friends, and this may be said to comprise the whole course of treatment adopted. Tt will be seen from the facts herewith given that there is nothing in the con- dition of this lady, who occupies such a peculiarly prominent place in the in- terest and affections of the people of the United States, to give ground for especial anxiety as to her health and well-being. While it is not reasonable to expect that she will live a great many years longer, being now about sixty, thereis at present no reason why she should not live out the full measure of the years allotted to wo- men; and that her remaining days may be days of peace, contentment and freedom from suffering, will certainly by the earnest desire of the nation. Temperature and Respiration. Washington Corresponcence to the New York Star, The average temperature or natural heat of the human body in good con- dition of health is 98} degrees (98.56 Fahrenheit.) The 98th degree is marked on the thermometers as blood heat. Cases are on record in which the temperature rose to 108 in chil- dren and 107 in adults, but 105 is re- garded as almost certain death, and 104 as extremely dangerous. Raving yellow fever patients are said rarely to goabove 106. The president’s temperature has been as low as 98.9, only four-tenths of a degree above normal. Last night 1t reached the highest point, 102.8, The surgeons ascribed this unusual rise (it had not previously been going above 101 and fractions) to the excitement of the pa- tient produced by the hammering and other noises and stirs that are necessa- ry to the introduction of pipes for compressed air, The president’s respiration has va- ried from 19 to 24. In health, when entirely free from any exciting influ- ence, the natural res‘xirntiun of an adult is from 14 to 20, but in cases of sickness and of wounds it has been re- corded as low as 7 and as high as 100 per minute Thus it will be seen that while these outward indications in the president’s case mark him as a very sick man, they are not such as to war- rant the theory that the doctors are misleading the people abeut his gen- eral or particular symptoms. Very Old Rum, Indeed Washington Correspondence to the New York Herald. Colonel Rockwell, who came out from the sick room a moment, in re- sponse to an inquiry said: “The president is doing splendidly. He had a very good day, restful and quiet. He has not talked very much, When his wound was dressed there was quite a large discharge of healthy pus. This morning we gave him a piece of milk toast and then some milk with just a dash of old rum in it.” “Is that rum as old as it is claimed to bel” T have every reason to believe that it is, It was sent hew by Sam Ward, who enjoyed an intimate friendship with the president when he was in congress, and he wrote me a letter stating that the rum had been present- ed to him by the Earl of Lounsberry —1I think that was the name. The earl had told him that it was sent to England from Jamaica in 1704, and it is not probable that it was much of an infant then, so that it is safe to say that it is one hundred years old. It came in a quaint, old-fashioned bottle at any rate. It is splendid liquor, whatever age it may be, if I am any judge of the bouquet.” THE GREAT EASTERN. A Rumor that Jay Gonld Will Bay 5 the Monster. New York Sun, Uncle Rufus Hatch was mopping his brow in an East Side elevated train the other day, and was asked whether there was anything new in the mar- ket. “Nothing,” he replied, ‘‘except that there was an Englishman in to see me to-day who wanted to sell the Great Eastern,” “Do you think that you could find a purchaser?” was asked. “‘Certainly,” Uncle Rufus answered. ‘“Jay Gould would buy her sure. She requires a great deal of water and that's just in his line. He can float anything. He'd float the biggest iron anchor in existence.” “You foreget,” we observed, ‘‘that he doesn’t run to yachts like his former partners. Charley Osborn, Bill Belden and Hank Smith. What would he do with the Great Eastern?” “All that may be so.” Uncle Ru- fus asseverated, ‘‘but, like the boy after the chipmunk, he’s got to have her. He's got all the big railroads, telegraph lines, elevators and blanket newspapers, and he must add the Great Eastern to them to complete his assortment. What would his junk shop be worth without her? He's going to lay his cable to Mexico, and she’s just the boat for the business. Then the World ought to have her for a dispatch boat. The Herald's yacht is played out, and it would be a big advertisement for him to have the Great Eastern steaming down to Sandy Hook and boarding incoming steamers for marine news for the World, Oh, I tell you’ Gould's got to have her. Bennett's tub will stand no chance with her. How shelll raise the circulation. Then there’s Wash McCorckindale, who writes Gould's Wall street gossip. He's got to be provided for. Sucha hugh nautical toy would be just the thing to please him. Besides, Gould can't afford to show any partiality—if he buys Great Northern and Western Union, and Northwestern and South- ern extension, he must have a Great Eastern, While he’s boxing the com- pas he can’t afford to slight any one of its cardinal points. He'll take her, sure pop,” “But how can she trade between Pier 1 and Sandy Hook, and float the American flag, when she’s an English bottom?’ We asked. Uncle Rufus again mopped his brow. ¢Oh, that'a easy to fix,” he said. “A man who can consolidate all the telegraph and railroad lines, and control all the newspapers in the United States, can put down one flag and put up another any time he chooses. Blame’s congress and Stan- ley Matthews’s supreme court would back him in anything.” “Why, Uncle Rufus, you seem to be down on Mr. Gould.” “Oh, no, the sage responded. You're mistaken, On the contrary, I admire talent and enterprise, especi- ally when exercised for the benefit of the masses as against the few. They enlarge and develop the brain and the country, and reflect a lustre on the financial age 1n which we live,” “So you really think that Jay Gould will buy the Great Eastern?” ‘“‘Buy her,” Uncle Rufus repeated. ““Of course he will. Why, he can make a receiving ship of her.” ““How so?” we asked. ‘A receiving ship for Western U. ionand canceled press dispatches,” was the reply. ““They could be stowed between decks where nobody could find them, And then she'd make a good towboat for Gould’s Mis- s188ippi barge line. Oh she’d work in & hundred different ways. She could be employed in carrying railroad iron, workmen and supplies to Mexico via | Lessep’s Panama canal, or she could be sent to Bermuda in the crop season for a cargo of anti-malarial omons. She would be especially valuable as a {)lucu to stow away the ‘syndicate of iars about whom the World has been preaching so many sermons of late; but whether she would be big enough to hold them all, ircluding the members of the different ‘lying syndi- cates,’ is a question that no one but the proprietor of the World and the supercargo of the Great Eastern can answer, I wish that Wm. Henr Gould, Jay Reid, Whitelaw Hurlburt, or some other member of the moral gruss would explain the difference etween a ‘syndicate of liars’ and ‘a lyine syndicate.” Some portions of the community need the instruction. T'm not much of a liar myself, or T would undertake the job. It needs an accomplished professor of morals todo the thing justice, The Great Eastern could be utilized in a thousand ways, Probably her best paying charters would be her trips to Europe to bring back the American securities now being taken by foreign investors,” WOMAN'S TRUE FRIEND, A friend in need is a friend indeed, This none can deny, especiall when assistance is rendered when one is sorely afflicted with disease, more par- ticulary those complaints and weak- nesses 80 common to our female pop- ulation. Every woman should know that Electric Bitters are woman’s true friend, and will positively restore her to health, cven when all” other reme- dies fail. A single trial will always prove our assertion. The are pleas- ant to the taste and only cost 50 ceuts a bottle Sold by Ish & McMa- hon, (1) BE2,000,000 APPROPRIATED | . For Pensions I have made ties here by wh N arrangement with hall claims against he Government coming from Nebras ka and Iowa will receive prompt and SPECIAL ATTENTION, 1f parties wanting new discharge papers or claiming pensions, {ncrease of pensions, bounty, back pay, prize m , transportation money commutation of rations, lands, patents, etc,, wil send their claling addresied o tue, 1 will sec that their interests are cared for. 'Letters asking intormation should have stamp enclosed for re. ply. JAMES MORRIS, (Special Correspondent) 1604 * N W. wit | FOR SALE CHEAP LAND FOR SALE. 1,000,000 Acres ~—OF THE—— FINEST LAND —— TN e EASTERN NEBRASKA. SpLEcTED IN AN EARLY DAY—Nor Ram Roap LAND, BtT LAND OWNED BY NoON- RESIDENTS WHC ARE TIRED PAYING TAXES. AND ARE OFFERING THEIR LANDS AT THR LOW PRICE OF $6, §8, AND $10 PER AckE, ON LONG TIME AND EASY TERMS, WE ALSO OFFER FOR SALE IMPROVED FARMS — N Douglas, Sarpy and Washington COUNTIERS. —_— ALSO, AN IMMENSE LIST OF OmahaCityRealEstate Tncluding Elegant Residences, Business and Residence Lots, Oheap Houses and t, and large nuniber of Lots in most of the Additions of Omaha. Also, Small ‘I'racts of 5, 10 and 20 acrces in and near the city, Wehave good oppor- tunities for making Loans, and in all cases parsonally examine titles and take every precaution to insure safety of money so invested. Be ow we offer a small list of Spro1AL BARGAINS, BOGGS & HILL, Real Estate Brokers, 1408 North Side of Farnham S¢reet, Opp. Grand Central Hotel, OMAHA, NEB. FOR SAL 23d streets, §1600. Enquire of Jas, 904-tt A beautiful residence lot on California between 22nd and BOGGS & HILL. FOR SALE Jew, mice house and ot on dth and Webster strects, with barn, coal house, well cistern, shade and fruit trees, everything complete. ‘A desirable piece of property, figures low GGS & HILL. FOR SALE Spiendid bunnes itas. . corner of 16th and Capita Avenue, BOGGS & HILL. House and lot corner Chil FOR SALE g iteonoies BOGGS & HILL. FOR 3ALE larse house on Davenport street between 11th and 12th goop location for boarding housc. Owner wil sell low BOGGS & HILL. FOR SALE Do houses on tul los in Kountze & Ruth's addi- tion. This property will be sold very cheap. BOGGS & HILL, TFORSALE-A top pheaton. Stephenson. FOR SALE Somerot taro choice lote in Shinn’s Addition, request to at once submit best cosh offer. BOGGS & HILL. FOR SALE Afedan acamuis xes dence property, #1000 0GGS & HIIL, A FINE RESIDENCE_Notin the market Ower will sell tor 6,600, BOGGS & MILL. FOR SALE &0 jots Suinn's 34 0a dition §150 each, BOGGS & HILL FOR SALE Ayersfne resdence it to some party desiring to bulid a fine house, §2,300, * BOGGS & HILL. FOR SALE Avout 200 tots i Kountzo & Ruth's addition, just south of St. Mary's avenue, #50 to §500. These lota are near business, surrounded by fine improve ments and are 40 per cent cheaper than any othe. Iots in the market. Save mony by buyinis the ois. HOGGS & HILL. FOR SALE 0ot sutabie tor fine res dence, 'on Park-Wild avenuo 3 blocks . E. of depot, all'covered with fine larg trecs, Price extremely low, 2000 to £700, BOGGS & HILL, FOR SALE o, v, cheap loto in Lake's addition. BOGGS & HILL, FOR SALE Shesp, comer 1oty comer Douglas and Jefferson Ste, BOGGS & HILL, FOR SALE (5ot on 2o, 2iem, 2stn, 20th and 30th Sts., between Farnham, Douglas, and the proposed extension of Dodge stroct. Prices range from $200 to 8400, We haxe concluded to give men of small means, Y { one more chance to secure a home and will build housas on these lots on small payments, and. will scll lots on monthly payments, FOR SALE i o 160 acres, 9 miles trom city, about 30 acres very choice valley, with running water; balance geutly rolling prriric, only 8 miles tiom railaoad, $10 per ncie, 400 acres in one tract twely BOGGS & HILL, FOR SALE it it tves tivated, Liviug Spring of water, some nice va loys. e land is all first-class rich prairie. Pric #10 per acre, BOGGS & HILL, 720 acres in one body, 7 miles FOR SALE tutinmminimies land, producing Seavy growth of grass, i high valley, rich soil and” 3 mies from railroad an side track, in good scttiement and no better lan can be found, BOGGS & HILL, A highly improved farm of FOR SALE 240 acres, 8 wiles from city. Fine improvements on this laud, owner not a practieal farmer, determined to sell. A good opening for some man of meaus. BOGGS & HILL, FUR SAL 2,000 acres of land near Mil- land Station, 8,500 near Elk- hor, $8 to ¥10; 4,000 acres in north part of coun- ty, 87 to 810, 8,000 acres 2 to 8 miles from Flor- e, §0 to $10! 5,000 acres west of the Elkhorn, #4 10 §10; 10,000 acres scattercd through the coun’ ty, 86 o §10, ‘The above lands lle near and adfoin nearly every farm in the county, and can mostly be sold on sinall cash payment, with the balance in 1-2:3. 4and 6 vear's time. BOGGS & HILL, Fon SALE Soveral hne residences prop K ertics never befere offercd and not known in the market as baing for sle. Locations will only be made known ¢ purchasers “meaning busines, BUGGS & HILL, IMPROVED FARMS o< improve farms around. Owmaha, and in all parts of Douglas, Sarpy and Washington counties. Also faruis i Towa.” For deseription and prices call on ) BOGGS & HILL, us, JQ Pusiness Lots forSale on Farnam and Doug- Lus strects, from 5,000 to &, BOGES & HILL, EFOR SAL 8 business lots next west advanced of §2,000 each. of Masonic Temple—price FOR SALE BOGGS & HILL 8 business lots west of Oild Fellows block, §2 500 cach, BOGGS & HILL. 2 business lots south side Douglas street, between 12th 1th, §,500 cach. BOGGS & HILL. 160acres, ocvered with young FOR SALE i i rounded by improved rms, only 7 mi.es trom w., Washington, D.'c cit . Ches) L BOGGS & HILL,