Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 20, 1885, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. axp 918 Fannax 8z, No, 014 Ouana Orrion & Taravxn BOLD: Naw Yonx Orrion, Roox 1NN, evory morning, exosph Sunday. -l':bl‘:::y morning daily published in the state. e hres Montha. .8 84 Mon! 00 | One Month....... LA Whe Weekly Bes, Publihsed every Wednesd ay Year, with premium... Doe Your, without promtum Blx Months, without premium ©ne Month, on trial... conemsroRDRNCR L t mmunioations relating %o News s ad Bdttoria mittecs thould be sddressed Vo the Kokrom or T Baa «© 1% [ 1 WORTRSS LATTRRA. os Tatters and Remittances should be "Turs Brn PUBMANING COMPAYY, OMATA. e ecks and Pot ofioe orders %0 be made pay “hle ¥ the ordes of the company. ‘TR BEE PUBLISHING CO, Props. B ROSEWATER, Eomon, All Bustn Tar republicans of Omata do not pro- rpose t5 disband. Tuere is such a thing as boing a little previous even In politics, e Ar the rate of five appolntments & dsy Nebraska will be reached sometimeduring the next century. CoroNer Omase deslres to imitate ‘truth, Although crushed to earth he wants to rise again. A rroCLAMATION from Mayor Chase ordering peanut peddlers off the slde- walks will be issued present'y. Tar democratic atate central dlstribu- tlon committee is cngaged in devising rules and regulations for office seekers. Tug president has nominated a Ken- tueky Duarham for first comptroller. “There is nothing like having a thorough- bred in office. ] Mz, Bovp, member of the natlonal democratic committee, posing as the non- .partizan candidate for mayor, looks de- -cldedly grotesque. Mz, Boyp is willing to bs endorsed by a republican convention, but he could hardly be Induced to run sgainst the can- -didate nominated by the democrats. —— A urrrie skirmish with Gautemala ust now would no doubt be appreciated by our regular army, which has had nothing to do for some time. Mr Barrios, of Gautemala, may cet ‘badly scratched by the talons of the American eagle which is now hoveri over Nicaragua as a sort of protector. — Tue two-cent dinners, which consiat of a bowl of hot, nutrltious soup, served in ‘the market place and open squares in Paris, may not put much money in the pockets of the proprietors of the scheme, but they put an immense amount of com- fort in the stomachs of the hungry poor. TrERE I8 no lack of candidates for the -position of government director of the Union Paclfic. Those candidates who ihave not put in thelr applications to the democratlc central committee should ‘hurry up and do so. No one is liable to get an office without the recommendation -of the commlittee. For many years ex-Senator Davis, of ‘West Virginia, has clalined that there has been a great defalcation or dlscrep- ancy in the United States troasury be- tween the actual amounts in the treasury and the publlc statements madc by the officials. Mr. Maoning will now have a chance to let the country know whether the treasury has heen robbed of several hundred mlllion dol- lars, as has been asserted by Mr. Davis. GexerAL BLaok, the new commi:sioner of pensions, finds his hands full. The signing of the officlal msil is alone more work than ke is physically able to do. In accordance with the present castom he will have to make from 1,600 to 2,000 signatures a dsy, The wounds which he has recelved in both arms interfere with his facllity in writing, and he could not write his signature continously without breaking down. It 1s a mooted (uestion whether the commissioner has the right to use a stamp to sign the merely routine papers which the law requires shall have his signature. A stamp has been used to some extent, but the penslon office has doubts about the legality of a stamp, the use of which has never been authorized by congress. Durixe the summer there will be soveral congrersionsl junketing tours, at the public expense. A special com- mittee will spend the summer yvacation travellng through the northwest and the Yellowstone natlonsi park under the pre- tense of looking after the Indlans, An- other committee on Indiav affairs will make » similar tour with about the same object, One of the senate standing committees will investigate the subject of trausportation by rallroad and water, and of course It will have to awing around the clrclevis the moet agreeable and picturesque routes. This committee will take a trip to the Pacific cosst, wbile & special committee will probably take an excursion to the principal summer re. sorts In the Atlantiv seaboard, These are not all of the plessure tours that have been planned, but they will suffice to show that our wesried law-makers propose to have some recreation in order to recuperate for the next seasion. All of the committees will be supplied witk stenographere, clerks and measengers, and probably will be accompanied by principal members of their famliss. It is estimated that the expense to the gov- ernment for these committee tours .will not be less than $100,000, for which no adequate return will be wade, e i ekt CLOUD. The Mdmunds resolution, adopted by the senate, is evidence that this country deses not propose to allow President Bar- rios, of Guatema'a, o osrry out his ncheme of coneolidating the five republics of Central Amerlca into one confedera: tion. The reason given for the sttitude of our governmeat is that it has certain interests in Nicaragus and Costa Rlca which will be jeopardized by the pro- posed movement of Barrics, It Is main. talned t&at the Inter-oceanic canal treaty, which, 1t Is understood, has been ratified by Nicaragus, is for the general benefit oy all the Central American republics as well as of the United States, and that there- fore any invaslon of Nicaragua and Costa Rlea by the forces of Guatemala ought to be treated as an act of hostile interference with the rights of this country. The Edmunds rerolutlon Is regarded as a declaration of war, con- ditlonal, of course, upon the proposed invasion being carried out. If President Barrloa attemp's any such thing he will find himself at once opposed by United States torces, as well as those of Mexico. In fact, several Unlted States war ves- sols are alroady on their way to Central Amerios, with instructions to act in ac- cordance with the spirit of the senate resolution, which is simply founded on the Monroe doctrine, it having been in- timated that France is backing Barrics. Secretary Bayard, in his communica- tlon to the senate, seems to have adopted a forelgn polloy vigerous enough to suit anybody. He does not confine himself to the Monroe dectrine that no European power thallbe allowed to inter- fere with the government on this conti- nent, bgt he goes further and virtually declares’ that, the independence of the Oentral American nations must bs maln- talned among themselves. Although the war oloud is a mere speck, and may prob- ably never be bigger than a man's hand, yet it gives an opportunity to the present administration to distinguish iteelf upon the matter of forelgn policy and thus divert public attention for a while from party questions at home. If, however, there isin the background some European power, poseibly France, the affair may as- sums serfous porportions and make the situation decidedly Interesting. Barrios, the half-Indian, who is the author of the trouble, is regarded by the people of Central Americ: a man of destiny, he having risen from the ranks of the laborers to the presidency of Gau- temala by his own efforts, His history reads more like a romance than {rath. Lecaving the plantation upon which his family worked, he proceded to the capital of Gautemala where his in- telligence attracted attention, and he soon succeded in obtaining assistance which secured to him a university educa- tion, After graduation he became a law- yer. Conceiving the ambitious idea of becomlng the chief executive of the na- tion, he boldly gathered around him a few staunch followers and captured the town and garrlson of San Marcos. This was the firat blow of the revolution which was to result in accomplishing the object of his ambition. The common people were in strong sympathy with him, but Presi- dent Cerna regarded Barrios as a fool- hardy adventurer, whosa object was plunder, Barrlos, however, captured village after vilsge, and constantly in- creased his forces by recruits from the Indians and half-breeds, and soon found himself at theheadof an army. For a time his career was checked by a wound, but upon his recovery he resumed active operations, and finally in June, 1871, he entered the capltol at Guatemala without reslatance. His firat act was to declare his general, Granador, as president, al- though he himself directed the govern- ment. The next year Barrios was clectod protident, which position he has ever since malntained. He has done a great deal for the republic of Guatemala. He has Jabored principally for the interests of the common people, for whom he has established schocls, bullt ratlroads and telegraph lines, and made other public improvements, which have given them employment. Such s the history, in brlef, of the half- Indian Barrios, once a laborer, now the military despot of Gua‘cmala, whose am- bitlons are evidently not confined to the boundaries of that republic, It is claimel by his friends thai his scheme of confed- eratlon is an henest effort in the interest of the five Central Amerlcan republics, and that he is not prompted by, a greedy desire to become the dic'ator, His enemles, of course, assert exactly the opposite, and his career, it seems, would sustaln this view of his contem- plated consolidation, The idea is not origlnal with him, as attempts have been made several times to unite the five re- publics, but at each time one or the other of the states refused to give up its local rights, and hence the fed- eration falled. We find abput the same condition of affalrs now. Nicaragua, Cos- ta Rica and San Salvador object to the plan of Barrlos, which, however, is to concede to each country the right of selt- local gavernment, but to surrender to the confederation the rights of natlonality. Honduras is the only republic, except Guatemala itself, that favors the scheme, and it does so through its president, who is under gréat obligations to Barrios for his election, It is stated that Barrios wants to get hold of the rich treasury of Nicarsgua, and at the same time secure a large bonus for the right of way for the ship canal. If he rhould persist in his intentlon and invade the terrltory of Nicarsgus In the face of the United States’ senate resolution it would look as if he had foreign sseurances to warrent him io taklog such s step. In that event-an active occupation wouldbe found for our army and navy, Whether Barrios iy alone interested, or is to be THE DAILY BEE--FRIDAyY MARCH 20, 1885 THE CE'WTRAL AMERICAN WAR|amlsted by Englacd or by France, or by both, it Is pretty certaln that the Uanlted States will protoct Its interests in Contral America. THE senate commltteer, a1 now recon- structed, are the bulwarks of the corpor- atlons and the land-grabbers and jobbers, No qaestion affecting the railrcads or telegeaph companies,or the land.grabbers, will have a ghost of a show of receiving faur conslderation, In the firet place the committee on postoffices and postroads, to which all questions of telegeaph and star-route matters, postal appropriations, oto., are referred, is headed by Conger, of Michigan, who has taken the place of Senator Hill. Conger s known to be one of the most outspoken and uncompro- mising rallroad attorneys in the senate, The committee on public lands has been reinforced by Teller, who Is a staunch friend of the monopolists and land-grab- bers, Senator Sawlogs Sawyer, the Wisconsin millfonaire lumberman and rallroad owner, has been made cheirman of the committee on railroads, with Wilson, of Iowa, and Mahone, of Vir- ginfa, as his associates. And so it s all the way through the committees, The senate has In fact been pretty thoroughly railroaded. Two of the six-day roller-skating racers at Madlson Square garden, New York, having died from over-exettlon, it is now in order to denounce the amuse- ment as a dangerous thing. An autopry is being made upon the body of one of the victims, and an inquest, at which twelve physicians will st as a jury, wil be held for the purpose of obtaining a profes- slonal opinion on the effects of roller- skatlng on health, It seems unneces- sary to take any such step, for common senss tells us that a six-day race on roller-skates Is altogether too much of a good thing., The same might be sald of a week’s racing on the bicycle. Excessive exerclse of any kind is detrimental to health, Whatever may be the oplnion of the twelve New York physlcians, the roller-skating mania wlll continue with- out any notlceable abatement for some time to come. Sir Curtis MuraNDA LampsoN, who died in his seventy-ninth year in England a few days ago, was & Vermont Yankee. In his youth he was a trapper in the Green mountalns, and getting upon his hands a large stock of fi'rs, he chartered a lugger and took his furs to London, where he sold them at a large profit. The succees of this venture led him to con- finue the business for scme time, and he thus built up the large fur business in Europe, and made a great fortune. He became a naturalized subject of Great Britain In 1848, and his title was gained by his enthusiastic faith in the Atlantic cable, which enterpriss wonld have been abandoned had it not been for him. Sampson was the Intimate friend of George Poabody, and was one of the di- rectors of the cable company, deputy gov- ernor of the Hudson's Bay company and a trustee of the Peabody fund in London. Rep Croup still nurses bis grievances againat Agent McGillicuddy, and he is now in Washington cn a visit to the Great Father. He wants McGillicuddy removed, on the ground that he is not liked by the Indians, and has allowed Red Cloud’s people to suffer for sugar, coffes and flour for three months, He asserts that McGillicuddy has surrounded himeelf with a few Indlans whom he calls his friends, whom he bribed for thefr so- called inflaence, and to whom he gives the rations belonging to his (Red Cloud's) friends. Whether the old chief has any more iafluence with a democratic admin- tstration than he had with a republican remains to be seen. Perhaps he bas been encoursged by reading that paesage of President Cleveland’s inaugural which advocates falr treatment of the Indians. A CHiNAMAN who had commiited & theft was {aken from the jall at What- com, Washington territory, by twelve masked men, who cut off his queue and hanged him to a trae three tlmes, until he wasalmost dead. He was then or- dered to return to Britlsh Columbia, whence he had come, and to notify all his countrymen that they would be treated the same way if they should at- tempt to invade Amerlcan soll. That this proceeding was an uncalled for out- ragefthers can be no question, Whenever Amerlcans or other foreigners are out- raged In China a great howl is ralsed the world over, The actlon of the What- comers was sn outrage equal to any ever committed by Chioamen in their own country upon foreigners, and they should be arrested and punfshed, Av the: homa buslness is that the *‘boomers,” who want to secure homesteads and fmprove the land, are being kept out for the benefit of the cattle-kings, who have fenced in the country. If the farmers are to be kept out on technicalities, then let the cattle- king land-grabbers be driven off the dis- puted terrltory. Itls the cattle monopo- lists that are the onea that are blocking the way of the homestead BeNATOR MANDERSGN'S resolation pro- viding that a committee of five senators be appolnted to proceed to Alaska, would indicate that he anticipates an extremely warm summer, and would like to take & frip to the United States refrigerator, E——— TaE senate has got tirad of waltivg for presidentlal appointments, and it is pre- parleg to inform Mr, Cleveland that if he has no farther use for that body it proposes to adjourn, Tue vepublioans who sigaed that “‘eltl- zens’ petition” begging Mr, Boyd to be- come mayor of Omaha have discovercd by this tlme that they have fa'len Into a democratic trap. —— Tur federa’, nuthoritien of Utah cons tine to mak's it Interesting for the poly- gam's's. The Iatest arrest is that ot the editor cf the Deserot News, the church organ. That is striking high up, and it is a1 evidence that the war is to be vig- orously continued, We should not be surprised if, as has alrendy been intl- mated, a proclamatian will be lesued at the Mormon conference in April abrogat- Ing the ‘‘divine law” of polygamy, and oalling upon all polygamists to quit the prsotice. They hope by this s'op to se- cure amnesty for past offenees. —— STATE NEWS, Electric lights illuminate North Platte, There is & latge immigration toward the White River country, A plank fell on Daniel Sabat of Grand Ts- land and broke his teg. The Fremont bridge over the Platte suc- cessfully buffeted the ico floss, Tt is estimated there are 876,600 bushels in cribs along the line of the B, & M. road. Dodge connty owes the state from $10,000 t0 $12,000 for caring for its insane patients. Chadron will be the headquarters of the Ni- obrara transportation company this summer, The bottom lands and tho (ailrond bridge at Wakefield were fl oded by the recent rise of Logan creek, A lnrge ontfit of men and teams will soon leave Fremont to work on the railrond beyond Valentino. Burglara ot away with $1,500 worth of silk by breaking into the store of Winger & Mil- Iir in Lincoln Sunday night. The B, & M. is making large additions to ita yard facilities in Kearney and has laid out an addition to the town, Detective Pound,the hero of the stata treas- ury robbery, has been indicted by the Lan- caster county grand jury for killing Griffin, one cf the raiders. The two-story business block of M, J. Johnson, going up at Hastings, collapsed with a crash Wednesday. The workmen miracu- lously escaped injury. Arthur W, Roger, traveling adjuster for the The True Inwardness of the Back- bone Grant, Chicago Times, Monday, & good deal of the ‘‘inward- nees,” 80 to say, of the Backbone land- grab sffair was brought to view by the debate in the senate. If the facts have not been grossly misstated by the senator from Loul a (Mr. East's), thcra was no more equity in the olaim of the New grant than there wai In that of the Southern Pacific syndicate to the Texas Pacific grant—that fs, no equity at all. sl ke, but the difference would seem to have glven a stronger color of right to the Southern Paclfic elaimants, pretensions werc disallowed by mot of congress, than to the Panfic clsimants, whoso Teller. had earned, to claimants. statement of Mr. Eustis that ‘‘the Lou incorporating the Pacific claimants, so that, in fact, assignment Inoperative In law, even if had porsaseed sssignable rights. But i that WaS the its land grant, conditfon but the o on the broad earth.” Mr. Eastis sald ‘It never lived for any corporate pur. of direlict aseociations.” 1t was a nuisanco and a diegrace.” Gorman msuravce company, of Freeport, I1L., was found dead in_bed, in Lincoln, Monday morning, Heart disease, Tom Duval, one of the prisoners who es. caped from the Lancaster county jail last woek, was recaptured. He carried a bullet (n_‘hll left arm, put there by the sheriff's wife, A family in the town of Holland, Lancaster county, breakfasted on the mystarious bolog- na, rendered green by age, and soon threw up everything but their lives, They didu’t know it was loaded. Rosewater, of the Omaha Bre, is the best abused newspaper man in Nebraska, His abuse mainly comes from parties whoso in- iquities haye been unearthed by him,—[North PH-m Nebraskan, ‘W. H. VonBernath & Co,, of Lincoln, have purchased seven and one.half acres of land out along the Antelope and will erect - large chicken coops and the necessary buildings for the breeding of chickens and ducks. ““Are you sure it is coffee you want, gertle— men?” whispered Jud Webb, of Fremont, to a couple of tramps who insisted* on breakfast- ing with Mrs. W. They glenced at the yawn- ing barrels of a shotgun and made tracks, Census Commissioner Lane has opened his office in the state capito), and is preparing blanks and other details for taking the sta‘e census, Work will begin on the 1st of June, Two chief and fifteen under clerks are em- ployed. ¥. H. Sprague, of the B. & M. engineering corps, has started from Plattsmouth to Den- ver, 639 miles, on a railway bicycle. He 18 to make report of the amount and location of steel rails on the road, a job which will occu- Dy ten days. Tha verdict in the case of Charles Cord, killed at Emerson last Saturday, was that he came to his death by gunshot wounds at the hand of unknown parties, Two trampa een in the immediate vicinity at the time of the tragedy are suspected of the murder. Many farmeis in_Sarpy county report the loss of hogs from cholera, This disease has not abated, but is aided by the failure of far- mers to promptly bury the deseased animal. The carcasses are generally sold and carted out of the county, leaving a trail of contagicn on the roads. The authorities and the farmers should combine and enforce tha new law re- quiring prompt burial of all deseased animals, The city council of Lincoln has_directed the mayor to*'consult and correspond with en- gineers having the necessary qualifications, for the purpose of ascertaining the cost of & proper and adequate plan of & system of sow- erage for the city of Lincoln, with the ne_es- sary maps, drawings and detailed specifica- tions of the proposed improvement, apd that he report to the council the result of such con- sultation or coreespondence a8 Boon as pos- sible,” Now it is claimed that the three-cent per mile railroad bill which passed both houges of the legislature containg a fundamental defect which effectually kills it, The defect is said to be in the contradictions between the title and the body of the law. The title says it is an act to establish maximum rates in the bill, Tt is probable they knew this all the time! But then we have the ‘‘railroad commission” law to fall back ulmn ! Riog down the cur- tain !~ [Fremont Herald, Two sons of O. J, Bacon of Humboldt,aged ten ard fourteen years, and a twelve year old boy named Lewie, left home last Saturday with a team and wagon belonging to Mr. Ba- con. One of the horses is black and the other dun with black mane and teil. The wagon wag an old one with unpainted box e boys started west and were plentifully sup- plied with provisions. Mr, Bacon is anxious to hoar of the runaways and any information sent to him will be thankfully recsived, e —— Lame Duck Teller, Chicago Herald. Mr. Teller s defense of his extraordi- narg actlon relative to the Backbone rallroad lind grant is in effeot that he was doing only what all his predccestors had done, and that the congress of the United States has no business asking im- ertinent (uestions of cabinet officers, %uth of these assertiors are open to crlt- icism. In the first place the entire land- grabbing and and-wastiog policy of previous administratlons s now under condemnation, and, objectlons to it having been raised, 1t is no excal at all for him to plead that he was only following the example of others, 1t /s that example which the people wish to be followed no longer, for it has been found to be wasteful, corrupt, and scandalous, In "the second plac the efficlent and honest cablinet officer, who has no outslde alllance and no pri- vate schemes of hls own, will never ob- jeot to Inqulrles from congress s to his transactions in any perticular, The idea that such calls for Information on the part of the psop'e are fmpertinent would be quite as refreshing if bookkeeper or cashier should m'li the eame observation when his employer asked for a trisl bal- ance or an explanation of oertaln appar- ent lrrcgularities, Me. Teller was not a very satlsfactory secretary of the interlor, {le does not promise to be ry satisfactory senator. e — The Inevitable Result, Philadelphia Times, 1t was scareely necessary for an Lowa paper to go to the trouble of collecting the opinions of the mayors of the princi- pal towns of that state” on the workings of the new probibition law, But as the work has been done it will not eurprise tte observant reader to know that there are more 8aloons in these 18 places than when the law went into effect, This ls the usiform lexperlence of every state which bas tried this prepsterous method of dealing with the liquor qaestion. By means of it all control over the lquor traffic {s eurrendered and fres whiskey is the ratural and inevitable result, “‘bk one of the most extraordinary pro. ceedings on record, this defanct company made an assignment to the New Orleans Pacific company, and it was upon such a The transfer was radleally viclous and abso- lutely void. The consideration for it was One-third of the stockholders had denounced the act before the interlor department as a sham title that the latter based its claim. the enormous sum of $1. and a fraud.” Moreover, ‘‘this very pretense of title had been denounced by company, been in the New Orleans fic in documents that had presented to congress and filed the Interlor department as utterly baso. less and illegal.” a forfeiture, that would restore the Back bone grant to the public domaia, Teller hastened to issue patents to the claim ants, It ia hard to see how that official pro. ceeding of the secretary can be defended. The defense that he has offered can not be accepted against the damaglng evi- He has shnply pleaded official custom and ‘‘executive prerogative,” denyivg any right of the constitation to question the official doings of a prasident’s secretary, because (in Mr. Teller’s understanding) he is “‘a co-ordi- In answer to the statement of facts by Mr. only to say that “had been pastel upon by the attorney general,” and that it had been an unbroken rule of the depart- ment for sixteen years to issue these pat— ents whenever parties had complled with dence of the facts. nate branch of the government !’ Eustir, he they has the conditions subsequent,” without ref- erence to time, and that in nine cases in ten this had been done “‘withont any in- qulry whatever.” On this statement by Mr. Teller, it is to be ssid that it reveals, to say the least, astrange official custom of the Interfor department durlng the last sixteen years. But, granting that the *‘unbroken rule” of that department has been correctly slatad by lts_ex-chief, It does not meot In that case there was no performanca *‘of the conditions subsequent,” nor subsequent the facts In the Backbone cise. performance of the conditions, at any tlme. The conditions of the grant were never performed, at any time, by any- body. No doubt tho senatcr from Nebraska hit the tru'h when he sald that Hunting- ton and Gould intended to make the backbone stesl the forerunner and lover to the great Texas Pacifio eteal. If they could capturo the department in the backbone skirmish for 1,000,000 acres, they would feel sare ¢f wiuning In the greater affalr of more than 43,000 equare miles of public lands. The action of congrees upon the latter prematurely dls- arranged thelr programme, but the action of Mr. Secrotary Toller helpod them tc roach the lesser prize. The pitlfal appeal of Mr. Teller to‘‘an unbroken rule of the department for slx- teen years” invited and warranted the severe critlclsm by Mr. Van Wryck of the kind of legal light has illuminated that department during the stated perlod—a light advantage of large scqualntance with railwsy magnates, and broad enough to uanderetand and apply the liberal views of corporatfon _attorneys.” Guided by such legsl radiance, ‘‘every relgn has ex- hibited scandalous transactions.”.... Credit Mobiler hay repeated f, and giving away the natlon's lsnd, withoot consideration, the corporations that never lived for apy other corporate pur- pose than public land-grabbing, has filled the scandalovs history of those years, from the Sioux City-Paclfic grab to the latest ~ Backbone eteal. Is it not time that the unbroken rule of those yearashould be broken by the in- troduotion of & somewhbat different legal illumination of the publlo land olicy? *It ls the ouetom,” said the Nebraska senator, “*for the corporation attorneys to stigmatize the settler, whose only earthly tremsure way be a wife and children and the team he is driving, as an Interloper. The ex-secretary has listened so long to that dislect of the de- partment that it Is natural he should re- gnt it In & speech, and, sneering at onest eettlers, seeking homesteads ) almost in the words of Tweed: ‘What are you golog to do about ft7 The country is considering of the ques- tlon, Chicago Herald Judge Mellen, of Nebraska, passed through the city yesterdsy on his way home. “How do you like the new president!” wes asked, “0h, I like bim; I lika bim. Still, he's justa little mite fresh. Us democrats from Nebraska got together In Washing- tsn last week, and after discussing the whole matter we decided not to bear down very bard on the prasident to be- gin with, The next day we called on him, and afcer passiog ths time of dey I eald: *Mr, President, we have conclud- ed te do nothing sbout the offices at present,’ thinkiog 1'd just let him know Orlesns Paclfic syndleate to the Backbone The two cases wore not in all particulsra whose New Orleans protenslons were allowed by act of Mr. Secrotary The Texas Pacific was at least an exieting organized compsny at the time of the pretended assignment of & land graut, not anacre of which they the Southern Paclfic Bat it sppears from the isiana leglelatare had repealed the act Backbone company three years before the assignment” by that defanct concera of pretended rights in its lend grant to the New Orlenlm the Backbone corporation was dead, and the at tne time ct its death, that corporation never possessed any asy'gnable r'ghts, Tae Texas Paclfic company bailt its road in Texas, most of it—though not a mile of tho road in New Mexic) or Arizona Backbone corporation “‘never built a rod of railroad poee whatever, but was a mere skeleton Its charter was repealed because ‘‘everybody agreed that And yot, three years after the repeallng act, Nevertheless, when he saw that congress was moviog to declare that procaeded from “lawyers that have enj yed the you know, and he looked kinder solemn and says: ‘So have L' Now that was a mean remark, and the more I think of (t the meaner {t gots. Still I like him. He's going to glvethe republioans h—.” SELLING BOOKS BY GAB. Talk With the Boss Bock Canvasser on the Requisities of a Good Book Agent, Ohicago the Greatcst Subscription Book Town in Amoerioa—Some Pnblications That Have Sold Well, Chicago Herald, “I reselved two ordera to-day-—one for a full morrocoo, the other t> get out” wrote & canvasser to a firm of publishers employing him. ‘“‘Are the orders generally so evenly balanced?” inquired the Herald emissary. *‘That depends on the man, the book the territory to bo canvassed,the weather, the sanitary surroundings, the time of day, the outcome of the last election, tho amount of the milliner’s bill, the condi- tlon of trade, and many other circum- stances too numerous to mention,” was the prompt reply. The auvswer was given in a plaln, matter-of-fact manner, and the gentle- man who gave it—the president of one of the largest subeoription book ccncerns in the country—betrayedno senee of humor, no displeasura at the vislt of the reporter; no hurry, althougb he had evidently been disturbed in & volumnlous corres- vondence. He was equanlmity itself, and courteous withal. ‘“You would not make a good book agent,” he added, while the ecribe was josting down his notes. ‘‘That honorable calling has not exactly been the helght of my ambition,” replied the reporter ‘‘but may I ask why I not fit for 1t?” ¢ Certainly, sit. In the first place you betrayed, perluel unconsciously, that you are bound to take your present task from the ridlculous side. Then, I think, you did not get at it In the right way, and lastly, you evidently think that you are too good a man to be a book agent.” This answer was also given without any irritation, and In a qulet, business-like tone. The reporter who had been thus “sized up” did not feel quite so sure of his theme after he had been convinced that he would be a complete fallure as a book agent, but inasmuch as he thought he dlscovered something encouraging in the gentleman who had so neatly turned the tables on the interviewer, he atked: ‘‘Have you ever been a book agent?"” ““Yes, sir, and nearly every one around here. In fact, a succossful canvaeser will not remain long in that line unless he chooses to. If he is capable of demon- strating his fitness for that position he will succeed in any other department; in short, in anything. You must know that the days of those book agents who had to bs warned off the premises are going fast, No one wants to buy a book from a per- son who makes himself obnoxious, or who fs irresponsible. In our establishment, for in- stance, we do not adver- tise for canvassers, because there are not many of the great number of unemployed persons who could comply with our condi- tlons. We employ a large number of men who have grown up with us. In the first place, we requlre a contract for at least tix monthe’ work, except in the case of students who want to earn money during the long vacation. In that case we conclude contracts for thres months’ services, The contract provides for a bond of 8500 to be given, the security to be in ample real estate. Then we drill our men for a week or ten days, £o that they have the proper addrees and know how to present the advantages of a pur- chase in the pr-per manner. After they have been sent oat they have to send us daily reports of theirsaler, if any, of the number of calls they made, the names of the people they calied on, and other in- formation, for which they are furnished blanks. On our part, we guarantee not less than $2 a day, In somo cases §3, sul- ary. If the commission earned by the rgents amounts to more, that, of course, is his profits.” It {8 & popular error,” remarked an- other geatleman who ‘‘handles” a large number of agents, *‘thatany men who for one reason or ancther is out of em- ployment can make a successful canvasser, Phe fact s that good canvassers are scarcs. A book sgent to be successful must be of pleasant addross, strewd ob- sorvalion, flaent in specch, neat in ap- pearance, and must understand how o accommodate himeelf to the pecalisrities of his customers. A man who can do that In the right manner need not be afrald of the signs: *'No book agents or peddlers allowed on the premiecs,” which are 8o prevalent in oor office buildings, We put our agents through a regular drill; teach them how to enter a room, how to approach a person, how to ntro- duce themselves, how to describe the book they have to sell, and how to take orders, but this straction is of necessity general in its bearings. The busy merchsnt must be han dled differently from the man of lclsure, and the professional man differ- ently from the llliterate. It is true th one canvasser Is better adopted to ap- proach certain people than another, but a good canvasser will be able to sell to the first-class lawyer s well as to the mechanic.” Ohlcago is counted the greatest sub- seriptlon-book center in the country, and is consequently the starting point of an army of canvassers, The book agent, like the lightning-rod man and sewing machine agent, has furnlshed the sub ject for as many ‘‘funoy’ paragraphs as bave ever been perpetrated upon the sl of feet, the oyster in a church falr stew, or the strawberry festival, His sntece dents are generally enveloped In the mantle of charitable indlstinctivenes, and his future {8 unknown, unless he blossoms forth as the shrewd manager of a publishing concern, or a general sgent who lets whole states by contrect to novioes in the business. In the clties, students durlog the long vaca- tlon furnish s large contingent of the unterrified. In the rural districts young parsons and school teachers are much sought efier by enterprisiog publishers. The female canvasser is quite & success, provided she 1s a pretty girl, but then such a one can sel! almost anything. Fe- male canvassers are not much affocted by 3 13 0 the larger establishments becavse they|™ are not near 8> saccessful in delivering —_—— to the styleof binding. Of the ‘‘Mase- am of Antiquity” over 400,000 copies have been rold at from $4 50 to 7.560, ‘‘Hill's Manual,” selling from $6.60 up- ward, has beon sold in 260,000 copies, aud the number of publications of the Mark I'waln and Peck's ‘‘Bad Boy" or- der 1s slmost countlees, Woman (ering and Relief. 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Boothe, Saulsbury, Tenn,—May 4, 1883, Braprorn, Pa., May 8, 1875, It has cured me of several diseases, such as nervousness, sickness at the stomach, monthly troubles, ete, I have not scen a sick day in & ear, since I took Hop Bitters, All my neigh bors use them, Mrs. Faunie Greon. $3,000 Lost. *‘A tour to Europe that cost me £3,000,done ‘‘me less goo 1 than one bottle of Hop Bitters; ““they also cured my wife of fitteen years ner- wenkness, sleeplessness and and dys- R. M., Auburn, N, 4 0. BLoowixavitLy, O , May 1, '79, Strs—I have been suffering ten years,and T tried your Hop Bitters, and 1t done me' morg good than all the doctors. Miss 8. S, Boone, Baby Saved. We are g0 thankful to say that our nursing baby was permanently cured of a_dangerous and protracted constipation and irregularity of the bowels by the use of Hop Bitters by 1t mother which at the same time restored her to perfect health and strength, —The Parents, Rochester, N, ¥, None genulne without a bunch of green Hops on the white Iabel. Shun all the vilo, poisonous stuff with ““Hop" or “Hops” in thelr name. Tho fittest subjects for tever and ague, and remittent: the dobilitated, fousand nervous, such persons, Hostot- ter's Stomach Bit- * toraaflords adequate _ protection by In- & Creasing stam- £ inaand esistant power of the consti- tutlon,and by check. ing frrogularitios of the liver, stomach and howels. More- “yuninies o over, it eradicates malarial complainta ' of an obstinate typo and standsalone un- equalled among our national remedies Dealors generally. Fo ebyallDr 2roposals for State Printing. Sealed proposals will bo received at the offico of the eecretary of state at ary time on or before 3 o'clockp m, Wednesday, March 25, 185, for the printing and binding of 3,000 copl- s of the senste and. fouss journals, and 9,060 copies of the laws, resolu. tiens and memorlals of the Nineteenth session of the leglislature of Nebraska. e senate and house journata shall be printed in ro yal octayo form, long primer type, on hook paper welght two pounds por quire, pases same etylo. ay thoso of tho Efghteonth session of the Nebraska leg- Islaturo and binding to he in balf she 7 ho sesion lawi form, per i roval octavo 6 stylo ay thoy of 1553, with marginal nctes and bein f'l sheop. Proposals may be submitted soparately on session 1as and journs 1sand shell state what the bidder will complete the werk for ) er page, galley and. page Proof inust bo farnished to the sccretary of stat Propoeals will not bo_considered unless accompan- dbynbond in tho sum «f five thoussud dollars 0)zwith twofor ureties. conditioned that in case of award of cor trast bidder will file bond and enter i1 to contract withio hive duyn thoreafter. +hould by marked ““Froposals for Public "and bo addrossed to tho hoard of public printing’ care of seoretary of stat o All work executed u intin be delivered comy lote I thescerotary of s tate at L ) (90) days from the date of such contr The stato board of printing reserves the right to res Ject any and 1} bide, E. P. KOGGEN, S . WILLARD, , bindiog to o, ate joard mproved farims and wild landto ad { merchadise or Omaha city y. Chas R. Woolly. room 20, Omata Natlonad Bank, Omaha, Neb, 500mar1) BUSINESS CHANCES, 7OR BALE—A grocerv business in Omaba, having & good trade,fiosh clean stock, reason for selling other Addiess""J. H." Bee office. 724-2p usio ess interest, R BALE—Chear, saloon fixtures and ttock N. 'W. corner 10tb and Capitol ave. 61783 J{OR RENT—A brick yaid. Bros. o posite Post oftse, JOR BALE—A good payivg saloon with first-olase lunch counter and restaurant attached.—A bax galn. 8. Trostler, 208 South 18th B4, 4T84 VOl BALE—Or exchange a full stock of clothing boots and shoes, gent' furnishing coods, will ex. change for Nebraska 10th Bt., Omaba, Neb. Fon saLe-4 good skating rink, slze 84x100. In. quire of H_Lambort, Wakefleld Neb, 423-a 16p LOST AND FOUND. “lnquire at McCague 773-28p ds. G. H. Petorson,504 8, 166-41 ST—Red and white tish sotter (Dick); liberal 4 rewsard for his vetun or information leading to his whereaboute. TIKKYLL & CooK, 1300 Farnam sk, B0IL OBT—A brown slogle shawl on the street March /18ih. Fioder plesse return fo polics besdguar: 24-10p tars. OST—Bilver bangle bracelet Tueidsy eveoing March 17tb, in the Opers house, v the ens trance door, ¥inder plcae leave at . OF I Bee office. #9119 08T—A gold hooo car ring boetween Callfornis 4 nd Dodgo, on 10th 8t Reward will be puid i returned 1718 Calitoraois 8t. : "BOARDING, “boas R ol % TB G50 par weok, il w beds aad springs 1406 Cass St H. Poter Nick, l ag for at Ne. 04-812p JieeroLass Bed and board 1212 Capitol fiiSCELLANE()UH. books as they are in sellivy them, and de« | v livery and collection is the main thing ln the vocation of a canvasser. Some of the subsoription books that went out from Chicag) frws have had JDUMPS. —All kinds of pumps for sale of Fepaired. Address J. J, Molala, 1011 Baunder B, almost phenomens] sales. The ‘‘Royal Path 0(‘ Life” was #ld in about & million coples at from §3.50 to $5.75, according JURNITURE, Stoves otc., stored ln brick ware house 911 and 918 Jones Bt. 901