Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 3, 1885, Page 4

YHE DAILY BEE. NO DIVERSION, Mz. Bovp is a candidate of the people, and not of the democrats, the republi- cans, the workingmen or the oapitaliats. He was nominated at a mass meeting in which all these factions were invited to particlpate, — Republican, Ouana Orrion No 014 Awp 918 Fanwax 81, |Www Yonx Orrion, Roox 65 Tasvwa Bomo- 1¥a, lshed every momning, J,"Jo-w morning dally publ AN The staunch republicans of Omaha will not be diverted from thelr duly by such treacherous deception and Imposture. % | Mr. Boyd was as much the democratle 18 |eandidate for mayor before that bogus mass mosting of citizans s he was when hecondescended to accept the unanimous nominatlon of the demccratic conven- tion, The attempt to folst James E. Boyd upon republicans as a people’s non-partlean candidate caps the cllmax of impudence. Mr. Boyd has been a life-long active democrat. He glories In all there Is and has been of democracy. He was a dele- gate to the last democratic national con- ventlon, and as the chalrman of the Ne- braska delegation and member of the national committee he ranks and s rec- ognized as a leader of leaders of Nebraska democracy. Hls sole object and am- bition is to add the power, patronage and prestizga of the mayor's office to the power and patronage he already controls with a view of establishing a democratic bossism that ehall have a controlling in- fluence In hls party for the next four years, The pretended citizens' move- ment was a preconcerted scheme to draw the republicans into the Miller- Boyd drag-net. The mas3 meetlng that nominated Boyd did not nominate him. He had himself nominated by petitlon, and the meeting was simply a farce as well as a eham. No other can- didate was proposed or ballcted for, and the meet!ng was over before the hour arrlved for which it was called, It fs not likely that intelligent and ccnsclen. tlous republicans will allow themselves to be hoodwinked and led astray by the treacherous and unprinclpled machina. tions of the Omaha Republican. All its efforts to dlvert attention from its disreputable course in deserting the re- publican standard before a gun was fired, and before any nomination was made by its own party, will prove unavalling. The workingmen have cause for opposing Mr, Boyd, but republicans have no cause . whatever for deserting Mr, Murphy. His nomination was unsought and unbought. He was ready aund anxlous to give way to any other candl- date whom the republican party might see fit to nominate. But ‘the desertion of the Republican and the attempt of certaln extra select republican cltizens to force Mr. Boyd upon the people virtually made Mr. Murphy’s nomination a necee- sity. No other candidate could have rallied around him the elements of labor to offeet the bolters and mugwumps who follow the lead of the Omaha Republi- can, This s wby Mr. Murphy was nomlinated by acclamatlon, and this 18 why republicans who do not want to dis- band and surrender to the democratlc boeses will support Mr. Murphy. Oue Yoar, with promium. .. One Yoar, without promium Bix Months, without premium One Monkh, on trial connmpoNTeXa | o feations relating bo Nows and Edlter! et should be addressed Vo Ve KorTon oF TR Pastnoss Latbers hould be 4 Remittances W tirsense 1o Tua D PURLISNING COMPAXT, OMARA. jooks and Post offios orders o be made pay- ble 16 the order of the company. HE BEE PUBI.ISHIN'G 00, Props, R ROSKWATER, Eprrok e o Wke do not want to misrepresent any candidate, Judgo Welss Is not so much a judgoe of lager as of Welss beer. Buck reads his title clear, now that the workingmen have endorsed him and Mzr. Blank is running agalnat him, W have not yet heard whether Mr. Boyd willl vote for the democratic half of tho citizena’ ticket or tha, republican hall. Axoxa all the appolntments thus far made by Grover Cleveland, Nebraska has not yet been honored even with a poat- office. Nebraska democrats are getting a 1ittle weary of this sort of thing. — Ir Mr. Murphy has ever shown any love for the workman, let him filo a bill of partlculara. The workmen of Omaha are anxlous to know what a frlend they have in Murphy. — Herald, The best bill of particulars that Mr, Marphy can file is the pay-roll of the shopa In which he has worked. Tue workingmen of Omahahave volced thelr sentlment by endorslog Me. Mur- phby as their choice for mayor. And whilo some base’ scoundrels who belong to the working classes will sell themselves and thelr votes, the great body of the working people of Omaha are abova the influence which money and the promise of Mice can exert in the coming elec- tlon. Ex-Dgreeare Posr, of Wyoming, who is endeavoring to oust the recently ap- pointed governor of Wyoming, Hon. F. E. Worren, In order to have himeelf ele- vatod to the gubernatorlal chair, is evi- dently afrald that Presldent Cleveland will forget all about hls candidacy, and henco he makes a daily call at the white houss to post the chief executive as to his morits for the position. Missourt's clalm to nine-tenths of the federal patronage is not very likely to be honored by the president. About the most important office that has been given to that state 8o far is the superintendency of forelgn maile, which was awarded to an elocutionary dude named Nicholas Boll, of St. Loals, who performed the duties of reading secretary of the nation- al democratic convention. No one ever heard of him outslde of St. Louls untl hiselegant volce was ralsed In the con- wvention hall at Chicago. MALIGNING MAYOR MURPHY. Everything may be fair In war, but deception, dishonesty and slander arelas dishonorable In a political campaign as they would be at any other time. The attempt of the Omaha Republican to place Mr. Murphy before this commun- ity as” a candidate pledged to support lawlessness and riots, to tolerate violence and destructlon of property s contempt- ible and cowardly. Mr. Maurphy has been acting mayor of Omaha for nearly a year, and during that time we have had better enforcement of law and order than we have ever had. We make the broad assertion and defy contradiction that there 1s less violence,turbulence and law break- ing In Omaha at the present time than in any other western clty. Every effort has been made under Mr. Murphy's ad- ministratlon to suppress the low densand dives and to enforce decency. The crooks, vagrants and vagabends have been driven out of theclty. Unlicensed saloons have beon closed, and complaints have been filed sgainst places like the Buckingham, formerly the St Elmo, which remalned as a legacy of the Boyd reglme. The failure to suppress the lat- ter place and similar resorts s simply due to the dilatory action of the police judge, who 1Is thus trying to asslst the democratic candidate. In his efforts to enforce law and order Mr. Murphy can challenge compariscn with Mr., Boyd at any time, and the mors the record is oompared the worse it will ba for Mr, Boyd. Mr, Maurphy’'s appolnt- ments on the police force and on the board of public works afford ample proof that he has no disposition te play Into the hands of outlaws, crooks, jobbers and rings, In any conflict which might arlse be- tween labor and capital Mr, Murphy would be much more likely to repress violence and protect property than Mr, Boyd, Mr. Murphy 1s a level-headed man who respects the rights of capital although (n sympathy with the laboring men who are the crea- tors of wealth, He would not losé his head over a labor disturbance as Mr. Boyd has done and call for troops at the beck of s greedy corporation which wanted to employ the army to help it to keep down wages, The less the frlends of Mr, Boyd refer to ‘*‘the rlots,” the better they willbe off. There were no riots; there was no dlsposition to destroy property; and there was no astempt on the part of the mayor to malntaln order. It was not Mr, Boyd's bravery and promptoess in executing law that pre- vented the labor troubles of 1882 from becoming bloodyjandjdestructive rlots,but the peaceable dlsposition, good sense and forbearance of the Omahs workingmen, who even when one of their number was murdered and the murderer was shlelded by connlvance of the authorlties did not J. StERLING MORTON brands as a false- hood the Herald's article concerning him in connectlon with the commission- ershlp of agriculture. Mr. Morton ssys that he was never recommended for the place by any church, sewlng society, ag- ricultural board, grange or Chicsgo dele- gatlon for the position. which he didn't got, and, furthermore, he emphatically assorts that he has never had any desire, asplration or even any yearning for the place. That ought to settle all doubt on this momentous matter, Yxs7TERDAY was Arbor Day In Kansas and no doubt the event was quite gener- ally observed. Kapsas only a fow years ago was a treeless state, and now, accord- Ing to Governer Martin, it has more then twenty millions of fruit trees and more than two hundred thousand acres cf forest trees, all plan‘ed by her own peo- ple. The incroased rainfall in that state 1s attributed to these trees. Nebraska's Arbor Day will soon be here and it Is hoped that our peoole will plant more trees than in any other year. Ir did not surprlee us in the least to learn that the St. Louls Qlobe-Democrat artlst-correspondent, who has been car— tooniug the statesmen of the Texas leg- ialature, had been stabled, but we were somawhat surprlsyd at the action of the senate in promptly and unanlmously oxpelling Sampson, the calendar olerk, who did the deed. Every prominent sonator had been cartooned by the pencil of Mitchell quite as absurdly as Sampson was, and thls makes the unani- mous vote on the expulsion all the more remsrkable. 1 there s any cne lseue above others which should be avolded In a campalgn by all parties it is that of capltal against labor, and the antagonizlng of the work- fogmun agaloss the employer.— Repudli- oan, ‘Who foroed the lssue between capital and labor, if there is such a thing In the present campalgn? Why was the nomi- natlon of James E. Boyd forced upon the community? Is he the only heavy tax. payer fit to be mayor of Omaha? Did not the political and personal frlends of Mr. Boyd, who put up that citizens' job, koow that his nomination would be re- sonted by the workingmen of Omaha as attempt to endorse the crimival out- rage perpeirated three ycars ago in this ofty when the bayonet and gatling gun were called nto raqulsition, when in fact Mayor Boyd and the eheriff had done othlog towaris malntalning order, THE DAILY BEE--FRIDAY APRIL 3, 1885 rlse in open muting to resent the out- rage. RAILWAYS IN CHINA. The Introduction of the rallway and the telegraph Into China is of compara- tively recent origin. The firet line of railway, twenty miles long, was bullt in 1876 between Shanghal and Woosun, but s'nce that time there has been but very little, If any, rallroad construction in the country, owlng to the decided op- position of the people, who, for some reason or other,fhave not,beenfat all favor- able to such enterprises. It ls, there- fore, . comewhat surprising as well as gratifying to learn that a change has re- cently taken place in Chinain regard to rallroads, and that the government is censidering a proporition to construct a complete system of rallways to spread over] the entire kingdom. We can only account for this change of sentiment with reterence to this great modern con- venience by the fact that a large number of prominent Chinese have been cducated in the United States, and having become acquainted with the operation, methods and bonefits of rallroads, thay have urged the building of such roads in thelr own country until at Jast the government has concluded, notwithstanding any objec- tlons that may exist among the people. to undertake the grandest enterprise of modern times. It may be aleo that the progressive spirit of their neighbors, the Japanese, is at last exercising a wholesome influence upon the Celeatial emplire. The railroad project of the Chinese govern- ment contemplates an expenditure of about $200,000,000 at the very start, which, calculating the cost of construc— tion at $10,000 a mile—although rail- roads can probsbly be built in Chiua for & much less cost than this—will pay for 20,000 miles of road. The Chinese legation at Washington has received in- structions to thoroughly investlgate the prospects of induclng an organizatlon of enterprising American capitalls's to undertake the whole job for a round sum of money. If this can be done, the Chinete government will submit just what is wanted, and then the American syndicate is expected to send out en- glneers and skilled rallroad bullderas to make estimates of the cost, the time re- quired, and t{o farnish other in- formation. It would meem that the Chinese government means business, as 1s agents in this country have already begun to act in accordance with the instructions and are in consul- tation with New York capitallsts. It is to be hoped that this scheme will be suc- ceesfully consummated. If an American syndicate undertakes this gigantic work it will prove a great benefit to this country, as all the supplies will be purchased in the United States, and employment will be given to a large number of skilled men, 1t will certainly open up a big field for Amerloan enterprises, and wlil afford an opportunity for us to get a commercial foothold in the vast empire that will un- doubtedly prove Immensely profitable. At the same time [this railway project will create a complete revolution in the business affairs and in the customs and habits of the Chinese. The railroad Is bound to modernize them with a wonder- ful rapidity. The Russian government, it 1s sald, 1s In fallaccord with the project and will extend the rallwaysystem of that country so as to form a oconnection with the proposed system of China. It will be seen, therefore, that the contemplated enterprise 1s one that Is likely to be carried out. The goverament in con- structing the rallroad will give employ— ment to a large number of laborers, and in owning the road 1t can operate it equitably and justly. It has the advan- tage from the start in making the rallroad a government 1Institution, and systema- tically operating it as any other branch or department of the goverument. Durixe the last year 303,001 persons emigrated from Great Britain, being a decline of nearly 24 per cent from the number of emigrants In 1883, It is stated that quite a considerable propor- tion of the emigrauts consisted of persons born on the continent, who had taken up a residence in England ‘and Scotland for the apparent purpose of earning money sufticlent to carry them to their destination, Of the whole number, 203,619 came to the United States, 45,944 went to Australla, 37,043 to Canada, 4,600 to the Cape of Good Hope, and the balance to various other countries. The number of persons who entered Great Britain with the purpose of maklng it thelr home is stated to have been 123,466, of which a large propor- tion were persons of means, The in- crease was about 20,000 over the lmmi- gratlon of 1883. Of the persons emi- grating the Scotch showed a preference for Canada, while the Irlsh preferred the United States. Relative to the pros- perity of emigrants, it is shown that be- tween 1848 and 1884 they remitted to friends left behind about $150,000,000, and thiy does not finclude the sums sent Indis and South Africa, Tuere is before the Massichusstts legislature a bill providing thatall cor- porations shall pay, at intervals not ex. ceeding seven days, all operatives em- ployed by them the wages which they have earned to within six days of the date of said payments, The object of this law is to relieve the worklng c'asses of the necesslty of asking for petty credit, which almost invariably proves a burden to them and an annoyance to tradesmen, These weekly payments will abolish the monthly pay day aud enable the work- ipgmen to pay as they go, and make them more independent. The measure 1s almed more directly at corporations be- cause they are creations of the state, and In this way the benefit intended to be conferred will reach a large proportion of the wage-workers, Of course the cor- porations ralse objections to the bill mainly on the ground that weekly pay- ments will be too onerons for them. There Is an advantage in the corporate form of business, eays the Springfield Republican, and, there- fore, the atate In return for conferring that form may make regula. tiona of corporations, deslgned for the general welfare and wronging no man. So far as the factorles of Massachusetts are concerned the experience of some of the largest shows that there is n» serlous obatacle to weekly payments. Concern- ing the railroads, the Republican, which strongly urges the passsge of this blll, says: On rallronds a new system will be nec- orsary; but It need not bo expensive. Rallroads have a fiduciary agent at every station. Why cannot the man who han- dles thousands of dollars a year in selling tlckets and receiving freight payments cash a pay-roll 7 The railroad objection is mostly prejudice in favor of the exist- Ing systom of a “‘pay-car” and paymaster, which s groteeque in its inconvenience, 1f not in its expense Two somewhat aged and high-toned dudes of the Unlon Club, of New York, got into a quarrel the other day over a game of cards, which resulted in calling each other “Illar,” “‘scoundrel,” ete., fol- lowed by a harmless passage of blows. The affalr was telegraphed all over the country asa ploce of Important news, and a duel was predicted, as the partles were eald to be of so great soclal promi- nencoe that the matter could not be set- tleda any other way. Why such a trivial occurrence should be telegraphed all over the United States is something we can’t comprehend. It was of no more Importance than a fisticaff between any two other genteel club gamblers, about whom the people cutside of their own circle absolutely oare nothing. AMONG the letters recently received at the postoftice department was one from a Kaneas woman making application for the appolntment ot postmaeter in her town. Her self-recommendations are that she s thirty years of age, does not wear short hair or a bloomer costume, is not a leader in the woman’s rights move- ment, although of the opinion that women ought to have equal rights with men, and lastly ehe belongs to the prohibition party, to whose vote Presldent Cleveland largely owes hls election. She is evl- dently a business woman, endowed with a sufficient amount of self-assurance to carry her through any emergency. We cannot eee how the gallant Cleveland can reeist granting her requeat. Tre democratic newspapers will soon be glven their share of the spoils. The commissioner of Indian affairs has lssued schedules of the supplies required by the Indlans this spring, including $500,000 worth of beef and $750,000 worth of dry goods. Advertlsements for all such pro- posals will be printed in democratic news- popers hereafter. ‘Work for the Spring., Rural World, A later spring we bave not known fora long time. The weather still continues cold, though the grass is begining to turn green. Thereis yet, however, no pas turage for stock. We see the plows are pegining to run, There has been no rain at St. Lonls for monthe. Clsterns are dry and macadamized roads are dusty. Farmers should be ready with strong teams and plenty of good men to put id crops at the earliest moment that the ground is in good@order. But by all means have the soilin good conditionand well prepared, and the seed the very best. Turn over a new leaf aow, and put no more crops in calfivation than can be well put In and receive the bestattention. Put the balance of the land In grase, for it 1s the most profitable crop the farmer rolses. ' At the low prices the cereal crops command, 1t 1s bstter to devote more land to rearing stock or to dairy framing. The farmer should look ahead and try to ralse such crops or such stock as will pay best, Don’t do just as your fathers did unless you are sure thatit pays best —but keep up with the spirlt of the sge. The time has already come when the old fogles are being left behind, The men of progress, of enterprise, of hrains are tak- ing the lead, and the laggards have all they can doto keep body and soul together. And every year the difference between the farmers of progressive ideas and the “‘etand stills” will be mors marked. There are so many farmers, there s so much competition; there 1s so much over production in certain lines, that only the intelligent farmer can succeed. Itis on the farm as in the learned professions; there is plenty cf room in the upper stories but the groond floors are crowded almost to suffocatlon. It is brailns that carrles one to the top, The farmer should bear this in mind and do all he can tolm- prove his mind, that he mey get there. —— Card Playing at the White House, Baltimore American, There has not been a pack of cards or a game played In the White House since two months before General Grant left it, Daring Gen, Grant's term euchre and whist were often played in the llbrary, In those days it was often long after mid. night befora the last visltor went away from the mansion with one of the Gen- eral's good cigars In_his mouth, *‘Ad miral Porter, Gen. Van Vliet, the pres. ident and Col. Dent were the most reg- ular players, but Col, Horace Porter and nck often took a hand. Gen, ond of euchre, and was knowu s & good partner, He would st as silent as you can imsgine during a game and hardly lift his eyes from the cards except to call for er light a fresh c'gar. There were no poor players a4 the table, how- ever, and the Interest in the game was so intense that those who particlpated seemed oblivious to everything elss but the play. The president and Gen. Van Vliet were usoally partners in the euchre contests ageinst Admiral Porterand Col. Dent; but frequently it happened that one of the latter pair would be absent, in which case Col, Porter would sit in to fill ap. Gen, Van Vllet was entausiast- ically devoted to the game, and never mlssed a night when he could ‘possibly nelp it ——— The highest chimney In the world Is eald to be the clrcular one bullt of brlck and stone at Port Dundss, Scotland, It towers to a helght of 456 above ground, PANDEMONIUM, Salvation Army's Congress of War. The The New York Sun sage: The congross of war that the Salvation army has been holding day and night for the last three days to find out the “‘best way to over- throw the devil in Americs,” ended yes- terday In a jubiles meeting, which oele brated the reeolution of the army to smash all the wicked thlngs in the country to pieces, and plant the varlegated colors of the army firmly in every city in the anfon. Captalns of the army came In by rail, from all over the country to joln in the jubllee, 2560 of them were packed In the barracks over a dry goods store at Elghth avence and Elghteonth stroet yesterday morning, when the police came running around tne corner to find o ut what the disturbance was. Most of the captalns were women in red jerseys and black bloomer hats, and they banged tambourines and shouted hallelujah salu- tations to each newcomer. The camp followers finally got hold of all the spare drams and trumpets they could find In the barracks, and blew the thumped with all thelr might till Major Frank Smith, who {s commissioner of the whole army in Amerlca, eald it was time to go up town and get some army provis- ions, A great crowd of people who dldn’t belong to the Army followed the captaln to the Grand Unlon hall at Sev- enth avenue and Thirty fourth stroet, and through the open doors of the hall- way watched them eat up sandwlches and drink coffee from chins cups, One of the Army’'s braes bands from Massashusetts, and another from Penn- sylvania, marched out into the snow at two o'clock, and the Army fcrmed in battle line and marched to the Academy of Music. The New York Salvatlon lasses warched at the head in double ranks. Thelr captsin marched back- ward all the way, flourlshing her tam- bourine in front cf the band like a dram- major in the militla. The women hsd blood-red ribbons wound round their bloomer bonnet:, and sang while they beat their tambourines with both hands, Behind the sulvation lasses marched the soldiers. They all had red shirts let tered ““Salvation Army” in black, and trousers of blue with red stripes. Thelr caps were half red and half black, and in the middle of, thelr ranks rolled the war chariot with the Michigan captains., The war charlot wes a big open barouche, and the Michigan captains carried banners. Male officers with spurs rode astride cab horses on either side of the chariot. There were nearly 400 of the paraders, and they burst into the academy like a tornado painted red. The army maesed itself tier on tier on the platform until it filled up the whole stage. Major Smith threw the {ull volume of his lungs into a burnished car conductor’s whistle for sixty seconds, and knocked all the rest of the noise in the building end- wlse with the unexampled metallic shriek. Then the major emiled, and announced that the jubiles woald open with a holl- nets convention. It opened two seconds later, and Superintendent Murphy of the academy clapped bis bands to his cars and shouted to Janitor Gillame that he never agaln, in all his life, expected to look upon such a marvelous and unexam- pled spectacle. The Mbsjor said the Salvation Army wanted the whole community to be bleat. The Army sald “‘Amen” all together with aroar, The Msjor was a trapeze per- former before he became Army com- mander. His bushy hair stocd out in all directlons, and his spectacles danced cn his nose while he spoké. When he heard the cyclonic ‘““Amen” he pulled out a big red handkerchief, waved it in the afr and called out Captain Waleh, The Captaln to be a drunkark, He eeized a banjo, and sang, shatting up his Jong body and opening it out straight again while he sang, and the whole of the Army stood up and jolned in the chorus. Tt was modeled sfter the introductory song of the King of the Penzance Pi- rates, and set to the same tune, No pi- rates on earth ever heard anything like the renderlng of this exiract: I'm a salvation soldier— One of the noisy crew; I shout when I am happy, Aud that I mean to do. Some say I am t0o noisy, T know the rescon why; Andif they folt the glory, They'd shout as well as I, T am a child of a Ki I am, I am a child of a King; Tt is, it is a glorious thing To bo a child of a King, The male soldi ers whirled around aad around and shouted, The women banged their tambourlnes and waved from eide to side, Staff cfficera stood up in the aisles and waved the army flags, and everybody howled. In ten minutes the 250 captains, who got $10 aweek cach from the army treasury, sat down together with a thud, and gave Staff Captain Shirley and Mrs, Captain Eyans a chance to pray. Cap- tain Shirely prayed on his hands and knees, with his head bent down till his nose touched the stage carpet, and Mrs. Captain Evans rocked like a troe top caught in a Wigglns gale. Captain Blandly, who says he used to be a loafer in London, held up while the prayer went on the first war banner ever presented to the army. The banner s a field of red with a blue border. There is a star of golden fire in the center, and an editlon of the stars and stripes ina corner. 1 Mis. Captain Jeffreyes, a little woman in a blue bloomer, who eald it took the entire police force of Keysport, with drawn revolvers to take her to jail, made a speech. Major Smith’s little glrl baby crowed happily at iIntervals, The baby wore & white dress and had a tiny red Salvation bonnet tled over her curls, She sat in her mother's lap, **Ash Barrel Jimmy,"” the first convert in Amerlca, said that Police Captaln Wil- liams konew all about him, because he had often picked him up drunk out of the ash barrels of the Fourth precinct years 8go. g"hat'l fire a volley for Captaln Wil. lisms!” cried Major Smith. The whole army got up together, and let its lungs out in a quick, eharp and tumultuous cheer. They fire volleys that way. K', 6 o'clock the army marched to the Thirty-fourth street bsrcacks and eat down or stood up and ate up the “‘grand mammoth feast and banquet.” There were nine long tables piled full of tongue ham, pork and beans, saussge, tripe cof- fee, tea, sponge cake; lemonade and cral- lers, The army pald the commistary 25 cents a head, ate it all up, and then went outand formed themselves In a torch- light processlon and marched down Broadway to the Academy. There never was @ torchlight pro lon like it In town before. Car hor hied st lt, and policemen and citizens stood stcck etill and looked at {v with mouths and eyes wide open. The torch bearers saug all along the llne of march, and danced ou thelr tiptoes llke acrobats. o Five hundred people 25 pald from cents to &3 each to got Into the Academy, after the procession had blown out {ts battle axe torches in the corridor and got on the stage, The evening gathering was called the “Grand royal blood-ana-fire, Holy Ghott hurrlcane gathering.” (George Washlngtom, the colored cap taln, got up to play an accor , but the top_dropped off as soon as he touched the keys. Major Smith eatd the devil had got at the accordlon, and Captain Kayser and her lteutenant sang a prison song with the chorus set to the tune, “‘When the Opera is over.” The cap- taln looked like a_Quaker in a slate col- ored gown and a French cook’s cap. A string of Salvatlon lssses boating sllver tambourines, marched out on the stage, headed by a captain lass, who beat & bass drum. They marched aronnd and around each other until they looked as though they wera tled up in a glant knot of red and_black, It was an exhibitlon of how the army works to reclaim sinners. The spectators applanded, and Major Smith asked them why the outalde world should wonder at the success of the Army when converts had a spectacle like that nlghtly to attract them, Then the major begged everybody to look at the “ligtle canaries” on their seats. The canarles were canary colored sabscription alips, and tho spectators hauled out pen- cils and promptly put down their namens when the major blew the whistle. They rained coln on the plates in addition—a regular shower when the sergeants went through the aisle to collect coniributions for the ‘‘spiritual extenslon fund” of the Army. Then the Army relit its torches and marched back to the barracks in Thirty-fourth strect very tired, but a gocd deal richer than when they started oat In the morning. — THE HABIYS OF THE SECORPION, An Insect Which Kills the Mother Before Going Into the World, Land and Water, A few yeara ago, while In the island of Jamaica, it was my fortunate chance to bave an opportunity of observing some very curlous facts in connection with genus of the arachuida class, commonly known as the scorplon, and the curious traits of character In these insects, Tarn- Ing over somo old papers in my office one day, I suddenly came upon a large black acorpion, who promptly tried to beat a precipitate retreat. ~ Having read or heard somo rhere that if you blow on a scorpion he will not move. I tried the experiment, and was greatly astonished to find that it had the desired eflect. The scorplon stopped inetantly, flattened himself close to the paper on which he had been ruuning, and had all the ap- pearance of “‘holding on” for dear life. While I continued to blow even lightly he refused to move, though I pushed him with a pencil and sheok the paper to whelh he clung so tenaciously. Directly I ceared blowing he advanced cautiously, only to stop again at the slightest breath. T was thus able to secaro him In a glaes tumbler which happened to be within reach, and then determined to try an- other oxperiment as to the suicldal ten- dencles which I had heard rans in the veins of the pedipalpl family. On the stone floor of the kitchen at- tached to my office I arranged a circle of the burning sticks about three yards in circumference, the sticks being 8o placed that though there were no means of exit through the fire, it was not Intenee, but small and quite bearable as rogards heat within a few nches, so that the central part of the circle was perfectly cool. Into this contre I according'y dropped my scorplon, who, on raaching terra firma, darted off in o great hurry, only to be quickly brought to a halt on reaching within a few inches of the periphery of the clrcle. After ashort pauss of refloc- tlon, he deviated to the right, and ran once completely around the circle as near to the fire sticks as it was pradent to ven- ture. This ke did three times, often ap- proaching the burning sticks quite closely in his anxlous endeavors to eecaps. In about a quarter of an hour, findiog that his efforts were useless, he retired almost into the exact centre of the clrcle, and there in a tragic manner ralsed his tafl till the string or spur was close to his head, gave himself two dellberate prods in the back of the neck, and thus misera- bly perished by his own hand. As I placed the body of the sulcide in a bottle of epirlts, I almost regratted that I had not let him escape befors he had resorted to such an extreme measure. My last experience is even more curl- ons then the preceding, as it ehows a re- markable proylsion of nature that is al- most incredible. All I have ever read on the subject is contained in the follow- ing words: “The young ecorpions are produvced at vaticus {ntervals, and are carrled by the parent for soveral days bpon hor back, during which time she neyer loaves her retreat.” 1 was playicg a game of billiards in a small village 1n the Blue mountains; there was no celllng to the room, the roof being covered, as 1s the universal custom {a Jawa ca, withcedar wood shingles, My oppcnent was smoking a larze pipe, and suddenly, juet as I was about to make a stroke, what I thought was the contents of my friend’s pipe fe'l on the table cloee to the ball at which I was alming, In- srinotively I was on the point of brush- ing 1t «ff with my hand, when, to my amszement, I saw 1t was a moving mass, which oa clorer inspection turned out to be a very large fomale epecimen of ascor- plon, frcm which ran away in every di- rection a number of perfect'y formed lit- tlo scorplons about & quarter of sn inch in length. The mother ssorpion lay dylng upon the billiard cloth, and soon ended her fecble struggles, the whole of her back being eaten out by her own cff- spring, of which, as they could not escape over the raised edge of the billiaxd-table, we killed the astonlshing number of thirty-eight. They had not only been “‘carried by thelr parent,” but they had lived on her, cleaning out her bedy from the ehell of her back, to that she looked like an inverted cooked crab from whish the edible port'ons have been removed. She had clung to her retreat In the shin- gled roof until near the approach of death, when she had fallen and glven us this curlous spectacle, 1 was told by the attendant that the youpg ecorpions always liva thus at the expense of their mother's life, and that by the tlme her strength is oxhausted the horrld offspring aro ready to shift for themelves. e FUN WITH A GHREASED P’IG, of Catching a Porker In Nevada, Virginia City Chronicls, The announcement that a greasod plg would be liberated at the Carson skating rink attracted a large crowd, A youny porkir, well loaded with fat from the ribs of some of 1ts lato relatives, was turned loose in the rink, It 1s estlmated that 500 people were in the rink, aboat 400 of whom were the fair sex. They wanted to ree that the pig got falr play. The pig was liberated amld breathless exclte: ment, and after looking about for a few moments, Iaid himself flat down and re- fused to move. The presence of to many ladles overcome the animal and he ex- perlenced the usual stage fright inclden- tal to a first appearance. The bashfal plg was borne awey by & akater, who soon disposed of it to & Chi- nese porker sharp for §4. Mr. Cagwin attributed the cheap fall- ing down of the plg to a lack of sand, ac- counted for by the fact that it was not a thoroughbrod, and that {t hailed from Churehlll connty, On Satarday afternoon he secared a thoroughbred Berkshire, and dead game from the snout down. He and Sommers attempted to grease it. Sommers held the Nq‘ while Cagwin smoared on the lard, The pig slid under Sommers, and he tried to hold him by locking his legs around him. The lock didn’t hold and the Ylg got away, but Sommers didn’t lose the lard, He kept it there right on his clothes. Then Oagwin held the plg while Sommers greased {t, The plg got away again, and Cagwin held on to the lard just as bravely seSommera, Then they got Meder to keop hold of one of the pig's logs. Meder eald when ho couldn’t hold a forty-pound plg he'd quit palnting oarrisges. They got the pig well lgrded, and then it began to climb up onto Meder, and the three men threw It down on its back and lay down on it to hold {t, The pig got away how- ever, and each man acoused the other of letting go holds. They dldn’t let the plg got away with any lard, though, but held onto 1t with their clothes every time. They looked like buttered crack- ors, Then Meder got the pig In a corner and grabbed him by the hind leg, like a Carson editor grabbing a cold leg of mat- ton on a lunch counter. The plg broke for the door and Meder was pulled after him, strotched at full length, and larding the lean earth as he slld along, Meder was doad game, how- ever, and held on like Reno to a public bullding. A lady was passing and the pig strack her just at the ankle and she went down all over Meder. The plg die- appeared around the bank corner, upset- ting Evan Willlams, who was just coming out. The lnfurlated woman disentan- gled herself from Mader and began to belabbor him with a parasol. [ Hers was where Meder lost most of his lard, 1t haviog been transferred to the new groegrained silk of the young lady he met on the walk—by chance— the usual way. This is why thero was no greased pork at the rink last night. Sommers and Cagwin say they like tho greased-pig chase, but the sport requires too much preparation. Johnny Sweeney, the live man of Car- son, fs trying to make terms with Sam Davis—who is noted for his grip on pork —to give a champion exhibition, snd the elite of the capital are in a state of joy- ous anticipation. IN THE PASTRY FOR STRENGTH AND TRUE FRUIT FLAVOR THEY STAND ALONE. PREPAAED BY THE Price Baking PowdenCo., Chicago, Il 8t. Louia, Mo. waxems o Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder ~AND— Dr. Price’s Lupulin Yeast Gems, Best Lry Hop Yeaat. TOR SALE BY GROCERS. WE MAKE RUT ONE QUALITY. $50 REWARD $50 U FIND THE EQUAL OF SETATIY, | DRILLARD'S LOWSHARE™ LVaT BflRCEO;‘l Iu'ol‘lml'('uh P Wirth'a BfekTo, 60 & §8 WRUATIVY, catosgn ‘rhis brand is & happy combination of fine, young crisp red, burly lory fiiler, .with a DELICIOUS FPLAVOR and it just meets the taste f a largo number of chewcrs, Orders for *Plowshare” are cowing In rapidly from all_parts of the country, demonstrating how quickly the great army of chewers strike 8 good combiaation of Tobacts, both a8 to quality and quantity. Messrs Loiillard & Co, have exercised no littla time and lalor in endeavoring to reach the Acwe of Perfection in Plowshare, ard seem to have dono 1t. Besides the Trx cayr UTs of Plowshare are Almost Double in Size Which I a point not 8o bo overlooked by dealers who will find it to their intoress to order some and give thela customers an opportucity to try it. Ask Your Dealer for Plowshare For sale In Council Blufty by J. P. Filbert, G. W, Duncan, M. Gallagher, D. Maltby, Boston Tea C Jacob Leutzi: Wm Arnd & in & Woith St H J Veight, 5t, H L2Bat kin 618 Main S, Poter Morris, 133 ** John Mergen & Co, Main & Story St. ¥ W Spetman & Br Main St. M H Tiosley, 1017 8 Main St, 5 Roach, 108 Upper Broadway. E B Gardiner, 104 Broadway . Bell & Hall, 102 Iiroadway. Weis & Clausen, 100 Broad wa, Robert Mullis C Broadwa, W. Petterson, er Broad: Chas A Wagner, 727 sroadway. J Dickey & Son, Danforth Blk W Broadway, Taylor & Calef, Nonparail Blk, Broadway. Doalers supplied by H Sctoentgen, Council Bluffa, PLUG T an h Paxton & Gallagher, Omaha, MoCord, Brady & Co , Omaha, r. rrckK & o, (Buccessors to Pook, Kern & Bibley. HEPRESENTING — ROSE WARD & CO, OF CHICAGO, ured & private wire direct to the Chi ot Trade, we are prepartd Lo excoute or Wo bako foll market report. Coun Relerences, Unitod States W, coraer 13th a apoole ]y Natious] Bank. Teleplione 210. & sod Douglas Ba.