Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 25, 1885, Page 4

D THE A Omany OFpree, No. 614 NEW YOk Oreics A 65 WASHINGTON OFF M Foun Y ASD 016 FARSAN L TRINUSE BOTLOING PENTH tag. Th o iB the Publieh only Mo ! KRic 00 tine Year Manthe 1.0 Eix Month onth THE WEEKLY teary Wednosday. TrALD * 1 CONRESPONDENCE and edis 10 Kot 1« 01 OF 1 By NUSINPES LET Al Ances €hanll b piirees O8ATTA ainess rftors and semi 1 10 THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, Drafts, ehecks wnd postoffice orders 10 b mde puysbie 1o the order of the company. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPARY, PROPRIETORS. E. ROSEWA'’ R. Borron Triat cold wave predicted for Wednes- day has heen sidetracked somewhere Hesny Wakp Beecuer has said his Christmas “How do you do'’ to President Cleveland, who presented the eminent mugwump with a portrait of himsclf. exland comm in meeting about He virtually calls Mr. Sparks can Grs. WILLiawsoN, sioner, talks right out Commissioner Mr. Sparks an idic probably stand i but the one Tie Chicago News coincides with Bee when it says: “We think that of the first steps toward the decent pression of polygamy would be the sup- pression Salt Lake Zribunc.” sup Presinist CLEVELAND had the ple uee of making Mes. Grant a very hand- some Christmas present. He has signed the hill granting her a pension of $3,000 & year, and she will reecive the papers to- day I the distribution of Christmas pros nts the administeation did not overlook N I'wo Nebr postmasters will be made happy to-day upon readin in the Bee that their been signed. sk ska GENERAL MANAGER CALLAWAY prom- ises that when the viaduct question is set- tled the Union Pacitic will begin the eree- tion of a new depot. The vianduet matte onghit to be settled within the next tw ty-four heurs, but the probability is that it will bo soveral months before auything detinite will he agrecd upon if the proj ty-owners keep up their wranglin, Tuereisnosignin Omahayet that times are very hard. There is of course some poverty and distress, but in comparison with other cities of our size we are pro- gressing remarkably well. Our retailers have done the best holiday trade in the history of the city. Money is easy. The ey of the unemployed is small. Thes are tacts for which Omaha will wear a cheerful smile on Christimas d. ConaressMaN WHEE] tive that his bill for John Porter will go with a rush. Itis pretty safe to say that it will also bo passed by the senate. The public is pretty well convineed from re- cent proofs, es estimony of Gen. Grant, that Gen. Porteris an inno- cent man, and that justice shonld be done him. e eortainly has made a long fight to remove the stigma that was | d upon his honored name during the civil Wi is very posi- the relief of Fitz- through the house Miss CLEVELAND proposes to assert her authority as mistress of the white house by having an ed issued, if possible, prohibiting smoking in the halls of th executive mansion during rece The ladics have complained to her of this nuisance, and in all probability the lovers of the weed will hereafter have to sneak out to the porches and backyard to puil their Havanas, Miss Cleveland is about 10 make a bold move, but no doubt her big brother will stand by he NATOR VAN WyCK continues to re- ceive handsome commendations from all over the country for his encraotic work on behalf of the west, The St. Joe (fa- elte comments us follows on his Okluho- i bill: Wyck of Nebraska ought to the watehdoz of the land de partment. He has intr La bill to put the Indian territor Oklalioma and No Man’s Land, rritorial gov ernment, and provicing the lands in the two Iatter localities shall not be occupied through pre-emption or comum tation, but subject only to bona fide homestead settlement. It further provides that a commission composed of two army oflicers and three oftieials of the Indian and land burcau shall award a sufliciency of lands to the Indians in severalty and negotinte with the interested tribes for the sale of the remainder to the government to become part of the public do- main, 1t further contemplates a al of the grant of lands throuzh the Indian 1 tory to the Atlantic & Pacitie railway; annuls all existing leases except for the actual cultivation of the soil; fixes the legal xate of interest at 6 per cent and provides for the appointment of the usual territorial oftices, Tur return of the holiday season ought 1o bring to the minds of all, those in our midst whose holiday enjoyment is sadly limited by their poverty. There wany families in Omaha fo whom Christ s day will mean it more than a name. Th re hundreds of children whose only pleasure will be that derived drow the bustling streets, the bright store windows and the happiness of others, If Christmas has any s gnificance outside of its religious connection, it is that of a day of benevolence and of open hearted- ness. 1t can be mado ¢ of personal selfishness. The Bee urges upon its veaders the elaims of the poor and suftering to a participation in the happi- ness of this holiday, If everyone of its ten thousand subseribers should re to the cull even in the smallest degree the blessings of Christmas wowd be widely eoxtendod. Let those who are of com- fortable means contribute out of their sbundance aud those who are less tortun- ate give in proportion. Ther fow of us who do not know of some poverty and suftering which we ov alluying. The vavious charitable or- nizutions should be liberally remem .E:r. 1. Such Christmas gifts bring the Jargest vetwrns while thoy assist in de- woloping the best side of the donors ug- e, smmissions have | BEE. | | self-government, it would pond | 1 an ussist in velioving | | { l | legislating solely for Treland. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY. Glndstone's Defiance, Gladstone's annonncement that he 11 rise or fallin the effort to do justice » Ire h eated a exeite ntin England than any other political since the stand of Robert Poel nst his party for the repe { the corn laws. The liberal leader has planted himself firmly on a liome rule platform, o wide and o strong that if Isaac Butt himeelf were still living he wonld stand nt ite ] m an template mn Irish national Mr nd groater dent lich stat It I parlisment at Dublin and local officials, Irish control of the police foree, and a scttlement by Trish men of the t land question Instead of the vieeroy exercising execu tive power throngh the English govern ment, there shall be an Ty inet re ponsible to the home parliament. On all subjects relating to finance, trade, ¢ and gencral defense im perind parliament in London shall legis late ns at present. ITreland will continne to send presentatives to the imperial parlinment as usual on the basis of popu lation. Whi ramme would seenre to Ireland ghts of local an mte gral part of the British empire. What of more practical impo han the politieal questions involved in this policy is the control which it will give to the Irish people over all Togislation relating to land tenure. To the pdition of land occupancy more than to all other causes can traced the miseries which have afllicted Treland for generations. When in o large a population and territory alt the land is in possession of not more than twenty thousand persons, and when less than a thousand persons, mostly absent ces, own the half of it, the ehief condition of orderly and pro<perous government gly wanting. What Parnell imed at is the overthrow of this land monopoly and the of the lands into numerons holdings, whosc tenants shall be enabled to become own- ers of the soil on payment of moderate annual rates. Thisis what he will be able to accomplish without violence or injustice through a home parliament The Eng- li<h people, who acknowledze the oppr sion of the Irish land system antd tl necessity for 1ts reform, will yield all the more cheerfully to this poliey for Ireland inasmuch as it falls far short of political independenc separation. While the Irish people will have all the advantages nment they will retain in the empire which they havo ly aided in creating, No wonder such a proposition threat ens to disrupt the great liberal party and to strengthen temporarily the hands of the enemies of Ireland in the British par- linment. Mr. Foster repudiates the Gladstonian programme as revolutiona; Mr. Goschen deciines ndhesion to its pro- visions, Even Chamberlain and Dilke, the great radieal leaders, hold back,while all the whigs give vent to their resent- ment in protests against a committing of liberalism to such a radieal measure. Time will prove the wisdom of the great liberal leader in putting himself to the front of advanced political thonght and in boldly announcing his belief that home rule for Ircland is not only incvitable but that its inauguration will be at once justice to that conntry and a bond of im perial union. The present parlinment may rejeet the proposition. Another parliament may throw it out. But the logic of time will yindicate the fores of the great statesman wio has dared to throw his gauntlet into the arena and to do battle for just land. The Last Dollar. The board of edncation has last interest coupon on the high school bonds. What is more gratifying, tne treasurer of the board is in position to pay the principal as well as the interest. The $100,000 are now on hand to take up the outstanding high sehool bonds, and in another year when the last $50,000 of common school bonds mature, Omaha will pay off’ the last dollar of her public school debt When the high school bonds were voted in 1872 mnobody believed that would by able to rede tl at maturity without the issue of additional bonds with which to them up. The want of confidence on the part of eapita was best illustra- ted in the fact that the honds, issued with aten per cent coupon, were rd to sell at par. To-day Omaha could dispose of afour per cent bond at par much more cusily than she did the ten per cond high school bond thirteen years ago. When it was first d the $200,000 high sehool building was regarded by many as a white elephant. It was a building fit for a city of « half a million people. Time has vindicated the wisdom of the men who earried out the project. The high school has not ouly been a great ornament to this city, but it has been the best card for years with the solid people from all sc tions of the world who chanced to visit Omaha, The splendid financial condi- tion of our school treasury is greatly due to the hizh license law. Within eighteen months Omaha will not owe a dollar on school property or buildings,but she will be nan con bl onblesom 1s tom the stch a pre all the smain nee o is neces: has steadil, division we ‘m sts ! abletoboastof the best school accommoda- 1 this, the nse, which tions in the country. More ¢ ured income from high lic is now nearly $15),000 a year, will place her in the front rank of American cities as an educational centra. The ability to pay high salarics commands the best tal- entand the ability to supply the with luh s, libraries and apparatus generally, will make the sehools of O D peeriess - the w Our citizens may well congratulate themselves on this stute of things because it forms a sure ba- sis to attract poople who desire to 1 where their children can have the tages of a first-class education, schools te dyvan Christmas, “Christmas," suysthe proverh, but once a year and therefore werrie.” s patron saint may find no place on the church calendar, but he is enshrined in every child's heart and finds a warm spot in the affections of many a grown up juvenile. For many centuries Kris Kringle or Santa Claus has paid his annual visits over the civilized globe, ng smiles and good cheer with his presence aud leaving home happiness and evidences of love in his wake. Nowhere has Christmas found such hearty observance as in Germany and England, and among the descendants of the Ger- wan and Euglish speaking peovle To thew Christinas day has been something more than a religious festival commem- oruting the birth of the Christ child into ‘comes let's be | After Tt has been the dey of home reunions, of family gatherings, of practi cal benevolence and of homely cheer The mistletoe and Christmas berry have hee m and the tree laden with gift< of affection, the smoking haunch of the steaming pudding have become Th Iy attempted to suppress Christmas four hundred years bt failed England substitnted Thanksgiving, bnt the original and the substitute flourish de Dy side I'he servance of Christ mas is increasing year by year. Charles Dickens® earol with its Scrooge and Bob Crackett, and Tiny Tim, and its senti ment of “God Bless Us Every One,” riv etted the bonds around the heart of every reader of English fiction. Men of all rc ligions and of no on alike yield to its demands upon the affections regard less of its origin_ and mindful only of its pleasures the world yme ite symbols venison and its sponsors Puritans vain The Blair Educational Bill, enator Blair has once more his eduea- tional bill to the front and proposes to pusliit in the present session of con Briefly stated, Mr. Blair's measure pro poses to apply the proceeds of the inte nal revenue taxes to the fostering of edu cation, the distribution to be proportion- | ate to the amount of internal revenue col leeted in the various states. Under this plan the larger part would of course go to the south where the distilling and to. baceo interests the heaviest, and where the illiteracy is the most general. This is urged by its advocates as one of the chief adyaat which would be de- rived from the operation of the bill. There are many serious objections to Mr. Blair's proposal, but the most im- portant one 1s that its main object is hid- den behind o cloak of assumed benev- olence. Mr. Biair represents the extreme protectionists who some years ago de- sived to entivly abolish the ‘internal 1 enuetaxin order to prevent any deer in the taviff, The principal part of revenue isderived from these two sources. Both combined give us a treasury surplus which is a standing argument for tax re- duction, Experience has proved that the abolition or deerease of the tax on whisky and tobaceo cannot be ea d throngh congress. As a consequence the eflorts of the protectionists are now being de- voted to dispose of the internal revenne in some way by which it will throw the burden of maintaining the government upon the customs duties. This is the trae inwardness of Mr. Blair's bill and the lieariy support which it is reeciving in some quarters, The time has come when* brains and grit not avarice and cowardice must deal with this problem of tavifi' reduction. The public is being edueated to the sophistries of the great industrial monopolists who are blecding the veople of the United States to heap up enor- mous profits and who while howling for protection to American la bor are grinding down their workingmen and mechanics to maintain the tive profits of the war period. a suspension of months the iron industry recovering, and the first move is a heavy adyance in the price of that 1 al. It gocs with- out saying that there has been no ad- vance in the wages of workingmen who have been slowly starving while their masters w waiting for better prices with clos and blown out fur- naces, The revenue taxes will remain, but the tarifl must be revised. The bughear of free trade is an impossibility. The bless- ing of a reduction in the price of necessi- ties and of raw materials used in manu- facturing is attainable. As now consti- tuted the tariffis an oppressive, a eruel and a wicked tax laid on the consumer for the benetit of great monopolies. It has prevented the even distribution of weulth, has concentrated the enormous profits of industrial advancement in the hands of the few, and under the pretense of pro- tecting labor has shiclded capital and are our speenl: - dos thrown all the losses resulting from over- | production: and reckless speculation on the shoulders of the uncmployed. Mr, Blair's bill should be overwhelmly de- feated. Nebraska has shown the coun- try how education can be fostered by local taxation, which no community is 0o poor to bear. The same practical remedy tor the trouble of depleted sehool treasuries is open to the south. Lot them once experience the operation of a good high license law, and they will at once find themselves fully equipped to battle with illite y without the aid of such a bill as that whieh Senator Blair is so be- nevolently fathering 2 is every evidence that the peo- ple of the United States are tived of com promise with the Pacitie railroads and that they will insist firmly that the debts to the government shall be liquidated when due. The sixty year extension bill has fow friends in congress outside of the railroad lobby, It has no reason for existence except in the interests of the stock jobbers, who hope on its passage to unload their millions of depreciated stock upon a rising market, The Pacifie roads originally borrowed $64,000,000 from the government, They refused to iny steps to meet their interest obli- tions until forced to do so by the Sher- man act. They now owe the govern- ment §102,000,000, with an annnal in- crense of $3,800,000. The Pacilic roads have been robbers’ roosts through which the government, stockholders and patrons have been systematically robbed by the very gang who are now calling for more time in which to meet their obligatic 1t the roads are bankrupt the sooner the fuct is made evident the better. The pub. lic would lose nothing if they were sold under foreclosure and placed in the hands of receivers THE CHRISTMAS STOCKING, Mayor Boyd hung up his stocking for a new city marshal, Omaha’s mammoth hose was hung up for W improvements. Dr. Miller's patrician sock will awai other shake from the appointment sack, A thousand consumers of gas hope that Santa Claus way bring cheaper and better illwmination, Manager ( with & new Union question were settled, John MeShane's short-horn Lose may be contidently expected to contain another vail road proposition to the northwest. Mr., ., V. Gallagher does not expeet to fiud that postmaster's commission in his stocking this Christmas, but some other Chiristmas. Real estate owners are praying that Kris Kringle will bring along with him a few more outside additions laid out in acre lots, v would present Omaha tie depot if the viaduct Mr. George I Pritchett would be pleased | New | | to find in his stosking that long-delayed ap | pointment for the United States district at | torneyship, but we are’afeaid that the only thing that he will find in that stocking will be intment - OMINENT PERSONS, 1, is <aid to b of to the coming purpose “raising id to have died more times, than any American actress | _Jacob Taish ha the city of Denver £50,000 for & univers Haish is At city is soventy s life. 1 n. « pen s getting to be husband's sword. ven more pop- | ular than cver | dudee Davia b | mever felt better in | the winter in Washir Mrs. Cnster, who: mightier than was 1| ¢ guest of Mrs. Lawren ton. Herr Zelt, the Aunstrian comedian, who died recontly, Teft among his eff 00 love letters, 440 pliotographs, and countless locks of feminine hair, Bret harte does not like the air of London sowell as the bracing atmosphere of the plains, but he finds society there more con zenial to Lis tas Mme. Bernhardt is studying a that of Marion in drama of the same name, a A by Marie Dorval. Mrs, Villard, wifeof Henry Villaxd, the railway man or, now living in Berlin isa friend and favorite of “Unser Fritz's” frau, the crown princess, Osear Wilde, an artists’ exhil London, wore a coat daintily conspicuoi its “wonderful plaits in the back.” e must have looked as it he had on a black p plaster, and says he arrett, in Bos new role, Victor Hugo's part originally Delorme at tion in or ous Kossuth, beine no longerable to earn iving by teaching languages in Italy, now found a_home in the house of his sons, who ave shepherds in the valley of Sixt, in Savoy. Marshal Bazaine is said to Madrid in actual want. s him, taking her fortune with h | Empress Eugenie will not even | begzing letters, Caine, the Utah delegate in_congress, that Mormonism ean never be stamped ont, But the polyzamists will do a great deal of stamping when they find out what a mistake they made when they raised Caine, Mr. Evarts thinks that brain should eat five square meals a day. Judging | from My, Evarts' personal appearanee we | should say that if he zets one square meal in five days he docsn’t make any gorgeous dis play Mr. Spurgeon has completed the seventh and Jast volume of his “Treasury of David. Mr.Spurgeon’s happiness over the conclusion of his work has found expression in the word “hallelujah,” which he prints instead of “inis™ at the end of the book, las be living has left and the ex: answer his wite ays workers Looks Like a Pen-Wiper. Boston Bylictin, A Qude in one of the new eape coats has the general appearance of pen-wiper. - Will Wake Up tamons, Nebrasta Cily News, Minnie Dislmer 15 the only who has gonc to sleep and will find hersclf fa Nebr wike skian up to s A Brooklyn View of Libels. Brookiyn Eagle, The amount of excitement whic an get from a libel suit against a n is something really remarkab - Will Go Hunting for Blackbirds, Lowisville (' Jowrial, Mr. Tennyson’s new poew says the biack- birds have theirw The lawyers v ali go hunting for blackbinds, from a Popuia ago Hevald, by Saral man spaper il now Brilliant Rays o Two fainting during one perform revivai of her old-tiy Bernhardt ate a sudden dramatic talents, - ilroad and Real 1 Creighton News, Plenty of railroads ave leading into North we-tern Nebraska—on paper—and real est is elimbing towards the top notch in quence. .Th ate. e Senator Vest as a Fly Catcher. New York Hevald, It seems to us that Mr. Vest, like too many other demoeratie statesmen always trying | to eateh flies with vinegarand wondering that hie gets 50 fow. Falling into Lme. The county papers that are hooim tor Van Wy lection to at the rate of one a they will soon all fall in line. Homesic Tt is rumorcd that 5 | resign the Turkish n Christmas, Santa Cla things must have made him homesick, -~ That Geand Tsland Sourner, The western: editor who put his mourning on acconnt of Vanderbilt's death is asympathetic soul. 1t was his brother who wore crape on his hat for a year out respect for Adam, sandall so o inlo —~ 15 ently C Cirioay News, Charles 11 Van Wyek is evidently a eandi date for re-election to the United States sen- | ate from Nebraska. The Omaha Bie has | begun to refer to him in broad-shouldered | brevier as “the people’s friend,” He is of Free Getting a Advertisi New Yorke W The Grand Teland (Neb,) Times app ar be the only paper in the United States which went into mourning. for Vanderbilt, And | yet the editor’s name, does not appear i i ist of bencnciaries undey the will, The Grim Wizard of' W. Baltinore Tines, Jay Gould is now {he vichest man in Amer ica, sinee Vanderbilt's millions have heen (i vided up. Old and wary brokers grimly shake their heads when any mention of his retive ment from the streel is made, Vanderbilt's wmoney has often been thrown between Gould and his schemes, but now there is nothin no obstacle—to the ' gveht nnancial spider reaching torth and guthering in more un suspecting flies. He “may almost Monte Cristo, *“Lae world is mine.” L Refers to the Omaha “Hersld" Satepublican, Chicago News, The Missouri valley papers have become involved in a powerful discussion, On them printed the words “in statue quo,” | whercupon another ealled it hog-Latin, w said that “in statu quo” was what was it Then a third paper pitehed in and declared | that, inasmuch as the preposition “in" could precede the accusative or ablative, “in status | quo” was correct. A fourth paper observed that if the noun was used in the ae! the pronoun should also be in the accusative ore, “in status quum® would be ri ht. ed a fifth, *“The pronoun must b me gender as the noun: that would make it ‘in status quod.'” Still puper asks: “Why make it ‘quod,’ wh wan choose, he can make it ‘quid? battle of the Titans proziesses and the whol Missourd valley uphcaved. But the las | wen's sally iudicates that what once guvi | 1l Street, an 0," ¢f of the ifa So th his | | He wan | known as “Vulture a perambulating | | motiy promise of being a Jearned and seholarly dis- drive ' new threatens to dege ling, brawling ldiocy. - How to Suppi Says the Salt Lake T famous hound old Miller, of the € ald, must by W g to inf nd; if he v daily certain m Dr L were he w editin paper in Salt 1 about a religion everything m his power to prom and bloodshed in a territory th bel to the Mormons as Pl belonged to the pilgrim fathers, polyeamy would fon of the Salt 1 K 1o ot wession o Two 1tic St Lonis R mas Guy was born ¢ i, in 1645, His merchant and Tighterman, by did not follow in the paternal being at an early age appren booksel in London, from graduated into busincss starting with His shop still stan years ago on the corn Lombard street, He s pered from the outset, b pecnn Bibles printed ably gav printing Bibles ford Iis next ventare cacred divection U very ackof ready money, then i notes, or tiekdts, due at itied time Jack, impro NOW, wan e e consequently count to thos i Guy ler on | a capital ling of Col m count was his was reached Holland rolitable ¢ in him the | wl o the unive was n d ol them at a who were willi bought Targely therehy were g When the famons rinto existonee r‘-m\ Iy in the stoek at low sold when the fover of specu He was neve ronesty or dishonor tansactions were guite as legitimate in < the Bible selling or the ovdi mereial operations of o own not only knew how to make n, how to save it, and his savi duced toscience which strongly systematio stinginess or sometl wpair of leather bre his neighbors took off hats to emuse of their age. He was marry his housekeeper oned oft thwe mateh bheeanse the lady stone laid in the pavement wit sulting hiw, His unenviable for cconomy went abroad, and ing he reeeived a eall from Howard did not know his visitor, opene and showed lim into what p parlor. *Sir," said Howard, that you understand the art o monecy better than Tdo, and 1 1 to leawrn your method S th busi > replied the host well talikin the K candle. “Vulture as I i v md Dle ted. But Guy wa One da 2 miser only t ¢ e stood Tooking oy i a woe-beg ck, t hit he was steide: begaed hi vash aet, and <lipped into his hand. Guy told him tl not specially miserable, and dic the gold; I whea the stran, not take sked his addre afterward he saw the name ¢ factor among the list of bankr it a templati commit {he once 1o s of the Lase, mad y gement with the ul final ablished him i whieh was suceessfully ec two aenerations of the bank seendants. Other generaus deed tentation 1 that his miserlines years old did @ monumental s ut not until motive ape. In watared the plans of the famous hospital which bears his 1 necessary ground. In 1 was laid, and the first pat mitted in Junnary, 1525, the death of the founder, cost o little less than sum bequeathed for its tenanee was about Siaty years ago a sceond (i arity, o gentleman named H1.000.000 10 veinforee th he hospital s contains 750 beds, veceives in-door patients, and (rea door. Conanceted with vl same general munag i« hest and miost elo in the workd, ‘The the funds invest i pro name, the to [hie work Ssor wated me nnual i the stpg F20.0 inmon of The Guy exceed $2,500,000. OF th 0,000-—=nearly and endowiment of nainder going ¢ and 1o relative ne lations did mos + huild pital, the nevolent ¢ days leaiving fin estate estima.e 000, OF this almost he gave, by will, £ religions an ble institations §1,100,000 —or two-hundrvedth part. The vest Lamily : As i contemporary journal u it, Mr. Vanderbilt never pos lie: henefactor doving h much was expeeted trom him af 11 it had been, the onsly disappoinicd; for compared with what he Do had 1 avight to_do what will owni bt this is merely o le Christianity, or cven i tinet of huanity, m man has the shido aive tohis fellow of £200,000,000 thinzhost heart 1o might have don Onc would snpposd name and fame in the gratéfil of future g ns,” might duced him—in the ahsined fortune 100 a Yo of 1,1 e 1 sicken think what V and whal that the eral disy colossal £5,000 bilt hospit forever rich endowe unle his NP have m would not have monument it riality Fow had such win the renown AW, M last hund i name of Lospit circumstanes i like arnd n t would ha very fow 1 Fhowus Guy; urvives the blessings w in o sixty e | who v Vanderbile: - i hock of 1fall i ot tial 1 An nountuin ¢ [ lim or b hered wi ro L ai Wi f < Polygamy. bune: “What sl p Hor father was fizzuyes fwe hanked him cconomical lesson and steaightway de 8 paupor s house, inquired into the and known only 10 icw, uy had anoble motiy nts were $100,000 00,000, in prict it n tary values, the ago died Witliam 1L Vi alentable wealth lifetime, ourse, ure DECEMBER 25. 1885 s e | ARNINGS Saperstition 0N THE nerate into an in ymaha He 1w The ns Pas- . Miller hably be ke, lying wnd doin ste discord it as mich outh Rock | We think the desent be the sup Many Ques Asked by sengers, Who Eypect to Everything. Answers See 1" yentared n o [ he knew in the 1 me here, my Denver Tt oI | he ran into an e " Union Pacifie few of the sap taincd by some grant you are youmust know others they won't talk, T hope L the son [ TOOIStepS; | hands through ticed to a | he isown ac $1,000, many enhill and liaye pros- fivst by sclling ich ontract for ity of Ox- in a loss ment, tor Lits sailors A certain ident then once, and iberal di o pur porter round-house, *‘t not railroad runners. to them, and not subject who ar you will 1y beekoned his A big running his moment, cydown, gincer vesign to a seat besidg and, aftor his hair | him on of joist, a began “Iremember well, eight y was viding with & bro on the Memphis & Little W | had just made a ‘know-nothing' stop near a stat and, instead of running slowly up to the station, my friend be to let the engine out. I ealled his atten tion to a train standing just aliead of us, but e mac reply, keeping right on, and ran pl into the train right in broad daylight. Fortunately the rear car emply, was Killeds but the car was mal wreek, and the englne had 1 knocked skew That engincer «aid that the pirits told him just what he did Instead of beir up he wa discharged, Then he went 1 on spivitnalism, . On- that sul 1zy us o loon, and oy, Pulled oft his engin whom s ngo, I engineer ol wk road not gan great prob ' 16 mh other was 0 no a i rnose one todo locked his 1 el heen | Tore Al king of s) 1 had @ consin on the Ch voad, who pulled oui of € dark, storiy night with everything was not ali v hadd yin o fifty 1 i sudden, when stick the eab window, he said he saw a trans pavent, nmsty white figure waving a | aumt, skinny arm toward him, and mio. ning downward with the palm as the | <ianal 1s to stop when you have no flag or Lintern. — Of conyse, it scared Jack out of a year's growth, It he had enongh neaged to | sense, he said, to shat oft and stop the | but hroke | train with the air brakes as <oon as he ordercd w | conld. Then he jimped oft with his lan out con- | tern and ran 100 fo head, and what do reputation | you thinky e said he found a one even gone ont ere the rond master person | Tailed to make the enlvert larze enoug Guy, who | to carry oft the stream that had eonie At door | down the ravine. Tive passengers were | cd for a | thundersivuck at this escape from a foar Lam told | ful death, and on hearing how it ocenrred, f keeping | @ave the engincer $500. The teain was | we called to the nearest station, after suita- | L be your autions had been taken to warn | miy as and the passengers and out the transferred in the morn- | for the | ing | SYou are sure it wasn't simoly a pre- monition?” | *No, it was a veritable vision; but I ' I Seaeoni o inyested and wion was v charged in cither Wl they vy vespet ALy com- day. e oney, but Wais resembled | 1 Ning worse celies until them e : 1 spivit Vinds y and me. Alton m that ht. Well, he en all of a ont of his head W W ¢ were o himself, er London ne expres- wretched pssin, ol not to auinea at he was Unot nee e would Years of liis bene- Ipis: went don’t know of any other case like it,” “Did any easé of pr come within your expericnce Yes. Six o, when Twas ran- ning on the Old Colony Road, there w a ranner who was given to such things He had the boat teain that left Boston daily for Fall River at 6 p. n., to conne witli the New York boat, Well, one dark wint vight as ho passed Quiney some thing inside told him to look” out, and by the time he had got beyond Sonth Brain tree t ot so strong that he thought he nst stop, and it was well he o did, for there just ahead was o misplaced | ¢ o | switeh leading into a siding that ended n busi seventy-five feet further on at the foot of inued agreat mass of anite, with an embank- rupt's de- [ ment to one side of it. But, then, such 15, equally | things ave rare. The great bulk of no | tions that come into a ranner’s head are mere fancies AMUSING EXAMPLES “For instan rieat many men, rath er thun run over a hog, will reverse their | engines under a full head of steam, an risk b their machines in two, | Wiyt wise they believe it is a dead | sure unlucky sign. You run an engiue | over a hog and see it you don't get’into | trouble_of some kind before the day is any runner will tell you that 0 men to leave an engine af <6 monition s as m il tor was 6 ssme A he the livst stono ad \fter da and e tual main Som Hunt, loft | of Lis pre aman?” N o to her, Yemembe vegard * on the m 2o | 1o run over which fine some- I'hen Iy if , and never cat m PasSCIZerS pre wh men witlly 5,000 53,000 out mitny under the 1 n s the i 1, road duiciot Como g Mititese which he t | with him to bring ba | some of th have @ eat on the e at the | of window. P ho | wasn’t mad when half—for | & the hos » other be e of 1!l schools | from hos » friend of the « him o hane ok on the tean Denver. Bat L pro to 111 ont conductor cat was Wi of 0 vt 1 o v, 50 they fire ps th 1oand e dif \eeumu not 1 £ sinn b e Ihen there’s another thing, Up o | the mountains, during the winter, the miners turn their burros out to shift for themselves, and they t on the track and will not get off, 1o matter how much | you whistl¢ ow, it's af il notion T engineers that to kill one of thesc Rocky mount nightingales is sure sign of hard lnek, and you ean’t beat the notion out of their heads. Pyve heard | runners lay the blame of an acsident to | their having v over a burro only u few days before, But I've hit dozens of them and noever have trouble, They are stupd thi those jack: SFriday is considered by many Incky duy. Some engineers won't a piston or gland on that day they = o doit all over the v n, even, who been nt engine out on F andl a runners though they don’t say witys nervous on thit day for thing wrong will happen.” “1Ruppose the ol is lurgely belioved in? orier l'Xlu ledly 1 Soie engin 1can'tsay, |1 Haunnibal & St | stall for nearly wosition of | befound 10 run 1i¢ | ks one & riday Vi | led Six men wk she laid the ba the ¢ with the ¢ Lthings at A, The vietms wer they had 100 1 £200,000, e d charita about u 2oes to his Jildly puts | 1asa pub 0 not ter death is griev- gave, ive, is aman with Ins anl right iimgly, If tin no i to i ot but the nderhilt he did do aral do to lix his nieIoy have in cs un pck L n Fivem don't w rain frave their ol miany no, are al fear so Xt ady 0 I’ , v engine racket d the re ventur myself bt wlhy on (h in her dd believe in born imlucky ew an o enging Joe that lay el v year bolore a man her she fell off th in the shop and afterward ho lor Ky e it whilc Four andd n 1 oyer ong ot 100 feel buried ) travells tend Qs no! of coal th 1 1it w100 live 1 10 ke it undertaker L1 this world 1o ny age | the enging rtunity to | eh tmoriem | w in the | for I Lthe | you bel @ as his | Tor chard titme an ydown o upon that rled up with hundred | a long stor | remem ing, care it money sink him will dl Tuoun her " sious, bu 1V notions, so 1 v ut roable. And would Lloft Leron a sude trach udl o he do but just 0 track and et aht 1 To itk 1 lost any job." yaCt w « L yeur witk Al A QUEES Didn't you leavs the middle Ther Coase frici from the vl it off nng HOW loy ) t my y Wi comes naker she t uude Lty but after runn \oi UnistaLces | Knew able | of mt | Presidoent | honor than his manly s the valve seat gets worn and the valve are fihln'(‘d. so that if ' engine is on anything of an inclno he started, she'll runrigh g withont stopping. It may be th steam pipe that blows the oil into t! un chest left slightly open, or t! le leaks until gradually t the steam ugh to start the | Away she go s the pis is going the val just enough' to regulate t! motion. Wlhy, I know engines that wh running witha t yon can hoc onto the dead ecr i they 11 run i st the Just then an od out the adjoining st vman who believes if e me with lent two more will happe to him in nid the enginec» poiy runner, “and | He has a couy up in his cab nd if you ask him °f ist or dry he gots mad d tell ‘me, by the way the singular you," said 1 ot and ¢ into n ton | and onc will_moy and that is enough n to his brother Tways right nail pirits says he'i of horsceshoes scare of evil his spirits are m “1wish you wot before you pull ont, some « questions passengers wil the ne WSpAPeT man “Passongers ask nonsensieal questions very often. And the interesting part of it is they think an engineer has plenty of tine to sit down and go fully into details, cven though the condiietor be waving hig hand to pull out of a station. 've had passengers come up, ask me how much my engine ean pull and how many horses power sl whether T ever mich steam on: what wonld I doif 1 ofl'the t wd after nguiving time as how soon the train stavis. Now, in con- sidering how mueh an engine can pull you must figure on grades, whether o vai i dry, slippery or woti whether the weather is- hof or cold, whetlier your I i good steamer—well, haif a dozen oth ier into it. Plen- ty of timo there, to spread theso things out’ hef curions s, Wihen they ask what 1do when the track Lgenerally sav, ‘T get on on they ot ad and <ay they "I con- plain of miy insolone thee conduc The women are the worst, The: wiant to know how often the wheels turn around in aomile, why the wse lever-rod connecting with the i is only on one side; stoam g in the oylinders orin the box below cab? where does the smoke from the gets out of the Is that engine very heavy? Then women will want’ to ride on the engine cabyor on the pilot. And it you don't let them the get mad and say vre awful mean.’ An old man wanited to know one day what those things were that kept flipping back and forth under engines as they ran. 1 told him they woere the links, HeJooked wise for a moment and then said, *Sho!” Presently he wanted to know what they were for, and 1 told him to regulate the valves. Then he said ‘Sho!’ in. Well, T must have explained to that old duller for five minutes, and about every sentence he wonld say ‘Sho!® or*Dutell’ When [ got throngh he as much as he did bofore. A a schoolma’am too, onee wanted it the counterhilance on the lelped make them go round. uristson the mountain trains are worst class of all travelors, and if you e to them at_all they will overtun their insuflerable firs and eock- nt. Well, it's time to go; good isn't oft 0 wonim to know drivers The the S Fitz John Porte Chivagn Limes hn Porter’s absolute innocence arges which led to his dishonor- dismissal from the union army, arter of . eentury ago, is no med by a m eapable itly weighin . who ziated ¢ and whose s not warpad by personal prejudice As a resalt of Orts (o secure against him, s Innocence. Fitz J nearly aq longer ques lig, has st mind i or fanatical partisanship, Porter's persistent of the sent many of the most cmi uand mil itary authorities in the country have made aeareful study of the proceedings of court-martial, and the new ev- ence which hascome to light since the of the war, and withont a single e ception they hiwe been convinedd that not only was Gen. Porter not guilty of he offenses imputed o him, but that his conduct in the battle of August 28-20, 1862, was creditabloin the highest degree, ike to his patviotism, his courage, and his mulitary skill. Several years ago HMayes appointed & military conrt of inquiry to review the case, com- posed of Generals Schotield 'y, and other distinguished soldiers, who, after a patient snd thorough investigati wade a report wholly exoncrating Gen eral Portor. Soon after the submission ol thi port General Grant was mduced to look into the caac. As general of the aviy, 18 seeretary of war, and s presi- dent of the United States,” he had repeat- cilly vefused to take any’ action loking to a1 of the mutter, and b aide no attempt to. cone lis opinion t Porter was guilly as charged, and tthe s 7 1inst him ought not It was with these pre- nd with a prejudice Porter which he frankly that he entered upon his inve i IWEVEr, woere identical with those d by the Scho- field board, 4 he made haste to pub- licly neknowledge his former error, and to ‘testify in_every possible way his sonvietion of eral - Porter's inno- e Keenly regretting his own sharo m_the responsibility for the continued mjustice done Gen., Porter, he songht every means m his power 1o set him ri Before the worldand to secure his restora- tion to the army. Nothing in all Gen, Grant's carcer Was more cre him or will be longer rememb and chivalrous ef- forts despite the claims of his warmest personal and political fricads, to remove the e wlneh e had 1 180 lurgely instrwnental in fixing upon Gen. Porter's name, A number of s lett to Gen, Porter and others, hitherto unpublished, are printed this morning, and they re- veal, in an even strong 2t than b fore, the depth and ty of hiscon- vietion ading th wid the unsel W owith which he labored to ueh justice, as it was then pose Gen, Porter s long as said Gen. Grant, inono of these letters, it shull he raised in your support without any refercnce to the ef- foct Lave upon me or others.” Rizht faihfully did'he redecm this prom- e, nor diud he forget when dying at Mount MeGregor, to plead for justice for Porter Gen areversal a of ] « as poning disturbod 30 rl matter, obtain sible-io rendor 1 have Voict t m an honored grave will pro- coun Porter's od withoutany it approval by u_be no doubt, nor that this tardy net of partial ‘justice wil be warmly ‘san tioued by an - enligntened public sentis ment Cmony from t 1pon con bill w0 bould b deluy 1ent ther ¢ Pt 1 Man and Beast, ustang Liniment is older thag most men, used more and WOIE €Very year. an