Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 28, 1886, Page 4

e L THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, THURSDAY, JANUARY .\ OMAHA OFFICE,NO, 014 AND 016 FARNAM ST NEW YORK OFPICE, ROOM 65, TRIBUNE BUILDI NG WASHINGTON OFFICE, No. 513 FOURTEENTH ST. Published avery morning, except Sunday. The oy Monday morning paper published in the staie. TERMS DY MAIL: One Yen .. $10.00 Three Months ix Mont . 500 One Monith..... X Tax WEEKLY Tier, Published Every Wednesdaay. TERMS, POSTPAID: One Year, with premium Oae Y enr, without premiuni Eix Months, without premium One Month, on trial Voee 2,00 i CORRESPONDENCE: - Al communications relating to_news and edi- worinl mattors sk be addressed to the Ept- TOR OF “HE DER. emittances should be URLISHING COMPANY, OMaiA. Drafts, checks and postoffice or 10 be made payable to the order of the compan THE BEE PUSLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS. E ROSEWATER. Eprron. Like Dr. Miller, the English ministry has resigned. Unlike Dr. Miller, they have not retived from politics. Tie coasting carnival on Dodge street promises to be a brilliant affair. Omaha is bound not to be behind her sister cities in the matter of winter sports. the old settler d; No such slei the fiftics.”” as written Torsaken F 1to refer to one of s’ cancelled entries Jonxy € poem entitled “The hous 1t is suppe Commissioner on the frontiel — NOTHING is heard of Mr. Randall nowa- days in congress, but Mr. Morrison will hear something drop by the time his horizontal reduction bill is ready for open debate in the hou —_— Trere will be no scarcity of emplc ment for laborers in Nebraska this y The various railroad extensions in the state and the public improvements in the cities will give plenty to do to all who are willing to do it. Now Tt all fear of the ice crops running short is over, remarks about the crop of candidates for the coming city election will be in order. It may be safely said that neither wind nor weather will affect their number, Ir John L. Sullivan and Paddy Ryan could be induced to emigrate to Ne- braska and join the opposite factions of warring democrats, the whole business could be satisfactorily settled in fiftecn minutes and three rounds. Towa is to discuss a bill creating a state board of arbitration for the settle- ment of differences between labor and capital. Moderation first and arbitration last are the corner stones of the preven- tion and settlement of labor difliculties. It cost Lord Hartington $5,000 to se- cure his election to parlianment. This is just ono-sixth of the amount which Sen- ator Payne iseumored to have spentin the Ohio legislature to make his calling and election to the senate chamber sure. REepPORTS from St. Petersburg indicate that the Russian wheat crop will be very small this year. Such reports should be treated very gingerly until it is certain that they arc not transmitted over the grain-pit grape-vine telegraph. GREECE is making a bluster of her in- tention to fight Turkey in spite of the powers. King George is scarcely as big aman as Alexander of Battenberg and will be quickly brought to his senses the moment the British fleet opens fire before Athens. ONE viaduct has finally been settled | upon, the yiaduct over South teenth Now let the location of the other be definitely fixed as soon as possible, With these two structures bridging the tracks a large section of the city will be brought into immediate connection with the business heart of Omaha, —_— TuE charity ball committee is meeting with gratifying success in securing sub- seriptions. The tickets are now to be put on sale, and they ought to go off like hot eakes. It is proposed to raise by sub- soriptions and the sale of tickets over $5,000. This will make the movement a financial success. That it will be a bril- liant social suceess, there is no doubt. —— Iz is announced that the president will gend in the name of a new judge advo- cate of the army this week, in place of Gen. Swaim, suspended. Col. Morrow, of the Twenty-first infantry, now stationed at Sidney, is prominently men- tioned in connection with the promotion, No better choice could be made. e——— Rev. Jok Coox has been gaining somo motoriety by the assertion that the Ame eans are the most drunken race on the lanet, Of course the statement is glar- xlfily incorrect, ke most of Mr. Cook’s other statements, The platform pranc- [* ing mountebank who made it knew that © itwas so at the time for he has since qualified it by the remark that he referred to the consumption of liquor. But after . all what intluence does Me, Cook wield? *, Eyen Beantown has soured on his Mon- day lectures in whose “preludes” of ful- some oulogy of Boston they used to find a pleasing relaxation from the labors of washday. Gov. LARRABEE'S Auditor Brown, of Tows, will be gener- ally commended by the people of the Hawkeye state. Mr. Brown was sus- * pended from office by Goy. Sherman on the 8d of March last on the charge of having failed to account for moneys and property belonging to the state. He re- - sisted removal, and was finally expelled from office by the militia. Auditor Brown und his fiionds cluimed that the origin of the whole trouble was the im- ial performance of his duty through enforcement of the insurance laws. | Phey insisted that beeanse he declined to e more lenient with certain companies i which local politicians were interested “the persecution which ended in his ve- aeval was inangurated. This seems now 1o be generally conceded, and Gov. Lar- gabee’s action is a vindication of the ! “henesty of the auditor and an endorse- | it of his oflicial wethods i the & department. ur- of | Labor In New York. The wisdom of the appointment of I bor commissionersin several of the large manufacturing etates of the east has been approved by the valuable reports which have been submitted during the past year. Mr. Hadley's report on behalf of Connecticut has already been com- mented upon. It was a thorongh and ex- haustive stady of present conditions, filled with suggestive opinions and re- plete with carefully compiled statistics of hours of work, rates of wages, and views of employers and employed on remedies for labor troubles. Mr. Hadley’s report has just been supplemented by that of Mr. Charles F. Peck, the commissioner of the New York bureau of statistics of labor. Mr. Peck’s report is chiefly devoted to the condition of working women and the subject of strikes. *‘As a rule,” says Mr, k, “women’s wages are vi much less than those of men, while, in some Kinds of work, in which both men and women are empioyed, men can do supe- rior work, the difference in wages is out of all sonable proportion to the su- periority of the service.”” A few employ- ments are fostered in which women r ceive cqual wages with men for equal work, but the significant fact is noted that in nearly all such cases the women have an organization to promote therr interests, as, for exampie, print cignrmakers and hatters. In the empl ments where women, although unorg: ized, receive the same pay ns men, it is remarked that they are all employments where the men receive very low pay. The branch of business which affords employ- ment to the largest number of women is the clothing trade, and there is none, the commissioner says, in which they receive more beggarly wages. “The women workers who suffer most from low wages are sewing women. The reason is that sewing seems to be woman’s normal oe- cupation, just as field work or herding is that of man. Consequently, the poor woman who sews for a living has to com- pete with all her own sex who sew for home occupation.’” The commissioner furnishes an g of facts and wwes support his statement that “‘only in very rare instanc e strikers favored or encouraged by the working people of the state.” Every witness who ve testimony on the subject in an in- vestigation of three months made the nark that *sf s are to be deplored.” ‘The officers of the trades unions would always prefer to have their difliculties settled by some other means. he majority of strikes which oceurred last year in New York were occasioned by reductions of wages made by employers. The commissioner says in his roport : If the market is depressed, or even when it has the appearance of depression, some employers, actuated by fear or a desire for still greater profits, will seize the opportunity to reduce wages, and will give no reason to their employees for this action further than to say tlat they cannot pay any more, and that they propose to conduct their business in their own way. Thisis the substance of most of the testimony given by representa- tive morkingmen, If they repulse the com- mittees of the shop and the oflicers of the union which is invoelved in the reduction, they are responsible for the strike which fol- lows, for the evidence abundantly proves that in most cases the men are willing and ready to accept concessions, According to the Advertiscr this state ment corresponds closely with the state- ments made by several manufacturers of Massachusetts in Boston several weeks ago, where the agreeing testimony almost without exception was that a strike in nine cases out of ten is pwing to the fault of the employer. Mr. Peck thinks that if employers had a different conception of what a trades union really is and would meet its membership half way the results would often be different from what they are. He says: One of the greatest arguments against the success of strikes is that capital has more opvortunities than labor. If thisis admitted, then that furnishes every reason why capital should be more telerant of the views, mi taken though they may be, of those in less fortunate walks of life, who have little op- vortunity and less time to study the laws and limitations which ave supposed to govern trade and industry, A full explan should always precede a reduction in v but seldom is any real or true explan given. A notice is suddenly pasted up, with- out warning, of a 10, 15 or 25 per cent redue- tion, and in some Instances no appeal is heard. ‘This harsh treatment has, of itself, oceastoned a great many strikes, and only serves to still further embitter and intensify the hard feelings which exist, and to delay and make the final settlement more diflicult. As the resnlt of his investigation this New York labor commissioner discov- ered that both employers and wage work- ers were agreed upon arbitration as the remedy for strikes, and | unded that in the near future st way before intelligence and that conc tion and an honest discssion of differ- ences will be substituted for the settle- ment of labor disputes, vy to The Tory Defeat., Lord Salisbury’s ministry will at once hand in their resignations. Score one for Parnell. Mr, Gladstone will be forced to form a ministry with the solution of the perplexing Irish question as its foun- dation stone, Neore one for Lord Salis- bury. The tory ministry have promptly courted defeat and found it. No one is probably more relieved over this quick change in the political kaleidoscope than the premier, It was inevitable from the day when the complete election returns showed a combined Parnellite and liberal majority, and being inevitable, the soon- er the suspense was lifted the better, The queen’s speech with its bold defiance to the Ivish to do its wonrst, the reply Lord Salishury in support of the royal chal- lenge, and finally the announcement that the government would at ouce pro- pose mew coercive measures for Ireland were all evidently intended to precipitate the final result. The situation was a legislative deadlock and Lord Sadisbury has taken the heroie remody of a disrap- tion of his ministry to break it. The duty of forming a new ministr; will now devolve upon Mr. Gladstone. No other liberal statesman can accom- plish the task, The queen may have suid a8 reported, that she would go to the seaflold like Charles 1. sooner than sum- mon My, Gladstone to Windsor, but she will be compelled to do so because there is no one elso who is competent to assume the burden. A liberal ministry in power, and the in opposition, will materially chan situation. Lord Salisbury ‘and bis | ‘of confidently expect that thé new govern- wment will be ground to death between the | upper and the mether willstones of whig dissent and Irish radicalism. Gen- erous concessions to Mr. Parnell's de- mands mean an inevitable disruption of the liberal party. A refusal ‘to yield to the clamor for home rule legislation will result in the transfer of the Irish vote to the tory side, the defeat of the ministry and another appeal to the country. In another electoral contest the tories will appeal to English pride and loyalty with the maintenance of the union and support of the crown as the campaign cries. This is the tory programme of which the ministerial resignations will be the fir: Better Trade Facilities, Chadron, which bonsts the title of the “‘Magic City, and sustains her claim by showing a record of $286,000 of improve- ments made in five months of the year just closed, has organized a board of trade composed of representative busi- ness men to stimulate the interests of the city and to promote its prosperity. An especial object of the organization is to seeu tions with Omaha and its large wholesale interests. The board has lately been considering the insufli- cient Iroad connections which they now have with Omaha by way of Blair, and the harrassing delays to which purchasers of goods from this city are subjected in the receipt of shipments. This, it may be said, isthe strong vantage ground upon which Chi- cago jobbers stand along the line of the extension of the Northwestern railroad in Nebraska. It is a fact which cannot be impressed too strongly upon our wholesalers, that so far as the trade of northwestern Nebraska is concerned, Omaha is placed at a serious disadvant- age when compa with a city 500 miles to the castward. Through freight from go to the terminus of the Elkhorn line reaches-its destination often a y sooner than goods ordered at the same time from Omaha. The transfer at v and the make up of trains more than counterbalance in loss of time the ad- vantages of decreased distance. The best remedy, of course, for th condition of affairs is move direct rail connection to the northwest. Any move- ments towards securing this should re- ceive the earnest co-operation of our people. If a competing line is imprac- ticable at present the next best thing would be an extension of the Northwest- ern eastward from Fremont to Omaha. This city would then be on the main line and the ‘‘stub tail” and ‘“‘ox bow" con- nection by the north would be obviated. We have hopes that the railroad company may see that their interests and those of Omaha in this matter are identical. There is a growing tendency on the part of the Northwestern people to come into closer commercial relations with this city. When the promised removal of headquarters to Omaha is made, the stimulus of local sociations will be 1ded to that of a desire to control their share of a greatly increasing business. Meantime such evidence of a desire on the part of northwest Nebraska to make Omaha their supply center, and to work with our merchants in securing this end, is most cheering and pleasant. Omaha will gladly reciprocate by all the means in her power in assisting to build up the prosperity of a prospering section which r ago was an inaccessible region to her jobbers. The Steel Rail Monopoly. The literary bureau of the great stecl rail monopoly is attempting to convince the public that the recent advance in the price of their products is due entirely to a healthy competition in the home mar- ket and the demand created by the con- struction of new lines of railroad. Since the beginning of the season the price has steadily risen from $27 to $35 a ton, with a tendency still upwards. The facts in the case illustrate the beauties of an ex- orbitant tariff when joined to a patent monopoly. The production ot steel rails in the United States is controlled by the combination who own the Bessemer patents. This combination can produce 2,000,000 tons a year, but it has agreed to limit its production to 1,200,000 for the ensuing twelve months in order to force up the price by creating an arti- ficial searcity. Steel rails in England cost $24.50 a ton, and freight charges from Liverpool added would enable im- porters to lay them down at the seaboard at $20 a ton exclusive of the duty of §17a "he tariff and the steel combination work in this way together. While the Bessemer combination screws up the price of rails by restraining production, the tariff prevents the foreign importa- tion from redressing the scale in favor of American consumers. Without the tariff English and Belgian rails cun be sold in this country for §29 a ton, and in the beginning of last season American rails were sold as low as $27 and §28 aton with a margin of profit. Moderately estimating the profit ot last year's production of 2,000,000 tons at a ton, the total profit was 4,000,000 for the steel combination. At $35 a ton the profit on the limited production of 1,250,- 000 tons for the coming year will be $11,250,000. The literary burcau of the steel rail monensiy hoast that they have s in the steel industry. The merease is trifling when compared with the profits of production. Whilo wages have adyaneed 10 per cent after months of lockout and contention, the earnings of the ecombination have increased 25 per cent, The present tariff on sheer robbery. in the p steel rails is A reduction of one-half ont rate of duty would afford ample protection to producers and would protect American consumers from the extortions of monopoly. The effect of the combmation to restrict the produc- tion and inerease the price of steel rails isnot only to check the reconstruction of new railroad lines but the repair of old roads, aud to maintain the cost of freights and to increase the dang: accidents. A substantial reduction of the duty would break the power of the stec] monopoly. Some of Mr. Blaine's friends are out with a defense of his attitude on the sile ver question. That is ong of Lis attitudes which needs no defense. Mr. Blaine’s position while in congress was a con- sistent support of bi-metallism. He fay- ored an houest dollar and a silver dollar. His efforts were directed towards main- taining the standard rates of value be- | tween the two metals and to keeping both in harmonious eirculation in the channels of trude. This it may be said is the attitude of all the western sup- portevs of silver. There is no desire to domonetize gold or to repudiate honest r of. obligations. The ditn ‘nnd object of the opponents of demonttiZation is to main- tain a currency ample enough for the trade requiremetits of the coun- try and of sufficient volume to prevent violent and continnons contraction and fluctuations in value. The fact that the silver producing interesis of the country are benefitted by the market given to the product by its use as money is neither here nor there. Demonetization means theenhancement of all s ities and the increase in value of all evidences of per- sonal indebtedness j OxAnA has never heen honored with an annual encampment of the G. A. R. of Nebraska. Why not make an eflort to secure it this year? It is to be hoped that steps will be immediately taken with this object in view, One inducement will be the Gettysburg panorama which will be a permanent institution in Omaha be fore the next annual encampment takes place. SENATORS AND CONGRESSMEN. Senator Beck writes his speeches three times before delivering them. Jones, of Nevada, las attended but ong session of the senate this winter, There are five candidates in the field for the seat of Senator Jackson of Tennessee, Simon Cameron was elected four times and Don Cameron three times to the senate. There are nineteen foreign born members of the present national house of representa- tives, Senator Evarts has just bought a new silk hat. He has worn the one just discarded eight or ten years, Hon. William Walter Phelps is one of the best speakers in congress, He invariably commands earnest attention when he talks, A Washington correspondent says mem- bers of congress are no longer influenced by speech-making. Probably all the oratory is expended for the benefit of the country. Congressman Stewart announces his in- tention to do his level best for the whole coast line of Texas. 1le doesn’t propose to be satistied with an appropriation for any one port. One New York life insurance agent, by persistent buzzing, has written about §2,000,- 000 of risks on lives of senators and congr men and government oflicials since congress assembled. Congressman Puiitzer writes to his paper the prediction that “no leading recommenda- tion made by the president will be adopted by congress, and that such legislation as he might oppose is likely to tind tavor with the house.” Senator Sherman now stands solitary and alone as the senator who sat in the body when the began. He was elected to con- gress thirty-two years ago, and was once de- feated Tor the speakership by the introdue- tion of a resolution inquiring into his in- dorsement of Helper's “Impending Crisis.”” Congressman Syme, of| Colorado, the suc- cessor of Belford, is red-headed like his predecessor. He managed: to get in a speech on the silver question ‘the‘other day which a correspondent says Was §n hour and a half long, read from manuseript in the voice of a stentor, which ran on the dead level of mo- notony all the way through. Senator Frye wants the Maine fishermen protected from the cllurn;mhmeui! of the Do- minion smacks if it takes the whole Ameri- can navy to do it. As batween Secretaries Bayard and Whitney the Maine fishermen would probably find just now that the diplo- macy of the former wouldi afford better pro- tection than the navy of thie latter. Senator Manderson'of Nebraska is one of the youngest senators. He is short, with a round, square-shouldered figure, H reg- ular features, ornamented by a brown mous- tache, and a long imperial. His coloris fresh and clear. He invariably wears glasses, as he is very near-sighted. He is attracting more attention than any of the younger sen- ators.—[New York World. In the fail of 1880 James A. Garfield held the exceptional honors of member of con- gress, with one session to serve, senator- elect for a term of six years and pres elect for a term of four years. Afte) tion to the presidency he igned hi the house and his senatorial commi John Sherman again came into the senate to servea full term to which another had been elected. . The Effort of His Life. Papillioi Times, ‘That speech which Jim Laird didn’t deliver is attracting more attention than any of the real, live oratorical efforts James ever made. A Why Not With a Pie? St. Louis Republican. The German emperor has opened the Prus sian diet with a speech, American readers wonder why he did not open it with a pie. A Vicious Life Ends in Shame. Chicago News, “The frequency of these horrible endings of depraved lives seems to destroy the warning they give; but it is none the less true that a vicious life ends in shame. The roue and de- ot point to a single instance a life has resulted in a manly and e We Stand Corrected. Stromaburg Republican. \e Omaha Bee slightly errs in stating that Prof. Rasmus B, Anderson is of Danish birth, Prof. Anderson is a native born American of Norwegian parents, Ihe min- ister resident at Denmark will no doubt re- ceive “afew lessons in etiquette before he returns to his native land.” Needs Explanation, o w Philadeluili: Sicord, The Kansas house of representatives has elected a woman for enrolling clerk, In those parts of the country where the women are in greatest demand for wives they find the most generous appreciation in callings of a public and undomestic nature. This fact seems to need explanation, el dorsed by 'All Parties. St. Louis Gldbe-Dbmocrat, ‘The vresident has made one removal which will be endorsed by all parties—that of the New York collector, to-wit, who tried to keep his place by writing a letter in which he said that, while holding office as a republican, he secretely did all he conld for the democratic ticket, A man of that kind is entitled to no favor from any sort 6f an administration; and it Mr. Cleveland ¢an find any more such characters in the service he will have no trouble whatever in secuiing the consent of the senate to their prompt and unceremo- nious dismissal A Song of the Four Seasons. Austin Dobson, \\'luiuluu'ing comes laughing, by valeand By wind flower walking and daffodil— Ping stars of e :m"ff sing wmornin . skies, Sing blue of speedwell, and iy Love's eyes. When comes the summer, full leaved and stroug, And gay birds gossip, the orchard long— Sing hid, sweet honey, that no bee sips; Sing red, red roses, and wy Love's lips. When Autumn seatters the leaves again, And piled sheaves bury the broad-wheeled waln— 8ing flutes of harvest, where men rejoice; Sing rounds of reapers, sud wy Laye's voice. But when cowm And red fire Sing first sad go Then sing glad heart, winter with hail and storm ing, and ingle warm— ng 0f friends that part; weeting, and wy Love's | FOR ~ WINTER ~ EVENINGS. Some Tableaux to Amuse the Young People. How Effective Scenes May Be Ar- ranged in Any Ordinary Room. There are few pastimes better lated to interest and amuse a winter evening assemblage of young people than tableaux, says the Boston Globe, and a few plain directions, by which effective scenes can be arranged in any room, cannot fail to be of interest. You will require ten boxes of various sizes, two half-length picture frames, one wash- tub and board, one broom, twenty feet of aled wire, two dozen curtain rings, wrge lamps or twenty candles, or a gas-rod twelve feet long, with fifteen five-foot burners upon it, six yards black tarlatan muslin; costing about 25 cents per yard, and five cotton sheets. If the room has no folding-doors, you must have a thick curtain or bedquilt con- trived to draw on a wire across the room, leaving a space about fifteen feet decp for the stage. This space must be draped witn shawls “or curtains, by stretching wire across the sid and back of the stage, near the calling, and hanging them means of rings sewed upon the eloth, * Then procare fonr up- right picces of narrow board, just the height of the room for post rew them upon the back sides of the frames near the edge, so t se them up the frames will stand upright 4 feet 6 inches from the floor. Cover all the s‘rm above and below the frames with cloth of the same color as the K 1 hat they will apoear t if hanging upon th these, frames four feet four st 1 five inches wide, in the sh arge frame, them, having the top and bottom st A which form™ the frame, six and one-hult feet apart. This will give you a large frame between the two smaller ones, The large frame will be 4 feet wide and 6} feet high outside, The curtain must be arranged to run in fiont of the frames to cover them when not in i three frames stand at the k stage—the supporting posts nailed to the floor—two and one-half feet from the wall, so to give room for the ~ performers =~ or tures” behind © them. If gas s ilable, fasten a rod, with burners upon it, over the top of the curtain or folding-doors. It is well to make a shelf for it.supported on two posts, about eight feet high. Over the burners and l)chiufi them, tack sheets of common tin, bent o as to throw the light down. If you can not abtain the tin conveniently, a white sheet, fastened behind the burners, will answer the bur- pose. If the curtain does not reach the ceiling you must put a shawl or thick cloth above it, so that too much light will not enter the darkened auditorium. If gus can not be had, fasten candles or ccurely, upon the shelf. In laborate performance the stage ised to a level with the cycs ors; but ve fine perform- sometimes given on a few Next make a veil of black tarlatan muslin large enough to cover the space_ before the posts which support the curtain, A few audience wall. Putup rt, and nail a very el should be of the spec ances 1ggestions requiring only such costum nd appointments as can be ob- tained in almost any house, may not be out m"pm-m A very simple onc is: “Jus- o, Moroy and Pone.” Justice stands high' pedestal, made of two boot- red with a sheet; Peace on one kneeling on two boxes placed end to end, making a long pedes- tal. They are draped in she Peace an be taken by a child dressed inashort frock of white cotton, belted around the waist, Justice must be a larger lady than Mercy. Merey kneels in at attitude of prayer, with hands elasped; Jus blindfolded, stands ercet, holdin sword and scales covered with wh cloth, and Pe: tands on the right of stice, holding a stalk of paper lilies in right hand. The faces of the trio must be whitened. Inall “statues™ the hands should be covered with white cot- ton gloves, the arms with stocking-legs sewed to the gloves, and the heads with wigs made of lamp-wicking. Be sure to turn down the gas or draw a strip of green cambrie before your lamps; and if your statues stand stiil the eftect is won- derful N may e a comic, Love's A pretty girl in calico stands hing tub while a fop gazes at her with undisgaised admiration through an ye > is dressed show- ily with white hat and eane. 1n the next scene the maiden is sitting on a chair in the center, while a cunning Cupid aims a ;:r;uu tin bow at the fop from the wash- tub, And then “The Roman Girl at the Shrine of St. Agnes.”” The saint in white stands in the ]‘:'u'gc frame; before her a shrine (two boxes covered with a sheet) ich stands an unpainted wooden , two und onc-half feet high. A dark Roman girl holds a wreath of lowers over one arm of the cross; another, kneel- g on the other side, is passing to her a basket of flowers; a third kncels in prayer at front of the stage, telling her beads; a forth stands in the corner of the stage at back, Lolding a sheaf Dresses: Black, brown X black bretelles over white \ists; long white towels on heads. Towels folded three times lengthwise, and placed npon the head, leaving the ends to_hang down behind, * Cone Vi s sing son propriate air, o ca Sanctissimi.’ Next draw away the 1 curtain | gir_n and show more pictures, which the fissistant has had i enough to Pn-- parve. In the center frame stands a fgleaner.” Inone small hild with a 1 cape over her Iittle basket in her hand per Ridinghood,” and in the Marchioness,” you other is ** -~ The Dakoits, As to the dakoits, says the London Telegraph, they will not cease to exist ny more than burglars will ever pear from England, for the might easily be supposed, or class. 1t is within any party of persons to hecome ¢ provided only that they exceed five number, The v understood British jurisdicti ; and the ofl ' is simply the committing ‘of rohbe y o gang of more than five armed men, If they less numerous it becomes mere robbery of one form or wated or not, as the ompany- ing housebreakin and so forth. ‘The punishmen severe, for the special east different ¢l the “criminal tribes” as they are called—have adopted certain species of offenses s hereditary callings, and followed th D often in largs ies, ) o) these ds seiations has been the or of the rulers but unfortunately native princes have often found the bandits so useful to them in blackmailing and otherwise i them in oppression that they h ished excecdingly, having richly endowed temples of their own, possessing con ble property, and us leadts ) of substance. B adminis has worked *sad among uflians, the heredi and robbers of the countr and - under our admirable polic tem the eviminal been subjected in such detail surveillance that the pro the fosslonal dakolt will soma day porhaps be as extinet as tho British highwayman. Nevertheless gang robbery will probably die hard, for even in their offenses the Orientals show their preference for min- ute subdivision of labor, and in some forms of crime the partition of duties is often very curious, and as exact as in the processes of manufacture. e FIELD AND FARM. Northwestern Dairymen’s Association The twentieth annual convention of the Northwestern Dairymen's association will be held at the opera house in the city of Beloit, Wisconsin, commencing Tues- day, February 16th, and continuing four days. This association, the largest in membership of an nization of the kind in the United States, has become fa mous on nccount of the exceeding great value of its yearly conventions in bring- ing to the front the best dairy thonght of the times, It comprises in its mgmber- ship some of the most noted and suceess- ful dairymen in the northwest, The ad- dresses forged from the close practical experience of those men, and the discus- sions which follow, invariably bring out a multitude of valuable truths for the instruction of those who listen. Ever;, man who is wrestling with the problen of “how to make the cow pay,” should attend this convention, Beloit is situated the Madison Ry and the p . division of the C.M. & St P, R'y. Reduced railroad fare will be afforded to all who attend and be- come members of the convention. sting programmo sing in the the dair for the tion of dairy machinery will be and breeders of daivy cattle are ttend the convention and exhibit tions from their herds. W. D. Hoarb, Pres Ft. Atkinson, V R.P. MeGuisey, See., Elgin, Hlinois. ezing Benefits the Sofl. is o well-known fact that water in the act of freezing expands considerably and with a force that is i stible. It 1s Jhe freezing of water in their erevices and pores that causes the rocks to be rradually worn down :\ll\l “weathe as it isealled, into soil. 1t is this also which is continually reducing the soil to finer fragments, and which breaks up the hard clogs and mellows ground. plowing or spading sts this eflec reaking up the compact soil into lumps, which ave further broken into small par- ticles. As water and air, then, only act upon the surface of these particles, it is clear that the smaller they are the more awee is_exposed 1o the weather, and soil is made soluble. If a block of soil of twelve inches cube s exposed to the weather there are 864 square inches only of it aflected; if it is broken up into cubes of one inch 10,308 square inches ave exposed {o these beneficial influences; i the soil is further broken up in fr: of one and one-twelfth of an_in are move than 124,000 square inches thus eilveted. This shows how greutly the eflect of frost benefits the soil, and therefore ‘how necessary it is that the land should be fall-plowed, and_opportu- nity given for this beneficial action of the weather. In the gavden, even, all the o0il possible should "be spaded before it lias biects quos- Winter e rees m; tolerable safety by removing a large bu of frozen carth with the roots. A trench may be dug around the tree two or three om the trunk, 1 L ficiently decp to sever a zontal roots. "Uhe hole for the of the tree should a ground fr s; then in winter, at a time when the soil at the e of the treeis lid, back the forward truck of a n against the trank, lift the e erect and strap it firmly to the ‘) Then loosen the tree at’ the base by digging under it sufliciently to eut the tap-root. Attach a rope n the top of the trunk, and by the aid of a team the tree may be lifted from its bed and Inid prostrate, the heavy restin, across the axle of the truck. Then hitch the m to the rear of the truck, and the treo may be readily dragged to its plac As a thorough trimming will be ne ry to counterbalance the loss of roots i o matter of economy to cut away a con- siderable part of the top beiore the re- moval. th ull ption be dug before the Winter Profit with Cows. Butter can be made in wimter at a profit with a heef idea coupled with it, It is done *'in this wis to a Yankee term: Seleet good farrow cows. A great deal hinges on that word good. It means in this connection a cow which will re- spond to feed both in the pail and on her ribs. This is not so much of a mixed it one might at first suppose. aling with farrow cows. This embraces the idea that nature is closing in on her eflorts to convert food into milk, and as a period of growth and renewal of bodily functions has begun there will be u natural tendenc, rrowth or 1illinf; out and renowal of the bodily The foo, then, will e divided in its ults, and some of it will 2o into milk seeretion and some to buld- ing up and renewing the bodily struc- ture. There ave the two avenues of gain, and on this double road it will pay to push things and give the cows all they can eat of rich foods. We must look ahead and find out if their foods will be readily assimilated and converted into milk and flesh, and so combined that they will work well togeth “Fhe first thing to seeure is thorough mastication, for without this thers al- ways more or less loss of food even though it may be swallowed. Some folks thingll at if food is only gobbled down, ft is all vight, whereas it be all wrong. Eating i nt thing frowm gobbling or cramming food down. It embodies the idea of mastieation and di- gestion, and when thig is done the full yoiue of food may be obtained, and without it, it will not be eobtained. To procure this there must be a proper combination of food as well as mechan- ical conditions. The owner must do the first work, and when this is well done the sccond result will surely follow Brains are ealled for, ns well as eattie and food, and it is not the man that has the most food that wins, but the one who couples knowledge with plenty. Meal should always be mi\w‘ with coarser food, to seenve full mastication and digestion, farmer ap I'MM‘ principle ing and let i select good ow cows, and he can not avoi gain, with the milk s growth i The pile of manure is r enongh, but he e get more, viz: a profit on the food giv and an inercase in the value of his in- vestments by the rapid growth of his cows. ‘There must not be xposure, abuse, or neglect. The y o fi can enrich his farm and purse easicr and more safely, than by the svetam we have briefly noticed. In the spring the cows should be fat enough for beef, and they may be dried off and sold at o time of the year when beef is high Hints and Suggestions. 1t is casy to make balky Lorses by over: loading thiem when youig and fivst put to work The most useful horse is the cheapest horse regardless of cost. A horse that manure for their #ofl, and this s done without regard to prices. Besides good form and gize, a Bork- shire well suited for bmdlng“? should show vigorous constitution good feeding eapacity. Nolther should a good line of ancestry be lost sight of. Just as in everything else, the man who_loves the business and farnishes fi"m" comfortable quarters, and sees that the yards are kept clean and exercises judgment in his sales, can make poultry vrofitable. A farmer who has tried steamed rve says itis the best of all grains for fatten- ing hogs. In forty days he says he can make & hog as fal as inay be desirod on such food, while one that is thrifty oan be finished on about five or six bushels of the food. With most animals bred and raised on the farm the qguestion of profit depends mostly with the methods adapted for handling young and growing animals, but with the he this question of profit in_a great measure depends upon the judgment used in selecting the sire, The most snccessful farming the past few years seems to have been made by men who had little land and were able themselves, with their families, to do the greater part of the work with little ex- pense for the hired help, To such farm- ers the growing of small fruits on a small ale generally pays well. The Russians have an eflicient way of managing runaway horses. They take & cord, make it into'a slipnoose, which is placed around the animal’s neck. The other end is placed where the driver can easily reach it. Any attempt to run away vesuits in tightening this cord, which soon brings the refractory animal to terms.. It is estimated that if a hen lays onl one ogg a week she will pay for her food. Estimating her value at $1, if she lays 73 eggs ayear, or six dozen, the thirty cggs oxtra will represent the interest on the $1, but the rent of quarters gnd labor will raduce it. Ap average (»P 100 eggd should be secured from a large flock, though some will lay 150 eggs. Cleaning up the pens often and hauling out the manure mute: ly aids in keep- ing the stock healthy, Hogs seem to be susceptible to disease, per than some other kinds of stock, « liness is a great aid toward health, and while you ure valuable manure by keeping the h!l‘(-}lt'lli clean, you also in- crease the health of th Dusty hay should shaken. If this cannot be done it should be dampened. For horses nothing but clean hay should be used or the result will be hieaves, a disease which is seldom cured, The straw may be economically mixed with hay if the mixture is passed through a cutter. The best mothod of feeding ground grain is to mix it with eut £ Damnged hay may be best utilized us bedding, as it should not be fod at all. 1n managing live stock a main thin to look to the comfort of the animal. animal thrives at the that it is cold and uneasy, while a great appear- ance is a sure indication of thrift. When the observing far animal he may know something o, he will treat it to remove the cause it he studies his best interests. We do not mainta but that some animals by them very natures restless under tment; such will be found un- nd had better be weoded out, un- less perhaps there is some chance of re- formmg them Many farmers do not feed cause the stoek will not when they ean get better material, Something depends upon the manner in which they are fed. No animal ecares for a_hard, woody or frozen turnip, nor should the roots be fed without some preparation. ‘The better method is to steam them and add ground grain, but the majority of farmers object to the labor of such procceding. A™ rootslicer however, may be used, by which the tur- i ic They should then be night, sprinkled alt the next morning and fed. They are, of course,not as valuanle s hay, o fodder or g but they n excellent dietary purpose, in- asing the appetite and assisting to D the animals in good condition, - - hing turnips bee ke of them Maple Sugar, At this season of the year maple sugar is abundant. In order to ascertain some- thing about this product a reporter for the New York Mail and Express called on one of the leading operators in th city., He suid that the sale of maple su gar in New York aggregates over 1,000,- 000 pounds each yi His house this season alone handled 200,000 pounds. What becomes of so large & quan- tity e Itis retailed by grocers and confee- tioners ns maple sugar. But the larger hortion is boiled down into maple syrup y manufacturers, who .\'l|}||\|)‘ it to the grovors. Tho cun siylo of pioknges hus cen made attractive by means of very handsomely decorated labels, which add to the presént neat appearance of faney grocery stores. ‘The manufacturing of Syrup Is confined mainly to Chicago and this city. the lust tive years there has been a great demand for maple gyrup as a delicious table food. More and moroe heen used every year. Why? Because it is far better than “molasses or syrup for buckwheat, wheat or oth- er cakes, of which you know alarge quantity is consumed. " It is more delic- ious and suitable to the te than the cane produet, beeause it neither sours on the stomach nor clogs. The time 18 not far distant when the maple syrup will be used by every family “and every restaurant and hotel."” “How do confectioners use it?’ “They use more maple sugar than syrup. They buy the pure product make it into’candies of various varic for which the sugar is very suitable. e of maple sugar in cans and tubs is about 2 cents per pound higher than cane sugar." - The Difference New York Mail and Express, A girl in West Virginia has taken polson ause her parents would notallow her to beeome & Mormon, Probubly 4 good wany of the Mormon women wish they had done the same thing before they were enticed into their awful slavery. SNEEZE! 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N speedy, sufe. At druigists, 860 i B tollar, mui'ed five. Diite cnEaical Co., Boslon. PorTER