Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 5, 1886, Page 4

4 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5. 1886, | _THE DAILY BEE. OMATA OFFICE,NO, 914 AND 016 FARNAMS NEW Y ORK OFFICE, ROOM 65, Trnt WASHINGTON OFFICY BUILDING No. 813 FovnteesTn St Published every morning, except Sunday. The $nty Monday mOFning pRPOr. published ta the 6 Year. . fix Months, TERME BY MAT $10.00 Three 500 0ne M onths outh Tie WEEKLY B, Published Evory Wednesany. TERMS, POSTPAID: One Year, with promium 0 Y ear, without premium, ix Months, wi thout premiuin One Month, on trial A1l commun| All butiness fadresscq to OMAGIA. the frying Pan-Electri jentions relating BUS) Jottors and ro Tue lew Pol Drafte to news and odi torinl matters should be addressed to the Eor TOR OF “HE BER. S8 LETTERS: ittances ghould be ASHING COMPANY, h el postoffice orders 10 be mado pay nllenmn order of the company, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS E ROSEWATER. Borron. —_— GARLAND seems to have jumy from into the fire. Turr: St. Pavl ice palace is to be stored away in an ice house for use n — M. Evares' speech is golden but the gold bugs is silver ¢ intin — ext sum- ting that his silence TExAS comes forward with a claim to one I of the Indian T tory. is nothing small about Te BrAti is one of the model t There has not been a case before west. There towns of the the police court in three months. THE settlement of the viaduct question means the addition of a large amecunt of aval to the heart of Omaha. Sxowsrorys and frosts a quite common in the southern states. ablo business and residence property becoming It this thing keeps up the south will lose its grip as o winter resort. GEN. Dav, m Huntl R, on the retired list of the army, died in Washington on Tuesday. He was president of the muli- tary court that tried Mrs. Surratt. IN Albany it tribution of railroad pa 05 more open than in any pr remarked that the dis- somewl; ious year. Perhaps it is an open winter in the Em- pire state. Lk § against the us, the Herald is now breathing out threatenings and slaughter elect. Unlike Saul it will take more than a miracle to reveal to it the fulness of THE governn e filed their rep Pacific ha s mistake. port nt directors of the Union It strong- 1y supports the Hoar eighty year funding bill, road lobby at Washington. Joxr Puvriry Ralways w So does every member of the rail- ars a bouquet in his button hole as he takes his seat in congress. His ambition now is to add to it a Garland as the spoils of his attack on the attorney general Water and ice are lakes ’s ofti ice. . the two sources of revenue for St. Paul. the summer hotels and the carnival crowds the winter hotels. great The Ttis & cold duy when St. Paul gots loft. Cuyo CHIAGK, a prominent citizen of St. Louis and an active member of the Chinese order of Highbinders, has found guilty of murder. the last degree when the high she; binds a rope around his neck He been will Tre immediate delivery system is not a success fin; ancially. The special mes- sengers of the Chicago postoflice received about seven dollars each during month of January. the They ought to strike for higher wages or more letters imme- diately. THE people of New Mexico and Arizona demand that Geronimo be hanged to- gether with his followers. Tl his would be a cruel blow to the dime museum men, as it would be robbing them of a great With Geronimo in the hands of the museum men the southern frontier would be just as safe as if he were attraction. hanged, CONGRE ton. fAN GUENTHER,of Wisconsin, threatens to retive to private life because he cannot save any money in Washing- Mvr. Guenther must be an honest man, otherwise he could suve a fortunoe in two years out of the perqui obtained from the monopolists who make it their business to buy up congressmen at fancy fig: ures ets to be AND now the district attorney will cgome in for his share of dirt from the headquarters of the packing-house de- moeracy. My, Estelle has had the au- daeity to assort that it would be ridicu- Jous to bring the case of Marsl amings before the grand jury on such evi- presented before the inyes- dence ns thi tigating committee of the council. Estoll “must go." \l Cum- Mr. Newsrarer men keep coming to the front. Mr. Charles Russell, the newly- appointed attorney gene under the n lite ns o r ow (i eporter of al Although an Ivishman he is 1 ~ the leader of the English b orse has been tri England dstone ministry, began for & Dublin paper. rded as No great Lin England for some time that did not find him leader on one side or the other. He was counsel for ~ Btead of the Pall Mall Gazette, for Miss Fortescue against “‘Gumboil,”’ and de- O'Donuell, fended (Lo killed infor notted him CAvenger” vmer Cavey. $100,000 pe sell is the son of an Ulste nephew of a president of Maynooth col lege. 1 tevest the other prohi Janesvill tained ord © Stowghton, ibited. beer urt. Wis ddm-n-d to the railway comy Junesville peopl biti W The erand the zent of a firm solicited and ob- 1 for beer in which the The agent, ceording to the sale w 0 no sale of ligno ::ghmn, and that the sule by the agent w made n Janesville, in the sule who f town of f beer was orwarded roement, arrested and found guilty of selling liquor &) in Stoughton, but the supreme ‘.cmn has reversed the finding of the It holds that when the b comy took bench of ny in ote, and place in “For Value to be Receivt The methods adopted by great corpor- ations and their promoters to influence favorable legislation are as varied as they are efficient. They run from a subsidized press to a vurchased vote. In most in- stances no nctual cash passes. Such a transfer is too easily proved, There are other more delicate but no less effectual means of arriving at the desired result. A free distribution of annual passes over their lines, the promise of employment when the session is concluded, exclusive privileges in trade along the route—each andall frequently employed to awaken personal interest and secure a biassed judgment. Tenders of stock in new schemes, offers of interest “‘on the ground floor” in construction companies, *‘point- ers” on the market and hints of coming developments in the affairs of the cor- poration which will raise or depress its securities are used with surer results than open purchase. Such means are less shocking to the sensibilities of the aver- age legislator and have the additional ad- vantage of not subjecting theirauthors to disagrecable investigations by the courts. Itis extremely doubtiul whether the Bell managers will succeed in showing any impropes on on the part of the gov- cernment officials in the steps taken to bring about the suit to vacate the patents upon which the telephone monopoly re The publication of the figures showing the expenditures in the depart- ment of justice, called for by congre will probably reveal nothing of material interest to aid the promoters of the at- tack on the attorney general. But the public has alveady been rendered a service by the exposure of the methods “wild eat” corporations to secure congress by placing their stock where it will do the most good among senators and congressmen. W hatever ts of the patents upon which the 1 Electric company based its organ- tion, there is no question from the showing that the company was a purely speculative concern which hoped in the future to benefit from congressional aid. Like the Credit Mobelier, it was lavish with its stock in hj prineip been most open to corrupt influences by reason of the small number of its mem- 1t is manifestl y improper for any n serving the government in a legis- or judicial capacity to accept as a gift the stock of any corporatiow whose rights and privileges he may be ealled upon to determine. Such gifts are not made without a condition, im- plied or expressed. Shaves of stock by the thousand are not thrown away with no purpose in view. The aim and intent of these promoters of corporation pro- jects is to make the representatives of the people personally interested in schemes upon which they may have to pass in their capacity as senators and congress- men. The object is to warp their judg- ment by increasing their bank account. This is nothing but bribery in advance of the consideration. It is plainly im- proper and deserving of the highest cen- sure. While there is absolutely no evi- dence to show that Mr. Garland’s official action in the telephone suits was influ- enced by his possession of Pan Electric stock, both he and Senator Harris are justly censurable for accepting such a gift while members of the senate. There is not the Jeast question that their official position was alone responsible for the tender of stock in that corporation, and that its promoters expected to receive full value for letting them in ‘‘on the ground floor.”” The Evidence Produced. The BeE further oversteps the grounds of good judgment in manufacturing evidence to support the claim that Mr. Bechel is a prop- erty-owner, That paper sent a reporter to the county oflices yesterday to look up the records, Said reporter questioned County Treasurer Bolln and City Treasurer Buck, and was told that Mr. Bechel has not, during his term of office, paid any taxes on real estate, only taxes on personal property. But the BER editorlally says: The indices of the county clerk’s office, and the stubs of the city” treasurer give ity the lie direct to its dirty assault on the presi- dent of the council. Why doesn’t the Bex: print the records? 1t cannot, because it can tind no records to print. —Herald, OThere are none so blind as those who will not sce. The entire staff of the or- ganof the packing house band are af- fected just now with political cataract. The charges which 1t has made and re- peated with such malicious perseverance against Mr. Bechel fall to the ground at the first breath of honest investigation. The records of the county clerk's oflice, Book 52, p. 815, shows that on April 2nd, 1884, Mr. Bechel recorded a warranty deed for property in this city, The ree- ords of the city treasurer prove that on January 3d, 1885, he paid city taxes amounting to $15.35 on Omaha real es- tate; thut on January 17th he contributed $44.04, specinl grading tax, on the same property, and that on December 7th of the same year, he turned over tax money to the amount of $22.80, The deeds, tax receipts and cancelled checks for these transactions are all in Mr. Bechel's po: session. The records are open to publie inspection in the county court house. On what technieal point is this malig- nant slanderer and party-splitter stand- ing in this mattery What is bis aim and object in this senseless scries of ussaults upon an honest oflicial and a good ci zen? What gain does this organ of dis sension hope to mako for itself individu- ally, or the party collectively, by its blind and baseless attacks upon Mr. Bechel be- eause he happens to disagree with its edi- tor in furthering the private quarrels of Mayor Boyd? The Bee prints the records which give the lie to the Zerald’s misstatements. The p d them and verify them erewe propose to let the matter drop. Now let the Herald fulfill ats promise to publish the evidence. It can then de its attention to trying to prove that ever) oftice holder in Omaha who doesn’t wear the P, H. D. brand is a raseal and a thief, a perjurer and a scoundrel, a bribe taker, ul sealawag, and worse than | i political opponeut of its editorial . Tue debate uponthe right of the senate to demand from the chief exccutive the ms for his removals from oflice brings out the hollowness of the s i istration’s civil servieo reform preten- sions. Mr. Cleveland does well to stand upon what he.is pleased to consider bis | constitutional prerogatives, for ke would find it a difficult task to recognize the 100,000 displacements of republican of cials made since he assumed the pr deucy with that part of his innug which pledged himself to the pet hobby of the mugwumps. Silence and ex- planations alike fail in the face of the record. Andrew Jackson himself, the patron saint of the spoils hunters, would stand aghast at the thorongh work done by the administra- tion during its ten months tenure of office. Mr. Cleveland would be much more easy in mind to-day if he had re- fused to make such stringent pledges of impossible performance as those extorted from him under the pressure of a closely fought campaign for the presidency. The sham of civil serviee reform really en- tered very little into the canvass, It secured to the president only a corporal’s guard of svotes, Every practical politi- cian knew in advance that it could not be earried out according to programme. It was a concession to the- or and dreamers, and a ls!m\ at the royal right of every American ci hold whatever offices he counld secure. struck a blow at party organization which no party in power could avoud parrying. Had a republican administration sue- ceeded Mr. Arthur's, it would have been, presumably, used to retain office-holders in the positions which they would hav ned if the civil service law had never With a hungry democ returning to the feast of patronage from which they had been excluded for nearly a quarter of a century, its enforcement a political impossibility. Opening the Reserve. The senate having passed Mr bill to open a portion of the Sioux reserve to settlement, the measure now goes to the house for concurrent action. Under its provisions a strip contaimng nearly 11,000,000 acres and cutting the g ion from east and west ut its cen- ter will be thrown upon the market. The remaining 22,000,000 acres will be di- vided into six separate reservations and apportioned among the tribe 5 alty with the title inalienable for twenty- five ye The proceeds of the sale of the tract thrown open to sett- lers s to be invested tor the benefit of the tribes, and provisions are made for the educa tion of the Indians on the various reser- vations. If the bill becomes a law it will acerue to the benefit of all parties con- cerned. The money provided by the sale of lands will prove a permanent fund for the steady civilization of the nomadic Sioux. The apportioning of the lands in severalty will be accompanied by ample means for providing stock and farming utensils. Schools for the young and rations for the old with property respon- es for all will be the means of solv- ing in a few years the most troublesome problem of the fronti To Dakota the opemmg of the Sioux reserve means the removal of the obstruction which for y hampered her devel- opment and prevented the natural flow of immigration to her western Dorder: From the Missouri river to the Bla Hills has been a forbidden country to the iron rails. The section which under Mr. Dawes’ bill will be thrown open to settle- ment is ene of the richest in the territor, It abuts directly against what is perhaps the most valuable mineral region in the west. The passage of the Dawes' bill by the lhouse will be the signal for a race between the St. Paul and Northwestern for the traflic of that region. With the extension of the railroads will come a rush of settler: which will dot the country between the Cheyenne river on the north and the White on the south with thriving towns and villages, supported by a section twice as large as the state of Massachusetts. Er—— TuE Herald means to carry this war into Africa. 1t will punish with assevere a casti- gation as it is able to give, every one of the members of that band unless further ob- struetion es. If Mr. ‘‘Bronche” and Mr. “Citizen” Goodman persist, in cordance with an infamous compact, in pursuing their present tacties they will be treated to such revelations as will make them d headed and give them the heartache for all time.—Herald. That's the case in a nutshell. If the republican members of the council will not make any *‘“further obstruction” to the plans of the Boyd-Miller gang of the packing-house democracy, the Herald will cease its malicious and groundless assaults. This explains the Herald's spiteful attacks on President Boechel of the city council. The probability is that the republican councilmen will continue to obstruet the spoils-seeking schemes of the packing-house gang. The Herald will have to carry the war into Africa. Tar Omaha horso railway company has asked the city council for the right of way across the Kleventh street viaduct. We aro in favor of granting the request tion for the construction of the along with the Union Pa or clse pay an annual rental for the priv- ilege of running over the viaduet. The cable ear company, which also desires to use the viaduct, should be put upon the sume footing, and if both cannotrun over the luct, then let the privilege go to the highest eash bidder, It is about time that Omaba should cease giving away valuable franchises. Other citi ubandoning this practice, and are be, ning to realize a handsome revenue from the disposal of franchises. New York sold the vight for a surface road on Broadway for a very large sum. Tue Bek publishes to-day the first part of u story written by Mrs. Alice King Hamilton, wife of Lieut. Hamilton, of the Firth artillery. The second part will | be published to-morrow. Mrs. Hamilton is an accomplished writer, and is a con- tributor to some of the ling magazines She has written several novels, one of which, *“The Duaaes,”” was recently pub- lished and met with a favorable recep- tion. Our readers will find in “The Story of a Type much to interest them. Tue Ilu‘al(l threatens to 1||5('n\ or seve- ral more “mare's nests" ] before it finishes its political job of tempting to bolster up its patron sai by dragging in the mud of ne controversy the names of honest and reputable citizens. If the Herald is as successful in the future in guiding local politics in O as it has been in the past, it will have very little to | boust of 11 is now many stories claimed th of the bout the reckless expendi furcs and Lankruptey of King Louis of | Bavaria are without foundation, and that instead of abdicating bis royal nibs seri- at some ously contemplates suing several news pavers for libel in Ropes of recuperating his emptv purse and vindicating his char- acter. —_— Ir the eable cars, Y'" gettle the rapid transit question in ()ll'lh’\lll(‘y will re- ceive a hearty welcome., Omaha has gatnered under her wings so many addi- tions that better transportation facilities between the outskirts and the business centre have becomeya necessity, e ——— Herald publishes, a purported in- terview over the telephone between the representative of this paper and City Treasurer Buck, 1t is enough to say that there is no_telephone in the city tre urer’s office and that the interviev is sheer fabi —— Ir the assaults of the packing-house or- gan have no more effect on Surveyor- General Gardner than they do upon President Bechel of the city council, Mr, Gardner need not lose any sleep Bismanck ng up liberal Ge ny with the distracted Pole. THE FIELD OF INDUSTRY, The ll\h*ru'\hum\l union has already paid £0,000 to the striking cigar makers. In Birmingham 20,000 workingmen and la- borers are walking about with nothing to do. T. V. Powderly deplores the proneness of assemblies to rush into petty strikes and boy- cotts. The ShefMeld manufacturers are frightened over the report of a combination of German manufacturers ta effect a commercial monop- oly in the Chinese empire. The farmers through their grange organi- zations are extending groetings to the Knights, and are preparing to co-operate po- litieally and in other divection: The representative of the Texas Grangers said recently, in a convention of the Knights of Labor: “I want to say the Farmers' Alli- ance of Texas will stand by you, shoulder to shoulder, 75,000 strong. " The United States zovernment is the great- est printer and publisher in the world. The number or publications issued annually amounts to about 2,500 000 of which about 600,000 are bound volumes. In ashort time six Bessemer steel works will be in operation in the vieinity of Pitts- burg. Only one of these manufactures steel rails. The entive production of the other five will be of merchant steel and material for reworking. A co-operative shoemaking concern has been started in Upper Michigan with $50,000 subseribed. Regular weekly wages are paid and 45 per cent of the profits aretpaid to ea) ital, 40 per cent to labor, 5 per cent for edue tional purposes and 5 per cent to dealers handling their goodss. The good advice of Sewator Platt to the workingmen, “Do nof too, plainly conclude that all publie men ate your enemies,” might well be subplemented with this further coun- sel: Do not too readily bélieve that all pub- lic men who profess devotfon to your cause are your best friends, The politicians of Washington show their zeal for the cause of honest labor by propos- ing to make government contractors adopt eight hours and pay the full wages; to pro- hibit the employment of prison labor on gov- ernment work that competes with honest labor; to declare that ouxletter carriers are entitled to the eight hour xule, and to create a department of agriculture and labor. i R e He Didn't Know. Burlington (Vt.) Free Press. y not the pass, the old man said the old man wasn’t a legislator. ———— A Crusty Dinner Party. Courier-Journal . There were eleven dukes at Lord Salis- bury’s dinner. No pie is reported as remain- i —_——————— Wanted—A F New York Journal. Where is the fun-maker who can fill the shoes of Sunset Cox? Congress is hungering for a humorist to tickle its ribs and keep it in good humor. e Pearls Set With Diamonds. Kansas City Journal, The latest development in the crank line isthe Pittsburz woman who has four dia- monds set in her teeth, the jewels taking the place of ordinary filling. No excuse for her not being a sparkling conversationalist. e ‘ed On. The Basis He Wall Street News. Hewas trying to beat a Chatham-street down on a suit of elothes, and he finally observed, “Yowll admit that wool is down, won't you?” 0, yes.” “And cotton isdown, and laboris down.” “Shust so.” “Well, then, how can you call that sult worth $1427 My friend, yon haf entirely forgotten dot buttons vhas vay oop. Dot vhuz der basis I figured on.” Figur S R ‘Was Not a College Graduate. Pittsburg Chrontcele. “It s easy to see that this preacher is not a college graduate,” remarked the sporting ed- itor. “What preacher?” asked the horse edi- tor. **A man in New York. r sermon from ‘Where are the nine does that show he is not a colleze graduate?” “Why, a college graduate would have the po- sition of every base-ball club In the -country right at his finger-ends.” o Result of Extortion. Chicago News. Two years ago Mattoon had a telephone exchange operating over one hundred instru- ments and connected with the Charleston ex- change ot sixty instruments. But the com- pany’s charges seemed exorbltant to the patrons and they refused to pay them. As a Tesult, some of the subseribers were cut out, others withdrew their patronage, and at last both exchanges were abandnned throngh lack of business. An almost shnilar state of af- airs exists at Paris, where, a year ago there were 147 telepliones in use, while now only three are employed. Boston Jhwdget. The Borgia called Luczetia Was 4 saint, we now are told, And Pell ne'er shiof the apple From his son’s heéad, brave and bold ; And Shakespea nu-m“.whhpup. King Arthur a myth, And Pocahontas, some ones say, Ne'er rescued My, Swith, lml anything e’er I .pf(.l-u‘ Is what we want to know, And have the great'big history chaps Been pulling’the lonk bow Perhaps no one has has ever breathed, And we're not living men And perh For'the \ ps we all are waiting hicl ]|m-~~ of the When, K d Hmn'lNl Bob, Correspondence Pittshurg Dispateh. Col. Ingersoll is the kindest-hearted man I ever saw, Riding all day with him between Omaha and Chicago 1 saw a little incident that will illustrate this. On the train was a pale, sickly-looking woman with a fretful baby. The woman was in shabby mourning | and was almost worn out wi worrying of her little one. sengers were very much annoyed and kept looking around and frowning at the woman, who upon was evidenily doing her best to quiet the child. Finally Mr. Ingersoll, wio had been reading, noticed it ting up, he stepped across to the woman and ook the babe, telling her to take a litte 1est sn¢ be wouwld take care Of the child, The <\le ome stopped ' crying at onece, playing with his watch and chain awhile and finally nestled its little head down on his arm and went to sleep. The tired mother also dropped to sleep, and the colonel cared for upwards of a hundred miles before the mother awakened and re- lieved him. P THE TRUTH ABOUT SHORTHAND. Information Concerning Stenography Which is Often Asked For. New York Tribune: “Can you tell me what is the best tem of ‘shorthand? Can it be mastered without a teacher, and in what time? Some people adver- tise to teach it in three months; can it be learned in that time? 1Is a knowledge of shorthand necessary to obtain a_sitna- t1on as a reporter on a newspaper? How are stenographers paid? By answering these questions you will greatly oblige,” ete, ’J'hocn? estions have been submitted to a highly successful stenographer, who returns these answers to them: The systems most widely here are “Ben.” Pitman’ Isaac Pitman's and l 1 allmuch alike. use of the a few people, howeve of their time in tr g to demonstrate that any one of the ahove systems is vastly superior to all therest.” But that sort of talk is, in the main, nonsense, and the student will do well to concern hix self little about it. BEachof these syster has turned out fir<t-class stenograph and there are equally good stenographers who write other systems less genc . known. More depends on the man t on the system. Generally the pr: stenographer does not adh any one system, but appropri tions from all. Shorthand can be learned by the aid of text-books without a teacher, though, of course, a pupil is likely to make better progress with <'nml]wh-m instruction, If this cannot be obtained tl should endeavor to make the ance of some practical stenographer will give him occasional hints and that hie keeps on the right track. Mc of the text-books abound in too many r finements and contractions, whereby few scratches mav be made fo represent a whole sentence, much to the delight of the nov! The only practical objection to this sort of shortl mnl such “notes” are different meanings \\lmn “col perhaps mone of them the correct one. Shorthand compromise bet speed and legibility. The beginner isapt to puy too exclusive attention to the for- mer and should therefore be warned not to bother with too many contractions. The length of time it will take a to teach himself shorthand depends, first, on the sort of lad he is, and second, on the amount of time he can give to it. The master shorthand requires above all things patience and persevers . A studying nlone will generally hs stick to it hard for a couple of yea fore he can make it pay. A few may bo able to master it in half the time. People who advertise that they can teach shorthand thomu"hlv in three months should not be belioved A knowledge of shorthand is not nec essary to obtain a situation on a n paper; though, other things being equal, a reporter who can write shorthand is better equipped for general newspaper work than a reporter who cannot. As a matter of fact there are not more than a dozen shorthand writers nwnl.nl\ em- ploved on all the great New York dailies tozether. In England a reporter must know shorthand.” Most of this work f verbatim reporting. Here y verbatim - work is not Coften_re- The is he who can present the interesting points of a 1e or speech in_a readable, attractive shape. The American public’ does not care much for mere verbiage. Expert stenographers o ecan take testimony in court often earn_handsome sums. But such expertn is attained only by years of practice and natural apdtude tor. the work. “Hu way" _stenographers are abundant in New York who are glad to work for $15 a week, often le A stenographer who is cumpctmt to attend to the correspon- dence of a railroad oflicial or some man of large affairs usually gets from $20 to $30 2 week. Of course if the stenogr pher is something more than a mere ma- chine n 1d can do other things well bosides writing shorthand, so much the better are his chances of making good wage There is no mystery about shorthand 1t does not require any unusual amount of brains or any extraordinary powers of men to acquire *it. But it does re- i tuck to persistently. There i ion in learning it.” If only Lalf known it is_treacherous and worse than us Nobody should take i unless prepared to make great s of time and patience. practiced Munson's, They are all make There are not . who spend most re clos ©s sugges- uud © to Attend ‘uneral, fmm .\luvm To-d pectacle uup nr - n history, that of a convict in attend- ance at the funeral of a relation. In October last one Peter A, Weast,who had led an eventful and chockered career in this city, returned from Europe. Soon after his arrival at home he covered that Mr. Thomas B. Parks of Benson, I1l., a wealthy grain merchant, had been u-uupuwnlrlnsllmt were his. Follow- ing up_ the scent he soon found that an undue intimacy had existed between Parks and Mrs. Weast nearly the whole time of his He imn taly telegraphed Pa to meet him at Streawor. Mrs, Weast sent a 1I|<|pn(('h for Mr. Parks to meet her at Redding, four miles distant frow telegrams had the des| ks and Mrs. Weast drove to Streator, ompanmed by an attorney. hotel they were met by W attorney, when an interview was whieh torminated in Weast Parks in the thigh, severing the femoral tery. A half dozen physicians attend- ed him, performed thrie tempts at ligature and final fitting climax to the butchery by ||l|x|rflh limb. Death followed hours later, und Weast was t convicted of manslaughter and to three years at Joliet, On Friday last his r-old daughter died, and ‘influence \\':m brought to bear upon Gov. Ogle: Wt induced him to grant temporary le: uf absence to the d tiend the child’s funeral, d to-day. The new; llml would be in” attendance obsequies spread like wildfive, and i morning fully 1,500 people had assem bled at Tthe Plumb’ house to meet him, ual was attended with a ation, fully 600 people,amorg whom were the mayor, city oflicor ]:l'umin it merchants and “prominent adies visiting and shaking hands with him in his room The church where the funeral sermon was preached, one of the lugest in the eity, was to overflowing, several hundred waiting outside in the bitter cold until the servic were over and then following the remains to the cemetery. The action of the goveruor in thus establishing a precedent ~without a vallel is variously commented upon, will doubtle lead to ation the ject of convicts being 1 : of absence to uttend th mlll(-rl a ampu- few 1 and tenced Weast 1 and - at Mapnhassett. 1. I, en ill some daysago, 10 physician, savi stora ns. He 1..|I.u 15 the death of the little A mother \\‘nm\ ehuld wast to send supernitural me fully shaken by oue. THE EARTH IS A COLD MINE. The Phenomenal Success of a Self-Reliant Southern Farmer, Health, Happiness and Independence Foltow eBusiness Methods in Cultivating the Soil. Atlanta (Georgia) Constitution, Mr, Robert Rood is a young thin, browned, all fiber, slow but y of motion, self-reliant and independent—he is a fine type of the young southern farmer. “The earth is a gold mine,” ho says, “to any man that works it diligently.’” It has certainly proved to be one to M, Rdod. In seven years he has made over £10,000 in farming —not by speculating— for he has lost $10,000 by that method; but by the patient tilling of the i and the slow transmitting of suns in and sweat into cor of his work is significant, and be improved, o here 1t is in ed from his own lips. y to me about seven ngn, ‘My son, I'm gomg to die, and ve 6,000 in honest debts that yon must pay.’ Insix weeks ho was dead, and took the plantation in Stewart county, on the Chattahoochee river. 1 mortgaged the place for 4,000 and went to work. The first lesson [ loarned was economy. ldarned my own socks patched my own clothes as the, we out When' I went to Eufala, L put cult in my pocket, and whot 1 u)l town tied ‘my horse to a rack and saved hotel bill. T ran a plow myseif, leading the way for my hands, At m-vln I lit up the forge and did my ow n blacksmithin; learning as I went. * [ never left my farm aday, and slept only six hours a night.” “That must have brought suceess.™ “Of course it did, as it \\nul(l have brought n in any othe years 1 ul 'y debEandl m bank e in actual money over $40,000. poorest year, and yet L will cl 500, 1 would not give any man tive dollars to gu: 3,000 a ye: ron my ten- muh' fa iing s the e in if he farmer, it para- to 1 can eng; ‘the rules by which you my own provisions. I els of corn, 1,100 bushels 400 gal- t, T ra have 1,000 b of oats, 800 bushels of peas, and lons of ‘syrup now forsale. I raise much of my own meat, and would raise it all except that my climate is too warm to cure it in. I never saw a man who did not raise his own corn that made moncy on cotton. 1 mever saw a corn-raiser that wasn't a_prosperous farmer. You can often figure out t you can buy corn clluzlpvrllmn you can raise it, but that is only on paper. Corn-raisers pro: per—the others fail, Mf cotton crop always a cash surplus. 1 make my oth farm. e ng my own cor onal attention to my busine every bushel of oats myself, never found a hand that could do itright. "his fall I wor 1l eleven hours a with a three-pecl et on my 3 sowed oats al n-:ul twelve plows, tili the ends of my fingers were bleeding. In making syrup [ got alun('\\1lhtu\|flmu 5 of sleep In twenty-four, and the result perfoct syrup. 1 supermtend eve v d tail of my Lum\ng as this. Ev el 5 as o bag of mos: er to protect the lhuuld wouldn't do fc that sort of sewing, as it would rust. every pad i th copper wire. 1 1a scald back or a_picce of n skin on a mule since I've been farming. “Next to personal supervision is ccon- omy. Nothing is wasted on my farm. I have 120 tons of home-made manure com- posted fiow, and one ton of composted manure is worth three tons of guano. Not a blnde of grass 1s burned on my place. That, with the refuse of my cane even, is turned under and en tllv;z\mmnl 1t is small things that make or ruin the farmer, My 1 two or three'sets of plow-line a mine last me two or three ye night I oil every wagon on myg K using coton oil.” Once a montl ry axle cleanced and the old oil rubbed This saves my wagons. My stock umluop are all pmmumlthn. The poorest lmuw on my place is the house I live in. “‘How about your labo “Better than slave I pay them $9 a month, half in cash every Siturday night, one ration, and allow each hand a half acre for potatoes and an for corn, and give them every S They work because t P o when they shirk, They began stealing from me. Islept on the ground ever night for three weeks 1 bagged thr the thieves, and now am safe. When they are well I make them work, and when they sick I give them medicine from my own hand. Tn short, they know I'wateh'them and they work.” “You fin:l the life a happy one.”” “The freest, happicst, most independ- ent life in the world. have not been gick a day in eleven y When I lie , Teouut Isow mule’s back. AN OLD TIMER'S TALE, How a Party of Prospectors in '40 Made a Road Through Eight Feet of Snow. Denver News: “It makes me tired,” said Uncle Jake Simpson, ‘‘to hear thesd fellows who have been snow bound on a .-| «vnkwrlnfln for two or three days v(‘k like mules when they git out. They oughter've have had my experiencoe on the plains in '49." “Attacked by Indians?” asked Tom I(m\ © *‘Nothing of the kind,” said Uncle Juke. “We wuz snowed in down the Platte here about 100 miles for three weoeks. A party of us outfitted at St JOG under Jim Brown. There was twenty in the r, including & nigger. We loft in De w-mlmr and was warned not to at- tempt the journey tor time, but we was bound for Californy, and was go- ing to gn-l there in the -|':m: if it Imnlul and we experience no gr ‘u umnnm of trouble till we reached a point down the Pla I should judge about 100 miles ¢ Denver now stands, which ou know, & howling wilderness The tenth ‘day of January, 1819, we camped near a guleh that had ('nulu,h water for our attle, and plenty of wood | at night there was & tor- rible snow storm canme up. The snow was about two feet on the level, and we concluded to stay until it stopped snow- ing. It kept up that day, that night, the next d nd the next night, and the snow was just eight foot on the level, “We conld dig down and got wood, but we couldn’t get water enougl for our cattle, though we could get all we wanted for oursely We held several consul- tations and eame to no conclusion exeept that we was in a bad fix, We couldn’t getourstock out and if we staid there our cattle would die for want of water. We got out, all the s What did you do¥" tell _you It was a queer plan and nated IN THE MIND O IGGER. We got to prospecting around on some snow shoes we rigged up and found that the Platte w bout five miles away, and up hill from where we we The nigaer saidwhile a scoutting y of us were out that we might turn” the “Platte into our camp and wash o [road out. Wo eatched at the idea, and it wasn’t long before we had water started from the viver on our trail from the camp, Wo shoveled off a section of ground and moved our wagons and cattle to a place of safety and let_ the water rush. Well, sir, next morning there was as fine a body of “water as you ever saw sht by our camp, but it was_so the stee couldn’t ford it.” did you do then.” “Jes made u flat-boat out of one of tho wagon boxes and earried the eattle up to the river where they could get good foot- in’, and hitchin’ ropes to the w zons and othier truck we soon HAD " ON DRY GROUND,” “Did you have ropes five miles lonn""‘ ‘u\ol exactly. We had to splice some of ‘em, but we made out by piecing out \\'llh log chains.” What did you do then?” T'here wasn't much snow to speak of on the banks of the river, so we traveled up the river till we reached Denver, where we camped until spring; that i we camped at the mouth of Cherry creek. That's why 1say it makes me sick to hear these tourists complain of being snowed in. Why, if they had been in‘our placo every derned one of 'em would be where we mped in the first . They wonldu’t 've hadsense enough to getout, and their bleachin’ bones would haye been found afterwards and their death attributed to Injuns, and--" “Won't you take a drink, Uncle Jake," for,” asked Tom Rowe. “That's what I've been talkin’ said the old man, as he hobbled to the bar, and everybody believed him. The sale of stamps and stamped envel- opes last month footed up $10,600.19, of which sum $8.307.85 was received for and $2,301.34 for stamped envel- or i flowing r —— A concession has been_granted by the Swiss government by a firm of elecfrical onginc Geneva for making o rail- up Mount Salene, near that place. lh( line will be made with a central line very similar to that of the Righi hne, the toothed pinion which works nto it hcmg driven by ma Several relies, of various documents in a ndrical tin case, which had been deposited several of the Franklin search expeditions thirty yvnri ago, and a statement left Sir. Allen Yo\n\g when at Beechey island in 1878, wore rocovered by Captun Fa weather, of the British ns last June, at Prince ngent’s inlet, been turned v to th B down to’sleep, 1 usk no'man any odds. My broad acres are there and they 0 exhaustless, The best bank a farmer is his land Every dollar he safe and will and princi cotton seed. 5 robbing nmn lund. ¢ cotton seed, for with acid phos- I and stable munure it mukes the Lm.t fertitizer. T rmor i3 the one in- dependent x “I eannot understand,” Mr. Rood wont on to say, “why a young fellow will stay in_ the “city and “clerk at a small salary with no futu a farmer's life i3 open to him, 1 could have had a much wo had. Now, in spite of markets, weather oranything else, 1 can live a freeman's life with henith, open-air, exercise, and at the end of th e put from $3,500 to §5,000 in the bank. “This noft cliance; itis tainty. And there is nothing in me copt hard work, attenti 1 and a little If fifty young clerks common sense would t county to-day farm just as Ido, each one would reach the same result. It is no experiment, It is the most certain of certain thing And away tho young f Wi a gang of friends who h him. Why may not foorstey of young farmers, sturdy with smooth brow: g anust Why > roscue of our domination of western nd win for the tion from the smokehouse and crib: south amid theis row a fuller and better experie than the fathers fought for twenty-five years ago? There is plenty of land and more to | come \[n Rood started with 2,000 acres, which has alveady ent down to 1,2 his arable land once ev arming,” says he o is one - com- wle 1o the polic ¢ war cry under which the south mand the uation. That the aecre, or full corn-c. sst heap, and & louie Frankly, now, hasn't this deved young farmer, with sinews, his untronbléd slecp, ¢o ml\m‘ the prablem than o ling at nl st on the tarm!* " broad-shoul his stocl-like ¢ Bearer m\' the unev | | as presentid 1o the city government last wo Tollor skating 1 two elopements, two angements. and twenty-throe serious cases of iumorality were direotly traceable o U nstitutions in Port: land. Qiusbia. POWDER Absolutely Pure. 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