Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 19, 1886, Page 4

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TILDEN has gained twenty pounds during the pastyear. This shows what a change of political climate will do for a moss-back. Mut. Seanks has made another ruling in favor of settlers on unsarrendered rairond grants. Sparks may be a hard nut, but he has all the m honest and rl ks of being an and relatives of peers have been fed on public pap in England since 1850. The common peo- ple now want a spoonful or two of oflicial patronage, much to the disgust of the titled do-nothings. NEARLY cight Kansas Crry s agitating the introdue- tion of the electric motor on its strect cars. Since the results of the trials in New York the date when electricity will displace horse flesh on street railroads is tail car system, died in New York last week. It will oceasion some surprise when it is known that he died a peaceful death. Probably no living man has oc- easioned a larger amount ot pardonable profanity on the part of a suffering public. Dr. Mir1 rusticating in New York state, but his organ promises that when he settles down in Washington for keeps something will drop. Up to the present time hints of coming slaughter among democrats who fail to train under the packing-house banner ave the only things s dropped here and he B.Gow ilroad, has a clerk who reads all the new hat come to his office and mark every reference to him, the pleasant ones with red pencil, and the disagrecable ones with blue. 1f Mr. Gowen is as unpopular as some railroad presidents, his el must use up a great many blue pencils. Reading AccorpING to an exchange, “dolico- cephalic” is a new coinage of the cccen- word-maker that signifies “long- headed.” This word looks very much like the production of the Greek editor of the Omaha Herald. He should imme- diately supply the demand of the Chicago Times for polysyllabic equivalents for level-headed and swell-headed. GRAND ISLAND has sccured the next reunion of the Grand Army of the Re- public in Nebraska, and Gen. John M. Thayer been elected grand com- mander. What with her railroad boom, building boom, and these new additions to her dignity, Grand Island seems to be knocking down about all the prrsimmons that come within reach of her elongated pole, SEVERAL of tho governmen have taken additional further the cause of technical oducation, The programme to be pursued is preserved as a seerct, as each nation desires to establish the most perfoct and thorough system. Technical schools have been started in nearly all of the larger cities of ( itain. France, Austria and Turkey increasing the number of their schools and enlarging thewr scope. ot Europe steps to IN comparing the volume of our foreign trade and the volume of American rail- way traflic since 1880 important conclu- slons can be drawn, The Railroad Ga- #elle notes that from 1880 to 1834, the passenger fraflic of American railways inereased per mile 42 per cent, the freight traflic 88 per cent; now in that period our foreign trade declined 20 per cent, our agriculture was sta- tionary, our great enterprises passing from activity to stagnation. The Gazetle eoncludes that there must have been a great development of the minor indus- trivs, and that “‘this growth of other in- dustrios in itsclf tends to reduce our ex- ports,” because we require for our own consumption, a much larger part of our production. The railroads are less de- pendent than formerly on the movement of the great staples and are sustained by the movement of general merchandise. PARLIAMENT reopened yesterday at Westminster The amount of informa- tion extracted from Mr. Gladstone's ‘epening speech in regard to the policy of the government is trifling. The premier i8 evidently not yet sure of his position He gave no hint of what both England and Ireland are most anxious to | i Prob- ably Mr, himself has not clearly formulated in his own mind the extent to which he is prepared to go in granting the demands for home rule foress the channel. The interval be- tween now and March 1, the date on which he promises to introduce the Irish measure, will doubtless be - spent in feeling for support from : Irish party, 1 discovering how far the whigs will follow liberal * leadership and in drafting & measure of Jand reform whieh will pave the way for Toeal logislation by furnishing a tenant gonstituency interested in a permanent . preservation of ul order in the asland. Mr. Gladstone is wise enough to #eg with Parncll that the abolition of Teish Lanedlordisi and howe rule are prae- fleadly onc, sl that lifting the loud of ession und extortion trom the shouls # of the lrish people will be .‘.‘;';.,, G b eople wul be i - more tirmly together. L Wooden Pavements Again, The contractors who are circulating petitions for wooden block pavements in Omaha have replied to our strictures on this class of paving material with a lengthy eard in which they quote from the records of Chieago to show that that city has embarked extensively in wooden pavements in the past ten years, and endeavor to throw cold water on the verdiet of Health Officer De Wolff' that wooden blocks and disease go hand in hand. They print the opinion of the Chicago et superintendent to the effect that cedar block pavements are “cheaper than stone, thongh not <o dur: r kept clean, and not so nois facts about which there will be little con- ) o us that “‘the above are hard, cold, unrelenting facts, which cannot be controverted by simple abuse nor set aside by calling hard names," Unfortunately for Messrs. Murphy, Creighton & Co., they are facts which do not assist their side of the case materi- ally when offset by other facts equally beyond dispute. Chicago had the wood block fever for ten years past, as asserted. It has to-day y a hundred miles of wooden pavements within its corporate limits. Of this entire amount there is not a mile which has been laid more than five years, even where repairs have been made on its surface, which can be saul to be in anything more than “eompa ly good condition,” What the Chicago street superintendent con- sidered “com| ively good condition,” is known to all Chicagoans who were forced to ride over the streteh referred to after the seven years of continual traflic to which Omaha contractors allude with so much feeling. Of the hundred miles of streets paved with wooden block pave- ments in Chicago, nearly half are said to be in a wretched condition. However much this cheap pavement is being extend in the outskirts of the city by property owners who hope to reali on their property by a quick turn in the market, there is no movement to replace the broken and rotting blocks in the heart of Chicago With the same material. The repaving done last year in the business centre was confined to tearing up the cedar blocks and replacing them with substantial granite. The chief argument in Chicago, as in Omaha, in favor of wood block pavements is their cheapness, It is the only argument of any weight with property owners. To argue that they are durable isto fly in the face of experience, to assert that they are clean is to deny the facts as shown in every city where they have been tried. Their unhealthfulness has been asserted not only in Chicago but in New York, in engineers’ conventions, and by the best authorities on puving in the country. Discrimination Against Omaha. An Omaha merchant writes to com- plain of the continued discriminations against Omaha and in favor of St. Paul by the railroad pools. He calls attention to the fact that the freight rates on whis- kies from Chicago to St. Paul are 25 cents per hund for car load lots, and 40 cents per hundred on less than car lots, while the rate on the same class of goods from Chicago to Omaha are 50 cents and 75 cents per hundred respectively. From Louisville and Cincinnati the rates to Omaha e stated to be fully double what they are to St. Paul. The facts being as stated, form a strong ba for remonstrance on the put of our wholesale liquor dealers. Omaba is large enough and strong enough nowadays to make remon- strance eflective in securing fair treat- ment on the part of the railroads. In one instance within the past six months nts have won a notable vie- in organizing to resist the discrim- inations of alarge corporation against the interests of this city. Fair play is a jewel m trade which is valuable enough to fight hard and long to sccure. The time has gone by when railrond managers and pools can ignore the honest com- plaints of indignant patrons in this city. The good will and wvatronage of Omaha has been found of too much value to be thrown over ths shoulder. for many of the evils of corporate sel- fishness our people have the remedy with- in themselves; a remedy which combina- tion and pooling cannot entirely shicld the companies from feeling, The Tariff and Labor. introduction of another bill for tariff revision assures a lively debate in congress over the mnecessity for any change in our present oustom laws., The discussion will not follow party lines. Republicans and democrats ali ill be found on the opposing sides, Protected interests will be ably represented from republican Maine to democratic Louisi- ana. Every monopoly which has fattened from the indirect taxation of the tariff imposts will have its representation on the floors of the senate and house. It is safe to sny that any measure which runs the gauntlet of the lobby will be less in the nature of a radical reform than of a poorly concealed compromise, between high and moderate protection, on the part of the heayily protected monopolies, at the expense of the smaller interests benefitted by the tariff. Present condi- tions are not favorable to a far hearing of the tarift guestion on i merits, Industrial necessity and political expedi- ency will both be used as powerful argu- ments against wholesale tanff revision. The tremendous demands made upon the national treasury, by the cver-increasing pension list, the heavy expenditures pro- jected for mnaval construction and coast defense will prove insuperable obstacles to any marked decrease in the aunual revenue of the nation, However much a radieal revision of the tarift' is needed on the theory of the free traders it cannot be accomplished for a long time in the future. A tariff adjusted to the revenue requirements of the goy- ernment will mean for twenty years to como a heavy impost upon the majority of imported goods. What should bo sought by such tariff' revision as is possi- ble is an enlargement of the free list, the reduction of duties on manufactures already heavily protected by patent pro- cesses and a revision of the imposts on such articles as enter into the every day consumption of rich and poor. With 400,000 new laborers and me- chanics coming to our shores every y to compete with American workmen in our home labor market, the ehief benefits of ourtarifi’ system are after all reaped by the ~ employers and mnot by the - employed Protection ~ of the products of labor and free trade in labor itself is an absurdity. It restriots The | else have the markets for manufactures and thus restricts the number of the employed. On the other hand, while shutting the doors of employment to labor, it opens wide the home labor market to the com- petition of the world. More than a ml- lion workingmen are to-day out of em- ployment in the United State Yoars of overproduction under the stimulus of an exorbitant tarifl’ have resulied in a con- sequent reaction. Mills, factories and forges are either running on half time or ed their works down entire- Iy. The laws which have built up huge manufacturing monopolies for the benefit of the protected few have thrown the commerce of the world into the hands of other countries. The export trade in American manufactures is trifling com- pared with that of England, France or Germany in the distribution of their man- ufactured product. The logical result of a high iff which has thrown im- passable barriers in the way of a free interchange of commodities, but has stimulated immigration of competing labor, has been to flood onr own market with mote than suflicient for home con- sumption and to close all foreign outlets. Commercial depression and suffering among the industrial classes have fol- lowed as a natural consequence. arture of Des augh for Minneapolis, where he goes on Monday ssume charge of a parish, will be much regretted in Omaha. Mr. Mills- paugh has been connected for nearly a de with religious and * charitable in this city and the highest compliment we can pay to the reverend gentleman is to sav that he counts his most devoted friends among the poorer classes under his late charge. He has done much good in our cily, qui- etly and unostentatiously, but with est devotion to his calling as it ca him among those to whom such mini tions as his were most grateful becaus most needed. The parting reception which will be given him on Friday eve ning at the Millard evidences the warm regard in which he is held among his friends and associates in our midst. Joux B. Gougi, the veteran temper ance lecturer, is dead. He was a native of England, and eame to this country during early manhood to follow his trade of book binder. He beeame a drunkard, but finally reformed and entered the tem- perance ficld asa lecturer. He continued to preach temperance until a few months ago, when he became physically unable, owing to age and other causes, to carry on the work any longer. Mr. Gough was an eloquent orator, not only upon his favorite theme of temperance, but upon many other vital questions of the day. No man ever lived who worked harder to promote temperance, and the cause has lost in his death its most brilliant advo- cate. Y new nussionaries and 16,000 s have been sent by England to eiv- ilize Burmah, ‘This proportion of reli ion to force holds good in all England's philanthropic schemes to introduce Chris- tianity and British manufactu among the heathen nations of the world. Mes. Ewing, who is authority on pie, is instructing the Cincinnatians how to make > that can be caten at breakfast. The railway companics ought to employ Mrs. Ewing to teach their lunch-stand kcepers how to make pics that can be eaten at dinner or any other time. A¥tER taking the Papal bull by the horns in his Falk laws, and holding on for nine years, Prince Bismarck has finally retired from the struggle. The Jjourney to Canossa, which he boasted he would never make, has been accom- plished. Tug capture of George Q. Cannon has proved a godsend to the paragraphers. We have alveady read 597 paragr anon going off prematurely nd spiked, being fired nd so on. Iy opposing the wooden pavements in Omaha, the Bek is in line with the best judgment of the most competent engine n the world, and voices the experience of every city where wooden blocks have been given a relief of General Fitz Jolin Porter passed the house yesterday by a vote of 171 yeas and 113 nays. It is to be hoped that the bill will now pass the senate, and that justice will at last be done to General Porter. Tue Philadelphia Record aptly remarks that a new terror has been ad to death. It is the apprehension of the pre- sentment which the mortuary artists of the iilustrated newspapers will print and call them likenesse: St. Louis police board finad a policeman $10 the other day for taking three drinks, This is at the rate of $3.33} ver drink. If this rule were adopted in Omaha, some of our policemen would need a salary of about $1,000 per month. Tar AvL the lurge cities in the country are busily employed in ripping up their wooden pavements at the very time whén Omaha is about to embark extensively in an experiment which she will afterwards regret as a costly mistake, HE two Sams have tinished vival work in Cincinnati. We regret to learn that the democratic canvassing board was not apparent to the naked 2 when the converts stood up to be counted, their re- Wirn ten years’time given them in which to pay for their vements, there is 00 reuson why the preperty owners of Omaha should not select a material that will wear for at leust ten ye Prompirion bills of every character continue to be introduced in the lowa legislature. Iowa ought to adopt the old Connecticut blue laws at once and make a complete job. ‘Ta “new” Chicago court hou has become old before it is fin crumbling to pieces, and the repairs nec- essary to put it in fair condition will amount to $250,000. e, which shed, is ‘I'ne Union Pacific nas cut down its section men on the eastern division fif- teen cents s day. On the Omaha & Re- publican Valley branch line there ave six section men employed between Owma- ha and Stromsburg, - This saves the com pany ninety cents 4 day on that line. We take it that the eoipany proposes to liquidate its indebfedriess to the govern- ment in this way, We would advise it, under the circumstances, to ask for an extension of eight thousand years instead of cighty. THE FIELD O INDUSTRY. The new Bethlehem (Pa,) silk company arts in with & capital of $100,000, The Central Labor Union, of New York, is composed of 161 subordinate branches, The Union Pacifie Railway company has contracts out for 26,000 tons of steel rails, The early closing movement is being worked up in several large cities east and wost, In the building trades there is every indi- cation of great activity, according to builders and architeets, Spring trade Is beginning among the shoe- rs and clothicrs, and builders every- whereare full of preparations. All the great labor organizations are push- Ing the work of agitation and organization with more zeal than ever The Amalgamated association of iron and steel makers is in excellent condition, and Tas only one little strike on hand. The building trades of New York will be run on the nine-hour system this year with- out any effort to reduce to eight. Idle labor is heing gradually absorbed in mills and factories, and in some sections mining overations are also inereasing, In certain sections of the west and south- west hundreds of mechanies have been idle for three months, but are now finding em- ployment, A foreign syndicate has purchased all the iron ore beds in the Berkshire valley,in west- ern Massachusetts, in order to m - wheel iron, The spring trade is beginning to show signs of vitality in all Atlantic coast cities, The manufacturing towns of New England are showing agood deal of activity. Employers of labor who have been coming in contact with the more intelligent members of the Knights of Labor are less opposed to the principles and practices of the order than before. Machinists are finding more employment her pay, and railroad shop labor is call- ed for particularly in the west, to make 1 pairs caused by the wear and tear of the win- ter's work. The Chicago steel-r: tons of rails to be lui The exveriment w will be a conclusive one when resuit nounced. During the past weel between twenty and Ly manufacturing coporations in’ New ngland announced that they would make nightly payments and increase the rate of wa Tom 5 to 10 per eant. Two or three locomotive works a ready to make textile: machinery y motive building is dull, One estal in Paterson isnow erecting frames for 5,000 spindles for a silk company. The same ¢on- cern has just received an. order for twenty engines. The inerease in try is now pre England, a getting 1 loco- shment wades fn the cotton indus- general throughout New aging 10 per cent. In the higher grades of woolen goods no change whatever has been made in prices, but in the lower qualities an advance is made all around. Within the past two weeks announcements lave been made of the intended construetion of ear works, machine shops and large foun- dries i vestern gnd southern states. In most ease: ntefprises uro projected by men of n mechanical education. In addition to these, several establishments arc to be built to turn out raily Y upplies, tools and engines of small capacity. The succ tending the efforts of the executive committee of the Knights of Labor settling serious labor complications Is likely toresult in a greater demand for i valuable services. The committee composed —of conservative, broad minded men, who have a clear comprehe sion of what justice demands on both si The artial de monstr: of the empl Knightsof Labor is simply a gigantic ma- chine of injustice. Despite the complaints of narrow margins in textile manufacturing establishments, a any orders are being given out for achinery. One Ln\\c]sfimp has just received an order for machinery to run 47,000 spindles. A good many companies are in- ng the city of “their buildings by and additions of one or two stories. Additions are also being made to some of the silk-mills, Wages will be_increased in the Lawrence millson March 1. The new mill which two or three Philadelphians are to build in Augusta, Ga., will e fect long by 70 feet wide, and will have 10,000 spindles and will employ 200 hands, el S That Libel Sui Papillion Times, Wounder how Secretary Hoffman enjoys his libel suit by this time ———— On the Hip. Grand Istand Independent. he slaugliter-house democrats appear to have the packing-house democrats on the hip, Our sympathy is with the under dog. Defying the Lightning. Chicago Newr, Lightning performs some strange feats and searches out some odd things to strike, but we think Ajax or anybody else would be per- fectly safe in defying it to strike an honest New York alderman L On their Ear, Grand Istand Independent, The packing-house democrats of Omaha, are on their ear, 5o to speak, about the expos- ure of their letters to Washington concerning federal patronage, which letters prove dupli- city, and double-dealing in a hugh degree, —— The Sod House of Dakota, Harper's Month I paosed it far out on the prai he house of necessity born ; No lines o vary, forlorn, s dingine 50 It is bound by measureless aer Not a fence ora tree is in sight; But, though plain as the dress of the Quakers It'stands in the sun's broadest light. adzer near by makes its furrow, oplier his hillock of soil, And plows, with their mile-lengths of furrow Go round'it with infinite toil. A vell-curb, a wash-tub, a woman, With poultry and pizs, are outside; ‘The clothes-line is won(rously human In look, and the vista-hoW wide. You ean go to the sunrise or “sundown" I straight lines, the doit or the right, And leagues of long level are run aown Before you escape from ity sight, The roof is well thatched with rough grasses, A stove pipe peers out to the sky., “Fis a pieture whose pletnngss sirpasses All objects that challengelthe eye. Twisted hay serves its pwner for fuel, He twists it by ease by the roar Ot a hay fire, which parties the cruel, Harshi bite'of the wind at the door, Sometimes in an ocean of colc (In summer 'tis yellow or gr itstands. In November a dulle Broad carpet about it is seen. In winter, while blasts from the prairie Bring “blizzards” that czase not to blow, "Tis as warm as an isle of Canary, Deep under the tempest and suiow, — High License, Louisville Cowrier-Juwrnal, As a measure of restraint and as a means of revenue the arguments in favor of a high hicense, say for saloons, are unanswer- able. The evils of the liquor traflic are seen and read of all men. The low dives and small dram shops are the centres of ninal infection, Frow them, fired to deeds of vio- len 0 the wite-beaters, drunken fathers, assassins and midnight murderers, 1f they cannot be suppressed. they can be diminished and regulated. A high licenso means fewer saloons: fewer opportunities to drink; fewer temptations to crime, 1t means, too, graver responsibifities attaching to saloon-keepers, and a stricter surveillance by the polies, 1t works in two directions for the benefit of the people: it diminishes erimes and Inereases the revenue. - What a Patent {s Worth. Chieago News. If the salary of the patent commissionor is increased he should be put under bond to issue patents that are worth sometliing more than the paper on which they are written— and that is just about what a United States patent is worth until it hias been throngh the courts, i s At the Same Old_Stand. Hastings Gazette-Tourn If Dr. Miller and J. Sterling Morton have really made up, as the dispatches scem to in- dicate, the partnership heretofore existing be- tween Damon and Pythias will be resumed and business will be conducted at the same old stand. Al genuine candidates for feder- al positions may be identitied by the letters, “D & I blown in the bottle, STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Tecumseh is talking up a §15,000 hotel. Columbus will light up with electriecity Saturday night. The Bohenian Turners of Wilber pro- e to build a hall orfolk is nursing a notion that the B, & M. will build to that point It is caleulated by a victim that there are 5,000 insurance agents in the state, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Towle, of Au- burn, celebrated their golden wedding on the 12th. John H. Tupker of Aurora has been sentenced to jail for tifty d or brutall beating his step-children. " When he is released from eustody he will be put under bonds to keep the peace. An Aubuin youth filled with fighting whisky attempted to persuade a young lady acquaintance to play the pis musement, and on her refus the agreeable, started in to sv parlor furniture and demolish the door. A bullet took him in the shoulder blade d him out, as well as sobered him. Weeping Water is sweating under | collar band lest Plattsmouth should be attacked with suflicient enterprise to build a county court house out of its own pockets. “Citizens of Cass county,” shrieks the bald-headed Lkagle of the for- mer | , “'this offer of Plattsmouth, of a court house rent free is a bribe to the county commissioners. They have the power to accept or reject this brazen effort on the partof a few, to rob them of a hope of being able at some day to see the < of justice pla somewhere within asonable di of the center of the county.” po Towa Items. The Louisa county jail has been emp- tied by the district court. H. G. Jewett, of Worth county, is of age, i35 fect and 11 inches ight and weighs 385 pounds, Mrs. A. B. Arnold, of Gladbrook, has sued three saloonkeepers of that placo for $10,000 each for sclling liquor to her husband. are twenty-three citizens over 51 years of age in Sherman township, Mont- gomery county, who have resided there for twenty-f Of this number seven located there in 1854, A. J. Woolson, of Twin Lake township, Calhoun county, lately marketed twelve pigs which were eight months old, and received $102. the same, which, at the low pr per hundred wight, he considers a iberal return for his corn and labor. D. G. Duer, editor of the Democ on, and ex-county audito yne county, was arrested Saturd upon the charge of forgery. He h forged the names of good farmers on notes which he negotiated at the banks, for the sum aggregating about $1,500. The Fi ptist church at Denison was destroyed by fire Sunday night, It is supposed to have been the work of an incendiary, as th has been some bad blood growing out of the settlement of the McKin estate, whieh mave the chareh “several thousand s claimed by the heirs, valued at $7,400, and the insurance. The pastor, W. lost some valuable personal property. Dakota. Wakonda, the new town ton-Centerville line, is rustling littie place of about 200 inhabitants It is estimated that it will require 4,000,000 brick to complete the buildings which are already projected at Rapid City. Christ Miller, living four of Plankington, sowed six of last week, while were running puly 2 in at at of on the Yank- niles south s of wheat number ers und A petition has been drafted by the sc refary of the board of trade at Yankton, sking for the_establishment of mail ser: vice over the Yankton extension of the Northwestern road. The Buffalo Gap News says the late ive at the Gap was undoubtediy of incen origin, and signifi murv adds partics been pulled, but up to o the fire fiend has not been located, and if he is the chances are that the trees will be so tall that he cannot climb them and get back the sume day e Independence for Wage-Workers, Philadelphia Record. It is easy to fall into the way and habit of spending whatever is received as the wages of daily toil. From the laborer, with his few hundred a yeur, to the high- salaried stipendary of a corporation, with an income reckoned by thousands, the line of wage-earncrs includes few who consider it worth while or necossary to lay by any portion of the moncy they rec . Culture i sualt of their P sion among the »cople, have brought to the minds and hearts of all classes tastes whose gratifi- cation will not be denied, though the last be taken to meet the cost, The s of modern life are no longer in- accessible to the wage-wor but the procurement requires invagiably the sac Tifice of whatever portion of his incor remains after necessary expenses of liv. ing have been met. This holds good whatever the form of indulgence may be vhether literature, art, benevolence or epicurism furnish the motive for distrib- uting the surplusage of personal revenue. Unquestionably the tendency among men of fixed incomes to go to the furthest limits of their resources without consid- ering the future is an evil, since it fosters and renders habitual a feeling of eare- less irresponsibility iniiu- ence individual ¢ 1 and rsonal enterprise . para The social philosopher sees no reliof for the laborer 5o long as the duty of economy is i 1 and the art of saving remains un- d. And the lot of the men whose sarnings are large differs only in degree from lhul of the humbler worker. Gen- eral Hancock, with $7,600 a year, nment dependent dying he left nothing to protec widow from the pangs of poverty noble and soldierly soul responded to every appeal for charity. and he wi his money royally; but'it was non less prodigality and improvidence, from.| which those dearest to him may possibly sullli in the n-lnvl_, Laws . regulating wages, or moavements of bodies of trad wized | h cure grealer compensation and tear of daily toil, are unproductive of good results unless those allected by them also follow carnestly and steadily the sound economic rule of spending le than is received. The hand-to-mouth ox istence which is the lot of nine wa workers out of every ten would sweetened and transformed by the p tice of the art of saving. Indc |u'm'| nee ought to be worth something to human drudges whose years are now spent in partial slavery. “The poor, the needy, and the thriftless waste annually im mense sums. It is perhaps a refinement of sentimentalism to insist that t 0 and drink are uscless outlets to this sort of petty extravagance; but when the vast amount expended by workers for these two things alone is considered it hecomes apparent that somewhere there is woeful waste, The wealth of the Van derbilts would not pay the lignor and tobaceo bills of the wage-carners or this country for four months. — In g society where ‘such _an overwhelming prepon ance of its members spend a1l they et the fow who have the talent for ac cumulation forded corvespondir greater opportunities for acquisition. Somebody who Kkeeps it eventually g r that is wasted. An the army of endthrifts the will be the gains of those who y absorption of floating carnings have beeome ¢ ists, i while for the wa ave, although the p s0 unpopular among men incomes that to follow it amark of eccentricity The path to influence and independence to the toiler begins steadily follows on the Tine of “mall cconomics applied m duily ilfe. Ten y ago in a Penn- sylvania manufacturing town amachinist went home one evening and said to his wife: m tired of this work for others and we'll tarn over a_new leaf. [ get Now, we will put away $10 a k, and live on the v If we can't on it, we'll starve on it. In two With this himself in a small way, capital was attracted by his encrgy, and now he is at the head of one of the manufacturing concerns in his section, rich, prosperous and respected. What this man nli.l was nothing of su- preme difficulty. A strong, resolute will and a fixed purpose were all that were needed after his' determination became fixed. Why should not such an example attract the attention of other wage-work- ers, equally able and of like mental qual- itie 1t is only the beginning that costs; after that the task of self-clevation | comes easier with each day. —— Army Logi New York Time Both the senate and the house commit- tee on military affuirs have shown in the main thus far much diserimination in their action on the subjects which come within their domain—perhaps more than that which has been exhibited by some oflicers themselves who apply for ation. The sen: committee, for ampie, has strongly advocated the Manderson bill for giving to the infan- y regiments the twelve-company, or Dattalion, formation common to the other two arms and con the practice of the leadi tions of Europe. It mended the Logan bill for inc efliciency of the army, after some careful amendments. It ha procured the passage by th owell bill increasing the milit b upproj tion to 600,000, Lill providing for the West Point gradu- ates of 1886, On the other hand it has srse reports on the bills allow oflicer under the rank of briga- 2 year’s pay if he will Te- sign, and that equally remarkable meas- ure to allow any oflicer who served in hellion to retire voluntarily on the of the grade above the one to which belongs. for legislation of this latter ¢ been much overdone of late by some oflicers, both of the army and the nayy. Eagerness for promotion is well in its way, but the multitude of schemes just now'in vogue for securing that much desived end by conxing or pushing otl from the active to tho retired [ist di s a little too much importunit e is, in the first place, a v making retirement compulsos 1in grades at ages not so advanced under the existing laws. The others retiving at their own application on half pay, oflicers whose servic second and first lieutenants aggr twenty years, and 8o on. In féw of these easesis the public in- terest looked to at all. There is now, for sxample, no possibility of reducing’ the rmy, hut some likelifiood of inereasing it. Why, then, do we find bills now, of all time§, oflering officers n year's p: a premium for withdrawing whenc may suit their convenience? To petition at one moment for a bifl which will r quire the addition of scores of ofl the army, and to petition at the next for getting 1id of as many as possible of those who are in the service is not spec- ially public spirited. s A PLEA FOR HOUSE SERVANTS. Why They Are No Better, and How to Lmprove Them. R.S. H, in Now York Star: It is a rare thing to be twenty-tour hours in any house, hardly possible even to make an afternoon visit without hearing somo- thing said on that most prolitic ot all sul j , ‘“‘the servant: fit not their inefliciency then it is their ingratitude or exactions, a8 the case may be. Inasmucl therefore, s this question of domest service is one powerful enougl to agitate m some way the minds of almost every housekeeper, its importance lies beyoni all doubt. Every one will concede” that much of what one hears is true, that for overy indifferent work high wages are paid; that benefits conferred but too often seen benefits thrown away. But in judging of this matter 1t must certainly ocenr Lo any unbinsed observer that there are other points of w than those to which prejudiccs or long cstablished cus- toms and convictions have kept one rooted. W of ro come ixed business for making lready domestie servants like public vants; were the work whieh was requived of them a definite work, for which, when it was well done, high rates were paid, for which, when' it was il done, they were dismissed—the work and how it was done being the paramount thing— then the whole aspeet of the question would be changed. Domestic servants not, how r, like public ones, for lone are admitted ‘into the privac, s home, They witness our hous s us wien we ave ill, 5 joys: we demand of them a faithfulness, 4 loyalty to our interests which love alone render, and we think we have done enough when we say “we pay forit,” But in reality we can do no sich thing, and it is for'this very reason, becauso the serviee we require i one involving more than simple payment can cover, that domestic servants have been mude a class by themselves, Could system oOf living be so arranged that they lived in their own Nomes, simply coming to ren- der us a distinet serviee, and going again out of our lives, as the man docs Who leaves our milk in the morning, or the ps the sidewalk for us, then might be different. Society, or, being or sed as it is, and wits live: in our houses being adjuncts to it to provide to the best of - our ability for them certainly be comes an obligation devolving upon every house By so_doing he would only be obeying motives which should in themselyes be sufficient to goy ern him, fulfilling an "M'f ion which every individual, as - an i ndividual, owe 0 another of whatever sfation or d At the same time he would be making the conditions of his own life easier, Look at thé effect on the character of any man foreed by circumstances to be merely a sojourncr or wanderer over the earth; who is vepresented by no perma- nent abiding-place, and whose tastes, Affections and. inclinations oan never have more than a fitful expression! And what is it with the men or women sent out to buffet the world alone with that army of lifo-long wayfarers who throng the streets of our great cities, homeless in the midst of homes? What is it that stands any of them in the time of need? Principles do_ for us all in our hours of strength, but days came when one 18 too tired to fight, when the heart has grown bi when rest nts sweeter than endeavor and falso se is_more soothing than self-quese pning. Then itis, when all other powe ers of resistance fail us, that somo olds time influence will help us keep our purpose pure; €ome memory of a time when the world and its pitfails seemod as shut away from us as the winter tempest beating outside our walls; of time in our lives so happy that nothing is worth the vost of ng back into it anything in ourselves worse than that which we brought away These memories and influences are po- tent factors in one's moral life, yet how many think of giving to the poor or to people in their employ opportunities for any individual life? In the ease of do- mestic servants, thovgh they are warmed and fed, what else is done for them? nly not in ono house ont of 200 ‘8 Ny provision made for their come fort beyond a place to sleep - and a ta- ble at which to eat, Scores of houses go up year after year in our cities, in which there are drawing-rooms and Ii fes, and often picture galleries, but in how many of them is there anything built for the servants other than a kitchen or o lanndry 'w enough of our town houses have even had laundries, as any one knows who has had to look over many of them. Cooking, washing, iron- ing, therefore, have all to go in the ono room, which, when the day's work is done, is the only place whereany of them can sit. The cook may be untidy, and keep the Kitehen in disorder, Wh is to become of the other servants, somo of whom may chance to be above the verage? There 1s no escape from their surroundings, ke one i whom the sense of order is strong. Could anything more to the temper be imagined? omes of good resolves and better instinets? Why not, then, build better houses? Lot us by all 1S s judgment and intelli- genee in the matter; but why not have the interests of others at heart—not merely what mi to our own temporary well-being. Doctors have for ‘a long time been looking after the children, and have at last gotten their little stockings pulled up over their kne and high-neck dre drawn are shoulders; pla, ms and are no longer ill ventilated and but who isit that looks after the ants? Some of us do in a fitful way, but one case of ingratitude discouragns us. Why should we let it? For the sake of our natures, if for no other reason, why not I lesson from nature; from the sun th bs on shining down in our gardens, though we shut him out from our drawing-room carpets not ten feet aws e The “Barbara Frietchie" Incident, In describing the march through Fred- erick, on the way to Antictam, Lieut. Owen, in C: nd Battle, that the confederates were totally unaware of oceurence embodied in Whittier's m of “Barbara Frietchie,” and as- ibes it to poetic license. Of course, the ker poet accepted the story in good ith, and struck his harp accordingly. he following incident, howeyer, did oc- cur at Frederick: “I'he army passed through in good order, and all in tho merriest and jolliest mood possible, in- dulging occasionally in good-natured chafl, as was their wont. Any peculiari of costume or surroundings of any per son was sure to bring out some remark that would set wholc regiments in a roar. On a small gallery stood buxom young lady, with laughing black eyes, watehing the scene betore her. — On her breast she had pinned asmall ‘flag, the ‘Starsand Stripes’ This was observed, and some soldier sang out: ‘Look h Miss, bet- ter take that flag down; we're awful fond of charging breastworks! This was car- ried down the line amid shouts of laugh- ter. ‘The litt ly laughed herself, but stood by her colors. el A g His Solvency. shier—Sorry, sir, but we do not cash any checks “But I am from California and have $100,000 in bank at San Francisco.” l“\'. likely, but how are we to know that?' ell, sir, here is a copy of an affida. vit which Miss Swillers hus filed against me in a suit for breach of promise.” L beg a thousand pacdons. Happy to accommodate you. If you run short again during your stay just hand your check in at any time."” S Hurt In the Shops. A man named F . employedin the new car shops of the Union Pacific, fell from a platform twenty feet high yesterday morning and sustained serious but not dangerous’ injuries. Absolutely Pure. A maryel Mor annot of | wle Powuiic Co phiste | 18 nt, a! cuns. " K . Now York w PORT Furniture Co. 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