Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 25, 1886, Page 4

'} .THE DAILY BEE. OMAHA OFF1IcE N0, 914 AND oTaFARYAM ST NEw Y ORK OFFICE, ROOM 65, TRIBUNE BUILDTN WASHINGTON OFFICE, NO. 513 FOURTEENTH ST, 7, except Sunday. The st published in the Published every morni only Monday morning pa state. TERME WY MAIL: $10.00 Three Months 5.000n0 Month 0.5 100 One Year Fix Month, Tue WerkLy Be, Published Evory Wednesany. TERME, POSTPALD: One Year, with premfu One Year, without premium Rix Monthe, without premium One Month, on trial. ‘. CORRESPONDENCE: ANl communications relati torinl matters should be addressed to the O OF 1k DBk B ™ All b tinees lotte mittances should be nudressed to THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, ONMAfA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders 10 be made payable to the order of the company. THE BEE. PUBLISHING COMPANY, PAOPRIETORS. E. ROSEWATER, Eptror, Private Bills and General Debility are combining to delay the work of congress beyond all precedent, 1t is the slowest, the most incompetent and the clumsiest working house of representatives with which the saloons of the District of Col- umbia have been blessed for years, SRSt Wryomixa has lengthened the time of residence necessary to exc to six months, the cowboy vote. Under the old & and energetic cow puncher could in Texas, Colorado and Wyoming, the same year of Flor is madly m, of Detroit, and three months under her windows in that city, refusing absolutely to return to Washington. As Miss Palm is heir to $2,000,000, there seems to be a method in Senator Jones' madness. He gains two millions if he takes the Palm. with Miss has roosted for Tue trunk lines east are now * ulating” the dressed beef traflic from Chicago to New York, “with a view to equalizing commercial conditions.” The equalization consists in a heavy advance in the tariff. When the railroads com- plain of regulation they mean public regulation of the railroads, not regula- tion of the public by railway manage- ments. og- IN Franklin county, Missouri, corn cobs are selling 5 cents per hundred for use in the manufacture of pipes and it is estimated that at this rate, even after the gorting process, the cobs are worth more than the corn shelled from them. This is a hint to some enterprising Nebraska capitalist. Nebraska can furnish cob pipes for the world with a_suflicient sur- plus on hand to furnish her own fuel when an occasional coal famme sets in. NEw Jensey, which has never been ashamed to admit that she was owned body and soul by the railroads, is now getting ready for a little anti-monopoly music. Last week the intluence of the Pennsylvania company 1 the legislature ‘was suflicient to defeat a bill allowing the o 1t Ta b mms - & MLk DASEIRC DL LIS arimaciu0l® 2 ULIO (ACTOSS the Staten Island sound, and two days Iater the lawyers of the same company succeeded in winning a decision from fhe supreme court declaring the railroad tax law of 1884 void. The state now with- out funds to pay current oxpenses, and its constitution prevents it from borrowing. The government is helpless and turns to the Pennsylvania company to help it out of the di- lemma. All of which will make the av- erage citizen outside of that common- wealth exclaim with A, Ward, “Unon looking around me, in what state, let me nsk, do I find the country. Suflice it to gay, I do not find it in the state of New Jersey.’’ Between the courts and the railroads the citizens of New Jersey seem to have no rights that anybody feels bound to respect. Tue Knights of Labor in Marlboro, Mass., a town of 11,000 people, two- thirds of whom belong to that order, }lnvfl adopted a sensible method of avert- ng labor difficulties. In conjunction with the owners of the factos have adopted a set of rul the employes in their relations with their employers. The rules provide for the appointment of shop committees, whose duty it shall be to settle minor disputes among the workmen and to lay griev- snces complained of before the employ- ers, and if necessary, before the local and district executive boards. These com- mittees are especially charged with re- riing domineering or oppressive con- luct on the part of foremen. Mewmbers who neglect their work through dissipa- ~ tion or other cause, or who use intemper- ate or abusive language toward employ- ©rs or foremen, will not be protected by the order, and no member shall strike or - guit work without the consent of the executive board. This is an experiment dn the right direction, and will be watched with interest in other wanufacturing ~ towns throughout New England, 7 — i i s they to gov. Tue standard of woman's education in the United States is steadily advancing he lately issned report of the commi sioncr of educt.tion shows a large increase ~ dn the number of young women pursuing . superior courses of study, a due propor- . tion of the increase being in the leading goeducation colleges and in the colleges I for women that maintain the highest _ standards. At the time the statistics for the reports were gathered there were 230 educational institutions for women, eon- . mectod with which were nearly 8,000 in- | structors and 50,587 students, There were " also in preparatory departments, co-edu- ~ eation colieges, and schools of science L 12,720 others, muking 48,807 in all, It is ~ probable that the number is even greater ~ 8 no account is given of the number of fomalo students in the schools of science b tollwr departments than the prepara. ry. Out of the whole nuaber of insti- tions devoted to the higher education of women 102 are avthorized by law to con- for colleginte degrees. The uumber of vees conferred .in 1834, up to which wiod tire report ostonds, was 544, which ‘exLibits a siight falling off in comparison ‘with the presicus colloginte year, On e g tictlar subject the commissioner e CThe ar of faots which meets thue f:01 year 'o year with reference new provizicn for the highereducation Memon o (ke good vesults trom exist Provsivn 1s sviicient vroof of the in- vu'oe of thess pievisions W the p'deal wosisu wils anve and may en- dem, aud of mige Lenofits ensuing IOl b2 soclely in general.” Central Wyoming Boom. Travelers who gain their impressions of Wyoming from a flying trip over the Union Pacifie, which traverses its south ern border, are certain to misjudge great Iy the resources and capacity for devel opment of this portion of the west. The crossing of the great divide, the Laramie plains, and the bad lands which stretch beyond almost the Utah line are not the typical Wyoming scenery or the most characteristic Wyoming soil. The best region of the territory lies to the north along the valley of the North Platte and the fortile ranges stretching on that parallel from the Nebraska boundary to the mountains., It is to this section, rich in mineral wealth, watered valleys and fertile uplands, that attention is being gely directed as the grade of the Northwestern extension pushes across itonitsrace tothe Pacific. For fifteen years past, devoted entirely to stock growing and inaccossible to immigration, its merits have not been known, but with the coming of the iron ils settle- ment is rapidly pushing its way along the Platte valley, and capital is making ready to develop its resorces of and oil and to work the deposits of us minerals on its eastern border The present year will witness a solid boom for central Wyoming. Other rail- road lines are anxiously waiting to tap the territory which the Northwestern is now cluiming as its own. Cheyenne is prepared to offer 400,000 bonus to a road building north and south into the new section which will prevent the diversion expected tarift from the capital Here is a region towards which Union Pacific could profitably expend construction money, which in years past has been devoted to long and costly extensions across alkali deserts and sago brush plains. The rich cattle traffic of central Wyoming is a prize worth working for, a prize which will certainly be captured for direct shipment to Chi- cago, unless a competing railroad taps the invaded territory Branch Lines for Nebraska. The bill introduced by Senator Van Wyck on Tues will enable the Union Pacific to construct feeders to its main line in Nebraska and Kansas without paralyzing the company by the drainage of its resources. Senator Van Wyck provoses that the $3,000,000 now held in the national treasury under the Thurman sinking fund act shall, if the company desires to do so,be expended in the build- ing of branch lines in Nebraska and Kansas under proper restrictions, to which the company cannot reasonably object. The bili requires these feeders to be constructed on a business basis at the lowest possible cost. he method of trebling the cost of such roads by inside rings and the issue of watered stock and excessive bonds has been care- fully guarded against. The bill provides that bids shall be advertised for and let in ten mile sections to the lowest bidder for cash. The only bonds are to be the bonds to replace the money taken out of the treasury. The stock is limited to a | nominal sum to comply with the Nebras- ka statute, and the amount realized on the stock is to be expended in equipment of the road under the supervision of the government. The chief object of Senator Van Wyck is to place the company in a condition to hold the territory tributary to it and de- vote the surplus earnings now in the sinking fund to increasing its general earnings, The main complaint of Mr. Adams and his management against the policy of the government 1s that it de- prives the road of the means necessary to control the traffic which legitimately be- longsto it while the money paid in by the road under the Thurman act lies idle in the treasury. This measure meets the wants of the state in encouraging the development of the re- gion tributary to the Union Pacific by branch lines. Itis an act pure and sim- ple in itsaims and object, framed with a view to give the state the benefits of rail- road construction without hampering the government with a scheme that attempts to legalize Credit Mobilier frauds and Jay Gould jobs. If this method of rais- ing money for branch roads is not s: tactory to the present managers of the Union Pacific it will be because they have other designs behind the funding scheme which they are not disposed to divulge. The people of Nebraska, and especially the business men of Omaha who desire to sustain the Union Pacific in its efforts to provide increased trade facilities, cannot fail to approve Senator Van Wyck’s bill as the most offective and speedy means of raising the necessary funds, The r lutions passed recently by the Omaha bourd of trade were drafted solely from this standpoint., The object and purpose of this bill being so plain on its face, there need be no lengthy discussion over it in either house. 1f it passes this spring, the Union Pacific ought to be in condition this summer to build all the branch lines that can be properly operated by it in Nebraska and Kansas. A Law Against Bogus Butter. The Bee was mistaken in stating that there is no law in Nebraska prohibiting the sale og oleomargarine or butterine. The mistake was a natural one, as the law has been a dead letter ever since its passage in 1883, However, it can be and should be enforced. It is a good law, providing that oleomargarine or but- terine must be sold for just what it is, and that every package must be plainly stamped. A fine of one hundred dollars 1s provided for violations of this law. For the benefit of dairymen, well as con- sumers, we publish the law in full hope some concerted uction will be throughout the state, and especially Omaha, forits enforcement. It will be seen that any person who is imposed upen by his groceryman selling him bogus butt has it in his power to prosecute. ‘The following is the jaw: SECTION 1. That any person, company or corporation who shall manufacture for sale any article, or who may offer or expose for sale, any article or substance in semblance of butter or cheese not the legitimate pro- duct of the dairy, and not made exclusively of wilk or cream, but iuto which the oil or fat of animals not produced from milk enters asa component pait, or into which melted butter, or any oil thereof, has been intro- duced to take the place of cream, shall dis- sinetly and durably stamp, brand or mark, upon every tub, firkin, box or package of such article or substauce the word Oleomar- garine or Butterine, in plain Roman letters not less than kalf an nch square, placed bori- zoutally in proper order, and in case of retuil sules of such articles or substanees in parcels thie seiler shall in all cases, deliver therewith to the purchaser a written or printed label, bearing the plainly written or printed word, Olemargarine or Butterine, in type or let- ter s aforesaid, and every sale of such arti- cle or substance not so stamped, branded, marked or labeled, shatl be void, ond no ac tion shall be maintained for the price thereof. SEctios 2. Any person who shall sell, or offer to sell, or have in his or her possession with intent to sell, contrary to the provisions of thisact, any of the said articles not so stamped, marked or labeled, or in case of re- tail sale, without delivery of the label requir ed by section one of this act, shall for each such offense, forfeit and pay a fine of one hundred dollars, to be recovered in any court in the state of competent jurisdiction. SECTioN 8. That any person, company or corporation who shall sell, offer or expose for sale, or shall eause or procure to be sold any article required by the first section of this a to be marked, branded, stamped or labeled, not somarked, branded, stamped or labeled, shall be guilty of a misdemennor , and on trial for such misdemeanor, proof of the sale or off alleged, shall be presump- tive evidence of knowledge of the article so sold or offered, SrcrioN 4. Whereas, an emergency ex- ists, this act shall be in force from and after OF expost to investigate munici- corruption in New York in connee- tion with Jake Sharp's purchase of the for his Broadway horse car line, is still at work sifting matters. In spite of the obstructions thrown in their ath, enough presumption of bribe jobbery and bold faced corruption has been unearthed to justify the introduction of a bill in the legislature declaring the franchise forfeited. Sharp’s memory on the witness stand was the worst on rec ord. His check book stubs showed dis- bursements of $1,300,000 in six weeks’ time, but he swore point blank that he 1no idea what became of the money. By a singular coincidence, the aldermen who voted to donate Broadway to Mr. Sharp's company purchased — $600,000 worth of real estate during this period and Sharp subsequently recollected that various law firms were paid an equal amount for their services. Four alde men have left the city for regions un- known. Meantime following the example of other larger operators Sharp has sold his stock in the road to third partics who are pleading the “innocent investor dodge to protect their interests. When the question of taxation comes up rail- road corporations never fail to plead that franchises are valueless. Jake Sharp's franchise cost him something over a million in cool cash aud there are strong prospeets that it may cost him in addi- tion his liberty for several years while he pays an enforced visit to Sing Sing. BEE denies that the wooden block nuisance has even the merit of cheapness. When the cost of repaving is taken into consideration the cost of maintaining such a pavement at five years interv will make it in the end more expensi than solid stone. Why cannot Oms learn from the experience of other’ cities in this paving business? The testimony as to the general worthlessness of wooden blocks as a durable, clean, healthy, serviceable snd aatisfactory pavement is overwhelming. CrviL service reform is solving the problem for the democrats, You can get rid of the offensive partisan by various devices. Just now the civil ice ax beheading republican postoflice inspect- ors who do not know the exact distance between the earth and the sun. Twenty- seven new inspectors are to go in because they are familiar with Euclid and astron- omy, even if they have no conception of the ways of postal crooks. THERE good deal of buncombe and humbugging going on now in the city council in the effort to gull and soft-soap the Knights of Labor and working men generally, Intelligent laboring men can read Pat Ford’s resolutions to raise their wages between the lines. Pat, like the ate Artemas Ward, 1s willing to sacrifice 11 his wife's relations” in the campaign® that is just about to open. Ir some one were to tell our people that the moon is paved with green cheese and that it has proved a satisfuctory pavement there and is cheaper than any other material, there would be scores of men in Omaha ready to sign for green cheese paving on a sand bas: Every candidate for the council just at present has become an outspoken friend of the workingman, the fireman and every other man who has a vote, Our Navy and Its Work. The developments of the past ten regarding the American navy, the fice of the intercsts of our naval establ ment to the red tape of a badly organized department, the shameful waste of money in constructing antiquated models of ships and repairing worn out and useless hulks, have made our people forgetful of the past record of this branch of the ser- vice for national defense. Now that there is a universal demand that the phantom navy which remains to defend our coast and carry our flag upon the seas shall be rebuilt and maintained at a standard cqual to all probable demands upon its resources, Admiral Porter's history of what it did during tho civil war is a timely publication. The ma- jority of our people live so far from the sea coast that they fail to appreciate the value of naval armament, Some such work as that of Admiral Porter was needed to emphasize the true service of the navy to the union in crushing out the rebellion. The measure of this service 18 briefly stated in the advance sheets of his book, as follows: But for the uavy the union, in all human probability, would have been destroyed by the aid of foreign sympathizers pouring in money, provisions, and munitions of war to the confederacy, ‘Tho growth of our navy was one of the marvels of the age. It cost the government, in round numbers, $450,000,000, or $129,000,000 for cach year of the war, or 10,000,000 per month, or nearly a third of & willion dollars for overy day of the war, It employed over six hundred vessels of war and over fty thousand men, whieh force greatly exceeded that of any other nation in the world. It guarded over 7,000 miles of coast, in- cluding bays, rivers, ete,, eflectually prevent- ing the importation of arms and munitions of war, and 8o compelling the earlier exbaus- o of the confederate forces. It captured the fmmense number of 1,185 blockade runners, many of which were fine steamers—a vatio of uearly 500 captures per Annum, or aiwost one each day during the eutive war. ‘Themoney value of its captures was af least §60,000.000, or $15,000,000 worth for cach year of the war, aud § lue for each month of the war from first to last. It cooperated with the army whercver there was water enough to float a gun- bont, while on the high seas our navy covered it with _glory, The river work of the navy on the Potomae, the York, the James, and the Mississippl, with its branches, the coast-line work from the Chesa- peake to the Mississippi, and its work on the ligh seas, totally eclipse in martial valor and brilliant other naval achieve: ments of the world. While hislory records the names of Fort Henry, Fort Donaldson, Island No. 10, Vicksburg, Port Hudson, Fort St. Philip, Fort Sumpter, Charleston har- Mobile bay, Hatteras inlet, New Or- leans, Port Royal and Fort Fisher, and a score more of such famous names, the Amer- n navy will be universally honored: while such deeds as the sinking of the Alabama in square naval battle will ever be named among the most brilliant victories of the age. 1t opencd the harbors by the perilous work of removing obstrictions, torpedoes, ete., and by utterly destroying the hostile batteries which commanded them, It held in check the hostile elements in many a city and rural section while a dreaded gun-boat quietly | successes al before it; in short, it displayed heroism of the | noblest type and made our reputation on the seas equal to that of any nation. KINGS AND QUEENS. The next drawing room will hold at Buckingham tap, m ia will zo on to Kieviera in April with Princess Chiristina. The princess is recovering from the effects of her recent illness. Tne cream-colored horses which draw the carriage of the Queen of England belong to her, not as Queen, but as a Princess ot the House of Hanover, Emperor William of Germany will enter upon his nineticth year on March age of none of the other living mor proaches nearer than sixteen years to that of the emperor. The prince of Wales has dumped 600 Chin- ese books into the British museum; gets praised for his generosity and smiles over the riddance, for he couldn't read a line of them himself, The late King Ferdinand of Portugal left instructions that his valuable library was not to be sold, and Mr. Quariteh, the great Lon- don dealer who expected to bag 1t, is greatly disappointed. The recently wedded crown princess of Sweden, daughter of the grand duke of Baden, has arrived in Amsterdam, where she will be treated according to the massage system for the purpose of checking a rapidly developing obesit e t Hold Any Stock. Chicago Tribune. The Indiana supreme court does not ap- pearto hold stock in any telephone company. gy That's Nothing. Burlington Fyee Press. “A man never loses anything by polite- ness.” How about his seat ip a street-car? he Bell Company. Chicago Times; 1f congress wishes to go into a telephone investigation worth while, it ought to invest- igate the Bell concern. A ventilation of that company would doubtless pat out more rich- ness than an airing of the Pun-Electr i L Something that Even Sam Jones Oan- not Stand. Philadelohia Coll, - A ; 1t is significant thas >am Jones’ departure from Cincinnati was co-incident with the ap- pearance of his portrait in the local papers. It wasa dastardly stab, and, although a man of iron nerve, he fled. et SEN, Will Get the Doctor Into Trouble. North Platte Nebraskan, Thejuvenile who attempt to manage the political portion of the Omaha Herald in the absence of the good Dr. Miller will certainly get that gentle- man into trouble with his brother democrats througlhiout the staty The Authenticity Not Denied. Nebraska City Neu The state papers are now vigorously dis- cussing the question how Rosewater obtained copies of the letters on file in the depart- ments, written by certain so-called democrats of this state. No one has yet denied the au- thentlcity of the letters. el . 1 Treat Workmen as Frecmen. New York Star. Free workmen are not slaves, and those who need their services eannot afford to in- terpose between themselves and their men a class of minor officials possessed of the spirit of the overseers on slave plantations. Half of the difliculties that arise between labor and capital would bo avoided if men large minded and capable enough to be chosen as the heads of large corporations would give more of their personal attention to those de- tails of government ont of which such con- tlicts arise, AR S A Mad Democrat, North Platte Nebraxian. Tho Greek editor of the Omaha Herald would have exaibited a spirit of fairness had heallowed the publication of Hon, B. L Hin- man’s letter. Such a disposition toward un- fairness smacks strongly of bucolic journal- ism. The writer of this is and has been for the past year acquainted with the true in- wardness of Mr, Hinman’s interest in the Kearney Press, and the best answer that can bemade to your allusion in yesterday’s paper is that you are a most damnably outrageous liar. It you desire the proof of this you shall have it. When you want to indulge in a figure of hyperbole iu the future do so at the expense of some republican, o A Good Country for Land-Grabbers, St. Louls Republican, Paraguay offers the latest field for land monopoly. Consul Baker has forwarded a copy of the new law under which the execu- tive 15 authorized to sell the public lands at prices ranging from $11to 8§13 per square mile. The highest price thergfore, is about 21 cents per acre, and it i np wonder that European land grabbers; are looking that way. There does not appear to be anything in the law requiring settloment on lands, or limiting the amount to be sold to a single purchaser, though special inducements are offered to settlers with families, It will be surprising if a very few men do not soon own most of the back country. At the Bal New Haven News, Her face was falr Beyond compare, Her manner haughtiness supreme 1 thought, and yet 1 can't forget, That things are rarely what they seern, Three words she spokeé, Which like the stroke Of doom, in fragments rent wy dream, ¢ ance?” 1 said, Queen Victoria lace will take Does: Ventilat pital J— “You She turned her head. And smiling, answered, * I should scream,” - e STATE AND TRITORY, Nebraska Jottings, Oxford advertises for live editors to bury the dead ones in town. The charity ball in Plattsmouth Mon- day night was a success in all things but attendance. The B. & M. company is piling up im- mense quantities of construction material in Grand Island. A farmers’ institute is in sess Gibbon with a large attendance of tillers and several university professors. Fremont is tating the subject of a union depot. 'fiw proposition s in the on at In‘nds of its friends and the railroad offic Grading has begun on the Nebraska & Colorado railrond between Superior_and Edgar. The contractors expect to finish by June 1. _One moro unfortunate, Fairfield, pocket kni 27 years of Ed Prentis, of hed his windpipe with a o and bled to death, He was zo and subject to falling fits. Four hundred and fifty patrons fur nished milk and cream to the Fremont creamery Inst year, for which $5).000 were paid, in addition to $20,000 for labor and teamsters Bob Hale, living near Fairfiel recently of blood poisoning pri a trifling cut on one of his fiv leaves a wife and six children died 1 by e poor ors in allace Church, the young " itly sentenced to the pen m'of six years for houso ped from ‘the county jail nday morning. His whe unknown, The people of Plattsmonth have put their shoulders to the court house projeet, and are pushing it with a determination to suceced, Atthe mass meeting Tues day night $10,000 of the £25.000 required were subsc by the gentlemen present. In the construction of the Grand Island & Wyoming Central railroad all new steel rails and the best of oak ties being used, and east iron culverts ing put in,'and it will thus have, start, good and permanent road bed s in Nebrask: ro- Towa Items, The town of Carroll has put in a bid for the proposed state soldiers’ home. The total tax of Wapcllo county is $ , of which the city of Ottumwa £110,401.91. and Mrs. Thomas H. Fitch, of erloo, aged respectively nd 78 s, celebrated their golden wedding t week. During one night recently dogs got into a flock of sheep belonging to a farmer near Cresco and killed fitty-four of the animals. J. C. Bates, who stole a span of horses and a sleigh at Bloomfield a few wecks ago, at the recent term ot district court held at Fort Madison, was convieted and entenced to the penitentiary for four ¥ Ir. and Mrs. J. C. McCausland of Me- Causland, Scott county, cclebrated their golden weddingon the 16th inst. Among the presents given the aged couple wera a gold wateh and chain, a gold-headed cane, gold fruit dish, ete, _The new railroad bridge over the Mis- tained a place as a ballet-gitl. Her firet Ap earance as an actress was in 1865, as Juiet, at Margate theatre, where she at- tracted attention at once. At the be )siumngu[ her theatrical carcer she took the name of Lilian Adelaide Lessont, which she afterward changed to Neilson Six years after she had left howe, her mother d that an actress of great beauty and talent was coming to Lecds to P Sceretly suspecting that the hoat tiful stranger was her daughte eled to Leeds to sce her and was warmly received. A few months later Miss Neil- son visited her mother, and invested $15.000 for her benet In 1864 she mar- ried Mr. Philip Henry Lee, but in 1877 she obtained a decree of divoree in the supreme court of New York. She came country in 18 and was the idol of the d She came ain in 1874, and agnin Her last gement here closed in May, 1850 ied to Edward Compton, her company, though 't was known only toa few intim- a It was her intention to re tire from the stage for some time on reaching England. Alas for human hopes, In P n the 15th of August she died of neuralgia of the stomach afte s of agony The Magaz of Art for March (Cas sell & Company, Limited) has on the tirst page a full-length portrait of Miss Farren i sanguine, duced from Bartolozzi's engraving homas Lawrence's famous por There is so_a full-page reproduction of Mr. F. Mille “The Grandd In “An Atelier des Dame: 3 s Somerville, the art-life of young ladies in Paris is deseribed very humorously. Cassell's Family Magazine for March contains installments of the two al stories, “A Willful Young Woman'' and “Lyndon of High Clifie If there is one thing in which I gazines excel itis in the artistic character of their short stor 1d Cassell's is no exception to this rule. Besides this it deals with so- cial and ~ houschold topics in, a ver 1 way, and the shc y on the ot of digestion gives more real infor- mation on how to cat than could he od by the study of the most claborate ise. Harper g inc for March is un- usually cations, those which accompany ticle on *“Cape Breton Folk” being charmingly pastoral. “‘An Iron City Beside the Ruhr,”” by Moneure D. Conway, tr in a very interesting way of the'great Krupp Works at Essen; while Edmund Kirke's sketeh of the city of Cleveland speaks of s marvelous i growth—the one telling of the perfection and development of the instrument of war, the other pointing out the ener and’ the industry which transforme ippi at Keithsburg, 58 miles enport, is completed, and it train crossed on it last Monday. dge pl‘o&wr is 2,055 feet in length, and rests on eleven Stone piers. The suporstructure is of iron and stecl, and all the work has been done in the most substantial manner and on the latest and most improved p with a swing draw. Dako A Catholie church, to cost $6,000, will bo built at Howard this year. Limestone, said to be equal to any in the United States, has been found near Redfield. t. Paul man will start a y at Sioux Falls if t give him a bonus of $30,000. Chicago cvangelists begin work in Yunkton this week with a trained chorus of fifty voices to st them. It is esti od that the new straw burn- ~ Tand anembw thio © arge clock city will wly saved the farmers of that 000, wdall has the greatest gushing well in the territory, the flow bei 400 to 500 gallons of water per minute, with a pressure of 200 pounds to the inch. Battle C id to be the coming town on 1l ern road between p and Rapid City. Tt is the nearest location to the tin and mica mines, and is likely to be the location of reducing mills, mica works and gypsum mills. The supply of gypsum is siid to be un- cqualled in the world, The railroad company has purehased 320 acres of land at this place, and, it is believed, will locate o town th next summer. b i LITERARY NOTES, Messrs. Cassell & Co., of New York, publish, in two volumes, Prince Bismarck, an historical biography, by Charles Lowe, M. A., with introduction by Professor Munroe Smith, of Columbia College, New York. This is the first complete his- torical sketch by an English writer of the career of the great German statesman. “Our ancellor,” by Busch, of which an English translation was lately publish is known to American read but it is fragmentary and Boswellian. Mr. Lowe's biography, howe is connected and claborate and is reafly a political history of modern German The firat volume brings the history of Bismarc Ife down to the close of the Franco-German war. The second covers the period from 1871 to 1885, and here we have a com- plete sketch of Bismarck’s foreign and internal poli establi the empire, ssarily become history of Continental Euarope. Von Moltke is the one public man in the civ- ilized world who has upheld war as an ideal. Bismarck is the i many, an important factor in all ques- tions of the period; and the story of the establishment of national unity, “told as Mr. Lowe tells it, is of value to all who can discern the signs of the times and of the seasons, Mrs. Laura C, Halloway has made a welcome contribution to theatrical liter- ature in a souvenir sketch of the life of Adelaide Neilson. It is published in_ele- gunt style by Funk & Wagnalls, of New ork. At is printed on heavy paper, i handsomely bound, and contiins nume; ous photographs of the beautiful and sirted actress. The history of Adelaide Neilson is indecd a touching stor The early years of the great actress were marke R by great hardships. Her moth- er’s name was Browae, She was an a t , jed and still in her teens when Adelaide was born. Subsequently she married Mr. Bland, painter and paperhanger, and retired from the stagi She and her husband resided in Skinton- in-Craven two years, from 1848 to 1850, and then removed to Guiseley. At that time Adelaide Neilson or ‘‘Lizzie Ann Bland" as she was then called, was four years old. Her tather an actor at- fached to a company in Leeds. His name,Mrs, Bland always refused to di vuige but she is authorily for the state ment that he was a Spaniard, and that the personal beauty of her d an Inheritance from him. Wi 3 old the girl discove y ident thut she was not Mr. Bland’s daughter; and brooding on this sec w restless and cared no longer to remuin at hom She went out as a nurse girl by d sleeping at home at night until the ti came when she mustered courage to sce! her fortune in Londo) She received her wages, and at nightfall, in teavs, went out into the great world where she was to he so dazzling a figure in the ye to come, ¢ six years from that tin no soul who had ever known he either saw her or heard from She made her y to Leeds and spent the night with'an aunt, and the next day went on to London, reaching it late in the fricndless and penmlfess Exhausted, after much aimless *walking she sat down in Hyde park and fell asleep, \\'nkmgh not the morning dawned. She then Mn‘n-u)ud to a policc man, who took her home to his wife, where she was received with Kindoes her. | s working usa seawmistress uutil she ob- ) wilderness into_a_great _city, Brander Matthews contributes a_short but well- told story—*‘Brief as Woman's Lov and Mr. Howells writes in the “Editor's Study" in a semi-cynical vein on an im- pending surfeit of poet The Pansy for Februa: & Co.) contains short stor pictures, little sermons an Morse, the inventor, and Joan of Arc the subjects in the alphabet ser great men and women. The opening article in “The Popular rience Monthly” for Mareh, “Biological aching in Colleges,” 15 a sharp ¢ cism of the failure of the colleges and th schools before them to y adequate training to the obsery- ing powers on which, by the modern view, all true instructions ought to rest. “Poem to Gene is Mr. Gladstone's y to Professor Huxley's “Interpreters is and Interprefers of Nature,” ppeared in the February numl AManthiv 11 De Ohawlae (1 Ak ¢ (. L. Lothrop poems and bott, in a very pleasant and readable k per, discusses the value of the “*Animal W eather-Lore” on which country people relied more before the signal service re- borts were started than they do now. Professor Edward 8. Morse furnishes an illustrated article on *Japanese House- Bnilding.”” Mr. N. H. Egleston speaks a word in favor of the general institution observance of “Arbor-Day.” Mr. Lan- sing's instructive paper on ‘‘Discrimina- tion in Railway Rates”’ and Chauncey Smith'’s interesting article on *‘The In fluence of Inventions upon Civilization" are concluded. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pennecll, whose clever lijtle ?)nuk, “A Canterbury Pil- grimage,’”’ has been such a success, have written and illustrated a new work, en- titled “Italy, from a Tricycle.”” It is a description’ 'of a pilgrimage on three wheels, recently made by them from Florence to Rome, and it will appear in two numbers of The Century, beginning with March. Captain Coffin, author of “The Amer- iea’s Cup,” “Old Sailor Yarns,” etc and at present yacht editor of the N York World, contributes to the Mu Outing the first of a scrics of pap; “Blockade Running during the Wal M. J. Burns will illust generally known tha present imac fight. Japtain at the Monitor and e A Roman Story Merchant Traveler: Maximus Severus Tarquinius was a Roman senator repre- senting the S teenth district and resided with his wife at a boarding house on the Appian W, It had long been the wish u} the noble Roman and of his wife, that she should wear a sealskin cloak to keep out malarin, but, so far, the legislative ipend had been unequal to gratify the rsonian simplicity of the Senator, One cloudy, cold morning just after the ides of Docember, he kissed his wifo good bye at the front door of the ¢ and yanking his toga up to shut out the insalubrious atmosphere, he strode down the steps. Will you be back to lunch, Tark, " lisped Mrs. Severus. Pulcherrima Candida, not to- . ““here is important business before the senate, and the inter- ests ot the peonle demand every hour of atroit’s time, every consideration of 1t is enough, dear; be back to dinner though, for we are to go to the circus U5 this eve to heur a now joke by t clown Terence Catullus.” is, indeed, worthy of heroie firmly, almost fierc and for the sccond time gave his toga hiteh and put on his strode, It was late when Tarquinius returned, but his dinner had been kept warm for him and his wife met him in her boudo] in the L over the kitchen. He had s large puckags in his arms but she climbed over it and kissed him At lust,” he murmured, throwing it on the bed “What is it he asked tenderly, “A seul skin cloak,” he answercd sionately. YO love, oh rapture,” she exclaimed hugging him with one tem and tearing oft the Wrapper with the other, “how did you get it* when did you get the money '’ 1 “I yoted properly in the senute, dar- ling.” | Voted? how? what ' she hesitated in bedazzled bewilderment “Candida! Wife! T haye spoken. Ask | me no yu ons. Tarquinius Maximus Severus 1s not ou the witness stand.” . 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