Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 3, 1886, Page 4

- WASHINGTON OFFIC | e WerkLy Dre, Published Every Wednesaay. 18 doing very well. .-hn THE OMAfiA DAILY BEE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3. 1886, _THE DATLY BEE. OMANA OFFICE N0, 014 AND OTAFARY AM ST NEW Y ok OFice, Roos 65, TRIBUNE BUILDING No. 513 Founrrestin 87 Published evers morning. vonpt Sunday. The onl; londay morning pap #tai publishod in the TERMS BY MATL: £10.00Three Months 5.00/0n6 Month Year. ix Months. 2M L 100 TERMS, POSTPAID One Year, with premium. . £2.00 One Year, without preminm 1 £ix Monthe, without premium v . Ono Month, on trial 0 CORRESPONDENCE: Allcommunications relating to_news and edl- torial matters should be addressed to the Epr TOK OF “HE DEE. DUSINES LETTERS! All bu siness letters and remittances shonld be Budroased to THE IEE PUBLISITING COMPANY, OMAAA. Drafi ccka wnd postofice_orders 1o be made pay the order of the company. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS. E. ROSEWATER. Epiton. Mavor VAvGHaN, of Council Bluffs, has been retired from politics. M. Bram's educational bill may be termed a reward for illiters 80ME of the standing candidates for the city council ought to sit down, or perhaps still better, be sat down upon. For a nineteen-year-old state Nebrask She will ve o mil- lion inhabitants by the time she cele- brates her twenty-first birthday. ‘WaiLE the action of the council in ap- propriating £300 to pay the expenses of the Thu may not be strictly legal orin accordance with the views of some taxpayers, it will probably mect with the endorsement of the majority of the people, Tie Central Telephone company of Yndiana has given notice to its sub- geribers that, in view of the de on of the supreme court sustaining the validity of the law regulating the tolls, it will discontinue service in that state. If the night service is no better than it is in Omaha, it will be no loss to the cities of v council last evening discussed the matter of submitting to the people the spring election a proposition for $100,- 000 sewer bonds. Such a proposition would no doubt be carried. as the people of this city have nlready scen the benefits of public improvements, and are alive to the importance of keeping pace with the growth of the city. Tur Herald bids Mayor Percival of Coun- cil Bluffs *‘good morning” and hopes e may have many more of them,—Herald. “Mayor" Percival will probably think the above isa pretty how-do-you-do, in view of the fact that Chapman bas been elected mayor by 260 majority, according to the Herald's own special dispateh. This is a case of counting chickens before hatching. 'Owama will this year put up more buildings of a metropolitan character than she has during the past three years, afid yet we do not boast of any boom. All we claim is a steady, substantial growth each year in buildings, public im- gruvemonu, wealth, and population. he city has now over 70,000 population, and it is safe to say that she will go bevond 100,000 before the year 1890. AND now the Arizona editors are howl- fng because Crook took them at their word and refused Geronimo any terms ‘but unconditional surrend They now insist that he shold have paid no atten- tion to the flag of truce, but that he ought to have seized the bloodthirsty Apache without further ceremony. General Crook is not capable of such a transac- tion. He is a soldier who has always Kkept ns plighted faith with Indians as well as white men. Geronimo will yet bo taken if the Mexican bushwackers can be yestrained from joining with the Apaches in slanghtering American comimands that oross the border. o PresipENT CLEVELAND respectfully de- clines to give his reasons for the removal of officials, and the sonato can now busy §tself in discovering what it can do about it. ‘Che attitude of the presi- dent, as we have pointed out, is directly onposed to his reform pretensions, and rag\m by his oft-repeated professions inconsistent and untenable. But itis ifticult to sce how it 1s to be met by any obposition on the part of the sen- ato. That body may nse to con- #irm the nominations sent in until wongress adjourns, but it will the same process to repeat in the next session. The appointing wower of the president eannot be success- fully assailed. Its operation may bo ob- structed temporarily, but it is dilicult to #ee what the republican m ity have to ®aln by such a course. The present con- fict has smoked tho executive out from Pehind his mask and oxposed the thin weil behind which he has concealed his Jittle General Grant, Buel and Shiloh. General Don Carlos Buel ventures to review the battle of Shiloh through the eolumnsof the March number of the Cen- tury Magazine. The aim and purpose of this contribution to war history is to be- detract from the fame of General Sherman, and place lau- rels on the brow of Don Carlos Buel, It is not our purpose to discuss the couduct of the respoctive commanders of the Union army at Shiloh, mnor do we propose to contradict General Buel's reminiscences of the battle. Suflice it to say that his account of the importance of the part he played in that bloody field is flatly opposed not only to what both Grant and Sherman have written, but to the testimony of many officers who took part in the battle but had no nart in the controversy over its conduct. In entering the lists to savagely criticiso the ablest gencrals that commanded the union armies during the entire war, General Buel ean searcely hope to escape a soarching criticism of his own conduct in the southwestern campaign. We are bold cnough to assert that if Don Carlos Buel had done his duty and handled his army with ordinary tact and vigor there never would have been a battle of Shiloh. Al- bert Sidney Johnson would not have reached Pittsburgh Landing and the con- federates would never have been able to concentrate their forces for successful resistance to the victorious mareh of the Union troops from Nashville to Vicks- burg. General Buel was among the first maj generals appointed by Lincoln. He was given the most important command in the southwest subject only to General Halle and was expected to sweep Kentueky and Tennessee clear of the Confederates. With an army of 100,000 men, comprising the flower of the western volunteess, fully equipped for the most protracted campaign, General Buel sat down near Munfordsville, K during the winter of 61~ nd allowed himself to be held in cheak by Albert Sidney Johnson, with less than 15,000 confederates. This little army of confed's was 150 miles away from reinforcements, and its only advan- tage was the fortified camp at Bowling Green. Had Buel seen fit to flank them, if he did not care to fight with odds of six to one in his could have marched upon Nashville with impunity, captured theLennesseo capital in the rear of John- son’s army, which would have forced John- son to abandon Bowling Green and fight his way through. Thore was no dangor of Johnson marching on Lonisville with the Union army of 100,000 men in his rear and his base of supplies cut off. But General Buel was not only inactive with his superh army, but he actually allowed Johnson to detach a portion of his small command and send them to Donclson with the heavy siege guns which had been planted on the fortifications near Bowling Green. After Grant had captured Don- elson, Buel permitted Johnson and his whole command to retreat unmolested to Nashville while a regiment of Texas rangers held the picket line in front of his army. Grant's capture of Donelson took place on the 16th of February, 1862, and Buel with his great army did not put in an appearance in front of Nashville until a weck later. At that juncture the con- federates under Johnson were on a cipitate retreat southward over the differ- ent routes, the greater portion on the lino of the Nashyille & Chattanooga railrond by way of Murfreesboro, while a smaller division was on the run down the Decatur road. On the day after Gen- ral Buel arrived in Nashville he was per- ly informed by the writer, who had d the rebel rotreat through Nashvill, not only us to the condition of Johnson's forces but of the helplessness of Bishop General Polk, hen at Columbus, to make a junction with Johnson. Polk was about to evacu- ate Columbus and retreat on Memphis, owing to the movement of the for under Grant and the flotilla of gunboats operating on the Cumberland and Ten- nessee riv Any vigorous and compe- tent commander would have taken advan- tage of the demoralized condition of tho enemy, moved his forees in pursuit and occupied the rotic points. The great artery through which all supplies for the confederates between cast and west wers then passing was the Memphis & Charl town railrond. Had General Buell marched south to Corinth and Chat- tanoogn, and stationed & large torce at these points the war in the west would have been half over. There would have been no Shiloh, Vicksburg, Lookout Mountain or Mission Ridge. There might not even have been a march to the sea by way of Georgia, and the fame wh ant and Sherman achieved in the southwest, and of which Don Carlos is so envious, would have all been monopolized by Buel. But instead of emulating Grant and taking the offensive, General Buel for four long woeks squatted at Nashville with his great army of 100,000 men, gave the confederates ample time to recuperate their losses, concen- trate their forces mear Corinth, and increase thewr fighting strength to 50,000 partisanship. That is all, but it is some- over which the mugwump editorial de are now shedding tears of bitter mortification. A HEAVY co-operative schemo is pro- Joctod by the Amalgamated Association ~ of Iron and Steel Workers of Pittsburg. ~ eommission. ~ consin; St. 1 " moot with equally satistactor It contemplates the establishment of a depot or store from which will be Pistributed supplies of flour, groceries boots and shoes, tobacco, ete., to subordi- nate stores throughout the manufactur ing communities of the coun Manu- gacturers and merchants in P othor cities have agreed to furnish supplies either at minimum wholesale y or on The goods will be'the same 88 sold to the wealthiest classes and w be marked by the association. Promi- pent among the subordinate depots will be Wheeling, West V in; Steuben- ~ wille and Bellair, Ohio astle, In- diana; Chicago, Winois; Bay View, Wis- uis Missouri; Birmingham, Alabama; Wheeling, Alabama; Ironton and Portsmounth, Ohio; Ashland, Ken- ,tueky; Cincinnati and Mingo, Ohio, and the various cf of the Shenango and Mahoning valley, including Cleveland, in short, all of the localities in which are eities and towns employing organized Jabor, and more especially amalgamation members. In England co-operative stores have proyed successful wherever com- t men have been found to manage ghem. There is no reason why thewr in- troduction in this country should not results. men, Thus it came, to use the language of General Buel, that “‘the banks of the ‘Tennessee witnessed a remarkable oceur- ence twenty-three years age The fact is that Don Carlos Buel ono of three generals overburdened with caution, who wanted to make war with- out hurting the enemy. These bold com- manders only fought battles when driven to the wall, and then they inwardly dis- covered that some other general had blundered in bringing on an engagement 1f all the generals on both sides had been as cautious and loth to move and fight as Don Carlos Buel, we would have had a very bloodless war, and the pension roll which General Buel now supervises would be v slim, As re- gards Shiloh, it is beyond dispute that all the bloody fighting was done befo Buel arvived, While his arrival have been, as he states, in the nic time, it would have been more d for Gene stances are considered, to hay pen as closely sheathed as he did his sword in front of Nashville. A Bad Sugge A proposition to erect another building on the high school grounds was intormal- 1y laid before the board of education at its lust meeting. The suggestion was of- fered as a remedy for the overcrowded condition of the high school building und as & weans of furnishing room for the ae- commodation of the lower grades. We hope that such au idea will never be ser- l iously entertained by the school board. it s It means the defacement of our present beautifal high school and the surround- ing grounds, That structure has been for years one of Omaha's greatest prides. In excollence of architectural design unsurpassed by few school buildings in the country. The character of its construction, and its proportions require just such a settingas it has in the full square in which it stands. To add another building to the high school grounds would be to detract greatly from wco of the high school itself no question that some additional facilities should be provided for school purposes in the neighborhood of the high school. The increase in the higher grades s bringing the time near at hand when whole of the building will be need for the use of the high school. This is what was contemy 1 when the building was first constructed, But it will be cheaper for the board to pay a round sum for a suita- Dle lot on Dodge or Davenport strect on which to ercet another building than to use any portion of the square for such a purpose. Our taxpayers would rise in earnest protest against any move which proposes to injure the appearance of the nigh school grounds, even for educa- tional purposes in the lower grades. the The City Hall. The detailed plans for the new city hall building have been on file at the ongin- r's oflice for ne month. Itisnow in order for the city council to advertise for bids, if for no other n than to ascer- tain definitely what it will cost to con- struct a building in accordance with the plans. The city will encounter no dif- ficulty in securing bids from responsible contractors conditioned upon the con- struction ot the city hall as rap- idly as funds s raised for its ment. With the $20,000 which the board of education has placed at the disposal of the council for this purpose, the contractor can at least build the basement this season, and it $20,000 or §25,000 more can be set apart from the general fund, the building can be pushed as far as the second story this year. Next winter the legislature will doubtless authorize the issue of bonds to complete the building, and the funds will be avail- able in the spring of '87 to go on as rapidly as the construetion of five-proof public buildings will permit. There can be no harm ia inviting pro- posals under the plans. This will enable us within thi days to let the contract this spring, either for the whole building or for the basement, if that is thought better. The present condition of the markets for building materialis such that money will be made by an early contract before a rise takes place which will in- erease the amounts of the bids. The Business Situation. The trade movement all along the ling is increasing gradually in volume, and the improvement will continue with the approach of the spring scason. The re- ports as to the condition and promise of business are uniformly encouraging. The distribution of general merchandise, and particularly of dry goods is steadily en- larging, and, while there is compai tively little speculative feeling, the prepa- rations for spring wants give evidence of widespread confidence in the prospects for a satisfactory season. Business fail- ure ast week number 214 in the United States and thirty-four in Canada, or o total of 248, as against 286 the pre- vious week and 275 the week before. More than bhalf of the failures in this country occurred in the southern and western stutes. Notwithstanding the weakness of the raw staple there is & pretty firm feeling in the market for manufactured cottons, the steadiness of which is helped by the labor troubles and partial curtailment of priduction in New England and the p.omise of a good spring trade. Trade in woolen goods is improving, and there seems to be little doubt but that the vol- ume of business during the next few months will realize expectation: rofits, or anticipated profits, have b cut down by the 10 per cent advance in mill labor and the competition of fol yarns and fabries, and the wool trade is ing the offect of the disappointmen anutacturers. The iron trade shows satisfactory activity and confronts en- couraging indications of sustained de- mand and firm pri The visible supply of wheat shows a decrease of 700,000 bushels, but the stoc is 50 largo that this proportion of decline from week to week from now until next crop will be insufficient to exhaust the apparent surplus without the aid of larger exports. Corn prices closed last week slightly lower in the west, and about the same as a week ago in the east- ern market Exportdemand for corn has been less active, asrecent shipments have temporarily supplied the wants of for- eign buyer: It costs from 13 cents to 15 conts to transport a bushel of corn from Chicago to New York, a distance of more than 800 miles. It costs 28 cents a bushel to haul corn from Cozad, Nebraska, to Don- ver, a distance of 800 miles. And yet we are informed that the rates on Nebraska roads are fair and reasonable, and that the men who complain of them are granger cranks and socialistic reformers who are trying to destroy property inte ests and to interfere with the right to charge patrons what the . will bear residents of Omaha for the abolition of the presidency, with the follow- ing sentence: “They are all foreigners and do not understand the principles laid down in the constitution of their adopted land.” This is an uncalled-for slur upon such citizens as Messrs. Heimrod, Bur- and Andres, who, although of foreign birth, haye not yot discovered that that fact bars them from any of the privileges of American citizenship, It does not require any deep “understand- ingof the principles laid down in the con- stitution” to know that the right of peti- tion is guaranteed by that mstrument to all citizens native born or naturalized. The waccident of birth under our coustitution operates in only one instance to the disadvantage of the foreign born citizen. He is ehgible to any oflice under our government but that of chief executive. The president must be pative born. The petition of the Omu- ha citizens who are attacked by the Know nothing editor of the Herald, con- tains an ides which was fully discussed at the time the constitution was under debate. There were numerous opponents in those days to the presidency, and many advocated that congress through its presiding officer shquld exercise such exeentive functions s might be found necessary without delogating to the prog- ident powers greater than those possessed by the sovereign of the English throne. While comparatively few will be found nowadays to agree with the Omaha citi- zens in their view as tothe necessity for such a constitutional change, there is nothing in the proposition to call for slurs not only on their nationality, but on all the foreign born citizens of the coun- try. CABINET PUDDING. Secrotary Endicott persists in keeping a savage dog at his front door. Attorney General Garland's favoriteamuse- ments are fishing and eating candy. Secretary Manning Is said to be more wil] ling to give official information than any other member of the cabinet. Sccretary Endicott makes the army officers wear their uniform on all full-lress oceasions, They hod fallen {nto the black swallow tail habit. Mrs. Whitney is the dinner-giver of the cabinet, has the incomparable cook, and in- troduces all sorts of novelties in her feasts, Seeretary Whitney is generally eredited by politicians with having high political aspira- tions, Gath informs us that ney thry Manning and Whit- o weeks ago threatened to resign from the cabinet if Clevelanddid not ask for Garland’s commission, But they were un- able to earry out their threat, from a domes- tic trouble in the family of one of them, wlhere a sickness changed the situation, SENATORS AND CONGRESSM Senator Vance has sixteen relatives on the government pay-roll, Senator Logan is as reluctant to tell hisage as women usually are. Senator Don Cameron is failing in health again and will go south, Senator Blackburn, wears low-quartered broad silk strings. Senator Vest, who has been suffering with neuralgia and congestion of the ear and brain, is convalescent, . Logan denies that he wrote the s tional warnovel attributed to him. d written by u historical writer for the weekly press, Gen. Byron M. Cutcheon, congressman from Michigan, is a tall, dark-whisk with a face much like that of Gen. Gariield, and is one of the most aifable men in con gress. Senator Ingalls s an ardent lover of na- ture, It is not unusual for him to start off on atramp across the Maryland and Virginia hills alone and it is his boast that he fre- quentiy walks twenty miles on a bright clear day. Representative Boach, ot New York, ac- cording to the Washingtan Capital, chews more tobaceo and uses, moro ink in one day than any other member ofl the house. 'This assertion is based upon actual measurements of his “plug” and the soundings of his ink well. st Congressman Herbert, of Alabama, it is said, has a fashion of arising in his place in the back par 1of the hiall of the house of rep- resentatives, and with a quick upward move- ment of his right arh, as though he was making a bid at an auction sale, uttering a terrific yell, which gains the speaker's ear, evenif it fails to catch his eye, L Drawing a Long Breath. Chicagh Trilne, is judge has deciled that the ba lot-boxes cannot be opened in contested-elec- tion e now on there and a number of “Colonels” are drawing the first long breath s they have taken sinco the suits began. b oty Silver Dollars and Silver Speeches. Chicago Tim There are now only seventy-nine cents in the silver dollar. Nevertheless, the silver dollar is a great deal better off than most of the recent silver speeches, in which there is no sense at all. proud of his foot, Newport ties, with i A St. Lo R s il A Strong Hand. Oentral City Courler. The Omaha BEE of the 17th Introduces a halfcolumn_ entitled *“Kings and Queens.” A careful perusal of the paragraphs discovers the fact that they are confined to three kings and two queens. ‘This is about as good a se- lection as a man could bs expected to make on short notice. - The Insolence of Railroads. Chicago Tribune, arth have the railroads to do withwhat dressed beof shall cost in New York? They are not arbitrators batween ship- pers and opposing interests. The business of the railroads is to carry anything offered them at reasonable rates. Further assumption is insolence. What on ST Sullivan’s Invitations. St. Louis Iepublican. Tennyson recently said that Longfellow, Emerson. Whittier and_Bryant were “pig- mies compared with Edgar Allen Poe.” Nevertheless Boston is not left ‘comfortless, for time cannot wither nor custom stale the infinite variety of those beautiful invita- tions John Lawrence Sullivan_issues to all the world to visit Boston and be knocked out. A e Could Not Do It Justice, Cass County Eagle, A large company of our citizens went up to Omaba lnst Thursday evening to witness the grand opening of Omaha's Exposition building. We have tried to zet some of them togiveusa description of the affair. But they all claim that they cannot do the subject justice, for it had to be seen and heard, and en felt before it could be written up in proper shape, 50 we are xoing to wait for the next opening, and trg it on our own ac- count, A —e Fickle, Flirting Spring. Columbius Disppteh, Now it 15 that Winter lihgers In the lap of Spring, * Poying with her dainty fingers And their wedding ring, Kissos her-- the old gray, lover— On her rosy eheel, ) Wateh and somethiys You'll discover In about & week. He will catch her thirting boldly With the Summer,wak, And he'll treat rather coldly And will raise a sjorum. Like a pair of agennequal, They will seck divorce And she'll wed—to tell the sequel— Summer warm, of course, AL STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings, Neligh is convineed that Norfolk wants the earth The Rock Island surveyors are oper- ating west of Be Fremont expects to reach the front rank of interior towns this year, A Methodist chureh to cost $1,600 is to be built at Homer this summ A u..l(,..f; of forty families, who expect to settle about ei‘fim miles north of Lodge Pole, are expected in s week or 0. A locomotive collided with a team of horses near St. Edward, Boone county, Friday, killing both' animals. The Lodge Pole Magnet, the Trenton Register and the Pawnee Iutelligencer comprise the February addition to the Jjournalistic ranks in this state. It is claimed that the B. & M. Railroad company has lost, on account of snow blockades and ofher damages due to severe weather this winter, over $100,000. A number of Wayne people have caught the Black Hills fe: and gone to Rapid City, which they are assured is to be the Denver of that region, and more are going. The serios of temperanco mectings at Beatrice closed Thursday night. I)urin:f the meetings nearly 2,000 have signec the pledge, and great interest has been worked up. Mrs. Sadie O'Brien_of Plattsmouth has entered suit against Fred_Goos, M. Bons and M. O'Connor, saloonkeepers in that city, for selling’ her husband liquor, vhich she claims was the immediate canse of his death. Damages, $15,000. The young town of Merna, Custer county, narrowly escaped a necktie fos- tival one nigit last week. A drunken ruflian an indecent assanlt on a young lady, and would have been lynened had not the' sherift hid him in a prairie dugout. Towa Items. The contract has been lot City’s big hotel. According to tha latest city directory, Des Moines has a population of 45,000, There s talk at Calliope of forming a stock company to butld a $10,000 hotel. Sioux City pronoses to build two light- draft steamers, with a view to seeure the up-river trade. A colony of Germans from Pennsyl- ania is negotiating for a tract of 12,000 s of land in Osceola county Robinson, a Cedar Falls r, has deserted his wife and gone off with & woman of the town. The s tournament of the Towa Sportsmen tion is to be held at Burlington, June 15 to 19 inclusive. The ofiicial vote of Adair county on the question of bonding the county for $10,- 000 for the purpose of building a court house shows a majority against the prop- osition of 323, A brakeman on a freight train on the Rock Island road was badly cut with a razor by a couple of tramps whom he found in a box ear, near Sti . The men escaped, but were afterward cap- tured. From July 4, 1884, to date the records show that Des Moines city and Polk county paid out $115,671 to enforee prohi- bition, and collected in fines less than $500. This includes cost of suit. ures and officers emploved. Carson is_considerably exercised over the reported elopement of a voung bu: ness man of that place and a young girl, a ‘)upil in the school there. Both are well connected and of good standing in socioty. They have gone to Lincoln, Neb., and the supposition is that they were marricd at that city At Maquoketa, Tuesday night, Mrs. Angeline Underwood, aged about 80 years, went out at the back door of her room, which is in the third story, over a business house, and as she started down the steps she missed a step and fell on the roof of another building, and slid down to its eaves und off, falling through a skylight and onto a show case in a stor beloy. She bas not been consciou and it is thought she can not recover. for Sioux Lawrence county groans under a debt of $900,000. Charles Pool, aged nearly 100 years, as located o claim in the i)e\'il's Lake ion. The artesian well at Ellens 600 feet deep. The drill blue slate. The loss among cattle in the Bad Lands from severe weather is estimated at less than 8 per cent, and smaller than the year preyious. A company has been organ saw logs down Rapid creek to point three miles above Rapid City, where & boom will bo built and saw and planing mills erected. The spring immigration to Dakota has commenced. The trains are beginning to bring in cars of cmigrants’ movables and there is every indication of an in- creased growth this year over 1885 and 1884. Mathias Marty, a Brule county farmer, has a tew acres of wheat up which was sown early in January. He also has three and “a half neres of the same grain sprouting which was put in about three weeks ago. ‘The busmess transacted at the United States land oftice during January at the nine oftices reporting, shows an incronse of sixty-six new entries, exclusive of tim- ber culture entries, over December. The total number of homestead, pre-emption and soldiers’ filings at the nine offices for January was 604, against 538 for Decem- ber, and the number of timber culture entries was 238, against 392 entries dur- ing the previous month. Some months ago a young lady in moving from on point t0 another a tho Black Hills thought her old cook stove was hardly worth moving, but a man offered her 1,000 shares of Lron Hill stock for it, and she accepted it suppos- ing it to be aboutas valuable as confeder- ato issues. Recently she has been off $2,000 tor the stock. She will hold it for larger figures, as it, is gomng up rapidly. is now working in ed to float — The Candle-Fish. St. Nicholas for March: Peoplo do not got candles from water, as a rule, 1 believe, but nevertheless tiere was a time when men were indebted to the ocenn for much of the hght that made their homes pleasant at night. The best candles nm{ oil of your forefathers' time came from whales, There is, however, a very remarkable light-giver, which is nothing more nor less than a small fish This fish is so very oily that all you have to do, after it has departed this life, is to fasten it by its tail between two pieces of wood, touch a mateh to its head, and a pale flame will arise from the fish's mouth that lasts until, like a candle, the fish is slowly consumed. The useful fish, morcover, isn very important one to people living on the northwestern coast of North America. At certain seasons the candle-fishes Swarm the bays and rvivers in vast num- and every native man, woman, and child is engaged in capturing them, Hnd how do you suppose they catch 0t They actually comb them " he boats “drive them in shore, where each rati armed with a gigantic weapon with teeth eight inches long, sweeps or combs them up by the hundrel, When the boats are loaded full, the fish are carried ashore, where women | children take uh.u';]n- of them. Aftel ng dried and smoked, they are ready for candles. They are also used as food and in - that caso the oil is tried out and put sway for winter use. - In the Federal Bullding. Mr. C. J. Brown, the newly appointed postal _inspector, is expected o wrrive }l'uun Washington Taursday. Marshal Bierbower yesterday held a speciul master's sale of some land in Clay county, to satisfy a judgment in the case of William R.” Post vs. Catharine Dowse. The property was bought in by 0. P. ‘Shellabarger, of Hastings, for §3,000. ading Plans. ChiefEngineer Rosewater and his assist ants are busily engaged in drawing up plans for the grading of Jones, Juckson, Leavenworth and Sixteenth streets, which are to be graded this year. The detuils of the Sixteenth stroet viaduct have not yoet been completed: FASHIONABLE LUNCH FIENDS. Tho Orush of Toga and the Crash of Orockery at the White House, The Puncheons of the President and the Low-Necked Luncheons of Miss Cloveland—High Wines and Late Hours, Wasmixaton, D. C,, Feb. 20.—[Corres- pondence of the Bre.]—""Itis mournfal— nay, it is maddening—to observe how many people are misplaced in the high- ways and byways of life,” says Miss cland in her chapter on “Altruistic “aith.” And this most aptly illustrates this day and genoration at the national capital. Tam constantly impressed with the above every time I o to congress, and wonder f Miss Cleveland did not have her mind's eye upon Washington when she wrote that trathfal ntenoce. Yet, no doubt, she little thought when she was delivering that lecture to school At she herself should be placed in onal highway Just how “mad- ding'' it will be to her we shall see. And this good little lady also says in her famous book, “We are apt to have notions till we get knowledge.” I should y s0. It 1s evident that Miss Cleve- wnd's notions of people and society hay changed, to a large extent, since she en tered” the White' House. So thought 1 as 1 paid my eets with some friends the othe noon between the hours of turee and four, the hour when the mistress of the exceative nsion—or as she calls it on her m told, the “‘vresident’s house heér special friends and 1 friends, and altogethe v, that of going to sce the - sister three afternoons, Monday, y and Wednesday, of each week. The gracious ushers allow you just about threo minutes--you sce people are lot in in squads—and then you are crowded out by another squad just when you are in the middle of the second syllable of the only word that has cnteved “your head to express your great delight at being able o sp at all, for one smiles into a pos- ative blankness, as though some diaboli- cal trap door had opencd to let them down. It is speechless business at the Dbest, this hand-shaking, and appalling (o pun intended) to the nerves! Miss Yleveland stands at the ent of the red parlor, or about thir into the room to leav space for incoming and soing every three minutes. As you you are ‘blinded and strangled by the dim glare of billious lig comes from aeross tho Potomace Flats and struggles through two be-curtained windows. First, many panes of glass that suggest storms at sea, with liver colored shades, and then heavy hangings with sunflower tinted linings, and” then lace curtains made yellow with age, the “blue vaults of heaven” have little 'chance in that room. It takes you a full minute to see g and find out just where to o out with the well turned sentence you have committed for the ot on. HII" Miss Clevy )t‘ d sees 'l%\l all the time and helps you find yoursélf by extending her hand in no flimsy flopping way either, und with her cheerful, clear *how do you do, Mrs. Smith,” or “gzlad to sce you, Mr. Jones,” She alw: catehes on to your name and gives you a minute to stare at her and then—well, Miss C. nods and smiles and you found yourself out in_the hall with that second syllable unspoken, the fiendish grin of the bland usher bringing you to a ' sense of what a farce the whole And still there ave peoplt who 1 these three muinu Is at the whit house each afternoon, just what for th Lord only knows, just becaunse they not because th its of beauty and jo nature from the portals of the ¢ mansion is a divine study. TIME WORKS MIRACLES. Isee a decided change, and as tho world of fashion goes, I _suppose for the better, in the outward appearance of Mi leveland, since I paid my first visit. Possibly some of my readers may remember what I had to say of that visit last March. Be that as it may, Iean't speak for a change of heart, but the: certainly a change of the head. Then the hair was worn short and curly about the and all the world said the new mistress of the white house was ‘‘short red and strong minded, (did have that appearance). Now that pretty, light prown hair is all gathered on the top of the head after the most approved fas jon, and very becoming it ng the somewhat thin, angular face, irlish, or rather g ) ap: in fact, she is plumper no lissiputions of 5o ? h her. People always g White house in spite of the malai MRS OO ST e e rounded out, but sho hasn'Cquite reached that *‘perilous bordc sting her swectness on the vulgar hat toy- ing with roses on the brink of the abyss, as it were, While her dresses have ‘the demi-fashionable cut, tl haven’t the ultra-fashionable slash, that of merel; covering the ribs, a code of dressing that distinguished some of her ladies in wait- She has good clothes and_ plenty of nand wears them well, but I wish she had the courage to wear her dresses 50 high in the neck that_they would hook into her ears to keep in place, rather tian wear a limbing waist filled in with Ince. Were she as courageous in all things as she was in discarding wine at hor funeh. tablo Inst Friday, we would pass down on our knees and thank Heay- en that the women of Ameriea are so well repr White house, THAT BIG LI to sixty Indies that Miss n last week was a suce The big stato dining room was made to look its best, all but that horrid glare of sickish light, which brought out” all the wrinkles on the ladics’ faces through the powder, as an opery gluss brings out stago mike- ups.” You see, President Arthur had all the rooms refurnished to look well at night, the yellow tints lighting up bril- iantly. fint by day the humid light is . The windows should be elosed, i the gas turned on full force all the year around to make things and people look well. But those who sat with their s to the light, and no doubt Miss eland chose well, had the best of it. However, benuty that won't stand the midday sun isn’t beanty atall, and as pretty is that pretty does, all did pretty well, considering the feast ad before was fit for a Byron to see n woman eat. Some of our society belles don't look us well cat ing as they do dancing; the waist about the low vibs, in the locahty of the stomach, is 5o pinched that the'effort to to get down something solid is most con torting to the muscles of the f. and the waunt of good bre g 1 have scen at society’s table would bLreak the spell woven about the most :nt lover, or love-lorn maiden, should she see how her adorable swi ng the rounds of receptions, where there 15 & *£o-as-you case” style of eating and drinking! BUT O RETURN TO OUK SHEEP. izabeth has no notion of lettin et the best of her \ds, notshe. Her lunch wus just as eluborate and expensiye as a stute dinner, all but the soven kinds of wine, ice water and Roman punch and that kind of water, what do you call it¥ that men drink carly in the morning after be out lal nigit befor Orf ccurse the dear ladics had a cup: of eeutive i gave hkinznen? of ten with their lunch to have to wait two mortal hours to through with the bill, for something hoy to drink! Right here 1 am reminded of a story. The lunch tablo is the place to tell stories. It was at a WEST POINT COMMENCEMENT DINNER not so0 many years ago either. A most stylish dinner, after the manner of “reg- ulars,” you know. Most distinguished officers of the government were prosent, among them the secretary of war and his wife, who was a motherly, sensitlo woman nd - not in the least over-awed by pompous manners, or daz- zled by shoulGer straps and brass buttons After the first cover had been served and the waiter ne around to fill her glass with wine, she firmly put her hand'o the glass ‘and said: “T1l not take any wine; Iam in the habit of drinking a cup of tea with my dinner; it agrees with my | stomach better; you will please bring me a cup of teal” It was like the explosion of a bombshell among the sword dang: lers; they looked at each other and stroked thoir curled-up moustachos but didn't dare smilo, keeping their eyes riv- cted on their plates like sistors of Arity demurely looking at the toes of their boots in the strc cars. The servant stood t, never having sorved such a drink such a dinner. ‘ihn the presid- ing officer was equal to the oceasion, and said in a loud commanding voice, as though he were giving an order for an army to move on “.lof.'n, bring madam a cup of hot groen tea at once!” John went ont looking distressed and puz- zled and it was a long time be- fore that eup of tea nccompanied by Jolin, put i an appearance. In the meantime the dinner moved vight along after the preseribed rogulations as though nothing had happened to break the mon otony of such stupid, dignitied elegan But madam quictly nibblod at hot. fsh while waiting for that cup of tea. To “re- turn to our mutton” again; it Kkinder Pl ne to see this fomale suffragist— of course she believes in her own rights and takes all she can get—giving these big spreads, showing the dear men that “goose parties” are guite as formidable as “gandor foeds.” Ttis a case of *nip and tuek’” at the White House, The sister has the best of it as it now stands, she laving gone her brother one better by publishing a book. But, bless you, heis daily furmishing Mark Twain,” congress and other historians material for future reading enough to make & dozen books. To-night there is to be another state oceasion at the White house, the presi- dent’s reception to the army and navy. To-morrow (Saturday) Miss Cleveland will give another big lunch pa world of society is happy. THE ) ST EVENING RECEPTIONS are those given by the sccretary of the d Mrs, Whitnoy ovory Thursday cvening—card receptions—that is only those who have been iny n attend, and, I am told, about a thousand or more recciye invitation: This, I suppose, takes inall the ofticial and society peo- ple. The reception is from 9 tll 12 o'clock—an hour when honest _peoplo ought to be in ved—and then dancing till 3 o'clock in the wmorning, and supper of the most elabora variety, with “all Kinds of wines, punch and other strong drinks to wash it down. Said a gentlo- 1 who had attended one of these tremendous erushes: It was one of tho Ingzest things of the kind I evor at- tended, and I have scen a_good deal of the ways of the world, The ladies were most magnificently n\rusaed. but some of them with such serimp dress patterns that they didn't have enough to finish out the waist above the belf line, and I felt s0 much sympathy and omba that I did Ilrndlill" but drink, drink, all night long to_hide my grief over the un- fortunates. I tell” you it makes a fellow feel all shook up the 3 vy a8 though he had been roughly hiandled by a western lone, or been outon the'road with a light ma of the G e, I'hisisa severe criticism Iadics,” I replied. “What an they expect,” said he, “if they will dress in a way to suggest ety shows they certainly are shame- faced enough to ‘stand all” that will be said about them. But Heaven protect our young girls from such riotous so- clety.” And this is the ‘“‘reform administra- tion.” Just here Iam reminded of At- torney General Garland, but I'm talking too much, I'll tell you what I know about the “‘tempest in the teapot,” next time. 16 will take a very strong electric lightto convince me that Gen, Garland is not an honest man and faithful oflicer, the very hest of the lot. Con. of our so- Ohinamen Ah Kong, a Chinese took out his first naturalization papers in istrict court yesterday. 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