Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 16, 1886, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1886, THE DATLY BEE. PP OMATA OFPICENO. 04 AND OTAFARN AM ST New Yourk Orrice, Roos 65, TRIBUNE BUILDING Wasmixaros Orrice, No. 813 FounTerNTn ST Pabliehed cvery morning, exospt Sundny. The only Monday morning paper published in the state. TR Y ST $10.00 Three Months 5,00 One Month 2.5 One Year....... 100 Fix Months. Trr WekkLy Er, Published Every Wednesday. TERME, POSTPAL One Year, with promium o Y e hout promiui ix Months, without premiuf One Mouth, on trial g COMMESPONDENCE: All communications relating to_news and edi. forial mutters should be addressed to tho Lot FOR OF HE BER. BURINTSS LETTERS! All b sine ttancos shonld be padressed t SHING_ COMPANY, OMAfA. Drnt postoce orders 10 be mndo pays der of the company. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS. E. ROSEWATER, Borton. — e Rev. Mr. Butter has been appointed chaplain of the senate. The name is ap- propriate. He has a soft job. Tur Lauer ease develops the peculiar trait in human nature that people can forget a good deal in a short space of time. MINNEAPOLIS I8 now talking about a twolve-story hotel. By the way what has beconte of On six-story million dol- Tar hotel prc Tue question now ari whether all the property purchased in this city by the rail 1s for specu purposes is 10 be exempted from lo tion, SECRETARY LAMAR has again over- ruled Commissioner Sparks. Settlers on the frontier are beginning to look upon Mr. Lamar as an overruling providence. It was thought the new elettion and registration law in Chicago would pre- vent frauds, but we see that erooked registration work has already been perpe- trated. A BarsBer of Farmington, 1llinois, shaved a customer with one hand and stole $80 from his pocket with the other. 1t is to be hoped that such ambidexterity will not become a common practice. P ‘o in Michigan has its pleasant features as well as its dark side. A few days ago an opera company gave a per- formance of the “Mikado” in the prison chapel at Jackson. The Taken from a County Jail,” was rapturously ap- plauded by the five hundred convicts. A bankrupt road, a scheming cavital- ist, & railroad consolidation, heavily watered stock, reduced wages of em- ployes and a general strike. This is the bistory in a nut shell of dozens ot labor troubles in the United States within the past ton years, S1. Louis people complain that their is proving more ¢ thun it used to be at $2.50. It 8 easier to regulate the price of the arti- ole than the rate of the meter. The av Age gas meter is a constant witness to the possibility of perpetual motion. REAL estate continues to jump upward, but the assessors will discover in o few weeks that there is really no foundation for the present boom. Lots worth § will as usual be assessed at $120 or less, especially in cases where they helong to rich capitalists who take a hand in the olection of the assessors. A VERY important meeting of the board of trade 1s called for Tuesday evening, 10 consider the question of encouraging manufactures. Sevoral propositions of great interest to Omaha are to be consid- ered. A full attendance of members is earnestly requested. The board of trade needs a thorough shaking up. Anrmy telescopes are all now pointing towards Washington. Gen. Pope’s suc- gessor is the new doublo star for which the military astronomers are searching. I the telograph is to be belieyed Gens, Howard, Newton, Miles, Gibbon and Crook will all riso above the horizon of the exccutive department ready to be platted on the next chart of the Army Registen REGISTRATION of voters will begin next week. The registrars under the law are required to give notice through the official paper one week before as to time and place where they will sit. With the constant changes in our voting popu- Intion and the frequent changes in voters from ward to ward it becomes necessary that every voter should personally sce to it that his name is on the lists, A CALIFORNIA mining company the sealp of Commissioner Sparks. declines to issue it patents for its elaims, and the French eapitalists back of the company decline to furnish more funds until title to the land is perfected. . Meantime Sparks refuses to advance the ense for hearing, and the mill is closed down. Mr. Lamar should be catled upon to reverso Sparks' rulings, as ho has ready done several times in the publie terest. WesteErN Union didun't pass its last - quarterly dividend, but it did the next worsa thing by adding $5,000,000 of water to the stock of the company. To pay s dividond in scrip from the surplus, with tho proviso that the scrip may be con- yerted into stock, indicates s persistence in the pathway of over-eapitalization that ~ 18 inexplicable, unless the divectors of the I Wastern Union are themselves in favor * of Mr. Cyrus W. Ficld's schemo to sell the property and franchises of the com- Jpany to the government at an enormous iflated valuation. T wars by the railroads against each other and wars between the * mailroads and thewr employes, There ' rumors of coming wars and i strikes. But themost absurd ‘them all was the report that general "strike was to beg'n toduy all over tho S mpion by all the mechanics and laborer: “grolled in labor unions. Such a strike ‘we dare sny r been thought of gept by hairbrained visionaries who ‘see an armed soldier Lehind every bash T meehanies and laborers of this ‘Quuntry are too intelligent to engage in merely to show th pow Be- amy very general strike ocewrs, tiie will be taken for prosenting uny exist, and for making da for cuncessions if any are are coming rumor o Taxing thefland Grants. Among the various bills introduced in congress for the taxation of the untaxed land grants of the railroads, the one re- ported by. Senator Van Wyck from the committee on public lands is the shortcst and most to the point. The favorable re- port accompanying it is equally brief. 1t statos that the graye injustice of excmpt- ing the lands of large corporations from taxation las long been felt as a great wrong by the communities affected and that the clavse of the statute requiring pre-payment of the costs of surveying, sclocting and conveying, hefore the issuc of patents, has been of great bene- fit to the eorporations in shielding them from t tion. The refusal of the railroads to pay taxes on their unpat- ented lands was carly followed by an s peal to the supreme conrt which s ed them on the grounds that the goyern- ment had a lien on the land for costs of survey, and that the sale of the lands for non-payment of taxes would deprive the United States of its inchaate right to land involved in case the companies should never pay costs and obtain title to the same. With the object of removing all the objections made in the supreme court decision exempting the lands from state and loeal taxation the sen ate committee on publi lands las reported the following bill which, if passed, will subjoct all rail- road lands to taxation the same as the lands of individuals under the laws of tie ates and territories where they are Be it enacted by the Senate and Ionse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That no lands granted to any railroad corporation by any act of congress shall be exempt from local taxation by states, torritories, and other municipal corporations on account of any lien of {he United States upon the same for the costs of surveying the same, or because no patent has been issued therefor: Pro- vided, That any such land sold for taxes shall be taken by the purchaser subject to the lien for costs of surveying, sclecting, and conveying, to be paid insuch manner as the sacretary of the interior may by rule provide: Provided further, That this act shall apply only to lands situated opposite to and co- terminous with completed portions of said zoads and in organized counties. See. 2 'That if any railrond corporation re- quired by law to pay the costs of surveying, lccting or conveying any lands granted to 1ch company by acts of con shall for thirty days neglect or refuse to pay any such costs after demand for payment thereof by the secretary of the interior, he shall notity the attorney general, who shall at once com- mence proceedings to collect the same. Sec. 8, That this act shall not affect the right of the zovernment to declare or enforce a forfeiture of any iands so granted, It is better late than never. The whole record of the land grants from their first fraud and high- way robbery of the public for the benefit of the corrupt erew of jobbers who have been engaged in wrecking the land grant roads. The Union Pacific grant was made for a specific time. At the end of five years from the completion of the road all undisposed-of lands were to revert to the government. The object of this eclause in the grant to prevent the railroads from holding the lands for speculative purposes and to stimulate a rapid e of the vast do- main lying parallel to the roads. Legal chicanery and oflicial corruption com- bined clinched the corporation clutch on the land grant ton years after the Union Pacific was completed, and a decision of the supreme court fastened their unlaw- ful grip on the unsold domain by de- ciding that because the road had mort- gaged itslands the grant was “‘disposed of " under the meaning of the charter. For more than twenty years the Union Pacific has retamed thelands in Nebras- ka and elsewhere without paying a dol- lar of taxes on this elass of property and its course has been sustamed by the supreme court on the gronnds stafed in the report of the senate committee as cited, The people of the west have been afforded the instructive spectacle of a gigantic frand upon tax payers of mod- erate means sustained by the decisions of the highest legal tribunal in the coun- try, one of which declared that the rail- road owned its lands because it had mortgaged them and the other of which asserted that its owncrship was sufliciently perfected to enable it to pay local taxation. It 1s barely possible that the present congress may rise supe. rior to the railway !cbby ab the capital and pass one of the several bills intro- duced to right this great wrong under which the producers of the west have smarted for many ye! Fraudulent Assessments, The controvery now raging between Chieago and St. Louis over the relative ies as shown assessment rolls is amazing. No s could be less substantial for accu- rately determining the relative wealth of any two cities. Chicago eomplains, and without question complains justly, that s are frauds of the first water; t in many instances the returns are only one-tenth or one-twenticth of the actual value of the property; that a small provortion of the personal property has been listed, and that it is the practice of each to recomsmend himself to his imm e constituents by assuring them the lowest possible proportion of the yariou All of which is as applicable to Omuh it is to Chicago. No city has suffered more from unequal assessments than Omg The theory of our assessment has been upon a third of the actual values of real properfy, but the practice been to assess upon a fourth to a twentieth of values, ng to the relation which he property owner has held to the nsses- sor. As a general rule thelittle by of poor men and those of moderate means h been assessed fully up to the stand , while the heavy property owners have eseaped with & tithe of the amount at which their lots should justly have peen listed. With real estate which in the open market to-day would bring $100,000,000, last assessment rolls footed up 1 than a tenth of that mmount for rea ud personal prop- erty combined. A fair assessment of real tate his city on @ uniform basis of one-thizd of the actual value would give us at least $20,000,060 upon which to base the next tax Fraudulent assossments keep the indi viduals who do not need such assistance it the expense of the community at large. They injure the linancial standing of the cowmunity in the great money eenters. Capitalists look twice before investing money in a city with 20,000 claimed population aud less than $10,000,000 as- ccor was. sessed valuation. They deroand explana- tions of a tax levy which on its face ap- pears outrageously large while in fact it is based on an assessment ridiculously low. The growth of the city, which is respon- sible for the rapid advance in property, demands increased expenditures, and the treasury is cramped for funds because low and unequal asscssments prevent such a levy us will meet the proper de- mands for running the city government, and will leave a general fund adequate for the pressing necessities of municipal growth. Large public improvements, employing labor and benefitting the whole community, are hampered by the legislative limit which is based on the assessed valuation. The city at largo is made to pay dearly to benefit the pockets of wealthy property owners and to ad- vance the political interests of the ward assessors. And all this is supported and endorsed by the tax shirkors, on the ground that a lawfnl and equal assessment of property in Omaha would increase the proportion of taxes which the ecity would turn in to the state treasury while other countics would eseape on a valuation as low as that under which we are now suf- fering. The folly of such an argument can readily bo scen by comparing the benefits which Omaha would derive with the benelits to the state treasury from the incrensed taxation and by considering that the state board of equalization t in its power to adjust any differences between the basis used for assessment purposes in the various countie Coxaress can scarcely afford to disre- gard the strong pressure being brought upon it by the dairy interests of the country for a stringent law to regulato the manufacture and sale of bogus but- ter. The bill introduced by Senator Miller, of New York, if passed, would go far towards solving the problem n the interest of both producers and consumers of the pure article. It provides that all manufacturers of and dealers in oleomar- garine, butterine, ine and suine 1ust display conspienously in their places of business placards announcing that they make or sell the arti It also im- poses & special tux of $500 on manufac- turers, 8250 on wholesale dealers, and $100 on retail dealers in such articles, compels them to take out annual licenses to carry on such business under penalty of fine and imprisonment, and requires the ping of accurate accounts of all imitation butter manufactured and sold, such account to be open to the inspe of the treasury oflici THE anti-crank resolution of Congress- man Weaver, of Nebraska, has served to lift the gentleman into a degree of noto- i that he might never otherwise have attained. It was indeed a happy thought for Weaver. His name is now in the hands of the fraternity of paragraphers, and there is not a paper in the land that has no t something to say about hi and his resolution. The St. Louis Globe: Democrat'says: “Congressman W eaver had good reason to introdnee his resolu- tion declaring that ‘wher it should not be m the power of a single idiot to prevent the consideration of any mea- sure,” therefore the house rules ought to be 50 umended as to require at least twa members to make objection in such case; and Congressman Bill Springer had equally good reason, no doubt, to jump to his feet and resent the proposition. 1t is one of Springer’s peculiarities that he never fails to answer when his name is called.” La atement of the New Yo nks shows an increase of loans for the week amounting to $1,348,000 and a loss of $2,469,000 in spe Those changes, together with an increase of $2,075,000 in deposits, caused a decrease of $2,450,000 in* the surplus cash reserve of the banks, which is now only $21,400,000 above the legal limit of the national bank: The position of the New York financial institutions of all kinds is no doubt strong as a whole, stronger than was usually the case “efore the small panie of May, 1884, but there is no longer the great accumulation of idle moncy which was so marked during nearly the wholc of last year, A New York publisher has issued in pamphlet form the “’Ostler Joe” poem and has the sublime cheek to ask twenty: five cents for it. He is alittle late, as HORTIY BVETY GQauy Romowmper o the couniry as well as every “patent-inside’’ weekly has published it, and if thero is o man, woman, or child who has not ady become tired of secing and her g *'Ostler Joe,” he, she, or it ought to be exhibited in a dime museum. Tue Grant family, while they have had their misfortunes, have been pretty lueky after all. Mrs. Grant reccives a hand- some pension, and has realized $250,000 trom Gen. Grant's memoirs, while Buck irant will come into a fortune of about $1,000,000 through the death of his father- m-law, ex-Sel v Chaffee, With this much money in the family it is not likely that Fred Grant or any other member will suffer much. ARBITRATION 25 & means of settling la- Lor differences 1s making rapid headway. Several state legislatures are considering arbitration bills, among the latest to join in the movement being the legislature of Virginia. While these proposed bills may not accomplish all that is intended or wished for, yet they will effect some good. They are at least a step in the right direction. Irhas beon generally supposed that the Urited tes has more oflice-holders in proportion to its population than any other country his, however, is an cr- roncous impression. Little Greece has a native population of only 1,250,000, with ! 1 officials in the public service. The anuual revenue amounts to $3,000,- 000, and one-half of it goes to the support of the oilice-holders. Tue contemy vived. nor that Pr t Cleveland es matrimony has been re- This has probably been done to show that he has not been entirely over- come by inne Tre passenger x n Franciseo is not more than ten dollars. Nobody but a Nebraska legislator would have the cheek to ask for a pass. ———— WoEN it is taken into consideration that 7,000 bills have been introduced in the present congress and that three have become laws, we can feel nssured that the country is safe. What would have become of the country if 6,997 of the bills had become laws? ’ 3 NEvVADA has no fear of a Mormon in. vasion. Its soil won't sppport a jack- rabbit, much less a Mormon. S—— POLITICAL POINTS, There are indications that the Connectient democrats will nominat: Congressman Sey- mour for governor. Hiram Atkins, editor of 'the Montpelier Patriot, is named as the rival ¢f Senator Ed- munds in Vermont, ‘The Philadelphia Times says Congressman Bingham, O'Neill and Kelley, of Penn- sylvania, will be renomirated without trouble. Galiisha A. Grow hopes to sieceed Mitcholl as senator from Pennsylvania, He Is said to regard the present gencration of statesmen a poor lot. 1t Is reported that the Tennessee republi- cans will nominate for zovernor Gen. George Money of Nashville, an ex-confederate brig- adier. Money makes tie mare go, Chauncey Black, son of the late Judge is in the race for the democratic ation for governor of Pennsylvania, and Gen, Beaver will probably be the repub- lican vominee, Chicago News: We believe If Senator Ed- munds stood on a barren island 10,000 leagues from any other human being he could put lis hand on a candidate for the presidency of the United States, Simon Cameron, aged $7, has lived to sce an increase of about 50,000,000 in the popu tion of this country, and he still hates every man of them who does not pull with the Cameron elan. Only a short time ago he gave his young grandson a list of Pennsyl- vania politicians who worked against Don’s election as senator, and told the youngster to remember them when he should get into pol- ities. — The Rise of Wages. Boston Itecord. Wages should not be the last thing to rise, it they are the first to fall. A iy Capital and Labor. DesMoines Leader, The ambitions of corporations and eapital must be bounded, and the demands of labor must be considerate or both will suffer. St A Padlock Wanted. Chicago News, The Utah legislature is detained at Salt Lake City by a deadlock. It would be more gratifying to see it detained by a padlock. It Was Overlooked. Washington Hatchet, The Washington correspondents were cu- riously negligentlast week. The purchase of afnew door-mat for Secretary Whitney’s liouse was entirely overlooked. A b Valuable Information. Chicago News. The newspapers whichare publishing por- traits of the candidates for the several oflices in Chicago are furnishing ta the detective agencies of this county some- valuable infor- mation for futui sl The Use of Leat. St. Louis GlobeeDemaocrat, Lent is now upon us, ,and the democrats may accordingly comfort themselves with eflection that the fasting to which they ibjected by Mr. Cleveland’s eivil service reform theory places them for once in har- mony with o prevailing religious sentiment. B e Sl What She Should Have Said. Pittsturg Chroniele. “March did come in likg a Lo, didn’t it?” exclaimed Amy, as she met the high school girl on the street yesterday. “That expres- sion hus fallen into innocuous desuetude, dear,” roplied Mildréd; “you should have aid that March made its entree with charac- teristics of a decided leonine nature.”” e The New Orleans Exccution. Kansas City Times, Ttwasa bad business ffom beginning to end, and heaven and earth were moved to But the governor stood firm the law be carried out under all circumstances.” Those were memorable words. They ought to be stercotyped and brought north, e Good Advice, Estelline, Dak,, Bell, 1f the verdict of the community In which you now live seems to be that you have not enough ability to throw stones at the chick- ens, don’t come out here where, owing to ex- cessive and exorbitant freight charges, cart- ridges with which to practice on you cost two cents aplece. et 8 T ) ) Well Explained. Philadelphia. Press, “Lthink you might go to chureh to-day. You used to go every Sunday before we mar- ried.” “Iknow that, my dear, but things have changed, the custom has changed. It has been attacked, I might say, by Innocuous de- suetude.” e ATIInoh Ieaafthe American Stage. Chieago Current, Zola announces that he has authorized a= Ameriean theatrical agent to produce in thi country a dramatization of his uovel, “Ger- minal,” the performance of whieh was for- bidden in France. Zola seems to entertain a very curious idea of the present condition of the American stage, Rl S Cannot Escape Responsibility. St. Louls Republican, The Missouri Pacific company cannet os- cape responsibility in the premises by mak- ing it appear that the existing disturbed con- dition of the commercial and industrial inter- osts of the country is o matter which com- merce and the law of the land imust adjust independent of the railway company. The public will not allow Mr. Gould to unload this difliculty upon the commereial world as lie would unload watered securities upon the stock market, It is the duty of the Missouri Pacific company to furnishymen and run its trains. Should any foreibi l’:;ismum- or in- terference be attempted, a@uty at once de- volves on the people, through their official representatives. But unfil there be some such interference the company cannot divide the respousibility. ) President. Chieago Trilune. Now that Lent has com@andXhe president hus a_rest frow the socie dtpipations, the terrapin, and the tan-livericd! footman, e will have an opportunitf to istudy up the duties of his position from ‘the point of view as established by the most eminent men in both parties and as performed’ by his prede- cessors during a period of lalf a century, Ir he is capable of taking a view of this subject from an impersonal direction and can divest himself of the offensive ezotism that leads liim to beliave he is the state, and that every- thing ol \‘nslullvu into “iunoeuons desue- tude,” it may be possible for him to realize what the leading men of his own party have always aflirmed—nawely: %8 Senator Ed- munds expresses it—that “every paper ad- dressed to the officer exercising the official function of suspension upon that tople must be an ofticlal paper, no matter how vile or false it may be,” and that he is usurping pre- atives and yiolating law when Le declines to let the senate have papers from the public file because they may disclose the grounds upon which be acted, e The Grear Wiggins New York Tribunc. Prof, Wiggins, wholesale aud retail dealey in weatber prophecies, aiter a somiewhat pro- longed retirement trow business, has resumed at the old stand. He announces that this is likely to be a solemn month for the maritime provinces, seelng that Saturn is going to raise the tide abnormally high at Quebec, Halifax and St. John. And Wiggine warns those who go down to the Atlantic that they stand a good chance of being caught in a ter- rible storm before the month is over, It is evident that Wiggins is himself again, - The Kind of Boys We Want. Phitadelphia Call. Boys of spirit, boysof will, oys of musele, brain and power, 10 copo with Anything— These are wanted overy hour, Not the weak and whining drones That all trouble magnify; Not the watehword of 1 can't,” But the nobler one, “I'll try. Do whateer you have to do With a true and earnest zea Bend your sinews to the tas Put your shoulder to the wlieel. In the counting house or store, Wheresoover you may be, From your futiire efforts, boys, Couies a nation's destiny. THE LIVE BELF QUESTION, Discriminations Against tho Poor Farmer, For Transcendental Hog- glshness go to a Railroad Cor-ca poration! The Lincoln Jour- nal to the Rescue, To the Editor:—A ncighbor of mine re- ion to ship one car-load 0 on the B. & M. rail- He went to the local agent and obtained a form of the contract he would have to sign with the company. He found by this form that he would not be furnished transportation for an atten- dant for the eattle unless he shipped two or more As he was offered trans- portation for the round trip with the two cars, he naturally thought he conld half as much with one car—that is, trans- portation one way. On inquicy he found he was mistaken, and that he would get no transportation with one Well, he began figuring on this basis, and nat- 1y imagined that as the attendant would_have to ride in a caboose on a cat- tle train, he would get a ticket at second J rates. On inquiry he w illfl(fl'lll\‘(l that he would have to pay firsf class, Examining his form of contract he found that if he desired to ship one ear of mules or horses he would be furnished a round trip pass. Talking with the station agent about this, he was informed that the shipment of a ear of horses or mules was quite rare, as compared with cattle; so the company cuull] aflord to give the pass in such cases. Now, Mr. Editor, let us look at this. First, an attendant with a car of eattle shinped to so remote apomt as Chicago is an absolute necess The contract, if valid, relieves the company ot all res: ponsibility for loss by accident, detention of trains, et The tramn men cannot and do not give stock the attention it re- quires. In fact, no one ships cattle with- out sending a man in charge. Second. My neighbor did not have the second car load ready to ship, nor the money o buy it; consequently he was compelled to ship the single ecar. The harge of first class fare for his man to cago and return amounted to a dis- crimination against him of over $30 per wetually compelled to pay over thirty dollars more per car than the large sh Go through their wholesystem of cl sification and_tarifts and “the same in- justice prevails, It is unadulterated and unalloyed hoggishn, It has no justi- fication in any view that can be taken of it, and is in violation of every fair busi- ness principle. But you can find in the Lincoln Journal,a sheet said to bo mainly owned by the B. & M. and the mouth- piece of the fraudulent railrond commis- sion, arguments every sustaining and ‘defending this system. How long will the people of this state endure this thing? and how long will it submit to see this railroad power war upon men like Van W who are in favor of controlling this system? Yours truly, J. Burrows. Swift, the Dressed Beef Man, Chicago Mail: Swift, the dressed beef man, who ships on an average 3,000 dressed beoves a day,has made Lis money within tho last four years, the great bulk of it within the last three. , lt AU great trunk railroads, with ‘th and odd of aggregato capital, pounced on him and his busine: vift's name is now in the minds of eve: Imdf'. Heis half as widely known as P.D. Armour. Swift is a Yankee and looks it. His frame is big and hi inge shaml- ling. His eycs arc bright and elear, but his thin and straggling beard ma im look an easy man to_confidence, He is in appearance just the kind of a man whom sharp ‘confidence fellows lie in wait. [ amtold that heseldom puts up at the Fifth avenue hotel, that some dapper fellow docs not rush’ up and begin by saying: “Why, hello Smith. Bless m soul, how are all the folks at home?” They sufler a disillusion when Swift turns his yes on them. His whiskers 58, but hi s have a world- “Why, what's Swift got ire_compotitor of his down at the yui Nothing but some wheels and traps.” “Swift,” was the reply to the self-confident millionaire, “Swift has got something you haven't. He’s got something up here,” touching the forehead, K Swift is not so very rich. He cannot be compared with Armonr, and is no- where noar as rich as Fairbank or Aller- ton or Nels Morris or lke Waixel. He has [;rub:\hlfi mvested in his bu; 3 ?-’ ,000. His equipment is 80 va is extension so rapid that his workin, SR T 7 o P s AR il tor so vast an_establishment. li‘ is a man of amazing faculty for business, Heis a Yankee and full-blooded. He was a shipper of cattle in a small way and a member of the ‘“eveners” pool He was a shipper on a 1 scale, and was assig: unk road heeause that was a very poor, rounda- bout road which had no Tacilities for e; vyi e began ».hirpin;: dre bee 1 Lis said that he nd Trank. At any rate remarkable ad- vances. He now brings and kills one- third of all the cattle that are received at Chicago—nearly a million head a ye - bert's Wit ) Register: Gilbert, the author of the libretto of the Mikado, met Burnand, the editor of Punch, at a 8o They fell into conversation on the subject of the journal in question “I suppose you have lots of funny things sent to you by the outside public?™ in- quired Gilbert, with innocence of man- Burnand, off his guurd, rephed Yes, great quantities.” Gilbert pulled his moustache, and with a twinkle of his eynical eye said. *“Then why the deuce fon't you put some of them i+’ - Too Much Courting in the Choir. Philadelphia Call: “Mamma,” said a Philadelphia girl, “I'm not gomg to sing in onr choir any more.” “*Have you had any trouble with any of the girls? No, i beaux that they maki the; ry nd 1 ing of the G he made Anme but the other ti sing in the chol urting during the sermon it me feel lonesome. DIl resign if don't ullow Charlie to sit with me. " — 1t has been the custem of the German enpre \St nine years to present golden crosses, each with autograph diploma, to those 0 W could show thut they d forty yearsjuninterruptedly inthe sume fanily, | COUNT BISMARCK'S ROMANCE. How the Eldest Son of the Great German Ohancellor Secured a Wifo, He Marries tho Princess With Whom He Eloped Fight Years Ago. All is well that ends well, This at lenst is the yerdict of Berlin high socioty touching a somewhat sensational ro- mance that terminated a fow ¢ ro by a marriage, performed quietly, indeed al- most & w hidden in Lower Silesi The exceptional indulgence of which the society magnates of Berlin have given such a striking example in this i explained by the position of the two prin- cipal characters in this romance, the hero Dbeing no less & person than Count Her- bert de Bismarck, the eldest son of the chancelior, and the new collaborator of the emperor, who an hour with him every ¢ The heroine is a princess more famous for ho beanty beanty than for her groat name, and whose portratit by Richter, the nephew of Meyerbeer, and the Carolus Duran of Germany, attracted o much attention at the Berlin Salon of 1878, e is o bru nette, with a dark complexion, an- opu lent bust, and thoughtful d dreamy s and her porteait, representing hor anding beside a magniticent Newfound- and dog, evokes one of these fascinating visions stch y to be met with in the mountains of Silesin, where the Princess C. B, belongs, These initials were the only indication giyen in the cat- alogue of the Salon; but it was soon well known that the porirait was that of the Princess rolath Benthen, who, before her e, was the Princess beth de Hatzfeldt-Trachenbe During the fall term of the Salon Richter’s cany had no more fervent admirer than th young attache of the embassy who to-day s _under secretary of state for foreign airs, and who is'destined to be the fu- o sccretary of state of the German empire During the winter of 1878 the count became the devoted cavalier and the preferred dancer of the prineess, who had left her residence in Silesia to be with her husband in Berlin, whose presence there was rendered necessary by his du- i member of the reichstag, which he disch: d with o I that was enough to make him forget the fact that his prin- cess was a beauty that stood sadly in need of vigilant protection while he was devot- ing himself i to the advocacy of free trade and the study of social ques- tions. But in the month of March, 1881, all Berlin, that had so often scen the prin- cess waltzing with the son of the chan- cellor, learned that she had suddenly left for Florence to follow her dancer, who was then attached to the cmbassy at the quirinal, Terrible was the anger of the chancellor and great was the scandal of the most virtuous court in Europe. The outragod husband was the only one who remaned cool. He sent word ic the fug- i would itate her divorce without taking from her the chance of re habilitation by a b age with her se- ducer, for the German Taw forbids the union of a divorced woman with the mun who was the cause of the divoree. Prince Carolath proved himself free from all animosity. A marriage of the two lovers was believed to be approaching, but it was soon learned that the young attache had returned to_Berlin, le 8 beautiful victim behind him in_ Florence, where she was alone and sick in a hired house, The conduct of the count was revolting to sentitive souls, and the scandal prevoked by the flight of the Princess was changed into sympathy for her. People forgot that she had arrived at an age when stch escapades are rave- 1y pardonable, and that she had left be- lind her a daughter, a big girl of 13, But it was the chancellor who had inter- posed his authority and threatened to discard his son. To all the entreaties of the latter to legalize his liaison the chancellor invariably replied. “No, I will mever consent to your marriage to the wife of a friend;” and he sent him successively to St. Petersburg, the Hague, and London.” But the passion of the count for the Princess, although ti latter wus somewhat older than himsclf —she is now forty —did not diminish, and at last he succceded in bending the will of the neellor, who does not want to sce his title of Prince fall to the female line. The n age, therefore took place four or five da Zo at the Castle of Trachenberg, the residence of Prince Herman de Halsfeldt, the younger brother of the Princess Elizabeth, And here there i strange coinei- ‘This lady’s mother, nee Countess henbachi-Goschutz — was also d after fifteen years of wedded life, precisely the number of years that her daughter bore the name of Princess de Carolath before she became tho Countess and the future Princess de Bismarck passes oung An Oliio Iy her minster. cents, sk, what sho shall_givo Wew K¢, i (ty tes k. dacoby QL Fifty el The Chorryvalo Girls, Muneapolis ‘T'ribune: Kansas, the land of corn and contentmeut, is prolific_also in fair women® and brave men. Your Kansas girl is s Ylnmp us a part ascoy a4 a quall; healthy, hearty, tivo, independent, and happy as the big sunilowers of which that stute is so justly And there is a spot in Kansas emale loveliness seems to have been cf allized and coneontrated, as it wore. 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