Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 2, 1886, Page 4

- T A e e e 9 ., THE DATLY BEE. OMAHA OFFIeE No. M4 AND OIsFARNAM ST KW YORK Orrice, Room 86, TRIAU! 4 WASHINGTOS OFvick, No. B13 ¥ Published evory morning, except Sunday. The gly Monday morning puper publisied in the ate. TERNE BY MATL: #10.00 Three Montha .00 One Month. One Year. . Six Monthe, Tme WeekLY Der, Published Bvery Wednesaay. > TERMS, POSTPAID: One Yenr, with promium One Yenr, without pre Six Monthis, without 1 One Month trinl 250 1.00 2.0 CORNESPONDENCE? ANl communieations relating to news and edi- torisl matters should be wddressed to tho Bot TOR OF “HE BEF. DUSINFSS LETTERS: o ittances ghonld he LISHING COMPANY, postoffice orders of the company. All business d 1o Thi 1A, Drafts, e § pade prynble to the order It is the duty of every voter to person- ally see that he is properly registered. EvERy voter of Omaha shonld see to it in person that his name ison the regis tion list in his voting precinet. DiRECT pressure ought to be brought to bear upon the waterworks company to give us better water by g tion, MissoURt river water now looks very much like skim milk. The waterworks company should furnish its rons with filters. temoerats will hold their primaries this afternoon. The silence of the party organ upor the situation is vositively thrilling. THERE is no doubt that Mr. Boyd pre- fers Huscall to any democrat. He's so useful, you know, in pulling hot chesnuts out of the fir IN the opinion of the Washington Critic an honest councilman is the s st work ot God. This is the season of the year when the people of Omaha are looking around for ka should con- tinue to plant trees. That it will pay them there is no doubt. Land in Con- necticut, upon which pine trees were planted a few years ago, is now worth $100 an acre for its timber © Tue farme Dr. MiLLer and Mayor Boyd are try- ing to force Hascall on the First ward re publicans. If they want him so badly » himon the dem- nd he was quite willing to run on cither tic to the Herald the board of s not at all responsible for ing tlie charter provisions. ¥rom the way in which the board has been con. ducting business of late, it would look as if it didn’t consider itself responsible for anyth Now is the time to o to San Francisco for next to nothing. The fight between the trauscontinental lines has reached such ansportation and an stem is the next step in sight if a truce is not speedily patched up. It has been gene rstood that the prolonged absence of Florida Jones from the United States senate was due fuir. It is now claimed by his friends that his ab- sence is owing to his disgnst with Cleve- land’s administration. Jones should love Cleveland more and Miss Palms less. f Lur Herald lets the cat out of the bag when it talks about Mayor Boyd's repri- mand to the council. It was purely po- litical, intended, of course, to knock down republican councilmen without touching any of the democratic nine pins. The ball was particalarly aimed av Bechel, while it was to roll harmless between the s0.Jegs of Pat Ford and Councilman Dailey. B NoruiNG hns been heard of Lieut. M: who started out to recapture the y Geronimo two days ago. It is no news to say that nothing has been heard by Lieut. Maus of the Apache hair-raiser. First catch your Indian and then hold him tight, is & motto which Crook’s lieu- tenant should commit to heart before he turns in for the sumwmer season of - racks life. ——— No crry in the country nceds a firs class hotel a3 much as Kansas City. There is no place where such a hotel would pay better; and yet the people of Kansas City are called upon to raise a bonus of $55,000. We are not surprised that they are backward in coming for- ward. They probably think that it is too much like giving a bonus for the opening of a bonanza gold mine. Tae friends of Mr. Blaine are indig- nant over the prominence which Mr. Ed- munds has aequived in the senate, and protest that he is not fit to be considered the leader of the republican party. They point to his refusal to work for Mr, Blaine in the campaign of 1884, although repeatedly sought to lend his voice in the canvass, Mr. Edmunds is dubbed the leader of the mugwumps, and is warned not to masquerade as the republican Moses, ‘Tue Blair educational bill proposes a system which would take over $3.000,000 in taxes from Missour: and return a little over §2,000,000 in subsidy. This is about | the same proportion of taxes and subsidy | that there will be in other states under this bill. The St. Lows Republican says that Missouri is ready neither to subsi- dize nor to be subsidized. This is just 18 true of great many other states as it is of Mis Mg. Becukr ean stand on his record in tho city council without apology. He may have made some mistakes, us all men do, but he is not a drone by any means. He has not introduced so many ordinances as some other members who employed Mr. Jowett to draw up their ordiuances and resolutions. The great and good Pat Ford for instance. But Mr Beehel has secured for the Fourth ward ware than its full share of public im- *% vovements without crippling the inter- #ts of the ecity. That is all that any gouncilman is expected to do. That i . Mr. G. M. Hitchcock could h had he been in Bechel i The Usual Lde. There are some papers in this state that never have been aole to tell the truth about the Bek, and we have no idea that they ever will. The two organs with a republican brand at Omaha and Lincoln belong to this class. We cannot recall a single instance when either of them has commended any act or word of this paper, no matter how honorable or how much to the interest of the public. We cannot recollect a single instance where her of them has r quoted this paper or its editor correctly where distortion has served their purpose. It goes without saying that we did not expact the Omaha Republican and Lincoln Journal to approve the voluntary raise made by the BEx in the s of its printers. As usual, they desire to make the public believe that it was no raise of wages on our part, but merely a trick to bull the price of composition in the offices of morning rivals. The Republican went out of its way to intimate that the raise does not affect the Bk because it pub lishes an afternoon edition and most of its types are set at day rates. The Jouwrnal tramps this lie and gocs it one better. According to the Journal there has only been an ad vance of one cent thousand in this office and that is entirely fictitious be- cause we have only raised from 31 cents 1o 82 cents per thousand ems and tho bulk of our type is set during the day time, whiie other papers are paying cents. Of course the Journal knew bettes but its innate cussedness makes it incaps bie of telling the truth. Possibly, to the printers in Lincoln propose to prof y the advance in Omaha, as they should. The facts tersely told are thes The union scale in Omaka Monday was 80 cents for cents for night composition. By the volun dvance made by the Br the price was raised in this oflice two cents per thousand all around. We now ps 32 cents for day and 35 cents for night work, and we pay night rates for after- noon work done by the night men. The average daily composition on this pape is 180,000 ems, of which fully 100,000 is paid for at night rates. The average in the Republican does net exceed 100,000 oms, while the Journal pays for about one half the composition t we do. This docs not concern the public except so far as we make the statement that the voluntary advance made to our printers will increase our bills from $1,500 to $1,800 o year and that amount is added 1o’ their earnings. Incidentally, the ad- vauce made by this paper hus compe lled other employers to equalize wages, and has, therefore, benefitted every printer in Omaha as_it st, in due time, every printer in Nebr up day The New Brigadiers. The struggle for the two vacant briga- dier gencralships was ended yesterday by the nomination by President Cleve- land of Colonels Thomas H. Ruger Eighth infantry, and Joseph H. Potter, rty-fourth infantry, to the advanced Public opinion settled Col. s appointment as certain wecks ago, but the nomination of Col. Potter THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. FRIDAY, APRIL Potter will make Lieutenant Colonel Zenas R. Bliss, of the Nineteenth in fantry, colonel of the Righteenth, vice Ruger, and Lieutenant Colonel George Gibson, of the Third infantry, colonel of the Twenty-fourth, vice Potter. Van Wyck's Treason. The following dispateh has been re ccived by the editor of the B WasiiNGToN, March 51, 189, Editor Bek: You/had me wrong in Mon- day’s editorfal. 1 &tood for all the Edmunds resolutions except the third. Please correct. C. 1. VAN Wyek We certainly have no desire to mis- quote Senator Van Wyck or his record Our editorial coneerning his vote on the Edmunds resolution was based on the press digpatches, which failed to give the vote on the separate resolutions and left the inference that the senator had voted against all of them. So far as this pape is concerned, we were willing to justify nhim in voting against them all after th senate had refused to go into open execu- session on appointments. The star nber system as part of the American senate should be abolished, exeept in cases where public discussion might im- peril the public welfare. This position has been taken by ns stalwar publican Senator Logan. The general tenor of the Edmunds resolutions was not in a cord with republican precedent. It was diametrically opposed to what was done during ( it’s administration and ] never proposed by the most stalwart re- publican during the administration of President 11 ayes de- pended for his principal support upon democrats in his o s to remove repub- lican oflicials like Arthur and Simmons. But Scnator Wyck has spiked the guns of his personal and political ene- mies in Nebraska who have howled them- selves hoarse about his treason and re him out of the party from which they at various times have been bolters and mugwumps TFor instance, the Omaha Republican, which last spring supported for mayor of Omaha James E. Boyd, member of the national democratic committee, the Be- rice Express, which bolted Col. Colby and supported for district judg nounced democrat, Mr. Broady ticularly aggrieved over the party on of Senator Van Wyck. The third of the Edmunds resolutions declared it to be the duty of the senate to withhold its approval from nominations of persons (o succeed suspended officers in cases wh called for had not been offered. This was a proposition revolutionary in its tendency and estab lishing a dangerous precedent. Suppose, for example, that Mr. Blaine should be clected to the presidency three years hence. Could he remeve a single demo at from oflice, no mutter how obnox- ious, without placing the papers in the hands of the senate to justify hi tion? Would the republ lling to leave the democrats in possession of all the important political positions until their terms expired? Unless this is to be the new platform upon which the repub- will be a general surprise in the army, not because he is not a worthy and in every way competent officer, but for the reason that his name had been searcely mentioned in connection with the pro- motion. Common consent had given Col. Wesley Merritt of the Fifth cavalry the apppointment. Unfor- tunately for Colonel Morritt and for Colonel Orlando B. Wilcox, who headed the list of colonels of infantry, 1d whose expeetations were in the same dircetion, common consent and the presi- dent do not seem to have agreed in the present instance. In making the nomi- nations Mr. Cleveland again disregarded seniority, Colonel Ruger standing sce- ound and Colonel Potter fifth in rank in their branch of the service. But both nominations ave excellent, and the ex- ccllence of Colonel Potter's will be con- sidered enhanced in some quarters by the fact that it will necessitate another pro- motion on October 12th of the present year, when the general will be placed on the retired list. Few oflicers in the army count more or warmer friends than Colonel Thomas K. Ruger, now superintendent of the school of mili- tary application at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. His military record is a brilliant one. Born in New York, he entered West Point in 1850, and graduated among the engincers in 1854, Resigning from the army six months later, he engaged in the pursuits of protessional life until the outbreak of the war, when at the first call to arms he assisted in organizing the Third Wisconsin infantry, of which he became lieutenant coloneland afterwards colonel, He fought in the armies of the Potomac and Tennessee with distinguished gallantry and was made & brigadier general of valunteers on the 20th of Novembeu, 1862, He participated in the battle ot Gettys- burg for which he was brevetted, and s0 bore a gallant rt on the field of nklin in Tennessee. At the close of the war Colonel Ruger was given com- mand of the Thirty-third infantry, and in 1869 transferred to the Eighteenth of which he has ever since been colonel. He is u thorough soldier, possessed of large exeecutive powers, courteous, warm hearted and universally popular. Col. Joseph H. Potter is one of the old- est officersin the vice. He was born in New Hampshire and was graduated from West Point in 1843, His assignment was the Seventh in- fantry in which regiment he served until 1863, when he became major of the Nincteenth infantry, although nolding the commission of colonel of the Twelfth Now Humpshire in the volunteers. His war vecord was also a distinguished one. He served with great distnction in the Mexican war, and was brevetted first lieutenant for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Monterey, During the re bellion he was connected with the army of the Potomae, participating ia the hard- est fought battles of the various cam paigns, and receiving the brevets of lieu: tenaat coloncl, colonel and brigadier general for bravery and deyotion to duty. At the close of the war Col, Potter became lieutenant colonel of the Thirtieth infantry, but in 1809 was transferred to the Fourth in- fantry, and shortly afterwards came to the Department of the Platte with his reglment, with which he served until 1878, when he was promoted to the Twenty- tourth. Colonel Potter is known as a rigid disciplinariai . and an excellen lican party proposes to plant itself from now on, Mr. Edmunds’ third resolution is mere buncombe. It was so regarded by his republicen colleages or it never would have passed. Commenting upon this very point, the Springfield Repubd- lican said, several days ngo: After haying oceupied the senate more or less since the 15th of February, and been de- bated most of the time since the 9th of Mareh, 2dmunds resolutions were passed yester- by that body. ‘The onepledging the sen- to refuse to confinm nominations came v near being lost, and was only accepted i nse by Mr. Hoar and others, Mr. Hoar says he does not regard the resolution as binding him to refuse to confirm in all cases where there has been a suspension and papers are refused, thotigh the resolution means nothing else. The whole performance has been a prodigious waste of politieal energy over mothing, a false, artifi and trivial issue, Attend the Primaries, It is as much the duty of every voter to assist in the selection of his party candi- it i when It is even more mary eclections in choosing spresent the people through the ke the key note of the cam- the character of the representa tives the; If the best men of both cs controlled the primaries the pub- lic would not suffer, no matter what the result of the vote at the regular election. It is highly important that the coming conyentions shall pick out honest, capuble and eflicient men as candidates for the council and board of education. Such men can be found who are willing to be ed in nomination. On the other hand : are n dozen candidates in every ward whose selection to the city council would be n public misfortune. Unfor- tunately these are the very men who, with their friends, are the most active in sccking nominations. They will base their hope of success upon tho failure of the best zens and taxpayers to interest themselves enough to attend the meetings to chose delegates to the party conven- tions, The coming election is one ot momentous interest to the tax- payers of Omaha. Six members of the city council who are to hold office for two years are to be chosen. During that period several millions of dol of pub- lic money are to pe expended inimprovi Omaha and in conducting her eity gov- ernment. Three members of the school hoard are to be elected, who will have the educational interests of Omaha in charge for a like time. Republicans and democrats alike should make it their business to see that first-class material only is placed in nom- ination by the party conventions. voter in every ward should fe duty to turn out to his party prim and assist in chosing such men for the conventions as will put responsible, liable and eapable candidates in nomin ation, men to r y st WE have not one word to retr what we said with regard to Pierson. v 1 outrage in Warden Nobes to place son in the dark cell for the purpose of extorting a confession, Itisa travesty on justice to incarcerate him on a mere suspicion. Even Assistant District At torney Bartlett admitted that there was no proof ns yet that would indiet Pierson, but that they “expected to find some” in duc course of time. Sapposing they don't find any more proof than they did against Arndt, who is to be the next vic tim?* Who is to indemnify men for bemng unjustly deprived of . liberty w P oflicer. He retires on October 12, 1856, on which date he reaches his 8ith year. i he wanted 5o badly, The promotions of Colonels Ruger and because shey happen to fall under the ' displeasure of court officers or Jare selected as proper persous for detect- ive wardons to experiment on? Why don’t_the officials fitd their proof before they find the vietim? Tue attention of our feaders is called to the thrilling copyrighted and unsyndi- | cated serial story, entitled “The Registra- tion List,” which we are now publishing in sections. Tt is noticeable more for the | number of characters involved than for its intricacy or ingenuity of plot. It is of an intensely local nature, and a di- rect b g on the impending conflict This serial appears exclusively m this | paper. Back numbets can be had on ap- plication at this office. VARIETLY, T SPICE OF LIFE, A temperance movement—turning on the water. Sneezes are like misfortun come singly. The mast obnoxious form of “light litera- ture” 15 a gas bill, We supposea be properly tion,” IL is not considered necessary in society to return a bill-collector's eall. A paint has been invented to take the place of whitewash, No legislature should be with out it iolin pl; They seldom m of proof-readers could called “The house of corree: ing is the present fashionable female accomplishment, The girls like to get a beau on the string ““The lottery must go,” remarked the rural editor, as lie thrust his last $2 bill into an en- velope and sent it to the management. The New York Commereial says grafted trees of the Japanese chestnut are being successfully grown on Long lsland. This practice should be stopped. The Ameriean variety of chestnut is abundant enough, A seer predicts that the time will come when people can | the bottom of the sea. At present a good many find it difieult to keep their heads above water. The chilly winter's on the wa The hopes of base-ball men are high, And the umpire soon will be around again, With a broken nose and a blackened eye. Larkin G, Mead, the American sculptor, is producing a statue to be called Mississinpi. It 15 hoped, when it is finished, that congress will not appropriate $800,000 for improving the mouth of the Joseph Cook says: “1t T had a dog that was addicted to smoking I would shoot him. No, you wouldu't, Joe. You would be run- ning around trying to sell him to a museum. M. Worth, the man-milliner, is said to have a great dislike for scents. The big prices that he charges would indicate that he at least does not dislike dollars. ——— Gould's Vision Improved. Chicago N We congratulate Mr, Gould that at least he nias found a pair of spees through which he can see that, after all, s man who works for aliving is pretty near o human being. datnny A Better Man than Gould. St. Louis Rgpubjican. M nee V. Powderly, ha: self a better man than Mr. Jay Gould, and a bigger man than even the Knights of Labor. Unless he so changes that well-earned praise will spoil hini he will continue to have a future, ) o, shiown fhim Cannon’s Worth. Salt Lake Herald. Mr. Dickson was asked yesterday by a re- porter whether any further teward would be offered for the apprehension of George Cannon. “Not that I am ayare of,” he said. “Forty-five thousand dollars isabout as much as I consider him worth.” e ST The Blair Educational Bill. Galveston News, Some of the states want better roads, When the Blair educational bill passes, let some congressman Introauce a bill to make good roads to all the school houses, What is the use of schools if the roads are in such condition that children cannot attend? ——~— A Brilliant Future, Chicago News. “So you want my daughter? Well, sir, what are your prospects in life? haye you any definite wim?” “Ain? 1 should say I had; I'm going to be an alderman one of these days.” *“What makes you think so?”” “Why. it'sa dead-sure thing; 1'm tending barnow, an’ at_the rate I'm knocking down Il have a saloon of myown before next year's election.” The Herald's Enterprise. Lincoln Journal, Herald’s system of collecting telegrams from over the state has A few days ago the Herald L “special” dispateh from Plum Creek, Neb., telling about how the town was overrun with confidence men and shary- ers and relating an incident whereby a west- bound cmigrant was fleeced out of $4%0, 1t now comes 1o light that the Plum_ Creek Pio- neer has of late been reprinting items of in- terest from its files which by the lapse of time have become historie. The Merald's “special” was among this class of items, and the incident referred to ocenrred January 12, 1874, over twelve vears ago, The Pioneer now demands a retraction and insists that hereafter when the Herald delves into history for its telegraph columns it preserve the orig- inal dates, The Oma special come to grief, printed an_all Sl LAY An O1d Timer. Will Visscher in thwestern Live Stock Jowrnal. Lain't no eddicated man, An’ blamed ef 1 kin und A language on the top er earth, tin' what I've larnt from birth, ots er that 15 Greek Lo me, An' sorter tryin'—don’t you Wihien folks is slingin’ on_ther style But you can s your pile That wh T know as well As any man this side of—tell the last now fangled name?— 7 sheol’—that's the same— W' I'in & shoutin’ to you, here, T've skun aroun’ both tur'an’ near, AN’ never yit have atuick a town That's got thesan’ er truok to down, Er size (p, mister, here.or yan, Longside ¢r this yer saine Shyaun I've rode a bronco poofy nigh From Omaha o Siskiyl, u' handled Texas cows an’ sich, rom Mexico to Cary’s diteh, A’ fit with greasers, Utesgu An' rid on buek-boards, edach An’ ben aroun’ a pow rfulsight Jes' lookin® out with all wy wight— Fact, is I lived in Eeligoys 1bout a middlin’ ehunok of a bo An’ went one year with Bui'ler Bi AN’ seen many a goog sized vl ot rubbed aroun’ s rigkt gnart 2 noets say, “a wildftee fance,” ut blamed ef fain’t Rers to say, Frow now tidl arter judzuent day, “That jis' for grit, and biz, and san, I'm holdin® up far old Shyann, - STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. (iage county has fourteen newspapers Central City's new ope > will cost $3,000. Sheridan county expeets w harvest 1,000,000 bushels of potatoes this year George F. Walker, of Weymore, is said to have refused an offer of $30,000 for his unewly invented type-writer The farmers of Dawes county will meet at Chadron ta-morrow for the purpose of nizing an agrieultaral sociely alleged earthquakes fn Columbus Suriday was cansed by an- ayalanche of land oflice “‘adds!’ tuinibling into the Den our lice, A number of farmers. in Phelps and bar's, hou Gosper counties have. - organized the 1886, Farmers’ Mutual Fire and Hail lnsur- ance company.” William Lowe, of Fairbury, basin his vossession a_copy of the first paper printed in Ohio—the Belmont Journal, published at St. Clairsville, August 7, 1819, armer Beller of Ponca is experiment- ing with box clder as a sugar producing tree. Samples of molasses and sugar made of the sap_have the appearance and taste of the Vermont article A, B. Humphroy of Nelson toyed with the business end of a pony and lost the bridge of his nose ] a scction of his hit and reduced weight a few i\\\' It was a Tumphrey's pounds. Robert Donner claims the honor of being the first settler on government land in the Antelope valley. He squatted on his claim in the winter of 18834, and now boasts the finest farm in the vicinity of Chadron, The Fremont Tribune on the business methods of the Dodge county commissioners. ‘The Tribune de hot the business of the county has been conducted in a recklessly extrava gant manner, andthat the bridge fund Bias been squandered in worthless bridges. Andy Searles of Knox county is laid up for répairs. A wild and yicions bull tackled him the other day, tossed him about like & bean bag, and closed the performance by nailing him to a_post. Andy declares he was so completely flattened t he slid through a crack in the post and aped. A Hardy tough named Hess filled up with Superior whisky Saturday, and pro- ceeded to whoop up the town’ with his vile breath. A policeman tackled him and a free fight followed. The police- man was handsomely festooned with cuts and braises, but he earried his point and jugged the bloak. A slick-tonguea swindler named R. W. Brown bargained to sel! to John P. Price hd W. C. Jolly, of 1 B 820 neres near Sy ille for $3,500, one third cash down. The money was paid over to Brown, but his of town on_the first t icion and he w induced to ay, and deposit the mone bank pending investigation. An exami- nation of the deed showed that he had forged the names of John R. Clark and wite to the document, and he was promptly jailed sq fighting has opened up Towa ltoms, During the past season Coey & Co., of Keokuk packed 67,000 hogs. A company has been formed to build 0 opera house at Lake City. Mrs. Wencil Kaplan, of ar Rapids, while at the supper table Sunday even: ing, dicd of heart dise Eli Adams, a wenlthy citiz n- port in the days, is now an_inmate of the poor house in Louisville, Ky. A spinning wheel factory is to bo startod at Norcat, Winhebgo county, and a pottery worl Fort Madison, “The victor in the egg: ing matoh at Cedar Rapids got away with sisty-five eggs before his lungs and stomach “gave out. The little son of a Lutheran minister at Lake played with a revolver and went aloft. The bullet went through his lungs. “The conviction of Sam Rigg of Hardi who played Mormon with his wife's sister, has been approved by the supreme court. Coming round a curye below McGregor ast Saturday, the engineer of a Chicago, Minneapolis & St. Paul passenger train, south bound, saw a baby on the track The engi ed, the bra imiediately, and the engine just in time to save tho child’s life. was the child was thrown from the by the cow-catcher and” slightly bruised. 1t was a girl 2 years and 6 months old, and the child” of a fisherman lving near by. sei opped As it Dakota. Four Episcopal churches are going in Miner county Twenty-three patients have been moved from the usylum at Yankton to that at Jamestown. Another tin strike is reportad at Custer City. It is said to be the most valuable tin llolmail tiscovered, and is owned by J. W. MeCann and William Meyers. Uncle John Oliver of Fargo, who is 70 years old, has been as ha a_young husband the past week thirteen- pound girl. ~ His wife is past 50, and they think the climate is wonderful. ‘The first patents ever received at the Deadwood land office bearing the signa- ture of Grover Cleveland arrived last Thursday. They were three in number, and were the first patents received at that oflice for something overa yoar, Utah and ldaho. A 60,000 hotel is to be built at Shoshone Is. he Idaho mine, on Moon cently distributed $10,000 stockhold Twenty-seven carloads of bullion and two cars of copper ore were shipped from t e last week, hie Rio Grande Railroad hotel at Green River, Utah, was burnea down last week, cuusing u loss of $20,000. A rich strike has been made in the Min- ie Moore mine at Bellevue, Idaho. The 5 worth from $300 to $3,000 per ton. jeorge Q. Cannon, the great Mormon apostle, has not turned up and_his bondsmen have been ordered to' pay into conrt $15,000. They will contest its col- lection, Cannon’s son is now under ar- rest for tampering with a juror. river, among re- the Montana. Butte's bullion shipments last amounted to §58,503. BA herd of hungry dogs killed 300 thor- oughbred sheep in'a corral at Belt Croek week he last prize fight in Butte was de- clared “an outrage on the profession,” because no blood waus shed The belle of Butte sports a shoe - teon inches long. e is an artistic kicker, and has been_ tendered the cap- taincy of a base ball nine. Grading contracts on the Rimini branch of the Montana Central cover the entire distance between Helena and Red Moun- tain, Contractors are on the ground and work is progressing rapidly. - The leprous distilment, whose cffect Holds such an enmity with blood of man, That, swift as quicksilyer, it courses through Tho lm.:m.u gates and alleys of the hody, and causes the skin to become *“‘barked about, most lazar-like, with vile and loathsome erust.” Such the eflects of diseased and morbid bile, the only anti- dote for which is to cleanso and regulate the liver—an oflice admirably performe by Dr. Picree's “Golden Medical Discov ery.” An - Awful Hard Question in metic. A teacher in the public sehools | 1 4 little pupil,and meeting he Arith- d pro- rafew > how do you get on in your new class?” “Ob, pretty well. 1m tic to-day, but it was au tion.” Let me hear what the question was,” said the teachoer. “It was: ‘How many chickens had the oy’ said little Lizzie, and the sympa: thizing teacher agreed that it was a puz 2l d in arithme wiul hard quos S of Red Star the most Cough Cu troublesome A fow doses always remove congh FIELD AND FARM. Does Not Know the West. A Massachusetts genius who thinks he knows all about the west, but whose knowledge is obtmned from hear: lately orated at a Southboro club to the effect that no person need think that by going west he could got rid of using ma aures; that tho western prairies would in deed raise decent crops for a fow years without manures, but it is an out of the pocket business. His hired man, he said, wont to Wisconsin and built a barn with a manure cellar underneath. He was laughed at by the neighbors, but when they saw his crops from the use of manure the laugh was on the other side, H e went out west himself and found the wheatsmall and puny, except in one case where it was sown on land that had been cow penned. This came to his idea of Massachusetts wheat This man had not probably trs tensively in the wheat region of the west. _Central Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Towa, Missouri, Michigan, and some sc tions of Wisconsin are notable winter- wheat regions. Dakota, Minnesota, north ern lowa, Ilinois, Indiana, Ohio, and other northern regions are first-rate spring wheat scetions. Now in all these regions the fertility of the land is sus tained by the regular rotation of erops, and the natury cumulations of manure furnishes fertilization in connection with the plowing down of clover, known to be the best means in the west to recoup the soil in_wheat enlture » far as short straw is concerned, thisis the essence of vy, compact heading. The difliculty Inew soils is that there is too much w for the wheat. When this ¢ iz, succulont straw is gotten ove ilities from rost, ete., are done away with through reducing the humus of the soil In the cultivation of wheat western farmers have long since como down to the correct principle in agriculture—that no special erop can he raised year after v without depieting the sl to a_de- ps would forestall profits. Not only this, but western farmers are well wre that elean and carefal cultivation s the key-note to success in wheat cul ture. It is probable the M 1ichusetts man must have gotten into y poor wheat region of the west. There oe: casional isolated loealities of this Kind that may be hunted up if a man tries, veled ex: Water on Dry Plai The finding of the subter: n water Ly boring, with a view of getting a sur- face flow for watering stock, thus rende ing otherwise vulueless lands available for grass, i< bemg prosceuted on the Staked Plains of Texas. In relation to me late offorts of this kind, the Texas e-Stock Journal gives an_account of boring in Hockley county. The well was begun lately, and water was found at seventy-nine feet that flowed at the sur- face. Tho boring was continued to & depth of 137 feet, but the low was no stronger. A pump was then put in, and thirty to forty gallons per minute’ were obtained When the pump is not running the water from the pump flows at the rate of about two gallons per minute constantly This shows two things: That pure water may be gotten by boring on plaing where the surface water is absent, or, as in this special ease, iw is the surface ater. Two other well are being bo v one of these will be ed to 1, ct, if necessary, to obtain a_ strong per- manent flow. If water can thus be ob- tained on the Staked Plains of Texas, one of the most urid regions of the country, there is no reason why it may not genc ly bereached throughout the plains re- gion. egetables on the Farm. 'mers grow a plentful sup- and especially of those put in the ground early. This is due to the fact thai they arc usually tood busy attending to the pr tions for ular crops to give attention (o so a matter as a ouiden. If they nsidered the Relf-denial they ticing in failing to prepare y would not neglect so valua- ficld crop had to be s . rm life can be made mo enjoyable by the use of & garden, and no doubt many of those who prefer a change to the city are influenced by the samen of diet and scarcity of those luxuries en- joyed by the inhabitants of cities, but which could be obtained more plentifully and in better condition on the farm. The farmer who denies himself a gar- den loses one of his opportunities for en- joyment. There is no reason why he shiould not only prepare a hot-bed, secure carly vegetables, and alsg raise a later supply for winter use, but have a variety of small fruits as well. The space re- quired for a strawberry bed necessary for an average family need not be over forty feet square, if properly managed and the best v ies used, while berries, currants and zoosebe be grown along the fences and on the borders of the walks It is bestto plow up the location for the gavden in the fall, apply a heavy conting of munure and harrow it over. the spring it should be plowed again, given an appl ion of fine, well rotted mant n owed down’ till the soil is as fine at it ean be made. If a small ce only is required for a garden, the spade and rake may be used. Of the early vegetables onions and peas are usually the first ones to go in. For table use the White Queen onjon is the earliest and of mild flavor. Any of the dwarf peas will serve for securing an_early supply, but as they seldom afford but a” single pick ing, the crop usually vipening at one suceessive plantings of the s ho made with advantage. Radish may be sown_carly, cither in rows or broadeast, while such gardon herbs ns pursley should go in as soon as possible, owing to tie slow germination of the seed.” Kaleis anothe ly and quick growing crop, and even lettuce may be Sown and the plants thinned out as they gradually mature, arly eabbage and tomatoes are usually arted i hot-beds and transplanted The quick-growing early erops may be followed by Iater vegotables as the season advances. Beans of all kinds cannot go in till the dunger of frosts ix well o but earrots, parsnips and beets should b got insoon, in order to give them an early start ahead of the grass. Early po- tatoks may be hastencd somewhat by pulling out all but one stalk to the hill after the plants arc up. While they will come earfier, and be more uniform in size compured with the method of allow ing all the stalks to remain, the crop will not be as large. The most essential re quisites in gardening are fine soil, plenty of well rotted manure, with thorou, clean culture Bat few sonable Hints and Suggestions. sarly pic keep the seed W warm room to start the Peas, of the round kinds, may be plant ed very carly. The wrinkled are more tender A rat proof cornbin may be made by lining tie inside of an ordinary bin with ). 4 wire. In feeding you want to notice that some animuls are more dainty #s to their choice than others; their likes should be respected The pouitry business cannot be mon opolized; every man, womun and child can raise pouliry without depending up- ou large amounts of cupital. A cheap paint for barns, it is said, may bo composed of twelve pounds mielted piteh, one quart linseed oil and two pounds yellow ochre, niixed thoroughly, The roots of clover and some other three to four feet deep are seldom choked by the roc It pays to plant plum trees and fight the curculio, as the labor of so doing de ters from planting trees and causes the | fruit to be scarce, the result being high prices When a plum tree gets badly covered with bl knots the infected limbs should all be cut off close to the trunk of the tree, that an entire new crop may le formed. Dr. Sturtovant says that many herds are made profitable by a half dozen individual cows, whilst the rest help only cnough to pay expenses, and perhaps not that, When hens that you desiro to keep for Dreeders got very fat behind they should be allowed to sit, as this will reduce tho fat. Otherwise the act of laying is apt to 180 prolupsus ! When sowing grass seed sec to it that it is done with a liberal hand. There is little danger of getting too much seed on the ground. Some will never never grow and there ought to be a good stand at first It is worthy of note that sumach 1s the most valuable tanning plant know Large quontities were gathered in Vir inia during the past season and yielded handsome “rcturns for the labor ex- pended. Grow a crop of peas in the old orchard and let the pigs harvestit. Sow early, two bushels por acre, with four hundred pounds of good fertilizer. Good for the s, better for the pigs, and best for the d areful experiment and elose obsery tion everywhere siow that liberal top- dressing, surf manuring - on most cerops—wimnter grains, meadows and some spring erops—is the best mode of apply- ing manures, I'he first requisite for high success in the dairy is & good dairyman. Cows are important, 1t is true, but as an army is « mob without a general, so cows withous brain to manipulate them will never achicve great results, dairy Kentucky blue grass seed should be sown at the rate of twenty-vight pounds to the if sown alone and for pasture, but if for lawn forty-two pounds should be sown. Where white clover is desired with the blue grass three pounds of the clover seed will be suflieient for an acro. Prune tr and shrubs, be mind that winter pruning indu strong growth uvon deciduous p 1 kinds. Theretore, in order to induco ! mpant growth prune several back plants that have hitherto been making a weak growth. Cnt all dead branches off your plant. In all crops that come up thick and re- quire to be thinned, every day’s noglect after the plants are large enough to be thinned reduces the yield of the ecrop. lises, lettuce, parsnips, f s, shonld be 'thinned as soon as they ean be handled with thoe thumb and fing There is no myster neatsfoot oil. The only thing necessary is to boil m a kettle ns many cattle’s fect and hocks as can be obtained and skim off the oil until no more ri From the four feet of one animul u pint of oil is generally obtained, und 1t is well worth the trifling cost of making it. The keeping of valuable specimons of old hens beyond two years is well cnough under most circumstances, but the rauk and file should be cut short at that ago, We arenot sure that the practico adopted by some poultry-keepers of working with puilets only. sing w full batch every year, is the wisest course. Prolonged freshness standing flowers in the watc before they ¢ sent aw greatest fallacy to suppose which e to be sent toadistance should be freshly picked. They will travel bet- ter and last longer if allowed to imbibe a full supply of moisture before starting. Pot require liberal manuring, says the Cu or, and will usually pay for the increase of manure over the amount usnally used. Truck farmers on Lo Islund’ frequently use two car loads u"i manure per acre, and sometimes from 1,000 to 1,600 pounds of phosphate in the drill. They grow from 300 to 400 bushels per ucr Regarding sced the Live Stock Journal saysit is not safe to feed it in the straw to cows in calf unless in ver; small quantity, nor is it prudent to fec flaxsced in large quanti | stock, as it is too lnxativ food, though one of the best the feeder’s command to insure good health to hi: i It is not g¢ be, that unfe about making is sccured Dby some hours y. It is the that_any Iy known, as it should pented manure is not food A very little h‘xml'l\lMi?ll e its fertility available, and th's ars when it is applied to the wenther, But for winter ation a load of finally rotted ma- worth for the first crop more than in its untermented state. Vogetable are of two kinds, | tendor. The hardy, such nips, beets, onions, cabbag b sown whenever the frost s well out of the ground, Sweet corn is a tonder etable, and whenever the ground is 'm enough for corn-planting then ns, tomatoes, eucumbers, squashes and all others of that family may be risked. armers who adopt the partial drain- ing system, putting in tiles only in the wettest places, are sometimes surprised to find these dry enough to plow soveral days before the natur fi,- dryer hillsides are fit for teams to walk over. The fact i that hills, and esvecially the sides of hills, are often full of springs, which re- quire drains to remove surplis water a3 much s do the lower levels Potato rot first makes its appearance in the tops showing ns small, frosty spots, usually on the underside of the leaf, As the spots e the center hecomes brown and dies, and the Leaf, or a part, withers. Then the stem is aitacked, an, next the tuber. Phe rot often appears first on the half ripe seed end, or knobby voints. In most situations the discased portions are soft and watery, but in adry sitMation the affected parts die and shrivel up An experienced ¢ “Regarding my proce plow along each side colery and fill the furrow do this the same as to-da furrows again to-morrow, when 1 plow back the furrows, and it noeds no other watering for about a week or ten days, when I'do the same thing water is supplied by means of u puinp from a driven well. T ean ivri with three men, th cres a duy.” appli nure th rdy and W poas, purs- 08, ete., may lery-grower says: of irrigation, I of my rows of with water, 1 nd fill the Purify Your Blood. Among spring t that wh all—your own body the Blood absorbs many if not expelled, are linhl serofula or other disease spring medicing is Hood's Sa It oxpels every impurity from th and gives strongth (o ev netion the body. Sold by all dr ~ tting Good By Degrees. “Lam doing n great deal better than I used to do, sir,” said a dissipated wan to a well-disposed gentleman who had been trying to reform him ¥ 1, that's good, to hear it. Have you drink altogethery “Oh, no, | haven't to say quit, but I am mtraightening up by degrees and don't get druuk hulf a8 much as' T used to, wnd”in other ways ['m on the mend, too, I've only thrashed the old woman twice this months while fast month 1 whaled her more than u dozen times, aud [ was ie preparations, do not i most iportant of During the winter impurities,which, 10 break'out in The best aparilla, blood, of I \d [am very glad strong grasses often find their way to very con sidersble depths, but drains laid lrum‘ I part of the tiwe, two, §ir."