Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 8, 1886, Page 4

. THE DAILY BEE. OMARA OFFICR, NO. 14 AND 018 FARNAW St New York Orrce, Roow 65, TRIBUNE BUILDING WAsHINGTON OFFIOR, NoO. 518 FounTRENTH ST. h‘llflmmmnmlnl. axcopt Sunday. The w‘ onday morning paper publlshllyln the TERMA MY MATL: m Yenr, Monthi £10.00Three Months. 5.000ne Month. . Te WeekLy Ber, Published Every Wednesaay. TERMS, POSTPAID. One Year, with promium. ne Yenr, without premium . Monthis, without promium One Month, on trial. .. CORRRSPONDENCR: Al communieations relating to news and edi- torial matters should be addressed to the Evi- TOR OF rHE BEE. BURINESS LETTERS: Al bu siniess lotters and rerpittances should be padressed to THE BEE PURLISHING COMPANY, OMaitA. Drafta, checks and postoffice orders 10 be made payable to the order of the company. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS. F. ROSEWATER. Ep1TOR. THE DAL BEE. Sworrr Statement of Circulation. State of Nebraska, | , ¢ County of Douglas. } p N. P. Feil. cashier of the Bee Publishing eompany, does solemnly swear that the acg tual circulation of the Daily Bee for the week ending April 30th, 1856, was as follows: Morning Evening Date. . Editin. Edition. Saturday, 24th. [ 5970 th 5,065 5,715 5,845 Total 12,470 11 12175 0,479 BT 19,95 N. P. FEIL. Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 15t day of May, A. D. 1%. Sioy, J. FIsHER. Notary Public. N. P. Fell, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is cashier ‘of the Bee Pub- lishing mmlmny' that the actual average | daily circulation of the Daily Bee for the month of Jml“m, 188, was 10,378 copies; for February, 1886, 10,605 coples; for March, 11,537 copies; for April, 1856, 12,191 coples. Sworn to_and subscribed before me this 6th day of May, A. D, 189, Simox J. FISHER. Notary Public. Average.. IN secking a new trial Mr. Lauer is pos- #ibly making a great mistake, and we be- lieve that his attorneys feel the same way. No tore time should be lost in Omaha in the matter of building. The brick- layers and contractors ought to patch up their differences at once and go to work. Tue Manhattan bank has declined to pay 1 per cent interest on New York city municipal deposits. Nebraska county treasurers who turn & nimble penny by private arrangements with local bankers will put the name of the Manhattan bank down on their books for future reference. Two New Haven, Conn., dry goods firms were determined to undersell each other in disposing of prints called crazy cloth, for which each had paid 124 cents ' myard. One at last sold the goods at 1 eent & yard, and the other reduced the price to 5 cents for ten yards. Omaha dry goods firms who cut each others throats in the days of the lamented . Loysl L. Smith know how it is them- selves, THE disturbance reported from Rose- bud agency is suggestive of the danger which threatens our northern border so Jong as nearly 80,000 Sioux are settled in reservations along the Nebraska line. Bvery interest of public safety and a wise economy of life and money demand in- creased military protection for north- western Nebraska and the immediate strengthening of Forts Robinson and Niobrara, which guard the southern boundary of the great Sioux reserve. MAror Boxp is at his old tricks of bar- ter and sale. The latest move on the jpart of the mayor is an attempt to trade off the building inspectorship for votes for the removal of Marshal Cummings. This little game which failed at the organization of the council will not suc- any better now. The majority of the eity council were elected on an issue forced into tho canvass by the mayor. Their election was Mr. Boyd's defeat and he recognized it as such, He will find it difficult, we apprehend, to gain his point mow that the contest is decided. . THE pay of a second lieutenant in the French army is but $37.00 per month, and Dis sword knot costs $5. The pay of a ~ second lieutenant in the United States | symy varies from $115.00 to $185.00 a month, which is generally greatly in ex- @ess to the value of these young gentle- mmon to the service. The pay of an old | fiwst sergeant is about the same as that of | sFrench licutenant, A revison of the pay fable which would increase the pay of Mt sergeants to $75 » month and de- arenso that of young graduates to the “same amount would fill a long felt ‘wan! . Ee—— Tre manner in which the Farnam * miweot pavement is being treated is simply ' eutrageous and ruinous. Whenever Mrenches are dug for gas, water or sewer Pive conuections, the dirt is not properly 2 laced, and the paving blocks are very “earelessly put back, In some instances blocks are not replaced for weeks, but . #re aliowed to remain piled up on the . sldowalks where they make dangerous " obstructions. Farnam street already has nerous ruts and holes in the pavement eonsequence of this loose and careless y of doing things. The board of pub- works is responsible for this condition affiirs, and it ought to be ashamed of lf for such a neglect of duty. No one § 1d be permitted to tear up the pave- " ments without giving a guaranty that ~ they will be replaced in us good condition #8 they were hofore being taken up. " Tag Herald, which at one time was wery busy with the affairs of Omaha work- ngmen, and in a way that would proba- by have unsettled the ly had they listened to its double- leaders, 1s now hedging by udvis- the workingmen to keep right on b their work and to give the public a rmal assurance that they propose to do All this from the Herald is entively The workingmen of Owa- need no such ad They are an lligent class and know what they arce ut, and probably ave aware of their n interests. There never has at any beou any serious prospect of uvxten- labor sroubles in Omaha. ‘I'he work of Omaha have not been aflected she striking munia, but have kept cool oughout tho entire excitement that over nearly every section country for the past six weoks. Repeal the Laws, Every ease brought into federal courts where land grabbers are on one side and aswindled government on the other sup- plies fresh evidence for the use of those who hold that the laws governing the dis- posal of the public lands must be repeal- ed beeause it is impossible to prosecute to conviction those who violate them. Ne- braska has had eight such instances. California now furnishes an equal num- ber. On April 8 eight men (three of whom were worth £5,000,000) were in- dicted for having stolen from the govern- ment by means of fraud and subornation of perjury 96,000 acres of the most valua- ble redwood timber on the Pacific const. This timber they had sold to a syndicate in Scotland for $2,000,000. On Mon- day last the indictments were quashed. Two years ago the same men were indicted for the same crime, They escaped then justas they escaped now. The pre-emption, timber culture and desert land acts should be repealed. They cannot be enforced against the shrewd sharpers who use the nation’s bounty to heap up immense fortunes by fraud and perjury. The pre-emption law was passed originally to assist in the rapid disposal of the surplus government | lands and to raise funds for the treasury. The timber culture act was intended to promote tree planting. The first law ha outlived its usefulness. Our national do- main has dwindled down to 250,000,000 acres. The treasury has a surplus. There is no reason why the homestead bill will not fill every requirement of the intend- ing nctual scttler much better than the much abused pre-emption law. As for the timber culture law, it is the specula- tor's bonanza and the jobber's clysium Timber planting in the west needs no | such encouragement now-a-days as o bonus of 169 acres to men who will grow 10 acres of timber in eight years time. Nine-tenths of the land en- tered under the timber culture law is used for speculative purposes and ards relinquished at an advance -emption purposes. Both the laws should be removed from the statute books. They have been fertile in frauds which, under the loosely drawn statutes and still looser rulings of the land oflice, can- not be punished as they deserve. The west will lose nothing by their repeal. Resident settlers and not eastern no resident speculators have built up this growing country. Anarchists and Socialists. The red handed riots in Chicago under the lead of foreign anarchists are every- where being taken as a text for wholesale denunciation of “socialism.” The public must not confound two very different theories, and in confounding them con- fuse the distinction between law abiding citizens and outlaws of society. Social- ism is one thing. Anarchism is quite another. In Germany, the hot bed of most of the modern ideas, there are four distinet and separate schools of socialists. They all agree in agreeing that the present system of society needs reforming so that equality shall be more general, and eyery man shall be afforded an opportunity to rise tothe level for which his talents and industry fit him. The most able leaders of this theory are professors in the universities, who form a school called “Socialists of the Chair.” This school advocates the regeneration of society by the education of the masses, the enlargement of the sphere of govern- ment, and by legislative enactments, which will enable the peovle to partici- pate more thorougaly in mak- ing their own laws, They recog- nize in the present constitution of society a sufficient basis upon which to build the new social struc- ture. The means which they propose are through a peaceful reform of the laws tuation here en- | and the constitution. Between the **Socialists of the Chaw’' and the an- archists there is a wide gap. The an- archist creed denounces the present so- cial order as rotten, corrupt and ordered for the sole benefit of the few. It preaches that society must first be overthrown be- fore the new social siructure of equality can be reared. It looks upon wealth and rank as fungous growths which must be cut away before a healthy cireu- lation can be promoted in the body politic, These fanatical promoters of social warfare gain their idea by a study of continental despotisms where the peo- ple are nothing and the king everything. Anarchism flourishes only where an irre. sponsible government furnishes it a soil. There need be no danger in free Amcrica, where the people rule and where every man, however humble, may boldly aspire to the highest positions of honor and trust, that anarchism can secure a footing. It is opposed to the spirit of our institutions, repugnant to the sense of our people, and based on premises which have no application to existing conditions, Socialism, pure and simple, is the study of the people of America. Its primal principles have been here most success- fully applied and its peaceful theories put into active operation. No citizen can beor ought to be persecuted for an expression of opinion upon social reform which does not strike at the roots of law and order. But anarchists who use the liberty of a froe country to spread the revolutionary theories of Prussia and Russia among American workingmen should be promptly suppressed. Incen- diary speeches should not be permitted, Harangues inciting to riot and dynamite should be summarily closed by the pun- ishment of the firebrand orators. An orderly discussion of social topics is one thing, preaching riot and social ruin is quite another. —e Stirring Up Strife. The small-souled spitefulness of the Republican under its present manage- ment has cropped out so often on many | points tuat 1t has reacted against itself even among those were formerly the staunchest supporters of the paper. The continued and uncalled-for abuse of Sen- ator Van Wyck by that concern has done him a great deal more good than harm. ‘T'he latest assault upon the senator is in keoping with all the other performances of the small-bore editor of the sheet that is fast going out of existence. Be- tcause Senator Van Wyck. has scen lit to respond ecourteously to the call of the Omaha board of trade which, regardless of party or | faction has asked our Jlelegation in con- | gress to place the Union Pacilic on an equal footing with other roads in the THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1886. tor has soen fit to commend the presont management in comparison with Jay Gould and his wreckers, he is pilloried as a knave and a demagogue. Comment on snch & course is unneces- sary. There 1s one point, however, that we will notice. The charge is tramped up in this connection that the BEE now supports the funding scheme ot the Union Pacific which a year ago it opposed, and furthermore that Mr. Rosewater now has passes where he used to have ticket Both these assertions are downright lies. The BEE has not changed its position in regard to the funding bill and does not propose to uniess the fraudulent debt of the road is first wiped out. Rosewater has no passes over the Union Pacific rond. He bought his tickets at the Union depot like every other passen- ger the last time he went over the road two weeks ago. He has no transpo tion arrangements with the Union Puci- fie, even for mileage tickets, and we defy proof to the contrary. He has such ar- rangements over other roads, and they are strictly an exchange for advertising. Our relations with the present mana- gers of the Union Pacific have never been unfriendly. We have had no personal quarrels with them because unlike their predecessors they have kept out of poli- s so far, and made no personal war. To some of the methods of their road and varticularly to the practice of charging what tho trafiic will bear we are just as much opposed as we ever have been. What the Republican is driving at now in attempting to reopen old sores and force nother bitter controversy where it is un- called for we do not know. In the past we have understood it. 1t was an effort to captare all the job werk on the road and drazoon its employes into the politi- cal fights of Yost & Co. But we have no job oftice and ask no tavors ot the Union and do not interfere with any fa- they may wish to confer on anyone Our Duty Towards Labor. There should be no delay on the part of the council in approving the contracts for public improvemonts. There will be an abundance of employment for labor- er: soon as work starts. The curbing, guttering and paving alreadv contracted for will keep our streets alive with labor- ers for some months to come. Another question has an important bearing upon work for workingmen. We refer to a proper assessment of property. With a fair assessment, which means a tax list double the total of that of last year, the city and county will be able to do a large quantity of much needed grading later in the sexzson, and to turmsh continuous work for lab- orers until snow falls. If the same short- sighted policy of the past is pursued, if the assessors simply copy the books and the valuations of their predecessors, and list thousands of acres of unimproved city and suburban property ai farm land prices. the city will find itself seriously embarrassed for funds before the fiscal year is ended. Whether Omaha is to maintain present growth during the vre: depends very largely upon he; keep her workingmen at work. The city lns done its share when 1t supplies em- ployment enough for the idle. 1f after that isdone workingmen through uncon- sidered counsels and. unreasonable de- mands block their won paths they will have only themselves to blame. her Mn. Apaus and General Manager Cal loway have weeded out a good many of the old barnacles who have kept the Union Pacific in hot water throughout the state and made them hosts of enemies. There are a few of the old gang left who never will be reconciled to attending to railroad business and leaving politics and petty spiteful schemes against politi- cal opponents alone. Prominent among this disgruntled job lot of marplotsis Sam Jones. He feels very unhappy over things as .they are. He would like to assist his bosom friend Yost, not only to all the job work in the passenger de- partment, but would like to enlist all the Union Pacitic officials in resuming poli- tics on the old gravel train and section e He keeps up the fire in the rear and back-handed warfare from be- hind the ambush of the passen- ger department and will doubtless continue to do so as long as he remains there, If the broom of reform had swept such fellows as Jones out at the start, Mr. Callaway would find him- self less hampered in carrying out his design to make the road a strictly busi- nessinstitution. Personally we care no more for Jones than we dofora chimney sweep. But his impertinentand officious work concerns the public and affects the stunding of the road. Tue Philudelphia Record a few days ago celebrated the tenth anniversary of its ownership by William M. Singorly, who has made it one of the leading papers of the United States. 1t is a people's paper and the opponent of monopoly in every shape and form. The Record has over 100,000 circulation daily, and is a daisy for a cent. THE cable company is doing a great deal of talking. We would like to see it go to work and spend some money as an evidence that it means business, other- wise it is liable to be put on the list as a natural gas organization along with that new gas company. —— Other Lands Than Ours, Greece has at last precipitated the war towards which she hus been hot-headedly rushing for the past two months, Her reply to the ulimatum of the powers de- manding the immediate disarmament of her troops collected on the Turkish fron- tier has been considered inadequate, and the ambassadors have left Athens in an- ticipation of the impending conflict. Lat- est cablegrams announce the hurrying forward of troops to the Epirus, amid the enthusiasm of the Greek people, and the pre- paratious of the allied fleet of England, Germany and Austria to enforce the demand of Europe for a prompt settlement of the trouble. The report that Greece expeets Russian sup- port 15 probably true. The trouble has undoubtedly been actively fostered by the agents of the czar who is eagerly waiting for an opportunity to attack Turkey and seize the key to the Dardanelles. Europe, however, is likely to prevent any such contingency by settling the difliculty before much blood has been spilled on either side, * Mr. Gladstone’s nddrees to his Midlo- watter of building feeders to its line, the Republican soos in- Van Wyck a corrupt couvert to monopoly. . Because the sena- thian constitueney is now génerally ac- cepted as a notification to the country that the premier has decided to shortly dissolve parlinment and appeal to ‘the country on his Irj measures. Liberal England strongly Jendorses Mr. Glad- stone and his polidy, ®ut it is a serious question whother TEwill be able to give its endorsement yoice in the present parhament. The Rinfstry profess them- selves confident of passing the bills to their second readipg ne mate that nothing bat a swinging majority will satisfy them. -,Y\n_v!hiug but a hearty endorsement would be met on the con- servative side bygthe charge that the present parliamen{'was not elected on the home rule issue and on that account does not represent the will of their con- stituencies. Mr. Gladstone feels certain that the pulse of the country is strength- ening every day for home rule for Ire- land and will not shrink from testing his beliet by an appeal to the ballot. * A the tory calculators os- eighty-seven liberals as to support Hartington motion to reject the home rule bill on Monday, impartial judges show a very different roll as the result of their can- vas, The best estimate given places 55 liberals as definitely committed against home rule, and 134 committed in favor of it. Parlisment now consists of 659 members. On one side there are 134 un- official liberals, 28 ministers and 86 Irish- men, a total of 248. On the other there are 55 liberals, and 242 tories, a total of 207. This leaves 114 members whose status on the question is doubt- ful. Of these Mr. Gladstone must got 87 and his opponents 28 in order to have a majority. ‘These figures show the tremendous stress of the situation, but of the 114 there are 5 who will not vote at all if they decide not to vote for the bill: Mr. Bright, the two. Chamberlains, Mr. Caine and Mr. Courtney. This is possi- bly true of 10 other liberals, Of the re- maining 99 the utmost the tories hope for is 10, which will give them 317, and make Mr. Gladstone’s strength 837, or a ma- jority of 20. On the other hand, the lib- eral whips deny that the tories will get 10 more. They place the abstentions at 6, and claim & vote of 350 against 313, with a majority of 37. While timate pledged e The Prussian diet has been debating during the week on the new eccl b tical bill which is intended to take fur- her steps to modify the May laws of Herr Falk, The relations between Prus- sit and the Vatican are becoming in- creasingly friendly, and there is little doubt that Germany may shortly bo placed in her old position with regard to the freedom of religious seets to minister to the people according to their belicfs. * e About the worstrexhibition of landlord- ism to be found ihy Great Britain isin Scotland, not Irefand® Lhe population of the county of Sutherland is 24,317, It contains au area bf *1,£09,253 acres. Of this area the Duke of Sutherland owns 1,176,348 acres, sixrothgr persons 100,000 acres, and the remaining 5,205 acres are divided more or/less+equitably among the other inhabitans of that rent- ridden county. [t P! six hundred men who constitute the house of lords own niord Thaif one-fifth of the whole kingdom .and:qollect $66,000,000 annually in rents, an average of $110,000 a year. There are’ 85,000,000 pcople in the kingdom, and 7,400 of them own one- half the land. The other haltown an average of one acre each, .but three- fourths of them do not own a single foot. Such is Adam Badeau’s report of the con- 1irs as regards the land in Great Britain, and it seems to be no longer tolerable. **x The Spanish floating debt is 65,000,000 pesetas, a reduction since April 1 of 11,- 000,000. The Spanish government has decided to proceed with the consolida- tion of the Cuban debt as authorized by the cortes last year; alse to renow nego- tiations for a treaty of commerce with the United States with a view of improy- ing the trade and revenue of Cuba, in order to case the burden of the guar- antee. e The New Brunswick elections have re- sulted in a defeat to the tories. The Macdonald party held the provincial government from the admission of New Brunswick into the confederation until 1883, when the legislatare, clected the previous year, voted want of confidence; Mr. Blair became prime minister, ana the Dominion tories have been unably since then to dislodge hiin and the liheral party of New Brunswick. " The Spanish senatorinl statistics have resulted in the return of 128 ministerial- ists, 28 conservatives, 6 indcpendents, 4 ropublicans and 2 membors of the dy- nastic left. There does not scem to bo much show for Castelar's republic in these figuros The regency is well sup- vorted so far, and Spain is tranquil, PROMINENT PERSONS. Willian K. Vanderbilt proposes to devote his whole time to literature and the cultiva tionof his mental powers. Patti has returned from her Spanish tour, ‘The net galns of the engagement were §200,- 000, of which Patti received 63,000, Dr. Wm. A, Hammond, ex-surgeon general of the United States army, was married re- cently to a Miss Chapin of New York, Mr. Gladstone's buttowhole posey, worn when he made his great speech, 5 & rose with shamrocks, the qfl't of Mr. Parnell. J. R, Osgood will make 4 splendid agent of the Harpers in Luud";n. 1He 15 universally popular, and knows the bopk trade from alpha 1o om \ Ex-President Hayes has long been am- bitious to appear as amagazinist. Brooklyn has the honor, in its magazine, of introducing him to the world, 1 General Sherman talks of spending the summer with his datghter, the wife of Lieut. Thackera, who has just removed from Phil- adelphia to Marietta, %’& e T A Great Nehraska Cilg It has been discove: that sfiss Folsom has relatives in Omaha. It might be well for those in politics to cultivate their acquain- tance. News. Doubting the Promise. Papillion Times. ‘“1he Unlon Pacific railway officials promise tobuild a monster union depot in Omaha. This promise is not new, nor Is it of any more value than its long line of predecessors. Omaha will have a union depot when her cit- izens donate the money for its construction. e Lmperishable Renown, Rochestor Chronieie, The youth who fired the Ephesian dome and the widow O'Leary’s celebrated cow whieh fired Chicago are invited to share their imperishable renown with the unkunown superintendent who fired Charles A, Hall, of Texns. Hall Is the man whose discharge from the car shops of the Texas Pacific railroad at Matshall was the immediate cause of the strike. ———— Gabriel's Horn, Nebraska City News, It seems to be the prevailing opinion that Gabriel must have blown his horn in the south or Jeff Davis would not be making his Jjourney. He is the skeloton of the dead past. What the South Fought For, Ohicago Herald. The “nigger,” ashe was called in those days, was what the south fought for. To keep him in involuntary and shameful bondage it took refuge under the aegisof state sovereignty and made, through four years of awful strife, an effort to destroy a government which belonged to it as wellas to the north, and in which the highest hopes of mankind were centered. With positions reversed it would have fought just as desper- ately for the obliteration of state lines, if by that process slavery might have been spared. 1t is easy to eulozize the bravery of the southern armies, for that was proved on many a field, but it is impossible foranybody to invest the cause in which they struggled with a halo of glory. Thay fought tora bar- baric idea. They lost, but they lost no liberty, for thiat had never been threatened. oMol The True System of Paying for Labor. New York Times, *“The common sense of the problem is that no labor should be paid by the day, All should be paid by the hour.” So says the Sun. The principle thus set forth is entirely wrong and vicious, and is at the bottom of a large part of the labor troubles. Labor should be paid, whenever possible, neither by the day nor by the hour, but according to its re- sults. To pay a workman according to the time spent upon the work is the worst for him, It puts a premium on tardiness and incompetence and brings the most skilled and expert mechanic down to the level of the least fit. The true theory is to pay the work- man for what he does, not for the time oceu- pled in doingat. In this way skill will be stimulated and industry rewarded. This method, too, will have the effect of removing from the trades unions a stigma that has long clung to them—that, by putting all the 1 borers in any given trade on tha same s of wages, they offer no inducement to specia excellence, it The Spring Poet. Philadelphia News, The fair yofing poot in some shady nook, With & chiewa-up. vencil and a brand-new ook, Shrugs his shoulders, saws the empty air, And funs his fingers'through his curly lair. Now a smile illumines his fair face, Quickly turning to a sad grimace: A thouzht had e, but ere 'twas written down it tled, and left in liu thereof a trown. He knits his brows and bites his bloodless s, counts upon his finger tips, his head and mutters very low, » t00 many; that's no go. ‘Thus o'er and o’er our young poet essays To find material for his'vernal la; The Muse at last relents and lends her aid, And thus the best spring poetry is made. —————— VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS, Salvini at Home, *“The recent performances of Booth and Salvini in New York have recalled to mind several interesting bits of versonal informa- tion regarding the latter actor, which Mr. Wertheimer, Salvini's assistant manager, told me some months ago when he was in Omaha,” said a newspaper man, “Salvini’s home is in Florence, and it is a most elegant residence. He ownsa large theater in Flor- ence, but hardly ever plays. there. or any- where else in Italy of late years. The house is occupied either by astock company or by traveling troupes. Salvini is wealthy— thatis to say foran Italian. He will prob- ably make a farewell tour of the prineipat cities of Italy before he retires. Whenever ho plays in his own country nowadays it is only for some benefit. Besides the son he has traveling with him in the United States, he has another son in Italy who is & very promising actor, upon whom the mantle of the paternal Salvini willfall. So tho name of Salvini is likely to be perpetuated on the stage. Salvini 18 very popular throughout Italy, not only on account ot his eminence as an actor. but his many fine qual- ities as a man,” Has Seen Better Days. ““That old man has seen better days,” sald a man about town pointing out *Old Char- ley,” as he Is called, who at the time was en- gaged in washing the windows of 2 saloon, ‘*He was well educated, and at one time was in prosperous circumstances, He ‘stood up' with Theodore Tilton when that noted per- son was married. When ‘Lilton lectured in Omaha some years ago, the ‘boys’ around the old Crystal saloon made Old Charley’s heart glad by presenting him with a new suit of clothes and a stove-pipe, so that he could call on hisold friend Tilton without belng ashamed of hisappearance. Charley called on the lecturer and was cordially received aud entertained. The incident forms one bright spot in the old man's memory since he has been in Omaha. What is his real name? 1 really don’t know, but I know that he Is very sensitive about anything being brought up about his past career. Mc. Desert. ‘“Some of the advances in Omaha real es- tate may be regarded as wonderful, but they are not half so remarkable as the advance in real estate at my old home,” said Mr. Benson, who upon being asked where his old home was replied Mt Desert. *It is a small island, off the coast of Maine,” continued he, “and my tamily have lived there from way back. Four years ago a tract of land on the island, containing 400 or 500 acres, was offered for sale for $700. It has recently 8old at the rate of 830,000 an acre, and has been divided into small lots. The 1sland is fifteen miles long and elghteen miles wide, It Lias thirteen mountains and thirteen lakes, One mountain is 2,200 feet high, and has a railroad running to the top of it, where there is @ hotel, and from which point the eye can see for seventy-five miles, Jawes G, Dlaine has recently built a cottage on tne island at a cost of $29,000, President Eliot, of Harvard college, also has a cottage there which cost about the same. The Widow Vanderbilt and one of her sons propose to build & cottage there this spring. I remember one tract of land on which the owner some years ago refused to pay the taxes, That land sold for $20,000 not long ago. The island is merely a barren rock, but is in de- mand for a summer resort.” Profitable Investments, “Some years ago I had among my em- ployes an industrious woman,” said a leading merchant, “and one day she came to me and sald she had saved up & few hundied dollars, and wanted to know what to do with it, I told her to o out near the western outskirts of the city and buy a small piece of ground and huild a little house there. She did so, and the other day she came into my store and told me she had sold her property for £15,000 cash, She had given her husband $5,000, and he bad put the woney in bank to draw againstitat his pleasure, and was drinking it up as fast as possible, Sh vested part of the money in real estate further out, and built her a nice house, and still had 80,000 or $7,000 left in bank as a nest egg. - Fifteen thousand dollars frow)a few hundred—not more than $300, if I re- wewber correctly—in about six years s what 1 call doing pretty well. -Another of my em- ployes, a wan; bought a lot near the western city limits, a fow years ago, and bullt a little cottage, the property costing him about $600. 'he other day he sold it for $3,500, and two of his neighbors, also mechanics, did about as woll. They have gone further west and roinvestod a portion of their money in hopes that the growth of the city westward will soon catch up with them again, and give them another similar opportunity to sell out. These are only a few of the many incldents of this kind that I know of.” “Nelse" Patrick Sells a Part of Hap- py Hollow. “[ understand that Nelse Patrick has sold fitty-six acres of his Happy Hollow prop: erty,” remhrked & well known gentleman. “He got $00 an acre, o a total of $50,400, The purchasers were a New York syndicate. The property lies just west of Walnut hill, Lthink Patrick has about 350 acres more. ‘'hat beats a torpedo boat by an_ overwhelm- ing majority.” The FPostofice Clerks Worked Death, The Ber Thursday evening remarked ed- itorially that there should be more eflicien- cy on the part of those who are employed in the postoflice, and instanced the recent failure of the office to deliver before 3 o'clock p. m., postal cards which had been deposited there nearly twenty-four hours before. Referring to it Chief Clerk Pickens suid to-day: “Nattinger, secretary of the board of trade, put those postals in the street box shortly atter midnight, and on the early morning ot the day they wero to have been delivered. When they were dumped on the table they were mixed up with more than 600 others advertising a cigar, which had been sent in by Kuhn. how we haven’t time to look at every postal card and learn whether it calls for immediate or rou- tine delivery. For that reason, we did not know but all the cards in that mass were advertising Kuhn's cigar. We don’t deny that advertising postals and circulars are sent out less expeditiously than mail, be- cause we know they are ot so important to the party addressed. Besides, we are vnmpu]lurl to do this, because of the size of our torce. We must get the important mail matter off our hands first, and leave postal cards, especially advertising ones and circulars, Jl we can handle them later. If Nattinger had told us of his cards, we would have sent them out with the first lotters. There’s no use of talk- ing about it. Our men are doing their best, but there are not enough of them, and thoso that are here are nearly worked to death.” e ‘When S hould Girls Marry? Chicago News. Recently the Brooklyn Magazine asked several of the best known woman writers in America for their viows respecting the age when young women should marry. To this important question Louisa M. Alcott replied *‘from 23 to 25, as before then few girls are ready for the duties of married life, either physically or men- tally. She thought, however, that the question “When shall our young men marry?'’ a still more important one. Rebecea Harding Davis wrote that she thought the time for a girl to marry is when she meets a man who heartily loves her and whom she heartily loves, if she is old enough to be a helpmate to him and not a dead wuifiht‘ Madeline Vinton Dahlgren thinks that a young woman of 20 must have seen enough of the social atmosphere in which she lives to be able to discriminate wisely in the choice of & husband. Lucy Stone does not believe in early marringe, so she put the suitable age at from 25 to 30 years. To her mind the di- vorces which come from want of age and the death rate among children of inex- nced mothers are “danger signals” st early marringes. Campbell is down on the girl ams of lovers from the time she and marries at 17, She believes fit to murry before 80 and no woman before 25, Eunice White Beecher takes issue with nearly all of her literary sisters. She be- lieves there arc many reasons why mar- riage of girls from 18 to 21 would seem to promise the huppiest results. Young people more readily conform their habits to those of each other than when indi- vidual habits become fixed by indepen- dent lives. Mary L. Booth avoids fizures, but re- gards immuture marringes as a fruitfug source of unhappiness. She deems it desirable that young women should have an opportunity to see something of the world and to partake of the amusements of her age befors marrying, thatshe may not afterward be pursued’ with re- ret for huving been detrauded of the en- Joyment of her youth. Lucy Larcom suys the old adage, “‘Mary in haste and “repent at leisure,’’ reserves its keenest barbs for many of those who have embarked early and thoughtlessly upon the voyage matri- monial. She adits that early marriages ate sometimes the happiest, and that in delay a young woman muy learn to love her self-reliant lot so well that she will not marry at all. But she thinks that early marrinzes tend to rob women of the most delightful peried of their lives—the interval between the ox perience of a child and that of a wife— the period of beautifui, dehightful, and urmlunl development. *‘Let girls marry to young if they will,'' she says, ‘‘but not 80 young us to lose the sweetness of gaz- ing quietly out into life through the fresh dews of ‘maiden meditation fancy free.'" Louise Chandler Moulton thinks that more girls are capable of & wise cholce at 25 than 20, and that nine-tenths of our girls would be happier should they wait until the maturer period. The two hap- piest marriages she can call to mind of one wife at 28 the other at 80. Country girls and daughters of the wealthy class may venture into matiimony at early 08 with less danger of mistake than the great body of well-to-do and work- ing Americans. To her mind unshared aspirations, unshared tustes, unshared acquisitions are the futal rocks before early marriages. There is one thing all these good and wise counselors nogleot to_consider—the age at which the opportunitios of choice are greatest. They seem to forget that the mill will never grind with the water that has passed, These opportunities un- questionably flourish most Prufunely be- tween the ages of 18 and 25, the period between he bud of maidenhood and the full blown rose of womanhood. It is during this stuge that men of ad ages above that of a college undergraduate delight to select their partners. They do not think of the men- tal or physical llmlurl(x of the woman 80 much " us they do of her attractiveness of person and disposition. The latter is of far more consequence in murried life than mental fitness, and it can be judged more aceurately in the woman under than when the ‘dews of maidenhood have vanished in the light of worldly ex) ienc We should answer our contem: porary’s guestion thata woman should marry before she is 35 if she has a good chance or she may have to take up with a crooked stick if she delays, The op- portunitics grow r and more plenti- fully on the gent ope of her life be- tween 20 and than they doon the grade which steepeus every year after that. — - Water Capital St. Louis Republican. There are about 130,000 miles of rail- roads in the United Stat v stock and debt to the amount of $3,000,- 000,000, or over $60,000 & mile. Butitis @ well-known fact that the roads did not cost this much. An average mile of rail- roud can uow be built for $20,000, and although the roads built before 1570 cost the states and individuals who built them represented | treble this rate, it would not be out of the way to estimate that the whole 180,000 mifes of road in the country to-day have cost their present owners X per mile, or $4,000,000,000 for the whole. But what of the other half of their pre. tonded cost? If they actually cost their present owners only $4,000,000,000, what does the other $4,000,000,000 reprosent ¢ Water. Their stock and *sccuritios have been diluted to double their real cost for the fraudulent purpose of forcing the country to pay a double rate of divi- dends upon them. ~ Six per cent on their actual cost would be a fair return for the inyestment, But the corporations that own them demand 12 ‘wr cent, and the geot it h{ doubling their protended capie tal and requiring the country to pay them 6 por cent on the doubled sum. The corporations say thi: clusive business, and the public have no concern in it. This is not true. The public have a very intense concern in it. Railronds are public highways, and the bodies that own them are quasi-public corporations. They are in no real prao- tical sense private. It is the country that furnishes the roads with busmess. are common carriers, whose du is to carry 20,000,000 passengers a year and the commerce of the land; and” the whole country is taxed in freight and nger rates to pay dividends to their ners, Itis a bald frand on the peo- ple, then, to make thom pay & dividend on a cost of §0,000 & mile when the act ual cost has been only $30,000. e ASPINWALL SPIDERS. The Big Insects Which Sometimes Come to America, Macon Telegraph: *“‘Look out for the tramps!"’ s Corput, the fruit dealer ernhlf‘. he telegraph mah was admiring the bright bufl’ color of & bunch of bananas yesterday,when a big ugly spider crawled out and ambled along on the counter. He was a bundle of bark brown fuzz about the size of your thumb, iuto which wore struck several long, black legs. He was a tramp all the way from Aspinwall. And like a tramp who had stolen a ride under a freight car on a breakbeam, his legs scemed cramped from the long journcy in_the crev of a bunch of bananas. The poor fellow was at a loss where to go. He was thousands of miles from homo and friendless, for people do not take kindly to big ugly spiders. He wus a tramp and in a strange country. We killed one here the other night with a body as big as a biscmt. His body po\um(l like a torpedo. They come often in bananas, but we generally manage to kill them. Up at the old store one made his escape and made his home under tho counter Then another escaped, and for a long time we lost sight of them. One day we found a web under the counter, and on looking closer we found the home of the two tramps. They had raised & large family of spiders, and they were the cutest little things you would care to see. They ran nimbly into the web it you made a motion to strike them, and mxm¥' a day we have watched them sim- ply for the amusement. They caught every fly that came within range, and now and then a bug happened within their reach and varied their bill of fare. Although we knew they wero dangerous pets, we did not disturb them for tho reason that they seemed to be industrious fly-catchers, and were never inclined to sting, One' afternoon a new clerk saw one big fellow run around a corner of the counter, and us he had uever seen a .sridur of such ¢normous size, he imagined that to allow it to go at large was cquivalent to turning a tiger loose, and he killed the pet. The others ran out, and for about an hour the new clerk had about as much as he could stand up- to killing spiders.” . ‘Do they ever bite?"* ‘‘Yes, but it is a rare ocourrence. They fight like wild cats, and they are high- tempered, but they never trouble any- body unless aroused and teased. Al- though there are millions of bunches of bananus brought to this country every season, and many a thousand spider steals 'its way across witl them, you never hear of anyone being ».ung. o are very peculiar things, and differ widely in their habits from the common spider of this country, which makes a web like the centerpiece of ari F-sun crazy quilt. They make a kind of nest and then spread out lines of web in every direction. Un this sin- le line, fwhich is as small as a silken thread, they run with ease, hanging to it by their long, flexible legs. When dan- gor threatens thoy have a way of drawing in the lines. and, huddling together, await the attack of the foe. n thus disturbed they make prodigious teaps and arrange in a circle around the nest, which they seem to guard with jealous care. Then, when provoked, they run all over the attacking party. ’l‘hcv are game and put up an ugly tigh Mo House rent is so high in the City of Mexico that many houses are vacant in the older quarters of the city, new com- ers nearly all seeking the suburbs, espec- inlly toward the west. Landlords do not come down, however, preferring to wait, since their property is not taxed when unoccupied. e An extraordinary fa in connection with the Russian conscripts drafted into the ranks in 1885 is shown by some stu- tistics just published. The total number of conscripts accepted was 847,587, of whom no fewer than 42,830 were Jows. ECZEMA And Every Species o Itching and and Burning Diseases Cured by Cuticura, OZEMA, or Salt Rheum with its agonizing 4 tohing'and burning, instantly reliovod by & warm bath with Caticura Soap, and a singlo & plication of Cutiourn, the groat skin ouro. This Topeated daily, with two or threo doses of Cuti- cura Hesolvon ¥, 10 keop tho blood cool, the perspiration pure and unir- ritating, the bowels open, the liverand kidnoys active, will Apeodily cure eczomu, totter, ring- worim, paorinais, lichen, pruritus, sculd' head, dundrff, wiid Gvory spocies of 'tohiu, seuly and pimply humors of the scalp and_ skin, whon the best physicians and all known remedios fail. WiL1 MCDONALD, 2542 Doarborn st., Chloago, gratefilly ucknowlodges & oure of oczemn, oF Balt rheum on hoad, , face, wrms und loge for soventeen year able to' walk oxcopt on hands nnd knoos for one year; not ablo to help himsell for oight years; tried hundreds of romos dios; doctors pronounced his case hopeloss; permanently cured by = Cutiours Rosolvent (blood purifier) Internally, wnd Cuticurs and Cuticura Soup (the great skin cures) extornully A8, Houauros, Esq., lawyer, 28 Stato st, for ton yoars, wh tient's body wid libs, wid to which all_known methods of treatment had been applied without beneiit, which wus complotely cured sololy by the Cuticura Remedies, leaving & clean und bealtuy skin. Mit. Joms TaizL, Wilk wve sutferod from sl ut tines 8o bud th covored the pa- barre, Pa., writes: wum 101 over cight 1 could not uttend to siness for woeks at & time. Three boxes ieurs and 1our bottles RResolvent hive on- tvely cured me of this dreudful disoase.” Bk i~ have nothind for the results obiined Kowodies, of which 1 have others of thic kind. Miix 250 N. Broud all druggist ets.; Resolvont; $1.0, Sc the PoTTER DI Mass. ~end AU" Y MATIC, NEURALGIO Suddon, sbavp and’ nevve absolutoly anihimted by oLutioura Aul-Paip Plasier, porfeet wutidote to pkin and iu mation. - Now, origioul, fulible, At Qiuggists. 26e. 5 Boxn, M. D., hiladelpliis, Pa. Cuticura, 60 Prepared’ by Co., Boston 3501d by