Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 11, 1886, Page 4

4 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY MAY '11, 18%v. | THE DAILY BEE. YOoRk Orrice, Roow 8, Trisune BurLorva The Des Moines Lands Veto. Towa is thoroughly indignant over the bill, and an earnest effort is being made F'IA Oryice, NO. 914 AND 016 ranwaw 8% | president’s veto of the Des Moines lands ASMINGTON OFvIcE, NO. 513 FOURTRENTH ST, p 1ehod every morning, excapt Sunday. The g fi“omn noriog pager pubitsued Ta the TERME DY MATL: Qne Your. - #1000 Three Months Monthe.. ... 5.000ne Month. . Tax WeekLY Ber, Published Evory Wednosaay. TERME, POSTPAID: ; e Year, with premiu 4 e Your, without premiam. . A Months, without promium. . o Month, on trial. .. CORRESPONDENCE! All communications relating to_news and edi- torial matters should be addressed to the Epr- TOR OF "Ax BEF. DUSINFSS LETTERS: | _ ATl business Jattors and somittances should be ¢ resced 10 THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, & MA. Drafts, checks and postoffice ordors p ‘De minde paynble to the order of the comphny. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS B }K?SBWATBIL 7lbfrol. THE DAILY BEE. Bworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebraska, | ¢ o County of Douglas, § ™ ™ N. P, I’(-IL cashier of the Bee Publishing eompany, does solemnly swear that the ac- tual circulation of the Daily for the ‘week ending May Tth, 1856, was as follows: Morning Eve Date, Bdition, E Baturday, Monday, Tuesday. ednesday, 5l ursday, 011 Total 12,550 . Fi Sworn to and subseribed bel me, this 8th day of May, A. D, 1836, SivoN J. FISHER. ary Public, X, P, Fell, boing (% uly sworn, deposes and says that he is cashier of the Bee Pub- 1ishing_company, that the actual average dally circulation of the Daily Bee for the month of Jlnllm, 1886, was 10,378 coples; for Februnry, 189, 10,55 coptes:"for, Mare 11,587 copics; for April, 1886, 13,191 wgles. worn to_and subscribed before me this Bth day of May, A. D, 185, Simox J. FIsHER, Notary Public. TaE time for four story business blocks 1n the business center has passed away. Six story fronts are now coming into fashion, Mg, CLEVELAND will be given a chance fo put his ideas about home rule into operation in a few weeks. The wedding 15 to take place in June. MRr. HEw1TT is ashamed of the record which his party has made in the way of getrenchment. Mr. Hewitt is not half as disgusted as the rank and file who have been squirming in dismay at the imbecil- ity of the democratic leaders who have found themselves unable to lead the majority in congress during the past session. E—— THE iron industry attracts much atten- tion on account of close relationship to the general progress of the country. Its prosperity is ordinarily the indication of general prosperity, and its decline evi- - dence of depression. The just issued an- mual report of the American Iron and Bteel association shows a slight dimi- pution in the production of iron ~ and stecl in the United States in 2885 as compared with 1834 At the | elose of 1885 tho prospects ot an active #rade in 1888 were very bright, but the re- ;or! goes on to say that the display of ~ bostility to American interests made in the house of representatives early in 1886, 88 well as the 1nauguration of strikes in | many parts of the country, has interfered with business of all kinds, A table show- " Ing the range of prices for leading iron and steel products from July, 1884, to April, 1886, indicates that the depression reached its lowest point in the .summer | 911885, when steel rails were down to | $27, pig iron to $17.75, and old iron rails to $17.25. The present price of steel “#ails 1s $34.50, and pigiron $18.50. Tnetroasury statement for April shows | $diminution of $10,065,387.95 in the na- | #lonal debt for the month and anin- orease of $4,485,783 in the treasurer's d balance. But this gain in the gold nce is not due to an actual incroase b the amount of coin and huilion. In et, the tot2] Amount of gold coin and mllion in the treasury and sub-treasury ts is smaller than on the 81st of ch; but the net ance has been en- god by a diminution of ontstanding cortificatos. Another faot which not be lost sight of here is that, the United States treasury hus been gthening its gold reservn during the h, the New York banks have been ily losing specie. The amount of ned 2oniéy held by natlonal banks of & York fell off $1,765,700 last week, ‘the total specie reserve shown by the 1 iring house statenient of that_city at h lu‘ of businoss on Batitrday was 749,800 ngainst $109,939,400 at the i ponding date o 1885, The present Teserve, however, is ‘sufficient for ractical purposes, and is still $10,- 000 greater than was held atthis time 884, The hond call of $10,316,750, oh maturcd In April, reduces the mount of the 3 per cent bonds outstand- 1o §163,775,800. Ar the last moeting of the oiy council Jgrdinance was pussed, irfereasing the of the city attorncy to $8,000. This n was taken is yiew of the import- of city Jitigation and the yearly in- ng amount of work devolving upon ty attorney. For this reasonm it is and proper that the advance in sal- should now be made. At the time #alary was fixed at $2,000 the number swts which the city attorney expected to defend, and the labor by the duties of his oftice, were ono-fith of what they sre at the nt time. As shown by the recent ort of Mr. Conuell, there are now 1 agniost the city, one hundred d fifty suits, involving an aggregate of claims of $373,428.01, It is of the ut- importance to the city that it shoald ably and faithfully represented in the Jefonse which its sitorney will ealled upon to large aggregate of Che matter of §1,000 u year diffora e salary of its logal represents small consorn when compared with nuture and amount of the services ved. During his past term of official the present oity sattorney has been &bly succeasful in the matters por- to his department und is woll en- 10 the increase of salary proposed. ho the poorest kind of economy ity to secure the services of any aey merely because he would take b oiiise ub its present salary. In the ) it of lagal talent the cheapost rally desr st spy price. . " Hs by her congressional delegation to se- cure the passage of the measure over the president’s veto. The opponents of the bill call attention to the unfavorable re- ports of the senate judiciary eommittes in 1881 upon the bill, and that Mr. Gar- land, the present attorney general, was one of the committee who opposed the measure, This is a trifling objec- tion when examined by the rocord. The dispute s already yoars old and the legi time and again memorializ congress for the passage of a bill which would give the settlors on the Des Moines river lands a chance to have their wrongs righted. A Inll indemnifying the settlers passed the house of the Forty-third con- gress, and was reported favorably by the senate committee of the rorty-fifth con- gress. In the succeeding congress it was reported favorably to the house. In the Forty-seventh congress it passed the house and two years later it was reported favorably to both houses. The relief asked for was manifestly just. The settlers havo simply asked for a way by which they can present their claims in court. The previous action of the government has so befogged the issue that they cannot litigate themselyes o as to present the questions ng under their cliims, The charge that the su- preme court has decided the points in- volved is not true. The settlement made was nccording to the committee on pub- lic lands of the house, *'a settlement made in suits in which nvither the general government, the state of lowa nor the per- sons claiming title under the general land laws were parties.” The suits were trumped-up and jug-handled affairs. The committee snys: No suit has yet been decided in which either the state of lowa or the United States was a party, or in which the question of the rights of either the state or the nation was di- rectly presented. O. the contrary, the suits have in the main been collusive, and in all but a single one the court proceeds upon the basis of admission made in the record by the parlies, the facts of whieh if putin issue bona fide might have made necessary an irely different decision from that rendered. titlo of the Navigation company has unever been attacked by anyoue entitled to plead its defects, President Cleveland’s veto of the bill {o relieve the settlers, was, to say, the least ill advised. Prominent senators at Washington do not hesitate to go furthoer and to hint that New York intluences closely connected with the Des Moines Navigation company, assisted him ma- terially in arriving at his conclusions, so unjust and so unfavorable to western in- terests, The River and Harbor Bill. The passage of the river and harbor bill by the house of representativesis an indication thut congress is not yet ready to give up the work of internal improve- ments because the previous appropria- tions for this purpose have been extrava- gant or ill advised. About a third of the entire sum of $15,000,000 appropriated by the present bill is allotted to the improve- ment of the two great inland waterways of the country, the Mississippi and the Missouri rivers, while of the remaining sum & much smaller portion than usual isgiven to the streams and harbors of doubtful merit. ‘I'he hue und cry raised against any ap- propriation for the improvement of our national waterways is largely due to the selfish efforts of the railroad lobby to prevent water competition with railway transportation. These gentlemen are perfectly aware that if the Mississippi and Missowri rivers were made available for barges through the great agrioultural regions through which they pass, that railroad rates would very promptly tumble to a competitive basis. Every raiiroad between Chicago and the Mis- souri is interested in defeating the en- nepin canal, because every railroad man- ager is perfectly aware that such a water- way between tho 2fississippi and the lakes would afiet the trunk lines west just asthe Erie canal has the railroads east, The issue of national aid to inter- nal improvements was dubated as long ago as the time of James Monroe, and the veople of the United States have evor since been heartily in favor of appropriations for that purposs, The fact that many of the measures passed have benrn log-rolled through congress to aAvance the local interests of congressmen and senators! doos not: affect tha justice of the prin such appropriations are Nor does extravagance in the éxpenditure of the fumds provided. Let the government look to that. Its en- Kineers ure pald to provide plans and to supervise their execution, 'he wost, with the vast éxpanse of ter. ritory, is ® unit in demanding thut the facilities for its inland commerce, in which the@ntire nation is Intercsted, shall b2 protocted and fostered by the governnient. These iutorests are para. ‘mount to those of uny railroad line or any railroad pool. Improving the great waterways of the continent is the surest methiod of protecting western farmers and western shippers from the extortion and discriminations of comwmon carriers. tmprovement by Ordinance, Every city contains a number of prop- erty owners and wealti:y tax-payers wio are clogs upon the progress of the com- munity. These mossbacks aud skinflints are always willing to roap the beuent of any improvements made by others, but dectine to ceatribute by muking sueh improvements themselves, As long us their rickety shantics aopd tumble-down stores pay them hardsome returns on the actual investment they are sotisfied to have others bnild brick blocksand reise the value of the adjacent property, It makes no difference to this class of zens whether stroots are puved or side- walks made passable. They laugh at enterprisu as extravegance, and make no move themselves in that direetion until foreed to do so by the city couneil. Much of Omaha’s imiprovement in the way of Luilding, pavieg aud grading bas been improvement by ordinsnce. Every uxtension of the five liwits has reudered it impossible for the moss-backs and puil- bicke to retain a permavent bold on the rawshackle shells which line owr streets. ‘T'he psving ordered ugaiast the groaus of skinint property owners bas in » score of ivstances doubled the value of then property in spita of themselves. With the rapid advance in the value of real es- | erossing have beeome poor investments. In eon- soquence they are rapidly making way for a fine class of business houses. Individual enterprise has not been lacking in Omaha, but there has been less of it than in most cities of our size. inforced enterprise has been more gen- eral. The improvements which in six years have changed Omaha from a mud- dy town, whose streets were lined with buildirgs searcely creditable to a country village, have been due not to the individ- ual property owners immediately af- fected, but to the general sense of the community voicing itself atthe polls and enforcing its decrees through the city council. The good work should go on without intermission. The business part of Oma- ha isnow substantially paved. The im- provements made have doubled and quadrupled the value of property adjoin- ing and in turn have torced improve- ments the buildings erected or in course of erection. Let the coun- cil now take up the question of side- walks. The time has come when the bus- iness center of Omaha should be forced to discard the wretched planks and to lay down permanent walks from lot line to curb. Individual enterprise cannot be depended upon to bring about this result. The improvement must be enforced by ordinance. Of all the cit in the west of her size, Umaha has tho best paved streets and the poorest sidewalks lining them. The wooden sidewalks must go, and their going should be materially as- sisted by the acticn of the city council, A Safe Inyestment. The recent visit of the Union Pacific railroad divectors to Omaha has borne substantial fruit. The union depot, the further enlargement of the headquarter: and a frank and full discussion of exist- ing and past diff s between the peo- ple of Omaha and the road were some of the results which ensued. Another bit of news, which is the fruit of the same tree, is announcement that Mr. F. L. Ames has made a heavy pur- chase of Omaha business property and will erect this summer a ix-story block on Dougla: and Thirteenth streets, on the sixt feet of which a portion is now occupied by the Omaha Savings bank. This means an investment of more than $150,000 by Mr. Ames in Omaha property, and is gratifying as evidencing the confidence which wealthy eastern capitalists are showing in Omaha's present and future. It is also a pleasant evidence that heavy owners of Union Pacific stock in the cast are beginning to put money in Omaha. For years they strained every effort to take money out of this city for invest- ment elsewhere. Level headed investors everywhere are beginning to recognize Omaha’s advantages for planting money with the assurance of reaping remuncra- tive crops m return. A wide awake, growing, progressive city with an imper- state behind it and the whole trans- Missouri country in its rear is practically independent of eastern depression in real estate and trade. Fortunes have been made in Omaha real estate during the past five years, but there are still other fortunes to be accu- mulated through the steady and sound advance in values which is yet in pro- gress. Mr. Ames knows enough to know that ety lots in Omaha substantially im- proved, are the safest and surest invest- ment in the west. His judgment should have due weight on the local property owners who have not been able “‘to see their wayclear,”” to replace two story frame buildings with substantial business structures. The New Bridge, Work on the new bridge across the Missouri at Omaha has been temporarily suspended during high water but will be shortly resumed and pushed as rapidly as is consister with the substantial erection of such g structure. In this connection, thers is a paragraphof interest to Omaha in the report of the Union Pacific direc- tors just published: “It has been determined by the direc- tors to reconstruct the bridge crossing the Missouri river at Omaha. Accord- ingly work was begun in November. The prosent bridge is a single track, and affords no facilities for street travel. The new bridge will bave a double track, roedways and footways, M will be superior to any bridge the Missouri and will necommodate an almost unlimited trafiic between Council Bluffs and Omaha.”” The new bridge is to be of the greatest benefit both to Omaha and to Council Blufls, Its completion will join the two cities by a bond of travel and rapid transit. Property in Couneil Bluffs will promptly feel the effect of the change, in increased values of roal estate. Omaha will benefit in being bronght into close communicaition with the markets and farma of western Iowa, and especially in being able to travel beyond the river without the annoying delays of transfer. The new bridge means a new union deopot and trains from all points center- ing in this city. — Tae Chicago Herald yesterday cele- brated its fifth anniversary by issuing an interesting supplement containing a tac simile of the first number of the Chi- cago Daily American, established in Avpril, 1889, and which was the first daily paper ever published at Chicago. Much interesting information concerning the carly days is given, and also the names of over 1,600 persons from the city diree- tory of 1839, For a five-year old the Herald is a very clean and healthy look- ing sheet. It desorves the prosperity that has rewarded the efforts to make it first-class newspaper, GOVERNOR LARRABEE, of Iowa, is yet uncertain as to the effects of his recent proelumation,and it is still an open ques,, tion whether prohibition prohibits in that state. It certainly does not in Sioux City, where the authorities a few days 8go, in spite of the governor's proclama- tion, fixed a saloon license B ] QuAnA last week led all other cities in tbe percentage of increase of her clearunces over the eorresponding week of last yeur. Her increasc was 51.8 per cent. Her clearances for the week were 48,252,086, Omana’s plank sidewalks must go. Thoy are & disgrace to a city of her size aud pretensions.. Srremm—— NOTHER big six-story buiiding, in ad- dition to the Ames blovk, is going up in tate on our lending thoreughfares, due to | Umuba this season, It will be 182 feet public; improvements, poor buildings | square, and will be oceupied as an agri- oultural implomont warehouse. The building boom, which wha staggered for awhile by the unsettied oondition of af- fairs, seems to be reviving very rapidly. E—————— CLEAN the stroets’ and alleys. Warm suns and bad smell§ are the dooctors’ bonanzas. - —— SENATORS AND '0(‘)“'6“"}95[4 EN. Senator Palmer, of Michigan, has a woak- ness for tiny terrier dogs, Congressman Ranney, of Massachusetts, declines to be a candidate for re-election. Senator Jones of Florida is still away from his post, but the senate has two Joneses left. Senator Hearst, of California, is giving Washingtonians lessons in “how to vaint the town red.” Itis rumored in Washington that Senator Allison is about to marry a beautiful young lady of that eity. 1tis reported that nearly all the New Eng- land congressinen will vote against the river and harbor bill, Senator Ingalls is passionately fond of flowers and Senator Plumb has a strong lik- ing for hard work. Congressman Rannoey from Massnchusetts hireatens to retire from congress at the close ot the present term. The biggest man in congress is Hon. Geo. Taliafero Darnes of Georgia. Ie welghs more than 300 pounds. Representative Louis St, Martin, of New Orleaus, is the only Creole 1n congress. Heo is quite a credit to his race. Congressman Oates of Alabama thinks the speaker of the liouse should be a partisan leader and not a judicial office Senator Dawes sayes he would rather see his Indian laud bill defeated than passed as it was fixed up by the house committee. Senator Evarts has been beaten 1 longitu- dinality of sentence by Senator Call ot Flor- ida. Call has a record of 856 words, Evarts must brace up. Evarts and Morgan are said to be the only senators who did not take the trouble to have printed in pamphlet form their speeches on the presidential prerogative, Congressman Reagan is now said to be an accomplished ventriloguist, Thisisa great advantage In politics, but it must be embar- rassing to the congressional reporters Congressman Willis of Kentucky is said to be very anxious for the passage of Senator Hampton’s bill foibidding any member of congress to recommend anyone for office. heillness of Senator Mitchell, of Penn- sylvania, is a nervous <isorder complicated with an affection or the e He denies that he does not expect to be able to resume his ofticial duties. Congressinan Small of South Carolina was a slave before the war. e assisted in cap- turing a confederate vessel, received a share of prize money, bought cotton land at tax sale and is now a wealthy man, A New England papgr feels certaln that Senator Blair would nover have thought of his wild educational schemne had there not been a great surplus in the treas- ury, drawn there by unpecessary taxation, Senator Collumn of Iliinoiy avers that the relation between himself and General Logan are now as cordial as thby hive been for the past fifteen years. Thi§ expression is called out by a published repprt thipt he was trying to undermine Logan’s influgnce. Representative Morrison, it is whispered, when he wants to keep his temper, dresses in black. In his semi-clerickl garb he never swears. This1s probably when he has no tariff bill on hand and Mr! Randall is not found in his neighborhood. ! About thirty congressinen attended a base- ball match in Washington the other day, and the correspondent says: A curious fact no- ticed during the game was that the congress- men sided with the visiting club, cheered when its members made fine plays,and looked glum when the tide turned against the steangers, The feeling exhibited partook Lueucllo[ that existing in ever(y college village tween town and gown. _The struggle o tha field was between Philadelphia an Washington, but on t! rand stand 1t was the capital city azainst the natlon, How natural it is to 2bhor centralization. Bestps = Hint to Miss Anderson, Oshkosh Times. Mary Anderson ought to get married. Many actresses 1035 Successful than herself are supporting husbands. ——— The Dead Past. Loutsville Cowrier-Tournal. Nerther the south nor the democratic part is responsible for any utterance or action o Mr, Davis. He suggests no policy which any party is likely to follow. He lives in the past; he talks of the past; he utters the thoughts, the hopes, the aspirations of his own generation. Great Feast of Reason Coming. Washington Republiean. Lesy than two lundreq tarift speeches will not satisfy the country. There is nothing that the average citizen so much enjoys as the perusal of a speech showing that a spe cific duty on hoop iron brings in more reve- nue than an ad valorem duty on epsom salt, No Jeff Davis Nonsense in Toxas, Galveston News, Texas belongs to the Unitsd States and not to any confederacy, It Mr. Jefferson Davis or anybody éls¢ khould attempt to tempt Tex- as from ths Union now, he or they would Bave a mighty interesting time. Texas is the blgq_en state iu the Unlon and is goinfi to con’ shirt ue 0. Uncle Sam can borrow & from any man in Texas. o Ana's Oork Leg, New York Jowrnal. 1t 1s extremely gratifying to learn that the cork leg worn- by Santa Ana at the battle of Cerro GGordo has been presented to the state of Illinois. Thé governor of Illinois has not been so strong in the pins 1ately as he might be, and a cork leg is a handy thing to- have in the house, If another cork leg could only have been to the mayor of presen Chicago the safety of both gentlemen would bave been assur v e ———e Keep out of Debt. H. €. Dodge in Datroil Free Press. [With the usual Intricacles of English or- thography. | . A man in aebt No rest will gebs, Until he's in the tomb. His cares will wolgh So heavy thelgh | Wil shroud his 1166 Rlomb. He'll practice. gulle; And never smuie, His head with pain’ will ache He'll grieva gnd sigh And want to'digl And thns his troiblés shache, Bat owing nbne'' He'll have more fone Than any king that roigus; ¢'lf feel benign His health is fign And he long hife atteigns, Without a doubt All can keep oubt Of debt if only they Will never buy T please the euy And cash down #lWays pey, ol There is a_ trotting horse in North Chatham, N. Y, that catches rats. The other day his owner saw a dead rat in the manger, and when he fed his horse again he kept watch and soon saw a rat slowly making his way to the manger. As soon 48 he an to eat his meal the horse laid back his ears and made a dive for the rat, caught him in his teeth, him one pinch and a shake, let him and calmly kept on eating. PEARMAN'S PRE-EMPTION. The Squatter Governor of Nebraska Selzes a Oorner of Kansas. Erstis, Kansas, May 0, 1886.—lo the Editor: A few notes from . the banner county, Sherman, and its fature great town may not go amiss when so many are looking Kansasward for homes in a rich, fertile soil, and towns that afford the business man a chance to locats and make himself and business known and appreciated Last October when 1 first traveled over this county looking for a homestead npon Uncle Sam's public domain, scarcely a house could be found in which to remain over night, or a meal's victuals had to appease the hungry man's appetite To look back six months, and remem- ber what Sherman county, Kansas, was then, with only a few scattering settlers here and thore, and largo herds of wild horses, antelope and texan steers, and behold it now, it doesn’t seem possible that such a changoe could have taken place in so short a space of time. But it 18 a fact nevertheless, and in- stead of looking at a few dug outs as was the caso last fall, you may look where you will and witness a vast army of actunl settlors, building homes, fences, digging wells, breaking the sod, prepara’ tory to muking the land ‘“blossom as the rose.” Then turn the eyc either to the north, south and east and hundreds upon hun- dreds of freight wagons may be scen slowly but surcly wending their way TO KUSTIS loaded with merchandise for the busi- ness men of the place. And while the busy farmer is scen plunting his corn, and his better half churning butter, setting hens and per: forming other work about the house, ' the mechanic is not idle by any means,. or the merchant, lawyer and real estate men sound asleep. Sherman county people, like all set- tlers in a new country, want towns citios, postoti i ces their limited means will si to that end town sites and staked in many lo wblished in many cs, must have one good town or trade center where all can come and purchase what they need or dispose of their surplus produce and me- chanical arts, and where to locate the future city of Sherman county has for some time puzzled the brains of many financiers who wish to earn an honest penny by the sweat of other men’s brows. No one one was able to solve the ques- tion until such men as P. 8. Eustis, gen- eral passenger and ticket agent of the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad company, J. W. Allen & Son of Oberlin, A. L. Tomblin and W. H. Copelana of Valley and Mr. Werner of Ohiosurveyed, staked and platted the town of Eustis on section 16 and 17, in the center of the county, where every citizen can point with pride to the magic city of the west. Justis is destined to become the Gate ity of the northwest through which will pass the corn, beef and pork of Kansas to the Rock and Pacific states, and through which the gold, silver, copper and other precioue metals of the far west st flow to the money centers of tho The town is named in honor of Mr. Eustis, and, knowing the pluck and in- domnitable'encagy he is possessed of, as well as those who are as: with him in this work, the writer predicts that in less than six months Eustis will be a town none will be ashamed of; and the mud slingers become aware of the fact that while gnats can annihillate a man- ure heap they cannot check the progress of an elephant in his onward march. T'he town is locatsd in or near the geo- graphical center of Sherman county and, surrounded as it is with as fine agricul- tural and stock growing country as th sun ever shone upon, cannot fail, in the opinion of unprejudiced minds, to make a cilt(v in the neat future second to none in Kansas. A glance over the map will convines the most skeptical that the location of Eustis is & good one, and the fuct of its be the gute city to western Kansas is nsn‘:‘l‘%evl ent reason why it is destined to become the commercial center of western Kansas and Nebraska as well ns that of eastern Colorado. RAIL NOTES. The preliminary surveys of several railroads through the county has set people wild on that subject and there is few settlements but what expect & rail- road within their midst I have every reason to believe that the B. & M., whose line is now completed to Oberlin in Decatur county, will in the course of time build into Sherman coun- ty and through to some pointin Colo- rodo. Should this be the case Eustis would stand a better chance for railway facilities than any other point in that vi- cinity, or at least I think so, and there are others better capuble of Judging thon | myself, who sharo the same opinion. n my next will have something more of Sherman county, and 4iig conl ficlds of ‘Cheyenne ¢oubty 3est ‘Wano, ~ J. W. PEARMAN. SREEE A Character in Hands, Cassell's Family Magazine for May: Our oriental friends, who are of a more oriminal also, but their charactor is the hateful bocause no trace is made upon outward perfection, and their beauty is a lie. One reads in the well-cared for, , or, as we might say, the educated hnnd, not only its own refinement, but that of other enerations—the ancestors who lived at eisure from bodily toil, whose muscles were not stretched by labor, whose fingers, little used, went slender to the tips, whose very finger-nails revealed easy times, by “their oval shape, not pressed and worn _into hard-worked diminutive half-circles Yet one likes the strong hand-—-morall strong even if it has never been tasked with physical labor; the man's hand that is not effeminate, the girl's hand that is not a pretty waxwork, buta partof a helpful someone, who would be swectly willing to do_something for somebod. else. q‘nlvsn it be the weak hand of sickness, which is a most piteous sight, the hand of the weak character not what anyone cares to clasp. More and more in this world we want the hands that can do something. As Carlyle say the first litalic would be for many & revelation. A Ride on the Plains, R. F. Zogobaum, in Harper's Magazine for May: Down the river, not slowly and_cnutiously scraping over the wide sund hars, now swittly gliding along, ided by the rapid flowing current; down ver through the Country of Hell, with its broad desert plains and barren brown hills, inki‘ black where the mov- ing clouds cast their shadows; down the river past old abandoned Ind trad- ing posts fast crumbling into ruins, past the lonely military telegraph station, where w& learn of the }ms\ zo of u “dug-out,” with its crew of fugitive des- oes” flying from the wrath of the cow-boys; down the river botween per- pendicular sand-banks, -crumbling away at the touch of the “‘rollers’ eaused by tho passage ot our boat 2 up tlocks of wild-geese and swift-flying, blue-winged heron; down the river through lovely rics covered with waving grassesand colored wild tlowers, into the until, looking ‘neross one of the long, tlat, outrunning points of land that mark the constantly recurring cur of the river, there, shining in the morning sun, the distant buildings of the military post, our destination, gleam bright under the blue, white, and arlet folds of the national standard floating gracefully out from its tall pole against the deep warm purple of the sky beyond. Hundreds of Indian tepees are scattered over the wido plain, and at our approach we can see the inmates hurrying to the banks to watch the arrival of the gr steamer. Wild-looking savages, their faces smeared with streaks of bright ver- million or orange, are watering their horses, their gaudily clothed forms re. flecting straight down 1n the mirror-like surface of the water; some half-clad lads, who, lying prone upon their bellies, and leaning far over the high banks, have becen fishing in'the stream, pull in their lines and raco along - the shore, their , black hair floating out behind, and bronze-colored ~ naked limbs with untrammelled ease, as they op puce with the boat; young bucks mounted on half-tamed ponies gallop along and mingle with the throng; the white sombreros and light blue uniforms of the Indian police con- trast strange with the party-colored rags of their fellow-savag slowly paddie up to the landing we make our preparations to land, recognizing our acquaintances in the hittle group of shoulder-strapved bluccoats near the ambulance, which has just been drawn up to the bank by its team of four strong mules, and aré soon exchanging gree- ings with our friends, who receive us with the frank, kindly, ready hospitality of the American soldie) e A Drawing Attraction. St. Louis Globc-Democrat. Mr. Jeflerson Duvis will probably be a drawing attraction for monumental un- veilings and county fairs in the south as long as he lives, but it is fortunate for him that his huge two-volume ‘‘History of the Rise and F'all of the Southern Con- federacy” hus remuined unread. A search through the pages of this ponderouns work fails Lo disclose the name of one southern military leader to whom Mr. Davis gave proper eredit for what was actually accomplished in the field. By ints and innuendoes he belittles the sucecess of those who were fortunate, and exaggerates the disasters of those who failed. The vol- umes appear to have been written for the purpose of creating the impression that there was but oneman in the confedera- cy, and his name was Jefferson Davis. T'hie seceding states furnished many men who will, for genorations to come, bo mistakenly regarded by the people of their rMPeclivu locatities ag heroes, and when it finally dawns upen the southern people that Mr. Davis has written a book which does not coripliment these men, the Davis reputation will suffer. He's Ours, Onteago Herald, At the close of the war, when on some fostive oconsions objeciion was made in r. Lincoln’s presence to the playing of “Djxio" by a band, the prestdent said the selection wus all tright. We had cap- tured the tune as well as the whole con- slow and dignified churacter, disapprove of the western custom of taking hold of the precious Yerson of an acquaintance and shaking him for welcome, It may be more dignified to bow, but if frank- ness and activity be our characteristics, we like the trustful mystery of a hgnd clasp. Itisan index in itself, The for- mal and cold character offers straight fingers for an instany; the dull and apathetio lot us take hold of a hand like a dead fish; the. energetic business man meets an old friend with a grip that brings the water into his eycs; the warm hearred takes our haud and holds it. The nervous hand, with an effec- tionate swiftness, comes out most readily and longingly. And 1s there anything more nnlurul’to a reverent love then the kissing of the hand that has been boun- tiful in love to us? See how far we have gone among mysteries! Character, habits, and nge are the three things that are told by the hands. When we draw the character of Hecp, the bypocrite—and, as schoolboys wo.ld say, the “snesk’’—Dickens did not neglect this tell-tale: “O what a clammy hand his was! u'f astly to the touch as to the sight; I rubbed mine afterward to warm it, and to rub his off It was such an un- comfortable hand that when I went to my room it was still cold and wet upon my memory.” Even it itbe not that of Heep, the hypoeritically humble band is apt to writh ze its bendirg fingers togethe The hand that little Jack Horner mado l P, i sticky with his own pie in bis own corner undoubtedly became with big Jack Hor- nera thick-fingered, pufly index of his partiality for pies and plums. Little does the swaggerer who chinks his small change and ecocks his thuwmbs out of his pockets imagine that his hunds are a8 much his condemnation as the bragging seals and the chain that would | anolior & ship. A The stingy man has & tight hand; his fingers keep fast hold of , and | his” palm makes a careful hollow out of which it ean not roll, until he is quite sure he is obliged to part with it. The rough and the refined hand sre different with 8 differcnce like that of education in the man. The lowost ex- tremity of roughness is the hand of brute violence—a colossal paw,of iron strength, @ with muscle, vein, aud. sinew, but | lacking all.sensitiveness and floxibility-- | dafiunf in its sttitudes—s human tool | that has been turned into a 'cnlmn, { There are refined hnuds Lhat are 1 federacy, and we could play it all that we wanted to. The same thing is true of Jeft Davis, We captured hlm‘. too. Ho belongs to us, He has Tested longer thai anybody exvegted that he would, but we own him, and as long A8 we keep him on hand we must expect to hear from him once in awhile. The union which he gought to destroy is stronger by his attempt tin it would have n if it had never been made. 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