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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1886, THE DAILY BEE. OMANA OFFICE, NO. AND 916 FARNAM ST ANEW Y ORK OFFICE, ROOM 65, TRIBUNR BUILDING WASHINGTON OFFICE, No. 513 FounrtersTn ST Publishod every morning, except Sunday. The muondu morning paper m'n':zusnud"ln the TERMR BY MATL: $#10.00 Three Months. ) 5.00/0ne Month. ... v Tae WerkLy Beg, Published Every Wednesaay. TERME, POSTPAID: 0 Yenr, with premium. . Yenr, without prominm Montlhis, without premium One Month, on trial CORRESPONDENCI ANl communioations relating to_news and edi- torial mattera should be addressed to the Epi- TOR OF “HE BEE. BUSINESS LRTTERS: All bu tiness Iatters and romittancos should bo \padressed 10 THE Bre PURLISHING COMPANY, @A, Drafts, checks and postoffice orders be ninde payable to the order of the company. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANT, PROPRIETORS K. ROSEWATER. Ep1101 THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. State of Nebraska, | . o County of Douglas, | ™ % N. P. Feil, cashier of the Bee Publishing eompany, does solemnly swear that the ac- tual circulation of the Daily Bee for the week ending May 7th, 1886, was as follows: Morning Evening ate. Edition. Edition, 6,030 5,070 5,735 5,978 500 5! 5,450 Average........0,008 5,857 N. P. Fr Sworn to and subscribed before me, . Bth day of May, A. D, 18%, Si1s0x J. FISHER, Notary Public. N. P, Fell, being first duly swora, deposes and says that he is cashier of the Bee Pub- lishing wmlmn)\ that the actual average daily circulation of the Daily Bee for the month of January, for February, 1! Total 958 12,465 Ferl.. this 1886, was 10,378 copies; 0,593 coples; for March, 11,557 cople: for April, 1886, 12,101 es. 0} 3 Sworn to_and subscribed befors mo thls 5th day of May, A. D. g}*fi‘ 1) N J. FISHER, Notary Publi T Chicago 7'ribune ought to be hap y. Itsquelched four $25,000 suits in one day. AN earthquake in Seotland and a tor- mado in Spain add another brace of hor- rors to the casualties of an unlucky May. As hot weuther approaches congress is beginning to get warmed up to its work. T'wo appropriation bills have been passed 1#his week, and the prospect for an early adjournment grows brighter. Ir a cyclone should knock the Audi- tor Brown impeachment case out of court in some way, the people of Iowa would appreciate it. That case has be- come a nuisance on general principles. — IMMIGRATION continues to pour into western and northwestern Nebraska There is plenty of room yet. We pre- diot that the next census will show a million and a quarter of peoplein the _ state. WuerHER Omaha will be able to satisfy ‘the demands of her citizens for heavy grading operations and an extension of | public improvements on a scale commen- surato with her growth depends entirely i upon the assessors. CuARLES T. WOERRISHOFFER, the great | ‘Wall street “‘bear,” made a fortune of 16,000,000 by following out the rule that WO railroad stocks were worth par which did not pay regular divideds out ot net - earnings, It was sound doctrine. MoRE than 75 per cent of last year’s corn orop in this state is still in Nebras- ka. Hard times have not yet seriously affected a stato which can aflford to hold ‘@ver three guarters of its principal crop ‘mearly nine months after its maturity. THERE is infinite sarcasm to Lrishmen in Mr. Morley’s proposal to renew the | ooercion act for the benefit of Ulster. - “Rebellious Ireland” is now confined to | the section peoplod by the worshippers “of Suint William *‘of glorious memory."” A vERY ingenious method of evading he duty on imported wool has recently n discovered. A flock of sheep was gently driven across the Mexican undary and entered as live stock. fbe wool was then taken off and placed the American market free ot duty, saving being 50 per cent. S——— WONGRESSMAN BEACH proposes a fino P$100 for absence during a call of the i80. The proposition ought to be adopt- ot only in the house but in the senate. night possibly interfere with such ex- ded courtships as that of Senator nes, of Florida, and at the same time brd reliof to persecuted heiresses. ASE and suet faotorics have seuta gong loby to Washington to defeat the taxing oleomargarine and bogus but- ., The men who peddle this fraud on dairy interests aud pass it off on cus- as the genuine article, are now ng to pose as martyrs. If congress 18 in with public opinion it will tax the butter fraud out of existence. S the Omala Ber: *“Omaha’s plank 8 must go.” Very well, just get up storm as we had in Kansas City on day and they will go fast enongh. Kan- City’s sidewalks stood not upon the of their going.—Kansas City 1l [t will take & Kansas City tornado to ove our wooden sidewalks, The moss- property owners will never do it, o Omaha to have a Fourth of July cel- tion this yeart Why cannot we get a good blow-ont for once? The ex- jition building could be utilized in pection with the celebration. There anty of time to get up a good pro- me, and we suggest that the man- of the exposition building take he mattor under consideration at once, sy might make a few hundred dollars themselves and at the same time ly benelit the city: Erpmpesm———— ND MAsTER WORKMAN POWDERLY, recent secrot circular, took ocea- to denounce, heartily, on the part of der, the crew of red-banded assas- who train under the flag of anarch- He insists that American Knights have no sympathy with these reformers, who would destroy la- tions by their bombs and dy- wreak the interests of wage- rs by ‘turniog public sympatny their peaceful effrts for reform. The Sunday in Omaha. The different clergymen of this eity have been discussing thoroughly for some time past the observance of Sunday in Omaha. There is a feeling, not confined to the eloth alone, that quite apart from any religious grounds, Sunday might be made a more usefal day to Omaha. The movement to effect this has the sympathy and eupport of Bishobs O'Connor and Worthington, of Rabbi Benson and the Rev. Mr. Coveland, together with the ministers of all the other churches. It is an evidence of pro- gress that there is no effort to compel men to spend the day in any particular fashion, but simply to make it possible for them to spend it as they please. The aim of the move- ment, as we understand it, is to create a sentiment among employers against Sun- day work. On this basis it is due to the working men and clerks of this city that the movement should have a hearty sup- port. Competition nowadays makes it impossible for one man to stand out against a demand for his time on the one which is universally set apart among civilized nations as a day of rest. If the wage workers are to have time to improve themselves and bring up their children properly they must have at least one dayout of the week for this purpose, when the head of the house can learn the ways of the house for which he works so hard during the other six. Those were very narrow views of Sabbath observ- ance which compelled attendance at church, nustere deportment and the ban- ishing ot all means of recreation and pleasure on Sundays. With the old blue laws few have any sympathy. But vhysiology teaches us that mental and physical rest are necessary, and experience has proved that seven days' work without recreation accomplished less in the end tha n six with an intervening day for a change of mental and physical conditions. It 18 us a public measure alone thatthe BEE urges upon employers and laborers to give their aid to this movement. There 18 no attempt to suggest how any man may best mmprove the Our ders have probably s many different views on that question as the clergymen who form the association for promoting rest from work on Sunday. All, how- ever, can agree on the advantage of a day when home and nature, wife and children can be enjoyed and the mind rested from the clatter and worry of the daily round of toil. Some must work, but the number should be as small as it can possibly be mad The “Adams" Seizure. There isa great deal of fuss being made over the seizure of the fishing smack, “D. J. Adams,”’ of Boston, by the Canadian authorities. Several congress- men have fired themselves up to white heat in denouncing the seizure as a “British outrage.,” and a violation of international comity under the fisheries dispute. The fact seemns to be that the question of the fishery treaty was not in- volved at all. The vessel came into harbor with her stern con- cealed by canvass, covering her name and port and destroying her identity., This was in violation of all shipping rules, and rendered ‘her liable to seizure and inyestigation by the au- thorities of the port. The issue, whether she had been seining in Canadian wat- ers, purchasing bait or violating any of the provisions of the treaty of 1818, does not seem to have been raised. But even if the interpretation of the treaty of 1818 was in question, the United States has no reason to find fault. The quarrel is one of her own seceking. We allowed our flsheries treaty, which was in every way most favorable to this country, to expire a year ago and have since declined to provide any other ar- rangement (o govern the fishery relations between the two countries. The repre- sentatives of New England have insisted on imposing a heayy duty on fish caught by Canadians and landed on our shores, and the whole difficulty resolves itself into the issue whether the products of the free ocean shall be free or whether the high protection mania shall be extended to protect codfish and mackerel to the detriment of our friendly neighbors. All the talk about offended national dig- nity and strained international relations 18 sheer nonsense. The United States is not prepared to go to war over a few fishing smacks which Canada is not in- clined to grant any more privileges than she is compelled to under an absolute treaty whose stringent provisions have been revived through our own hoggish- ness. Supporting an Honest Official. Secretary Lamar warrants a denial of all statements that ho has asked for Com- missioner Sparks’ resignation, He sizes up the how! against the commissioner as the wail of disappointed land sharks, and says that the public domam will coatinue to be protected and that all efforts to place a pliant tool of the job- bers in the land oftice will fail. With all of which the west has no fault to find, Actual settlement is what this section of the country needs. The speculators and non-resident pre-emption buyers are not wanted. The men who take up government land to improve it by break- ing and cultivating the soil, erceting homes and barns and fences, and build- ing up little communities with their churches and schools, are the kind of land scckers which Nebraskn is seeking, and aguninst whom none of Mr, Sparks' rigid regulations are direoted. Thero is no how! against the land commissioner from this class of scttler: On the contrary the Bee has received scores of letters from actual settlersliving on their claims commending warmly its support of Mr, s fight to preserve the domain, Mr Sparks is honest and active, some- times a httle hasty in his rulings, but al ways with an eye singlo to the interests of the government, His decision indefi- nitely suspending the issue of patents and practically overturning the com muted homestead law, were very proper- ly over-ruled by My, Lamar,as too sweep- ing in their appheation. But both Mr, Cieveland and the secretary of the inter- 101 recognize that under Mr. Sparks’ ad- ministration there will be an end to scandals in the land office. The corpora- tion lobby which has for years oxercised its baneful influence over the railroad land grant section} has been put to flight. ‘The eattle barons have been compelled to rémove their fonces from agricultural lands on the public domain. . Suits have been entered against the foreign syndicates who have been so busy in seizing upon thousands of acres of valuable lands through frandu- lent entries and perjured testimony of hireling pre-emptors. Public attention has been ealled to the outrageous frauds by which the government's reserve for the poor and landless has been frittered away in enriching the weaithy. These are some of the re- sults of Mr, Svark’s administration up tothe present time. We repeat that the west has reason to thank the commi sioner for them. They are all inthe inte est of a substantial upbuilding and devel- opment of the west by a resident popula- tion. This is what we need, what we de- gire and what we all ought to support. Mr. Sparks will not go, but if signs are to be believed, the loose laws, which make such frauds as he has exposed and is now fighting, will disappear from the statute books before the commissioner takes down his overcoat and turns the y of the land oftice over to his successor. T small-pox has made its re-appear- ance in the vieinity of Montreal, and it will continue there so long as the oppos tion to vaccination is maintained by the superstitious French Canadians. A St. PAuL clergyman has confessed that ho proposes to change his location 80 that he ean use his old sermons over again. It is not often that a clergyman makes such a frank confession. Mg. CALLOWAY tells tha Chicago re- porters that the union depot be built this year and that all trains will run in and out of it That follows as a matter of course, l OxaHA has no professional base ball elub this season, but she continues to ride the wave of prosperity all the samo. tornado business is being over- The country prefers them rare. Other Lands Than Ours. As the day for the decisive vote upon the home rule approaches it becomies more and more difficult to forccast the finul fate of the measure. The element of religious warfare introduced by Pro- testant Ulster is doing more just now to imperil the success of the passage of the home rule bill than any other hostile force. The coalition claim a majority sufticient to defeat the measure and it looks as if there were only a bare possi- bility of its pussage in its original shape as first introduced. It is equally dit- ficult to point out the modineca- tions that will save it at the present time. Two of the most promi nent and promising may, however, be mentioned: the admission of Irish mem- bers to seats at Westminster, and the concession of local independence to Ul- ster. The first might satisfy and thereby secnre the indispensable support of Chamberlain and the radicals; the second would be a tub thrown to the Protestant whale, and spike the heaviest gun of the formidable combination ropresented by Hartington and Sahsbury. Mr. Glad- stone, we think, will yield the first rather than lose everything; but will refuse the second, even though refusal volves total loss. ‘Lo admit the Irish members would not seriously interfere with the purposc of his police, but grant- ing local independence to Ulster would virtually destroy it. An Irish parliament, the head and front of the home rule for which he is fighting, would be little bet- ter than a farce with the richest and most T doune: rate and presumably antagoni risdiction. Bad as the present system is, such a substitute would be vastly worse forall concerned. That Mr. Glaustone will so view it, and act according- 1y, wecannot doubt. Rather than make home rule ac once ridiculous and dangerous, he will risk defeat, dissolve parliament and appeal to the people. Whether in that event the people would sustain him, and with him an Irish in- dependence which means something, or throw him and such independence over- board together—none can gue: Mean- while we may be sure that the strongest and noblest friend Ireland has ever had will do his best for utterly regard- less of personal pride or preference—and we shall not now have long to wait be- fore knowing what that best is. * e Greece is still held in check by the blockade of her ports, enforced by the al- lied flect of the howers, and there are signs that the kingdom will be brought to its senses without the bioody coercion of war. Ths warlike ministry has re- signed and a new government formed on a peace basis. ‘The old ministry, before resigning, sent a circular note to the var- ious embassies protesting that Greece had never contemplated hastily to the powers and that the government ¢ onsidered the blockade entirely justitiable. It is be- lieved that the new ministry wiul order disarmament and the witidrawal of the troops from the Turkish frontier and that upon such guarantees of peace boing fur- nished, the powers will compel Turkey to surrender a portion of the territory ceded to Greece by the Berlin treaty. * **u The first Cortes, or Spanish parlia- ment under the regency, met this week at Madrid. The royal message of Queen Christina which was read by Premier Sa- gusta, dwelt largely on the necessity of financial and commercial reforms and showed the expediency of postponing po- litical and constitutional questions till the long-neglected material interests of the country are attended to. Sagasta an- nounced that all treaties of commerce will be renewed. A sensation was caused by @ passage in the message announcing that the house will be asked to approve of a convention giving England the “most favored nation” treatment in Spanish markets in exchange for a re- duction in British dutics on Spanish wines. 1t is said that the new policy outlined in the message will probably be opposed in the Cortes by the sev- cnty conservatives who follow Canovas, by the seven partisans of Lopez Domini- guez, by the eight conservatives of the Romera Robeldo group, by twenty-five republicans obeying Castelar, Salmeron and Piy Margal, and by six republican home-rule deputies from the West Indies. The government counts on the stanch support of a coalition of 301 deputies, 250 of whom are liberals personally devoted to Sagasta. In the upper house the gov- ernment is backed less strongly, many of the 220 members who nominally support it being hostile to democratic legislation, Sagasta has studiously avoided alarming ing the queen regent or her generals by pressing too many reforms upon the Cortes. He has great difliculties to over- come, a split in the c:hlnet having been only just averted ly by his tact and firmness, « n Italy that Signor lliance with the vatican party, and bhig they will fight the electoral battle togethér in Rome. Dis- patches from the Efarnal City hint that while an open and_formal alliance has not been consummated, the church has quietly hinted that the Catholics who have hitherto I\nld{lvy_flf from the polls There are eviden Depretis has mad atthe political eleations are free to vote on this oceasion fof the Italian ministry, the permission not, however, extending to what was papal territory. If the re- ports afloat may be trusted, Signor De- pretis made the advances to the pope throngh a German prince of the blood, Prince Bismarck having flatly declined his good offices. Baron Von Schleger was not consulted. G excitement is felt in the vatican at the third reading of the Prussian ecclesiastical bill, though the papal organs are discreetly advised not to rejoice over a (‘nllml‘ilc victory too loudly. Paris is again furnishing rumors of stramned relations between France und Germany. It 18 said that the unfriendly feeling which ® Bismarck entertained toward England while Ferry was in office now directed toward krance, and points as an evidence of the existence of a hostile sentiment to the result of the Greek difliculty, in which Bismarck has been all along bent on making France foel the futility of her diplomacy in for- cigh affairs when she is acting alone and without the aid of Prussia, All of which means that wounded French vanity again endeavoring to find some forcign excuse for her defeat in the divlomatic arena. & e Spain is excitedly awaiting the coming of an heir to the throne. The approach- ing confinement of Queen Christina is imminent, and the court and nation are hopeful that the late King Alfonso’s pos- thumous child will be a prince. The usual elaborate preparations have been made for the nt. The diplomatic corps, state officials and courtiers have been warned not to leave Madrid, but to prepare themselves to offer congratula- tions. Brilliant illuminations are in prep- aration. If the child is a prince, the Span- ish standard will be run up over the palace and a salvo of twenty-one guns fired. 'Lhe moment the event is announced 1 the officials invi to attend will rowd into the salon. The formalities to be observed read like a coremony of the middle ages. In anouter room will be convened all the ministers of state, the diplomatic corps, grandoes, Knights of the Golden Fleeco, judges, military and navalcommande! Ilq’Eruicctofl\ludri¢ the archbishop of Ipledo, tha clergy of the cathedral, etc.} Tlle camarera will take the newly-born baboe, place it on a cushion on nn enormous silver salver, and carry 1t out herselt from the royal hedroom and present it fo all the guests in turn, beginning with§the .members of the diplomatic corps, thp president of the council standing. util:r ide all the time. After the ceremonyghefnfant will be re- stored to its mothestand-the minister of justice registers thy VIEWS AN RVIEWS, Gossip About Fred L Ames. “The vieo-president of the Union Pacific,” said a well-informed man, “has the largest amount of available cash of any man in the United States except tho Vanderbilts. Ho can call on his bank for 811,000,000 in cash. Mr. Ames wade an elegant turn wnen he un- loaded on old Sammy Tilden a large portion of his Union Paciic stock at 9. His inter- est in the Ames Shovel works i3 a bonanza. He has large real estate investments, mostly improved property, which yield him a cash incomo egualled by but very few other in- comes in_this country. Mr. Awes is a heavy stockholder inthe Omaha National bank, and also in the Omaha Swmelting works, and in other corporations in this city. That he proposes to invest a half million in Omanha real estate does not surprise me any, for I know that he has become convinced that Omaha s to be a great and prosperous city.” Omaha's Reputation. “I have just returned from an extended western trip,” sald Mr. Thomas Swobe, of the Millard hotol, *and everywhere I have heard Omaha talked about in the most com- plimentary manner. On the way from Denver, I got acquainted with Henry Belden, of New York. He was for a time Jay Gould's broker. Ie thinks no one can make a mistake in investing in Nebraska lands or Omaha real estate. He says Omaha s bound to be a great city, and he proposes to make some invest- ments here. 'That’s what we want—foreign capltal, and we are going to get it. Mr. Fred L. Ames is already investing money, and will erect a big block, probably this sunmer.” Modjeska. “Madame Modjeska will soon bein Omaha on & visit,” sald asurer Whitmore of Boyd’s opera house. *She will spend part of hervacation with her son Ralph and his wife, who have made Omaha their home. The other part of her vacation she will spend on her California ranch. She will not go to Europe this summer. Her company next season, I understand, Is to be a particularly good one, and all her young men and young women are to be handsome, Barrymore, who has been engaged for leading roles, is certainly a very handsome man. Miss Flor- ence (rerard, who bas also been engaged, 13 a very handsome young woman, Madame Modjeska is negotiating .with two or three amateurs with stage hiclinations and great beauty, whom she Iluprs to present to the public next season.” ' “Sam'l of Posen.” “M. B, Curtis, the only original ‘Sam’l of .’ has cleared $150,000' from his play,” s anager Boyd." “Five years ago he was $1,200 10 debt, and bis' prospects were not of the brightest. The opéfiing/ nights of *Sam’l of Posen’ were not éncourazing, and he offered a half-interest 14 thp vlay for sale at $1,000, and found no taker. It was lucky for him that no one wanted it. At the end of the first season he was able to foot up a clear $15,000, He had quit looking for a partner by this time, The traveling men were his best advertisers, Every commercial traveler who witnessed the play bécame a walking advertisement for him. It co Curtis about $500 a week to run his company. I'he leading female character is taken by his wife, who is a very fairactress, His brother is business wanager. One of the characters in his other play, ‘Spot Cash,’ doubled four times. ‘Peezness is peezness’ is the motto of ‘Sam’'l of Posen,’ and Curtis applies it thoroughly to the running of bis company.” Philadelphia Record, It is a suspicious eircumstance that the an- archist never gets far away from a saloon. He does not go into the country and dig for aliving, He doesn’t digat all. Ho merely looks into ‘the bottom of his beer-glass and broods upon the misery of labor and the means of beating some other mal out of the pioceeds of is labor. PROMINENT PERSONS. Patti’s marriage has been fixed for June 7. Dorman B. Eaton Is recuperating in Ver- mont. Mre, Hancock is still prostrated by her great affliction, Martin Irons 18 hereafter to act as lecturer and organizer of the Knights of Labor. Miss Murfree (Charles Egbert Craddock), itis said, is about to marry a Tennessee mountaineer. Miss Cleveland’s book will contaln, it is said, some spicy incidents of her life at Washington. George Bancroft says he works hard, but never worr and ascribes mueh of his good health to that fact. James C. Flood, the California millionaire, is building a mansion, the inside decorations of which cost $300,000. Mme, Ristori is going to make her final ap- pearance on the stage this season at Her Majesty’s theater in London. Judge Stanley Matthews is to marry a wid- ow who isdescribed as having full knowledge of life and society at Washington. Sarah Bernhardt grows just a tiny mite stouter than she was, The additional weight 18 represented by a bread ctumb. Russell Sage’s fortune is now estimated at $40,000,000, yet he lives inasmall village boarding louse, paying 812 per week. Joseph C. Hendrix, nominated for post- master at Brooklyn, N. Y.,was for a long time assistant night editor afithe New York Star. Mike Leavitt, the showman, dying of varesis. Leavitt organized the f female minstrel troupe, and at one time was very wealthy. A New York letter wri Chamberlain, the Amer to go on the stage, and will inake as Parthenia, Mrs. James Brown Potter refused to ap- pear at a performance for the benelit of the Bartholdi statue fund because she was billed as a professional. John Bright is 7. and the greatest orator of his time, He studies his speeches, how- ever, while Gladstone's orations are spon- ‘taneous—a greater man, William I1. English, desiring to devote his time to a history of the lawmakers of In- diana, has resigned a bank presidency and leased his hotel and opera house. F. A. Reeves, who was a colonel of the Eighth Tennessee Union regiment, is suv- ported by southern leaders for the position of judge advocate general of the army. ersays Miss Jennie n beauty, is about her debut Another War May be Averted. Chicago Times. Jeft Davis says that “the lost cause is not lost; it is not dead, but sleepine.” However, Jeff. Davis has lately approved of arbitra- tion, it is probable that another war may be averted. e e A Hint to the South, St. Louis Glohe-Democrat. Jeff Davis’ hands are said to be so swollen from recent shuking that he Is obliged to forego further use of them in that respect. It would be money in the pocket of the gouth If some such thing would happen to his tongue. e Our Coal and Mineral Lands. Our Country. No more coal or other mineral Iands now includea in the public domain should ever be sold by the government, but should be held by the nation and rented, in limited tracts, to men or corporations who will work them. Now the great coal, iron and copper corpora- tions ot the country monopolize all the available mining tracts. They hold all the rich mining territory—and work a little of it. Through this monopolization the cost of coal and iron is greatly increased, and for the rea- son there is a corner on coal and other ore lands. ———-— They May Go Too Far. Chicago Herald. There is an immigration that is more dan- gerous than Chinese immigration, more vicious than heathenism, and more disquiet- ing and destructive than cheap labor, and that is the immigration of eriwinals, brawl- ers, anarchists, blood-tubs, cranks, and law- less tugitives from central Europe. The law- abiding people ol every nationality in this country have endured much from these apostles of chaos. They have smiled incred- uously at their threats, pitied them for their disordered brains, and even accepted good- naturedly the flaunting ofa red flag in their faces, but there is a limit to the forbearance of soclety. There is a line beyond which these agitators cannot go with safety. Of an aroused and excited people the cut-throat leaders of the petroleumites would do well to beware. There is enough Americanism in America to teach these brawlors a lesson that will last for all time. —-~— By the Way. Burdette in the Brooklyn Eagle. One day newspaper man was heal here's a Washington away. And then, Wien They tigured down all the marrying men, And sifted them over and tried agaln, And could not find A bachelor man that way inclined, sm(denl{ each despondent Residen Newspaper correspondent Shounted *The president " ‘Then the broos Of reporters Eauefl{ issued From their quarters, And mterviewed ‘The republican courtiers, In twenty-tour hours, by some means or other, They publistied a eolumn about the girl's mother, % And two or three columns they got from her brother. Some pardonable vaunts From two of her aunts; A chapter of rant From an old waiden aunt; And no end of buzzins Krom dozens Of cousins; Her teacher, Her preacher, Her sisters at home, Her schoolmate, sw Her uncle in Rome Her cousin Leandel Her brother-in-law, Her uncle Lysander, er grandpapa, Allmanner of people she never thought well 0 say, wedding not far et creature, of, And hundreds of others she never heard tell of, Until all this great nation just knew all about it, Save her and the president—they seemed to doubt it, e Thrifty Russell Sage. There is no question about the general thriftiness of Russell Sage, says a1 New York correspondent of the Philadelphia Press. Itis extraordinary that & man of his millions should have so vast and deep aregard for a dime, but he 15 externalty and perennially close. It isn’t true that he wu for ‘the 5-cent hour on the ele- yated road, for he has a pass which takes him up and down town for nothing, While Gould 1s spending $100,000 a year for his yacht and funy as much more on his country place up the Hudson, Mr. Sage travéls on a free pass down toa bt tle. village on Long Island named Quoque, and lives in & small boarding house on #$12 a week. His fortune is $50,000,000 or $40,000,000, aud there is not an office boy in his umrlny who doesn’t spend moremoney on luxuries than old Russell Suge himself. He is of about as much consequenee in New York socially and politically as a Chatham street pawn. rokor, but hb is worshiped in tue peigh- borhood of thy stock exchange. Bl THE CAPITAL OF ARKANSAS. Little Rock, a Busy and Thriving Oity, as Seen by the Editor of the Bee. SOUTHERN MEN AND MANNERS. An Enterprising Press—Freedom of Speech—Some Interesting Remini- scences—Nebraska' First Territorial Governor. LittLe Rock, Ark., May 12.—[Editorial Correspondence.]—The distance from Omaha to Little Rock is about 800 miles, as the crow flies, and the trip can be made in thirty-six hours. Measured by com parative seasons the distance is fully thirty-six days. To me it seemed like jumping from early May into the middle of June. The trellissed verandas are em- bowered with blossoming honeysuckles— flowers everywhere in great profusion— roses, straw hats, linen dusters, white muslin dresses in full bloom; mocking birds are singing high and low, and strawberries go begging at 10 centsa quart. LITTLE ROCK is not only the capital, but the commer- cial metropolis of Askansas. With the exception of Atlanta, no other city in the cotton states can boast such substantial growth, Atthe close of the war Little Rock had apopulation of about 5,000; to-day she has fully 25,000, with a fair prospect of even more rapid increase during the next ten years. Located in the very heart of a state that now con- tains over a million of people, with un- rivalled facilities by rail and water to make a large area of Arkansas tributary to her merchants, manufacturers and and capitalists, her future dves not de- pend on the incidental patronage of state legislatures or state institutions. A bird’s-eye view of the city of Little Rock, with the charming landscape pre- sented by the Arkansas river and valley in all the shades and colors of this son, sketched by a true artist, would make a romantic picture. Skotching and paint- ing arve notin my line, however, and a common-piace description of the brick, mortar, iron and lumber, which consti- tute the material out of which our cities are built, would not be very interesting. The churches, school houses, stores, warchouses, hotels, factories, mills, rail- road depots and dwellings which make up this city are very much the same as those of other cities of equal population. The most PROMINENT PUBLIC BUILDINGS are the capitol and United States court house and vpostoffice. The capitol is vencrable and unique. When first occu- pied by the state dignitaries some fifty- ftve years ago, it was doubtless looked upon by admiring natives as an imposing structure. In design it belongs to the classic order of architecture, with lofty columns, grand pilasters and stately por- ticoes, fashioned after pure Greek mod- els. While preserving its classic appear- ance, the building to-day appears sadly dilapidated. If there is to be any more reconstruction in Arkansas, the first thing to reconstruct should be the old capitol. The only visible reminder of THE RECONSTRUCTION ERA is a heavy sicge gun standing in the capi- tol groun This is the *Lady Baxter,” said my friend Hedges, who some years ago was part owner of the Lincoln Globe. It is one of the guuns that Governor Bax- ter planted herein 1874 when he laid siege to Brooks, who was entrenched in the capital, but finally had to capitulate to confederates when Grant recognized Bax- ter asthe legal governor. Asa matter of fact, Brooks had a good majority of the votes, said a rrumment lemocrat who will be candidate for the next con- gross, to me yesterday, but Grant had compromised himself by promising to recognize Baxter and he dumped Brooks out of the executive chair, at was a very exciting time, said my friend. Brooks is dead now and Baxter has re- tired to privatelifo on a plantation. The federal building, as the Umted States court house and postofice are called, is a fire-proof, four-story, cut- stone structure, built by Uncle Sam about ten years ago. The stone—granite and sandstone—was imported from Vermont and Ohio under direction of the notorious supervising architect, Mullet, although there is an_ abundance of granite and sandstone in Arkansas good enough tor any building. The exterior is much handsomer than the Omaha postoffice, but the inside finish is not as elegant or as substantial. Brick and stone are the materials chieily used hore, with a sprinkling of frame cottages, which are mostly occu. pied by the colored }wpulation. he two rrim-lpnl thoroughfarcs are compactly ined with stores, warerooms, banks and hotels, The retail traflic appears very heayy, and all linos, particularly dry goods, clothing and provision stores, are well represented. A dozen johbing houses carry heavy stocks of groceries, dry goods, wet goods filnquom) and tobac- co. The cotton morchants aro very im- portant factors in the commerce of the city. Although the cotton shipping sea- son is nearly over, 1 noticed a large num- ber of cotton bales in their warehouses, It is hardly necessary to observe that THE PRESS is well represented. The Arkansas Ga- zotte, the lmnflufi} daily of the state, is the official organ of the dominant party, with the Little Rock Democrat, an after- noon daily, mnmmntmg an % ressive element of ‘‘outs.” ‘“The Arkansaw Traveler,” which has achieved a national reputition, is at home here, and the col- orad population has a vigorous exponent of its sights and interests in the “‘Man- sion,” a weekly edited by a full-blooded Amgrican of African descont. S0 much for Little Rock ns a city. THE PEOPLE OF LITTLE ROCK. 1 am not of those who come south ex- pecting every southerner to be a lank, grim desperido, wearing a slouched hat over his unkempt, long hair, with his pants tuck into his boot-tops, & bi, y revolver and cartridge belt strappos ad his waist, and an Arkunsaw tooth- pick I)lulyfully sticking out of his coat sleove. I was aware hefore starting for Arkunsas that such typical southorbors like the Wild Bills and Dare Devil Dicks of the far west cxist only in yellow- back novels. But I will confess t 1 am agreeably disappointed tae real southerners as I have in found them here during my brief stay. People | have met in stroliing through the streots of Little Rocl three days diffcr only very littfo in their apparel and appearance from people that promenade the streets of Omuha in July, T'he only striking differcuce I have been able to note is in the number of walking eanes, which both old and young mon parry, and the number of colored people whom you meet everywhere. Carrying walking ca & prevailing southern fashion, whi even dudes of ehony colar often-a) The negro population of Little Rock is over one’third, and that explaing why color is so prevalent in the hlfhwu_yl and bywavs, have eome in contact with all clusses, lawyers, merchauts, blauters, bankers m\d’a(l'r‘on, with c“‘niulshngh and low, ing the past | from sheriff to gavernor, and from land officers to United States mar- shal. I have freely talked about subjects and issues, past and present, that were most likely to draw out the partisan and sectional feeling of the true southerner, but I have as yet to hear the first dlkloynl exprossion from the month of an ex-con- fedorate. To all appearances the widest latitude is given hero to FREE SREECH, and & man may talk almost what he pleases on any question without being molested. I have taken pains to ascertain the physie cal, eivil and political condition of the negro population of Arkansas, but must reserve this interesting subject, together with a review of the local government of this city and state, for my next letter. Passing up from the depot toward the business center yesterday I noticed that one of the residence stréets is named ARD STREET. That recalled to my mind the fact that and print Arkansas furnished Nebraska a territorial governor in the early days whose name was Mark Izard. ?mn inquir, at the capitol T find that George lzav was territorial governor of Arkansas in 1825, and Izard county, in this state, is named after him. The first governor of Nebraska, Mark Izard, was his brother. He died at his honie in St. Francis county about the close of the war, His wife died about two years ago. Three sons survive. One of “these lives on the old homestead now. INQUIRY ABOUT SOME OM MEN. “Do you know Nelse Patrick and Dr. Miller?” asked a Little Rock old timer to whom I had been introduced; “‘and how is Lyman Richardson?"’ “'l‘l\r‘?' are all g in Nebraska, doing well,” said I; atrick is in a fair way of becoming a millionaire, if he ecan get his torpedo boat introduced in the navies of the world, and Miller and Richardson own the Omaha Herald.” “They were all here during the war," said the old timer, “Miller and Patrick m \siderable money here in cotton speculations. They came in after Gen- eral Steele who favored them in getting cotton.”” The whirligig of time has brought about many changes. E. R. —— STAGE BEAUTIES IN TRAINING. Protty Faces to Be a Prominent Feature of the Next Theatrical ason. al: The noxt thoatri s to be characteri | ed 508 New York Sp season in Ame with an abund with professional beauty. ‘The plans are all matured for a tour by Mrs. Langt who will bring over an English company containing several remarkably pretly girls. Experts who have seen hor reoent in London report that she is in improyed artistically, and that she will have to depend, as before, on adventitious interest for audiences. Tho rumor that Miss Jennie Chamborlain meant to go on the stage received neither aflirmation nor denial when her attontion was called to it, and she secmed willing to let it be inferred that she had such a Frojnct under consideration. T. Allston Brow, a dramatic agent, says that ho has been consulted with as to the engage- ment of a company to support an KEn- lish women next winter on a tour of is country, and the requirements ox- etly fitted the case of Miss Chamberlai though the identity of the proposed star was not divulged to him, There is_ something like certainty. however, in the instance of Mrs. James Brown Potter, the society belle and ama- teur actress. Negotiations are in pro- gress for her professional debut next autumn with the Vokes company of com- edians in this cj That party has had a singular expericnce here. It was orig- inally made up in London, cluefly of amafeurs with more or less social distinc- tion, under the direction of Rosina Vokes, once of the Vokes family of bur- lesquers, but who had been for several years in somewhat fashionable mar- ried retirement. Her scheme was to exploit her players for what they really but John Stetson. the New Yor! manager, to whom they were contracted, had no faith in what he styled ““the sovial racket,” and insisted that they should be advertised in an ordinary, professional way. This was done during the term of employment by him. But Rosina had instructed her “actors to provide them- selves with letters of introduction to pro- tentious New York families in as great a number as possible, and these were duly presented, with the result that wealth and fashion be- came interested. The Vokes season at the Standard theatre last fall began so discouragingly, owing to the very mod- erate talent of the entortainers, that a quick return to England was announced; but the entertainment was so neat an polite and the appeal to ‘‘society” so adroit that failure with the average pub- lic was soon turned to marked success with a special class, and now Daly’'s theatre is being crowded during a return engagement. It is in this orfiunkznion that Mrs. Potter_is likely to tuko a place next season. “My wife has not yet embraced the opportunity,” says Pot ‘though I am not prepare that she may not_become a professional actress.” Miss Vokes says: *'Wa should be glad to have Mrs. Potter with us, and nothing that we can do to make a_debut in our company agreeable shall be de- nied. I cannot imagine any stage sur- roundings that would be less repellant to her, nor that would be more advantage- ous to her professionally.” A LITTLE SUFFERER Cleaned, Purified, and Beautified by the Cutiuera_ Remedies. Ttaffords mo ploasuro to give you this roport of the cure of little graudson by your CUTICURA Remppies. Whon six months old his Ioft band Dbogun to swoll and had every appearance of & large boil. We poulticed it, but all to no pur- pose. About five months' aftor it became s running sore. Soon other sores formed. He then two of them on each hand, and as his blood became more and more impure it took less time for them to break out. A 8ore camo on the chin, beneath the undor lip, whioh was vory offensive. His head was sold scab, dis- churging & great dual - This was his condition Wt twonty.two months old, whon I undertook, the caro of him, bis mother having died whon' ho was o little more than s year old, of cou sumption (sorofuls of course). 1o could walk # little, but could not @et up if “he fell down, and coiild not move when in bed, having no use of ds. 1 immodintely commenced with (A | ising the Curl Curicuiia BoAr frool whicn e h the Ci ’A RESO plotoly oured, wnd b 'y wiy. We'were vory oncouraged, und continued the use of the edios for a year und a half. One sore after an othor healed, n bony matfer forming in each one of these five deop onos just berore healing, which would flually grow luose and were takon out: thon they woull heal rapidly. One of those ugly bone formations 1 proserved. Aftor tak- ing'n dozen and a half bottles he was cow- itA und Cur plotely ovred, and is now, at the age of six Kowrs, n strong and hoalthy child, The scurs on bis hands mist always r ): 1is hunds are strong, thoiigh we feared once he would i 0 ver All that physicians di All who saw the child bo- be ablo o use them for him did no good. fore using tho CUTICUIRA REMEDIES und se0 the ohild now consider it a wonderful cure, 1t the above faclswie of any uso 1o you, you are lib- eIty 1o use them. RS, K. S DRIGGS, Muy 9, 185, 612 B Clay bt., Bloomingtou, 111 ‘I'li ohild was roully In & worse condition thun he appeared to his gravdmother. who, heing with him every day, became aceustomed to the lsouse. X MAGGIE HOPPING, CUTIOURA HEMEDIES wre sold m'm?wlu 0. ots.; Cuticur ol i curi Resolvent, the new biood purifier, $1.00. Frepaved by the Porzen Daua A¥b CHENICAL Send for "*How ‘to Cure Skin Diseases.” ING, U'Il‘i{ heautitie specily Guved by o cleguntand infalible antidote (0 pain und (iflamation, the Cuticuin Aiiie Pato o Al druggiste. % cents.

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