Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 19, 1886, Page 10

4 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 18S6. - HATCHER, GADD & CO. Real Estate Brokers Millard Hotel Block, Omaha, Neb. Do a Strictly Commission Business. Residence and business property in all parts of Omaha. Vacant lotsin all the most de tern Read a partial list of some of our bargains. BUSINESS PROPERTY. Full lot on Howard st., §15,000. 2 business lots on Dodge st, at a bar- gain. 2 business lots on Douglas st., n rare bargain. Lot 66x133 on Harney, $13,000. Several stocks of goods to exchange for Omaha property or Nebraska lands. Lots and Houses and Lots. 2 lots 8. 8th st., near Market, §1,000. 8 lots katrick’s 2d add., §3,000. 8 lots Foster’s add., $3,300. Lot 3, block, Reed's 4th add., on car line; splendid for business, $1,500. House and lot in Walnut Hill, very de- sirable, $2,500. Residence and lot, corner Hamilton and Irene sts., $3,500. 10 lots in Kilby Place, $1,000 cach. 8lotsin Wilcox's 1st add., $500 each. 2 lots, 1 a corner, Kilby Place, $1,250. 2 lots in Kirkwood, $650 each, 8 lots Himebaugh & Saunders’ add., $850 each. Ej lot 9 Howe's add., $700. Lot with small house, S. E. Roge'r add, 1$2,600. rable suburban additions, on the most favorable House and lot, Clarendon add, $3,000. 8 lots, Clarendon add, $1,000 each, Corner, Virginia and Poppleton ave, very desirable, $3,000. Splendid residence corner 13th and Dodge, favorable terms, $25,000. Two lots in Lowe's add, $1,425. First class residence lot on Harney, near 20th, $4,500. Splendid residence with two lots, 1 a corner, on Park ave. and Woolworth, $5,000. N. E. corner 23d and Douglas, large ground, and houses,paying good income, a bargain, $12,500. New house and lot in Hanscom Place, $5,000, 7 room residence and good lot,Redick’s 2d add, $4,5 Hotel Baxter, in Harlan, Iowa, good condition and doing a paying business; hotel and furniture, $6,500. House and lot in Red Cloud, Neb, $4,000 LANDS. Section in Gasper Co., $6.00 per acre; easy terms. Section in Gasper Co., $7.00 per acre; easy terms. 160 acres (120 under cultivation, Furnas Co.,, i mjrovements, 8 miles from road, easy terms, $3,000. 180 acres, improved, Burt Co., well watered and timbered, $27 per acre. ™ 105 acres in Nickols Co., $12 per acre; easy terms. 1920 acres in Howard Co., $5 to $10 per acre, 160 acres, 120 under cultivation, in Greley Co.. $2,700. 480 acres in Greeley Co, $7 per acre; will exchange. 8 sections in Howard Co., good for stock ranch and cheap. 960 acres in Webster Co., 800 acres un- der cultivation, will sell or exchange for Omaha property; worth $20 per acre. Splendid steam roller mill at St. Paul, Howard Co., Neb., very complete, on easy terms, $25,000. Steam roller mill at Scotio, Greeley Co., Neb., $16,000; all modern improve- ments, $16,000. No 1 water mill, Schuyler, Neb; all {ate improvement, with 160 acres improved land; a great bargain. $16,000. List your property with Hatcher, Gadd & Co., and secure quick sales, 'BARKE & BARKALOW, Real Estate and Loan Agents Room 21 Paxton Building ,Cor. 15thand Far nam st. Very desirable lots on monthl following additions. Leavenworth Bedford Place, Also some choice houses and lo wo rt st, Phil Sheridan ‘We have bargains Low rates of inte st- y payments of from $10 to $60 in the WestOmaha Barkalow Place. Omaha View, Terrace, Orchard Hill, Sharen Place and Walnut Hill and Cuming st., ts on Farnam st, Burt s.., Leaven- in propertyin all parts of the city;easy payments, FARM LANDS FOR SALE, Rents Collected, i~ Taxes Paid. CINCINNATI STORE, 209, 211 and 213 West 5th Stroet, KANSAS CITY STORE, 1125 Main Street, OMAHA STORE, 1317 and 13819 Douglas St. GEORGE LOUIS & GOMPANY, Furniture and Carpets. Special attention given to furnishing houses and hotels complete, SENATOR VAN WYCK'S RECORD Consistent Oppositien to the Encroachments of Land Grant Oorporations, BILLIONS OF BOGUS STOCK. The Necessity of a General Pension Law and the Increase of Pene slons—The Case of Sally Mallory. VI COURT AND TIE LAND DE PARTMENT. The bill granting to the Leavenworth, Lawrence & Galveston railroad indem- nity lands being before the senate, Sena- tor Van Wyck submitted a resolution asking the secretary of the interior how much land has been oertified for railroad cempanies since the decision of the supreme court of 1875, as indemnity for ands disposed of prior to the dates of the respective grants. The supreme court had expressly adjudicated that any land transterred before the date of the grants did not pass to the railroad com- pany. The department was administor- ing the law as the supreme court said it was, and then Secretary Schurz found it convenient to ask the opinion of the attorney-general. That is the favorite way of disposing of such matters. Wao have the supreme court followed when it is convenient for the department to do so, and when that will not exactly meet the case, then it is convenient for the attor- ney-general to review the supreme court. That was the mode of proceeding here. Carl Schurz characterizes the decision as ‘‘the remarks made in that case.”’ We now simply ask if the land department has ignored the decision of the supreme court, and continues to ignore it by giving thousands and I know not but millions of acres to railroad corpora- tions to which they were not entitled. Strange things are taking place as well in the supreme court asin the land de- partment in regard to this matter of land grants. My friend from Iowa will con- cede that very strange and mysterious doings in the supreme court and the cirewit courts and in the land department of this government have taken place. 1 think my friend knows it by the suffer- ings of his own people from the adminis- tration of the law of railrond grants and by the decisions of the courts, Some of his own people have suffered the depriva- tion of their property, and some of them the deprivation of their reason because of the treatment accorded to them. On the suggestion of scnators, Mr. Van Wyck introduced the preamble to his lution with the gvords, *‘Whereas, it lleged,” and jt whs ISSITY FOR A ON LAW. s happy to hear the senator from , when he stated that if any- given to this woman (Mary P, MacBlain), "enough should be given to support her. 1 was glad to hear him lay that down as a basis on which pensions should be granted. The senator from New Hampshire says there are but few such ca , if they could nd the great difti- culty is that we have no general law under which these cases ean be reached, and I for one have felt that we should stop hearing special cases in the com- mittee room and bring in some general law which would reach everybody. But most of the special cases are those which come up to us from Washington, where great social and political influences sur- round them, so that they can be heard. And when we can fmusu long enough to frame some general law, the tragedies to which the senator referred so eloguently— the tragedies, as he called them, in the pension department—will no longer agi- tate us. Thatis what I desire. One thing is remarkable—that in the various cases which come before the committee in great numbers from the city of Wash- ington, the wives of rear-admirais, and of commodores, and of major-genecrals are able to secure prompt attention. Bometimes in one year from the time the sod covers the body, or in less than a year, the application of the widow will o into and come out of the pension office. Your widow in New Hampshire cannot enter the pension office and get out in a year; your widow in Tennesse cannot enter the office and get out in or year. Itistime that thing was stopped, and when we have some general law we shall be able tostop it. I thank the sena- tor from Tennessce for declaring the doctrine upon which pensions should bo granted, and I trust that the committee on pensions will soon present a bill that will increase the pension of widows from $8 to at least $12 per month. If yougive a pension to those who are poor and necessitous, then give them enough to take them out of their impoyerished con- dition. Will anybody rise in this cham- ber and tell me that #8 a month is enough for the widow who is left with a tnnul¥ of children to rear, and whose husbani perished on the battie-field, his resting place marked opl( by the board that records the burial of ‘an “unknown sol- dier?” Let us sec to it that the last days of every man who fought for the union are made happy by the generosity of the government which will give him enough to subsist himself. PENSIONS TO MEXICAN AND DNION SOL- THE SUPREME thing w DIERS, May 28, 1884, Mr, Hoar said that it was imypossible the bill could be enacted without soon compelling congress by 1ts logic to take the next step—a step which would put upon the government an an- nual burden of from §100,000,000 to $125,- 000,000. Mr. Van Wyck: I am in favor of the Mexican pension bill. 1 am also a friend of the soldier of the lute war. Whatever prilu'ifilu the scnate chooses to apply to the soldiers of the Mexicun war, I insist shall be applied to the soldiers of the late wur, Wae certainly can at this time |put the soldiers of therepublic who served in all wars upon_the same busis. We have a treasury so ful) that it is a source of an- noyance to gentlemen every day in this chamber, un‘s to American statésmen in and out of congress. The great policy of statesmanship to:day and the great merit of legislation is ¢laimed to be the deplet- ing process, the exhgustion, the emptying out of the treasury. The senutor from Alabama stated th Inrdshirs. the great victory and the greater results n‘urmginfi from the war with Mexico. But | woul say to him that they will not compare with the hardships, with the brilliancy of the victory or the grandeur of the re- sults of the war for the union, Whenthe union soldier followed the flag of his country, he inarched against a braver encmy and a better »ufili ry than our ar onfronted on the fields of Mexico. 1t s true the victorious legion in the Mexican war brought millions of acres to the American republie, but when we come to the soldiers of the union, we call attention to the fact that they secured the whole American republic. ~They added not one more stripe nor one more star to the flag, but they rescued the whole flag from the destruction by which it was im- periled. The soldiers ot the Mexican war added a part; the union soldiers gathered in and saved the whole. Our attention Las been called to the fact that many sol- diers of the Mexican war have gone to the grave in poverty. I pomt you to the fact that there are lo~d-{ union soldiers in exile. They are exiled in 8 home which the charity of this nation Kives, and in which they are compelled to spend the remnant of their days under harsh and cruel military discipiine, We give a jail tomen who gave the best of their days and their blood, not to add a portion but to save the whole republic; not to add one more star, however bright its brillianoy, but to preserve the entire constellation June 9, 1834: 1 trust we shall be able to place this bill upon such a basis as will be satisfactory when the timo comes, 1f it is not now, for granting not only acts of gratitude, but substantial recogniticn to the soldiers who served in the army of the union. This amendment was only intonded to reach the soldiers of the union army who are suffering by reason of disability, no matter whether incurred before or since tho war, and those who are dependent. If this money is to be taken out of the treasury, it is far better that it should be given to the poor wid- OWws who lost their husbands in the war The pensions must be increased. Tho republican party has said so; the demo cratic party will say so; the democratic house hns said so; the republican senate has said so. Pensions must be increased, and my friend from Delaware and myself must submit. That is the judgment of the nation. * * * [have found in the committee room that which has excited my admiration, in regard to pensions on the part of gentlemen coming from an- other section of the country, whose dead were buried, and_their widows and their children are receiving no pittance from the government. I have admired gentl men on this floor coming from that se tion, who advocated neral and in vidual pension laws with the same degree of alacrity and cordiality as men from the section of the country whose people are benefitted. PENSION TO SALLY MALLORY (WIDOW OF A REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER) Mr. Van Wyck said: I could see noth- ing in this ease, neittier could the com- mittee on pensions, to make a precedent which would be injurious. The com- mittee haye reported a bill giving her $30 a month. The senator (Mr. Platt) i we increase the pension of this wid there are hundreds of others whose pen- sions will have to be increaded, Precisely the same argument would have applied with greater force when we pensioned the widows of presidents of !{m United States. It would apply with greater when the proposition is made to $50 a month the wid- of high rank in the army and navy. This poor woman is asking for this bounty because she has outlived all her nullmd relations. Thisold woman to-day has these patents of American nobility: one by reason of the services of her husband in the revolutionary war, where he served three years and si months; another by reason of I 1 the war of 1812; then she has patent of nobility in the fact that she lives to-day, the widow of the hero of two wars, She has been unfortunate to be poor, and she has been thrown by cir- cumstances into the frontier state of Ne braska and into one of the fronticr counties of that state, and at her extreme age she is upon the very verge where the Indiun and the buffaloroam on one side and arude civilization exists on the other. If there be another like her, I trust that when she comes to the American con- she will be received and granted ient to give her a support through Mr. Allison: How old is she? Mr. Van Wyck: Nearly one hundred years old, A’ year or two ago congress was liberal in the bestowal of thonsands of dollars for a centennial celebration at Newburgh, where the great army of the revolution was disbanded, and where probably the most eloquent document that ever went into American literature was circulated among the officers of the American army, wherein it was charged that their government had been unjust to them; that they must go back to their homes devastated and blackened by wary their were pittance of pay to be in cur- rency which was depreciated. And we recognized the great services of those men; we cherished them by bestowing thousands to celebrate their memory. Yet near that time was the birth of this now aged woman, born in the shock of the revolution; and she, I trust, may not be allowed now to repeat what her sol- dier husband would have said, that the overnment had been unjust to them. Lot it not be said one hundred years later that when the widow of one of those sol- diers came to the American congress, and looking at us with her bowed form and lusterless eyes, and stretching out the famished hands asks a pittance for her support, she will be ob]ificd to repeat what her husband declared one hundred years ago. The bill passed by a vote of 29 yeas to 14 nays. LANDS FOR THE LANDLESS. Tha following is from a speech on tho claim toaland grant by the Puyallup branch of the Northern Pacific road: 1 say to my friend from Massachusetts (Mr. Hoar), who has just made a remark which I overheard, that Henry Wilson, in 1870, when the Union Pacific” came here to ex: tort more lund from the government, was uttering sentiments the same as those I am now expressing. Senator Van Wyck quoted at length from Wilson's speeches and said: ‘The position of Mas- sachusetts is the position I ara trying to uphold. Henry Wilson would logislate for nis country with his sympathies for the settler and the landless, and could propose that the price of the lands granted to the railroad should be $2.50 an acre. He bid defiance to the power of the railrond company. Yet it has been grow ing and increasing from that day until now. Henry Wilson, right then, would have been infinitely more right'to-day. ‘They (the railroad company) seized POs- session of both political parties; they seized the executive departments; then they came and seized both branches of congress, and they have gone so far as to wvade the foderal cour(s. The railroad property of tl untry to-day is ap- praised at nearly $7,000,000,000, the actual cost of which has been only $3,000,000,000. In what manner has this immense debt— because it is a debt upon the people— been built up? Were on the Boston mar- ket are $6.000,000,000 of sccurities that actually cost their holders only $2,000,- 000,000, Beyond that are $4,000,000,000 held as morigages on the states of Michi- gan, Oregon, Kunsas, Nobraska and others, for which these gentlemen have not paid & farthing, The national debt we can pay; this debt can ne paid. They hold" it forever. For every dollar of, actual money supplied they have thres dollars on whicnh they are drawing in- terest. The $4,000,000,000 stands to-day as & mortgage upon the prosperity, upon the wealth, upon the earnings of the people. It was at # time when they came asking to muke the width of their grant 120 miles that a senator from Mussa- chusctts, in the face of the pecuniary in- terest in his own state, was willing to stand up and declaro that he was for justice to the nation, and justice to the iunlll(-:s and to the settlers on the lands. e S Keop Quiet! And take Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhwea Remedy. It cures pain in the stomach almost instantly. ( cent bottle, take nothing else. need nothing else to cure the worst case i Cholera Morbus or bowel complaint. This medicine 18 made for bowel complaint only and has been in constant use in the west for nearly fif- teen years. Its success has been un- bounded and its name become a hous hold word in thousands of homes. 1! -~ The first postmaster of Rapid Cit; T., was commissioned April 1, 1877, office then paid $50 per year. The p ent income 1s $1,000 per year with a de- cided upward tendency. * It claims to be the champion community for honesty in Dakota. Goods of any value can be left on the street unguarded over night, and no one will eveu wink at them. THE HEROES OF THE BORDER. Nine Indians Kept at Bay by a Wounded Man and a Woman, A Snccessful Struggle for Life in Westorn Nebraska—A Story of Larly Days on the Loup. If the horoes and heroines of the last fifteen years of Indian warfare in the west had their names and deeds omblaz oned on the pages of eurrent history the world could furnish no more glorious record of Leroism. Here and there a name is known and a record of thrilling exporience is given, but the great ma- Jority will live on unknown to the world at large, or sleep their last sloop in graves unmarked and unhonored. One forenoon of a May morning a stockman named George Webber was riding along the south bank of the Loup fork, in western Nebraska, in search of stray stock, when he was fired upon from a grove by Indians who had broken away from one of the agencies to the west. Half a dozen shots ware fired in a volley, and Webber was it in tho calf of the right leg, in the vight side, and raked across tho shoulder, and his horso was also wounded. As soon as the shots were fired nine mounted Indians dashed out, and Webber put his horse at the top of its speed and headed for the ranch of Charles Moss, about four miles up the river andon the same side. For the first milo Webber had no hope, as the Indians were close enough to use their revolvers and arrows, and his horse Was a commor core or more of bullets were at him, and fully twenty arrows zipp but tho wound his animal received, aided by the continued shouting of the ved skins,mado him pull out like a born r horse. Ho s0on began to widen the distance, and when he dashed up to the ranch Webber was a full half mile ahead. Iis shouts as he neared the place gave the alarm, but to his dismay he dashed up to be 1n- tormed by Mrs. Moss that she was the only one about the place, her husband nmf his man having gonc away an hour before. The oabin stvod on a rise of ground about twenty rods from the st m, and could be approached from any side. The Indians halted at long rifle range to sce who was about the place. and this gave Webster timo to miuke_explanations and do a little planning. He knew his “‘bad” Indians, whe ervation, and realized that if he could keep them oft for an hour or two reinforcements would come to him or the enemy would withdraw for fear of their identity being discovered. “What arms haye you got?" he asked, after explaining the situation. Jolt’s ravolver.” “Lhave s Winchester nifle. We must h'(:_ld ‘em off until aid comes. Help me oft.” The woman assisted him to alight, and he gave his horse a slap-and sent the ani- mal galloping off up the trail. Some of the Indians pursued, but without aval. The tirst whi nun whom the horse encoun- tered would understand that something was wrong, and that his assistance was asked for fiown the trail. The house was a primitive affair, di- vided 1nto two rgoms, with only a lower sash in each window. The only point from which the Indians could approach with shelter to cover them was the east side. They could approach this side within revolver shot by creeping up a ravine. Webber yealizad that if the nine charged togetuer from this ravine, with only the fire from a single window dirocted at them, not more than two or three could be stopped. If the others reached the house the game was up. He therefore insisted on taking up his posi- tion outside the house, without even a twig to shelter him. His back was to the logs and the ravine in his, front. For fear some of the Indians might approach the house singly from another direction, the woman was instructed to first faston all the doors and then pass from window to window and maintain an active ebser- vation. She was & woman of thirty-tive, who had been tenderly reared in an eastern state, and had been in the west less than two years. The sight of a snake would haye made her scream out in afiright on that very morning, and the thought of an attack by Indians would have” been sufficient to chill her blood. Yet, when brought face to fuce with the terrible menace, she was a heroine. With pale face and’ compressed lips, and umm)lng{ not to question the policy of the wounded man’'s plans to save their lives, she promptly obeyed. The Indians must have known that Webber and the women were alone, and that he was wounded, but they did not dare make a rush. Much as they ed scalps and plunder, they did not care to recklessly ~expose themselves. They crept up the ravine, as was expeeted, or started to, when Webber saw that their ponies had been loft within range of his Winchester. He oytlucll fire at once and dropped three of them to the grass be- fore the redskins discovered what he was at. This caused a halt in the proceedings until they could remove the other six to a place of safety. puntea them as they returned to the ravine and saw that three were missing. The trio had separ- ated from the others to creep upon the house, and this fact was announced (o Mrs. Moss. In the course of fifteen minutes the six had gamed the position sought for onposite, and Webber gave all his “attention to them, trusting to the woman to watch and defend the house from tho others, From the house to the ravine was a gradual slant, the ground being covored with grass and_entively clean. Webbor sat there, as plain a farget as a inan would desire for his pistol, the blood from his wounds souking into the ground, and his eyes watching the ravine with the knowledge thut he was one tosix. No Indian could fire on him without raising his head above the bank, and the first one up got a buliet through it, and one redskin tumbled back a corpse. This was u caution to the others, and instead of raising thair heads they restod their ifles on the bank and blindly ‘Thirteen bullets struck the log within six fect of Webber, and others did not miss him except by a shave. It was simply 8 question of time, if the fiving were Kept :Il) when a bullet would hit and finish him. Meanwhile the three bucks who had left the main body were ¢ ping toward the house from different directions. Mrs. Moss could sce two of them, but the third crept along a deev furrow, and finally guined a point from which he could fire upon Webber at fair range. From this point the reds fired nine times at Webber's right side, which was exposed to his view. He cither had a poor gun or was much excited, for not one of his bullets counted, although some of them whistled uncomfortably close. “I knew what was up,” in modestly telling his stor but I to trust to luck. "He was not whege I could hit him, and if he happened (8 hit me it would have been no worse than to be killed by the others in front, After his first bullet I didn’t even turn my head that way. The woman came to the win- dow near me and said the other two were in sight, and I instructed her to open fire with'the revolver. She had fired a pisiol only a fow times, and I did not count on anything beyond her giving the bucks ‘somefhing to thunk about. It must have been eutirely by ac- cident that at her very first fire she wounded one of the fellows in the hip, and he at once crawled away to tuke care of himself, The other one sent aid Webbe = three bullots through & window at whidi sho was standing, but €he kept flrin away at him and sending 6 much lea around his cars that he dare not adv vance. ' The fight in front lasted about half an hour. u{\'ln'm'u-r there was a lull in the firing Webber looked to see the Indiare spring up and make a rush, and to pre- vent this he firea at random along the bank, tearing up the sod and flinging dirt over the red skins in hiding. He hod noidea that help was at hand,and was depending upon himself, when the Indiaps suddenly ceased firing and beat a hasy retreat, and ten minutes later Moss and his men rode up, having boen met on the open prairie by the nderless horso, Ly retreating from the ravine the Indians carried away their dead warrior, but the one wounded by Mrs. Moss was left to take care of mmself, He was found g the d furrow and despatched. The heroisth of Webbor in taking and main. taining his position, sevorely wounded a he was, and of tho woman in obeyin M.z orders, hoveless as the defense must have appeared to her, deserves a place om the pages of undying histor -——_o EARLY DAYS AT KEARNEY. A Oircus Man's Experfence During a Boom, Chicago Herald: *'Ci some queer experionces,' said an ndvanog agent, as he put his foet upon a soat hn front of him in the smoking ecar and lighted another cigar “Ull never for fet the time I took n show outto Kear- ney, Neb. It was about ten yeas and Nebraska wasn't as much -cufm‘l then as itis now, When we were layin, out our route the boss was & little dubl: ous nbout going any farther west than Grand Island, but I showed him thut Kearney was one of the booming towns of the wost; that it had five daily nows- papers, ete. “They claim 8,000 popula. tion,” says I, “‘but, of course, they haven't got as much. Yet, as thero are fivo daily newspapers there, it must be a good deal of a town,”” So we decided to go as fuy west as Kearney, and went out to make the arrangements and do tha advertising, I found there were five newss all’ datly—suro enough, but 1§ sickest-looking town for cven to live in, let alone seen. I tell you the t truth when I say that I made a sort of a count of the number of peophs and it wasn't above 650, HBut the men told me that the countr) a mmgw- s rich and thickly settled, lux that the farmers and stock men would come in by the thousaads If we billed our show., There had never been a circus there, they smid, and tha would go wild over . The editors of the five daily papers talked couragingly and proniised t do all t)u'?' could for us, and so I s iu-fi in. Well, I paid $100 for 3 city license. T paid of those fivé newspaper: an average of $75, and pai $10 for the use ot the thousandy of wvacant lots. I expected a b15 boom from the country, and the tow men said there weren't more people in from the country because it was harvesg time and they were all busy. I sent a gang of my meu out south over the Platt to bill the country. 1In tso days they ro: turned, saying they had found nothing to stick a bill on but one sod house &nd tw¢ dug-outs, one rumed _shanty, a rclic ui stago coach . id o fow buffalo cars es whitening'in the sun, Not :mulhv? blessed house could they find. Then sent them north, over toward Wood river, and in a couple ' of days they roturned with the snme kind of 'a report. The. bad scen four white men, two stool ranches, and 400 Indians, who boggad a, the whisky and tobacco the men hat with them and then stole most of thei grub. By this time matters had gone sd far I couldn’t stop 'em, and the show came on from Grand Island. We gave ! an afternoon performance to just G508 people. I veritably believe ever: man, woman and child 1n towAt was present—and that's all. When we came to count the tickets we found ":f“ 150 had come in on newspaper passds, ten on account of railroad, twenty-tive ot account of city council, forty on accouné of police, and 0 on. Our cash receipta were nbout $140. That night we closcd our tents, the whole gang of us got drunk, were arrested, and the next day we had to give up the $140 and more be- i nd sell four horses in order to pa. our fines. We wore out of funds, and before we got through the town of Kear- ney had just about absorbed our show. afterward learned that Kearnoy was one of the ‘boom’ towns, living on hope and such suckers as strayed that way, We helped 'em out ama ingly. Four of the daily papers were printed bfv land and town lot speculators, and another by a syndicate that was trying to run all of the politics and offices in the county, and doing it, too. I have ne since taken a circus as far west as Kearnoy Junction.'* n Hours of Labor. Herald: Hand in hand with ng earnings has gonen corre- sponding reduction in the hours of lubor, It is a positive taot that the working hours are shortest to-day in countries whero wages and productiveness highest. Wiile the working weok gos fifty-four to fifty-six ny's and France's week s seventy-two hours, with many indu iries at~ seventy-eight hours. Mussachusetts has ~ fixed sixty hours by statute without having ex perienced any incursion by comparing neighboring states, which still adbere to longer hours. It has been tho common experience, wherever tried, that the shorter hours enable the workmun to put more unurgf into his work. In the early part of this century, inglish cotton fuctories, the week™ exte ndl‘fi to seventy-four hours; from 1833 it was re- duced to niflfuninc nou From this it went gradually down to sixty, and in 1871 to fifty-six and a half hours, which idered the normal working :k in Great Britaing al® though there are trades where fifty to fifty-two hours is the rule. Iu the United States, the extent of the working day in cotton mills is quoted by Mr, At kinson as ng been thirteen hours in 1810, This was gradually reduced to eleven hours, and since 1855 1o ten hou in Massachusetts, with other stat ginning to move 'in the same direction, the state of Rhode Islund huving adonted a _ten-hour day within a month of this writing. In spenking of the buildin trade and of the normal workin, 'i eight hours in the latter part of dle Thorold Rogers “Employ- ers very likely to discover that the laborer’s resistance to an excessively long duy was not entively personal, and that the work might suflér from the work- weariness and exhaustion.” The lence of the work, lusting through ages, when more t constructions have disappeared entirely, is even more eloquent proof of the” soundness of the economic views of our forefathers and the voices which a; raised from the grave of yellow parchment, Germany, then at the head of Europe in commerce and manufacture, the econo- raler of the world, the banker and trader of Europe, held to the same rules during its mgh f prosperity. All of which shows that reasouable’ hours arc not at all incompatible with great activity and productiveness; nay, thag "us men have they are a necessary condition to theig achicvement, e ‘When Eaby was sick, we gave her Castoria, When Wheu sho became Miss, she clung to Castoria, ‘Wheu alie had Childsen, she gave them Castoria § L (2 ’ | q | !