Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 1, 1886, Page 12

12 THE AMERICAY RAILWAY METHODS The Maguitude of the Evils Fost Transportation Companies. 1 By SOME REMEDIES PRESCRIBED. The Convenlences and Comfort of European Roads Superior to thoseof the United States-The Speculative € BY RICHARD T, ELY, PROFESSOR OF IOLIT ICAL SCIENCE IN JOHN HOPKINS UNI VERSITY PART L. From Harper's Magaztne for Augnst, A recent artiele in Harper's Mag on “English and American Railways,” as seen from the tandvpoint of the trav eler, was a revelation to large numbers Our railways have so long sung their own praises, and o subservient press has 80 readily re-echoed these boastful strains, that we have Heen deluded into the beliet that we possessed the fastest trains, the finest passenger conches, the lar supply of conveniences, the grandest sty tions and the cheapest rates to be found in the world. Now it ought not to be necessary to say that the reason why one rejoices to see tho publication of an ar- ticle designed to dispel such illusions 1s not that one likes to see the institutions of one's own country deeried. Noj the reason 1s the hope that an insight into the actual condition of things may lead to an improvement in these institutions. The articles in the present series | chiefly to do with railway factol production, and in production the rail- way, a8 & means for the transportation of passengers, plays a subordinate part. It is not, then, necessary in this place to he statements h and Ameriean be remarked, how- ever, that a residence of s m Europe leads me to the belief that the author of that article has given even too Ve Il favorable a view of our railways as com- [l pared with Euwropean railways. The reader will find it an interesting and profitable pastime to compare the 1- way time-tables of fifteen or twenty typ- ical American railways with the time- “~ tables of as many European railways He wili then obtain some idea of the slow average rate of travel with us, Other features of our railways do not fare better in the comparison.” Our sta- tions are ivconvenient and ugly, some- times even hy. Our cars are uncom- fortable, and it is diflicult to sce how one who hus'lived long enough in Germany to becon stomed to her institutions should not prefer second-class travel in that country to first-class on the ordinary Ame 1 railway, although-the average charge is thirty, forty, and oceasionully even more than fifty per centum lower, A still more important element is the safety of travel, and it can be said with- out feur of succ 1l contradiction that the reckless prodigality of human life, which as part of our ruilway history has fi foreigners, is elsewhere un- But the chief evils of American rail- ways appear when we come to treat of them as performing economic services in the portation of goods, and wh we view railway property as an impor- tant element in our national resources. It is then diflicult to tell wnere to begi or where to end an they are so numerous und momentous. Equally difliculu is it to find language in which to portaay. the sober scientific trath in regard to these.abuses, for their enor. mity is such as almost to bafile de: tion. 1In 1879 the assembly of thestate of New York passed a resolution for the appoint ment ot a special committee to mvesti- gate the methods of the railways i state, which from the name of its man is usually called the Hepburn com- mittee, though it was under the guidance of Mr. Sterne, of New York city. The investigation forms an epoch in the economic history of the United States, and the American people owe a debt of vatitude to Mr. Sternoe for the ability, fearlessness and self-sacrificing fidelity with which he conducted the diflicnlt in- quiry. The magnitude and true nature of the evils which we had been suftering from railway domination then for the first time became fully known, and the com- mittee in th compelled to say that the 0 glaring in their provortions a savor of fiction rather t £ The reader who would know all the prominent de tails of the railway methods of the coun- tr{ may find them in a copy of this report with testimony, and in other reports of committees like the present senate com- mittee on inter-state commeree, or he can find u good resume in one of theso two works, ‘‘Die Nordame nischen Eisen- bahnen,” by that excellent German au- thorlty Alfred von der Leyen, and Hud- son’s “'Railways and the Kepubli Per- sonal intercourse with honest and intelli- gent business men and railway employes Will add to the fullness und vividness of his knowh-nli,w. Some cvils of railways have been touched upon, and one or two briefly seribed in the first article in this sc; This present article will treat of a fow points sclected out of the vast number - whiek present themselvos, ei becanse t.he{ have not generally sutis- jory treatment hitherto, or because ey are specinlly weighty m a considera- L tion of railways from an” economic point of view. These points are the waste of intional resources in the railway world, L the ovils in the manner in whic - shares are bought and s tive, or perhaps more properiy g: Ppurposes, and finally the our economic life by .disc * railway charges, - More than” two thousand years ago Avistotle uttered words which in our nge sound almost prophetic. This wise phi- dosopher defended slavery on broad hu- manitarian grounds as ‘an institu uired to keap alive the culture w} e rendered the advance of mankind possibility, for he held that in no other ay could choice spirits among men p. ure loisure for higher pursuits; but, -addod ho, if the time should ever come '‘when the shuttle would move of itself, ‘and rhmlm of ‘themselves strike the lyre, “we should needwo more slaves.”” What would he have thought could he have esoen the marvelous inventions and coveries of the past century, which e led to such utilization of the cle- entary powers of nature that it is scarce- an uxu*xnruuqu to say that the largest ortion of material products is the crea- on of solf-ucting muchinery? Had he own that in'e'Tutire age ‘one man in jous leading branches would produce much as thirty, one hundred and fifty, pee hundred, five hundred, and even's ousand in his day, would he not have uted in glowing colors the high and versal culture which could then be medt It can nrn-lfi' be doubted that istotle would have taken it as an indis. table fact that universal freedom, ure for higher pursuits, and an abun nee of all needed ecogomie good would come the preperty of all the sons of ben. Alis! now different is the reality, b from dreams, but even from the ual anticipations of the past genera- There may have beeu improvement, shallow optimists paint it as sll tnat eould des! but truth compels us to nowledge that it is not so marked as be beyond controversy. ‘There has LT —r been undoubted advance in ce and undonbted . deteriors but what has been the n of tl ma Who ean te an who in spite of L his faults still retains his reputation the most ( d English econo mist of his« rs it ‘questionable if all the mechanieal inventions yet made have itened the day's toil of any human being,” while the most careful English student of economle facts now before the public leaves one with the im ression that on th olo the of the English laboring class might haye been more desirable some four centurie And in the United States, most tavored land, cconomic « €8 now vexcs ns, and a tinge of pessimism nungled with surprise characterizes the thougzhts of intelligen fecling Amer- Now it is manifestly out of the ques tion—¢ f it were in my power, which it 15 not ~to attempt to explain all this in one article 1 the nt, but it is well to call attention to a partial explanation T'he question is this: What has become of the fruits of the matcrial progress of our tme? 1t is undoubtedly true that they wire largely absorbed by the waste ol competition, and it is likewise beyond controversy that no other one tor eauses so mich ot this needless waste with us as the railway. Fifty years ago we went mad with tie idea t unversal competition was a pan Levils and the man would have received no attention who sugpested that there were eertain territo ries in our economic lite which m their nature were not adapted to competition, Some of us hay not yet recovered from this madn but the time has now come for diserimination. Let us examine ver briefly what unregulated tition has brought us, My thesis is this: The needless of railway competition has been suflicient to provide goc l| comfortable homes—u whole house to a family—tor that part ot the entire population of the United States not already provided with such homes. The first item in the count is neediess expenditire 1 rmlway construction. “This has been estimatod at $1,000,000,000, and it is certainly a low cstimate, fortwo needless r ys, the West Shore and the Nickel Plate, alone account for one- fifth of this sum, It must be borne in mind that necdless expenditure is waste of national resources which ought to have benetited the people, simple, yet it is often neces it. Now. ,000,000,000 is o sum suf to build homes for 1,000,000 famil 5,000,000 people. 2. Every ncedless train i and competing ronds st number of them daily, 3. Our have aeccording to uny inte that tl should become part of one grand system of means of communi tion and transportation, supplementing atural and artificial waterwa highw; On the cont 're often designed to njure oth. ic highways, and ave, sti waged with that view. Railways run along by the side of Is and drive them out of ex- istence Al times they buy the can nd stop using it, lest it should longer render any service to body. The Richmond & Allegheny railroad of Virginia is an example. Here is a great waste of re- sources expended in canals. Railways prevent the use of natural waterway: Thus the Pennsylvania railroad and the Pacific railways diseriminate against those who use “the Ohio river and the At- lantic and Pacilic occans respectively. These examples of a waste of na- ’s bounty. cight rates are often somuch cheaper betwecn competing pomts than from an intermediate point that treight frequently passes twice over the ck—n waste of labor and capital. Freight is thus sent from Pittsburg to Philadelphia and New York, und then right back through Pitts- burg to a western point, so as to get the competiton rate from one of the large cities. Freight has likewise heen sent from Rochester, N. Y., to New York city wmie fi ilw E igent scheme, so th by again over the same tracks through Rochester to the west. Last winter freight was sent from Baltimore to New York, then back through Balti- more to tho west. These examples might be multiplied indetinite], Another variety of whste is illustrated by the ite coal combination, which stops production at intervals in ord maintain high pr Capital powel labor power meantimg remauin idle, and other mdustries are injured, But why continue this, It is unpossible to with smatical aceuracy all this enormous ste of mnational resources, but no one will be likely to deny that L have more than proved my thesis, ‘The transuctions of the stock e which has to do gely with the pur- chase and sule of railwiy shares, are not altogother illegitimate ‘by any means. Railway property is sold honestly, as other property is, in order to obtain money for other purposes, and it is bought legitimately for investment, But agreat part of the transactions are of a speculative ¢ er; in other words, property is bought and soid, not for the suke of realizing on the shares, or for the sake of an investment, but in order to get gaw out of the fluctuation in value of railway property. This leads naturally to_attempis to promote fluctuation, A ailway manager may desire to depress the property committed to his care, in order to buy the shares of others ut alow price. The devices to which recourse is 1ad for this purpose by the management in such cases are varied. The property may bo neglected, so that diyidends will not be earncd, dividends may bo passed needlessly, groundless rumors may be cireuls calealated to injure. the rail- tious sules at low figures may be These are simple pro s, but one famnliar with the transactions of the stock oxchange conld readily fill many pages ot this magazine in the deseription of devices used to dopreciate property undul, Even easier to understand are the methods used to inllate property, of which tho most common, at any rate the best known, the declaration of un- carned dividends, which must then be paid 0.t of capital, OF conrse this is morally no better than highway rohbery, while it is far more con- temptib It glves a false impression of the value of property, which is then sold to the community et an inflated valua- one casily change, tion Itis a methou by which corporate manazers have enrished themselves, and plundered the widow, the orphan and the thritty, hard-working citizon. It estab- lishes that diversity of interest between the management of ruilways and the great body of sharcholdevs which is one of the most marked features of our rail- way history. This is well illustrated in the graphically narrated account of the rise and progress of the Camden & Amboy Transportation company, which is found in Alfred von der Leyen’s work; and it may be remarked in passing that this company, of odious mewory, Whose history is marked not only by theft, wholgsule bribery and legislative corrup: tion, bt even by violence and wurder, furnishes examples of all abuses known to the railway world. Bur another view of the effect of speculation in railway shares is ns important as, and possibly loss gen ll*’nwnliulwulthau,llmlwhlcf] has just received our attention. The large fortuncs which have been made in this y, and still’ more the immense possi- bilitles of this specics of gambling, are iuducinF(hu ')'uu(h of the countev from the paths of honest 1udusud. his is a matter In'qucntlg bewailed aliost in terms of despaly by President Andrew D, White, certuinly ‘one of the most ex- perienced and distinguished B*:Iflllori of the country. It ruins daily bright and ])rom:xiug carcers, and is a curse to the and. In what does this ull-\)arvndm* speculation in business difter from theft OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, AUGUST 1, 1886. D — e e e Is‘it not trying to obtain something for BROWN'S HIRED GIRL. l utes when she nothing, trying to coax the property of o T quarrel with Mrs. Bry and is not. that the constantly before the eyc that these method to all sphercs of business lifc [ ought it to astonish one that ther rar, like our New York al d resort to more dircct and exchal the tene ublic fa whose property they ought to prof live honestly and uprightl How Some Manag £n $35,0 Year-Others Not So F *‘How do artists manage to liv inquiry made by a New ' York M Express revorter of a well-knowi andd a picture dealer quafling beer the store of the latter, ea 0 both to laugh. The plamed that the public w tive and parsimomous, while the d had asserted that the artists are e i tical and natural-bor o The convel ed by tne mention in a letter ily paper that in consequence quarrel between the great Meissonior his dealer the former wus likely to s more than the latter, who would tak and boom some other artist. Both ing had their to rom “stein’’ was coming. Well, the artist, you may be sure, a pretty hard time of it, if he be nervous and sensitive tempormmen has no shrewd wife to negotiate for but if he add to his talent as an art y weli, despite the Jor will always be s side. The dealer is to the lh«'fmhli.\hm'islnllu':\ullmr,lnq-n in StW trying to get the be while the deale better than an idiot in th more fully study the popular taste artist has any skill at all and the s ° of him in pr ty of artists is all moonshine, of suc the drones in every their improvidence, and so with artists, or what is more general, t who have no tact or who do not ge rapport with their dealer. Now, shown in the article from Paris, it w dealer who boomed Meissonier, or fame would probably not yond a limited art circle. “‘As the article says, there are n admirable artists in Paris who tor v nagement will never become So it is here; there are many ¢ #. get along for w mi geient, he makes about <ful newspaper men. work on his easel. ure a month. He is roing, and would neve studio himsel is completed he sends n us u picture ton or San F and in time ably not sell a picture in a ye: could not properly talk it up. ints twelve pictures i . say flve, his incom ing his seven works on hand, w’ ally sell at good figar Now, the punting port iits on orders in the places he visits, Arriv place, or who has previously been instr in getting him to visit the y hiblion ot his work, and then not soon catch an order he move more appr one he sells one e closes, even if he not g ovder. If the locality nt he obtain a photo of the ry ative locality, But ten to ot his old pictures before your neighbor into your pocket without a casence of Should it be a matter of surprise, s ratlwvay transactions in the stock s of should ex- Or nore cmen, old iioned methods of robbing the peovle toct Wi in the winter of 1879-80 ure was brought forward in the | parliament for the purchase of the pri- | vate railways in Prussia, son lusion | wias 1 to the injury that thismight do to the stoek exchange; but the minister of | public works, or rallway minister, as he 18 frequently called, Terr Maybach, e plied: “Yes, gontlomen, if we shall be able to restrict the operations of this ex cha by removing from it altogether this kind of property, we shall consider it a great advantage. It will indeed give me peeuliar pleasute to lop off some of the branches of this upas tree.” Gift baum was the word used, and it is more expressive than our ish word poison tree, a tree po 1s in nature, and whose fruit must be poisonous, Yos, and if any manner we in Amerien shall be able to hew off a great branch from our gift-baum, it would be a bless g to our youth, and to all who desire to a blessing of such proportions that it could not he casily overestimated. A curse to us Is our gift-baun. [TO BE CONCLUDED NEXT SUNDAY.] SECRETS ABOU; OUR ARTISTS. 00 a prtunate. rlist ina used artist hadcom- S unappreci or anti- 1 in- tion had heen start s of a e ufter eup hay- langh and finished their beer, the artist spoke up while another hias of t, or him; ist a common sense he fact thorn in what ror cing to t tor, the engineer to the throttle. It is a pity that the two cannot the better understand each other, the trouble b that the one believes the other is alw it considers the artist little t he does not If an ht- modicum of industry he can get along very well, and the ta ¢ about the pover- s far from the truth as that about the impecuniosity OF course hive will suffer from I 't en nis e gone be- hany ant ant Now, is industrious and al- He aver- modest sell a 18 s00n er and s If he not sell here the picture is sent to eland or New Orleans, or or San Francisco, netting him $1,000, be kept it in his studio he would prob- It ,000, hich are grouped in some auction and gener: L ;he dashes off' about three tures per month, which average him $100 each. Yet he is better knownas a designer for the illu: ed papers and the illustrated books of lmw*\, There's C ,who spends s winters in some southern clime and his summers in pleas- ant nor D retreats, alway ng well and enjoying himself in h helor- hood, makes all of $6,000 per annum receives \oa le gives in the parlor of some ocal celebrity. to whom he brings letters mental an will man and paint his portrait, and his friends will start a subscription for its purcl to bo presented to the church he presi over.” FRANK JAMES hase the subject or the Denies the Reports that He is Going Into the Show Business, Dispatch to the Globe-Democrat from Nevada, Mo.: The report_which re found 1ts way into the New York through a Fort Worth, Tex., corresp ent, to'the effect that Frank James arrangemenrs to go on the stage ently Sun ond- had ith a play based on s courtship and marriage with Miss Annie Ralston, presents on its ace & plausible appearancs, but Frank Jumes says there is not one word of t in it. James recently returned “Lexas, wherc he spent one week al ruth from t the state military encampment at Lampasas Springs. On_his return he stopped over one night at Fort Worth, but he says not one word was spoken by himself or one else about his going on the stage ing his trip through Texas. an, dm-)r “If I had wanted to go on the stage,’ said he, “I have had plenty of opportuni :i;‘s to have done so, but [prefer a ifo. quie 1 have had many offers from mana gers of theaters, circuses and museums, ne manager offered me with traveling expenses and a palace 1,000 a week, car for & year, but 1 tell you I don’t want it I want peace and quict at home with my famly.” 3 Your correspondent knows of his own knowledge that Mr. James has received these offers. Ja last September, kept himself coustantly employed, o5 has lived here_ since uring which time he has re- ceiving & moderate salary for his work up to a few weeks ago, wh n his ewploy- or sold a half interest in his business, since which time he has not been activel emplo efi ¢ has a wife and one cl a bright little boy, and for them he chased, a short” time fl;o merly occupied as the Meth age. Another report which is goin, rounds of the press, that James is of consumption, is without founda He is in good health, hild, pur- a cottage for- sthodist parsens the ying tion, | ~TWEI VE PAGES. Yes, Brown ‘is affficted kicked up a red-not Wwn's nurse ’ Brown acted as arbitrator, at the risk of his Tife, ho thonght, and the dificulty d is 20 terril t Brown y of has been for several weoks, pretty { was finally settlc e mame of his ailiction 18 Rosy [ Rosy McCune McCnne | in her'ideas tha Rosy is an American-born Irish girl of | e Tust, have the first water—the Simon-y othier liigh-horn tribe She is a daisy, and no mista The very nex lteen years of o her vanity i about ¢ Mt pretty good-looking, boundless, “That’s all rf Brown, I want to explain right here, I8 | «Iyiera iy plonty of coffos and tea, though, not by any means a man of great wealth. | 1 guess, which re good enongh for mo Oh no! He is one of tie many who | “‘Coffec and tea may be g struggle along on a thousand a year, | for you, sir,” said Rosy, then, more or loss ing with the gaunt | Cannot drink either of them in the morn wolf at short as it veie ing. T must have my eocon or my broma % o s e for breakfast, or I am not myseclf all day A hired girl, therefore, is a luxnry he | Spall T order some from the ) can il afford his household “Luxury,” did T say a permanent addition to Brown fairly Godf Groat claimed “wher 1t may bo such, but Brown fails to sce it in that light any “I was last longer venou, ixperience is the best of teachers, it is That settled said, and Brown has “bin thar.’ W When it beeame neeessary for Brown | like somcbody to find a girl, owing to Mrs. Brown's being taken away from the heim of the ay order your nurtnr domestic ship to give her attention to a ! want of jts lately arrived stranger v addition to | while you are the family in_the shape of a young son | joave T 8w and he weight, about ten pounds, or Oh! she'sa d thereabouts—-he made inquiries aronnd Nothing is the neighborhood, and the result of his inquiries was—Rody MeCune. He set ont in search of Rosy and by following tl irections he b received, soon found the ludy’s residenc Rosy came to the door in person, and when Brown I made known his busi ness, she began to question him i s Wihat Brown ¢ substantial boiled potatoc at once, 1 1wh is means, way that farly made his head swim, | wont to engasgo 1l by the time she was done, Brown | tho moment e door s was in doubt whether he wanted to hi was the girl, or the girl wanted to hire him., BNl R 12 began to look, ho folt, as though he | PR eadbage. was in search of o position himself, Rokviis niinaohmpTislioa iy At last, when he had answered all of Hor “pana,’” she says the @irl’s questions to her satisfaction, | yosition' in ‘the depurtment of public he felt honor to know that he pos- | \¢5ks. sessed the necesss Y qualitications to be- come her empic Yes, Rosy engaed him—at least Brown looked at it in that light -he to pay her | mg : v week, and she to have every Thurs. | 304 he think fternoon and every Sunday evening | 4 dollar o day. Such were the rosy terms which Rosy named, and Brown being in a tight place, had to accept them. ance rs should not he too particular, T8 s ! 5y | girls of a hundred yenrs ago. but stiould accept whatever they can got. | Sl Of 1 hundred yoars ag Lo Lineyom what Brown says, and I agrec Mot ane e g0 fool that WiSs | Weo don’t remomber much cetune was domg him a great favor to | ocjves but the information comes down t all, even al those tecms. se points being settled, Brown next veutured to ask when the lady would do him the honor to present herself at his domicile. to-day. success, is Re lidavit accor “When would you like to have me | “'Gu'tho ovening of lto come:” Rosy asked. o | Brown's she asked spec Just as soon as you can get there, o out. Her g Brown answered. i o the point of d must go. Under these cir lowed to go. She returned morning, and B that she spent t rink Nex was ill, di “Did you Iy ng a carringe?" This question almost_turned Brown's soul right inside out. For a moment he was knocked specehloss, hed: ‘Did you bring a carriage? » epeated. “Great Scott! No!” Brown ecried out, desperately. Do you take me for a Vanderbilt? I eame in a street car, nriss, and if you n get ready inside of half an hottr, T will wait for you and take you | 1 ouse w home with me in the same mannes allun Thing in a desperate way at my | S hou: Dve gotno time to wasto | (@ he B about this matter.” e Now when Brown spoke up like that, % mg,” $he said, in Irs. Browr Brown meant business, right from the word go; and Rosy at once promised to be ready within the given time. But she wasn’t. At the end of forty-five minutes, though, she made her appearance, elad in an imitation sealskin sacque and a twenty all n byes and exclaim dollar bonnot, albeit her shoes wero in g | SeIf - Grandmotl sadly dilapidated and - down-at-the-heel | oW O condition onger. “Ready?" Brown queried: Rosy was ready. Now, reader (and T ask this question for Brown, you understand); whether you are young or old, did you ever know of a hited givl who transported her duds: and other brie-a-brac—in any other i than an overgrown bundle? willing' to bet that you uever did. for that matter, so am I. hired girl, but I begin to think m Brow.i is ond | & knot in the end ke It is never a cabba, a hand-bag % grip. | favor, to 3 a carpet-bag, valise, nor a o trunk; “'[‘\'“'l“ 'I““T""“l always—cternally and all the time— | And she Jived a pundle. And, ten toone, it §is a bundle | the letter. Ye did more than s s round as a ball, n an old sheet, as big as a_barrel, tolerably hefty, e 1 wh he L o b e inqu and all” sewed around ~with darning | Jio inagired whethr, o Have you ever seen that bundles Of | ctlled upon during the wec Rosy was on She’ informed course you hayvi Well, when Brown stepped out into the hall of the McCune mansion (tenement house. third floor back), he eame within one of falling heels over head right over just such a bundle, “Hello!" he exclaimed he recovered himself in time to save going down stairs on his stomach, head first: “some- body moving " “That is my bundle, sir,” said Rosy, ! Good heavens, miss with a rosy blush. *Your bund pect to supply you with bed and 2 while you are with us,”” ', this bundle contains me clothes,” This was said in such a tone of resent- ment that the lady's tongue tripped a little, and out ecame the brogne, “Oh! Beg pardon,” Biown eried, “T call upon her; sh Brown was away thought it would have th Thi was public wias a fine s Any man who wc to become down will send an - expressman around to got | Of it “But I must have it the moment I get | 0lmost every wom i congr to your house, si ul:;.‘;)é”n;“m"mm' oht Well, fotoh f¢ [ tho Wholg consn ' But'Rosy stopped short wasn't Mrs. Brown mad! v S8irt” she cried, *'do you imagine for a moment that I would be seen upon the street with that bundle in my arms? Not much! If you want me in such haste you must carry 1t for me.” Brown did want her in haste was no help for it; so he bundle. But 1t being round and without a handle of any sort, he failed to grasp it as a whole. He failed to grasp any part of 1t,in fact. He might as well” have tried to grasp the broad side of a barn He failed beeause he didn’t know how. “‘Hold on, arms,’’ Brown held them out, and Rosy nounced her bundle up into them in a twinkling. “There!” she exclaimed. ‘'Now you're all right. Come on!” And down the stairs she trivped. Brown never felt so small and mean i ever suw. strength j and there | i8n't that sort of kled the As it wa “Oh! Re tell such th stor snateh you bald- said Rosy. “‘Hold out your did not do any wi «-ngu\;r'e to do Iaundress, sirrah mn f Fifth avenue constitution she food, in milk, ete., she The gitls of our ds reumstanc her g iling like the won’t think Brown would like conmmitt choly, despondent, low at such a time, must be a brute, was the long und the short and the whole waus ubout as angry as an, " Wiy, f o had st then, sh she only said: how could—how could you is a wonder to me the good Lord didn’t come right down through the roof of the churchapd ? It On Monday, to i informed Mrs, Brown, Brown, and he demunded to know why. “‘Because,” Rosy answered, ““I did not any washing. ! "Do_you imagine that 1 would put my hands into hot water and t mornin, sped for y H n as he could lid you live out last service with Mrs New York.” ttled Brown, too, 1, he said, “you will have to fecl else Tor to-day, miss; but n the grocer’s boy comes around vou | Your delies 11 not sufler nourishment | house. t--it s broma customed in my o1 such mashed turnips considers as common; ds as luxuries beyond as r him; coted by the unmistakable odor of Brown says that he saw him, the other day, clud in a rubber suit and just erawl ing through a man-hole out of the sewer; that all the luere he out of thal lucrative posi Truth--the open, bold, honest truth s the safest for anyoue, in any and to us pretty straight. : Rosy McCune 15 a girl—a hired ¢ She 1s an indmother b, she about 1 o rown has he evening at 1 then Ro: remonstrated with her quite ou don’t stop your infernal howl- vords, “you w plain 1 mad But my poor grandmother! my poor graudmother!” Ro; ! of u sudden she stopped, dried her moaned. ed: ““Yes, I must stop, or I shall be ill my- in heave her is safe of It makes me feel so bad.” then forthwith she began to sing “Over the Garden Wall.” ould go on and writea volume about 1t Brown has told me concerning his uess 1 won’ Tam dr On Sunday, Rosy agreed, as an especial Brown’s little girl to school. up to her e agreed to do When the minister ended his one vould 1i by the visiting committee cther Ny her feet in an insts minister that Mrs, to have the committee would. v lonely at times, being il 1, and an old nurse for the knew sh all d cheer Mt o visit her ly announ ould allow his -hear Well, the committee came; and so did n of that church’s gation. Tne feminine ¢ the whole community was st fever-heat. seeret camoe a fellow. headed, " had to hire a woman, that, iing and ironing, b (he dishes, bit to wu all his lfe. He told me so. Should he be | suds? Not much! seen ecarrying a bundle of that sort Brown through the streetst Never! By the great ospo ally to do the wa: no! Not even hardly tosy managed He, tho ten-pound father—T mean the fatuer of u ten-pound boy; it would | mittens. be ridigulous. He just simply wouldn’t | O, she do it; that was all, hinted. And when he reached the street where Rosy waus waiting for bim, he dropped the bundle and broke the intelligence to ber in no very gentle manner, “Wait a minute,” he ended by saying, “and I'll see if 1 can find & truck.” ™ou ghould have brought a carriage in the first place,”” cried her ladyship, angrily, and with another fine touch of the brogue. *A carringe be—" X Brown came very near saying some: ’hing pretty strong, then, but he didn’| ho stopped.” He happened to see an empty eab at that moment, and be hailed it as a Godl-send. 3 Into the cab Rosy MecCune and h bundle were hustled, and then Brown took a seat beside the driver and told him where to go, Well, they arrived; but Rosy -hadn’t ) beon in the house wore thau twenty min- | going; she weat, several weeks. Mrs, Brown dra the month, hotel instead. Later—I open A stranger happening to go to be the flul_\' of is on deck though, and Brown sa hinks will write out and send in his resignation, puy the girl what is due her, and with: w from her service about the fivst of As soon s he was gone—wh Rosy didn't stand upon the order of in m.fng s0 she wears a pair of rubber darling, as I have alre She's an ont-and-out Americ hired girl—the genuine article. Am!gllms Brown has been afflicted for And he also says thatif it ever be necessary for him to hire a girl will shut up shop and tal this manu that Rosy Mcl'une is gone. at lln;\v?'u h;me;: -day, and Mrs. Brown and Rosy both B e ko e {00k Kosy led to the doo the mansion. high-toned | firmly believe she must_have served apprenticeship England, or some ftor stifllation she astopished him by saying Brown, 1 find that yon have neither cocoa nor broma in the house." t,” Brown responded rocer Jackson!” aid before. for he 1 good 1sions, s in statements. holds a lucrative on is pa re not like the ibout it our- ured faet r, and Brown will make ingly, if necessary. second day at perm was lying at d, and “she she w lock in the nee | andmother, who really ¢ went about bled banshee until she had poor Mrs. Brown's nerves Youmight ing upon my imagination. One or two incidents more, and I will cut the narrative short and tie greement to , and further up, too; she mpany, ay, and—well, she . Brown up to d from the pulpit, and in less than two hours there wndal being gossiped around the neighborhood. Brown was looked upon as a brute d, lonely, melan- irited, ete., ete Well, now, she woman you had her full would have taken Rosy McCune by the back of her neck and” the slack—hold on, though; Rosy But anyhow, Mrs. Brown would have fired her out of doors 1 short order. SHORT ANIMAL STORIES, A Rockland (Maine) dog struck the trail of a Ledge-hog one day last week, and when hie returned home his owner pulled 600 quills out of the dog's nose | A buffalo herd at Stony | Mass., now consists of eighteen ) twenty-five cows and eighteen calves, 1t was started with one bull and four heifers, A Pennsylvania man h of 200 live rattlesnakes, e ¢ in the spring as they were dens. Some of them are size A New Orleans dog, it is said, never makes a mistake as to the recurrcnce of | Sunday, and nothing will induce him to Mountain, bulls a colleetion ghi them caving their of enormous leave the house or frolic on that day. e ends 1t in quiet meditation A big turtle was caught near Lincoln Parish, , and its head was cut off Liiree days later a chicken found the head and was picking at it, when the jws snapped, caught the chicken and Killed it outright Farner Underwood, of Rodman, N. Y., took a fine calf into Watertown in his on (o sell to the butehers. Just as he d the railroad notive came nd whistled shriily. The calf gave astart, tumbled, and dropped dead i the wagon, apparently ayimg ot fri Twosparrows attacked weat in Streator, | 1L, drawing blood from_its back with their stout tittle bil Ihe cat squalled and rolled on its bac the birds with its feathered bulldogs until she gave under a fence. A Louisiana paper <ays that Miss Nonie Walmsley, of Natchitoches, in a hunt on Bayou Picrre, killed two nine-foot alliga- tors in asingle day last week., One of the wounded monsters showed fight and de wrush for the boat, but the lady ined her coolness and shot him through the head before he reached it. An Arkansas farmer writes that last ar, when coons made havoe in his corn ticld, he went to the drug store to buy strychnine with which to kill them. By mistake the draggist gave hinnmorphine, and the next morning he fotnd his ticld full of sieeping coons. e advises the use of morphine mstead of strychnine. A chicken hatched near Unper Sandusky that had four) and four wings. The legs we together, but were separate and distinet, as w also the wings. The chick lived for several hours after being hateled out, and in fact walked about. It has been preserved in aicohol. Professor Treadwell, of M has proved that a half-grown daily devour more than once times its own weight in_caterpill d beeties. A young brood cannot liy n seventy or eighty worms a da pair of sparrows will ek to the nest 4,300 caterpillars or beetles. Merritt Kanoff, of Creston, Towa, re cently met with & novel though distress- ing accident. He w ine a pen- holder behind his car, and "as he threw his head to one side the holder fell to his shoulder, sticking in his shirt. As he straigbtened up the end of the holder en- it But the little right at puss away, and hud Paws kent up, ran chusetts, robin will wl a half tered-lis ear and punctured the drum, destroying the hearing. Two hunters from Minnesota, who spent the winter on the Atl caught and killed 100 hes and other animal furs by a spring come in with their spri included 132 heaver, 12 lynx which they have sold for s their loss, they think the hasen river, tall their ¢ just ateh, which nd one bear, 0. Barring - did very well, and will try it again nextfall. Dr.J. W. Edge recently purchased in Montezuma w pair of kittens that may be : curious. The ike those of an the cat ends , their hina looked upon us b heads and fore 4 ordinary house cat, but he and thé rabbit commenec legs and tails being those of rabbits They jump just as all rabbits do, anc there i1s nothing in their ions to sug- gest the cat except the mewin Amos E. Cobb, of Norwich, Conn., has a remarkable young cat. [tignores mic entirely. It will have nothing but red squirrels. It goes out mto the woods each morning and catches one red squirrel One_squirrel lasts for a whole me The hind-quart serve breakfast, the fore-quarte and the eat tapers sicking the hidg and | hard work to catc ping, and the cat real rel must go o long way. Dr. Allen, of New Maysville, Ind., has a wonderful dog. It is a I bluck- and-white Newfoundland. This faithfnl animal performs its daily work with the utmost promptness and regularity. This consists in keeping the kitchen wood-hox filled. At int Is through the day it will report to the kitchen and view the wood-box. Whenever the supyly of fuel is getting Jow he proceeds to the yard, Kk in his mouth for s for dinner, off her appetite by d for supper. It d squirrel nap- s that one squir- grabs a st nd takes it to the kitehen, repeating the operation till the box is I'x\l\dI n. It keeps a speeial look-out on wash-days, and other times when an unusual quantity of wood is being used, and never lets the hox get empty as long us ther supply in the yard, A western newspaper contains the fol- lowing: “Everybody in this camp knows Towser, the Mono mine Towser. The dog Towser rides up and down on the cages, throngh drifte and eross-cuts, and {_{m*% all over and through the mine per- laps oftener than any miner of them all. Yesterday a brilliant idea struck John O'Neill some others. and they s ited T into a back yard, wi lean to the skin as shed, and then car ;‘ully panned the muddy water to the very highest pereentage, and the entive dog od in fine gold #2317, as weighed es. When Mono assays 17 to the dog, she | uinly starting out on & boom, and we defy camp on the Pacitie const to L Py I on Soderling's s Four children of Mr. Re living near. Big Skookum, W tervitory, whey #oing home from school 0 back a little, Rosy hing. Of this the nurse Mrs. Brown told again now, thinks he ke vourd at a ript to add ;, which were surprised by n big tig sprang upon one of them, u six-year-old boy, who was walking in the r Iie animal threw the boy to the ground, seized him by the head, tearing the sealp in a frightful manner and mangling | faco. Another boy, -eight ycars old, bravely rushed to the rescue, ind, cateh ing the heast by the ear, beat him upon the head so furious!y with a large i; 188 bottle that he released his hold and ran to the brush, The alarm boing given, partics started out to_hunt the brute and brought him down. He was a full-zrown male, and measured hetween eight and uine feat in length. Ottawa Journal: On Saturday after- noon as the Hlinois Central special bear- ing the militin to the state encampment at Springlicld *dushed into LaSulle st tion, a large black dog, a fine-looking fellow, was noticed strolling slowly up and down the platform from the depot to the water tank on the north. A fat man with an umbrella nnulgm to drive him away, but he refused to go, scarccly deigning to notice his assailant or his | umbrella, Whether his master had de sorted him at t place and he was awaiting his return, or whether ho was some resident wostly weary of existence cannot be divined, but as the train sh by the water tank coming up to th depot, his dogship moved from the plat- form out upon the track and deliberately stood fucing the incoming locomotive till he was run down and gronnd to death by the merciless iron w s, He wus a noble-looking animal, but what, if au was the sorrow that weighed upon h heart and made life a burden and a bar ren ideality to him will never be kuown, a8 he made no explanation of s strang conduct, (rying to beat oft l National jack own it, W the bor gam rus mele word croy Y £row self v tered dic 19 ye: for hood inch hips only Of ave cor attir the li nd s tion led W W vital 3 look To could corse wid ¢ wear Zrow very muc *No. ne tle between us, could b Bill, sight! ong in great < you've struck “Oh, no! Oy the further end of the vi The speaker w: I look without Power's query i v hor live system felt the ef complish nothingz “Why do_you w the yital br The Melon Crop. Weekly “Yes,”" said the Kansas man, to an's ring group, as he heaved a Sx15 sigh, and « his eye across the street and into Tony Wine buiser's saloon, “Yes, the watcrmelon crop is pretty good m Kansas generally Last year they had quite a fair crop. I lived out in "Wallace county, which 4 counted ns the county in the state, and I have a of a foreboding that my ¢ v fail, It did fall & little short of the « ymary crop, but it beat iything you | wround here,” and he cast a contem us glance over the watern on pateh in a neighboring garden “Well, tell ns what of a crop you had, s0 we may judge whoether or mo your crops beat onrs or not,” emphatically asked the man with re e and trip of conrt plaster over hi teye “Well™ he continued wily was such an inferior erop to the custoniary one that it ain’t hard worth speakin’® of, but, anyhow, I planted a couple of dozen hills——" “On! that's no ' put in the black smith, from around the corner “Well, just hold on, stranger. Just wait tll T get throug! As | said, 1 planted a dozen mountain sweets from my crop. Now, you fellers here would put them in your garden, but that win't the way they do it out in Kansas, 1 planted them hills just one to the aere takin® just 24 acres of praivie seed " “That wuz o ty waste of sile, wasn't it?? enquired « gardener from the suburbs 2O, no! 1 found out afterwards that I should nave two aeres to the hill, Well, about the muddle of May them melons come up and began to grow, They didn't U ihout the middle of June, When on me an’ my ne est neighbor were havin® a littlo game of ok the drmks N ehit Kansas was proh-——-——r You e wo had o quart bot- nd it was standing pot, 0 to speak. Whenever we kit we'd tal rmk on our luck, and when we conldn't break e'ddrink to down ¢ sorrow. In we drank anyway. But to return to crop. As Lsaud, me and my neigh- were indulging in o ha ss little e of poker, when my brother-in-law 1 excitedly into the room and said turn out here qu Ihem m »out g S we were just ready to opc other jack-pot, we ted untii the opera- tion was performed, and went out, Judgze of onr surprise when we stepped out and looked I, to behold the watermelon vines just scooting ncross the country at the rate of twenty-five miles an hour, They were just sling e The young melons n hour er, you must think réen ‘crowd, don't you?” ntlemen, 1 give you my nd honor that this L 1, what tinally beeame of the ou know that melon rare near the root of tl i ado and othe conld tray ew the | ion in Topeka, and the n onhiseated by the lond e the Kansas wan had picked him- ip from the obscure place hehind , where the farmer from ad kic i, he mut- something about “southern prejn- and lonely wended his way to the ture, slons saloon aeross the way s Take Your Corset Of Dr. Mary A. Allen in Herald of Health: ©0, dex I don’t know what is the matter with mie. I am so tired all the time I ean't stand anything; 1can’t walk three blocks. I ha walgin every little while. I'm good for nothing ani’ yet there seems o be no disease #bout me. [ wish you'd tell me what ails me.” 1 about had intended her moof woman- than 6 feet 7 a be: Nature magnificent spe . She was not e s in height, but, with shoulders and broad in proportion, she measured 22 inches around the waist, cours ed that she did not ars old, s tight; but when told that in order to good health she must leave off her S she rebelled. *Why, liow would corsets” she' exclaimed; 0 fright” What reply ¢ made 1o $0 conyineing a But by the light of science her whole body was illuminated, and to the understanding vision she wals a per- fect fr s it was, I never see sucha figur am not reminded of Hiram ard to a fashionably “I wonder where she puts It enough to prove that the bre ety is actually lessencd by the eorset, even when not w ht. Any one who wishes to try the experi ment ean sit down and I to draw in the deepest N When mit of cc ce how v hed unelasp it Slasp ean be sop- ted by the action of the lungs alone, hen if yon bear in mind that these museles Baye heen weakened by non-use, and that with full liberty they” would in- or m strength, you will be able to i » how much the corset has lessened the vit ity, I Wi fine illustrae of Lupon this o few days since, when I Judy whose literary labors wonderful. She received me in a but loose dress, in which every v of the body had full piay. Slie | freedom, rojoiecd in her perfect physic She ran up and down stwirs with the lightness of a child, and felt no palpita- tion of heart or oppression of lungs Later in the day she dressed to go out upon the strect with me, and put on a corset, “Ido it in d wee to the opinion of my fricnds, plained, bey compluin if I outrage their senso of propricry by appearing without «n but 1 do penance al me I wear 1t We started off at he gk pae but in a very littic wh d 1o me: T ean't walk 50 fast covset on. Ican't breathe, y ' And to accommodate her diminished powers of breathing we slicked our pace, and soon she commenced to loo her choery laugh became less frequent, her e e ¢ un unxious look: her ened and her whole of it 1 could ac- at all,” said she, “if £ . were to wear a corset at my work."” 1 askeda young ludy to sing for me the other d With soine hesitation and Dlushe oxcused herself, o peying: all he obliged to deeling; the just brenking in a new cor- s it inirts me so L ean hardly live.” rit then:’ “0Ou! I'd 50 odd without a cor me she would ook fur for I e that hor health was fuiling, her cheeks paling, her nerves staryving for hof God's pure aiv, which set wis shutting out of her lungs, ¢ We girls arc always gl 4 Rl dras s long Broath a1 cht,’! one frank givl 16 me, “Wo don't them tights we can put our hauds up under them always; but it does m 80 good to get them and 1the jus g as we can.” - A Voice Sweet Only in Song. My of the u five cd his devoted indeed; his voice ig very harsh, He came into my oftice to-day (0 culleck w ol for Nis firm, and I don't think I ever d 4 Wore conion voice.,