Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 19, 1886, Page 4

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Mot water and less mud sums up the demands of the council on the water company. 1LE the eable line is not expending money on track just at “resent, the yers are preparing to show them where several thousand dollars can be planted at considerable advantage to the legal fraternity. ik Inter-state cxposition will attract large erowds to Omaha. The managers are working night and day to complete all details before the opening. Nebraska is confidently promised an exposition greater than any in her history aha can’t brag much on her base ball club, but she banks heavily on her Tarners. If there were any prizes which the club failed to bring home with them, they were left bec the Omaha “Purners had more than they could com- fortably carry I'he council at its last meeting ordered the board of public works to readvertise for bids for the basement of the ety hall, This is business. The moment work begins on the city building a half a dozen other important structures will be promptly begun on upper Farnam street. COLORED men propose to 000 to erect monuments at Washington to the benefactors of their race. If the colored men will call upon the G monument association of New York they will secure anumber of interesting points about how not to do it. e Nemaha trickster is once more playing his old game of gulling the gran- gers. Butitis about played out. The lature satisfied the most be- fogged farmer friend of the man who gold out the state grange while grand master of that o on that he is a dangerous v Tua wily schemer, Church Howe, is boasting that he has some of Rosewater’s strongest friends in Omaha pledged to work for his nomination. Without know- ing to whom he refers, we yenture to a sert that before the Bee finishes its ex- posures of that corrupt charlatan it will take a trip-hammer to weld the pledges together. AccorDING to the Chicago Herald, among the products of Shasto county, ©Cal., now on exhibition in San Francisco, sre growing corn stalks fourteen feet high. Pooh, that’s nothing. The Bek xeceived four corn stalks the other day grown west of the 100th meradian in Ne- braska which measured that number of feet and hadn't half done growing 1n the great American desert, I cannot be too strongly impres: upon the merchants ot Omuha that di eonnection by rail with the Elkhorn val- ley isbecoming daily the great commer- cial need of this metropolis, Western Nebraska three years ago shook off the ehains which bound her apart from the tido of immigration and enterprise, and to-day stands side by side with the South Platte country at an mviting field for teade and commerce. Other cities now dominate her trade, Omaha must be placed in a position to bid for her share Ir building inspection is to be only skin deep it will be an expensive luxury If it is to mean u thorough inspection of plans and of buildings in course of erec tion, and a rigid enforcement of the spirit of the law, it will be the cheapest amnicipal experiment Omaha has tried in years. Vencered fire-traps have no business on our business streets. It is not possible at present to prevent their eonstruction outside of the contracted boundaries of the fire limits. But within those limits they should be made impos- gible. We have already too many shells of this kind in Omaha, with walls a brick gnd o half thick, and with interiors a “forest of kindling wood. Such structures are dangerous to their occupants. They see still more dangerous to their neigh- bors. The city has an interest as well as individual property owners in such mat- ters, It is to proteet that interest that _ he building inspegtion ordinance was ~assed. Why They Howl. The contortions of the e railrogue organs of both p over General Van Wyck's manifesto are paintul to witness, They all natur wrove of the semator's audaci | move. It was novel and unprecedentc On this account they denounce it ridiculous,”” in spite of the fact, k to all, that it ken in strict accord e \stitutional enactment passed to brin senator 1n closer ¢ itors of the ical brands as Wi and & m of a nhec of the precisely Van Wycek, mon mas | tion with e expre m But this is what gang of | who Senator At the dictation of their ter The last move in the polit game which they wish s one that will ery check to the of railroad attorneys in the and corporation lobbyists in the joint session. The further the sena torial election is removed from the poll where honest ballots record the popular choice, the better for the of the political pimps and cor rupt ereatures who have undertaken the contract of defeating Charles H. Van Wytk at Lincoln next winter. This is why they howl nator Wyck, in his manifesto, commits his to the citizens of Nebraska, whom he has represented for more than five years at Washington, ably, honestly, and fear- lessly. He calls for the verdiet of the political reign, the people, whose sentiments legislative ropresentatives are supposed to voice. Confident of his standing with the citizens of his state, he extends the record of his service for their criticism as the claim upon which he bases his request for a re-election The editol harpies and political pirates are alarmed and dismayed at this bold and aggressive move. They know that & popular expression regarding Van Wyek's election means death to their schemes for compassing his defeat. “They fear nothing so much as anuprising of the honest producers of Nebraska, voiced through the ballots, demanding of members of the legislaturo that they shall nominate and clect the peoples’ choice. Pledges can be dodged, and platforms explained away, but an over- whelming majority of the votes-of a great politieal party will have a binding force on representatives which none but the most corrupt and venal would dare to evade. will the poputar sy do not desire to see. al made ntluence conyent ing place Van S0V The Council and the Water Works. The waterworks comunittee of the council reports that the water company is not complying with the contract re quirements. The committee notes that over a large part of the higher portions of the city where mains are laid, the ser- yice ig p cally useless, and in other parts entirely so. The commnttee calls attention to the muddiness of the water and recommends an increase in the num- ber of settling basins and the addition of asecond pipe between the pumps and the settling reservoir. The failure of the waterworks com- pany to live up to the terms of the con- tract has been notorious for many months past. The rapid growth of the city and the immense inerease in the consumption of water have made demands on its re- sources which the company has not been able to meet. On this account there fias been no disposition on the part of our people to push the company, espe- cially as it was an open secret that ad- ditional capital would be secured, and that sweeping changes in the system, which wonld remedy the worst defeets were under contemplation. Now that the funds are on hand and castern capital is enlisted to extend the works there shculd be no further dilly-dallying in complying fully with the contrac The contract calls for pressure by gravitation from a reservoir. Omaha emphatically refused a dircet pressure system of water supply, and the present company received its contract on the expresscondition that the ¢ should be furnished with water from a reservoir. As a matter of fact, we haye suffered from all the evils of di- rect pressure. A single main on been laid from the pumps to the res voir for storage while the city has been furnished directly from the pumps. Muddy water, high plumbing bills, bursting pipes and steady bills for repairs have been the consequences on the flats, while on the hills the service in many instances has been practically worthless. In calling for another main to the reservoir, the council demands pressure by gravitation. Water cannot be pumped up and distributed down through the same vipe. Thi: what the water company with its single main has pretended to do. An increase n the number of settling basins is alsor de- manded. Half of Omaha is now using filters to muke the water drinkable. Many of our citizens decline to use the water at all on account of the large amount of mud which 1t holds in solution. When the consump tion of water exceeds by two millions of gallons a day the capacity of the settling basins it can readily be seen that there is very little time given for the mud to fall to the bottom, The changes asked for by the council are likely to be made promptly under the new water management. On this ac- count our citizens are to be congratulated upon the chavge which brings three- quarters of a million more capital to the concern. The Irish Convention, The convention of the Irish National League, which assembled in Chieago yes- terday morning, will undoubtedly com- wand more strongly than did any pre- vious conyention of the league the atten- tion and interest of Irishmen. It will also be closely watched by all who sym- pathize with the cause it represents, in this country and in Ircland, and as well by Enghshmen, particularly those of the dominant party in England. How great the concern is regarding what may be the spirit and result of its deliberations is shown in the attention which the Lon- don p has already given the matter in advance of the meeting of the con- vention, testifying that the voice of the Irishmen of America, supported as it is in all wise and proper directions by the sentiment of the whole people of this country, possesses a force and character which even the governing class in Eng- laud canaot choose but recogmize. Coming after the defeat of the home rule policy in one of the greatest po litical contests ever fought in any coun- try, the present eonverition has an ex: tional siguificance in respeet of the in- fluence which it may exert for good or | THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, AUGUST 19. 1886, npon the immediate future of the Trish cause, which there is every reason to believe will at no very remote day bo again submitted to the verdict of the peo- ple of Great Britain. If the delibera results of the convention are characterized by a wise and vated apprehension of the situation and its demands, the moral influence will be cat—not alone in strengthening the nope, the zeal and the patience of Irish men, but in winning to their cause new erents, If they the cffect must be an injury to the cause and opor to retard its and delay its Itis that the majority of representative tions and broad ele- d are not, ate advane mbil entirely safe to assume Irist | men who compose the convention fully is reason to be enough of intelh- patriotism in the deliberations There is and derstand this, lieve that there gence, prudence body to guide its ereotly and shape its results wisely. But there is evidently a demand for great and vigilance on the part of the more judicious clement in the conven tion I'here are factions that threaten discord, and there are thoughtless men who if permitted to do so would commit the league to principles and policies in which there is danger. It will be the task of the wiser men to quict and satisfy the former and to retuse opportunity to the latter. The events that took place pre liminary to the convention have shown low urgent is the necessity for this Thery been alveady too much reck less and incendiary counsel from men ot whom wiser things might have been justly exvected—counsol that is not in line with the policy of the Irish leaders at home, which misrepresents and does injustiee to the prineiples for which Irish- men are contending, and which can have no other tendency than to influence pas sions and intensify hatreds to the detri- ment of the cause. Doctrines of violence and revenge aro not the sort of argument which will se- cure the independence of Ireland. Brave preaching of rebellion at this safo dis- tance carries with it no hope of liberty to the Irish people who stand face to face with one of the most formidable powers of the earth, d Michael Davitt, with a touch both of satire and pathos, “‘to establish an Irish republic 3,000 miles away from Ircland by patriotic speakers, 1 assure you it is no casy task, thongh, to do so in dear old Ireland.” The counsel of this sturdy pa- triot, who knows what 1t 18 to sacrifice and to suffer for his country, contains no word or thought of revenge, and yet no living man has better right to desire it. ‘I would rather be patient in endurance,” said Mr. Davitt, “by suffering insults in doing what I have been doing all my life —working for Lrish national self-govern- ment—than to gratify the national prompting of the Irish heart to hav venge for what Ireland sufli the past.”” The representative Irishmen of Awerica assembled at Chicago will do well to be guided by the wisdom,acquired by bitter experience, the patriotism and the faith of Michael Davitt. Thus will they strongthen tie hearts and hopes of their countrymen in Ircland and their cause to the considerate attention and respect of the world, dis; care commend Rapid Railway Building. The United States is now constructing from four to five thousand miles of new railroad a year. We have now more than a mile of road to every 500 of population. A few years ago it was a common s o that it required 1,000 people to support one mile of railroad. The opinion has been changed since the ability of western {a r double rates has been taken into consideration by railway man- agers. In 1830 the first mile of railroad was constructed, and at the end of that year there were only twenty-three miles in operation. Ten years later therc were nearly 8,000 miles of railroad in the United States, and this was incrased to about !!,0?50 miles. When the war broke out, there were abont 80,- 000 miles in operation. From 1850 to 1865 little railroad construction was at- tempted. After the war construction reached high water mark. In 1871 we had 60,000 miles of road. At present there are 125,000 miles of railroad in ope- ration. A recent railroad manager in com- menting on these figures remarked: “Railroad bulding n the United States will go steadily on, but it is a problem as to whether, at the present rate of build- ing, the development of the country will make the railroads profitable, The ques- tion whether 500 people will support a mile of railroad is not yet solved, I think “there will be eventually more parallel lines running east and west of the Mississippi. Ralroad building runs by queer laws. In going through a country it s first found that one great line will do all the business, then another line is built perhaps several hundred miles away from this, and as the country becomes more thickly settled, another line is built between these. At first four or eight hundred miles, for instance, lie between the parallel roads, then two hundred miles on each side is found to be enongh to support a railrond, and finally as the country becomes settled, one hundred miles contains enough people and re- sources to build a third road between other parallel lines, and at last fifty miles, The danger is in building faster than the population warrants, and in too largely discounting future egrowth.” Too many railroads meuan high rates and pools to maintain the competitors, Cut-throat competition in such cases is certain to react upon the interests of the vatrons of the roads. —_— Axoriter evidence of Mr. Cleveland gift of prevarication is furnished in th removal of the register of wills of the Distriet of Columbia, which was made k., Mr. Ramsdell, who held the position five years, was formerly one of the best known newspaper correspond- ents in the country. He was appointed by President Garfield, the signing of his commission being the last ofticial act of the murdered executive. Ramsdell was sapable and eflicient officer and not an nsive partisan in the sense in which the president used that designation. In an interview Mr. Ramsdell states—and Lis statement is entitled to confidence— that a few days before the adjournment of col ss the president sent for Mr, Ingalls, who is chairman of the district committee, to talk over local affairs, and in the course of the conversation, refer- ring to the office of register of wills, the president declared that he saw no reason to make & change and leftit to be under- ofl stood that none woald bt made. This in formation was conveyed to Mr. Rams dell, and naturaily gitve him o fooling of security, besides being 'gratifying as an assurance that his eflicient and faithful performance of duty wis recognized by | the president | conversation, howcver, Ramsdell | eeived notice of his removal, the presi | dent having repudiared | ances to Senator Ingh both his assur s aud his eivil sor- | ¥ice professions. T facts carry their | e e CERTAIN democratic among them Messrs are still ¢ congressmen, Morrison and Hol 1 with the work of the although the changes made in them at the beginning : of the late session were effected in ac pee with the views of these gentle men. It was well understood that the purpose of these ch: s was to put check upon Mr, Randall, who as chair- man of the appropriations committee had the power to obstruct or rotard the busi ness of the house at will. It is remem bered that Randall indignantly protested against tho proposed changes,which only had the effect of strengthening the de- termination of those who ed to re duce the power of the Pennsylvanian The modified rales did not, however, have the desived effect as shown by the history of last session. Mr. Randall played his favorite game of holding back appro- priation bills even more successfully than before, the failure of the fortitieation bill being due chiefly to Randall's dilatory pohey. It isnow proposed to restore the old rule requiring approprition bills to be reported within a specified period,and there is promise of another interesting hght over this subject. man ssutistic | ing house rules deos AND now Senator Van Wyck’s chal- lenge is denounced by such exponents of simon-pure republicanism as the Om Republican, us an appeal for democratie votes. This is truly terrible. The re- publican constitutional convention prob ably never thought of the possibility of demoerats endorsing a republican sena- tor when they drafted that proviso which permits the people to express their pref- ence on the senatorial issue. If they had, they would of course have unanimously refused to pass it. ‘Fhe only place where straight republicans of the bushwhacking brand do not object to bourbou backing is in the logi Oty Gas I CTOR GILB! that the gas company is failing to com- ply with its contract with the city, An inspection of seventy-one gas burners showed o deficiency: of 20 per cent in fifty-five of the number, 4 loss of light amounting to $0 per yeat on each lamp. With slow burners, paring down con- sumption paid for by the year, and fast meters running up the bills settled for by the foot, the city gas cowpany seems to have solved the ehtire probiem of making money out of all classes in the community —— PROMI PERSO Goorge W. Peck, of Milwaukee, is writing a history of the war, G nma Thursby ‘is at Ems, drinking Mile. Van Zandt, now prostrate with par- alysis, is ill and near deathi . fehy, Hubert O. Thompson’s bill at the Hoffman house in New York averaged $37,000 a year. adstone dresses shabbily, but Lord Salis- bury is considered the worst dressed man in Lonaon. Senator Gorman always wearsa nutmey nung by a cord about his neck to ward off neuralgia, ¥ Mis. Mackay ularly accept hel Mme, Bonanz ‘The three daughters of the late . A. Drexel have nearly $4,000,000 each. They give away most of the income, M, De¢ Lesseps charms the French ladies s snakes charm birds] and no fewer than 16,000 women have put money into his Pan- ama canal scheme. Instead of going, as usual, to Bedford ex-Secretary & ameron is this tour of the various water- places, Last week he was at Long ch renewing memories of twenty-five ago, when he first went there. nator Jones, of Florida, who answered to roll-call in Detroit during the entire session of congress, drew his salary with notable regularity, collecting it the fourth day of every month through a Detroit bank. He still draws it, although he declares, it is saud, that he will never return either to the senate orto the state from which he was sent to the senate, He refuses to resign and has opened a law office in Detroit. et He Knew It Was Loaded. New York Times, General Keifer withdraws from the contest with General Kennedy for a nomination to congress with the modesty and sagacity of Captain Scott’s coon. AR Pigeonholed. St. Paul Pioneer Press, All the Vermont counties have now in- dorsed Senator Edmunds for election, and the Smith and other ambitious booms have been pigeonholed tor the present. - A Timely Hint. 2 St. Louis Republican, The days are approaching when the good citizens will stay away from the primaries and then wonder at the prevalence of the bummer element in the nominations. R Fixing New York, St. Paul Pioncer Press, Joe Howard, who generally writes from accurate knowledge, says ihere is not the slightest doubt that Olaveland selected Ma- gone for the collectorship because of his superior ability as a maniputator of the po- litical machine, It is believed in New York that now all *‘good” democrats will be taken care of. ! s known to many who reg- hospltality abroad only as ing LA Church Howe awan Antidote, Chicaga Neas. It pains us to observe that she Hon, Church Howe is threatened to! brenk ont again in Nebraska politics. An ali-wise Providence designed Mr. Howeas anantidotes it is noted that there has been no Yellow fever in the south since he went to Alabama and Missis- sippl In 1854 to fix things for Blaine. Mr. Howe should be content to rest on his repu- tation as an autidote. MRS ‘Why Morton Was Knocked Out, Chicago A citizen from Omaba tells us that there ean be no truth in the story that the Hon. J. Sterling Morton is to be appointed minister to Austria. He says that shortly after P’res dent Cleveland’s inanguration Secretary Bay- ard was asked to make a 1ist of the foreign appointments he desired; that Mr. Bayard drew up this list and handéd it to the pres dent for approval. The president, as is his wont, asked Colonel Lamont to go over the list with him. When the Austrian mission was reached it was found that Mr. Bayard had selected J. Sterling Morton for that honor. President Cleveland knew™ nothing of Morton, and Lie was golug 10 pass the nom- | tnation. | 1t is a faction, Within ten days after this | But Colonel Lamont said: “You eannot afford to recognize Morton; ho repre sents a faction in Nebraska democracy, and 0o, which assumed & ques tionable attitude at the Chicago convention, and maintainea 1t duorlng the subsequent campaign.” This pointer fed the president to investigate Morton’s record. and the in vestigation resulted in the erasure of Mot ton’s name from the list of possibilitie The Nest. R.J vt Oh, swaying nest, by summor winds Like rustic eenser lightly swung. How slight the tie that lightly binds Thy welght the swinir Zhs among : A tiny h e, soft “The emerald cornices of fluttering leaves, Soft bird notes broad above thy sl Warm nestled ‘neath a downy And twinkling stars their vigils ke Above the callow birdling's rest Bifght flowers below, blue summer above Surround the swinging nest with peace and love, 1 bend above with loving eyes To pecp into the downy fome, And witha ery of real surprise Set oft._across the fields to roam Whioo—Whoop! There are, as near as can be guessed, Four hundred thousand hornets in that nest. —— STATE AND TERRITORY Nebraskn Jottings. The Platte river bridge of the Elkhorn Valley road is completed. I'he old settlers of Dakota county swapped yarns of the carly days and re: newed old acquaintances at a picnie last Saturday. One of the three boys who escaped rom the Glenwood asylum for the feeble led, was captured in Plattsmouth Suturday and sent home. Blaine county boasts of sod corn twelve t high and ears twelve inches long. The stalks will bo preserved for torch handles for the campaign of 1888, The young town of Rayenna, on the B, M. extension, thirty miles northwest of Grand Island, aiready boasts ot a paper, the News, published by Clayburg Bros. Frank Warren borrowed a_team from a livery stable in Hastings Friday night and disappeared with the vig. The liv man offers a reward of 150 for a five minute interview with V on. “Fow years in the history of No braska, s the Ulysses Dispateh, “has en us better small grain or more of it n this, Wheat, oats, flax and rye are all good.” Weoan stub’ along with less potatoes and corn than heretofore, though the corn crop is just now loom! ingup grandly. Nebraska beats ‘em all when 1t comes to farming.” Plattsmouth is jealous of the ba glory harvested by Hastings and Line and threatens to pick up a serub nin invade Omaha, We give it out in confi- dence that the remnants of the Union Pacities will ba protected from further deadly assaults at any cost of blood and treasure. Should the "Plattsmouthe . tempt an_invasion they will be side tracked at Port Givson and feasted on the balmy breezes of the fertilizer. Sterling Morton _attended the 3 anquet m London, July a speoch in n-symm- to a toast he ‘‘congratulated the lord on the friendly relations which between his countr Ates. cy of state nounced dynamiters, and he was treaty was being prepared by which crimes against humanity might be fer- reted out in the uttermost puarts of the earth, (Hear, hear.)” A correspondent at McCook has un- ed a “foul murder” in a cornfield six f J. F. Helm, an in- dustrious farmer, discovered evidence of nightly raids on' nis corntield. Armed with o pitchfork and two dogs he lad in wait for the pesky sneak or sneaks. The “yarmint” soon approached, and the dogs pounced upon him. Mr. Helm charged with the pitchfork and rammed the tines through his heart, The coon was buried on the spot, existed United had de- glud a Iowa Items. Lightning struck . Peter Catholic church at Keokuk, da to the amount of $3,000. The Mississippi is so low that the saw- mills at Dubuque have been compelled to shut down for want of power. A wild man created considerable ex- citement in the neighborhood of Ashton Inst week, scaring women and children, but fleeing at the approach of a man. The big copper wire which the West- ern Union is stringing between Chicago and Omaha has reached Davenport. It will be used for through business between the two cities. Lidon comes to the front with a eitizen that is the father of thirty-one children, thirty living. He can at any time, with: out going ontside the family, organize camp meeting or hold a prim Phillips’ coal mine, two miles north of Ottumwar caught fire one evening lu veck in the shaft, and everything within was burncd—store, bl mith shop and scales were a total loss. The workmen barely escaped with their lives. One day last week an 18 months old child of James Tallen, of Adams town- ship, Mahaska county, fell into a well twenty-eight feet to the water. A gen- tleman named John Lochray heard the splash as the child struck the water, and at once slid down the pump stock and rescued the little one just as it was about to sing for the last time. s Roman nging it Dakota. A $3,500 Episcopal ehurch is soon to be builtat Huron. The whole output of the Iron Hill mine has been 210,678 ounces. The advance guard of the Salvation army is camped in Yankton. 5 Principals of the great tin importing houses of New York are investigating the tin/mines of the Black Hills, One man in Edmunds county, with one machine, last week cut 140 acres of wheat in sixty-five consecutive hours. He stopped only to change horses, eating his meals while at work. Henry Kihel, of Deadwood, was shot through the "head and dangerously in- jured on the 14th inst. by a twelve-year old boy- named Isaac Forest, who was at the time engaged in lzmrfint shootin, with a revolver, and a wild shot iu1|iulufi the wound. The ten United States land offices in Dakota did the tollowing busine; July: The total number of new filings was 3,420, an increase of 548 over M and the total of final proofs was 9: increase of 191, One hundred and seven of these final proofs were made on tim- ber claims. Th duly filed on dur- ing June was 543,923 acres, and that ac- quired by final proof, 141,762 acres, The total number of new filings during the first six months of 1886 was 13,163, and of final proofs, 4,027. The area newly taken during the same period was 1,601 - 801 acres, snd of land acquired by final proof, 574,073 acres. Chicago Herald, At length the ef ns of Chicago have had a judicial ruling on the subject of ‘Rats;" In none of the municipal ordi- s is the utterance of that exclama- tion set down as a misdemeanor, but the custom has grown, and custom is some- times stronger than stututes, of regarding it a8 & declaration of war. Given a policeman, a citizen, and *“Rats ! and immediately dust, clubs, feet and arms fly. During times of public disturbance, ‘when it is the de- sire of law-abiding citizens to upbold the police, no disposition to test the **Rats 1" uestion in the ecourts has been mani- ested, but now that & scason of great it has been in a court of jus tice and a ruling has been had Mrs, Motris, of Chicago, has a small flowar garden and lives in the same tene ment that Officer Healoy ocoupies when he is at home. Having a hose, she wa in the habit of sprinkling her plants as the spirit moved her, regardless of the dinance in which it is made and pro vided that such use of the city's water shall be unlawful hetween the hours of 7 a.m.and 6 p. m. The officer noticed the infraction of the law and ealled Mrs. Morris’ attention to it, but she simply plied that the little water she wanted wouldn't hurt anybody. After two or three syeh warnings. Healey found hor wgain sprinkling hor plants “at midday and this time in a solemn and authorita tive manner ordered her o stop on pain of arrest. Up to this point both ti officer and the woman had been civil enough, and such disagreement as existed between them was of that ordinary na turg which is likely to arise at any time between neighbors, but the threat of ar- rest changed the whole aspect of affuirs. s soon as the oflicer had announced his pury Mrs. Morris turned the hose on at full power, glared at him with ferocious ey and in eply yelled “Rats!! at sottled it. Two scconds later there was an indeseribable mixture of Oflicer Heatey, the hose, the club,Mrs Morris, the plants, a pait of comoalongs, patrol wagons, and the neigh bors, one of whom, a woman, was hit on the head, It was a lively engagement but it only lasted a few seconds Th wagons rolled away to the station, and when the prisoners were igzned before the judge they were dismissed. Then it came their turn, The two women had the officer arrested forassault he did not fail to plead the dietment, he was found guilty $10in one case and §3 in another. his scems to give the sanction of the high court of Justice Lyon to the theory thit a woman may “Rats!” without laying horself linbl en when she is feloniously using the city's water. Tf the police department 18 not prepared to have the very bulwarks of social order upset it will carry this ease to the su preme court of the United States bofore submitting to such a ruling. On “Rats!" hang ali the law and the coppers. — RULES FOR TWO. [etce 18 on the oty yrought up Sauce for the Dilapidated Passenger and Likewise the Conductor. New Yo mes: A diladidated look- mg gentleman boarded a Broadway ear at Chambers street yesterday afteruoon and stood on the platform with a much worn and evidently abused cigar stump between his lips. The dapper- looking Nttle conductor glanced somes what contemptuously at the dilapidated looking gentleman’s frayed oliye-green coat, his trousc en the light of botte mita- tion ruby which, if o sein- tillated in Vietor crown. con ductor said nothing until the dilapidated gentlemun took a vigorous pufl’ from the stump, and opening his mouth blow volley of smoke, the stale fumes of which penctrated into the ear and caused a meek little lady to cough and look indignunt, “ king, A the o smoking, I sny.” ted-looking gentleman gazed with imbecile wrath at the con ductor. But he pulled the cigar stamp from his lips, held it between his weather- beaten, wa wered fingers, o the rail of the ecar, smiling thoughts. Unward went the e picked up two passengors only on its v 1o Bleecker street, and at t i celerated its pace. The dil S tleman musingly put the cigar stump be- tween his lips and allowed it to remain thel 1t was there for five minutes. “No smoking, I said,” angrily rked the conductor ut last, “Who's smoking?” asked dated man “real, might h % conductor re- m the dilapi- “I'mnot.”’ The dilapidated gentle- man took the stump from his lips and showed it to the conductor. Lt was un- lighted 1 don't care,” quoth the conductor awagely. “Don’c look as though you W moking, Throw it away.” ‘The dilapidated gentleman compli with this request. He jerked the cigar tump into the mi(h}lc of tha street, and t one last, long, lingering look after it. By this time every passenger save one had left the car. The conductor was He wiped his brow. Then he le back upon the railing, pulled a crumple newspaper from his poci nd surrep- titiou dit. the dilapidated gentleman y. “It’s against the rules. You can’t attend to your duty yon are reading. Put that paper a look could have withered the dilapidated gentleman, he had been in- stantly thus aflected. The conductor grew crimson with indignation, But le Bt awag the nowspaper nd snid ne'er & "here still only one passen- ger in the ear. The vehicle jolted onward until it re irty-third street. Not aword was uttered by anyone. The s0 monotonous that the dilapic gentleman looked about him for amusement. Presently the conductor again pulled the newspaper from his pocket and laid it before his face, evi- dently to keep a scorching ray of sunlight from burr is flesh. *‘Conductor,” sad the d tieman, “'I said no reading.”’ *I'm not reading,” retorted the con- ductor, with & menacing look. ‘“You are.” “Lam not"—furiously. The condue- tor pointed to the paper which was up- side down. “I don’t care,” said the dilapidated entleman wrathfully; “don't look as h you were reading. Give it to The dilapidated gentleman leaned for- ward, tore the sheet from the conductor's hands, ang, before that injured be could recover from his surprise rter of a mile down Thirty-seventh stre e Sl o) When_all so-called remedies fail, Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy cures, g His Style Ohanged With His Wife. Paris Gaulois: A Paris journalist got ma some threc months ago A few days after the ceremony he met w friend. “Well,'" asked the Vatter, “what think you of your new position?’ “My friend, I am perfectly intoxicated. When I work my wife is always at my side, and we embrace at every para. graph. Great heaven, yes, at every para graph! ¢ “Ah?! replied his friend, smiling, “that accounts for your style being somewhat disjointed lately.” I'his conyersation was repeated, and the journalist's articles were henceforth consulted by his intimate friends us a kind of matrimonial thermometer. For about six weeks the articles were characterized by sen ses even shorter than those of the late de Girardin, and the ladies of the journalist's acquaint ance were rapidly growing jealous of the’ bride Then they became longer, the were comstructed more in the style, and the paragraps were spun ot greater length, The honcymoon evidently nearing its termination, Tie other day Mme. X., o opeiing the \d glancing at the article bearing journalistic friend's name, made & med, “‘there is Poor little woman! will soon want a separation.” o St. Jacobs Oil—Red Star Cough Cure. 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