Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 10, 1887, Page 4

o THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERME OF SUBSORTPTION : Vafly (Moeniaz Edition) including Sunday Br v For Bix Months M For Throo Months The Omaha Swiduy 13 address, One Yeas $10 M 120 20 , mailed to any OMATA Orprer, No. 014 AND @10 FARSAM STREF NEW YOR® OFFIce, ROOM 65, TRINUNE DU WABHINGTON OFFICE, NO. bii FoU CORRESPONDENCR: All communioations relating to news andedi torial matter should be addressod o the Eoi- TOR OF THE BE NUSINESS LETTERA? tors and remittances should be Addrossed to TR TRLISHING COMPANY, OMAna, Drafts, chocks and postoffice orders to be mude payable 10 the order of the compuny, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS. E. ROSEWATER, Enrron. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation, State of Nebraska, | County of Douglas, | * Geo, B, Tzschuck, seeretary of The Bee Publishing co does solemnly swear that the actual eire the Daily Bee for the week ending Dec. 51st, 1856, wus as follows Saturda Sunday. D Monday, Do Tuesday, Des Wednesda Thursday Friday, Dee. 88 Average. ribed and sworn to day of J y A.D., 185, . 'zschuek, being first duly sworn, deposes and says thiat he is scerotary of the Lee Publishing company, that the actual av- erage dally eirenlat ¥ 306 e month of January, 1856, was 1 for February, i, 10,505 copie or March, 537 ‘s 'for April, 1556, 12,101 555, 12,499 coples; for June, Jpics; for July, 1886, 12,514 coples | 1556, 12,464 copiesifor September, 30 _coples: for October, 1886, 12,080 coples: for November, 1885, 13,348 copies; for December, 15, copies, Gro. B, Tzscnvex, Sworn to and subseribed before me this 1st day of January A. D, 1857, [SEAL.| . Frar, Notary Public. 18 coples, setion will probably be short, sharp and decisive. Irisn leaders are watching the politieal current of events n England very elosely. When parliament opens next month the nationalists promise themselves stirring times at Lord Salishury’s exper Every county in the state containing more than (ifty thousand people ought to have a county auditor and a larger board of commissioners. Hero is an opportu- nity for the committee on counties to dis- tinguish themselves by securing a much needed reform, Oxana will have little inducement to assist railronds in purchasimg rights of way if all the property in this way trans- ferred to the railroads is to be exempted from city taxation. More than five millions of real estate in this city is already tax free. Tue last week of the senatorial can- opens with the opponcuts of General Van Wyck thoroughly demorahized. Euch following is reproaching the other with lnck of zoal against the common enemy. ‘The friends of Senator Van Wyck need frouble themselyes very little about the result. AN intercollegiate vention has been ealled by of the castern colleges. Yale, Har- vard and Princeton send no del gates. The young men of these an- cient and flourishing institutions evi- dantly consider the proposed meeting as gnother left-handed biow at a liberal cducation, con- some prohibition It was very pathetic to notice the dis- gust which settled over the faces of the Boyd-Miller emissarics at Lincoln after they had cireulated a little among the demceratic members and advanced their views npon the vote-in-the-air pol- fey. The theory was not reccived with the favor expected. Tue yanking and pulling of the vavi- ous senatorial candidates to eapture the Van Wyck following “when they have gov through with the old man™ is very entertaining. When General Van Wyck's following haye finished with the sena- tor’s interests they will be of no possible use to any other aspirant for the sena- torial brogans. Too careful consideration cannot be given by the Douglas delegation to the subject of charter amendent. The work of drafting the Omaha charter should be begun at once and the bill introduced as soon as practicable, Municipal reform will occupy the attention of the legisla- ture to a greater extent than usual dur- ing the present session and will excite an interest corresponding to the growth of the municipalities represented in both houses, Nebraska is becoming a state of prosperous and growing cities and it is inghly important that all legislation on subjects affecting munleipalities should be carefally deaftod and thoronghly dis- cussed with a view to future as well as to present requirements. —_— e fact that the Hon.S. S, Cox will succeed Mr, Hewitt as a member of the ways and means committee of the hous aceupying second place on the comm 4ee, which will give him precedence for the chairmanship when the committee is veorganized in the next house, will be gratifying to the trients of tariff reform. It is of course hardly to be expected that Mr. Cox will be enabled to accomplish anything at the present session. He has well defined views of what should be done, but.the duties that will devolve upon him #s a member of the ways and means committee are new to him, and Mr, Cox has becn long cnough in con- gress to understand that it is not wise even for an old member to assume too much in & divection in which he has not had practical experience and trial, Be- sides, while not an abnormally modest man, he will natarally feel indisvosed to do anything which might scem like a usurpation of the prerogatiye of the chairman of the committee. In the period before the meeting of the next congress, however, Mr, Cox will huve ample time in which to prepare himself and to formulate a policy that may com- mand the support of s party. It looks as if the genial congressman had reached the golden opportunity of his polical career, and there is no disposition to doubt his ability to make the most of But he will not escape the jealous i unce of Mr. Ran The Senate Committees, Asmight naturally have been expected from the peculiar combimation that or- ganized the senate, the make-up of ite committees has a decided railroad com- plexion. Mr. Colby, who dictated their composition, has had him. two charrmanships, He is chairman of the committees on judiciary - and labor. Every membor of the first committee yoted with the historic eighteen. The chairman of the railroad committee, Mr. Brown, of Clay, professes to favor rail- way regulation and restriction, but it re- mains to be seen whether that means a continnance of the bogus commission and existing methods or something that will meet the d nds of the public at least half way. The majority of the railroad committee, like Mr. Brown, are classed as friendly to tho nilroad interests. The committee on finance, ways and means, which controls appropriations, 1s fairly made up with Mr., Majors as chairman, In view of the fact that the committee will be relieved of revenue work by the new committeo on revenue its work ought to be more thorough and expeditious than has been the case in previons legislatures. ‘I'he committee on municipal affairs, of which Mr. Lininger 1s chairman, is conceded to be very eflicient. lts mombership repre- sents the princival cities ot Omaha, Lincoln, tings, Grand Island and Nebras| City. The de- liberate pery ty in the make up of many of the committees is as plain as the nose on a man's face. For instance, Senator Casper, who is the only printer and publisher in the sen: 13 made chairman of the committee on libravies, while Mr, Kent, who probably doesn’t know a hand press from a hand saw, is made chairman of the committee on printing. Colby as chairman of the committee on labor is almost an msult to the whole labor interests. Colby would have been a good head for the militin committee, but how he can come in asa champion of labor 1s problematie. The highly important committee on minee and minerals is generously given to Mr. Higgins, of Cass, while Mr. Sprick, a plain and honest farmer from Washing- ton county, is made chairman of the com- mittee on manufactures and commerce. Che two democrats who made up the majority for the self-styled stalwarts, were generously taken care of. Mr. Campbell becomes chairman of counties and county boundaries and Vandemark is assigned to that on state’s prison, Falsifying Sentiment. Boards of trade and freight bureaus all over the country are being used as tools of the railronds to pass resolutions against the inter-state commerce bill. In nine cases out of ten afew members, who have never read the law and kuow nothing of its probable workings, meet, resolve and adjourn after committing an entire business community in opposition to the measure. We had a taste of this m Omaha a few days ago when a freight i commissioner arrogated to himself the right to telegraph to Nebraska's delega- tion a bold-faced falsehood, declaring that a hundred members in mecting assembled protested against the long haul and pooling provisions of the bill, “This method of working up bogus pub- lic sentiment in favor of the railroads 1s being varied in the case of the stock job- bers who are bears on the market. These harpies are now attempting to dcpress Union Pacific stock by telegraphing throughout the country the wildest kind of stories regarding wholesale bribery and corruption at Washington in favor of the funding bill. There seems to be a concerted attempt led by Wall street sharks to break down the credit of the company and to injure its financial standing. While this paper s not in favor of the fund- ing Dbill, it is equally opposed to having its telegraph columns used as the medium for ng false prejudices against the company and branding its of- ficials as second editions of Oakes Ames and Jay Gould. The brood of rrespon- sible correspondents at Washington who are willing tools for the Wall street gang can do irreparable injury to men and or- ganizations if given the latitude they strive to secure in the public press. Jiach of these methods deserve censure, The men who falsify public sentiment in favor of the railroads are perhaps no worse than those who spread broadecast their attacks upon railroad manage- ments to breuk down thewr credit and prejudice the public to their disadvant- age. How Coal Consumers Are Taxed. ‘The equity suit of the stato of Pennsyl- vania against the coal combination and trunk line pool, now being heard in Phil- adelphia, is developing some interesting facts which are of general public interest. On Saturday the statistician of the com- bination was examined relative to the production and transportation of coal. He gave it as his opinion that the maxi- mum vearly capacity of the entire an- thracite region, if all the mine openings were worked, is about 45,000,000 tons. ‘The output agreed upon by the combina- tion for last year was less than 81,000,000 tous, which 1s somewhat under the esti- cd requirements of the trade, It will b seen, therefore, that there is a surplus capacity of at least 12,000,000 tons, and to sustain the producers of this surplu age the anthracite coal combination wa formed, each of the well-eqmipped ship- pers restricting his output to an average of less than four-fifths of his capaeity in order that the weaker wembers might be carried along. he consumers bear the penalty for this combination and restric- tion by paying an increased price for coal, ‘They pay for the monopoly of coal lands, on which the royalties have been raised by the six earrying companies to excessive figures, the royslty on anth cite conl being nearly four times as great as on bituminous coal, They pay also for the speculative holdings of the coal companies For instance, it is stated that the Reading railvoad corapany holds coal lands with a capacity for producing 60,000,000 tons of coal anvually, while its apportionment for last year was but one- fifth of this amount. ‘The policy pursued is to burden the consumer not only with the cost of each ton that is marketed, but with the interest that must be paid to re- tain a hold on the four-fifths that are not mined or markceted. Oune of the coal companies, it has been shown, paid two mullion dollars for coal lands that were not worth one-tenth of that sum, and the coal consumer is called on by the com- bination to bear that load, as. well as the burdensof all the fictitious valuations that were placed upon the coal launds | that the ingeny If appointed to | during the wild scramble of competing roads for tonnage. The methods of this greedy and un- gerupnlous combination take every form v ofay 1 sugest o conl earriers hold land to keep it ot of the reach of other earriers. Unable to develope it themselves they are deter- mined that so rival road shall obtain con- trol of that sourco of tonnage, this dog-in-the-manger sort of this specu lation the consumer must pay. Itisau- thoritatively stated that the Reading com pany lost fourteen million dollars in four years while organizing its coal and iron junct, and those losses were capital- d as part of the cost of the land, e coal consumer of course bears the burden of this and of similar watering of securi- tics,as well as the burden of »11 the bad in- vestments of the carriers. It is esti- mated that the total tax imposed coal consumers to sustain the coal combinations amounts to more than twenty million dollars a year, yet as a Philadelphia contemporary observes, “Railroad presidents and railroad attor- neys have the effrontery publicly to justify this imposition and to ask the coal con- sumer to pay the losses that should be borne by the holders of the sceurities of the coal companies Tlus policy of plunder, which robs not alone the consumers of coal, but the miners and all the labor of the count dependent upon manufacturing indus- tries in which t} ice of coal is an 1m- portant factor, must come to an end, It 18 & grave wrong that has become intol- erable and must not be permitted to con- tinue. Not only 1s1t ne y that the existing monopoly be broken up, but the way to similar combinations in the future must be eff blocked. If the state of Pennsylvania cannot accomplish this a power strong and honest enough to do 8o must be found elsewhere. The veople can and will protect themselves against the unjusv exactions of this form of mo- nopoly. upon Two railroad accidents last we ek call renewed attention to the danger of heat- ing coaches with stoyes. Fire 1s uow the great peril ot railroad travel and it is a peril which no degree of luxury in the finish and appointment of cars mitigates in the slightest degree. Enclosing the stoyes in grated closets does not remove the danger. If the caris wrecked, the fire is very certain to be communicated to the rumns. This peril has been illus- trated so frequently thatone would sup- pose that the companies would adopt other methods of heating, in their own intevests. As they do not take these measures for the safety of their passen- gers of their own accord, the law should compel them to do so. There can hardly be an excuse for a railroad disaster, now that men know all about. the manage- ment of steam, and have heen taught by experienco what dangers to guard against in the mechanical operation of the roads. A railroad in Connecticut has been heating its cars for four years by from the engine at low pressure is found to be mot only feasible and agreeable as a mode of heating, but also entirely safe. A rupture of the pipes would expose no one to scalding or any danger, but would simply fill the car with u washing-day vapor. Any acci- dent which breaks the connection with the engine of necessity cuts off the flow of steam. The system has reached gree of perfection which would justity the traveling public in appealing to the legislature to require the introduction upon all passenger cars of some wethod ot heating not exposing the occupants to constant danger of broiling and roasting alive. To-day, with the general preyail- ing modes of heating cars, no passenger 15 safe from this dreadful fate, WiETHER or not the fact that Ameri can securities have again become the staple speculation on the London stoc! exchange is o be regarded with favor by itimate investors in such sccurities isa question. The first and natural sug- gestion of the statement, as made in our London cablegram of yesterday, that such is the case, will be that the circumstance can have very little concern to any but the English speculators, who take the risks and must pay the penalties. But the experience of the past has been that while the English speculators were some- times made to sufler severely for their dabbling in American sceuritics, being gencrally outwitted by the shrowder and perhaps less scrupulous Yankee specu- lators, the legitimate investors in th securities at home did not always escape damage from the plots and counterplots of the stock gawblers in New York and London. The disastrous consequences of this speculation some years ago, when American securities were staple on the London stock exchange, are remensbered by a great many people who were the sufferers, Granting thatall speculation, pure and simple, is demoralizing in its influence and damaging to legitimate in- terests, it follows that the more extended it is the greater will be the demoraliza- tion and the damage. The improved po- sition ot American sceurities in London muay foreshndow another era of wild and reckless stock gambling such as that which eame after the war, History re. peats itself, and the English speculato of to-day may require a taste of the ex- perience of their predecessors. ONE of the most eloquent addre the Atlanta riking parts of the ot Mr. Grady, editor of Constitution, at the fore- fathers’ banquet in New York, was his statement in effect that the south had learned to regard the abolition of slavery as a boon and blessing. f from the material point of view the facts which show the progress of industrial development in the south abundantly prove. ‘I'he Charleston News and Courier bears testimony to the improved condi tion of South Carolina since the days of slavery, by a comparison of its condition in the r before the war with ther d for 18 Last year the total value ot the farm products was 44,100,501, which, despite the decline in values of late, is very nearly as much as the value in 1860, while the number of manufacturing es- tablishments has advanced during this period from 1,230 to 3,242, the capital in- vested more than trebled, the num- ber of hands employed has increased | more than five-fold, aud the value of the products now reaches very close to thirty million dollars, Adding to agri- cultural products the products of the different branches of manufacturing and the outputs of the mines and quarries, it is iated that the total income of the state is now fully 50 per cent larger than in ‘the most prosperous era of slavery. and for | Allowing for the increase in popul the average income of each per: already about as large as before th, and is growing larger every year. STATE AND TURRITORY, Neb The Belvides members. ernor Dawes’ “‘mautle of oblivion” is not a misfit, A brick hotel building, to cost $10,000, is going up at Randolph. The poles haye been set for a telephone line from Omaha to Ashland, Three burr mills and one patentrolies mill are in constant operation at Long Pine. The Papillion Times has been sold by Magney and Hawara to A. U, Hancock & brother, The city council of H through the dark pass way chartc ‘T'he Masonic frsternity of Fremont has invested in Iand on which to build acom modions lodge Crete is harvesting vast qnantities of ice from the Blue river and shipping it to surrounding towns, Pronger & Clarey's store in Crefe was raided by burglavs, Thursday night, and £200 worth of goods taken. The receipts of werel Plattsmouth depot in 1856 s, and shipments 1,008 car clson, of Batsora, Ord eounty, wir from his horse on the lonely x and frozen to death. ill Pavlor, a_preseription clerk in Laberty, shot a hole through his head while shifting his gun to lis hip pocket. A Central City paper modestly con- fesses that Omaha’s improvements for 1886 “slightly gets away with Central City. A proposition has been submitted to the people_ of Exeter to vole $20,000 1n bonds in aid of the Union Pacilic exten- sion. A burglar was caught in the act of loading himself with is™ in a gun store, in Wahoo, and tendered the frce- dom of the jail, The board of trade of Long Pine will issue a *‘hoom pamphlet” showing how the town holds a front pew as @ pro- gressive community, Weeping Water'’s business recor the past year shows the shipment of (8 of stock, grain, produce and mer chandise. The receipts were 400 ear loads. St. John, the apostle of prohibition as cticed in I i ating among Ius followers in tate, telling them how to throttle the “‘demon’ at §30 a aska. Jottings Reform club has cighty ingsis groping ot astreet rails ndise at the am to for 3 bs in Nuckolls county will decide next Friday, the question of granting aid for an exténsion of the Kan- sas Midland road, a branch of the Santa Fe system. The Liberty Gazotte ha Stephenson & Bioom to .S, Coulter, The latter makes his bow s gracefully ns pouitice of rheumatism, the heritage of the great, will permit. Tire tackled the railrond water tank in Crete last week, burned the plug in th bottom, and while the rWas running out, erept around to the sides and con- sumed the entire structure, The public land office at North Platte recerved in cash 3.42 during the | quarter of the year, A little oyer 24,000 acres of land were disposed of, i in Custer and Cheyenne counties, The mandate has gone forth, ing i been sold by rnalism in Crete for all coming ,like the blessing of the be iched in vain for a penny, it will never descend, One hundred new-fangled boxes be put in the Hasti sstofiice 'y with & combination > a safe. More than one hundred would be put in only it 1s feared that not more than that number ean keep straight long cnough to remember the combina- tion. The Papillion Times say: of surveyor line of “A party re at work setling another akes through Sarpy county. The route is from South Omaha to Gil- more, and thence ma southwesterly di- rection to Cedar Creek, in Cass coun railroad on this line is almost cer to be bwilt next season.’? The s of Builalo Bill in North Platte and vicinity are negotintmg for a car to take ty of forty to York to witness the Wild West show in Madison Gare The only question to settie is whether the party shall be composed of twenty men, their wives and moderate hilarity, or forty men and lots of fun, A prize dog fight in Pasiliion was con- fossedly ae aflair until the owners of anines began to chaw each other, ral mouthfulls of ear, nose and torn trewed the ring. The dogs eried t the ferocity of the human custodian of peace ssesed damages at - § per battered head, A contractor on the grade of the B. & M. south of Schuyler, stuffed the dump with hay, straw, cornstocks and weeds, and was tapping the pile with a sprin ling of carth when an oflicer of the road pounced on him with both feet. The stuf- fing was knocked out of that grade at once, the contract cancelled and the con- tractor bounced. The town council of Tecumseh has closed up saloons, causing a loss to the treasury of §2,100'a year. Lo equalize this great reform the salaries of school teachers have been reduced $5 a month. During the reign of the saloons one marshal and one policeman preseryed the peace and dignity of the town, but under the dispensation of boot leg light- ning a double force is required Lo pro- serve the law. Thisis a specimen of hindsight that tax payers are pondering oy The famous Duke Simpson, ex-treas- urer of Otoe, now rusticating in the penitentiary, closed his dukes on more of the public funds in his c: than his san- guine friends ever dreamed of. The e pert’s examination of the books show that his stealings amounted to $76,5 Duke was determined to pile up riches at any cost, The resultis he finds nimself in states prison, his wife with bowed head and blighted life, struggling und. a crushing weight of shame andsorrow, and the friends who backed him with their and means compelled to pay, from the fruit of their own toil, for his lity. What profiteth a man if he ains a large slice of the world by rob- bing his fricnds and lands in the peni- tentiary? lowa Items, The Dexter Normal school students. The new cost §24,871. The assessed valuation of Polk county is $17,205,300, ‘The police of Ottumwa run in 131 per- sons during December. The support of the poor cost Des Moines county $10,114.97 last year. There are 400,000 children in the state outside of the Sunday schools. A large and elegant Baptist church has been completed in Burlington. Keokuk had eighteen weddings and eighteen funerals during December. The new Presbyterian church at Ded- ham which cost’ $2,000 has been dedi- cated, The semi-annual statement shows there are $I8.B73.90 in cash and $200,015 in bonds in the state treasury, Candidates are multiplying for the va- cant position of licutenant cqlonel of the has 12! Baptist church at Burlington Third regiment of state mititia. Amateur warriors are drilling for the race. Tee choenhorn, proprietor of tho Atlantic rendering works, fell into a slush tub of boiling water on the 5th inst. and ll"m']nu«l inju from which he soon died. The town council of Creston have pro- vided two pens for stray cows, This is step in the write direction and may lead to the establishment of a bureau of “animal literature.” The r res of the hog disease have been very fatal in the vicinity of Aredadia. Earnest ‘Drabeim and . Ellers have h lost avout 100 head, while other far- mers in the vicinity are heavy losers. A pan of flour dashed on burning oil from an overturned lamp saved the resi- dence of of James McColio in_ Shenan- doah from destruction. Here to a flourishing business in with expedited fires The V sie I'armers’ club which holds nd around West Lil is one of the established institutions. Ong feature that has a tendency to make it more permanent and interesting is the fact that Indies freely attend and take ive part in the di ions., tev. Fred Harris, an Atlantic printer anda preac . has begun the publieation of a monthly paper called the Atlantic Methodist. “Mr, Harris does his own me- chanical work and can make an imp; glon with aroller as neatly as the aver smnerin a print shop. He sticks to his texts when the il” is around and hammer: lley as cloguently as he does the pulpit. Mr L. Becker, of Keokuk, has peti- tioned the ci uncil to reimburse him for the f his house by fire. The amount elaimed is $202.50. His petition reciles nogligence and mismanagment on the part of the ci fire deparment. The might of the fire the city water works mains were shut off for repa The fire cis full but the oniy machine at o d thoe fire alarm was a hose ully an hour later n steamer ppearance, when the house 1s consumed. He claims the fire de- partment was properly notified of the condition of the water mains, A lawsuit will probably be nstituted, and the result of the issue will be a matter of great in- terest, 3 Dakota. Pinafore has struck Lead City. The Sioux Falls postoflice took in £0,002.48 in 1836, The Iron Hill mine is now turr $1,000 a day. The Masons of Rapid City have de- cided to build a hall. An Episcopal church to to be built at Pembin, Lawrence county wart cighty cents on the dol Coal from the mines in McLeon county is selling at §1 a ton delivered, Liquor lice in Yankton county have been raised trom §220 to 00 a 3 cost nts are worth Eignt thousand railroad ties, ent on public lands, have been seized by the government inspector in Custer county It s figured out that the wheat growers of North Dakota, in spite of the high rates of transportation, have an adyin- uts a bushel over the farmers conts over Nebraska and 16 on account of the dif- land. of Iow cents ove ference in the pr Four ho bank, James Pier: John Marston, were captured in the Tur- tle mountains last week and itis reported two were lynched. The others made their eseape durinz the nig > men have been stealing horses in the Missouri lley for a number of ye i ned that before Wolbmk m were lynched they confc N stolen r 100 hor and killing a farmer inmed Oleson, who lived on ti bank of the Missour: river five year. —— Mark Twain's Lost Tdea, Pittshurg L ateh: Mark Twain says that the funnicst thing he ever wrote me to an untimely end and was lost to the world., It in the carly western days, when he was a reporter on the Chronicle of Virginia City, N In those days, when the salvon was the so- cial centre of town, and the opening of cach new one a matter of gencral inter- est, it was the custom for the proprictor of anew venture in liquid refreshments to send a basket of his' cho the newspaper oflice, and for the cditor the compliment by gving a unt of th t of unusually choice wines woon that was 10 be of an un- v aristoeratic order inspired Mark nt idea. He wrote a few lines in straight good English, but the next began 1o be pretty badly mixed, and as he represented one bottle after another 18 having been sampled, approved and empticd, he drifted on into worse and worse confusion, until he finally brought up in an inextricable tangle - of incohereney, such us might be supposed to possess the brain of a man who had drank a basket of mixed wine. But when the paper came out he rehed it over and over - vain for his cherished article It was not there. But he did find a brief paragraph, sett forth n the most commonplice, eonyentional way imaginable the }:u t a basket of wines had been received from Mr. that they were very fine, and that “we bespeak Tor him the liberal patronago he deserves,” With fire in his eye and pro- fanity on his lips, Mark started on an - vestigation, and” soon settled the blame upon the head of one of the printers, Vhy," said the fellow, “I couldn't ke head nor tml out of the eopy, snd concluued Mr. Clemens mnst have been ty full when he wrote it. I heard the eitor say last week that if he got full again he'd discharge him, and I thought if that stuff’ got into the he'd have to go sure. So Itore it up wrote this myself, Just u.uugml'J 5 his place for himif 1 could.” Before this honest nd, who for his welfure had pot left a picee of his prize article as big s & nickel, Mark could say no more. But he conld not reproduce it. It had been the swift and brifliant inspiration of the moment, and was completely gone, But he mourned Jong over the fate of what he always be- lieyed to be his most brilliant production. The South American journals say his Majesty Dom Pedro was recently mueh amused, on landing at San P by being received by an Italian genticman with a_ bhand-organ, who played the national air. The emperor listencd with gravity to the musician, and then asked him in French to play “L'Air pour I'talie.” The musician did not know it, but proposed to play the Brazlian ar over again. And the emperor listened to the repetition with apparent del The Ching cisco has now though 1t starte with only si Ve zenl - » public school in San fran thirty-eight pupils, al- o year and 8 It 5 under the ch Miss Thayer, who finds the youn lial very bright in rning ki the common branches. Her i8 to enforee silence; the like to chatter in Chinese sons. Three of the pupils wear the Chinese costitme, two weeks' hohday & Year. - The coast of Norway is sinking ually, while that of Sweden is energ more and more and the Balte se coming shallower, Land marks made on the Swedish eaast by the celebrated nat- alist Liuneus, at the beginning of the nth eentury, show that this up heaval raises that coast about four feet i the course of 1 y. - Merchants Hotel, Omuba, Prop. § perday. Cor. 15 All streot cars [rom depot puss bouse. re wivls wd all take o Chinese New Nat Brown ad Furnaw | bushy beyond the ordinavy lupine type, SERF-SKETCHES OF SIBERIA, How the Political Prisoners and Criminals of Russia are Punished, RICH INVOLUNTARY EMIGRANTS, The Vast Army of Exiles—Weary March of 4,000 Miles—Details of the Journey—Good Guards and Bad, For nearly two centur Siberia has been famous, or infamous—writes Thomas W. Knox in the Cleveland Leader--as a place of banishment for those who offend against the social or political ws of Russia. Peter the Great began the trans: portation of criminals to Siberia in 1710; previous to that date the country had been used as a land of banishment for oflicials whom the government wished to get out of the way without putting them 10 death, but the number of thesa depor. ted individuals was not large or sinec Peter’s day the work of exiling erimin to Siberia has been kept up; the ordinary travel of this sortis about 10,000 annu- ally, and sometimes it reaches as high 12,000 or 18,000. Outside of this deports tion is t of reyolutionists, nihilists and others who offend politieally rather than crimnaily, though any opposition to the auntocratie power of the ezar is likely to be regarded as eriminal inthe eyes of the Russian government. After every revo- lution in Poland the number of exiles is ravidly augmented; m the year following the revolt of 1863, 24,000 Poles were sent to Siberia, and for two or three y. afterwards ,there were from 10,000 to 20,000 u nhappy lovers of independence who traveled the sume route. Sometimes the volitical prisoners mingled with the eriminals, but ordin ily they are kept apart, In former times the prisonors were compelled to walk to their destinations, and the jour- ney fsom St. Petersburg to the regions beyond Lake Baikal, a distance of nearly 4,000 miles, oceupied two years and sometimes more, and many of the exiles died on the road from fatigue and priva- tions.” It was found more economical to transport _the offenders m wagons or sleighs, or by rail and steamboat when possible, than to require th to walk, and for the last twenty or more five-sixths of the exiles h: n carried in this w At points yarying from ten to twenty miles apart along the great rond through Siberia there are houses for the lodgment of prisonc night; they aflord a shelter from tne weather but very little else, as they are always badly ventilated and very dirty, and occupants sleep on the bare tloor or' benches, with- out any other covering than the clothes the r. Sometimes in summer ofticer in charge of a convoy of prisoner: will permit them to sleep out of doors at night mstead of entering the filthy sta- but in such a_case’ he requires the onal promise of every exile in the that he will make no attemipt to further makes the whole ble for individual con- duet. Under h cirenmstances if one of the prisoners should vio! Bis patrol and run away, no furthe wvors would be shown to the rest, and they would be put on low rations of food and otherwise punished. 1t is needless to say they take good eare that the promise is kept,” This privilege is accorded only “to the convoys of political offenders; the eriminal clas are not considered worthy of such confi- denee in their honor, Prison life m Siberia is of many va- es, aceording to the offenses of dif- ferent individuals and the sentences which have been decreed in their eases. ‘The lowest sentence is to simple banish- ment for three years, and the high hard bor for life. The simple ex without imprisonment is appointed live in a certain town, district or prov- mee, and must report to the police at stated intervals. He may engage in ¢ n specitied oceupations, or rather any oceupation which is not on the pro- hibited list; for example, he may teach music or p: i but may not teach Jangu: s wfford the opportu- propagating revolutionary ides ¢ become merch: Aer, contractor, or anything else of and it nof infreqiiently happens s onjoy n degree of prosverity in their new lomes that they did uot have in European Russi Jixiles and their sons have become millionaires in Sibera; aformer V of Irkouts, the capital of Eastern Siberia, was the son of an exile serf; his enormous fortune having been gained in the overland tea trad y exiles become 5o attached to Siberia that they remain there after their term of banishment is ended, but it should be understood that their en re the exceptions rather than the rule he wife and immature children of an exile may follow or accompany him at the ex- pense of the government, but eannot r turn to Burope until his term of servi has expired, The object of e furnish a populution to this sparsely in- habited region, and it goes without say- ing that a family man is much more likely to be a good citizen when his wife and “children are with him than when they are thousands of miles away. The name of *‘prisoner” or “exile” is never applied to the banished individunals. In the language of the people they -are called “unfortunates” and in oflicial d uments they are termed “involuntary emigrants,” O1 those sentenced to forced labor some are ordercd to become colonists; they are furnished with the tools and materials for building a house on a plot of ground allot to them, und for three years ean receive rations from the near- Cst government station, but when the three years have expived they are e pected” to support themselves, If they were sent to the southern and therefore fertile parts of Siberia, their lot would not be a severe one, but 1he most of these colonists are assigned (o the northern regions, where the sup- port of hife from tilling the soil or from ul tishing is”n matter of great Those who are kept in prison and senteneed to hard labor are em- ployed 10 mines, mills, foundries, or on the” public rowds; many of them wear chains which extend from a givdle around the waist to each ankle, and ef. tectually pre o the possibility of run- ning away, Their life is a hard one, their food is rse and offen limited in | quantity; it is bad enough under kind. hearted overseers and superintend s, ana terribie when the m are cruel, which happens altogether too oiten, In the time of the first Alexander and the Emperor Nicholas, the treatent of the ra in Siberia was more severe than sent, but even to-day there is great opportunity for amelioration, TOSpONS The Coyore and His Haunts, From the ** Hound of the Plains," by Ingersoil, in Popular Sience y for yanuary: A picture of the | t plains is not complote without n coyote or two, huirying furtively through the dist The coyote is a wolf-a wolf abont thirds size of that one which hauuts fo ages of story- books. Ho has a long, lcan body; legs s trifle short, but sinuewy and active: head more foxy than wollish, for the nose is long aud pointed; the yellow eyes are set in spectaele-frames of black eyelids, and th anging, tan-trimmed y be erected, @yving a well-merited air of elertness to their wearer; o tail—straight as @ pointer's—also fox-like. for it is dust.gathering coat of dingy white sufs fused with tawny brown, or often do- cidedly brindled. “A sl HY;\ in the stubble, a ghost by the wall, Now leaping, now limping, now risking & fally T'op-eared and large-jointed, but ever alway A thoroughly vagabond outcast in gray.” Such is the coyote—genus loci of the plaing; an Ishmaelite of the desert; a con- sort of rattlesnake and vuiture; the tyrant of his inferiorss juckal to tha puma; a bushwhacker upon the flanks ot the buflalo armies; the pariah of his own race, and despised by mankind. Withal, he maintams himself and his tribe in- creases; he outstrips animais flecter than himself; he foils those of far greater strongth; he excels all his rivals in cune nin nd intelligence; he furnishes to tho Indian not only a breed of domestic dogs, but in many canine races ranks as earlis est progenitor; he becomes the center of myths, and finally is apotheosized Our coyote is a true westerner, and typilies the independence, the unres strained gayoty and brisk zeal which en ters into the heart of him who sights the rocky mountains, e is little known at present eastward of real bunch-grass plains, In early days, however, he wes common enough in the open country of Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, and north, ward, hence he reived the nam pivie-wolf.” Threading the pass he wanders among the foot hills of ail the complieated mountain system_that forms the ‘“‘erest of tho continent,” ahd dwells plentifully in California valloys, of Municipal ¢ From “Misgovernment — of Cities,”" by Frank P, Cr Science Monthly for «January: Notwiths standing their fmportant relation to all ig significant or influential in na- tional lite and history, it is nevertheless true that there has never been developed anything, which even by courtesy, could be called a science of municipal govern- ment. Indecd, it is only within these latest years that the fact that there could be a science has ever been suggestoed, But the pressure has been constantly rrowing — ma and more 1mperious, lonstrosities which are the legit- im frait of the hap-liaz ard stem, or rather lack of system, which characterizes the government of many cities, evils of administration and burdens of ation that had become al- most unendurable; the astonnding frauds which have been brought to light within the last few in New York and Phil- adelphia, and the usurpation of power by demagogues through the aid of tho most degraded elements of socicty, have at last forced an inquiry as to what form of municipal government will mosk efliciently correet present abuses and ro- duce to the minimum the opportunities for harm to the body politic. Men begin to” ask whether municipal authority may not be 80 orgunizec and admimstered that it shall promote and pro- tect the mterests of both the corporation and the individual; whether the evils to which I have alluded, and others equally apparent and subversiye of the ends of good government, are inherent in our municipal system or only incident there: to. And some eflort has been mado to ascertain the principals which underlic legitimate municipal authority and tho most eGicient means of making the ap- plieation of these principles practical at deal has been accom- plished by ‘this study. The problem is complicated and many sidod. Its solu- tion depends on careful and extended observation, and on the concurrent action of wise, patient, self sacrificing, and public spirited citizéns, In this study the conclusions of purely theoretical volitical economists, and of those men whose thought and experience have been limited to special aspects of the subject, are alke unsafe and misleading; the first, because political communities never afford the proper conditions for the ap- plication of abstract principles, and the second, beeause the entire machinery of government so nterdependent and complicatea that successful modifica- tions of any special department imply corresponding changes in all the nsso- iated agencies. But whatever diflicul- embarrass the subjeet, we have ongratulation in the fact m is being studied, and not altogether studied in vain, Problem pvernment., Great m, in Popular the A Bargain, <152 feet S, E. cor, Donglas and 8th C. E. Mayne, 5th and Harney. Real Bsiate Filed January 7, ansfers reported for etalto J 8 Woodburn ct ango place, w d--$700, A ange to !Caroline Lange, lof bl 196, Omaha, w d—§10,000, Adolph Brown and wife to Joln Killen, lot 10, bik **D,” Lowes 1st add, w d—$500, Jolm Tideman to Jon Wuerth, n 22 1t of Jots 1 and 2, blk 2, Campbell’s add, excent 10 it off of w end, w'd—8$1050 and deilication. West Farnam street asso (bullding), to Edyyard Fairchild, lot 39, blk 6, w d $730, West Farnam St Building asso to Nels 11, Nelson, lot 35, blk 6, Jerome iark, w d-- omer et al.to T W Blackburn, 3 Fowler place, w d—$200, RNugh MeCafirey and wite to T W Black- burn, n 48 ft of 250 ft, lot 8, blk 8, J I Redicl sub, W d—$250. Norman A Kubn to Geo B Christie, lots 10 and 11 in sub of bl “A” reservoir add, w d—S$1000, Byron Liced, et al to John Tidemann, lot 5, 8w 3 blk 2 Camphells add, w d—$1,400, Jolin ‘Lidemann to Morris Morrison s 66 1t of lot 1-2blk 2 Campbeil’s add, w d—82,250. L Glallou and wite to C il Paul, lot 13, blk 4, Ambler place, w d—8100, W E Hawley, et al to Gerard € Renewa, lot 4, blk 3 Exchange place, w d—$700. W'E Drury, et al to § 'I" Benewa, lot 6, bllc 7 Plainview udd, w d—$750, 4D Hode to gynes A" Tiawloy, lot 0, bl 8 Hanscom placé ) c—§1. Hillike (Mrs 'L)) to the public plat ot Hilike, being 521 aeres i 51513 dedieation, Byron Resd ol Kottel, lot 4, blk 3, Cam add, w d--5450, A 11 Brizes, ot al, th Henry I 2hlk “K'7 Saunders and Himbas w 5650, W L Belby, et al, to H W S lot 10, bik 4, Itush and Omaha—w d—§4 Chas C tHousel and wife to Joseph Nevill, 017 {tof 850 fLot ot &, blk 35 Omaha, w d s 11 add, ulding, et al, iby's add to Barkley, lot 100, Trust Co to Kdward Waslington square, 1,700, Nelson et al to 11 1° Miller e 22 1t 1ot 8, 2itol s 9 1t Jovs, blk i, subof J. L S vy w il 31100 Ise 11 Nelson (o 1 Jerome park, wd 3 M Fairield 1o Eleazer blk 6, Jerome park, w d—§1,500, Adolph Kline anil - wi lots 16and 17, bk 2, 1 ¢ Selby d-gi2 ) Gue to Wi A 11, Meyer, I 5450, Alpha 0. Pearson to Edwin € cetions 14, 115, w1811, 10 Henry A K ot al to Masgie Carroll, , blk 8, Koster's ad, w de-$100, h Barker and wife to O I A Hageling 5, Gise s add, wd--870, iu 1 Hungate trustee 1o Win 1 B . ot 16, blk 6, Bedford place, w d--850 W AL Gibbon and wife o § 1, Wilkie, lots 20 and 30, Harlem Lane, w d—§450. A L Gibbon and wife o S A K Janes, lots 42 and 43 Uarlem Lane, w d-—$/75 and ¢ 2 s add, W ardiner et al, lot 9, bik ards & Tilden's add, wd §ey, parts of Atten n. Special meeting of the lity of 5t. 1 (Mondiy) evenin sharp in the hail, 4 Young Men's 15 cathedral this January 10th, at%7:40 h and Howard -~ Buy a Pew Of those rgant lots in ALBRIGHT'S CHOICE aud double your monsy before spring, Albright 15 1uking lots of money for lots of people who purel and & shiggy, large maned, wind-ruilod, from him. Only u ! oney requir 10 buy u lot