Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 18, 1887, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SURSORIPTION Daily MoeniagFdition) Includis Brg, One ) enr For 8ix Months For Threa Months The Omaha Swndny e, maiied widress, Une Year. . .. -Imth o 10 500 250 200 OWATIA OFFICE, No. 014 A AN STREFY. Krw VORK O Toin RO DING, WASHINGTON OFFICE, NO. 515 FOURTEENTH STREET, to any CORRESPONDENCE! All communieations relating to ness torial matter should bo addressed 1o the 701 OF and el Eut RUSINRES LETTRRSE AN bueiness lette pittances ehould be addressed to Tng I BLISHING COMPANY, OMAHA. Drafts, cheoks and p fice ¢ o be made payable 10 (he order of the THE BEE POBLISHING COMPAXY, PROPRIETORS, F. ROSEWATER, F \pany, HITOR. THE DAILY BED, Sworn Statement of Circulation. State of Nebraskn, |, o County of Douglas, | % % Geo, B, Tzschiick, secretary of The Bes Publishing comp: does solemnly swear that the actual eirculation of the Daily Bee for the week ending Jan. 1ith, 1557, wus a8 follows: Baturday, Jan, Sundav. J Monda Tuesd Thursday, Jan. Friday, Jan, 14, . 108 GEo. B TZ8CHUCK, Subscribed and sworn to before me this 10th day of January A, D., 1557, N. P, FEIL., SEAL Notary Publie. Geo. B, Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he Is secretary of the Bee Publishing company, that the actual av- erage duily eirculatisn” of the Daily Bee for the month of January, 188, was 10,578 coples, for Fubruary, 18%, 10,505 copies; for March, 188, 11,597 copies; 'for April,’ 189, 12,100 copies: for May, 1558, 12,439 copies; for Jun 1856, 12,208 copics; for Jily, 184, 12,314 cople: for Auzust, 1856, 12,464 copies:for Sentember, 1886, 18,050 copies: for Octol copies: for November, 1856, 13 December, 1856, 13,257 copies, GEo. B, Tzsenver. Sworn to and subseribed before me this 1st day of January A. 1. 1857, EAL N. P. Fi Average.... THERE is genuine pathos in the appeals of the democratic railrond organ for straight democracy and McShane. Itis the cry of the dying swan JonN FirzGeraLp is the latest tub which the frantic anti-Van Wyckers pro- poseto throw in front of the democratic whale. It is sightly, but not interesting enough to serve the purpose. THreATs and coercion will be wasted on democratic legislators pledged to vote in accordance with the nstructions of their constituencies. They fear a home reckoning more than the vengance of a venal newspape time for appeals is now past the BEE notifies the members of the legisluture that their various constituen- cies will keep a watchful eye upon the balloting and the names recorded for and against Charles H. Van Wyek. CoN GALLAGHER, who is having him- self interviewed s a profane northern Nebi democrat by the Lincoln cor- respondents, is a strong anti-administ tion democrat. His influence among his party in the legislature 1s not yet percept- 1ble to the unaided vision. has not strengthened himsclf politically by his vicious attack on the Catholic church. Thousands of Mr. George's supporters in New York when called upon to choose between Henry George and their church will have no hesitancy in accepting the issue. THE attempts of the Herald to bulldoze democratic members of the legislature into firing blank cartridges during the senatorial fight is supremely absurd, coming from such a source. In two other campaigns the Heralil and its editor were moving heaven and earth to force democrats to vote for the railroad repub- lican candidates, Tue discussion of a sufe method of heating railroad cars, and the zeal with which the inventive talent of the country 18 applying itself to the production of such a method that will be at once practi- cable and not too costly, ought to have the desired result. The railroad com- missioners of New York recommend that cars be heated from furnaces suspended under and outside the car, asis now done on some roads. They are of the opinion that this isa better method than any de- pending upon stcam from the locomo- tive, but they will seek one still better 3han the outside furnace plan, which imight not in all circumstances prove to be absolutely secure, P — SR ANDREW CLARKE, formerly in- spector general of fortilications for the queen, does not think it would be wise for the United States to expend any such amount of money as has been talked of for coast de- fenses. He says a perfect system of de- fense can be created with one-fourth the proposed expenditure. Sir Andrew is now experimenting with a mechanieal device by which a gun can be loaded and fired by electricity, the gun being kept below ground until ready to be fired, with the gunner a mile away. Itis hap- pily suggested that with a lot of thes long runge guns along the coast, capable of sinking an ironclad ten miles out at gea, and with the gunner a mile in the in- terior of the country, the horrors of war would be reduced, on one side at least. G AL HAZzEN'S death was sudden and entirely unexpected, It removes another prominent actor in the war of the re- bellion, the commander of the Fiftcenth army corps and the hero of Fort Me- Allister. At the same time it removes from the scene of action an oflicer who, for the last ten ycars, has scomed to possess the unhappy faculty of creating more antagonisms in and out of scrvice than any other soldier of his rank on the wages of the Register. General Hazen was a brave and eflicient officer. His sorvi during the war between the states will always give him a place the military annals of our history. Me was gallant, possessed of sound military judgment, was energetic and prompt to respond to every call of duty, It 18 un- fortunate that the present generation will estimate his worth more by the, re- cord of the last decade, which was filled with personal quarrels, contentions with the public and the press and rivalries and controversies with various officers in the army than by his unquestioned services 40 his country in her time of need. The Opening of the Battle, The cenatorial battle opens to day. All the runistering of .the foreces and skir- mishing for postion of the past two wecks have been merely preliminary to the great contost which is to decide be- tween the claims of the various candi dates for the Van Wy ccession. The first showing of strength will be made at 12 0’clock to-day, wh the members of ch ast their ballots for sen or and adj>urn until the joint conven tion of Wednesday. With the Wednes ng the fight will open in house day’s ballc dead earnc The peopl earnestly desire tion of Senator who have recorded thei an overwhelming majority of popular votes and who have sent to Lincoln enough men pledged to his candidacy to secure his election, need have no fears of the result. For tw all the schiemes of cajolery and corrupt bargain- ing have been directed gainst General Van followi without avail. His and termined phalanx of supporters re unbroken. The line is tirmly drawn and the citadel of popular confidence im preg- nable. The men who are whistling the loudest in the railroad ranks admit that they lead a forlorn hope, and that their discordant music is a des- perate resort to keep up their own cour- age. They aro torn by personal jeal- ougies among themselves and stand ready to assist in the victory of the com- won enemy rather than to see ibieir rivals succeed. On the other hand the Van Wyck forces are rallying around the standard of fidelity to their acred pledges and obedience to the wishes of the voters who elected them to oflice to voice their will on the senatorial issue, There 1s no question as to the result. A few days will d aches and headaches of disgruntled candidates by the clection of General Van Wyck as his 0Wn guceessor., of N who re elee- Wyek, by Jraska 80 the Van preference successively Wyck's strong The Democratic Minority. Democratic preference for 8 or Van Wyck is based on the general axiom that second best is better than none at all. A large number of honorable demo- cratic members who would vote solidly for a party nominee if the democrats were in the majority boldly announce their intention of casting their votes for General Van Wyck as th second cho Many democrats went before their constituencies on this very issue, and were elected to the legislature on solemn pledges to carry their promises into effect. That they will do so there is no reason to doubt. There is nothing in party ty or the dictates of ordi- nary political common sense to prevent them from acting as men of honor, and as citizens who have the welfare of the state at heart. The democratic minority at Lincoln have brains enough to know that there is no possible chance for the election of a democratic candidate for the scnate. They feel that the only effeetive and manly part they can play in the struggle lies in assisting to se- lect the best candidate among those pre- senting themselves from the republican side. As citizens of Nebraska represent- inza large element of her population, interested in maintaining the principles for which General Van Wyck has fought and struggled for years, they decline to bo passive onlookers while the battle is in progress and they will refuse to fire blank cartridges while the ene- mies of the people are massing to defea the popular verdict and the will of the producers of Nebraska. Ina freeanda representative government the minori- ties of to-day are often the majorities of to-morrow. The highest and most im- portant function of a minority is the power which they possess, not of mero obstruction, but of shaping legislation and of making themselves felt us efli- cient factors in political events. The dem- ocrats at Lincoln cannot of themselves elect o democratic senator. They cannot elect a republican senator. But they can and th will assist materially in compelling republicans to return to the nutional senate the choice of an over- whelming majority of the people of Ne- praska without regard to party, the man who for six years against bitter opposi- tion and discouragements has held up the banner of economic reform and popular sovereignty as against the corporate tax shirkers and jobbers, and who to-day after manly canvass among his constituents appeals to them for an endorsement of his fidelity to the trust which they have reposed in him as their chosen represen- tative. Transfer the Signal Service. The opportunity for the transferring of the signal service from the war depart- ment to some other branch of the govern- ment has come in the death of General Hazen, Hazen’s versonality and influ- ence hus dominated the weather bureau for years and prevented the carrying out of the plan for its amalgamation with the interior department. Such an ides has been often suggested, and as frequently urged by General Sheridan and others. As now conducted there is nothing in common bgtween the military and the weather observers, The employes are civilians by taste and appointment en- gaged in purely scientific work and with no sympathy or rational connection with the army organization, General Hazen's death removes the most important obstacle. Every move to work the changZe was met by the difficulty of providing for the head of the bureau. As a brigadier general he was entitled to the rank and pay of s oflice. He was a peg fitted for a particular hole, ‘The destruction of the hole would have made it necessary to pension him off for a number of years before he would have been subject for retirement and would have aroused the opposition of the large and influential coterie of perzonal friends which Hazen had succeeded in gathering around him. There would be general approbation of a bill to transfer the weather bureau to the interior department and to regrade its employes according to the salaries they now draw, giving them the same chances for promotion which are now enjoyed in the other departments of the govern ment. Such a change would result in better work for a great deal less money ana would do away with the constant bickerings and squabbles whick have dis- graced the signal service during the past five yeurs. Wira Irish landlords seeking the work houses because they have no money to feed themsclyes with, “the plan of cam- paign” of Mr, Dillon seems to be complishing something n Ireland. fow of such instances will probs vince the landlords that home land purchase are pref disorder and no rents A Lesson in Arbite e principle of arbitration, as means of settling between em pers and employes, has not yet bad a and thorough trial in this country. character of the principle is of course well understood by everybody of ordinary intelligence, there still something to be learned regarding the best method of applying it. We cannot, inall respects, follow the systems that have boen cssful in England and clsewhere, for the obvious reason that there is a different class of people here to deal with, or rather onr people hold diffe ws from those of pe and are ned by different influenc Probably t o te resnlts of arbitra- tion, or attempts at arbitration, in this country, would not make an entirely favorable showing for the principle, but it has still had somo notable succ which warrant the belief that ultimately it will be of general application, and that failure will be the exception 1t is not wholly to learn that the creation of a state board of arbi- tration in New York has not been fruitful of good results as was kopea for, but the experience affords a lesson in the applieation of the principle that may be profitable. The board was ereated as a sort of appellate court which to hear and pass upon iss up from local bodies constituted volun- 1 agreement of the - ) s been wholly tive, not a single case contem- by the law ing gone to the board. The explanation is found in the fact that parties to a dispute that requires arbitration for scttlement are found in too many instances so far apart, so full of feeling, and so hostile, that they will not, of their own motion, come together and choose members of a loeal tribunal to whose judgment they will be willing to submit. On the other hand the wor ing of the board in reverse order, without the laww and clothed with only the pres- tige of huving been created by the state for purposes of arbitration, has accom- plished much, The services of the board, whether called or tendered, have i all and by all partics been reccived with courtesy and consideration, and where accepted the decisions ve been respected. The invariable disposition has been to allow mat to go dircetly to the stute board for arbitration, rather than to a board of local selection. [t is believed that the existence of the board has had a good moral cflect in restrain- ing dispositions on the one hand to exact too much of employes, and on the other to strike without justifying cause against employers, The conclusion of the board from its experience is that it should be empow- ered to both mediate and arbitrate, with original jurisdiction and action in all ases of grievances or disputes between employers and employed, so as to be able to initinte means of scttlement. It could thus bring {o bear directly upon this class of controversies the sovereign au- thority of the state, which either party to the dispute would ordinarily be will- ing to submit their cause toand would re- spect. The suggestion is that it is neces- sary to the suceessful application of this primeiple that it'shall be asfree as possible from complicating and dilatory methods, and espeeially from all red-tape con- ditions. ‘I'he most direet and expeditions way in which labor issues ean be settled, having a due regard for the rights of both parties to them,is the desirable way. Undoubtedly the experience of the New York board of arbitration may be safely aceented for the guidance of other states in which legislation on this subject may be contemplated, and in time most of the states may find a simi- lar provision expedient able to d stes encouraging 50 Instructive Prison I'acts. The question of prison labor will finally be determined by the practical resalts of the several methods advocated for the employment of convicts, Granting that public sentiment will never tolerate a policy maintaining prisoners in idleness, which has its advocates, for the reasons tnat such a policy would impose an un- just burden on taxpayers, would be an Injury to the prisoners themselves, and would be inimical to the interests of the state and of society, all facts showing the results of the operation of the different systems of employment are interesting as contributing to an ultimate solution of this very important question. Last year 1he legislature of New York passed an act providing for the abandon- mentof the contract system and the in- stitution of the state account or piece- price system. The report of the prison superintendent, submitted at the open- ing of the present session of the legisia- ture, does not present a satisfactory showing of the operation of the new ar- rangement. At two of the prisons, those of Sing Sing and Chnton, there were e 1sting contracts at the time of the enact- ment of the law which continued through the year, keeping the prisoners busily employed. The joint earnings of these two institutions in excess of expenses amounted to a lit- tle more than $84,000, At Auburn, however, which was not un der contract, about 500 prisoners were kept idle during the greater part of tue year, and tiis prison cost the state a fraction over $80,000 in excess of what it was able 1o earn, thus nearly wiping out the sur. plus earnings of the other two prisons. The comparative moral and physical re- sulds, also, are interesting. T'he superin- tendent says it is an undoubted fact that conviets in idleness deteriorate mentally, morally and physically, and suffer far more than they would under their sen- tences to hard lubor. He urges that con- finement in idleness 1s, practically, a “eruel and unusual” punishment. It is a striking fact that while Sing Sing and Clinton prisons, where the conviets were kept busy, furnished together but twenty insune persons, Auburn, where the pris- oners were kept in idl supplied forty-three. Such & showing most em- phutically demonstrates the ue of work as a moral agency to persons in penal confinciment, and it 1s not diflicult ve the assurance of the prison superintendent that if the situation of the past year is not remedied future conse quences will be still more serious. The explanation of the situation at Aubura is in the failure of the legislature to provide the means and appliances nee- sary to give employment to the prison- ers. Under the state account system the state of course supplicsits own plant, and this the New York legislature did not provide for 1t may do €o at the present session in order that an additional 1, men shall not be kept in idleness after the expiration of contracts on the first of next March, But it s most natarally suggested whoether under a system trolled by the state there present the ¢ legislat fail to make adequate provision for the cmployment of prisoners, either by rea- son of indifference, as appears to have been the case a year ago, or under the influence of a clamor hostile to the eor ployment of prison labor under any ci cumstances. The report does not sp cially advocate any one system, thou the superintendent seems to think more ly of either the contract or the price method than of the state ac it plan, Where the latter has fair trial, however, it has worked satis- factonly. con- isn The opening The the work to- Tue fight is at last skirmish will take heavy artillery will MOrrow. on. place to-day. begin PROMINENT PERSONS, Senator Bdmunds has a delicate appre tion of good brandy. Bob Ingersoll as been etndying Now Eng- land documents of the Puritan days to get material for a new lecture. Johin G, Whittier has lately finished a long voem of historical interest, which will goon be given to the public with a new edition of his works rovised by himself, Jordan B. Noble, the drummer boy at the battle of New Orleans in 1815, and a veteran of the Mexican is still living in New Orleans, He is s old, and quite in- firm, Glaastone headed the list of names of the greatest twelve living men which received the prize at a recent London contest, and Grover Cleveland’s pame was ahead of the prince of Wales. The latter struggle was probably decided by the seales. bl e With a Flavar of Profanity. Pittshurg Chron legraph. The lancuage the telephono & broken Engiish. DL Poet Lariat, Chicago News. A cowboy poethas broken out in Wyoming. He s probably the poet He Should Resign, Boston Globe. If Lord Tennyson heeds the voice of a pretty nearly unanimous world he will fol- 1ow Lord Churchill's example and resign. 1lis administration of the department of s & failure. RO anda Illegal Robber, Philaddiphia Call. There is a vast difference between a hum- ble citizen *holding up” a railroad or ex- press company and those same corporations roughly grasping the public and shaking e tortionate rates from it for their services, The Individual zoes to Jail, the companies to in- crease power and intluence, e Life is a Game of Whist, er hour the eards were fairly shuffled rly dealt, but still 1 2ot no hand: The morning came, but I with mind un- ruffled Did simply say, “I do not understand.” Life Legs is a gnmoe of whist. From unseen sources The eards are shuffled and the hands dealt, Biind are our efforts to control the forces That, though unseen, are no less strongly felt. 1 do not like the way the eardsare shufiled, But still 1 like the game, and want to plays And through the long, long night, will L unruflied, what 1 get until th 2 - AND TE are break of day. STAT Nebraska Jottings. Cedar Rapids proposes to plant §5,000 in a new sehool building, : Elk Creek “phantom,” who was < in the stomach with a brick, has ne out of the ghost busines: attempted to raise the d with a few bottles of bee The experiment cost him $75, The Bassett Clipper, a democratic weekly, nursed on land oflice adds, died suddenly lust week., The bottle was with- drawn, West Pointers have no further use for inpor The home-made article is sufli numerous and resinous for all dowmestic purposes. Hon, Tom O'Day, of O'Neill City, one the brightest yers in Northern S a democrat with a number thirteen sole, is soon to move to Omaha. The railroad meeting at Geneva de- cided that Fillmore county could stana a mortgage for #60,000 if the Elkhorn Val- ley road would build through the county. John Widup and John Kelsey had a brief set-to at Friend. Widup opened Kelsey's interior with a knife and tu him over to the doctors, The cut a dangerous one Harry F. Eppley Is resting in the Johnson county jail, having been per- suaded to accept the hospitality of the sheriff. ~ Harry forged and cashed a check for $125, and” with a borrowed horse and buggy attempted to slip out of lhfi state. ¢ was overtaken at Brown- yille. TRITORY, drought in 1 lowa Items, A The Dubugue police have been uni- formed. Fort Madison 1s promised three miles of cable railway. The scareity of water in Henry county ismuch greater than has eyer been known. Farmers living in th rie townships have been compe drive their live stock six and eight miles for water. The state oratoricgl contest will be held in Des Moines Febrgary 2. At this con- test the orator receifing first honor rep- resents his state in ts inter-state contest to be held at Bloodington, Ill,, on the Sth of May. v R. J. Miller, a youpg attorney of Mason Jity, has recently found a fineforty acres of gover nd just a mile and a halt west of Swalesdale, Polk county, It is a piece that was overlooked when all The Hamilton county supervisors aporopriated §300 for i tablet of polished brass to commemorate the heroism of cit- izens of that and Webster county who vent to the reseue of the scatlers at Spirit Lake in M I, 1857, when Inkpa- ducal’s Sioux band massacred twenty- seven whites. George man, & young man f Rowley, Buchanan county, wes - g0 recently to visit an uncle. Arriving in the city late, and not wishing to dis- turb his relatives, he went to a boarding house, where he was found by the police the next day with his head badly cut. He was removed to a hospital, where he died two s later. As his money had not been taken his death is as yet an un- solved myst Dak An incendiary got away with a §10,000 suw mill wv Speartish the otver day. The people of Blunt are out of hay and potatoes, and have taken to cob and corn, Brown county has seventeen towns, | appropriations " he w It sprang up during last nnounced himself andidate for the posi- legislature, ons have ma the legisiature ting $1,200,000, I'he Harney hotel and a new 1 among the institotions growing g in Rapid C Both will be sts in the spring time - Paddock and Van Wyck. Washington Correspondence of the Cleveland Leader: The Nebraska sena- torial contest is a close one. There are half a dozen different eandidates, and it is Van Wyck against the field, The can- didate will be ceded by Nebraska to the southern portion of the state, as Mander son comes from the northern portion Van Wyck's most prominent opponent ut present is Algernon S, Paddoek, whom he succeeded as United States senator, Paddock lately resigned his place on tho Utah commission to enter tho senatorial contest, He will have the support of the traders and bankers, while Van Wyck will have the farmers and laboring men. Paddock is now fifty-six years old. He is 0 New Yorker and got his first political training under Wiliiam H. He wasone of Seward's support at the Chieago convention of 1860, for his services there Seward got him h . pomtment as seeretary of the Neb territory in 1861, This office he held for six years and in 1874 or 1875 he beeame the eandidate for the United States senator- ship of Nebraska, Lam told there were anumber of other aspirants, and that Paddock got his election as a compro- mise wlidate. Itis probable that he expeets to m the saume way this time, Van Wyck is a man with a history, and he is one'of the characters of the United States senate to-d Of medium hel; he has a stocky form which he dr in black broadcloth, and his gene vearance is t of afarmer in his Sun- y clothes. There is nothing ostente- tions about him, and he moves among the public men at Washington in the same frank way that he does among his constituents. e has a big, round head and smoothly shaven face of dark com- plexion, a high, broad forehead, and two big eyes which are always dressed 1 a puir of very ge steel spectacles. Through these Van Wycek keeps a close watch upon legislation. He has studied the railroad and land questions to such an extent that he can detect a job at A glance, and he poses here as the foe of big corporations. He is a hard worker and is always found i his seat. When he speaks ho tears the air ad as Don Vuixote’s windmll and jumps about the floor, requiring full ten square yards of moving room. Heis windmill like, however, in his work as well as his actions, and he pumps cold water con- tinuously upon the monopolists. He highly respected at Washington, and his fellow senators know that he is afrmd of uone of them. At one time he made a severe a k on Attorney General Brew- ster, which so incensed Don Cameron that he came up to him while he was speaking on the floor of the senate and chook his fn er under Van Wyck's nose, aying: “Don’t you say that again, You must not accuse the atforney general of dishonest practices. He never did a dis- honest act in his life.” Van Wyek listened to the irate Ca eron with » Pickwickian smile went on with his speech. He said he v glad Cameron had defended the attorney general; that the attorney general needed defending, and that Caineron was the most proper man to_take his part. He then made a more blistering tirade than ever against Brewster, smiling the while t Cameron and evidently undisturbed at his anger. 2V Wyeh 1s now sixty-two vears old. Heisa Iu of Rutgers college, and rmy a colonel and came general. Commg back s clected to congr from New York, and served eight ye asa New York congressman before he moved to ska. In Nebraska he bought a mount of land along about 1874, and two years later he had become a__ member of the state senate of Nebras] and at the end of seven years he was a United States senator. Van Wyck's lands and other “speeulations have made him wealthy. 1 don’t know the sum total of his forfune, but he has a_ house here winch is worth 10,000 or #50,000 at the feast and which ought to sell for §75,000. Itis on the corner of Massachusetts ay- enue and Thirteenth street, and 1t is lux- uriously furnisied. Van Wyck here en- ns many of his Nebr: friends. He is a hospitable fellow, and though he does not o wild over Washington so- he Jikes to have his friends about nd i ble to eve one. He i n his habits, ‘doesn’t use co in any form, and has not since rst experience as a boy in chewing the weed—an expe ce “which made him deatily sick, and settled, as far as concerned, the tobacco-using question forever. e ¥air Play For Shippers. New York Times, Whatever may be said against the en- actment of those parts of the inter-state commerce bill that relate to pooling con- tracts and long and short hauls, no one will openly oppose, we venture to say, the provisions which forbid unjust dis- crimination and require the publication of rates. If the supporters of the bill feel that its passage will be endangered by the paragraphs about pools and hauls they may be assured that they can stand upon the clauses relating to diserimi tion and publicity, If the bill contain no clauses but these, with provisions for enforeing them under suflicient penalties, would the railroad companies openly op- pose it? Could they find arguments against it which they would be willing to ay before the public? But the removal of the great abuse of unjust diserimina- tion, together with the open publication ¥ , might, directly and indircetly, cover all the ground which the advocates of the bill hope to cover; for the preven- tion of s rate cutting and the main- tenance of fair rates for all shippers would go far toward sweeping away all the abuses which so loudly call for legis- lation. It is unjust diserimination that has given force to the demand for the enuet mentof an ter commerce law. The people have scen railronds—which, ns common carriers, should be open to all patrons on equal terms—used to _erush one merchant or one corporation in the same business, They bhave seen rail- roads used to build up great ana un serupulous monopolies, which have spent a part of the wealth thus gained 1n cor- rupting legislatures and public ofticers, The people at Jarge know very little about the theory of pools or the argu- ments relating o rates for short und long hauls, but the, n see that when one shipper can have his oods carried for half the rate exacted from his competitor for the same service the railroad system has become an instrument of oppression A corporation desiring to monopolize a business or an industry depending apon | transportation for its deve termines to crush all of its riv duces the railroad companies to carry wpoleon Lo an ind on for lly opened for in which all must sell their goods? But thig1s the way in which the Standard Oil company crushed independent refiners and built up its monopol such arrangements even with railronds that were in the hands of the United States courts, “The court of last resort has declared that state legi no remedy for such abuses, There can be no relief except by the enforecment of a federal statut This infamous method tion has been used in thousands of cases for the enrichment of favored persons and the impoverishment or ruin of others, A SAD CASE, A Military Clerk's Misfortune Court Notes, John Martin was brought before Judge of diser Polien day morningto answer to ng a horse from F. M. Ellis, the architect. He was released on the ground that he was insane, and or dered before the county board of in- sanity. Martin® a very sad one. years past he has been employed clerk in the military headquarters, and has always enjoyed the roputation of being a first-class man. About sixteen months ago he was married to the daughtor of a farmer living a few miles from Omaha. A few months ago she died, and her death was suceceded a fow hours later by that of her new born child. ~ The trouble preyed upon Martin’s mind and_ he grad- ually lost his reason, until to-day he is little better than an idiot, His friends will take steps to huye him sent to the'in ane asylum, ight vagrants were arraigned before the juc ; yesterday morning, They were od, Out of thirteen drunks, eloven were fined the usual amount and two paid o0 Bennett w ent to jail for thirty a coat from a clothing Belle Burton orence Werstell were arrested for enticig Pat Lahy into their den and rob- lnn;l: him of 5. They were held for trial, For as a enso i The Carniva Gireat preparations are being made by the masking committee for the great carnival to be given by the Omaha To- boggan club next Friday evening. The club will meet at the Union club rooms, corner Sixteenth and Farnam, at 6:45 p. m. sharp en costume, with their tobog- gans, for the purpose of parading the principal streets to the slide. The procession, starting at street, will proceed down Twelfth, along Twelth to Douglas, up Douglas to Sixteenth, along Sixwenth to Dodge, and up Dodge to Park avenue, thence to the slide. All persons along the line of march are raques! to have their tront windows lirhted up for the occasion. Theclub intends having a large sleigh for the purpose of carrying the ladics wearing costumes to the slide. The slide is 1lluminated every 1 and there are always some of the Fifteenth _always busy. its goods for a rate of 10 conts, to exact from its rivals arate of 35 cents for the same service, and to it 70 per cont of the maney paid by those rivals. ~Under such conditions how can the unfortunate rivals hope to enter upon cqual terms with the favored corporation the markets bers sliding, excepting on Sund They Want to Shoot. This eveming at 7:30 o'clock, there will be a meeting of sportsmen m the zun store of Penrose & Hardin, 101 South Thirteenth street,corner of Dodge, to take action with regard to antic ing the introduction and passago of a bill at the present session of the legislature, having for 1ts objeet the suppression of spring shooting. 1t this bill should pass it would have a dis- astrous effect upon the spring-time pleasures of many sportsmen througzhout the state, who now live within the Taws, and see no necessity for the passage of thy ment in question. It is desired that there be a large attendance to con- suder the matter in all its bearigs. Wants a Walking Match, President Max Meyer, of the exposition »eiation, cived yesterday a letter from Dan O’Leary, theTroy, N. Y., pedes- trian, who wants to arrange a walking match to take place in the exposition build ing some time i April or M O'Leary says that the muatch would be fifteen tours in duration and there would be some four or five entries. 1t would last from 8 o’clock Wednesday evening to 11 o'clock Saturday morning and would be a match for blood. Mr. Meyer has written to O'Leary offering him' the building on a percentage. Fmma Bell’s Cell, Emma Bell, the now celebrated wit- ness in the John Lauer case, 1s still con- fined in the county jail, but beyond the reach of every visitor. She occupics one L PTON. PLACE. Situated within 4 blocks of tke Lip'on & Fowler packing houses, and within 3 blocks of the new B, & M. depot. All the lots are vory fins, On Easy Terms Which will be worth double within a year, several hundred per cent profit on the cash invested, umber Yard A splendid location for a whole- sale lumber yard, as the It R. company has 150 feet right of way each side the track, afford- ing excellent facilities for load- ing or unloading. Brick Yard. A fine opening for a brick yard adjoins the addition. making otner & Archer’s ADDITION, 0 have a few choice lots left in Cotner & Archer’s addi- tion.Have sold very rapidly, and are increasing in value every day. People are buying these lots for homes, consequently they will prove a good investment to any- lady. s0 have BARGAINS In all Parts of the City. O of the cells of the second tier on the north side wnich open on the reception room. But the lattice work and food opening are s0 closed up that nobody can see the woman unless by the opening of the door, which, however, may be done only by er Miller. She is thus shut off to es- cape the inquiries and importunities of reporters and curious people, in the hope that what she has to tell at.the forthcoming trial may be told without the appearance of having been by outside influence. e R They Were Always Busy. . Youth’s Companion: Prior tothe Amer- ican revolution every colonial farmhouse and every blacksmith shop was a_manu- fnl'tor?'—f()r everything ~ was literall manufagtured—that 15, made by hand. The blacksmith hammered out axes, hoes, forks, spades, ploughshares, scythes and nais. A tailoress went from " house to house to make np the winter clothing, and was followed by the shoemaker. The farmer prepiired the leather from skins which had lain in the vat for a year, and his wife made ready the cloth. Spinning wheels buzzed from morning till night. Skeins of woolen and linen yarn hung on the walls of every hous Seated on the loom seat, the best woman of the family plied shuttles and treadles —weaving blankets, sheets, table towels, bed curtains, window cur flannels, and cloth f or garments, ry woman in the houschold manu- actured something, The aged grand- spun flax with the little wheel; yungest daughter earded wool, and the oldest, if the men were busy, hatch- eled tlax. It was hand-work that did it, and eyery hund did what it could best do. Ihe women, whose “work was never done,” not only earded, spun and wove, but they milked the cows, made butter, bread und che soap und eandles, cooked the food, did the washing, and in harvest raked hay, pulled flax and dug potatoes. The neighbor, who happened in for an afternoon's gossip, brought her wor The mother patehed or knitted as she rested by the firestde, or quartercd ap- ples for the children to *“string” and hang in the morning in festoons on the sunny walls. All were busy— AINs, outside e issiitudes of fortune are strongly d in a New York se, where a man whose name not long ago would have been good for $2,000,000 spent two or three hours in the flice of a Wall street broker a s ago, waiting for an opportunity to borfow $10 from one who wus once his clerk. Speculation fiad brought him to poverty and made the clerk w millionaire, and all within & year. Wiliam L. McCague and ( Mayne are selling Benson, to which street cars ) Improved and Unim- proved Rroperty. Cull and see us before purchas- ing elsewhere, Baker Place Situated within 5 blocks of the Walnut Hill depot, on the Mili- tary road. Benson's street rail- way will be completed and run- ning within 6 months, Prices from §300 to $500, One tenth ash, bal easy terms. These lots will be worth #5800 as soon as the street cars are running which are guaranteed to be running within 6 months, D. R. ARCHER AND C.H.S0BOTKER Room 9 Redick's Block, 1509 Farnam St,