Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 25, 1887, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF BUBSCRIPTION ! fly (Morniag Edition) Including Sunday kn, One Yoar For 8ix Months For Three Mon Tho Omaha Sun addross, Une Yer. ATA OFFICE, NoO. 81 . EW YORK OFFICE, RO ASHINGTON OFFICE, 1 65, TRINONE BUILD 15 FOURTRENTH BTRE CORRESPONDENCE? All communications relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed to tho Ebt- TOK OF THE BEE. BUSINESS LETTRRSS All bueiness Jetters and remittances should bo addressed to T Bre PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAHA. Drafts, chocks and_postoffice orders 10 be made payable to the order of the company, THE BEE PUBLISEING CONPARY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER, Epiron. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation, Btate of Nebraska, County of Douglas. }" e Geo, B. Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishin, ny, does solemnly swear that the actual circuiation of the Daily Bee for the week ending Mar. 1Sth 1557, wus as follows: urday. Mar,12. unday, Mar, 13. llo::lu. Lgi ar. 1‘4. ay, Mar, 15, ednesday, M hursday, A Friaay, Mar, Average. = GEO. B, 'TZSCIHUCK, Subscribed and sworn to be fore me shis 21st dsy of March A. D., 1857, N. P. FrIL, ISEAL| Notary Publie. Geo. B, 'l'zschuck, bclmf first duly sworn, deposes and says that he Is secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual av- erage daily circulation’ of the Dally Bee for themonth of March, 1886, 11,5657 coples; for :’Brll, 1886, 12,191 copies: for for May, 1598, 12, coples; for June, 1886, 12,208 coples; for July, 1858, 12,514 copies; for August, 1886, 13, copies; for September, 1856, 13,030 coples; for October, 1856, 12,980 coples; for November, 1586, 13,348 covies; for December, 1880, 13,237 covies; for January, 1887, 16,268 copies; for February, 1857, 14,198 copies. Gro. B, Tzscnuck. Bubseribed and u’v)mlrg“_tlo before me this 9th day of March; A PSEALT" N Notary Publlc. STREET cleaning in Omaba is not what it should be by any means. OMmATA i8 to have a ten-story building. That's the kind of a story that ought to be continued. As a country, the native mackerel and Canadian warriors are giving us but little trouble this spring. Iris about time for Mr. Sully to make another deal, His Baltimore & Ohio shuffle was not very successful. Tue board of public works should look after the graders and make them do their work more systematically. Tug BEE is for salo—at 5 cents per copy or $10 a year. Itis sold regularly every day, to over 14,000 purchasers. Missourt river water served up the color and density of chocolate is a luxury once a year, but served up as a regular diet, it becomes nauseating. emm———— Tnrre are still many wretched side- walks on the main business thorough- | fares which should be repaired at once, or replaced by stone or concrete. Em————— Ir the board of public works can be roused from its slumbers, we may possi- | bly be able to improve the sidewalks on I our principal business streets this spring. ‘THe governor of Missouri threatens to call an extra session of the legislature. The sapplause upon the adjournment of the statesmen has been mistaken for an encore. K I7 has been a long time since anything | has been heard from Higgins—Higgins, of Washington. He is still on deck, and | mow wants to be warden of the Balti- more jail. d ¥ § Joux P, St. JouN has been hanged again in efligy. It will bo a long time until the country is rid of Mr. St. John, if that 18 the only way indignant Kansas people hang him, OmAHA has 176 saloons and Kansas City has 405. ‘This, however, does not prove that Kansas City is twice as large i as Omaha, It shows that Kansas City can get away with mors tarantula juice. CEETEE— Tae only way to make the Omaha boom permanent is to provide steady em- ployment for laboring men and women. Establish factories and build up every industry that employs men and women at living wages. WHAT has become of the weather bu- roau of the Union Pacific road? Was it abandoned iike a costly plaything, or have the gentle breezes of spring ren- dered it useless? Full many a scheme like this is “'born to blush unsee ‘waste 1ts fragrance on the desert a! | Emseee—s—— 4 Tue Niagara park has been receiving _.attention on both sides of the falls. The American commission announces in a triumphant manner that the long con- tinued reign of vandalism around the falls, which has rendered the task of beautifying the park one of considerable difliculty, 18 eftectnally checked. Hack- men have been regulated as have also the charges, and Niagara will be a more pleasant resort than evel IMAMIGRATION to the United States from Europe continues active. The arrivals at Castle Garden, New York, to date, ex- ceed 20,000, which is about double the number that arrived during the same time last year, Theincrease commenced last fall, and has since been going on steadily, Those seeking homes here have come principally from the coun- tries bordering on the Bultic and the Mediterranean seas. Of recent arrivals itis noted that a much larger number ‘were from continental Europe than from the British isles. Ono, and perhaps the chief reason for this is to be found in the menace of war that has prevailed awong the continental nations for a year or more past, and which six months. ago 1t was geunerally believed would deyelop into actual hostilities by the present spri ‘The less dangerous outlook for - war will probably have the effect to deter . many from leaving their European homes who may have contemplated doing #0, and it is not unlikely that in the re- mainiog months of the year the rate of 1mmigration of the past three will not be ‘maintained. - Gagging the Press. This legislature of ours is a body fear- fully and wonderfully made. It can truthfully boast that it excels all other law-making bodies in the land in the production of legal monstrosities, The latest and most extraordinary of its offorts 15 Snell's criminal libel bill. As amended by the house any editor, reporter, head line wri- ter, correspondent or publisher may be indicted and imprisoned in any county in Nebraska where the paper which contains a Jibel written or pub- lished by them may happen to circulate. In other words, if this law is made part of our criminal code Medill of the Chicago Tribune, Pulitzer of the New York World, McCullagh of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, or DeYoung of the San Francisco Chronicle, may be indicted in Cheyenne or Dawes county, Nebraska, for criminal libel, and the governor may have to 1ssue a requisi- tion to bring them for triat. This is not all, however, Since Nebraska has abol- ished grand juries any county attorney who may for political reasons desire to damage or cripple the publisher of a pa- per of general circulation, -published hundreds of miles distant, could file an information for criminal libel in his court and compel attendance of editors, publishers and reporters at an enormous expense and great inconve- nience. The palpable aim of such an idiotic and unheard of law is to gag the *press in the interest of public thi and political shysters. It piaces a club in the hands of rogues and deprives the public of the palladium of their liberty-—a fearless and untrammelled press. The men who are pushing this bill are nota- bly vulnerable and fear that an untram- melled press would expose their rascality. This class of lawless lawmakers want to build a barri- cade around themselves against public opinion. They want to throttle the press that they may the more freely continue their depredations on the tax- payers. If such laws were enacted in every other state of the union the Ameri- can press would be placed on a par with that of Russia, where free specch is un- known, Friends of the Charter. An alarm is sounded from certain quar- ters that the friends of an honest charter for Omaha must be on the alest. We are told by these Pharisces and Publicans that this city cannot afford to have a check placed on 1ts growth by any fool- ish or seltish legislation and the *‘friends of an honest charter” are warned that enemies are on the ground, anxiousto defeat the demand of the city for such a charter as shall mecet the neceds of the expansion of territory, and is adeqnate to the increase of population and volume of business. Who are the friends of the honest char- ter, we pray? Are thoy the blossom- nosed journalists who went down to Lin- coln in the company of paving contrac- tors and political jobbers who wanted the charter amended to suit their private in- terests? Are the fricnds of an honest charter the men who (tried to pack the exposition building with roughs and bummers and sought to throttle popular sentiment through a concerted eflort with a chairman who was the leading paving contractor of Omaha? Are the friends of an honest charter the men who wrenched the charter from the com- mittee on cities and put it in the hands of that reprobate, spy Russell, and a com- mittee known to be unfriendly to Omaha, and pliant tools of the gang of oil-room vagabonds and corruptionists led by General Vanderboom and the gambler’s boodler, Charley Green? If there 1s danger that Omaha is te@ be crippled by a charter which does not allow a proper expansion of territory and 18 too narrow-gauged for the the wants of Omaha, who is to blame? Who was it that concocted the outrageous amendments which have been plastered all over that charter by the ju- diciary committce? Who is 1t that knocked out the provisions to enable Omaka to éstablish boulevards and parks around the city? The editors who con- sorted with the rotten and dissolute lobby and sought to cover their tracks by downright and barefaced falsehoods con- cerning the contentsof the charter. Who 13 to blame for the damaging delay in the passage of the charter? The railroad lobby, the contractors and irre- sponsible blackguards who run papers in which they do not own a dollar. This class of patriots are now very much alarmed about the dangers that beset Omaha by reason of the delay and pos- sible defeat of the charter. Had these kind and disinterested friends kept their hands off and allowed the Douglas dele- gation to do its duty, as they knew it to be when the charter was introduced, there would now be no ground for alarm, As it is, the mischief done and damage inflicted upon vital interests in Omaha, can only be charged where it naturally belongs; to the men and papers that have no honest purpose to subserve and only versonal spite work todo. The Grading Nuisance. The grading season 18 upon us and with it has come the annual tearing-up of sidewalks by the grading contractors to be followed by the annoying mud puddles, broken fences and slushy crossings. If this nuisance would only last a few weeks in each street that is graded, and the work was done as rapialy as patent shov- els, shovelers and teams can do it, no sensible person would complain. But the way grading has been and is being done in this city under our fast and loose system, the improvement becomes an un- bearable nwsance. ‘Ihe graders tear up and pull down sidewalks, trees and tences right and left on one street, put in two or three days at grading and leuve the untinished job for months, repeating the same practice on a dozen streets in order to hold all other con- tracts with the least force. The result is & general tearing up and a fearful mud Dblockade after every heavy rain, [t seems to us that we should start right this season and afford the people on graded streets needed relief by compelling grading contractors to finish one street at a time promptly and replacing the walks and fences as rapidly as the work is done. emmmE——— Room for More Hotels. Probably no city of its size in the world is better supplied with hotels than San Francisco. It was twelve years ago that her present great hotels were opened, and it was then thought that 1t would be s great many years hefore they would THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY , MARCH 25, 1887. prove profitable. But to-day the leading hotels of that city are over-crowded, and there is ample business for several more. This fact leads the San Francisco Call to urge the building of a mammoth hotel to accommodate at least 2,500 guests. An investment of a million or more in a first class hotel, says the Call, would pay a safe and handsome return. What is true of San Francisco is 1n a measure true of Omaha in regard to hotels. When our two leading hotels were erected at about the same time many timid persons predicted that there would not for years be business enough for two such houses, and that neither would pay. But, as in San Francisco, our leading hotels are now crowded, although they have recently been enlarged. The fact is Omaha can support another largoe first-class hotel—one which can com- fortably accommodate in the vieimity of 500 guests. Another hotel, to cost say about $500,000, would pay in Omaha, There is plenty of room for such a hotel. Let some of our capitalists take the mat- ter under consi ion. At the time it could be completed, we venture to say that the rapid growth of Omaha would warrant even another hotel still larger and more costly. High License In New York. The battle for high license in New York, which has been waged with great vigor, is over so far as the legislature is concerned. What is known as the Crosby bill, providing for high license in the cities of New York and Brooklyn, now awaits the signature of the governor to become a law. The conflict over this measure is one of the most notable in the history of New York legislation, The friends of the bill had to fight the com- bined forces of the prohibitionists and the liquor interests, the former using with all the force they could bring to bear the familiar arguments with which they oppose all such legislation, and the latter employing all the political influence at their command reinforced bv an abun- dant supply ot money. If the bill be- comes a law it is estimated that it will take at least a million dollars from the saloons 1n addition to what they pay now, hence they had a very powerful incentive to fight it, That it passed against the formidable and determined ovposition is perhaps to be regarded as highly credita- ble to the legislators by whose votes the bill was adoy:ted, some of whom possibly thereby imperilled their political chances for the futura. But the bill has yet to receive the sig- nature of the governor in order to be- come a law, and its friends are not en- tirely sanguine of success in that direc- tion, 1t has been reported that Governor Hill will veto 1t upon the alleged ground that it applies only to cortain parts of the state, and hence is in violation of the principle of home rule. 1t is true that the governor has approved other legisla- tion more clearly local in character than is the license bill, but in those cases there wasact so much political influence, or political influence of a different sort, to antagonize. It1s significant that the bill encountered a pretty solid democratic opposition in both branches of the legis- lature, and 1t is bardly conceiyable that this was maintained contrary to the sym- pathies of the governor. Under all the circumstances, and having in mind the undoubted desire of Governor Hill to be on the best possible terms with all the elements, of which the liquor interest is not the least, of his party in New York and Brooklyn, his approval of this measure would be surprising, The probable political effect, rather than the principles involyed, will in all likelihood determine the action of Governor Hill, But if the bill is killed by the governor, on whatever pretext, the cause of high license will still have gained an impor- tant and encouraging step. Itissome- thing that a majority of a New York leg- islature has approved it, even for local application, The triends of the policy, the soundness of which experience has amply demonstrated, will not abandon it after a single defeat. They will continue the contest, with the certanty of ulti- mate victory. American Sympathy With Ireland, The value of the expression of protest made by the mass meeting in New York, on last Monday evening, against the pro- posed policy of the English government toward Ireland, is not to be measured by the numerical strength of that assem- blage, nor by the public or private rela- tions of the individuals most prominently 1dentified with it. It is doubtless quite natural that the English tory press should endeavor to detract from its sig- nificance by applying those methods of estimating its importance, but they will hardly thereby deceive even their 1most trustful readers who are intelligently in- formea regarding American sentiment on the Irish question, We will not ven- ture to afirm or deny that Mr. Dana and some of the other gentlemen identified with this meeting may have been urged thereto by political or personal motives. There is very slight probability that they were. But it can be unqualifiedly af- firmed that the protest of the assemblage against the policy of coercion proposed by the English government, its de- claration in favor of Imsh home rule, and its expression of sympathy with Ireland, voice the nearly universal sentiment of the American people. The suggestion of the St. James Gazetle that the *‘real feelings of real Americans, if they couild venture to express them, would be strongly in faver of throwing three-fourths of the persons who com- posed the meeting into New York bar- bor,"" 18 simply a gratuitous insult quite in keeping with the tory spirit and in- stinct. If there has ever been a time in the progress of this great iggue when the wis- dom or expedieney of intruding Amer- ican opinion could properly be ques- tioned, that time is not now. The course vroposed by the English government for the treatment of Ireland is a retreat toward barbarism which ought to en- counter the protest of all men who are not the enemies of political progress. It is a policy that can have no honorable or just defense, It is, as Roscoe Conkling characterized it, might—brutal might. 1t proclaims warfare upon that seatiment of liberty and that sense of justice which are umversal, and which will not and should not gquietly endure the assault. More than any other, the Amcrican people would be faithless to their character and their duty if n such an exigency they remained silent and failed to denounce in explicit and un- qQuatified terms policies and principles re- pugnant to the age and destructive of rights of which this republio is the ex- pression and the exponent. Tie communities of the seaport cities are beginning to feel apprehensive of a possible visitation of cholera the coming summer, Tha disease is epidemic in South America¥ and is reported to be spreading nortward, There is reason to fear that it may soon reach Central America, in which case this country would be in danger, 1f it is not now. New Orleans and New York are especi- ally accessible, and from all accounts both cities are in a condition to give the disease full course should it make its ap- pearance in either, The demand is ur- gent for a prompt and thorough cleans- ing of both, and in fact of all exposed points. Meanwhile the surgeon-general of the marine hospital service is keeping a close watch on the infected ports in South America, and on the appearance of the first symptom of danger will take advantage of the law which authorizes the president, upon the report of the sur- geon-genersl of the marine hospital, to place an embargo upon any importation of merchandise into the United States which might convey the cholera mi- crobes. Tuke beauty of low license 1s shown in Philadelphia. In that city the saloon license is 30 a year. 'L'here are 5,350 sa- loons, or seven saloons to every 100 in- habitants, This gives one ealoon to about every fitteen persons. Philadel- phians must be a very thirsty crowd. High license woula materially reduce the number of drinking places in that ity and produce a large reyenue for munici- pal purpose. In tho Spring. The Cornhill Magazine. Have all the songs been said? Are all the singers dead? 1s all the music fled?— ‘The sum and aim of lifo One ¢ strugele, rife With greed and sordid strife? Man but a dull machine, Living a vast routine Of narrow purpose mean? Oh! whiie one leaf swings high Against an azure s| In spring time's ecstasy, There breathes yet the sublime, There beats yet living rl:‘ym?. *Tis still the young world's prime. Nature has high commands, Bears gifts with lavish hauds Tohim who understands! B S THE FIELD OF INDUSTRY. Krupp is extending his gun factory to large orders for the German government, A Russian chemist’has perfected a method by which petroleuty can be solidified into bricks for fuel. § A Doston locomotive works is advertising for mechanics. Work is rushing at the Taun- ton Locomotive works, ‘The iron and steel workers are divided on the advisability of demanding a sharp ad- vance in the wages schedule. A dozen strikes and lockouts have been quickly settled in western Pennsylvani through the seryices of an arbitrator, Four thousand {ons: of old horse-shoes are to be exported to Chipa, where they will be melted up into sabre blades and knives. ‘The cotton mil!s of the New England states are ali sold up at full prices. Large orders are being booked for China, Atrica and South America. A recent purchase of 21,000 acres of min- eral lands, which is only one of many, was recently made in Virginia,on wkich furnaces and mills will be erected. ‘The Maine woolen manufacturers want the factory laws so modified as to allow them to run their factories overtime three or four times a year when the rush comes, The southern peovle are chasing northern enterprise in their eagerness to Invest in in- dustrial enterprises, and the municipal authorities vie with each other in extending ||:duc|:meu|s in sites, treedom from taxation, ete. Gas fuel is gaining ground, A locomotive works and a rolling mill at Patterson, N. J., will useit. Jersey City manufacturérs are preparing to introduce it, and in several other citics east the economy of the system is being carefully studied. The house builders will be very busily en~ gaged trom April 1. A mumber of largo uilding overations will be begun then, Large contracts are being placed for mate~ rial, but the uncertainty of freight rates is checking a great deal of business, Persons interested in the building up of the south are flooding certain localitics of the porth with immigration fiterature and with good results. Colonies have recently gone from the Cumberland valley to~ North Carolina, where new industries are spring- Ing up. The list of employers who are sharing profits with their emploves Is increasing, The Springfield Foundry company 1s tho latest addition to the list. Pillsbury, the Min~ neapolis flour man, has inaugurated it with satisfactory results. Five or six other large concerns have tried it. A scheme 1s on foot to utilize the pressure of the fresh water wells of Florida for manu- facturing purposes. Water is found at a depth of 250 feet, and in many wel!s there is a pressure of fourteen pounds to the square Inch, The theory entertained 1s—the greater the well the greater the pressure. The advocates of technichal education and manual training are organizing their forces for a united_effort. The Industrial associationeof New York, which has been de- yoting attention to this matter, de to be its conclusion that industrial training “lusl be an integral part of general educa- on, A $500,000 cotton factory is to be built at Fort Smith, Ark.;a $100,000 one at Ch: lotte, N. ne at Airy, N, C,: one at Cle land, Tenn. ; one at Athens, besides nu ous expansions in the way of machinery and additions, A co-operative manufacturing company will erect a $100,000 mill at George- town, Tex, An im ge cotton factory is to be erected at Cnlnm . Miss. Architects speak ofteri’of the rage for very high buildings when theére Is no urgent need for them, \Vestern cities with_plenty of ground are copying aiter New York oity, where high buildings -are a necessity. Chi- cago will have several nine, ten and eleven story office buildings. . A twelve story hotel 18 to be erected in Minneapolis, These high structures give wider scope to the genius of ambitious architects, Richmond, Va., is becoming an industrial centre. A [esseier pteel works is being built on Belle Isle. glass works on the co-operative plan will out 12,000 pounds fer day. A shoe factoty will _be started on a arge seale. ‘The Albelrle Paper eomlmn‘y{' will make paper on August L A large bric! works will be built, {0 make bricks for northern markets out of «Chesterfieid clay. American bridge bufiders are teaching the rest of the engineering world how to con- struct bridges of great gth, strain, endur- ance and permanency. ore bridge work is projected at this date than ever in the history of fue country, Two are projected across the Hudson, six across the Mississippi, two across the Missourl, a _$10,000,000 bridge &cross the Potomac, 4,650 feet \ongl. besides a multitude of smailer bridees, ‘I'he bridee works are consequently overrun with work, and bridge iron makers are unable to accept all the business offered. ~ Four bridge-build- ing works are projected, and an expansion of mill capaeity is going on, Iron and steel makers and manufacturers .who use these products as raw material will, a8 a rule, be taxed to thelr fullest capacity between now and nudsumwer. In every branch of industry enlargements are in pro- gress. Foundries'are expanding their limits and facilities; car works must inerease their machinery: locomotive works are going along quietly. Makers of all kinds of heav hinery liaye very large contracts on han Oneconcérn 15 preparing to make wrought- iron pipe twenty-four inches im diameter. fill g Mechanles are surpassing themselves in all industries with their remarkable achieve- ments, B — No Successor. Philadelphia Press. This speculative discussion as to the suc- cessor to Henry Ward Beecher 1s idle and vain, There s no successor to Henry Ward Beecher, e A Good esolve, Puiladelphia Keeord. There isa whole temperance sermon in Mr. John Lawrence Sullivan's declaration that ho “‘won’t touch a drop of liguor until o has laid away $100,000.” Any man, no matter what his station in life, who should make a similar resolve, would find his nest- ege growing very rapidly in a short time. “LOST 1 ANAY Mincs that are Making Towns in the Southern Country, Bear Crty, Ark,, March 18.—[Corres- pondence of the Bre.]—I'rom camp to hamlet, to villageand to town, and how we write 1t Bear City! All in ten days run and the quartz mills going on free milling ever discovered, There's some- thing of a rush to these scenes, with Ne- braska parties frequently interspersed and transactions, with them at least, possibly not without interest to many of you readers, New discoveries at the “Lost Louisiana’’ mines lead to more general exploration and ‘in them found much general deposit in frec milling ores in gold and the region alive in every in- creased activity; there’s the boom of dynamite, the discharge of giant and lack, as the developments go on, the ringing of the hammer comes cheerly as drills go deeper and rocks, town and mountains severed in pene- trating the fastness of the treasurers de- posit. Iree milling gold 1s found in largely paying quantities with excitement great and the country in much general uproar, consequent to such discovery. Here a town is being built as if by magic. We have telepiione connection with telegraph connections to all the world, the right of railway secured and the work being performed. Buildings and improvements are everywhere, busi- ness blocks frequent, hotels common, saw-mills completed, * smelters erected, quartz mills active, transactions i real ate without limit, town lots skyward, ues in all relations rapidly on the ad- vance and all things boeming. G. W. Sheppard and C. C.” Chapim, of your state, have bought up the tow fairly, though 8. R. Razee and W, C. Thompson—the original *Bill” Thomy son, 1n discovery of Lost Loumsiana mines =1 Riverton, are suffered to complete saw, lath and shingle mills and carr( equal parts in general merchandise, with John D. Fulton in ten acre purchase in the northwest corner of the lodge, and J. G. Childs to occupy the same,and cach from Riverton, while Orson Hager, of Bloomington, smokes his pipe from the shaft of the Lost Louisiana, and George Burke, C. C. Grove, L. E. Arnold, and Peter Schmack, of Frankhn, Tom Far- mer, from Exeter, and M. 5. Murtin, of Stella, winff such fragrance as may be wafted and rejoice in the possessions of Arkansas. Nebraska is not only well represented but, perhaps, shows such a body of representative men here as is difticult to find in any chance assem- blage in the world. Be this as it may, these indivi re up to their eyes in business, and i y good is to come from the condition, each is ticketed for a full share, ~ Indications point to the building of an important town at Bear City. It issix- teen miles west from Hot Springs, in the direct line of all popular transit to Indian territory, the center of the Bear moun- n mining district, surrounded by the est defined mineral belt and most cele- brated mines of the country, and pos- sessed in every first requisite for the pur- pose expected, New discoveries are con- stantly being made and the locations yrououncml in every reasonable promise. That there are mines here, and good mines, none may doubt. The country will pay to explore and the condition to investigate. Residence and investment are sure to follow in such instance, and when the advantages in climate and op- portunity are considered it is no marvel. People can work here the year through; there are no snow blockades, blizzards or like inclement_visitations; as I write, gardens are being made; the grass i3 as green as in early May at home; radishes, lettuce and onions furnish first relishes in new crops; there are no snow banks left in the fence corners, none on sight on the mountains, neither does winter “‘linger in_the lap of spring.” It 1s a good country to come to and Bedr City a promising place to settle. Houses can be secured and fortunes made as readily here as any other spot on the face of the globe. In all relations there is the most encouraging prospects, but just now the principal excitement relates to the recent discovery in free millin; ores in gold, and so abundantly found here. That the Bear mountain miling district will become a principal attrac- tion among circles of such interest is be- yond question, Bear City being in the center of such a desirable field, cannot help to become an important factor in the more material prosperity of the country. MARION LEE, ———— The Elder Booth, Old pluy-fonrs have many anccdotes about the elder Booth, One”night as he was playing Sir Edward Mortimer in the “Iron Chest,” 1t became very evident that his potations had been too deep, and, to the manager’s horror, he atlength got off the stage into the orchestra and com- menced singingan old Englisk song en- titled “Poucher,” the burden of which i8:— It's my delight of a shiny night, In this season ot the year-- to the great merriment of the audience, who bore with him very good-humoredly, Having succeeded in getting him behind the scenes, he was vociferously called for, and after a parley it was agreed he should finish the play, On he went again, and again the manager's fears were intense, *'Finish it as quick as you can,” said he in a whisper from the wing. On which Sir Edward walked forward and said: **Lad and gentlemen, 1 have been directed by the manager to finish this as quickl possible, and so D'l finish it at once—here, Wilford, catch me!” i aying which, and throwing himself into his arms, he *'did the dying scene,”’ and the curtain was rung down amid roars of ighter. At Pittsburg one evening Mr, Forrest was about to play Montezuma, when Mr. Booth came in and said he was roing to support him by playing the ndian chief, Antenino, for which part he dressed and made up, when, instead of going on the stage, he walked out and took the cars attired as he was. In New York he was arrested, much in the same condition, and as_he refused to give any other name than that of Lucius Jumus Brutus, he was seat by Justice Wymans to the -old Bridewell. In the course of theday Simpson and Price, the managers, came in search, stating that he had suddenly left the theater the nu;llllt before. The justice, on discovering who he was, sent an order for his release trom durance vile, and in the afternoon a cart load of provisions of various sorts, with fruit, wine, etc., were delivered, together with a letter from Junius, to the gentle- many inmates with whom he had the honor of spending a few hours in the morning. £ 2 He once played Orencko with bare feet, insisting that it was absurd to put shoes on a slave. But the most extraor- dinary feat, perhaps, was his perform- ance of “Richard III."” on horseback, which he did at the circus in the York road, Philadelphia. Many smilar sfories are told of him, some of which are doubte less exaggerated, but the above freaks are undoubtedly correctly stated, Valne of Literary Work. Pall Mall Gazette: Mr. Gladstone was aid £250 for his article on “Locksley {all" and the ‘“Jubilce' in the current Nineteenth Century, This suggests two sorts of interesting reflection First say the article was about twenty pages, and there are about five hundred words on a page; in £250 the are exactly 60,000 pence, which shows Mr, Knowle's rate of pay to his most eminent contrib- utors to be about six pence a word. Speech, or rather writing, is certainly goldun in this case, whate silence may e elsewhere. We wonder at what rate the other three distinguished contrib- utors were paid. We should appraise their coutributions ourselves at somo- thing like this, keeping to the proportion of Mr. Gladstone's 6 pence a word: Mr., John Morley, 2 penco a word; Mr. Mathew Arnold, § pence aword; Mr. Swinburne, ten words a penny. Apropos of this staggering check, it is interesting to coliect a few figures of prices given and accepted for literature which—well, is less ophemeral than Mr, Gladstone's golden eloquence, Goldsmith received £00 for the the Vicar of Wakefield; John- son £300 for the Lives of Poets. The Lambs were paid 60 guineas for the Tales from Shakespeare.” Fielding received £600 for Tom Jones. But we have no space to quote innumerable instances of such Grub street rricns paid for work which still delights the world. Take Thackeray, for instance, who said that he had never made more than £5,000 for any of his books. Fancy the price of twenty Nincteenth Century articles for Vanity Fair! On the other hand, Scott made in less than two years, £26,000; Lord Lytton is said to have made £80,000 by his novels; Dickensis subposed to have ed £10,000 a year during the publi- cation of Nicholas™ Nickleby, and _£7,000 was to have been paid for Edwin Drood. *‘Dizzy" is said to have made ,000 by his novels,while George Eliot's profits on Romola were estimated at £10,000, and Mr. Wilkie Collins received $10,000 for two novels alone. Byron's gains werc about $23,000; Moore was paid £s,000 for Lalla Rookh;'* Macaulay received £23,000 on account of three-fourths of his His- tory.” Thesc figures would have been doubled [shall we sx\{?]but. alas! there was no Barnum of literature in those days. What is a pen without a name? et o= s s What is Going on in Siwashtown. Alaska kree Press: The brilliant enter- tainments given in Siwashtown during the past week are still the theme of much conversation, The dancing academy has been one continuous blaze of light through the holidays, the festivities being conducted under the auspices of Mayor Kow-ce, In these portly halls were as- sembled the beauty and fashion of the place, and many were the gorgeous cos- tumes of the more wealthy class of the fair sex, and on not a few of them an elaborate display of expensive jewelry. Miss Kow-ce-With-a-Ring-in-Her-Nose, daughter of our much estecmed mayor, leader of Siwashtown societysand he ess1n her own right to two Auk resi- dences and three canoes, wore a beau- tiful crown fashioned from hem- lock bark and eagle feathers, a bright colored beaded buck- skin chemise, high water calico over- skirt, and a #10 Hudson bay blanket thrown gracefully over her shapely shoulders. For jewelry she displayed fourteen tin bracelets, a silver labrette a la shingle nail through ner upper lip, and two bruss watch chains encircled her brown ankles, Her nose and cheeks were painted black and her arms and limbs from the knees down were bare. Her elegant costume and graceful evolu- tions were the envy of the fair sex, and s designated the ‘*‘belle of the . The old mayor himself wore upon his head, the latest style hat, encircled with eugle feathers, a military dress coat, flour sack pantaloons, and a pair of rub- ber boots, His whole bearing was that of one born to command, and he was looked upon with reverence by all. The music, which was furnished by the Si- washtown orchestra, consisting of two drums and five rattles, was rendered in a soul-stirring manner. —_—— The Union Pacific pulled out two sec- tions of sleepers last night, going west, all crowded. Travel is very heavy and creasing. READY MARCH 25th. SCRIBNER'S ~ MAGAZINE For APRIL. Vol. L No, 4. Containing the first instaliment of the UNPUBLISHED LETTERS OF THACKERAY, illustrated by reproductions from his own Unpublished Drawings, Fac-similes of his Letters, ete,,ete. These remarkable Letters are contributions such as have never before been made to a knowledge of the personality of the great novelist, and are in themselves unquestionably the mostinterest- ing and characteristic addition possible to Thackeray’s Litera- ture. 25 Cents a Number. $3.00 a Year. CONTENTS. Portrait of William Makepeace Thack- eray. Frontispiece. Engraved by H. Kruell, after the crayon drawing by Samucl Laurence, A Collection of Unpublished Letters of Thackeray. With an introduction by Jane Octavin Brookfield. Tllustrated by reproductions of unpublished draw- ings by Thackeray. (To be continued 1n further numbers.) ¢:No Haid Pawn.” (A Story.) Tiomas NELSON PAGE of a New York House.—IV, ted by A. B. Frost. H. C. Modern Aggressive Torpedoes. Illus- trated from photographs and drawings furnished by the author. Licut. W.S. Huanes, UTS. Navy. Fortune. Eryor WELD. The Bendun;y Legatee; Postiumous JEST OF THE LATE J Austiy., Part Third--1's TION. J.8. OF DALE. Remembrance. JuLiA C. R. Dogg. . Reminiscences of the Siege and Com- ‘mune of Paris. Fourth (Concluding) Paper—THE DOWNFALL OF THE COM- muNe. With illustrations from por- traits and documents in Mr. Wash- i ssion, and from drawings by T.de "hulstrup, J. Steepla Davis, and A. M. Turner, 1. B, WASIBURNE, ex-Minister to France. The Quiet Pilgrim. Epiti M. TroMAs. American Elephant Myths. With il- lustratious. W. B. Scorr, Professor in Princeton College. The Old Earth. CHARLES EDWIN MARK- HAM. Seth’s Brother's Wife.-—Chapters XI1I- XVII. HAROLD FREDERIO. !ahrliu Rubina, ‘(A Story.) F. D, 1L English in Our Colleges. AvAus Snenr- mAN Hivy, Professor in Hurvard Uni- versity. 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