Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 29, 1887, Page 4

4 THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION ¢ 1, De%u;'n 4g Edition) fucluding Busday 41008 i 0 Omehs Benday s, talied &' sy | ‘address, One Yoar.. esrveriows N0 ARA OFFICE, No. 914 AND 016 FARWAM SRERT. RK OFFION, ROOM 03, TRINUNE BUILDING. ABHINGTON OFFICE, NO. 513 FOURTRENTH BTRERT. CORRESPONDENCE: All communications relating to nows and edi- torial matter should be addressed Lo tho Lul- TOR OF THE Br. nd remittances should be PUBLISHING COMPANY, and postoffico orders rder of the company, TaE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS, ROSEWATER, Eprron. THE DAILY BEE. @worn Statement of Circulation. ite of Nebrask: *Oounty of Douxl"u. } L] Pflblmlli' . e !d I:n(m'imelwn:‘r’ ing_company, does o y swei that the actua) elreutation of the Daily Bico for the week ending Mar. 1887, was as rday, Mar.10. inds 2. onday, Mar. 21, 7% 14! 18,675 RO, B, B 3 Subscribed and sworn;to be fore we shis 26th day of March A, D., 1887, N, P. Fri ISEALI Notarv Publie. Geo. B, 'l'zschuck, be|ni first duly sworn, deposes and says that he s secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual av- eraze dally circulation of the Dally Bee for themonth of March, 1 11,637 coples; for flmx, 1886, 12,191 copres: for for May, 1888, 12, coples; for June, 1886, 12,298 coples; for an.‘w 12,314 to‘rlfl: for Auzust, 1856, 18, coples; for September, 1886, 13,080 copies; for October, 1856, 12,080 coples; for November, 1888, 13,348 copies; for December, 1886, 13,237 copies; for January, 1587, 16,266 coples; for February, 1857, 14,108 coples. GE0. B, T78CHUCK. Subseribed and alv’volrzv‘xs to before me this 0th day of March, A, D, 1887, &ML‘I N. P. Fe, Notary Publie. CArTER HARRISON affords an example for James E. Boyd. He is determined not to be snowed under. ———— Iris always well to remember that scorplons whother bred in Kentucky ex- ported to Colorado or imported to Ne- braska have a natural propensity to sting themselves to death, Tar. Washington paper which makes the statement that Mr, Cleveland’s weak point 18 his heart cannot fairly claim for itself priority of discovery. The fact was demonstrated when he sent that re- !‘l;ttlnce to the Charleston sufferers— 3. THE opponents of Mr. Randall may find encouragement in the fact that he 18 receiving free and frequent laudation in the coluras of Mr. Charles A. Dana’s paper, The destructive power of the New York Sun's praise can be attested by several hitherto hopeful politicians who are now in obscurity. It is an established fact that the nails and hair of dead people sometime grow months after they are buried. It is also well known among scientists that the ears of political corpses have a tendency to grow and may grow after the corpse has been lald away in its coffin. Judg- ing from the ear marks left on a West Point sheet, the late E. K. Valentineis a specimen of that species of defunct mon- strosities. e—— It may be a great crime for a man to be born in Bohemia, and with Kentucky know-nothings it was worse than crime for any man born on foreign soil to pire to social and poltical equality with the blue grass bourbons. It is emi- nently in accord with the eternal fitness of things, however, that the degenerate son of a German refugee, whose father migrated to Kentucky, should insult the memory of his sire by swearing at for- eign born citizens. The meanest know- nothings always have been of foreign parentage, just as the most zealous bigots are always found among apostate con- verts. Scorpions| SEEEpees—— It is an awful thing to contemplato the rapld decline in the Bex's circulation, Our published sworn statementa show an aggregate daily circulation in December, 1886, of 18,287. For the week ending March 25, 1887, 14,428. A gain within thres months of 1,1 Within the past six weoks, without soliciting or throw- ing away tree papers into front or back yards, over two hundred names of car- rier-delivery Subscribers have been added to our list in Omaha. A paper that has gained more pald circulation in the last Shree months than the entire city sub- scription list of the oldest daily paper in She state is iu no immediate danger of esllapse. It seoms that Secretary Whitney had really talked of resigning, but has de- termined to remain where he is and dem- onstrate to the country that he knows something about naval affiairs. His re- tirement now would certainly leave a grave doubt in the public mind on this point. But there is understood to be still another influence holding him in the de- sire of the president to use his services in New York. This is credible. The retire- ment of Mr. Manning from the eabinet ‘and the uncertainty respecting his ability to help the administration in the future has devolved a larger task on Colonel La- mont that even so industrious a politician A8 he can successfully execute. Hence the necessity of holding Mr. Whitney, who can attend to tho least objoctionable labors. It is said that the reward of his loyaity has already boen guarantoed. SE—— Mgs. CLEVELAND in her garden at Oak View ought to suggest a subject to some enwrprising painter from which he might reap a rich harvest. She might be Presented in soveral attitudes, as when ouriously watching the gardeners arrang- ing the tulip beds, smilingly observing the first blooming crocuses, longingly viewing the growing spring onions, lottuce, cabbage and other vegetables, snd delightedly contemplating her fine .'nn\'-ry. particularly the hens that are - “doporting themselves as though they . were thinking of setting.” There is ob- viously chance here for a number of charwming pasteral views that ought to go _OfF like bot oakes. It s an entirely novol nd unique situation for the “first lady &L 1he land." and it ought to be put in fraperishable form both for its Intrinsic Worth as s most happy subject and for A0 value 84 au example. e ———— The New Apportionment, Under the constitution representation in the two branches of the legislature is apportioned every five years on the basis of population, as shown by national or state census, According to the state cen- sus taken in 1885 Nebraska has a total population of 740,645 apportioned into thirty-three senatorial and one hundred representative districts, and there should be one senator for 22,443 peonle, and one representative for 7,400, The manifest duty of the legislature was to make an impartial apportionment, regardless of partisan advantage or lo- cality. The apportionment agresd upon is in many instances partial, unfair and irregular, The discrepancies in the new appor- tionment are readily noted whea com- parison is made between the representa- tion allowed to each district, and the county census returns. Beginning Owith senatorial districts we find that Richardson and Pawnee coun- ties, with a total population of 28,490, are to have one senator. This leaves a sur- plus of 6,047 people in those counties without any share in the senatorial rep- resentation. Otoe county with 19,306 people gets one ecnator, in spite of the shortage of 8,067 from the senatorial standard. Cass with 1,839 more people than Otos is linked 1 with Sarpy county for one senator leaving a surplus of 4,120 people in the two counties without rep- resentation. Saunders county with 278 less population than Cass, and a shor- tageof 2,016, is allowed one senator. Douglas with a population of 72,638 is given three senators which leaves the surplus of unrepresented population at 6,820, District No. 9 made up of Ante- lope, Boone and Greely couaties, and a population of only 13,644 is given a sena- tor, although the population in that dis- trict is 8,709 less than the standard. The Tenth new district of Cuming and Dodge county on the other hand, has a surplus of 3,220 unrepresented population. District No. 14, consisting of Brown, Keya Paha, Cherry, Sheridan, Dawes, Box Butte and Sioux counties, has a population of 16,732, or 5,711 less than enough to entitle it to a senator. Lan- caster county is given two senators with ashortage of 5,167, while Seward and Butler together secure only one senator with a surplus of 6,000 people unrepre- sented, and Gage county retains one sen- ator with an unrepresented surplus of 8,721, while Saline gets one senator with a shortage of 2,683, The Twenty-fourth senatorial district, made up of York and Fillmore, has a surplus of 6,091 popula- tion unreprcsented. In contrast with® this, the Twenty-ninth district, compris- g Phelps, Gosper, Frontier, Chase and Hayes counties, and an aggregate popu- lation of 14,857, are allowed one senator, notwithstand ing the shortage of 7,686, required for each district. The climax of irregularity and unfairness is capped by tho Thirtieth district, which includes Lincoln, Keith, Cheyenne and Lo- gan counties and the unorgan- ized territory west of Blaine and Logan counties. Lincoln, Kecith and Cheyenne counties had a total popula- tion of 7,795 according to the census of 1885. Logan county did not exist then, and that county with the organized ter- ritory could not possibly have had over 8,000 population in 1885—making a short- age of 11,648 from the standard of sena- torial representation, Less glaring injustice and unfairness are manifest in the new apportionment of the lower house. We will, however, cite a few of the most striking instances to show how some localities are favored at the expense of others. Nemaha county on & population of 10,080 secures two representatives in spite of a shortage of 1,678. Douglas county, with 72,858, se- curesnine members and a float with Sarpy —out ot her surplus. This leaves an un- represented population in the float dis- trict of 4,465. Madison has only one member, with a surplus of 2,465. Polk county has one member, with a surplus of 2,308, While Hamilton has two mem- bers, with a shortage of 2,747. For the next five years the people of Nebraska will be compelled to abide by legislative misrepresentation based on this irregular apportionment. S——— That Libel Bill, The parties who are so anxious and persistent to have a criminal libel law passed by the legislature, designed to cause annoyance and put to expense a paper of general circulation which talks fearlessly about men and things, may get themselves and some of their friends into the pit whioh they are digging for others. It an Omaha editor can be dragged away from home on a flimsy pretext or a trumped up charge of libel, so ocan the Lincoln, the Beatrice and tho Hastings editors be brought to Omaha to answer to the charge of crimi- nallibol. Almost every paper in the state has a general eirculation, though it may only circulate promiscu- ously among its exchanges. The pub- lishers, propriotors, editors, reporters and correspondents of such papers will be subject to the provisions of the pro- posed libel law. This is not all, The fellows who instigate libels and cause them to be published wiall all be subject Lo the extravagantly severe pena lties im- posed by the proposed law. Now if every man who has written and published ma- licious libels cuoncerning this paper and its editor, were to be brought to Omaha {or trial, the Douglas county jail would not hold one-tenth of them, e cesse——— Oabinet Oandidates. The statemont that Postmaster General Vilas has conceived the idea thathe might become a presidential candidate will not be discredited by those who know something of the mental organiza- tion of the Wisconsin statesman. An as- piring ambition is united with large faith in his political acumen and a strong self- consciousness of power to command men. This has made him the most self-assertivo man in the present administration, and s egotism has not suffered by reason of the ludicrous positions in which he has placed himself in the exercise of this quality. His well-remembered circular to democratic men, which brought upon him the ridicule of the country, was an example both of how little Mr, Vilas really knew about the fine work of politics and of his high opin- ion of his political astuteness. His offen sively partisan participation m the last state election in Wisconsin was an - stance of his overweening deaire for pub- lio attention, rogardless of a principle which every other leading member of the administration of which he is a part ly rospected. ‘This violation of order was overlooked by the president, but it is not doubted that Mr. Vilas chafes under restraint the wisdom of which he must question, and seeing the probability that the democratic choice of a presidential candidute next year may be confined to two individuals has determined to en- large the opportunitios of his party by increasing the list. The outlook is not very encouraging for Mr. Vilas, but that will not trouble him. If the rumor re- garding him be true, he 18 now the only cabinet oflicer who is fostering presiden- tial hopes tor the immediate future. Secretary Whitney, it is said, will seek the New York governorship as a stepping stone, with the advise and consent of Mr. Cleveland. It may be interesting to note, what a little reflection will show to be entirely natural, that & cabinet position is crea- tive and stimulative of the presidential aspiration. With most men proximity to power produces a covetousness of power. In the memory of living men every cahi- net has had one or more presidential aspirants who were not averse to scheming and plotting for the place of their chief, and the same is trae through- out our history. In the cabinet of Lin- coln the most conspicious example was Salmon P, Chase, who nursed the presidential bee down to 1873, showing i the later years of his life a willingness to gratify his ambition even at the sacrifice of the party which had so greatly trusted and honored him. The administrations of Grant developed pres- idential hopes in the bosoms of Marshall Jewell, a predecessar, by the way, ot Mr. | Vilas, and Benjamin F. Bristow, both of whom did not hesitate to cultivate a per- sonal boom while 1n their positions. The Hayes cabinet had John Sherman and Richara W. Thompson, though as to the former 1t should be said that he was an aspirant before he entered the eabinet, and promoted his ambition while in of- fice with the full concurrence of tho president, towhom one term was the constrained limit of his desire. Garfield’s exccutive life was so brief that there was no chance for the development of new presidential aspirants 1n his cabinet. He had one there, however, who early made it apparent that the administration was to be used for his advancement. Another might have been found in Mr. Windom, who later enjoyed for a brief season the favorable regard of a few politicians as a possible candidate, The Arthur cabinet presented two, Judge Gresham and Rob- ortT. Lincoln, but it is probable that neither of these gentlemen used their official opportunities in their own inter- cst to the extent that some others had done, Yet it cannot be encouraging to cabi- net cundidates to know that of all the eminent statesmen who have held cabi- net positions, and who hoped and sought for executive honors, but six became president, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Baren and James Buchanan were cabinet minis- ters who realized their presidential as- pirations, But the list is very long of those who did not—Clay, Webster, Cal- houn, Cass, Ewing, Crittendon, Bell, Ev- erett, Chase, Seward, and others leas dis- tinguished. Perhaps this does not show that to have been a cabinet official has since the earlier days of the republic been a bar to the attainment of higher political eminence. They do prove, what may be wmstructive to any present aspir- ant in such position, that it is not a sure stepping stone to the loftiest summit. And still there is a very remote possibil- ity, in the present distress of the democ- racy, that even Mr. Vilas may get as near the top as some of those above named who barely failed, Money in Politics. There are themes that possess a peren- nial interest. The corruption of politics by the reckless and extravagant use of money is not a new subject of discussion, but its consideration is perhaps not less timely and important now than it has ever been. Poltical conflict is almost continual in this country, and hence the current of corruption flows on with only brief intervals of cessation. Itis not con- fined to any locality, but is found in vary- ing degrees everywhere, It grows with the growth of communities. Attention has just been renewed to this subject in New York by public addresses of Mr. 1vins and Mr. Bishop in behalf of reform 1 election methods, in which have been given what appear to be authentic de- tails of the cost of elections in that city and the vast sums in the aggregate that candidates are required to pay. Ordi- narlly an election in New York involves an expenditnre of $1,000,000, extorted from candidates and their supporters who expect favors in the event of their election. Extraordinary elections, in which the candidates are numerous and the contest unusually bitter, the expen- diture is probably greater than the above sum, Itissaid that under the present assessment system $210,000 are paid an- nuslly by candidates. The effect has been to make the city goyernment a mat- ter of bargain or sale. No man who has not had twenty-five or thirty thousand dollars has had a ghost of a chance to re- ceiye the mayoralty, and so in propor- tion with all other oflices. For years past the successful candidates for the minor offices—most of them, however, carrying fat salaries—have literally bought their places. Having in many cases expended more money to get the offices than the legal emoluments amount te, there is great temptation to use the positions for unlawful gans. All this is in some measure true of all the large cities of the country, It is a statesf affuirs that continually menaces every considerable and growing com- munity where public office is sought for the power and opportunities it gives, rather than for the honor and legal emol- uments. The difficulty of finding an ade- quate and certain remedy seems to be as great now as in tho past. An endless number of expedients have been tried with little offect upon the evil. One of the reformers in New York suggests that the city should take upon itself the work now accomplished throngh assessments, a8 providing and distributing ballots and giving information regarding candi- dates. But he has little experience in the business of politics who does not know that these reqnirements mvolve a very small part of the expenditures for which assessments are made. The de- mand upon a mayoralty candidate in New York for these legitimate purposes ought not to exceed at the very utmost $5,000, yot it is seen that he is called upon for five or six times this amount, It would be superfluous so explain what ‘becomes of the residue in excess of legiti- mate requiremehts. Under the stringent election laws of England against corrup- tion and the exarcife of undue influence there have been®athksfactory results, The cost of elections has boen greatly re- duced and their character somewhat im- proved. But a eandidacy in England is still an expensive: matter beyond what can be clearly défined as a legitimate out- lay, and it is by no means to be supposed that elections infthdt country are wholly freo from corruptioh. And there {s much less difficulty in enforcing such laws there than would be encountered hero. Nobody will question that our election methods generally are bad, and in some localities utterly demoralizing. The evil can be clearly seen and its frults are to be found 1n every legislative body and in the oflicial composition of almost all municipal governments, but like some other admitted evils that continually confront us it defeats all efforts for its extirpation. We can check and restrain it, but thus far the best wisdom has been baffled 1n attempts to wholly suppress it. Nevertheless the search for an adequate remedy should not halt. EEE—— Things People Would Like to Know, How soon Lee Estelte will be appointed one of the judges of this district? What induced Senator Robbins to fly the track on railroad legislation? How much the judiciary committee boodlers got for mutilating the Umaha charter? How much Gad Slaughter expects to get it he succeceds in losing the anti- gambling bill? How soon that bright, young oil-room capper, Gurley, will resume his criminal practice at Omaha? How much Colby's retainers as corpor- ation attorney have amounted to since the 6th day of January last? How many more suppers are to be given to the members of the legislature by the Saline land syndicate? When Vanderbum will take charge as associate editor of the boodlers® organ at Omaha, for which he has been acting as chief of its Lincoln bureau? Where the Honorable Mr. Russell was between midnight and 2 a. m. on Satur- day night, March 12th, while he was a guest at the principal Omaha hotel? Whether Snell fathered the gambling bill in the interest of the tleeced lambs, or simply tried the game which Church Howe plaved so vrofitably two yoars ago? How many different stories Russell will invent to clear his skirts from the effects of collusion with Slater and the other boodlers in the gambling bill conspiracy, and how many peéple will be credulous enough to believe him?, e —— PernArs Church Howe lied when he said he had to plank down $1,000 last fall for the support ot the Omaha paper edit- ed by the brash son-in-law of the ex- government printer. Perhaps Howe has lied. It is a fact, however, that the same concern charged the Dawson county cen- tral committee $4.80 per thousand for vrinting election tickets, when they could be had in quantitics ata private job office for sixty cents per thousand. Ifit is a stalwart and strictly honest out- it, Oug local contemporaries appear very much interested in the police commis- sion. This is suggestive, — RINGS AND QUEENS, ‘The crown princess of Portugal has given birth to a son, Emperor William will go to Weisbaden for & few weeks after Easter, The czarhas graciously adorned Bismarck’s son with the order of the White Eagle. ‘The necklace just made in Germany for the empress of Japan contains 140 diamonds. Queen Victoria has promised to knight twenty-five Canadian mayors in honor of her Jjubilee, Queen Victorla has declined to accept a jubilee cheese made from the milk of 5300 Canadian cows. King Humbert of Italy never dances, but Queen Margsret generally moves through a few quadrilles at state balls Queen Victoria ordered & special ser vice in memory of the duke of Albany on Monday, March 28, the third anniversary of his death Prince Alexandria, late of Bulgarla, is get- ting over the smallpox slowly. and has been removed to his father's country seat near Jugenheim, Queen Victoria’s jubilee will be officially celebrated in Canada the 2ist of June, the authorities of the various cities having agreed upen that day. Queen Victorla’s secretary acknowledges the receipt of every poem gent tober majesty, ond then chucks the daily grist into the waste basket. None of them are read, ‘The princess imperlal of Austria, wife of Crown Prince Rudolph and daughter of the king of the Belglans, is serlously ill, She left Vienna to pass two months at Abbadia. “It wass case of Lord Methusaleh and Miss Blushrose,” says London Truth, mak- ing mention of the marriage of Princess Emma to King William, of the Netherlands. The king had lost one queen and was well along toward the sixties. Among Queen Victoria’s jubilee gifts is a magnificent dinner service ot bright yellow Dresden ware from the German emperor. It is profusely ornamented with medallion pic- tures of notable events and portraits of fa- mous persons of her reign, It will contain In all 450 pleces. ' All the reigning houses of Europe taken together muster only 408 male members; so that the royal “castle” is not an exte J one, especially when we consider that one family alone, that of Lippe, which rules over barely 16,000 souls, counts thirty-five princes. The most prolific housé is that of Hols with firty-three members, embragist royal families of Russia, k, and some small pringips X Wellin, to which bejongs the, Byl | family, as well as those-of Beig! apd Portugal, counts fifty; the Bourbons muster forty-seven, the Hapburgs thirty- - Hohenzollerns twenty, the house of Oran) forty-three. ‘Lhe smaljest of all is that of Obrenovitch (Servia),which is llmited to two males. —_— Muscovite Grievances. of a glittering crown n ihilists everywhere lurk? 1s there value in kingly renown lnvites the revolver and dirk? THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY MARCH 29, 1887. THE JOURNALS OF PARIS, Their Clrculation, Immense Profits, and Great Influenoe. Paris letter to the New York Sun: It is a curions fact that daily newspapers almost suffice for the reading appetite of the French public. Compared with that of the news sheets, the circulation of the weekly, fortnightly, and monthly veriodicals is very small.” France 1s not & great reading country. In round num- bers the pooulation may be set down at 88,000,000, out of which™ about 6,000,000 only are newspaper readers, if we may believe the siatisticions, whose conclu- sions arc based upon the total average circulation_of all the newspapers pub- lisned in France. If we reckon nowspa- pers and periodicals of all kinds and on all subjects published in France, whether daily, weekly or otherwise, we shall find that Paris produces about 1,50), and the departments and colonies n‘mm.?,n 0. If we analyze these numbers we shall tind forty daily Eolfllflll papers in Paris, and about double that numbers of daily political papers ‘published in the eat towns, like Bordeaux Marseilles.Lyons, Lllle. Nantes,Havre. In order to reach the figure of 200 daily papers E;Ibllshflfl in France we should be obliged inclnde very small sheets whose circu- Iation is less than 1,000 copies a duy, In- deed, wo may say, with very little ox- aggeration, that the greatest and almost the only French newspapers worth speak- ing about is Le Petit fournul; for,suppos- ing that we take its circulation, varying be- twoen 900,000 and 950,000, and supposing that each copy is read by three or four persons—which is a low average—we may safely say that this paper is read by half the reading population of France, Next in circulation to the Petit Journal come the Petit Parisien and La Lanterne, with daily circulations exceeding 120,000 copies. The largest provincial circula- tions are those ot the one-cent_papers, Le Petit Lyonnais and Le Petit Marseil- lais, each about 70,000 a day. All these one-cent papers are splendid enterprises; for instance, the annual profit of Le Petit Parisien 18 in round numbers $100,000,and the annual protit of Le Petit Journal £800.000. The papers at two and three conts cannot come near these one-cent papers, either in comparative profits or in circu- lation. Le Figaro is the only three-cent paper that can be quoted as a fine enter- prise. Even now, although its eircula- tion is 10,000 or 15,000 less than it was three years ago, the annual profits of Le Figaro amount to $100,000. The Gil Blas, circulation, 80,000, is also a paying con- cern. The most serious and well in- formed of all the French papers, Lo Temps, barely gives a profit at all, Among the two-cent papers, Le Matin, circulation, $60,000, s beginning to pay fairly. But with these exceptions, there is not much newspapor stock in Paris wotth coveting, How the various minor newspapers manage to live is a mystery, but a mystery onliy to those who are un- familiar with the fascination which news- paper ownership posseses for thoe vain and for the ambitious, for financial speculators and political intriguers. To sum up once more, we may say that there are two lcndin‘ Eflpars in France, Le Petit Journal an © Figaro, the former appealing to the great populace, the latter appealing to the miadle and upper classes. The pub- licity of Le Figaro is all powerful; it is aspeaking trumpet whose sounds re-echo through Europe—a fact which enables the cynical triumvirate which now pre- sides over its destinies to sell short puffs on its first p{lfie for $8 a line, and to charge o publisher, for instance, $1,000 for a leading article by Albert Wo! if on a new book which he may desire to push. The system may be reprehensible, but it helps” to account for the profits of the paper; and above all, from an advertis- 1ng point of view, the money thus spent 18 well invested, for the publicity of Le Figaro brings in a sure return. In all matters where criticism comes into play the influence of Le Figaro is incalcula- ble. The dramatic author whose piece receives a favorable notice 1n the Figaro need not pay heed to the remarks of the Paris journals. “If I can only count upon Figaro and Gil Blas,” says gha nov- elist who brings out anew volume, *'I don’t care a continental for the rest.’ ——— Satisfactory Collateral San Francisco Wasp: The other morn- ing as the janitor of a bank not very far from the Palace ovened the door he was eurprised to observe three rather tired looking citizens seated on the steps, the centre one of whom held a sealed envel- ope carefully in sight of his companions, “Want to made a deposit gentlemen?” asked the cashier, who shortly arrived. *‘Step inside.” “No, I want to negotiate a loan,” said the man with the envelope, ‘‘and there isn’t a minvte to lose. 1 want $5,000 quicker'n hades can scorch a feather." “What collaterals have you—govern- ment?” inquired the ofticial. *‘Government nothin’. I've got some- thing that beats four-per-cents. all hol- low. You see I've been situng in a poker game across the street, and there’s over four thousand dollars in the pot. There are three or four pretty strong hands out, and I've every cent in the center, the boys have given me thirty minutes to raise & stake on my hand. It'’s in this envelope. Just look at it, but don’t give it away to these gentlemen. They're in the game, and came along to see 1 don't monke, th the cards,” “But, my dear sir,” said the cashier, who had quietly onened the envelope and found it to contain four kings and an ace, 'this is entirely irregular—we don't lend money on cards.” “But you ain't going to see me raised out of a hand like that?’’ whispered the kerist. *“These fellows think I'm bluff- ng, and I can just clean out the whole gang. You see we ain't playing flushes, 80 I've got 'em right in the door.” *Can’t help it, sir. Never heard of such & thing," suid the cashier, and the disap- pointed applicant and friends drifted udl{ out. On the corner they met the bank’s president who was himgelf just from a quiet little all night game atthe Union. They eaplained the case again, and the next moment the superior officer darted into the bank, seized a bui of twenties, and followed the trio. 1n about ten minutes he returned with the bag and an extra handful of twenties, which ho fl\m& on the counter. o “Here, oredit five hundred to account,’”’ said he to the c: I hought you had morp b Ever play pokory? o, sir. '‘Ahl b Frobiad any of E accomphished play pirats. one tln‘a’e a mambero? a dramatic o pany which traveled exclusively im the west, ‘'Hazel Kirke' had become greatly popular in the east, and & manager of a western company wanted a copy of it, ‘but he did not wantto purchase the rights mlun honeohz. mn:‘rl ng actor upon & eme. He proposed that rl'?o oampl:lr’n,{ should be cast for the ay, as tho t were were already in on, and that for several nights they should be scattered through the theater at which it is being per- formed, the nndershndms with each be- he shoul familiarise hi i character which he been east, an then joL down his lines after each per- formanoe, finally handing these notes to the manager. hen all these watchtul actors had turned iu their stealings their for AR chiet had “copy enough'’ to provide him- self with a fuir vorsion of the desired play. ‘lhe eame ingenious young man, spurred by the success of his ‘Hazol irke'’ robbery, afterward tarned his at- tention to such desirable theatrical prop- erty a8 “The Banker's lhm&h(cr"' *Ro- many Rye,” “A Celebrated Case,” *‘Rose Michel,” “Fedora,”” ‘‘May Blossom," “Called Back’ and *‘Michnel Strogoft." But it was not nece: y always that his company should L the expense of at- tonding” the theatre in a group, The majority of the plsys named are published in the cheap libraries. The {)uo:nx pirate purchases two copies of the k. He blocks out his acts after the original (which he, at least, has seen) and then, with the aid of scissors and paste, he cuts the dialogue for each act or scene and fixes it in its proper place. When this1s completed he fills in* & littlo here and excises a little there, adds original speechies, elaborates with a bitof humor or pathos and gives the stage directions. ‘Then the play complete is ocopied by a typewriter, after which each part 18 du- plicated individually in the same manner and bound in o little oil cloth covering. Ascene plot is prepared for the scenic artist, a property plot for the property man, and the musical director takes the manuscript and at designated places mterpolates musie. This is a quick way of obtaining a play, and the young man only needs to see a performance once nndvhuve a copy of tho original noyel, ———— IN THE MONKEY TEMPLE, A Hindoo Place of Worship in the Sacred City of Benares. This is the temple which is commonly called the monkey temple, on account of the large number of monkeys, all living ods or goddesses, which were formerly there in great numbers, says a writer 1n Sunday Magazine, describing.a Hindoo place of worship. Some time before our visit a great many of these monkeys had been sent nwnf' in the junglo, because they were really becoming dangerous in the neighborhood swarming upon private houses around, thieving, and in some cases injuring the little children. As we entered the sacred inclosure we were asked to take from plates some grain to feed the monkeys which were still there, and this feeding of the monkeys is con- sidered by the people to be a most meri- torious act. Beforo entering the inner inclosure of the temple_there is a build- lnE to be seen called the Naubatkhana, in which a large kettledrum is boaten three times a day, There are two small tem- ples beyond this, and between these two stone pillars, one of which is used as an altar for sacrifices, Here we saw a gont offered up. It was first taken to the Briolt and covered with oil and then rought out,all unconscious as to its fate. Its head was bound to a wooden post, and while one man held its hind legs another with one stroke of an ax severed the head from the body. The head was then laid on thoe altar, while the body was taken to the priest. In the interior of the temple is a small shrine where sits in all her hideousness the goddess. She is coyered with tinseled cloth, and it is said that the priest keeps several masks on hand, which he puts at will on the image; some are of brass, some of silver, eto. 1t is decorated with garlands and chains of gold; a small lamp is kept burning on the shrine and a silver bath sunk into the ground. While we were watching the riest as he offered his flowers and tinkled ig litle bell, an old pilgrim from Luck- now came up and asked alms of him. The merciless man answered him that it was rather his business to give alms to the temple than to ask it there, and ad- vised him to be contented now that he had reached Benares, for the best thing for him now was to die in thesacred city. The poor fellow seemed very hungry,and I offered him a biscuit I had with me, but I soon found that I had made a mistake, for the priest frowned on mo, took the biscuit from the old man, and brought water, which he poured over his hands to wash away the polution which had reached them from contact with my biscuit. ——— NEW YORK CHURCHES, About Bixty Million Dollars Invested in Church Property. New York Express: Gotham, for a town supposed to be mortgaged to his majesty down below, has a good deal of money invested in churches. Thetotal is about $60,000,000. It vexes the soul of Colonel Ingersoll that all this property is exempt from taxes. If it bore its share of the tax burden like othor property its contribution to the city treasury would be about a million a year. I'mimty church heads the list 1n point of value, the figures on 1t being $8,000,000. The Roman Cath- olic eathedral on Fifth avenue comes next at $2,000,000, Trinity is actually worth at least $4,000,000 and the Catbedral not less than $3,000.000. St. Paul’s is set. down at $1,750,000 and Grace at $355,000, which is hardly half what any real estate broker would say it is worth. The fash- ionable St. Thomaa church on Fifth ave- nue is valued at $7560,000, and the Fifth avenue Preshyterian church (Dr. Hall's) near by, at the same figure. One Dutch Reformed church on the avenue stands at $750,000 and another at $450,000; and the stylish lynnfiogue, wherein the more rogressive Hebrews worship, at $650,- . One Roman Catholic church (St. Paul's), is valued at $600,000, and the next highest figure in that denomination is $360,000 on 8t. Stephen's, the scene of the Dr. McGlynn trouble, now at an end. ‘The well known Little Church Around the Corner is on the list at $250,000. Along Fifth avenne and Madison ave- nue, the arteries uflmrough which the hlue :v}llo%d of l?otl}:m ow‘-fiz tlinere ?m liome irty churches rangi n value from 3200,500 to $750,000. Reptiles in & Big Theater Hat. Chicago Journal; ‘The latest story that is going the rounds anent the hat nuisance at the theators is rather florid in texture, but, if generally known, shonld effect a revolution of at least one phase of jt, if anything can. It treats of a young lady of Pittsburg who wore at the opers & hat of tho conventional di- mensions, and surmounted, as most of them sre in these days, bfi' an nvhr{ of stuffed birds. Presently the young lady in question had her nttentiow called by com - ngl flah visit M wrole s Yoraws of ryations: . {89 o g p , tho! M?«'a " a8 courteot 0 is given to the select members both shall whipped or fined. But the gond- humored fasses, to make you amends, will kiss the kinder in a corner. A cap- tain of a ship, who had been en a lon voyage, happened to meet his wife an kiased her in the street, for which he was fined ten shillings and forced to the money. Another inhabitant of the town was fined ten shillings for kissing his own wife in his garden, and obstinately refusing to pay the money, endured twont{ lashes at the gun. t this rate one of the delightfulest customs of the world will in time be quite thrown out of fashion, to the old folk#’ satisfaction, but tothe young ones' lamentations, who love it as well in Now Epgland as we do in the old." Jinformationtd " e ——— ] A CARD. TO THE PUBLIC-— With the approach of spring and theincreased interest man- ifested in real estate matters, I am more than ever consult- ed by intending purchasers as to favorable opportunities for investment, and to all such would say: When putting any Proper- ty on the market, and adver. tising it as desirable, I have invariably confined myself to a plain unvarnished statement of facts, never indulging in vague promises for the future, and the result in every case hasbeen that the expectations of purchasers were more than realized. I can refer with pleasure to Albright's )hmcx and Baker Place, as sample il- lustrations, - Lots in the “Annex” have quadrupled in value and are still advancing, while a street car line is already building past Baker Place, adding hun- dreds of dollars to the valueof every lot. Albright's Choice was se. lected by me with the greatest care after a thorough study and with the full knowledge of its value, and I can conscie entiously say to those secking a safe and profitable invest ment that Albright's Choice offers chances not excelled in this market for a sure thing. Early investorshave already reaped large profits in CASH, and with the many important improvements contemplated, some of which are now under way, every lotin this splen- did addition will prove a bo nanza to first buyers. Further information, plats and prices, will be cheerfully ed. Buggies }-«:ndy at all D w‘p}"apo:ty. BRIGHT SOLE OWNER, 218 8. 15th Street. espectfullyy, Branch office at South Oma- ha. N. B. Property for sale inal) parts of the oity