Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 2, 1887, Page 4

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P.Fg Tue Mormon elders are awaiting with much nterest, the enforcement of the anti-polygamy law. Ms. Cory presented Mr. weley with Mr. Colby perhaps needs a watch as badly as any man in Nebraska, eY GreeNe and Will Gurley made speeches duringthe closing hours of tho legiclature. This wus a spoctacle for gods, men, and the gamblers. Me. HumpHREY MOYNIHAN wantsto be chief of the Omaha metropolitan polic Mr. Moynihan will have to possess his soul in patience until after the city elec- tion, —_— It was fitting that Mr. Holmes should present Vandemark with a gold-headed cane. Vandemark needed caning, and besides that he was the fellow who kept Holmes In the seat rightfully belonging to another man, —_—— Tie mileage fraud has been abolished Yy the legislature just in time for our rounty commissioners, Now that the passes have been called in, the mileage aliowance and three dollars a day would not pay as well as a salary of $1,800 a year, It is a matter of regret that that old veteran who has been the chiet clerk of the lobby, General Vanderbum, received no present from the admiring boodlers who bestowed gifts upon Slaughter, Con- mer, Seoley and Cook. Mr. Vanderbum no doubt performed his duties well. IN an interview at Atlanta, Georgia, Mr. Thomas Nast, gave it as his opinion that Mr. Cleveland would be nominated in 1888, and the mugwump press would support him. The inference may be drawn accordingly to this, that Harper's Weekly has given the great cartoonist orders to get ready for the next cam- paign. Ir the Bee has been correctly in- formed, a few of the boodling members of the defunct legislature will be made happy within o very short time. The programmes already completed assure an evening of enjoyment to all interested except perhaps to subjects upon whom indignant and betrayed constituents will vent their pent-up wrath, Tk San Francisco Alfa certainly had its eye particularly on Nebraska when it wrote, ‘‘people in all states where legis- latures have just adjourned are like the guests at a hotel. The landlord ordered the waiter to seo if they were done din- nor. He reconnoitered and reported: *Dey 1s froo eaten de dinner, but dey #sn't froo cussin’ it yet. EEE———— THERE is something suggestive in the fact that when a very rich man is alive his poorer relatives attempt to insinuate themselves into his good graces by praise and flattery. After he is dead, however, if it transpires that they have been for- gotten in his will, the patience of honest people is tried by having contestants claim that the man was insane years be- fore he dic Tue woman suflragists of Massachu- sotts grow wickedly sarcastic, because the bill granting the hobby was voted down in the legislature of that state. The tollowing resolution shows the anger of the defeated fair ones: Resolved, That we thank John W. Hallet and Charles H. Symonds for the unconscious aid they have given our cause by their oppo- sition to It In the lecislature, Unless the suftragists of Nebraska would scorn to imitate, this is a ere suggestion to them, — DuRING the closing bours of the Ne- braska legislature, the basement of the state house was put to an entirely new use. Oil rooms were opened and main- tained throughout the mght. The capitol was too far from city saloons and the hour grew late. Many of the statesmen, anticipating a full night's work, knew that it would be too long between drinks unless some such wise provision was mado. In the dim, dull gaslight some members of both houses drank, as Dr, ‘Watts has sald upon an entirely different subject, “‘themselves away to everlasting bliss." The wine list was complete. Beer, cheese, beer, orackers, beer, ssndwiches, beer and more beer, while the bottle- scarred veterans partook of whisky straight, supplied in quantities inoxhauat- ible. And thus filled with vile decoc- tlons the school of muddled statesmen olosed its sixty-dayhfe, Secretary Fairchild, So long ns the national treasury and its momentous polictes are to be directed by the gold men of New York, state the people of the great west may be con- gratulated upon tho selection of Mr. Charles 8, Fairchild, of New York, as the successor of Mr. Manning. Mr. Fairchild's course a8 acting secre- tary has been directly the reverse of the methods conceived by Mr. Jordan, and O. K.'d by Mr. Manning. When Mr. Manning was paralyzed, the sudden power of Mr. Jordan, the so-called treasurer, fell from that surprising mag- nate, and he as suddenly eollapsed into one of the obscure Successors of the im- mortal Spinner. Mr. Manning, it is said, goes out be- cause Mr. Cleveland has lost confidence J| in the foresight of his friecnd. Mr. Man- ning, 1n 1885, taking the advice of Mr., Hugh McCulloch, the high priest of the golden calt, opened before the new pres- 1dent a vista of currency coutraction, silver demonectization and propert, shrinkage, to which Mr. Cleveland cheer- fully subscribed—being himself a New York man, and greatly desiring that New York should draw from 10 to 20 per cent of surtax on the rest of the country. For thirteen months following the close of MecCul- loch’s interregnum, a Niagara of taxes flowed 1nto the national treasury-—— about seven millions a week. True, a stupendous outflow went on, but only to the extent of five millions a week, £ month during that terrible fisesl period of 1885-86, eight millions of susplus mon- eys piled up, mainly in the vaults at New York. One hundred and ninety-three millions of sight paper remained in the hands of New York bondholders, on which Mr. Manning, with a generous hand, paid 8 per cent of mterest. Not- withstanding the groans of the whole west, this frightful contraction and wicked payment of interest to bondhold- ers was continued, until the lockup at the treasury, in May, 1886, amounted to $200,060,000 of surplus moneys, and the private hoard of the New York banks reached $70,000,000 above the requisite reserve. Then, at the very worst, Mr. Manning, on entering his carriage, was stricken by the hand of God, as the middle-age doc- tors would have said, and Mr. Morrison gave notice to the financialoligarchs that the gold conspiracy had fallea of its own weight. Mr. Morrison’s joint resolution to “‘empty the treasury” was a makeshift at best. 1t bade fair to empty hittle or nothing, but, poor as it was, thero were clerks of the gold-power, with certifi- cates-of-clection, ready to denounce the jomt resolution as ‘“crack-brained,” ** Lazardous, " and, particularly, as “inexpedient.” One great senator wrote himself on the records of congress as fearful lest there be a deficit 1n 1886-87. A deficit with $200,000,000 surplus!— think of that! So fully did President Cleveland sympathize with these arrant gold men that he put the joint resolution of congress into one of his capacious pockets, and may be carrying it yet, unless the goodwife have made a clea ing since the adjournment of the Forty- ninth congress, The legislature had ordered the payment of a little of its sight paper; so angry was Mr. Jordan that he roared like the bull of Bashan. He went to the Hot Springs, vowing all the way that the country would rise up and call him blesscd, and that a panio worse than that of September, 1878, would strike us all about the time he crossed the Arkansas line. But this present Mr. Fairchild came in as acting secretary, a few bonds were called—not paid—and it killed nobody, not even Manning or Jordan. For the truth was that the good goldbug, Charles J. Folger, an honest man, had made ar- rangements looking to the total extinc- tion of the 3 per cents by June 1, 1836, Nobody has called Jordan blessed, to this day—not even the ungrateful bond- hoiders whom he served. Coupled with Mr. Fairchild's disposition to carry out the behests of congress and common sense, the forty-ninth and fif- tieth sessions have fallen tooth and nail upon the great vile of dollars. The sur- plus has melted away almost as fast as it camo in. Aclose study of the figures would lead toa suspicion that congress hasmade arrangements to spend eight mil- lions a month more than ever before, even when the nterest on the public debt was three times as great asit 1s now. But this frightful extravagangce has done some good. It has let out the money; 1t has forced the payment of sil- ver; it has raised the value of farms and houses and lots, and diminished the un- righteous increment-of-value of bonds and mortgages. Let Mr. Fairchild, as full secretary, proceed rather more swiftlyin the path he has followed. Let him look at the slow dccrease of our annual interest- charge. For instance, in 1881 it was reduced $13,000,000; in 1832, $11,000,000; in 1883, $12,000,000; in 1834, $5,000,000; 1n 1835, $3,000,000; and in 1836, only $800,000. The Wall street coterie which has fashioned our expensive treasury policies cries: ‘‘String out the three per cents ! You'll have nothing to pay off after they shall be gone.” But that will not be Mr. Fairchild's fault. That will be Mr. John Sherman’s fault, and the fault of the other financiers who so foolishiy funded the four and four and a half per cent bonds, Some other good New Yorker, Mr. Isaac H. Maynard, it is said, will be made first assistant secretary and the quota of eleven New Yorkers in the head places of the treasury out of forty-eight for all the states and territories will ba religi- ously kept up. The west cannot expect a law-abiding bi-metallic treasury policy until it shall gain the government of the country. ‘The centre of population is on its way from Cincinnati to St. Louis. When it shall cross the Mississippi, New York will have to let go. Until then, a secre- tary like Mr. Fairchild, or the late Mr. Folger will do. We must not have any McCullochs, or Mannings, or Jordans— be they democrats or republicans. For republicans have duties to the country, as well as democrats. Ep——— The New School Law, The new board of education act for metropolitan cities will puzzle a Phila- delphia lawyer. The bill provides that the board shall consist of fifteen members to bo elected at large. Nine of these members are to be elected on the first Tuesday in June, 1887. The other six are to be elected in 1883 and 1880. No pro- vision ie however made for any member of the present board to hold over, and consequently the now board will this year be made up of nine members that are to be elected in June. This muddle may afford an opening for litigation, Nine members are more than a quorum for a board of fifteen. They can manage our school system for the next year just as well as it has been managed for the past few years by the present board, which is constituted of mine members. ‘The original bill was in many respects not what was desirable. The election of members at large, instead of electing them by wards is certainly an improve- ment. The repeal of the provision making membership a salaried office will also meet popular approval. No matter how small the salary, it would afford induce- ments for a scramble among professional office-hunters, But we cannot comprehend why the entire old board has to be legislated out at this time, and why no provision was made for electing members in their stead this year. Kither somebody has blun- dered or some designing schemer has in an underhanded way laid out a pro- gramme which will presently materialize, In the main the new law will prove satisfactory. It inauguratesa commenda ble new departure by separating the election of members of the board from the regular city clection. The former takes place May 8 and the latter in June. This will have a powerful tendency to divorce the school board from politics. There will be no more trading in ward caucuses and city conventions betwoen candidates for city oflices and candidates for the board. This is one step in the right directiof Blaine's Weatern Trip. When Mr. Blaine started on his west- ern trip, political interest and curiosity were on tiptoe. The natural conjecture was that the Maine statesman had pro- jected this journey in order to ascertain the state of the publie pulse, and enliven its activity, with respect to himself. The course of Mr. Blaine thus far has dissi- vated this notion. He has carcfully es- chewed politics, both in his public and vrivate talks. He has justiffed the as- surance he gave at the start, that his western visit is purely of a private na- ture. He has found itimpossible to avoid saying something, but he has said noth- ing that squinted in the most remote or indirect way toward politics. Yesterday he addressed the merchants of St. Louis, and his views regarding the business and financial condition of the country will be read with interest by all that class of per- sons who are chiefly concerned in this topic. He should to-day be on his way to Eurcka Springs, whence he will go to the objective point of his journey, Fort Gibson. On his return, at the end of the present month, his route will be by way of Omaha. The wisdom of Mr. Blaine in refusing 1o talk politics at this time, and in mani- festing the least possible concern for political matters, may not be apparent to his more ardent followers, but noue the less his policy is most judicious., He un- doubtedly feels that he does not need a new boom, and no one understands better than he the possible disadvantages that might result from instituting one. Why should he now concentrate the whole fire of the enemy upon himself ? 1s it not obviously wiser to permit others to divert this fire, and by standing aloof to seem not to antagonize them in the party ? There are two conditions which the shrewd political vision of Mr. Blaine must discern as most important, or abso- lutely essential, to himself, and these are harmony within his own party and the silencing, as far as possible, of advérse criticism. These would be impossible if he should now engage in politics. Ina word, Mr. Blaine cun afford to be quict and apparently indifferent regarding political affairs, and perhaps more than any other conspicuous public man would be a loser by the opposite policy. Mean- while nobody seriously believes that Mr, Bluine does not yery earnestly desire to be the next republican candidate for the presidency, or that he proposes to leave the determination of that question wholly to chance. He may not utter a word of politics in the next twelve months; he may even do the improbable thing of ab- senting himself in Europe until the meeting of the next republican national convention. But whateyer may be the surface appearances of his policy, it may be depended upon that the undercurrents will flow steadily and strongly . toward thé attainment of the aspiration which 18 a3 potent with Mr. Blaine now asit has ever been. Death of a Poet, John G. Saxe, the famous humorous poet, is dead after muny years of suffer- ing. There was a time when his rhymes were as familiar and ubiquitous as are the writings of Bill Nye to-day. And there is something more to his renown than the passing sunshine of popularity., He did not have the genius or humor of Oliver Wendell Holmes, and yet there was a clever turn to the rhymes of Saxe and an ease and grace in his speech that will surely rescue him from the oblivion in which the last four years of his life seemed to have been spent. He was old —over three score and ten—and belonged to that eminent coterie of Atlantic Monthly men who, from 1839 to 1872, brought American literature to the atten- tion of the world. It must be remem- bered that 1t 18 only for about fifteen years that Europe has been willing to read Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes, Lowell, Hawthorne, Irving, Cooper, iller, Poe, and that lot. Scott, Moore, Swift, and many another great literary people, Saxe died at the top. Yet brain work does not usually work destruction of the intellect. Flames like those of Hugo and Gladstone burn to the socket. John G. Saxe brought his pigs to the best market. He wrote rhymes that would please the people, like Gay's and Bayley's. He was a good lecturer among the great (such as Beecher and Gough), and his death follows on the heels of many of the old school of good literature =80 many that we should cherish those who remain with us. The recent treatment of James Russell Lowell in Chicago, which did that il- lustrious poet no harm, put Chicago in the light of a city unaware of the assured position of her guest. These men who have ornamented their race cannot re- main forever with the living. We might gain a good word from posterity by hon- oring their declining years. Saxe and Holmes wrote humor when Wit was not cheap and when more than fools laughed, The world had not then DAILY BEE: SATURDAY. M APRIL 2, 1887. divided into the lively and the scvere. Men of the middle age owe him & tear. Men to come will desire to see his grave. Young men of to-day would not do badly to read his vers HAvING been pelieved of the constraint imposed by the tenure of office law, 1t is said that the president is getting ready to make a clean sweep of all postinasters of the presidential class. With this in view it is stated that the postmaster gen- eral has put a fo, of clerks at work compiling a IME ho presidential post- offices which have got been changed dur- ing his administi n, together with any information at hand concerning the oflices and the postmasters in them. If the estimate be correct that not more than 8 per cent of the prasidential oflices are filled by republicans it is evident that the administration has done very well, despite the tenure of office law, to which as a matter of fact Mr. Cleveland never paid any attention, Inview of the re- cent local surprise we are disposcd to re- gard the Washington report as worthy of some confidence, and we hope it is well founded. It would be much better for the republican party if there had been no law or policy to obstruct the administra- tion in making itself thoroughly demo- cratic, M. Warson, of Otoe, came to Lin- coln, when the legisiature opened, with the sole object of re-electing Senator Van Wyck. His first effective effort was to move the election of Brad Slaughter in the republican caucus by acclamation. Brad was a bitter opponent to Van Wyck and a man after Bill Stout's own heart. It was Mr. Slaughter who induced the licutenant governor to defeat Van Wyck by that infamous ruling denying mem- bers the right to change their votes on the first joint ballot for senator. When the legislature was about to die, Mr. Watson, 1n an eloquent speech, lauded Mr. Brad Slaughter to the skies and pre- sented him with an ‘“elegant diamond stud”” Otoe county should extend to Mr. Watson a grand ovation, Tue interest payments of the 1st of April, being larger than ever before, will create a flow of new moneys westward. A truer expression wonld be that we may expect a return, as new investments, of the products of labor which have been passing eastward for three months. The banks, trustees and investors of the east- ern stutes will be compelled to seek new ficlds. The BEE may offer to their atten- tion the opportunities which the business center of Omaha affords capitalists of the first class, Practically, Omaha is in the condition of ChiCago's burnt district. The business and the people are here, awaiting accommodation, MAsSACHUSETTS hias an annual fast-day some time 1n April, generally in the first week of the month, Of late, the legisla- ture, which meets every year, has been overrun with petitions to abolish the cus- tom. Fast-days in America, as national affairs, have been very rare. The Wednesday after Lincoln was assassi- nated and a day of prayer for Garfield are the prominent @vents of that kind in the last twenty-two years. Joseph How- ard, who lately had an altercation with Mr. Pulitzer, of the New York World, was during the rebellion, the author of a proclamation of fasting and prayer which ended with his incarceration in a bastile, Doveras county will have five com- missioners after tho vresent year. Three of these are to be elected next November. This is a decided improvement. The three-men’s syndicate has been aitogether too close a corporation. . — EveryBopy was bought gold headed canes and watches, except poor Shedd. He was obliged to content himself with the chair and desk used by him during the session. THE members of the Legislatore dia not walk home. Their passes were ex- tended until April 4th. After that the railroads will have no further use for the stutesmen. Other Lands Than Ours, The British house of commons has been engaged throughout the week in discuss- ing tho crimes bill, which went to a sec- ond reading last night. The indications now are that the measure will be passed, though in all probability it will be loaded down with amendments which may re- tard its passage. Itis ovident, however, from the expressions of the Irish leaders that they expect the sucoess of the meas- ure and are preparing for the momentous crisis. This bill differs from the many coercion measures which have preceded itin two important and vital respects. In the first place it is the sternest and cruelest of all the stern and cruel bills drawn up for the purpose of coercing Ireland and the Irish into submission to laws they never sanctioned and to people to whom they are indebted for nothing but injustice and despotic tyranny; in the second place it is not, like its prede- cessoss, permissive, but absloute. It abol- ishes almost every right of the subject. Itis, in short, an outrageous attack on the liberty of the Irish subject; it re- duces him to a position almost as de- graded and abject as that of the Russian serf or the much-pitied subjugated Pole. 1In the house of lords on Thursday night a bill was introduced providing for the purchase of their holdings by tcnants in Ireland, which the Parnellites and many Iiberal-unionists denounce as a most un- just measure, Thus in another direction the present ministry manifest their un- willingness to deal faitly with the people of Ireland. ¥ * * ewspaper opinion, the European war iséare scems to be dead. 1t would sedmy that Russia has reached the convicti;;a:hnt with France Except occasiona as her only possible ally, it wold not be wise to bring about nfllct just yet; but as Buldria is talking of proclaiming her independence, and is busily engaged in arranging for a loan to pay for 25,000 shells she has just contracted for with the accommodating Herr Krupp, and for hundreds of horses which her agents are buying for her in Hungary, the czar's patience may again be dang erously strained. As 1t is, he is the most worried man in Europe. Revolutionary manife toes appear on the walls of St. Peteres- burgand Moscow with irritating regular- ity, and although the police have man- aged to discover one or two manufactor- ies of explosives, they have not yet un- earthed any of the secret printing presses which must be at work underjtheir very nose. A second unsuccessful attempt in the lifo of the czar must have scrved to render his existence still more miserable, and this has been followed by other events which show unusual activity among the nilnlists, The imperial per- sons are being guarded with greatly in- creased precautions, 5 In Englaad attention is once more turned toward Atghanistan, where Rus- sia’s ceaseless intriguing is to all appear- ances about to bear fruit which will not have pleasant savor in the mouths of Enghishmen. ‘The ameer, while his Mollahs to preach holy war against Russians, is quietly sending to secure the big subsidy which he receives from the British government for being friendly with England, and every farthing in ad- dition which he can gciew out of his sub- jects. He also contracted the ob- jectionable hobit of forgetting to pay his soldicrs, and of cutting the throats of all who presume to ask for or hint at a set- tlement of outstanding accounts. A re- bellion may therefore be looked for at any moment, which may end in Russian occupation of Herat and Cabul, or more likely in the seating of Ayoob Khan or some other Russian puppet on the ameer's throne. No wonder, therefore, that Russian patriots smile and rub their hands, and that Katkoff, the irrepressible Moscow edifor, confidently predicts that England will soon have sirch a busy time in the far east that her means of intrigue in Europe will be considerably dimin- ished. . The reported intrigue for the over- throw of the present French ministry has not thus far developed any scrious phase, but its existence is by no means incredi- ble, It is not to be supposed that the rather remarkable carcer of General Boulauger has failed to make him ardent and influential enemies, besides there are several aspiring statesmen in France to whom private life is not a desirable con- dition. The conspiracy discovered at Madrid seems to have been a somewhat serious, if not very formidable aflair, as shown in the fact that among those arrested were several police officials. It appears, however, to have been success- fully crushed and with so little publicity as to have avoided extended popular excitement, s Emigration from the United Kingdom is still on the increase, 236,104 persons having sailed from the rious ports in 1886 against only 210,318 in 1885 About 60 per cent of the whole number were Englishmen, and about 10 per cent were Scotch, so that the 61,411 Irish composed only about 30 per cent of the whole num- ber, whereas thurty or forty years ago Ireland contribvted from 60 to %0 per The change in proportion is not due so much to the fact that Irish- men emigrate less than they did, as to the cent of all. fact that Englishmen emigrate much more. The United States continue to at- tract about two-thirds of the whole num- ber, despite all the efforts of the Canadinn authori land come next, almost as large a gum- bersecking homes in the latter colonies in 1886as in the years of the gold discoveries. Statistics covering a long period show that the emigration from ecach part of tne United Kingdom has certain per- sistent features. Thus the Irish woman is as ready to quit her conntry as her father or brother, whilo there are two me n for one woman among Englishand Scotck emigronts. On the other hand, the English or Scotch emigrant more often goes to his new home with his chil- dren than the Irishman, only about 11 per cent of all Irish emigrants being children, against about 18 per cent among the English and more than 20 per per cent among the Scotch, The back- flowing stream of immigration into Great Britain is much larger than is generally supposed, from 80,000 to 90,000 persons annaally going from the United States to England, many of whom doubtless are peonle who found that they were unfitted for life in a new country, * The beauty of th: imperial party at Berlin last week was Priocess Mathilde of Saxony, the eldest daughter of Prince George of Saxony, who1s the younger brother of the king and heir to the throne. The princess, who is twenty-four years oid, is not only beautiful but a!so cleyer and oxtremely accomplished, She is known to have refused at least two very desirable offers. There has latterly been some talk of her marrying Prince Willhlam of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, the eldest son of Prince Leopold, who is really the head of the family which reigns in Prus- sia and one of the richest royal person- ages 1 Europe. The king of Roumania is the second brother of Prince Leopold. Princess Mathilde quite eclipsed the daughter of the German crown-prince and the Prince’s Irenc of Hesse. *w The vigorous speech of Mr. Gladstone against the Irish coercion bill shows that reports of his failing health and dimin- ished ability are not to be relied on. He took up the bill clause by clauso and tore it into shreds amid a scene of frantic enthusiasm on the one side and dogged silence on the other, When he sat down the government put up their strongest man to reply, but Goschen talked to empty benches, the members crowding nto the lobbies to discuss the probable effects of a speech which will rank among the best efforts of a llf; of oratory. The physician of Emperor William re- ceives a handsome gratuity every time his royal patient celebrates a birthday, The present increases with the age of the em- veror. In 1877 it was 150,000 marks; last week it was double that sum. The medi- cal gentleman in returning thanks for the gift expressed a_hope and belief that the emperor would live to be a centerarian. If ever a wish was father to a thought, surely the physicians prophetic expres- sion of gratitude can ‘l'm thus described, France has discovered that England owes her $200,000,000 under the treaty of 1815. The annual deficit to be dealt with by the French minister or finance is so large that immediate payment of this long-lost-sight-of d¢bt is to be demanded. With taxes increasing and trade declin- ing, the English nation will not be over- ready to pay, and Bismarck is rejoicing at the prospect of a diplomatic rupture between the two countrie PROMINENT Madame Patti eats spring lamb whenever she can get it now. Jobn G. Whittier has given $30 to the Longfellow monument fund, General Saigo, the Japanesa minister of war, speaks nine languages fluently, Secretary Whitney has bired a country res- urging s, and Australia and New Zea- fdence at Morristown, N, J., for next summer. Jennio June has paid $15,000 for a half- interest in Godey's Laay's Boek of Phila- delphia. John Wanamaker, the Philadeiphia mil lionaire merchant, carries 600,000 hfe in- suran The new minister to Liberia, Mr, €. 1, J, Taylor, will leave for uls post about the mid- dle of April Banker Stebbins, of New Yorl Dakota twelve yoars azo with & now worth £0),000, Admiral Porter has received $30,000 bonus on his naval history and gets in addition 20 per cent on ail of the books sold. John English, of Columbus, Ohio, who re- cently married Miss Je; Hatcher, the prima donna of the McCaull Opera company, is worth $500,000. John MclLean, of the Cincinnati Enguirer, has moved into the residence at Washington he recently purchased and enlargea. e will entertain lavishly next winter. Senator Hearst's son, who was presented by his father not long ago with the San Fran- cisco Examiner, Is making that paper a suc- cess by spending lots of money for telegrams and good newspaper men, Ex-Senator Elbridge . Lapham, who is dangerously 111 at Canandaigua, is seventy- three years ol age. Ile was elected to the United Stdtes senate July 22, 1831, to suc- ceed Roscon Conkling, resigned. He Would Do the Fair Thing, San Frar cisco Chronicle. The managers of the Union Pacific and the Central Pacilic roads are showing an undue interest in the selection of the persons who are to be charged with the examination of the affairs of those roads. No better se- lection could be made than ex-Scnator Van Wyck of Nebraska. While he is a strong anti-monopelist he is fair, intelligent, honest and capabie and just the man who would deal fairly by the railroad companies and the people. i A Shining Succ Kansas City Times. Who eays prohibition is not a success in Kansas? A $30,000 drug store has just been established in Abilene. went to ), and is e It Will Live Just the Same, Johnsgon County Journal. The Omaha Bek got downed in the elec- tion ot department commander of the G. A. RR., but the Beg will live to down Its enemies in the sweet hereafter, SR The Song the Sirens Sang. Robert J, Burdctte. In sea caves dark and rocks where hides ‘T'he restless wind that haunts the sea, Where murmuring waves and moaning tides Chant their unceasing melady 3 In meadows bright with fadeless sprine Where dead men’s bones the licht detile, What were the songs they used to sing, ‘The sirens of this sunny isle? Soft breathed and tender, sweet and low. the waters dark and wild, derer hoard their numbers flow, And all his soul their charms beguiled. Swift through the breakers' snowy foatn He drove his bark with panting“breath, Forgetting wife and child ut home, While sirens sang him to his death. We know their songs—they had but one— Odyssens heard the fateful thing; And madness seized Laertes’ son, Who heard *“T'he Flowers that Bloom in Springy” And still unchanged in air or word, ‘I'he sirens sing, with tireless breath The same old song Ulysses heard, And with it still sinr men to death, ——— GOT $2,000. How Two Sleek Swindlers Fleeced an Old Missourt Farmer, A Glasgow, Mo., correspondent of the St. Lounis Globe-Democrat writes: Two travelers registered at the Glasgow hotel Thursday night at 11 o'clock, hailing from Kansas City. They were to all ap- pearances strangers to one another when they arrived. One was a large, sandy- complexioned man, smooth-shaven, e cept moustache, near gix feet tall, weigh- robably two hundred or more who put lus name on the regis- s D). Simpson. He was a man who looked as though he carried a grievance with him. His reticence bordered on the morose, and although he was so large a man his every moyement was with the activity of a cat. His age has been gen- erally agreed upon by those who saw him “as being from forty to forty-five years, though at first glance he would pass for a younger man, We will call him No. 1. No.2 was a much more rlo:\annl man, so far as to demeanor and general ap- pearances, supposed to be from thirty-two to thirty-seven years of age, of average size. good build, rather dark complexion, nearly black mustache, thin and short, smooth shaven, and was probably as tall as his companion. His weight would ran probably from one hundred and fifty to one hundred and seventy-five pounds. He was inclined to play the agreeable, in contradiction to No. 1, who pl d the “heavy business real estate dealer. The community is now thoroughly in- formed of their business methods, when 1t is, perhaps, too late. , They succeeded only too well in the manipulation of an old game—namely, the rural lottery scheme, and found a vie- tim in one of our most highly-respected old citizens, Mr. Steinn 8 wenlthy farmer living on the old Cleveland place, four miles east of here. They obtained the sumof $2,000 frow Mr. Steinmetz,but it was no less than highway robbery, as it was done by force, in the manner following: Friday morning these sharpers, Nos. 1 and 2, hired a buggy at John Moore's livery stable, ostensibly for the purpose of going a few miles in the country. No.1, Simpson, made his ap- pearance alone with the team at the home of Mr. Steinmetz, and stated his business to be to buy a good farm. Mr. Steinmetz told him he had a price on his property and would se! ‘They then pro ted to iuspect the premises and impro ants. Having done so there was a business con- ference and an agreement upon terms. No. 1 then left for Glasgow, pmummf,r to return next morning in company with i3 sister who, as he stated, was at the The next Nos. 1 and 2 hired each ce and “hied them” to the ricts, each intent upon his own particular role in this little rustic drama. Vo. I, Simpson, presented himself smil- ing at the Steinmetz mansion, with pro- fuse excuses for the non-appearance of his sister, ‘T'he sudden chan inclem- ency of the weather, and indisposition were obstacles insutmountable, cte. ‘I'he old gentleman, ever kind and mere ths hospitable, with the weight of between seventy and cigity years to add to kind- ss of nature, said he was glad she had undergone no unuccessary discomfort; that since the hours of dewy eve and early morn he had consulted with his wife: she was so violently opposed to the transfer he would have to annul the trade,which was admissi ) sn\lvu no con- To all sil sideration had passed. appear- ances No. 1 was badly broken up, but gracefully accepted the situation and asked as u favor that Mr.Steinmetz would accompany and imtroduce him toa neighbor whom he had learned would sell his farm. The old gentleman com- phied and started, They had gone but a short distance when they were met by No. 2, Warner, to all appearances an en- tire stranger to No. 1. No. 2 nquired for the owner of theland on which they were and was blandly informed that Mr. Stein- metz, the old gentleman, was jthe owner. No. 2 then as! permission to rluou up some advertising placards on the fence, which was granted, When asked the character of the advertisements No, 2 stated they were for a lottery scheme. At this juncture No 1inquired as to the name uf the lottery and received the in- formation that it was a scheme for the benefit and worked almost cutirely in the iterost of tho farmers, Aftor bein shown circulars, recommendations, an other documents, No. 1 scemed convineed and asked the gentlemanly No. 2 to open |;p at onve, which wasno sooner said than done. No. 1 paid his money. took Ins choice, and drew a ticket calling for $7,000 When be demanded his nioney he was in formed by No. ¢ that he had only 5! with which to pay, but would “give his cheek, or wnuhll place the $5,000 withany responsible man who would advance the other $2,000, the latter to_hold the entire sum until the lottery headquarters could be heard from, Unfortunately Mr. Stein- metz thought he would be sate in_holding takes, came to town, drew $1,200 o own money and borrowed $300 from the bank. It ‘not being unusual for Mr. Steinmetz to draw large sums, no_ques- tions were asked by the bank officials. No. 1 accompanied Mr. Steinmetz to town and returned with him and when they met pal No. 2 in a secluded spot, the old” gentleman was overvowered _and robbed by No. 2 and & mysterious No, 3, ot whom there is no autheatic nforma- tion. No. 1 professed great indignation and, while pretending to resist, succeeded in holding the old gentleman and over- coming all his efforts and attempts to ro- sist. They all escaped, leaving the old gentleman in the road, and are still ut arge. What is done or will be done 18 not known to the public. They have been reported as having gone in various diree- tions. There is good evidence of two of them having cro: the river here yes- terday, going west, the deseriptions bemng ood. ' Unfortunately for justice, Mr. Steinmetz kept this matter a secret from his friends and family for hours, making the escape of the rascals possible. foomteti - atabg ONLY A BRAKEMAN KIL.ED, A Plea for the Faithful Mca who Risk Their Gives Dally. Chicago Herald: An instance of tho eruelty of our modern civilization and its infimtely diversified appliances and cus- toms is found in the fuct that the death of a railway employe, through one of the minor sualties of his caliing is no longer considered worthy mention in the news columns of a metropolitan pews- vaper; or, if mentioned at all, a line is generally suflicient to chronicle the bare fact, detauls being utterly neglected. In the dispatches it used to be: “By a broken rail seven freight cars were thrown off the track near this place last night and_their contents, consistin valuable merchandise, almost destroyed. The loss of the company will reach $15,000, Passenger trains were delayed nearly an hour. A rigid investigatio will follow. One brakeman was killed.” Formerly minor accidents to employes were telegraphed to city papers, but now all correspondents are in- structed to omit sending intelligence concerning the common accidents of the rain, in which employes only suffer, unless the fatalities number more than one or some unusual eircumstances or causes are present, Almost every week some railway employe loses his life or a limb in the Chicago railway yards with- out any mention of the casualty bLeing made in tho city papers. This scems 1, but the truth is that this sort ot »ws'is rarely worth printing. As the world goes these items are unimportant and newsmen neglect tham, But with passengers it 1s quite different. The com- monest accident involving the safety of a passenger or injury to his person is care- ully investigated’ and reported. And just now the papers are filled with arti- cles demanding that the death dealing stove shall be banished, t safoty gates be put up at all crossings, and that avery possible precaution be taken to secure safety for tho traveling public and for rians and street travelers who muss ytracks. Butnot a word is behialf of the employes, whom tho juggernauts of tho rail are slaughtor- ing and maiming by the thousands every ear, “Only a brakeman killed.” Whata story the figures a railway tell—and, after all there is nothing like cold figures to point a moral or tell a tale. In Mass- chusetts last year only one passenger an 7,581,258 illed, and one in 2,166,931 injured. This ratio is not an alarming one, but when we come to employes tho ratio is very different. ‘There wero 274 casualtics to emploves, 63 of which were fatal. On the Fitchburg road one em- ploye out 8f every thirty-one was injured. Onother roads about one in 120. ~ Most of these casualtics were in coupling or uncouplint' cars, Forty-eight, or nearly one a week were injured in this way on one road. One can, therefore, readily believe that on almost any of our larger raillways of the west a man a day ie the average ratio of the rapacious demon of car-coupling. Next comes causualties t@ trainmen from falling from trains—ovep one a week in the whole state of Massss tts, and probably twice or thrice as 1y as in the state of Illinois, Take the Chicago, Burlington & Quiney road for a home mstance, and than the "Burlington there is no better managed road in the world. Inarecent year this road car- ried in Illinois 2,770,000 passengers. Half a dozen of these were injured and none killed. Of the 1,600 engineers, firemen brakemen, baggagemen, ' men and conductors employed in Tilinois more than two hundred were killed or injured. In fully onc-fourth of the cases the demon coupling was the agent of injury or death, All along the line of every i y in the country, and particularly in the divison station towns, where many railway employes live, will be found small “armies ‘of widows, orphans and muimed men. svilla Estate. April 1.—(Special Telegram —That one of a hundred wills of evilla, a wealthy Peruvian, which leaves a fortune to establish a home and school for poor children in the United States, has been filed for probate in New York. By its terms all the testator's real and persotal estate, except his Cawp Edon estate in Peru, is devised for the endowment of the wSevilla” home for children, to be estab- lished in this or any other state, or both as the exccutors may deem proper. The objects of this institution are the maintenance und education of indigent children, s this plan be found impracticable from legal difticnlties in this or other states the proceeds of the sale of the estate shall devolve to the republic of France, or that being unavoidable or impossible, to the Swiss confederation, to be used by either for the purpose indic Half the income from Pty Edon estate in Peru is devoted to pay= New Yon! ing the of emigrant children from the United States, the other halt being devised to acousin of the de- ceased, Miss Ernstine Barreuchea and her danghier, should she marry, but devolving to fund, upon her decease villa formerly lived in this tate is said’ to be worth tla had many relative — New York, April 1L—[Special to the Brr.]--Lisutenant A. Winter- halter, United States navy, sailed yesterday for Paris, where he goes asdelegate from fnited States naval observatory to the ational astronomical convention which meets in Paris on the 16th of Apil ] object of the convention s to determine what plans and mesns of eclarging photog- raphy in making astronomical observations and also photographic raps of the heavens. — e et Our readers are requested to nse vation Oil for all pains, It it a sure Price 25 cents, “For forms of government let fools contest.” For ordinary lifc is is enongh to know that Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup cures coughs rnd colds, e corge Gould has settled into such a ol state of domesticity since his mar- thal all his former friends nre His one aim now 15 said to be to rival his father'ssuccess. ring growling ut his eo-called neglect. o 4