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

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Bubseribed and sworn to before me this Tth day of May, &. D, 17, ISEAL. N Ferm, Notary Public. —_— I'HE nter-state commission, like Mr. Hill’s presidential boom, seems to have subsided. MoRE plenk sidewalks in the very busi- ‘s centre on Farnam. Have we a board of public works? Tue loss to Michigan by the forest fires gaging there the last few days cannot be estimated. It will take many arbor days 1o grow the trees destroyed there. —_— A LINCOLN paper speaks of the ‘“‘al- ideged discrimination’’ of Nebraska rail- swoads, Such referonce, to those know- +dng the facts, is the coolest kind of irony. —— GENERAL Boorir, of the Salvation * @rmy, is going to become an American woitizon. What is England’s gain in this slstnnce, would appear to be America’s S8, —_—— T lllinois legislature will adjourn June 15. The idea of remaining in ipession such a great length of time is to pass o bill prohibiting base ball playing won Sunday. EEE————p——— {HeNRY ORGE says it 1s strongly \$rabable that there will be a labor party smandidate for the presidency in 1888. Mr. yGeorge will no doubt aim to head the Mloket. ‘THE cholera is raging in South Amer- itea, and has recently spread with great ganidity in Chili and the Argentine Re- mublic, Southern states are already alarmed. A pYNAMITE bomb was exploded in Lon- «on yesterday, doing some little damage. The biggest faynamite bomb that has en exploded out of Europe lately is Editor O'Brien, Tue 8an Francisco Chronicle says a «Cincinnati man listened to the music of ithe Salvation army and then went and thanged himself. An Ohio man only «would expire to such music. IN getting two missionaries of the iBiandard Oil company in jail, the work wwas commendable, It should not stop at. tthat however. There are many of them sxunning st large who are just as bad as sthe two indicted ones. — Tue Lounisiana Sunday law closes the . smaloons and the cigar stores, but it allows * ithe theaters to remain open, This 18 to " ihe taken as a law to protect the theaters .~ ifivom being interrupted by persons goiug -aut to get cloves between acts. ———————— LARGE quantities of natural gas have . n found jn Dakots, and in Kansas E 'y pectors have been repaid for their fabors. Should an effort be made it is L ve likely that it would be found in ~‘ ,:‘I‘llkm *MASSACHUSETTS joins Illinois in the xopolihon to regulate the telephone siness. Nebraska attempted this through the Otoe statesman Mr. Watson. . Mhe telephone lobby, however, was on ithe ground, and Mr, Watsoun's bill never spassed. EE——— A PENNSYLVANIA woman has brought wsuit against the government for $4,000,- #900. She evidently proposes to engage the services of several contingent law- syers, Wouldn't Vanderbum's eyes have such a claim en presented to our last legislature? SE—— JUST as there used to be democrats in ' [Pennsylvania who continued to vote for “$0ld Hickory” long after that great smpostle of democracy had passed over to ithe undiscovered country, so there are “democrats in Ohio who, at every recur-- ring political campaign, want Mr. Thur- man as their standard-bearer, despite the repeated avowals of the ‘“‘noblest Roman'’ that he has put away forever all political ambition. There is nothiug in mature less enetrable than the hebetudi- ‘mosity of the average Ohio democrat. ‘The question agitating the citizens of . "he Pacific coast is, shall they kill the " seals? The Call says the seals continue . o eat the salmon as they enter the iGiolden Gate. They follow them up the | *Beraits of Carquinez, and even, accord- | Wng to one fisherman, as far as Sacra- umento itself. If they merely killed Vi ugh to supply themselves with food “tthe mischief would not be so extensive, b t they are said to bite more fish than \ they want to eat, and to kill scores of apparently from mere sport. If soals are killed, one of the greatest ttractions of which Californians boast— at the Cliff house, will be lost. Two New Labor Champlons. The wage workers of America are of laté receiving much tatherly attention from an unexpected quarter. Afewdays ago Chauncey M. Depew delivered an address before the Brotherhood of Loco- motive firemen in which he vigorously presented the divine rights of railroad barons and sought to impress upon work- ing men generally the blessings they share in common with the billionaires who own the New York Central. Chaun- cey Depew 18 to the imperial Vanderbilt family very much what Prince Bismarck is to the German emperor. His impul- sive sympathies for the laboring masses are exbausted in a profuse tender of free fatherly advice. As president of Mr. Vanderbilt's New York Central Mr. Depew graciously desconds to the level of the locomotive firemen to tell them that they can't abolish poverty by spout- ing, any more than they can banish smallpox and measles by passing resolu- tions. It takes a man of ponderous in- telleet to find that out! This inspired labor lecturer condescends to take his railroad employes into his own confi- dence by imparting to them some strictly private information. “They tell you,” said King Vander- bilt's vice regent, “‘that the New York Central railroad earns 000,000 & year, and that that money s 10 the bloated eapitalists, Does i There 15 $12,000,000 goes for wages, $10,- 000,000 goes for supnlies, $3,000,000 goes for taxes, interest, ete. Finally you find find the capitalist has out of his $34,000,- 000 only $3,000,000 to bloat on, and when you consider how many there areto share it, they don't bloat much. Y ou would not think they were bloating much if you could stand in the president’s room and hear what they expect.” Twelve millions for wages and only three mil- lions for dividends to the bloated stock- holders sounds like a very generous concession to the wage workers. But a moment’s reflection will dispel this delusion. Three millions a a year net on an inyestment of $34,000,- 000, with taxes all paid up, is over eight per cent a year, or double the rate Van- derbilt draws on his government bonds. This 18 not all. Mr. Depew does not re- fer to the fact that the thirty-four mil- lions of capital on which the New York Central pays dividends is fictitious and fraudulent. W ith the water wrung out of them, his thirty-four millions would dwindle below one half that sum— possibly below fifteen millions--from which a revenue of three mullions a year is drawn—wrung from the pockets of the people who are compelled to patron- ize the Vanderbilt road. The Now York Central employes may be well paid, but Mr. Depew cannot convince ra- tional people that one half of the three millions which goes mto the pockets of the bloated stock- holders should by rights never have been extorted from the patrons of the road. With cheaper fares and lower freights the railroad employe could procure cheaper food and clothing and lower rents. Another new labor champion has pre- sented himself to American workingmen in the person of Edward Atkinson. This professional economist has for yeurs played the role of monopoly monte sharp. He loves to pose as the friend of the farmer,’and stufls the tax-ridden pro- ducer with an array of figures which proves conclusively that the poor rail- roads are being systematically robbed and plundered for their benefit. Atkin- son's deceptive statistics, compiled ex- pressly for the benefit of stupid farmers, have been published in subsidized agri- cultural papers and scattered broad- cast by the hundred thousand, all over the land—at the expense of the down-trodden monopolies. Atkinson himself has had the sublime cheek to appear before congressional commit- tees to plead against railroad regula- tion in general and Pacific railroad legis- lation in particular. He always appears as a heavy shibper 1n the interest of com- merce or as an innocent buyer of wat- ored stock pleading for justice to widows and orphans. His latest intrusion as a true friend of labor is in full accord with all his peculiar efforts in behalf of the producing and industrial classes. It is imposture upon the credulous. His latest economic coutribution on the labor prob- lem appears in the May uumber of Work agid Wages. The following extract shows the ingenious drift of Atkinson's polit- ical economy: How does one man get more than another? That Is all there is in In the labor question. ‘There are two ways of answering this ques- tion. One way to get more than the next man is to earn it, the other way is to steal it. Is there any other way? A good while ago almost dvery man that had more than the next man had stolen it. In some parts of the world they steal it now. In some other places they steal part and earn part. In this country most people earn what they get and very faw steal. Some of the men who call themselves *‘friends of the laborer” say that almost all capitalists steal from almost all the laborers. Others say that the only real thieves are those who own land and won’t et any one else have it. Others say the rail- road companies are the big thieves, Hardly any one ever says thief out square, but it all comes to the same thing. 1f I make use of the law to take away any part of what a man produced without doing anything for him in return, then I am a thief. If [ do as much or more for him as he does for me, then I am riot a thief. If the law glves me power to take what I have not earned, then the law must be a thlef. We might as well say damn as to think damn. We may as well call a man a thiet as to think he isa thief. Suppose I own a large piece of land, several houses, a factory, a lot of tools, a plece of railroad, and plenty of cattle; am I a thief ? ‘The law protects my property, if a tramp comes along who takes any of it the consta- ble takes him, and the court puts him in jail. Is the law a thief ? This1s very plausible, but Mr. Atkin- son does not enquire how or by what means the man who owns the land or the railroad came by 1t? Possession is ten points of the law with him. Again here is Atkinson's idea of the blessings of poverty: Now the rich man can’t eat cany more food than the poor man, he can’t wear many more clothes, and he can’t occupy many more rooms without hiring a lot of other people to help him take care of them, and then they get their rooms The more there is the more every man has, and then each one gets what heis worth. 1f he can do anything he is wanted, if he can’t do anything Ea isn't wanted. - Seees——— The Yankton Road. Omaha cannot depend upon home capitalists for the projected railroad to Yaokton. Her home capitalists have too mony irons in the fire already to invest to any extent 10 railroad wron, The only way to insure the construction of such & HE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY. MAY 95, 1887. road isto hold out inducements to the managers of the Missouri Pacific or some other trunk line that has established con- nection between Omaha and the soaboard. Talking railroad is mighty cheap, but it takes ready money and a great deal of backbone to engage in such enterprises. Our home capitalists have talked and caucused but they are no better prepared for the construction of the Northern Ne- braska road than they were tweive months ago. It is a matter of vital importance to Omaha to secure direct rail connection into northern Nebraska. That region is naturally tributary to this ecity, but the channcls of trade have never been opened. Sioux City has been built up largely by the trade of northeastern Ne- braska. It is manifestly’ impossible for Omaha jobbers and manufacturers to compete for the trade of any section with- out railway facilities. The necessity of the road being admitted on all hands the most practical means to expedite the building of the road should be adopted. This can only be done by negotiating satisfactory terms with parties who are 1n position to build the projected road and make it a paying investment. The Need of The Freedmen, One of the most interesting and really important matters discussed in the Pres- byterian assembly in session in this city related to the condition of the freedmen in the South and their most pressing need —the means of education. The Presby- terian church appears from the record to have done, and to be still doing, a great work among these seven millions of peo- ple who must for a long time yetcontinue to be the object of the white ma solicitude and beneficence. According to the statement of Dr. Burchard, of the committee on missions, the Presbyterians are represented among the freedmen by 280 missionaries, and they are minis to by 217 churches, having a member: of nearly 16,000, with about an equal number 1n the Sabbath schools, The work being done, he said, is most en- couraging, yet what has been accom- vhished is but a very small fraction of what remains to be done. Of the 1,420,- 000 freedmen who are voters, there are 1,065,000 who can neither ry nor write. “These illiterate votes said Dr. Burchard, ‘“control one-sixth of the electoral vote and one-fitth of the congressional and senatorial positions.” Such a fact carries its own impressive comment, Referring to the great political power exercised by this 1iliterate mass, Dr. Al- len, secretary of the board of freedman’s missions, said: “The perpotuity of the country depended upon the intelligence and morality of the colored people. Sooner or later, if permitted to continue in their presentcondition, the same freed- men would undermine the foundations of the country. If a good government be found in this country twenty-five years from to-day, it will be because therc will be an abolition of the neglect now prevailing with reference to the ed- ucation and morality ot the colored ruan.” It is not political assistance so much as education that the treedmen require, was the opinion of one of their represente- tives, a colored clergyman from Georgia. It is not necessary to accept in full the apprehensions expressed by Dr. Allen in order to be able to agree 1n his view of what is required to be done for the freed- men of the south, aud it will certainly be most unfortunate if the white veople of the country shall ever become largely indifferent to this requirement. If it be true that there is now a prevalent neglect the effort to infuse a fresh inter- est and zeal n the work in behalf of the the freedmen cannot be begun too soon or pushed too vigorously. Whatever other mission any labor may have to suffer that among the freedmen should not be permitted to decline. Itisa fam- ily affair which our people cannot for a moment allow to go without the most solicitous attention, regardless of what- ever omissions such attention shall ren- der necessary with respect to those out- side of the family. The question is one of self-protection and self-prese which it 18 justifiable under all stances to give precedence to. As s lightened people, claiming a place at least in the vanguard of the army of civ- ilization and progress, we cannot consis- tently, even if we might safely, neglect the great duty of providing for the in tel- lectual and moral advancement of these froedmen. But more forcibly than all the consideralions of expediency, justice demands that we shall not neglect this duty. This most jmportant work mmst continue to be carried on chiefly by the chure hes, and if it shall happen that their interest in it suffers abatement the work must inevita- bly retrograde. It is gratifying, there- fore, to find the assembly of the Presby- terian church giving earnest attention to this matter and recommending increased vigor in the work. It will be all the bet- ter if such action shall inspire other churches with an emulative interest and zeal. In such a cause church rivalry cannot be too active and earnest. —— The New Policy. The secretary of the interior has pro- claimed the new policy which, agree- ably to the views and suggestions of the | president, is to be pursued with regard to the public lands. The secrctary is re- ported to have expressed himself asin full accord with the position taken by the executive, so that his proposed action is not a merely perfunctory proceeding, but one in which he has a hearty interest and will therefore firmly adhere to. He has said that he is fully convinced that the lands which have been with. drawn from settlement in the interest of the land grant corporations ought to be re-opened without delay, and quickly following upon this expression comes the announcement of a rule requiring the land grant railroad companies, on or be- fore the 27th day of June, to show cause why the several orders withdrawing lands within the indemnity limits shall not be revoked and such lands restored to settlement. Among the companies in- tercsted in the requirement of this rule are the B, & M., the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, the Chicago & North- western, and the Chicago, St. Paul, Min- neapolis & Omaha, This prompt action of the interior de- partment, with the assurance conveyed that there will be no unnecessary delay in putting the new policy 1nto full effect, will be heartily welcomed and com- mended by the country. Before the close of present yoar there will be many mil- lions of acres of desirable land thrown open to the people, all of which will un- doubtedly be taken up by actual settlers within the next two gr will thus become & s ate revenue to overnment, and witlrin one-third t! ne during whioh it has lain idle, a mostFaluable addition to the national wealth And resources. The secretary of tae interior has also expressed his hearty approval of the In- dian severalty law,* and promised carly action under it. As soon as the pro- visions of this act suixll be fully complied with another vast area will be opened to settlement, much of which is the very pest land in the country. According to the report of the Indian commissioner over 135,000,000 acres are now included in Indian reservations, on which 260,000 Indians live. Probably 100,000,000 acres of these lands are available. When these Indians shall have taken lands in sever- alty, less than 9,000,000 acres will afford a 160-acre homestead to every In- dian family, and the vast remainder will be acquired by the government on terms just to the Indians and added to the pub- lic domain, The accomplishment of this will of course not be the work of a day, butit will come, and the sooner the task 18 entered upon the better. The steady and rapid growth of our population makes the demand for new homes constant and ca- ger, The public domuin available tor set- tlement is rapidly diminishing. The gov- ernment has no more important duaty than to recover for the people those lands which properly belong to them and to secure for their use all other lands which can be justly obtamed, — Tty gallant soldiers of the salva- tion army have been thrown into a bastile down in Kansas City beecause their pa- runaways and nuisance. The warriors have made the Kansas City police station melodious with their hymns and the police are nearly r y to enroll in the army. three years. It ree of immodi- the city council should go granting franchises, it should mnot refuse those which are fair and honest and which will tend to the material development of the ecity. The francnise sought by the Metro- politan Cable company is upon its face the fairest nchise that has yet been asked. Wi slow in stalwart republiean continues to villify Ovr self-styled local contemporary and abuse the republican governor of Nebraska, and keeps up a bush- whacking war on the republican mayor and republican police commissioners of Omaha, This is stalwartism with a ven- geance. FORTUNE AND MISFORTUNE. The late W. C. De Pauw, of New Albany, Ind., left a fortune of $6,000,000. Helene de Rothschild, who is golnz to marry Captain Van Smesson, of the Belgian army, is mistress of $30,000,000, Edward Gay and’ C. H. Davis, of Boston, got each & $2,000 prize for landscapes from the American Art Gallers of New York. General Simon Bolvar Buckner, the dem- oeratie candidate for governor in Kentucky, has over $500,000 worth of- real estate in Chi- cago. A young Chinaman employed by a cigar firm on Park row, New Y orl, has won the second prize for ornamental drawing at the Cooper institute. Senator Stanford recently presented to his brother, Josiah Stanford, the celebrated Warm Soring ranche, once the most noted health resort in California. It is valued at $250,000. When Jacob Schaelkopf, the millionaire tanner of Buffalo, took his wife around to look at a $300,000 residence which he recently bought, her only criticlsm was that she was afraid if she lived there she “‘would have to keep a girl.” Christopher Meyer, a New York rubber merchant whom nobody seems to know, is sald to have enough money of his own to buy the Baltimore & Ohio road on cash terms. He isa German by birth, but made his for- tune in this country. John McCarthy Is the oldest bootblack in New York, having occupied a stand near the Astor house for twenty-eight years. He has over $20,000 in bank and will soon retire and do duty as a shining example of the virtue of industry and econony. An old man who had worked every night for ten years on an sttachment to a miling machine, and who thousht that he had ac- complished the work of his life, was well nigh heartbroken the other day when he dis- covered that several years agoa patent was 1ssued covering the identical improvements that he had made. Itistold of Alexander Mitchell that he once asked Il s friend, Mr. Merrill, to go into acertain speculation with him, ‘The latter declined. A tew weoks later Mr, Mitchell handed him & chegk for $30.000. “What's this for?” inquired »r. Merrill, “0,” was the reply, *“‘that’s your share ot the profits in the deal 1 asked you to go into, You thought vou weren’t in but you were.” William ‘T, Walters, of Baltimoro, values his art collection at more than $1,000,000, Mr. Walters i3 a Pennsylvanian of Scoteh-lifsh ancestry. His love for Arthas been the rul- ing passion of his lite. ‘Lhe first 85 he ever svent was for s pictire, Exery vear ho put aside a part of his income for art purchases. The result has been n private art gallery which many crities consider the most har- monious and_beautiful in the world. The interest In Mr. Walters' eeramics and pice tures 8 increased by the fact that the vast fortune of the owner was made by his own exertions. He Is In the liquor business. Genge B, S Ho! here are lives by the score to sell Ji the platform, gents, and bid na an offer, they’ll pay you well— All of em ripae for the coflin’lid. Here is a woman, pinched and pale, Plying her needle for daily bread: Give me a shirt for her—mgre on sale, Dying, gentlemen—dyinz!—dead! A family, six in number, lere, Fresh from a celler in Somers’ Town ; Mother her sixth continement near, Father and brats with feyer down: "Twas Pestilence spoke then, was it not *An open sewer,” I ghink he said; Well, his offer shall buy the lot, Dying! gentlemen—dying—dead ! Now, good customers, pore’s a chance; A thousand men in the prime of life, Wielders of muskets, sword and lance, Armed and drilled for the deadly strite, General warfare lifts his hand— “A buiet for each,” cries the gent In red No offer but this—fast tlows the sand, Dying! gentlemen—dylok !—dead ! A MK of toilers worn and weal, Clerks and curates and writing men— Look at the ftush on each sunken cieck, Mark the fingers that grasp the pen, Come, good gentlemen, can't we deal? Has Drudzery's eye for bargains flea? He offers, at last, the price of a meal— Dying! gentlemen—dying!—dead ! et Opposed to Opposition. Philadelphia Record, ‘The railroads and the beneficlaries of un- just diserimination ave in favor of a suspen- sion of the long and short haul clause, 'I'his 1 natural enough. They were all vpposed to the passage of the clause, which was not made for their benefit, but for the protection of the publie. — The Ruads, Not the Act. Atlanta Conatitution, Champions of the Inter-state commerce blll point with pride to the fact that railroad earnings have Increased sinco the act went into effect. Certainly. This 18 the best proof possible that the act has taxed the people by depriving them of the lezitimate benefits of competition. usiness. Boston Globe, One professor has made 81,500 this year by discovering new comets and getting the $500 bounty offered. Comet-hunting 1s getting to be a protitable employment, When a man can sit down after supper and pick up a §500 comat there is no need of his family going bungry. 1t he keeps on this way, however, such conduet will have a tendency to reduce the price of comets. 11 Rinkr IAGGARD is writing another novel. Let him call it Rats. Brerva Lockwoon 1s lecturing in Ne- braska. Belva Ann is looking after her fences for 'ss, Witkx one of Buffalo Bill's Indians is in his war paint, the Lnglishmen think heis made up to kill. It Is getting along to that time of year when sad-eved poets wonder ‘“what is so Yare asa day in June®' “BrAxcirde VERe” wants to know what a young man won't do when he is in love. Well, he won't eat onions, IN her next play M Langtry will bore a hole through the villian in five places. This will be better than boring the entire audi- ence, A PHILADELPITA paver cautions its read- ers not to jump from streat cars while they are in rapid motion. It doubtless means while the readers are (n rapid motion. Miss E. DELANCY is dying in a New Lon- don hospital from the effcets of the bite of a rat. This probably explains why wowen are afraid of mice. I7is a historical fact that 200 years and more azo beds in England were bags filled with straw or leaves, And it is another his- torical tact tnat some of those saue beds are in use in this country to-day. Tur Fifth Avenue hotel in New York rents for 15,0004 year. ‘That's all right for the landlord to get high rent, but its hardly the square thing for the landlord to add a months rent to every transient boarder's bill. C. W. Er11s who put in six months at the Jamestown, Dakota, Insane asylum, and who has reeently been trymg to get up a town lot boom at Fargo, attempted to make his wife siton a red hot stove the other nig! ‘I'h's little eircumstance shows man's devotion to woman. Dr. Ciasre, of San Francisco, reports a casein which a man lived ten years after having been scalped and tomahawked by In- dians. If this statement gains a general cir- culation tiroughout the country we venture to say that no snake stories will be told this season, Tur Philadelphia Record seriously con- siders the question: “Can cats be shot?”’ Many a night, when one of these felines pours out his scul on the back shed to his laggard mate, there can never be found in the household near by one dissenting voice to the proposition that they should be shot. AN Indian, Young-Man-Atraid-of - His- Horse, recently killed in Washington terri- tory a man, & mountatn bear, two wild cats and the largest rattlesnake ever scen on the const. Curious people will nttempt to fmag- ine the extent of his destruction had the young man not been afraid of his horse. A NEDRASKA newspaver man advertises for a printer who is a good alto or tenor player in brass band, one who uuderstands both newspaper and job work, will be re- quired to work hand press two hours each week. 1t is notevery man who possesses the rare attainments mentioned above. ‘The man who can pull the Archimedian lever, blow a horn and be superintendent of a Sun day sehool is only found iu the honored pro- 1 ons. Tuw recent sparring exhibition between two Sucker gladiators in the Illinois state house was the same thing, only a littie longer drawn out, as happenod down at Lincoln last winter. When Senator Colby paced the floor and denounced the entire state as a coward, first being sure that his man Friday, Tom Majors, was holding Sena- tor Keckly; there was au exhibition of valor on the part of the Gage county statesmen that would have made the Lllinois pugilists weep for shame. Tue rage of London nowadays is all for the Wild West show: “bloomin’ Injuns’ and “bloody beasts” Is heard where'er you go. At Buckingham palace and Balmoral, or down where the Thames does flow. at the Hiotel Metropole or the Seven Dials, they talk of the Wild West show. The crowned keads of Europe have taken it in, and the gamin come and go, and the jostling throng 6t Cheapside street is all going to the Wild West show. The moral to this plainly is that a crown and a haughty air, is nothing to a man like Buffalo Bill, ,with flowing locks of hair, Tue Lincoln Demaerat during these days when its columns are burdened with town lot ads, and its biz Saturday editlons are gathering money nto its exchequer, meanly and scornfully interprets the Inter-state law in the following fashion: This paper does not print time tables for railroads. It will advertise for them any time they order it, at regular rates and for cash. Itno more propnses to inform the public when and where to take trains than when and where to buy a cigar or a drink or a coat or any other article of merchandise Tho inter-state law forbids all such diserim- inations- Broker Poxp, in a New York court the other day, when asked if acertain person was dead, replied that he wasas good as dead,—that he was poor. To this remark, which was notining but a facetious chestnut, a southern paper takes Mr. Pond by the frontispiece of his pantaloons and holds him aloft as a purse-proud egotist, and a scound- rel anaa villain, and reaches out Into space and writes & moral essay that would wring tears from a ghost. Mr, Pond doubt- less meant that his friend was dead broke, a predicament in which many men have found themselves. ELta Wuekres Wincox, who elings Swinburne intensity to a degree way above zero, promises to furnish admirers of her poetry with another voluwe, when the 1 fall in October. A dear friend of s once wrote ber, after reading her last book : Pray put vonr nature in an lce box, Until 'tis frozen through and through, For justas certain as you're afemale woman, "I'is the best and safest thinz to do. Yet if you deem such power, Pray be uiore careful Ip delineation, A trifie guarded —veil your heart And leavea liulo something for Imagina- lon. It is to be hoped that Ella will remember this kind advice, task beyond your S1. PauL was the scene of a touching In- cideut a few nights ago. One of those mel- ancholy occurrences leaving its impression in after years. I'he scene was the city hall, the actors a man named Sternegyk and his indignant mother-in-law. The mother-in-law cow-hided her daughter’s husband, in a man- ner that at once showed skill and appreci tion. Her story was that her daughter had married the party whom she exercised; that he was already married, and that she claimed and insisted that no polygamist could gain her affections, and that the man marrying her daughter must love them both, 1t was mn- deed a picture that artists would haveenvied, and the good angels of the old time, who took men by the hand and led them from de- struction, would have hid behind a cow-hide during the matinee referred to and appleuded the indignant woman, St. Paulis gay and giddy in all things. J. SrenniNg Mortoy, the sage of Arbor Lodge, relates in his experience as a journal- istan amusing incident that will assist in smoothing the hard lines of thoso yet in the ness. When he pushed the Faber on tho second page of the Nebraska City News he Was a young man—ambitious and eager for fame. One day he “spread himself” on an article relating to the financial condition of the country, Ile studied his subjeet, quoted stauisti nado citations from musty volumes of authorities,ventured a prophecy and asked A dozen questions, which, to him, seemed so profound and logical, that he knew he had written his name fmmortal . His manu- seript was sent to the printer early, he saw the first proof and ordered three re- vises. He arosa early the next morning, arrived at his oftice at 9 o’clock and read the article as it appeared in the paper as the “‘leader.”” *Anxious to receive the praise that he knew such wisdom would evoke, he started to the postoftice. A wentleman met him and said, “Morton, that's the best thing Leverread. 1ts-—-"" “I knew it was what you fellows would appreciate,” sa'd Mr. Morton as he left his friend, anxious for the opinion of others. Three citizens met him at the pestoftice--laughing and smiling. One of them said: *“That’s the bost thing ever in your paper,”—and continued to laugh. The other two said it was “so d—d tunny.”” “But Idon’t seeanything tunny abont it,” said Mr. Morton, fearing that some mistake had been made after all his care, “Yes,” con- tinuea one of them, *“you see that d—d dog had the calf by the tail and the wo- man had tho dog by the tail, and =" Mr. Morton remembered that a local editor had written up a foolish sensa- tion and the town was congratulating him as its author, while his financial article had not been read by a single man, “That,”" said Mr. Morton, “was the last time [ ever-spread myself, on the second page.” —_— STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings. The new land oftice at Chadron will open for business business on June 15, Beatrice is preparing to paint the hori- zon and liquidate a portion of liberty's dcbt on the “ever glorious.” I. C. Catz is the significent name of the official butcher of O'Neill City. His patrouns do not see it that way. The httle son of Mr. and Mrs. Don Benson, of Columbus, tumbled into a tub of water, and the angels gathered him in. Chadron will burl a band of howling, painted, civilized Indians at liberty’s walls on the Fourth. If Hail Columbia survives the assault, she's a good one. Plattsmouth had a brief business call from a bunch of crooks, Saturday night. They managed to secure expenses and dissolved with the dawu of the Sabbath. West Point papers have agreed to en- force the long haul on traveling fakirs, and the charitable church fair,” festival festival and dran This will clip the whiskers of the strawberry social. The Plattsmouth Mining and Prospect- ing company is the title of the latest bore in the Cass metropolie. The company proposes to dissect the bowels of the earth for traces of coal, gas, oil, salt, or other mineral. The nines of Neligh and Atkinson will meet in deadly contest at Nehgh on June 1 for §100 a side and the stat npion- ship. Should the victors survive the min- istrations of the surgeons, they will in- vade Omaha and give the luckless leagucrs some pointers on the game The press of Ord and Loup City have adopted the the Arizona code of journal- stic harmony, The Ord Democrats sa- lutes its neighbor thus: ‘‘Agreeably to the kindly suggestion of the esteemed idiot of the North Leup Vacuum and Ofice Seeker's Morgue we have disin- fected our oflice this week.” ‘The Plattsmouth Journal reports that Dr. Dogge suddenly departed from that town on the arrival of C.G. Herold, whom he was instrumental in placing the penitentiary. *‘As Herold stepped oft’ the train from the west Dofi‘e s(eJ:ped on, and Dogge's wife came flying down 10 the depot just in time to see the train pull out, with her spouse standing upon the platform bhmd‘ y waving his hands in graceful adieu. 'f‘hu tenderness of his farewell did not seem to electrify her sful cmotions, for as she ran to- ward him she shook her clenched right hand at him menacingly and her lips beat # wild refrain of 8." Towa Items. The Ryan murder caso has cost Audu- bon county over $10,000, The corner stone of the new $10,000 M. E. church “reston, was laid with ap- at C provriate ceremonies Friday afternoon. rrophet_Foster prediots that the first storm in June will cross the Mmsmsinri on the second, and th second on the 9th. Ilive muscatine people recently received 10,000 each from the estate of a rich uncle, William Morrison, of Allegheny, >, ' Three young men having in their pos- session 180 pocketknives and twenty-one razors were arrested Saturday at Sigour- ney on suspicion of being burglars. Injunctions were last Wednesday granted against four prominent citizens ot Spencer for dealing in hard cider. The beverage was analyzed by experts and found to contain from 7to 8 per cent of alcohol. Gearge B. Slater, of Clinton, a brake- man on the Chicago & Northwest- ern railroad, was knocked from a train at Bertram by the spout of & water- tank, which had not been properly raised, and in falling struck his head on round and broke his neck. He was a young man about twenty-two, and the sole support of his father and mother. e The Long and Short Haul F To the Editor of the Bg more good in the world than bad, more sunshine than rain, more to commend in railrond management than to condemn. Tho poliey of the railroads prior to the inter-state commerce bill enactment, to bring the far west as near tide water as possible by making long hanls at cost and making intermediate business pay the dividends, was undoubtedly the cor- reet one for the past and for the future. The greatest good forthe greatest num- ber, should be our motto. The operatives of the barren New England states must be cheaply fed that their products may be cheaply furnished the farmers of the far west. What is the west without the east, and vice versa? One is equally de- pendent on the other, The closer rela- tions the better for the whole country. ‘Phis closer relation under the inter-state commerce bill is being severed, and the fn-ul west is thmkmfi of manufacturing her own goods, and the east plowing deeper to bring to the surface fresh soil to raise corn, and thus a Chinese wall will be bujlt by high rates of freight, to the detriment of the whole cquntry pnd especially the railroads. The low rates for long hauls are de- manded by both east and west and in- volve the 'lifé of our export trade.. Can- not we have what the mu{;mlfi‘ want, or must we be governed by fhat small minority who cannot or who will no see the mote in his brother's vye, for the beam 1n his own? who cannot see that high rates for short hauls is money in his pocket, as it makes it possible to oy the jong hauls at lower rates, and benfits him as two to one. For instance, prior to the passage of the inter-state com mere 1, a farmer thirty miles west of Omy ad to pay #£24to get a car- load elve tons of corn hauled to Omaha; a high price for thirty miles surely, but when landed in Om road competition rendered it adu for the merchant to pay high price 1 ¢ his corn, as it could be haunled the lon ¢ haul to Chicago for $45, making §32 for the whole distance—thirty miles west of Omaha to Chicago. 1s ‘the farmer 1ot benefitted? or will this same farmer mand a low price for ashort haul (o Omaha, say of $12, for his carload, and under the inter-state commerce bill tie Omaha merchant must pay §100 to get carload hauled to Chicago, or $11¢ for the whole distance, thirty miles west of Omaha to Chicago, which comes out of ust #10 ditference in favor of the high p for short haul and low price for the long haul. This is no ex ception, but applies to many cases under this bill: sume result o what the farmer bu, ells, Somuneh for governmental interference with froe and unrestricted rates commerce. The roads tempo rarily will make money asshown above, but the ultimate results will be, the east ern manufacturer will start his factory thirty miles west of Omaha and tran vort his o] ves only oncoe over th road in a lifetime, where the farmer ca !ll his corn and hogs as long as they and their children after them, an'l ¢ the goods the farmer buys, and <o the long haul for the goods be done away with. ‘Then again, it often happens tit the rate for short hauls does not pay the second handling, and a car must be taken for two tons or less, while long hauls must go in carloads'and loaded by con- signor and unloade h}y’ consignee, 1f large shippers or merchants must pay same rates as small lots (less than car- load) or consumer, then the middle man must go and the consumer and producer come together, and the great city of Omaha is a mistake, not needed, as'the Nebraska farmer will trade h ( direct, or on same theory, C nted, all go to headquarters, sea bourd , the points of embarkation and de- ation, and all our centers of trade from Albany to Denver can be dispensed with and allowed to rot and turn the ground into pastures. Or, has not the policy heretofore pursued in making long hauls at low rates to coapeting centers, and building up these large marts of trade, which actually benetit the farmer and every man, woman and child in the whole country, been the true onot If the farmer wants to get what he wants, at his door, he must either pay the middle man or be the merchant himself—he cannot eat the pound of sugar in New York citx’ unless hauled to him, and if the long "haul for small lots (less than carload) i8 so high, he cannot afford it and must go without. So the long haul at low price and the short haul at high price is perfectly consistent. and harmonious in every economio view, and therefore, the theory of the inter-state commerce bill is a complete fallacy as to long and short hauls. Every argument herein contuined, in regard to our domes- tic trade and trafiic, applics with double force to our foreign trade, as our wheat fields and cattle ranches aro 8o far re- moved from tide water that unless low rates are made, we lose that trade en- tirely, and as every nation is prosperous in comparison with what she sells to other countries, we will fare badly indeed, as no corresponding advance in our bread- stuffs can be obtained in Liverpool to mect the advanced, freight rates demand= ed by law. MERCHANT. T Now _l_:_n_/\n\'." SCRIBNER'S MAaGcazINE FOR JUNE. CONTENTS: BONAPARTE, Frontispiece. From & painte g by APPIANL SOME ILLUSTRAT AN it STRETIONS, OF, NAPOLEQN Vith tllustrations Trom"the author's colleot- A_COLLECTION OF UNPUBLISHED LET. TERSBF AR PACUBIHSHRD LET: with portraits und renroductions of drawings by Thuckoray. numbers,) MISS PRINGLES NEIGHBORS. By Mrs. KOBERT LOULS STEVENSON NCOMMER! PUBLIC. By W, AN B MM SR A SR HBY G bhote: &raphs by tho author. 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