Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 20, 1887, Page 4

e g g - e THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF BUBSCRIPTION : ly (Morniag Edition) ncluding Sunday £, One Year w0 $10 00 For Bix Months. e 80O For Three Montha 20 The Omaba Sunday DEx, maied to' any dress, Une Year. 20 OMARA OFFICE, NO. e Yomk Orpck ASHINGTON OFFIC ND 018 FARNAM STREFY. M 6, TRIBUNE BUILDING. 513 FOUNTEENTH STIREKT. CORNESPONDENCR! All communioations relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addrcssed to tho Ebi- TOI OF THE BER. BUSINRSS LETTERS? ATl businoss Jettors and remittances should b to THE BEg PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAIA. Drafts, ohecks and postofice orders 10 be mado psyable to the order of the company, THE BEE PUBLISKING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER, Eor TOR, THE DAILY BEE, Sworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebraska, County of Douclas, |5 & Geo. B, Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual circulation of the Daily Bee for the week ending June 10, 1857, was as «ee 14,205 <14.200 Sunday, June Monday, June 6. Tuesday, Jjune ‘Wednesday, June Thuraday, June 9 Friday,June 10... Average.......... ¢ GEO. 15, T75CiTUCK. Subseribed and sworn to before me this 11th day of June, 1887, N. I’. FrIn, [SEAL.) Notary Publie. Geo. B. Tzschuck, belng first duly sworn, deposes and says thiat he is secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual average daily circulation of the Daily Bee for the month™ of tor June, 188, 12.208 copies ; !nrm@ly. 1586, 12,314 copies; 12,404 copies: for Septem: 1846, 3 coples; for October, 12,08 coples: for November, 1580, coples; for December, 1886, 13,237 copies; for January 1887, 16,266 coples: for February, 1857, 14,195 coples: for March. 1857, 14,400 coples; for April, 1857, 14,316 copies; for May, 1887, 14,227 copies. Gro. B. Tzscriuck. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 4th day of June A. D., 1587, ISE. P. FeL, Notary Public. KEELY 8 yQ his n;olv;r v;ill p;‘esen!lv appear. The World baloon was also to sail to New York. DAKOTA has experienced a terrific cy- clone. There is only one thing Dakota has not experienced, if all her claims are true, and that is a division, —_— St. JoserH is making efforts, with rea- sonable assurances of being successful, to secure the Santa Fe railroad. Where is the Omaha & Southwestern? THE only basis for the corner in coffee is the fact the wheat advanced at the same time, and dough beans rose with the market. Both were thoroughly kneaded. THe state ot Missour: has passed a law prohibiting the sale of liquor in less quantity than five gallons. It is estima- ted that the colonels will decrease, under this law, 75 per cent. Tue United States army 1s now busily engaged in chasing thirteen hostile Apaches, The way to do the business, and do it well, is to let the United States navy get after them. IN the Mexican state of Chihuahua the people are troubled with two legisla- tures in session at one time. Ne- braska has found it almost impossible to get along with one legislature, to say nothing of a double calamity, Tae McGlynn anniversary parade proved a fizzle in numbers and import- ance. The fact that the ex-pastor of St. Stephens refused to defend himself before the court of Rome, deprived him of the support of triends and admirers. Tue Massachusetts house by a large vote last week admitted a bill to raise from $100 to $500 the penalty for non-de- livery of telegraph messages. A law placing the penalty at $500 for writing messages in an illegible hand, would also be a good feature. Eprror O'BrieN fares better in Ireland than in her majesty's American province. ‘The freedom of the Emerald Isle has been tendered to him, but the coercion bill will soon curtail his liberty. The salute of Cork is more inspiring to the patriot that Toronto’s shower of cobbles, and he improved the numbered days of strife and eviction, THE largest bank in the world is the Bank of England. It was organized in 1604, with a capital of £1,200,000 or $06,000,000; capital now about $72,000,000, two and a half times par: 900 clerks— young men—begin at £70 a year; heads of departments receive £1,200 a year, and $210,000 a year are spent on salaries. The bank keeps the record of the national debt of Great Britain—£800,000,000—at- tends to transfers. receives the taxes and gets therefor £313,000 per annum, and it is said that few of the cashiers find it ne- cessary to go to Canada. EEE———— Tue New York Post is very much tickled over the factthat out of 111 grad- uates of Yale nineteen are mugwumps. It is quite probable that if these mis- guided young men know or care any- thing about politics they have obtained their pabulum in that direction from our New York contemporary, but it will re- quire only a very little friction with the world, at least in a political way, to con- vince them that investment in mug- wumpery will never pay any tangible dividends. ee————— Tag fice that destroyed the opera comique at Paris, originated through the Igniting of a curtan by a gas jet. There is now a loud and universal clamor there for the compulsory and immediate intro- duction of electric lights in all theatres and one or two New York pspers seem disposed to encourage a similar demand in that city. The New York managers, lhowever, are with few exceptions oppos- ed to the electric light. They give vari- ous reasons, perhups the most important of which is that 1t is both unsteady and uureliable, beside which it cannot be operated with the facllity that fas can. 1t is suspected that the economical con- sideration is not without weight, but no manager suggested this, On this score of safety the electric hght is doubtless to be preferred for use in theatres, but in sowe other respects gas is the more de- sirable. The trouble 1s that the latter has to be guarded, and wherever precautions are necessary accidents are always to be wpprebended. We have received a circular and pros- peetus of the re-organized Western Mu- tual life association, originally known as the Western Mutual benevolent associa- tion, of Beatrice. The prospectus bears upon its tinted cover the following in- seription: “Popular Plan, organized March 25, 1884—policies paid in full. Capital paid up, $100,000, authorized capital, $500,000.”" Weo take it that these documents have been kindly mailed to the BEE by Colonel Sabin, who was con- nected with the old and defunct benevo- lent scheme, Mr, Sabin has several times tried to persuade the BEE that great injustice was done to his phil- anthropic association by the exposures which have from time to time avbpeared in its columns, and he has even exacted a promise that we would right the wrong, if any there was, to the best of our ability. Up to the present, however, we have not been able to discover wherein the Bee has laid itself open to the charge of mis- representation, either wiliful or other- wise. Neither Mr. Sabin nor anybody else can truthfully impute mercenary motives or designs to the Ber for repeatedly rejecting all advertising of the concern after the damaging disclosures had been made. The re-organized “home enterprise,” as its promoters are pleased to term it, may be on a more solid basis, but the methods employed in restoring and 1n- spiring confidence are, to say the least, questionable. *Circular No. 23,” for in- stance, contains the following reference to the dead but not unburied past: The wicked, slanderous and libelous state- ments made against this company by an Omaha paper, caused many of our old mem- bers to lapse, and has been an important rea- son why we have adovted the new plan. If a member lapses from the new plan it does not injure those remaining. Under the as- sessment plan, every member who lapsed, decreascd the ability of the company to pay. This association is now in its fourth year, and when it was organized, it was organized as a fixture, to be a permanent, rehable in- surance company, which will exist and do its work long after all its founders and pres- ent members shall have gone to reap their reward, This is decidedly benevolent. If the charges made against the defunct con- cern were ‘‘wicked, slanderous and libel- ous,” why have they never been refuted? 1f the Mutusl Benevolent was honestly conducted, and its financial resources what they had been represented, to pol- icy holders, why was the company reor- ganized? Was it benevolent to obtain money under false pretenses from honest and unsuspecting farmers and laborers, torob their widows and orphans, and was it wicked to expose the 1ogues who were carrying on this legalized confi- dence game? 1f the founders of that benevolent en- terprise are going to ‘‘reap their re- ward,"” what section of hades haye they pre-empted? The new company may be sound and on a sohd footing, but their literary bureau is at its old tricks. The circulars and prospectus are full of editorial pufls from Nebraska papers, bearing the ear marks of the advance agent, The list of members contains too many ‘“‘honorables,” ‘‘colonels” and ‘‘generals”” who have never been hon- ored with anything or commissioned by anybody. Most conspicuous among its patrons are the president, secretary and opera- tives of the company. The Omaha list is especially remarkable for its liberality to unearned titles. We presume that any man who would take out a policy for $100 is entitled to a chromo and a gen- erals’ commussion, While this paper has always encour- uged home enterprise it 18 not disposea to commend every venture that promises to be profitable to its promoters, however high they may rank in politics, in the church or in society. Confidence 1s a plant of very slow growth, and once for- feited is very difficult to restore. The Financial Question. All the intelligent opinion that can be presented relating to the all-important question of disposing of the treasury sur- plus, is deserving of attention. The problem is byno means a simple one, though to some it may appear to be so. The large amount of money now in the possession of the government, for which it has no legitimate use, should not be squandered. It oughtto be returned to the people, to whom it properl§ belongs, and who could put itto good use, but this should not be done in any other than an entirely legitimate way. There are two plans by which this surplus can be re- turned to the people. One is by large appropriations, in excess of the needs of the governments, some of which would almost necessarily be for objects not now in demand. Recourse to this plan would probably lead to reckless extravagance, which the country might be a long time in recovering from. Schemes of internal improvement and other de- vices for spending money would be inau- gurated which would have to be main- tained or the money expended in them would be sunk. While this plan might receive present commendation from & great many, it 1s auite possible the time would come when 1t would be generally regretted. The other plan is to use this surplus in reducing the public debt. With regard to the authority of the treasury to buy unmatured bonds, or to anticipate interest on bonds, there is no doubt: The secretary of the treasury has stated that he has such authority, and the laws relating to the matter are sufli- ciently plain to donvince any one that he is nght. The question whether heshould have recourse to this authority is largely one of expediency. The very gen- eral opinion in financial eir- cles is that it will have to be determined before the session of the next congress begins. Beyond the regular uppropria- tions, less than twenty millions of dollars will be disbursed by the treasury after the 1st of July, at which date the redemp- tion of the remaining three per cent bonds will begin. This will give some relief to the money market, but it will speedily be lost in the continued drain flowing into the treasury at the rate of 1,000,000 & day. Congress is not likely to do any- thing that will begin to operdte in check- ing this drain before the end of next March. By that time the surplus will have reached very nearly or quite $100,000,000. It is pretty certain that un- less the treasury comes to the aid of the money market, the business of the coun- try must suffer. There is perhaps no very serious danger of a financial cris vut there is very likely to be a consider- able shrinkage of trade operations, a re- duced activity in all departments of in- dustry, and & necessary curtailment in every branch of enterprise. . In a late interview the secretary of the treasury seemed uncertain as to which of the methods at his command would be preferable, that of anticipating a year's interest or buying unmatured bonds. The difficulty in the way of the former of these is the possibility that the bondholders would not generally co- operate. It is apprehended that very many of them would not care to accept their interest in this way, although it is not apparent how it could be any disad- vantage to them if no rebate were re- quired. The objection to the other method is that it would give the bonds a speculative premium. We have before us a circular of Harvey Fisk & Sons, bankers of New York, in which they en- deavor to show by figures that whilo the government would save nothing by an- ticipatiug a year's interest by purchasing bonds to the amount of the interest there would be a saving of over two mil- lion dollars. This is in the assumption that the government could buy the 4} per cent bonds, which became due in 1881, at a premium not exceeding 134, the opinion being expressed that they could be had at as low a premium as 114, which would of course increase the say- ing. These bonds now carry a premium of 1004, and it is more than probable that were the government to enter the market as a buyer the advance in the premium would not stop at 1§, though it doubtless would not go beyond the figures upon which Harvey Fisk & Son compute a saving of more than two million dollars. If this could be assured, there ought to be no further question as to the course the treasury should pursue. The time when the policy to be pursued must be determined, if anything is to be done, is not far distant, and every day after the first of next month will increase the ur- gency. The Orimes BilL. The full text of the Crimes bill as it passed the cemmittee of the house of commons, which was vublished in the BEeE of yesterday, should have been ex fully perused and attentively studie every reader interested in obtamming an accurate knowledge of the character of the repressive legislation proposed for Ireland by the present tory government, of Great Britamn, To such as did no ex- pression of adverse opinion from another will be necessary to convinece the! the measure proposes a policy of crimi- nal administration in Ireland that must vrove to the last degree oppressive, that is in conflict with the spirit of the age, and that justifies the determined and un- compromising resistance that is being made to it by the Irish party in parlia- ment, The bill consists of twenty clauses, six of which have been acted upon. As to some of these the opposition succeeded in securing amendments which moditi the severe injustice of their original re- quirements, but with respect to those still tobe acted upon the impression is that the government will make no further con- cessions. Itis probable that on the 2ith of the present month, when final action is to be taken, the bill will be enacted very nearly in the shape in which it now is. Thus the people of Ireland will be subjected to alaw the connterpart of which, in the severity of its restrictions, in the rigid surveillance it provides for, and in 1ts generally harsh and oppressive character, is not to be found in the ex- isting statutes of any other country, ex- cept perhaps Russia, and which would not be tolerated a day by the people of this country. Its practical effect will be to subject the Irish peo- ple to a tyranny of repres- sion and oppression as complete as any they have ever experienced 1n the past, and thereby to crush out, as far as possible, all patriotic efforts to rid them- selves of the hateful rule they are under. To be a member of an association that has for its object lrish independence, or seeks even to secure ar amelioration of Ireland’s condition, will be, under this law, to be a conspirator. Its purpose is to throttle all political and patriotic or- ganizations, to deny free speech, and to place the people in helpless pondage to their rulers. Under the administration of a lord licutenant whose interests, po- litical or otherwise, would be best con- served by a system of oppression, it is easy to see that the power given him by this law would enable him to be the most severe of petty tyrants, and al- though all avenues of relief are not ab- solutely closed the wronged people of Ireland would have little reason to hope for relief while the political element now administering the affairs of Great Britain remained in power. 1t is no longer questionable, however, that they will be subjected to this hard and unjust measure, with all the bitter, harsh and humiliating experiences it must inevitably entail. What may come after it may be idle to now predi A WasniNgroN dispatch reports Mr. Cleveland to be very mad with the secre- tary of war and the adjutant general for having drawn him into the trouble about the confederate flags, and states that it would not be surprising if these individ uals received a signiticant ‘‘warning.” There is very little probability that the president will do anything of the kind, and it would not help his case if he did. 1n a matter of such importance the presi- dent should not have been influenced by the suggestions of these two persons, and he cannot shield himself by professing want of consideration, or shift the re- sponsibility upon subordinates. As to Drum, it appears that he was at first rather proud of his authorship ot the scheme, but would now like to be ac- quitted of responsibility on the ground that he had the highest authority for his action. The ecftorts of those involved in this matter to wriggle out will dono good, The responsibility is fixed and it will stick. Tue letter of ex-Senator Van Wyck to the secretary of the interior, urging that # widow’s pension should commence from the death of the husband, when the pension was aillowed and commenced in his lifetime, regardless of the time at which she subsequently files an applica- tion, presents so strongly, in a brief and pointed way, the justice of doing this, that it is astonishing another practice has prevailed with the department. [t scems however, that the method has been not to make the pension of the deceased hus- band continuous to the widow or minor children, but to commence it from the date of the filing of their application. This is obviously unjust, and as Mr. Van Wyck says disregards the pledged faith ‘THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY. JUNE_20. of the govetnment to the doldier that it he dies from the disabilitics contracted in or incident to the service his widow and minor children shall be provided for. The practice of the department in this matter needs to be reformed. —— W do like enterprise and cheerfully credit our Harney street contemporary with the first publication of the report that the Omaha waterworks suit has been compromised through the purchase of Marshal Field's stock by the parties who own the controlling intercst in the cor- poration, ‘That compromise 1s, however, a matter of very small concern to our citizens, They care precious little who owns the waterworks stock or how the big fish in that reservoir swallow the lit- tle fish. Our citizens are decidedly more interested in the enormous increase of fire hydrants and the extravagant tax we are compelled to pay for fire protection. There isa field for inquiry which our city council should explore with a view of reducing the burders of taxationd — ONE of the very best educational insti- tutions of the country is the State uni- versity of Michigan, which wlil this month celebrate its fifticth anniversary. It has been the alma mater of & larg number of men who have obtained ¢ tinction in all departments of profe sional life, and in furthering educational progress it stands hardly second to any other university or college in this country. OyAnA is one of the healthiest cities on the continent, but that fact does not justify neglect of sanitary precautions. We must keep our streets and alleys clean of garbage. Malarin breeding ponds and cess pools should be drained or filled with earth and the stench fac- tories should be elosed or compeiled to deodorize their product. — WheN the cable road puts on its ears on Dodge and Harney streets the Farnam street mule cars will run empty. The horse railway company must either transform its main line into a cable road this summer or substitute the electric motor for mule power. WitH fifteen patrolmen doing police duty in a city that extends over twenty- five square miles it is not at all surprising that crooks and marauders can ply their vocation with very little risk. STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. The surveyors of the B. & M. camped on the outskirts of O'Neill. Falls City and Norfolk, two lively young towns, will add waterworks to their improvement record this year, Fakirs have been induced by gilt-edge patronage to pluce Blair on the circuit with Plattsmouth and Fremont. ‘I'nieves made a wholesale raid on the store of Kerr & Williams in Grand Island and gathéted up $10 cash and 1,000 cigars. Eyery town in the state will whoop up the eagle in the most hilarious style next month. 7The Fourth will be a hollerday of howling proportions. Dr. Antrim of Ho!t county, boasts of the largest cow' on earth. She weighs 3,000 pounds and will celebrate with the Stuarts on the Fourth. The Milwaukee surveyors have col pleted the survey of a line from Omaha to West Point. ~“From the latter town they go in the direction of Madison. John Gallagher, tried in Nebraska City for train wrecking, was acquitted, and now proposes to chew off a chunk of monopoly profits in a suit tor damages. The proclamation is made that Holt county soil beats the world. An{ one y are who has faced a cloud of 1t on the fly will promptly swear that it can beat a man blind, A Clay county preacher declares that he has discovered natural gas. The deacons of the church have resolved to reduce his salary unless he ‘‘plugs tho durned hole.’ Mr. Layman, a farmer living near Stuart, got entangled in a shoual of fence wire, breaking the knee joint of his right leg. The injury is severe and will make him a lame man for life. The Chinese laundry man of Blue Hill has adopted the novel and expeditions method of branding his bundles with pis- tol bullets. As a means of improving the culation this ta he hole line e is a scarcity of domestic help in ings. The rise of real estate values have thrown the qucens ot the kitchen into the lap of aflluence, and now th snap their fingers 1n the faces of th toiling ex-mistresses. Colonel Mat Patrick, of Omaha, has purchased 1,600 head of grade Hereford cows and heifers from Organ & Pi of Cheyenne, the transaction rep ing $8),000, The herd will summer on Patrick’s Tongue river ranch, The philosopher of the Lincoln Demo- crat declares that the request of the Southerners for the return of the cap- tured flags is on par with that of the school boy who asked the teacher to re- turn the dust fanned out of his trousers during the corrective process. The York Stud Poker club 1s said to be composed of the laziest mortals that ever drew stimulants through a tube, They are victims of chronic inocuous inertia, enxJnluv slovelings to keep oft the fhes, and loll on rm.luunF chairs, with the amber end of a rabber tube 1n their mouths, connected with the nozzle of a barrel of Bordeaux. Theyare wheeled to their roosts when the curtains of night are pulled down. Mr. J. H. Dufly, postmaster at Cham- bers, Holt county, is sadly afllicted. Some time ago his wife showed signs of de- mentia and wasoplaced in an asylum at Cedar Rapids, Ine A permanent cure was thought to have been eftected, and on her return home with her husbund she jumped through the open window of a car, but fortunately ed injury. She will be placed in the state asylum for treatment. The Indians on the Omaha reserve held a semi-annual bear dance and blow ont last week, The mellow braves, matured bucks and cadaverous squaws gathered in Alsmaguzzlem’s'amphitheatre or mud palace and tore their hides as a peace offering to the gat keeper of the happy hunting grounds. , Heap Big Chief Tun- der-an-owns, a hyphenated professor of the black art, sladited his throat with a sharp stick and sput [?'ure at his squaws. Great beads of blobd frecked his hillowy bosom, and shouts of savage delight picrcea the center pole. The medicine man, arrayed in the dignity of cflice and a wart on his temple, lro(fu into the pal- waved his holy wand thrice and pped a plagter of mud on the bleedin| arts of the brave. Thus was the evil spirit routed. lowa Items. Very few Iowa men were caught in the wheat crash, Estherville will give $1,500 for a flow- ing artesian well. A sneak thief, who styles himself a “‘mind reader,” has been taking in Du- buque innoceuts. Burglurs cracked the safe of an Ot- tumwa groceryman Monday night, se- curing §3,000 for their trouble. The Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad company are '..singa fill en their Ut- ir 1887 requiring 700,000 cubic tumwa lands, yards of carth, The Dubuqiic Boot and Shoe manufae- turing company with a capital of $25,000, has filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state. The counties of Union, Adams, Taylor, Adanir, Ringgold, Madison, Decatur” and Clark will unite in a district fair at Cr ton August 20 to September 2 inclu: Two cattle trains on the Burlington road tried to pass each other on the same track Tuesday night near Middletown, killing eighteen cattle sud wounding seventy-fiye. The trainmen were not in- jured. The dead man found near Dubuque proved to be Levi Johnson, a veteran of the war, and member of Colonel Hender- son’s Forty-sixth lowa infantry. His wife and se children i near Sand Springs, in Delaware county. An Osceola county teacher was tried before a justice of the peaco for alleged cruel treatment of his pupils. After an excited trinl he was acquitted with the request that he resign aton A case of not guilty, but don’t do it again, Prohibition shuts up the saloons, says the Sioux City Journal, but if figures are quoted correctly, it don’t stop the drink- ing of beer. During the past six weeks the sales of the Franz brewery alone have averaged fifty-five barrels, and the total amount sold during that time ex- ceeds by about 600 barrels the sules of any previous six weeks since the b ery was started. One way of accounting for this is the fact that” when the saloons were open hundreds of private houses were supplied with bottled beer through the saloons, the supply coming largely from Milwaukee and St. Louis. With this source of supply cut off, the trade of the home breweries increases. Dakota. Samples of new Dakota potatoes five inches in circumference are now to be seen at Yankton. Alexandria has raised a bonus of §1,000 for the man who will open a first-class creamery in that town. Ex-Governor Pierce is president of the North Dakota Loan company, of James- town, representing $5,000,000 capital. Over 9,000 gopher tails have been paid for by the H;;du county register, Mr. M G. Simon, and by July 1 will probably reach 10,000. In the way of banks, Dakota leads the number twenty-five states in the union. She has 252 banks of deposit, including fifty-two national banks, with a total banking capi- tal of $6,250,000. Several valuable improved sections of lana in Hamilton county, forming a part of the large farm of D. S. Spaulding and J. 8. keator, have been thrown open to settlers by the government. The entries were cancelled for alleged fraudulent proceedings. Wyoming. Laramie proposes to bore for coal, gas or petroleum, at an expense of §3.000. Considerable Nebraska capital is going into lands and mines in the territory. The corner stone of the court hoase at Sundance, Crook county, is to be laid on July 4. Ed Lynn essayed the bad man act in Douglas and was promptly fired out of town accompanied by a shower of lead. Four hundred men are now laying rails on the Cheyenne & Northern. The road will reach the Platte in two months, A crazy woman created a wild sceno in Cheyenne a few days ago. She was a passenger on the incoming train, saching town, rushed to a pol an, screaming “‘Where's faro bank?” A zen permanent citizens tendered their services as escorts, but they subsided when it develoved that she wan to know where the town of Fairbanks was, A sucker fora bank there attracts as much attention as a fire alarm at mid- night, N How Sheridan Sent News to Grant. Boston Traveler: A former member of General Grand's staff during the war said to the T ller correspondent to- night, while chatting about the great commander: ‘1 know a great dealabout Sheridan’s campaign through the Shen- andoah valley, about which so much has been said recently 1n the newspapers on account of the attack of General Rosser upon the licutenant general of the army. I know exactly what Sheridan’s orders were, because [ wrote them from Grant's dictation. The valley of the Shenandoah was really the sup,‘\ly station for Lee's army, and Grant knew he could strike the confederates a heavier blow by tak- ing their tood from them than he could by winning _half a dozen battles. His orders to Sheridan were most explicit, and afterward he often spoke in praise at the manner in which the work was so effectually done. Of course, Rosser, doesn’t like Sheridan, although he is a splendid fellow, if he has slopped over in this affair. Duving most of the time that Rosser was n Sheri- dan’s vicinity, “‘Little Phil” kept him on the jump, and naturally a man is a little rancorous in his feeling even twenty-tive fl’ul‘fi afterward. 1 was with Grant when he got the first news that Sheridan had laid the valley a desolate waste. We were at City Point one afternoon when the guards brought in two of the toughest looking customers that I ever saw. They had on old eonfederate uniforms and were a disreputable pair. Grant looked at them clos and then he smiled. Both saluted, and he called them by name and shook hands with them. One of the men took a little ball of tin foil out of his mouth and handed it to the gen- unscrewed a button on his out some ue paper. )\ were Sheridan’s dispatches to Grant, and the two union scouts, for such the men were, had traveled over two hundred miles around the army, and sometimes through their lines to reach the commanding general with the good news. Both men were rewarded with promotions for their brave and dan- gerous work. One of them is now « cap- tain of artilleryin the regular army—the other I have not heard from for a great many years. o] Snakes, ntly found s unlocked at Forsyth, txa. How Some & A small rattlesnal in a mail pouch when it w. Morrows Station, it zot there is a mystery. Ki w Jersey lads living at Flac- ptured ten rattlesnakes on the Blue mountains, They secured them alive by means of forked stick Waterton, the famous Englishman, once caught, sing anded, a snake ten feet long. D’Albertis, the explorer of New Guinea, dragged out a snake thir- teen feet long. A copperhead bit Winters, of D Farmer William vidson county, Tenn., on the hand while he was 5‘1“"“" W potatoe slips and killed him, He suf- fered intensely, his body swelling to its natural size. vl and snake, both dead, were dward Swartz, of Gila Sta- The snake was tightly en- and left wing of found b; tion, Ariz. twined around the nec! the owl, the latter having the tail of the latter in its beak. The marshal of Waynesboro, Ga., killed eleven moceasin snakes with his revolver, but the reptiles still kept com- ing forward from under the logs in such numbers that he was forced to re- treat. The Citizen says the marshal is a man of veracity and wholly temperate. —-[New York Sun. 1 e In the town of Harrison, Wis., last week an old lady was arrested for pastur- ing her cow in the road and fined $3 and costs. After she had paid up she pro- duced a basket of rotten eggs and pro ceeded to pelt the man who complained of her. Theman tried to get away, but the old woman followed him up and plas- tercd him all over with rotten ten fruit, Edison's Sucoessful Efforts to Harnoss Eleo: tricity THE IN NEW YORK. PLANT Innumerable Uses to Which the Cur- rent s Put—The Dangerous Life of the Adjuster—Leaks of the Wires. A New York letter to the Kansas City Times says: In the basement of Broad- way, at the corner of John street, is o circular iron plate on whose surface raised letters indicate that it belongs to Mr. Thomas A. Edison, America’s great- estinventor. Every other evening about 8 o'clock, after the busy thoroughfare has been deserted by every son of foil, excepting it may be the thirsty tramp and the thirstier policeman, an intelli- gent, neatly dressed man earrying a medium sized box emerges from the dusk and stops at the plate. From the box he draws a singular looking rug about two feet square and four inches thick, composed of loosely wound and more loosely woven cotton wick. On this he kneels and, then with a quecer assort- ment of cold chisels, cleaners, jimmies and wrenches removes the plate after much toil from the metal frame in which it was so firmly set. Beneath 1s a large, square chamber whose walls and floor scem to be incrusted metal. . Near both top and bottom are ponderous rings of polished copper separated and held in place by unrecognizable pads and wash- ers of some dark substance that looks like silky India rubber. From each ring wires radiate, passing through the walls of the chamber and losing themselves in the earth below the pavement. The man gloves his hand with a rubber glove and works a few minutes with the compli- cated attachments, here removing a piece, there tighteming a screw, fium changing a position of a wire and there inserting an insulator. As he paused I asked him which of the many electric systems begotten in Menlo park he was ung:lfxed upon. *“This time upon the Edison illumin- ating, though 1 superintend several others and am_frequently culled in to consult upon electrical matters by out- side concerns. To-night | aw testing and regulating.” “Wh'y do ycu take so many precau- tions?’ “Partly for my own safety and partly for the sake of doing first-class work. You see there iy a current moving through those two mains, as we ca them, that could kill 100,000 men in an instant. If through carelessness I put myself in its way and got its full force that would be the last of me. A year ago I was a little thoughtless or clumsy and slightly ‘grounded the negative main.’ That1s, I touched that upper ring of copper when one knee was on the bare vaving stone. Here's what the current did.” e rollea up his coat and shirt sleeve and displayed a muscular arm that look f it had been cngraved with a chisel and then eaten with nitric acid to produce an etching plate. I was in the hospital over a month for that, and that it was so tough a lesson that I'll never forget it, I'h show you how strong that current'is.” He took a pair of fine pliers and holding them with a cleft piece of wood touched one end to the upper copper ring and onc end to the steel coyer rim. In an instant the gray metal broke into sparks and flame. He removed it with the remark: ‘“That cur- rent would burn up a crowbar or lamp- post if it were properly directed.” ‘“Is there much danger?” There used to be, but it grows smaller every day as we know more about hand- ling electricity. 1t's like a horse some- times that runs away. It will get into railroad tracks and knock a horse over and sometimes kill the animal. Some- times it leaks out of the wires and gets into a water or steam pipe and then para- es some of these Italians you see dig- gl:pg up the streets nowadays. They think it 1s the devil and hold "a prayer meeting. Sometimes it gets us boys. Down in Wall street the lights were be- having badly and 1 went down to see what was the matter, Everything was all right inside the oflices, and so 1 went out into the street to sce if there werea leak or a bad wire. It was runninga little, just a drizzle, 1put my hand on the plate glass window and was knocked down just as clean as if Sullivan had done the job, You see the wire leaked just over the window and the layer of Tain on the glass, along with the gold le(lerm% made a good conductor and I got the benefit of the job. I was sore the next three days, but I fixed it up all the same as if nothing had hapvened. We hate to let on to outsiders when we get caught ourselves. It don’t look profes- sional and they always guy us,”” “‘Do your wires perform any work be- yond 1lluminating?®" “Certainly, all sorts and kinds. It runs fans in restaurants, revolving h: brushes in barber shops, sewing and kmtting machines in private families, passenger and freight elevators, dentists’ augurs and the bellows for church or- gans. It rings the bells in flats and opens doors and protects houses from burglars. Then itis now used, and so far as I know these are the latest ideas out, in reinforcing tetegraph and tele- phone circuits, in nickel, bronze, copper, silver and gold plating, in putting metal on the backs of looking glasses and run- ning electric clocks, “There are probably newer things than that, but I haven’t heard of them as yet. Every day there isn't less than one new patent on some funny racket or another, saw one that was put in in an uptown brewery last month. It was called a compound improved tele-thermometer and the, name wasn't as big as the work the little thing would do. It would ring a bell better and quicker than you and I ean do if a wateh- man went to sleep, if the engine ran_too slow, if the room grew too cold or if 1t grew too warin, if a fire broke out or if the water pipe burst. In fact, it would do everything that a good brewery hand would ‘do except drink its employer's beer.” “How do you know how much force you use?"’ 0, that's simple enough. Edison has got it down so fine that we know. might say how many pints or ounces we turn out at the central office, how much flows in each wire, how much how much 18 wasted, and how much is tapped and drawn off by our customers. It's a sort of queer notion to tuink that you have got a thunder and lightning storm condensed in that apparatus, and that you are retailing in little chunks or pieces.” i l)urinfi the conversatfon he had finished the work, readjusted and fastened the cover into the rim, luted it with red lead and refiiled the box with his many imple- ments. With a cheery ‘‘good-night” he disappeared in the darkness on his way to the next chamber down Broadway. e —-— For fear of loosing a day's work, many persons put off Inklnf physic until Sat- urday. The better p) is to not delay but take it as soon as needed, it may save you a hard spell of sickness. 1f you want the most benefit from the icast amount of physic without causing you any inconvenience, loss of appetite or rest, take St. Patrick’s Pills. Their action on the liver and bowels are thorough, they give a freshness, tone and vigor to the whole system and act in harmony with nature, GEORGIA'S HUMAN CORMORANT Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle: Some weeks ago the Chronicle made montion of the wonderful feats performed at Moore's lagoon by a colored man nained Wallace Bailey, dubbing him “the human king: fisher,” but the account was ridiculous and laughed at generally, being consid- ered the h product of vivid imagina- tion. What was then stated, how- ever, did not mprise a third of what this man is capablo of doing in the water. Knowing that the great majority of people entirely doubted Bai- y's powers, several gentlemen finally persuaded him to name a day for a pub- ic exhibition. Yesterday afternoon therefore, nearly a hundred poople had assembled at the lagoon, which is located about one mile from the eastern boundary of the city on the ferry road. Disrobing at one end he swam down to the open streteh of water before the crowd. Quickly, but with hardly a ripple of the placid surface, he sank” beneath the water. Upto this time many present were skeptical as to the result, and when & minute had nearly elapsed and still he had not come to the top, the doubting ones felt certain that it was a eell of some kind. “Hello! there he is.” “The human cormorant” came to the top like a cork, holding both hands aloft, in each appearing a struggling fish. ‘This caused a flutter of applause, which encouraged the fisher, and, after throwing his prey out on the bank, he went down again, This, too, was the most successtul dive of the day, for when he came up not only did he have a fish in each hand, but one in his mouth. This was enough in itselt te satisfy the entire audience, although some were of the opinion that he had twe or three fish tied at the bottom. During the morning he caught two or threc bunches, and went in again at 3 o'clock The water was too cold, and he could nof stand 1t longer than an_ hour. He ecap tured eight or ten fish, however, includ: ing trout, perch, bream and catfish. It was wonderfu. work, indeed, and all wha saw it were amazed. On leaving the water the man shook like a leaf and nar- rowly escaped a chill. After most of the crowd had left a re- porter talked for some time with Bailey, 1is story was certainly a strange one, and will bear repetition: *‘How long have you been at this busi: ness?"’ “‘About six years. But I can only en- ter the water in summer, and even then it freezes me clear to the bone."” “What in the world ever possessed you to try such a thing?" “Well, sir, it was all in adream. 1 took several of my female friends down to Lagoon one afternoon on a fishing party, and while there fell asleop. I went to dreaming, and I thonght 1 just div under and canght ’em with my hands, When I woke up I ranto the other end of the pond, took off my clothes and jumpe in. It felt mighty funny at first to keep my eyes openuan wder ter, but I stuckt to it and in a little while caught two o three dozen fish. Since then I have tried it every summer, and now I can see snags, stumps or anything else. Why, [ can tell what kind of fish I see, and can get any kind they tell me.' “‘After you catch sight of the fish, how do you secure him?™’ “'0, that's casy enough. along pretty fu He can get t at first, for about eight yards, but then he FMS slow; and I just cep on and eateh him, because, you see, I can stay under the water two or three minutes. The way 1 cateh most of them is by finding their beds. Sometimes there's twenty or thirty huddled together, and then you go up easy, put one in your mouth, grab one in each hand and come to the top. when the sun comes out good they drop to the bottom, a lot of them getting together in a bed, and goes to sleep or gets stupid anvhow. That's the easiest way to catch 'em, but it doesn’t make any difference to me,’cause I'll get "em, no matter what they do.” “Do they ever fin you?" “Sometimes, especially if it's a catfish. See my hands, don’t you see how they're seratched? That's what done it." “Why do you prefer to fish in the la- goon?'" B se it's still water, and clear,too. The river is usually muddy, and besides the current is strong. In eddy water I can_outswim a fish, but I can'tdo it against the stream. It doesn't trouble me a bit to catch'em in any kind of pond or lake. In the river, if a tish started up stream he would leave me behind. Ihave caught several in the Savannah, but it ‘Tusgmly ’byqniok work, Still water is th 2 Choking Catarrh. Have you awakenod from a disturbed sleop with all'the horriblo sensations of an assassin clutching your throat and pressing the life- Dbreath from your tightened chest? Have you noticed the languor and debility that succeed the effort to clear your thront and head of this catarrhal matter?” What a depressing influence it_exerts upon the mind, clouding the memory and fuling the head with paing and strango noises! 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