Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 12, 1887, Page 5

g S WORK FOR THE COMMISSION | The Live Stock Board Kept Busy During the Past Quarter, BASELESS FEARS OF GLANDERS. People Who Put the Commission to Trouble and Expense Without Cause—A Convict For Life— Legislative Expenses, [FROM THE DEE'S LINCOLN BUREAT.] The books of the live stock commission how that active work hus been the order n the first quarter of the year ending July 1. The work has been almost en- tirely confined to horse diseases, pecially glanders, and the statistical rec- ord kept shows that out of the 250 and upward cases or complaints recorded that only ten of them are complaints of cattle. It has been demonstrated by the commission that fully one-half the cases to which their attention is called are groundless, and that people are not care- ful enough in their judgment before sending post-haste for the state veterin- arian and commission. On the first day of April there were 143 complaints filed with the commuission, and since that time, until July 1, 112 additional cases have been tiled, making a total of cascs for action in the three months of 235, lo- cated in sixty-four of the different coun- ties of the state. The commission have examined and passed upon 136 ince the first of April, which les alonce of 119 compluints unanswered July 1, The cases visited and examined were distributed by counties as follows: Adams 8, Pawnee 1, Gage 3, Greeley 7, Cuming 1, Antelope 7, Sherman 1, Saline 7, Cedar 1, Boone 2, Dawson 1, Kearney 6, Harlan 1, Thayer 8, l'wlrs 5, Rich- ardson 5, Knox 7, Burt 5, Jeflerson 5, Buffulo 3, Cheyenne 1, Polk 2, Butler 8, Howard 2, Furnas 3, Hayes 38, Custer 2, Hitcheoc Nuckolls 2, Nance 5, Dawes 8, Red Willow 1, Dodge 1, Brown 4. ‘Wayne 1, Lancaster 1, Douglas 3, Colfax 1, Surpy 1, Webster 3, Platte Under the new law, owners of diseased horses that have to be killed receive an indemnity for the same. Of the cases examined eighty-flye head of horses were condemned and killed, four of which the board decided the owners were not en- titled to recover upon. The balance, eighty-one head, were paid for, the total amount paid for them being $3,007, or an average of $49.35 per head. The com- mission wish it understood that they can- not possibly reach all cases upon a day’s notice, and 80 many vigorous claims for attention being only scares and not seri- ous, it takes the commission all the longer to make the rounds and visit all the places. A CONVICT PARDONED. On Saturday last Governor Thayer commuted the sentence of Burney Fitz- simmons from five years' imprisonment to two years and ten monchs, and on b‘ulunlu{ zsimmons was a free man again. It will be remembered that some three years ago he shot a girl named Pearl Focade in Mollie Hall's bagnio. At the time of the trial the defense was con- ducted vigorously on the plea that the shooting was accidental. The jury, how- ever, found him guilty of manslaugh and recommended him to the mer the court, which placed his senten five years. His friends have been active for his pardon for some time A CONVICT FOR L On the 4th day of July when the world was celebra@ng and everyone was enjoy- ing a holiday, the gates of the peniten- tiary opened to reccive Charles H. Rich- ards, of Dundy county, who enters the rison on a life sentence. The record urnished of the prisoner states that he is n man sixty years of age, sent to the g) the penitentiary for muraer; that his usiness was in the mercantile line and that he had a family and relatives in Texas. The record showed that he be- Jonged to no church, that he was a dem- ocrat and was at one time a soldier in the confederate army. THE IRISH LEAGUE M cases TING. The regular somi-monthly moeting of of the Lincoln branch of the Irish Na- tional league was held Sunday after- yoon in Fitzgerald hall. The place was crowded so that standing room was at a preminm, Patrick Egan presided at the meeting, and the exercises commenced with several choice yocal select were loudiy applauded. The sy the day was Hon. M. A. Haftigan, of Plattsmouth, who svoke of the Trish question from the home standpoint, and his speech was declared by those present to be one of the most able and eloquent delivered before the league. Mr. fl:\r(ignn roturned home yesterday. HOW THE MONEY GOES. The auditor of public accounts has published a complete statement as re- quired by law of the approvriations made and money expended by the twen- tieth session of the ?‘},flfllnhll’l! that re- cently held up the state of Nebraska, These tigures were elucidated in a some- what singular manner at the close of the session, but if any taxpayer wantsto have somethiug comprehensive before him to answes why taxes are high, he should read o copy of this, The expenses of members and clerksduring the session reach a very large figure, but when the committee clerks see the bills of proof readers they will be surprised at their own moderation. TWG FIRES, Yesterday, about 2 p. m., when the thermometers were registering an even handred n the shade, the firo alarm called the department out in hot haste and it was found that two fires were in Bruzmss at the same time, one at L and Ixth strects and the other at Pine and Eighth streets. As they were from the business portion of the city the danger was not great and the mes slight. It was a scorching time for the boys tohandle hose howeve POLI R When emoved Superintendent Thomvson of the B, & M. heard of the assault on a switchman he immediately offered $50 reward for the arrest of the man commit- ting the deed, Three policemen mado the arrest and the trial was in progress yesterday. Six plain drunks also were arraigned before the judge as the result of the Suturday night and Sunday round up. Aot il A WESTERN CATTLE KING. Facts About *‘Nels” Morris and His Business. Chieago Mail: Nelson Morris, the mar- velously thrifty and far-sighted dressed- beef packer and shipper, 1s quite as well known and perhaps more talked about than nn{ of the big millionaire barons at the stock yards excepting Armour. He has more peeuliarities and eccentricities of manner than any of the rest,and these, coupled with a remarkable high pitched, thin tenor voice, that gives a certain g tesquo effect to his witiicisms, no donbt , #ccount for the many humocrous stories that are told of him. "No one could appreciate the witticisms of 1) the stammering Wall sireet hearing hin must hear the peculiar voice to thoroughly appre the shrewd obscivations he Morris is entively self w fully W many are the traditions “that float -wbout the yards anent his “shinng enon ana |houun‘, Ere's yor Shecaw o papers all about the stock yards . str: not s wast number of years a; Another story is that his first deals i live stock were made by long foot journeys into the o pountry, where he would sirike a bur- ain for a superacuated cow, and dm he animal to the yards, wherg, by g talking, a handsome profit woul be realized on her carcass. DBut there may be fiction in some of these things, There is, however, no fic- tion in the fact that he began on nothing, was industrions, economical, active, shrewd, persis| and able to push ahead in the face of discouragement; that he was of too strong and sanguine a temperament to collapse at the first blast of opposition ; that having get the ball started in the right disection, he kept it roiling till it rolled him up a fortune, Horace Greeley used to say that any man capable of managing a business “could make a fortune, 1f, after starting it with Ris own hunds he sot other hands to work for him. No man gives more uattention to the details of his business than Morris. Let me tell you a story to pointa moral., Morris "has a large butterine factory in connection with his packing house. One day, when moving about the place, he discovered a bit of greese on the floor about as large as a walnut. He called the foreman and a number of the workmen, *‘Boys,"” he said pointing to the lump of tallow, “‘boys, what do you call that?” No one ventured a reply., “That's waste!'" he went on, in his veculiarly shrill falsetto voice; *‘that ind of business costs me thousands of dollars a year! Idon’t want to see it around | tre any more! L can't stand i Morris employs upward of fifteen hun- dred men, and as arule he deals with them generously, and they regard him with favor in return, rris once said to me daring a big strike, when his em- ployes had gone out: “‘I have many men i my employ who went out on this etrike, but who can come back to work when- ever they wish to do so, and stay as long as they like; I will never dischargze them.” Another time one of the men met with an accident on the sidewalks of the eity which broke his leg and incapacitated ) for work for many weeks. Morris ed that the man be fiivon proper care, and that the doctor's bill be sent to him. Besides, he instructed his lawyer to proceed to collect damages from the city, which he did, and turned over the amount to the cripple, without even the deduction of a lawyer’s fee. Some of the exag; 1ve, superstitions kind of people have reckoned the wealth of “Nels" Morris at $15,000,000, but it is far less than that, Yet he is rich enough to smoke better cigars than he does. One day he was called on h’yncou;vlo of news- paper men in search of news. Morris is always guurded and reticent to reporters. But he neyer fails to offer them cigars, which he produces by some sort of thawmaturgy trom an inner pocket, as if the weeds had been selected with a view to his own use. On this oceasion the prof- fered eigars were wrapped in tin toil and resembled 50 centers. “Now boys,”” piped “Nels,” ‘“‘you oughtn’t to smoke dose cigars out o’ doors; they sre too fine, and it’s raining; they'll lose their flavor.’” After the tin foil had been removed and the cigars lit they grew soft and flabby, burned up one side and doubled up like a green Wheeling stogie. But after all they were the right sort of cigars to im- I:reu grangers and cowboys, when one has business with them about the stock yard: The rich packer is an Austrian, and a good deal such a man as Joe Pulitzer in enterprise. He is diminutive in size and very democratic in dress--wears a slouch hat and rough-and-ready sack suit of clothes. He has a luxurious home out on Indiana gvenue,where a grand reception and welcome whs given in honor of the return of his two sons from Europe a few evenings ago. e CHINESE EXECUTIONS. Chopping Off Heads of Criminals at the Rate of Ten a Minute, “How do you use this sword? Where is the block?’ ~ “We don't use a block. What we do isto make the prisoners kneel down in two rows facing one another, and bending their heads down, Then I take the sword and chop, chop, one on each side, and the heads fall off; 80 on, till they’re all done, as you'd switch the tops off green weeds with your walking stick.” “‘But you don’t always chop a head oft with one blow?"” “Always.” “‘What is the knife for?"’ “For the ling che, or death by many cuts. We tie the oulprit whois con- demned to this death to that cross there (pointing to two rough unbarked sticks roughly crossed), and we begin by cut- ting off the eyelids, ears, nose and so on, ending by sticking the knife into his heart.” The cuts vary in number from eight to 120, according to the heinousness of the culprit’s crime.” W class of criminals demned to the ling che?’ “‘Parricides, matricides ana women who have killed and mutilated their hus- bands form the majority.™ “Do the executions interfere with your appetite and sleep?” The rhree e tioneers grinned sar- donieally at this question, so we asked: . “How many persons have you executed in a day?” “I have chopped twenty heads off my- self in two minutes. See that dark look- ing place on the ground over there— that's caused by the blood of the last batch we had.” “What is done with the bodies?" *‘The friends take the bodies away, but we keep the heads in the crocks over by the wall there, and when we have a large number which are no longer recogniz- able we bury them. Would you like to soe some of the heads?” We declined, and one of my com- panlons began to grow pale and com- plain of not feeling well, so we ordered uu-‘guide 1o lead us away. “‘Gentlemen, give twenty cents each, haw, to the executioners,” said the which we gladly dit to escape rom the staring of the ‘‘boss’’ butcher’s swivel eye; and so ended our interview with these high executioners of the great Chinse e mpire, s The W histl ust Go, Baltimore American: The steam whistle as it exists to-day as an adjunct to manu- factories 1n lurge cities is an unmitigated nuisance. Four times daily its shriek is sent forth to the intinite annoyance, dis- comfort and often mjury of those who are located in its immediate vicinity, It serves no valid purpose any more than do the church bells. It cannot do the duty of summonln[f to labor, tor in the large number that blow forth their dis- cordant notes together no particular one can be recognized by the ear. It is not needed for any such purpose in our cities; for, turn as we may, at every few steps there will be encountered a clock point- ing ont the hour, and within a factory building a clock or a gong would serve eovery end that the steam whistle can ac- complish, To those who are obliged to live in close proximity to those howling, sereeching instruments, they become a terror, and inthe summer season, when doors and windows are of necessity kept open the major part of the day, lLu nuisance is greatly increased. They ac- complish no end that would not be better attained in a-different way. They are a constant source of annoyance to many, and, fike the Chinese, they must go i voluntarily, on the part of the managers, the better; but if not, they must be made to go. t, are con- r—— Over 100 Varleties of the purest and best toilet sonps made by Colgate & Co. Cashmere Bouquet the standard, Knives and Forks, Rogers’ best tripple t}nm forks or knives at §1.05 per set at dholm & Akin's, . JOAN BROWN'S MONUMENT. The Oharming Scenery Surrounding the Peak Which Bears the Martyr's Name. THE HOME OF MIS CHILDREN. Two Sons Who Inherit Some of the Characteristics of Their Father— How They Live—Intere ing Reminiscences. PasapENA, Cal. — [Correspondence New York Commercial Advertiser. |—The first peak of the lofty Sierra Madres, be- ginning at the Arroyo Seca canon, oppo- site Pasadena, has been named after John Brown, and is known as Brown's peak. About its base overlooking the San Gabriel valley, are the houses of his sons and their descendants, who, to the number of thirtecen, have made their homes here. The selection of this site shows the inherent love for the moun- tains possessed by these people. A more charming spot it would be difficult to find in all southern California. The Sierra Madra range is perhaps one of the most impenetrable mountain systems in the country, consisuing of several paral- lel ranges forty or tifty miles wide, and forming a perfoct maze of canons and deep gulches, leading in every possible dircetion. The winter rains ]mvn made them, and at interyals of a few miles all along the range these dry rivers or ar- royos open into the San Gabriel vall At the base of Brown's peak there th of these canons; the Arroyos Seca, Millard and Negro, which, in their course, surround a pl xtending down from and it isolated and the deep eanon and descendig the other up which n carriage trail cre This region, high above the vailey, and remarkable for its dryness, is Las as, laid out as a park of homes, and abounding in some of the most charming scenery to be found in the entire range. From it the upper range is reached by a series of hiils, and upon the second ridge Owen and Jason Brown have selected their homes. Their house is plain and simple, but as I stood in the doorway it occurred to me that they had something wihich no pal- ace in this country or Europe posressed, their incomparable view. From the mountain side you look down hundreds of feet nto thé green abyss of Nego canon, while beyond rise the slopes of the Sierras to an altitude of 5,000 feet. A turn of the head, and_the gardaen spot of the San Gabriel valley 18~ beneath you; oves of oranges, olives, eucalyptus, nana, apple, peach, cherry, and every sub-tropical and temperate tree; tields of waving grain and broad mesas carpeted with wild flowers. Beyond Pasadena rise the Mission and Puente hills, and in i i small lnguna where the wild ducks live. Beyonc in, thi miles or more, is the blue Pacitie, with islands of Santa Catalina plainly vis- s, while the ve: at anchor in Wil- harbor can be counted so clear r. THE HOMES OF TITE BROWNS, Amid such seenes the Brown brothers ive. Upon these mountain slopes they :nd to pass their days in peace and quict. For two years they had b i ing upon the pliteau of Las Cacita; recently thev sold a part of their r: and moved further up the range singular series of disasters has fallen these two old v Owen was disabled some years ago by dragged for several miles by a runaway horse, and Jason has repeatedly burned out in the midile states, so that at pr it they wre in reduced circum- stances. When they moved into their mountain home some good friends on the mountain slopes conceived the idea of giving them a house warming, which resulted in turnishing the new home 1n a modest way. Thirteen members of the Brown family live within ritle-shot of Las Cacitas, They are Owen and Jason Brown, the two sons, Mrs. Ruth Brown Thompson, her husband, Henry Thowmpson, and near by, two daughters and their fam lies. Henry Thompson was with Cap- tain John Brown in many of his trin and was wounded in the battle of Blac Jack, in the early Kansas troubles. Jason and Owen have been through ad- ventures enough to make their hair much whiter than it 15. On more than one occasion Jason Lrown was t out to be hung or shot, and the last time when he bared his breast to the rifles of the border ruflians, and told them to aim at his beart, his coolness and bravery alone saved his life. THE BROWN'S PHILOSOVHY. One cannot converse with these men five minutes without secing that the mantle of the father has fallen upon the sons. Their ideas of what justice should be are singular to the average man, for the simple reason that they are utterly at variance with justice as we meet it ~very day. A few examples of their ph.losophy will show their character. They do not consider itright to take interest on money loaned. Some time ago, when some friends raised some money to buy them a cow and the check was presented, they protested that there were others who needed 1t more, and 1t was their earnest desire that the money should be sent to the colored sufferers from the earthquake that occurred in Charleston at about that time. When the Grand Army men visited Pasadena in the summer of 1886, the Browns were taken in a carriage. a rope attached to the pole,and dragged through the town amid the playing of patriotic airs—much to their confusion,as no more modest and retiring men ever lived; yet they found occasion to suggest three cheers for the sonth, and Jason has often told the writer that while they consider that their father was murdered they have not the shzhtest enmity toward the people of the south, understanding exactly how bitter the fe g was at the time, They consider that their father died that freedom might live, and that he him- self considered his death was an offering to the cause is shown by his words which were, in effect, that it would do more to help the cause than any further action of his in hfe. These children of John Brown notonly prictice justice, but earry it out to auol‘x an extent that this has probably kept them poor. That they are honored by their neighbors 1t need hardly be said. When the boycott on the Chinese was (e- clared here 1n 1886, the Browns were at oncaon the side of the weaker, and Jason informed me that he was going to Los Angeles to employ a Chinaman, for the sake of the example or wmrinciple, if nothing more, even it he had to work night to earn the money to pay him, The last time I visited the slopes of Brown's peak, an almond-eyed Mongo- lian was at work, whether as a result of the oppression or not, I did not in- quire. COLORED MEN'S GRATITUDE. Within a week some colored people of Pasadena got up a benefit for the family, b si0n was one of great inter- storically. The Browns and their ilies all sat wfu(her, and were pre- sented to the andience. The gentleman who introduced them, though not want- ing notoriety, had it thrust upon him, as when the "ceremony was over Owen Brown rose to his feet, and after telling how his father joined the temperance arty, : . “‘Now I want to say a word lor my friend, Mr, ——, house was always open to us when w doing the g work, and 1t was he who made some of the pikes that were sent to Harper's Forry to be used m freeing a reached only by riding down into | ! lished. | tary. slaves. This secret coming out 8o many years after created no little sensation among the gentleman's friends, In the audience J saw many who were more or less interested in the ‘‘underground rail- road.”” The Giddings family were all present, among them Joshua Giddings, the old abolitionist so long in congress. A stranger behind me smd: I eame here to-night out of curiosity, as my father often Imlved slaves that John Brown passed along toward treedom;” and he told me that e saw several Quak- ers in the hall who had been unknown but prominent supporters of Brown. An old slave woman sat L: the side of Ruth Brown Thompson, who was near John Brown when he was hung, and told what her mistress said after the hanging, while upon the stage was an ex-col ored senator, who as a boy witnessed the exe- cution. OWEN BROWN'S REMINTS Some months ago I happened at Las Cacitas with Dr. Gleason, of Eimira,New York, and Uwen Brown agreed, after much persuasion to relate his experiences on his famous trip from the north to the south with a colored man named Greene, who had volunteered to aid in the frec- ing of slaves. A more dramatic recital 1t would be difficult to imagine; a story of the greatest privation and danger where starvation threatened them, and captivity meant certain death. What impre: me as remarkable was that Owen Brown should remember the so accurately though it occurred o ? rter of a century ago. Ev cnce they crossed, every stream th swam was remembered, and the enti intry, mountains, streams and val- described in detail. No account of this adventurous trip has ever been pub- It will atford a valuable addition to the history of that time and will brob- ably be published by Mrs. Ruth Brown Thowpson, who has many of her fathe 0 pages and documents, Henry Thompson, her husband, he rifle that he eaptured from aman at the battle ot & Bluck Jack. ~ Owen Brown has the rlusses that his father carried in the fleld, and his daughter has a bible ed marked by his hand, the verse in the main referring to slaver; had a number of interesting el they were unfortunately lost in th that taree or four home m the middle mar Victory at Last. Consumption, the greatest cure of the age, the destroyver of thousands of our brightest and best, is conquered. It is no longer meurabi “Golden Medical Discove certain remedy for this terrible di taken in tim All scrofulous diseases—consumption is a scrofuious afiection of the lungs—can be cured by it, Its effects in dis of the throat and lungs are little less than mi- raculous. All druggists have 1t. BLAINE FIGHTING SHERMAN. A Blaine-Foraker Combination Prevent Sherman’s Endorsement. Columbus Correspondence of the Globe-Democrat: ‘There 1s no longer any question on the . Sherman-Foraker disagreement in Omo this year, It is reaily the old fight between Blaine and Sherms Ohio congressmen came home impressed with the importance of having a strong resolution adopted this year de- claring Ohio’s unauahlied endorscment of Sherman for president. They stated that republicans from lother states were nstantly asking them in Washington if Ohio would be solid for Sherman in 1838, and were not satistied with their word that his state would be for nim. T insisted t the indorsement was ab: lutely n ary to gain any headway for Sherman in other states. Accordingly, a Sherman orgzanization was perfected in Washington secretly before the adjourn- ment of congress among the republican congressinen, with Judge Thompson as chairman, General Grosvenor as organ- izer, Captain J. C. Donalson as seecre- In addition to the congressmen as active members, ex-Governor Fisher, Murat Halstead, Judge William Law- rence, Hon. Thomas Cowgill, many members of the Ohio legislature, and others, were taken in for a distribution of lubor. The still-hunt of this combina- tion is now an opea secret, and the Bluine men have declared war. THE BLAINE MEN OFFENDED. The Biaine men,especially on the West- ern Reserve, charged that this was a usurpation of the prerogatives of the state committee and party organization, and took a sharp turn by putting Gov- ernor Foraker between fires. These anti Sherman men, knowmg that Foraker would soon be in the field for re-election as governor, said that if he ran on a Sherman vlatform he would be beaten, sisted that this is not a presiden- 5 hat Sherman should not hazard the state ticket and jeopardize home af- fairs for his own vrestige sbroad. They state now openly thatif a Sherman reso- lution 1s oflfored at the Repubiican State convention in Toledo, July 27, they will oppose it to the last, and see that it is not adopted unanimously, and_ if it 1s bull- dozed through by claims of a majority, that they will carry the war to the polls and make it the end of both Sherman and Foraker. 1t is this contingency that is encouraging the friends of Thurman to have the Old Roman head the democratic ticket. Governor Foraker has declared himself strongly opposed to a resolution this year endorsing Sherman for next year. The zovernor is a strong friend of Sherman, but he fears the result of a dis- affection of the Blaine men. HOLDING FORAKER RESPONSIBLE, W. H. West, Judge J. W. en. Asa W. Jones and other leading men hive gone so far as to tell Foraker’s friends that the governor will be held responsible for the action of a convention that is ‘unanimous for him for governor. While the Blaine men con- tinue to give warning, Sherman’s friends are constantly working to get the resolu- tion programme in grand shape. It is also said that they want control of the state committee for the advantage it will give them next year. The interests of Sherman prospectively anda Foraker col- lectively have, \fll‘x'l-i;)rm come in col- lision, and a fight is inevitable at Toledo. It is sld that Foraker may not run if the party organization and platform are fixed more for the purposes of next year than for this year. The republican con gressmen are at Mansfield aften, con- sulting with Sherman, notably Butter- worth, Grosvenor, Thompson and Lattle. McKinley and the Taylors are not with the other congressmen, There is much in the hine of political scheming going on now. Foraker is having very much such a time with the senator, as Foster had when he was governor, It is to be seen when the convention ‘meets at Toledo whether Sherman can assume the atti- tude of Conkling in ©Ohio and frown down the opposition to. him, although the opposition by the pressare of circum stances includes the governor and other leaders. 4 to r In the combination, proportion, and pre- paration of its ingredients, Hood's ngnill. accomplishes cures wh other preparations entirely fail. Pecu inits good name at home, which is a “tower of strenfth abroad,” peculiar in the phenomenal sales 1t has attaned. Hood's Sarsaparillais the most success- ful medieine for purifying the blood, fil':lng strength, and creating an appe- P S The Past Week's Colleotions, The internal revenue collections for the first week in July were as follows: Tuesday, July 5. 8 0 MT.04 Wednesday, 355.04 o Thursday “ riday, ot 1 Saturday, L Total o INSPECTOR BYRNES, The New York Detective Talks About His Profession. New Yotk Graphic: He leaned care- lessly against the iron railing on the Twenty-eighth street side of the Gilsey house, just'in the shadow of the hotel. He was dressed in a neat business suit of mixed goods, wore a white derby of the low-crowned style, smoked his cigar with evident relish, and had the general air of a well-to-do man about town, who knew the good things of this world and enjoyed them. A stranger would have taken him for one of the guests of the Gilsey—but he was not—he was simply Inspecter Byrnes, and what he was doing there at So'clock in the early summer evening last week, standing quietly in the dark- ness,the Graphic man did not care to ask. Yet, as the big world drifted by along Broadway and under the glare of the electric lights, showing every man and woman's countenance to the watchful, placid-faced man iu the shadows, the in- spector dropped 1nto one of his pleasant chatty moods, and between the wreaths of his cigar smoke told something of the life that surrounds him every day. *'No one knows how much watehful- ness and continual care are required to Keep up successfully with the patience, energy, talent and new methods of the thieves of New York. Their systemn of work axainst which we provided to-day is repiaced to-morrow b?' a newer and more intricate scheme which has been evolved from the inventive brain of some talented crook. The community looks to us not only for the capture and con- viction of the thieves, but in a large part expeet us to prevent crime. To do this in any successful way entails upon me and mv oflicers a thorough and continu- ous know. of thicves and malefac- tors, the of life, habits and ass tes, their special aptitudes and peculiarities, and their general haunts and lounging places. How do we attain this _knowledge? In the simplest way possible—by unceasing daily association ith these thieves and law-breakers of high and low degree. It sounds strange doesn't it, and yet it is true that there 1s not a day of iny life but 1 spend a couple of hours aniong that class of people. I remember how such a ment as 1 now make was reccived y Theodore Roosevelt when he had me before his investigating committe asked me what 1 considered the q cauons of a good petive, and 1 enu ated youth, en courage, ente: L good sense, and ‘an acquaintance vith thieves and their methods. “What!' iid Mr. Roosevelt. ‘Do you cousider intimacy with the eriminal classes one of the essential qualifications ot your officers?’ 1 repl that I most certainly did, and added that there was no day that I did not pass some of my time among thieves. ‘Do you meclude to- day? smid Mr. Roosevelt. ‘I do,” I an- swered, ‘for, looking into this big audi- ence, I can see several men I haye helped send to Sing Sing for various crimes!’ The c\r!:m n seemed to satisfy the young lawyer, and he asked me no fur- ther on that point. Yet the necessity of this acquaintance with thieves ought to be sclf-cvident. It you lose your watch and come to me to aid in finding it for you. I do not go to William M. Evarts, nor to Archbishon Corrigan, nor to Re: Howard Crosby to discover who stole I must go among th and to be able to do this and get back your watch [ must have the knowledge I speak about, Why don’t I tuke a vacation® Well, I'll tell'you. Every time I go out of town, even for a few hour: I an irresistible impulse to get bac It secms to me 1 might be needed, Go to Burope? No, no! My dear fellow, if ever they get me out- de of land they will have to put hand- cuffs on me!” — LUXURY RUN WILD. What It Costs to Dress a Fashionable Young Man. New York Letter: 1 wasin an up-town haberdasher's shop the other day, and in the course of a half hour’s conversa- tion I lcarned considerable about the personal decorations of a dude. A modest request to look at some robes de nuit was what started the shopkeeper, He took a glance at my golden locks and produced a box, remarkmg: “Hereis something which will suit your aomplex- ion.” It suited my complexion better than it did my pocketbook. 1t was made of a fawn colored Chinose silk, very soft, and claborately embroidered in light blue. A delicate tracery of blue vines and flowers ran around the coliar, down the front and around the cufls, and it was made to button with gold studs. *“Thigis & very eimple pattern,’ re- marked the gentle haberdasher, “‘and costs only $6. ~ Here is a most elaborate styls for $12,"" and he brought out a gar- ment of rather finer material, simply covered with embroidery. I mildly in- sinuated that [ wanted something tor about §1.50. He looked unnhappy for a moment, but recoyered, when llu began to show me some silk underwoar for 5 a set, and purple silk hose for $5 a p: From underwear we got to shirts, pa- amas and “‘blazers.”” The styles were unigue and glaring. “Do men really wear these things?" I inquired iunocently. He gazed at me pityingly. “Do you know what it costs 10 dress a fashionable young man?" he asked. “1 mean slmply for underclothing,” he added. “To begin at the bottom, he needs, say, a dozen pair of socks, at from ¥4 Lo $6 a pair. His half-dozen sets of silk underwear will cost him_ §15 a set. His shirts will cost him #25 a dozen, and his collars and cutfs, of which he needs a good many, with s neckties, will cost as much more. Tennis shirts, long stockings, - blazers, ete., will run up LD A BUMmer season, a couple of hundred dollars, he added meditatively, ‘‘a young man needs about #5300 to get a summer outfit, not counting Iis tailor’s, and shoemaker's, and hat- ter’s bills, which will amount to much more, Of course his fall and winter out- fits are more exy *‘How much a year does 1t cost to dress properly# 1 asked. i have customers who spend £5,000 a on their clothes, and they are by no ayagant,” was the prompt Substitute for Tiling Slate, pitary Plumber: A valuable covery, which bids far to a revolution in the ranks roofers’ trade, 1s the recent utili compressed paper phlp as a substitute for slate 1n the manufacture of tiles for roof- dis- create of ing. The advantages gained are an in- herent lightness, obviating the necessity of the present weighty frame support; @ toughness and elasticity not possessed by slate, rendering breakage an impossit ity; a singular power of resistance to in- tence heat or flame; and a readiness to receive nails to bind compactly to the bed, and so closcly together that high winds will not lossen or cause them to shift, as is freqnently the case with slate tiling. The process of manufacture 1s simple, yet complete. The mould is first prepared, into whicl the pulp is pressed and allowed to partially dry. The crude tites are then dipped mto a solution to harden their fibres and render them waterproof. When thoroughly impreg- nated they are dried by baking in an oven heated to a special temperature, then coated with an enameling mixture, upon which 1s sifted a thin coating of fine sand, colored sccording to the tint desiree, to fireproof them. 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The gentleman to whom Mr. Martin refors, and to whom he is Indobted for the advico to which ho owes his final rellef from years of suffering, is Mr. King, for many years the popular night clerk of tho Lawrenco House, at Jackson, Jacxsow, Miss., April 29, 1857, Tnx SWIFt Sprciric CoMPaxy, Atlanta, Ga. : Gentlemen—1 have n invalld pensionor for forty years, having contracted pulmonary and other diseases 1n the Mexican War, but not till the 1st of March, 1575, did I feel any symptoms of rheumatism, On that day I was suddenly stricken with that dis- ease in both hips and ankles, For twenty days I walked on crutches. Then the pain was loss violent, but it shifted from jolnt to Joint. For weeks Iwould Te totally disabled, either o1 one side of m: tho other. The piin mever left ine a m eleven years and seven months—that 18 fro when 1 was first attacked, to Oct A when T ured. During these cloven years of in- tento suffring I tried innnmerablo. proscriptions trom varlous physicians, and tried everything sug- osted by triends, but 1 1 ever roceived the least enelt from any medicing takon internally oF ex- ternally, T am not awaroof it. Finally, about the first of September, 1 made Arraugenments to go to the Hot Springs of Arkansas, having despaired of every other ren ‘whon I accidentally met an quaintance, &r. King, now of tho Lawrence House of thiselty.” Ho had once been a great sufforor from fheumatium, and, aa I suppc been eu by avisit to' Hot ‘Springs. b when Imet him he t0ld me that his visi to tho Hot Springs was in vain —he found no rellef. On his return from Hut Springs he heard, for the first time, Of the 8. 5. 8. ax a romed for rheumatism. Ho tried' it and six bottles made i complete cure, Several years have siuce, but Be has had o return of the discase. T{mmediately roturnod to try it. In Septomber I took four botties, and by the first ot Octobor I was Woll—as far s tho Fieumatism was concorned. Pl bad disappeared, and L HAVE NOT FELT A T OF 1T BINCA 1Rave no futorest in maklug this statement other AhAD the hope that It may dircet some other ufferee toa sure source of relief, and If It has this result [ am’ wall rewarded for my trouble, § am very re- specttully and truly your r okl a6 oud, J. M. H. Maumin, For salo by ull drugglsts. Troatise on Blood and Skin Diseases matled free, TUE BWIFT SrECIFIC Co Drawer 3, Atlant HOUSEKEEPERS IDEAL KETTLE cover and wator joi and an outlet which cn ricsall stenm and odor of the chiinney. Putent Steamer attachment alone worth the price. Agents wanted, mulo or town in Nobraska. Profits 85 to Ciberal terms and exclusive torri- fory given. Send stamp for circular and torms. o 5 8 b 0 qt., 43 14 at., .2, Modéi by ‘mail, 3 4 4 8. COOMBS, General Agent, Omahn, Neb., P, 0. Hox 483. WEAK, NERVOUS PEOPLE ° femalo in over, £10 per day. 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