Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 26, 1887, Page 5

UNPRINTED SESSION LAWS. Why Haven't They Been Given to the Pub: lic Long Ago? WANT ANOTHER PACKING HOUSE, Lincoln Will Raise a Fund of $109,- 000 to Sccure It—Meeting of the Irish National League ~Capital News, [FROM THE BE) LINCOLY RBUREAV.| ¢« There is a growing complaint because the session laws passed at the last legis- lature are not yet printed and accessible to the public. On the 1st of July the laws that were without the emergency clause went into cffect, and yet they are not yet published, and the public is wholly unacquainted with the new meas- ures. Itisasurprise that something is not done to bring about a reform in the matter of state printing. Neither the house nor senate journals have yet been printed, and they bid fair to be strung along until eighteen months after the session before they will be turned out by the printer. In the matter of the session laws, however, there i8 u direct necessity that they be furmished the publie, and three months ought to be time enough to publish them in. A Chicago paper notes that in Illinois inside of two weeks after the close of the session the session laws were out 1 book form as required by Iaw. At the present rate of progr it will be months yet before the Nebraska gession laws are before the people, and as for the house and senate journals an- other session is liable to roll around be- fore the people see them, 1f the wublic Y printers are not under bonds to do this work in reagonablo season they ought to have pride cuuupill to do the work for some public good. BOARD OF TRADE MEETING, There will be an important meeting of the board of trade at the district court room this evening, at which time the efforts to secure n new packing house at ‘Woest Lincoln will be up for ratification and immediate action. A committee has been at work for several days the past week raising a fund of $100,000 to secure a packing house. Ou Saturday $00,000 of the amount was subscribed d b! the time of the meeting it is ex- pected the fund will be raised. It is urged that all members of the board at- tend this meeting. ARGUMENT DAY, Judge S. M. Chapman will arrive from Plattsmouth to-day to hear the argument in the celebrated Dawson will case, the testimony having been taken at tho last term of court. The arguments, judging from the importance of the case, will be exhanstive and complete, and the decis- ion 1n the case will be watched with a good deal of intercst. The plaintiff in the case is represented by T. M. Mar- quett, Harwood, Ames & Kolly, A, J. Sawyer and W Lamb, while the de- fense is watched over vy J. M. Wool- worth, O. P. Mason and L. C. Burr, THE LEAGUE MEETING, The Lincoln branch of the 1. N. L. met at Fitzgerald hall yesterday afternoon. ‘I'ne attendance was very large and the ladies were well represented. Tho pro- ceedings opened with a finely executed cornec solo by Mr. William O'Shea, fol- lowed by Mr. Nicholas Lawler, who sang 1 splendid style “Only to See Her o Again.” The local favorite voealist, Mr. Barnaby, then gave the “Minstrel Boy” with stirring emphasis. The ohairman, Second Vice-President Charles McGlane, then introduced Mr. Thomas Carr, the speaker of the ds Mr. Carr read an excellent historical ossny treating of the Irish exiles in Eu- rope. He traced their career and military heroes in France, Spain, Austria and Ru sin. In the last named country De L founded that groat army which™ now fills all Europe with unennf feeling, and is destined yet to contest the supremacy of Asia with England. Mr. Carr concluded his valuable discourse a reference to Yontenoy and to the esteom expressed by Napoleon for his Irish legion. A warm vote of thanks was accorded tho speaker, after which Mr. Lawlor sang with great feeling *“The Harp that Once, etc.” An cssay from a lndy member of the branch has now become a feature of the Lincoln meetings and the chairman in- troduced Miss Maggie O'Reardon, a relative of the redoubtable Tim Healy, the Tory pulverizer. Miss O'Reardon soon evineed that she shared the talent of her distinguished kinsman and in choice and well connected words she paid her tribute to the genius of America and Ireland’s love for the stars and stripes. Miss O'Reardon concluded with a pr j that the dawn of an independence day would light the glens of her dear old home and Irish hills re-echo the crackling fireworks of Ireland’s small boys cele- brating their own Fourth of July, Miss O'Reardon’s beautiful address greated cnthusiasm and she concluded amid applause. Mr. Wm. O'Shea and Mrs. J. J. Butler were named as speakers for tho 21st of August after which the meeting ad- Journed. THE GERING JOINT STOCK CO., of Gering, Cheyenne county, Neb., has filed articles of incorvoration with the secretary of state. The business of the company the buymg and selling of land, laying out town sites, ete. The capital stock 15 $5,000. The incorporators W are Osear W.>Gardiner, ¥. A. Garlock, rge fern, C. W. Johnson and Martin Gering, ‘The Elkhorn Valley bank, of Burnett, Madison county, has filed articles of incorvoration. The capital stock of the bank 15 £50,000, $12,500 of which 18 to be paid up at the' commencement of busi- ne: ‘The indebtedness, including de- posits to which the bank shall be subject, ),000, the corporation to begin busi- ness July 20, and_continue twenty years. Incorporators: James Stuart, John . Burnham, H. 8. Manville and POLICE COURTS. There was something of a volumious police court yesterday. H. F. Gankey, J. M, Howard, Z. Wilson and Thomas Fannan were before the court as plain drunks. They were assessed $3 and costs :w’u paying out and two being comu od. Mrs, Hawke, for leaving slops in o barrel contrary to the health ordinance, was fined a dollar and costs for her care- lessness. The case of J. Gray, a colored man, and Mrs, Cross, a _colored woman, who were lodged in jail for the promiscous use of firearms, was continued until to- duy for a hearing, There was a rush of attorneys in the morning hours to get to defend the woman. FERSONAL. J. D. Calhoun, the editor of the Demo- erat, who has been enjoying Colorado nery for thirty days, 1s home to the routine of fourteen hours a day again, County Treasurer Campbell, of Cass county, was at the state house yesterday securing something over §1,000 that was refunded to the county by the state at the Iast session. 8. M, Burker, president of the state board of sgriculture, was in the city yes- terday on state tar business and new amprovements at the fair grounds. R. C, Cushing, of Omaha, one of the heavy railroad buildersin the stute. was in wnuuln erday. . Baldwin, Fred . Gray, and H. T. Clarke wero also among the Omaka men at the capital pity yesterday, i Lou May, of Fremont, the energetic member of the fish comm the attractive display at the state fair last full, is in Lincoln superintendin, the erection of an addition to the build- in( on the fair ground. Near midnight Saturday night, the volice arrested Mrs. Lou Prattier, who lives on Monroe avenue near Twenty- first strect. In the house at the time was a woman named Mrs. Alice Bell and a men named Grant Dodd. The man es- caped from the oflicers, hut the women were required to appear at court yester- day as inmates of a house of prostitution. Both plead not guilty and the case was continued. A warrant was sworn out in police court yesterday charging David M; of the clothing men in town, with 0ods on Sunday. The time for hearing the case has not yet been fixed. prebel k" iy o who made Thousands of people suffer with back ache, not knowing that in most cases it is & system of deseased kidneys and liver which piasters and lotions cannot heal. The best and safest remedy is Dr.J. H. McLean’s Liver and Kidney Balm. $1.00 per bottle. L — A DAKOTA LIAR. tod For His Coun- try's Good. A man was driving through the country in a centaal Dakota county and got into conversation with a settler who was sitting in front of his hou *‘You have a fine farm here,”” he said to the settler. Best in the country, stranger." Do you raise big crops?” Y ,Big crops®” 4 f ‘ell, I ealculate T do.” he soil is very rich here, I suppose?” at don't express it; rich don’t do it justice! This sile is perfect, absolutely perfect, best in the world! Itis deep as a well, mellow as an ash heap, rich as gold—yes, sir, no other sile in the world will compare at all with it!” “I'm glad to hear it.” “Say, stranger,” continued the settler, straightening up, ‘‘d’ye hear that kinder holler, poundin’ sound?"’ The man admitted that he didn’t know but he could hear something. “‘Yes,” continued the settler, ‘‘kinder boomin’ sound, like hittin’ an empty bar'l with an old rubber boot.” *‘Yes, what is it?” “Stranger, that's my punkins bein’ yanked along ’cross the ground so fast they bound up in the air every once in a while.” J “Your pumpkins? What is drawing them at that rate?’ “The vines, stranger, the vines—they’re growin’ so fast ye see. We have to take a fast hoss and lasso ,em when we gather 'em. They'll be 'bout wore out. 1 have to admit this is a poor place for punkins and squashes, See that little knoll over there, "bout a hundred yards 'cross it an’ twenty feet high?" “That one down there with a bushy tree growing on top of it?"" “‘Y-a-a-s—but it haint no tree—it's a beect top.” “\Vhy did you plant it on top of the knoll?’ Didn't, stranger, ground was perfectly level when 1 planted it there. Beet so big it has kinder re'red the ground up all 'round it and made a knoll. Planted one next to my house the first year an’it hoisted it up and pretty near tipped 1t over." “Isn’'t the season a little dry for them?" “They go down to water, stranger, that well there is the hole that beet came out of. I hada crabapple tree near house the same year, an’ the avples grew 50 big they busted and broke all my win ders. Want to hear how we husk corn?”’ —hitch onto the end of a husk an’ drive ‘longside of the ear an’ peel it off and then go back after another.” “'Slow job.”” “Yes, but there’s twenty bushels of corn when we get through. 1 was out looking at my wheat yesterday, an’ a head of it struck me on the shoulder an’ pmt‘ty near broke my collar bone.” “Yes.! “I have to have to have gas pipe for my beans to climb—they are so strong an’ squeeze 8o tight that they cut a wooden pole in two in a dozen places.” Yos.' ‘“There was a big rock down on the back end of my place 'bout ten feet each way an’' it stuck down into the ground 'bout four feet. Ilaid a reddish seed on the middle of it an’ the seed sorter smelt the remarkable rich sile down under the rock, as I nught say, an' it begun to grow an’ down she went, sharp end firs of course, an’ 1t split the rock in twen pieces an’ I drawed it oft.” Yes. “I might tell ye of lots of other things equally 'prisin’ if [ had a mind to.” or “Idon't doubtit. But sce here, are you telling me all these infernal lies be- cause you want to sell your farm.” “0 no, sir; no sir; I've just told you the usual thing. Twon’t sell—I just do it for the good of the country. There's some as want t' sell, ye see,an’'we all sorter pull together —always do in & new country, ye know. The story don't hurt me none, an’ lots o' you darned fools from the east believes it. I reckon, though, that you have traveled. Good day—stop if “you should be goin’ past agawm.” ———— Rusiness in Steel Rails, New York Commercial Bulletin: That late reports of an unprecedented volume of business in stecl rails for the current ear are quite in harmony with the facts s settled by an official return of the sales made during the past six months, Ac- cording to this statement orders for no less than 1,605,000 tons were boo'ed by manufacturers during the period between January 1 and Of this amount only an insignificant portion has repre- sented speculative purchases, while the rails that were taken for “investment' have since been nearly all resold to rail- road compunies, The production allotted for the balance of the is 274.000 tons, and the reports emanating from mill agents leave it doubtful that all of this quantity can be turned out in addition to the amount under contract. That there is an outlet for the 274,000 tons there can be no doubt. In fact, th stimate is made by trustworthy authorities that, of domestio and foreign rails together, fully 2,250,000 tons will have been Taid at the close of the year. MOST PERFECT MADE Used by the United States Go L Y tiog man Endoresd by the heads of the flmfl Blvi and Public Food Ang te 0 d mest Healthf: 3 ly By that does co! Limg o} Dr, Price's 0] alicioualy. ) SLAVERY 1N PENNSYSLVANIA, A Ory for Help From the Down-Trodden Bondsmen of the Coal Mines, THE DRAGON OF MONOPOLY. It is Blasting the Lives of Men and Devouring Children—Break- ers and Crushers—A La- mentable Condition. They say that slaves exist in Pennsyl- vania, Itis true, Under the mgis of pro- tection in protection’s stronghold, under the disgraced flag of the Keystone state, there lives and flourishes a slavery which is a shame upon the name of America, I have seen its horrid form, and blush for the government which permits it. Thus writes a correspondeut of the New York World. A cry for help goes out from thousands and thousands of slaves of the coal mines. Here they are, right in the heart of these grand old mountains, in the breast of Pennsylvania, the mother of indepen- dence. Here they are in swarming thou- sands; poor, helpless, down-trodden bondsmen. They dwell on the tops of mountains, bare and grizzly, covered only with brush and the naked skeletons of dead trees. They mhabit huts and kennels in. valleys choked with the dust of coal and slate, and bearing turgid streams once famous trout brooks, now poisonous sluices, down to mark the rivers with the sign- manual of the business which is so h!]l of death and dostruction to those who follow it. From out these peopled tes and multitudinous solitudes, where are exhumed the precious black dinmonds which warm the world when the sun is playing truant beyond the equator, b thig cry gone forth for years unhear and unheeded. Itis the ery of enslaved men, of hungry women and naked ehl- dren—a cry for bread and justice; but these that utter it feei that the world is far away and utterly deaf, so far, ut least, as they are concerned. Oh, but it is a monster of hideous mien that broods on these mountain-tops hatehing mischief; and woe to the weak! Call it by what name you will—unity of intorest, com- bination, trust, monopoly, or perhaps conspiracy—you can not change the di- abolical nature of the beast. You get the sting ot the dragon’s tail down in New York when {ID“ ray unholy prices for your conls. Up here they feel the aws, the nhnrg teeth, the unscrupulous reath. Here Sir Dragon blasts the lives of strong men. He devours little chil- dren. He delights in the wails and tears of women. le filches money from the pockets of poverty, and robs bellies that are already empty. Ten days ago the World sentouta correspondent with orders to investigate thoroughly and report without bias the condition of affairs in the anthracite re- ion. Stories of almost incredible wrong had been received. It was said that sys- tematized extortion and robbery were vracticed; that the miners were forced to endanger thelr hives by working with ignorant Slavs and Huns, who, because they were willing to work for 60 and 90 cents a day were sent into the mines when they could not speak English, when they did not know the dangers of the business, and when their presence was constant menace both to themselves and the intelligent miners; that the miners and their families were bound in ¢hains of debt to dishonest employers, and that they could obtain no redress for their wrongs, which were daily growing more grievous. rom personal observation in the big eastern middle region, I can say that all of these cl are true. N they do not begin to tell the t I'have seen miles of c: side-tracked in order to hold them ba rict work, shorten the visible sunply, and make us pay enhanced prices for coal next win- ter. I have seen company stores where miners are churged double rates for mine supplies and the necessaries of lifo. have seen at Hazelbrook, Gowen, Jeddo, Highland, Beaver adow, Stockton Hazleton, men livingin and paying gross rentals for miserable sties that you would hate to house a horse in. Oh, the heils that men build and then call them breakers! Breakers, indeed— breakers of hearts and lives, breakers of decrepid age and half-formed youti breakers of body, mind, and soulat i . cents the day. Everybody may not know that a coal- breaker is a huge frame structure, a sort of four-story barn, shaped something like the capital letter A, which stands at the mouth of a slope_or entrance to u mine. Cars loaded with coal are drawn to the top of this structure and contents dumped into u big hopper. As they fall they are divided by men and machinery, shed by big rollers, sorted into the respective sizes of commerce, cleaned of their slate, and deliyered below into cars. 1 yisited one of Pardee’s breakers not far from Hazleton. Pardee is the twen- ty-millionaire conl-king, whois estimated the closest man in Hazleton. He opened his heart on the Fourth and contributed #$10 to the celebration fund. He also founded something recently down at Easton, Pardee’s colleries gladden the sight all about Hazleton. Thousands of acres of black sw;\mi) and hundreds of cave-ins and wicked-looking holes testify to the huge wealth which Pardee has taken out of the earth. Rather an inno- cuous old man is Pardee, though under his ownership men have ' suffered many wrongs. He is simply avaricious and Compared to the horrors of ok and Gowen, people say he is -robed angel. breaker, into which we climbed haphazard, was an average one of the medium size. Some of the big ones, I am told, eruploy about one hundred and fifty boys, but this one got along with twenty or thirty, besides half as many men. It is against the laws of Pennsyl vania for any 1y to employ boys under twelve years of age in a bresker, but f there is a single col y in this re- an which complies with ‘this Jaw it hides 1ts light very carefully under a bushel. Entering the breaker by a steep, in- chined pathway of boards, We were soon lost amid an intricate collection of joists and beams and cumbersome machinery. The air_was murky and covered with dust. The beams was covered with it, and it was useless to try and keep clean. The huge structure trembled under the strain of the long steel cable and the cars ascending and descending the slops. A single board or succession of boards led the way aloft. Une could not help think- ing what a death-trap the breaker would be in case some nu:rr} spark below got i some rapid work. There would be no escape. Reaching the top, we stood upon a narrow shelf and watched tne cars come loaded out of the black hole which led down twelve hundred feet into the earth., Two small boys and a man were stationed here to dump cars, and the “‘dockage boss," of whom much more anon, had his eagle eye on the loads, and made the cruel chalk-marks which carry such desolation to the hearts of the miners ‘‘How much do you make a day?' I asked of the lad at the fiump, 4 round- faced boy who knew he had the butt end of the job and was not ill-pleased at the knowledge. “‘Fifty.five cents a day,” he replied ““Is that the usual price for the boys®" “O no. The slate pickers down below only gets 85 cents.” “k’o f'o? find the work unhealthy?" “‘Well, I don't know,” the little rascal a wh The nned., 5 Down one flight ef stairs —if you can fHE OMAHA DAILY BEL call an inclined plank o ira—a plain- tive group of worn looking old men poked the chunks of coal ~ into their proper receptacles, the proper size de- scending at once to the chutes for broken conl, the rest going to the crushers, Sad wrecks these veterans, tottering to the grave. Hollow-checked and ~ hollow- chested, stoop-shouldered, tremulo! with shrilly piping or husky voices. They are better fitted for the infirmary of an old man’s home than for this ex- posed perch in a dirty breaker, “‘What do you get for this?” I asked a husky old man. “Ninety cents a day, sir,” “‘Steady wor “Notvery, sirg They can't get cars al- "‘vinys"' you know, sir, Then we be's Ninety cen day! Hardly a for- tune.” “‘Indeed, you be right, sir; but she bet- ter nor nothin’." “‘But why haven't you laid by enough to live on!" The poor soul turned a bleary eyo of wonder on the questioner and said: “*As d's above us, they never let me, 1 wurruked twenty years an' more for Mis ter Pardeo, but they niver let me get ahead. Then me lungs went away, an'— an' bere Ibe. I can wurk in the mine no longer, ye sce. An that was his story in a nutshell—the story of thousands of old men. There are other thousands who, after working a lifetime—twenty, thirty, forty years—in the mines, have been turned adrift in old age,when they were no longer useful and when they obstinately refused to die. But this is a peculiarity which is not mo- nopolized by the cos Again down, and the giant crushers and the huge graduated cylinder screws in which the broken coal finds its proper hole and drops intoits appointed place come into view. skilled workmen at fair ted by Then o slate-pickers, and here we find childhood working ten hours a day for three and a half cents un hour, and fines abundant. Chil- dren! Can we call the old- faced little wretches-—these men of nine, ten, eleven and twelve years re—can we call them children? Here , black-faced, grimy counterparts sit throughout the livelong day, picking, picking the sharp-cornered picees of slate from out the coal you are to burn next winter, “Do_you call those boys twelve old?” 1 ‘asked the man in charge. won't average eleven.'" “That's true emough,” he answered, “but it's none of my funeral. They will all tell you that is thelr age.” called a l,rn-mhling youngster to me and asked his age. ‘“Twelve,” he said. *‘No, you are not. Tell me truly.” “Twelve,” said he, more faintly yet, “Now, here, bub, don’t be afraid to tell the truth. I'm not a-going to hurt you. Tell me your exact age.” ““Twelye next spring. p Another iad, a little more. bold. said, the first time trying, that he was “*a qua ter to twelve. As a matter of f care whether a boy law be hanged! A fow concerns make applicants bring letterd from their parents that they are ot the legal age. In other cases the sons of widows are given work when they are known to be under age. But usually nobody cares. e law is a dead letter. It is safe to s: lads are ph labor. ( they af their daddies in the mines below ars hey , the operators don’t s twelve orten. The y that ten per cent of the sically injured by premature where they are at work and your e will discover the little suffer- ers. To sec them at their work, pallid— for no amount of coal dust can hide th pallor—nerveless, lacking every attrib- ute of healthy boyhood: to see them going to and from their work, silent and drooping, with bowed heads and lack- luster eyes—these things would tell the There is something so atrocious mn the dockage system practiced in this un- happy region that I have not dared to write of it until after the most thorough investigation. One hesitates to belicve a great millionaire concern guilty of straight-out thievery; one doubts the tratiifulness of those who bring the charge. Yet what shall be said whon every one of thousands of miners make exactly this charge, and backs it up by facts? The Upper Lehigh is one of the best mines in the region. Here D.N. E now a member of the state legislature, who, by the way, is blacklisted by the companies and can_ get work nowhere becuuse he fought in the cause of the men who put him in office—here Mr. Evans worked for many years. At one time, after three months of steady work it the Upper Lehigh mines, Mr. Eyuns found that ke had earned just $25. restof the profits of his'labor-heavers liad been stolen by the company through the check-marks of the dockage boss. The Nesquenoning mine of the Leb al and Navigation compagy is o g edged concern_in the treatinent of its men. It has neither the outrageous com- pany store system nor the company doc- tor em. YetIsaw men there, hon- sober men—one of them never liquor, and that he owns a little pasture lot for his cow shows that he is & frugal man,—1 saw men there who had worked a month and regeived £6 for it. And [ haye seen men at Hazleton, at Jeddo, at Highland, at Hazel Brook, at Freeland and elsewhere who have slaved and toiled in the mines for a month only to find themselves in debt to the com- pan “Ye said a poor fellow in unper Lehigh, *“I have seen the day when I had to run home and ask the wife to give me a dollar or two out of the stocking to pay the company for the privilege of working for them that month,” “But you had made your rent and food and clothes in the meanwhile?” I said, increduously, Not a ceut, sir, nota cent! I worked at a loss.” These are not exclusive cases. are not even rare. est, hard-working, They So far as [ can learn th isnot a colliery in the ficld, unless possibly it be those at Sandy Run be: longing to Mr. Kemmg v is re ported to be a white br among the mne operators, at which instances like the above can not be multiplied. “My friend!” said &n”old miner sol- emnly, “nobody but a’ miner knows the hell that lies in those words—the dock- age boss. He is the slave driver that holds a whip over us ail the time. His chalkmark Zot to be stood ,to, clean coal or dirty. There ain't no appeal from his say-so. And you bet he earns his salary every time. " If he don't, the company an't nouse for him. God! have saen men come out of the mine and 0 tremblin’ like cowards to the oflice 10 0ok in that awful glass case which tells the dockages. 1 have seen tears burst like rain from the eyes of strong men who was a-workin' and a-toilin’, often- times with bleeding hands a-handling of the sharp coal, and a-tryin’ to get food for sick wives and shoes for tieir chil- dren’s feet, when they come to see their work all gone for naught. You think I'm drawin’ it steep, sir. May God strike me dead 1f every word of it an't true.” For a long while 1 heard this talk about working for _nolhiuf; and workin, ata loss without being able to make hea or tail out ofit. I took it as a tignre of speech. Then one day an unusuall clever miner began to talk figures. put them down and the thing became as clear as day. Itis inthe power of the docking boss, by a sweep of a piece of Ik to blot out the profits of an entire day’'s work. That he earns his salary at the expense of the poor miners there is, un- happily, no room for doubt. Ina few—a very few—mines, the docking system 1s a sort of averaging aflair, m .king the clean and careful miner pay for the sbiftless, work of his lazier brethren, But in the vast majority of cases, as thousands of miners stand ready to prove, it amounts to downright robbery. Outside of the regular dockage for al. leged slate in the coal, the men complain of many irregular ways of cutting into their scanty earnings, In some of the mines it is broken contracts. A man contracts to do a certain piece of work at a certain price. At the end of the month he figures up his earnings, but lo! when he goes to the captain's_office to settle he finds himselt put down for a lower figure. When he makes complaint that the contract price has not been lived up to, he is calmly told that nu such price was ever agreed upon. There is his money. He may take it or leave it, as best suits him, In sucha case what can a poor fellow do? He has the American’s inaiienable right to suc, thus cutting himscIf off from all hope of fur- ther work from that company or any other member of the coal octopus. If he sues he will have his claim contested all the way to the court of appeals, and there will be nothing to support it but his own oath opposed to that of his boss, 3 can he do, indeed, but grin and bear it? Cases have been brought to my attention where remuneration has been cut down one-half in just this way, and in other cases where work for which 3,40 has been promised was cut_down $1.10 and $1.80. On one occasion a committee from one of the Coxe Brothers & Co.'s mines went several times to Drifton to place their grievances before General Superintendent Kudlich, but they al ways found it impossible to get an audi- ence. In olden times if a man suffered from a fall of rock by it of his own the company cleared it away. Now he must do it at his own expens If his vein goes back on him, and there is much rock blasting necessar'y, he must 1 gangway all'for the large sum of 1l the while paying the for #1.25 blasting powder. clear must lo; nothing. and company In a hundred petty ways like these iteh- ing fingers are always’ stretching out to deplete his siender” pittance and i him ever pauperward, Are robbe extortion too strong words to this scandalous business? richer,the poor poorer!” The phrase has grown commonplace, we hear it so often, yet it is the unvarnished truth when'applied to the slaves of Pennsyl- vania, the saddest of all examples of man's greedy lust for gold. The biggest cipher in all the world is believed to be the soul of corporation. This does not_nccessarily apply to ti coal operators, for some of the individ- ual owners possess meaner and more in- finitesimal souls than the corporate bodies. Who and of what sort are the led coal barons? Forthe most vart tney are illiterate, commonnpls boor- 1sh ‘men, to whom money is of small ben- efit, for they do not know how to use it. Now and thien one blossoms out like *‘Dr. John" Wurtz, John Leisenring, or the Packers at Mauch Chunk, or the Coxes at Drifton, but more of them live quietly, even meanly, in some bare valley near the mines. They came to this region and millions dropped into their aps. There are sharpers among them. here are large tracts of mining lands which were obtained by questionable method: But most of them are not pers. They, are lucky. Old Asa acker is reported to have said: [ am a—— fool, Every time Itryto doa sharp financial thing I make a failure of it. When Itrust to luck and ti i of others 1 make big hits."” seribes the average coal baron, sharp and unscrupulous, lead the way and he simply follows. Some of them are personally generous outside their business; others secem to have hearts of flint. But take the average and put him down in front of the Astor house and a bunko steerer would never think him worth plucking. And, with all Is hoarded and growing millions, I don't believe that he is of much real sccount, either in this world or the next. “Be wise_to-day; 'tis wadness to de- fer.”” Don’t neglect your cough. If you do your fate may be that ot the countless thousands who have done likewise, and who to-day fill consumptives' graves. Night-sw spitting of blood, weak lungs, and consumption itself, if taken 1 time, can be cured by the use of Dr, Pierce’s ‘“‘Golden Medical Discovery.” “I'his wonderful preparation has no equal as a remedy for lung and throat diseases. All druggists, rich ————— Around the World, Boston Herald: The Russian govern- ment has decided to enter upon the work of building & lme of railroad across Siberia, from the borders of European Russia to the Pacific oce the probable eastern terminus of the line to be the wort of Viadivostok, on the Japan sea. }' estimated that it will require five vears to complete this line, but at the end of that time it will be possible to travel from St. Petersburg to the Pacific ocean in fifteen days, This will mater- fally reduce the time now required to make a circuit of the globe. It is possi- ble now to improve on the once sensa- tional assertion of “‘round the world in cighty days,” in consequence of the greater ranidity of water transportation, But by the short cut suggested above, assuming that regular connections could be made, it is nos uniikely that the trav- eler, who was willing to go on without stopping for oceasional rests,could make this circuit in approximately fifty That is, starting from New York, it would require ven days to 0o to London, threo days from London to St. Peters- burg, fifteen from there to the vifie, nineteen d; for sing that ocean, and six days from San Francisco to his starting pomt. While at present there is no conneeting line on the Pacific with Vladivostok, the distance from that point to the trade centers of Japan is relatively short, and if a trans-Siberian railway is built, one may be sure that a line of swift s steamers will run across the Japan sea in connee! and in th ay the blying across the Pa- | lify reached. Indeed, red of these Pacilic steamers could be iucreased so as to equal that of the fast steamers that now cross the At- an, the allowance of nineteen ays given for sing from continent to continent might be appreciably re- duced. We are beginning to realize that our globe is but a small and in a generation or two more there will not probably be any part of the earth's sur- face, if we except the polar regions, that will not be quite as accessible to the in- habitants of this eity, for example, as what 18 now Chicago was to the residents of Boston two generatious ago. —~ An Important Element of the success of Hood's Sarsapa the fact that every purcha ir equivalent for his money. The fa r headline *'100 Doses One Dolla stolen by imitators, 1s original with true only of Hood's Sursaparilla. can easily be proven by any one who de- sires to test the matter. For real economy buy Hood’s Sarsaparilla. Sold by all druggists. ——— Map of Paris. Phillip Herztmann, au old resident of the city, has just received an elaborate map of Paris, his old home, which is printed in fifteen different colors. He has also a guide to the great French metropolis, whieh also contains a map. Both of these arg fine mediums of 1n- struction, and can be obtained from Mr. Herztmann at the very reasonable cost of #§1 each. Tollet Waters Impart a delightful coolness grance to the basin and bath Co.'s ure the standurd. and fra- Colgate & VINDEX Havana Cigar 5 CTS. This is the only cigarin the United States made of Pure Havana Tobacco, (long filler). and you will Buy one for 50 never buy any other. Forsale in all first-class retail stores. McCorp, Brany & Co., Manufacturer's Agents, Mexican War Veteran, The wonderful efficac: of Swift's Specific as & remedy and euro for Fheumatism and all blood dis- €ases, hias novor bnd a more conspicuous ilustration The candid, unsolicited and cmphatle testimony glven by tho venerable gontle- than this case affords. man niust be accepted as convinelng and conclusive, The writer 13 a prominent citizon of Misslssippl. The gentleman to whom Mr. Martin refors, and to whom N 18 indebted for the advice to which he owes his final rellef from years of suffering, fs Mr. King, for many years tho popular uight clerk of tho Lawrenos House, at Jackson. JacKsoN, Mlss., April 29, 1837, Tng SWirr SreciFic COMPANT, Atlanta, Ga. : Gentlemen—I havo been an fvalld pensioner for forty years, having contraoted pulmonary and other diseases In the Mexican War, but not il the lst of March, 1575, did I feel any saymptoms of rheumatism. On that day I was suddenly stricken with that dis- ease in both hips and ankles. For twonty days I walked on crutches. Then the pain was less violent, but it shifted from joint to joint. For woeka I would De totally disabled, either on one side of my body or the other, The pain never left me & moment for gloven yoaraand seven monthy-hat latrom March1, h 1875, when I was first attacked, to October 1, 1836, when I wascured. During those'eloven yoars of fn: tense suffering I tried iinumerable proscriptions from various hysicians, and tried overy thing sug gosted by triends, but 1f T'ever recotved east ment from any ‘medicine taken tnternally o e ternally, I am not awareof it. Finally, about t ually, first of Soptember, T mado wrraugements o go to the Hot 8prings of Arkansas, having despaired of every othor remedy, when I docidentally met an old ac- quaintance, ¥r. King, now of tho Lawrence House of thiscity.’ He had onoo been a great sufTerer from thoumaciatn, and, v T suppose, bad been oured by ot prings. ' but when Tmet him he s VIALE t0 he heard, for rhoumatism. _He tried'it and six botties complete cure, Several years have passed sin Bo has had no return of tho diseas, turned (o try nd by the first of Octof well—as far ns tho rheumatism was concerned. Al pain had disappeared, and I BAYE NOT PELT A TWINOK OF IT BINCE. Thave 1o fnterest In making this statement other than the hope that it may dircet some other sufferer toa sire Kource of reliot, and If {thias this result I am well rewarded for my trouble, 1 am very ro- specttully aud truly your friend, 3. M, ML MawTin, o, t. For eale by all drugglsts. Skin Discasga malled frec Tue Swirr Srrciric Co., Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga. Treatise on Blood aud ERILLIANT The Best and Safest Vapor Stove Made. C. W. Sleeper, head of St. Marys' Av- enue, James & Smith South, Omaha. 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