Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 1, 1887, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION ¢ Dafly Morniag muu-m lnrmdlux Bunday plber. Ono Yon: For Bix Months . * Thre Montha siVisoviiortes The Omaba Swnday fiee, mafled to” any address, One Yoar. %uu Qrrice. No. 914 Anp 01 FARNAM STREFY. YORK OFFICE, ROOM 6, T & BUILDING. ASHINGTON OYFIORs NO. 013 FOURTRENTH STRANT. CORRESPONDENCE! All communications relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed to the Lvl TOR OF THE Bik. BUSINEARS LETTERS: Al bueiness lettors and remittances ahould be addressed to Tir BE 8 PUBLISRING COMPAXY, OMAIA. Drafts, checks and postofiice orders be made payable VJ the order of the company. TUE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS. E. R()‘l EWATFR EpiTon. HE DAILY BEE Bworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nevraska, County of, Douclas. 8% 3, ‘I'zschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swear -that the actual circuiation of the Dailv Boe for the week ending Sept.2s, 1557, was as follows: Saturday “4('! 17.. ‘Bunday, Sept Mnnanv. Sept, | Weanasiny Sept. Thursaay, Sept. Friday, Sept. % AvVerage.......o..oes G0, 15, TZACHUOK. Sworn to and subscribed in mysyrewncu this 27th day of September, A, I [SEAL. Btate of Nebrask; Douglas County. | Geo. B. Tzschuck, belng first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is secretary of The 0 Publishing company, that tlie M‘Iunl erge dally circulation of the Dally Bee for the month of September, 1886, 13,030 copies; for October, 188, 12,989 copies: for Novern- ber, 188, 13,348 coples; for December, 185, 13,237 coples: for January 1857, 16,200 rlr;)lofl for h-hmnn 1887, 14,195 coples; for h. 1887, 14,400 {:’"“1' for April, 1587, 14, fcopies; for Mav, 157, 14,227 copiés: for June 1887, 14,147 coples: for July, 1887, 14,- 003 coples? for August, 1887, 14,151 copies, Gro, B Tzsciuck. Sworn and subseribed in my presence this th day ot Sept. A, D., 1887, SEAL.| N. P. Frin. Notary Publie. Notary l‘uhllc. Iowa, bound to *“‘even up” for the ab- sence of liquor in some way, is now mak- ing a specialty of prize figl A DEAF-MUTE lectured in Brooklyn the nther evening. He will no doubt become the most popular orator in the country. THE west has bn n fuirly ablaze with agricultural fairs this fall. The weather has, in the main, been unusually good and the exhibits above the avera, The erection of corn palaces has been a pleas- ing featuré of many of these exhibitions, and are much more sensible aud profit- abie than palaces of ice. A SvNDICATE with almost unlimited capital is buying up the lumber districts «0f the northwest. Those who are in position to know predict a rise in the price of lumber during the fall and winter. The need of legislation against incorporated robbers is becoming more and more evident with each day that pass NoruinG indicates the growth of pop- ulation in cities so well as overcrowded school houses. Most western cities com- vlain of this condition of things, and chief among them is Omaha. This eity is growing more rapidly than we are aware of, and bids fair to become one of the large cities of the country at no ver distant future. Ir there is to be any more bonds voted this fall we would like .to support a proposition to issue bonds for the im- provement of our parks and the pur- chase of additional park and boulevard grounds. Now is the time to secure land for this purpose. Ten years hence it will be out of our reach. THE republican county convention should exercise great care in the selec~ tion of delegates to the Third di judicial convention. This district is re- publican by a fair majority, but it is rank folly for the party to load the ticket down with eandidates who are not clean- handed and competent 'HE indi ms are that Cyrus W, Field was harder hit by his friend Gould sume time ago than was generally known. He has lately been quietly sell- ing, or trying to sell, various properiies outsige of New York eity, Field hob- bling about as a lame buck will be an in- teresting spectacle, but not nearly so much so as it would be to see Gould in such a predicament. ‘There are no indi- eations, however, that we shall witness such a spectacle. Thore is a certain dark-nued patron saint who takes care of his own Tue Milwaukee & St. Paul road has given notice that an advance in grain rates will be made, within ten days, from west of the Mississippi river between La- Crosse and St. Paul to Chicago. The rates from the twin cities to Chicago will remain the sime, 5o that this cut is in direct violation of the long and short haul clause. The exense given for the proposed violation of the law is that the present low rates from St. Paul vo Chi- ongo ve been brought about by water competition, and that there is therefore no reason why low rates should be given between points east of Paul to Clu- eago, not effected by water competition “Chis is the baldest nonsense and if threatened advanco 1 rates is ca out, the law should prompt notice of the matter and bring the road to ju: A COMPROMISE tariff bill which,is ex pected to receive the support of both braunehes of congress is reported from ‘Washington, his bill 13 said to contain a provision for the repeal of the tax on tobacco and whisky, some reduction of the duties on raw aterials, ete. The monopolies scem to remain untouched This is not the kind of tarifl reduction the country wauts, Let those who must drink wlsky pay for it, but give the farmers some relief. There are soveral millions of these in the country who wish to know why the stecl-ruil makers, for example, should be given a preseat of #17 for every ton of rails they manufuc- ture, by means of a high protective tarifl, while the price of wheat remains so low that there is no profit in its production his question of a reduction of the tarift s the most important now before the country and worth a statesman’s best ef- forts. We want no tinkering, butintelli- Eent legislation. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY. OCTOBER 1 1887, Vanderbum's Bamb, Paul Vandervoort has thrown a bomb into the Grand Army camp, and bisin- sane desire for notoriety has again been gratified, Comparatively few Grand Army veterans at St. Lonis kuow, how- ever, that Vandevoort shoots principally with his big mouth and never was within the reach of » bomb-shell or gun-shot during the entire war. His whole army record consists of being quartermaster's clerk at Alexandria, getting himself cap- tured by the rebels in Kentucky later on and being carried off to Andersonville and then paroled. By dintof cheek and the support of Unon Paciiic strikers with whom he was identified in politics this bloodthirsty warrior who had never seen a battle was pushed forward and elected, some yeurs ngo, commander-in- chief of the Grand Army as a compli- ment to veterans west of the Missouri. Here in Nebraska, where Paul is best known, as a robust specimen of the bla- tant blatherskite, the compliment was not appreciated by the men who did the fight- ingin the union army. It1s very unfortu« nate that such an arrant blowhard should be allowed to thrust himself forward as the spokesman of the gallant soldiers who went through the hardships of four years campaigning. Those who are familiar with Vandervoort's bloodless ca- reer in the army and his record in the postal service, from which he was sum- marily dismissed by Postmaster General Gresham, will feel disgusted with the im- pertinence of this sclf-constituted cham- pion of the boys in blne. While they may be in accord with the sentiments ex- pressed in regard to the treatment of de- serving pensioners, they cannot but ro- gret that Vaunderbum has jumped into the arena as their advocate. The Cup is Still Ours. American patriotism may properly exult o the victory which retains the America's cup in our possession, and again triumphantly vindicates American skill and scamanship. The sloop Volun- teer having twice defeated the Scotch cutter Lhistle, the trophy which thirty- six years ago the yacht America won in English waters, and which has been many times successtully defended since, will not this year gladden the eyes of Great Britain yachtsmen, It is a signal victory which the Boston sloop has won, far exceeding the most sanguine expecs tations of thoso who had faith in her ability to win, The Scotch yacht was built for the express purpose of winning the cup, hy perhaps the most scientific and successful vessel builder in Great Britain, She was modeled with a view to the system of time allowances under which races for the cup are sailed, and she was sparred for American weather. Every condition which experience and accurate information suggested as neces- sary in her construction and equipment, in order to render her the most complete craft of her class, was provided. She came to American waters with a record of sixteen victories that showed her to be the fastest yacht ever built in Great Britain. When all these facts are known the complete victory of the Volunteer, under circumstances in no respect un- favorable to the Scotch cutter, is an event to shout over. British skill in yacht construction must try again, and doubtless it will. The de- sire to recapture the trophy grows stronger with each defeat, and next year will undoubtedly witness another trial. It is not probable that we shall be able to always retain the cup, but the boat that wins it must be nearer to the American model than any one of the half dozen t have thus far been sent over to contest nwhile American 1ngenuity 11 may be trusted to develop a bout as much better than the Volunteer as she is superior to the victors in previous races for the trophy, Probibiti Tennessee. t of prohibition in Tennessee was not so overwhelming as in Tex: but like the wound of Mercutio 1t enough, The latest tigures estimate the majority against the amendment at 20,000, with perhaps a two-thirds vota in the state. On a full vote the probability is that the m.x]umv against prohibition would have b d, The cam- paign was e th great vigor by the advoeates of the proposed amend- ment, and they not only had a fair tield but fewer obstacles to overcome than confronted the prohibitionists of Texas, unless the fate of the cause in that staté proved an especially formdable in- ference against it i Tenunessee. It undoubtedly did give en- couragement to the opposition, but the testimony 1s that the contest against the amendment was carried on much less vigorously 1n Tennessee than in Tex: Explanations to account for the de by referring it to u gitimate will doubtless not be wanting, but the fair conclusion must be that the policy did not commend itself to the in- telligent judgment of a majority of the people, rather than that any illegitimate me: were employed to compass its de- feat. In view of the abundant evidence of the failure ot prohibition to prohibit, furnished by states in which it has been long tried as well as by those i which it has more recently been adopted, it is rather astonishing that it received 80 large 4 vote as was given 1t in Tenunessee. Evi- dently the opponents of the poliey there were not well informed regarding its operation elsewhere or were dereliet in the use of their information, otherwise the majority agninst the proposed amend- ment must have been materially in creased. Irrefutable arguments could have been supplied from, half a dozen states having prohbitory laws to show how utterly they fail to accomplish the nurpose of their enactment, while at the same time conducing to ¢ tices whic are subversive of all law. But 1t is quite suflicient for the present that Tennesseo has recorded its verdiet against prohi- bition, the enforcement of wineh would have been found quite as 1mpracticable there as in other states where the policy has been adopted Now let the common-sense friends of tem- pevance and of a wise and practicable regulatior of the liguor traftic in Tenne see move for high heense and local op- tion, and if they ean bring that about the battle just ended will not have been a fruitless conflict at ns not strictly le- The Library Building Lhe prevailing sentiment i re the publie library project is that 1t is premature. In the tirst pl the city has no ready money for such a building, and the limit within which the city is author. rd to iszed to issue bonds: has ‘nearly been reached. ‘If any more honds are to be voted this year the proceeds should be devated to' pavements, sowerige and other much heededa improyements. In the next place there 13 serious objection to loeating any public bulding on the only public square which the city has re- served, Last, but ‘not. léast, is a stub- born fact that a ereditable fire-riroof it brary building would cost more thau forty thousand dollars, Within four or five years Omaha will have the means and popu- lation to warrant the erection of a $200,- 000 library building and museum of art. Centrally located, such a structure will materially add to the claims of Omaha as a metropolitan city. For the present we can comfortably get along without a library building. Other cities of twice and three times our population are no better off in that respect. The 1ain object of a public library is the diffusion of intelligence. This can be done just a8 well in a rented building as in o public building. Posturing as a Martyr. For several months pasta local German paper has been teeding its readers on start- ling discoveries of a know-nothing con- spiracv in certain quarters to .substitute an Irishman or American in the place of George Timme on the board of county commissioners. The anxiety displayed by thigivictim of know-nothing nightmare is only surpassed by lus lamentable ig- norance of Jocal politics and absurd eulogies of s patron saint Timme. He hus conjured up the most incon- ceivable piots and wicked schemes to undermine and destroy mme and appeals in frantic terms to the (iermans to rally around Timme as their honored representative. Timme posturing as a martyr of know-nothing plots is only ex- celled by the picture which the German paper draws of Timmme as an exponent of rigid honesty and fidelity in public life. That picture, ought to be framed and pre- served for future generations. ADVISING oflice-seekers 1o stand up to the rack may produce the desired effect on a class of professional pohiticians who are willing to pledge in advance that they will support a yellow dog if he is on the ticket. But the tax-paying citizen, who hag no fear of the party lash, dis- criminates in the local campaigns and makes up his tickeg to suit his own and the public interest. The only way for a party to make sure of ruccess is to staye the yellow dogs off, and nominate candi- dates whom any prudent business man would be willing to ¢ nmlov in conduct- ing his pri Tue women sufl ew York have opened; their aign headquar- tersin onc of the principal streets of the city. Up to date, however, not & woman had appeared to register. The great majority of women don't want to meddle with polities. This has been the verdiet wherever the opportunity has been given them, and it is a favorable index of the common sense by which the great bulk of American womanhood is actuated. Other lmn(l» Than Ours. The eviction war in Ireland goes on, developing in its progress the stern pur- pose of the pecple to resist their oppres- sors to the last extremity. The policy of coercion has done everything to strengthen and harmonize the Irish peo- ple, but the principal effect has been to give good standing to men wiho had lost their footing at home. Therc 18 no small aper i [reland with decaying cir- culation that is not at once materially benelitted by defying in violent language the coercionact. There are none of the local politicians who have become un- popular and have lost theirinfluence who have not been able to regain 1t at once by attacking the tory government and defymg the coercion act. Nearly every leader in Ireland courts imprison- ment under the coercion act. Imprison- ment by the English authorities for po- litical offenses is equivalent n Ireland to a patent of nobility, There is no man who sulfers imprisonment for devotion to the Irish cause who can afterwards become unpopular. He will be cone sidered ever aftorw as ahero and a martyr. The belief 15 gencral that there will be a very serious time in Ircland this winter, istics of the depovula- tion of Ircland in the last forty years are of a nature to give great encourag- ment to Bloody Balfour. Between 1241 and 1881 the number of houses in Ireland have been reduced from 1,328,839 to 914,108, and the number of farms from 826,516 to 449,108, 1f a third of a million of farms and nearly halt a million of houses have been destroyed during the past forty years under the milder sort of oppression and injustice that have prevailed in unhappy Ireland, it 1s diflicult to calculate how rapid may be the process of effacement of human population and residence under the Cromwellian method of Salisbury’s bloody nephew. Since Victoria has be- come queen over three millions of peo- ple have been driven homeless from their native land ont of a to 2migration of 4,186,090, Truly there must be a graund revenge 1n store for a nation that has survived snch unexampled i and a people that have and prospered the world over spite of such cruelty. The National League continues its work, umd its mem- bership has recently been strengthened by the enrolhment of many Englishmen, All trustworthy testimony shows thut the sympathy of the common people of Eng- land with the Irishis steadily growing, but this fact does not appear to Lave any effect in restraining the government 1 its policy of persecution. ¥*e The shootivg incident on the France- German frontier, in which 8 German military guard tired upon a French hunt- ty, killing one man and wound- ing another, is still undergoing judicial investigation. Menuwhile there has been good deal of popular excitement both eountries over the oceur- and most of the French newspapers have indalged 1 bitter and hostile comments. The German papers kave manifested a less belligerent tone, and the German government appears to huve shown the heartiest desire to have a thorough estigation of the matter and to muke adequate redress if the cir- cumstances require 1t. The ditticulty will be to determine whether the party when fired upon were on French or Ger man territory, and unless the evidence 1s r and conclusive this incident may become a sonrce of aggravated irri tation to. both countries. It newly 1llus- trates the temper of the Frencn people toward Germany, which leads them to scize upon every! incident as evidence of ‘a delibers platned policy to irritate them anil excite their hostility: esigned, as the French helieve, or accilental, are stepping stones to the great struggle which the people of both corvntries regard as inevi- table, there can be no question. It may, require something more than such an oc- currence s’ this frontier shooting to bring on the contlret, but that a sufliciant pretext will be sooner or later found by one of the nations Yor striking the blow that will determine which is'the stronger seems to be regarded . by all Europe as certain, e A good deal of interest is felt in France regarding the action, if any, which will be taken in reply to the illtimed and im- pudent manifesto of the Count of Paris, ‘T'he radicals are howling for the whole- sale expulsion of all monarchist and Bonapartist pretenders. [t would be easy for Rouvier, by a stroke of his pen, to gratify tho radicals and to put himself nght with his party by banishing the bourbons and Bonapartists, but it 13 doubtful whether the republican clamor will be gratified, at least until some radi- cal change shall have taken place in the government. Grevy is averse to severe measures, and Rouvier, who has been supported by, and who, in fact, owes the existence of his government to reaction- ary assistance, cannot with any good grace turn against his allies, The im- portant question of expulsion will not be settled without & special meeting of the binct until the deputies reassemble, but meanwhile precautions are being taken to prevent the posting up of the mani- festo in country places to poison the minds of the peasunts. When the chamber mects it is most likely to de- mand the expulsion of the offensive princes or M. Rouvier's retirement. A singular alarm is now said to be deepen- ingin France, namely, that the army, de- siring revenge, may accept a king, be- lieving Russia would then sign a treaty of alliance aud aid in the conflict against Germany. This impression, it is as- serted, prevailed with Prince Bismarck when he sanctioned the expression that Prince Ferdinand was an Orleanist agent sent to Sofia to create a pretext for a Euroy > Holland's expenditares largely exceed her revenue, the estimated deficit for this year amounting to over five million dollars. Of late years Holland has de- ined in commercial importance. In 5 her exports were considerably in ex- of her imports, but the volume of de was less than it had been for sev- years. The chief items of export were iron and stegl, textiles, cercals and flour, and rice amd coffee, the latter, of course, received from her possessions in Java. All things cousidered, the won der is, not that Holland is not so flour- 1shing as she once was, but that she ex- isted at all. Itisonly by almost super- human exertions and by the most con- stant vigilance that the Netherlands are prevented from returning to their original condition of fens and swamps, “ras deseri listor The +<ocean is resdy to overleap the dykes or to find its way through them, and to turn smiling fields into shallow poads and lakes, ruin- ing everything which the industry of man has been able to make grow in tha inally unfavorable locality. No greater triumph of mind over matter was ever known than the building up and preser- vation of Holland, The war with Spain sinks into insignificance when contrasted with the fight of centuries against the hostile forces of natare, and the Holland- ersrichly deserve all that they have won in their battles with the s Their ountry will ever be & monument to the sturdy independence, the indomitable verseverance and the ceasless industry of the people of the :\ therlands. The persecution ‘of Rev. Mr. Doane, missionary in the Islands, by the newly pointed governor of the islands, Cap- tuin Posadillo, is veported to have re- sulted most tragically to that individual, Mr. Doane was arrested in April, and was imprisoned without trial for several montns. It now appears that after his departure for Manila the natives exhibited their hatred of Spanish rule by a revolt, in which Posadillo was killed. Those of his followers, soldiers and conviets, who were not slain with him, were forced to take refuge on the ship which had brought them. Mr. Doane, as a representative of the American board, had labored among these natives for thirty-three years, He exercised great intluence over them. The Spaniards not only removed him, but also closed several churches and all but one of the twenty schools he had established, They also silenced the native preachers and encouraged the sale of the vile rum which Europe makes for the Pacific ande The result indicates that Mr, Doane’s teachings had not rendered the natives incapable of showing righteous indignation. e A report that the pope i3 contemplat- ing meditation between Germany and France for the restoration of Alsace- Lorraine to the latter snggests great vossibilities. If these provinces were re- turned te the nationto which in sentl ment they belong the hostile feeling be- tween wee and Germany might die out. In the light of recent events it was a mistake for Germany to ma cession of French territory a condition of peace The money indemnity was paid and passed out of mind, It was held to be a part of the spoils of war to which victors were entitled. But the ceded provinces are living witnesses of the mability of the French to protect their own tertitory. When peace was made France had no choice but to aceept the terms offered. It was not able to continue the war with a hope of ulti- maute success, aud there was no nation in Europe that scem disposed to make the course of France its own., But France has never been reconciled to the loss of her provinees nor the provinces to being lost. They are appurently as French in sentiment to-day as when handed over to Germany. If Germany persists in holding them they will at no distant day be the enuse of war between the two nations. Under these circum stances if the pope ean induce (¢ to hand the provinees back nominal compensation which does not touch French national pride he will do mankind a service, - The occupation by British subjects of mrrliory claimed by Venczuela, done by N authority: and under the protection of the British government, is u matter which thé United States is likely to be, called upon to seriously consider, Tho adyices are that the alleged encroachment has developed into a good sized invasion, and large quantities of the best land belong- ing to the Venezuela government. has been‘enteréd on by the trespassers, who have cut off several hundred thousand dollars’ worth of valuable dye. and hard woods, which have . been shipped to foreign ports, The scene of depredation is 8o far from any of the railroads and military stations thiat it would be difficult to - attempt. an ejectment, and it is. said - that -the colonists were well armed and . equipped by the British officers previous to starting on this enterprise. Numerous complaints have been made by the Venezuelan au- thorities, but they were only met with a contemptuous silence on the part of the British. With the colonists are said to be two or three officers who are looking over the country, previous to importing a new lot of emigrants. The Vencauela oflicials state that the eastern portion of tneir country will be overrun soou, and all the government lands occupied with- out permission. Moreover the British authorities intimate that trouble wili fol- low any attempt to drive the invaders from their new abodes. There is a man- ot-war lying off the British possessions, awaiting orders. Successful Cheek Grafting, Harry Hagar, who had his left cheek torn from his fuce about three wecks ago, and for whom Dr, Lee has been building a new one, had the last graft put on yesterday. There have been al- together thirty-five grafts made and all but two or three of these were successful, The cheek will not be so full as the right one, but the difference will mar his per ppearance but little. The edges the grafts mect are barely per- cepible on close inspection and a short distance away the dim network of deli- cate scars would never be noticed, e An Honest Civil Engineer., Chicago News. In the Pacitio railroad investigation the commission Tuesday inquired into matters concerning the construction cf the Union Pacific, %n all the mass of evidence brought out from witnesses thoroughly acquainted with every detail of the road from its incep- tion to the present one very interesting and important “incident concerning the construction of the road does not upuulr in the reports of the In\osufulmn {znl this story from Edward Chamber- ain, once a western raiiroad man but now retired, He is familine_ with the early history of the road and is nmmm-lv ac inted with Peter A, Dy of low: I engineer who was first placed in as chief engincer of the eastern sion, which extended from Omaba to Ogden. It was about 1867 when Mr. Dey first ran his preliminary lines, He pushed the work rapidly, and finally sent his es- umates, outline of route, levels, ete., to Joston, the headquarters of the com- pany. Oakes Ames was then a promi- nent figure in the road, and, as every one knows who is acquuinted with the ot the corporation, was instrumental ~ 1n securing assistance from the government. Mr. Ames examined the reports submitted by Mr. Dey and was surprised to observe lhat the latter’s es mate of the cost of construction was much below what he (Ames) thought it would be, and he was geeatiy ple: N-u thereat. The estimate of the ave t of the road par mile was $25, mm ‘This is very cheap, and the very fact that it was cheap is very probably why the government is a creditor of the road to the extent of several millions of dollars. At all events, Mr. Ames saw a good chance in this matter of the estimate, for a short time after Mr. Dey had submitted them he received a letter from Ames to this effect : *'Your work has been com- pleted to my entire satisfaction, and the thanks of the company are due you. We can lind no error in your work unless it Dbe that your éstimate is too cheap. How= ever, we do not consider that to be any fault of yours. Nevertheless, we return herewith the estimates and request that you increase your estimate of the cost of the construction of your division from £25,000 to $30,000 per mule, and, depend upon it, when this extra work which wo impose upon you 1s completed, your la- bors shall not go nnrewarded.” If Mr. Dey was surprised when he had mastered the contents of this letter, Mr. Ames was doubly so when he received Dey's reply, which reached him: by re- tarn mail.” It was in substance: “I have been scrupuously eareful in my work and will stake my reputation and futur s on the aceuracy of of the estimates. If you had known me to be incapable of Woing this work I never would have receved the appoint- ment. Therefore, I cannot do as you re- quest regarding the increase of the esti- mates and yoo “have herewith my resig- nation, to take effu immediately, 1 cannot afford to do the work you ask of me. " Some one else did raise the estimates, ?’:u; Mr. Dhamberlain does not know who did Mr. Dey is now a_member of the Towa state board of railway commissioners and last year his name was prominently mentioned for appointment as one ot the inter-state commerce commissioners. ————— A SNAKE BAKE. Cheerful Little Koast of a Few Thou- sand Rattiers Near Oregon City. From the Frisses miner: Said J. D. Andrews, an Oregon pioneer, yesterday: *“Ihis 15 what [ know about sna 1 have a farm on the Mollalla, a few mles from Oregon City, near an oblong, rock- covered hill led Rattlesn; Hill, which for years has just been swarming with them. In the spring, when the weather gets warm, the rattlesnakes come out of the ledges and drift down on the creek bottoms, becoming very trou- blesome. My farm heing only three miles away, these reptiles became each more and more troublesome, en- Hangering especially the lives of my chil- dren, who, despite all [ eonld do, would persist in going abont bar “Well, a year ago i swarmed into my wheat field s 1 I conldn’t cat 1t when it was ripe. This may sound odd to you, butitisa fact, So I got some of my neighbors to help me, and I plowed several furrows around the field, and then laid haiv rope: arvound it and set fire to the wheat, Well, of all the sizzing, and frying, and strange squawks, and noises you ever heard, and leaping | up _and dis) g forked tongues 1 don't think anybody ever be- fore saw, Of course they ran from the fire, but the hair rope on the further side turned them, until they had a circle of fire around them. “Well, when the wheat was burned off there were thousands ot dead rattle- snake: They were thicker in the middle of tue field thun anywhere else, ana were twisted and tied together in knots and bunches almost as big 4 guess we must have ma of them thrt time, for putin un appearance the - In another column of this issue found an entircly wud men of attractive & tising, will be novel speci- It is one aper, and we think our readers will be well re- paid for examining the surrosen dis- piny letters in the advertisement of Prigsly Ash Bitters. A LINCOLN - SENSATION, Elopement of a Lady Who Moved in tho Teat Circlea, The saviety circles of Lincoln dre all broken up over a little affair which oe- curred, but which the ‘‘best people'! said should not occur.. Mrs. Winger is the wife. of the most prominent dry goods merchant there, She is good looking, voluptuous and inclined to be friendly, All the church socials recognized her as & leader. She could sing the sweetest psalms and assume the most devout ex- pression of - any lady "in Lincoln. The prayer ‘meeting was not without her influence. She counselled the erring man and pointed the way in which he should go. Therg was not an avenue of yice which she did not attempt to close. She held afloft thro banner of light and truth and told the misguided youth the rearful plunge he was taking into eter: nity by smoking cigarettes. ghc collared the hoary:headed sinner, who was up be times for his morning nip, and told how dreadful it was to neglect a wife and a clinging family. She held virtue in her mit, and had only to extend her palm for others to look with admiration. In fact, virtue was personitied in Mrs. Winger, but, poor woman, she wa human. A Mr. Alnu\mh J. Culver was a frequenter of her home, if not an actual resident. He was about twenty-five. He was full to overflowing with t blood of adolescence and he met with a beguiling response in all his pretty ways a8 far as Mrs. Winger was concerned, She was the mother of six children and had those little charges to look after, but yet there lurked within her breast feeling that enjoyment paramount to her duty, Adam viewing Eve, she looked upon Aleck and he was fair, and if not beloved of men, he m-rl.unly was of women. So the usual signal caime. With- out a kiss to hubby or a by-by to the little ones, she left her bed” and board some two weeks ago and went henc out with the great broad world with he unlegalized love. They fled, no ov knows where. Since v,lu- timé of the flight no one can point the spot of lo tion, I'ne little ones cry aloud for a par- ent that is lost, and the only echo they hear is the subdued muttering of a hu band and father who im- ugines that women are painted toys. With Moore he thinks that theiwr hearts are a pitiful treasure, and every- thing about them that Mohammed ex- pressed was only too just, only that Mr, Mohammed did not thoroughly cover the ground, The good, pious papers of Lincoln have said never a word about the affair. Every pencil there was paralyzed with admiration on the one hand and fear of denunciation on thu other. MORE GAMB KS PULLED. Thirty-One Fortune Hunters Cap- tured By the Police, Last evening while the gambling rooms over the Turf Exchange on Douglas strect were in foll blast, Oflicers Ormsby, Horrigan and McCracken quietly forced the door open and stood for a fow onds watching the moene. The roulettee and chuck-a-luck wheels were running, and the games of stud poker and faro were in progra As soon as the officers were recognized great confusion pre- yailea; the chips were seattered over the floor, the lights turned down and a gen- L rush ade for all availabie points of : of the men attempted Lo g out of the windows. one or two tried to crawl into the beer ele and ali the different hiding connected with the room were filled. One young fellow who gave the alias of Frank Smith broke the glass in oneof the doors and jumped through, However, all present were captured, thirty-one’ alto- gether, and it required three trips of the patrol wagon to take them to the centr police station. From the gnmbling tabl there was taken $( The following are the names or :\h ses giv L. Jones. E. B. Cook. E. ( Frank Smith, George Ringo, P. Hanson, Muck phone umrbrm'n Morrison, Hendersnot, Biddeson, J. ll \\ right, J. R il. Hufl, 'Charles Bocl k uul L. Ryan, Charles \n(ur L. Fransur, Prn-d "Wells, N. P. Winn, odman, Charles Bullar, H. A. W. Sansmith and W. J. Mur- There was aimost enough money taken from the prisoners to start a bank. Fred Wells had the most, having $516.30 on his person, and N, P. Winn had §4 ARMY NEW» 1 Court Martial Ordered to Meet at Fort Mchinney, A general court martial has been ap- pointed to meet at Fort MeKinney, W October 10, for the trial of such versons as may be properly brought before it. The detail for the court is as follows: Captain Benhum, 7th infautry; Captain Weisel, assistunt surgeon, U. S. army; Captain Sanno, 7th infantry; Captain Dimmick, 9th cavalry; First Licutenant Garrard, 9th cavalry; First Licutenant Young, th cavalry; First Licutenant Jackson, 7th cavalry: First Licutenant Powell, 9th cavalry; Second Lieute Gardner, 9th cavalry; Second Lisuate Benton, Yth eavalry; Seeond Lieut Barbour, Tth infantry, judge advocate. The commandimg officer at Fort Omaha has been ordered to send under charge of Captain Thomas Snarp, 17th and & suitable guard, to the ort enworth military prison, the fotlowing military convicts: John turn- ett, 1.(-(“‘(.!1' E Forey, Edward J. Hogan, McFadden, Adam Heiligen Charles Hupkms and Heory C. it finishes the repai ”"f of the Tenth street paving destroved-by ite tracks by the Sth of next month the work will be ordered done by J, K. Riley and the sama charged to the compan, The same company notified to clear all its obstructing castings from the idewalk and gutters on Tenth street. The Omahi Horse Railway comp: |y was again notified that it would cessary for it totake out a permit lu-luro commeneing to tear up strects, REAL ESTATE 'I‘I(.\Nhl".‘".ll*. Dexter 1, ‘Thomas and wi Glaughter, et al, lot i, bIK ¢ l\mm!hw ath «mph-un-nmry ad, wd.. B 4 V Morse ot al to N ) E dholim et al, < 3, Morse & Brunners add, Henry Auibier et nl to Alice i White, Iwoli 3 and 4, blk 14, Ambler pll\CL‘ 5,000 trustee, s e Yy of se iy ()le Imsnau m Ila‘tr Haniman 1, in Millard & Catfweins i d.; Edwin G Rood and wito lo “Hermann Newman, lot 13 ‘and 13 blk &, Al- brights annex to South omnlnn wd, Chatles Elsasser and wife to Gottlied F Elsasser et al, n 24 ¢ lot 5, blk 2 Kountze's 4th add, w J Hanscom and wife to Francis M Shr.ver, IM 21, blk 20 Hanscom place, w d “i‘““" it G ia ifloming, n "5 it ot 7 Hall place, w d. Lydia 1 Hall to Wiltiam' iffeming, 1ot © and s 81 ft lot 7 Hall place, w d.. Lydia I Hall to William Fleming, lot s Hall place, w Qe Wiliiam Flenine and Fleming, sr, llen's sub div ot lot 5 Ryan's add, wd.. William Fleming and wite to Murgaret ey, Tot 10, Allon’s subdiv of ot lots 8 and 9 A Simeon i3, € hapman to Cora H. SI an, lots 16 and 17, Jerome ark add: w d.. \eodore Olsen and "wife' to Marcou Stine Johnson, lot 7, bik outh Owmaha Park add; wd.. teorge Payne etal to William Mr( lelland, lots 6 l\|u| 7 lllmk Kilby Place ad v ( .Inhu Goddard, “und !u 10 ~\I rd Place addy Janes and wifé tu Mxl , lot 8 blk. 9, Paddock Place, w. The Union Stock Yards Company to Charles N, Folsom, etal, lots 6 and 7 blk. 6, 18t addition to South Oma suve of absence for seven days has been granted Captain Thomas Sharp, Seventeen infantr talian Stabbing. Joel Benzon, a French hotel keeper, and Dominick Russ, an Ital peddle l. had an altereation near the cornerv of Tenth and Capitol avenue yesterday af- ternoon and in the wndst of the fight Russ is charged with stabbing Benzon in dirk. Both the combs Chairman Balcombe stated vesterday morning that the only material rejected for sidewalks in this city except planks waus brick. He himsclt was opposed to everything except stone, and Mr. Mayne, although voting wgainst usphalt, with him, mught yet vote in favor of it. The ance requires that the ma L shall be of stone or *like permanent material,” and nothing is so durab s stone, ex- cent it be the best kind of artilicial pay- ing stone, which is now being luid here. If usphaltum is used, Mr, Balcombe pro- poses to see that its composition shall be much bharder than has cver been down before in this city Late Thursday evening workmon re- « the lay ng of the Motor iine the corner of Fitteenth and lhm rd streets Heunrod was shown rmit 50 to deo gragted the company ‘hairman Balcombé on the 12th of two days before the ordi- e was passed e chairman of the board hias notified the Cable Tramway company that uniess Laid Franklin Whitney John F. Richhari South Omaha, w d. John J Mahonoy, et al to Frank J Ter- sons, 1ot 6 bk 1, Mahoney & Mina- han’s 1st addition to South Owab wd.. i Jnhn J M:lhuln'y. ot al to dohn ¥ Richhart, lot 7" blk 1, Mahoney & Minahan’s 1st addition to South Omaha, w d . Twenty-three trnnsurs. total ‘858, BUILD! I’l’)“‘ll’l‘s. Henry Hamann, two-story dweiling, Fifteenth and ( and ‘wite m ot al, lot 8 blk. ¥ frame Minnio Wirth, repairing diwelling, Twenty- fiifth'and a halt nlnl lhm~ ard. to cost. one-story frame dwell- Ing, Ohio near Twenty wruxnl. to W. G. Bahn, lrll(‘ and half framo barn, F n, near fl zhth, to cost. Wi 'llnru 8 Story Thirty= Kight permits aceregating SGII.Y ITCRY SI(IN Scaly SKin seases Cured PSORIA chon, Pruritus, Dandruft, ) he A b, and overy spocies of Jtehing, Burning, Sca oly Humo Skih and Bealn, with Lo cured by Curiiuia, th CURA SOAY, un_exquisis nally, and CUTICURA R PunitkiEn intprnnlly, other remodies fail. PSORIASAS, OK SCALY SK1N, Y. John J. Case, D. D, S, having practices dentistry in this country for thirty-five yoars and beltti well known (0 thousunds herealouts with & viow to holp any who ure amlictod as have been for tho past twove yours, tostify thut the CUTICURA - REMEDIES cured mo of Psorinsis, or Senly Skin, in eight duys, aftor the doctors with whom 1 hnd consulted gave wme no hope or encourngement JIN J, CASE, DS, , Toiter, Ringworm, Li- Culd ol filk Crust, kin e nuh(l(-r L‘Ilu VENT, the new Blo 1 physiciuns and &l Newron, N. I DISTRESSING Your CUTICURA REMER ul cure st sunmer o ers, un ol g llll s 0f Seventy years of ng who sulferc a fearfully dist (g tion on his und who hac remedies ¢ TEXARKANA, ARK. DUSTPANF OF SCAL Curpentor, Hor ¥ Psoriisis or Loprosy, of tweuty years' standing by CUTIGURA RRMEDTES. The mostwondorful cire on record. A dustpantul of sculos foll from him daily. Physiclans and his friends thought ho must die, ECZEMA RADICALLY CURED, _For the radical cure of an obstinate case of Lgive entire credit t6 cured of Now Haven, Conn. CUTICURA, & Sold by all (Iluu;ml Pr AioK o 03 8OAR, 25 cents, ND CHEMICAL CO,, Boston. Sond for "How ta Cure Skin Disoases” BEAU L b G IT FEELS 600D. Those worn out with uind Woaknosson find 1 MINUTE in the CUTICURA PLASTEI. At druggists, L HAGAN'S MACNOLIA BALM, For the Fnce, N Arma ol Hnndu In toatclil re aid g T P i Kiricily . i o by Pnunnh. m s shouRd nove wl the BALM o Trind 1