Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 4, 1887, Page 5

THEY HAVE AN AX T0 GRIND. True Becret Of the Reception Tendered To @overnor Thayer. THE B. & M. AT THE BOTT! OFIT DPon't Like the 1dea Of An Fxtra Ses- slon—An Account Of the Event— Mandamus Proceedings— Disappointed Burglars, [FROM TNR BEE'S LINCOLY BUREAT.! The republican state convention opened to-day in the reception to Governor Thayer. To be sure it wus two days in advance of the convention, but the avidity and eagerness with which every B. & M, striker in the city stood on tho street corners and urged on the reception showed that the B. & M. isn politics and is working something to point back to in the future if an extra session looks them in the face. The question was universal over the city yesterday in the morning hours, when the preparation for the reception was in progress, “What is it all for?" and the questioners would look at each other for a hLttle, a broad smile over- spreading their taces, and then they would turn their eyes i the direction of the B. & M. political law oftice, laugh outright, and pass on. There is scarcely a citizen ir Lincoln high or low who has not the ntmost respect and conlidence in Governor Thayer, and would go o great way in any honest eftort to show their appreciation and kindness to the governor, and while they all would have been glad, as in- dividuals, to heartily welcome the gov- ernor home again, they could not but ask in common with others the question why the simple return of the governor from the east was made a time for such a pretentious demounstration. There is no city in the stato that has more liberal and wide awake civie socte- t and they turn out rain or shine. Without a probable thonght of the selfish motive that prompted the display of yes- terday, they turned ous in force, nmi to the Ifish Land league and the German Harmonic societies m particular, much of tho credit for the very creditable re- ception is due, Mayor Sawycr, on his part, as mayor of the city, undoubtedly saw it his duty, when a reception was decided pon, to take his part, and after Fitzgerald had agreed to stand good for the expense the wvroncedings were pushed forward to a auite successful ending, traing Prior to the arrival from the esst the and other bodies at the depot. On the back w, with licutenants covenient, at hand, the mddleof the B. & M. law ¢ Arm was busy urging on proceedings and directing the array of reception parties, alternating between the platform and the select committeo of B. & M. workers i the buildings, These workers were yery careful to kevp from taking any prominent part that would create criti- cism, but it is a sufc assertion that there was scarcely anyone around but guessed *ho true inwardness and showed his wUess in the expression of his counte- nance. A great many of the appointed reception committeo did not appear at the depot, preferring rather thau assist 1 the railvoad me to extend their wulgcome privately to the governor and explain their reason. There was also o compuratively small numter of citizens atthe depotto what there would have been if there had not been the belief that a sollish scheme was at the bottom. Under ordinary cireumstances the whole city would have jommed in welcoming Governor Thayer.” Upon the arrival of the tr,:ln‘m from the east the governor and of the bands, assem- Mrs. nyer and Lieutenant Governor Shedd and wife were received by the those i waiting and escorted to a car- ringe, The state oftice were also laced in carriages together with mem- ers of the council and the march to the capital taken up, the cadet band from the university and cadets under Lieuten- ant Dudley taking the lead, followed by the carriages; then the city band at the head of company D and followed by the ‘man band headmg the different so- in li citizens in carriages bring- P Arniving at the capital the exercises there were held in repro- sentative hall which was handsome decorated with the national colors. After the line of march was broken only about two hundred people remained at the ex- ercises in tne hall. These were opened by singing from a choir and band musie, after which Mayor Sawyer read an elo- uent and finished address.of welcome. To this the governor responded in u talk, setting forth the historic scenes he had wisited and the impressive ceremonies he had ~ witnessed, including the teonial ebration at Philas delphia and the. Grand Arp, reunion at St. Louis. The governor's remarks were listened to with the closest attention and were warmly cheered. He expressed his gratification at the cordianl reception tendered him and the pride that he had in representing the growing commonwealth, * Other §rlul exercises follpwved and the gathering adjournoed. Governor Thayer returns from a very plissant trip and one which he. has greatly enjoyed. He has been absent somu three weeks and he brought home with -him Mrs. Thayer, who has been passing the summer months with rela- tives 1n the east, MUS PROCE! eral Leese ay pre- sers asking the supreme court for a mandamus c elling the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missour: Valley rond to adowt the reduced rates filed for thair hine of road by the state board of transportation. ‘The Elkhorn road had until October 1 to answer and comply with the demand of the board, and as they have failed to cither answer or cotaply, the mandamus proceeding will be commenced w supreme court to-day and be heard as speedily as possible. If the procecdings hola, the state board of trunsportation wil have the power to reduce rates and if the mandamus fails the hoard will be without power as the railroads contend itis. The board of transportation and the peopie of the state are interested in knowing whether the law 1s as valueless as the roads claim it is. 1f it is found to be, the members ot we board of trans- portation will resign and closa the oflice up uatil the present or a new legislature &raunts them powers to ke of some use and beneti ‘I he decision of the court wll be wwaited with more than ordinary ‘nterest. © A FRUITLESS BURGLARY. When the Union Pacific ticket oflice apened its doors yesterday morning the manager found that the place had been pisited during the night. Burglars had een ransacking the place and had for- cibly wrenched the morey drawer from its hinges but without any finaneial re- sults to them a8 the drawer was void of cash save a few coppers that the dis- gusted thieves did not take. As far as could be ascertained nothing of value was taken as the thieves evidently were looking for cash and wanted cash only. - If wo would have powertul minds, w must think; if powerful muscles, we wust labor: if sound lungs, we must take Or. Bull's Cough Syrup. Price 25 cents For cuts, bruises, sprains, burns, scalds, {rost bits and chilblains, nothing equals Salvation Oil. It annihilates pain, Price _ % cents a bottle, ney ( paced the pay REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS, Silas H H Clark, trostee to Rasmus P AI‘:’Ilcr!flll. lot 5, blk 2in “West Side" Joseph Krajicek sr, the and g 0 jrto Frank Krajieek of the n 1. of lot 4, blk 51in Kountze's 5d add, w d., . 1 Frank Krajicek sr, to Joseph Krejioek, the n 'y ot lot 11 in Barker s allot uent, w d... . . 1 W R Vaughn etal to Aaron Ehrlich, lot 5, blk ¥, West Albright, w d..... . 550 Jacob U Denise and wife to Johanna Jucobson, lot 13 blk 5, in Denise's add, wd Lecanis T ) Anna M. G, ‘MeCormick and hus et al to Franz Beim, lot 5 blk 6 in Deer Park, wd. ' ) 1,000 Maggie Sullivan to Joseph Egermayer, Jot 11, bik 5 of Deer Park, wd...... 1,000 Clifton E Mayne and wife to Jamina A Long, lot 10, bik 2 jn C E Mayn: 1st add to Valley w d... 130 William 15 Cowles et al Keedles, lots 68 and 69 North Side add wd o 800 G L Connel on, n 35 of ne ig of nw ' and n i of aw 17 of nw 4y of section 290-15-18 deed. . 1 Mary B Thornton to Laura V Conner, lots 8910 11 and 12 blk 1 and lots 910 1112 13 and 14 blk 2 lots 910 11 12 13 and 14 blk 3 in “'Conner” lots 8 ana 7 olk 2 lots 4 5613141516 17 18 19 20 blk 3 lots 13 14 1516 and 21 blk 4 Tuornton place deed...... . Maty B Thornton to Anna G IFistes, lots 8 910 11 and 12 blk 4 lots 0 10 11 I and 14 blk 5 lots 89 10 11 and 13 blk 6 in “Conner” also lots 9 10 19 and 20 bik 1 lots § 10 17 20 ana 21 blk 2lots 78 11 and 12 blk 3 lots 4 11 12 19 and 20 blk 4 Thornton place deed.... Mary B Thornton to Letta F Bevey, lots 56 78 13 and 14 bik 4 lots 8 Tand8blk 5lots 34506 and 7 bik 6 in “Conner” alsolots 4 7 8 15 14 17 and 13 blk 1 lots 13 14 18 and 19 blk 2 lots 9 10and 2L blk 3 1ots 56 7 and 8 blk 4 Thornton place deed. ......... Mary B. Thornton to Sallie C, Graham, oty 5,6 and 7, bk 1; lots 3, 4, 5,6, 7 and s, blk 2; lots 8, 4,5,5 7 and 8, blk 3 in “Corner;" also lots 5, 6, 11, 2, 15, 16 and 21, blk 1: I 5, 6, 11, 6, bk, bil 9, 10, 17 1k 4 in Chornton Pl ace; ieorge Richardson, the east fifty feet of lot 15, and the west fifty feet of lot 16 in block 8 in Shull's second addition 2,000 fi!o . R ) blk 3 in Hillsdale: w d e 1unt and wife to Florance J. Oanan, the east twenty feet of lot 6, and the:west twenty teet of lot 5 in bik “B” in Shinn’s additions wd 3,500 Charles H. Folsom et al to David Hy- land, commencing fifty feet west of southeast corner of lot 7, blk 6 in First addition to South Omaha; thence north ninety feet, est twenty-five feet, south ninety-eight feot, east l.-wnl‘{-nvo feet to place of besinning: wd.... ....... Ve Charles K Harrison to Hannah Rob- erts, Jot 9 blk 4, in Eckermann Place, ‘anan et al, to CharlesS Good rich, lots 3 and 4 blk 11, in Calkiu's sub diy of Mayfield, w d.. Mary L. Huston and husband tc 3 M Winship, lot6blk “U,” in Shnn’s 2 add, w d George W Seogan and wife {o Mary Gaylord, lot 9 blk 5, Hawthorne,'w d William Coburn to William Latey, et al, lot 10 blk 19, E 'V Smith’s add, sheriffd ........... L V Morse and wife, et al, to Willia Crombre, lot 5 blk 11, in Myers, Rich- ards & Tilden’s add, wd...... Aaron Root to The World Pub C lease of middle 22 ft of ni¢ of lot blk 118, City ot Omaha, and two-story brick building with basement, No. 216 S 15th st, for term 8 yea per SRFT VI s T \J\\' Dickenson to James F W' lot Liblk 1, in Rush & Selby’s add to South Omaha, w d. .- 3600 1400 . 2081 M’me. Muentefering's Musicale. A rare treat will be afforded lovers of music this evening at Madame Muen- tefering’s piano recital, which takes place in Lyon & Healy's ware rooms. Mr. F ranko with his string orchestra has of- fered to play the accompaniments to Mendelssohn’s G minor concerto, which has never before been rendered in the city. It was originally intended to play the accompaniments to this picce on a second piano. All lovers of fine music will greatly appreciate this change. SPRY FOR EIGHTY.THREE. An Old Man Trundles a Barrow From Ohio to Albany, Albany Argus: Horace Allen, aged eighty-three years, arrived in Albany the other day, having pushed his wheclbar- row from his home in Delaware, O., a distance of about 635 mules. The old man looked a trifle footsore and weary, but he said he felt spry and ready to “push’” many miles more. He dropped his barrow near the postoflice and went m to see if there was a letter there from his wife, but got none. Then he came out and told the gaping crowd of hoodlums all about his long tramp. ~They appeared to take him for o veritable Rip Van Winkle, and he did look like Irving’s immort: creation. Bent with age, but still sturdy and vigor- ous, he wore a long beard, a black ala- paca duster, a pair of linen trousers, and heavy boots that might h belonged to a forty-niner. In his barrow was a red tin box, containing his wardrobe and a supply of buttons, needles, combs, pins, ete,, which he sold en route, The aged *‘ped” was on his way to the Green mountains of Vermont, where he lived until twelve years of age, when his father’'s hlnlll{ emigrated to Ohio. This was in 1816. Heisa grand nephew of Colonel Ethan Allen, the hero of Ticon- deroga,and is an out-and out Vermonter, glorying in the thought of seeing the mountains of his native state once more. He was at one time wealthy,but lost most of his property in the panic of 1883, He has been shoving his barrow tor the past eight years, up to two and a half years ago, whan he was laid up with rhouma- tism. He started June 18, as a_cure tor rheumatism, to go to New Philadelphia, 100 miles from his home, and feeling so much better, he resolved to push on to Uswogo, N. Y., where he has relatives. Arrived there he came on to Albany, He will strike out for Vermont, and may go as far as Boston, returning home by rail, vs he has been hearty ever since ome, and has greatly enjoyed the scenery of the Empire state. Of ‘the whole distance traveled, he said he rode only twenty-eight miles 'by rail, in Ohio, through u section he was afraid to tra: verse on foot. His biggest day's walk was fifteen miles, smallest three miles, when he was troubled witha “cruel” toe and an average avout nine. He found the people everywhere hospitable. He has a wife and four grown up children, all married and doing well. A Ser s Practical Joke. New York Commercial Advertiser: The practieal joker is again to the fore. A man ut Prague, Bohemia, swallowed a small watch, with chuin attached, which one of these fools hud slipy L of beer while the mau's back turned. etal, dissolved by the acids of the h, has poisoned thut organ and keeps it in an incessant state of fever, rendering the vietim unable to retain food. ‘The man has been dismissed from the Munich hospital as incurable, and now lies in a hosoital at Prague, kept alive by food artificially injected, wait- ing to see whether the watch will all dis- solve or whether he will die at first. How the joker must be enjoying his joke. Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria. When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria, When she was a Child, she cried for Gastoria, When shio became Miss, she clung to Castoris, Wheu she had Children, she gave them Castoria. { THE WESTERY CATTLE TRADE The Present a Oritical Perlod—Review of Range Management, OVERSTOCKING AND ITS CAUSES, -Old Time Profits— Entrance of British In- vestors — Labors of the Ranch., Some Result The Wyommng Evening Post: The present is & crucial period in the history of the oattle ranchers of the western plains, and the experience of this year will in all probability lead to some very important changes in the managenient of their bus- iness, the resultof which, itis safe to say, will be for the adyantage of the cattle trade generally, and for the animals themselves. One prominent newspaper estimates that the western herds have in- creased 50 per cent in numbers since the census of 1880, This would fix the pres- ent number at 60,000,000 head. While I do not think thut there is that number in existence, I am convinced that there were fully one-third more animals on the western prairies prior to the depletion of the herds by the storms of last winter than cither commercial prudence or humanity can justify. Tho same paper estimates the area of the western range at 1,100,000 square miles, which is a rea~ sonably fair estimate. Taking one con- sideration with another, the range throughout the west would be overstocked if the herd averaged more than one animal to each fifteen acres. ‘This would give a pasture capable of sus- kuln!ll&é?,(}(}fl,(lol} head of cattle, and that must be regarded as the extreme limit at the present time, Afterall,as the strength of u claim is but the strength of its weak- est link, so the winter feed of a range ought in all cases to be the measure of the 1atter’s capacity for grazing cattle, however superabundant the summer grass may appear to be. In the northwestern territories the ranges are not fenced to any extent, and the various herds intermingle ovec an enormous area, in spite of all the line- riding designed to prevent or minimize wanderings, with the result that if one one man overstocks the range recognized as his by the common title of prior ocou- pancy, his cattle will scatter in search of 4 moreabundant pasture and help to overstock the property of others. Where this pra of overstocking is universal, the injur: d loss resulting from it are i 1s0. The seeds of the present overcrowding were for the most part sown in 1882-8. The large capitalists und corporations then entering upon the business filled up their pastures as far as possible, with the double object of pre- venting them from being *‘jumped” by any of the hundreds of stockmen patrol- ling the country in scarcia of under- stocked ranges, and of making the greatest amount of money in the shortest time. At this juncture ono peculiarity lains misled the new operators in cattle, all ot whom were more or less in- experienced in the business, and nccen- tuated the mischief they were penetrat- mng. Judging by acreage and feed unly, there apneared to them to be room for a much large number of cattle than could, in reality, be maintained with any ap- pronch to safety. Grass, in order to be eatan, must be accessible, and to bo ac- cessible it must be near to water in sum- mer, aad shelter in winter. There are, the aggregate, millions upon millions of acres of the finest pesturesin the west which are never grazed over by reason of remoteness from these vital neces- sariet. A cow will prefer to half starve herself lying along the bare, hoof-trodden baunks of a river where she can drink her fill, rather than to wander three or four mi]vq, twice a day, to more abundant pastuve; and the sume holds good with regard to shelter in winter. Animals which know that they must rustle for themselves are very chary how they leave their shelter in winter-time in those lati- tudes of swift and fatal storms. Thus, at the very outset, while intending only fully to stock their ranges, the cattle- men were, even then, in reality over- stocking them, because they did not al- low for the proportion of good but use- less range. But a still more serious blunder was preparing. Until the adyent of the heavy capitalists the northern pastures were simply “buef’ ranges—that is to say,they were not used as breeding ranges to any extent. Ihey did not rear their own supplies,but imported them from Oregon and Texas. 'I'he draught of young steers from the latter state grew to hundreds of nds of head annually. The young ) steer, it was found, added greatly to his bulk and quality on the high table- lands and among the rich nortnern grasses of Wyonung,Montana,Nebraska, and Dakota, The new owners had a more abiding faith in the clemency of the western climate than the old-timers from whom they took over the business. The declared policy of the former was, without loss of time, to transform the prairies of the north t into breeding ranges, retaining the Texan drive for the time being, but merely as a profita- ble ajunct to n more ambitious business, the most important intentions of which was a8 quickly as possible to grade up its herd to first-class export quality by the introduction of thoroughbred sires. T'ns involved an entire remodeling of the business, not, as might have been ex- pected, with the view of better protect- ing it against the ravages of the much dreaded winter, but with the object of seeing how much money could be snatched from the plains without getting nipped in the act. Such a hasty transformation involved gar isk, undertaken as it was without suflicient Inquiry or previous test. The large companies were badly advised in authorizing it to the extent they did, pas- though had there been amvle ture for all the eattle thrown on the p! the experiment might have been suco ful. Asit was, while these capitalists and corporations were planning their new policy, dangers to which they were blind were mussing against it on all sid Te change front in the pre. ) is, according to military authorities, always a hazardous expedient, and only j e by keen necessity. That, how- ever, was just what these corporations did without being impelled to it by any pressure of circumstance. The difference etween a ‘‘beef”’ or steer range and a breeding range is this: The former sells off its fat cattle annually and replaces them by the purchase of a like number ot nee of tie minature animals. The latter can sell only its male cattle and its old cows, The widely different rosult is that a *‘beet’’ range, if fully stocked in 1882, would, under ordinary circumstances, be in the sume condition now, while a breeding range, by the accumulation of its female cattle, would have doubted its uumbers in the same period. Here, then, we have the three causes which have combined to overcrowd the Western plains: (1) Ranges filled up veras ago to sprevent being “jumped.” (2) Overestimated capacity of range. (3) A change in the business which de- manded even within the first five years double the space available. 1f the Western stockmen had owned as muny cattle as they thought they did, and if the past winters had not been more destructive to animal life thaa was com- monly supposed, the plains to-day would have two head ' of cattle for every one they conld adequately feed. The inexor- able laws of uature which winter after i1 3 Whvad' s THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY. OCTOBER 1887. FOR THIS WEEK. We call special attention to our enormous stock of BOYS’ CLOTHING! Suits for $1.50, $1.75, §2, $2.50 and upwards. Our large line of single pants, for 60¢, 650, 75¢, 85¢, 81, 81,15 and wupwards, Our lurge line of flannel shirt waists. Our large line of boys hats and caps from 25¢c upward. Fall Overcoats. Our $6.50, $3.50, $9 and $10 fall overcoats arve the greatest wonder to our competitors, who cannot understand how we can do it. But never mind, e get there just the same,”’ and nobody need go with- out a fall overcont when they can buy a splendid worsted coat for $6.50. . Our hat department is simply im- mense this season, and for $1.2; you can purchase a good stiff hat equal to hats bought elsciwhere for $2. Other stiff ha's for £1.50, 82, $2.50, §3. Our soft crushers sell for 50¢ and T5e. Soft Hats from 75¢ Upwards. winter strew the plains with dead cattle are more merciful in their results than the culpable nefil:gcnce of the owners. It is surely a kindlier course to kill 20 per cent outright than systematically and permanently starve the whole! Cattle owners must bear this fact forever i their minds, that it is less the winter than their own megligence which causes the mortality in their herds. It used to be a° common saying among old stockmen that a fat steer would outlive the severest winter, This is probably the case, and it may be that the only animal that can be relied upon to withstand the rigors of & northern blizzard unfed and upon the open range is the fattened male animal richly circumstanced as to pasture, Free grazing on the vlains was at ouce the blessing and the bane of the cattle business. From it sprang the wealth which made the cattle towns of America the richest in the world per head of pop- ulation, and from 1t subsequently sprang all the troubles and losses which have lately demoralized the business. The western man who first went into it prob- ably guuged 1ts capacity more correctly than any one who has followed him. In his eyes there was nothing of a perm ent character about it; it was simply a business opportunity of which ought to make the most, and then to quit,as his pasture became crowded. He had no thought of acquiring his range by title or by lease, and he entirely scouted the notion of going to uny expenso 8o long as he could get” his grazing for nothing. He worked the business for all it was worth, and his unregistercd motto was strictly, pre moi lo deluge.” He knew from experience that the business WAS 4 money -| ing one, but is prob- able that he regarded the immense protit he made as the result of his own superior intelligence. When the news that cattle could be reared on the plains for $1 per head per annum, ana be sold for $30, percolated into the brain of the eastern capitalist, armed with the courage of his own convictions. A boom struck the cattle centre. and capital poured into the west. The entire secre: of such phenomenal prosperity lay in the fact that the grazing was free, and that the cattle took care of themselves, never being treated as units, but alw: as a whole. Beyond the branding, rounding, and final culling out for market, there was really nothing to be done. As one great rancher said to me: “The animals themselves look after my interests, even if I neglect them; and the herd grows while I'sleep.” The moment an animal required individual attention the expense would bo enormously increased, and the venture would cease to be profitable. Thus it was that notwithstanding the enormous freightage of the early days of business, when it cost half of the unimal’s value to get it to market, notwithstand- ing uncounted and unciassified stock, losses by straying and severe winters, the business was still enormously profitable, more 8o, indeed, in some instances than would be readlly credible. knew a Wyoming stockman who borrowed $120,000 from his banker n 1879, and who by 1882, had paid off the i and the 18 per cent per autum upon it, and had, in addition, converted s capital into income in these three yeurs. The entrance of British corporations into this business marked anew era in it. ‘I'he gentlemen who were first interested recog d the late Lord Airlie, a Scot- tish peer of high standivg, as the spon- sor of the infant industry. Following h lead, some of the best names in the Scotch capital formed a directorate and organized a company to take over the prairie cattle property—a mam- moth concern, So high was the standing of these gentlemen that although the original prospectus was one of the bald- est documents conceivable—simply say- ing tnat they wanted the amount to em- bark 1n the cattle business of the west— the money was over-subscribed for and the shares rose to a premium. The sub- scribers knew-nothing of the merits of the scheme, but they knew the directors, and that was enough for them. Com- pany followed company until Scouand and Loodon had embarked fully $20,- 000,000 in the western land and cattle business, Scotland owning by far the greater portion of the shares. These companies came to stay; the unlike the cattlemen, embarked in the " venture as & permanency, and one of their first considerations was to acquire utle to the lands they grazod over. Free grazing on the public domain was all very well, but it could not last for ever, and they foresaw the possibility of a time when they might have great” herds of cattle and no pasture. “Great fools,” said the stockmen at fi “What's the good of buying land when you can use it fornothing?" The Amer keen as to the instant advantag Scot was more concerned the future outlook for his com Some of the wary financial burgh Edin- men even considered the free frnzlnzn(lisndvnmnze. likely to result n large dividends at thé outset, which could not be maintainéd when the pas- ture had to be paid for, a pro-gict which did not at all consort with Edinburgh ideas of good company management. So, in the result, large investments were made 1n land, 1n order, at least,to obtain a controlling influence over their ranges. The Scottish companies did not display their usual prudence in their first pur- chases of western prope but as soon as they were firmly n the saddle they resumed their wonted carefulness and adopted, for the most part, a sound con- servative policy, caleulated soon to correct any early errors in the pur- chase of pmlmrly or in the mitial man- agement, and it 18 probably safe to say that, although these foreign corporations Iabored under the great flmndvnn\nm- of having to adminmster proverty fully 5,000 m away, the business ke habits they brought intothe working of their projects will place them in the van of the cattle business in the long run, and will carry them to ultimate success, although not such blazing pyrotechnical success as T ————T, YORK & OMAHA CLOTHING CO 1308 Farnam Street. that promised by the abnormally high price of beef in 1882 and 1883, when for » time that commodity was double its present value. J. SELWIN TArr. —e Storm Calendar and Weather Fore- casts for 1888, by Rev. Irl R. Hicks, \with explanations of the “Great Jovian Pe- riod, "jupon which our Planet 18 now en- teringmailed to any address on receipt of u two cent postage stamp. Write plninlfl your name, postoflice and state. The Dr. J. H. McLean Medicine Com- pany, St. Louis, Mo. ———— SHAKESPEARE'S BITLE. Ais Olaim to Authorship Strongly Pre- seuted By Reading Shakespearian, Reading Herald: There is probably no rofounder student of Shukespeare in Reading than Mr. Cyrus G. Derr, and his views upon the present controversy will therefore be of interest, both as coming from one who has studied the plays and is a defender of Shakespeare from the filnry of his works. Speaking to a erald reporier last evening on the subject Mr. Derr smd: ‘“That theso theoretic hobbyists should, more than two hundred and fifty years after the death of Shakespears, know more about the authorship of the plays than those who lived when they were first promulgated; that Shakespeare should huve been an untutored, unlets tered man of business merely, and yet have been able intimately to associate with the wits and geniuses of his nge, and successfully to pose under their searching gaze as the author of those 1m- mortalities; that Marlow, Green, Nash, Peel, Spenser, Drayton, Jonson and others shoula thus egregiously have been imposed upon: that when Shakes- peare desired to flatter the Earl of Southampton, he should first have had to drop in upon Francis Bacon and procure that busy intriguing politician and office-seeker to write ‘Venus and Adonis’ and “I'he Rope of Loucrece’ for dedication to that nobleman; that the little poems znd songs that Shakespeare contributed as his share to the literary symposiums at the con Inn were like- wise obtained from the boodling chan- cellor that was to be, are propositions which seem visibly to carry their refu- tation with them. Yet here come Don- nelly und his co-cranks, tellng the au- thor of ‘The Kairy Queen’ thut when, two hundred and eighty-seven years ago, 1n his lament of I'nalla, he styled Shakespeare ‘our pleasant Willy’ Le was eulogizing an imposter and a fraud and telling Master Ben Johnson that when he said of Shakespeare ‘I loved the man and do honor his memory on thisside idolatry as much as any,’ and when he wrote Shine forth this star of poets and with rage Or inbuence, chide or cheer the drooping stage he was unwitt:ngly writing himself down an ass. The Buconian theory deserves but the tribute of a smile, and is not likely ever to get more from any well- regulated an reasonably - informed mind."" 4 —_—— Vigor and Vitality Are quickly given to every part of the body by Hood's Sarsa- parilla, That tired feeling is entirely overcome. The blood is puri- fied, enriched, and vitalized, and carries health instead of disease to every organ The stomach is toned and strengthened the appetite restored. The kidneys and liver are rous ahd invigorated. ‘Lhe brain is refreshed, the mind clear and ready for work. Try it. T A Little Hustler Gets a Job, Chicago Mail: A lawyer friend tells me he ndvertised for an oflice boy a few days ago and as usual got a big bundle of answers. He got fairly well tired read- ing the yarious creditable things the young aspirants for the place had to say of themselves, but finally he struck a letter that really rested him. 1t was n a very mush soiled and crum- piece of paper that had never been white and read about as follows: am 12 yers oid. 1 hain’t got no father nor muther. I'man orfan and I've got to hustel. it betes hel how hard times is.” My legal fricnd read no more of the letters, but immediately sent for the wri- ter of this one and gave nim the job. 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