Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 19, 1887, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF BUBSCRIPTION. Datty Morning Baition tcluding Snnday BEY, Ono Year 3 10 00 For Six Momths . POTTON 500 ¥or Three Monthi. 20 The Omaha Sunday Ee, wailed to any ad. dress, One Year 200 D16 FARRA M ST1e OMANA OFFICE, NO, ¥M A New YOk Orvice, R 1XG. WARHINGTON O TRENTH STRERT. CORRESPONDENCE. Al communications relating = ncws and editorial matter shiould be addressed to the EDITOn OF THE BEE. BUSINESS LETTERS: All business Jotters and remittances should be addressed to Ty, BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMANA. Draft ks and postoffice orders to De nde pryablé to the order of the compuny. The Bec Pablishing Company, Proprictors. E. ROSEWATER, THE Bworn Statem Btate of Nebraska, of Douglas, Geo. 1. Tzschiuck, secretary of The Ree Pub- lishing company, does solemniy swenr that the actual eireulation of the Daily fiee for the week ending Dec. 7, Wik s follow: Saturday, Dec.10.0.... Sunday, Dec, | Mondgy, edne: Thumln{ Friday, . 064 Gro. B, Tzscnuow. Sworn toand subscribed in my presence this g mber, A. D. 1887, 15th day of Decem o p. FEIL, Average.. MRAL) Notary Public Btate of Nebraska, 4N County of Douglas, > Geo, 1. Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, de- n 4 a1id Aays (st he 8 secretary of The Leo BoiSlishing company, that the actual averagn dafly efrculation " of the l)|¥ Iee for the month of December, 186, 1 coplex; for January, 187, 10,20 KT, 14,108 copie s tor Apri a 381 coples; fe tom October, 1887, 14,653; coples. n 14, ] for November, 187, GEO. B. TZRCHUCK. Sworn to and subscribed In_ miy prescice this 3 day of December, A. D. 1847 N. P. FEIL, (BEAL.) Notary Public. T is to be hoped tho tangle regarding the city hall contract will be straight- ened out at once. Ttis deplorable that nothing is being done to advance the work during this most favorable weather. —— EvERY day adds something to the already considerable chapter of evi- dence that the selection of the present city attorney was not an instance of rare wisdom of which the community can be proud or grateful. E— Ir is estimated that atleast five thous- and bills will be precipitated upon the house of répresentatives on bill day. It's » mighty poor congressman who dces not unload a carpet bag full of bills at the capital before the holiday recess. WinAT a perfect opportunity the present weather affords for putting the streets of the city in the best attainable condition preparatory to the visitations of rain and snow that may be expected tocome at any time. Are the street authorities conscious of* this? THE large avea of indemnity lands in Jowa withdrawn in fayor of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul and other rail- roads, was on Friday orderdd by the secretary of the interior to be restored to sottlement. It 1s desirable land, and will undoubtedly be promptly taken up. THE two weeks congress will waste in the holiday recess will cost the people over fifty thousand “dollars, computing on the basis of annual salary. If com- puted by the time actually given to con- gressional work the above sum fon the two weeks’ recess would have to be in- creased by about one-fourth S1TTING BULL i8 & good politician as well #s a warrior. He has prevailed upon his braves to make up a purse of 25,000 to send him to Washington to protest against the award of cattle in- stead of money to the tribe. Hon. S. Bull as a lobbyist in the halls of con- gress will be'a fitting sequel to his education in the show business. THE Oklahoma boomers are still ac- tively scheming for possession of the coveted lands. One of the leaders will bring his powerful personal presence to bear upon congress with a view to in- ducing that body to open the territory to settlement. 1In the event of refusal tremendous trouble is prophesied. But the past history of the ‘‘boomers” teaches that there. is no occasion for alarm, ee— Now Penusylvania supplies testimony favorable to high license. The new license law in that state is just going into operation, and the report from Philadelphia is that it is causing a great . reduction in the number of sa- loons in that city. Tho license is £500, and the conditions imposed by the law a8 to bond, sureties, endorsement and other requirements, are very thorough. The vesult is that quite one-half of the saloons of Philadelphia, and these of course of the lower class, will be swept out of existence, In the consideration of land cas which the department of the interior is just now devoting a groat deal of atten- tion, those coming from Nebraska are receiving their full share of regard. There is undoubtedly a considerable amount of land in this state which upon an oxamination of the claims to it would revert to the government, one such case having been decided on Fr day. It will be well for the government and for the interests of the state to have all such claims disposed of as scon as possible. —— Tue telephone monopoly promises to bocome a leech which this generation ean not shake off. Ithasbeen generally supposed that the Bell telephone patent would terminate in 1898, but it 1s now made known that this company owns all the telephone inventions of Edison and Berliner. This will extend the control of the Bell monopoly seventeen years longer, or until 1910, In some cities a determined fight against the comvany has been earried on, but so far the latter has generally had the best of it. Combined resistance on the part of the patrons throughout the country might bring the monopoiists to terms, but ut present there are no indications that such & warfare could be successfully maintained. Open Executive Sessions. Senator Platt, of Connecticnt, has re- newed the movement so vifrorously car- ried on during hig term by Senator Van Wyck in favor of the abolition of execu- tive sessions, Aud why not? The secret session hods on as o senatorial custom simply because 1t isa senatorial custom. There is no reasonable excuse for its existence. The tax payers of the country who pay the expenses of the senate side of con- gress, as well as that of the house, are eutitled to a full knowledge of the con- duct of business whether that business relates to nominations or treaties. The exeeutive session is the harbor of refuge for malice and the secure re- treat for detraction. Behind its closed doors disgruntled politicians and disappointed office seckers air their grievances and assail the characters of reputable candidates for office in their endeavors to block the advance of rivals or to punish their political enemies. The assurance of secrecy is the strong- est stimulus to falsitication. ‘What has tho secret session accom- plished? Has it secured the secresy which its existence presumes? Every important discussion of the exccutiv cession is printed in the daily press of the following day.. The desire to set themselves right before the public in- variably compels senators to disclose what transpires behind the closed doors. The reporters find no difficulty in ob- taining full reports of the debates or quarrels although the galleries are closed and the doorkeepers guard the lobbies. Senators Platt’s move is in the right direction. It is in the line of American methods which require that all the doings of the well-paid servants of the people shall be exposed to the full sun- light of publici The convention of republican clubs in New York city concluded its labors on Saturday. As to the importance of the gathering in the influence it may exert upon the party there may be dif- ference of opinion. It embraced nearly fourteen hundred delegates represent- ing three hundred and fifty organiza- tions, distributed through all of the northern states, and 1t is to be supposed that the expressions of such a repre sentation of republicans will have souge influence upon the,party. In this view the declaration of policy by the conven- tion becomes interesting. Briefly stated the convention favored protection, the construction of a navy, the building of coast defenses, the restoration of our merchant marine, the advancement of popular education, the maintenance of civil service reform, the admission to statechood of territories entitled to be [ admitted, and a more vigorous foreign policy. It is more than probable that all these propositions will reappear in the national republican platform of next year. The organization of a national repub- lican lepgue, and the stimulus proposed to be given to the creation of republican clubs, give promise of the unification and discipline of the party, if. no bad mistakes are made, that ought to have good results. As was said by the presi- dent of the national league, however, that organization will have the power to contribute very largely to the defeat or to the success of the party, according to whether its course shall be fudicious or unwise. If it shall fall under thecon- trol and be operated in the ianterest of any individual, in advance of the action of the national convention, there can- not be a question that it will do the cause of the party more harm than good. Its obvious mission is solely that of organization and discipline, and the moment it goes beyond this the effect must be demoralizing and damag- ing. There is very great danger that it will mot be kept to the strictline of its duty. It required a very great effort and much tacfon the part of the more sagacious and cool-headed mem- bers of the convention to prevent that body becoming committed to a candi- date, and the formidable and rather reckless element, which in its blind devotion to the only leader it will acknowledge would Lave used the con- vention of clubs to boom its favorite, will hardly hesitate to bring all its in- fluence to bear in giving direction to the league. It is evidentthat the presi- dent of this organization had in mind this danger when he uttered the warn- ing implied in the remarks we have referred to. It should be understood and kept in mind that therve is danger to the party in any scheme toforce upon it any ‘candidate. The choice of its standard bearer in the next national campaign must be made in the deliber- ate and most careful judgment of the convention of the party, guided by con- siderations’ of the greatest availubility and the truest representation of repub- lican principles in the individual. If the national republican league can be held to the object of its organization, and prevented from becoming a ma- chine to further the aims and ambition of any man, it ean undouvbtedly be of very material service to the party and the canvention that creatpd it will prove not to have been a profitless aflair, Otherwise there will certainly bo cause of vegret that it was held. West of the Hundredth Moridian, The discussion between Mr. Adams and General Morrow upon the question of incrensod rainfall in the west eulls attention to an interesting controversy which has often been treated in these columns. It was more than ten years ago that the BER first combatted the theory that agriculture was impossible west of the hundredth meridian. That theory was then supported by nearly every other journal in these parts, and this paper was practically alone in the fight. Time has more than verified our predictions. The frontier of 1877 is the heart of the agricultural belt of 1887, Whether climatic changes have taken place or not, whether rainfall has in- creased or has remained constant, is neither here nor there. There has been ample moisture for purposes of tillage. The crops attest this fact. Results have proved knock-down argu- ments to the most carefully prepared tables of rainfali by inches. The plow, the seeder and the reaper have given the lie to the hygrometer. No one who visited the last state fatr and examined with even passing interest the displays of the western counties, doubted for a moment that agriculture has come and come to stay where only a fow years ago its very pos- sibility was denied. When fifty bushels of corn are raised to the acre in a por- tion of northwestern Nebraska which three years ago was the habitat of the cowboy, where wheat, oats and millet in abundance and vegetables without limit find sufficient moisture, nourishment and warmth on a soil which scarcely five yeavs ago was pronounced sterile, predictions as to the future based on scientific data and founded on compari- sons of other soils and other climates are more than risky. Anyone who ignores the pecul- iar conditions of Nebraska's soil on the frontier and in comparatively high altitudes in arguing the question takes but a short sighted view of the subject. The water-tight sod once turned and plowed in with its underlying thin stratum of sand acts like a sponge in ab- sorbing the moisture and gives it back to the roots of the growing ecrops for weoks afterwards through capillary at- traction. In its power of absorption and subsequent rendition the soil of Ne- braska stands alone. This is half the secret of her *‘sand hill crops” and her range land harvests. An amount of moisture which in neighboring states and territories. with their clay and mineral substratums, would be entirely inadequate for continued success in farming, in our own state is ample for agricultural needs. THE west has vefused toclap its hands and shdut with joy over Mr. Bluine's bugle blast against tariff re- duction. It does not appeal strongly to a section where two-thirds of the population are tillers of the soil whose unprotected products are bought and sold on the busis of the Liverpool market. Western farmers may not be as familiar as the Bessemer steel kings, the lumber barons, or the eastern in- dustrial lords with the intricacies of tariff schedules, but they know enough to know that excessive taxation is not the high road to national prosperity or conducive to the general welfare. They are intelligent enough to perceive that the great agricultural cluss are paying an enormous tribute every year to subsidize the industrial monopo- lists and to heap up monumental fortunes for the manufacturing million- aires, With every necessary article of consumption enhanced in price they find the markets of the world barred to their produce by the operations of the tariff laws which close our own markets to the manufactuvers of sister nations. More than all they are confronted with a surplus of $140,000,000 in the treasury, a stimulus to corruption, extravagance and waste in the conduct of the govern- meunt, a menace to the financial inter- ests and a barrvier to the development of the very trade and commerce which the war tariff is supposed to protect. —_—— AT the opening of the forty-ninth congress there was the same kind of tulk that is now heard about gdopting a rule requiring that all appropriation bills should be ready by a certain speci- fied time. There was some sort of an arrangement finally made at that time, remembered to have been som@what gb- jectionable to the chairman of the ap- propriations committee, under which it was expected that the appropriation bills would be disposed of earlier in the session than had been the case, while at the same time the power of the chair- man of* that committee over the course of legislation would be curtailed, which was the chief thing desired to be accom- plished. The same prime object is at the bottom of the present effort to advance the appropriation bills, and it will very likely Dbe no more successful than in the last con- gress, Notwithstanding the check then sought to be put upon Mr. Randall, he found an easy way to run matters to his liking, with what result the country knows. He is to be continued, so it is believed, at the head of the appropria- tions committee, in which case there is very little reason to doubt that he will successfully carry out his old tactics. So long as Mr. Rundalt is accorded the power that enables him to disregard or defeat rules it will be to very little purpose to make them. THERE was some. significant action taken by the convention of labor feder- ation which closed its session at Balti- more on Saturday. Among the matters passed upon on the last day was the ap- proval of a protest against the reduction of the internal revenue tax on tobacco, while a resolution protesting against any reduction in the tariff failed. It should be remembered that this conven- tion represented half a million of the workingmen of the country, and its opinion that the tobacco tax should stand expressed almost simultaneously with its refusal to endorse a resolution against tariff reduction is a suggestive fact which the leaders of the political parties will do wisely not to ignore. The intelligent workingmen of the country can see no advantage to them- selves in taking off the eight cent tax on tobacco while retaining a taxof seven or eight times that amount on clothing. E— OUR esteemed contemporary, the Herald, says “‘the arch erected in honor of the Cleveland visit is still standing.” The new editor of our contemporary may be pardownble for the mistake in- volved in this statement, but it cannot be permitted to pass unchallenged. The old soldiers of Nebraska, in honor of whose encampment in Omaha that arch was erected, would have just cause of revolt if this misrepresentation of its object were permitted to go uncon- tradicted. Even the decision to keeD it standing after the encampment had no rveference to the visit of Mr, Cleveland, but was made in honorof the Knights of Pythias. The Herald owes an apology to the old soldiers. — STATE JOTTINGS. Schuyler has organized a young man's republican club. ‘Phe Schuyler Sun blinks prematurely for Blaine ynd Lincoln. ’ Nebraska City hus perfected a shapely e — BEE: MONDAY, DECEMBER 1 ress club, and delinquents will soon eel its crushing force. Cambridge has ‘just dedicated a sub- stantinl school huflding. H. H. Dexter,of Fremont, is nursing a hole in his palm. The revolver was loaded. Norfolk will jHold an election next year to vote bonds for a $20,000 school building. ' The state associntion of teachers will hold the third agnual meeting at Blur on the 27th. ] Nebraska City business men are gar- nering the largest: holiaay erop of dol- lars in their career, The Grand Island directory just issued contains 4,300 names, equivalent toa population of 12,900. The bricklayers of Beatrice have de- cided that nine hours shall constitute a day’s labor next season. The state live stock commissioners are investigating a mysterious epidemic among horses in Lincoln county. The real estate transfers made in Hastings during tho pust year amount to nearly seven millions of dollars. The Cortland Journal has been boxed up and shipped to Colorado, where it is hoped the cheerful rigors of new money await it. The Morning Star is the bright title of a weekly published at Sartoria. The editor of tKu luminary is L. E. Morn- ingstar, Hi Henry Robinson, a guilty youth of Columbus, who left a number of un- cashed bills, has been arvested in Illi- nois and brought back. Riverton’s waterworks bonds have been refused registration by the state auditor, and the job must be done over in compliance with the law. The town council of Weeping Water has called an election for January 2 to vote on the question of issuing $15,000 in bonds to build waterworks. The Lincoln Democrat points to the Omaha Republican’s protection editor- iuls a8 the rawest material that has ever “been seen in this neck of the woods. General Manager Potter, of the Union Pacific, promises to look into the claims | of Fremont to a union depot and will confer with the managers of the Elk- horn Valley road. Dr. Gandy, the noted Shylock of Rich- ardson county, now feels ghe full force of the law which he invoked unspar- ingly on his victims. He has been con- victed of perjury. George H. Ames, of Burwell, stuck to one spot on the roadside for eight hours one day last week. A wagon load of lumber covered him, but he was recov- ered by the aid of passers by. The Farmers' Protective union of Platee county has decided to erecta warehouse on B, & M. ground at Colum- bus und dispense with middlemen at the earliest practicable moment. Columbus is so corrfident that the su- preme court will compel the state auditor to register her $30,000 bridge bonds that she has awarded’the contract for the erection of the bridge over the Loup. The Hastings Nebraskan has been sold to Dr. H. P. Fitch. The doctor’s extensive experience will doubtless en- able him to improve its circulation and give tone and color to its bilious col- umns. : Beatrice has taken up the financial gauntlet thrown down by Fremont banks and proves by figures that she ranks several miles abead of the prettiest. But Fremont can give herseveral points on hogs. E. O. Glines, a Platte Center farmer, has joined the missing throng. He dis- appeared in Columbus Iast week, and fears of fouls deeds are entertained by friends, as he had considerable izoney with him, Here is a model prelude to & local write up: “On a broad plateau, sur- rounded by a landscape magnificent in its natural beauty and overlooking the silyery waters of the Big Blue, stands the beautiful city of Seward.” “Some_of the democratic papers,” says the Norfolk News, ‘‘are_beginning to refer to Samuel J. Randall as ‘another Aaron Burr.’ It would be more appropriate to call him the sand- bur under the saddle on the democrats’ mule.” Little Timothy Todd of Plattsmouth spied a wolf in dad’s pasture and rushed for the paternal artillery. The gun rested peacefully against the wall, but ‘when Timothy came within range it fell on the door step and pierced his calf. The wound was a severe one and will keep Timothy out of mischief for several weeks. Several towns in the state report that the fast trains spread the news too gen- erously for their moderate tastes. The mail bags are thrown from the cars,and it frequently happens that the suction draws them under the train to mutila- tion and destruction. s Crete has a number of important pub- lic improvements in the stocks for the new year. A system of waterworks will be planted, the Missouri Pacific will bridge the Blue and come into town, the B. & M. will also bridge and build to Milford, and two new depots are as- sured. The farmers of Keith county have formed an alliance and are hedging against imposition on the part of legis- lators. The organization is something like the grange, differing from it pri cipally in that it does not‘have so many secrets., Dietrich Eichmeyer insisted on driv- ing through William Loseke’s pasture near Platte Center. William was on hand with a gun and when Dietrich tore down his fence he blazed away, One of Dietrich's eyes was blown out and the sight of the other destroyed, Loscke was arrested. The Hastings Gazette Journal punc- tures the pretentionsof Denver to being a better city than Omaha, and declares that while the Omahaus roll along over forty-two miles of paved streets, the residents of Denvgr pick their way through the mud. The Omaha Indiavs received a Christ- mas box containing 810,000 from the government last week. The Winne- bagoes got 87,000. . Shopkeepers in the neighborhood declare that the civ reds buck a bill and drop on the credit system as rigorously and readily asa veteran of the superior race. ‘Wah Lee, Cha Lee and Ex Mon, three celestial laundrymen in Beatrice, were arrested, tried and acquitted last week of the charge of taking a roll of $145 from the pockets-of a pair of overalls given them to wash. The accuser, in addition to losing the roll, was required to pay costs and the washee bill, ~Chli- naman no lam fool. The State Grange of Patrons of Hus- bandry assembled in Grand Island last Monday and remained in session till Friday morning. The sessions were secret, but such portions of the proceed- ings intended for the public at large will be furnished the press in due time. Delegates w--rndpre»enz from twenty- one grangos, an the total attendance was fifty-five. The assessed valuation of property, both personal and real,in Adams county is 23,646,993; the taxes paid on this is $172,238.01, ' The total real pstate valu= ation of the county is about 330,000,000 aguinst a possible $15,000000 one year ago, or in other words the real estate has doubled in value 'within the past twelve months. Tn Mastings ‘alono on an’average it has trebled in value, and in some cases has increased five timos. The case against young Meyers, the alleged bridge burner at Kearney, has collapsed. The sagacious detectives of the B, M. proved their imbecility in open court in try- ing to convict the boy on an alleged confession, but a score of reputable witnesses cstablished a_complete alibi, The avernge railroad detective uever detects. He deceives under the guise of friendship and wieldsthe dagger like a dago. Hastings has some young ladies built on the metallic plan. They consider themselves built for a better purpose than the eutertainment of economical i‘mmg men on Sunday evening, and have lormed a band to put their plans into execution. On the first of the new year they will turn over a new leaf and on the virgin page write a resolve to ive the cold shoulder to all callers who ail to take a member to the theater or ball semi-monthly. They propose to get some recompense for coal and gas wasted at home. There is a severe strain on the fiman- cial cords of several suburban boomers of Lincoln. This is evidenced by the Democrat’s daily assaults on Omaha in- terests. The latest attack rises to the level @ jealousy, and was doubtless in-. spired by local railvoad officials. The Democrat insists that the B, & M. is squandering money by maintaining headquarters in Omaha, and insists on its removal to Lincoln. No one could accuse Calhoun on sight of possessing such specimens of gall and extr: of cheek and imagination as he displays in the paper. But the town wants the commodity served hdt, and the Demo- crat must eater to the prevailing appe- tite or perish. Acting under instructions of the land oftice at North Platte, a government agent is now moving on the sly in dif- ferent parts of the land district looking up the rights of settlers todeeded lands. Tt is learned thatin his visit tothe vicin- ity of Grant he ‘paid some special atten- tion to the claims of the Misses Honey- well, who made proot on two claims east of this place a year ago. These two en- terprising maidens took two claims ad- joining each other. They built but one house, which was so constructed that one of its two rooms was on one claim and the other room on the other claim. In this house the maidens lived accord- ing to law, one in one room and one in the other. Their proof was properly at- tested when made at the office and patent was issued to them. The que: tion which now arises is, had they any right to build but one house on the two claims? General interest is felt in the outcol as an adverse decision would materially affect the title to other deeded lands. e JOSEF HOFFMAN Al HOME. How the Infant Mozart Passes His Leisure Hours. New York World: Little Josef Hof- mann, the great musician, was amusing himself during the long, rainy hours of yesterday afternoon very much after the fashion of ordinary small folk who while away stormy days by indoor amusements. ‘“‘Master Hofmann is not at home to anyone,” came the reply to the report- er’sinquiry at the Windsor, but having secured a modification to this edict, the veporter found the young musician pliying with some boys of his own_ age. 'he youngsters were gathered at a large round table, occupied with cards, and a plentiful supply of bon-bons. Called from his play to greet the news-gatherer, the little fellow advanced and offered his small hand with a drollish ceremon- ious bow and a “‘Bon joir!” after which he rushed back to the table, where he knelt again on a chair and became im- mediately absorbed in some card tricks which one of his playfellows was per- forming. He is very fond of doing tricks him- self and is ext‘eadiugly clever in detect- ing and imitating them. A few days ago he met Herrmann, the prestidigi- tateur, whom he formerly knew in Warsaw, and he immediately begged for ‘‘tricks” and watched them with the most rapt attention. He was busy getting points, but no amount of per- suasion would induce him to perform any on that occasion. Many New Yorkers have seen this lit- tle boy on the stage and thought him very childish-looking even for his ta short years, but yesterday, while stand- ing inthe circle of lamplights building a tower of cards, he looked positively infantile. His pale little face was in- tensely earnest as he piled up the cards, saying: , T shall use them all!” and he did. The rest of the boys stood back from the table to avoid {'urrin;: it, and the frail structure was piled higher and higher by the graceful little hands that are plump aud white and dimpled as a baby’s. When the last card had been added he caught up an ‘*‘atomizer” that was lying on the table and puffed the card-house into ruins with a thoroughly boyish relish for destruction. sent Master Hofmann is greatly engrossed by & type-writing machine, which he discovered -in his manager’s office, and promptly insisted on being allowed to manipulate. After having it once carefully explained, he hegan to use it, and now, whenever he goes to the office, no matter how important the business that is oceupying the machine, it has to be suspended and the little man sits down and writes letters in threo languages to his small sweethearts. He speaks very little English, but is fluent in French, Polish and German. He displayed his toys yestorday, ex- plaining, 1l given in Americy,” and appenred especially proud of the small rifle. He raced around the room to find ‘‘Mon_ salwe,” but it had disap- peared, and finally he flung down the belt and sheath impatiently and went into the adjourning apurtment. His father expluined that he was very tired from the concert in Brooklyn the night before. He had not visen until 1 o’clock and had been playing with his little friends ever since. ~ And the chiid did look tired! He was very his bon-bons, and when one of uests vefused any move, saying he was taking them all, the child answered gravely: It will be better for me if you do.” tvidently like the Duke “'Pa- tience,” Master Hoffman is tired of candy. : He was not inclined to display his remarkable musical talent and when placed at the piano he laid his hands on the keyboard with the palms up- turned, and, regarding them whistfully, “But I cannot play. Se music there; it is all gone. Young Josef is a bit of a flirt. He is wont to select some lady in the audi- ence whose face attr; him and play to her and gaze at her during the per- formance, At his last concert a number of young ladies from a boarding-school sat in front and they kept nging places from time to time, so that each one might occupy for & while the best seat from which to watch the young pianists face. This arrangement he ob- served with great disfavor—the young lady he wanted to look at had moved be- yond the range of his visiou. there is no e The blood is the source of health. make it pure by taking Hood's Sarsap- arilla, which is peculiar in its curative power, } tinuous! [MEN WIHO0 CAN TALK WELL. Statesmen Wh? Shine Effulgently as After-Dinner Speakers. HOW INGALLS AND PALMER TALK. Postmaster General Vilas's Army Store fes and L. Q. C. Lamar's Iemine tscences—Joe Cannon on Washe ington Taffy-Giving. Senator Ingalls isa pleasant conver- sationalist—writes Frank G. Carpenter, the Washington correspondent of the New York World—and he deals largely in the fireworks of the English language. His conversation fairly bristles with intellectual rockets and you are surprised at his wonderful in- tellectual vitality. He utters a new idea with every word, and he has a reason for every idea. He is well up on litera- ture and science and he can talk asin- terestingly about the geolegical strata as about the early English novelists. He quotes poetry occasionally and he tells a story well. He is very proud of being a New England man, and though he hates cant and” has all the liberal- mindedness of the west, had he been raised in the days of Miles Standish he would propably have been a Puritan of the Puritans. He went to Kansas at an early date, and among his good stories are personal experiences which he haa when John Brown was in Kansasand Jim Lane burned pewder in upholding his peculiar principles. At this time in- galls was a rank abolitionist, and he had several narrow escapes from hang ing. 3 Senator Palmer, of Michigan, is an- other good talker, but he has not the brillianey and originality of expression of Ingalls. He is full, however, of an wusy, good natured l)hilnsnph_v of his and he has trodden all the paths of ancient and modern literature. He likes a good story and can tell one, and his experience has been such that he has plenty of reminiscences. He can sing & good song, too, and he will vie with any backwoods Methodist in the rendering of John Wesley's hymns. He believes in getting what good you can out of this life while you ave in it, and there is no pleasanter man at a dinner table than he, He uses good language t0o, in his talking, and is fond of quot- ing Shakespeare, though he does not affect quotations to a great extent in his after-dinner talks. He is thoroughly democratic in his views of life and of men, and he uses the same courtesy to a street car driver that he does to one of his fellow senators. At one time, in taiking about his political methods, he said to me that he did not believe in a man being too greedy in politics or in anything else. g y Said he: “I have noticed thatif you are generous and are willing to give the other fellow a show when the grand di- vision is made, though you may not get the whole hog, you are pretty sure for a good slice from the best part of the ham. I usually go for the under dog in the fight, and 1 make it a principle to not allow things to worry me. I don’t believe in revenge for little things, and I never resent an attack which does not affect my honor or my character. T be- lieve with Marcus Aurelius that the man who does a mean thing against another receives more damage than the man whom he attempts to injure, and if one would attempt to explain all his actions to every man who questions them he would wear his tongue small against the roof of his mouth and be- come a talking machine so continuous in its operation that it would be thought to be perpetual motion.” Secretary Lamar is an excellent con- versationalist, and one of his friends says that he is able to fill in every min- ute with an anecdote. He has trens- ures of poetry at his tongue’s end, and he can not only quote from Byron and Scott, but can” rattle off little verses which have been going the rounds of the newspap He is a man of great literary cutture, and he uses the best of Anglo-Saxon, flavored with a dash of the French and Latin. He becomes thoroughly interested in every subject he takes up, and he likes to talk of his blooded ho! his Jersey cows and his home in Mississi Postmaster Gen but his tongue dot 1 Vilas talks well, not wag so frecly while in his office while taking a pe- destrian jaunt, He is a great walker, and he has explored every part of the ‘Washington suburbs. He seldom wallks alone and he varies the monotony of the tour with storiesof his army life and with incidents of his law practice. Garland is perhaps the Dbest story-tel; ler of the cabinet, and that ugly head of his is packea full of interesting ance- dotes, which he can tell in such a y as will make a crowd roar with laugly He istond of practical jokes, 100, and has a good deal of the hoy about him. While in the senate he was always put- ting up jobs on his brother senators,and he 15 the kind of a man who might drop a erookod pin upon the chair of Senator Edmunds if he was sure Edmunds would not sit down 80 hard upon it as to injure him. Speaking of Edmunds, he talks very well, though he ravely unbosoms him- self to the nowspaper man. Ho uses in his conversation his methods of the sen- ate floor, and his expre: is just as definito and clear He scems to have just s0 many wordsin his hend for overy {den and he picks these out when he ex- presses one. The misplacement of a singlo word would destroy the sense of the whole, and Mr, Edmunds is one of those few sffaators who never correct their speeches for the priv Tom Reed is a good sto: has a fund of very witty cedotes which he gets off in his own inimitable way. Hisstrongest point, howover, is reparte and the denner tablo talk in which Reed is cortain to sparkle. Heisa good deal like champagne, which, by the way, is his favorite wine, nnd he says that he does not see the use of hav- iny half a dozen difforent wines at any dinner, Champagne is good enough for him, aud_others may mix their drinks. but he will sti Reed never drinks to excess, and his vitality is so great that he nus Lo breathe champagne. i Judge Kelley is u good, able, dinner tablo Talker, 1Te 1s very fond of young fow men who y. Ho have grown old likes the theater, ading the repo carry on extendod conversations w mentioning the tavill, ? ' Morrison, the free trader, is likewiso a good tallke nd youw may see him Imost any evening telling stories while ‘r‘;l;\mlinu)m the lobby of Willurd’s hotel. He is tall, straight, and finc looking. and Lis blue eyes twinkle from under his slouch hat as he talks, fat tening his hearers on the laugh he pro m Cox i§ as witty in private con- versation as he is upon the floor of the house. and his tongue, like that of the good Jittle girl, in “the fai m- ¢ drops intellectual pearls. Ho such & wide expericnce in has L travels and with public men thathe has somathing new for every meeting and there is nono who surpasses him a tho dinner table. He is like winei he seems to grow better and stronger as he grows older, und he enjoys life fully as well now ns when he was o potty clerk in the old court house at Zanesville, O. There is a knot of wy tellers in the house of representatives who gather to- gether about the fire in one of the cloak rooms and tell stories during every prosy speech. This place is known to them as the “Smints’ Rest,’ and one of the saints is Judge B. B. Taylor of Ohio, Garfield’s successor; another Tom Brown, of Indiann, and a thivd, Isaae Stephenson, of Wisconsin, These are often joined by Tom Reed, of Maine, Hepburn, of Towa, and Hammond, of Georgin. Some of the best stories which go out from Wisconsin are told in this coterie, and frdm thence are repeatod until they finally reach the ears of tho correspondents. Joseph Cannon, of Tlinois, is a good story-teller, and I remember a remark he made lately in talking about the use of compliments which prevails so uni- versally at Washington. This is, you know, a city of toadies and tafly and every one delights in saying sweet things to his neighbor's face whatever he may say to his neighbor's back. Speaking of this Mr. Cannon said: “It reminds me of an old fellow in my district, whom 1 will call Jones, who had a good word to say for every one in the community: and whose opimnion never failed to be expressed at a funeral, Whenever a neighbor died lauded him to the skies, and he did this apparently without respect to persons. At last one of the worst reprobates in the village dropped off. He was a man who had absolutely 10 good in_him, and certain men of the town, in dis ng the ap- proaching funeral, made a bet that Jones could not find a word to say about him. Jones was accustomed to make his remarks ag hoe passed the coffin, which, you know, is alwiys open in such villages for a last look he friends on the ghastly features of the decoased, and the betting men took their station back of the approachingcolumn on the day of the funcral and waited for his pproach. He came up solemnly, slowly and with a benevolent look on his fea- tures. He leaned over the coftin and long and anxiously at the featur the dead reprobat his head, looked around upon his friends and whispered with a sigh: ¢ “Well, he had good teeth! “And so,” concluded Mr. “Washington is sure to find something good about v man, and if it would continue to say it as Jones did aftera man’s political life had passed away, I would ask no better chronicler of my virtues and my doings.” Senator Sherma by no means an iceberg in conversation. He is, on the contrary, one of the warm-hearted men of public life. Not known as a story teller, he has a large fund of good an- ecdotes at his command, and his per- sonal reminiscences, i he would would write them would be full of me storie He likes conversation and s a good talker. He is one of the pleasantest of traveling companions, and as such is a surprise to strangers. He makes a good after-dinner speech, and some of his best stories ave told at the dinner table. He is an adept at orange eating, and he can peel one by holding it in a fork without touching the flesh with his fiu- gers. S Ben Butterworth is a good card at the dinner table, and he can sing a song as well as tell a ste It is better than an opera to hear him sing T'm a dandy copper of the Broadway Squad, And my name is Moriarity. He keeps the crowd in a roar of laugh- ter all the time he is on the floor, and he is an adept at repartee. Blaine talks well, and his memory stands him in good stead as a story teller, Repre- sentative Allen, of Mississippl, is full of wit in his after-dinner specches, and Norwood, of Georgia, makes a very ex- cellent talk. i b i Funcral of John Hanlan. The funeral of John Hanlan, a plasterer, took place yesterday afternoon, Large dele- gations from the plasterers’, bricklayer: plumbers' and stone cutters' assemblies fol- lowed the remains to the place of burial. The A. O. 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