Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 29, 1887, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMR OF SUNSCRIPTION. Aress, One Y ear. OxAnA Orrice, N NEW YORK OFFICE, ROOM 8, 156, WARHINOTON Orrids, TEENTH STRERT. CORRESPONDENOCR. All_eommunications relati; news and #ditorial matter should be d to the Euitor o¥ THE BEE. BUSINESS LETTERS: All business letters and remittances ghould ba addressed to The Ber PUBLISHING COMPARY, OMAnA. Drafts, checks and postofics orders to Le made payable to the order of the company. Toe Bec Publisking Company, Proprietos. E. ROSEWATER, Epiton. InUNR BUILD- 0. 613 Foun THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Uirculation. Stateof Nevraska, |, o County of Dougias, ’ Gvo.tlz. 'ry.nhlm)z secrotary of The Tee Pub- liehing company, solemnly swear that the Bethnf circultion of the Daily fiee for the week 1857, was as follows. ursday, Dec. 22, Iday, Dec. 2. Average.. by A Rworn toand subscribed in my presence this 26th day of December, A. D, 1867, N, P. FEIL, Notary Public .. . B, y I first dnly sworn, de- oo and says that he [s secretary of The Hee iblishing company, that the actiial averago dally tln’llll: on " of the Duail for of 9 coples; for er, 1887, 16,228 GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. gworn to and sbscribed in my presence this 80 day of Decomber, A. D. 1541, N. P, (REAL.) 161 coples; toi Oetover, 166, fes. , FEIL, Notary Public. I¥ we can’t have a union depot why don’t the Union Pacific pull down its old cowshed and build a respectable and accessible ruilrond station? Hasn't Omaha done enough for the road to be entitled to a deccnt depot? eEEE— THERE are indications that congress will take up the matter of ‘“‘trusts” dur- ing the coming session. Generally speaking, they should be handled with- out gloves. It is time something were done to check organized rapacity. —_— A POSTMASTER in Washington is to be appointed and the scramble among the democratic politicians of the capital 18 a flerce one. More than thirty ap- plicants for the place are besieging the white house like a pack of half-famished wolves. This is not a case where the office secks tho man. Wit Tom Pottor at its head and nearly every bureau and important post manned by Burlington railroad men, the Union Pacific has practically passed under Burlington management. The next thing in ordor will be a consolida- tion with the Union Pacific inside the Burlington anaconda. —— LAMAR, Vilas and Dickinson are in a state of suspended animation. They are gradually learning that it is one thing to be invited to come up higher and an- other to be allowed to do so. The sonti- ment of the country is showing decided symptoms of repugnance againstcon- firmation, especially so far as Lamar is concerned. — EvaeNE HIGGINS was hot sacrificed to any great extent by being relieved of his duties as appointment clerk. His salary as chief clerk of the Maryland house of delegates is nine hundred dol- 1ars for ninety days’ work and the office is worth five thousand doliars additional. But he is no doubt worth all this and more to Cleveland and Senator Gorman. L __ ] Ir is announced that the distillers’ trust is getting ready to make a general advance in the price of whisky. It fs undoubtedly a fact that for agreat many people whisky is too cheap, and if these should be compelled to forego its use by reason of an advance the trust will have served a good purpuse. It is also prob- able that those who can afford to pay the advance, and will have whisky at #ny price, may not take kindly to hav- ing to pay more for their drinks, and thus the sentiment hostile to trusts will be enlarged, which would also be a good result. On the whole we think thers is more to commend than to find fault with in the intention to put up of the price of whisky. e —— MEXx1co is making & high bid for im- migration by throwing open tosettlement several hundred million acres of public land. Concessions have boen made to 1and companies who are trying to invite colonization by all sorts of glowing promises and by contract labor. The expediency of establishing emigrant agencies in the principal citiesof Amer- ica and Europe is also under considera- tion. But immigration to be beneficial must be voluntary. Thishas been dem- onstrated in the past. The only way for Mexico to invite settlers is to be- come more stable as a government, more enterprising and more cosmopol- itan, T.AST Saturday twelve Belgian coal miners arrived by steamer at Phila- delphia, and being evidently under con- tract they were detained by the custom house authorities, It is thought proba- ble that these men are the first install- ment of the two thousand miners which the coal combination is reported to have engaged in Belgium, and which for prudentinl reasons they would bring over in small squads and probably land ot different ports. The arrival of these men is therefore a warning to all cus- toms officers to be on the look out for fmported laborers. The Philadelphin Ledger says the coal combination has imported 20,000 unnecessary laborers in a few years to keep the other laborers in such a condition of privation that they could not afford to strike. This, however, was before the passage of the law prohibiting the importation of foreign labor, and the present course of the combination in disregarding and attempting to contravene thislaw is a striking illustration of its reckless char- woter, * ' Winter Improvidence. The approach of winter is hafled with & chuckle of delight by the dealers in agricultural implements. It iz not the soason for sales but is the sced time for future orders. The firet snow lays the foundation for the opening of the next spring’s ledger. As it flakily descends on the new reaper or covers with a mantle of white the expensive thresher lying houseless and exposed in the rod- den barn yard, the implemeént dealer rubs his hands. Fe knows that wet means rust and that rust means decay and repairs, and that each accrucsto his advantage. Wben the plow share is covered with sloct and the seeder and hay rake drip with the winter rains, the autumn profits of the western farmer are already being sub- jected to a vigorous attack, whose ef- fect will be scen when the spring time calls loudly for the work of the black- smith, the wheelwright, and the imple- ment dealer. Hundreds of thousands of dollars are wasted every year in the far west through the improvident neglect of our farmers to house their machinery and implements, Chilly cattle, shivering horses, and cold swine are the destruction of the well-filled cribs and overflowing mows. Warm stables, sheds and pens pay for themselves a dozen times over in the course of a farmer’s life time. When all the vital forces of animals are directed to keeping themselves warm there is an enormous waste of food expended in making heat which would otherwise go into fat. With fat cattle at 6 cents a pound and hogsat 5 the improvidence of. saving the work of stopping up cracks by extra feeding to induce warmth needs no argument. Corn at 85 cents a bushel is an expen- sive stove by which to warm hogs. Winter should be the farmer’s home harvest. The flelds are bare of crops, but there is all the more time to attend to loose fences and shaky gates. The barns and mows and cribs have re- coived thoir burdens and opportunity is given to repair their sides and roofs by o timely board or shingle or a needed nail. There are groves to olean up for the benefit of the wood pile, walks to patch up in interests of dry foet and a neat door- yard, and a score of odds and ends of in- door work which, if neglected, soon call for the painter and carpenter and heavy bills for too long postponed repairs. The provident farmer looks forward to winter as tho season when he can enjoy with some leisure the fruits of his seed time and harvest, and prepare at ease for the coming year. Snow and wet have no terrors. The sheds will protect his machinery from damage, the warm barns and pens his stock. Undis- turbed by storms and sleet ho can revel in the cosy comiorts of his home secure in the consciousness that he has pro- vided against the wind and the weather. E——— War Records Threatened. It was not to bo expected, after the battle flag experience of the president, that any one would be 8o reckless as to propose interference with other relics or records of the war, but it appears that some busybody in the war depart- ment has conceived the idea of destroy- ing a portion of the records, and that a committeo is really at work examining these documents in order to inform the secretury what records he may report to congress for destruction. It is quite probable that in this instance, as in that of the battle flags, the meddlesome genius of Adjutant General Drum is responsible for the scheme, in which it would seem the secretary of war has acquiesced as read- ily as he did to giving up the flags. But the impressive lesson taught by the first attempt to get rid of the reminder of the war will doubtless prevent any hasty and incon- siderate action in the present instance. It is now well understood that there is no authority to interfere with any of the relics or records of the war unless it shall be obtained from congress. It is not probable that such authority can be secured from the present con- gre: Granting that some of the ree- ords might be found to be of no appar- ent value, there is no reason for hurry- ing their destruction. Documents that may seem valueless to-day might be of great importance twenty years hence. They take up room that perhaps might be utilized for another purpose, but they cannot be so much in the way as to serviously interfere with the work of the war department, and it is no ex- pense to the government to keep them. Furthermore, whenever it shall be thought necessary and expedicnt to de- stroy apy portion of them the duty of separafing the uscless from the valuable should be committed to men of the high- est judgment as to the worth of histori- cal records, and not to a committee of army officers presumably without exper- ience or special ability for such a task. The war records are doubtless in no im- mediate danger. ——— Misdirected Wisdom. The wisdom that discerns as the chief reason for the opposition to Mr. Lamar his course ns secretary of the interior toward the land-grabbing corporations and syndicates is sadly misdirected. A Philadelphia contemporary nsserts that the ‘‘chief opposition to Mr. Lamar comes from senators who are notoriously the agents and representatives of west- ern land-grabbers,” and professes to believe that had he “shut his eyes to the spoilation of the public domain the op- position to him in the senate never would have come to a head.” On the other hand, there is @ widespread opin- ion that if Mr. Lamar is confirmod as a justice of the supremo court it will he by the votes of republican senators who ave not only the agents and represent- atives of land-grabbers, but them- selves belong in that category. We have not adoubt that the result will show this opinion to be well founded. Why should the land grabbers fear Lamar ? Was his course in the senate hostile to them ? On the contrary was it not uniformly friendly ¥ What great corporation that ever sought aid of congress in any form, during the period of Mr, Lamar’s membership, was an- tagonized by him? In what instance did he raise his voice and record his vote against the attempted spoliations of land grabbers? When Mr. Lamar was appointed secretary of the intértor there is his own authority for the state« ment that he began a careful exami- nation and study of the land laws with the purpose of endeavor- ing to reform what he had come to believe wera grave wrongs against the government and people. Yet it was two years before Mr. Lamar be- came congpicnously identified with any measure of reform, and only then under the pressure of the president’s direc- tion, Meantime the corporation and syndicate land grabbers were finding protection from the secretary against the nggressive warfare of Sparks, whose decisions adverse to them were over- ruled with a regularity that caused the commissioner and all who eympathized with him to despair of ever being able to bring the plunderers to a just ac- counting. It is well known that the first serious declaration of the land pol- icy of the administration was contained in the letter of the president drawn out, by the Guilford Miller case, with which the secretary of the interior had nothing whatever to do. Doubt- less fearing that the result would be favorable to the Northern Pa- cific, Commissioner Sparks prosented this case directly to the president, who very promptly reached a decision favor- able to the settler. The presidemt also found the occagion most opportune for declaring a polioy and quite explicitly instructing Secretary Lamar that he wishod it pursued. Tt was vory likely just the policy which for two years the socretary had been vainly seeking, for he promptly adopted it and has since been apparently endeavoring to carry it out to the best of his ability. It is useless for the advocates of Mr. Lamar’s confirmation to attompt to break down the real reasons for the opposition to him by inventing specious explann- tions. The deeply-felt distrust of him finds its warrant in a record which the more carefully it is examined the more strongly 1t speaks against him, MAYOR BROATCH has roceived state- ments from nearly a score of cities giv- ing the number of policomen employed in each and the proportion to popula- tion. Itisshown that the average is one policoman to about 1,200 inhabft- ants. At this ratio Omaha would have efghty policemen. But there doos not appear to be any sound reason why the proportion of policemen to population should be any larger here than, for ex- ample, in Kansas City or Minueapolis, whore it is respectively ane police- man to 1,400 and one to 1,500 of population. Adopting the latter ratio Omaha would be given sixty-five policemen, and we do not think any one will question that such a force, competently managed, would for at least six months to come be ample for all the purposes of police protection. ‘What the people desire is an early in- orease of the force to snch reasonable number as will insure proper protection without unnecessarily adding to the burden of taxation. Experience with a small force has shown that this com- munity is as law-abiding as any in the country, and if the dives and dens that are still allowed to run were shut up, a8 it is expected they will be, police work would be materially dimin- ished, so that an addition of say twenty to the present force would count for very much more than if these harbors of vice and crime are permitted to con- tinue. With the city sweptolean of the places where the crooks do their plot- ting and the lawless element finds re- fuge, Omaha can be as peaceful and or- derly a city, with a police force of sixty or sixty-five patrolmen, as there is on the continent. Tig, steel-rail mills are shutting down, and the high-tariff papers are falsely asserting that the mill-owners have been largely influenced to do this by the message of the president. It is hardly conceivable that any intelligent man can be misled by such obvious non- sense. There is nothing uncommon in the shutting down of these mills, They have done so periodically for the last twenty years whenever the demand did not justify the owners in running, or it seemed to be expedient, to close for some other reason. All sorts of excuses for throwing thousands of men out of em- ployment have served in the past, when the mill owners felt themselves impregnably fortified behind the high-tariff wall, and their shutting down now is due to reasons wholly inde- pendent of the president’s views. These well-protected gentlemen have had two years of almost unprecedented prosper- ity, and with the probability that next year will bring a reduced demand for their product and a lowering of prices they do not intend to investany of their hard carnings in stock that may not be immediately wanted, and which might depres®the price below what they deem to be asufficient profit. Therefore they shut down, and regardless of the inter- ests of labor or the general welfare send thousands of men into idleness. The policy is not new, and it is due now solely to the same selfish instinet that dictated it in the past. It is stated that as the result of an in- terview with the president Mr. Randall had concluded that a satisfactory tariff bill would be introduced and pass the house, and that if it failed"the responsi- bility would be with the republican sen- ate. The report is not to be unques- tioningly accepted, though it would be gratifying to be certain that Randall said what is attributed tohim. The ad- vocates of a fair revision of the tariff, that shall give needed relief to the peo- ple without endangering any industry or operating to the detriment of labor, are less apprehensive of the republican senate than they are of Mr. Randall and the faction of which he is the leader. It is he, and not the republican senate, that defeated tariff revision in the last two congresscs, and the fear is that he will be found in the same attitude in the present congress. We have not the slightest doubt that any weasure of tariff revision and re- duction that has the approval of Mr. Randall and passes the house will get enough republican votes in the senate to pass that body. The difficulty will be to secure the approval of the leader of the democratic, protectionists to & mensuro that witf commend. {tself to a majority of the house. Tk Christmas presidential tickot of the St. Louis (/obe-Demoerat is James @G. Blaine and John M. Thayer. ——— STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. The state penitentiary has a popula- tion of 334, et Columbus bénsts that she supplies South Omaha with the best hogs, and has sevoral to apére. Norfolk proposes to issue $20,000 in ‘bonds and ln\-ufi fhe proceeds in a ten- room school building. Theodore Dolly, of Stanton, quieted a domestic disturbance by swallowing an effective dose of poison. Doane college at Crete had ite Christ- mas stocking stretched with $13,000, the gift of David Whitcomb, a Boston ad- mirer. Otoe and Nemaha counties have been connected by a substantial wood and iron bridge over the Nemaha river near Talmage. Burglars made thelr second call on A. 8. Thrasher & Co., of Grand Island, last eck and exchanged & set of culling tools for $40 in cash., The Norfolk News boosts a universal truth with this four liner: “The tele- graph service of Sunday’s Omaha BE was a model of perfection. No news- paper in the west had anything ap- proaching it.” The Fremont creamery paid out dur- ing the year $65,000 for cream, $16,000 for hauling and $8,000 for labor. The total amount of butter manufactured was 401,696 pounds. There are in oper- ation forty cream routes, and the num- ber of patrons average over 600, having reached as high as 725. The town dads of Ashland met in ex- traordinary session a few evenings ago, and celebrated the completion of water- works. Under the mellowing influences of Salt creek water, - the megbers pre- sented a ;:nm-hmdvfi cane to Contractor Richardson, and spread upon the pages of their record resolutions of applause and thankfulness. Judge Broady has rendered a decision in Guge county that promises to beat the Rock Island road out of a bonus of 450,000, and save the tax-payers that amount. H. F. Cook, of Beatrice, be- gan suit last summer to 1njoin the levy- ing of a tax to pay interest on the bonds. He bases his right to the injunction upon a number of grounds, the principal one, and that upon which Judgé Broady decided the case, being that the proposi- tion submitted and voted upon only con- tained a provision authorizing the city council to levy a tax to pay the interest, but did not contain a provision author- izing tho levy of any tax to pay the srinci[i‘nl of the bonds when it bocame ue. The omission in the proposition, Judge Broady held, under the statutes, effectually defeated the bonds, and he gave judgment perpetually enjoining the city from issuing them. Towp Items. The Illinois Caiitral is erecting at Du- buque a $75,000 bifck depot. Sam Ricker, of $ioux City, has gone to Bangor, Me., a fortune of $24,000 left him by his fagher. Articles of incorporation of the St. Louis, Keokuk & Northwestern Rail- road company have been filed with the secretary of state at Des Moines, capi- tal stock placed at £8,000,000. Des Moines ia'taking steps to raise 25,000 as an_inducement to the owners of the cotton factory at Janesvllle, Mich., to remove their works to Des Moines, as they have offered to make such a move for the above consideration. A teamster in Sioux City incautiously swore in court in a_suit for wages, that his employers used bogus weights in shoveling out coal. When the full force of the open secret fell upon the coal men, in the shape of decreased patronage, they at oncd entered suit for libel and $5,000 damages. The case will not come up until the coal season is over. Railroad Commissioner Coffin says that the shipments of hay fromnorthern ana northwestern Iowa are so heavy the market has become glutted, and thero is danger that the prices and demand for this product will be ruined. The Rock Island company has given orders to allow no more cars to be loaded with hay bound for Chicago on account of the difficulty in having them unloaded. The Milwaukee company had 1,000 cars at one time standing on the tracks in Chicago which were awaiting dis- posal. Dakota. Rapid City it shipping brick to Wyo- ming. A new location of a valuable tin lode has recently been made near Sheridan by Henry Shank and Oscar Klein. The supreme court of the United States has afirmed a judgment for $20- 000 secured by Richard Marer against the Northern Pacific for loss of both legs in Fargo. Homestake Minlns company, of Dead- wood, has declared its one hundred and thirteenth regular monthly dividend of 20 cents per share, or $25,000; total divi- dends to date, $8,993,750. The Republican of Rapid City warns the public against the insurance com- pany known a8 the Farmer’s Live Stock association, of Austin, Minn., as being the blackest swindle of the kind ever known in the country. 1t is estimated by good authority that the mills of Dakota will grind 10,000,000 bushels of wheat from September, 1887, to September, 1888. If that proves cor- rect the flour industry of Dakota will soon make itself felt i the manufactur- ing world. *Past experience suggests,” says the "ankton Press, “‘that the representa- tive men of Dakota can scrve their ter- ritory better by remaining a from Washington than by flocking thither and making themselves conspicuous hy their numbers and their adverse wants. { R Railroad Notes. It was reported yesterday that an acci- dent on the B. & M. near Falls City had re- sulted in the loss of fhirteen lives. The fuct was that passenger than No. 39, coming west ran into freight train i@ Dawson, a small sta- tion this side of Fallsl City. Several cars, among them the baggage and express ca were demolished. € passenger engineer was scalded. Nobody was killed. dent was caused by an ppen switch. Mr. Harry Hall, the general traveling pas- cenger agent of thie B. & M., has been ap- pointed to succeed thejdarry Deul, as city ticket mgent of that. road, at the corner of Farnam and Fifteenth 'stregts. Mr. Hall is one of best known employes of the road and one of the most successful and popular traveling men in the west, and he will be greatly appreciated in bis hew position. Mr. J. O. Brinkerhoff, superintendent of the Kansas division of the Union Pacifie, is prominently mentioned as a possible Suc- mnorg. (. H. Nettlcton as general manager of the Gulf road. e Stolen Property Recovered. ®on Lindquest lost a couple of valuable 1ap robes on Tuesday, which were found yesterday by Julius Nagle, behind his saloon on Thirteenth street near Jones, whero they had been secreted. There is no elew to the thief, wd proprietor of The acci- e Bonjamin Wood,editor i the New York Evening News, ‘wife and dlmhur and Miss M. E. Maytield are at the 110'1s Sick at South Omaha Tnstead of Having Skipped. Yesterday evening it was currently re- ported that OMcer McCracken had ab- sconded, leaving his creditors poorer by some £300 or 00, According to Chief Seavey, however, there need be no fears on this ac- count, as the chief has twice received word that the missing officer is lying very sick at South Omaha. Since his appointment on the rolwe force McCracken has acted as dotec- ive. Last Saturday he was out the_ entire night attending to his usual duties. Ho re- ported at morning roll call, and in the after. noon left to look up some case. As he failed to report next morning he was suspended the following evening. The next day the chief received a telogram from him at South Omaha, explaining his absence by the fact that he was too sick to get back to the city. Yesterday one of the policemen at South ‘Omaha telephoned to the chief that the ab- sent officer was no better and that he would be properly cared for. This will calm all uneasiness as o his disappearance. LOUISIANA LOTTERY. Two Omaha Men Divide a “Pot” of $12,500. Yesterday evening a Ber reporter had tho pleasure of meeting the two habpiost men in Omaha, It was at the restaurant and saloon of ¥. Poppendick, at the corner of Howard and Thirteenth streets. Mirth and merri- ment were the order of the day and on mak- ing inquiry it was ascertainod that William Poppendick, the genial host of the saloon,and Robert Price, wholesale butcher, of Tenth street, were the joint winners of a fourth share of the third capital prize of $50,000 in the Louisiana State lottery. 21,301 was the Tucky number and was one of the four par- chasod by the gentlemen named for $20, On receiving tho list of winning numbers the ticket was at once placed in the hands of the First National bank and yestorday the full amount of the prize, less a small sum for col- lection, was paid over by the bank to Mr. Poppendick and the “‘pot” duly divided with his pard. *‘No," said Mr. Poppendick, *‘the money wasn't here for Christmas, but I ain’t kicking about that, it was welcome just the saume and will be a good start for the new year. Ever speculated before—well, not much. Thave invested 88 1n_the lottery on R;wmm occasions but never drew any‘hlni‘.” r. Poppendick came to this city from To- l:ukn some seven months ago and is well nown as a saloon man all over Kansas, Mr. 2 has been in business in Omaha for a considerable time. Both gentlemen have re- ceived the congratulations of hosts of friends. sy MORTUARY. THOMPSON, J. W. Thompson, aged thirty-six years, died at St.Joseph's hospital Wednesday night. The funeral will take place this morning from the residence of his brother-in-law, D. F. Kelley, 2223 Ohio. Services will be held in the Haiy Family church. ANDREW FORBES. Colonel A. H. Forbes roceived a tolegram from Detroit from George Forbes, the well known turfman of Cleveland, yesterday afternoon, announcing the death of their brother Andrew, who died yesterday, aged about forty-eight. Andrew Forbes wasquite a well known politician in his native city, and has been collector of the port of cus- toms during the Cleveland administration, and was also president of the Andrew Forbes Assembly Knights of Labor, He was a man who had seen much of the world, was tho mate of a whaling vessel for ten years, and one of the ventaresome spirits of a polar ex- pedition. He served all through the war under the different commanders of the army of the Potamac. His life, always an honest and upright one, was much checkered by irring events. At one time he had charge ing vessel for (.‘»u}l'-ull\ Fagin on the lakes, and saw much of a fresh water sailor's life. He leaves a wife and four children. The Whisky Trust. Mr. P. E. Iler,of the Willow Springs diatill- ory, has returned from Peora, where the excoutive committee of the Whisky trust has been holding a meeting. The committe was composed of Joseph Greenhut, Peoria, presi- dent; George Gibson, Peoria, secretary: Geo. Duckworth, Cincinnati, treasurer; and J. Hennessy of Chicago, A. Bevis of St. Louls, Lou Green and W. N. Hobart of Cincinnati, and Warren Corning, Adolph Wolner and John Francis of Peoria. The committe was in session for three days. The members of the trust expect to_completo their organiza- tion about Janudry 1. Tho amount of cer- tificates issued thus far is £15,000,000. They claim their intention is to establish a co-oper- ative association, to operate such distilleries s can be run _ with profit, and oclosing all others, thus lim- ing production to the alleged demands of the country. The first advance in prices will be in January. The price now is $1.05 per gal- lon, but the distilleries claim this is below the cost. The meeting at Peoria was not a success, there being still several distilleries ‘which cannot be brought into the trust. 1t is understood that the trust contemplates erecting a large elevator in this city in which to store their grain. The movement has not assumed definite shape as yet, but the repre- sentatives of the trust are looking up a loca- tion, —_— : Slightly Scorched. The smoke houso attached to the meat packing house of Messrs. Stevens, Hamilton & Co., located in tho southern part of tho city caught fire last night and was scorched to the extent of §100. The burning out of a chimney on the build- ing No, 508 South Tenth street last night created considerable excitement for a time. Personal Paragraphs. Juan Boyle, Kearney, Neb., is in the e D. M. Child, of Dunlap, Ia., is at the W sor. Daniel McEwen, of Rockford, Ia., is at the Millard. C. R. Benedict, of Shelby, Ia., is at the Millard. P. B. Salles, of Groton, N¢b., fs at the Millard. George Berry, of Chadron, Neb., is at the Millard. Frank Barclay, of Beatrice, Neb., is at the Millard. M. . Phillips, of Hamburg, Ia., is at the Windsor. D. W. Krotzer, of Atlantic, Ia., Is ot the ‘Windsor, A. B. Wood, of Gering, Neb., is at the Windsor. ¥. E. Verrill, of David City, Neb,, {s at the Windsor. S. A. Barstow, of Broken Bow, Neb,, is in the city. W. A. Mears and wife, of Albion, Neb., are in the city. Johin J. Underwood, of Lincoln, Neb., is at the Millard. James Tighe and wife, of York, Neb., are at the Millard. H. G. Cowels and wife, of Marion, Ta., are at the Windsor. J. L. Hutchinson and wife, of Indianola, Neb,, are at the Millard. 1. D. Kilpatrick and his brothers, W. H. and R. J., are in the city. Messrs. George Spangler and T. J. McKib- ben, Hastings, Neb., are at the Millard, John J. Sellon is happy over the roceipt of an elegant gold headed umbrella, the gift of the Olympic Theatre stock company, Y. M. O A, A class will be formed by the Y. M. C. A. in phonography soon after Janvary 1. Either Pitman’s or Munson's system will be used. The class will meet twice 8 week in the even- ing. Tuition free. Address “Educational Committee Y. M. AN S . O A Falr Somnambulist, San Francisco Alta. There can be no doubt that the people who walk in their sleep are not desirable guests to have in a hoarding house. They are linble to create strange confusions and disagreeable dilemmas. U]!: on Sutter street is a large domestic hotel, where families and single people are accom- modated with all the comforts of home. Under these circumstances it is gener- ally full of people. Young married people are especially glad to find in such an establishment the conveniences of private life without the trouble and worry of housekeeping and bald-headed nidtfia—uqad gentlemen, who, in their h haste to accumulate fortunes, have put off marriage until it is too late to ravitate 1o such places as inevitably ne the needle turns to the north. Tho house in question was full of such people. But particularly noticenble among them were n blushing young bride, whose beauty had grace was the theme of every wn¥ue and a stout, red faced dealer in old frun, whose sleok and uh|n|nr appearance was only equaled by the smooth and polished sur- face of his hairless head. Indeed, it was a generally accepted rumor about the house that his slick and glistening cranium was the result of incessant l‘""“h"‘fi with a red bandana handker- chief, which, for timo out of mind, had been regarded as a leading feature of his toilet. To say that this finnflomun was modest would only partially conve; an idea of his remarkable “backward- ness in coming forward” in tho pres- ence of ladies. The glancesof feminino eyes would deepen the carmine hue of his_eountenance until the blood seemed rom:f' to burst from his veins, And a word addressod to him in the liquid ac- cents which only feminine voices can assume would cause every nerve of his body to thrill with embarrassment. Imagine the consternation of this gen- tleman when on returning late from dis club one night he found his apartment occupiod by o lndfv. The discouery was not made until he had men, dis- robed. (‘ominfirJ into his room, the moon shining brightly through the window, he began to throw off his clothes, without lighting the gas. When his coat, vest and shoes were re- moved, and a woolen night eap drawn oomlort,ahl{ over his head, his suspon- ders dangling racefully from his waistband to his heels. and when in the act of drawing off his trousors, ho was interrupted by a gentle voice trom the bed, inquiring: “fs that you, dear?” The horror of the situation rose vi idly before his eyes. It was as if alight- ning shock had transfixed him. His feet scemed glued to the floor. If he had had any hair on his head it would have rose on end. But the blood, which in the moment of his overwhelming as- tonishment had receded to his heart, now rushed furiously through his veins and seemed to concentrate in a globe of burning red in the head, from which the disheveled nightcap had fallen. ‘“Are you coming to bed, dear?”’ camo again the same gentlo voice, This was too much. With a bound like n‘pnnthor the gentleman leaped to the sofa, and wheeling it from the cor- ner sprang behind it. The moon pouring a flood of light through the windows seemed to have concentrated all its rn{a on that par- ticular corner. It was lit up with the brightness of day. The lady sa% the crouching figure, and noted the obese and ungainly form. It was not her hus- band. Visions of robbers, murderors and thieves ed through her mind with the rapidity of lightning. With a bound as if upraised by a galvanic shock, she sat up in bed. " Then with a shriek as if all the steam calliopes in the country had been combined in one fearful disapason, she gave voice to her alarm. The noise of that awful shriek drove out of the man’s heart his first alarm, and replaced it with another fright still more intense. “Rar heaven's sake, woman, bo silent!” he oried, from his crouching place in the corner, The lady only shrieked the louder. From fright the man was rapidly pass- ing into a condition of distracted cour- age. e quict, T tell you!” “Oh, sir, for pity sake’s don’t kill me!” “Kill you, indeed! Confound it, I'm ;:ot gv"u.iug to hurt you. But get out of erel This confirmed her worst nqprchcn- slons. A burglar had invaded her room. She would have fled, but the door was locked, and her attire was not fitted for a promenade through the halls, But she could yell, and she did. A succession of screanis filled the room that would have wakened the dead. They roused the house, and the halls rapidly filled with frightened people. Among them came the husband of the rosy bride. He had come home late, not finding his spouse asleep, ns ho expected to, concluded she was visitin, some lady friends, and quietly tumbles himself into bed and.went to sleep. The screams of the alarmed lady had even penetrated his dormant senses. and he me rushing out with the rest.s .“Oh, heavehs, save me,” again came the alarmed entreaty from the bachelor’s room, ““That’s my wife’s voice,” he shouted and his strong shoulders carried the door from its hinges. he sight that met the startled group of people crowd- ing into the room was so ludicrous and absurd that in spite of sympathy for the terror-stricken Iady they way to uncon- trollable laughter. The frightened bachelor had “wedged himself between the wall and sofa until he looked as flnt as a pancake. Occasionally he glanced furtively over the back of 1t, and then sunk with a groan. The luvjy was, too busy screaming to think of anything else until her ,Tnusbnnd'u indignant in- quiry *What the mischief are you do- ing here?” brought her in some degree to her senses. *Ohy Charley,there’s a burglar ih the room!’ “I'm not a burglar,” cried a smoth- ered voice from behind the sofa, *‘This is my room, and I came home to-night and found a woman in it.” These hysterical explanations tended in no degree to allay the amusement, of the boarders. But finnlly an under- standing was reached. The lady was a sleep walker, and in this condition had wandered into the room and gone to bed. Catarrhal Dange;s. To be freed from the dangers of suffocation while lying down; to breathe freely, sleep soundly and undisturbed; to rise refreshe head clear, brain active and free from pain ache; to kiow that 1o pofsonous, putrid matter efiles the breath and rots away the delicate machinery of smell, taste and hearing: to feel that the system does’ not, through its veins and arteries, up the poison that is sure to un- deriging apd dustroy, I indeed o blossl X ond all other Luman tnjoyments. o purcha mmunity from such a fate should be the objuct of all afiiicted, But those who have tried many remedies and physicians despalr of relief or cure, BARFORD'S RADICAL, CURR meets every phase of Catarrh, from a ple head cold to the most loathsome and destructive stuges. 1t 18 local and constitutional. Instant in relleving, per- ;ml"lli'nl in curing, safe, economical and never- ailing. SANFORD'S RADICAL CURE consists of one bot- the RADICAL CURE, one box of CATARRITAL BNT, and one IMPROVED INHALER, &l pped in one pn-kn'fls. with treatise and direc- tions, and sold by all druggists for ",m ) 'OTTER DRUG & CHENICAL Co. BosTOoN, HOW MY BACK ACHESI Back Ache, Kidney and Uterine Pains, and Weaknesses, Boreness, Lameness, strains and Pufns 'TE by the CUTICURA ie firét and only pninvkllllujf er. original, iustantaneous, and infalll- ble, The fnost perfect antidote to Pain, Intam- mation, Weaki ounded. At all druggists, 25 ce tree, of PoTTUN Hoston, Mass, wa cordian ot et ey b for Gomorch za L) T T Aleots & Lisk, Hutuon, N, ¥, Bold by Drugyistn, Frice 0100 wod, | AN IMPROMPTU. VISIT A Repartr's Visit 1o the 0. . Ry. Shops Hundreds of Employcea Found Thero =A Friondly Interview with One of Them=it is of Vital Import~ ance to the Fablio. “What men say and_what men do are the things of paramount interest. The personal quality mukt enter largely into an Article to make it desirabl Tt was an_old journalist whoso position gave welght to what Tie aaid that was taiking, and the sorybe listenod witii both ears open. “Yes" he continued to a friend sitting near the strect car, “that accounts to a grent nt for the modern fnterview, a thing, by the way, of wm‘vu»mnly recent date, 1tis claimed that it had its origin as no earifer time than the administration of Andrew Jolinson. ington corres) nt of an eastorn 18 now one it editory of th 3 ‘West, was on inf terms witli the president, and adopted in his letters the form known as the modern few to ket forth Johnson's cullar views il feelings. Tlat is claimed to the origin of it.” Just here tho writer had to leave the Bound as he was on au interviewing try solf, he was greatly interested in tho informa- tion that the journalist was |mpnmnl¢ and re- tted that he had to miss the rest of {t. cksmith shops of the Union Pacifie any the scribe met Mr. James 088 hlrdz handod sons of toil Who “earn_their bread by the sweatof their brow,” during the course of the interview Mr. “Bometime about nine years ago I took what I thought wus slight cold, but it did not get well s soon e previous colds, 1 would @ut better and then, taking a fresh cold, would ot much worse than I was before, This con- inued for some time, when my head began to ache me and I had sévers paits over my eyos and, at times, sharp Shooting pain through my shotilders and in my chest, also around my heart. 1f 1 was sitting down and would rise up quickly my heart would beat very much faster and harder than usual, my nose at times wo be comipletely stoppedun, o it utterly possible for me to breattie through It, at oth imes I would soil two or three handkerchiefs a day, 1 would take colds the least exposure, and hence had colds continunlly, 1had a continual dropping of mucus into my throat, which was always more or less infiamed and sore. At night while lying in bed this mucus would gather iu my throat, and it was of frequent occurrence that in endeavoring to clear it away 1 would gag and sometimes vomit, MY EYES WERR RED AND SWOLLEN, my appetite wis poar: esectally was this the ense for broukfast, which I could scarcely look at; L was troublod at times with a hacking cough, And all day long I would hawk and spif inw viin edeavor to clean my throat, Iwag always more or less constipated, and my food did not keem to digest properly, And_cansed me to have u disturbed feeling in fhie stomach after eating; I could not sleep soundly at night, as [ had horrible dreams which would wake me and cause & miserable feeling and a dread to go to sleop aguin. 1had also during the day a roar- ing and buzzing noise fn my head and ears, Which was very annoying to me, *“Ihings went on getting worse, T tried @iffer- ent doctors and various kinds of patent medi- cino, but derived’ no perceptible beneft from anything I took. 1was losing tlesh and was be- coinl TOW SPTRITRED AND DESPONDENT, and felt as though life was not worth living for, 88 1 was In constant misery and was inclined to fi" up in despair when my attention wascalle the adye ement of McCoy & Henry's wonderful troatment I mn\& up In( visit their office and see if they could do any- thing for nao. Although my faith in either doo tors or medicine was away below par, I took their advice and began to use their treatmont. 1 n to improve and have gained sixteen pounds since 1 an treatment, Butasftis I am thankful I visited their office for the; brought me safely through an attack of typhoid fever and cured ine entirely of my catarrh, and to-day ) feol as well as I ever did, and am nble todoaday’s work with as much ease as ever. 1 forgot to sny that at times 1 beoame ko forve ous and irritable 1 acarcely knew what to do with myself; but that has afl left me, and to-day I considyr mysell u strong and healthy man." JAMES WHITE, Mr. James White, us alwve stated, 18 well and favorably known I Omaha, where ho has res slded for & number of years, at his home, &0 North™ Fou the shops of the Union P corroborate the above statement to any one who will take the time to call on him, Some Dangers Which Are Made Known Before Consumption Appears, When catarrh has existed in the head and upper part of the throat for any length of time —the patient living in the district where people are subject to (atagrhial affection--and. the dis ense has been 13t un ably, sometimes slowly, pipe'and into the bronchial tubes, which tubes convey the air Into the different’ parts of the lungs. The tubes become affected from the swelling und mucus arising from catarrh, and n some tnstances becomo plugged up o thit the wir cannot. get in a8 frecly as 1t should, Shortness of breath follows and the patient breathek with labor and difficulty. In other cases there 18 a sound of crackin and wheezing inside the chest, At this stage of the disense the breathing i usually more rapid than when in health. Tlhe patlent also has hot flashes over his hody. The pain whi of & dull characte breast bone or und ain muy hien be that tarrh 18 dry, comes at intervals, 18 hacking in character and usually most troublesome in the morning on arising or going to bed at night, and it may be the first evidence of the diséase extending In the lungs, ‘AT first Lhtre miy be nothing bronght up by the cough; then there {8 a littie tough, toni- cious mucis, which the patient tinds great difti- bringing up. {mes there are fits of coughing induced ¥ tough mucus—o violent as to cause vomit~ . Luter on mucus that is raised 18 found to nall partiolex of yellow matter, which it the snall tupes in_the Tungs are oW eff8cfed. YWith this there drs oTten streaks of blond mixed with the mucus, 1n some cases the patient becomes very pale, has fover and ex- [n'cRu‘llun before any congh APPeALs, Tn some cases small musses of clieesey sub- stance are spit up, which, when pressed between the flugers, emit u bad odor. In oter canos par- ticles of @ hurd, chalky nature are spit up. 'The raising of checsey or chalky lumps indicates serious mischief at work it the lungs, In some cases catarrh will extend ‘into the lungs in & few weeks; in other cases 1t may be moths and cven yeurs bofore the disease ate tacks the lungs sufliciently to cause serious in- terference with the general health, When the Qisense hins developed to such point the pa- tlent 1s sald to catarrahal " consumption, With bronchia th there 18 more of less fover which di ith the difforent parts of the day- slight in_the morning, higher in the afternoon and evenin Sometimes dur greeping, chilly s o can be found ed, the caturrh invarie ends down the wind- accompanias this condition is felt {n the chest, behind the the shoulder blade, the day the patient has a ation, which miay last from hulf an 0 un hour, the surface of tho body feeling dry and hot. Diring the night, near the morning, there may be sweats, Buch sweais Are Known as night sweats, ®1he pulse 15 usual'y mors rapld than normal, ind the pattent loses flesh and strength. A frenn cold is all that s needed at this polut to develop rapid consumption. In some (hstances the patient loses strength and tiesh slowl museles graduall, o . Then tient gi nally r only to lose It ug DOCTOR ). CRESAP McGOY, Late of Bellevue Hospital, New York, AND Dr. Columbus Henry (Late of llulv.flli{ of Pennsylvania) HAVE OFFICES No. 810 and 511 IN RAMGE BUILDING, Corner Fifteenth aud Harney sti., Omaha, Neb,, ‘Whero all Clruble Oksas 6% treuted with suceess. Medica diseanes treated skilifully. Conswmp- tion, Bright's disease, lnlp@rl' {thouma! and all NERVOUS DISEARES. Al disous: n.n‘:;lm the sexes a spectalty, CATARRH oL ). CONSULTATION t « Oftice hours—9 to 11 a. m,. Sundsys included, (lorrespondence rocetves prompt attentjon. Qiswases are treafed successfuliy ‘b Journey to obtaln successtul pital treatment at their aomes. No lotters answered unless accompanied by “CAGdresaati tettors to Drs. McCoy and Hency, Jooma 310 aad $11 Range "Viiditg, " omansy 4