Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 16, 1888, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE PUBLISHED EV Y MORNING. TERMS OF S MIPTION. Dally Morning Edition: including Sunday, BEE, One Year . weilei R For &ix M For T The Omatha ¢ dress, One Y 10 00 0 20 « TEENTH STREET. CORR All_communieation editorinl ma «f Eoitor or 1n g BUSINE: Al biistness letters nnd ren y news and relating uld be addressed to the " 10 the order of the company Tite Bee Pablishing Company, Proprietors, | E. ROSEWATEIR. EDITOR, THE DAILY o Sworn Statement of Circulation, 8tate of Nebraska, Uik County of Dongliss, (™5 Geo, B.Tzechuck, secretary of The Hc\ln lf'n‘h- Nshing nnly swoar that the actual cireulation of the Diily Bee for the week RS, Wits s followa: Sworn to and subscr Q{. 1ih day of January, A. L v 1 N. P FELL Notary Public, Aaily circulgtion of Junuary, 1487, 7 Coph 1595 4 copless for February, pies: i, 197, 1A ¢ 1 1880 7, 14, for April, ) B, Sworn and subseribed to in my a 24 day of Juuuary, A. D. 1888, N. P. FEI Notary Pu ads all other ntal candidates in the Hawkoyo The scnator has many warm friends on this side of the M RasERs of northern hogs want lard made out of southerwcotton seed placed on the same footing ns oloomargarine. If this is sectionalism make the most of it. A MEMBER of congress has introduced a bill to discontinue the coinage of three-cent pieces. If such a bill be- comes a law it will be a hard blow on the thrifty people who aro in the habit of trying to make that little coin do duty for a di It never freezes in San Francisco and nobody was ever known to be killed by lightning in California. Butthey make up for this immunity by epidemio and contagious diseases. Just now there is an epidemic of smallpox in San Fran- cisco which is carrying off men, womon and children like sheep. CHIEF GALLIGAN i8 enforcing strict discipline in the fire department,and for this he is entitled to credit. At this sonson of the year when disastrous fires are frequent and life and property en- dangered, it is of the utmostimportance that sobriety, vigilance and obedience be enforced in the fire department. Now that Tom Platt has been ousted {rom his position as quarantine commis- sioner of New York city it istobe hoped his place will be filled by some man who will attend to the duties of the position with the thoroughuess which its im- portance demands. The whole country is interested in this matter. —— Mg, CoLOROW, who it will be remem- bered had a little misunderstanding with some of the citizens of Colorado last summer, wants thirty one thousand dollars from the state to defray the ex- penses incurred during his little excur- sion from the reservation. The com- missioner of Indian affairs supports the claim. Colorado will not be so ready to get up a bogus Indian war again. Tue Kausas City brick-makers have combined to raise the price of brick when the building season opens, but their avarice is liable to be checkmated. A number of contractors have made heavy purchases of brick in St. Louis and flat-boats are now being built to transport them up the river when navi- gation opens, This is suggestive to Omuha contractors. —— ARKANSAS wants more inhabitants. A convention for the purpose of devis- ing means to induce immigration is to be held at Little Rock on the 31stof this month. When Arkansas was ad- mitted as a state half a century ago she was twenty-fifth in rank as regards pop- ulation. She occupied the same rela- tive position in 1880, when the last national census was taken, The tide of immigration has been westward across the great temperate belt and it cannot be diverted so long as the resources of the great west remain only partially developed. A NEW company hasbeen incorporated for the construction of a railroad from Omaha to Yankton, Dakota. Exper- ience does not warrant the public in in- dulging enthusi expectations re- garding this enterprise, but there 1s good reason to believe that the new company really means business, and we think 1t may safely be said that the owt- look for this most important addition to the railroad outlets of Omaha is more favorable than ever before. That the contemplated road will ultimately be built there can be no doubt, but the time is now ripe for it and Omaha intercsts ought to be vigorously exerted in pro- moting the enterprise THE governors of several states, south and west, have urged 1 their dnnual messages the importance to their re- spective states of emigration bureaus and organized efforts to induce immi- gration. These messages forcibly illus- trate that the efforts made in congress to cheek immigration are premature. Laws against the importation of pau- pers, criminals and insane people are already on the statute books, and if faithfully enforced afford smple protec- tion against undesirable foreign immi- gration. Thrifty and healthy men and women, who want to better their con- dition in this country, will continue in demand for years to come. | the syndi THE OMAHA DAILY BE.: MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1888, Lamar's Last Aot Mr. Lamar signalized his retirement from the office of secretary of the inte- rior by removing, as the last act of ‘his administration, the land-clerk of the land offico, Mr. Le Barnes. The dis- misscd official had held the position for cight years and discharged its dutics acceptably and faithfully, Beforo the | present agministration came into power | he had became known as an adve e of 1d reform, thereby incurring the dis- pleasure of the lund-grant corporations, es and the private land claimants. When Sparks was appointed commissioner he found Le Barnes a most valuable help in aequiring the information he needed, and the two worked together in full accord and sympathy. It was the land clerk who furnished the information and matters of detail on which tho land-grant forfeiture bills adopted by the last congross were based. He framed for Mr. Lamar his reply to Dorsey, involving a statoment of funda- mental principles and an announcement, of administrative pol He prepared the public land portion of tho presi- dent’s messago to tho second session of the last congress, formulating and de- fining the public land policy of the ad- ministration at its head. In short, ho had shown himself a most capable, use- ful and upright official, with the inter- osts of the government and the peoplo at heart., Being such an official he had earned the displeasure of all the powersarrayed against a reform of the land policy, and they have steadily pursued him. Re. ferving to his removal he said it was o mistake to say that it was summs There Had been many demands for his official head during his terin of sor- vice, but it remained for Mr. Lamar, tho professed champion of reform, who in his last report sought to arrogate to himself all the credit of what had been accomplished in the way of reform, to sacrifice this faithful and zealous offticis to the hostility of the land plunderer: lass. Was this action necc out the full terms of a contract? wus driven out after Lamar had been invited by the president to accept the vacant justiceship in the supreme court, and now that the ques- tion of his confirmation is pending in the senato the efficient adjutant of the ex-commissionor is deposed. Moan- time unearned lands have been turned over to railroads, and the policy of ro- form has seemed to como toa halt. Is there in all this the fulfillment of an agreement by which Mr. Lamar is to sccure the votes of railroad-attorney and land-grant senators? This is most naturally suggested, and the sequel will show how far the suggestion has warrant. The circumstantial evidonco at hand does not put Mr. Lamar in a more favorable light before the country. Several members of congress have protested to the president against the removal of Lo Barnes, but thus far Mr. Cleveland has made no response. He is not likely to do so, for tho reason that Lamar will convince him that the removal was necessary, on the same grounds upon which he sought to justify the demand for ousting Sparks, and will advise Mr. Cleveland to take no notice of the matter. The president will do nothing that might prove inimical to the chances of the friend for whom he has a “positive affection,” even though it should be obvious to all the world that his friend has for his own advantage be- trayed his confidence and sacrificed the interests of the people. To-day, if the prosident is not heard from, it is ex- pected that a resolution will be offered in the house of representatives call- ing for an investigation of La- mar’s last removal, but this, also, will probably amount to nothing. The democratic majority will be very nearly solid against it, and if the corporations are taking an interest in the cause of Lamar there will be republicans who cannot be made to see any wisdom in the proposed in- vestigation. LeBarnes is out, and he is out for good, The indications are that Lamar will be confirmed. When that is done the country may b le to learn, without a special investigation, the true inwardness of what has transpired in connection with the general land office since Mr, Lamar was invited to take a place on the supreme bench, Carlisle Will Keep His Seat. The committee on elections of the house of representatives will to-day re- port that Mr. Carlisle is entitled to his seat. “In this three republican members of the committee will unite with the democrats. The other three republi- can members, while not convinced that Mr. Carlisle is not entitled to his seat, are of the opinion that the request of Thoebe for a reopgning of the case, in order that he might be given an oppor- tunity to introduce new evidence, should have been granted. The result, however, was a foregone conclusion. Only the most overwhelming evidence could have induced the demo- cratic majovity of the committee to report unfavorably to Mr. Car- lisle, and such evidence was not pre- sented. What was shown, however,was far more formidable than Mr. Carlisle had anticipated, and forced him to gn elaborate defense which he had not in- tended to make. As to the new evi- dence which it was said the contestant had secured, it might have materially strengthened his case, but it all probable that it would have resulted in a different judgment. However desira- ble release from public life would be to Mr. Carlisle, and he seems not averse to aying down the burdens and cares of a blic career, his party does not feel disposed to spare him at present. It may not have any larger honor for him than he now en- joys, and it may not as a whole be quite satisfied with everything he has done, but it has no other man who at this time coula quite fill his place among its leaders. If there hud ever been a ques. tion regarding the success of Mr. Car- lisle in the contest for his seat the entire democratio party would have demapded of its representatives in congress u judgment in his favor. The New Boss of the House, The chairman of the ways and 1 committee of the house of representa- tives is accorded the distinction of be- ing the leader of his party i the house. This honor the present head of that. committae, Mr. Mills, of Texas, appears to estimate at its full value and to be de- termined to enjoy. His first essay at leadership, however, while not nnsue- | cessful, has put him into a somewhat absurd position that ought to be an in- etructive lesson, but may not be in his When on Friday Mills moved an yenment of the house until Monday, v to the request of a number of democratic members, objection was case, | made and in the heat of the parlinmen- tary battlo that ensued Mills pro- claimed what he evidently thought should be decisive of all further contro- versy, that he had promised a great many members that no business should be transacted on Saturdav. The house d this novel assumption of au- to determine when it should do business as an amusing stroteh of loader- ship and Me. Mills found himself the object of generval ridicule, but it was finally thought necessary to defer to his position as the ostensible leader and his motion prevailed. Tho incident is interesting as illus- trating the character and capacity of the man whom Mr. Carlisle, out of re- gard for precedent, has pliced at the head of the most important committee of congress. Impulsive, thoughtiess, opinionated and obstinate, hardly any man in the house is less fitted to dischargo judiciously the very import- ant duties devolving at this juncture upon the chairman of the ways and means committee. Mr. Mills, in his ef- forts to assert and maintain a leadership for which he is clearly incompetent, may be safely expected to blunder into more ridiculous positions than that he fell into on Iriday, and what is & more serious matter to deo things that may re- tard or joopardize the legislation he is looked to promote. When precedent cannot be followed without raising men to positions for which their natural de- feets disqualify them there ought to be no hesitation in disregarding it. Tie Republican attempts to exonerate Bochel and his man Friday, Southard, for voting a license to J. A. King, after his application had been rejected, by reason of serious charges. - Bechel’s champion secks to throw a doubt upon the reports of the police, and plays upon public credulity by telling o piti- ful story about King’s illness, which is said to be the cause of the irregularities complained of by the police. We know nothing porsonally about King or his resort. The report of the chiof of po- lice shows that King kept a disorderly house where people were robbed in various ways. King himsell was once arrested on a charge of larceny, if we remember correctly. It was manifestly the duty of the licenso board to reject King’s ap- plication, whether made for his Doug- las street resort or for a new location. But Bechel and Southard overruled Mayor Broatch and thus went back on the reform which they had pretended to favor. Bechel and Southard have deliberately made their beds with the lawless elements, and they must be held respousible for this betrayal of a sacred trust. Toereis a very favorable prospect that the infantry billof Senator Man- derson will be promptly passed by the senate, having received the unanimous approval of the military committee, and the senator is confident it will also pass the house before the close of the session. Our readers have been made familiar with the provisions of the bill, which the best military authorities approve as necessary to improve the organization of the infantry branch of the army. Senator Manderson has been commend- ably persistent in ing this measure from session to session, and must re- gard with great satisfaction the favor- able promise of its final success., As compared with St. Paul, Minne- apolis, Duluth, Bismarck and Fargo, where the mercury is ranging between thirty and forty-five below zero, Omaha is comparatively a pleasant winter re- sort. I¥ we are to have any more tax-eaters we suggest that the next one put on the peunsion roll by the council will be a city inspector of sidewalk snow-shovelers. STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. The bouded debt of Otoe county is #472,850. The Hastings postoffice did a business of $20,000 last year. Plattsmouth recorded eighty deaths last year. Several more are anxiously awaited. Bertrand had a lively fire early last week, and $16,000 worth of property was consumed. The Columbus Democrat declares the growth of Omaha *'still continues to be marvelous.” The boot and shoe store of H. A. Tenny, of Fremont, has been closed by chattel mortgag s The work of replacing the five spans of the Platte bridge at Fremont is being pushed with all possible energy. The city council of Fremont has con- tracted for seven electric lights, at the rate of $10 each per mouth, to blaze from dark to midnight. The announcement is made again that the B. & M. will soon build a depot_in Plattsmouth., It was a pretty cold day when the report was given out. Sorvant girls are scarcd and hard to please in Hastings. They demand the use of the parlor five nights -a week to cultivate leap year privileges. Benklemen business men received eighty-six carloads of freight and shipped 4,496,000 pounds of grain and werchandise during the past year. The hydrophobic dog shot in Council Blufls a few days ago is believed to bo the missing link of the aldermanic party which decorated the interior of the Ogden house. It has been thirty days since Dundy county’s Omaha lawyer,” says the Dem- ocrat, “filed a claim before the county commissioners. May the good Lord give him grace to forbear another thirty.” “Omaha,” says the Custer Leader, “makes a grand showing of nearly twelve millions in building improve- ments during the past year. Truly our metropolis 15 a city, and a pushing one, too.” Culbertson turned loose about 370,000 in building improvements last year. The prineipal items were a roller mill, §25,000; school house, $10,000; opera ‘residences. house, $6,000; severil stores, hotels and Miss Rose Eddy, of Hastings, experi- enced the first leap year rebuff from John Hobson, and took “to strychnine. She was not Hobson's choice, and the reali- zation shattered her spirit. The sheriff of Dawes county has col- lared Miilor Miles, a colored soldier at Fort Robinson, who is supposed to beone of the murderors of Sergeant Stance. The latter was shot full of holes near Crawford, Christmas week. Columbus is ready to swear on a stack of chips that the wisdom of the suprome court is unbounded, Since the decision of the court that the city had a right to issue bonds for a bridge over the Loup, its praises have been sung by young and old. Dr. Slicker, the Steatton medic who sprung into notoriety by his willingness t fice hi :If for demoeracy as o candidate for regent, has slid out of town on of wrath and exposure of past w noss. He left reminders yalued at 500, which can bo bought chenp. Thoe Fulton tract near Nebraska City will be auctioned again, February 18. A committee of vigilantes should at- tend, prepared to rasp the clutches of spocilators should they attempt to de- feat the plan to purchuse the land at its appraised valuation and present it to the city for o park. Mr. Morton's gen- erosity should not be balked by individ- ual greed. Kilpatrick Bros.& Collins,of Beatrice, claim to be the champion railroad build- ers of the 0. Last year the firm con- structed miles of road, and employed )00 men and toams, at an_expense of $2.250,000. The work was done for the follpwing companies: Chicago, Buarling- ton & Quiney, 280 miles: St. Joseph & Grand Island, % miles; Union Pacific, 68 miles; Chicago, Kansas & Nebraska, 60 miles; Missouri Pacific, 82 miles. The humorists of the Fremont papers are easily moved to merriment. The report that the Blkhorn Valley road built a one-stall round house at the South Omaha stockyards produced sev- eral paragraphic guTaws as bilious and fuddled as the authors. The twenty- stall round house and freight house built by the company at a cost of $100,- 000, in Omaha last year, would accom- modate the population of Fremont and give separate stalls to the newspaper cattlo. North Bend . is waging a vigorou on tho clevator monopoly at that The two elevators there are controlled by Himebaugh & Merriam, of Omaha, whoso extortions and galling treatment of patrons has raised a blizzard of indig- nation. A meeting of prominent citi- zons and farmers was held Tuesday, and the elevator company unanimously de- nounced. Resolutions were adopted reciting that ground cannot be had for a competitive elevator at North Bend; that competition is prevented by the refusal of the railroad to furnish cars; that a fair market is impossiblo under the rule of that‘ prince of monop- olies,” the elevator company, and that stops be taken to organizo n farmers’ co-operative association preparatory to building an elevator and stockyards. The resolutions passed with a shout and a committee of seven wus appointed to confer with the Union Pacitic and Elkhorn Valley ronds toascertain which will give the best privilege for locating the elevator either at North Bend or Morse. Towa Items. Muscatine parties are shipping fine horses to the Philadelphia market. Two huudred and eighty-two sheep weroe killed by dogs in Jefferson county during 1887, and ninety-three more in- jured. Senator Schmidt, of Davenport, is the youngest member of the Iowa senate, and is said w0 have fallen heir to $250,000. Clinton has begun arrangements for the annual meeting of the State Fire- men’s association. The citizen’s will raiso $7,000. The records of the state board of health show the deaths in Towa result- ing from lightning in the past four years to be eighteen. Since tho opening of the Orphans’ home at Davenport in 1862, 1,496 sol- diers’ orphans have been received. Of these 95 per cent. are good and useful citizens, according to the report of the management. A young girl at Keokuk, on Tuesday 1ast, fell on a bridge, and, being unable to rise immediately, her tongue froze fast to the iron railway, and remained in that condition until she was released by some passer-by. It is thought she will sutfer much before her tongue heals. George M. Armstrong, a brakeman who was coaxed witha gun to marry a Miss Carr, in Perry, June 15, 1885, is suing for a dive in Denver, Col., on the ground of immorality. Armstrong says that at the time he was forced to marry he deeded to his wife forty acres of land in Jasper county, which sho subsequently sold for $500, A. W. Fullie, a farmer in Taylor county, was accidentally killed last week, and his untimely taking off illustrates a sermon on divine wrath. Two wecks ago when the first blizzard came he made use of the expression, that ‘if thore was such a being as God Almighty, he was without love or fecl- ing for humanity or he would not send such storms upon them,’ at the same time declaring that if another such storm came he would go to a climate that had never been cursed with such storms, and escape the vigilance of the almighty. The storm came on Tuesday morning and he began proparations for departure. Securing a large trunk ho packed it and Wednesday morning went, to load it into a wagon to haul to Villisea, where he expected to take the afterncon train. He had one end of the trunk in a wagonbox and was raising the other end from the ground when his feet slipped from under him, tho sharp edge striking him upon the neck as he lay upon the ground. His neck was broken and he died almost instantly. Dakota. Saloon license in Hamlin county has been raised to $1,000. J. E. Whiteside has been appointed register of the Deadwood land office, Custer City is quife sure that in the near future itwil‘ have the first com- plete tin plantknown in America. A Deadwood druggist has packed his stock and will move to a sicklier clime. The country is too healthy to hold him. The coroner of Deadwood whose valu- able services last year amounted to $3.30, now threatens to resign because the bill was cut down to $3.20. Delegate Gitford, who has suffered consideraoly from diseage of the eyes, resembling catarrh, has had an opera- tion performed, and has been obliged to give up evening work altogether. As soon as gas is lit he is forced to retire. He is mending rapidly, and hopes to find his eyes in a normal condition in a few days. & Wyoming. Cheyenne is enjoying a three-ply boom-—-the legislature, street cars and a republican city council. Oil and plumbago have been discov- ered within thirty-five miles of Chey- enne by John Ellison, a machinist. Three grades of lye are made at the Laramie Chemical works, of dilferent degroes ‘of strongth. The “Elk” is tho strongest, the “Wyoming” crushed lyo gocond, and- “Daisy” crushed lyo the third. . Ail of them are pure, and are put up in pound cans. The Elb Iye is a superior disinfoctant, and is a great son maker, but the Boomerang lie nlilg maintains tho fiest rank instrength and intonsity. The city council of Choyenne has doe- cided to invest in an artesian well 1,000 feet deep. A great deal of anxiety and expenso could be saved if the Cheyennoe dads would apoly to their Omaha breth- ren for the grade and brand of unadul- teratoed prohibition which they tapped on the surface of Council Bluffs last weok, An attempt was made last Wednesday to wreck two passenger trains on tho Union Pacific between Sherman and Buford stations. A heavy tie was placed on the track. The descent at this point is very sharp, and the first section of No. 2 was running li when the obstruction was met. Fortu- nately the engine threw it off the track. Fifteen minutes later the second section had a similar experience, but the ob- struction was again thrown from the track. A vigorous search is being made for the miscreants. phivt A Famous Adventuress, Fannie B, Ward in Philadelphia Record: Next to the Bazaine mansion is that once occupied by the Princess Salm-Salm. All middle aged Washing- tonians, and especially voterans in tho Army of the Potamac, will remember that dashing adventuress. She was Agnes Le Clerq, a native of Baltimore, who in early youth was a circus rider, danseuse and star actress, by which ac- complishments she accumu d quite a fortune. When the war broke out sho was making a great spread in Washing- ton, though rather on the shady side of iety, and was a prime favorite nmong of the Army of the Potamac, Finally she married a genuine prince, a German, Felix Salm-Salm, who had volunteered in the Union army. Tho The prince did not amount to much, but, his wife was a princess all the same, and through her still powerful influence he was made a brigadier general, ) will remember her spirited d in the reviews dressed in semi- military garb and riding magnificently upon a splendid black stallion. When the war was over, and while the army was boing reorgunized, she pnssod u winter in Washington, endeavoring to obtain for her hushand a colonel’s com- mission. But she was unsuccessful, for really the princo was not worth a row of pins, and there wero too many would-bo colonels, most of them belonging to the noble army of invincibles 1n peace and invincibles in war. If the completo history of Madame Salm-Salm’s intrig- ues in pursuance of her purpose should be dragged into print many a fair repu- tation would su}‘\“or among the shinl‘n;: lights of the United States capital. Afterward she came to Mexico, where the weak Maxmilian was easily won to herw causo, and_soon Prince Salm-Salm was made aid-de-camp to the emperor. For a timo they lived in clover. but when the crash came Salm-Salm barely oscaped being executed with his master. Doubtless he would have been but for the encrgetic interces- sions of his wifo,who went on horseback, unattended, all tho way from Quere- taro to Sun Luis Patosi, and on her knees besought the Indian president, Juarez, to spare both the emperor and his aid. She could not save the former, but the royal family of Austria was duly grateful. So it was to her advant- age to return to Europe, where the prince was appointed a major in the Grenadier guards of Prussin. After he was killed at Gravelotte his irrepressi- ple widow raised a hospital brigade, which_really accomplished a great deal of good during the war. Afterward she married Mr. Charles Heneage, an at- tatche of the British legation at Berlin. But Madame Agnes LeClerg-Salm-Salm- Heneage did not find the scion of John Bull so pliant and manageable as her gentle German husband, and the pair soon separated. She died about four years ago, having met with more ad- ventures than any woman of her day. e A i O A Romance in a Senate Bill. Philadelphia North American: A bill which was introduced yesterday, to amend the record of an ofticer of the army, covers a romance. During the war a young officer was put under arrest for some trivis , tried and ac- quitted, but while waiting for a verdict hnical confinement at the fort In the meantime he received a telegram that a young lady, to whom he was engaged, and her father were to arrive, and he was asked to meet them. He stated the circumstances to the commandant at the post and ask permission to go to the sta- tion, which was refused, as Le thought, without good reason, for the comman- dant knew as well as himself that he had been acquitted by the court,and the official order for his release was on its way from headquarters. He therefore concluded to take the chances of leav- ing the fort without permission, and did 80, because he realized that his fiancee and her father would think it very strange if he did not appear to welcome them. He went, met the party at the station, and conducted them to the hotel. Then he returned to the fort. He found awaiting him the order of his release from confinement upon the first charge, but was at_once arrested for disobed- ience of orders in having left the fort without permission, On this charge he was tried and dismissed from the ser- “vice, but the girl and her father, when they found out the facts, stood by him, and the marriage took place earlier than was intended. On the records of the army he appears as having been dismissed for disobedience of orders, and he now comes before congress to have the stain wiped out. e Tabor's Cla Treasury. Philadelphia Record abor, of Colo- vado, hus bobbed up again. Not now as United States senator with diamonl cuff-buttons and-shirt studs and $250 nightshirts,butasan bumble claimant at the senate’s doovs. His friend **Tom” Bowen, who has his seat in the senate, has introduced a bill giving Tabor back 7,500 which he spent on government account when he was postmaster at Leadville in the early days of that min- ing camp, Tabor was appointed just as Leadville’s boom began to grow. It grew so fast that in_order to give the people decent postoflice facilitics Post- master Tabor, had spent 37,500 before he could get the postofiice department to make adequate allowances. Ever since then whehever he has felt a little hard up he has fallen back upon that #7,500. But he will be older before he shall be richer on that account. e : tiDied With Their Horns Locked, Wausau (Wis.) Centrrl: E. J. Ship- man eame across two large deer in the woods north of Thorp, with their horns locked together, in which condition they had evidently been for several days. One of the animals was dead and frozen stiff when found, but the other was alive and evidently in u starving condition, having dragged the dead deer a distance of about forty rods and ripped the brush and ground up generally in his efforts to get loose. Mr. Shipman despatched the live deer and to get their heads apart had to break the horns of cach. RENTING A FURNISHED FLAT. Experience of a San ¥rancisco Couplo That May Be Duplicated 'Eisewhere. San Francisco Chroniclo: About two months ago a gentleman and his wife, who have been residing in the vicinity of Los Angeles for many years, arrang to take up their residonce in this They lived in “‘boom” land before tho blizzard of inflation struck it, and re- solving to profit by the abnormal riso in valuations, disposed of their lots and houscs at a very fair profit. Having an eye for future investments in northera ifornia, they came to San Francisco. From stree street the couplo nd- ered in search of a residence, until one day they found a flatof four reoms duly advertised and announced as being to let furnished complote, The landlord was sought, and ho, polite and accom- modating, told his would-be tenants that the flat wes to let on account of the former occupants leaving town. The Los Angeles couple viewed tho rooms and were very much ploased with thoe looks of the apartments. But it is better to narrate the story from this oint ag it was told a Chronicle reporter by the lady: **Wo hired the flat—it is on McAllis- ter street—and concluded to move in aftor the place was cleuned up. I on- gaged a Japanose boy and a white cook, and they started to do the work. On the first day that we were in the rooms I was arranging somo books on a table and had to pull it away from the wall. To my astonishment back logs fell down and the top collapsed with the load of literature. This was the first surprise. I sent the Japanese boy fora carpenter, and while he was gone went to tho kitchen to see how dinner was getting on. Surprise number two awaitod mo here. T found the cook in a state of ex- citement. She had taken the vegetable dishs from the cupboard, und when lifting the covers the dishes had fallen to picces with a crash. T didn't know what to do, and returning to the parlor sat down on a fan ved rock- ing chuir. Ominous cracking noises began to manifest as T took my seat, and suddenly the entive chair fell to picees. Tt hiad been simply glued to- gether, T had a good ery, and then my husband came home. Went down town to a restaurant to dinner and comforted ourselves on the way homo to the flat that the kind landlord would make things all right. ‘Let’s play a hand at casino before wo rotire,” said my hus- band, drawing an obony card table from the wall. Scarcely had the tablo been placed in position than it, too, fell to pieces, showing the manner in which it had been fastoned. The legs and joints had bits of paper pasted on to hold them in place. ’l‘his was tho last straw and we went to bed. I had better pass over tho quality of the matrosses and pillows on that bed. Tho springs wore worn out and stuck into our back and ribs as we vainly endeavored to find & comfortable angle. “The next morning the door hell kopt up a continuous ring. The callers were duns looking for the last tenants, and as a climax, when we returned home after breakfast we found a big, fat-looking, dirty man sitting before .the kitchen range, smoking vile smelling cigars. Ho announced himself as a deputy sher- iff_in charge, and proposed to remain where ho was until the judgment was satisfied. “What judgment?” we hoth asked aghast, *‘we don’t owe anything.’ ‘‘No, but the last tenamrts did for the furniture,” was the reply. ‘“Then the furniture don’t belong to the landlord.’ “I should say not. Here’s tho bill for $500.” said the shoriff’s deputy, handing us a document bearing d‘le name of & firm that rents second-hand furniture. ““This incident filled our cup of woe, and the next morning we returned to the Palace hotel, resolved to never againt rent a furnished flat.” ——— Transportation in Mexico. A correspondent writes to the St. Touis Globe-Democrat from Mexico: ‘When I say I think the system of tram- ways, or street railroads, in the City of Mexico is the most perfect system of transportation I have seen in the repub- lic—T probably owe the jackass, or burro, system an apology. This meek, long- suffering, over-burdened, unfed, and much-abused animal is utilized on all occasions and for all purpos . At any time of day and on all roands leading from the country to the city may be seen in countless numbers this jack family, with every variety of mai ing, including fruit, milk, poultry i coops, lumber, charcoal tied in bundles of weeds or long grass, building stone, brick, burned or unburned, and, in fact, everything that is movable is piled on these forelorn, friendless animals and carried to and from fthe country. It is said before the introduction of railroads that as many as 50,000 were in use in and around the City of Mexico alone, and the same system of transportation prevails throughout the republic. The most amusing thing I have seen in the natives is the ingenuity they dis- play in packing these burros with any- thing they want to transport. Lumber that is too long to balance they attach to both sides of the donkey and let ono end drag on the ground, and in that way haul it fifty miles or more from the mountains to the city, or the mines, as the case may be. There is another class of transporta- tion in mexico, which should not be overlooked, as it enters largely into competition with all others, v that by which the heads and_backs of men and women are used. It is surprising to sce what heavy burdens are carried on both sexes, to and from the country, the women, generally with a papoose on her back, and frequently with one or two more children a shade larger, fol- lowing close behind her, and she be- hind a man, who is driving a herd of burros, all alike loaded to their fullest capacity, and making slow railroad time. There is another class known as cargadoers, licensed by the gove ment, and usually employed in cities, They are entrusted with handling all valuable packages, moving household goods, carrying messages, transforring people on their backs across the streets that are so often over- flowed in the rainy season, ete., ete. They are, in short, a kind of confiden- tial " transportation company, and the only one I have ever heard of in Mexico. As there are few navigable lakes or rivers of importance in the interior of Mexico, transportation by water cuts but a little figure, of course. Still the native Indian continues to utilize what there is. The famous Lake Tezcuco, upon which Cortez launched his little fleet in his attack upon the City of Mex- ico in 1420, and into which the drainage of the city is emptied, still affords navi- gation for ft not drawing more than two feet of water, and is accessible to the city through canals which are utilized by the Indians for transporting passenger. variety of market- ing, of whic ilise large quantities along the canals and on the borders of the lake, It is upon one of the famed **floating time of the and are still utilized by the nati he production of fruits, flowersand y bles. They are often visited ngers and citizens who ave attrac see the native ) i is i great number of them liy- ing ulong the line of-the canal, which is some throo miles long, has a sma'l, flat- bottom boat somo twenty feet long and four feei wide, more or less, whick thoy cover with an' awning to protect the pusséngors from the sun and eain. ' The boat is propelled by a pole in the hands of a man or woman, and as there is but little current good spoed is made and the trip novel and enjoyuble and is oftan resorted to by pleasure partios, The Russian Novelist, Fortnightly Review: In a nation full of life, but young, and newly with an old and powerful civili sensitivoness and self consciousness prompt to appear. In the Americans, as well as in the Russians, wo seo them active in a high degree. They aro somewhat agitating and disquicting agents to their pos or, but they have, it they gt play, great powers © for evoking and onvich- ing a litorature. But the Americans, as we know, are apt to sot them at rost in tho manner d, Colo- nel Higgi it, nature far the 1 had Englishmen enon, need some- thing with a little mc yancy than hmang let us lighton tho structuro, oven at some peril in the pro- coss, Put in ono drop moro of nervous fluid, and mako tho Amer ' With that drop, anew range of promise opened on the human race, and a lighter, finer, moro highly organized type of man- kind was born.”” People Who by this sort of thing give rest to their sensitive and busy self-consciousness may very well, perhaps, be on their way to groat material prosperity, to great political power: but they searcely on the right way to o gr ous art. ~ The Russian doos not assuago his sensitiveness in this fashion. Tho Russian man of lotters does not mako naturo s “Tho Russian is my hest He finds re to his sensitiveness in lefting his per- ceptions have perfeetly free play and fn recording theiv reports with “porfect fidelity. The sincerencss with which the reports are given has even some- thing childish and touching. In the novel of which I am going to speak there is not a line, not & trait brought m for the glovification of Russia or to feed vanitv things and charact nature takes them, and the author sorboad in scoing how naturo takes them and in relating it. But we have here a condition of things which is highly favorable to the production of good literature, of good art. Wao have great sensitivoness, sub tlotly and finesso, addrossing them- solves with entire disinterostedness and simplicity to the represontations of human life. Tho Russian novelist is thus master of a spell to which the se- crets of human nature—both what is external and what is internal, gesture and manner no less than thought and foeling—willingly mako thomsoelves known. The crown of literature is 'mutv'y, and the Russians have not yot had &' great poet. But in that form of imaginative literature, which in our day is the most popular and the most possible, the Russians at tho present moment seem to me to hold, as Me. Gladstone would say, the field. — - Indians as Jockeys. Sportsman: Piute Indian jockeys who created such a sensation at Stockton, Cal., last fall will have to look to their laurels, as some British Columbia In- dians are after the position of premier riders among the aborigines. On this point Victorian (B. C.) advices say that, a8 jockey riders the Flathead Indians and their relations have, perhaps no equals on earth. Raised as they are from childhood almost on a pony’s back, 80 to speak, it is no wonder they becomo superior equestrians. Wheon preparing for a race the young bucks skin them- selyes of their clothing so as to present as little resistance to the air as possible, A Flathead jockoy mounted for business if dressed in noth- ing more than a breech clout, and, por- haps, a thin cotton shirt, which floats in the breeze, but offers impediment to the ridor or horse. ~ Leaning forward on their hardy littlo cayusos, thoy dash down the raco courso like the nd, jumping ditches and dodging trees with a precision and skill truly marvellous. The white man’s race couse is a flat, level streteh of ground, rolled smooth, over which the animai simply runs, while the rider has nothing much to do oxcept to hold to his s On the other hand, an Indian will race over any kind of ground, among timher or swimming streams, combining with the simplo speed of hisanimal individual skill and judgment in surmounting a score of ob- saacles, and always coming under the wire ahead. A white man_seldom wins a race from un Indian, and there is no wonder. - - How to Test Silk. Boston Journal of Commerce: How to determine the actual quality of silk, says an exchange, is a question that often puzzles the mind. A sure plan is to take ten fibers of the filling of any silk, and if, on breaking, they show a feathery, dry and lack-luster condition, discoloring the fingers in handling, you may at once he sure of the presence of dye and artificial w iting: or take a portion of the fibers between the thumb and forefinger, and very gently roll thom over and’ over, and you will soon detect the gum, mineral, soap and other ingredients in the oue and the abs in the other. A simple but effective test of purity is to burn a small quantity of the fib will instant] crisp, leaving pure charconl; heavily dyed silk will smoulder, leaving ellow, greasy ash. If, on the con- v, you cannot break the ten strands, and'they are of a natural luster and brilliancy, and fail to discolor the fin- gers at the point of contact, you may 1l e assured that you have a pure silk that is honest in its make and durable in its wear. Gonstitutional Catarrh, No singlo disease hus entailed more suffering or hastened the breaking up of the constitution than Catarrh. 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