Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 23, 1888, Page 5

THE CRY OF THE COAL BARONS., They Attompt to Justify Their Ex- orbitant Charges. DISGRACEFUL DOMESTIC BRAWL. A Drunken Wife Who Insists on Liv- ing With Her Unwilling Lord Breezy Bits Fi the lice Court. [PROM TR NEE'S LINCOLN BUREAU.] The coul dealersof Lineoln are stirred up with wrath becausc their scheme to swallow all the reduction of rates on coul has been exposed to the public, Because the facts v d bare in a paper printed in Omaha was sufficient excuse for the Journal to rush to the defense of the eonl pool and this dodo of journulism a mouldy in idently thought that such y as that “*a paper printed Omaha exposed the scheme,” was sat cnough to hide its alliance with ing from public gaze. The coal people have gone into figures also on the question and exposed the fallacy of the statement that “figurcs cannot lie.” According to the mathematics of the conl men dealers on the Missouri river who sell conl at $10.50 a ton are making consumers a present of $1 on a ton. No one believes for o moment that any eoal man ever became so liberal. It is not, in fact, a question at all what conl sells for at any point in Nebraska or in the entire counitry, butthe fact thatdoes confront the people of Lincoln is that the freight bureau and the state board of teansportation secured a reduction of 60 conts on overy ton of hard coal shipped into Lincoln, and not a nickle of this benefit has e ached the con- sumer. This is the entire question he- tween the conl pool in Lincoln and the consumer. *nts a ton on coal is worth something to the public, and it was secured for them and not the half- dozen coal firms, and until the people get the direct benefitof reductions made it makes the work of the board of trans- portation a farce and renders it without courage for future work. Every of Lincoln who pays for a ton of coal sur- renders to the dealer 60 cents of lus own personal money that the board of transportation secured for every con- sumer in the y. and for the 60 cents the citizen gets absolutely nothing in return. This is the coal question in Lincoln in & nutshell, and if the paper that tells the truth in the matter is ,u'inhvd in Omaha it is no less the trutn. The Journal is welcome to its tion in assisting the conl ring; it is directly in its line of busine DISGRACING TINE DAY, For some time back trouble has ex- isted between John Livingston and his wife, residents of this cit Warrants have been issued iu police court, the wife making complaint of assault and battery against her husband and the husband making a like complaint against the wife. Saturday the wife was allowed to sober up in jail after too much drinking, and when the charge against her came up for hearing, the husband withdrow the complaint and agrood with the officors to supply his wife with 86 a week of his wages if she would depart from his roof and give peace a chance to dwell thercin. Yes- terday morning, however, the woman jnvaded the premises and a hand-to- hand scuflle was witnessed on the side- walk before Livingston's rooms that was highly disgraceful in itself, while the oaths, imprecations and vile language were positively disgusting. The woman had evidently been drink- ing again and was attempting to force hersel! under the protecting roof, while Livingston was equally determined she shouid not. The woman disappenred in time to avoid arrest. POLICE COURT MATTE The police put in part of the night Saturday in search of a girl, Martha Brager, who has not been at home since she attended a dance the first of the week. There was no sensation in the matter, however, for the police reported yesterduy that ‘she had simply been Btaying at ono of the hotels in the city with one of the proprietors of the dance, a man by the name of Hart, and the po- lice had the girl located yesterday at ‘West Lincoln awaiting the action of the purents. In speaking of the man Hurt the police aver that he is an ex-convict from the Missouri penitentiary, and that he has an unenviable record in nu- morous ways, but from appearances yos- srday there was not liable to be any de. slopments beyond a fine in court even if the trouble was taken to arrest Hart on the part of the parents of the girl Two men named John Mehan and William F. Hoffman were under st yesterday and one of them detained at the station. The charge against them is for fighting, and they had a lively scrap Saturday night that they will answer for at the sitting of the court to-day. Two young men were evidently trying to have a little amusement at the ex- ense of Polsky, the second-hand man, y pawning a revolver and raising #1 for Sunday cnjoyment. They attempted toarrange the law and the ownership of the gun in a way to make the second- hand man a loser, but he turned the ta- bles and had one of them, named Jack- son, arrested foy petty larcony. The hearing of the caso will oceur to-day. s dh L iy An eminent Presbyterian divine an- nounced to his congregation that he must take a vacation on account of hron- chitis, the elders raised his salary and gave him Dr. Bull’s Coug Syrup.” He wias cured. My daughter suffered greatly with neuralgia in the fuce and for ad and was unable to secure any relicf. 1 saw Ivation Oil advertised, sent for a bot- tle and one application gave entire relief. J. 8. MCCAULLEY, (Policeman), Residence 204 N. Bond st., Balto., Md. - Swell Mexican Students. A Now Haven, Coun., correspondent writes to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat: C. E. Pani and Count Jose Davolns, al- leged Mexican students, who came to Yale college to ta a course in tho Sheflicld scientific sehool, have disap- peared, causing great excitementamong their student companions here and the tradesmen, who were left in the lurch to the extent of nearly $10,000. It was ascertained to-night 1t the lasy definite knowledge of their whereahouts was at the Southern hotel in St. Louis. The career of those two Me i New Haven is a remarkable one. cume here in the fall of 1886, and Pani started to take a special course at Yale, but only remained long enough to malk the acquaintance of wealthy Yulen- sions. Davolas ostensibly came here to improve his knowledge of the English Jungunge. Davoles dressed in the height of style and lived on the strength of expected remittances like & milli aire. He dressed in the height of fush- ion, had jet black hawr and mustache and lookéd not more than_twenty-threo yoars of age. Paniisa different type of Mexican, He is short, thick-set and went about with a ditferent atdoach day, that swept the » | New vork. \ . A THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, JANUARY 23. 1888, an odd-looking headgear and d bull ter- Y cherished dreams of ~ the ' beautiful | énough for them to lie in, and there resolved | New York; il. €. Long, Chicago; 3. W. Lud- ot L THe. . RSN, - s - Bl THE COMMLRUAL TR“'ELER‘S'I oltrict Teontt | was setting 1t | fo remain until tho storui tad spent e force. | wicle rim York: \%'nmkNm York: kB, 4 e X 8 s b0 town an oom was - full o eir robes and clothing were wet from the | Pulle, New Yor! Schmidt, Milwiukoo} R R B — lawlers. Presently, 1 Teard one of | falling snow, which before the storn was | J. . Mclaughiin, Utioa: Theo, Mc(ilatt, in contact with, and thelr acquaintances ¢ very numerous, to advance them They had most sumptuously furnishedappartments in a flat and took meals, which were the best the et could nfford, at Drebel's fashion- able restaurant on Chapel street. Pani alone owed A, Thill, a tailor, $1,600, and various billiard saloons, livery stable keepers, wine merchants and tobacco- nists from $200 to 500 cach, Abilliurd galoon keeper named Miller aays Pani had some trouble with a young woman on Ashmun street, and it is thought that she precipitated his flight, as she wanted to see him worse than he did h Pani last seen at taurant, where he owes a bill of Davolas had a big railroad scheme whicii_he laid before many wealthy New Haveners and got thom to take stock in. It was for the construction of arailroad between the United States and Mexico, and he said that the cap. tal of the company was $8.000.000. He gave it out that he had been authorized by the government to push the matter, and that Jay Gould was to be secretary of the company. He had almost comi- pleted arrangements when he left whereby many more of the merchants would have been victimized, 1t was an alleged plan whereby their goods could be easily introduced in - Mexiean mark- ets, where his wealthy friends would aid the tradesmen. his father was a senator in the Mes wernment, and that his uncle w 1 bishop of Mexico. One story that he told had fallen heir to $250,000 from his ;and he kept giving out notes on this alleged wind- The notes kept coming overdue, was that he fall. but he satisfied the creditors by telling them plausible stories of how there was trouble in the scutling of the estate. Manager Coffee, of Wells, Fargo & Co., recently said to a San Francisco reporter: “You may be surprised o see stacks of gold coin and gold dust remain here uncalled for. When we have kept it long cnough, we sent the gold dust to the mint aud got it coined, and then credit to the unknown. Years ago an old fellow living up on the John Day river, in Oregon, sent us a big bag of gold. 'We stowed it away until tho bag looked like a relic of the middle ages and would cely hold together, Then we sent the bag of dust and nuggets over to the mint and got it transferred into $8,000. Eight years afterward an old, bedrag- gled-looking fellow walked in and said he guessed he had some money here. We asked him his nume, and when he gave it we told him yes, he had, and asked him why he hadn't called’ long ago. Well, he said, he had sent it down in advance of his coming himself, and when he got here he didn't need i and he went on to Australia and finally around the world, and had only just now got back. We asked him why he hadn't taken it to the bank, saying that he could have got a good many thousand dollurs interest on it by this time. Yes, he said he knew that, but the blanked banks might break, and he thought he would just leave it where it was.” g Great State Missouri Is. Washington Critic: In the South Kensington museum, London, there is an enormous skeleton of a mastodon from Benton county, Missouri. This summer when Congressman O'Neill of that state was over, he was wandering around the museum lonesome enough to kill and worn out looking at so many strange things. Finally he ran across the mastodon. His eye rested upon the inscription and a wonderful light came into his face: “By thund John,” he exclaimed rapturiously to his companion. *Look at that! Just look at it once!” . His companion, an Englishman, looked with more or less indifference. “T see it,” he said with provoking cool- ness. ““But, man, look at that inseription; it comes from Missouri!” continued the congressman enthusiastically. “Old Missouri! My state, man! And it's the biggest thing in_ the whole mus- eum !” —————— The glory of the Indian has passed in the far west. Recently a number of school boys attending the Central school t Ogden pelted two Indians, who were ing. with snowballs. The Indians ve chase and captured one little boy, but on his saying that he bad not thrown any snowballs they let him go. The Indians made a complaint, but got no satisfaction. o~ n John L. Sulli in the great attraction at Boston’s hor ma hle s tural hall. The figure stands upon a pedestal, erect, the head slightly in- clined, the arms extending slightly forward, the fishts clinched. The right arm remains close by forward slightly, of the bod; The left is a little ele- vated. It is said that elegantly dressed ladies linger longest before it. e Saxony and Thuringia are the home and paradise of dolls. The annual pro- duction of dolls’ stockings alone in Sax- ony is 35,000 dozen. Thousands of shoe- makers find constant employment in dolls’ shoes. The export of gland, France and Ame ge and increasing every yi e Turquoise is the rage this season, and jewelers who bad seen stocks of these gems run down to prices almost nominal blessed fashion when it set seal of ap- proval on these pretty bits of blue. A year or two ago -little turquoises could be bought as low as #1. To-day the same stones are worth from $12 to § —_—— In Connecticut there are over 85,000 acres along the Sound shore deveted to opster cultivation rior excelleuce p e than a qu United States o heads of the gre . Purest und Most He ¥ Baking Powder t contain Ammonia, Lime or Alum. Sold only in s PrICE BAKING POWDER C0., Chicago, Bt. Louls. The Cofin Drummer — Ashland's Tribute to the Tourist. A LOVE STORY WITH A MORAL. Mileage Tickets—A Corporation Jack Pot — President Pindell Sus- tained—Omaha's Sunday Guests —Samples, The Coffin Drummer. The Casket, From Tlinois, Towa, Nebraska and_Dakota, ‘o Michigan, Wisconsin, too, And lovely Miunesota; From Lake Superior's copper mines, Througn Hoosier Indiana, To Mississippi’s cotton ficlds And low Louisiana, 1 furnish wooden ovorcoats To many an undertaker; For banker, beggar, ono and all, The butcher and the bakor— Baker— Butcher and the ba ker. From gloomy swamps of Arkansaw To sunny South Caroling, Where salty marshes waving yield “Their rice to Pomp and Dinah “rom yellow orange groves I go b purple flelds of clover— ¥rom Florida to Ohio, 1 skim the country over, Aud furnish wooden ov To many an undertake For banker, begg and all, The butcher und thé baker— Buker— Butcher and the baker, I watch the farmer, north and south, His wheat and cotton growing; m many a little stream to mouth ew the Tivers flowing; And every year I sean the woods To cawch i dogwood blooming— Eirst herald of the busiest time For burying and tombing; And laugh and joke as round 1 go, With many un undertaker, Kor he and I must follow soon “Che butcher and the baker— Baker- Butcher and the b er, Oh! Life is but a running race— The hind ones and the head ones, Where many a live man sets the pace For running after dead ones; -But he at last shall peter out And tumble down a-dying— Shall need a wooden overcoat; So wherefore are we crying! Forall the world shall peter out; The butcher and the baker, The banker and the drummer and— At last 2he undertaker— Taker— Al, there! Undertaker. Ashland's Tribute. Friday, January 27, a banquet will be given to commercial travelers at Ashland, Neb. The affair is being arranged by the business men of that enterprising town, and with the hearty co-operation of the ladies of Ashland there is every indication for a royal time. The festivivitics will occupy the afternoon and evening, a grand ball being the feature of the latter hours. This is the first banquet -tendered the traveling salesmen in Nebraska, and tho citizens of Ashland are entitled 1o great credit for taking the leading in a_pop- ular movement. The affair at Ashland_will take place at the new and commodious Hotel Selma, which will celebrate its opening by doing honor to the commercial tourist. The committecs are as follows ommitteo of arrangements: W. E. Wright, chairman; D. D. Cooley, W. J. Den- is, H. A. Wiggenhorn, W. B. Lanius, L L. ington. Reception committee at hotel: Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Shedd, Mr. and Mrs, A. B. Ful- ler, Mr, and Mrs. D. D. Cooley, Mr. and Mrs. W.E_Wright, Mr. aud Mrs. H. K. Dunbar. At ball; Misses Stratton, Dunbar, Bell, Lay- erty, Wiggenhorn, Messrs. George Scott, H. A." Wiggenhorn, 'Giff Railsback, Alex Lav- erty, G. D, Lawson. Entertainment at hotel: Mr. and Mrs, W. G. Bentley, Mr. and Mrs, John Hinkley, Mr, and Mrs. W. B Lanius, Mr. and_Mrs. David Dean, Mr. ond Mrs. Charies Folsom, Mr. Floor managers: W. J. Dennis, H.C. Scott, L. §. Gould, Mrs. W. J. Dennis, Misses Eda Wiggenhorn and Kate Simington. ‘Toastmaster: L L. Simington, | and Mrs. William Harnsberger, A Love Story With a Moral. “I had a queer experience up in the Repub- lican valley about four years ago,” said Nick Sloman to the Bee. “It was my first trip through that country, and T was caught Sun- day in a little town, the name of which shall be nameless. Sunday morning I required a new collar and I started up town to get it. The first place I happtned to sce open was a little, warped, one story frame building, across the whole front of which was painted: Solo- man Kahn, Clothing. The room was badly lighted and the very air was redolent of shoddy. There was no one in the store room and I stepped back to the open door of a room back. Isuw it was a living apartment as approached the door, and as I thrust my head into the room a glib word of apolo- gy formed on my lips—but it a thousand miles wway the oxt instant. Standing in the center of the room, her hands clasped before her and her eyes turned upward toward some object on the wall, was the most beautiful creature I ever saw. Boautiful! such a faceas operates on a fellow’s heart like a lighted fuse on a powder heap—1 was the worst struck gosling you ever saw in & minute. She was not in the least startled by an_introduction. She turned her great, dark _eyes upon -mine with some such grave, unfrightened, questioning look as a celestial, hedged about by beauty might bestow upon @ rashly venturing n tal. Then, after a sccond's serene scrutiny, her featurés broke into the most dazzling smile that ever finished the business for any fellow. 1 was about to stammer something— I've no idea what—when a weazen little fellow as warped as the building, came hob- bling in from the rear door. I stepped aside 1o admit him to the store room. Entering he slammed the door 1 my face, shutting out out tho rapturous presence I wis staring at. Having accomplished which act of fatherly protection he inquired wherewith he could serve me. He had no collars of tho style I wished, but no matter—I bought half a dozen half a size too small; I lingered tovingly over brass cuff buttous and glass pins; I fondled trousers that might have been made during the Babalonian captivity—indeed, they bore marks of convict labor; I caressed coats of the fastness of whose colors my hands bore witness for many a day after. Then, with tender circuitousness, I lead the old man to crops, the weather, court, courting, mari on—to—his daughter. Ah, the old gen" tleman’s jaw closed up like a clum; _he went suadenly deaf—but, I haf a elegand lino of sgarys cre, vat I zell udhav gost oud, mine new koots to mage room ver." The strength of my incipient passion may be understood when 1 say that I spent half a month’s salary in collecting from the old man a perfect museum of dry and furnishing goods monstrosities. He' courteously and patiently displayed his “elegand lines;" he unctuously gathered in my shekels ; but when it came to his daughter—no go, his lean old jaw came together like a trap. By inquiries at the hotel and about town I got & good many facts regarding Kahn, and a ood many guesses about his beautiful mys- tery. Some said she was his daughter, some she was his wife, some had a shrewd suspicion that she was some sort of a divinity whom he was harboring. I learned that she nev went out of doors except at night, and then always closely veiled and uccompanied by the old man; that she had no friends or acquaint- ances; that only one or two people had ever scen her face to face, and then the meeting had been accidental, Well, for the rest of that trip and for sev eral ofhers, I never sat down for @ quiet smoke after supper but what a pair of black eyes would look down at me from out of the S110) Is—in short, I was as idiotic as a fellow that's bard struck is apt to be, and umong ather inanities you ean bet I counted v that must elapse before my trip would again take me to this town of no name. The days wore themselves away finally, and 1 sat smoking my evening cigar in that very dingy hotel ofiice in which I had frss them say something about ‘State vs. Kahn.' No more dreams then! [ listened for every word. 1 overheard that the old man had Dbeen arrested, charged with arson, and that the trial was first on the docket for the next morning. Perhaps she would be there! Of course it was dead sure that Iiwould be there 1 was there—an hour before the case wi called, and T don't think so much as a d came into that room that morning that e crped my eyes: but she did not come. Finaliy they brought the old man in and the case was called, The first one at the fire testified that the store room was all_ablaze when they arrived at the scenc, and that just as they came up they saw Miss Kalin dart through the door communicating with the back room, run through the flames, catch up some object from a shelf and run back; but that though were about there until the fire was out saw nothing furtherof her. Then there was a lot of testimony, uninteresting to me, about the value of the stock, the probable cause of the fire, ete. ‘When this testimony w in, the county attorney started up “Call Rachel Kahn," he demanded. 1 straightened up from my lounging posi- tion, and ran my fingers throug my hair and surrpetitiously adjusted my tie. But some- thing extraordinary was shaping in front at the attorney's table. The old man had started up, turned appealingly toward the judge, then frantically toward his lawyer. His emotion was pitiful to see; his face was drawn; his hands twisted about each other. He whispered a word to his lawyer, then sprang up, stretching both hands toward the judge. “De laty mine vife," he cried, ‘‘mine vife—you cannod mage my vife to tesdify!" The learned and astomshed prosecutor turned upon him. *“Will you swear to that " he roared. The old man turned white as snow, but he never flinch “f vill svear,” he said firmly. The prosecutor was considering the next move, when an interruption occurred. The deep hush of expectancy was over the room. The spectators saw what those at the bar did not, viz: a tall, veiled figure moving grace- fully down the aisle toward the prisoner. Just as the county attorney opened his lips to speak a calm voice behind him asked in Ger- man tongue: “Do you want me, fathor?" "The redoubtable prosecutor turned about. He saw the situation at a glance. *‘She calls him father,” he yelled. “D' you hear thatt! She calls him father. I demand that this Wwoman be sworn and be compelled to testify as {Sulumnn Kahn's daughter—not as his wife” *‘Can she speak English?” he asked of the old man, with the air of saying, don't you lie to me again, sir. Kahn started up from the chair in which he had flung himself, a ghost of hope flicker- ing into his woe-begone face at the question. He shook his head. An interpreter was called and the old man settled back with a moan. Old Kahn's daughter had stood, with her veil still over her face, just as she stopped when she asked the tell-talo question. The interpreter spoke to her now, dirccting her to take her place in the witness box. She turned to her father. The poor wretch nodded and covered his face with his hands. The girl took her place, reached up her arm and lifted her veil. A murmur of ad- miration ran around the room. Her face wore the same look of serenity as when I first saw it, except that her brows were slightly knitted, and she looked toward her lmu.ermmum;h expecting some cue from him, At the interpreter's direction she held up her hand and the oath was administered. Every breath in the room was hushed as the attorney opened his lips to question her. **What 18 your name?" he asked. “‘Wie Heisen Zie?" repeated the interpreter. The audience hung upon her reply as much as though it were the lifo or death of the prisoner, She sat motionless, loaking intently at her father. The old man’s emotion was terrible. He writhed in his chair, hetwisted s tingers into his scant hair, his tecth ground to- gether. ““Wie heisen Zie?” the interpreier asked again. Not a sound. The court turned toward the father. “‘Is the young lady deaf "’ he asked, Kahn leaped from his chair, his face livid with agony. “Mine got, shentlemans, mine tear daugh- ter is grazy,” he shricked. That wus the first and last romance of my life,” said the traveler, *“and you can wager every cent you have that I cut my teeth on that occasion.” Mileage Tickets. The roads in the Central TraMc association may as well adopt at onco the proposition to resume the issuance of 1,000-mile tickets at a 2 cent rate, says the Chicago Tribune. The drummers have won this fight, and the sooner the railroads surrender the less odious they will be. The western lines gave up the contest months ago and somewhat grudgingly resumed the sale of mileage tickets at the old 2 cent rate, and there is nothing left for the ceastern roads but to follow the example with the best grace they can. The discussion at the last meeting of the Contral Traflic asso- ciation disclosed the fact that, while the rules of the combination forbid the sale of mil tickets at a less rate than 25 for 1,000 miles, the provision is evaded by several of the lines. The Michigan Central anda few other eastern roads are now selling tickets good for seven persous at the rate of $40 for 2,000 miles, The Grand Trunk is selling 1,000- mile tickets for £20, the mileage being good for one person and' limited to a year. Of course the trunk lines carmot go on charging at the 214 cent rate without provoking a seri- ious demoralization of regular business. The jig is up, and the castern lines cannot get their 2 cent mileage tickets on sale any too soon. In the entire administration of the inter- state act there has been nothing more signifi- cant than the controversy over this mileage ticket question. At the outset the eastern and western roads united to jump up rates on the drummer 20 cent, falsely claiming that such an horbitant and unreasonable advance was rendered imperative by the orms of the inter-state act, and calculating that such misrepresentation would make the new law odious. They professed to make the advance reluctantly, but averred that under the new law they could do nothing else. Manifestly these allegations were insincere. While the new law did away with favoritism and required all persons patronizing the rail- roads under similar_conditions and circum- stances to be treated alike, it distinctly pro- vided that nothing in the act should prevent “‘the issuance of mileage, excursion or com- mutation passenger tickets.” Clearly tlie meaning was that while special = rates might be allowed regular travelers, the roads must sell to all purchasers of a large amount of mileage on the sume terms. There was nothing requiring a regu- lar traveler to pay the same rate as a chance or occasional passenger, The only thing yod was for the roads to surround their ge tickets with certain conditions which would make them available only for drum- mers and other regular passengers, and in consideration of such limitations to graut a special rate, A Narrow Escape. Many of the commercial travelers had nar- row e in the recent blizzard. One es- cape varticular, that of Mr. Landers, who travels for a Chicago hat and cap house, will no doubt be of interest to his many friends and acquaintances throughout the state. After dinner on the eventful Thursday after- noon he, in company with the liveryman, started in a sleigh from Rising City to_drive to the town of Shelby, seven miles distant, on the Stromsburg branch of the Omaha & Republican Valley railroad. When about half way tho storm struck them in all its fury, completely blinding them. The horses became unmanageable and refused to go, after persistent efforts on the part of the driver. Not knowing what would be the best to do, they, in a spirit of desparation and as a last resort, determination to detach the horses from the sleigh, and let them g where'er they would, and themselves started on foot in hopes to find, if possible, some friendly shelter, Becoming bewil- dered as one blindfolded they wandered on and on, facing the blasts with an almost undaunted g0 through, determination to But the fury of the storm was more than any human being could withstand, and the brave fellows were compelled to suc cumb to the raging elements of the storm king. After vain and futile attempts to pro- ceed they drifted onto a pile of flax chaff, where they undertook to take refuge, This was about 3 o'clock in the afternoon. They proceeded to dig o hole in the chafl large molting as it fell. Tho sudden ol the very marrow in their bones, and their wraps were frozen stiff. By constant ox- ertion, such as pounding the ground and their bodies with their hands, to keep o cireula tion, until bruised to almost bleeding, they managed to pass the evening and night Lying on one another's feet by turns, they saved those extremities from sovere frosting. No doubt they uttered expletives in a prayer. ful mood, as traveling men can to a degree of perfection. Their horses remained with them until the storm censed, ubout 2 o'clock in the morning when they left them and sought shelter in & friendly grove about alf & mile distant When daylight dawned—and it was the most Dbeautiful and grandest daylight scene the boys had ever witnessed— they found them: selves within a few feet of a straw stack where, if they had known of its existenc th might have burrowed into it and made for tnemsclyes a_comparatively comfortable shelter, Forty rods distant was a farm house, to which place tney started almost ex- hausted and partially frozen. Their hands and fingers were badly frosted, but will not have to be amputated. The faces of both were badly bitten, which now makes their nosos and cheeks' the color of @ minstrel. The most remarkable feature of the domi- cle in which they passed the night is it was occupied in part by a family of skunk: there being only a thin partition betwsen the rodeuts and themselve: ange chilled A Corporation Jack Pot. A commercial traveler writing to the St. Paul Globe says: The railroad peoplo have boen discussing and tinkering with the mile age question of late, and any real system- atized action is as far off now as six months ago. The 2,000 mile book has been pro nounced impracticable. Several schemes have been advanced, among others the 5,000 mile book good on &l roads, but so fur not The 5,000 mile books find most vor among trayelers and mer m of the castern ro uni ly that form will come_into quite gener: Legislation upon the interstate com- the near future will make use, merce law in some changes and the traveling tou confidently look for a better and more uni versal form of mileage before the ides of De- cember, 1858, and perhaps i the form of a 5,000-mile_book, no rebate, good twelve months, There's no good reason why the commercial men or their respective houses should put up a sum in shape of rebates of soveral hundred thousand dollars for the several railroads to bank upon. If they want a jack pot let them asscss the stockholders, 1t is neither justico or horse sense to extort money from their patrons, whose labors in the eud make them wenithy corporations. While the rate of fare is getting attention from the railroad magnates, it is to bo hoped they will not overlook the excess baggage question. He Was led In. There was an amusing joke perpctrated upon a prominent commercial traveler, who represents the interests of n popular farm machinery company of this city during the recent blizzard. It is usual for all salesmen toreport each day their exactlocality so that in the eventof a failure of any customer, or anything of immediate importance is pre- sented, they can be communicated with by telegraph at any mement. The storm of course shut off all mail communications from the outside world. After four or five days of a blockade, the house became uneasy in not hearing from their representative, so tele- graphed a landlord in a certain town where they knew he had been. It seems that some of his friends of the fraternity, who chanced to be “snowed in’ at this hotel, got hold of the message and seeing an oppor- tunity to give the desired information of the gentleman’s whereabouts, and at the same time perpetrate a joke, sont, in reply, some- thing like the following by wire ‘‘collect:" D left here on last train Thursday morning for Osceola in company with the Blind Boone concert company—abandoned the fraternity lured by the attractions of the prima donna.” On receipt of this his employer telegraphed him at Osceola to report atonce at head. quarters. The first train brought him in, and before his majesty sat the victim of the joke not knowing what the matter was. The message was handed him and an explanation demanded. Of course he had to tell him it was only & joke by some of his friends. After considerable argument the explanation was considered satisfactory, the matter ami- cably settled and he left the office with the parting injunction that hereafter, to put him- self in no position whereby anybody can have causc to suspect things of this nature. The question to him now is: “Where are you ioing to show next 1" He is out again, but he is looking for the party who did the *‘dirty work.” President Pindell Sustained. Ata recent meeting of the Minnesota di- vision T. P. A. held at St. Paul, a communi- cation from the national sccretary to the di- vision wus read by the chair, inclosing charges preferred against John F. Jordan, of Minncapolis, and his withdrawal from the T. P. A., and disposed of by the adoption of the following resolutions: Resolved, That the Minnesota division T, P. A.do heartily and cordially second and indorse the official character and actions of both the national president, O. *P. Pindell, and the national secretary and treasurer, J. R. Stone. Rasolved, That we as heartily condemn and censure the actions and writings of John F\. Jordan in_relation to Mossrs. Pindell and Stone, us well as to the T. . A. as an usso- ciation, Resolved, That John F. Jordan be allowed to withdraw from the T. P. A. Tho following resolutions mously adopted : Whercas, The Minnesota & Northwestern railroad, through the president, A. B. Stick- ney, and the traffic manager, J. A. Hanley, has’been the first railroad company to grant our association concessions in placing on sale mileage books at 2 cents; bo it Resolved, That the heartfelt thanks of the T.P. A ar® hereby tendered to the Minno- sota & Northwestern railroad, and to Messrs. A. B. Stickney and J. A. Hanley. Resolved, That a copy of thesc resolutions be forwarded to cach of the above named gentlemen were unani- Disturbed His Rest. Detroit Free Press: *“When I am gone, oh! thinkof me," wailed a serenader over and over again under the window of a Calumet ave- nue hotel the other night. After hehad said it for the fifteenth time the fat and furious face of a Chicago drummer appeared at an upper window and a voice hissed out: ‘“Yes' young man, I will remember you and remember me for a long time after gone, if you don't put out in less'n thrée sec- onds! I've got an old horse pistol up here with a pound and a half of cold lead in it that I'll give you as a memento of me if you don't stop tootin’ and bawlin’ under this window atan hour when decent folks are abed. Now you go home ! The sweet song died awa, lips of the sweet singer dumb and he sighed heavily as he slung his guitar over his siioulder and ambled off into the cold world with a suspicious policeman following in his wake. into silence, the “No use talking,” remarked a well-known traveling man, while seated in the corridor of the Millard yesterday afternoon, “if you want to pass a Sunday pleasantly and profit- ably with the boys and enjoy the luxurics of life, Omaha is the place to tie up to.” In this observation the speaker showed a level head, for the principal hotels were yesterday crowded with the jolly knights of the grip, the register of the Millard alone showing 145 of thewm in that house. The arrivals at the Millard were: C. A, mers, St. Louis; John R. Stevens, Bos- D. H. Reinhardt, Columbus; A A , New York: W. D. Mansti New 1. Rosenfield, Chucago; W. T. Clark, Des Moines; A, W. Green, Chic E Greeley, Minneapolis; J. C. M. G cinnati; H. A, morris, Chicago; § W. H. Paddock, Ch Minnéapolis; K. M ibbs, v_York; C. C.' Myrick, Chic owles, St. Lou F. L. Honore oy ' Smith, St Joseph; C. ( n, Lowsville; L. M Goldsmith, ¢ i Henry Auchenheimer Chicago; ' A. Crandall, New ¥ J A, Totten, New Yo F. L. Ashbach, New York: I.. Hermann Louis; P, P, Murray, Chicago; C. Drifoss, Now York; J man, Chic phia; W. T Bostelman, New York; Horman Meyer, Chicago; W. O. Evert, Milwauk H. 'C. 'Stewart, ' Chicago; C. Stowitz, St Louis; J. L. Allen, Boston 3. Bourke Chicago; A. A. David, New A Read, L M. S Chap- l‘mlluhwmm; L. w. phin :® ~J. W. Norton, _Bos George Teesdalo, New York; G, B. Salter, Burlington; N, 0. Goldsmith, Ciacinnati: George Albree, Boston: Charles Adams, New York; C. C. Kroh, Cincinnati F. D. Hefferon, Now York; Frank rup, Chicago: Moore, Chicago: J. M. W A. N. Kolsey, Chicago dianapolis: . S. Blac Jenkins, Chicago; W William' H. Connell, Wiltington: Miller, Chies W, K. Grifin, falo ;. T, Hay wary, St. J. 1. Muchmore, Chicago; Williain _Haird, St. Louis; W. 8. Patterson, Chicago; 8. M. Creigh, Chicago: Georio 8. Terry, St. Louis; C. E. Plattenburgh, Chicago: J. S, Mendalsohn, Chicago; L. 1. Hart, Chicago; Guorge W. Lewis, Cincinnati; James Murrin, P Tiffany, Providence lurd, Des M A Buf: Louis; Kansas City Roynolds, Binghawton Ab. Goldsmith, New Yorkgl. . Freeman, Chicago: R. T. Walbank, Chicago; . H Skipweth, . Lounis: George D. Orput, Boston; William R. White, Chicago; C. D Bradley, Chicagoi M. Loeb, Cincinnati Albert Davis, New York; R. C. Goldsmith, St. Louis: I. Myrick, Chicago; C. M. Hen derson, Ne T G. Littlefield, Chi 3. W. Vail, Chicago} cage G. S. Allison, St. Louis. 12, Blair, Chicago; C. C. Bennett, New York; M. Woodward, Des Moines A. Bishop, Chicago; Charles F. Griftin cinnati; K. A. Braymer, Chicago: k. P. Smith, New York:; W. . Hypes, Chicago; W. H. Crandall, St. Paul. The ton arrivals were: S, Marx, Chi- wo; . P. J. Minan, New York; I°. V evens, Chicago; S. Rawak, New York; Valentine, New York; H. E. Hackman, . Louis; J. 5. O'Connor, New York; Will- iman, Chicago; H. Rememan, ndner, Now York: I, X, A. Mcln M. Lipold, Chicag W. R. Roncy, Chicago} Frothingham, New Haven; W. Dooney, _Indiana; L. Crager, Yor Evans, Portiand} ", Dictelier, New York; C. A. Perkins, H. W. Allen, New York; M. D! , Chicago; C. Bradford, Chicago; L. Soterboch, Wheeling: L. Eckhart, Hailey iloy; H. Lowinsohn, Chicago; . Philadeiphin; E. Weingreen, J. R. Fussig, New York; C. W' Hybbard, New York; J. M. Finllmore, De ver; Gus Mosicr, St. Louis; John Rouald- son, St. Lows; D, W. Phelps, Pittsfield; D. Morgan, Cincinnati; 12, W. Cudahy, Chicago’ 1. Thompsen, Chicago’ J. Jacobs, New York H. C. Decamp, New York; A. M. Pullen, Chicago: A. Ackerson, New York; W. G. Wheelock, New York: William Garner, Des Moines; C. S. Smith, Philadelphiaj G. H. Adler, Milwaukec 8 P H. H. New D. Best, Chicago; C. B. Buckley, New York; L. Ensendrath, Chicago; E. C. Botes, Liv® ingston L. Furbish, Chicago; C. H. Smith, Chicago: B. T. Whitmore, Detroit; G. P. Limp, Chicago; J. A. Mathews, St. ~ ‘Louis;' G. 'Gage, _ Chicago} G.'Bendor, Chicago: C. P, Starr, Now York! A. Moinheimer, Now York; R.' M. Heller, Chicago; E. C. Brown, jr., New York; L. Washington, Chicago; B. R. Mann, Chicagos D. M. Jenkins, Boston; A, Weiling, Milwau® kees . Moyer, Chicago; 8. C. Wilmer, Chi- cago; J. G, Ritehel, New York; E. S. Me- Kinney, Chicago; C. F'. Bellows, New York C. H. Conner, Chicago; N. R. Brombough, Chicago; H. J. Peterson, Cincinnati; C, I Anderson, Now York; N. R. Robinson, Bo: ton: C. A. Quigley, Chicago; A. A. Ballen- berg, Chicago. Samplof S. V. P, Holloway has startod upon his new year's work with redoubled zeal. The noxt annual convention of the T. P. A. will bo held in Minnecapolis in June next. A. C. Annett, of the Omaha Rubbor com- has returned from a special trip of ten Frak Taylor, of the Omaha Rubber com- pany, isinthe’ Black Hills doing a good trade. W. I Laird will travel through Towa and Nebraska in 1858 for tho Omaha Rubber com- pany. One thousand guests did justice to the com- mercial traveler's banquet recently given at Davenport. Captain C. V. Bainsford is doing southwost Towa. It is stated on good authority that the captain_has determined to write no more wills. Ho tights decidedly shy of capital- sts. Thursday, January 26, has been set apart by the managers of the ice palace at St. Paul as comnfercial travelers' day and members of the craft will'be royally entertained on this occasion. Commercial travelers are roquosted to send communications to this department. Ex- periences on the road, personal items and other matters of nterest to the fraternity witl receive proper attention if addressed to drummers’ department. At a destructive fire_in New Madrid, Mo., January 16, Charles J. Healy, jr., a St. Louis commercial traveler, roscuéd a littlo girl from the flames at the risk of his own life. Mr. Healy was severely burned, but was able to receive the congratulations'of hundreds who applauded his brave uct. The citizens of Ashland have taken the imitative in doing honor to the commercial tray It willbe a graceful act for an Omaha hotel to follow suit. The number of travelers who patronize Omaha nosteleries is remarkubly large and a tribute would bo as just as it would be appreciated by the bene- ficiaries, The St. Louis post, T. P. A., has adopted the following resolution: ~Resolved, That any manufacturer or jobber employing com- mercial travelers shall be_eligible for hon- orary and association. membership in this post, upon the payiment of 5, or_more; and that the annual dues thereafter, beginning at the expiration of the first yoar, shall be 5. A. L. Davis, a Memphis drummer, was found dead in bed in that city January 16, The doors of the house were open, giving in- gress to the blizzard that was blowing for the past two days. It was ev that he il been frozen to death. During the reconstruc- tion period Davis was & leading republican politician of Panola county, Mississippi, was chairman of the county executive committee, and at one time had the position of chancery court clerk. His influence over the negroes was almost boundless, but it is said_he never misused his power'to the extent that others of his class did at that time. He was a man of some property, and leaves a wife from whom he has been separated for some time, and who now lives in New Orlcuns. Albert Smith, a young drummer from New York, made a substantial and successful pro test against the overcharge of a hackman last week in Chicago. His remon od up by o r r, five was discharged 'at tr Smith, who was_locked up at the Desplaines street station denied that he shot at the hackman, but, when arrested, his pistol was still smoking. It secms that Smith, who boards at 26 West Adams strect, hired huckman to take him to the Wisconsin Central depot, and paid the man $1 for the trip. He found he was too late for his train, and says that the hackman charged him $1.50 for the return trip to his boarding house. Upon his refusal to pay this sum trouble en sued, during which he drew his revolver and fired, though several of them wore flattencd against the bricks of the Union depot. After discharging his revolver Smith took vofuge in hi vhere | rrested by the ofticer, who had heard the shots. e Al Miss Sarah Orne Jewett has been made r an uncle through the receny death of 13th & Douglas Streets, Omaha, Neb. weAr SPECIALIST. Nervous, Mental and Private Disease 3 nglven to corvespoud by Who is WEAK, NERVOU! 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