Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 27, 1888, Page 2

(THEPOETRY OF POLITICS. “Rambling Rhyme Prepared By English Politicians. EGOME DOGGEREL FOR DEPTFORD. A Red-Hot Contest to Be Waged Be- tween Blunt and Darling—Paris Enjoys & Great Day's Bport on Skates. Preparing For the Poll. [Copyright 1684 by Jomes Gordon Bennett.] Loxpoy, Feb, 20.—[New York Herald Cable—Special to the Bre.]—Politics just now composes an Englishman's religion, Dept- ford, across the Thames fgom the tower, on this election eve presented no exception for this Sunday and the very church bells seemed 1o ring ‘*Vote for Blunt.” I found Deptfora to-day fuller than ever of canvassers and the population divided into Darlings and Blunt “faen. Mr. Darling is the unionist candidate and Blunt the Gladstone nommee. All the lodal rancor and coarseness describod by Dickens in the Eatonswill election is to be found in Deptford, Not €ven woman's influence moliifies the porsonality and illwill and woman's influence bas boen peculiarly active on both sides. Primrose dames clectioneer for their Darling, and Mrs. Gladstone in person, with Lady Anne Blunt, Byron's grand-daughter, , have been and are active in solicitation. As @ curious incident, Mrs. Evelyn, wife of the resigned unionist member, who was con- werted to home rule, is working for the old rty of her husband, while he is jealous for lunt. The marital difference, however, 18 good-humored and will not pave a thorny path to Sir James Hannan's court. The ‘borough is plastered with placards, which, to sce, a New Yorker would think himself in the First ward when aldermen are being elected. The air, even on Sunday, is vocal with political song. Says a local conservative paper: ““Thanks to the Irish gentlemen who are kind enough to take London politics under their patron- age, the Deptford election is being fought under conditions which are a novelty in the “meotropolis. The home rule journalist who every evening reviles Mr. Darling has told the Deptford rowdies what to do. A sheet of sourrilous election songs has been published #ind the Irish roughs of the place are explic- Atly instructed to learn these abusive verses by heart and yell them out at the top of their voices whenever and wherever Mr. Darling speaks.” Here are two verses sct to a favorite music Jhall tune: Ho, Deptford is for Wilfred, And Blunt shall win the day; Thg Darling carpetbagger ‘Will hunt from us away. No Balfour can subdue Blunt, His heart is trong as steel, The Deptford men will greet him And make his jailer reel. Next comes o verse sung to bonnie Dun- Qee: > To his agents and bruisers — "Twas Darling who spoke— Must get in for Deptford 1f heads must be broke. My Balfourian braves You must let the world see That Deptford won't follow The lead of Dundeo. Last evening another lady, who, I am told, 18 a practical home ruler in her own house—a Mrs. Gemiston Grant—asked a meeting not to return 8 Darling—a very poor Darling, indeed—but areal man, T asked a well-balanced politician how the tide was going to turn and he said: ‘‘Neither hotne rule nor toryism has anything to do with it. The clection turned in sympathy for Blunt in jail, and that picture of him on the fence in prison clothes will have more influence at the polls than all the songs and speeches, though there is this chance: The monied liberals may be frightened at the so- cialism, agorianism and revolutionary spirit of the Blunt adherents and turn the scale., —— ALL PARIS ON SKATES. Big Sport on Ice at the Capital. {Copyright 1888 by James Gordon Bennett.] Paris, Feb. 26.—|New York Herald Cable —Special to the Bre.]—Yesterday was the first real skating day we have had this year. There were two or three cases of false opes at the end of last month and at the be- ginning of this, but yesterday wasright down winter, and the ice was in excellent con- dition both in the Ville Bon and Ponceaux, ‘but more especially at the headquarters of the skating club on the Bois de Boulogne, & pleasant sheet of ice which brings a healthy flush to so many a pretty face aud a streteh to many a jaded limb. Here is all Paris, and a very pretty picture it makes as it whizzes and «@wirls over the glassy surface all the live- long day. There were plenty of inveterate lady skators, #nd charming they looked as their winter garments clung daintily to them. When o male Parisian goes out shooting rab- bits he thinks it necessary to don the garb of comic opera, with feathers and a strange "dog as concomitants. The Parisenne, on the contrary, when skating, is always a past .anistress in tho art of dressing. From 9 a m to nearly 6 . m. there was plenty of sport. Naturally there was ¥ good deal of plain, straight skating and a <few beginners, whose spidery inclination to throw up their thumbs, bow sedately to the Yce. and then tumble amused the thoughtless bystanders not on skates. Some falls, how- ever, came to the more skillful skaters. But the most wondrous sight of all was M. Michel Perrel, » voteran of seventy-two summers, who skutes as virorously as any young man bne-fourth his age. The genial merry-go-round tinued to-day and many Parisians scudded -mbout on more popular pieces of water. If ack Frrost really means business of course hero will be a night festival to-morrow even- #ug. This announcement, however, is only made in fear and trembling, for that bad witch, Qld Mother Thaw, may breathe mugey and steamy warmth over the faceof the frozen waters and disappoint Paris, . Skating bas precedence, of course, but in tho normal state of things the 1st of March is he beginning of the pigeon shooting season. The great days of the first three periods for shooting will be April 4, May 8, and from May 25 until June 12 inclusive, There will be twelve prizes during theses periods and pight souvenirs or smaller prizes. But all this will bo when the Bois is of & juicy green and not a dazzling white, as it was when your reporter left the ground, after having soverely reprimnanded his cabman, who was found sliding joyfully and utterly forgetful of his fare. by Passed a Good Night. Copyright 1553 by James Gordon Bennett.| > 8ax Reno, Fob, 26.—[New York Herald Cable—Spocial to the Bik)—The crown prince passed @ good night with less cough ud less expectoration, which is, however, still stained with blood. Mackenzie was not present at this morning's consultation, The pesult of Kaussmann's examination was that there was no disease of the luugs. Berg- ‘manu thought the hemorrhazes were. duc to eancer of the lungs and since the consuita- ions clings to the fact that it is cancer of the ynx, The English .doctors say. that the French course con- slight hemorrhaged are due to the operation ' and dificulty of getting the cantla t At well The' sec- ond consultation was attended by the crown princess. Dr. Mackenzie and sll the doctors watching the prince's case were present. Dr. Kaussman said that the recent expectorations gave fresh evidences of can- cer, while @ microscopic examination had justified this suspicion of alveolar structure, mentioned by Virschow. The latter will shortly make another examination of the ex ctorations. Meanwhile, the patient has ecn handed over entirely to the specialists —Kaussmann_and Mackenzie. To-morrow Bergmann and Kaussmann leave San Remo. Bramand follows m a fortnight. + i ated-ere Death of a Pirate King. New York Times: A vessel from Honolulu brings the news of the death of a man whose history is as thrilling as that_of any pirate king of yellow: covered literature, enty-five years ago he wus a pirate king as brave and as wicked as pirate kings are. Since then he has been a hermit. In the days of his wickedness and power he com- manded a vessel called the Red Cloud, staunch, unusually fast, and furnished with powerful guns. Periodically this craft disappeared from the seas, and in her place would come another, all in sombre black, and named the Black Cloud. This piece of theatrical effect, which cost nothing more than a little paint, had its expected influence upon the superstitious minds of the sailors who were sometimes sent in pursuit of the vessel. Most of them fully believed that there was somethin uncanny about the craft, and that Yo captain had supernatural help. -In those days he was the terror of the South Pacific seas, and the British government set a big price upon his head. Hundreds of attempts were made to capture him by fair fight and by traps and by every means that could be devised, But he elluded all the traps, came out cictor- ious in all the fights and in every case sailed away with the traditional scorn- ful laugh of the pirate king. He had a Spanish name which nobody remembers now, and he was supposed to beiong to that nationality, although he spoke Spanish, English, French and German all with equal fluency. At last a young KEnglish nobleman, loving adventure and desirousof the re- ward, undertook to capture him. After cruising around in the Pacific for some time he came late one afternoon di rectly upon the Red Cloud. The buc- cancer spoke to the Englishman, asking where she was bound and what she had on board. The reply was that they were looking for the pirate, that they were talking to him, and that he had better give himself up at once. Inan instant bright lights appeared ull over the Red Cloud, and her captain answered in good English, I will see you in h—1 first.” Then a cannon ball whizzed through the air, but it was aimed too high and passed above the vessel. *‘I will see you there,” shouted back the Englishman, and a broadside from his guns aimed low sent the Red Cloud to the bottom of the sea, But the buc- cancer escaped, and not long afterward he and two of his crew appeared in a row boat on the barren island of Molo- kini. which is near the East Man islands of the Hawaiian group. It is & small, barren, rocky place, uninhabited. There his two companions even left him, and there he lived alone for twenty-five years. Sioce his land- ing there he was called only Morrotin- nee, the native name for the island. Asailor who has been going to and fro from the Sandwich Island for ten or twelve years learned all he could about Morrotinnee, and says that he was much liked and feared by the natives. They carried to him all the delicacies to be found in the kingdom, and enabled him to live a life of ease and luxury. They said he was a tall man, big and com- manding, with a voice like thunder- s0 powerful that they firmly believed he could cause the wind to rise or the waters to subside. They would not al- low white men to go near the island if they could help it, probably beeause they had been so commanded by him, and when he died they buried him near the place where he had lived, with h mourning over his departure. —_—— Making an Afternoon Call. Detroit Free Press: As a reward for having been a good boy for nearly an hour Mrs. Whyte took her little son Tommy with her the other afternoon when she went to return a call she had long owed Mrs. Greene. Mrs. Greene had a little boy of about Tommy's age, but he was by no means a boy so fertile in expedients when it came to getting into mischief and mak- ing other people miserable. Little Hal Greene was out when the callers arrive Mrs. Whyte said: *‘Oh, Mrs. Greene, I'm very glad to see you. I have intended calling this lon, time, but really could not sooner. % hope you'll excuse mo for bringing my little Tommy with me, he—" “Why, certainly,” cries Mrs. Greene; “I'm delighted to you both. It sooms so much less formal” to haye you just run in this way with your little boy. Tow do you do, my little-man?”’ \uke hands with the lady, Tommy. “Don’t want to,”.says Tommy, hang- ing bac *Why, Tommy, I am ashamed of you. Go and .-a‘nmk to the lady.” “I don’t want to.” “You're not afraid of me, are you, my ¥ asks Mrs. Greene, “I l\fln little vs. Hal will be in presently and you can play with him,” *“And he’ll shake hands with me, I know,” said Mrs. Whyte. Mamma 1 take you any place again; now sit still. How do you do this winter, Mrs, Greene? I heard that—Tommy let that book alone.” **He won't hurt the book. I'm quite well and—be careful, little boy, that small table upsets easily.” “Tommy! Goaway from that table. Yes, I heard that you had been quite ill, and—Tommy, Tommy, put that vase down.” 1 was sick, but—I wouldn’t rock so far back in that chair, little boy: it tips over easily.” *Tommy, get out of that chair! Yes, I knew that you—Tommy, stop drum- ming on that piano.” “Yes, I wns afraid at first that—I wouldn't try toelose that screen,my dear; it will fall on you.” “Why, Tommy, what are you doing? Don’t touch that screen again, Mamma is so ashamed of you! Did you really bave a touch of typhoid fever? T heard 'ommy Whyte, what are you doing pulling that table drawer gut? Let it alone. I had typhoid fever once, and —Tommy Whyte what do you mean by standing on that plush chair with your dirty boots? Get right down. There, over goes the chair. Ideclare I—asI was saying, Mrs. Greene, when I was sick I—don’t whirl around so on that piano stool, Tommy,"” Master Hal here appears and the fun begins in earnest. ‘Fl!leir Modoc-like performances bring the call to a speedy termination, and the ladies part, 8tk agreeing that the other’s boy is the *very worst youngster that ever lived and breathed.” » - 25,000 Kegs Nails In stock on cut freights, City buyers (dealers only) will find that our prices are as low as mill prices with lowest freight-added. Goods delivered at your store in quantities to suit. you. Tele- phove No. 121, LEE, CLARKE, ANDREESEN & CO. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, FEBRUARY . 1888, A YOUNG WIFE'S DESPAIR. A Torrible Affliction Causes Heor to Attempt Her Life, POISONING -— Prompt Action Prevents Death From an Overdose of Chlorine—Nebraska City to Have Another Bridge —State News. ANOTHER CASE. Two Poisoning Cases. ARLINGTON, Neb., Feb. 2.—(Special Tele- gram to the Bee.]—Mrs. Charles Weaver, the wife of n young farmer living near here; at- tempted suicide last evening by takinga box of Rough on Rats. Sho is still ative and the attending physicians hope tp save her, although her condition is extremely critical. She was married onty a few months ago. Re- cently she was taken sick and, it s said, that when she discovered the nature of. beg, dis- ease she determined to take her life: =~ | Miss Lizzie Fisher, at the family of .0, N Unthank, of this place, took an overdose of chlorine to-day and was for a faw hours very wild from the effects of it; but an antidote has placed her beyond further'danger. 11 i B A New Bridge Assured. NreusraskA Crry, Neb., Feb. 20.—[Special Telegram to the Bee.|—An offer avas re- ceived by Colonel Schwind, sécretary of the board of trade, last evening from S, N. Stew- art, & bridge enginver of Philadelphia, to construct a double track -wagon and foot bridge across the river here for $15 per run- ning foot, or if this was unsatistactory to cil izens, a number of Omaha: capitalists woul Dbuild'the bridge as an investment if Nebraska City would sccure the charter. A citizens! meeting is cilled for Tuesday ovening, when one, of the propositions will probably be ag- cepted. Notes From Crete. Crere, Neb., Feb, 26.—[Correspondence of the Bee.]—The Missouri Pacific railroad company have unloaded about fifteen cars of material at Crete. They commenced laying ties Friday morning, and continued the work until Saturday night, The men worked all night Friday night. There is a rumor that this was done to prevent the B. & M. from crossing their dopot grounds. Others say that it was done to prevent certain injunc- tions which were threatencd. George W. Church, one of the prominent grocerymen here, has’commenced to build a residence to cost about $3,000. Ten or fiftecn other residences, costing from $1,000 to $3,000 apiece, have been commenced. The buildin boom which has struck Crete will last all summer. The G. A. R. post at Crete has raised over £300 and will go to the state encampment at Lincoln this week, asking that they apvropri- ate a sum of not less than $1,000, with which to afd them in putting up permanent head- qnarters upon the Nebraska Chautauqua grounds, which will be used exclusively for the benefit of the old soldiers of the state. This is a grand enterprise, one which the soldiers will appreciate, and will be quite an addition to the Nebraska Chautauqua, The Growth of Palmer. ParLmer, Neb., Feb. 20.—[Correspondence of the Bee. |—Palmer, Merrick county, Neb., was platted in the winter of 1837 and is lo- cated on the main line of the Lincoln & Black Hills railroad, 125 miles northwest of the capital city and 150 miles distant from Omaha. It is an important junction and also a division point. There have been built here already during the cold weathor twenty-five business houses and twenty residences, and all of them built in the most substantial man- ner. The Magner brick block was put up in midwinter and would add to the appearance of any city. Another brick block is being consrtructed alongside of it. Thirty new buildings are contracted to be put up this spring and every day adds a new one. Some of these buildings are to be of brick. s Palmer has enough well settled territory tributary to the town to support a town of 6,000 people. The country is beautiful and cannot be exceeded by any portionof the state. It hason the northwest and west three junctions, and all trafle from these branches must come through Palmer, and when the line is built from Palmer to Schuyler, which is an assured thing, thereby giving a direct communication to Omaha, it will be a great transfer point and a double division. During the fall and winter of 1887 and 1888 the B. & M. commenced and have nearly completed & large, solid rock and pressed brick round house, also a turntable capable of turning two engines at one time; a water tank standing - on fifty-foot piers. The depot is the finest in the state outside of Omaha and Lincoln. It is & two-story structure, 30x120 feet, and will be fitted up in the most comfortanle manner possible. When completed there will be an awning around the whole building and a twenty-foot platform on one side and ends ngl,d an eight-foot platform on the opposite side. ‘What Palmer needs most at present is a first class §2 a day hotel and the person who will put his momey into such an enterprise will reap a big profit on the investment from the start. s The Long Pine Chautauqua. Loxc Pixg, Neb., Feb, 25— [Correspoud- ence of the Ber.|-The managers and directors of the Long Pine Chautauqua are making every effort in their power to make the mssembly this year a great success. Every encouragement is being extended by the citizens of Long Pine and the people along the line of the Elkhorn railroad, and the railroad company itself proposes to ex- tend its influence on all its lines to muke tl.e fare and accommodations suitable to all East year the assembly erganized and. the accommodation, organization® and mahage- ment were so thorough and complete that every one present was stiniulated to ten-fold exertion to make this year's gathering come up to the highest expectations. The result of lust year's effort produced Chautauqus circles a1l over this northwest country’ and gave a stimulus to church organizatims of every denomination, that reflects great credit on the christian gentlemon avho. assisted in carrying on the assembly. The'erganization is almost completely out of debtandowns the most picturesque and beautiful waod laml in the west. This is the only place nthe state of Nebraska where a New Euoglander can sit by a beautiful sfream where the grass grows to the water's edge and thick matted bows of evergreen hang overhead, with coves filled with . cedar, pine, walnut and -oak, and water rippling over a rocky bed and imagine himself in his native state. At the first annual meeting just held the following gent - were electod directors: Rev. George 'W. Martin, North Platte; Hon. A, U. \\'{{mln,_flml\h:l: M. P. Kinkaid, O'Neill;’ R. F! Chadron; C. F. Boyd,. Aimsworth; C. R. Glover, J. 8. Davisson, -W. J. Courtright, I. N. Moore, G. W, Lowe, T. Winter S. W, Mygatt, F. A. Whittimore, H. P, McKnight and J. P, Hawthurst, all of Long Pine. ‘The board of directors then elected president, Rev. George W. Martin; first vice president, J.S. Davisson; second vice president, R. Flanders; secretary, ¥. A. Whittimore; treasurer, C. R. Glover. The services of Rev. Dr. J. G. Evans, of Tllinois, have been secured again as supermtendent of instruc- tion, The best instructors and most eloquent speakers of the west are being engaged for the dissemination of knowledge at the next Chautauqua assembly. ctors have voted to hold an assembly meeting for thir- teen days beginning July 12 and ending July 24. Lots are now ng sold, e B Preparing to Advertise, Nepraska Ciry, Neb, Feb. 26.—(Corre- spondence of the Bire.]—Nebraska City is perfecting one of the greatest and best advertising schemes ever under- taken by any city in the west. The fund of $10,000 for this purpose has been sub- scribed. Among the first steps in adwertis- iug 1s the compiling, which is now in progs . ple’s affairs shameful . posed with Lklahoma in!i:?,wrriwr.\" give it ) ross, of ‘‘Nebraska C?lfll rated," hand book fllustrating with fine outs and Pwrite ups’ the various indusjries sud business en- terprises, and our general clam to coming greatness, It is ‘l)ir? sed to print about twenty thousand "6t these books and send them broadcast éved'ithe country. A new and reliable map of thebity and surrounding country is bnlng’m ‘which will locate our leading manu ‘mbllc buildings, bridges and the four. raillroads that now enter this city, begides the half dozen or more propased lines: T addition to this ex- haustive descriptive g:mphm and map, & man has been engaged to travel and use per- sonal efforts to induce Hew enterprises to lo- cate here. Contractswill be made with enst. ern papers and the advaptages of Nebraska City fully set forth, Nepraska City possesses that which is worfh. gdvertising and has all she claims. THo Goming summer will witness such an '’ dd¥ancement and solid growth in this city as to surprise even the city's most hopeful friends. Within this year will be completed the #1,000,000 bridge across the river here, one of the best on the river; a $125,000 government building, and_the in- stitute for the blind, to which a $50,000 addi- tion is being built, will be finished. ~ The city will be graded and the principal strect paved and sewered, and a street car line in operation; a hundred new indus will locate here, and at least three new rail- rouds will be built into the city. The Missouri Pacific, from ‘the advent of which dates Nebraska City's prospe promises great things for the coming year, The new line from this city to Crete will be built as soon as the weather becomes settled and a line from Nebraska City to Shenandoah, Ta., to connect with the Wabash at the latter place. Since the building of this road into Nebraska City its business here has increased so rapidly as to demand greatly en- larged facilities in thelr yards and ofices. “T'his road has also promised to build exten- sive shops here. The Rock Island will build # branch from its main line in Towa to con- nect with the line from St. Joseph to Beatrice, and will cross the river at this point. The 1B. & M. line from this city to Ashland and thence to Omaha, is also an assured thing for this summer, as work has already commenced upon it. Nebraska City has forty-eight factories and_employs between 1,000 and 1,200 men constantly. Among the leading establish- ments are two great packing houscs, large stock yards, three large implement manufac- torics, a large distillery, cercal mills, a can- ning factory. fruit nvnxmruting works, paper box filttory, tank line depot, two roller mills, asoap factory, five cooper shops, four large brick vards, two breweries, thrce bot- tling works, a large rectifying estab- lishment, mineral aud soda water works six jobbing cigar factories, n sash und blind factory, two broom factories, boiler works, furniture, wagon and carriuge factories, milis, foundries, waterworks, gasworks, tric lights and a score of ‘minor enterpriscs, besides numerous public buildings, banks, hotels, wholesale houses and the best system of schools to be found in the west. In view of her past prosperity and bright outlook for the future, Nebraska City is making preparations for one of the grandest jubilees and celebrations upon the next 4th of July that has ever been attempted in the state.” Money and work will be freely ex- pended in the endeavor to make it a success, such as characterizes every undertaking of our citizens, . A united effort is being made by our mon- eyea men and backed by some of the leading men of Fremont county, Towa, towards se- curing the construction of & wagon bridge across the Missouri river at this place. The scheme meets with universal encouragement and it's more than likely that smong Ne- braska City's acquisitions for 1838 will be the proposed wagon bridge, the building of which would be of even grouter value to the city than the railroad bridge. gn of the solid, growth and steady advancement of Nebraska City is evidenced by the faith moneyed inen of neighboring ities have in the place. Nearly every day can be scen men from'other cities in the state upon our streets investing in property. A party of gentlemen from Beatrice were in the city the past week and invested heavily in real estate Scott Bros., of Peoria, IlL., dry zoods merchants, haye also made invest- ments and are making arrangements to build and put in & #40,000 stock and establish a wholesale trade.’ The Atiheuser-Busch com- pany also making proparations to begin the erection of their large branch distribut- ing and bottling houses. - o) e No Man's Land. Kansas City Times: The strip of country known as **No-Man’s-Land” is 169 miles long by thirty-four and one- half miles wide. There are 10,000 people living on it. It contains a num- ber of villages with schools and stores It has belonged to the United States for thirty-eight years, and yet during all that time has been a neglected or- phan, without tederal or territorial law. This strip of country has the most fe tile soil and a climate free from the e tremes of heat or cold. Lynch law rules supreme. Offenders ave caught and shot promptly on conviction. One who has recently been in No-Man’s- Land says: **For all these years it has remained ‘No Man’s Land, in fact, for though it belongs to the government and is pub- lic land it has never been made subject to entry, nor has the United States even ever extended its laws over this ter- ritory. There is no officer who can ar- rest a man for crime committed in this territory, no court which could try him if he were convicted. March 80, 1886, it was attached to the internal revenue collection district of Kansas for the collection of the special tax on the sale of tobacco and liquors. Some of the dealers in the strip pay this tax, others do not. There is no author- ity that can punish the latter. The government has established postoffices and postal routes in the strip, but if a postmaster should embezzle the funds or should the mails be robbed within the limits of this territory there is no court before whom the offender ¢ould be brought for trial. The mer- chants do a strictly cash business, as of course, no debts contracted there can be collected,” No title can be obtained to lots or land in all this country because of the neglect of congress. The people in this strip are industrious and peaceable, but they occupy an anomalous position. They are within the government, but not of it. They are compelled to fall back upon nature’s laws and take care of themselves. They do this occasion- ally with vigor, Hard characters are given short notice to get out, and they get. The condition of this strip is simply a disgrace to our gu\'cfumuui and 1llus- trates the weaknessin our system which threatens the natioy. , JPoliticians, too busy with small schemgs to attend to public business, of ag lusiness habits or qualifications, havé npglected the peo- 1y It is now pro- to incorpagstey No-Man's-Land a regular territorialgovernment and ex- tend the protectiol w over it. This should be done prqptly. It is proba- ble that No-Man’sy) willafter all get into the union s @, state sooner than Dakota, with its 60,000 people, which has been a territory gepriy thirty years. Stripes are more tm ever fashionable and most of the ginghams gre lace-striped. The manufactures are maklyg a’ great many cheap parasols of theprettiest cottons, and it will be a fancy of nexi sesson to have a pay asol of the same material as the rest of the costume. Last year the shops had a few suits of satteen in boxes, consisting of a large pattern for skirts, a smaller one for waists and drapery, a parasol of the large pattern goods and & fan of the smaller, e sk Bundy, Joplin & Co., 1613 Farnam St. Wholesale and retail jewelry. Fine Watch Repairing. S Dr. Hamilton Warren, Magnetic Phy- sician and surgeou, Room 3, Crounse block, cor 16th and Capital ave. Chronic and nervous diseases a specialty, Tele- phone 944 et 290,00 saved by getting best warranted teeth worth $15.00 of Dr. Haughawout -for $6.00, 8. W. cor. 13th and Farnam st THE THIRD PARTY MOVEMENT. St. John's Cold Water Aggregation Invading Iowa. NOT VERY KINDLY RECEIVED. The Impression Prevalent That 1° ‘Wil Result Disastrously to the Republicans—Sloux City Livery Stable Burned. A Bird of T11-Om Des Motyes, Ia., Feb. 26.—(Special to the Bett.| —The announcement ihat the St. Johnites are preparing to invade lowa, is not received very kindly by republicans or Dby the true temperance people of the state. Chairman Dickie of the prohibition nationat committee, is billed to speak at Cedar Rapids, March 2, where an attempt will be made 'to organize & prohibition third party movement in the state. Heretofore the St. Joln crowd have made no headway in Iowa. It looked ridiculous for them to be trying to organize an alleged prohibition party ina state where prohibition was already in force. S0 they have kept out, until now the republi- caft majority has decreased to so slender a margin that the St. John men think that any diverston of a few thousand republican votes would throw the party out of power here " in Iows. That is true, for Governor Larrabee's majority at the last election was only about fourteen thou- sand, and 1t would not take much to wipe that out. The third party fellows want noth- ing better than to beat the republican party in every state in which it has a majority, and their course shows that they are more anxious 1o pulverize it than they are to pul- verize the rum power. So far the legislature has beéen so busy with railroad matters that it has done nothing toward strengthing the weak places in the present prohibitory law. The drug store needs a little uttention and needs it right away, for in many places it has become the substitute as well as successor of the saloon. If the legislature fails to supply any needed amendments to the law, it will give the St. John men just the opportunity they want and help them to turn the party out of power. The question that is puzziing the statesmen who want to do something in this respect, is as to what should be done. There have been two radical temperance bills introduced_ this session. The Couster bill and the Redman bill. The first takes the sale of liquor entirely away from druggists and leaves it in the hands of state agents, four to a county. 1t is ironclad in its provisions and so sovere and harsh that people of moderate views would never accept it. The Redman bill leaves the sale of liquor for legitimate purposes still in the hands of the druggists, but hedges them about with such severe restrictions and pen- alties that it would be doubtful if druggists could be found who would be willing to take the risk and burden of selling for legitimate use. So asubcommitteo has been working up a substitute measure for both Dbills and it will be submitted soon. The bill repeals the law whereby pharmacists now dispense with liquors, and provides that persons holding permits under the provision of the act may sell liquors for medicinal, alcohol for me- chanical and chemical, and wine for sacra- mental purposes, and for noothers. Permi must be obtained in open court, and notice of application must be duly published before- hand, and the application must be filed with the clerk of the court. Said u}»plirntion must be signed by a majority of the freehold voters of the township, city or ward, and also by the wivesof twenty-three freeholders of said ward or township. Noone keeping a hotel or public house, can pro- cure ‘a permit, and any conviction of violation of the prohibitory laws is a bar against the issuance of a permit. He must give bond for ¥3.000, and must be of good moral character. Permits may be revoked at any time by the court, and if found violat- ing the law, the offender, if a pharmacist, shall lose his ' certificate. Permits shall be issued to pharmacists only, unless none ap- ply,when the court may appointa suitable per- son not a pharmacist. . For transportation of liquors a certificate must be obtained from the county auditor, and returned to_him for cancellation when used. Consumers buying liquor must sign application, and must be {:vrsmmll,y known to seller of liquor, or must o vouched for by known part; Applica- tions are to be filed with the county auditor. AN ATTRACTIVE One of the most attractiv ce: e state house is the libra i vy high, handsome ted, convenicntly ar- ranged and in every way a very attractive resort for a leisure bour, Tt contains a very superior collection of law books, ranking asa law library about fourth or fifth in the United States. Lawyers come here from all over Iowa to consult it, and they enjoy very much the beautiful surroundings in which it is placed. The other day a bill was before W senate proposinz to_ divide the library and sct apart the law collection by itself in the basement, leaving the beautiful library chamber for the miscellaneous books and for the casual visi- tor. The lawyers were up in arms aganst the place. They said they didn’t want to be tucked off somewhere in ‘the basement, and give up the light and airy apartments where the books now are, So ‘when the roll was called the bill was defeated by ® vote of nearly three to one. And yet there was pretty good reason for urging the bill to bet- ter serve both classes of readers. But the lawyers resent anything that looks like making them second choice. They generall, insist on having first-class double preferred. A BAD WAR FOR MERCHANTS. The present freight war between the lead- ing trank lines is costing business men of Towa hundreds of thousands of dollars, strange 08 it may seem at first sight. The heavy shippers of staples who laia in large stocks months ago, are complaming bitterly of the eut and the injustice it does them. The made their purchases wheh rates were normal and fixed the price of sclling on_the basis largaly of the costof freight. Now under cut rates smaller dealers ship i goods and sell for one-half the old price, compelling them_to meet the competition at an actual loss on every sale. They have their stock on hand and must get rid of it, but to do so must sell on the basis of this present ruinous freight rate although they had to pay two or three times as much to get the goods. So there is a ver; eurnest degire that the legislature pass a law forbidding _railroads from charging rates without giving due notice—say ninety days— 80 that shippers who have to carry a_large stock, can govern themselves rdingly. One busincas man of this city says that his company (lumber dealers) will lose £50,000 b, this reckless and nnjustitisble cut on estab- lished rates. ALLISON'S BOOM. The Allison boouw: goes on growing in a solid and substantial'incasure. lowa repub- licans are verymuch pleased with the kindly feeling felt for Mr. Allison m Nebraska. The northwest has the chance now for the first time to sccure a president from beyond the Mississippi, and the advantage of "having & man in the white house who understands the needs and resources of this great section, cannot be lightly cstimated. If the north western and Pacific states will unite on Alli- son he will be nominated aud most certainly elected. ——-— A TERRIBLE DUEL IN MID-OCEAN, Two Young Men Kight Over a Girl With Black Eyes. New York World: The Noordland, stanch steamship of the Red Star line, sot sail Saturday, Feb. 4, from Ant- werp. Yesterday she erept up the bay and found moorage at a pier in Jersey City., Arm io arm down the gang- plank walked two young men not yet out of their teens, One was dark, sombre, and pompous, the other fair and jolly, Both were fat, and they wore bosom friends. They were Jules Fribourg of Metz and Simon Stein of Regensb On the pier they wrung each othe®s hands and went through all the extravagant formsof demon- stration with which - people of the con- tinent are wontto give evidence of grief at parting. The contortions over, o took up his hand-bag and went his way. 3 And’ yét last . Tuesday's sunrise had ‘seen theso young men glaring at each- other across the table in the steamship's dining room and hastening through the formality of breakfast in their impetu- ous desire to shed each other's blood. The cause of all the dificulty—a dark, dimpled little beauty of eighteen—sat away down at the end of the tablo be- tween her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Morris of Manchester, England, and she her- vously watched her two adorers. She knew of the trouble between them, and was 80 apprehensive of the consequencoes that she left her meal almost untasted. The story, with all its tragic lights, is omitted entirely from that prosy fie- tion known as the Captian's log. In the memory of the passengers it was writ- ten in red ink. The first day out from Antwerp pretty Miss Moaris walked on deck, and the wind made her red chocs rosier. Beforo cight bells struck poor Fribourg was smitten. That night, too, jolity Stein went sorrowing to his bunk with black eyes looking at him from all quarters. Next day both youths made eyes at the fair passenger, and she looked from one to the other and then went to her mother. An_acquaintance wus soon formed and she walked up and down the deck with each in turn. A day later she walked with both at once, one fair hand on each arm. Neither could utter his admiration in any tongue she knew. All that either could do was to walk up and down and worship. They berated each other, but she d‘dn’t un- derstand and just smiled their efforts to entertain her. The passengers saw a storm was brewing, * There was o German band on board coming to Amer] On deck, last Mon- day night, Mr. Stein gave the chief musician a mark and bade him go and exccute **Die Wacht am Rhein'’ for the lady’s delectation. “‘Stay,” er Fribeurg, who had French blood in his veins and French coin in his pocket. ‘‘Here are 4 francs; play theg'Marseillaise’ for the lady.” The musician pocketed both retainers, and remained neutral. The lady heard both tunes, and that complication made it ever so much harder to tell which sh liked most. Meanwhile, Stein and Fri bourg were having & war of words, and the passengers who overheard them an- ticipated trouble. At 11 o'clock that night the passen- gers said Miss Emma Morris was to be the heroine of a mortal combat on the following morning. When Stein handed Eribourg his card Friborurg was pieased. The seconds were sclected. Fribourg chose M. Sucques Grob, a handsome from Zurich, and Mr. George Durst of Richwood Park. Stein solicite and obtained the aid of Mr. John Tan- ner of London and Sig..Louis Castot of Milfin, Italy. There was a council of war in the cabin. The seconds held whispered consultations. The princi- pals smoked cigarets and signed these articles, which were properly witnessed: Streamer Noorpraxp, Feb. 13.—1, the undersigned, acknowledge hereby that I have challenged my fellow-traveier, Jucob Fribourg, of Metz, to a duel with pistols in consequence of his repeated insults, which culminated to-day. SIMON STEIN, of Regensburg, Bavaria. Here was Fribourg’s agreement: AT SeA, Feb. 13.—Herewith I acknowledge myself prepared to fight a ducl to-morrow morning at Y o'clock on board the steamship Noordland with sr. Simon Stein, who has chatlenged me. T likewise declare herewith that I have given my two scconds, Mr. George Durst and M. Jacques Grob, full authority and power to arrange for the choice of weapons, cte. It has been agreed and ar- ranged by them-that pistols at fifteen paces should be used, and that one bullet should be exchanged, and that in case it misses fire willl immediately resume the old friendship which has hereto existed. JULES FRIBOURG. The chief officer offered the signal gun for a weapon. Fribourg gravely suid there was but one. It would be unequal. He would choose pistols. Each prin- cipal then went to his state-room and indited consolatory epistles to parents and friends. In stoic fortitude both forbore to leave a single message for her for whose sake they were to peril their lives. Meantime the seconds fraternized in the saloon. Sig. Castot told a World reporter that before retiring he sought out his principal and tried to dissuade him from tighting. “You think,” said the latter broken- 1y, “that I am going to dic of a German band. Notso. Itisfor her—for her. ‘Write of me, I pray, the English letter that I love her better than the band.” Signor Castot then betook himself to rest. Stein, too, slept, and Fribourg struggled with a farewell letter. The passengers were waiting when, at 9 o'clock next morning, the two rivals were conducted blindfolded to the poop. There were two camp stools, with some- thing lying on them, overspread by nap- kins, i’t was the weapons. Onlfy the throbbing of the great engines could be heard. At the words “‘One, two, three,” they were to tear the bundages from their eyes, scize the pistols and fir The seconds were in their places, Cap- tain Harlick Nichels and Chief Officer Arthur Mills stood on the bridge. Jacques Grobe's voice as he counted “‘three” fell like dropping pebbles into a lake of silence. With a frenzied mo- tion the duellists tore the napkins away and reached for the instruments of death, Their hands fell, not on pistols, but on sausages! Stein fell on the deck, tears stream- ing from his eyes, convulsed with laughter. Fribourg was wild with rage. The Captain on the bridge was in momentary danger of convulsions. The chief officer came near falling into the 8o, There was a treaty of pedce made on the spot, and the good ship plunged merrily on her way. Miss Totris told ig. Castot that she would have felt ter- .ribly if Mr. Fribourg had been killed. ot Phyllis Broughton, a London actress of burlésque and operetta, is said to be engaged to Lord Dagan, the son'and heir of Earl Cow- ley, a young man of twenty-two, and a great matrimonial catch. Carefor the Children Children feel the debility of the changing seasons, even more than adults, and they be- como cross, peevish, and uncontrollable, The blood should be cleansed aud the system invigorated by the use of Hood's Sarsaparilla, “YLast Spring my two children were vacel- nated. Soon after, they broke all out wigh run- ning sores, so dreadful I thought I should lose them. Hood's Sarsaparilla cured them eom- pletely; and they have been healthy ever ce. 1do feel that Hood's Sarsaparilla saved my children to me” Mis, C L TuompsoN, West Warren, Purify the Blood Hood's Barsaparilla Is characterized b three peculiarities : 1st, the combination ot remedial agents; 2d, the proportion; 34, the ss of securing the active medicinal qualities. The result is a medicine of unusual strength, effeeting cures hitherto unknown. Bend for book containing additional evidence, “Hood's Sarsaparilla tones up my system, purifics my blood, sharpens my appetite, an seems to iake me over.” J. V. THOMFSON, Register of Deeds, Lowell, Mass. “ Hood's Sarsaparilla beats all others, and s worth its weight in gold 1. BARRINGTON, A0 Bank Btreet, New York City, Hood’s Sarsaparilla B0ld by all druggists. $1; six for §5. Made only by C. L HOOD & CO., Lowell, Mass. 100 Doses One Dollar. CONSULTING CONSTITUENTS- Hawkeye Legisiators Prepare For Raliroad Enactment. OBTAINING VIEWS OF VOTERS. Provisions of the Bill Which the Lower House of the Geoneral Assembly Has Now Under Consideration. Railroad Re DEs Moixgs, Tn, Fob, 25, | Correspondence of the B3 -Both branches of the legisla- ture adjourned las t week for a few days and the members went home and interviewed their constituents on the raflroad bills now under consideration. The result has been wonderfully encouraging to the advocates of restrictive raflroad legislation, sud practically assured the enactmont of the measurcs pro- pared by the anti-monopoly leaders, The house commenced on Wednesday to consider the bill to prohibit extortion and une Just discrimination, and to empower the rail- road commissioners to fix freiglt ratos, and evory one of the thirty sections of the bill was given the most careful consideration. The provisions of the bill in brief are as fol- low Section 1 extends the jurisdiction of the railroad commissioners to include overy common carrier in the state; section 3 de- clares that overy charge for handling, stor- ing or transporting property shall be fust and reasonable; seo- tion 8 dol unjust discriminationy section 4 requires railrouds to furnish proper terminal facilities for receiving freight from m)um‘cllll?llnm: etion 5, prohibits charg- \ng more for u short than for @ long havi; sgction 6, prohibits pooling and all combinas tion or agreoments in regard to rates; section 7, provides for the publication of posting of tarlff rates and classifications; section 8, pro- hibits delays in shipmen! on 9, detines the amount of damage for any violation shall be three times as much s the actual 10ss sus- tained; section 10, requires the board of com- n,n‘l ners to prosecute tho case in behalf ot the inj y their guidance; secti Iation o misdemcanor on the partof the agent or employe who aids or abets in the net, and fixes the fine at not less than €00 nor more than &»000; section 12, confers power upon the commissioners to examine the books and accounts of railroad companies, send for per- sons and papers and punishes any neglect or refusal to comply with their orders in these particulars the same as for contempt of court: sections 18, 14 and 15, explains at length the manner of making com- plaints, and makes it the duty of the commissioners to hear and determine them as speedily as possible; section 16 pro- vides that the commissioners or any party interested may take the case on refusal of the company to obey the requirements of the board into the district court to bo speedily determined by equity proceedings; section 17_empowers the commissioners to fix a schedule of freight charges that shall not be higher than the maximum rates fixed by stat- utes; scction 18 to 21 prescribes the manner of reducing schedule rates; section 23 pro- ides that annual reports f all railroads e made to tho commissioners; soction fines extortions as charging reater rate than that fixed by the com- missioners, and makes the penalty a fine for the first offense of not less than §1,000 nor more than 5,000, and for the second not more than £10,000 and for the third not more than $20,- 000 For all subsequent offenses a uniform fine of §25,000 18 imposed. The remaining sec- tions except certain property from the pro- visions cf #his act, provide for free transpor- tation for the commissioners and the repeal of all conflicting statutes, The discussion of the bill was quite ani- mated and a large number of amendments proposed. Rabb, of Union, the greonback leader, proposed an_amendment. to section 7, abolishing the board of raiiroad commission= ers, but it only received eight votes, Gums mins, of Polk, who has steadily tried to weaken the bill by all sorts of twists and turns, tried to attach a proviso that the com- missioners could only change the schedulo after a public trial in which both parties should be represented by counsel, but the wmendment was only supported ten members, which is about the full strength of 'tho opponents of the measure, “This bill has been unde: nearly two months and_re atten- tion of the beat minds in the logislature, 1t is safe to say that if any scheme can be de- vised by which extortion and unjust discrim- ination and pooling can be absolutely prohib- ited and reasonable rates socured this law will accomplish it. ‘There is no question but what it will pass, although the vote in the senate may bo close. The house will send the bill to the senate on Monday and it will come up for consigeras tion the last of the week. 'Fhu bill fixing maximum rates will be next considered by the house, and will go through with & rush. The bill reduces the rates about one-third lower than the average during the past year. The farmers of lowa are extremely wide awake on these questions and have raised a perfect avalanche of petitions upon their sen- ators during the past week, with very notice- able effect. Among the senators conye by these petitions are Deal, of Carroll, and Caldwell, of Dallus, both of whom will now favor stringent legislation, including the two- cent fure bill. Insurance companies got a lively shakin, up in the house this weck. Mr. Custer, o Jasper, introduced a bill prohibiting sl pool- ing or ' combinations among them, snd an amendment was tacked on requiring them to pay the full face of the policy, regardless of property insured. The bill to pass the senate, as that body has several insurance men among its menibers, who are watching for just such bills, and will kill them off in committee. The efforts of the house to protect farmers from fraudulent notes, by repealing the *‘in- nocent purchaser” clause will prove a fail- ure. ly every lawyer in the senate de- clares that any law of this character will throw a cloud on all commercial paper and seriously interfere with all business transac- Two bills intended to_protect the peo- m these outrageous frauds practiced ifidence men who securing the nan of prominent farmers to réceipts, and then transform their notes which they sell at the nearest bank, have been killed in' the senate and no bill of this character can get through that body. The republican state convention which meets here on March 21, promises to be an exciting event. Many senators will favor postponing action on the railroad bills until the party can be heard from. Both factions are bending every energy to secure a majority of delegates. It is even hinted, and auite broadly too, that the convention was c thus early to allow the railroad men to get in their work on the delegates and_thus call a halt to all exireme legislation, It is conceded that Allison will be the unanimous chofoe of the convention, but any contlict over pendin, legislation might complicate matters an; render success at the election uncertain, The St. Johnites are already in the fleld and making desperate efforts to organize the third puarty, and many feel that unanimity and concert of action is absolutely neceasary to insure success, both in the convention and at the polls, Rex, To pse Out Music Business we will sell pianos and organg at the lowest possible rates for cashs Call and see us—it will pay you. M & AKIN. tion. overy vio- A N Omaha Seed House. 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