Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 14, 1888, Page 4

'HE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TRAMS OF SURSCRIPTION. iy (Morning Edition) including Sunday D‘nu‘-. e Year . v .o ;'(:r 8ix Months e § t Three Montlis H DING, WARHINGTON OFFICE, NO. FOURTEENTH BTRER CORRESPONDENCE. 1Leommunications relating to news and edi- orinl matier should be addressed to the BDITOR ¥ THE DEE, b BUSINESS LETTERS. Al business Jetters and remittances should bs fddressed to Tre BEE PUBLISITING COMPANY, OMAmA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders to Ve made payable to the order of the eompany. T Bee Publishing Company, Proprictors BE. ROBEWATER, Editor. " THE DAILY BEE. Bworn Statement of Oirculation. Btate of Nebraska, s County of Douglhs, G 1. Taschiick, secretary of The fies Pub- ishing company, does solemaly swear that the lcm.f' ‘erenlation of the Daily Tieo for thie week ending May 11, 1885, was as follows: & ay b 310 GRO. B. TZ8 Bworn to and subscribed in Xfiy 12th day of May, A. D., 1888, A Notary Btate of Nebraska, fa County of Douglas, ! B, Tuschuck, being first duly sworn, oorgo el 0 Bee dlepases and says that lie s secretary of Eublishing company, tht, the actual averago daily circulation of the Daily Bee for the month of Muy, 1897, was 14,227 coples: for June, 1857, }\«m coples; for Jnl(, 1887, 14,008 coples; f g 1st, 1887, 14,151 coples; for Septem 1 ples: fOr October, 1857, 14,553 coplea: November, 1867, 15,28 copie; for December, 1887, 16,041 ' coplés; for Junuary, 1K, 15,20 e} for Februnry, 1888 ine copiess for Mare 0,080 coples; for Apr 744 copies, o BE0. . 128C HUCK. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my D. 1888, Notary Public, presence this2d day of May, A ‘WHILE the Mississippi river is acting like an unmanageable yearling, the Missouri is quietly ploughing away in harpess through its old furrows. Tue Butchers’ National association, numbering 14,000 knights of the cleaver, hold a convention at Philadeldhia next week. They will have a bone to pick with the manufacturers of adulterated lard, and roast those packers wha sell them shoulders for hams. —— S0 11 was Prince Bismarck who pri- vately gave a tip to the sultan of Mo- rocco to settle his dispute with us by arbitration. Kind old Bismarck, he may not like American pork, but he does not desire to see the United States go out of hog raising and into the fight- ing business. CHOAIRMAN BALCOMBE, of the board of public Works, has been besieged by 258 applicants who want positionsasinspect- ors of public works. The work of in- spection has grown to be one of the sin- ecures which every man feels himself competent to fill, Omaha is sorely in need of 1nspectors who will inspect. THE Toledo, Peoria & Western rail- road has just settled the last claim for damages in connection with the Chats- worth bridge disaster. It took $300,000 o indemnify the people injured in the wreck and the relatives of those who were killed. The Toledo & Western congratulates itself in getting out of the serape so cheaply. Forty dollars spent for repairs on the culvert in time would have prevented the disaster. But then, that would not be railroad financiering. THE assignment of the wholesale com- mission house of William T. Coleman & Co., of San Francisco, is said to have been due to the inability of the firm to sell two million dollars worth of borax. The disaster came about through a speculation in borax lands. Mr. Cole- man tried to create a borax trust of his own and reap the profits when the rise came. But there was a screw loose somewhere in his calculations and the collapse was inevitable. Corners in horax are as treacherous as corncrs in ‘wheat. The international copyright bill after many trials succeeded in passing the senate, and goes to the house for final action. When the bill becomes law,” American writers and authors will have the product of their braivs protected to some extent from the free trade piracy of foreign publishers. It is one of the absurdities of our times, that while congress has protected every ible form of American industry, it as turned a deaf ear to the memorials and bills introduced to accord to liter- y men the protection due to their labors. If anything needs protection to-day it is certainly American liter- ature. — IT must be interesting to note the changes which come upon certain locali ties of a growing city in the course of wmaoy years, Nota great while ago the lower ends of Dodge, Douglas, Farnam, Harney and Howard streets were occu- pied by retail stores, but during recent years that locality has been given up mostly to wholesaling and for other reasous has fallen into disregard as a suitable district for the better class of retuil stores. The new Douglas street bridge, however, will doubtless bring about another material change in the character of abutting property, and gside from greatly enhancing values, redeem the locality as a profitable re tailing district, ——— THE people have again won a great victory over fraud, corruption and rings. In spite of the pressure and political influence brought to bear to free the Cook county, Illinois, officials guilty of embezzlement, they have all been sent to the penitentiary. As a last resort four of them, Van Pelt, Ochs, Leyden and Wasserman, appealed to the supreme court to set aside the ver- dictof the lower court on the ground that there were errors in the original trial, Through technical loopholes theze bood- lers expected to escape the clutches of the law. But the court ruled that al- though there were some errors in the trial, they were not of sufiicient import- Bnce to justify a reversal of judgment. By this decision the Iilinois benoh has * set u most important precedent. With the fate of the Chicago and New York . boodlers fresh in mind, erooked officinle " eught t> have a suflicient warning. The Second Distriot. The republicans of the Second con- gressional district will to-day nominate a candidate for congress. Mr. Laird desires a renomination, and his friends have been working hard and zealously to secure it. The following upon which Mr. Laird depends is not simply ag- gressive; it is daring and reckless, and, if necessary, unscrupulous. It will hes- itate at nothing in order to win. Mr. Laird has no claim upon the rep- utable republicans of the Second dis- trict. His congressional service has brought them neither honor nor ad- vantage, He has not the ability or the character to command the re- gpect and confidence of his col- leagues in the house, and such a repre- sentative can be of no use to his con- stituents. He is not in sympathy with the people, being the creature and in- strument of the corporations. Con- spicuously weak as a legislator, his per- sonal habits are an affront to the state which he in part represents. There are capable and reputable re- publicans in the Second district who would worthily and acceptably repre- sent that constituency in congress. One of them should be selected to succeed Mr. Laird. It is to be feared, however, that this will not be done. There is danger that the better class of republi- cans will allow themselves, as in the past, to be overawed by the supporters of the congressman, who will of course be present in full force to dominate the convention if permitted to do so. They must be met with firm- ness and courage, but unfortunately these are too often wanting at the yital moment. The republicans of the Sec- ond district will honor themselves and the state by retiring Mr. Laird and nominating & man to succeed him who has both ability and character. If they omit to do this they may suffer defeat, notwithstanding the fact that the re- publican voters of the district are largely in the majority. That would not be a greater misfortune than re- taining in congress a wholly unfit rep- resentative. 0 Close This Weck. The debate on the tariff bill in the house of representatives will come toan end this week. It will thereafter be in order to offer amendments to the meas- ure, the advocacy of which will be lim- ited to five minutes. These will un- doubtedly be very numerous, and it is probable that the remainder of the month at least will be consumed in the consideration of amendments. ‘With regard to the prospects for the passage of the bill, they are believed by its supporters to have grown more favorable. The conversion is noted of several democrats who at the outset were opposed to the measure. This has been brought about not only by the vigorous application of the party whip, but also by the influence of democratic expression throughout the country. The voice of the party uttered through state gad congressional conventions has been uniform in ap- proval of the reform views expressed by the president, and which the tariff bill is assumed to be in accord with. Demo- crats whohave opposed these views have been vigorously notified of the disap- proval of their constituents. A notable instance is the defeat of Representative Wilkins of Ohio for renomination, and the selection of a candidate who favors the president’s position. Judge Seney of that state found it necessary to his political salvation to assure his con- stituents that he would support the tariff bill. Both of these are in strong democratic districts which they have long represented. These circumstances are causing democratic congressmen who have not favored the tariff bill, and who desire to be re-elected, to see tnat the way of political safety for them- selves is in acting with the party, and it will not be at all surprising if when a vote is taken Mr. Randall is not found standing almest alone on the demo- cratic side in opposition to the Mills bill, In that case the measure may go through the house by & very small ma- jority. i It is understood that the republicans of the ways and means committee are preparing a bill to be offered as a sub- stitute for that of the majority, but it is said they are having some difficulty in harmonizing the views of the republi- cans of the house as to the sort of measure that ought to be brought for- ward, In any event it is apparent that the determination of the matter will be upon party lines, and in this case the chance of any measure of tariff reform passing at the present session is ex- tremely small. To — One Hundred Years Ago. Next year will be as rich in centenary events commemorating the history of the United States as was the centen- nial year in which the country cele- brated the signing of the declaration of independence. On the 4th of March, 1789, under the constitution adopted by the states the previous year, the first congress of the United States assembled at New York. But the prospects did not at all open favorably for the young republic. A number of the states had not yet sent their delegatesand con- gress could do nothing but meet and adjourn until a sufficient number of congressmen had arrived to constitute a - quorum. When congress finally assembled for the transaction of business, the electoral vote was opened and George Washington was found to have received the unauimous vote of the electoral coliege for president, and John Adams, having received the next highest num- ber of votes, was declared vice presi- dent. It was not, however, until April 30 that George Washington was inaug- urated as the first president of the United States of America. This momentous event 1 the first hundred years of our republic under our present form of government will be celebrated in a most fitting manner by the city of New York. Committees are now at work to make the occasion memorable in the aunals of history. General Sheridan has . accepted the duties of grand marshal so that the pageant attending the celebration will be fully in keeping with the brilliant episode. . On this occasion the president-elect and the e president, - the cabinet, the judges of the supreme court, the mil tary and naval officers, state and civie dignitaries and represeatatives of for- eign governments will be present to take part in the event to be commem= orated. The more permanent foature of this centennial is to be a six weeks’ fair at the ball room of the Metropolitan opera house, at which there is to be an exhibition of mementoes and rellcs of the inauguration 100 years ago. A mosT singular ?clslnn has just been rendered by Judge Tuley, of the Chicago circuit court, which goes back to slavery days for its law, The judge held that children born in slavery are illegitimate, whether their parents were regularly married~or not, since under the law and condition of slavery slaves were chattels and no legal mar- riage botween them was possible. That such @& decision should come twenty-five years after the extinction of slavery is barbarous. It reaffirms in ef- fect the dictum in the Dred Scott case, where Judge Taney laid down that ‘‘a slave had no rights which a white man was bound to respect.” Since slaves were chattels, according to Judge Tuley, chattels could not marry; could not own real estate; could not make contracts. And the issue of such slave-marriage, being illegitimate, cannot inherit prop- erty left by the will of an emancipated slave. The ruling may be a strict and logical deduction of law as based upon customs of the extinct southern slave institutions. But the judge has en- tirely ignored the emancipation procla~ mation of President Lincoln, which in spirit, if not in so many words, swept away all the peculiar legal and political disabilities affecting the negro before his emancipation as well as after it. There is no doubt that Judge Tuley's decision on the case will be overruled by the higher courts of the state. THE failure of New York to carry out the promise made to the country to erect a monument over the grave cf General Grant that should be worthy of the fame of the great soldier fully justi- fies the popular opposition that was made to allowing his remains to be buried in that city. For some time past it has seemed that all interest in the matter had died out, and that the pro- ject of a monument had been practically abandoned. Such, however, appears not to be the case, and by way of re- awakening interest it is announced to be the intention to have next month a grand fair and festi-al, the proceeds of which will go to the monument fund. Very likely in this way a considerable sum can be raised, but after all it is a small and petty method of providing a monument to the greatest soldier of the age. Asa contemporary well says, imagine the people of Liverpool holding a fancy fair for the purpose of raising money for a monument to the Duke of Well- ington, or Marseilless doing the same thing to provide a memorial to Na- poleon the great. Conceive, if you can, of Germany’s relegating the construc- tion of a monument to the Emperor ‘William to the ladies of the principal cities of the empire, and providing funds by the sale of relics and memen- toes which the great kaiser had collected during his long life. The fact that a paltry million dollars cannot be secured in the wealthiest city and state of the nation to erect a monument to the coun- try’s most distinguished soldier, and that all sorts of expedients are sug- gested to get together the required amount, is calculated to make every American blush with shame, and yet is the result that thousandsexpected. The time will come when the nation will be called upon to erect at its capital city a monument worthy of Grant, but that time will be delayed until New York has fully demonstrated that she will not fulfill her promise to the nation. Now that the “favorite sons” have been led out on the track for exercise, the knowing ones are quietly inspecting the political racing stables for a promis- ing dark hors NEBRASKA JOTTINGS. Bancroft is after a grist mill, Oalkland is infested with tramps. Superior is going to have a cigar factory. David City is going to have electric lights, Long Pine wants to remove the county seat. Nance county is to have a new democratic paper. Republican City expects to get a sorghum factory. The Boone County Argus has reached its twelfth year. The Fremont Herald announces a new play Uncle Tom's Cabin. The saloons of Cedar Rapids have olosed for lack of patronage. York is taking steps to secure a busincss college and normal school. A new paper has been started at North Bend called the Protector. The papers of Dodge county are agitating the question of & new court house. Republican City has voted bonds for the erection of an $4,000 school house. Volume 1, No. 1, of the Linwood Journal has appeared, edited by E. M. Webb. NConsiderable stock throughout the state was lost by lightning during the late storm. Horse thieves are operating in the unor- ganized territory west of Gandy, Logan county. Shelton is terribly worked up over the fact that it has natives sufficiently depraved to steal lumber* Arthur Winney's house, six mies north of Stuart, was struck by lightning last Wednesday night. A once peautiful Kentuek: to bave been sixty years old, was foun week near North Platte, The Farmers' Advacate, North Loup, “is rifle supposed last glad to hear” that a suit against a local M. D. has been compromised. J. R. Clark, of Lincoln, offers to give $10,- 000 for a Y. M. C. A. building at Lincoln, if 23,000 can be raised elsewhere, The members of the Lincoln press club are fitting up some cosy rooms in the opera house block for general headquarters. William Moore, of Wyoming, Neb., “skinned up” a hollow tree after a coon, The #coon"” was an eighty-pound lynx. A flash of lightning slid along a wire fence in Pawnee county, durin, rm and killed nine head of cattle standing in a row. Two hundred thousand dollars is to be used in the erection of shops at McUCook and really has advanced 25 per cent on the prospect. The druggists convention recommended that the proper steps be taken toward adding a schoul of pbarmacy to the state university, The Genoa city council proposes to make the saloon licenses $500 if the saloonkeepers will contribute an equal amount to the water works. On Monday Revs. Bross and Powell, resi dent pastors, presented to the people of Chad ron the idea of securing the locatiom of the college of the Northwestery. Congregational assbolation. Deany Dugan, woll known to rail on the Black Hilts éivision, was killed while on duty iast \\'flzs l‘rim( a passenger run be- tween Missouri Yalley and Sioux City, onthe Sioux City & Pacifte. Superior is at prasent engaged in the bi t building bosm, she ever experienced ver $100,000 will be invested in brick blocks during the coming shmmer, and & large num- ber of fine dweliligs are now i course of erection, Two sons of Mr. FMilman, a farmer near Stromsburg, aged six and nine, loaded a shot im with a stick., While the younger was ooking into tha, barrel the gun was dis- charged, the stick passing part way through the boy's head. William Francis, 'a Otoe_ county, mnear thunderstorm opo day last ‘week while stretching a bath/ wire on his farm was shocked by lightning aod prostrated for about thred hours, A child eighteen months old was Inlled at Fairbury Thursday afternoon, being run over by the cars. The littleone had strayed from home and was playing on_the track. It was run over by the engine and two box cars of a Grand Island train, Two weeks ago Joo Mason and Georgo Holt, of Cedar county, ‘‘treed” a wolf in a hole in the ground, and when they dug it outthey caught seventeen wolves. two old ones and fifteen young ones. The bounty re- ceived was $3 per scalp. A citizen of Juniata, J. T. Quinn, Is missing. The last nows from him was in a letter which he left for his father-in-law, lnfurmlnf him that he would never see him'again as it Was his intention to go immediately to the Platte river and drown his troubles in a watery grave, The trcsont indication Is that the gather- ing at Crete this summer, at the meeting of the Chatanqua, wiil be the largest ever held at that interosting summor rosort. The various professions, churches and societies will all be represented, and most of them have headauarters of their own. “Ed, Northway,” says the Dundy Demo- crat, “who resides seven miles southwaost of town, is under surveillance of the sheriff, with chances favorable for his early trans- portation. Northway is owner of a poor lit- tle pony team, with which he has been trying to do farm work, The neighbors say that one day recently Northway became enraged because the ponies could not do certain work, and to punish nnc&}(hem he cut out its tongue. Northway denies this stoty, but the ogly explanation he can offer is tbat the tongue ‘ust come off.’ prominent farmer of Palmyra, during & —_———— Labor in California, Sacramento Bee. The labor question has been forced prominently to the front asa burning question of the hour by the assured fact that an enormous crop of fruit will need to be gathered, packed, cared for, cured, or canned within the next five months. There are not so many Chinese in the state as there have been and the hop fields will use many of those still here. Every branch of business is prospering as never before. Manufac- turing of all kinds was never before so active, and railroad building is going on at a marvelous rate. This general prosperity has called into service very much of the available help 1n the state, and most of it has been withdrawn from the orchard and vineyard to more inter- esting fields. That is to be expected, and there is good reason for it. Labor is bound to go where it finds the most profitable and congenial employment, aud it must be said that horticulture has not, so far in California, offered it any such inducembnts. As arule, the laborer in the yineyard, orchard, or on the farm is treated with only so much consideration asappears just to tolerate him. He is housed in a haystack, fed no more invitingly than a hog, and worked as long as he can stand up. Be- sides, the pay in too often ridiculously inadequate. Under such circumstances it is not to be wondered at that men do not care to seek the orchard or the field to work. The proposition that has been advanced and })m inlly carried out to bring negroes from the south has some advantages. The best interests of the state lie in establishing and maintain- ing well paid labor that toil shail not seem an endless round of hopeless effort where ambition isdead and the pros- pect of home and happiness impossible. f the negroes of the south are to fur- nish so agreeable a solution of the labor uestion they will bo welcomed to Cali- ornia. —_————— ‘Wyoming No The definition of Wyoming significs “tall grass.” During the days preced- ing cattle-raising on the great plains of this territory the name wasappropriate, but now it is to the casual observer one of the things of the past. The buffalo, elk and ull other animals of the plains had the richest pasture on the globe, which abounded in the greatest quantities. Among the most noted val- leys of those days for tall grasses were the Sweet Water, Sand, Horse and An- telope creeks, Topoagie, Twin creclk and all the tributaries of Wind river. Topoagie has a similar significance, “tall grass,” indicating the tallest of tall grass. It is upon this latter named stream, in the early days when the In- dians reigned supreme, where the first oil discovery was made and which now is owned by four of Omaha's citi- zens, Rogers, Murphy, Lovett and Lowe. From this discovery and development of this valuable property has resulted in the explorations and surveys of the en- tire countr{l]yiug between the Rattle Snake and Big Horn ranges and be- tween Oil mountain and Wind River ranges, defining what is known as the main oil belt of Wyominf territory. Some ten years have ¢lapsed since these Omaha parties first visited the field and after close observations, geological and scientific surveys at great expense, fol- lowed by the 1, three wells were completed which ave producing oil with a flow of 600 barrels per day. Thisshows what grit and tenacity have done and it will soon indicate to the people of Omaha the bonanza this quartett has within its grip whenthe railroad reaches the fiold, A beautiful green oil have been found pear the eastend of the field and as soon as the section, town, and range ocan be positively de- fined, further information will be given, the sample showa isof very rich guality. —— ‘Whore Not to Put Dimes. The American steeet car or the ticket window of a railroad station frequently offers this unpleasant spectacle: A well dressed, and,to all outward appear- ances, a well bred woman, opens her pocketbook, picks out a piece of money, and deliberately putg it in her mouth and holds it there while she closes her purse, readjusts hov glove,and arrunges her many packages. [f some modern Smollet would lay hefore her cyes the “Adventures of aDime,” if she could even dimly conceive of the unutterable fullness through which the coin she holds between her dainty lips has prob- ably passed, a loathing” harror would overwhelm her, Butin blissful uncon- sciousness she cavesses that which is the embodiment of all filthiness, Aside from the view of cleanliness is the ques- tion of contagion. That this nasty Labit is often responsible for the spre of infectious disease cannot be doubted. e-Stroke, @ powerful ' Fre; 4 fathry, has been bought by sa Vaughn. 1iis described as extremely sensational. In Sara Berc Tosea-Najoz she has at her 50'1DARY 1 b is reported to —— dt’s afidavit in the La ntroversy, ‘she stutes that ne 500 plays, sent to her by sardous, not one of which Lias she yet ve STRONG FRIEND ON THE BOARD The Railroads Have a Pliant Tool in Secretary Ager. SQUARELY AGAINST THE PEOPLE’ Some Figures Oited to Prove the Falsity of His Statements—Prepar- ing For the Annual Clam Bake-Oity Briefs, 1020 P STREET, LiNcoLN, May 18, For several months a portion of the board of transportation has been working for and urging the substantial reduction of freight rates in Nebraska for the purpose of afford- ing the people some relief. During all these months from one particular quarter of the board there has come constant, ingenious and persistent efforts to thwart such reductions. The apparent success achioved by the delays hias given one of the secretaries of the board courage to come out in a long article in which the true inwardness of the delay is manifest, The article was read Thursday last at the board ineeting and has been largely pub- lished, It is the work of Secretary J. H. Arer, the one member of the board whose every act and word since he went upen the commission has been against relief for the people. The record of the board on all im- portant questions shows this. In the contest made to determine tho power of the law he was always against it, and when Secretary Mason was furnishing to the public the exact facts and figures that showed how Nebraska suffered in comparison with other states, it was Secretary Ager who attempted to throttle that work. In the light of the rec- ords of the board and the knowledge of every man who has watched the complexion of the board it will not be surprising that Mr. Ager comes out before any perma- nent relief is gained and asks that the board cease work, that it do not attempt to lower rates and that it content itself with mending pump handles and the drawing of salaries. Ar. Ager’s article summed in a sentence ad- vocates that the board make no efforts to re- duce local rates in the state through adopting a distance tariff, Thero is a similarity between the specious plea of Mr. Ager and the printed argument of Thomas L. Kimball before the legislature that is very striking in its charae But the manifest untruthfulness of Mr. Ager's articlo is equally remarkable. His state- ments are equally contradicted by facts and figures in possession of the board, that were published months ago and were unchal- longed. Mr. Ager states that since the 5th of April, there have been substantial reductions in both stateand inter-state rates. This statement is not true. Both the rec- ords and evidence prove the statement false. The following figures of record disprove the statement of reduction: At Omaha the lumber rate prior to April 5, 1857, was from 8 to 10 cents net. On April 5, when thé in- terstate law went into cffect, the rate was raised to 20 cents. It was reduced by com- promise to 15 and by compelition since to 16 cents, leaving it still nearly double the ' amount prior to Aprl b5, In addition to this, prior to the inter-state law, Omaha on lumber and packing house products wason an equality with Kansas City and other Missouri river points, but is not now on rates on those products. ‘The rate on hard coal to Omaha prior to April 5, 1887, was net $2.50. It was clevated at that date to &, and has since been reduced by compromise to $3.45, leaving it still 95 cents higher than it was a year ago. Merchandise from Chicago to Omaha, in car load lots, was, prior to April 5, 1887, 20 cents, on that date advanced to 30 cents, since reduced to 25 cents, 5 cents higher than before the date cited. Grain, Omaha rate prior to April 5, 1837, was 15 cents. On that date it was elevate to 20 cents and has remained there. ‘With the above figures on Omaha rates the following Lincoln rates are in the same proportion: Lumber rate prior to April 5, 1887, net rate 14 cents, raised April 5 to 26 cents, reduced by competition to 28 cents, and by competition since to 19 cents, being still 5 cents higher than it was April 5, 1887, Hard coal prior to Aprit 5, 1887, net rate £3.10, elevated April 5 to 2. This was 80 outrageous an advance that the roads were ashamed of it and reduced it to $4, and the compromise brought it down to $3.00, leaving it still 50 cents a ton higher than it was April 5, 1857, The Lincoln grain rate prior to April 5, 1887, on corn, was net 13 cents, raised that date to 24 cents, and since reduced to 22 cents, 4 cents higher than formerly, On other articles of shipment the same character of reduction is manifest and in the same proportion as these figures show are the people paying higher ratcs. These figures are of record, and it is very ingenious in Mr. 3“’:1"0 insinuate that rates have been re- uced. It has been the desire of a portion of the board to get relief from these advanced inter- state rates by reducing the local distance tariff in the state and by adopting an equal- ized local distance tariff for relief and some degree of equity for the people. The faot is notorious that Iowa, Minnesota and the ter- ritory of Dakota enjoy far more reasonable rates than Nebraska, and where both the volume of business and population should ive this state the lower rate. The railroads n Nebraska—and particularly the Burling- ton—have a basis that they act upon that uses the first class rate as the unit to figure from, and from this they make the fourth class rate from 60 to 75 per cent of the first class rate. Inthe fourth class two-thirds of the local shipments are made, and a reduction in the fourth class would reach largely every consumer. It is an estab- lished precedent with roads over the entire country that the fourth class rate shall be 50 per cent of the first class, and in Towa, Minnesota and Dakota this plan is adopted, while in Nebraska the fourth-class is made a third higher. The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul tariff sheets on file at the oftice of the board of trauspor- tation show the fourth-class rate on that road less than 50 per cent of the first-class. The same is true of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha railway, and the same is true on the Chicago, Burlington & North- ern, a part of the Burlington system, that givos to Minnesota fourth-class rate 50 per cent of the first, while in Nebraska a fourth- class rate 70 per cent of the first is exacted. One illustration is very pertinent on this point. The local distance tariff on live stock on the Chicago, Burlington & Northern for a distance of 200 miles is $40.20, while the local distance tariff on hive stock 200 wiles in Nebraska is $15. In the facc of these facts of record the hypoerisy of Secretary Ager in stating that rates are low - enough in Nebraska, shines with the more brilliancy, In the face of the fact that counties in Minnesota and Iowa with a population no greater and no greater volume of business than counties all through castern Nebraska, have a local distance and distributing tariff 20 per cent lower than the Nebraska tariff on nlrme commodities that malke the bulk of trade, it would scem that there is a demand fe peal reductions in this state. Much more strongly does the argu- ment come when Nebraska is compured with the sparscly settled districts of Dakota in the same unenviable light 3 The public who have watched the facts in regard Lo the excessive rates in this state as they have been brought out in the cascs heard before both the state board and the inter-state comission, read through the thinly disguised plea for the railrouds made by Mr. Ager, and will await th tion of the board on the proposed local distance tariff question with aaded interest. It 18 very evi dent that the roads could not select & more eager and pliant tool to represent them than Sccretary Ager has proved himself to be in his pleadings to have the railroads left alone in their extortions. PREPARATORY TO A CLAM DAKE. Deputy Marshal Ed Allen, of Omaha, was in the city to-day attend ing of the committee who have ho fortheoni- ing bake by the State Clam Bukers' ussocia- tion. Mr. Allen declares that the gathering the present year will be the largest and most noteworthy of any in the history of the asso ciation, and that there are fifty applicants for wmembership in Omaha aloue will decide both upon the tit the bake, and the necessary products to secure for the feast and the comiuon eo forts attending. * Milford secins: to be fivor ably considered for the location; “Qne of the LincoLy Bureav or Tig Oxana Bes, } speaial attractions will be to dctermine who oan dovour the most clams at one sitting, General McBride at the present time holding that place of honor. CITY BRIEFS, E.T. Gadd of Omaha who has recently located in Lincoln as tho financial agent of the new Christian unjversity, has published an appeal for contributions to aid in the erection of the first building, The donation given the college to locate here was entirely in lands where the new institution will ba built, and it is the desire of the board of trustoes to hold these lands for an endow- ment and start the school by getting the building by popular subscriptions. The case of Barnes against Adams county to restrain the issuance of a portion of the Missouri Pacific bonas was heard before Judge Field yestorday and he will give his docision Wednesday next. It is claimed by the Missouri Pacific people that the injunc- tion proceedings aro @ part of the organized plan 1o prevent and harass the Missouri Pa- cific in its extension of lines in this state. It is claimed that Barnes is a right of way man for the B. & M. ofticials in this city. Itis statod that like efforts will be made to pre- vent the bonds voted by Nuckoll county from being issued to the Missour! Pacific. Passengers who . since the strike are somewbat timid. other day an old lady sat ina conch as the train was nearing this ocity and she clung to the arm _of the seat and had such a frightened look that the passengers all pitied her, When the conductor came through she told him of her fears of an accident with the inexpe- rienced engineers in charge, but the conduc- tor was equal to the occasion, and told her there was no danger, and that the old en- gineer was in charge. ' With a sigh of relief she rode tvithout fear tho rost of the journey and the scab enginear pulled ono passenger that had confidence in his ability. There will not be much railroad bullding out of Lincoln this yoar. but it is practically settled that the Missouri Pacific will, before snow flies, build from this point to Roca in this county on the Crete linaof the Missouri Pacific, giving Lincoln a western outlet on the now line. Mrs. Emma Manchester, department presi- dent of the woman's relief corps, has issued an order for the general observance of deco- ration day on the part of the different branches of the relief corps in the state, There was a large delegation of enthusiastic base ball admirers that journeyed to Omaha to-day to witness the national game. ‘The funeral of Charley Eaton to-day was one of the largest attended in the city for some time, and the services were both beau- tiful and impressive, A new tariff schedule has gone into effect on the Elkhorn road that assists Lincoln ship- mysaomcwhnt inreaching northern Nobraska points. e Honey in Georgia. After dinner at Mr. Mitchell’s, says the Griffin (Ga.) News, we were sitting on his front piazza, smoking, and I dis- covered some bees going in and out of a knotinone of the large oak treesin front of his dwelling. This tree is known to be over one hundred years old. Ilearned that some years agoa swarm of bees assembled in that tree as their new home, and they have worked and lived there over since. After they had been there for three years the col- ony became very large and strong, and no attempt had ever been made to rob them of their honey. At last Mr. Mitchellcame to the conclusion that the tree must be full of honey, from seecing large numbers of flies and bees around the root of the tree; so he set to work to devise some means to get the honey without cutting the tree down. After applying all the tests known to bee men he satisfied himself that the tree was full, and then decided to tap it like a fellow is tapped for dropsy. So he got him a faucet and an augur and bored a hole in the tree near the root, and then screwed in the fau- cet, and to his surprise and great de- light a solid stream of pure and elegant honay as clear as crystal gushed forth, and the supply seemed almost inexhaus- tible. It continued to pour out until he had filled six barrels; and he hasdrawn each year since that time from three to four barrels of pure strained honey from that old oak tree,and up to this time there seems to be nosignsof a failure of the supply, as the bees are still a very strong and healthy colony. The same year that Mr. Mitchell tapped the old oak tree there was a new thick growth sprunk up all around the old oak of an_unusual nr:fmnrance, hav- ing a smooth bark and thick, waxy leaves. One day he pulled off one of the leaves and put it in his mouth and found it to be very sweet, and upon ex- amination of the place from which he had plucked the leaf he discovered that the plant was bleeding or emitting from the wound a clear, thick-looking juice, which, upon tasting and examination, proved to be honev. He then com- menced to nurse the new volunteer growths with tho tenderest care and at- tention, looking after them daily; and as the summer ad- vanced the plants continued to grow, andin the fall he selected and transplanted 300 of them iu very rich soil, thirty feet apart, and they grew very rapidly, making a beautiful dis- play with their straight, smooth trunks and their thick and glossy wax-like leaves. And the grove wasscen and admired by all for miles and miles around. Mr. Mitchell’s idea was that, as large money was made from the sugar maple by unilqu the juice, he ought to make more from a tree that would run pure honey, and he was right. When the trees were four years old, in the fall of the year,they were large enough to insert faucets. So he had 300 faucets made to order and screwed them into the young trees, and the following spring the result was re- markable.- Each tree yielded an aver- age of ten gallons of the richest golden honey; the following year each tree yielded an average of twenty gallons, and now the average is about a barrel to each tree during the year, and the grove continues to grow and flourish and shows no signs of failing to supply in the years to come. The quality of the honey isso fine and the flavor so delicate that it always commands the highest prices, and the demand is greater than the supply. —_— French Flower Girls. Several thousand girls in New York are employed by the manufacturers of avtificial lowers, The factories cluster thick in the old French quarter of West Bleceker and Houston streets, and hundreds of pretuy girvls trip to their work every morning past the odd little French restaurants and places of more doubtful reputation, whose windows are never open until mid-morning. One of the prettiest of these flower workers, glancing brightly from out a bower of golden ringiets, said to the New York Telegram’s Bleecker street reportor: “We girls learn this business in from four to ten months, We make nothing while learning and have to pay for in- struction. Au outfit of tools costs $15, and we must buy that ourselves. When a girl has learned her trade she can malke from 810 to $18 a week.” **Do you work from natural flowers?” “Oh, no,” she laughed. *“Some of us have seldom seen a natural flower save in the show windows. Here are our de- signs,” and she opened a book in which were prints of roses, lilics, violets and a 31 er flowers in their nutural she went on, ‘are our knives, brushes and paints, The wax from which some of the Howers are made comes in thin sheets. We cut it into leaves, stamens and petals with the knives, and the men ourl the parts in the pressing machines. We paint the wax flowers according to these designs. Flowers are also made of cloth It comes in yarious.colars, and we select those suitable for the flowers we ard waking. “When the flowérsare finished they are put up in tissue ¢ and boxed for the wnolesnlo trm](l:“” “To pear next month on new bon- nets, oh?” “Oh, no, they dont,” she sa1d with a fresh smile. **We don’t make millin- ers’ flowers hero. These are used for house decoration, for show windows and theatres. Of course, though, milliners’ flowers are made in New York and thousands of dollars’ worth are imported every year. Now take this cloth rose for your buttonhole If you want an orange wreath for a bridal veil you must go elsewhere,” ——————e A STRAN GE SPANISH SECT, People Who Belleve in Golng Naked and Woundig Themselves. Your readers may remember that some time ago I drew attention to a very remarkable phase of religious favaticismn i the little village of Tolox, in the province of Malaga, which led to a state prosecution, The devotecs of the religion, I may call to mind, took itinto their heads, or, rather were led to bo- lieve by their loador, & woman who de- clared hersell a Ymphutuss, that the highest form of religion was to conduct the mundane affairs of this lifo in the simple garb of Adam and Eve beforathe fall, This was bad enough, and led, ns I have said, to the intorvention of the Crown; but it was not their only diver- gence from the ways of ordinary mortals another portion of their dw&r¥nu boing to inflict upon themselves wounds in the hands, breast and feet, such as are shown in representations of the eru- vifixion, They ulso burnt all, or nearly all their worldly possessions, in the belief that a higher power would pro- vide them with food, "Their behavior, indeed, was such that,as stated, the vernment felt called upon to inter- ore, and a day or two ago a number of leaders of this strange sect were put, upon their trial. Already the most ex- traordinary revelations have been ade, nl'm‘r!. from what may be called the spiritual manifestations which theso misguided peoplo declare have been made to them. The most in- teresting feature in connection with the trial has been the experiments in hypuotism, which have been made on the defendants by medical specialists— this being the first time hypnotism has been resorted to in - Spain’in the inter- ests of justice. Y In hearty every case the defendants proved to be “‘good” subjects. Many of she cxrenmonts tried by the doctors were of the most extraordinary char- acter. Oue of the accused, for instance, when in a state of hypnotism, on being ordered to perspire, broke out almost instantly in o state of profuse perspira- tion, while another; who was ordered to ascend a very high mountain, being the while in an ordinary room, behave as if he were actually climbing, his breathing becoming difficult and his heart beating violently. When this man was told that he had reached the summit and might rest awhile, the symptoms of exhaustion gradually dis- appeared. Others were pricked with long pins, and gave no evidence of feel- ing what was being done to them. The trial will last several days longer and will probably result in mercly nominal punishment hcinE imposed upon the accused, who for the most part seem to b;: merely harmless, weak-minded peo- ple. —_————— Points Abouat Pipes. On an upper floor of a building on Broadway is an emporium for pipes. he young man in charge said toa New York Telegram reporter that the scason for the sale of briar-root pipes had just set in. ‘*We keep them in all shapes and qualities, and they run in price from $1.25 & dozen to 89 a dozen. The Englishman’s favorite briar pipe is called ‘the bull dog,’ as it is all head, with a long, amberine stem, and sells for $7.50 a dozen. There are plain briar pipes without covers on the bowl, and some with plain and fancy German sil- ver covers, which make an additional expense. [ancy briar pipes go as high as $25 to 830, according so the amount of ornamentation required to be put on them, ““There is quite a demand for apple: wood pipes, which sell at 60c up to $2.50 a dozen, according as thoy are lined with alum or not. The alum prevents them from burning. All the Italians use the applewood pipe, which is speci- ally prararnd for them, stained a deep wine color to resemble mulberry wood, and the bowl, by and ingenious arrange- ment of the small nail heads, is mad to assume a thorny surface. Weichssel, a German importation, is popular with Germans and sells for 65c a dozen, though some retailers, by saying they are the genuine imported ticle, charge as high for a single pipe, 65c, as they would pay for a whole dozen. Lavrel wood makes a sweet pipe and is only 30c a dozen, and should rotail at 5¢ but the dealers easily get 30¢c to 40c for such pipes. The corn-cob pipe, lined with plaster of Paris, is greatly sought by southern poople. They sell for 35¢ a dozen. In a large glass case the meerschaum ipes were on exhibition: one nestled uxuriously in the folds of a red satin- lined and plush-covered box, the shape of a horscshoe, and next to it was a meerschaum cigar and cigarette-holder and a small brass box for matches. ‘‘“Then there are red amd blue plush albums for meerschaum pipe, fancy meerschaum cigar-holder, box for matelies, with clipper for clipping cigar ends, and a steel for pipe cleaning, and silk and plush sacks, lined with rubber, for holding tobacco. Meerschaum bowls without stems are worth $9 a dozen. The full is the best season for tho sale of meerschaum pipes. The Weichssel pipo sells all the year round among the Ge maps. We have one man who travels west to get orders for that pipe alone, and it is astonishing how well he does with it. He carries a large specimen of the pipe himself, with a long stem to it, and smokes it constantly on nis trav- els,” *Do you keep any clay pipes?” “No.” When any one asks for them we direct him to a plage d¢ the street where they make thein a specialty.” —— Sweet Things in Base Ball Costume, Utica has a fomale base ball club, and seems to be very proud of it, for the Herald of that city says: *The popular idea that a girl canuot throw a ball as well as a boy is likely to suffer in this locality this summer, for nine young ladies in this city have formed a buse ball club. The organization has been perfocted, the officers regularly elected, and the players assigned to their posi- tions in the field. A base ball grounds within the city limits has been secured, and as soon as the weather and state of tho grounds pormit, the practicing w il begin. The ground is so arranged that no one will ever discover it unless one of the young ladies botrays the socret. Of coupse the question of costumes is an interesting one. These young ladies will attempt to win their honors at the bat in a blue and white costume. The waist is a looge-fitting blouse-like gar- ment of dark blue serviceable eloth, trimmed with white braid, A semi skirt of the same pattern will be worn. The players will be shod with strong field shoes, which, with black hose and soft felt cap, will complete the uniform of the Utiea Femalé Base Ball club, The progress of the club will he looked for with the deepest interest.” .