Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 26, 1888, Page 5

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Thursday. Dec. Fridny, D Baturday, D Average, VIR 3, TZ8CHUOK, fore me and subscribed in my *nd day of December A, D, 1888 N.P. FEIL, Notary Public. Eworn 1o 1 presence thix duly sworn, de- of the lice pany, that the actual averns : DAILY BEE for the 041 coples; for Jan- February, 148, 1065 coples: for George I, Tzachuck, os and ublishing co dadly circulut mouth of Dec wary, 1488, 16,97 coples: April, 1855, 144 mph coptos: for Jiine, 18, nbux 5 coples for September, |i~x 18, 18, 1804 cop) ity 18,3 copl GEO. 1. TZSCHUCK. Bnmn 1o before me and sabscribed in my Presence this 8th day of Docembor, 1885, N. I’ FEIL Nofary Public. { copls for November, THe Haytian affair has turned unl to be a tempest in a teapot. WESTERN railroad presidents have met in New York to talk over their grievances. It will now be in order for Commissioner Cooley to read them an- other chapter of the riot act. THE appaling loss of life on the river steamboats near Memphis and Plaque- mine brings vividly to mind that such dfsasters, though common twenty years ago, ave now of raro occurrenc THE official organ of the national pro- _hibition party invites the democratic arty to disband and come over to the prohibition eamp. The average demo- crat will look upon this invitation as adding insult to defe: CHAUNC M. DErew, of the New York Central, has found that the steam heating of railronds has proven a su cess. and has equipped almost the on- tire passenger rolling stock of that rail- road with steamn heating apparatus. The deadly car stove will soon go into general disuse. THE press of the country continues to make cabinet slates for Mr, Harrison, who is quiotly awaiting his turn to try a hand at the busin himself. e has plenty of good material to select from, and judging from his conduct so far, it is safe to assume that he will choose his own cabinet and will select men who will do honer to the country and credit to the administration THE professional lobbyists are now engaged in going over the senate and house bills of late sessions of the legis- lature, picking out bills whose only pur- pose was to bleed some business enter- prise or helpless industry which would be compelled in self-preservation to fight them. These bills will be pre- sented again at the coming session, and should be spotted by newspaper men who detest blackmailing schemes. . It appears from o statement made by one of the officers of the Grand Order of Railway Con- ductors at a recent meeting at Pro dence, R. I, that there are twent, eight thousand conductors in the coun- wy and about fourteen thousand of them are members of the order. The socicty has been one of mutual benefit to its members and has long been held in high regard. THERE are thirty-seven different sites proposed for new Fort Omuha. Among these proposed sites are several Yoeated on the east side of the Missouri, either within the limits of Council Bluffs orin close proximity. If it should 80 happen that the site chosen lies on the east side of Council DBluffs, as is now more than prob- able, parties who have been alamoring for a change of location may discover that they have been struck by aboomerang, As a matter of fact, the choice will be between the site below Bellevue and a tract five or six miles east of the Missouri. The latter would, of course, be much nearer Omaha and much more accessiblo to all the rail- ronds going east and west, Tie investigation of the Alaskan out- rages has been taken in hand by the board recently convened for that pur- pose at Washington. The examination 80 far into the reported outrages has come from unofficial sources, and the testimony, bas been more or less con- flicting. There is no doubt but that tho Alaska Fur company, which is so directly compromised in the matter, is frying to gloss over the reports. Cap- tain Leonard Shepard and Captain Michael Healey, of the United States marine service, both thoroughly con- versant with the condition of the na- "ives and the workings of the Alaska Fur company, have been summoued to Appear at Washington to present their wiews on the Alaska question, The testimony of these ofticers is looked for- ward to with great interest. Their re- will undoubtedly set aright the true state of affaigs in Alaska, and will far in influenging the recommenda- tlons of the investigating board to cvn- THE RAILROAD PROBLEM. The first yeat's experience in the working of the inter-state commerce law has, as might have been expected, shown some defects that must be reme- died by additional legislation. Senator Cullom, who, with Senator Reagan, was cly instrumental in the passage of the act, issaid to be engaged in the preparation of able amendments suggested by rience of the manager: also propose a revis- nd- ized they the The * hand, exy commission. railroad on the oth ton of the law from their own st point, Pointing to tho demo: condition of the railroad traffic, are trying to impress upon in general and Senator in particular, that the able condition of the stock market is due directly to the strictions of the inter-state law, which prohibit pooling, as well asto the long and short haul clause, both of which they desire to have repealed. The rail- road managers are always able to make out a plausible case, when they sot out todoso. They can truthfully point to the shrinkage in the value of railroad investments,in the cutting down of divi- dends on a number of railroads, con Cullom de railway That something is radically wrong in the situation nobody denies, but to point to the inter-state law and malke it sponsible for the present situation is absurd, The evils of rate wars and re- ductions in the dividends are not of yesterday or to-day. They existed long before there was an inter o law. The long and the short haul clause, or the clause prohibiting pooling, cannot be held responsible. The present de moralized condition of affairs is the climax of a long series of abuses. It can be traced to over-capitalization of railroads and the “watering™ of stoc It is largely, if not wholly, due to the prevailing system of building railroads through construction companics organ- ized by inside rings, whose positions as officers of the companies enable them to allow the construction company four prices, and loads the railroad down from the outset with fixed charges on ficti- tious loans and fictitious cost of con- struction. A striking instance of this reckless method of inflation is exhinited in the suit just brought the Missouri Pacific construction company by Fitz- gerald and Mallory, the sub-con- tractors who built the roaud. On the face of it, this suit shows that the managers of the Missour Pacific letout the work of building their lines to the construction company, which has simply sub-let the job at an enormous profit, while the tractors have also been allowed to make a handsome profit. Now, why should the Missouri Pacific or any other railroad build and equip itslinesthrough construction companies, when it could do its own grading, track laying and bridge building at perhaps one-fourth the amount allowed? The only logical inference is that the stockholders have been tapped for the benefit of the construction ring. The natural consequence always has been and always will be disastrous to honest investors whenever the water issqueczed out of such roads by competition or by legislative regulation. The hue and cry against reasonable restriction and regulation com with bad grace from those who have brought disaster upon themselves and incident- ally upon the investors in railw: ities by their systematic dishon- esty and reckless mismanagement. The wrecking of railroads is not due to over-rigid inter-state regulation, but to the unserupulous over-reaching man- ipulators of railway construction and theirallies, the railway stock gamblers, 1t was inevitable that the day of reck” oning should come sooner or later. The enormous strain of billions of inflated stocks, representing over-capitalization could not be kept up forever. No mat- ter how prosperous and productive this country may be, its traffic could not possibly pay fixed charges, operating expenses and dividends on the great network of American rail- roads which have allowed their man- agers and stock jobbers to pocket mil- lions upon millions that rightfully be- longed to the stockholder: The blight which at first was confined to ouc or two ms has fallen on two-thirds of the railronds of the country. for the reason that they were all suffering from the same disease. When the pub- lic no longer would be milked, the rail- roads were at last thrown on their own earning powers to pay interest on the capital already borrowed. Railroad managers have found it a hard task to deal with ficti- tious capital as though it were genuine, and pay double and treble dividends. Such an undertaking involves the trust, the suppression of competition and ex- tortion from the publie, The problem that confronts railroad investors and managers must be met as Judge Cooley intimated by ringing out the water. This operation may involve financial disaster in some quarters but the roads will not be worth one cent less when the water 1s squeezed out than they are now, With the water wrung out of them their capacity to pay inte est on their legitimate debts and fair dividends on their stock will be mater- ially improved in the present volume of trade without increasing the totls. re- sub-con- STATE DEPOSITORIES. Srocknas, Neb,, Dec. 24.—To the Editor of Tue Bee: Would it not be a good thing for the state if the coming session of the leg- islature should pass a law, similar to that in force in Kansas, establishing state and county depositories for public money! You are doubtless familiar with the Kansas law. It is patterned after the plan of the United States depositories—the bank designated s a depos- itory being required to deposit state, county or municipal bouds with the auditor as se- curity, besides being the highest bidder for the use of the money. Very truly, J. D, Evaxs, Tur Bre fully approves this propesed reform in the revenue law. It will of course meot with considerable opposis tion from county and city treasure who ave now indirectly interested in the deposits of public funds. But the state at large, and particularly the tax- payers, would derive very material advantage from the proposed law. 1t is notorious that in nearly every instance the bankers thut hold public funds on deposit are the principal bondsmen of the respective treasurers, Under the depository system the bank would give its bond directly to the county or city and cheerfully pay into their tr the interest that is now paid to treasur- ers. The security to the public would be the same, if notbetter. The treasurer may deposit some of his fundsin a wild- cat bank and no county or city board can prevent it even when the failure of the bank might prove disastrous by res son of inability to recover from men. While this is manifest to every intelli- gent member of the legislature we doubt whether any such bill can be passed in face of the pressure of intevested patries. asuries bonds- THE senate will have considerable to say about Leon O. Bailey for United States attorney for Indiana when his name comes up for confirmation. ing the recent campaign Baile industrionsly act in spreading paign lies about General Harrison, and it is a question whether such a man should be honored with an important federal office ATE VOICE PRESS. Hastings Nebraskan: The newsy a gressive Ber is said to be the only ne per in Omaha that is making any money the rest are “'in the soup.” Holdrege Citizen: A good law for the next legislature to pass would be one making some uniformity i taxation. There is too much left to assessors and county boards. Grand Island Tndependent: If the Lincoln Ppapers enter into remonstrating against ap- propriations, it is safe to suy they will not include in their objections any of the public institutions of Lincoln Verdon Vedette:' The legislature of braska meets at noon on the 1st day of Janu- ary, 1880, The sun hides its face with an eclipse in the afternoon of the same day. Further comment 18 unnecessary. Paxton Pilot: Our next legislature ought to do something for western Nebraska, to give them cheaper transportation, on freight. This would be of great advantage to the farmers and producers, as well as to tho shipper. Baneroft Journal: Prof. Bell, formerl) the Norfolk News, has retired from jour: ism and engaged in the undertakers’ busi- ness. We imagine we seo him spit on his hands and smile in demonic exultation as he grasps the scrow-driver to faston down the lid over the fellow who has taken his paper three or four years without paying for it and then sent it back “refused.” David City Press: There is a remarkable evidence of legislative ability being developed on the part of the newspaper ity, if we may judge by‘the advice which is being [ to the member lect to the next legis- lature, If every newspaper man in the state could have the trial of a session, it would in- spire a degree of modesty beyond expecta tion. The next session is going to be a hard one. The cluss of questions coming up are well calculated to create big fights. The Omaha crowd will be unusually pestiverous this trip, with charter amendments, election contests aud railroad schemes. Fremont Tribune: Brad Slaughter is in Washington and he is reported to be there in the interests of Mr. Braa Slaughter, Fuller, braska. He most carnestly desires ced theson-in-law of his father-in-law who mow draws the salary of the United States marshal for Nebraska. Slaughter will be at home m time for the race for the secretaryship of the scoate at its organiza- tion, which he has already held for two or threo sessions, Whether he will be a candi- date for United States senator is not stated, but if he fails to get the marshalship there will be another state election in two years, with seven places to fill and he may get some- thing then. For oficial any vosition. Brad D. Slaughter, of Fullerton. Beatrice Republican: It is now surmised that at thecoming legislature the railroads will endeavor to get some other officer sub- stituted for the attorney-general on the board of transportation. We do not believe however, that any movement in this direc- tion will be countenanced by the legislature. The railroads made a hard fight against Attorney-General Leeso at the polls and failed to defeat him there, and the members of the 'egislature cannot afford to disregard the expressed wish of their constituents. The legislature should sit down, and that oo with pulverizing effect, upon every railroad lobbyist who attempts to secure the passing of pet bills at the next legislature, The best thing the railroads can do is to attend to business and let politics alone. Madison Reporter: If the members-elect of the coming legislature will use the next three weeks to study what laws and amend- ments that are needed to best regulate the many grievgnees complained of by the pe ple, and in secking useful infor mation, rather than for ofiize, both the public and them- selves will be greatly benefitied. In the first place there arc no officcs loose n N braska just at present, while there are so eral cogs loose in the running machinery of the state government, And in the second place, the surest road to political prominence which paves the way to political preferment backed by popular endorsement will be found in an itelligent, bold and manly parti tion in the work of public legislating in the people interests. Our educational interests are great and growing. The large incomes necessary to carry ou this must be carefully husbanded. It will be well for our legisla- tors to look up the question of the state ex- penditures in counestion with the annual ap. propriations, which are growing rapialy to the detriment of the state funds. The rail- road commission will be another question to be solved during the coming legislature, as well as remedying the corporate wrongs. It is no flowery bed on which a true and honest statesman sleeps. OF TH d ag- spa All The Improved Politic Washington Critie In a competitive silence match Mr. Harri- sou is about a stand-off to Senator Quay. - The Two Explo Chicago Times. Sceno—Central Africa: “Emin Bey, [ presume” “The same.” “My name's Stanley--get your duster and come home," “Thanks.” hat and The l)l‘llrhlm ‘Tremens of Art. Paul Ploneer-Pross. We are sorry to learn that so interesting a dramstic trio as Edwin Booth, Lawrence Barrett and Joseph Jefferson have joined the ' Order of Friendship in the movement to limit the importation of foreign actors. This scheme is highly objectionable. It 1s the acme—the extreme radicalismethe de- lirium tremens of indiscriminating high tariff, -~ Afiulll of It, Savannah News. Appexation of Canada to this country is a long way in the future, if, in fact, it ever occurs. There may be commercial union be- tween the two countries one of these days, but there will have to be a great chauge in the public sentiment of both countries before there is political union. This country has all the territory it wants at present. The new stules which will be adwmitted iuto the union has will make from the tereitary It already as great as it the number of states fully ht to be - The Condition fn Omaha. Chicago TrRune. A man in Omaha whipped a policeman who tried to arrest him one day last week and was fined §25, A fow days later a constable in the same city broke the jaw of a man who objected to being arrested, and he was not fined anything. Not o it pay better, but it 1 safer to bs good in Omat — Don't Be in a Hurry About Boston Jowrnal. In the minds of the great majority of American eitizens it is by no means clear that it is worth while to purchase immunity from vexatious international disputes with Canada at the priceof unnexation. Disiniss- ing for tho moment the question whether Canada desires annexation or not, it is well to ask ourselves whether we desire it. There are many potent considerations which would prompt us to answer no, Not the least among these considerations is the character of certatin large and important classes of the anadian people. Itis the genera that we have on our hands alrcady deal more alien material than we can oughly assimilate, / does Canada. opinion a good thor- - The Millenninm. Wall Street News: The date of its com mencement is Jan. 1, 1580, From and after that date the tariff will be the same to all comers, high and low, short and tall, stout and thin, rich and poor. The agents have been instructed by the railroad managers to maintain tariff rates on pain of Uismissal, They can give no concession to any one. Hero is the great opportunity for radical railway civil service reform. If a freight agent gives u shipper a cigar it will be a case for a mild admonition; if he asks him w0 drink he will receive a reprimand; if he says lunch it 1 be se of scvere censure; but if he gets hold of a man with ten or twenty car loads of iirst-class through freight to ship, takes him out to dine, and then secures lim as assistant decorator of the village, it will probably be a case of immediate dis- charge. That is the way it will look on the books, but ir ality it will be different. The agent will get the freight, and then he will be warned that he is altogether too sharp, that this seduction of shippers must not con- tinue, and if the company ever occurring again, he must reconcile himself to an inerense of salary corresponding with the magnitude of the of PROMIN itor Dana says the only kind of novePhe likes is one “chock full of love. Duke Alexis of Russia, : atic husband has for of the Ji . Har! son of Associate Justice dmitted to practice before the United States supreme court. Queen Vietoria, it is now authoritatively stated, has really effected eutrenchinents in her household, involving asaving of $150,000 of which, it is stated, the Prince of 5 to have the benefit, pope's dubileo gift to the Eimpress o the only one which her mujesty . It was ailarge, splendid mo irgin and child surrounded vic is five fect in height alen severil vi and it las ard of 6,000, It has co himsélf with. His. $tccessive bankrupteics have entirely swallowed up the family o3 tates and a rent roll which,ho inherited from his dead fathor a fow weelggRgo. According to the San Francisco Chronicle alittle girl named Bessie, Lancaster, living nearPomona, mude a calico bed quilt. and sent it to General Harrison. Bussie las ro- ceived a letter of thanks from-the president elect, in which he “cloats with a a facetions allusion to the fact that she probably knows Mr. Murel who creited such astir in the campaign by Lis letter to Sack- ville West,” — 'MAS MAGAZINE: CHR The Christmas Judge is a wonderful production. Of course, it would not be in human nature for a republican cari- cature puperto have a triple number without one single fling atthe mug- wumps aud democrats, but there is only one. All the rest of the publication is devoted to subjects that are either jocose or pathetic, and are more or less connected with the Christmas season. Some of the illustrations are admirably artistic specimens of engraving, and the number would be worth the 30 cents without the supplement, which is a chromo lithograph of very unusual merit. It isa reproduction of one of G. Brown’s pictures of strect boy’s life, but is on an unusually large scale for him and contains six figures. It rep- resonts o pretty girl of nine or ten years surrounded by bootblacks, news venders and bouquet selle One of them is holding u bouquet up to her nose. and she is sniffing it with a curi- minghng of timid shyness and Her vink frock is ragged, but her shoes are better condition than those of her youthful admirers, and the spectator’s imagination naturally s gests to him that she is not a strect vender, but a child of poor parents down in the crowded part of lower New York, contiguous to the city hall where the newsboys, bootblacks, and button- hole bouquets fiends mostly congregate. The foot gear of the gumins is fearfully and wonderfully varied, and one of the boys, who is seated on his blacking bo. and looking on with a sympatheti glance, weurs an assortment of rags that nothing could justify save > 0 stre: ak of bad luck in the newsvende vice of pitching pennies, J. G. Brown isan artist in the front rank, who is con- stantly making progress in his profes- sion. He has a great reputation, both in this country and abroad. His pic- tures ave highly relished in England, hecause they forcibly painted and have strong ch: q% tion, and muoch playful humor. The reproduction is an lent one, and @bvious s made at great expense, far the number of stones used was fur gbove the average, Sun and Shade is & magazine withont letter press, a sort of art *‘songs with- out words,” contaiging reproductions by simple photograph, by photogr ure, and by the long:sought for photo- graph in colors. This nas often been done, but never witB anything like the success achieved in @he December num- bar of the Sun and Bhad which con- tains a photograph i# colors printed by .Luu,ell(mkvmod New York, cer- tainly one of the mogt progressive and skilled profe s offthe art of photo- graphy. It is the jortrait of a blonde saucy beauty of abol twelve or thir- teen. The hair 15 g@dmirable both in color and reproductign of texture. The chemise is parfe xcept in one little place behind the arm, where both tex- ture and focus are lost. The flesh of the arm is also perfect. But the face, although wonderful for its life-like ex- pression, is bad in texture and in color, and it is cortain that powder in profu- sion must have been rubbed upon it to aid the artist in trying to do what probably is impossibie. ~ Still the artist has got nearer to the north pole of photography in colors than any man that ever attempted the feat. Of the other illustrations the most successful are the photogravures, and we confess t0 o profound dislike for the photo- gelatines, See-Saw and Castles in Spuin are truly excellent oxamples of what cau be done in photo-gravure, for Lhe,y are entirely without the peculiad rather in much barren acres of Sweden. That they will succeed in making their farms at Col- nett highly profitable there can bo no reasonably doubt. We have, ourselvos, personal knowledge of the success of Swedish colonization in the United States, and_from our own ob fon we have no hesitation in vronouncing the Swedes excellently adapted to col onization. In the northern part of Maine, the eastern most state of the American republic, there is vory prosperous Swedish colony, ysed, of industrious, law-abiding men. In Min- ota, Wisconsin and Dakota, in the stern part of the United States, Swedisk farmers are to be found by tens of thousands, all prosperous. Fven in the southern and semi-tropical stato of Florida the Swedish farmers find no difficulty it pting themselves to the conditions of a climate very different from that of their country. We learn terested in tht development of foreign- | that, if the Swedish colon nt Colnett ers whom he views with a humorous | su eds, thousands of Swedes will come serutinizing and yet sympatheticglance, | ac the Atlantic to make their The story is only three months old, and | homes in Mexico. And we congrat i ady has exercised over the read- [ late the nation on securi colonists ¢ ing public the same rination as the | thisstamn. They will neve n.vmrvv.- Newcomes. The mulwlu yged will re- | meddle with the internal polities of the membor how cagerly cach month the | country, and, if they become citizens by chapter was devoused, and the ensuing | naturalization, they will prove sot chapter anticipated, Neither Trol- | honest men, respectors of the low and lope nor Dickens ever had this | of the constituted authorities. The In- power, beeause both were transparent in | ternational company is doing the right their plots. Every one knew from the | sort of work id under its new man- what would happen to their | agement in Lower Californin many im- nd heroines, and there were no | portant reforms are already under way cture, But Crawford ve- | which will move whatever just keray in this respect, that | grounds for criticism thore may have s circumstances to be fav- | been. orable or unfavorable, because the char acter of his personnges reveals itself little by little, and the events are of minor importance. Faustine Monte- varchi is a true Juliet, and it remains to be gecen whether Goache, the hero, will be a true Romeo, Personally, the writer of this review has his doubts, for Romeo-1sm is a pl in a man’s charac- ter, which must be more or less ephemeral, and never under the most favorable conditions can out- live youth, Whereas Julietism is an underlying element in a woman's character, more or less mod fied according to the individual. No one would droam that there wus any Julict in the frivolous Flavia Monte- varchi, and yeg 1t is there dormant, but uly to appear when circumstance 1 it out. Now frankly we must inform the pub- lishers Messrs, MacMillan of London and 1 Pourth avenue in New York that the illustrations are not up to the American stan he great major- ity of them g or to our Ameri- an illustrations in intention, for the, are designed by more competent artist but the exeeution is fiendishly bad. unnecessary to particularize, for 11 ar far below what ustomed to see. Since the have at th command such ble artists, men who are full to the brim with the poetry and the describable suggestiveness of art, it surcly would pay them to create a staff of competent” eng rs, using Americ hods. v 1s painful to anyone imbued with artistic feelings to seo the most exquisite drawings vilely botched. There would be no limit to the sale of the mazazine if this were appearance of a rholnnraph. and ap- ch closely to the quality of a sepia It might be sald from this problem of _reproducing pictures is then soly Unfortunately this is not the These two are good, because they are reproductions of pictures painted” by excellont artists, rgan of London, and Brown of N But let a man try to reproduce or aCabanel and the result f lure. Why? Because th artists never studied lightjand all theie values are wrong, and the camera finds them out. ne Another magazine vepleto with artis- | w tic effort is the English Illustrated Mag- azine, whose Chrismas number derives its chief interc however from the admir > continued story of ** Tario,” by Marion Crawford. author comprehends character oughly as Thackeray, but is chiefly the com outs heroes fields for ¢ sembles Thac he never for s Matrimonial Maxims, Cassell’s Pamily Magnzine: In your study to master your husband’s temper, do not forget to keep a firm hold of your own. \Women ave less sel fess imperious, but th tive and hasty than men, and mo on small oceasions,to mount into a flame and become indignant about trifles. Of all things in the world beware of this fault, for by indulging it you lose the grace and vantage ground of your sex. When your husband speaks hurshly lu you—as even the best of hushands n doin un evil moment—either rem silent, or. if you are pressed hard, give a firm but placid reply in atone that o presses neither exasperation nor con- tempt. Obey your husband in all reasonable matters, and in some unrossonable ters, but not in_all matte you will make him a tyrant and your self a slave. When he becomes imper| ous about crotchets, take your own way and swile bewitchingly., He cannot get the better of you thus™ without becom- ing a brute, and beating, or at least bullying you, an which, if your husband has any tineture of gentleman- liness about him, in a decent, sober- minded christian country, you have no great reason to fear Always attend conscientiously.as part of your province, to the kitehen and the pantry: also to the wardrobe, and, if you have children, to the nurse But beware of becoming altogether mere housekeeper or bringer-up of bairns. You have a duty to perfori to yourself, as well as to your hushand and your family: and if you negleet this Gduty you miy soon become unworthy to be either his wife or their mother. Cultivate your gifts and douot prove by neglecting your accomplishments that your only object in acquiring them was to cateh’a husband. To insure the contin husband’s love, behave as to command his respect. out reverence isa childish can satisfy only a low ty looks on his wife Dress well. Mar women often err here from want of a high motive. In the fair sex, outward decoration, when genuine- painting is vile-—is, in my opinion a positive duty, a duty not to a hushand mevely, or to any fellow-mor- 0 l|||L to Goed. The Author of the as all His works testify in the utmost possible mazn cence and luxuciance of external deco- ration; and it is plainly our duty, endowed with reason o follow I and where He has created a fa to set it forth with every graceful trap- ping that is in keeping with the ter of the work. Good dress asort of poetry address which is in the power of every conditioned woman to compose woman who has no taste for decoration is a deficient c; as much out of nature as a bird without wings. e o e Bull and Wolves. Youth’s Companion: A farmer of McKeen county, Pennsylvania, had a vather unpleasint and dangerous ad- venture on morning 1t He heard a great commotion in the barn, where he kepta voung Holstein bull, The bull was’ bellowing as if in pain, and now and then came sounds of savage growling and snarling. Mr. MeKay, the farmer, thought dog, belonging to one of his nei 1 got into the barn and was ing the bull, and hurricd to th On opening the barn door he ws astound tosee al > wolf, with its fangs buried in the bull’s nostrils, while another wolf, nearly as large, was tear- ing at tha animal’s flanks. The bull was rushing about'in its inclosure, bel- lowing in pain, and trying vain to ghake the wolf loose from his nose. thougn he dashed the ten, timo and ngain against the barn. The door to the enclosure opened on a small barnyard, and when the farmer recovered from his surprise, he flung the door open, and without a thought of the peril he might place himself in, sprang to the aid of the buil, The bull made a rush for the open door, hutu cust of wind blew it shut before he could pass out into the yard, farmer MeKay soized the wolf that was fustened to the bull’s nose, and it at once released its hold and turned vpon the farmer, and attempted to get at his throat. The other wolf was still tear- ing at the bull. Mr. f r with the in- .mmml \hll had turned from the bull to him, backed to the door. pushed it open and sprang into the ard, quickly followed by the bull and other wolf, " Blood was pouring from the bull’s nose, and from nomerous wounds on the flank, neck and side, where the wolves had torn the flesh with their long, sharp teeth. On n the yard, the bull s issue aTl last on our Christmas list is Drake’s Magazine, a young gushing thing in literature without any great pretensions, but with much light read- ing matter of & very pleasant descrip- tio The article on the true cruci- fixion is an exception, and is as ghastly and horrible as could be conceived,with illustrations that are too realistic for the perusal of imaginative girls and childven® It is er out of place in a Christmas number which should con- corn itself with Christ’s birth, and not with that painful and agonizing death which he endured when he bore the whole burden of the world’s trax sions, e of your 0 in all points Love with- affair, and > of man who yth S Shall We Annex Canada? New York Sun:—There are good reasous pro and con. Pro.—We can have our picked up codfish every morning for breakfast without mmwm.w Sourselves with many up codfish o y morning T le'chxusl and it is hardly vight to compel such of us as particularly despise that dish to part with our share of the surplus for the benefit of those who are addicted to the picked up codfish habit. Pro.—Our American bank cashiers would have no convenient rendezvous to run into with our money if Can was our: Con.—If all our American cashie: were caughtand put in jail the taxes of the community would have to be in- creased to provide these individuals r state residenc Viagara Falls would be exclu- and we could utilize them to Ants by putting mills on of the river, whereas we nre at present eontined to building mills on one side of the river. Con—It would be impossible for our bridal couples to say that they went abroad on their wedding tours if both sides of the Niugara river belonged to us. Pro—We would secure a large num- ber of intelligent citizens by the an- nexation of Canada, Con---We would also secure a large number of titled snobs, who would doubtless insist upon the addition of a third house to congress for their ex- press benefit. And so it goes through the whole list of reasons for and against. The pros and cons are about equally divided. Were we Canadians weshould carnestly desire it, As citizens of the Umted States we are indifferent, but upon one point the Press is quite firm: When the two countr ome one Canads should pay an initiation fee. There is n why we should pay England yrivilege of conferring everlast- ing beneflt upon one of her eolonies, Swedish Oolonists. Mexican Financier: The systematic muanner in which the Intcrnation compuny of Mexico, engaged in colo- nizing ite land in Low fornia, has taken hold of the work of promoting European immigration is commendable, We are well aware that the Inte national company has, of late, bheen made the et of denunciatory can- nonuade on the part of asection of the press, and that one of the charges most [ U L SEET FR R SEEET O employed was that the compuny was | g polploss terror into which it had doing mothing to bring in European |00, chyown by the combined attack of settlors as required by ‘ts concession, | ¢ /@0 CNEETE B, HC SRS UG B This charge, like many others ma turning on its tormentor, caught the against the company, cannot be ma. wolf on its horns and flun it violontly tained by cvidence, which would com- | 4 gyt tho barn, The wolf foll stunned. mend ilseM to impartial obs A There is too much heat in the attacks e made against the c wy to permit one to helieve that they are not the re- sult of persoual animosity. DBat, put- ting aside all this (merely e marking by way of parenthesis that, if the International compuny should be driven from the field by newspaper opposition, no other comi- both sid shbors side of the ned to The Paris Exposition. There is now no doubt ot th of the Paris expusition, says the Ameri- can Arch The buildings and grounds will be in readiness by May 5 the opecning day, Applicutions have been recoived for most of the enormou spaca available, and many official ex- success | South America, we know much less of the extraordinary dovelopment of pot tions of the continent that the Europde ans do, particularly the Italians, to whom Buenos Ayres has bacome almost what New York is to the Germans, The groatest of all the attractions of the show will, however, undoubtedly be tha Eiffel tower, which is almost completed. The latest nows about this 18 that M, Liffel has sold the right to mana <-l\ml utilize the tower, during the period of the concession, to a syndicate, of which the principal membor is the Francos Egyptian bank. by the terms of the concession, the tower becomes the vroperty of the government in twonty years, M. Eiffel could not sell it oute right, but being, as he says, an engi« neer, and not a showman, de does not wish to be troubled with the details of tracting people into it and gathering their five-frane picces for the next twenty years, so that ho is probably as glad to dispose of his rights as the syns ate is 1o secure what seems to be so promising a picce of proper — - An rotie Oasis, San Francisco Examiner: J.T.Dowell, of Pennsylvanin, who for two years past lias been mining in Colorado aund Alaska, down from Prince William's sound, Al where he has been for many months past. Dowell and eight companions have been prospecting about Cook'sinlet evor nee they first Went north, He said: On the west sideof Kenvi Peninsula, 1d on the cast side of Cook's inlet, isa strip of country more than one hundred miles long and fifty miles wido that is a sight to see. Ior five months in the year it is covered with a luxuriant red p that adds to the beauty of the frown= mg mountaing beyond, “1tis to ull appearances as fino agri- cultu land I ever saw, and looks like a great rviver basin, There aro thousands of acres of this red top. [ brought some of it down with me, and all who have scen it speak of it with wonder, “On this peninsula, arcas of hundreds of huckleberries, cranbe black currants. The berries are fine by far than 1 ever saw anywhere else. The cranberry marshes of Michigan and the blueber of the cast aro nothing cither in quality or quantity to these. They ave larger, plentior and too, acres are largo cach of es and red and peninsula would make a lordly neh. The stoek could live on i f five months. unl on the red top hay for the rest of the 5 *t s also pd miners |1 region. We fourd plenty of gold and silver indi tions, enough to show us it was a ver rich country, but we were looking for coal, and consequently paid little atten- tion to other mineral, the Alas Commer the cannery men t country, but I have exp e in the Leadville mines, and I must say [ think the o st mineral region there is, I think the Alaska company and the canuery men don’t want outsiders to go They want to hold the country for 1 com- alking Lsoms rhon Alaska pany down th A Singular Pair, Boston Advesfti A singular look- pair could be seen in the big prom= cnnsylvania avenue Monday, in his Washington dis- puteh. as aoman about six feet four inches tall, broad shoulders, massive head smoothly shaven face. The other was an old-looking 1itt1o man, the top of whose rather rusty tile reached just above the giant's shoulders. e sported a brigandish white moustache, and wore 1oy white hair touching his coat As his big companion strode alon 1most trotted to keep alongside, and his look up to his friend’s face was only a few points off from the perpendicular. Ho had an umbrella under his arm, though the sun was shining with Washing- tonian_brillianey and a little rain couldn’t bave lowered the tone of his tile very much. The oddly assorted pair attraeted much attention, and peo- ple nudged ecach other and smiled. The big man was Justice Harlan, and the little man was the chief justice of the supreme court of the United States, ——— His Ruling Passion. Pittsburg Dispatch. “When a man once gets into the habit of trading horses he keeps it up as long as he lves,” remarked an old citizen to a reporter. ‘T once stood beside the bed of o dying man, who had been a_denler in horscs all his life, and lst- ened to his last wore The clergyman was talkiog to the dying man, but the latter waved him aside, and intimated that he wished to speak to John, o son approached the bedside. “How did you succced?”’ nsked tho fathe i SRt I think ‘I swapped the blaek mar v and ot $95 to boot.? You did? John, I'm proud of yous keep the horse and the money. That’s ason worth having,” he said, giancing with a ple smile from one 10 another of the anxious faces about him. Those were the last words he ever uttered. A half minute later the old man was dead.”” [— ") ECZEMA CAN BE EURED mostagonizing, sealy,a ad Dy the ticara Remedies whon physicians and all other rems edies fail, olhuve been afficted since last March with a skl disense the doctors called Eczema, My faca was covered with seabs and sores, and tho fteh- ing and burning were ali st unhoarable. Seo- ine your CuTiCtica KEMED(ES 50 highly recoms meuded, conclided to give them w trial, using the CUTICUIA S0A L oxteriall 1 RESOLVENT ntiis. 1 call myseif cured, > for L1 miko (s pubic state: Mit, CLAKA A, FREDEIRICK, onn, Fezema Th Years COTICURN RENEDIES are the o on carth, Had the worst case of Balf i dn this conntry, My inother had it Lwenty yea ot dfed Trom it. 1 believe CUTICUIA Wold hivve saved her Lfe, My arms Lioust, and head were covered for thieé yeus which nothing relievod or cured uniil 1 used the CUTICURA RESOLY LN JUW.ADAMS was the veply; for Wilson’s sod The ured. greatest medf, , Newark, O, cma on Baby Cured. By baby hus been troubled with E Lis fuce, neck, head, w6, wats o 1#ss 0f scabs, s tiehis hands t provent liis scratehing spont dollars o remadios withon atter using oue hox CUrcuis CUTICUIA BoAT the child Is ent cannot thank you enough for them. . W, BIROWN, 12 Mull 8t., Brookiyn, E. D., sma on ud entire body. ke we were oblized to 1 have ot b Hands Cured. salt Iheum broke Eezema on Two years and a nulf ago out on my right land. 1t appeared n white bilstors, attended Ly toreble itehing, and grad- unlly il untfl i€ covered the entirs back of the Lana, The disea tapp: on my loft hund. 1 tried many o but could’ find no cure until 1 obtsine Cortonia Kes- 201k, which ellected cul s, ektolh, dev . Price: CUTICURA, 00§ BOAR, : Mtsol Propured by tho Porrig DICG AND CHEMI0AT Co., BOSTON, MASS hibits will be made, The German gos ernpfent {s almost the only one which has declined to take pirt, but we under- stand it does not forbid its subjects to | show their goods' so that its own partic- ipation will not be much missad, O settled at Colnett, These are fndustr vory intoresting feature will be the ex- ous farmers who bring to Low Cali- | hibits from the South American stal fornia the experience of men who have | As there is almost no commercial con sucoessfully tilled the comparatively | munication between this country aud pany will be found ready to undertak L«;L\:mfulum in Mexico), we will ta note of what the company isuctuall doing. On the 21st of last month th steamer Dublin brought to 12 thirty Swedish colonists who ar u' nd for “How Lo Cliie Skin Diseuser,” 64 0 tllustrations and 100 tostimonlals, BAB‘{ b kin and scalp preserved and beautls fled 1y CuviGuIA MEDICATED 504 STRAINS, PAINS In the Buck, Kidacys, Hi Cliost rolioved ju ONE MIN & CUTIOUIA ANTI-FAIN yu.r | N Arat and only pafu-kiiling plaster, Now, lustaas tRueous, lutalitlle. £ conts,