Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 27, 1888, Page 4

W grnor and state officers. THE DAILY BEE, PUBLISHED AY MORNING. TERMS OF SUNSCRIPTION, Datly Morning Bdition) includi ¥ PHE OMATA SUNDAY BER, nadress, On. WrrkLy TiEs, One Year OMAN A OFFICENOS, UTEAND 016 FARN AN 8TREET, CHICAGD OFFICE 567 HOOKERY DBUILDING Nrw YORKOPFICE, ROONS 14 AND 15 TRIBUSE BUILDING. WASHINGTON OFFICK 513 YOURTEENTH STREET. mailed to any No. CORRESPONDE Al communications relatin $orial matter should be add oF iy, 1k sand edl EDITon All busines Addressed to OMAIA, Dra be 1o s PUBLISIING COMPANY, 15, checks and postofice orders 16 )16 o the OrAer of the coMPAIY The Bee Pablishing Company Proprictors . ROSEWATER. Editor. ——— THE DAL B Statement ot Circulation, Btateof Nobra County of Dongias, George B, Tzschuck, s¢ Wshing Company, dc sctual circula wreok ending Decom Average ear that the DAiLY Bee for the 1888, was a8 follows: Bworn to befors lnn “and lul ) presence this 2nd day of December A, D, 1488, seal N. P FE otary Public. Btate of Nehraska, [ County of Dougins, (%% orge I3, Tzschuck, Veing duly sworn, de. sesand says that he js secrotary of the lice Publishing company, that the actial averaze daily circulation of THE DALY Bek for tie Juonth of Deceniber, 1857, 15,041 copies; for Jan- W coples; for ruary, 1588, for March, 1888, ) coples Ilu; i to before mo and subscribod in my Presence this sth day of Docembor, 153, N. P. FEIL_Nofary Public. —— 1nE eleventh bour, no doubt, the charter committee ot the council will spring upon the eity a revised charter, concocted in star chamber and digested between drinks in their favorite re- sorts, HENRY VILLARD proposes to organize an “‘electrigal trust” in order to control and operato the great clectrieal indus- tries of the country. Mr. Villard the head of the Northern Pa road three years ago, but that “trust” did not prove very profituble to his coparceners, Tue deep-water harbor scheme which Texas so industriously worked up dur- ing the summer months, is more than likely to be stabbed to death in the house of 1ts friends. Local differences and jealousies are doing more to kill the impracticable than all the ‘opposition to it from the outside. — THE people of West Farnam street eomplain not without cause of the un- satisfactory service of the street car company. It seems that the stub line operated makes few trips duving the day and very poor connection with the down-town lines. The people of that part of the city are entitled to better street car service. eme TuE present loose banking laws on the statutes of Nebraska were undoubtedly passed in the early days of the state in order to make the investment of capital in banking institutions unusually in- viting. That neeessity, however, has now gone by, and the time has come when Nebraska should pass laws equally as stringent for the protection of de- positors and borrowers as the lawsof other states. THe senatorial boom of Wolcott in Colorada is said to be sadly out of gear despite the hoast that he issure of a momination. He is from appearances far short of a majority, and is not likely 0 gain the supporthe has counted upon. ‘Whatever success Wolcott may have achieved at the poker table, it 1s quite evident that he cannot bluflf the legi ture of his state with a bob-tail flush. TieE Mormons who emigrated to B ish Columbia and established a colony have evidently not improved their con- dition. The elders and leading men of the colony have been charged with vio- lation of pledges in not excluding the ’:nmu- of polygamy. It would secm at the followers of Brigham Young i changing their allegiauce have not in the lenst changed their polygamous habits. They have simply jumped from the frying-pan into the fire. I 11AS been suggested by a prominent shipper of Chicago that the inter-state commission be granted authority to fix maximum rates for railroad transporta- $ion. Such a limit, it is claimed, would protect the public from extortion, and &t the same time would give railroads sufficient latitude to arrvange their schedules. The great question is, how- ever, whether the commission could fix anaximumn rates that would be satisfuc- fory both to the shippers and railroads. EVERY line in the want columns of Tre BEE is paid for, but they still con- tain more advertising than the want columns of ull the other Omaha dailics combined. This fact illustrates the #ruth that a thing worth getting is worth paying for. Tue BEE's want coluinus have always been patronized extensively and profitably, and always will be while this paper remains practi- cally the only medium by which all olasses of people in this city and section ean be reached, — Tie sticklers for so-called local self- jovernment for Omaha would do well inform themsolves what legislation such & city as Chjeago 1s about to ask of the legislature of Illinois. It would open their eyes to what extent local overnment has been taken away from rd politics and delegated to the gov- No one hears soy complaint in Chicago that the right gl.:he citizens to self-government has ‘been abused. The reason is that under ‘$he present system that city has been ‘botter governed than in the palmy days vhen the notorious Mike MeDouald ring ‘eontrolled local politics from the mayor #lown to policomen. Omaha has reached t size and importance when it must t by the experience of other cities. CTIONS WILL NOT BE NIZED. The reported remark of General Har- rison New York visitors who had a political errand, “I to recognize no factions in the republican is s0 characteristio credible. He is id to these parties should do all he could to heal disput 1d make the republi united and harmonious, There is eve reason to believe that General Hare is fully alivé to his opportunity and his duty in this particular, and no one cah that he has the will to perform ver he believes to be his obliga to the party. Certanly there 1s none which it is RECOG to some propose 10 be en- reported to hat he factional n party v also s vy ison doubt whate tions more impor- than that souraging factional disputes The assurance of the p assuming that he has bec veported, that he will recognize tions, 18 timely, and ought to wholesome effect. Individuals political ambition leads them to open factional quar is Mr. has done in New Yorlk, will take that they can hope fc from the administration, eral IHarrvison wants an party, and the secure it is Dby refusing any hition to those who are not wholly and constantly loyal to this Por- sonal ambition may be respected solong as it 1s not permitted to menace the unity and peace of the party, but the moment it does this the individual must be sacrificed to the good of the whole, It will not do to allow politicinns like M., Platt, who are very 0 overes- timate their services and their merits, tosow unrebuked the seeds of discord and the only safe and effective way to deal with such men is to refuse consider them. Such a policy adopted at the outset of the new administration and faithfully adhered to will win the respeet and confidence of the neople and must inevitably operate to the ad- vantage of the party. General Harrvison's own political reer is an assurance that he will show no regard for the authors or instig tors of factional dlsputes. He has never been a leader of faction but owes polit 1ccess to his efforts to unite and harmonlze his party in his own state. Until he became its leader he followed faithfully the leadership of others, and it this fealty and con- sistent devotion to his party that gave the greatest strength to his claims be- fore the national convention. Buteven had he not illustrated in his own career the duty of putting the wel- fare of the party above the cluims of any of its members, he knows too well the disastrous consequences to an ad- ministration of encouraging factional disputes to allow himself to fall into a like blunder. The Platts, Forakers, and all others who would risk wrecking the party in order to ify their per- sonal ambition, may as make up their minds that their plottings and de- s will receive no countenance from the next administration, tant and necessary to observe of di sident 1 correctly no fac- have a whose "homas PJa notice tion Gen- harmo- to rec- no conside next purposc. sur was vic RAILROAD TICK That portion of the annual report of the interstate commerce commission which relates to the payment by the railvoads of commissions on passenger and freight traflic, discloses some inter- esting Most of the roads pay commissions, some on both kinds of traffic and some only on passenger traffic. This custom involves to the vonds that practice ita heavy annual outlay. Forty-nine roads reported the payment of commissions aggregating over a million dollars, and the commis- sion say there can be no doubt but that the payments made on this ac- count in past years by the vari- ous roads in the United States have amounted to many millions of dol- lars annually, and that payments of several hundred thousands of dollars by single roads have not been at all un- usual, The commission regard this outl of doubtful value to the roads make it; but apart from this there are evils connected with the practice which need to be remedied. The direet effect, the report of the commission, is the puyment of large sums of money from corporite carnings for which the stoc holders and the public receive no ade- quatereturn. “Considered in its totality the money so paid out is the money of railrond stockholders, but it is collected . from the public, and the collection is just so mich in the aggregate more than the public can properly be called upon to pay for railroad service. The rates which the public pay are made to pro- vide for this drain on the public treass ury.” Itisthe public that pays for the maintenance of a costly force of agents “engaged 1n a reckless strife for com- petitive business,” The system, in the opinion of the commission, is dangerous to the public, both in its direct and in- direct effects, and in some respects is doubtloss a violation of the act to regu- late commerce, as, for example, when, as is alleged, commissions are paid to shippers to secure business, The inter-state commission makes no recommendation to congress rogarding this system, but in noting the ovils and irregularitics resuiting from it the com- mission plainly indicates a conviction that it is a proper subject of congres- nal attention with a view to legisla- tive. Perhaps in bringing the matter to the knowledge of railroad stockhold- ers, from whom the practice has hither- to been concealed, they may be led to consider the expediency of abandouing or modifying the custom But after all it is the public that pays the commis- sions, and therefore it is the duty of congress to determine whother or not the system is subject to national au- . The inter-state commission obviously beliove that it i ts. as THELAW IS NOT ENFORUBD. The over-zealous advocates of more restriotive immigration laws ave eusily discomfited when they undertake to give reasons for their demand. Notbing is more simplo than an exposure of the shallowness afd inadequacy of the argu- ments in support of most of the proposi- tions that have been advanced for cur- taillng ummigeation by excluding others than the classes which it is now which | the auty of the authorities under exist- ing law to keep out. The committee of congress which is invest ject of immi formulated ny plan, but its chairman given expression to some views as to what should e The 108t important feature of his plan is to require consular He would that an alien desiving to come the Unitéd States give American consul notice of his wish six wnths in advance of the time when he intended to eail. During that period it would be the duty of the consul to thor- ily investigate the condition and character of the party wishing to emi- d determine whether he was a proper person to be allowed to come to the United States. If there were no other objection to this the fact t it might open the way to a great deal of corruption would be sufti- cient. The difficulty in this matter, and the real cause of the present agita- tion outside of the instinct of selfish- ness, is the failure to existing laws, One of the commissioners of emi- gration at New York admits that it the law s impartially enforced, the land- ing of at least five per of those who enter at that annually would be prevented. forced to admit he says, the fault is mor with the of com- missioners of emi than with the la which it to en- force.” He attributes the tolerance of the open violatin of the law to fear on the part of the majority of the commis- sioners of encountering political oppo- sition. While governor of New York Mr. Cleveland sharply criticized the conduet of this board, and there has heen an urgent demand since for its re- organization. Until there is a change in the character of the board or in the extent of its authority, which is now very nearly unlimited, the law keeping out” improper persons will doubtless continue to be evaded or disregarded, furnishing a ground for maintaining an wion of the immigration ques- tion. The required change and reform must be effected by the state of New Yorlk. ‘We are not apprehensive that con- is likely to be misled by the clamor for un-American legislation in this matter. The more the subje investigated and discussed the plainer it must appear that this countey should not erect barrviers to exclude the honest, industrious and thrifty people of other From no point of view would such a poticy be wise or profitable. The laws we have on this subject may ve main, and provision should he made for their impartial enforcement, but there isnothing in the situation demanding such extreme legislation as congress has been urged to enact. ating the sub- has not yet tion done. inspection. provide to should an grat whole enforce cont port ST am u board \ion declines gress It would be well if the coming legis- lature would afford some relief and pro- tection to those unfortunate peonle who fall @ prey to chattel mortgage sharks in the state. The present usury laws are totally inadequate to protect that class of people who ars mercilessly plucked by these valtures, The loans made ave usually of small amounts atan interest of five to seven perecnta month with additional charges for drawing up the “papers.” The people who borrow money at e ive rates of interest are poor, often ignorant and two helpless to go into court to protect their rights. For that reason the usury laws should be amended, making it a misdiemeanor, punishable by fine or imprisonment, or both, for chattel mortgage sharks to exact outrageous terms and rates of in- terest. THE lack of adequate laws on bank- ing and freedom the strict super- vision of state authority have given dis- honest men a wide field for operation. But even conservative buslness men have been tempted to exceed their loans overand above the limit of safe banking. This is especially true of the smaller country banks where state examination s frequent and thorough than in cities, Wildeat banking must, therefore, be wiped out of the stat Its existence paralyzes trade, causes disas- ter to the people and brings discredit to the state. is le: the Tue Sioux City & Ogden Transcon- tinental railroad, hke John Pope Hodnet’s air line between the Atlantic and Pacifie, is a project that has its basis in the imagination of its pro- mote Just now nobody wants to in- vest in another transcontinental rail- road from Sioux City or any other place, although ,we have no doubt that any numberof contractors stand ready and willing to build such a road with some- body else’s money. For all that, the Sioux City & Ogden Transcontinental may be a powerful factor in furnishing wind for the Sioux City real estate boom, Now, it is claimed that Governor Moonlight, of Wyoming, is guilty of a petty piece of spite work in supple- menting his report to congress, that the population of Wyoming isonly fifty-fi thousand instead of eighty-five thou- sund as first estimated, Census figures have always been a source of heart burning, and Governor Moonlight has touched a very tender spot when he ad- vertised to the world that the territory of which he is chief executive has less than sixty thousand population, Skaggs is Right, Mail and Evpress, 1f Mayor Skaggs of Talladega, Ala., said, as he is reported to have sald, “We connot &0 ou forever stealing the negro,s ballot,” ho is @ level headed man; und we wish there wera Just like him in the state of Alabama, - No Differonce to Chicago Tribune. e Sunday law as applied to liquor is to be enforeed in Washington he but it t make much difforence to them, They huve had their harvest. Senator Rid- aleberger's term is about over. okl d Manager Must Go. New York Sun. The woods are full of them and the stock holders ave going a-guoning. They are all i more or less trouble. Phoy have unde mined the business of the whole count upset the public confidence, aud cre everywhore distrust and apprebension, The fruits of a year of wopderful natural pros- ity aud developient, the result of trade The Railro ana the growth of population and material values, all have becn swamped and lost irre trievably through the dishonesty, the selfish- ness und the recklogsnass of that most per- nicious of individuals, the unrestrained rail road trustee. They must all go. Waiting for Corroboration. Until it is pretty certain that E. L. Har. per, the swindling banker, is really and truly crazy, the public will keep its sympathy tucked away in its right hand lower vest pocket — - Backhone Necded, New York Sun A firm and concise statement of the atti tude of our government toward any interfer ence by France with the Isthmus of Pana- ma should be made and unaerstood without delay PRS- A Waraing to Pla N.Y. I Taken together the two remarks of Gen, Harrison ought to sorve as a warning to the place hunters to let him alone, The contin ued onsct which has been made upon him since he was elected has had its natural result. Hunters. w York Herald, Foreign companies are useful. They bring new methods and ideas. They vary our pleasures, In many cases they are good even from a business standpoint. Lhe com: ing of the London Gaiety company, for ir stance, has given empioyment to over one hundred Americans, A few days ago a great to do was made because someone had said there were hardly any Americans in Murs. Potter's company. As a matter of fact six members are English, The other sixteen are Americans, What the Railroads Need. Springfield Republican, What the railroads neod is not less law, but a littie moro of it, and they are likely to get it; and, above all clse, they want a few more such men as President Stickney to lift prevailing management up to where it will bear the inspection of honest men. That re- form is fundamental. It must have prece- dence. And after that, n discussion of the defects of the inter-state law will be more opportune. Of one thing the roads should assure themsel “The people are not to be frightencd into a repeal of the law by the awlessness of railway managers. Senator Cullom certainly ropresents the temper of the west, if not of the cast, when he says that *if the railroads keep clamoring for the repeal of the law, the people will insist that it be made more str ABOK NOT ilroad is to be built from ., to BBerwick, Me. ines for cleaning out the re- 1s works ure being used in Phila- delphia w eat success, One machine does the work of cight men. The Iron Moulders' Union of North Amer- ica has adopted a resolution wherein it 1s decided that on and after the 15t day of xt nine hours shail constitute a day's ulders’ trade. statement is made that aluminium has been successfully manufactured from Ken tucky clay. A plunt was erected at New- port capabic of turning out a ton a day at an approximate cost of £1. The price of alum- mium is now # per pound. A new dynamo with a capacity to run cight incandescent lights has been invented mont electriciau. It has some novel , one being a slow current obviating all danger, while onc light can be shut off without affecting the others on the same circuit, A recent novelty is an_invention designed to facilitate the manufacture of durable boot heels. 13y its use a heel-shaped leather shell is made and filled with a solid body. It has also a novel device for pressing the leather into the approximate form and for molding and working it. It is quite probable that a number of hard- wood mills will be started up in Chicago, Several mills at various out-of-town places notably at Goshen, Ind.—are to & moved some time this winter to some point wher the facilities for power are greater, and Chicago offers the best opportunities it will doubtless be selected as a favorable site. i D TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings. The Howells Journal refers to Omaha as “the pride of our state.” An Omaha firm is putting up a beer depot and ice house at Humphrey. Nebraska City expects to have free mail delivery service next month. The glare of the electric light will be seen in Madison within sixty days. Philip Boyle, a well known farmer living near Jackson, dropped dead in his buggy from heart disease. Ravenna wants to be county seat of a new county to be formed by takng a slice of Buffalo and Sherman, It is reported that large quantitias of tim- ber are being removed from school lands in Blaine county in defiance of law. Governor Thayer dined on a one-pound brook trout Christmas, captured at Baziie mills. The stream was stocked with brook fry in 1584, M. Kiine, a Cheyenne county well dig- ger, kicked the bucket last week, .\ rope brolce, the unfortunate man fell a distance of 115 feet and never knew what hurt him, 1t is said that the famous land mark on the old overland trail, Chimney rock, in Che; enne_county, has been so badly undermin by the action of the eclements that it will s0on take a tumble, An interesting meeting of the women of Beatrice who took partin the crusade against the saloons in 1574 was held at the Methodist Episcopal church at Beatrice last Sunday evening. The church was filled. The ori nal number of crusaders wus about twenty flve, of whom about ten were present. lowa. The new paper mill at Waterloo will soon be in operation. The latest enterprise at Muscatine is a sheller company. There are 430 students enrolled university, Des Moiues. The improvements at amounted to #1, 4 Rust from a stoy destroyed one of Johu Utte last week. Capitalists at Boone are offering induce- ments for the locution there of a boot and shoe factory. Tho Atlantic starch factory turns out 3,000 pounds of stiffening every day sud furnishes cmplu,\-uwm 0 twenty, wep. The first artesian whll ave Dodge spouted last weel bad reached a depth of twglve fee A_ Scranton young “Hian bought a present for his best girl and had the amount put on the books, but finally ;refused to pay for it. S0 the storekeoper sWwore out a writ of re- plevin, scnt the constablelaiter the present and returned it to his storé. When the young man heard what was done he paid for tho present and had it sent back to the girl. An old man uppcnng the police station torts in at Drake Dubuque for 1838 ’s eyes at Clinton in" Keokuk a fow daf with an overcoat over his head and th blood running down his face from his forghedll. He refused to have the blood wash®d from his face until the physician could see 1t. He said his wifo had hit him with a cup. It is thought that ho wanted the plysician’s testimony in a divorce ri Dakota. The new flouring mill beizun operations. There is talk of establishing a sugar fac tory at Bismarcl There is again talk of moth hotel at Deadwood. Dell Rapids has incorporated and the first village election will be held January 7. The erection of an extensive cold storago house for butter aud cggs is hoped for av Yaukton. A number of Turner county grangers liv- iug near Hurly, have gone to Chicago and have taken with thew twelva cars of cattle t0 pay the bill for sight-seeing. The Deadwood Ceutral railroad company at Armour bhas building a mam- has filea articles of incorporation. Its eapi tal stock is $1,000,000, divided into shares of £1,000 oach. ~ Of these 9,996 are in the name of J. K. P. Miller. he Deadwood Pioneer has issued a ten edition showing the progress ssources of the Hills, and two-puge illustration of the city. Two of the paper are devoted to statehood, giving opinions of leading men from all the south s on division and admission The Deadwood Pioneer roports th cently a well known liquor house rec order from Lookout for a kex of whisky keg was procured, and one of the filled it with water to lighten it befc ting in the ardent. The other member the firm went on watch the next morn suw the Keg, observed the niarks, took it for granted it was filled with whisky, loaded it on a hack and sent it out. How that thirsty fellow at Lookout will swear - ELECTION 1 Some of the Features of the Contest of the Ballots islative contest was con council chamber terday SCLOSURES, Liate The the city noon J. C. Hubbard, eolored, testified: good deal of interost in Third ward Have 400 colored votes in the ward. I manip: was cortainly pai Take & politics, ulated these, and 1 my services. One of the legislative candi dates paid me. 1 got £30, indirectly, for work for Mr. Specht. Got 810 from Henry Ester brook. 1 am in the saloon business, Esterbrook gave the $10 two or three weeks before the tion for spending money among the boys. . H. Mack gave me the £0. He's a Farnam cigar man, He'sa democrat, That's gave me. It was for Bellemy and He aidn't give it to me in_money turned it ovor on account. I got six n or eight or nine hundred dollars out of this eloction, It came from democrats, [t was for Bellamy, Payton and myself. 1 got tho most of it because [ did the most work. It came from democratic sources. 1supported McShane because Thayer was governor two years and never did a ihing fora black face. 1 wouldn't_support Connell. 1 supported Ijams because I think he's a square man, and Paxton and Paulsen because 1 was paid for it. 1 helped Gardner becauso he was 1 friend. [ got £365 for working for the above tic Havn't got anything for working for Paxton and Paulsen. When L see Tjams Ul make out a bill against him for $150. Yes: 1 think he'll pay, Some financial agent of the democratic party gave this moncy to Bellamy king for the parties I have mentioned. a republican gave me I for I won't tell hisu republican money. The §i5 was for work ing for McShanc, Morton, Ijams, Paxton and Paulsen. Pat Iord was the maa who made U'with Bellamy. He didn't pay this money. 1 told Bellamy we must have monoy and not promises. Fred conducted the d but he didn't pay us any money. The first money 1 saw at Bellamy’s was $600. That was for_ MeSuane and the others, Mack said the 850 was for Chris Specht. 1f [ 1T got, or all we got, it would run up to §1,600. The democrats gayve us the most of it. 'You and I have done busin Mr. Mercer. AT b A O tbnaltioas Hubbard —Political. Mercer—Did 1 ever pay you a nickel? Hubbard —No, sir; 1 dido’t mean that. Mr. Smyth—Do you_know that Mack, who you 50 w work for Spe s a demo Hubbard Mercer—Gi you supported. pbard — M ton, Paulsen, Gurley, Andreen, and Esterbrook. Smyt v did you support Specht. Hubbar use he was anti-prohibition. If it hadn’t been for that I wouldn’t have supported him, because he hasn’t got money enough. County Clerk Roche vote of the respective candidates »us the names on the ticket Tams, Morr Condon, Spectit, Berlin testified giving the in the dif- Specht was pre and when asked ier e had paid § bard, et al., for their he had not. Frank Solon—Was a Third ward election judge. Was sworn by County Clerk I I swore in the rest of the judges and clerks. The for wmade out in the front part of the | But one poll ook was r Thomas the judges at the F ward, and then followed with a recital of the matters detailed by Solou. In eross-exami- nation Mr. Mercer asked Crosby what his polities were, and the latter answered that hie was a republican. Mercor—Whom_ did you vote for atthe M Crosby- Mereer— your nationality? hman. vou ever been naturalized? Where! - In Luramie Ci Where are your papers? Meree or county Crosh the sheriff republicant Bechuse my fathe sr—Is your father in this country? Crosby—Nosir; Tie's in England. er been heret % repub- Y, aren’t you just as you'are u republican ¢ —Do you know what city is the cap- ital of Nebrasku! Crosby —Omaha. Mercer—Now, Crosby, when you took out your naturalization papers, did you hold up your hand and take an oatl Crosby—No, sir. A man gave them to mo. David McCleare was a clerk at the First precinct of the Third ward. He testified to the same matters Solon did. He said he had never voted in this country. He was an Eng lishman and never took out his naturalization papers. He is a democrat Patrick MeAndrews, auother of the judges at this ward, testified in substance to the same that Solon had. The Ladies' Christmas Concert, The arrangements are complete for the Christmas concert to be given under the auspices of the Ladies' Musical society next Monday evening, at the First Congrega tionul church. The programme will consist of miscellaneous selections, including a chorus by Trinity choir, a quartette by the First Congregational choir, an organ solo by Mr, Taber and & solo by Mr. Scott, a new tenor. The sccond part of the programme will consist entirely of selections from Han- del's grand ovatorio, “The Messiah.” The volunteer chorus, under Mr. Young's direc- tion, gives promise of being excellent, and proves how many singers there are here capable of rendering this class of music cellently. There will be solos by Mr ton and Miss Iennell from the same work, and a chorus by All Saints choir under Mr. Pennell. It is hoped by the Ladies' Musical v that this concert will give enconrage 0t o organize a permanent oratorlo so clety herve. udmission fee will be charged. basses will be held this afternoon in 3 pung's room, Paxton block, at 5 o'clock, and re hearsals for full chorus to-morrow evening at 8 o'clock in Mux Me musi¢ room, and on Saturday at 5 p. w. in the First Congre gational church Cot. . B. Schmiit Dossn't Want €. B. Schmidt, secretary of the Trust company, whose name has be gested in connection with the o tary of the board of trade, says th is a candidate for that office, and that authorized nobody to propose his has Another Manufacturing Company. The Munro Manufacturing company flca articles of incorporation, yesterday. ‘Lhey will invest 30,000 in shares of $100, and th incorporators are George H. Wilbur, Fravk Munro aud R. R. Belcher, for WITCHES DOWN IN ARRANSAW They Are Sald to Play All Sorts of Curious Pranks. STORY OF THE RIVAL SISTERS. How They Quarrcled Ove and Both Got Crooked N The Strange of Jake Sawyer, Adventure Tales of Witcheraft, OZARK, Ark., Dec, 25, vespondence of THE BEE. to note th in this part of Arkansas believers in aft Among the mountain folks and tlements some distance curious tales are told about the wondorful and the {requent appearance of or “ha'nts” as they ave termed. people are firmly great deal of magic shoes, witeh bones, the rabbit and a number of contriv used to counteract the power ple who cast spells.” On man that his black cow had been [Special esting who are witehe and in by the power mvineed exists hind Another wvious v during the good faith night, how an fous and balk A story is relate who fellin love with Jeulousy was nrouscd women frequently indulg quarrels. One day an ihout the same and the red nl\l o aver hear them addressing os in terms far from sisterly. She her hands and pronounced an in tion. The moment the words fell over on their left shoulder came fixed in_ that position. woman instantly disappenred. eral months the sisters remain unpleasant fix deseribed. The thoroughly occupied with thei ual troubles that they had no quarrel. One day the elder sister little black goat trotting past the h Her witch bone or vealed t it s the seized a fire shovel and 1 gout, beating it over the head shovel. Her own head immediat sumed’ its proper position, goat suddenly vanished. A short afterward, h also, recover A young witeh, 1 sister, lady an old woman who we able to prediet or eause the den stock of all kinds, also to foretel sickness of people old lady and begged 1o he taugh seeret of her magic and pre The old lady of cour ently that she at last consented. arranged th callat the old following presented cred into a The chamber a big, well-dressed, man who was scated in near the center of the room humble manuner the ola 1 the young woman, at the forming her that she must do ¢ thing requived by the fine looking First she was told to place he under the sole of her left foot, whil right rvested on the top of herl While in that position, she structed 10 s All petween hands belongs to my God repeating the oath liters woman declared: hands belongs to my Almight The instant she utiered the “aly the man suddenly sprang up and d peared through the ceiling, bello: ike a steer and leaving behindat fire and smoke. It is almost need remark that the young admire witcheraft failed to gain the see Among the numerous related for indisputable facts venture of Jake Sawyer about the bes small town of St. Paul miles north of Ozark, reporte have been frequen han'ts’ number of years. > trave o the road had heard str; cries in the air, but the g 100 badly frightened to ‘invest thoroughly. Upon seve sionsa big, headless dog had been trotting along the road. Once or t it had spradg up behind a belated li man, but disappeared on - b Jake Sawy came into shborhood to teach school. He sard about the t e ghosts, bu clared emphatically that be had faith in them. One evening. just sundown, he chanced 1o b along the haunted road on he He noticed a woman a shor ahead of him on foo! She was clu w coarse blue dress, with o wl her hend and heavy shoes on h Jake thought little about the matt women of her appearance we common in that part of the coun Presently. as he came up by her sid noticed ‘that her shoes m; 10 L1 in the sandy roudbed. He spoke she offered no reply. tion met with the same lence on the part of the wonmn. Jake urged his horse into a trot hat woman képt even with the ani I"'rom a trot he spran, in spite of the inc the woman could behind and Jake reached struck at her with but it p d th had been a shadow. At the instan raised his arm for a second blow woman sprang up behind him. T his own expressioh, Jake *would } prayed, but he was so fearfully fr ened that he couldn’t,”” Under the house early o When the she was little back v occupicd Ina the about th usy in sy not be 1ding w Juke reigned 1 saddle, To his horror he saw that throat was cut to the center, while fuce was perfectly white. She to speak and ~besought Ja hear her story About twe five yeavs ago, she, with her mo and two brothe lived in a | log cabin near the present site of Paul. The boys went to the war. evening, as she was walking along road they were then traversing she suddenly overtaken by five me was taken into th mber whe man held her 1 cut her th ailow g had 1 her bones out and carvied them thus causing her spirit to be The moment she finished her tale woman suadenly vanished, leaving J with the consciousness of having countered a genuine ghost. A POPULAR VICE among the ladies of this part of stute {s the use of tobacco. Some chew it like veterans while others content 10 smoke. un —1t is i number of peop firm The d in the were so individ- time ome otherchar 1 after while! seems to A lonely rond near the a Lover cks Cor- tor- from rvailronds, natives of witehes I'hese that in horse- foot of of * assorted put under aspell and thus caused to betlow loudly told 1 bewitehed his team and made them 1wo sisters man. young in sev woman, stranger in the neighborhood, happened chother raised vou left her lips the heads of the two young women and be- old sw m ro- She the vith the ly as- the time 1. in the neighborhood was greally fascinated by the powers of reputed to be th of I the She applied to the the t Ol buEG young womin importuned her so persist- It was the young woman should d n the forme: ush- room. by fine looking ge a high very presentedd > time in- ver man, left hand o her 1end, was in- my two Instéad of v, the young SALL between my isup- wing ghost stor ad- be hirty d to for a long thly nlly wie s cing the had tde- 1 no bout ulin ov r feet, Y e quit Ity e e acks but A socond ques- obstinate 'hen [ 1 into a gallop, bt heed left and hip, it t he the ) use have rht- in- fluence of some unuaccountable pow s horsc down to a w The woman sprang around in front of him and held on o the pommel of his alls, her her began 0 nty- ther itlc St. One the WS She ¢ while another burie d in oted about, tho ake on- the wiil ure in h bor re to common way of deriving onjoyment from its use is to tako it in thef orm of snuff, When a number of women got togeth the snulfl box is noarly always prmhm; with the instruction to "mku a dip' ag it gocs around tho © Then they will sit and gossip, upting the flow of conversation with frequent exe pectorations into a big spittoon of the fireplace. A snuft dippe outfit consists of a small cannistor about an inch thick by two inches long, and a wooden brush. The latter is about three inches in length, and in size resembles a slato poncil, It is usually cut from black gum or soma other tough wood, One end is chowed and splintered by the tecth till it looks like a small paint brush. The spline tered ond is dipped into the snuff and worked around till a little ball has beon collected. The snuff thus secured is rubbed over the teeth and gums, Usually the stick i held botween the teoth till the saufl has all been absorbed, when another dip is taken. Lor ladies who objeet to using & cannistor and brush o small snutt wafel been invented which can be concealed between tho lips and teeth. A grocer’s clerk that fully 90 por ¢ either tobaceo By thinking men among women is con worst evils with obliged to contend, ALBERT SIDNEY G - REV, W.J, HARSHA'S 87 The Success Which tribution Rev. W. tin orted emphati- ant of the women or snuff, or both, the tobacco habit idered one of tho which Arkansas is GG EMENT, Attended the Dise Vs Goods, writes the following ding the distrbution of the goods sent to him for that purpose on Christmas: 1t is impossible for list of contributors Chiristm: many me to give a completo to the poor ehildren's things were sont with out u name. But it is only right that as full areport as 1_can make should” appear in the columns of Tne Ber T veceived gifts of tersor S G money from R. C. Pat. Himebaugh & Me Judge” Save . G Bogue, Russell 1 Hon. I M. Bewnott, Mrs. angeil, Mrs. Le Mrs. Guy Harton, Mertie Johnson, Cora crman, 1, MeNuir, Dr. Raiph, Mrs. . Mr. Atkinson, Mrs. Smith, Miss Y, Mrs.” Porter, ' Mrs, Brayton, Mrs. Sumner, Mrs. Reeves, Miss . Smith, Char. lotte aud ot the total amount being I re aps, shoes, om kHon \|mu gifts stockings, Gec of toys, mittens, hoods, books, cand; Ay Ross, D, Patric . A Cowin, Mrs. C. 13 Nirs, Webstor! Bosche, Mrs, Botkin, Mrs. C. B. Cool, car's Mission bad, Miss Greenlee's sciiolars in the Leavenworth sehool, pupils of the Izard 0l, Mrs. Coombs, E: and Dannie_ Den Kuth Wilson, Swith, Nellie B Helen Ma:his, f the Coild's hospital, children of 0 Sabbath Torand, > and Ho Bortha and Michiael Clarkson, . Budgio Branch, Frank Detwellc hors, (1, Mrs. Oberfelder, May Bart: Lkotleld, Robbie Patterson, and whose namies 1 did not learn. of high irs from ild b especially noted, S cor and Shaw, ma the William Barr Co., gave me an extremoly valuabie lot of muffs and furs, and sold to me at cost a large amount of stockings, caps, mittens, L am also particu Mrs. Studd nd his_br , Mrs. W, rly ndebted to Mr, and ‘ott, Mrs. Creigh, Miss A. K. Harsha, and ‘lc, Matheson, Benson and Larimore Denise for ussistanco peration in distributing the Mrs. Botkin, Mrs. Meredit Messrs, Scott & Brown for thel lenca ituto rty and s 1 visited o hundre familic: wrotehedness wer few blocks of the finest houses. 1t would take a dozen columns of this paper to detail the scenes visited. In muny cases the child ren were barefooted, the fathers or mothers sick, the whole family hving inasingle room ren o Christ- a wdy for ench Was! (o0 gront, gonoroslty on_ 1o PArt ol tha distributors, Bohemian mothers who could not speak Kuglish ot down upon theirknecs to express their gratitude. Tears told what failed to couvey. Inu single room n 4 cow standing in tho coruer, und they were thankful to huve tho animal, though they had to share their_only apartment with her. Several cases of tha utmost generosity on the part of poor child- ren were encountered. Altogether we wero well repaid for our labor, and I am sure tha people who so_goncrously contributed weuld have been more than compensated if they could ha 1 the joy brought to wany wretehed homes and héar Getting Quit Claim Deeds. Another step has been taken by the St. Touis litigant in_ his suit to become the owner of 4 of Omahn real estat this three quit claim deeds wera “One of them w nd his wi state of $3 v inter- st it prope wiillions, Another bore the signature of Ferdinand M. Kintzi of 5. Louis county, Mo., and stated ho w willing 1o give his chances of securing the the property for $1. The third wus some- what ex Louise, antie o Kiut: f St. Louis, relinquished west 3¢ of the sw I sce zing, of the city their claims on the tion 10, and n 'y of th townshin 15 vorth of in the city of Omal for 40 cents apiece, or §2 1 all: - Brake for Lil Morris Kelley was yosterday for stealing five sill handkerehiofs and two bath towels, the property of Stonehill & Co Sixteenth str vus noticed tal- 1g the goods wave chase. o was overtaken outside the Coatinental block and taken buck to Stonehill's private odice, Here he ucknowiedged his guilt and pleaded for M. Stonehill” would not listen 10 bi s and sent for the police. On ned the window 1a distance of below. He wias not d started to run towards Soventeenth street. The police wave chase and soou captured and locked him up i juil. They suy Kelloy inan old hand at the busi- Cataxyhal Tangers. o be freed from the dangers of suffocation while Iying down; to breathe freely, sloop, soundly and undisturbed; 1o rise refreshod ciear, bratn active and free from puln or 0 know that no potsonous, putrid matter the breath and rots awwy the delicats machinery of mell, taste and bearing; to teel that the system does not, through its velns snd avtertes, sk up fxon that 15 sure to un- derine and destroy,ts indeed u blessing heyoud all other human enjoyments, To purchase im- munity frous such a fate should be the object of 1 aiiicted, But tho tfod many nd physicians despuir of rellof or RADICAT ( o oAt destriovi 11 is local Instant n - afe, Beond BANFOID'S HADICAT, CULE cONlsts of one hot- tle of the KADICAL OV, 011e DOX 0F CATAKRL LVENT 000 000 IMPROYED INUALER, @il pped 11 oue paciage, With tull (reatis and direetions: and sold by ull druggists for 81, POTTER DIUG & CHEMICAL (0., BOSTON HOW MY BACK AGHESI Buck Ache, Ki and Weakes Strafis a MINUTE by th Tae fiysh and only orlginal, Instautaneous, a v nost perfect antidote {o Pafu, T Hummation, Weakness, uves compounded. Atall 21518, 26 cenuts; five tor 81; or, portage free, of Porri Diua AND CHEMICAT CO., HostOR PLASTER But by far the most | Mass.