Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 7, 1889, Page 4

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P FEIL_Notary Public, AL Hir YT Hayti advicos, has won o tiry. ffo has also earned the butcher. wccording to famous v i title of ENT Now that Omaha i 1 of itsc hall and postoftice the project of build- ing aunion depot should be wrged all along the line —_— Tine council has determined that 15501 twenty hundred pounds shall constitute aton, and the short-weight coal man will have to go. A COMBINATION has justbeen effected among the manufacturersof sewer-pipe. Thal is the kind of a trust which will smell to heaven. WirE beating seems to be becoming fashionable in certain classes of society. 1t 15 a peculiar heinous erime, and mer- its the severest punishment. CoUNCIL BL agog over what seems now to be a serious case of defal- cation. Apparently the loose method of doing municipal business is in part to blame. T capitalists and property holders ghould no longer hesitate to carry out their plans of improvement which were 80 rudely interrupted by the city hall controver: LYNCHERS occasionally excite great indignation by their brutality, but the habit of bringing them to justice isstill in the future. Possibly this habit is in process of formation, THE women of Adams county, Ne- brasku, who bombarded a disreputable gambling house with lumps of coal will please take the pedestal once occupied by the women of Marblehead. TiE committee on public lands and buildings can evidently find sufficient material for investigation at the Lin- coln insane asylum, if it be true that the ill-fated boilers have not been in- spected for the pa X ye: ident at the state um exposes to hardship a class of patients ill prepared for it. The mat- ter should be closely investigated. Ex- ploding boilers ure becoming too com- mon. Ordinarily there is no better ex- cuse than carclessness for such a catastrophe, ——— 1 was a happy thought on the part of Beuator Palmer, of Michigan, whose term will expire with the present con- gress, to entertain at a dioner the news- paper corrvespondents in Washington. The senator doubtless felt that it was better to have a bad epitaph when dead than the ill report of these ‘“‘brief chronicles of the time” while living, Tie account of expenditures sub- mitted by the state live stock commis- sion doosn’t quite answer the require- meats of an itemized exhibit, but it dis closes suflicient to show that the prin- ciple of economy has not been carefu'ly respected by the commission during the past two years. The whole amount of the appropriation was, indeed, not used up, aud the commissioners may point to this as un evidence of their moderation. Perhups such a fact ig somewhat excop- tional, BBut an analysis of the expendi- tures will show that the balance in hand might be much larger but for what ap- pours Lo have been remarkable liberality An the matter of hotel and traveling ex ponscs, It is apparent that nobody con= nected with the commission fuiled to be well provided for. ne insano T indecisive conforence of 1857 be- tween the United States and Germany, Samoa, s to be rene ved, Sec- yard having acceded to the proposition for a resumption, and the conference will be held in Berlin, This arrangement will probably put in abey- ance the prosent issue regarding the conduct of German officials in Samoa, though of course it will not interfere with the plans of this government to protect American citizens in the islands, Besides coming to an understanding with Germany for maintaining the inde- pendence of Semoa, upon which it is presumed the representatives of the United States will be instructed to in- sist, the conference will probably also eonsider the question of what repara- tion Germany should make for injury to the persons and property of American eltizons in Samoa. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 7. 18%0. R T T THE POTENTIAL PASS. At the last session of the Ohio legis- lature measures were introduced aimed at the railway ocorporations of the state, one of these being o two cent fare bill. This measure was overwhelm- ingly endorsed by public sentiment and a valiant fight was made in its behalf, but it failed to pass. It is again before the legislature, but the prospect of passing it does not appear to be any better than at the last sossion, although the outside pressure for it is quite as great and as before. The Cleveland finds the ox- planation legislative indif- it publie that the most earnest ey this to an nd in the nbers of the legis liberally supplied with vailroad the receiving and calls for the of passes. unces wtor practice. Of course the Lead: is right both to its oxplanation and its but it is strangely optimistic if it sup- poses that men who will sell themselves 1o the railroads for a free ride can induced to the evil, A tor who will allow himself to 1 by a favor of this kind, at the » pocketing the mileage which the state allows him, is not ceptible to any moral consid era- tions, and appenls for reform to such an individual are very sure to b in vain. It noed hardly be said that Ohio is not singutar in having legislators of this clase. They are to be found in nearly nd the most coatemptible of the Ohio specimen ean be duplicated he Butthe time is com- ing, there every reason to hope. when this class of slators will be much raver than the t present. A PLETHORIC MONEY ) ven New York financiers ave ished at the of money which vve fund of the banks. more peculiar is that the banke selves caunot account for it. n past few weeks the hanks ha ing up money at the rvat lion a da This going on so that the clearing house re- ports for New York that the banks ave holding over thirty millions more monoy than they did at the begin- ning of the present year, The reports moreover from the commercial world indicate that business is by no means listless. The increase in loans for some time has been at the rate of a mil- Lion a day, But the great reserve fund in the natic i banks c¢ not long Money must an here are the prospects more inviting than in our own and other western states? There can be no question but that capitalists will be impressed with the advantages and bright prospects of Nebra Its unprecedented erops, its rapidly inerensing population, its thriv- ing cities, its growing mercantile and industrial prominence all contribute in attracting permanent investments. It can be confidently counted upon, that with proper euncouragement on the part of our people, many millions ne 1dle in the bank reserves of New York will find their way in advancing the material prosperity of our own state. 1t vigorously den of passes by legis abolition of the s be abolish pass I be sed same tiy in Nebrasku. IRKET. aston- remarkable accumulation to swell the r What is the the goes n- the been pil- of over a1 scumulation 10 seek outlet, A PROMPT RESPONSE. The prosident of the Chicago, Bur- lington & Quincy railroad hasset a good example to other railroad mana- gors in promptly notifying the Towa railroad commissioners that his road will at once comply with the schedule framed by the commissioners, and wiil refund overcharges since tho filing of the decision of Judge Brewer. To this extent, Mr. Perkins shows a proper spirit, which it will be wise for the managers of other roads in Towa to emulate. 1t was to be expected that he would abandon the claim maintained in the court that the schedules of the commis- sioners are unjust, or that he would give up the fight in which the railroads have just suffered defeat. He protests that the rates established aro inade- quate, and he implies a purpose to ju- dicially continue the contest. But meanwhile the Burlington company will gracefully submit to the law, and thus give the opportunity, which in the opinion of Judge Brower must be given, to determine by practical trial whether or not the rates established by the commissioners will be com- pensatory. There is obviously no other way in which this can be swtis- factorily ascertained, No court is com- petent to determine it without evidence obtained from the operation of the schedules. In such a matter estimates ave of small value, for as was said by another judge quoted by Judge Brewer, A reduction of railway charges is not always followed by a reduction of either gross or net income.” This has been repeatedly and widely demonstrated. The letter of President Perkins tothe socretary of the commission is pacific and concilintory. He indicates that the appeal to the courts was made from a sense of the great importance of having the law judicially interpreted, and closes with the expression of a hope that the company he represents may have the co-operation of the commis sioners in the further hearing and the final and satisfuctory settlement of the whole question. Undoubtedly the com- wissioners will heartily respond to this ndly spirit, and as the Iowa law per- mits rates to be advanced when they are shown to be below a compensatory point, if experiment proves the schedules established to be too low they will doubtless be revised, DBut the actual experiment is necessary, and this the decision of Judge Brewer will secure, SHOULD NOT GO UNHEEDED. Whateyer may be the findings of the coroner’s inquest into the catastrophe that has cost so many lives, one thing has been manifest. There isaltogether too much anxiety on the part of our fire department to preserve dead walls and wrecked frames after a five. It is noto- rious that frame rookerios have been allowed to stand in our streets, to the danger of adjucent property, with scarcely enough studding and siding to hold the partitions together. Whether this is done in the Interest of the f{nsurance compauies to save them from paying the full in- demnity for destroyed buildings or whethor it {s out of mistaken syn pathy for the owners of burnt out build- ings we cannot divine. The practice of allowing these fire wrecks to remain standing for months is certainly repre- hensible, We do not want to accuse the insurance companios with exerting undue pressure on the fire chief and building inspeotor to prevent the pull- ing down of brick walls and frame shells of buildings that have been wrecked by fire, but it seems W us that the rible lesson of the falling wall should not go unheeded. —— TO WHOM THE CREDIT IS DUE. The overwhelming defeat of the prop- osition to repudiate the city's oblign- tions cannot fail to have a salutary effect abroad. It will set Omaha right with capitalists who placed their money at the disposal of enterprising citizens who have undertaken costly improvements, and a gu aity to investors that their fidence has not been misplaced. The principle at stake in the contest over the city hall literally involved the credit and good name of this city, and all good citizens must rejoice with us that our reputation for integrity has been re-vstablished. The creadit for the emphatic rebuke administered to the repudiators due to the business men of lizing the position in placed before the country they rallied all along the line nst the relocation scheme. Never in the history of Omaha have the mer- chants and manufacturers taken such a live interest in an election, and the outcome demonstrates what our business men can do when they work shoulder to shoulder. con- Omah which thi Tie Tnter State Commerce commis- sion, which has just held a meeting at St. Paul, Minn., to rezalate certain - regularities in rate catting, will lay its hand.in the fature, upon derclict Umanagers. Kvery road of the rthwest has rvepeatedly violated the use in the Inter Stato act wnich ve- ves the publication and ten days’ notice any change in tho rate When the roads wanted to eut rates, in- stead of ing a printed tariff of a change that would be made on a vn date, as requived by law, simply posted a notice on the window of the general office. This was their ten days’ notice. For that matter, however, not alone the Northwestern railroad but all roads in general have cavried on this rate-cutting business on such a fluctuating basis in defiance of tho law. Heretofore the commission- have overlooked this breach of faith. t the St. Paul meeting their at- tention was called so dirvectiy to the in- fraction, that they have decided to take immediate action if repeated. Should the commission carry out its intention. it would not only produce a revolution in the workings of the inter-state law, but strike at the root of the evil of rate- cutting. of - COLORADO places the value of her grain crop last year at about three millions. It is quite evident that in the light of this showing Colorado will not take rank with tho agricultural slates. Whatever suces the state may attain in this industry, due to irri- gation, it will be costly and on a small scale in comparison with the oase and cheapness with which crops are grown in Nebraska. Colorado is pre-eminently amining and cattle growing region. It will some day become the Pennsylvania of the west. Nebraska, on tho other band, will not only develop intq a great agricultural state, but will of necessity support large commercial cities for the interchange of its products and manu- factures. Tue effort that 1s being made by lead- ing commercial bodies throughout the United States to call the attention of congress to the necessity of passing a bankruptey law will probubly have lit- tle effect so far as the present congr 15 concerned, but it may put the matter in shape to be taken up and acted upon by the next congress. There is a good deal to be said on both sides of the ques- tion, all of whici could not be said by the present congress, and there is con- sequently very little probability that it will give the subject any attention. THE Union Pacific’s annual statement for the year 1888, just made publie, not only shows an earning cavacity equal to returns of the gilt-cdge roads of the country, but its earnings ave the largest ever known. With such a record, the directors can no longer pload the baby act or refuse to adjust their tansporta- tion rates in Nebraska to a reasonable figure, VOICE OF THE STATE PRESS, Double-Barrellod Good Enough, Fremont Tribune, Tuis to be hoped that the submission bill will not be spoken of as the Chang and Eng measure, They Ought to Go, Wayne Gazetle, Three humbugs that the legislature ought to abolish—the tin-horn soldiers, the board of transportation and the live stock sanitary commission. A Good Chance to Choose. Norfolle News, He must be a hard man 1o suit who cannot find a side of the submission question that will suit his views, He can vote for a pro- hibitory amendment for the constitution, or ho can vote high license into the fundamental law of the state; or if haply he profer the present order of things he oan use his little llot to keep things in the same old channel, And he will have plenty of time to make up his mind, too. She is Indispensibl Oakdale Pen and Plow. A clergyman of Omaha, on last Sunday, entered into the defense of the much abused mother-in-law. The old lady is indispensible, and a blessing in sickness and death, and also at the birth of her grandehildren, The mother-in-law shows her good sense by pay- ing no attention to the senseless chaff blown at her devoted head. She knows that in time of trouble she is never ignored; never overlooked, A Country Opinion, Broken Bow Republican, While the democratic papers may not have the courage to favor prohibition, thousauds who have beretofore afiliated with that party will protest against the rum trafic belug aus thorized by the constitution of the state. The people of Nebraska aro progressing and will not go bhpekward in this matter. The watch word wifl de forward and to victory in 1800 with a majority of from twenty to thirty thousand, Omaha to the contrai notwithstanding, What Bourbone Will Do, Novth Platte Democraty Tt will not bg necessary for the democrats of Nebraska to take any active part in the approaching prohibition campaign. Lot it be a Killenney cag fight, and the prohibition ists will mop up the carth with the antis, Then democracy can lift the poor, battered, disfigured remdirs from the earth, and en- list under its batiner all who favor porsonal liberty—one of the fundamental principles of democracy—apd march forward to an overwhelming vietory in this commontvealth, 1t Wil Not Prohibit. Hastings Nebraskan, The Omaha papers cry out as with one voice against the blighting effects prohibi tion will have on Nebraska. Omaba itsclf has good reason to look with dread upon an attempt to force out the liquor trafiic in its own city. Prohibition may prohibit in the country, but it will not succeed 8o well in a city, especially one o large as Omaha. Not for many months or it may be for years, of a hard and bitter strugele, can tho fight be won, at any rate. And there are few peace loving people who would care to engage in | such an intepminable war, No Need to Mention Names, Wood River Gazelle, The people of Nebraska, as a rule, are very ambitious and believe that within our vord- ers are men compeYent to fili any ofiice of the federal government, from that of president to a pension clerk, and while our vanity would be flattered by haviug our state repre sented in General Harrison's cabinet, we be lieve thav a majority of our people, would rather not liave it so than see a man whoso sympathics are not with the peopie elevated to that position. Every newspaper reador will know to whom we refer. 1t is high time that railroad and other cornoration lobhyists should kuow that they cannot receive the en- dorsement of honest and industrious citizens of this great state. imply a Monopoly Howl. Kearney Hub, Some ol the papers throughout the state have been howling at the heels of Atto General Leese because he is not physically able to perform the duties of his ofiice with out the aid of a stenographer. The supreme court has decided that Mr. Leese is entitled to this help under the constitution and laws of the state. Now these same papers have opened a fusilade nto the supreme court for the same decision. Economical government is a great bugbar for some when they wish to take out a few rounds of personal spite. The useless expenditure of £65,000 on the state is winked at, but a twelve-hundred- dollar-a-year stenographer for an over- worked oflicial raises these economists out of their boots. There 1s such a thing as being penny wise and pound foolish. - Only a Difference in N aul Pioneer Pross, There s a striking resembiance between the new journal, - tiies, recently cstablished in New York, and a former but now happily aefunct paper called Truth. A Political Suggestio Chicagp Tribune, The political party that gocs into the next campaign with a strong plank in its platform in favor of putting better lamps in railway cars will sweep this country like a cycloue. e B L Greeley and'the Ground Philadelphia Novth Amer| Possibly «Greely may have turned over a new leaf, and he may eclipse the ground hog asn prophet thisyear. But if he fails, we recommend the ground hog for an appoint- ment to the incoming administration. el 5 No Moore of This. St. Paul Pioneer Press. Tiue Oyana Bee says: “Within the next few months the millions of idle dollars in the banks of the east will seek an outlet.”” Well, why not send for Joseph A. Moure, of In- dianapolist He can furnish a first-class out- let. me. e Mr. Childs Vouches for This. Publie Ledger. There was ioft nt the Ledger office on Saturday by Mrs. E. J. Terhune, as an evi- dence of the mild winter, a twig of cherry tree containing three fully expanded blo soms. It was found growing near Roxbor- ough. DO Forgot Her Torches. Citieago 8, The young woman who waded into the lake the other day with the intention of drowning bierself, but who ehanged her mind on finding that the water was cold, had doubtless forgotten to take some torches in her pocket to be used in case of accidents. Absent-minded people are constantly sub- sted to provoking delays because of their cherous memories. - Prohibition Among the Puritans, St. Paul Globe, It had been supposed that t he descendants of the Puritan fathers, Cotton Mathers, and the other translated worthies down in New England, were setting examples of sobricty and abstomiousness, but a Providence paper counts up 520 places where liquor is sold in that city, besides a host of diligent drug- gists. That is not a large city, but it enjoys prohibition in the constitution. It doosn’t soem to be anywhere else very numerously. But then tue Puritan fathers were fond of rum, - A Warning to the Sphinx, New York World. Every man who has a touch of romance in his constitution has been thrilled by the news that the peripatetic base ball players from this country are to play a game under the adows of the Egyptian Pyramids and thin a short distance of the great Sphinx. Would it not be a curious thing if the Sphinx, after maintaining sitenco for ages, should raise her voice at the cty of the onlookers for “Judgment” and exclaim, “Not out!” Even the Sphinx would find umpiring a dangerous pastime. STATE ANL RARITOKY, Nebraskg gottings. A gentleman fmm'z\)wn is talking of estab- lishing o commerciali dollege at Nekraska City. 1t 15 said thata hotel man with some mouey conld secure a bonus from the citizens of 12d gar to erect a first-class hotel It is said that the Minden board of trade will build a number g€ cottages at that place 1% be disposed of at fedonablo prices The district court nbw in session at Au rora_has many whisky cases beforo it, and an effort will be made, o close up all the sa- loons. The Seward G. A. R. post has passed a resolution endorsing Captain Parkinson's candidacy for commander of the state de- partment, a George B. Thompson, of St. Paul, who Is student at the lowa state university, won first houors in the contest to select orators to represent the institution at the state oratori- cal contest. The Herald says that Louisiana lottery men will soon o rich if Plattsmouth people have anything to say. One expross agent is now kept busy about two wecks preceding each drawing m_making out money orders, If another $15,000 comes this way Platu mouth is ruined. A special from Edgar says the 13, & M. brdnch through that place is to be made a main line. From De Witt to Sheuandouh, Ia., tie contract is let, and from Chicago to Denvep. This will be sixty miles shorter than Dy any otber route. ten-stall round houss will be immediately ereoted and this will bo & division, with machine shops, with at least 250 men omployed. lowa. The smallest man in Onawa is the father of the biggest baby ever born in that town. A Scranton woman stays in her husband’ store all day to sce that he does not ot full. The Poweshiek county infirmary contains cighteen inmates, most of whom aro de- mented, The G. A. R. posts of Calhionn county are aeitating the question of forming a county organization, Fort Dodge milkmen say this winter that milk has been as low per quart in that city Joel McGiee, of Knoxville, goes to prison for life and John McGec for_cighteen years for the murder of Farmer Kelso A law snit involving 60 conts was tried at Vail last week. The jury, with a keen sense of the_ridicuious, disagroed and a new trial was ordercd Tn a r gious discussion in Scranton re. cently one of the disputants drow &0 and of: 110 bot it that no man could get to aven without being immersed Father Burke, of Dubuque, that Catholic parents must cease sending their children to the high school, as the proper place for thent is at the Sisters' school or St. Joseph's academy. The sensation of the day at Rock Rapids is asuit begun in_the district court by anagainst M. Murray, whom she for seduction and at the samo time at hes his farm near town. Miss Fgan asks - dumages to the amount of £5,000, is the first as b cents has declared Dakota, There is talk of e Tilfora, The crazo for roller skating is a Deadwood. The horse br form an association Fred H. Clark, of Mitchell, has been pointed a cadet at West Point Incandescent electric lights will be placed Congregational church at Yankton, Whitewood has d §2,000 10 aid in the matter of establishi un flouring mill there. The Record thinks that Sturgis controlled by a com wheat would be worth more ols 1. 5. Gantz, of Rapid City, ship several tons of gold ore bo tested by parties who are Black Hills miues, Formal announcement of the Hon. A. C. Mellette for the gov sry under Harrison 1s made in Wi papers. Hon, S, P. Wells, a former resident of Rapid City, and well known throughout the Black Hills, is said to have gone erazy on religion and the Salvation army in” Los Angeles, Cal,, where e has been engaged in the real estate besiness since his departure from the Hills something over a year ago, MeNickle's Course, Neb, Feb. 2.—To the Editor of 1see by e Ben of the 1st inst. that one MeNickle, who purports to repre- sent Gage and Saline counties in the present legisiature, has turned traitor. He himself says he pledged his vote against submission 10 his constituents in both countics. I know when he was in Crete, taking his whisky raight, he said would suffer his right hand cut off b he would vote fi submission. He claims to have recei structions from a higher power. Now. would like to ask him 11 he 'is representing his boy or the people of Gage and Saline counties! If the former, he will have to go to him for his next election, as the people of the counties mentioned wish nothing to do with lam. Prohibitionists fought him be- cause he claimed to be a_non-snbmissionist. “The liberal republicans voted for him for the same reason. He has lost the confidence of them all. LICAN VOTER, woolen mill at in on at eders of the Black Tills will ap in an clevator at any able to buy than anything will shortly to England to interested in candidacy of worship of the Wate CrErr, Tun Bre: Senator Pickett's Conscience, Oxam, Feb. 2 —To the Editor of Tur Bee: In the Waloo Wasp of last Thursday Iread: “Secuator Pickett can now slecp with & clear conscience, and the people of Saunders county will reward him for his de- cision.” Well, pe perhaps he canuot. haps Scnator Pickett cam, and If a mar who has given a solemn pled; i broken it can slecp with a clear conscience, why Mr. F v can. If a man whose pledges are like wind deserves a roward, Mr- Pickett deserves it. . Pickett has pledged himseif solemnly to me, and not to me_alone, but through my paper to his Bohemian constituents, that he will vote against submission and prohibiti ot Mr. Pickett voted f mission. Yes, ho deserves @ knave's reward, it THE LIVE 8TOCK COMMISSION, The Good 1t Has Done and May Do at a Slight Cost. Captain W. W. Abbey, of the state live stock sanit: commission, was at the Mur- ray yesterday and, with the view to gleaning information of the work accomplished by that body, and of the probable effect on the stock interests of the state in the ovent of islature’s abolishing the commission a eporter asked the captain for a short of the circumstances that created the sanitary guardiwns of Nebraska's stocl and of the results of the of the moasure. “The law now 1 foree,” said the commis- sioner, “was suggested by an outbreak of ‘Texas fever about five y ago in a bunch of cattle, 1 Brady Islaud, that was shipped direct from the” south, ' Native cat- tle passing over the pasturage which had been occupied by this discased shipment, and stock with which they communicated, were subjected to fatality, ageregating aloss of $100,000, There has been no such prev lence of discasc since the sunitary law was carried out wo yoars i raging in the stoc operation :0 pleuro pneumonia was g wrds ut Chicago, and had it not been for this law, that fatal affection would _donbtless have spread, not only through Nebraska, but it would have veached ~ the country west of To illustrate our danger, Dr, Ramocciotti, of this city, acting for mmission, 8 shipments o ars of f Chieago yards, at the Bluffs transfel nt them back to Chicago. thus preventing the importation of this dangerous malad On being questioned as to the s ry vig- ilance of the commissioners i relation to ping out glandered b and extermi- within the state al- stricken with that disease, tho doctor ed that although cases wore nimerous f the organization of the com mission, ut the present time fifty counties of the state_were practically rid of the de steoyer of horses, and that b 2 two pars of its aggr would the state of the dy. robably a conservative cstimate of the sts of this state would fix 30,000,000, @n amount con ' cont the cu| “and when yi sum side of the very insiguificant expense o commission concerning those interests so as preventing their destr d infectious disease is ¢ den imposed upon taxp sanitary reg. ulation appears iu its tr Tuen con sidor the work accomplished by tho commnis sion. It has examined 2,000 vases in all parts 5i1 MR, STOREY AND THE SPIRITS The Great Bditor a Firm Beliover in the SBupernatural. BONNIE AND LITTLE SQUAW, Two Ethereal Beings Whose Word Was Law—A Dupe of the Medis ums—~Irreverence at a Seance. Polinto's Reminiscences, Polinto, one of the whoso writ- ings helped to place the Chicago Timos in the forefront of western journalism, during the lifo of Wilbur F. Storey, contributes the following reminiscence of his chief to the Chicago Heral The afternoon of Saturday, the day before the outbreak of the fire of 1871, I left Storey in his ofice on Dearborn street, Ite was then in perfect health. is were bright and cloar, his voice firm and his form erect. Monday forenoon 1 fought my way through the flames, smoke, reekir ruins and tumbling walls, over blackened corvses to Mr. Storey’s house on Michigan ave- nue. It was south of the line of five, and was untouched. Mr. Storey, Judge Lambert Tree and one or two other men sat on the pinzza. The stalwart editor, whom I had parted with on Saturday, had disappeared and in his place was an old man with dulled eyes, face seamed all over, open mouth, and “stooping shoulders. e shook | ands with indifference, and in a feeble voice snid: “Chicago ruined ! This was the initial blow of a series that was destined to fatally shatter his robust life. Mr. Storey was then married to his socond wife. a woman with a questiona- ble veputation, but who, when married to him, became faithful, and gave him 1w devoted attention and affection. She s0 endeared herSelf to him that he rew fond of her and came nearer lov- ing her than any other wowan he ever knew. She made herself indispensable to his comfort. she studied his needs and peculiaritios and how to gratify them. She coddled him as if he had been an infunt. Having lived the most of his 1 by himsell, the new situation wuas ally delightful. It wasat atime when he was surrounded by all kinds of gentle attention, when, perhaps, for the first time in his life he was entirely happy, that his wife suddenly sickened and dicd. The blow nearly drove him insane. Not long after her death he broke his leg, and which, not being properly set, men groat oyes is ‘gone up,’ and I am of the state wand dostroyed about per ceat of the animals examined. “The observation of the comwission the people it has como Alact With discharge of its duties fis the that th s not only Willing to p mill tax now imposed in the maintenance of this sanitary o but are willng to double the amount, It must be remembered also that the main stock interests of this state are situated right on the lines of freiznt distribution and collection, und that any re. laxation of watchfulness wonld result in the very rapid spread of contagion and mfection in the obliteration of the good mlremdy omplishiod by the commission, for the south and the east is full of disease and our stock would speedily be contaminated by feedors and breeders from those sections. On_such eon siderations the wisdom of legislative action which would throw down the saiogiards of the stock industry might well be ques tioned.” Captain Abbey od that the indemnity furnished the owners of condemned animals was an offectual method of disclosing dis- cased anjmals to inspeotion and condemua tion, and that the labors of the commission would be hwmpered without such & provision, left him with a crooked limb, which tormented his pride and seriously inter- fered with his movemens. Thi gation of calamities wrought sorious evils on his naturo, and he grew moody and morbid. Greatest among all the disasters was the death of his wife. He could not forget he he missed her smiles, her soothing voice, her caress- ing hands overy moment. He could not give her up. One day, some months after the death of “Bonnie,” as he always called her, he said to me one evening at his house! “Havo you ever looked into spiritunl- ism? What do you think of it?” I replied that 1 had given a good deal attention tp the new faith, but was rather inclined to doubt its genuine- ness. He then said: “I don’t betieve anything in it, and vet wouid like to test it. 1 have heard of n medium, as they call 1t, I beliove, and I shall make some tests. Suppose we go over there this ovening.” T agreed, of course. He ordered his ge, and in company with a medi- friend of his from Springlicld, we drove to a house whose locality [ do not remember. There was ole” gath- ered when we entered. There were two mediums—ormedia, whichever it should be—a man and his wif n The “circle” broke up for a moment, and was then reformed by the addition of the new-comers. Storey. I noticed, wore an air of solemn expoctancy. Tho lights were turned down, and, after a few minutes of singing, a guitar, which was lying on a table in the vicinity rose in the air, floated over the heads of the audience, and was twanged with vigor. There were raps on the wall, on and under the table; ‘‘spirit finger: touched the hair and checks of the sit- ters, and messages were dolivered through an alphabet of tappings, It was the old familiar thing which I had so often scen and knew to be a de- ception. | was trying to smother my contempt when suddenly, directly over sads on the ceiling.there appeared ro illuminated by a pale blue | verybody glanced up and saw | written ncross tho lighted portion the | name “Wilbur I, Storey.” The trick was 5o stale that unconsciously I uttered in a voic rd all over the room: $Oh, h— The li o instantly turned up, and Storey at once glanced at mo sternly and remarked in an indignant |7 ton *You must have drank too much of | I that clavet at dinner.” ITe neve ) nt tany spivitual se pany: in fact, for nearly a yeur he did notinvite me 1o liouse, 1 lonrned that duving this period of my absence | the mediums whom we had visited had | v been installed in the Storey residence | as the guests of the 1t was while he was thus mourning the loss of his wife that he became sossed with the belief that Dr. Hosmer Johnson, who attended Mrs, Storey in invited me to vi in his com- | ¢ [ pos. | | did. of alwuys m, \ spealcing of him as the “White Chif, 3| 1t wa ceased Lo suggest, to ask, Lo de his ears were dulled by death, the for an cighty a ot togother, for we have what We spring or a mountain brook sroprieto wid the othiel attention; that. instead of ealling, he should have dovoted his entire timo te her case. This conviction, in time developed into one to the offect thad the physician had given her cumulas tive doses of aconite. Once possossod with these ideas,he procooded to assaulg the physician through his paper in a manner which few of the citizens of that day will fail to remember, Johnson stood the urjust and frighte ful attacks for some nionths in silence, and then replied to them in an articlg in a city newspaper, which was ono of the most torrible that ever appeared i print. He amply refuted the assertion as to lack ofattention to the patient and from his notes of the case prove that the medicine was w it should be, and concluded by showing that the enuse of her malady was traceable to a licontious 1if That Storey was not driven into an insane asylum by this awtul riparte is something to be wondered at. o redoubled the numbor, and if possibly the venomousness, of his attacks on tho medical man. One day, when thesa bombardments were at thetr highest, ho sent for me and said “We must stop these assaults on Dr, Johnson!" 1 ibout to say [ was delhighted to hear it, when I changed my mind, and asked if T might be informed as 1o tho Penson. have just roceived a commun tion from ‘onnie,” ™ he said, “in which tells me to quit.” s 1t possible? How did you reccive the communication?” “Through a man named Sampson, Denver. He received a mossi through a medium fr ‘Bonunie,” with a request to send it to me.” The people who recall the surprising suddenness of the cessations of agyres- siveness of Mr. Storey aguinst Dr, Johnson may now, for the first time, learn the reason. This incident terminated one phaso of the spivitualistic experiencos of Mr., Storey’s life. For a time he sought for no more communications from **Bom- nie.”” He then married for the thivd time, and almost imme ly there- after spivitunlism attacked him in a modificd form. It was tho same malady in general, but was somewhat diffevent inits symptoms, His curlier dovotion was caused by an overpowerir Ume. comunu- municatioh with the wife whom he so fondly loved. The later form of spirit- ual communication was founded mainly on his health. The oue might be termed emotional and the other sani- tary spiritualism. He had visited ilot Springs wher Al authority had asserted that he w suffering from an impalrment of the brain functions, and in 1878, whilo in Switzerlund, he wad stricken with paralysis. It was then that he resorted to spivit- ual not to bs, slato-writing, or r-thrumming, but to o sort of fam- iri at was always on hand and It was, as claimed, tho spirit of an Indian girl that now obessed and then possessed him, [t was known “Little Squaw.” From the period th came to him, it, or till his consciousness wis obscured by imbeeili She followed him over; where, night and day, giving him sujr- tions as to tho origin of his ill- Alth, the proper remedies, where to travel, how to dispose of his property who were his friends and who wer enemic Strangely enough, tho in- fantile spirit had some malignant qual- tie She so influenced him that sho alienated nearly all his friends, and loft him to die by inches in sad isolation. Llor two or three years prior to his in- ability to leave his home during the couple of hours he would spend in tho office his conversation was wholly de- voted to **Little Squaw™ and what sho had said to nim and doue for him. Ha would relate all this to one person, and if he remained in the oflice long enough Storey would repeat the narrativo withoutnny variations. **Little Squaw,” he would say, “has told me that I am Dbeing poisoned by sewer was and that the house is full of it. *Little Squaw’ has ordered mo to ho rubbed with salt and whisky, and ['m veally feeling very much better. Little Squaw’ tells me that I shall eas long as Commodore Vanderbilt He lived to be over eighty years ro ¢ Little Squaw’ ord t “Little Squaw he, clung w0 him ed meo to o to such and such a watering place, and T grew hetter at once.” Sueh are a_fow of the thousands of things he said of the Indian spi aged to flatter his vanity by an_omnipresent spirit; it whis: pered in his eur at the table,in the arriage ride, in the nighton the couch, 1t never left him for a moment, never wd till e e ol A Dakota Man's Protest, Brreato Gar, Dale, Jan, 81, To the editor of Tue Bee: 1 sce in the Bon that congress s still trying to repeal the pro-o imber laws. 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