Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 11, 1889, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, TERMS OF SUBSCRTPTION. 11y (Morning Edition) including SUNDAY h-“’yk One Year 10 For Six Months & For'Thres Months p Tox OMAIA SUSDAY DBri, malled to any address, One Year, WrEkLy IiER, Un6 Year OMAHAOFFICENOS, V14 A CHICAGO OFFrcr o7 1 New KO¥FICE, BUILDING, WASHINGTON FOUNTEENTH STREET. EX D16 I ARNAN RTREET, YOKERY T ROOMS 14 AND | OFFICH, CORRMESPONDEN( nnications relating t Sorinl matter should be addressed to th OF THE BEE. BUSINESS LETTERS, Allbusiness letters and U addressed to Tiix 11y OMANA. Drafts, checks and o e mads payable o ts order of ta TUCBCO‘PHDIEMM Cflfi]!‘ifi?l? Pronrictors ROSEWATER, Uditor. 1nws and edl Ay nrron sshonld he NG COMPANY, JHce orders Lo compa THE DALY B ®worn Statemeont ot Cir Etataof Nobraska, County of Douglas, George 1. T7schuc ulation. |5, seorstary of The Bas Pab. Nshing Company, does solemnly swear that the sctual cireulation of Tk DAL Brr for the week ending February U, 1850, was as follows: Kunday, Febh 18, i Baturday, Feb Average. ... g 1. TZ8CHUCH. Wl subsccibed o my Febriary. A, D, 1883, oy N.P. FEIL, Notary Publie. Etato of Nebras ‘s, 8 County of Dougias, (%% George I Tzschuek, being duly sworn, os0s AN Bays that he is secretary of t Pubiishing company. that the actial daily circulation of 1HE DAILY Beg month of January, 185, 15,206 ¢ Tunry, 1488 15,002 coples: fer March, copie’: for April, 15, 15,04} copies; for M T8 153 coptes : Tor ius, 185, 10,241 copies: for July, 168, 18,0683 copleas for Angust, 1598, 14,15 for September, 185, 15,150 coples: for O TEN was I80M coples: for November, 18,087 coptes; for Deconibor, 1885, 14,223 coples. Bworn to bafors mo and subserihoa in my Presence this rd day of Jantary 155, . P FEIL Notary Publie, prospects for revival in all of trade and industry were hter for Omaha. G Eworn to before me presence this 9th day Tie brancies never by and the burnt ter will make Tie overhead wires out boilerif not look serious trouble in our city some day. T million-dollar borax failure on the Pacific coast a f now balanced by the Boston for a iike sum., are now out Ti moval of ‘tl my supply depot at Cheyenne to Omaha will not alone necessitate the enlargement of the commissary pot at this poiut, but ake it one of the most important sup- ply po=ts in the country. months ¢ is 1o fai at ax and guano o Bo IN swinging the retrenchiment axe the legislature is just as liable to lop off the wrong limb as the right one and cripple some deserving object. False ecoromy much to be guarded agaiust as extravy is sance lature has vot only passed anti-gambling iaws, but her people are secing to it that the laws are vigorously cuforced. It is quite evident that Montana is putting hersell on her good hehavior so that may step into the union with clean skirts. CoLOoRADO has a bill before its legis- lature to provide for the punishment and disbarment of any luwyer guilty of riising his ability in procuving di- rees. Colorado is evidently anxious to give Chicago the monopoly of the business, Tie question as to the vesidence of William Windom, whose name rumor persistently councets with a cabinet appointment, is likely to become tercsting a matter of public discussion as the question raised last year as to where General Sheridan was born. Tue recent decision of the supreme court in the “‘original age” case apparently doos not frighten the hquor dealers of the state. The question will at once be appealod to the United States supreme court wher long litigation may be looked for. In the meantime the wholesaler will con- duct his busiuess openly, and the saloon- keaper will placo another wicket to the hole in the wall of his dive, and liquor will flow just as freely as ever. Tielong vexed question as to the rights of the settlers to the Des Moines river lands will in all probability be disposed of favorably to the people of Towa. The bill to quiet the title of these settlers has just passed the sen- ate, and there is strong ground to be- lieve that President Cleveland will sign the mensure, This is the second bill of the same character to pass both houses, The first bill was vetoed by Mr. Cleveland under a misuppro- hension, but such a fate is not expeeted for the second. Lquity demands that the settlers be protected in their rights upon the disputed lands, To turn them out after years of toil would be un- warranted hardship and injustice. The claimants to the Des Moines river lands base their rights upon questionable techuicalities, and their harsh methods of eviction in the early part of the winter are still too fresh in mind to aid their cause. — IT has been generally supposed that the extensive plan for irvigation which the government has taken in nand was mainly for the purposo of veclaiming the sterile wastes of Colorado and Wy- oming. Major Powell, chief of the na tional geological survey, is confident, however, that Nebraska will be chiefly benelitted by the building of storage reservoirs ubout the head waters of the Platte. He claims that storage 1in- crenses the aren of irrigable lands by holding back water for reserve during the dry season which otherwise would run to waste in the spring and early summer. This would insure for Ne- braska during the summer months an unfailing supply although the volume of water during the irrigating period is likely to be diminished. The benefits, however, for Nebraskn, according to Major Powell, outweigh the disadvant- ages. Comparatively s small section of the state depends on irrigation, Never- theless thousands of acres in the ex- treme western part of Nebraska would become valuable if irrigated for agri- cultural lands which now are used maioly for grazing. e s in- Towa, pack- - TfiE’ OMAHA DAILY BEL: MONDAY. FEBRUARY 11 SOME NEBRASKA FIGURES. Titee BEE this morning prosents some | figures relative to the stock interests of | the state. They will bo found instruc- | tive and useful to every one conc in the material welfare of Nebraska. Not only do they show that prosverity holds sway, but that the future for this at commonwealth is bright and full of promise, The mild winter has been a boon to stock Cattle have required less ¢ than usual, and the amount of feed necessary to fit them for market will be much less than navily the case. Theve wili, ther Lo, in all prohability, o handsc to the credit of Nebraska d when fariners thrive, e 1 stimul [for th s demonstrating the flouri ng of those who raise to [ ro 18 ¢ profit ry indus- v us enson figur condition hogs, 250 fatte yooring all, that the supply of and and gr them, are he fact is disclo. grain on hand is generally sufficient to prepare the stock of any given locality for the m Where there is a lack, the price of n such as to permit the purchas the ne amount and still e handsom> margzin of profit. The figures will not only be available to the gencral situa- tion, but an actual guide to mon. They show where the hogs and cattle are, their present and prospee- tive value. They show t their own circumstances compare those of neighbors. i Bk takes pride in the presentas tion of this healthy showing —not because it a healthy showing, but be- cause the collection of data has been curate nd painstaking, and will be of practical The stata is not covered. Space forbid. t enough is g intelligent ide the stock industry may be ol v just to say that ey of Nebraska has the field of we a s an o index stock- ywers how with lone tie id 1 50 that an of the tained, It is tiwe in the outlook in benelit, en WO of Atus N0 this particular more assuring KANSAS STAY LAWS. The scure created among New Ln land investors in western mortgages by the introduction of a bill in the Kansas legislature, baving for its purpose an usion of the present ‘mption peviod from one to three years, has somewhat abated. This is duo to a re- ng report of the judiciary commit- to red assni tee of the Kansis senate unfavorab! tho proposed legislation. The view of the committee was that a remedy of the character provided for by the stay ll, cven if constitu- tional, would result in evils greater than it seel alleviate. There could be no benelits at best for three or four years, and in that time the ill consequences might be very serious. The views of the committee worthy of general attention. The port says: “Anything which tends to emburrass the enforcement of contracts for the loan of monc to react upon the borrower,and tonoften injures the very class it is intended to benefit. Your cornmittee is of the opiaion that the enactment at this time of any stay law or redemption law would di- reetly tend to aggravate rather than to relieve the present stringeney. Legisla- tion should be bused upon the rule her than upon the exception. Your commttee believe that financial pru- dence and sound public policy alike do- mands that all bills proposing sstay laws and redemption laws should be in- definitely postponed.” It is therefore probable that nothing more will be heard of the proposed law. Although no other we: n state had proposed legislation of this character, and none scemed likely to do sinee the conditions prompuing it were pecoline to Kansas, still the stended to all eastern of western farm mortga it is not doubted that had th legislature passed tne proposed bi would have becn almost as difticult to borrow money on Nebraska and Towa farm mortgages as on those of Kansas. The present attitude of the matter thorefove of very great interest to all western farmers, who will heartily com- mend the sound wisdom which hus pr vented the Kansas legislature from mak- ing a mistake the damaging effeet of which would not have been confined to that state. It is now possible for eust- ern investors in western 'm mort- ages to expericnce a return of confi- deuce. are re- is sure 80 Kansas is THE Ni 'here is in the hands com- mittee of the Idgislature, we believe, a bill amendatory of the Nebraska alien land law, and the legislature should not adjourn without passing a measure for this purpose. Thoe alien land law, as Tue Bee has on several occasions pointed out, was a serious mistake inso far as it prevents foreigners from hold- ing mortgages. It provides that **No non-resident alien shall h after ac- quire or hoid any real estate or interost thevein in the stute of braska by pur- chase, devise or descent,” though an alien owniug rea) estate at the time of the passage of the bill could convey, mortage or devise the same, and in case of his dying intestate such real estate would descend to his heirs. A mortgage is an interest in land, and under the law as it stands an alien cannot now require a mortgage intevest. The effect has been to clude foreign capital from investment in Nebraska real estate, and it is be- lieved the loss to the. state from this cause has been very large. At any rate it has been suflicient to demonstrate that the law should be amended. While it is desivable to drevent foreigners from holding large bodics of land, it is obviously not good policy to ex- clude them from all investments here in which real estate is involved and to prohibit them from holding mortgages. It caunot be in the interest of the pro- gross and prosperity of the state to de- prive our people of the privilege of borrowing foreign money and therchy enable some lenders to exact a higher rvate of interest than they could other- wise obtai The Minnesota law-makers showed more wisdom in this matter than did those of Nebraska, The alien act ex- in forc in Minnesota provides, “That it shall ba unlawful for any person or persons, not citizens of the United States, or of some state or tervitory of the United States, to here- after acquire, hold or own real estate 80 herealter acquired, or any interest therein in this s except such as may be acquired by devise or inherit- ance, or in good fuith in the ordinary course of justice in the collection of debts hercafter created.” [oreigners are not prevented from holding mort- gages, and this act went into effect a large amount of forcign capital has b Minnesota, to the ungu tage of the state. The Kuansas senate has recently an act similar to the Minnesota law, vill do well to follow the there is ry promptly ro- 1 loaned in stionable adva passed and Nebrask example. The ov m w believe sult in cting a foreigu capital to Nebrask would large amount of Tie friends of General Rosecrans are a1d to be n little uneasy over the out- look for the bill placiug him ou the ro- tired list of the avn [t is remem- bered against the v 1 soldier that when a member vess he very unkindly of General Grant in con- nection with the bill to place Grant on the retired list, and he has attacked pther public men, whose friends in con- gress do not now feel disposed to for give him. Yet itis to be hoped that this spirit will not be allowed to defeat what appears to be a simple act of 1o Rosec Grantin that in congress he exhibited a bitter partisan spivit that led him to ¥ things which were both unjust and un- generous, he bad been a brave, useful and patriotie soldier, ana the service he rendered the countey should move than outweigh the mistakes, grave though they weve, of his The famoe of Grant was not inju ) anything Rosecrans said, and probably no one would have him more readily and heavtily than the great soldier whose record was so secure it he could affora to forgi his en- cmies and traducers. Congress should vetive the old soldier as an act of simpie justice, leavi to his conscience the work of punishment for whatever wrong Lic has done to others, of con justice forgiven g Tur action of the president in sum- mavily removing Civil Sevvice Commis- sioner Bdgerton, appears clearly to have boan prompted by a desive to pro- vide for Mr. Thompson, assistant secre- tavy of the . who is a southern demoerat. It is well known that there has been want of harmony between Bd- gerton and the other commissioncrs for a long time, he and Me. Oberly, while the iatter was a member of the commission, being at swords- points all the time. It has been understood, also, that Edgerton has mot hesitated to vigorously criticise the conduct of the adwministra- tion with respeet to civil re- form, on the ground that the reform was not being wisely or faithfully ad- But if these things of- fended the president there is no good reason why he should have waited until now to make it known. If he believed the course of Edgerton was damaging to the reform his duty was to have re- moved him long ago. The fact of his waiting until now leaves no doubt as to his motive. The senate w doubtless see to it that Mr. Thompson, who sce ms to have been especiaily useful in put- ting confederate soldiers in office, isnot rewarded. service mnistered. te Full Now. St. Paul Globe, “The cabiuet seems to be about full, with perhaps a man or two over. Perhaps Har- rison hasn’t noted this fact. gemaaitinl hing Out Between Acts, Clieago Tanrs, If Senator Evarts goos into the there will be no eoing out between the sessions. When he begins to talls are no drops or ringing off. - S £ Queen Not Exempt. Chicago News, It is said the queen of Sweden has to do her own housawork m order to preserve her licalth, Probably the hired givl whom she lust had was more trouble than she was worth. Qu No( cabinet in there acts ——— anglish Humor, New York Worli, The Loudon News is attemptiug to stir up a discussion as to the respcetive merits of English and American humor, From an Awerican standpoint this is the funniest thing an English news puper has ever done. The Luxury Slecp. Chicago Tribine. The “beauty sleop” may be that which is tuken two hours before midnight, but the overwhelming testimony of experts is that the *luxury sleep’ 1s that which is indulged in for two hours after being called in the morning. e Exemplary Mr. Waunan il Pioneor Prese, Tt is said that John Wanamaker neith smokes nor driuks, never drives fast horses, never yachts, doesn't play billiards and never went to a eiveus or theater in his life. M. Wanamalker is a remarkable person. How would & little cabinet all to himself suit him! - PANELS FOR THE Burlington Hawkeye: To President Har- vison: Don't put too many seuators in your cabinet, Clicago News: If Estec gets a place be will b sure to put his foot in it the tivet thing. Chicago News: It doesn't matter so very much whom General Harrison puts iu his cabinet 5o long as Lo bars out skeletons from Lis closet St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Allison's idea is that it would strengthen the cabinet to have hiw in it, but thut it will strengthen Aluson to stay out of it. Cincinnati Enquirer: The total absence of cabinet talk in the editorial columus of the Indianapolis Journal would indicate that Colonel John €, New is ready to be struck by lightning, General Harmson will please wake a note of this, Cincinnati Enquirer and Allison should pool their issues. 1f cur- reut stories may be accepted, each of them is unwilling to go into the cabinet for fear of the governor of his state. Aresenators of tho great American republic 1 be thus intim- idated? Kansas City Journal: It is certainly to bo hoped that Senator Allison will see his way tosoactas to save General Harrison from any serious embarrassment in the formation of his cabinet. At the same time it is un- questionably true that ho 1s a most valuable aker. ABINET, Senators Sherman | never for a moment believed he was member of tho sengge, and his twithdrawal from that body on:l be & scrious 1088 to lis party and tho nation. a8 Cit mo: aderson Joutnal: The dispatchos fally: stated that ‘“our is “off the slate.” Kgad, wo on tho slate. Mr. Honderson 18 like the mother-in law joke; we have 'th put up with him at ro curring poriods, New Y cides to ¢ K torday H yes Mr, de ho 1t Mr. Allison the senato Bay k Suus Before up his place in so of Me. at caroer, should cousider thy, ¢ he is looking for a g v, he will not find it in the cablnet. “For a man of the first force in tho senate to accept a seat in the cabinet is to weaken his party and to diminish or destroy his own influence." Ch Ti It has A moving cannon ball, occupying one eth of a sccond in passing a given point, aphed. And science flaps its wings. When the motion of one James G Blaine accepting the portfolio of state after it has been offered him can be photo graphed then science will have something to crow about St. Paul ¢ fixture will nead somo new lie would feal at home among the republican poiiticiar It is n out that he docsn't smoke, drink or dance, can't boan discovered th 10 can be phota anamaker as a cabinet cquirements if yachts, tell ajack from alung, doesn’t play billiards or any other game, never went to a cireus or theater in his life, doesn’t use cuss words, and has no recreation except running a big Sunday school in u big chucch he built with b n means, He will be an oddity in that crowd. i STATE AND THERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. atliolic church at Homer Sunday The Hastin combine 1o “buck’ A number of iKearncy people will attend ugural ceremon t Washington, Anaverage of four cars of grain a day nave been shipped 1) Blue Springs to Omaha for some time The members of the Phulo society at the Pern Normal school are publishing a bi weekly paper called the Owl. The plans for the new Custel house have been received at 13 and bids will be advertised for at once. Mr. and Mrs. J. Brigham, of York, weré given a surprise party by their neishbors on the oc u of their fortieth wedding auni vorsar was dedi atehers have entered into a Avmos county court oken Bow, lolding the Lincoln county d from October to & ar it will oceur from the fair s been el tember, and this ye 17t to the 20th, A “society forthe breaking up of religions and social gatherings,” which has Houris ut Silver Creok, Merrick county. has b “husted” by the areest of three of its loud- ers, who have been taken to Central City, 1t is said, says the Benkelman Pioneer, that when a now conviet arrives at the state’s prison, the affable warden no long propounds the wsual question: *“Well my good man, what county are you from,” but mstead ho says, while a 1t smile illumi nates his handsome visage: “Well, old boy, how is overything out in Dundy eounty Braithwaite, the Albion bank robber who hias just been Sentenced to the penitentiary, was a member of the Baptist church of that place, and on the day that he stole ¥1,000 from the State bank he presented the church with a donation of £25. < the Bup. tist people, through their pastor, tendered the banle oflicials ¥25, but the latter refused to receive the money, requesting the church to accept it as a donation from the banlk. Frank Wilson, serving a sentence for car rying concenled weapons, il Hoyt, who was waiting trial in_the court for swindling faruers by the shell game, cs- caped jail at Dakota City Saturday night. ‘The door of the steol cage was fo opon, and a hole two'feet square_made fro the Corridor to the: sherifl’s office. here an entrance wi to the by means of a fi Sy rof League Wricht, the e Vasques, a Kansas City aiting trial for nighway robbe the cage, but did not make an cfto cape. rson, - the thief, and rook, who v, were in tto Vil wholesule house. The Calliope Building association ercet another two story brick block 1 spring. Indianola sports think they will have about the best amateur base ball team in the state this season Rev. D. W, Burroughs, formerly of Water. 100, died in Conuceticut o few days ago at > of eighty years. Charles Van Gordon, proprietor of the Au- dubon couniy bank, and Jonn W. Gray have opened a new bank 1 Bxira, with a capital of £30,000. “The place for holding the Iowa conference of the United Brethren church has beeu changed from Monticells to Bristow, [t wilt meet April 10 and be presided over by Bishop W A serious it befell a son of Dr. Smith, of Conesyille, recently. He had volver in his hip pocket and jumped on a train for short vide. When he jumpeid off be fell on his shooter, which discharged, leav- ingr the ball in his thigh. A Pella photographer has concluded to got even with his non-paying eustomers in u novel manuer. He proposes to put the pictures in one large fraim 1it with the legend, *These owe m ' pay,” and hang it ina conspicuo in the town. has a chewing gum will the place Wyoming and Montana. There are 124 students enrolled at the Col- lege of Montana “Che distillery plant is lost to Bozeman, Mont.. by the reported selling out of eastern stockliolders to the combine, A syndic anston, Wyo., has filed on sciiool land near thut place, claiming that it contains u line vein of coal. P. Yerger & Co., of Billings, Mont,, are going to build a fouring mill in that_city to cost 315,000, to have a capacity of 100 barrels aday. The wife of Sol Lukey. suddenly left home the other day, takin with her all the wedding presents and hous nold goods. The couple were married Thanks giving night. Governzr Moonlight, of Wyoming, has pardoned James €. McCormick, who' was convicted of obtaining moncy under false pretenses, md Harry Langzabaigh, sentenced for grand larceny. The *Bowman” oil Wy0., i3 proving a Auceess. strata hus been reached at feet and the well is no ssing.” The well will be cased at once and then drilled deeper. Oil men soy that a gusher ora pumping well is assured. Prof. A. C. Logan, superintendent of pub lie instruction of Montana, bas filed his an- nual report with the governor, He roports 27,000 persons of scliool age in the territory, ail incrense of about 11,000 persons. Value of school buildings, #640,670. Money paid into the s treasuries i 1585, 8117,442.47, a much larger sum than ever before, The superintendent cousiders the schools well conducted. John Meyers, a county, d frou well near The depth of 1, cowboy of Yellowstone a fracture of the left 1 hove the ankle, caused by his horse fall- ing while he was deavoring o corral a f horses about fifteen miles from the vanch. Meyers was' injured at 8 o'clock p. m., and arcived at the ranch, a distance of ten miles, at ¥ o’clock the next night, having crept the entire distance on his hands and knees, exhibiting great nerve aud endur- ance. - For Minister to Denmark, Omaua, Neb, Feb. 9.—To the Editor of 'ug Bee: Sir—Lincoln dispatche Tue Bes announce the presence in that city of Johu E. Enander, Esq., editor of Gamla Och Nya Hemlandet (the old and the new home), one of the leading and it may be said prinei- pal Swedlsh journals of the United States. Mr. Enander’s name is a familiar one to the tens of thousands of Scandinavians in Ne- braska, and more especially so to the Swedish residents thereof. For twenty-tive years he has been their most conspicuous representa- tive, and as an cditor, 88 & public speaker and as a writer, particularly oa history, liter- | ature and 4 | cheology, ho has won env distinction. Hia works oft prohistoric sub. jects, particularly on the Astec and Inka ilization on the Pacific coast, his oration celebrating the fourth contennial _of tho Reformation, in Central hail, bas i 1him in the front rank of Scandinavian sviolars in the United States. In addition, | Tie has served the ropublican party carnestly and succossfully, aud tho recognition on the part of Mr. Harrison and ropublican | party of Mr. Enander, as minister to Den | mark, would be a fit compliment bestowed | upon an eminently qualified candidate. The puzzle is that while Mr. Enander is a Swedo by birth and an honored stude s groat est univorsity, at Upsala, that Inander does not seek the position of minister to Sweden and Norway. Be that as it may, the Danes would have no oceasion to regret the exchiange of tho present ineum- bent for Me. Eaander, Indoed it is spoken of among the viost brominent Danes s a mattor of current comment, that there are several special reusons why thoe D, of the United States are desirous of a ch in the occu pant of that position aska being the lome of over one hundred thousand Dar of which fifteen thousand reside in this city, this comnuonwealth has a peculiar interest in this appointment, because Nebraska and Omaha contain the heaviost Dauish popula ion in the United States. It is to be hoped, therefore, that the logislature, and the gov ernor as well, will tender tius gentleman such courtosics in the premises as will ad vance the objeet ho ias in view secur their signatures to this_application for the position of minister to Deamurk. The edi torial brethiren of the Scandinavian press, which numbers nearly one hundred tiroush outthe northwest, the governors of Minne sota and Wisconsin, and muny the most distinguished pubiic men of theso states have cheerfully added their names and influcnce, which is ilso tie case with Senator Farwell, of llinois, aud many of the most prominent republicans of Chicago. Pass the dis tinguished geatlewan onward. OLAF BLLIsoN of Pharmacy. , Feb, 9, 1850, ~To the ditor of Tug Tho in yester day’s Bee over the signature “Druggist,” in ppinion expresses the sentiment of a ma jority of the druggists of the state. In first place it is an injustice to ists to pay even §1 tencnee of the phar or L tax 1o § and_elerks respectively, insult to injury. f the prese year is not sullicient to meet expense of said board of - pharmac, number of suid board be decreased from ten 1o three, the nuniber required by other states Why Nebraska should have so man, members to the p acy board than states requive 1s i public conundrai, way lot brothier druggists spaak. AL B, Hest Another Opinion. Nenaska Crry, Neb, Feb, 8, -To the Ed itor of Tk Brr: In your issue of this date yousay: “The pharmacy law which taxes a drug clerk more than it does the proprictor is manifesty unjust. The measure now un der consideration should be fully weighed . I thisk you do the friends of the pharmacy law an injustice when you say what I have sted. The law does not tax the elerk more bau the proprietor, uniess the proprictor is ot i rc druggist, in which case he is competled by law 0 have a rogist druggist in charge. In this case t would compel the registered clevk to pay year, or ar ctor would pay nothing, so far as the phar ey law is concerned, but this same propri etor'has to pay a registered clerl from 310 to §75 per mouth. Hefore the pharmacy law was in force any one could engage in the drugz business and no questions asiced. Now if one goes into the drug business the law compels him to have a competent. clerk, und the clerk can command a fair salary, while before the law the proprictor could hire a voy for 20 a month. 1 think the interest of the drug clerk would be to pass ihe law by Jasis R oa for ulid wdding tax of §1 per actual ex- lot the more othe Any New York Merury. I'm a wicked water meter, Pharisaic water meter, with a face of hard cnamel, hard enamel, trimuned with brass But I wear the soft_expression of a painted Simon Peter, looking out_into the -fu ture like a goldfish through a glass. When it h Tant aili my vitals in its eff I record the strange Drass-ho lent o, cass of an in- nischiel with rts to get through, occurrence on my Ob, the miasmatic matter and the poison which [ scatter, by the simple name of water, unadulterated, pure! While my friend the undertaker waxes vichier, slicker, fatter, and the drug: gist’s wife and daughter take a Euro- pean tour. Ob, Toften pause and wonder as 1 o'er my plunder, pause und why in thunder lonest people le lie, they do limb pouder der e rise in limb meter not “fron ater ancer, tear nder, and mgenious Why than I e~ WHO WROTE "“HAZEL KIRKE. A Slonx City Man Claims the Dr Was Stolen From Him . S, Page, of Sioux € has nearly ready for presentation a new comedy that said 10 possess many points of inter nge as it may seem, Mr. Page cluims to be, and has ample ¢ dence to substantiate the cluim, that he 15 the author of the popular drama *Hazel Kirke.” He teils the history of thut play b aying that in 187 about the time that'the Madison Squ; theater in New York was appronching the finish, he saw an advertisement in a New York paper, over J. Steele Mackaye's signature, for new plays. Mr, Mackaye was the manajer of the new theater, and in ponse to his advertisement Mr. Page mailed to him the manuscript of the play now called “*Hazel Kirke,” which then bore another name. Mr, Page waited for weeks for a response, but received none. He wrote repeat- cdly concerning his play, which had not’ been copyrighted, but was wholly ignored. He finally s it up as an occupant of the waste basket, and thought no more about it. Two years afterward, in an opera house in St. Louis, he was astonished to see his own production presented by an excellent compuny, with the names of the char acters somewhat changed, but the play in the main as he wrote it. Ie fought legally for his rights, but withoutavail, and he isnow certuin that he was robbed mercilessly of his best literary effort. At the tinie the piay was written he was hing school in Ohio, and since then he has lived in Champion, Il1., until coming to Sioux City a few months ago. - - Tough on the L New York Journal: see you do not employ a mudame, Landlady you mean, sir i New Boarder—Ol 1 kiow that French cooks have a way of making tough steak tender, end judging from is Landlandy. New Boarder—I French cool, (indignantly)—=What do the sample before me, [ infer that your cool is not French. Presence of Mind. Deacon White—pister Jones, what seems to be the mattah wid Brudder Jones? Mrs, Jones—De doctor remittent fover, sah. Deuacon White—If dat’s de case please ax him, while the fever am on him, to remit fur dat hog he bought fum me last fall,—New York World, - It is a curious fact that Mrs. Langtry, and I\'?rlu wear the same size shoe. v he's got de Mrs. Potter, Bellew all The same man makes the footguar for all three, and he says they wear a No. 6 shoe. PUMPEDBY EIGHT REPORTERS Max O'Rell's First Experience in Now York Oity. CAPTURED HIM IN THE HARBOR. The Unhappy Frenchman Suaffered During the Intarview but Lived to Write a Witty Account of the Process. They Boarded the Ship. “Journalism has killed literature, and is Kkilling journalism. It sp of the dying literature an epoch: itis the v oof lotters r placed by the concierge.” So claims M. Albert Millaud, in one witty articles in the Fig this epigramatic quotation rthe author of “*Brother Johnathan and, his Co nent,” begins his chapter in the Amer- ican Reporter. In America, he continues, reporting has simply overrun, swailowed up jour- nalism. Itisa demolition of the wail of private life. the substitution of sip for chronicle, of chatter for c cism, For the interviewer nothing is sacred. Audacity is s stock in trade; the most private details of your life ave at his v, 1nd vou blow his brains out—which is not lawiul in New Yori state—you have ting even with him. Do not believe you have got over the difficulty by having him told that you are not at home. He will return to the charge ten, twenty times: he will stand sentinel at your door, the mat outside your TOON. 0 15 L0 pounce upon as you show your fiee in T Heas patient, and if any indisposition should oblige you to keep your room, he will wait tinl vou ave well again, and will e his meals brought to him in the Should you succeed in eseanin Lrather than retuen to the newspaper ofl empty-handed from the chase he will find your wife, and ask her if you snore, whether you are an early riser. whether you ave ‘the more aminble after dinner or before, what you eat at brenkfast, what is your favorite color in trousers, and whut size Doots you take. He will ‘ask her when you were marvied, how long the honey- oow lusted, if you have children, and whether they ‘have cut their teeth, With these materials he will make up a lumn, here is no question too ind for these enterprising inquisitors; they would have interviewed St. Anthony in his hut. Do not shout victory, either, beeause you have succceded in getting rid of the interviewer without replying to his questions. Lt isin such cases that the an journalist reveals himeself in v, Toyour stupefaction, the newspapers next day will have an ae- count of the conversation which you might have had with their reporters. If my advice be worth giving, the best thing you can do, when the inter viewer prosents himsolf and says, 1 wm a reporter, siv, and T have come to moments’ chat,” 15 to reporting is the last g me of his ro, and with 105 merey, unless no means of sleep hotel you as the morning. on bed- serect say to bim: Glad to sce you, sir; pray be seated After all, intérvicwing is an operation that onc survives, and, to he just, [ must t American reportérs in general “are very courteous, obliging, ind—which is simply astounding when one considers that they rarely t notes—aceurate in their accounts of terviews. Che cou terviewer braves rebufls, losophy with which he are nothing short of a my part, [ never to say to these intritders, and 1 had m yeward in reading in the papers th as L pleasure 1o interview u canse 1 submitted to the operation with such good grace.” On the 11th of November, 1857, at 9 a. m., the Germanic, aftera terribly rough pussage of nire days, entered the mig- nificent harbor of New York, The sun had risen resplendent in a cloudless blue sky., We had just passed Bar tholdi’s Statute of *‘Liberty Enlighten- ing the World,” and it scemed as if I'rance were not fur off. Tt was a sweet, sensation and instinetively T had raised my hat. All at once the Germanie stopped. A littie steam tug drew up | alongside and theve stepped on bonrd a Y few custom-house offivers, followed by sev other persons. “Look out!™ cried one of my fellow- pnsseng seeing that I appeared to be uneconscious of danger. “What is the matey? 'he interviewers!™ “Nonsgense, not he claimed., No sooner were the words out of my mouth than two young men handed me their eards, with the announcement that they were jou ists. “Wo have come to present our v spects to you,” they said, nd to wish you a pleasant time in our country,” While they uttered these words, they scanned me from head to foot, jotting few strokes on their note hooks, They were taking my portait, which app next morning at the head of the articles that the press of New York fit to devote to me. T'he portrait flut- tering one. One paper, howeve the following deseription of your hu: ble servant . “Max ORell is a globular Frenchman of about Then fol- lowed o deseription of my traveling suit and other effccts. obu ! theidea! ‘orty !V No, gentlemen, thirty-nine, if you please But to return to our reporters, Question after question was put, with the rapidity of lightning flashe *Have you had SWore you sick at “Where weie you horn? ™ “How old are you?™ “[ow long do you mean to stay in the United Statos?” This catechising bogan to annoy me. HEExense me tlemen,” I said, *'I am tired and am going to the hotel to rest. 1 shall be Lappy to see you this afternoon,” Oh! that first afternoon 1n New York, spent in the compuny of tha intervioy er I never shall forget it! The ofice of my locture manager, Muajor Pond, was situated on the ground floor of the Everettghouse, where I had put up. Thither [ repaired after lunch to undergo the ation of tapping by eighy interviewers at once, Ah!” said one of them, after the usual salutations, **we are going to bore you, 5o let us begin at the beginning.” This made me smile, “1 know your first question,” T said, *you are going to ask me whether this is my first visit to America.” “ou are right, that is gen our first question; but I have another to ask you before, You have just eaten your first meal in America; “what did You hay ntlemen,” Iroplied asseriously as I possibly could, **I have just beon in for a picee of turbot, a Leefsteak and po- e, too, with which the the in- vhi- buse, For suw hardly tato chips, a celery salad, and a vanilla ico." “And now,” remarked another porter, 1 have n important question to put to you. T hope it will notastonish you." “Oh!™ I replied, ‘I am and quite. dy not to b anything “Well, then, " said he, “I want to ask you wl aro your impressions of America? “Excuse me" [ in America, tonishoed at exclaimed, T have only been in it three hours, and thoso three hours have been spont in this hotal. You muse really allow me to ab- stain for the moment from telling you what T think of Amoevica: for you will admit, 1T hope, that one must have passed a whole day at least in America in ovder to judge it withany accuracy.” Here 1 rolled a cigavetto and rang for mon squash I'he reporters immediat entry in their note-books. What is that you have put down?" [ asked. A young fellew, with a face boaming with activity and intelligence, ropliod **1 wrote that at this point of our con versation vou rolled a cigarette and for a lemon squash, ™ uly, gentlemen, ™ I ventured to observe, “do you imagine that such a remark as thiit can possess the slight- estinterest for your readers?” “Without doubt,"” they replied, and all their faces wore an - imperturbable serfousness that nearly made me voar with langhter. “Oh!in that case, oxcuse mej T ought to have knowa that in Amevica, aselse- where, an intelligent man knows his business. Goon with your questions; you interest me greatly. The fact is, that [ bogan mensely umused. Tho questions uted biogr origin al ly made an to be im recommenced, One phical details, another my pseudonym. One wished to gnow if T worked in the morn- ing. the aft@noon, or the evening; another whethier I worked sitting o standing up, and also whether [ used ruled paper and quill pens. One repor- ter asked me if 1 thought in English or in I'rench: another whether General Boulanger had any chanee of soon being clected president of the Prench rep lic. 1f [ erossed my legs during the sation, if 1 took o my glasses, nothing escaped these journalists everything was jotted down, The questions they peared to me so commonplace, so inl, that I was almost ashamed to I was the hero of this fittle farce. With the idea of giving them somo- thing better worth weiting. I launched W the of cony skod veally ap- triv- think into aneedotos, and told a few to theso intervicwers. This brought which was quite comic. 11 [ looked at one reporte little oftener than the rest while 1 told an ancedote, he woulld tuen 1o his brethreen and say: “This story is for my papor, you have no right to take it down; 1t was told es- pecially to n “Notatall,” would ery it was told to all of us. In spite of this, the harmony of tho meeting was not disturbed, and it was casy to see that an excellent spirit of fellowship prevailed in the fraternity, Bygones! Globe-Denverat Yo doubts and fears that once we knew, Ye bitter words of anger born Yo thoughts unkind and’ deeds unt Ye feclings of mistrust and scorn; rainst your memory we rebel, We have outlived your foolish day; No longer in our hedrts yo dwell— Bygones! Bygones! pass awiy. about a little scono the others, 10, A e joyous sinilos and tears, its fond and pleasures past Yo hopes of life's first budding years, Ve loves that scemed oo bright to last; Ye eharities and words of poace, Affeetion’s sunshine after riin's our blessings cc BBygones? come - JOHN L.'S WIFE CONVERTED. She Causes a Commotion By Joining the Salvation Army. Mrs. Johin L. Suallivan, wife of tho the prize-fighter, after listening to tho cloguence of Captain Howland, of the Salvation army battalion at Avetic, hus become a convert, says a Providence, I.. dispatch. Mrs. Sullivan manages a bonrding house there, and rumor siys the captain has heen very diligeot in his visits to the house. Last Sunday the presence of Mrs. Sullivan at the meet- ing croated o sensation, and there was an exciting scene when Mary Melane, an old swectheurt of the eaptain, and denounced him in_infuriated guage. The meeting was up, one-half led by Captain How id and Joh L.’s wife in ins witke, going to one end of the room, the other half, led by a deacon, occupying the othor, the meeting it was announced th rs. Sulliv the con- vert, would on the platform in the evening and exhort. This roused the enemy, and a body of them, men and women, scized a rail and started up the highway toward Mr Sullivan’s house captain was at that time. king party halted near the Mothodist ehureh, when the good follgs ure them torespect the bhatn and 10 seek for less vigorous methods of showing their dislike for the captain. Owing to the disturbances there was no evening meoting, and the keenly-curi- ous villagers did nov enjoy the rire op- portunity of hearving the wife of the prize fighter exhort. The opponents of Capuain Howland ave trying to take the chureh away from him, but Le shows them o clear legal title, Mes, Sullivan witl probably appear next Sunday. ler native pl is near here, and her maiden name was Ann Bailey. —— New Mexican CHf Dwellers. A remunant of the elifl dwellevs, sup- posed 1o be extinet, is said to be dwell- ing in the n Mateo mountuing, of New Mexico. 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