Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 1, 1889, Page 5

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE' ‘MONDAY, APRIL 1. 1880, ey THE COMMERCIAL TRAVELER. A Thousand Mile Ticket For the Liveliest Pen. A FULLY PERFECTED SYSTEM, A Drummer's Lament—A Traveler Whose Nerve Failed Him-—Sam- ples From the Grip Sacks— Notes Along the Line, Send In Your Stoales. The commercial travelers of this state have shown their appreciations of THe BEr's efforts to afford them every Mon- day intelligenco peculiarly intoresting and instructive to the craft. They have contributed to our columus freely in the past, and during March more communi- cations have been received for our com- mercial travelers’ department than ever before in a given time. There are, however, a variety of subjects which hay sed by them in Tie Beg, and there are hundreds whose personal reminiscences on the voud would make intensoly interesting reading. To induce members of the craft to contribute regulariy to our columns, it 18 proposed to offer a thousand mile ticket, good on Nobraska lines, under certain conditions, The ticket will be purchased by THE Bee over the line chosen by the successful compotitor, who must eithor represent a Nebraska house or travel exclusively in this state for an outside firm. He must present a letter from his house certifying that he isa regular traveling representative of such house. A thousand-mile ticket will be pre- sented, under above conditions, to the commercial traveler who shall be first to coutribute 6,000 words worthy of being printed in THe Bre. He can count only that which appears in print. Don’t be afraid that your communica- tions will not be acceptable. We want the groundwork of your ideas or anec- dotes or biographies, personal gossip (or anything that will interest the craft) and we will tonoe it up if necessary and put it in proper shape for the printer. The second best; man will be given a year’s subscription to the daily. Each competitor must clip all of his commu- nications as fast as they appear in the THE MONDAY BEE, forward them to this office, and sign his full name and the house which he represents. “‘Let's Smoke." “It’s a heap of fun to be a traveling man,” said a koight of the grip last evening to the Merchant Traveler while sitting in the lobby of a hotel near the ‘atleast those who haven't tried 4t think so. It isn’t all that it is oracked up to be, even by the most enthusiastic of the boys who lug big sample cases around with them and jump from town to town, making the quickest time and biggest sales possible. A few years ago the drummer lead a happy life, but in these days of competition more work is expected of us and we have a harder time to sell our goods. Our expenses are watched closer than in the days of yore and we are expected to make better time in getting over our routes. But withal the right kind of a fellow can have ’oodles of fun on the road. Occasionally when several of the boys meet at the same town, they ‘whoop ’er up’ fora few hours, but, de- ?entl upon it, they never go so far as to 'miss a trick’ when it comes wo making asale. No, I have never written any of my experiences, but had I the time I could tell you of some adventures that would make your sides split with laugh- ter and the next moment cause you to shed a silent tear of grief. I don’tlike the business, but I guess that is be- cause I have a darling wife and two small children. They are all well and 80 on. but you know I hate to be away from them so much. Sometimes I think I will quit the road and settle down, but, blame the luck, I ain’t fit for anything else. I wish I was a butcher or o newspaper man, or some- thing else besides a worthless drummer. Let’s smoke.” His Nerve Failed Bim. Most men are courageous when there is no danger. It is easy to be brave when it does not cost uny effort to do so. The following incident related by the Detroit Free Press illustrates how the ‘bravest quail in the presence of imagin- ary danger: It was on the line between Charleston and Savannah, and we had runinon a siding to let the express goby. She 'was behind time, and as a number of us strolled around, some one proposed to stand alongside of one train while the other passed. The space between two tracks is little enough, but when you stand with your back to a car, the space s frightfully reduced. You can extend your arm and touch the passenger coaches. Only one man decided to try it. The rest of us stood on the plat- ‘forms to watch, He stood midway of our train, his back to a coach, and he laughed at the idea of danger. - When the express finally appeared she was running at the rate of forty or fifty miles an hour, and there was such a oioud of dust that she might huave + been tuken for a cyclone. She came with a roar and a scream. I saw the man turn pale bofore the locomotive was up to him, and the third car had not ed before he wilted right down in his vracks. and when the express had and we went to him he had ainted as dead away as any woman ever did. When he had been revived he said: “T thought I had more nerve. From where I stood it seemed as if the train was headed right for me, and all at onco I got the idea that onme of the coaches would jump the track. The roar confused me and the speed of the train made my flesh crawl, I would not try that position again, safe as it looks, for all the gold you could pile into our bagguge car.” A Bystem. #No business man can succeed with- out a system, which reminds me,” re- marked Frank Van Dusen, ‘‘of a good story about a lesson on the importance and eficacy of system which a commer- cial traveler for an eastern house re- geived in Chicago. This gentleman was & well dressed, bright, intelligent business-like German. He entered the fivst floor office of & prominent Chicago mercantile house and sald he would like 10 8eo the head of the frm,” says the Merchant Traveler. #4The head of the firm is very busy, sir,’ replied the gentleman in charge. ‘If you will kindly state your business I may be able to attend to it for you.’ **You vill excuse me, sir, but mine voesness ish mid de head of de firm.” ‘““The head of the firm will only at- tend to such matters as cannot be left to others. 1f you will kindly inform me of the nature of your business I will be able to tell whether it 18 necessary you should see him.” “‘But it is nooessary! Opsolootly necessary! Mine peesness is werry pressing! 1 shust must seo him! Did T g0 avay mitout him seeing me, and him find 1t owit, he would be werry angry, ind eed, mit you.’ “ *All right, sir, all right! Just take that elevator and go up to the fifth foor. You will find some one there who will direct you to the head of the firm.’ “A minute or two later the eastern gentleman found himself on the fifth floor. A man seated at a desk, appar- ently writing letters, was pointed out to him nas the head of the firm. The vis- 1tor doffed his tile, and with Chester- ficldian grace and dignity, but with an eye all the time single tobusiness, said: ‘Ish mine de distinkwished honoh to spaak mit the head of this gweat business?”’ ‘4Ot s, sir. . What’s your busines?’ “ Vell, sir, vit your kind bermission, I vould like to show you a few zamples I haf mit me to-day e ***I have neither time nor inclination, sir, to examine samples. 1 pay a buyer $6,000 a year to do that work for me. You find him on the first floor. Good day, sir.” And the merchant turned to his writing. ‘“‘I peliove I meet the shentleman vyou shpeak of,” pefsisted the visitor, but I dolt heem 1 prefare to talk pees- ness mit you. .My oxberience dells me dot puyers haf doo many irons in de fire. Your puyer would haf told me dot he vas foolly shtocked mit my line of goots. He vould haf peen mishtaken. No house in dish gountry carry sooch a line of goots as ours “The traveling agent ran on in this charming way for a little minute, to be interrupted by the head of the firm calling, in an authoritative and det; mined voice, for one of his employe: ‘Pat !’ he cried, Patrick promptly re- sponded. The hireling seemed to know from experience what was expected of him. The head of the firm gave no command, but gave a quick, emphatic and significant gesture with his thumb backward over his shoulder. Inan in- staut Patrick grabbed with one hand tpe back of the salesman’s collar and with the othor the seat of his panta- loons. Then he rushed the unfortunate man at a meteoric pace across the room and ‘fired’ him head foremost down a broad flight of stairs to the fourth story; shouting as he let go his iron grip to some one below, ‘Pass him on!’ “The fifth story act was repeated on the fourth, third, second ana first floors, and the climax reached by banging him through the doorway into the gutter. The poor fellow picked himself up, pulled himself togoether, looked around for his hat, brushed off his olothes, and as he sized up the great building from pavement to roof he was heard to say, a dominant note of admiration per- ceglil»ln in the pained tone of his voic: ‘Vell, dot ish not a werry shentle- marly vay to dreat a peesness man, but mein Gott, vot a syshtem’”’ Samples. C. N. Smith, the rustling oil man of Omaha, was having a big trade on the B. & M. last week. P. M. Garrett, formerly with ,Nat Miller’s celebrated base bail club,is now on the road for Raymond Bros. & Co. . J. J. Kelly, representing the well Known house of R, L. MeDonald & Co., of St. Joe, was doing the B. & M. last week. C. C. Caldwell, of Lincoln, and E. E. Hampton, of Holdrege, are matched for a foov race in the near future. See small bills. Clarence Price, formerly with Paxton & Gallagher, but now representing Julius Kuhn, of Atchison, was visiting friends in the west last week. George H. Root, the G. A. R. man, was working the Curtis branch last week. George is very popular with his trade and is a rustler. H. H. Cherry, the Swede from Hast- ings, was visiting his trade on the Chey- enne line last week. He sold his usual amount of *wash bilers” at Wallace. Stopping atthe Murray last Sunday in roowms 40, 42, 44 and 46 were the fol- lowing gentlemen representing the leading mufller houses in New York, taking orders for full of the jobbing trade only. Mr. Weeks, representing Wilmerding, Hoguet & Co.; Mr. D. D. Tompkins, Greef & Co.; Mr. G. M. Don- aldson, Whitney & Co.; H. Levy, Ballin & Bernman. Mr. Wm. Vaughan, representing Mathews, Blum & Vaughn, was at the Paxton. They were in Chi- cago together, went in order to St. Louis, Kansas City, St. Joe, here and g0 to St. Paul to-night. By traveling this way together, they make it more easy for the buyer to select his line than if they came separately,as a buyer couldn’t - well remember his former urchases and often saves a trip to New Fork. They are a good lot of boys and gev as much pleasure as possible out of their nomadic existence, e - Disgusting Skin Diseases. What spectacle is more disgusting than that of a man or woman with a skin discase whichisbows itself in pimples or blotches on hands, arms, face and neck! It is simple im- pure blood. See what BraNpueru's Piivs did for a chronic case: George Chapman, Pincening, Mich., says: For four years 1 was in the Mounted In- fantry in the U.S. Army, residing during that time principally in Texas, Almost all of that time I had achronicskin disease, charac- terized by an eruption over the entire surface of my legs and thighs, arms and chest. The doctors termed it eczema. I had given up all hopes of ever being ocured, when BEAN- orETi's PiLLs were recommended to ma, I concluded to try tirem, and did so, and I have thanked God daly since then that Idid so. I think I used them altogether for about three months, and, by that time, was com- pletely cured and have never had any trouble since. My skin 1s as clear as any one's, T — A Praying Base-Baller. New York Weekly: She—*I under- stand that you are one of the praying- base-ball players, and that you are studying for the ministry. In fact, I am told you have just beeun ordained.” He—""It is true.” ‘Are you going to take charge of a parish at once?” ““Well, I don’t know. I have received a call to a mission church at 8500 a year; also, an offer from the Bostons to sign for $10,000 a year, and I have been won- dering whether I hadn’t better devotea fow yocars more to base ball prnyingbe fore accepting a regular pulpit.” R — I like my wile to use Pozzoni's Com- rlenou Powder because it improves her ooks and is as fragrant as violets, e Lent. Time, Lent, lent, Iul'n,‘l Where, oh, where is that Vi The fiver 1 leat Is long spent, And w‘xfiouu\m come buck to me, THE SEASON OPENED. Yesterday's Game at the Bass Ball Park Attended by Thonsands. The ball season of 1880 was given a send-oft yosterday afternoon at the local park in the presence of probably three thousand people 1t was an exhibition game between the Omabas and a team of ex-professionals and amatours yolopt the McKelveys. The Oma- has, as would naturally be expected outplayed the picked nine at all points ard won in & canter, It was far from a_brilliant game, but owing to the fact that this was the first game the boys have played together, and that dospite the sunshine, the day was cool and disagreeable, it would be invidious to make comparisons or criticize. Suffice to say both teams showed up exceedingly well un- der the circumstances, and_made the game far from uninteresting. Kennedy pitched the first six innings for the Omahas, the op- osition making four hits off of him, two omers and two singles. Willis didl the twirling the latter part of the game, and allowed his adversaries but three hits. Proesser played left fiela for the picked team, and managed to touch Teddy Kennedy for a'home run. Salisbury and Clarke were in the box for the picked team, the latter being hit safely only twice. The Omahas hit well and ran_bases admirably. Crooks’ play at second and Cooney’s at short were the features of the professionals’ work, al- though all did splendidly. ~For the Me- Kelvys, the work of McLaughlin in center field is worthy of more than passing notice. He gathered in no less than five difficuit flies and played an all-round game hard to beat. Mekelvey, too, despite his two errors played brilliantly, and brought back to mind his'old time work with the Alleghanies. Bandel, also, did good work. Allthe new men acquitted themsclves with as much credit as could be expected of them 1n their initial game. Many of them are yot suft from their winter's lay off, and sore from rocent practice, The unanimous verdict was, howoever, that Manager Seloe has got a crowd together that will put up great ball by the time the championship scason rolls round. Willis and Kennedy alternated the umpire's position and gave good satis- faction. The four ball, three strike rulo doesn’t scem to have changed the general character of the zame at all, and will be a popular rule before the playing season is far advauced, Following is the official score: OMATAL 0 A Strauss, r 7 Cleveland, Crooks, 2b Andde Cooney, Nagle, © Leighton, Messett, 1 e Kennedy, p.... coock RS o Z| wamccasa- Pl ofccoe v8, L 1n. su. PO, McKelvey, 3b RO Rockwell,"1b.... 1. 13 ndel, ¢ . 2 0- 3 Clarke, s, MeLaughtin Prooss Lucas, 3b Baldwin, 1. Salisbury, p il Tonings. Omahas McKely e ol cccocoe SUMMARY Earned Runs--Omahas, 2; McKelvey o hits—Audrews, Nagle and Leig hree-base hit—Andrews. Home runs —McKelvey and Procsser. 1ases on bulls-— Omaha, 7; McKelvoys, 5. Hit_by itched balls—Leighton, 2; Orooks, 1. _Struck out— Omahas, 8; McKloveys, 4. Passed balla— Bandel,' 1’ Stolen bases—Omubuas, 17; McKelveys, 4. Time of game—Two hours. Umpires—Willis and Kenned, e ond Will you suffer with dyspepsia and liver complaint? Shiloh’s Vitalizer is guaranteed to cure you. For sale by Goodman Drug Co. — NEBRASKA BEET CULTURE. The Advantages Offered in the Vicine ity ot Kearney. Kearxey, Neb, March 25. — [Corres- vondence of Tue Bee.|—While the subject of sugar beet culture is being agitated in d if- ferent parts of the state, nothing has been said about the country surrounding Kearney, and its chances of becoming the sugar beet section of the state. It s generally known that a canal sixteen miles lon, arried along the series of hills, from th to sixteen, from the Platte river, 18 in existence west of Kearney and terminates in the city, It will at once be seen that water from the canal may be used successfully in iwrigating grow- ing crops i the country lying betweon this stream and the Platte river. There is water sufficient for irrigating the entire tract of land if properly used, as the whole body of water in the river can be turned mto the canal at a trifling ex- pense. Old settlers in the Platte valley will attest to the greal abundance of wator in the river in the dryest part of the season, even when the bed of the stream seems to be perfectly dry. The presence of water just beneath the sand is always per- centible and last year’'s experience by the rney Canal & Water compauy has proven yond a doubt the great nlenty of water that cau be brought in the canal during u severe t. With such facilities at hand, thero failure of any crop in this particu- lity when 1t is properly cultivated and the flood gates used judiciously. The foregowng favors the production of root crops even if the soil were not the bost, From experiences tried by the homesteaders in garden patches, the beot stands at the head of all productions in size, quality and ease of culture. ©A Bee correspondent careful investigation of the nature of the soil about Kearney, and its adaptability to the culture of the sugar beet, and has found that no country offers superior advantages for this industry, In parts of Germany and France, where this is the leading indu: , and where the sugar beet became famous, tne expense of growing the crop must necessarily be greater than here. There the soil is made suitable for the crop by expensive fertilizers, appled at considerable cost. Irrigation is used also, ditehes and dykes pointing out to the travelor the home of the sugar beet. Here the soil is a rich black loam, mixed slightly with sand in some places, and contains all the ele- ments favoring the growth of superior sugarine vegetables, 1t is well known among sorghum manufacturers that @ better variety of sugarcane is produced on the valley farms than those on table lands, While the crop may not reach maturiy as 5001 as on the hills it is of a hardier growth and contains more moisture. Mr. O. G. Smith, manager of the state industrial school was interviewed relative to his ex- perience with root crops in various places on the state farm and uuder different circum- stances. Hesaid: *“During the past year I have made several experiments with beets, both 1 the cultuee of difforent varieties and in analyzing the amount of sugar contained in them. The ordinary forage beet yields only about 6 per cent of sugar,while the im- proved varieties contain as much as 20 per cent. To say that we have one of the best localities in the state for beet culture would be putting it mildly. We have experimented for four successive years with nearly every variety of beet known. After a careful analysis of the sugar beot I am satisfled that this can be made & paying industry if quality and quantity of beets grown figure in the profits, The percentage gained by irrigation may be seen by the following ux‘peflmunl.; We have by ordinary farming raised from eight to ten tons to the acre, Ast year we watered a crop from the canal and secured a gain of 300 per cent, or about thirty-seven tons to the acre. The largest and more near- ly perfect beets exhibif by the industrial school at the state fair last year were taken from ground where water ‘from the canal ran continuously, It seems that a great uantity of water is best where proper rain: is provided. ~We can grow thou nds of tons of boets of the very best qual , and a beet sugar factory of no small pro- portions can find steady end profitable em- ployment.” —— An Absolute Cure, The ORIGINAL ABIETINE OINT MENT is only put up in large two ounce tin boxes, and is an absolute cure for old sores, buras, wounds and chapped hands, aud all skio eruptions, Will pesitively ocure all kinds of piles. Ask for the URIGINAL AB- IETINE OINTMENT, Sold by Goodman mc«, at % cents per box—by mall 80 has made a TAE NEBRASKA LECISLATURE it A Roview of thé Business Tran- sacted During the Week. THE TACTICS 'OF THE HOUSE, Its Tardy Action on the Appropria- tion Bills Prolongs the Session to an Unusual Extent— State House Gossip. A Legislative Resume. Lixcory. Neb.,, March 31.—[Special to Trnn Bee. |—This legislature lasted sixty-seven days. The last week had some exceptional features, The men behind questionable claims and approvriations had resorted to the usual tactics of holding these measures 1n the house until very near the close of tho session in the hope of rushing them through the senate the last night under whip and spur. But the senate was not composed of jobbers, and it deliberately sct about to thwart vhe schemes of the plunderers. The first move was to agree not to fix the date of adjournment until after the receipt of the appropriation bills, The senate could have closed up shop @ week ago but for the do- termination to have time to consider the ap- propriations. The bill for the running expenses of state departments and institutions was receivecd from tue house on Monday. It aggregated 57 when introduced. The reductions y the house footed up $197,000, and its additions $186,000. Twenty senators met in conference that night aud went over u third of tho bill item by item with a view to lop- ving off all oxtravagances without crippling the state service or the public iostitutions, An adjournment was taken Tuesday after- noon and the trimming process completed. The amendments, over one hundred in num- ber were carefully prepared and distributed among the senators who had taken part in the conference. When the bill came up for consideration Wednesday the amendments were fired in and the friendly —ma- jorty reduced the bill about $270,000. When the bill for salaries was received another senatorial conference was heid, and it was pruncd to the amount of §33,000. These ro- ductions added to the $245,000 made in the bilis askiug for new buidings made an ag- gregate of $550,000, ‘When the bills were returned to the house that body refused to concur. Its farmer members held a meeting Thursday night and agreed to support the action of the senate. ifty-soven members of the house pledged themselves to concur in the ro- ductions, but considerable resentment to- wards the senate was worked up and a number of the fifty-seven weakened. The result was a refusal by the house to concur, and a joint conference committee had to be appointed, The committee went into session at8 o'clock Friday night, and the repre- sentatives of the two houses wrestled with cach other until 3 o'clock in the morning. Disruption was threatened several times, but all points of difference were agreed in but the allowances for tho state university, Most of Saturday morning was spent in the latter with the result of an increase of £3,000 over the amounts allowed by the senate. Other small additions were made, the whole increase aggregating about §60,000. The result is a_substantial victory for the senators who took & stand for retrenchment. To their reductions of $550,000 are to be added about §100,000 cut out by the house, Take from the grand total the $60,000 added by the conference cofiiinittee and the not re- sult is a reduction of nearly $£600,000. The senate committee on, finance reported un aggregate of $2/400,000 in the claim and appropriation bills, and if the figures are correct the appropriations ought not to exceed $1,810,000. To still further protect the state from ths customary raid in the closing hours of the session, tho senate on Friday, when it ap- peared’ probable that adjournment would reach the following day, resolved to con- sider no bills except aporopriations and bills then in their reading. This unexpected move tools the jobbers by surpriso and shut out several schemes, among them one to pass a bill_ingeniously contrived to repeal the gambling law while purporting to do_some- thing entirely difforent. Another effort of the resolution was to make the senate sit around doing almost notuing from 11 o'clock Saturday morning uutil final adjournment at 2 o'clock Sunday morning. The amend- ments of the conference committee wero not printed and ready for adoption until 6 o'clock Saturday evening, and the legislature had to remain in session until the bills were en- rolled and signed by the presiding of rs in the preseuce of their respective bodies. During the week the senate adopted a resolution directing the heads of state in- stitutions to let the contracts for furnishing their supplies to the lowest bidder as pro. vided by law. It also provided that the bids shall be iu the separate items and requires the various institutions to make a monthly report to the secretary of state of the sup- plies purchased, A bill drawn by Secretary Dales of the state university and purporting to draw the line between the university and the indus- trial (or agricultural) college was killed. It contained proviso that the agricaltural ex- periment station should be maintaine by _the state if the government withdraw its annual allowance 15,000, and the senators didn’t want Billings and his hog cholera work perpotu- ated 2t the expense of the state trez A fourth and last effort to pass an anti- bucket shop bill was made and defeated. The plan was to strike out all after the cn- acting clause in a bill making it unlawful to publish_lottery advertisements and to sub- stitute the bucket shiop measure, The chair ruled it out of order, the same subject mat- ter baving already been rejected by the sen- ate. A similar altempt was made to save the bill for the Australian election system after being defeated. The same point of order was raised, but the cbair ruled that the svo- stituted measure was an amendment. How- ever, the scheme was defeated on the vote. ‘The bill abolishing the live stock comms- sion had been referred to the judiciary com- mittee, and its friends dragged it forth with resolution requesting toe committee to re- it. The house had amended the bill to retain the state veterinary and the quaran- tine regulations with an_appropriation of $10,000 to make them effective. The senate defeated an amendment to allow the veter- inary to employ as many assistants as he de- sired, also an amendment vroviding that the state should pay for diseased animals killed. The house amendment was coucurred in by & voe of 23t0 9. Hall's house bill fixing a maximum sche- dule of freight rates was not reached in the senate. A resolution directing the board of transportation to fix a schedule to prevent :hnt;‘riulmuuon was dgfeated by a vote of 17 0 34 A resolution was adopted directing the commissioner of labo¥ to embody in his next report a chapter on the cultivation of sugar beets, sorghum and ether sugar plants aud vegetable, the manufacture of sugar there- from and statistias in that industry. Several attempts to appropriate $30,000 for insuranco in state buftding were defeated on the theory that the State had better carry its own insurance. v The senate by a unanimous vote adopted a series of resolutions,denying the allegations of the Farmers’ allignge memorial that the farmers of Nebraska are stageering under s load of mortgages. * HOTSE. The house got dowa to steady work the last week In the session and transacted a surprising amount of business. The pay of the members stopped with the sixty days and the average legslator does not relish making laws for the dear people at his own expense, The friends of economy were vigil- ant and active and kept & sharp eye out for bogus claims, but in one or two instances the senate seems to have ‘let the bars down” and allowed a few claims of questionable merit which for want of time the house was compelled to accept. Among these was a claim of . R. Hoar of Massa- chusotts for $2,000 as compensation for sery- ices rendered the state sowe years ago in de- fending its title against J, Sterling Morton to saline lands, ut the Butler claim for 50,000, the Stout claim for §35,000, aud the Ieanard claim for §11,000 for allegod sery- lcu‘ were all laid away in their Little graves to bloom and blossom again two years hence, The movement to establish & court of claims to be composed of the various district judges, was allowed to quistly die. Nearly a month ago the judiclary committee of the house was instructed propare a bill con« talning these provisions, but no action was taken. The matter will go over for two years, and if nroperl‘)' discussed in the state press the court will in time become a reality, and when that day comoes the jobber, trick- ster and boodler will find spare plrklnp in the legislative halls, and may be compelled to wake up some honest employment. ‘The forty superserviceable employes were all retained to the end of the session, The speaker ruled that the committee did not have the power to discharge any employe, and it would require action by the house. The friends of economy, knowicg that if th question was again onlled up it would open prolonged fight with doubtful results, con. cluded that as the session was nearing its close the time had better ve saved and a new leaf turned over for the future, Accordingly thn{ gave their attention to fixing -:-l limit to the number of employes, and & bill was passed by both houses and signed by the governor, naming the highest limit for the senate at'sixty-six, and the house at seventy- five—about one-half the number on the pay roll this session. A desperate effort was made to defeat this bill on the floor of the house, and it only passed by 51 votes, just the required number, The greatest extravagance in this direction was in the number of pages. Twenty-two were on the pay rolls, and nine or ten others were presont, acting \ithout authority and expecting to draw theiv salary. A resolution was introduced by Dempster on the Iast day of the session and after a hard fight was passed by a vote of 4 to 39, authorizing the chief clerk Lo place these pages on the pay roll. Those voting to give these extra pages more than $1,000 of the state's money were as follows: Baker, Bailey, Ballard, Berry, Bisbee, Babeock, Coleman of Polk, Collins, Cruzen, Denman, Dempster, Dickinson, Dunn, - Fen: ton, Fieldgrove, Fuller, Gilchrist, Hall, Hill of Giage, Hooper, Hungate, Huntor, Loe, McBride, ckle, Meeker, O'Brien, O'Sullivan, Rayner, Rhodes, Satchell, Sev- orin, Spechit, Sweet, Towlo, Weber, Weller, Wells, Westover, Whitehead, Wilcox, Will- iams and Mr. Speake: ) The noes were #). Several members dodged the issuc and allowed the resolution to carry. Majors of Nemaha introduced and the houso adopted a joint resolution instructing the proper officers to purchuse all state sup- plies at wholesale, after advertising for bids as provided for in the statute. If this prin. ciple is followed a good sized leak in tho treasury will be stopped. At present nearly all of these supplies are purchased at hap- hazard, and sometimes at full retail prices. The Rayner bill providing for a constitu- tional amendment increasing the number of supremo judges from three to five, and a il raising their salary from 2,500 to $3,000, was vassed. The Johnson bill providing for a s vrinter was finally killed by a vote of 10 to Senate file 14, the Keckley bill to prohibit pools aud trusts, was amended by exempting labor organizations from the provisions of the bill and passed. The senate concurred in this amendment and the bill has been signed by the governor and is now a law. The brll providing for the leasing of the state saline lands and for their sale at $20 per acre was amended by Cady. increasing the minimum price from $20 Lo $150 aund the bill passed. These lands are nearly all lo- cated in Lancaster county, and are becom- ing more valuable every day, and if this bill had become a law in its original form it would have enabled speculators to obtain possession of much valuable proverty at a mere nominal price. Hall’s maximum tariff bill, which, among other things, empowers aud directs the board of railroad commissioners to reduce freight rates when shown to be exorbitant by a majority vote, while requiring a four- fifths vote to increase the rate, was passed in the house by a vote of 54 to 33, but did not reach first reading in the senate. A series of bills were passed ory izing a county out of the Omaha or Blackbird Indian reservation with contiguous territory now attached to Wayne county, to be called Thurston. There seemed to be no ond to the appropria- tion bills. Two or three items covering the same expenditure were smuggled into the various bills and it required close inspection to detect the cheat. Among the items of miscellaneous indebt- edness was one for £2,000 in favor of W. H. Wilcox, the architect of the capitol building, for allezed services. Wilco%, under con- tract, was to be paid a_certain 'per cent on the cest of the building, and it was stated that he and Stout, the contractor, entered into an agreement to put on a number of “extras,” whereby the compensation of each should be increased. Stout got his 9,000 for these “‘extras,” but the house refused by a strong vote to endorse the action of Wilcox in the matter, and his anticipated extra pay will not be realized. At a meeting of the farmers' combine Thursday evening it was decided to agree to the senate amendments cutting down the general uppropriation bill some quarter of a million of doliars, and reach a final adjourn- ment on Friday, but on the floor of the house Corbin, Scoville, Coleman of Polk, O'Sullivan and others yielded to the appeals for a conference committee of the two houses to adjust the differences, and the motion to concur was lost by a vote of 22 to 45. The house members of the conference committee were Cady, Corbia, Gilchrist, Hall and Baker, and after being out all night the joint committee agreed to raise the appro- priation for the state university about $45,000, and increase various other items. The con- ference committee’s report was adopted. Among the importaut vills that squeezed through in the closing hours was one com- pelling all insurance companies to pay a special tax of 2 per cent on all premiums re- ceived in any town or eity for the support of the local fire department, and compelling all insurance agents to give a $1,000 bond before commencing business, conditioned on strictly pbserving this law. The seuatejbill to establish & normal sehool at Neligh was lost by a vote of 64 to and all house normal schogl bills were mdefinitely postponed with very little opposition. Saturday was the longest legislative day of the session, and being the last was noted for events not on the usual programme. A large number of fine presents were distrib- uted. The house, through Representative Cady, presented Speaker Watson with an elegant silver tea set, and through' Mr, Towle a fine silver service to Chief Clerk Slaughter, and a diamond pin was given to Tom Cooke, first assistant. The seat he occupied during the session was presented to the speaker, and the same courtesy was ex- tended to the press reporters, The ovening session was largely attended, and owing to the necessity of waitiug for the routine work of enrolling and signing bills, was extended until late in the night. The time was consumed by humorous specches from Towle, Baker, Hall and a large nuu ber of outsiders. The two German mem- bers, Fieldgrove and Specht, were appointed al marshals, which produced much mer- riment. The speaker suppressed all boister- ous conduct, and instructed the sergeant-at- arms to arrest any one found throwing waste baskets or other missiles, The clock was stopped at ten minutes to 11, but the hours dragged on. Finally the routine work was completed, and at tén minutos bofore 2 the lf)u.xkul‘ arose in his chair, and stating that the hour had arrived which was set by the joint committee for final adjournment, de- clared the house adjourned, and the logisia- tive session of 1559 passed into history. A Slander Refuted, LixcoLy, Neb., March 81.—[Special to T'uz Bee.|—Followmng are some resolutions in- troduced by Senator Church Howe aud adopted by the senate by a unanimous vote: Whereas, Certain persons, asscciated to- gether under the title of the Nebraska Far- mers' alliance, have publicly statod that the financial obligations of the farmers of Ne- braska are an oppressive burden to said far- mers, and that the general economic condi- tion of the state is tho reverse of prosperous, therefore be it Resolved, That it is the opinion of the sen- ate of the state of Nebraska that the so-called Farmers' ulliauce being & private and non- representative body, has no right nor titie to speak in behalf of the farmers of the state. ‘That the recent allegations of certain mem- bers of said alliauce with regard to the eco- nomic conditions of Nebraska are untrue in substance and fact. That the mortgaging of their farms has enabled a large |lrozflnl0n of the farmers of the state to establish homes for themseives and attain @ dogree of cowpetency whioh would have otherwise been beyond thelr reaoch, That if farm mortgages are iucreaslng in the newer and not fully settled portions of the state, they ure being graduslly extin- guished in those older setiied counties where a succession of magnificent orops has ren- dered the farmer practically independent of flnancial assistance. ‘That the increase in the material wealth of the state, as evideuced by the number and value ot its live stock, and the large amount of improv state, as also by the increased comfort of the homes of the farmers and tho cempletencss of their appointments, has more thi kept yue with the growth of population, and af- fords a cortain guaranty that the financial obligations are not of that burdensome char. acter which has beon 8o rashly alleged of them. That the nq’:‘lcullurnl prosperity, of which there are abounding evidences on every hand, is due in a large measure to its mag- nificent corn crops, which for many years past have averaged a larger number of bush- els per acre, a largor number of bushels per capita, and a largor percentage of a mer- chantable standard than those of any other groat corn producing state in the union. An lmportant Bill. Livcory, Neb., March 81.~|Special to Trr Ber.]—~The following impsrtant bill was passed in the closmg hours of the session : Section 1. 1t shall be the duty of all officers of the exocutive department and of all the public institutions of the state when making the report to the guvernor required by sec- tion 22 of article 5 of the constitution, to 1n- olude in such report a schedule of all por- sonal property in such public institutions or under their control belonging to the state, and the condition thereof, and to account in said report for all sucn personal property belonging to the state as aforesaid, ns may have been destroyed or in any manuer dis- posed of, whether by natural wear and tear or otheriise, since t o of tho last re- port made by such officers or their predeces- sors in office. Seotion 2, Any officor specified herein who makes a false report shall bo guilty of per- jury and pumished accordingly. Section 8. All acts and parts of acts incon- sistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. ——— Kennard's Claim Lixcowy, Neb., March 81—[Special to Tne Bee.]—T. T. Kennard, whose little claim of $1,100 for alleged services rendered the state in the capacity of a lobbyist av Washington some years ago, and which the rugged honesty of the fotse would not allow, grew confidential yesterday and remarked toa BEE ropresentative: “If my claim had boen allowed I meant to doa good thing by the boys, but since it is klmckcfiuul L can’t help them any. The legislature is the last place to come to get your rights, g Laxcony, Neb,, March 31.—|Special to Tur Bre.]-Most of the members of the house were fairly well pleased with their work, though the farmers are, as a rule, disap- pointed in not.getting some railroad logisia- tion. The failure of the bogus claims to pull through was a source of much congratula- tion to the honest element in the house. Not Very Deadly. Laxcory, Neb., March 81.—|Special to Tig Bee.]—Berlin and Fieldgrove became en- gaged in the closing hours of the session in affriendly effort to incase each others heads in a waste casket, and it required the com- bined efforts of the sergeant-at-arms and his assistants, ro-enforced by an army of small boys; to separate them. Peculiarin medical merit and wonder- ful cures—Hood’s Sarsaparilla, Now is the time to take it,for now it will do the most good. THE COLONEL HAS NERVE. Editor Shepard's Kemarkable Com- munication to the Secretary. Tor spblime and indestructible cheek commend to us the author of the follow- ing astonishing epistle, says the Chi- cago Times: “NEW YORK, March 21.—The Secre- tary of the Interior, Washington, D. C.: The change of the hour for con- vening the senate to 1 o’clock, instead of as heretofore, will be a great blow to the evening papers all over the coun- try, causing delay in receipt of tele- graphic reports of nominations, con- firmations, and other senatorial pro- ceedings, and & corresponding disap- pointment to the hundreds of thousands of people who leave the citics every day for the suburbs and have been ac- customed to take the news with them, Will you not kindly do what you may to have the hour of 12 0’clock reinstated? HBLLIOTT F. SHEPARD.” The secretary of the interior should lose no time in ordering the senate to comply with Colonel Shepard’s de- mands. The United States is now kuown among the nations of the earth us the country where Colonel Shepard lives and condescends to publish an afternoon religious journal, Which con- tains the latest theatrical and sporting news and whose racing tips are sure- onough winners. Colonel Shepard can- not publish his paper at an hour to suit the convenience of the United States senate; obviously, therefore, the senate should conform to rules and regulations made and provided to enable Colonel Shepard’s organ to print the latest sen- atorial news. In fact the senate should be compelled to adjourn in time to allow Colonel Shepard to publish its daily record in full, and the reports themselves should be promptly tele- graphed to the Mail and Kxpress at government expense. When a man of Colonel Shepard’s moderation asks for the world only and does not insist upon receiving the solar system his requests should be immediately and (}reuly granted. e Beecham’s Pills act like magic on a weak stomach. Quite the Reverse. Chicago Tribune: John, I had such a funuy dream last night. 'It seemed to me it was my wedding day, but the bridegroom wasn’t you. He was a man I never had seen before--a tall, fine- lookin, Mr. fillus (who ts short and Aunipy) -=-I'll be hanged if 1 can see anything funny in that dream, Maria! — Charity That Didn't Begin at Home. Chicago Tribune: “You poor little boy! On the street in rags such a day as;this! Have you no home?” ‘Yes'm. I live in that house on the other side of the street.” **You have no mother, have you, poor child?” **Yes'm. She and forty other women are in thore now, makin’ embroidered nightgowns for the Zulus.” Mr. Silas H. Hamilton's Unigue Plan for Utilizing Niagara Falls. ““I'here was a general impression among the serious-minded and practi« cal that Niagara was having too much of its own way, and that it ought to be turned to better nocount as a reserve of force. The ultimate destiny of that groat power may be safely predioted. Ningara will turn machinery,” said Dr. Russell, of the London Times, after & visit to the falls. Ningara is already turning a good deal of machinery, about six thousand horse-power being obtained from the canal running though the town of Nia- gara Falls, N, Y., from above the upper rapids, and being used in part by Mr, B. Rhodes, the well-known manager of the local Brush plant to supply several hundred electrio lights, many of which are on the Canadian side, on a circuit at least a score of miles long, carried across the Suspension Bridge. A plan for the utilization of Niagara has recently boon brought forward by Mr. Silas ‘Haines Hamilton, of Wash= ngton, D. C. ) o secks to avoid the construction of expensive long tunnels proposed by somo as well as the other schemes that would spoil the view by planting uely machinery immediately in front of the falls, says the Bleotrical World. His plan is to get in bebind the big, plung= ing body of water, and there erect ver- tical pipes or flumes that shall catch large portion of the water on the inner side_of each fall, con\'u\'infi it_down- ward to nary ‘‘double discharge’ turbines, directly connected with lines of shafting in = chambers excavated under the falls, This shafting would drive dynamos of various types, accord= ing to the class of service to be dered, one cireuit supplying pawer an electric road, another for are ligh a third for incandescents, a fourth for motors in manufacturing ostablighs ments, and 80 on. Tt is evident that Mr. Hamilton’s plan, from the fact that the pipes &re entirely masked behind the water, ean= not obtrude 1tself offensively on the spectator. The thickuess of the body of water isalsp so great that a consider= able part of it might be thus diverted without any sign that it had been done. The Horseshoe fall, for example, is esti= mated to have a thickness in the centre of the sheet of not less than twenty feet. Its height is 158 feet and its th about 2,876 feet. Fully 1,850,000, 000 of cubic foet of water are said to pass over that fall every minute. The American and Center fall, with the electric station between them reached by large eclevators, driven by electric motors, are a_quarter of a mile wide, have a height of about 154 feet, and give vent to 150,000,000 of cubic feet of water per minute. It is not to estimate just how much of this power would be saved, with even the * most available and least objectionable method, but it is safe to say that four or flve million horse-power could be se= cured. The question that naturally arises is: Supposing this plan to be sug ul, what will be done with the power thus obtained? The answer is that the inoffensive utilization of Niagara in this way would makethe broad plateau extending back from the falls for miles the greatest manufacturing center in the world. Mr. Hamilton’s iden—and it has beem mooted before—is to convey the cur= ront as far as Buffalo, a distance, as the. orow flies, of about twenty miles, ani now that we are familiar with :rciiahh g ing circuits thirty miles in len there is nothing absurd in figuring such a transmission. In this matter " the emnloyment of the alternating sys= tem would seem desirable, and as & company is now building a huge cens tral station in London to distribute als ternating current for several miles, at: a potential of 10,000 volts, on the Fer- ranti system, with a hollow concentrio conductor, it will be admitted that this also is within the possibilities. Mr. Hamilton’s projects are not all 80 grossly utilitarian as to debar any de= riving of pleasure from the work. He believes that if the plant, even on the humblest initial seale, wore put in ops eration, every visitor to the falls woufi want to see it running, would travel ug " ‘and down in the elevators, and certainly wish to banquet back of great veil of mist and waterfall, taki the view of Niagara ‘“behind scenes,” as well as from the vast theatre 1n front. e > A 50 cent bottle of Dr. Bigelows Positive Cure will promptly ¢nd thors oughly cure the worst case uf recent = cough, cold or throat or lung trouble. Buy the dollar bottle for chronie cases. " Pléasant to take. Goodman Drug Co. pendi L Qb Men I fave Met. London Judy:—(N, B—And don’t care to meet again)—The bumptious man, who thinks you a fool, and takesne ains to conceal his opinion, 3 horsey man who has always got & sarew he wants to sell you. The thickhead man, who can never see the point your stories—such capital stories a8 they are, too. The odiously-familias = & man, who slaps you on the back and pokes you playfully in the ribs, The selfish man, who will talk of himself, /= and not of you, The exasperating man, who trumps your best cm's. and ‘smiles blandly when you remonstrate. The impertinently-frank man, who tells you * {gu are geiting stout, and ‘‘awfully 1d a-top, old chappie.” k ~—— Plenty of Room. New York Journal: Willie (who is very observant, looking with ‘one eye shut on the picture of champ P ists his father had tacked on t| 0| ror:m v(:ll);)fil:, are these going. to a ball? 3 Ma~-Not that I am aware i e illie—I think they would look bets ter with necklaces on{ there 18 s0—#0 . much room, o MEXICAN MUSTANG LINIMENT Thus the ' Mustang”. conquers pal Makes MAN or BEAST well again!