Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 6, 1890, Page 16

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, SUNBAY, JULY WONEY-MAKING STATESNE, Bome of the Shrewd Speculators in the United Btates Senate., LUCKY DEALS IN REAL ESTATE | John Sherman Turns Everything Into Gold -~ Senntor Jones and MHis Alaska Mines—Casey's Farm and Hearst's Big Itanch, (Copyright, 1850, by Frank G, Carpenter.) Wastiyeroy, July 8. [Special Correspond ence to the Bee.|—The millionaires of the United States senate are among the smart mouey wakers of the count ther s ing the past six months the of them have been growing like Jonah's gourd. Senator Stanford before he left for Europe gave minute instructions as to the sale of his horses on the Palo Alto farm, and 3 S o Al forarise, Ou this stock farm Stanford has 125 stallions, 160 brood mares and 230 fillies and geldings, cach of which is worth a for tune and the poorest of which will bring | more at u horse auction than a clerk’s yearly salary. Stanford began his horse breeding, he once told me, for his health, got interested in it, and kept it up until he made it pay. He has certuin plans and theories of breeding stock peculiar to himself, and when he first advanced these the other horse breeders of the United States laughed at him and called him “Crazy Stanford.” A few years' experi- ment and the excellency of his stock showed them that he was ht, and he now gets the highest prices in the country. One of his theos was that during ain onds of every ra the trotting horse had all his feet off the ground at the same time. This was sneered ot until Stanford employed the photographer, Muybridge, to test the matter with a score of cameras, The result proved that Stanford was correet and the experiment formed the foundation of in- stantancous photograph tanford pub lished a book about the matter which ¢ him £40,000 for 1,000 copiesand this is the Costlicst Horse Book BEver Published. Stanford’s income fs by no means confined tohorse breeding profits. He has miles of vineyards and farms, railway and steamship stock, and he receives cvery yes £4,000,000 from his investinents, He mi good turn every now and then in speeulation and not long ago while riding across the Po- tomac to Arlington he stopped his horse at the end of the Georgetown bridge and look ing upand down the river told his private mecretary to buy all the land he could see from that point on the Virginia side. The i y upon inquiry found it wonld take twoyears atleast to perfect the titles and get hold of the property. Senator Stan ford said nothing about the matter for six months and then in another ride he wanted to know if anything had been done. He was told the trouble as totitles and he then said ne would drop the matteras he had enough on hand, and his fortune was so large that it would not pay him to bother to increase it. Had the land been bought he would have built a ad into Vieginia and have laid out abig suburb onthe Potomac Heights. He saw there was money in it, but he did not | care to worty about it. Tt was the sume when e was in Turkey some years ago. The sul- tan winted him to build railroads, and he r plied that he would nave jumped at the chan ce ifhe lad been younger and poorer. He is said to be worth $100,000,000, and his first money was made 1 10ting Horseradish. Senator Stewart of Nevada is at the head of the California syndicate which is now putting millions into Washington suburban real estate. They have bought the land by the acre and will sell it by the square foot, They have number of bills before congress authorizing them to build railroads through it, and they are asking about 500 per cent advance on the money they paid to the favmecs, Senator Stewart rolls in money. Still he looks more like a farmer than a millionaire, and his rosy face has none of the signs of the dissipated life of thevery rich, He beard of straw-colored silver, and hi head is fringed with fuzzy white haivs, has, it is said, $200 lid away for every one of those hairs, and though he has lost several fortunes he is again ontop. He still owns the big castle which bo built opposite Blaine's, and this is now rented for £10,000 & year to the Chinese legativa. One of Stewart’s first investments was the selling of coonskins, and he made this pay asa boy. Scnator Teller of Colorado makes £10,000 a yearout of his law practice, and he has lost Bs many fortunes as any mau in the senate, He has numerous inyvestments in mines which may jump into millions any day, and though hois at present a comparatively poor man, he is one ¢ the infinite possibilities. chatted with him last night about his mou making experiences. Suid ho: One of my first investments after going to Colorado was the buying of amine for My profits out of thesaleof it were more than $100,000 and ‘hat ele ruined me. It was enough to ruin any man to make $100,000 In three days. This was thirty years ago and now, in 1800, T do not suppose that all my property under the hammer would sell for more than $100,000, The investments I have areunproductive and my income outside of the senate is small. Tam often classed with the Denver millionaives but in the timate & man is charged with having ten dollars where he has butone. For instance my i mense ranch in southern Colorado. The re- ports state truly that it takes 125 miles of fence tosurround its fields und that ats arca embraces thousands of acres, Thisis true. It contains 16,000 acres but we paid only #1 an acre for itandthe original purchuse did not amount tomore than §0,00, We paid §7,000 more for some additional lands which connect it with the river and gave us water, | but at present nothing but grass will grow on the raneh and it s worth pra tically nothing until it in gated. It will cost 0,000 10 mak the right kin' of aditeh to irvigate it, and when this ditch is made it may be worth something. Then my miniug properties may beworth o great deal und may be worth mothing. ALl thot [ know is that they bring in vory one of nd dur f sulation, fortunes spreciates a g ctioneer colts No Income to Speak Of atpresont. As to farm lands, T have 12,000 acres in Tllinois, 1 was offered §7 an acre for 500 acres of it some years ago, but T do not think it would bring §0an acre under the hammer today, and the whole farm would not sell at auction at 0 an acre, 1| bought « large part of this farm for my father and paid a good price for it. Some of | it have owned for a generation, and I keep it because I bought it with some of the first money I ever made. Then I have a hotel and bank at Central City, Col. 1own the furni- ture of the hotel, and every year or 5o one of the tenants gets two or threo thousand dol lars behind and leaves, It then costs me a couple of thousand dollars to refurnish it, aud the vesult is that the taxes, the furniture and the repuirs eat up the income from it.” “¥es," continued the senator in vesponse tomy question, “I have had & number of chances to mako mouey by investments, but s 1 toid you about the §%0,000 I lost by not going intoa mining speculation, Ihave lost others equally as good, 1 do not suppose that thexe s a man iu the seuate who connot say 1800 -SIXTEEN PAGES, the same thing. 1 bave had one principle, however, which has perhaps alded in keeping me comparatively poor. 1 have never allowed my name of senator to be used as a director of any institution in which T was not finan. cinlly interested and to the support of which 1did not pay as large a proportion as any other member of the corporation. 1once lost a couple of hundr being in Denver one day. A m knew wanted to sell his mining property. was a friend of mine and he came iuto my office and told my partner that he would g me the option on it for thirty days for 81 000 and that T could have all that T made over in thesalo, Fad T been in 1 would hi jumped atthe chance for Tknew that th property was worth a deal than the amount at I ap in the try man being in a hurry whom 1 was and the o 1o hande one « It was sold iu v #5750 to Jerome Chaffee afterwards tol I had not the mented me ng e extra This is nothi of threc Chaffee. t he w and lie compli 1t he would rather gotten have given other fellow. lucky ver, and hances come to all men,'? In this connection perhaps taken more advantoze of legitimate way than Sc Sherman was sitting yesterday just next to Senator Teller. He was dressed in apepper and salt suit, and as [ looked at him he did not seem a day older than when 1 came to Washington It was at this time that he mado his big sp In Suburban Real Estate here, out of which gossips he made a clear §200,000, He has been investing in other properties since then and everything he touches seems to turn fnto gold. He does not allow his money to lic idle, and as senator >almer once sald of him, he likes to make a good speculation as much now as he ever did, It would bo impossible for a man like Sherman to remain poor. He is cautious and conservative, and though not stingy, heis economical. He knows a good thing when ho sces it and is not afraid to take hold of it His property at Mansfield, 0., has been in- creasing in value right along aud he lately gavea part of it to the city as a park and this materiaily increased the value of that which remained. He has a number of good nting houses in Washington, has bank stocks scat- tered hero and there over the country and s for atime one of the divectors of the tsburg, Fort Wayne & Chic vailvoad. Heis, however, more of an_investor than a speculator. He commenced life by making it a principle to save #3500 a year. This was shortly after he was married und his progress since then has been steady. Hedsa man of extraordinary intellectual ability and he has no man has his chances in a ator John Sherman, afternoon years ago uation | added to his intellectual eapital by the same | methods that he h s increased his money pile He has been a student all his life and never wasted much time in loafing or novel reading and though he is well posted in English lit- erature he has little time for trash. He has undoubtedly an income of a thousand dollars or so a month outside of his salary and though henever talks about his money he has long been classed with the millionai The Ups 1 Downs of Se or Jones. Senator Jones of Nevada is perhaps the most active speculator of the Millionaires® club. He has kad a score of ups and downs and when he v elected to the senate in 1872 he was worth £5,000,000, a large part of which came out of the Comstock Lode, which made the fortune of Flood, O'Brien, Mackay and Fai Shortly after this he went into a spe ulation with Senator Stewart and lost nearly all he had. He started a watering place near Los Aungeles, Cala.,, which never paid and he built a Turkish bath in San Francisco which further depleted his fortune. He then put all he had left in the Sierra Nevada mine, the shares of which atonce dropped down to nothing, and a few months later began to rise and got up to 215. The bubble then burst, and Jones who had held on to his stock was again worth nothing. After nu- merous other adventures in which he made and lost he became interested in the Alaska mines near Sitka, out of which he is now get- ting immense profits. T do not know just how many thousand dollars a month these are turning ont but. they yield the senator several hundred thousand dollars every year and heis again a millionaire. Like the most of the western millionaives he has a large es- tate in California and his grazing and farm- ing lands at Santo Monica embraces 32,000 acres, He very simple man in his habits and lives very quietly at Washington in a bouse facing Scott Circle which he recently bought from Stilson Hutchins, the old editor of the Washington Post. Senator George Hearst has an income amounting to hundreds of dollars a day, and like Jones, has one of the biggest farms in the west. There are 40,000 acres in his estate at San Luis Obispo, and the senator has some fine stock upon it. He has Mines all Over the Co from coal mines in Wi mines in Mexico, He is the chief owner of the San Andreas gold mine of Mexico, which is quoted at £5,000,000 in the London market, and he is said to be one of the best judges of mines in the country, He has at times em- than two thousand men in work- ing his mines, and he is one of the fow men who continuously make and seldom lose. His son own the San Francisco Examiner, and his wifeis one of the accomplished women of Washington society, — As for the senator, he fers a retived life, and would rather be one of a quiet party at the card-table than attend # white house dinner, The new house into which ho has just moved is worth at least £100,000 and it must have cost a fortune to put it into shape and change it from the great square brick which it was when S 4 Fairchild occupied it, into the modern archi- ectural strncture which it isnow., Senator Sawyeris another big farmer of the millionaires® club. It kes something like seventy-five miles of wire fence to sur- round his Texas ranch, and e has pine lands oand lumber mills all over Michigan. Within the last two years he has been devoting him- self to trying to dig gold out of the Potomac rocks, and strange to say he is having consid- erable suc He has bought 400 acres of land up above Washington and has a stamp- millat work there. The vein contains a good grade of ore, and one nugget was found weighing twenty-three pennyweights, Some of the rock yields &3 a ton, and if it holds out the mine will certainly pay. Sawyer is worth four or five millions, and he has been getting away with a part of his large income this winter in enter ng. He has built a house for his daughter which has cost some- thing like #100,000, and the interior of this is furnished like the palace of Monte Cristo, The richest of satins cover the walls, the ceilings ave painted and the finest of wood- work beautifully carved has a piano-box fin- ish in which you can see your face as you g through the doors. Senator Sawyer mads the most of his money in Wisconsin lumber. Hestarted west whou he was thirty with #2500 in lus pocket and began to farm some plice near Oshkosh, and from farming he turned to logging, bought a saw-mill which had ruined its owners, and by good, careful business munagement made it 4 succes. He traveled over W nsin and Picked Out the Fine Pine Lands and bought some of the best of them, He i still engaged in the lumber business and when he is at home it is said that he takes off his coat and some times goes down into the mills and superintends matters for himself. Notwithstanding his gorgeous house his own | life here at Washington is very quiet. He does mot speak often in thesenate but he does adealof work in committees and he gets wore private peusion bills through thax any | | until the thousand dollars by not | He | | a year 220,000 than the | | his than any other millionaire in the body. Sen- ator Sawyer always muke me think of a blacksmith and his father wasa blacksmith and farmer, Helived in New York and like most New Yerk farmers sixty vears ago he believed in having his children work for him were twenty-one. When Philetus was seventeen he bought his time of his father and made money out of the specula- tion. He married carly butthe sum of his savings for the first thivteen years of his life were just about £2,000, what is monthly income probab Tonce chatted with Senator Thomas W, Palmer, now minister to Spain, about riches, and he told me that when a man had $10,000 it did not make much differenc whethier he had any more or not. I under stood that Don Cameron not long ago said that his income was £40,000 a year, but 7,000 amonth will not buy Don A Good 8 et s more dyspepsia than though he | worl A dollara day. He inherited amount from his father, but Simon Cameron used to say that Don was a much better money-maker than he was, and Sena- tor Cameron’s investments are in railroad stocks, mines and lands, Ho owns a great amount of property in Washington, both sub- urban and city property. He rarely buys o square foot of land that does not double in value before he sells it. He got $06,000 for house on Scott Circle, and he pald $67,000 for that in which he now lives near the white house. e owns lands at Harrisburg and is president of u bank at Middleton, Pa, He makes a lucky v now and then which increases his pile, and the natural accumulations of his fortune are very great. He is, however, among the senators who have lost big chances during life, and his biggest mistake was per- haps that connected with the Bell telephone, hortly after Bell had made the invention he came to Washington and the stock wus huwked about here for 10 cents on the dollar. Amoug others Senator Cameron was called upon and Bell offered him a controlling in- terest in the company for $5,000 and Cam- eron, though he said he was sure the thing would pay to some extent, had no idea that it would bring in Something Like $2,000,000 a Year and refused to takeit. The result was that Bell left his house very much disappointed, and it took him lots of time and trouble to get the money elsewhere, Cameron in speak- ing about the matter said some time ago that he believed the invention wasa good one, but that his money was so tied up that he did not like to dsk the amount on it. None of the new senators are restricted to their salavies for their living expenses. Squire came to Washington in a special car, and I am told that his investments in Seattle id elsewhere yield him 50,000 a year, He got his first start as a managerof the Rem- ington Gun works and marricd a daughter of oneof the firm. He was fora time purchas- ing agent for the Remingtons and went to Europe for them. At this time he made a good speculation in selling old guns to Persia, Turkey and other countries of the far east and he invested his money as he madeit. He hasnow valuable properties in Seattle and his money is breeling s fast as Australian rabbits, Heappreciates the value of a dollar and is a clear, careful business man. Allen, the other Washington senator, has saved something from his law practice and he was making $10,000 a year before he came to Washington. Sanders has an 1ucome of §25,- 000 from his property in Montana. He owns mines and mining interests and it is hard to tell just what these amount to. Some of them pan out well and some poorly. In addi- tion to this he hasa large legal practice and his time during the recesses of the senate will be fully occupied, Senator Power has per- haps £20,000 a year outside of his salary. He is a close, conservative investor and he will notspend a geeat deal of money in Washing- ton. His money is invested in stock ranches and real estate in a number of the Montana cities. He is also engaged in business and he works on close margin, Moody of Dakota is said to make $0,00 a year at his practice and hehas a number of ood mining investments. He came to the state poor and is now rich, Casey of North Dakota is easily worth half a million and Gill Plerce obably the only man among the new senutors who gets his chief support from his alury. All told there are not a dozen of the United States senators who have to keep within the £,000a year which the govern- ment pays them, The same is largely true of the members of the house and in a future let- ter T will tell you of other senators for whom the giant, interest,works duy and night and of anumber of our representatives who have outside investments which bring them in from fifty to one hundred and more dollars a day whether they wake or slep, spout bun- combe or o off ou_committee juunts at the expense of Uncle Sam, FRANK G, CARPENTER. o The Actor As a Manager. 1 have often wondered how actors have ever been able to retain, as managers, the popularity which they may have won u$ art- ists, or why, experiencing the troubles of management, they have ever continued to hold the reins, writes, Henry Trving in the Nineteenth Century, In the exercise of thei art they arein some ways desperately hand capped, fora large portion of the time and labor which would almost insure artistic su cess s requived by the needs of the puvely business aspect of the undertaking, No one can know, except by personal ex- perience, the worries to which a nervous or sitable manager can be subject; and when othisis added the fact that frequently actors ficed in the vortex n} management whatever fortune they may have achieved in the practice of their art, the surprise is not diminishea, T'he small competence with which some of our greatest actors have vetived was gener- ally made after they had relinquished man- age nent. Thus, regretfully as Macready ve- retived from the directicn of Drury Lane and his regret was almost equal to that of the publie, whom he had so well and faithful od—he was compelled to play e ments throughout the country in order to realize some provisions for his later years, Such also is the record of Charles Kean, Cnarles Mathews, Webster Buckstone, Phelps and othor. It would certaialy have been better tor them if they had resisted the blandishments of management and relied for their fortunes on their individual powers as actors. That the public would have been the losers 1 believe, for none know better than actors the value of a well-cast play, or are more willing to give the public the full excel- lence which they cun command. arge of jealousy among aetors is nothing -they simply_share this quality with the rest of mankind. A somewhat similar allegution is equally made against lay direc- tors, who are now and again accused of favoritism. It willbe asked why actors should desive at all to be managers if the benetit of such labor is not mainly to themser The an- swer may be giv that ther times other and higher aims than the mere accumu- lation of mouney, Fortune may follow enter- but every artist does not make it the chief end or aim of his effort, He loves | work. What pleasure, for instance, can be greater than that of guiding the talent of younger people! Any effort in this direction is a public good. Tna coantry where theve is no academy the | only professors of acting are the actors, and the only true school for acting is a well con- ducted playhouse. the first three years of my early stagelifel had engagements at theaters then under the ment of act- ors, I then spent some years inanother thea- ter under the management of a proprietor not | an et Luring the whole of these latter | years Imissed grievously the sympathy and advice of my old actor managers, axd I had to grope my way as well asl could without counsellor or friend. Ispeak from an experience of over thirty, years, and of thiscountry only; and I can siy without hesitation, that the managements which have beuefitted and advanced our call- ing and added vastly to the industrial recrea- m and he h wer '3 tion of the people have been those of actors, THE PURITY"OF THE BALLOT B— Views of Some Eminent Men on Vital (Question, PRISON BARS EOR VOTE BUYERS. Powderly Takesan Emphatic Stand— A College Prosident Advocates Purer Methods and Purer Men «Llass Government. The proper work of practical politics is to ure, by fair methods, the ends of good government. Good government is the object of thestate. This is secured by such meth- ods for obtaining order and administering justice as develop at once the individual and that social life of which the individual1s an organic part. That polities may secure good government they must be fair in methods employed and practicable, that is, adapted to the development of the social and the indi- vidual life of the governed. To make politics move nearly correspond to such a standard as this indicates would be to “purify politics,” In order that politics may hecome purer we must have in politics both purer methods and purer men. Ndither good men with bad methods nor good methods with bad men can secure the desired end, The danger of the unpractical moralist is that ho will emphasize s0 exclusively the value of good intentions and an upright character that his followers will be inclined to say, “Give us good men in politics and that will be enough.” But even the best men, with the best intentions, are powerless for good ifl practical politics where thereis a lack of wise laws, of honorable methods enforced by law and by public opin- ion. Onthe other hand, men who are en- grossed in some particular reformare inclined to say, “‘Give us this desived law, and impure polities will be done away with.” But no laws can be framed which will be stringent cnough to prevent impure men and rascals from working out rascality and impurity in spite of those laws, What we must, have, then, is better meth- ods and better men in polit Better meth- ods, secured by certain reformatory laws, willopen the way for better men to make themselves felt for good in polit Hence the great importance of ballot reform—cf ac- counting for clection expenses—of civil ser- vice reform. Not that any law can compel men to be virtuous; but good laws make crime more difficult, more clearly fix guilt upon the criminal, and furnish an’ever-pre ent standard with which public opinion may demand con formity, The man who hopes that sufficiently strin- gent laws can be passed and suficienily pure methods adopted in polities to leave Ameri- can citizens free from all care avout the government, to put the political machine where it “will run itself”” in_the interest of virtue and justice, is optimistically foolish. Oun the other hand, the man_is unwise who hopes for better government without a change in the vicious methods now in use in pol (none more utterly vicious than the applica- tion of the devil's own maxim: **We must fight the devil with fire” —a contest in which the devil always gets the best of it, boing an adept in the use of his own weapons). Pure and honorable men cannot do_pure and hon- orable work in politics without changing many of the methods now in vogue. “To steal the livery of the court of Heaven to serve the devil in.” is a well known piece of tactics; butit is impossible for the children of light to steal the livery of the devil to do God's work in. By the very attempt they forfeit their character. We need not feel discouraged because the purification of politics involyes constant watch fulness on the part, of good citizens, and strenuous and persistent, effort. It is by this Very fixing of the attention upon the objects to be attained by good government, it is by these very efforts necessary for the attain- ment of these ends, that the individual and society secure by their own activity that har- monious development of their own powers which it is the objeet of good government to bring about. The ideal government is not the perfectly wise and good autocrat ruling an_acquiescent, passive people by the most erfect code imaginable; but an active, intel- igent, upward-striving people, ruling 'them- es'at the cost of occasionul failures and with a conscious effort that strengthens and develops those who put. into it thought and effort. This is the American ideal. May purer’ men and purer methods in politics hasten its realization, MeRRILL IDWARDS GATES, Class Government Feared. There is now on this continent no slave and noking. Monarchy has ceased to be a pos ble Ameriean remeidy for anarchy. We have no landed or titled aristocracy, if democracy fails to protect life and property there will by an attempt here to institute in its place some kind of elass wovernment. But class govern- ment in America does not_seem likely to found itself upon the hereditary principle, Ttis likely to placate the people by the use of the political forms of free governient, and to dominate the people by a really corrupt use of their forms. The sovercignity of caste in some portions of the southern states and of the liquor traflic in some cities of the northern states is main- tainad by a corrupt use of the ballot, But free government is the only available Ame can road to pure goyernment, and safe free government is possible only on four condi- tions 1. The 2. The diftusion of liberty. g diffusion of education, 8. The diffusion of propert; 4. The diffusion of couscientiousness, Amcrican politics can be purified thorough- 1y and permanently, not by any one, but only by all four of these remedi Civil service reform, the Australian ballot system, com- pulsory voting, such as D: Dudley’ Ficld advocates, arc all no doubt eficient remedics for political corruption ; but without the dif- fusion of eaucation, property and conscient- jousness, they will be found to beinsuftici A state must be reformed, as an indi must be, by secuving the supremacy of con- sience. As De Tocqueville said: ~“A peo- ple never so much needs to be theocratic as when it is the most democratic.” ‘The puri fication of American politics will be secured only by the uvn\'n_\'n} the schools and the church With a glorious American com- mon school systemand a glorious American church, there a glorious American republic; othe Joskpit CoOx, Some Things to Be Done. T have your letter asking for my views on the subject of *“I'ne Purification of American Politics,” The e is s0 great that it is im- possible to remedy it by words, There ure many things to do, and among them I should enumerate the following: (1) Legislation for ballot reform ; (2) the practical extension of civil s ce reform ; (3) abolition of seeret sessions in the semate, which is the strong- hold of the spoils system; (4) sharper eriti- ism of senators and representatives for their support of the spails system; (5) local agita- tion by civil serviee reformers in the interest d admimstration: (6) local lectures on can politics, history and social science for the instruction of communities in good citizenships (7) the introduction of educa- tional methods intar the labor unions and workingmen's clabs; (3) the formation of church and neighborkiood ~ guilds for the edu- cational improvement of members: (4) the in- troduction of civies and economics into our public schools; (10) the clear presentation of political pedazogies to teachers' institutes and associations; (11) the further develop- ment of summer schools and the study of his- tory and politics in such conne university extension and the populavization of higher educational methods among the people by local lectures, home reading circles und the dissemination of good literature H. B, Avaws, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. Only Necessary to Go Forward. The first step toward the purification of our politics has been taken al in a some- what hesitant and experimental fashion ; it is only necessary that the navion put its foot down firmly in the path ou which it hus en tered, and be ready to go forward in it with unflinching tread. The movement to which I refer is the reform of the civil seryic I have taken some puns to fud out esuotly what bas been accomplished by the civil service legisla- tion, and what is the true inwardness of the oppositiou to it, any such a careful investiga- | i tion will convince and eandid man that the | merit systom has already accomplished more than ts wisest advocates could have antici. ated in the purification of politices. Un appily it is not always administered by its friends, but even in the hands of its enemies its restraints have not been completely over- ridden, and its principle has been abundantly | Justified. No better reason can be found for support- ing this measure than that which is drawn | from the chavacter of the men who are clam oring tor its repeal. One wno lives at any of | the centers of politics, and who carefully ob serves the political conduct of that elass of | r.m.m 18 10 whom this reform 18 particu. | larly obnoxious, will be fully convinced that the Taw descrves our love for the cnemies it has made, The men whose instinets and in- terests are all opposed to the purification of | our polities are unmimous in their denunciations of | e form. Good citizens perfectly safo in pushing with all their " might | any measure that these men are united in op- posi And there was never greater need of united, resolute, relentless advocacy of this particutar reform than in tl arof the admiiistration of Benjumin Har. The next step in - the purification of pol- should be the adoption of the Austra lian systom of balloting. Asa preventive of intimidatic. as u check to bribory, this measure promises imporiant results, The | publication of an oMcial bullot removes one | of the muin excuses for the contribution of funds by reputable men to be corruptly used by disteputable men. With no need of ticket printing or of ticket peddling, the necossary expenses of an election would be reduced to 4 minimum, and pious partisans who now in- nocently (1) pour out their money for the corruption of voters would be obliged to do it with their eyes wide open. 3. A more fmportant, measure stll s a luw requiring every candidate and every political committee to’ publish asworn and itemized statement of all moreys collected and ex- pended for election purposes. 'The debauch- cry of our voters by money in every election is assuming such frightful proportions that stern measures must be taken. 1o say that we cannot enforce a law like this is to say that the foundations of our goverument are alveady undermined, 4. The bestowment of favors or gratuities upon public officials by parties in interest be- fore them, and the acceptance of the same by uch ofticials are acts aleeady illegal in most if not all the states; but in spite of the law this scaudal is constantly perpetrated, The acceptance of o railway pass by a state le lator is an indecent and infamous act. honest legislation can be looked for from men who will take such favors, It would wholesome if voters would always interrogate candidates for the logislature upon this sub- Jeet, requiring of them express declarations of their purposes. The invasion of our legis- latures by the money power is one of the great sources of political corruption; and voters are bound {0 keep vigilant eyes upon their representatives, and to exact’ a strict account from then, WaAsHINGTON GLADDEN, Columbus, 0. It Must be Accomplished, The purification of politics is not only with- in the possibilities, but it must be accom- plished. Senators who purchase seats in the upper house at Washington may snoer at tho 1dea of purifying our political atmosphere, but those who contemplate such a result do not regard the undertaking as an *‘iridescent dream” by any means, ‘The mich “desived result can be accom- plished by passing laws in all the states to protect the yoters ut. the polling places, Such a law us the Australian election statute should bo engrafted on the books of every state. Side by side with that law should be another to make education, of old as well as young, compulsory. Immigrants should be required to learn the English language inside of five s after landing, and should study the Declavation of Tudependence and constitution of the United States well before adwission to citizenship, Eyery question of a public character should cussed in the public schools of the na- tion during a brief period set apart for that purpose. The elective franchise should be conferred on women ; they cannot make & worse job of politics than we have, Laws should be passed fixing the {n*null) (in s of conviction) ullot box is tampered with, — We would shoot the man who would “haul down the flag," but that which the flag but represents—the ballot box—is not only hauled down but walked on atevery elcction. The penitentiary doors should close on every one who offers or takes abribe i elections, there should be no fines, for wealthy rascals think nothing of paying £1,000 orso out of millions acquired ¥ sharp practice, Make it as dangerous, or moreso, to tamper with the ballotas to take a human life, These are a few of the things that 1 woula Qo if Thad the power. Truly yours. . Scranton, I’a. V. POWDERLY. death where the Party and Policy. Without doubt American politics can be purified, but never will begin tobe glean until a great number of voters Wdcome | thoughtful and honest enough to distfnguish between policy and party and prepare their ballots accordingly. The stream can not rise higher than its source. Not one public ofice in & hundred requires ts incumbent the ap- plication of political convictions of any kind; yall oMicials ave hampered in the dis- of their duties, by party afitiations continue to a tions of trust should be selected according to party standards. Itis this general lie, and the equally gencral disinclination to confess and disown it that cause our political cireles to be overrun with tricksters and thieves. An old proverb tells us ““The liar makes business for the thief,” a saying which explains the prevalence of theft in Anerican politics. Joux HABBERTO: New Rochelle, N. Y. DS o The Inutility of Grammar. Dawson News: In a locality near Dawson there recently existed a flourishing school, taught by a lady, The teacher, wishing oné of her pupils to study grammar, told the child to get one, whereupon the mother sent the following note to the teacher : do mot desire for Lula shall ingage in grammar as i prefer her ingage in yuseful studies and can learn her how to spoke and write properly myself. s went through o grammars and can’t s did me no good. 1 prefer her i in german and drawing and vocal music on the piano.” —— EDUCATIONAL, West Point military academy graduated fifty-four students this year, | The school teachers of Cincinnati have not been paid their salaries since April. A sensation has been produced in Heidel- berg by the rumor that the governmeut may closo the university. At the ecighteenth Swathmore, the Quakercolle of two thousand or more is descr fashionable one, thougzh theve were a few of | the older friends in broad-brimmed hats and plain bounets, Boston university graduated, at its recent commencement , thirty five students, of these twenty-five will teacha while, three will study for the ministry, three will enter jour- nalism, while business, seicace, medicine and lecturing claim one each. The university of Berlin with its 6,000 stu- dents and scores of famous professors, hus a capital of £50000, Its largest’ en dowment, that of the Countess Rose is _only §150,000, Nevertheless it is the seat of the highest German learning and claims to have the ublest corps of iustuctors of all the world’s schools, In Freiburg, in Baden, astudent named Solomon was recently shot dead ina duel His opponent has been condemned to two | rs’ imprisonmment and the members of the | ourt of honor,” who had judged a ducel to be the proper thing in this vase, will accom pany him for six months | The old saying that the world moves was | forcibly illustrated recently when the New | Hampshire Historical soclety for the flest time conferred upon two women the dis tinguished honor of @ corresponding member- | ship. It willbe some time probably before | women will be granted the full perogatives of the associatic | The Hurvard college overseers have voted | not to ullow women admission to the uni versity divinity school. The matter came up | on the reccption of @ petition to that effeet. | The committee on petitions recommended that | the petitioners have leave to withdraw th ‘ commencenient, of documents, and the overseers acquiesced. The University of Montpelier, the govern ment seat of the department of Herault, in ce, will soon celebrate its six hundredth | annive of its establishment. It was founded by Pope Nicholas IV, in and the celebration has been postponed oue year | site table keeps his paper all the tin on account of the Paris exposition, Tho fes- tivities will occipy a whole woeelk in August, and invitations have been sent to other uni- versities, also to American, to partici pate. St. John's collego at Annapolis, the third oldest in the country, being antedated only by Harvard and William and Mary, %as given the degree of LL.D. \o Mr. James Wilton Brooks, a son of the late Erastus Brooks Dr. Brooks adunted at Yalo in 75, has been o member of the state legislature, was weently elected a fellow of the society of Science, Letter and Art. of London and is probably the youngest doctor of laws in the gonntry, beiig not more then thirty-six yeq old. —_——— SINGULARINALS, The tallest schoolgirl in the world lives at Riednaun, near Sterzing, She is in her cley enth year, and is about six feet high. The q are so numerous and tame in the vicinity of Grass Lako, Wis, that they fly into the village in flocks and sit around on the lawns like robbins, Mus, H. G. Abrams, a monstrosity in the peculiarly shaped oge was broken, It contained a chick four well formed legs and three wingzs, A child was born to Mrs. George Buckloy Lima, O., with six wh foof peculinvity s in the doubling of each little toe, The'little fallow is healthy and lively, The mother has six tocs, and her motlicr had the same peculiarity. A fomale pike welghing twenty-nine pounds has been found in the lake at Kwhurst Park Basingstoke, the seat of Lord Alexander Rus sell had apparently met its death in the | n attempt to swallow one of its own species weighing nine pounds. The two fish, in the position in which they were found, are being stuffed at Winchester, The child of Mrs, Hugh Astorio Ore., born on Sunda, veighed barely ef of Pranklin shape of a chicken did not hatch Ga., has A and wit la | u 1t Gleneross of May 25, which teen ounces when twenty- four hours old, died Thursday, having lived cighteen days,” At the time 'of death the miget measured thivteen inches in length and weighed just two pounds. It was a oy and was christened George Washington, A common_finger ring was ¢ slipped over the child's arm up to the shouider, Major M. Tutweiler of Birmingham, Aln, o poultey fancior, recently saw o young chicken being dragered’ into a hole, Upon in vestigation he found thatan immense and savage looking spider had clutehed the ehick 1 by tho leg and was deagging it into the hole, After great difficulty the chicken was Jeased and the spider caught and caged alive. In thenest were found the bones of many young chickens. The spider is an enor- mous monster, at least three and a half inches ucross the back., He resembles a South American tarantula, O'Neil Patton a cattle man of Deaf Smith county, ~Texas, has an excrescence on his left hand which is a per fect resemblance of a rabbit. The oves, ears, he mouth, nose, feet and body are, pertectly outlined, Patton visited Chicago” last spring with some cattle, and the proprietor of the hotel where he stopped brought a showman around, who offcred Pat ton 52,500 per annum if he would exhibit his hand.’ Patton very positively declined the offer of the showmin.* He is known among ‘Rabbit” Patton, and is called la de W tlemer “‘Rab,” for short e MINT DROPS. P EPPER) The latest thing out—a bachelor's night- key “Board wanted," said overboard. One is compan; summer hamme The colloge g him fora job. life. It seems quite natural that the threads of conversation should sometimes produce a long yaru. A lady in Hartford who owns a scratches a great deal has given it tho scriptive name of *Clawed.” t many ministers would ven- ilate their themes to better advantage if they sached in ventilated churche: She—What a strong face he has that comes from ereise, He been traveling on it for many years. Lighteniug scems to bo exceptionully de- structive to life thus far this year, but we ob. serve that it hasn’t struck Kémmler yet, Smythe—You look unhappy. What's the mattér! Roberts -1 have had a row with my uncle, Smythe—Did you loss the ticket? Mother (of spoiled child)—I am greatly obliged to you for bringing my little boy bac Organ Grinder—1 fraide he teachamonk ba tricks. “Is your husband in, madam?" was just here a minute o You will doctor’s.” “Do you know why that fellow at the oppo- 50 be. The man the chap who fell nd twois acrowd in a uate is now looking about Itis the saddest period of bis that de- £ He has \! fol da “No, he 0 urguing with me. probably find him down' at the fore his facet” “Why, of course. at this table is his tailor.” Cholly—They say that excessive coffec drinking induces softening of the brain, Miss Snyder—I suppose that you regret now that you have been such a slave to the habit. “Now pray for Susic Bates,” said Mrs Simeral to six-year-old Flossie, who was say- ing_her pr “Susie is quite sick SWhy, mamma,” said Flossie, I can't pray for. ‘She doesn’t belong to our crowd.” s Took the Babies Home, An incident oceurred two or three weeks ago which shows the large and liberal heart with which Richard Manstield is gifted, 1t i can speal for itself. Ona certain Sunday Mr. Mansticld and his man- ager, Mr. Hartz, took a drive in the park says Bddy’s Weekly Squib. In the evenin they returned the careiage to the stables, and us the weather was delightful, the actor pro- posed that they walk home, They were strolling down ~ Fifty-ninth street, “toward Fifth uveane, when they noticed a little crowd of children standing round a baby-cari containing & twelve-montheol 3 and all crying. Mr. Mansfield stopped and suggested that they see what was the trouble. He found that the party, consisting of a nurse only ten s old and three little tots all under six, ¢ lost. The children_ ericd pitifuily and o evidently much frightened. M. Mans fleld managed to calm the little one, and soon from the biggest child that they lived on Second o enue and he proposed that they see the wanderers home, *Go ahead,” said Mr. Hartz, and_it was a sight to see the cle- gautand fastidious Beau Brammel care for the children, He helped to carry the bu over the gutters, guided it across the st and acted more like the father of a big f ily than the stylish young bachelor which he | véally is. I'hé mandger was inclined o place the party in a street car or in & carviage; but 1o, the actor would not permit the baby car viuge to be left behind, so on they all marched with the little ones by theirside. On arriy ing at their home, after a long walk, Mr. Mansfield told the mother in pretty plain thut in future an older nurse should take her babics out for an aiving, and after giving the children cnough money to buy sweetmeats days to come, the actor disappear Tansfield did not tell of the incident and probably never would, but some gentlemen who saw a part of the scene and heard more of it thought it quite too good to keep to themselves - | Should Swallow Only Small Change. | a1 New York Times: A boy with tears | I\; coursing down his che s led by anex ‘ cited woman into the ofice of an east side | 10 physician a few days ago. h “Can you save him, doctor! woman in a trembiing v What's the matter with ui responded the docte “He's swallowed some mouey.! “How much A cent “O1d sty The doctor gavea sigh of relief and then, smiling upon the woman, he said: “Don't be alarmed, mudam, Wipe the little follow's eyes and take him home, He'll not die this tiwe. But let me give you a bit of adyice, | madam, Make that boy of yours understand | that if he must ¥ he s to stick all | the while to th t denomination, and | the newest fashion of that. 1 could anything for your boy plé, he should swallow double " all wi ch buby tra st in st th di he lit e s w we th | G me | w | me demanded boy, mad th Lon st ) I ) OF ROW th a silve — The Explanation Pittsburg Bulletin: City Friend—Jack, why 1 thunder do you push that dreadful machine over the grass, when you come home tired outt uburbanite It is not because I love my leisure less, but my lawn mower, baseball vl igars 1 right | SOME HAPPY [LITTLE HITS, Stray Shafts From the Bows of the Proe fessional Humorists, BREEZY BITS The Training Respected Bankrupt dor-No Voi New Hark to Hurk to CAIL read “that FOR SUMMER TIME, of Theatrical Stars— His Elder-Tee and Cy A Newshoy's Cane Dividends Declared, « Fthe Year York Herold, the fiendish yell the umpire's shout, L 0w, play bull “Man's “Outl” A Critical Opinic New York dy may be v is 10 war Blinks—1 g Moonlight S No; by Jinks Weekly Jinks flne pianist, as you s nth to her touch 'ss you didn't hear her play yuphony. it I squeczed her hand, Dromming Up Business ymething \derstand Crimsonbeak SHe always I abo 0, don't you wyer, All Agre ington Post: Was as he dropped and puffed a stream of smolke ch “that I will never be really happy until I am o, “Yes Munsey's that pocts are bown, not ) Ah, ' yes! Clergryman ¥ with you X Ph It gives tne Instead of * said the many of us who feel the 4 good deal depending on you.” Yeast Brief that There fs 1t 1 cannot Aud what {s that? speaks 50 encouragingly ot matrimony and yet ho remaius single man understand! He1s adivorce with Him. “I think," said the poet, foet on tho editor's desit ideliceward, ditor, “thore are a good e way, There's Criticus -1 nade, That 15 always the of the world, You try to contend 16 putthe blime for everything ou the Loxd, sinted Remarks. niladelphia Press. moralist distress satisfaction That men of brains do not express Their sentiments by action But it would In orthodc 1f talk went A cause i wondrous ¢ < seusation on by kicks and raps, And we got thunips from angry chaps By way of explunation. The Mode. American Grocer her s “You must And get a But never gon Where Joster: \ - Yes, what I thiuk of it uway and bring in some |i Old Gentleman: it is wrong to speak elders, is it not? may I an actress be," i her dotinge patery marry, of course, divore i ence Was Due. Waiter, I believ disrespectiully of one's tev I've always heard so, Well, then, I'll not say this spring chicken, but take v and bucon, Professional Practice. Builing I He - Oh, they jing on a bat. T Epoch: “Is y n¢ Indeed be is. gave ell he smoked Wo He 1 Joster: areniteet, Ethel ra country ho ble enough, T am af work, as I fear his ideas are wo estravagant. She He What les Well, the A New Y Th Be Slim muider Here is I she - What do vers do all winter long ¢ practice their profession by 00 Gen srous, our husband a very gencrous fl You remember those n Wim for a birthday presentd { only one, and gave all the others away to his friends, 1 Bankrupt Hi o letter from the 1d although his estimates 18 WO Walll 410 FeasOna. aid 1o trust him with the recklessly S0 ads you to think that, dear? plans include the drawings and estimates for an ice house, Scaside ldyl. ke Morning Jownal, > summer days, oside the sea, ez Most cnviously At e Wh Ar How At is, Bspagnol, Tishinan rec sked in British The waiter “Who, then, 1 these langua funocent smile replicd, Drake's Magi speaking to a young on her f s “Ab, my dear, Yours'is & happy _period sthing yet of “Don't 1 nt you urch choir.” A Par York Tiu the att N acted voung woman near the tion at Sixth avenue and Fourte the othe fuquiry the lad told b ory about bheng night, papers and a it the lady's o price of the § rty palm. “Ne¢ w0 and nofactress, * tle raseal with wait fer me brudder, me racket.” hotel in a busy followlng notice app ch plamp maid s not afraid jump right in i show her shin— L] hghish in ris, quarter of Paris the rsi el on parle An- Ttalien, Allemand, cte.” “An tly entered the hous French foran intery a0 that there was Britisher aske ages ) The waiter with an The customers. An_old gentleman, and commenting upe and grood looks, remarked : may you long retain them, of life u know lousies heart- 1zine the j th burnings, the contentions, the rivalvies that beset the pathway of existence.” though!" to understand that 1 belong to @ she inter LS e 108 ntion ing newsboy at- of a ider-hearted levated railroad sta- street In response to b the moss covered stuck” with alot of even- fraid to go hom In an in- rocketbook was opened and papers was laid in the boy's )W, my poor boy, you ean go some supper,” said - the Naw, Iean’t,” answered the Kloss candor, “1've gob He's working the - A Call for Blood, Terre Haute ho is to marry okt sman oty Editor town us g1 So out of is looking for him with a shot gun. atshoe had “a rman idiom i that fool printer set it up His D Boston Ti s of a f She's | 01 forme wh “Well, the other evenin when I ha 1 home ot at the do “While we chi without g to reet, beast waked out of a sound bark. and ndous en bick P “Say, would Drs Botts & Betts, 1409 Douglas St, with Express: Society Editor— Who set up that item about Miss Oilstocks, Count Schweinfleisch nex Slug 3. Well, you tell 1ick as lie can, im to got Hor old ez I wrote cquired quite & noticeabla n her residence abroad, aud German idiot, ave Him Away. that an_ intelligent dogl SpoNse wis quick and That dog is seventoen iged, you know, to srofoundly jealous of Miss B, v ention / the dog was withy 1o meet Miss B, L and stood for a wos ppened Ler the young woran T ho- on the other side of the us, and then the feap, gave i tre over to Miss A. and between us, until an wted by noticing rushed forth | electrie light couldn’t have made things any | clear | you drown him or 1409 DOUGLAS -~ STREET. On aceour.t of our large and incrensing Practice, we o REMOVED to more spacious and cone venient offices, polson e Omahs, Neb