Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 1, 1891, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1891-SIXTEEN ROHEWATEH h bitom, e —— e ILULISHLD I-,VEHV M()IlNlNG TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, rnlly and Sunday, One \ car. &10 00 ix montl 500 250 200 10 [hires mio unday B eekly ¥ FIC mahn, The Bee Buiiling: outh Omaha, Corner N and 2th Stroota Councll BIufs, 12 Pearl Strect Chicago Office, of Commerce, ew York.Rooma 13,14 and 15, Tribune Bullding ashington, 613 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE Il communications relatinz to news and itorial matter should be uddrossed to the itorial Department. BUSIN LETTERS, Allbusiness letters and remittuncos should e addressed to The Bee Publishing Company, mahn. Drafts cheoks and postoffice orders to be made payable to the order of the som fi;vflcc Publishing Company, Proprietors, The Bee B'ld'g, Farnam and Soventeenth Sts WOKN STATEMENT OF CIRC Btateof N.orasks. } County of Dougins. ( 5% George fi, Tzschuck, secrotary of The Ree Publishing compunv, doos solemnly awent Bat the actual cireulation of Titk DAILY BER or the week ending Dec. 27, 160, was as fol- lows. Eunday. Dee, 21 londay, D uesday. i ednesdny. hursd riday. turday, De. ATIUN Average...... Eworn to Fefore me and subsers presence tnis Zith day o TEPAL. | N. 1L, Notary Publio Btuteof Nebraska, 4 County of Douiglas, { 5% George Il Tzschuck, befnz duly sworn, de- ofes ind snys that ne s sécretary of The Beo mpany, that the actual average clrculation ‘of Tk DAY Tre “the month of Jgnuny coples; for February, 180, for March. 1800, Aum‘\ cople 1600, 20,560 _covfe: M coplea: for June, 1800, o 1860, 20,062 coples; forAv for h-mnml er. 1860, 2) IR coples; Eworn to befora me. presence, thisilst aay of Dece Notury bubile —ee e THE bad lands were rightly named. Now plant resolutions where they will be kept out of sight, A HAPPY new yoar to the mombers of the reform legislature—and their con- stituents, A nArey and prosperous New Year to the readers of THE BerE and the rest of mankind. TuE blizzard has como to the battle- ground, und it may be even more deadly than the gatling. THE advent of 1891 may well suggest to tho people of Chicago that they have soveral good sized chores to do before 1898, A¥TER the war correspondent, the war artist in the weekly papers and maga- zines. The public hasa long siege still ahead. ——————— GOVERNOR HILL persistently declines 10 boshelved with a senatorship, The veople will doubtless be compelled to furnish David a large, well seasoned presidential shelf. KING CoTTON no longer wields the productive scepter of the nation, but in the south he isyet the reigning monarch, His contribution to the wealth of the country last year aggregnted $400,000,000. THe American wheel trust is one of those benevolent institutions started for the public good. An advance of 70 per cont in prices has been ordered doubt- less to encourage an infant industry. IF the Nebraska militia isany good on earth why not send it to protect the places where settlers have gathered for safoty? Telegrams to THE Bek state that such an assurance of interest would be appreciated by 24,000 residents of the frontier. What do you say, General Colby and Adjutant Cole? PresipENT HARRISON emphatically denies that he has been urging special pension claims upon the department. The denial was scarcely necess: Benjamin Harrison has impress thing more than another upon the peo- ple it is the fact that he understands and upholds the dignity of the presiden- tial office. THE exhibit which we make in this edition of the extensive and substantial improvements made in Council Blufls the past year cannot fail to be gratify- ing to the citizens of our sister city. In view of the business depression through which the country has gone and the many drawbacks that have been en- countered during the past year, the marked und steady growth of Council Blufls is astriking proof of the resources of the Missouri valley PoLx county, Iowa, is the paradise of prohibition. Here the code of total ab- stinence blooms in rank luxuriance. It Is pointed to with pride asa model of sobrioty and good order, A compa rison of the cost of criminal prosecutions in peaceful Polk with that of the countles 01 the Mississippi and Missouri affords a most remarkable contrast. During the year ending last June criminal costs in Polk county were $100,111, against a total of $352,183 in the remaining 08 counties of the state of lowa, Ex-Gov- ernor Larrabee may have to come to the front with another explanation. ——— THE time has not yet come to pass judgment on the exciting events of the past few days in the Indian country, Doubtless the bloody conflict will be the subject of much discussion and of con- gressional investigation. It would be strange, indeed, if somebody did not claim that the war is simply a slaughter of the innocents. Whatever is’ thought when all the facts are known, it can now be said that the course of General Brooke in exhausting all peacaful means to got the hostiles back on the reserva- ations, and avert the horrors of an Indian war against the settlers, has de- served and received the highest com- mendation of the press throughout the country. Forsix weeks he waited pa- tiently for the Indians to respond to the call of reason and decency. Then he took decisive steps to enforce obedience, Beyond that point it s not proper to oriticise from any facts at hand. OMAHA, PA PRESENT AND FUTURF. Thirty-five years ago on December 4, last, the first white pioneer made his permanent home on the site now occu- | pled 1 gon Within one this town the city of Omaha. tion the founders of have seen it grow from a little Indian village to a metropolis—twenty-second in population among the galaxy of great American cities, In the race for supremacy between 4 St. Paul and Den- r, Omaha has nlm wnced these compet- in population and substantial growth, While at least two of the Big Four have been on the standstill or actually retrograding, Omaha has forged ahead steadily and mi a8 tho most promising and progressive city west of Chic ('m'llu‘ Kansas ( itors ntained her reputation ago. The record of the year’ which we present in thisissue 1s extreme- y. The finan- depression which iled everywhere east and west has been scarcely felt by our merchants and manufacturers, The year's bank clearings show a marked increase over preceding year, The live stock and packing industry has nearly doubled within the past 12 months, and Omaha bids fair to take the among s development Iy geatifying o cial and commer, has prov those of the econd rank Americ king cities within the next three years, While few very large blocks of buildings were erected during the past year, the num- ber and value of permanent structures oxceeds that of 1880, Although Omaha can now truthfully the best ed America, considering area, she has n pork boast of being city in her kept righton with her street improve- ments, extension and perfection of her water supply, and her sewerage con- struction has reached a point unsur- passed by any city in the country. Altogether, Omaha can back over the year 1890 with supreme satis- faction as one of the her unparalleled record of growth and pros- look milestones in perity. 1t is not extravagant to predict that the population of Omaha by the year 1900 will exceed 300,000, RIAL STATISTICS. The second biennial report of the Ne- braska bureau of labor has just been is- sued, and makes an elaborate document of nearly a thousand pages. It gives ev- idence of intelligent and faithful work on the part of the deputy commissionor of labor, Mr. John Jenkins. The report contains interesting and valuable in- formation regarding the cost_of living among unskilled wage workers, loan and building associations, farm mort- gages, manufacturing industries, the sugar beet industry, and othor matters properly coming within the scope of in- quiry required of the burean of labor. Most of what the report contains on the subject of farm mortgages has al- ready appeared in Tue BEee. A care- ful’ invesiigation of the mortgage in- debtedness of Sarpy county was made, that being one of the oldest counties in the state and in the opinion of the de; uty commissioner furnishing a fai basis from which to estimate the mort- gage indebtedn of the state. The in- vestigation covereda period of ten yoars down to Janu 1, 1890, and during that period 865 mortgages were exccuted, representing $1,305,523, At the end of the period covered by the invostiga- tion there were unpaid 871 mortgages ropresenting $168,618, Fifty-eight per cont of tho mortgage indebiedness was for purchase money, and the rate of in- terest on the larger part of it was six and eight per cent. Taking the figures of Sarpy county as a fair basis from which to estimate the mortgage indebt- edness of the state, and it is plain that the farmers of Nebraska do not owe to exceed one-third of the amount which certain reckless alarmists have claimed they owe. The bureau was not able to obtain thorough information regarding the man- ufacturing industries of the state, theugh it appears to have made strenuousefforts to doso. Only about half of those to whom inquiries were addressed re- sponded, and a still smallor numbor furnished statisticsof any value. The principal objection to giving the in- formation called for was that the bureau had no right to make investigations into private affaivs. The bureau asked for no information that has not since been demanded and secured by the federal census authorities, and the deputy com- missioner pertinently suggests that “if it is right in the federal government to demand this information, it follows that the same right ex in the state.”” At any rate the question of com- pelling manufacturers under penalty to furnish such statistics as may prope and without injury to them bemade pub- lic merits the attention of the legisl ture. Ifitis desirable to collect and publish industrial statistics, and itis presumed no one will question that it is, it is obviously necessury to providea way to get them. And surely what con- gress may order in this matter itis within the power of the state to re- quire. Available information was on- tained from 349 establishments out of 847 addressed, the amount of capital invested in these June 1, 1880, being $7,508,153, and their production for the year ending at that date was of the value of 832,030,544, The average number of persons employed in the 849 establishments was 6,965, and the wages paid during the year was $2,864,- 150, It is undoubtedly a safe estimate to place the value of the annual productions of the industries in Nebraska classed by the bureau of labor as manufactures at nearly or quite $350,000,000. Thore are in Nebraska twenty-nine building and loan associations which the burcau of lakor received reports from twenty-four. These stated their total net assets amount to $585,~ 470.60, and the total number of share- holders at the time of the reports was 2,462, This is a very good showing for a young state, The deputy commissioner recommends the enactment of & law re- quiring that all mortgage records and | blanks shall be of a certain established | form ns to the matter printed thereon, | and also that a cortain length of time should be specified in which the release of a mortgage should be recorded and notice of release delivered or forwarded | to the mortgagor by the mortgagee. He | suggests legislation to provide for boiler inspection, renews the recommendation ofghis first report regarding the employ- ment of children in shops, submitling a substitute for the existing law, which is practically valueless, and urges suitable factory legislation to secure greater safety and comfort to employos. THE BUSL, The beginning of a new year invites consideration of business prospects, par- ticularly when, as in the present in- stance, there has been for some time an unsatisfactory financial condition and the confidence of capital has been at a low point. The new year brings with it a general settlement of accounts, a thor- ough investigation of the results of the last year's business, o universal taking of stock, and the transfer of a vast sum of money in payment of dividends, in- terest on state and municipal bonds, and in other ways. At this time business wen consider the question whether they ghall restrict or enlarge their enter- prises, and within the next few weelss it will be practically determined whether the industrial and commercial interests of the country are to remain stationary or to expand. It is gratifying to note that the pros- peets appear favorable to expansion. There seems to be a returning confi- dence, and this, if realized, the best possible assurance of a revival of busi- ness activity and an increase of the gen- eral prospority. Very few intelligent observers question that the real cause of the financial stress of the past few months was the loss of confidence, The threats of legislation that might effect a radical change in the financial system of the countr y made men app rehensive and money, whose value no legislation could impair,was withdrawn from active use, while there was a general tendency to curtail credits, The country was in fuct prosperous. Its foreign commerce was nover larger, farmers received profitable prices for their products, there was no complaint from manufacturers. Ordinarily with such conditions eapital is found sceking investments and can bs had almost for the asking. But it got a seare, and notwithstanding the efforts of store confidence, capi- tal has remained extremely cautious for several months. There are indications, however, of an improving tendency, and there is reason to hope that it will continue. Of courso a great deal de- vends upon what congress shall do in the way of financial legislation, or whether it does anything. At present the disposition appears to be to pursue & conservative course, but the difficulty is that a few incorrigible extremists may be able to defeat this, though there is apparently little danger that they can carry through the policy they desire. But ut any rate recent expressions of prominent eastern merchants and finan- ciers are ver Locally there is every reason to expect that the year 1891 will witness a notable expausion of Omaha's prosperity. No city in the west is in better condition to take advantage of a renewal of confidence and and a revival or enlargement of business activity. Her finances ave in a per- fectly sound condition and her comwmer- cial interests are equally so, The year just entered upon ought to be one of not able progress and prosperity for Omaha Land Commissioner Steen has caught the reform spirit of the times and offers an urgent suggestion to the incoming legislature. As it concerns one of the largest expenditures of public funds and promises to effect a considerable saving thereon, it is worthy of the prompt at- tention of the people. The last legislature appropriated $415,058 for various public institutions, to provide board and clothing, fuel, lights, furniture, bedding, paints and oils. Under the present system each in- stitution makes its own contracts for supplies and buys largely of loeal deal- ers. Commissioner Steen states that this arrangement causes a loss of sov thousaud dollars anuually to the s First, thelocal dealers manipulate bids s0 as to prevent the award of contracts at low figures. Second, they fill contracts with inferior goods, Third, officials take advantage of the looseness of the system to provide themselves and families with luxuries at the public expense. The commissioner believes that a state purchasing agent and a central supply depot would remedy these evils and save the state tens of thousands of dollars annually, The charges which the land commis- sloner, after two y experience with the matter, b against the present system, are certuinly grave enough to rrant a thorough investigation of the subject. It is doubtless true that local dealers frequently pool their interests in submitting bids, and that they have sometimes cheated the state by sub- stituting gdods inferior to those the contract called for. A way should be found to remedy the evil, but it is not clear that Commissioner St: suggests the best one. The maintenance of a central supply depot would be expensive and would offer quite as favorable an opening for frand as exists under the present system. The grossest public frauds ever committed have occurred when supplies have been purchased on a vast scale. And the larger the scale the bigzer the frauds successfully con- coaled from the public. That was New York's experience with the Tweed ring and other corrupt public servants, The contral depot would also involve addi- tional expense in the hundling of goods and constant shipments by freight. Nebraska maintains eleven great institutions, in various parts of the state, which are principally supplied with the necessities of lifo by direct purchase, paid for out of the treasury, Why should not each one of them be conducted precisely as they would he if owned by private indi- viduals ? In that case the coal, the gro- cerics and provisions, the clothing, fur- niture and bedding would all be pur- chased of the parties who could lay them down at the designated points for the lowest cash price, No private indi- vidual would@Affow himself to be held up by a petty coiffnation of locnl dealers, nor would hogepeipt for the delivery of any goods th (Ld not equal the letter of the conttagt. He would throw his business open g the bids of all dealers, local and foreigh, and would buy on the closest margiu aé which the goods could be laid down. Andno man who is not capable of cofdfeting business on that s should hegrusted to expend tens of ihousunds ofy dBllars of tho people’s money How long must we recognize a differ- ence between private and public busi- ness, and tamely submit to impositions as a state that no one would dare to offer us as individuals ? We do not beliove it is necessary to burden the state with another great public institution in the shape of meentral supply depot. Honest and business-like methods will remedy the evils of the present system, and if the officials now in office are not able to furnish it they should make way for men who are. THE CALL OF FRONTIER SETTLERS. THE BEF received yesterday tho fol- lowing dispatch from Hay Springs, Sheridan county, one of the points on the Nebraska frontier that is most ex- posed to Indian depre dation: The state authorities have seen fit to ree- ognize the drouth sufferers in the south- western part of the state, but ignore the mental and physical suffering of the 24,000 unarmed and unprotected citizens of this section, 1f our appeals to the state aro with- out avail Omaha's business interest should make themselves felt in our bebalf. It is stated that the adjutant general has made no reply to frequent and ur- genvappeals sent him during the last few da eral weeks since Gov- ernor Thayer forwarded to the front all the arms and ammunition available at that time. It is doubtful whether it is now within the power of the state government to furnish more relief to mect this new emergency. But this fact should not prevent the adjutant general from giving prompt at- tention to the letters and telegrams ho rec 5. The least he can do is to im- mediately advise the distressed sottlers of the fact. If he can help them he should do so without delay. If he can- not he should inform them to that effect, that they may not ignorantiy trust their safety to a vain hope. This is indeed a time when every pub- lic otticial should be at his post of duty, and when the citizens of the northwest- ern portion of the state should receive the same attention as that given to the citizens of any other locality. GERMANY long since dropped out of the list of the ‘“‘effete monarchies of the old world.” From the moment its guns thundered at the gates of Paris, 20 years ago, its growth in population and commerce has been no less marked than the marveious solidificationof the em- pire. The fact is strikingly shown in the growth of its leading cities. The cen- sus just taken gives Berlin a population of 1,573,485, an inorease of 259,000 in five years, Hamburg ranks second with 715,000, including the adjacent town of Altona, equal to an increase of 21 per cent in five years. In per centof gain Leipsic surpasses all cities in the em- pire, having now & 2 inhabitants, against 150,500 in 1885, an increase of 82 per cent. Munich, Breslau, Cologne, Magdeburg and Frankfort-on-the-Main rank in population in the order named and show like surprising expansion. These figures prove that the leading cities of Germany keep abreast of the leading cities of America, and in some instances distance them. New York and Berlin are equal in vpopu- lation, but Berlin advamced 250,- 000 in five years against New York's 300,000 in 10 vears Hamburg shows an increase equal to Berlin, and if permitted to extend its boundaries as liberally as Chicago, its growth in five years would equal that of the Lake city in ten. Whatever strides the leading cities of the Uaited States have made in other directions, it is evi- dent they ave not advancing in popula- tion at a greater ratio than German cities. STATISTICS of defaications during the year, compiled by the Chicago Tribune, place Pennsylvania easily at the head of the list, with an aggregate loss of $2,326, New York ranks second with $1,920,270. Among the western st Nebraska shows a top total of 160, Towa, $9,615; Kax $112,447; Colorado, $74,000; South Dakota, $12,000,and North Dakota, $14,000, The total recorded de- falcations reach the splendid sum of $8,622,056, or the second largest aggre- gate reported in 12 years, And 1t was not a very profituble year for trusted crooks either, A NOTABLE figure, if nota combina- tion of figures, is removed from active affairs by the death of M. A. Dauphin. Essentially a promising man, ho sc tered his principles broadeast, touck the pockets of rieh and poor, and Louisiana the Mecca of the votaries of chance. Few menin pr tribute so effectively and returned so little, While the multitude may not bedew his memory with tears, it 1s quito cortain they will cberish those two by six certificates of misplaced confidence and cash, JAY GouLD expresses high regard for the government directors of the Union Pacifie, of course.>The directors will all join in expressing a very high regard for Jay Gould. EEE— IGNATIUS DONNELLY entertains a burning desire to lead the Alliance into the land of vromise. He will cultivate a lightning rod for the presidency for tho | next two years, SENATOR HOAR has concluded his speéch on the force bill. 'hat’s an- other reason for a happy new year. WheN Siduey Dillon makes “‘a state- ment” the publie does not necessarily regard it as conclusive, ——- Won't Take His Prescriptions. St. Lows Globe-Democral. Mr. Cleveland, in his rolo of medicine man of the democratic party, finds some of the same dificulties in getting his alleged miracu- lmn powers crodited and bis pretentions rec- l ognized that presented themseives to his | eminent contemporary, Sitting Bull, ——— A Prerequisite. Chieago News. ““How shall we man our ships!” asks Ad- miral Luce in a magazine article, First gt your ships. They All Do It. Minneapolis Journal, The New York Herald charges Mr, Blaino with secretly bidding for the farmer vote. That, however, does not appear to be an un- pardonable sin, since every man who has ever run for the presidency sinco Washing- ton passed away has done the same thing. —— Simply a Gould Organ. Chieago Tribune, The Des Moines Register, of course, is not anewspaper; never has been & newspaper | and never will be one. Tt is what its name implies, a register of the decrces of Jay Gould—his Towa organ—and band in glove with him in all his schemes to plunder the people of Towa. Why need honest men vay any attention to its subsidized howls of an- guish when its master is in trouble. i Amm« to AlL Chicago Tribwne. The strongest candidate the democrats | could nominate for president would be Mrs, Cleveland, It is true she might be prevent from serving, f elected, by a strict construc- tion of the constitution of the United States, but the trouble with all the eligible candi- dates of the democ is that none of them can be elected, bl The New Railroad Combination. Pittsburg Dispateh, The contempt shown for tho spirit of the law on the part of the vailroad presidents is the chier element of strength in the demands for more and stronger laws to control the railroads. The presidents may be able to run things to suit themselves for a time, but the more arbitrary they are the sooner will they be shorn of their power, And thisis about the only consolation the average citi- zen may have in the contemplation of such movements as that of the Gould party, g ABOUT OMEN, Princess Beatrice of England is writing a booic on lace, to be illustrated by herself. Mus. J. Ellen Foster and Miss Wi resting on their honors while Mrs. Livermore and Mrs. Beecher take a tu invective 1n the newspapers, Can it be possible that Miss Willard is growing sentimental? It is said thavshe has suggested that the woman’s building at the world’s fair be made in the form of a woman's heart. Itisnow in order for Miss Willard to map out the diffevence in shape between the male and female heart, Fanny Kemble (now Mrs. Butler) is living with her daughter, Mrs. Leigh, in Surrey, England. Sheisin her eighty-second year and in feeble health, Mrs, Letitia Tyler Semple, granadaughter of ex-PresidentTyler, has given a collection of old oil paintings which belonged to the Tyler family to William and Marry college, Miss Frances E. Willard calls it ‘‘the frothiest of folderol,” the talik that she would like to be made a bishop. Perhaps she pro- fers to have it called a “*bishopess.” Mme. Barrios, widow of the late Central American dictator, has a magnificent collec- tion of diamonds. The greatest part of tho jewels were heirlooms of the kingdom of Guatemala, Mrs, John . Rockfeller, wife of the rich- st man in America, is a model housckeeper, unpretentious and exact, looking after ev thiag and keeping a book account of all ex- penditures, The ladies should found Mrs. Rockfeller housekeeping societies, icld is authority for the statement that women spend §,000,000 a year for cos- metics to make themselves beautiful. Men spend a great many times as much as that painting their noses, which makes them “ugly as sin” both in complexion and temper. e THE CLOSING YEAR. The following poem from the Inspired pen of the late George D. Prentice, one of the most brilliant editors of the ante-war period, will be reud with great interest: *Pis midnight's holy hour, Is brooding like a gentle <pir Tho stiil whd Dulsciess. worlds nd ~Hr‘m'c now Ilnrl(' On the ~'tls the winds The bells) deep tones are swelling, No funeral train yet, on the strewm and Of the departed year. Is h\wvnlug past; ncholy ngm the moon beams rest As by & mourr AR ok 50 MO nd piablaly heaven The spirits of the seasons scer Young spring, bright sumr solemn form, And wintor with lfs aged loc) through tostand,— o, autumn's ml breath AR ouching A melincholy dirge o'er t lead year, Goue from the earth foreve d for tears. h: ot the heart, Whose tones are like the time Teard from the tomb o And solenin finger to the be And holy visions that have And [eft no shadow of their the dead waste of i ho deep, ter dim, d’s voice of , points Its cold utiful pssed away, cliness specter lifts nd Joy amd Love J Sweot fo seabisry dosd flowers O'er what has passed to nothinfiness. us that slumbor thers Tho year Has gone, and with it, many a glorious throng Of huppy dreams. Tis mark Its shdow in each heart, In 1ts SWIft course It waved ifs seepter o'er the beautitul, And they are not. 1t 1 hand Upon o strong an it ey 1 din. It trod the hiall of revelry, Whore tironged joyous, und the tearful wall i Flashed hl {the light of midduy, and the tr 0Ot serriod |un~|-[~4~h|und and the grass, . waves above skeleton. It cuo h ot mist at eve; owless air 1t heralded its willions to their home In the dim land of dreams. Remorseless time! co spiritof the glass aud scythie! what bower Oan stuy bim 1n his solemn course, or nelt Tt Lo pity? On, still on and forever. e proud bird, Andes, thit can soar s unfatbomable depths, or o y of the northern hurricane, his plumage In the thunder's Furls his down To rest upon his mountain erag,~but time Kuoows not the weight of sleep or weariness, avs deop darkness has no chain to roud wings at nightfall, and sinks And n bing His ru»hlm. plulons. Revoluttons sweep O'er earth, llke troubled visions o'er the b liheads to the plain; new empires he strength of ha And rush down llke the the nations; t und burnin, ry centuries, lanche, . and puss %1e in the tr m.u the W Kless vold,—yet time, ) butlder holds his fierce er, Dark, ~| ro, all pitiless, and pauses not Amid the ullghty wrecks that strew bis path 150, 11ke OLLeF Conquerors Upon the fearful ruln be has wrought | must have been thinking of those who PAGES. PLEASANTRIES. Chicago Tribun Lo bread-man. An Indian baker is a Indianapolis Journal: You needn't telp to raise a laugh, but you can havo a sigh alone, St. Joseph New There is only one man around a newspaper office whose work is ever aun; the collector, Binghampton Leader: We hate to seo girls throw kisses, The average girl is such & thuudering bad shot. Atchison Globe: The Lord knew what was best for man's peace of mind when Ho failed to put eyes in the back of his head New Orleans Picaguno : The man who said, “All's fairin love or war," is undoubtedly the man who got the best of it in both case New Haven Registe It has been as tained at last why Dr. Kn\ h's lymoh shoula pay aduty, It interferes with home con- sumption, - Philadelphia Times: “Many at the Christ- mas table!" “Eight of us. her, mother and the five children,” *“That's only seven,' “"Yes, but the turkey was ate,”” New York Herald: I must go to sce that performance.”” “Why? “It must bo won- derful, The star actress, according to the bill, is supported by her husband.” St. Joseph Nows: h ¢ When Shakespearo said ¢ the apparel oft | n, ho vear lims the clothes 50 loud that you can hear thom, High in the basement the gas-meter stands, Counting its feet with its thin, taper hands, Fast, fast they spin, as by some magic spell, While in dim-lit room o'crhead some beau rings the belle. —Chicago Tribune. Boston Trans Brown—Tell me, do you think that Hobbs ever says what isn't exactly true!” Fogg—Well, 1 should not like to charge Hobbs with untruthfulness; but if he himself believes ono-hundredth part of thestories he tells he must be the most credulous man alive. And now the little children in their innocent delight Crack hazel nuts upon the steps and oranges o bite, When homeward comes their weary dad, on- blanks, which later turn up in the form of pfl)nll!iol ¥ notes, Henry Watterson, editor of the Tonlsville Courior-Tournal, will lecture at Des Moines January 6 on *“Money and Morals.” Ho will also spoak at Winterset, Grinnell and Keokuk Roseita Watson, colored, returned to Muscatine from n visit of exploration to Batesville, Ark, her old home, which sho left thirty years azo In the days of slavery. She found a brother and a host of her rela tives there, Mayor Duncan of Burlington carries a min- fature paving brick made of Burlington ciay as a wateh charm, He intends to have 1,000 made for distribution smong his friends, They will bear his famous utterance: *“Tho way to s to pave.! Andrew Spencer and wife celebrated thele golden weddin Mt. Pleasant on Christ- v were married at Denmark, Leo county, by Fathe Turner, and lllt\‘ have remained within twenty miles of their first home all these fifty years. Wi'liam Richardson, a boy of sevonteen, fell whilo skating at Clinton, struck on the back of his head, but was apparently not much hurt, being about for soveral hours afterward. After ho b zone to bed ho was seized with cramps and aied in an hour, The Two Dakotns, Wesley: Anderson, a prominent citizen and old settler of Load, is dead, aged about sixty- Wo years, The Huron Woman's Rellef corps distrib- uted during the holidays & n clothing, pro- visions and cash among the needy. The farmers ailis of Yankton county proposes to send two carloads of supplies to the drought sufferers of South Dakota, Huron's new artesian well Is 820 feet deen, 18 G-inch bore, and has a opressure of ninety- stx pounds to the square inch. The flow is about one thousand wallons per winute, A chattel mortenge for £,400 on tho storo fixturcs and stock of W. M. Bartiett, tho Madison merchant reported to have been robbed of #,000 on Chiristmas eve, has been filed for record. His fatheris the mortgageo, A mortgage aud deed of his real estate has also been recorded. His other liak nl»L:;m $4,000, His store was close 20th, - PROPOSED TO THE WRONG GIRVLa Sad Plight in Which a Nervous Young Man Rudyard Kipling, in one of the series grossed with worldly cares, It will not make him pappier to Fall Down Stairs, . Joseph Herald, - THE NORTHWEST, Nebraska. Sumner has beon offered a $15,000 woolen mill for a subsidy of §,000 Twenty-two wolves have been hounded to death near Ainsworth this winter. A number of farmers in the vicinity of Flar- rison are preparing to go into the shiep busi- ness. Stewart Rawle NEWS OF and_Floyd Sykes, held on il at Bloomington and made Rev, A. M. I has accepted a church at Minden. The Albion Young Men ation celebrates its first anni: ing a reading room and gymnasium, A high wind at Ainsworth unroofed M- Cord’s warchouse and nearly upset the buil ing, together with Sisson’s burdware store. Among the new enterprises talked of for Peru are a waterworks plant, a flouring mill a grain clevator, an opera hotso and several store buildings and residences, Frank Shuttle, a farmer living on Bln Island, Buffalo caunty, has been arrested on the charge of sending the infernal machine to L. A. Bisco of Gibbon, which exploded while being opened. An incendiary started a fire on the outside of Jacob's saloon at Hooper and then turned off the water at the fire hydrant, The flames were oxtinguished, however, after dowg $300 worth of damage, E. M. Paine stored thirty whéat in the gra wrence of Burlington, Kan call to the Presbyteria an associ- by open- five bushels of cy on his farn near Ce Rapias, when some one stole twent bushels of it. Mr. Paine says he will give the other ten if the thief will call fov it, While taking two young ladies home from a dance, Charles Brady of Chadron attempted to shoot a barking dog, but while pulling his revolver from his pocket the weapon was dis- charged. The ball stiucl him in the thi and passed through his leg, nearly hitting one of the young ladies, During a wind storm the stock sheds of T, J. Mossman, near Ansley, caught fire from flying sparks from the chimuey of the house The family, who were all in the house at the time, did’ not discover the fire until it had gained considerable headway and had been communicated to the grain and hay stacks, fodder ricks, etc. They succeeded by hard labor in saving a good | s but not being able to consequence of tne wind blowing fire the stables, it, with the entire contents, is a complete 10ss, with nearly grain enough to winter the stock and wheat enough to givo them bread and seed. Tne Tecumseh Chieftain_mentions this pe- culiar disease of a horse: W. W. Jobes, who lives south of town, lost a horso recently by uliar disease, The animal was noticed one morning in apparent pain violently rubbing its forehead till the blood started from the torn hide. By degrees it seemed to grow better and »d natural enough for twenty-four hours when re served. When a whisp of was grabbed at and bitten spusmodi Shortly the horse grabbed at its knee, biting and clinging to the limb as though in a spasm, until the teeth cut into the flesh. Soon after this it fell over and died. It is thought to be some trouble with the brain, Tow: Emmetshu vafits a brick yard. William Hanna of Vail ate thirty eggs fried in butter in ten minutes less than one hour, and won §20. The Carlisle farmers' alliapce has adopted a resolution protesting against the enactment Dy congress of tho elections bill. Two rogues aro getting Wobster county farmers to sign what purports lu be census of tales that brought that gifted and breezy young man into the sunlight of fame and fortune, tells the story of an unlucky Anglo-Indian who proposed in the gloom of an Indian dust storm to tho wrong girl, whom he took for her sistor, s the New York I Right up in anromantic old Bridgepors cently oceurrod » cuso of tho 088, same sort. Among tho belles of Bridgeport are a pair of mighty pretty twin sisters, whoso attractions, as they should have done, have secured for thom ahost of mlmim'l'.fl among the Bridgeport swains, One of the two is named N ry. The other's name i artha. Tt is an embarrassing peculiarity of the two thatat the ago when American girls most charm- ing, they ro in a striking degree the perfect resemblance to each other that in their infantile s comvelled their mother to tiea blue ribbor on Mary's arm to tell her from Martha, So close is this resemblance that the near atives of these young women are often deceived by it. Sturdy Sam Rogere, the faithful young man who has been the ‘‘steady company” of Miss Mary for a year past, congratulated himself on the' fact thal he never got fooled in tho identity of the damsels. He will plume himself on this no longer. His pride got a sore fall the other night, when his confidence led him into a fix calculated to throw the average young man into the depths of humi ion and despair. or a long time Rogers has been as Mary on asif that voung woman had had that useful organ locked up in a safe, of which she only knew the com- binetion. But Mr. Rogers is a very modest young man. Not until the other night dared he avow his passion. And the circumstances that followed ne 'y deprived him of his reason. It was on y evening, of course. The shor day hud fade »d, though it was not quite dark, whea Mr, Rogers liftod the bruss knocker on the door of Miss s home. outhful brother opened it and red him into the parlor, with the sed and aggravating grin that young brothers are prone to indulge in under such cumstances, Prosently another door openc ad Miss Mary, a3 Mr. supposed, walked in, To her that the room needed a Rogers interposed o decided negative. He had come fully doter- mined to ask the momentous question then and the nd he felt that the dim- of semi-twilight would lend him g0. t the heart of Mr., securely in Miss cour The all important question was put. The young lady hesitated, scemed con- fused, surprised, and finally faltered out a trembling yes, But the joy of poor . Rogers was short. For” the door .0 again, and in ving o lamp, not Miss other member of the ly, but Miss Mury herself. That wickéd younger brother had sent the wrong sister the room. Mr, Rogers had proposed to the wrong girl. And she had accepted him, W¢ draw the eurtaing over the sceno that followed, The anguish of Mr. Rogers was far beyond the power of print to portray. The dilemma into which ho had plunged himself was too awful to be I, Letitstandas a warning to all American young men to beware of dimly lighted parlors on Sun- duy evening. wrtha or any Highest of all in Leavening Power.—U. S. 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